The rain and snow have stopped, the sky is bright, and the white Taijin Mountain is shrouded in misty morning mist.

The fire in the cabin had long been extinguished, and Wu Ming, who had practiced boxing in the middle of the night and drank wine in the middle of the night, woke up, only to feel that his mind was still full of bits and pieces of yesterday, and he couldn't forget the poignant face when he parted in the rain, the eyes full of crystal tears and the delicate and trembling body.

After a long time, Wu Ming let out a long breath, propped himself up and got out of bed, came to the fireplace that had long been extinguished, lit a section of tabuliformis pine, and slowly set up dry wood to burn the fire, after the swirling green smoke, the orange flame was blazing.

Wu Ming sat cross-legged in front of the fireplace, staring at the flames and combing the complicated feelings in his mind, his heart was full of contradictions and confusion, he never knew why he caught up in the rain yesterday, why he sent people down the mountain after sending the umbrella? Is it just mercy? Or is it a subconscious impulse?

One after another questions that are difficult to understand are entangled like a mess, and it seems that they can never be sorted out, and what makes Wu Ming even more difficult to accept and powerless to change is that according to ethics, that Wang Yuehan is still his sister-in-law!

That's right, Wang Yuehan is the wife of Chen Jiyao's second son Chen Zhongkang, which had nothing to do with Wu Ming, but now it faintly stung him, Wu Ming inherited the skin of today, and also had no choice but to face the shame of the deceased "mother", Chen Jiyao's sins committed when he was young are indeed unforgivable, and the housekeeper who hit and killed the "mother" with a car, these people are all living well now, and it is estimated that they are still living a very nourishing life.

The copper spout on the edge of the fire "swished" and steamed, Wu Ming woke up from his sluggish state, grabbed a bowl sideways and poured water, slowly put it to his mouth and drank it in one gulp, and the desire in his mind became stronger and stronger: "Get out of this sad place!" ”

Wu Ming put down the bowl, walked to the head of the bed and removed the big wooden pier, lifted the wooden plank, took out the armed belt and Mauser pistol wrapped in blue cloth, took out a ten-round magazine from the leather magazine, pulled out the pistol and pulled the bolt, skillfully pressed the bullet into the bolt and closed the bolt.

"Tuk Tuk! Brother Wu, I'm Zhenggang. Tian Zhenggang's loud voice came from outside.

Wu Ming casually inserted the Mauser pistol into his waist, tightened his cotton robe and went to open the door, and Tian Zhenggang's face appeared in front of him.

"It's clear?" Wu Ming closed his gaze from the outside and welcomed Tian Zhenggang, who was sweating profusely, into the house.

"It rained for a long time in the second half of the night last night, and the sun came out this morning, but the mountain road was slippery and not easy to walk, I'm afraid we will have to wait two days before we can enter the mountain." Tian Zhenggang walked quickly to the fireplace, picked up the big wrist that Wu Ming threw on the floor, poured a bowl of hot water and drank it in a big gulp, and could no longer see the restraint and politeness before.

Wu Ming sat between the low table and the fireplace, picked up the firewood and threw it into the furnace: "It doesn't matter if you wait for two days, the successor of the Qizhen Temple has not come to take over." Just now, the farm work in the village is done? ”

"As early as after the Spring Festival, every household has gone to the ground, and the diligent and early drying, the seedlings in my field are almost a foot high." Tian Zheng just put down the bowl and asked, "Brother Wu, can you take out that Hanyang made to let me enjoy it?" ”

"Go get it yourself." Wu Ming replied lazily.

Tian Zhenggang jumped up excitedly, stepped to the wooden pier at the head of the bed in a few steps, grabbed the rifle and canvas cartridge belt from the slot that had opened the cover, returned to the fireplace and played with it happily, pulled the bolt to practice aiming, loaded the bullet and unloaded, it didn't take a while, this Hanyang made him play smoothly, if it weren't for Wu Ming's warning, worried that the gunfire would make the mountain hear, Tian Zhenggang would have already run out of the gun to take a few shots and have a good time.

After herding the sheep, the two began to cook, and after lunch, they gathered in front of the fireplace again to fiddle with guns, and their feelings for each other quickly warmed up, Tian Zhenggang's title for Wu Ming has changed, and the word "Wu" in "Brother Wu" has been omitted unconsciously, and it has become "Big Brother".

Wu Ming also learned a lot of information from Tian Zhenggang's mouth, and gained a deeper understanding of the surrounding environment, customs, and the situation of the surrounding villages and towns.

To Wu Ming's surprise, Tian Zhenggang, who is more than six years younger than himself, is also a good hunter, Tian Zhenggang talked about his eldest brother's hunting skills, his eyebrows fluttered and he admired sincerely, and when it came to his own skills, it seemed that except for his eldest brother, there was no one within a hundred miles who could beat him.

During the conversation, it was learned that Tian Zhenggang went to a private school in the village at the age of five, followed his uncle to practice martial arts at the age of seven, followed his eldest brother into the mountains to hunt at the age of thirteen, and often wandered around the inaccessible mountains for three or five days. Let Wu Mingdu secretly sigh.

Tian Zhenggang stayed, before he went up the mountain, he said to his family that he would go to the Qizhen Temple to help for a few days, the family did not say anything, and the old lady also told him to repay the kindness, not to be reluctant to do it. With Tian Zhenggang's company, Wu Ming's life is no longer so lonely.

