The scorching August sun scorched the land, and the high temperatures were overwhelming. I saw that there were few pedestrians on the streets of the county town, but the buyers who passed by were all in a hurry, only the vendors who set up stalls wiped the sweat beads on their faces with towels and kept shouting, a few naughty children playing with stones under the big trees, and noisy adults wearing vests and resting on the reclining chairs in the afternoon.

Accompanied by the loud and endless cicadas on the old locust tree, a heavy scream came from an old-fashioned tube building, which only made the upstairs and downstairs residents tremble. Passers-by also said that it was a husband and wife fighting, and only the residents in the building knew which good people lived in that household, but they were a group of vicious people who did everything they could do. Wherever you dare to look, you should close the doors and windows and keep an eye on your children, so as not to suffer unwarranted disasters.

"Bang!"

In the narrow hallway, an iron door was pushed open. I saw a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old, who looked like a student, walking out with a stumbling step. The occupants on the opposite side of the door were tightly pressed against the cat's eyes, and they didn't dare to make a sound. Seeing that the young man was in a mess, with blood stains on his head, and bruises on his eyes and mouth, he covered his arms and went downstairs against the rusty escalator, but it was shocking to see the blood stains on the escalator, which was deep or shallow.

After more than ten minutes passed, the residents on the opposite side couldn't help but be curious, and quietly opened the door to look, only to see that the upstairs and downstairs residents heard the movement and opened the door to look. A bold tenant pushed open the iron door, only to see a miserable situation in the house, seven or eight men lying in the living room, surrounded by chaos. Although they knew that these people were to blame, some people still called the police. It's just that some people can't guess the identity of this young man, it is not a hero in ancient times who punished rape and eliminated evil. In this era, no one believes that anyone can defeat ten with one, and the plot that is only available in novels and television, kung fu has long been lost in the face of modern guns.

On a private car bound for the township, the driver of the private car kept looking at the man in the back seat through the rear mirror.

"Brother, you should go to the hospital for this injury! Don't die in my car, it's not easy for me to earn a few bucks, don't hurt me. Seeing the driver's panicked expression, the young man in the back seat took out a stack of hundred-dollar bills and handed them over. If he wasn't afraid of being investigated, he would not have been seriously injured this time, and he wouldn't have taken this private car. Anyway, this money is the ill-gotten gains of the thugs who injured my father, so I think it should be for my father's medical expenses.

"Well, let's go to the valley in front of the town, and don't go any far." After receiving a wad of bloody bills, the driver was originally afraid that the other party would have any plans to go to this place where there was no store in the front of the village, and all the banknotes in his hand disappeared. Besides, looking at him like this, it doesn't look like a black hand.

Watching the driver leave, the young man made sure that there was no one around, and walked down the edge of the valley. After walking for an hour or two, I came to the top of a hill in a dense forest, but I saw an ancient tree with roots half the thickness of a thigh intertwined, and through the gap in the roots, there was a hole in the sky underneath. A boulder is two or three meters below the root of the tree, it seems to be a thick tree, the bottom seems to be hollowed out, naturally forming a hut, the sun shines in, the light and shadow on the boulder are mottled, and the root of the tree is like a palm grasping the boulder, sitting on the stone intuition is extremely cool, like a natural air-conditioned room.

The man cautiously came to the root of the tree, a calf-high water tank stood in the center of the stone, a green vine from the center of the trunk vertically down, from time to time there were one or two drops of dark green liquid dripping into the water tank, at this time the water tank was half full, green but crystal clear, but saw the liquid dripping into it like amber, even without seeing the ripples of the water, people do not wonder what this thing is that looks like water and not water.

The young man walked over to the tank and picked up the freezing-like green liquid and drank it into his mouth in one gulp. Suddenly, a coolness spread from the chest and lungs, reaching the top of the head. The scars on his body seemed to heal, and they recovered at a speed that was visible to the naked eye.

