The western border of Qinmu Country used to be thousands of miles away, and there was a large area of primeval deep forest, which was inaccessible all year round, let alone people who entered the deep forest.

If someone goes deep into the forest, they will see that there is a lake at the end of the forest, and the edge of the lake is covered with peach trees.

Not far from the lake there is a low mountain, one side of the mountain is very smooth, and on this side of the mountain wall there is an entrance, the entrance is more than two people high, in a square, and there is a faint light inside.

Entering the cave, it is like coming to another world, just out of the cave is a large peach tree, the tree grows on both sides of the road, walk two or three miles into the large rice field, there are farmers working in the rice field, children watch the adults work in the field, they play in the field.

The rice paddies used to be a sparse set of farmhouses on top of the land, smoke rising from the chimneys of the houses, and when it was time for dinner, women and old people were preparing dinner for their husbands and children.

Further inside, there is a tall tower erected on the edge of the village, the tower is nine stories high, and there is a plaque on the top of the tower that reads the Nine Heavens Tower, and you can vaguely see the people busy in the tower. Next to the tower is a meadow where you can see half-grown children practicing martial arts.

The whole mountain village is surrounded by mountain peaks, in and out of the cave on the side of the peach forest, people who want to come here should not have gone out of the outside world, from the highest mountain peak around, there are several water streams left, flowing to the foot of the mountain to converge into a small river from the village through the village, so there are many small bridges in the village, which makes the whole village have a unique taste of Jiangnan water town.

The people in the village call this village Taoyuan Village, I don't know if it's because their ancestors called it or because there are two miles of peach orchards in the village.

As the sun sets, the farmers in the fields return home with their children to prepare a dinner prepared by their wives and parents.

"Get up, I'm coming back for dinner." An old man with a gray beard stood in his doorway, shouting for a cheerful child who was still running outside.

"Village chief, grandpa, I'll be back now." As he spoke, a child of about six or seven years old ran to the old man's side.

"You go in first, grandpa walks slowly, you go and put the dishes and chopsticks on first." The village chief looked at the children who ran into the house and fell into memory.

This child is also very pitiful, when a pale-faced woman came to his door with a big belly, begging him to take him in, in his opinion, that woman is very strange, like a serious illness, looking like a dead person, if it were not for the Taoist who followed behind her, I think he would not have taken in this woman who looked like a dead man.

The village chief knew that he had seen his portrait in the tower, and his grandfather had told him a legend, and that his grandfather's grandfather had told him that it was the Taoist priest who had created and protected the village, and that one day he would return, and that the Taoist was the master of the place.

He hadn't really seen the man in the portrait for so many years, until the woman came, and he remembered the legend and believed it.

The man had only said one word to him and then vanished, yes, from his eyes, and the village chief did not believe his eyes, until he knew the woman's origins, and dared to ask who else in this world could bring people back to life, and only the power that created this village could do it.

The man told him to recognize the woman as his goddaughter, and the child in her womb became his grandson from now on, that is, the child who had just run in, and he never expected that a dead man would be able to give birth to a child, although my daughter died more than two years after giving birth, and my goddaughter was still satisfied when she left.

Although the people in the village knew that his goddaughter was a person who had died once, no one looked at their mother and son in a strange light, and took care of them the same as others, and it might be better, although this child had a poor background, but he also had a happy childhood, thinking that the village chief pinched his beard and followed into the house.

"Get up, eat slowly, no one will rob you." The village chief looked at the child who was gobbling up on the table and said lovingly.

"Grandpa the village chief, I'm hungry, I'll go out first." The young man who finished eating quickly put down the bowl and was about to leave.

"Wait." Looking at the child who was about to run out, the village chief said hurriedly.

The village chief walked over and took out a handkerchief to clean his mouth, and then said, "Such a big child still doesn't like to be clean, do you want to see your mother again?" Since his mother left, this child has to go to his mother's grave every day after dinner for a while, and the village chief has no objection, he knows that there is no such old child who does not want his mother, although he also loves this child, but some love is irreplaceable by himself.

"Don't leave yet, grandpa has something to tell you, you will be seven years old in a few days, and it's time to enter the Nine Heavens Pagoda to study." Every child in the village who reaches the age of seven is sent to the Nine Heavens Pagoda to study, which is a tradition in their village and an ancestral precept left by their ancestors.

You can learn knowledge, recognize words, practice martial arts, and it can be said that as long as you are diligent enough, you can learn all the things you want to learn, of course, this is also what the Taoist left back then.

Without waiting for a reaction, the village chief continued: "You're going to enter the tower, you don't have a surname, I don't know what your father's surname is, and I don't know what your mother's surname is, I'm ashamed to say it, I haven't asked your mother's name for so many years, and he didn't say it, or you have the same surname as your grandfather?" ”

"Okay, what's Grandpa's last name?" Qi'er looked at his grandfather and asked suspiciously.

"Grandpa's surname is Gongsun, speaking of which grandpa's surname has a lot of origins, our Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor is also surnamed Gongsun, that is the common ancestor of our human race, how about this surname, you will be called Gongsun in the future." The village chief said to his grandson with pride on his face.

"Okay, Gongsun Qi, grandpa, I like the name, I'll go first and remember not to lock the door." After saying that, he ran away, although my grandfather said that this surname was very good, but I feel that he is lying to the child, forget it, and I will change the name back when I find my father.

Gongsun Qi thought so in his heart as he ran, but he was still happy that he had a surname, he wanted to tell his mother the news quickly, and unconsciously accelerated his pace.

The moon had risen, and the moon in Taoyuan was bigger and brighter than the moon in the outer world, so that the night here was not as dark and eerie as the night in the outer world, on the contrary, the white moonlight sprinkled on people could make people warm.