Wu Ming hurried to the Qizhen Temple, and together with the hard-working and strong Tian Zhenggang, he cleaned the Taoist Temple for the upcoming Guan Zhu Chengzhi, prepared enough firewood, cleaned the stove and kitchen, and took care of the more than 20 sheep left by Xiao Chengyuan.

At noon the next day, Daoist Chengzhi finally led two little apprentices and two miscellaneous servants to the Prayer Truth Temple.

Thirty-one-year-old Cheng Zhidao is short in stature, with two beautiful mustaches, a solemn face and few words, elegant and polite conversation, he put down his bags and followed Wu Ming inside and out to complete a circle, seeing that everything was clean and orderly, the words of thanks have not stopped, and told Wu Ming to come to him at any time if he has time.

Wu Ming politely agreed, and returned to his hut after saying goodbye, and let go of a concern in his heart, not to mention that Chengzhi is the eldest apprentice of Bingzhen Daoist, and Chengzong and Chengyuan are senior brothers.

On the third day, it was still a sunny day, and Wu Ming and Tian Zhenggang, who had prepared everything, quietly entered the mountain.

For Wu Ming, going into the mountains to fight wolves is to connect with marksmanship, test the experience of practicing guns alone during this time, accumulate experience to increase the ability to save life in the future, and it is also a kind of nervous relief and venting, he needs to temporarily forget the complicated feelings in his mind through high-intensity physical exertion......

In the West Garden of the Chen Family Compound in Huanggu Town, Wang Yuehan, who had been sick for several days, had lost a lot, she instructed the maid Xiaozhen to open the window that had been closed for many days, her eyes swept over the deserted garden, and she stared at the Taijin Mountain in the distance for a long time, and her big eyes were bigger because of the emaciation of her face.

Chen Zhongkang, the second young master of the Chen family, rushed to Nanchang after the Spring Festival, did not bring his sick wife to go with him, and the Chen family also knew that since last year's Yiyang Fang Zhimin rioted several times, the situation from Shangrao to Yingtan was very unstable, and the guns and bandits in the counties and towns along the way were rampant, and the daughter-in-law Wang Yuehan was frightened and the illness was not healed a few days ago.

Chen Jiyao, the old man of the Chen family, is more satisfied with his daughter-in-law with a graceful temperament, the daughter-in-law is well-known and knowledgeable, respects the old and loves the young, and treats the family well, the only thing that feels deficient is that the body is delicate, and the personality is a little cold, since the marriage last autumn to the present, few people in the family have seen the smile of the daughter-in-law, and it seems that she is always preoccupied.

The eldest wife and the second wife of the Chen family are very dissatisfied with their daughter-in-law, thinking that although the daughter-in-law is from the Wang family and is a cultural person who has received a new education, she is still so far behind her son who has returned from abroad and has risen step by step, there is no reason to take the identity and not smile, and this daughter-in-law is frowning all day long, not happy at all, no matter how she looks like a person who is a prosperous man, the two wives even reached a consensus in private, and after waiting for a year and a half, they will marry the only remaining baby son of the Chen family to a two-room concubine. It saves Wang Yuehan's sick body and sad face, which is annoying.

Only the third wife, who is over 30 years old, has no opinion on the young and beautiful daughter-in-law, the third wife comes from a wealthy business family, and her background is not high, but she has been literate since she was a child, and she has a generous temperament, unlike the eldest wife and the second wife, who put up a shelf all day long, and has to let the sick daughter-in-law go over every morning to ask for peace of mind.

Since Wang Yuehan entered the Chen family, the third wife visited Xiyuan every two days, talked with her daughter-in-law, chatted, discussed ancient poems, and discussed the new cultural movement that is now booming.

In general, Wang Yuehan's life in the Chen family is not very good, although Wang Yuehan, who lost her mother since childhood, is weak on the outside and strong on the inside, but no one can know the loneliness and pain in her heart, she married Chen Zhongkang under the control of the two families, and the marriage of Chen Zhongkang was a sensation, and the outside world generally believes that the two are talented and beautiful like a match made in heaven, and there are many people who are envious and jealous, but there are a few people who can understand the joy and bitterness.

For her father-in-law Chen Jiyao, Wang Yuehan is very respectful, and Wang Yuehan has great respect for Chen Bo'an, the son of the Chen family who died in the National Revolution, but she has no good impression of her uncle Wang Daohan's arranged marriage and her husband Chen Zhongkang, who is full of new words.

This torturous sense of powerlessness made the pain in Wang Yuehan's heart grow day by day, but there was nowhere to vent it, until she inadvertently saw Wu Ming.

Seeing Wu Ming for the first time, Wang Yuehan was shocked, Wu Ming is not only the same person as the admirable Huangpu hero Chen Bo'an hanging on the wall of the Chen family's lobby, but also looks seven points similar to his father-in-law Chen Jiyao, if it is pure coincidence, Wang Yuehan will never believe it.

What's even worse is that from the first sight of Wu Ming, Wu Ming's handsome and indifferent unique temperament, as well as the profound and faint sad eyes, instantly touched Wang Yuehan's heart, the kind of déjà vu but inexplicable throbbing feeling became more and more intense, especially after Wang Yuehan was rescued by Wu Ming at a critical moment, this feeling became stronger and stronger, and when Wu Ming gave her an umbrella in the heavy rain, her emotions could no longer be suppressed.

She often wonders, what is Wu Ming doing at the moment? This feeling grew day by day, and she was tormented.