"There is indeed a cave here, but unfortunately although this thing is good, it has been three years since I discovered its efficacy and started collecting it, but I only have these stocks now." After speaking, the man skillfully filled the kettle prepared on the side with green liquid, and saw that most of the liquid in the water tank was immediately missing, and the man suddenly felt a little painful. However, thinking of his bedridden and injured father, the man put the bottle away again. Looking at the cave blessed land that I found here, I remembered that I had climbed the mountain and frolicked, and found that this place accidentally fell into a fall, and after discovering that the liquid on the boulder could heal the wound, I used this place as a treasure and imprisoned it.

Feeling emotional, he lay on the boulder quite proudly, and really found a paradise like a martial arts novel, but unfortunately there are no masters here, and there are no martial arts cheats left. However, the eighteen-handed capture that my father passed to me when he was a soldier has learned some experience in the past few years. If it weren't for his martial arts skills over the years, he would never have gone to the county seat so recklessly, and he would have been angry and injured his father to seek revenge.

After a few more sips of the green liquid, I felt that all the injuries on my body had recovered. The young man climbed out of the bottom of the tree and walked to a sheep intestine path, which seemed to be very kind to every plant and tree. Soon, among the rolling peaks, a railway was seen running through it. Several bungalows and warehouses lay quietly on a spacious flat ground, the sun shining down and the green trees reflecting the silence. With a gust of mountain wind caressing, insects and birds chirp.

In a bungalow, a group of people gathered around the bed, looking at the bloodless middle-aged men on the bed, all of them depressed. Although the injured man did not look good and had a little gray hair on his temples, his face was angular, and the occasional flash of light in his eyes could still reflect his magnificent appearance.

"I said Brother Yang, it's not the first time we've dealt with those little gangsters. Why are you so stubborn this time? A middle-aged man wearing a sweat vest and a beard couldn't help but say, looking at his honest appearance, it was obviously the first time he encountered such a thing, and his words couldn't help but reveal a trace of fear.

"Yes, Lao Yang, if you have difficulties in life, you can discuss with us. I heard that your son Lingyun is going to college, and if the tuition fee is not enough, we can just make up for it. Why do you have to argue with these outlaws, this time to provoke such a thing, I don't know how many people they will bring next time! Another middle-aged man who looked like a worker couldn't help but be annoyed.

The patient on the bed couldn't help but complain when he saw that everyone was worried about being entangled by those gangsters, and struggled to get up, but accidentally pulled the wound and couldn't stop coughing.

"That's it! Don't say a word, still don't think things are messy enough? You don't know that the efficiency of the railway has been getting worse and worse recently, and our small stations have been gradually withdrawn. With the opening of the new line and the construction of the high-speed railway, our freight station, which has less than 100 tons of unloading a year, may have to be removed this year. At that time, even this freight yard will have to be contracted out, and the loading and unloading team of our original 100 people, young and strong, has left, and now we are left with the old, weak, sick and disabled of No. 8 or 9. I think we've been stevedores for half our lives, and we're not too young, so where can we go if we leave here? ”

An old man of about 60 years old scolded the restless people around him with angry eyes. Seeing him talk about his own experience and everyone's bleak future, they all fell silent for a while. The old man stepped forward to help the man who was about to get up, and pinched the corners of the quilt for him. Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at the open postal envelope on the table, and then sighed, as if he was lamented by the injustice suffered by God to this owner.

"Lao Yang's body and bones have always been bad, and you don't know it. Now that my son is finally promising, he has been admitted to a key high school in the city, and he just received an admission letter from a key university not long ago. No, haven't you seen all the envelopes on the table? The old man rubbed the envelope on the table with the corner of his mouth.

"Captain Li, you are a fair person who has worked here for more than thirty years. But Brother Yang shouldn't have beaten people, although he knocked down the person who took the lead, but he didn't get a good deal, this was not beaten by the other party like this. I am afraid that I will not be able to cure it for tens of thousands of dollars when I go to the hospital, but it will anger the leader. If we can't get it, we won't be able to keep the only job we have! The middle-aged man who was the first to speak still had a panicked look on his face, just trying to calm things down, but he couldn't do anything, and the spittle at the corner of his mouth splashed in a hurry.

