It was already dark, and the boy lit a candle and gave a glimmer of light in the dark room.

It is an old house consisting of two rooms and a stove, and there are few ornaments in the room except for the ondol and tables and stools, and there are many cracks in the walls on all sides.

The young man approached the stove lightly and picked up a clay bowl filled with earthy yellow medicinal soup.

With the help of the dim candlelight, the young man walked to the side of the bed with the medicine bowl and whispered:

"Mother, get up and take medicine. ”

The fire was very warm, and on it lay a weak woman, covered with old bedding, although some lines were open, but the washing was very clean.

The woman slowly got up after hearing the boy's voice.

The young man hurriedly put down the medicine bowl and carefully helped his mother to sit up.

Under the light of the candlelight, the woman's face was beautiful, but her face was pale, and there was no blood on her thin lips.

The young man is twelve years old this year, and his appearance should be that of his mother, white and delicate, but he is a little thin.

The woman's name is Fang Rou, and the young man has the same surname as his mother, called Fang Huan.

"Huan'er......" A smile appeared on the woman's sickly face.

"Mother, be careful of the burn. Fang Huan picked up the medicine bowl and blew it, and carefully held the medicine bowl and handed it to his mother's mouth.

Fang Rou stretched out her slender and cold hands to take the medicine bowl in her son's hand, and drank the medicine in small sips.

Fang Huan stretched out his hand to test the temperature of the kang and said, "Mother, I'll go cut some firewood tomorrow and come back, and burn the kang hotter, now it's autumn, it's cold, and the old medicine head said that you can't stand the cold." ”

Fang Rou shook her head and said, "It's already very hot, so there's no need to chop wood." Also, how many times has my mother said that you can't be big or small with Mr. Yao. ”

Fang Huan grinned and said, "It's okay, mother, the old medicine head likes me to call it that." ”

Fang Rou was a little helpless, but thinking that her son was sensible, he wouldn't really bump into that old man Yao, so he didn't care anymore.

"Mother, I can now prescribe my own prescription and take medicine, and when I finish learning, I will take you out of Longweipo and go to the town! ”

Fang Rou looked at her son with a gentle smile while drinking the medicine.

Mr. Yao said that her son was very talented in studying medicine, and she also believed that her son would leave Longweipo sooner or later, but at that time, she was ......

"Dangdang!" suddenly came a loud slamming of the door outside the room.

Fang Huan glanced at his mother, frowned, and said, "Mother, you sit here and drink medicine, I'll take a look." ”

"Dangdang!"

As soon as Fang Huan walked into the courtyard, the sound of slamming the door sounded again, louder than before, and at the same time, there was a man's scolding voice.

"Fang Rou, open the door for Lao Tzu! Damn, stinky girl, if you don't open the door again, Lao Tzu will smash the door of your house. ”

Hearing this voice, Fang Huan stopped his steps to open the door, quickly ran to the pyre and picked up a woodcutter, and then walked to the gate of the courtyard to open the gate.

Standing at the door was a middle-aged man in his forties, with a fat body and a flushed face, more than half a head taller than Fang Huan.

"Liu Laosi, what are you doing at my house in the middle of the night?" Fang Huan asked unceremoniously pointing at the man with a firewood knife.

Liu Laosi glanced at the firewood knife in Fang Huan's hand, smiled disdainfully, and waved his big hand: "Little cub, get out of the way and let your mother come out." ”

"Get out of here, or I'll cut you!"

"Hey, come on, come on, you cut it like this, if you don't cut it, you will call me dad in the future, and tell the people in the village that you were born to me and Fang Rou. ”

Liu Laosi tore off his sweaty shirt, exposed his chest with thick chest hair, and laughed with his finger on his chest.

"You ......!" Fang Huan gritted his teeth, raised his hand and raised the firewood knife to cut over.

"Huan'er!"

Fang Rou put on a washed white light blue robe and stood at the door of the house.

Hearing his mother's voice, Fang Huan, who was bloody, had to put down the firewood knife.

"Yo, are you coming out?" After Liu Laosi saw Fang Rou, his eyes immediately became squinting, and he pushed away Fang Huan, who was blocking the door, and staggered into the courtyard.

"Fang Rou, Fang Rou, tell me about you, when that man came to our Longwei Slope, he left after playing with you, and never came back, people didn't use you as a dish at all, you still want to climb the high branches as a phoenix?

"Snort, Liu Laosi, can you get some face? If it weren't for Liu Xiang's prowess, you would be a fart. Under one person, under your mother-in-law?"

A thin monkey-like man suddenly poked out of the wall of the courtyard next door and sneered.

"Liu Xiang was born to me! If it weren't for my good inheritance, would I be able to be accepted as an apprentice by the elders of the Immortal Sect?" Liu Laosi looked at the thin monkey and argued by pulling his neck.

"Why didn't the immortal chief confiscate you as an apprentice? Maybe it was your mother-in-law who gave birth to you behind your back. I said how much horse urine did you pour today, so you are not afraid to turn back and your mother-in-law knows that she chopped up your little earthworm?"

"Get out of the way!"

"You're not afraid of ...... one day Is that man back, and he has ripped you off all this bit of fat?"

Liu Laosi was stunned, and recalled a scene from thirteen years ago in his mind.