"I see a good fight! One by one, they had hands and feet, and they went to this rural place to do some stealing and stealing things. I think that if they are arrested and sent to the public security bureau to be imprisoned, none of them will be wronged. The old man, known as Captain Li, scolded angrily with his shriveled eyes.

Seeing that the scene was noisy, the woman who had been sitting on the edge of the bed and serving the patient finally couldn't help but cry, filling the room with a lingering haze.

"Xiao Zhou, don't worry. I think we will call a car first, and everyone will scrape together some money to send people to the hospital first. It's been a day's delay, and I have already notified Ling Yun, who is waiting for the admission letter at the school, yesterday, and the notice has been sent to my home. It should be almost there today, don't let him see that the home is like this, there is no backbone. Then he took an envelope out of his pocket and shoved it into the woman's hand on the bed.

When everyone saw this, how could they not know what it meant. Some are reluctant, but they also follow the crowd to give a little bit is a little bit, and you can't just watch people go like this.

Just as everyone was about to say some comforting words, the wooden door of the bungalow was pushed open, and a bright light shone into the somewhat dim room, which immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the room.

"Yang Lingyun, you kid is back, let's see what your father has become! Don't you want to learn from your dad, can you? The scared man who had just been taken the lead in fundraising by the old man wanted to say more, but was stopped by the old man's angry eyes.

"Uncle Li, thank you for telling my dad the news, you can get all this money back, I asked for a piece of herb from an old Chinese medicine doctor this time, I believe it will definitely make my dad recover." The young man who entered the door thanked the people around him and returned the money to everyone. After speaking, without waiting for everyone's reaction, he directly opened the kettle he carried, helped the patient on the bed up, and fed him medicine.

"Doll, don't talk nonsense, I've lived most of my life, what Chinese medicine can treat such a serious injury. Don't hurt your father, listen to your uncle, hurry up to the hospital for treatment, don't worry about money, have your uncle find a way for you. Seeing this, the old man couldn't help but comfort.

At this moment, Yang Lingyun really felt the care of this uncle who had watched him grow up since he was a child, and his heart was somehow warm. I thought that I must let him enjoy his old age and live a good life.

"God! God! You can see that the bruises on Brother Yang's face have all dispersed, and the cracked wounds have healed. One of the people near the bedside said loudly, and suddenly all the people around him gathered around him as if they were looking at a miracle.

"Oh my God! Is the medicine in your hand a panacea? The old man couldn't help but be moved when he saw it, and he couldn't believe what he saw.

As half of the pot of liquid was drunk by the patient, I saw that he sat up slowly. Reaching out and touching the wounds in the chest, there was no pain at all. When I lifted my clothes, all the wounds that had been devastated were gone. The woman who was guarding her wept with joy and threw herself into the arms of the man who was also happy.

"Dad, are you feeling better?" Yang Lingyun asked with a knowing expression.

"I, Yang Teng, have recovered today, and I thank you for your help. Now that it's all right, please go back. As for those gangsters, I think they hurt people, and I don't think they will come back to trouble for a while. I will go to the police station to report the case again, and I will forgive them that they will be more restrained in the future. The man on the bed did not answer Yang Lingyun's question, and while comforting the woman in his arms, he sent everyone out.

"Tell me, what's the matter with the medicine? Well? Who did you fight with? Closing the door, Yang Teng looked back at his originally sharp eyes, and immediately became a little flustered when he saw the opening of his son's clothes. Although he didn't see any damage to the exposed skin, he could see at a glance that he had been cut by a sharp weapon, and according to the shape of the opening, I am afraid that the injury was not light.

"Dad, I'm fine. It's to teach the bad guys who bullied you a lesson. Also, I took some of the ill-gotten gains they looted as compensation for my parents. Facing Yang Teng's knife-sharp eyes, Yang Lingyun shook his beans and said it, and then took out about 350,000 banknotes in the bag.

"Smack!" A loud slap rang out. Yang Lingyun covered his swollen face in disbelief, and looked at his father with stern eyes on a blank face.