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Thousands of horses and thousands of troops, iron hooves, like thunder, dust.

Led by a young man, in black armor and red robes, with a spear in his hand, he said loudly, "It's getting late, garrison here, don't harass the people, otherwise military law will be engaged!"

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Liu Laosi shrunk his neck, swallowed and foamed, and then said: "I haven't come back for thirteen years, and I've come back with a fart." Hurry up and get out of the way, don't mess with Lao Tzu's good deeds!"

"Hey, hey, how can you, if you can strip Fang Rou naked in this courtyard today, I can still feast my eyes, and I won't tell your mother-in-law." The thin monkey glanced at Fang Rou and smiled wickedly.

Fang Rou bit her bloodless lip, her beautiful face was unwavering, and no one noticed that she was holding a pair of scissors in her hand hidden in her robe.

"Fang Rou, I advise you to get it from me today, that man left without giving a few dollars after playing with you, but I, Liu Laosi, is different, so let's do it, you are comfortable serving Lao Tzu today, turn around and come back to my family Liu Xiang, I asked him to go and say a few good words to Xianmen, and send your little wild seed to Xianmen, even if the roots are not good, you can be a miscellaneous sweeper, it must be much better than now, how about it?" Liu Laosi swayed and swayed close to Fang Rou.

"Get out of here!"

Fang Huan's anger rose in his heart, his breathing was short, and his white little face turned red.

"Xiao Ye Chong, don't disturb the good things of Lao Tzu and your mother, maybe Lao Tzu can add a younger brother to you after today, hahaha!"

Fang Huan was furious, ignoring his mother's side, he raised the firewood knife in his hand and slashed at the foul-speaking guy.

Liu Laosi, who came to sprinkle with the strength of wine, was stunned, but he didn't expect this kid to dare to come to the real thing, watching the firewood knife slash at him, and subconsciously raised his arm to block it.

Fang Rou's heart tightened, she bit her lip hard, and clenched the scissors in her hand, it was too late to stop her son.

The skinny monkeys who climbed the wall to watch also widened their eyes.

On weekdays, Fang Huan relied on this firewood knife to go up the mountain to chop wood, and it was sharpened very sharply, and the blade instantly cut through Liu Laosi's upper arm, and the red blood overflowed, and the blade was extremely cold under the moonlight.

"Ahh

Liu Laosi let out a scream like a pig.

The young man who had never even killed a chicken was completely angry when he took out the knife, but the moment the blade was stained with blood, Fang Huan was extremely frightened in his heart, and subconsciously retracted his strength, otherwise this knife would go down, and Liu Laosi's arm would have to be removed directly.

Quickly pulling out the firewood knife, Fang Huan took two steps back, blocked in front of his mother, staring at Liu Laosi deadly, the hairs on his back stood up, and he held the handle of the firewood knife with both hands, trembling slightly.

Liu Laosi covered the wound of his injured arm with his other hand, and he almost woke up from the pain, and said angrily with cold air: "Little cub, you ...... You really dare to cut Lao Tzu? You wait for my Liu Xiang to come back, and I will let him kill you!"

"Get out!" Fang Huan shouted.

Liu Laosi woke up drunk, and his courage was also cowardly, he looked at the firewood knife in the young man's hand trembling slightly, raised his head and glanced at Fang Rou at the door hatefully, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and dropped a sentence: "You wait!" turned around and covered his wound and withdrew from the yard in embarrassment.

Fang Huan, who didn't obey his legs and stomach, turned around stiffly, and pointed his trembling chai knife at the thin monkey on the wall of the courtyard next door, his eyes were bloodshot, like an angry young beast.

Seeing the stupid thin monkey, he was shocked, his whole body was cold, and he hurriedly laughed twice and said, "I'll go back to sleep, go back to sleep." With that, he lowered his body to the wall.

After the sound of the door closing in the courtyard next door, Fang Huan was relieved and weakly let go of the firewood knife in his hand.

"Dang Chang!" the hatchet fell to the ground.

Fang Huan sat on the ground limply, cold sweat running down his forehead, panting heavily, the bloodshot in his eyes faded, and he was at a loss.

This was the first time Fang Huan had seen blood.

Fang Rou walked over in a light blue robe, squatted down, stretched out a hand and touched her son's loose hair.

The young man, who was still at a loss, gradually calmed down, raised his head slightly to look at his mother, and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, mother, I'm causing you trouble again." ”

Fang Rou smiled and shook her head, and said softly, "It was you who protected my mother." ”

"Mother, we have never done anything to be sorry for them, why do they always bully us?"

"Because when you were very young, they all flattered their mothers, but then they found that they couldn't get the corresponding benefits from their mothers, so now they have to double their favors. ”

"They're so bad, why should we be kind?"

"Because there are still good people in this world, just like your father, like Mr. Yao, they are all very good people, and you have to become that kind of person. ”

Fang Rou's tone was very soft.

The moonlit boy nodded blankly.

"Mother, my dad ......"

"Alright, get up, let's go back to the house and sleep. Fang Rou interrupted her son's questioning, got up and walked back to the house.

Fang Huan supported the ground with both hands, and when he got up, he inadvertently touched the cold wood knife beside him.

Fang Huan looked down and saw that the chai knife was lying on the ground.

The moonlight was shining brightly, and the blood was red.