"You know what your behavior is? What's the difference between that and those people? Yang Teng roared angrily, his right hand raised high, still angry and about to continue to slap him.

"You're crazy! So you educate your children like this? If it weren't for the magic medicine that your son brought back this time, where would you have the strength to beat your son now? The woman on the side hurriedly hugged Yang Teng's raised right hand with both hands, and kept hinting with her eyes that her son quickly admitted his mistake.

"Zhou Zhenzhen, this is all what you have been used to since childhood! As the saying goes, filial piety comes out under the stick, and if you don't fight, you can't become a talent. Seeing his wife's pleading appearance, he couldn't give up after all.

"Dad, I was wrong, I was thinking that our family is so difficult, and I am about to go to college again. At that time, my brain was hot, and I saw that there were piles of money there, so I moved my mind. Dad, I don't think I'd better go to college and become a stevedore with you. Yang Lingyun looked aggrieved, as if he had a good heart but was misunderstood by the closest people.

Yang Teng sighed when he saw this, thought for a while and said, "We are poor, but we must have backbone, and we must not do illegal things." I don't think it's a long-term thing here, so it's better to accompany my son to study at Central Provincial University. Your mother and I set up a stall selling pancakes, and I believe that the business next to the school should be okay. Of course, if you think your parents are affecting your studies, we will go to a farther place. ”

"He dares! In the future, our son will eat my cooking for three meals a day, and he will study so hard that he can keep up with his nutrition. Zhou Zhenzhen saw that her husband put down his arm, and saw that he had finally made up his mind, and her heart blossomed happily, but she still stared at her son with a feigned anger on her face. But he began to break his fingers to calculate the cost, which provoked Yang Teng to make a stern face and couldn't put it up.

"Dad, what should I do with all this money?" Yang Lingyun asked.

"The efficiency of our freight yard has not been good over the years, and if the big guys didn't really have a way, they would have left a long time ago. I think I'll leave it to everyone, this place will be dispersed sooner or later, just as we got acquainted and gave them a little comfort. Yang Teng thought of his experience with everyone over the years, and said with some embarrassment.

"Do you practice in the grappling these days? Go to the yard and check it out for me. Yang Teng saw his son's body that was a head taller than himself, and couldn't help but want to see his son's martial arts. Our Yang family has finally cultivated a descendant who is both civil and military, and it is not in vain that the name of Lingyun Zhuangzhi given to him is bound to make a difference.

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In the Criminal Investigation Office Building of the Public Security Bureau, a third-level superintendent man sat in front of the computer and took a screenshot of the portrait of a young man riding in a private car in the surveillance, and entered it into the population information database for comparison. After a while, a man with a 98% similarity popped up. Seeing that his colleagues around him were not paying attention, the superintendent took a picture of the private car's license plate number and the young man's information.

The vibrating sound of the "Dudu" mobile phone attracted the attention of the man in black on the sofa in the song hall, and he saw that his wide hand was holding the mobile phone, and there was a large string of golden watches on his wrist, which was worth a lot of money at a glance.

"Scatter all the brothers, find me this car, and ask where the man above is. I don't want to see anything wrong this time, I just want the people above me to regret coming into this world. After speaking, he threw the mobile phone to the man sitting on the side, and his fierce eyes swept over the unruly men standing in a row in front of him.

An hour later, a black private car was parked in the back alley of the bar, but the driver was quietly leaning against the door, blood flowing down the door. Three sedans sped out of the alleyway, and by the time passers-by noticed the bloody scene, the cars were already gone.

In front of the silent valley, three private cars are quietly parked on the side of the road. More than a dozen strong men stood in a row with knives and sticks, waiting for the black-clothed man with a gold watch to give orders.

He took a heavy puff of cigarette, and the smoke lingered on the hideous face of the man in black. A bone-crushing sound wafted far into the silent valley.

"Our affairs must always be solved by our own means, and since we have been provoked, we must be prepared for the coming of darkness. Go out and find me this boy who doesn't know whether to live or die. ”

With a roar, the blood-red sunset seemed to herald a bloody catastrophe.