Chapter 2 The Past Comes to a Dream
The red-eyed young man slapped on the ground, and bursts of red blood mist began to emerge from the corpses around him, and as he breathed in, the blood mist was all sucked into his body.
After all the corpses around him turned into dried corpses, he looked down at his bloodstained hands, frowned slightly, and opened his lips, but it was an old man's voice: "This body is still too weak, it seems that you have to speed up the pace, otherwise I am afraid that I will not be able to catch up with the ......."
The words behind the red-eyed young man were blown away by the cold wind whistling by, and he couldn't hear clearly, and after confirming that there was no other danger around, he left here and walked forward, walking, the red light in his eyes began to gradually dissipate, and the strength in his body also disappeared little by little with the disappearance of the red light.
He fell to the ground, and in two years, once again he had self-awareness, and fell into a deep sleep, and in his dreams, the past, which had been hidden in the depths of memory, also emerged little by little.
Tianyuan Village is a small village on the border of Tianqian Kingdom, and Old Man Wu is a blacksmith in the village, he has been working in the village for decades, and no one has long remembered his name, only knows that his surname is Wu, so everyone calls him Old Man Wu.
Old man Wu came to Tianyuan Village when he was young, and since then he has settled here, he has never married a wife in his life, and he has no heirs of his family, but in the winter of sixteen years ago, he picked up a child from the snow, and in the child's swaddling clothes, there is a jade plate, and on the jade plate, there is only one "Hades" word, so Old Man Wu named the child Wu Ming, coincidentally, two years later, Old Man Wu adopted a baby girl who was placed at the door of his house, named Wu Xuening.
People say that it was because Old Man Wu was kind to people, and God couldn't bear to let him die alone, so he sent two children to spend the rest of his life with him, and he also treated these two children as his own children.
Wu Ming in his sleep, there is a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, the old man Wu has a gentle personality, he doesn't like to compete with others, his only hobby is to like to drink, but his amount of alcohol is not good, after two or two drinks, he always drunkenly pulls Wu Ming and Wu Xuening, and wants to give them two children, talking about the things he encountered when he was young.
Talking about the chivalrous and righteous deeds of those rivers and lakes, talking about those official and bandit fights, and telling the stories of those rivers and lakes and temples, when Old Man Wu was young, he walked through a lot of places and met a lot of people, he was not a master, just a person on the edge of the rivers and lakes, with the justice he wanted to implement all his life, and a woman to protect all his life, but when these two things left him, he came to Tianyuan Village and became a blacksmith.
And it was also from the rivers and lakes in the mouth of the old blacksmith that Wu Ming began to want to learn martial arts, wanted to see the rivers and lakes of this great country, and the old man Wu, who knew his idea, not only did not object, but fully supported him, and secretly gave him a book of martial arts secrets for him to practice.
Who would have thought that it was the martial arts cheats that were only half broken and the name was not clear, but it really allowed the young Wu Ming to practice kung fu, and he was flexible in moving kung fu, and even the old hunters in the village couldn't keep up with his speed.
And because of his kung fu, in the dense forest, he saved the son of the general of the Tianqian Kingdom from the mouth of the tiger, and he has always considered his best friend - Li Qianfeng.
When Wu Ming woke up again, he found himself lying in a carriage, the tattered armor on his body had been replaced by a thin shirt, and his torn armor was placed not far from him, looking at the unfamiliar environment around him, he sat up with his body propped up, and checked his body, the injury had recovered, and the mysterious gas in his body was also some, but his body was still a little weak.
He frowned slightly, he didn't understand, he was obviously cornered by those scavenging beasts, how could he live so well now? Could it be that the owner of this carriage saved him, but this does not explain why he recovered so quickly, or that his body absorbed a large amount of blood! In this case, would the owner of this carriage see his secret?
When he was still confused, someone opened the curtain of the carriage, Wu Ming immediately looked up, behind the curtain was a little girl, with two pigtails, after seeing Wu Ming sitting up, he was stunned for a moment, and then he put down the curtain suddenly, and ran away, while running, he shouted in his mouth: "Grandpa, grandpa, that brother is awake, you come and take a look." ”
Wu Ming did not relax his vigilance, this carriage is not small, even after setting up a bed, there is still a lot of space, and the decoration is not bad, it seems that the owner of this carriage is either rich or expensive, such a family, it is not strange that there are a few masters or something.
He stood up, intending to go out to see what was going on, and as soon as he lifted the curtain, he saw that the little girl had just pulled an old man with a white beard and came over, and the little girl urged the old man on the side as she walked, and her childish little face was frozen red, and she looked very excited.
Pity the old man, he can't walk when he's old, and he has to be pulled by the little girl, and he stumbles when he walks, it can be seen that the old man loves this little girl very much, and he smiled kindly all the way, and he didn't get angry about it.
The old man and they came over quickly, and Wu Ming didn't have time to observe carefully, just took a general look around, this is a large horse team, if it is not a caravan, it should be some big families traveling.
"Little brother, you woke up, how do you feel now? Your injuries are not light, and it rained again two days ago, so it's better to lie down and recuperate. When Wu Ming observed the surrounding situation, the little girl had already pulled the old man to his side, and the one who spoke just now was the old man with white hair.
Although Wu Ming didn't know what was going on after he lost consciousness, when he saw the old man's kind smile, he was a little less vigilant, and he hugged his fist at the old man and said, "Thank you for the old man's life-saving grace, I, Wu ...... Wu Ning was grateful, and hoped that the old man would tell him his name, and Wu Ning would repay him in the future. ”
The old man smiled heartily and shook his hand, and then stretched out his hand to signal Wu Ming to pull him into the carriage, Wu Ming frowned, hesitated for a moment or reached out to pull the old man up, the little girl next to him was amazing, and she climbed up from the other side.
"Little brother don't be polite, the old man's surname is Chen, if the little brother doesn't dislike it, just call me Chen Lao, this is my granddaughter, you can just call her Yaya, it's cold outside, let's go in and say, it's freezing this day, my old bones can't last long." ”
Chen Lao didn't show much wariness of Wu Ming, just like treating one of his juniors, I don't know if it was such a character, or deliberately like this, there were other plans, Wu Ming didn't dare to assert it, and now he had to help the old man into the carriage to see what the old man was going to do next.
There was a small charcoal stove in the carriage, and even in late autumn, there was not much chill, so the old man came to the bed and sat down directly, put his hand on the small stove and roasted it.
Wu Ming didn't move, just stood aside, waiting for the old man's next words, the little girl didn't know where to come from, felt out two small stools, handed one to Wu Ming, grinned, revealed a small tooth with two missing front teeth, a little silly, he smiled politely, took the small stool and sat down.
The old man roasted the small stove for a while, and then said to Wu Ming: "Little brother Wuning, you don't have to be so restrained, we have no ill will towards you, don't worry."
Lao Yu is the last patriarch of the Chen family in Ningcheng, because Ningcheng was given to the Beiyue Kingdom by the monarch in the fourteen cities of Yanyun, my Chen family has been doing business in Ningcheng for generations, and does not want to be subservient to others, so the family moved and wanted to settle in the city.
We are the second batch of convoys, on the road encountered the little brother seriously injured coma, so he rescued him, and there is no other intention, the outside is freezing, I see that the little brother also has no warm clothes, if the way, the little brother can go with our convoy, if the little brother can not believe in the old decay, you can also leave at any time. ”
Old Chen has lived for such a long time, he can still see Wu Ming's defense against him, the old man is an open-minded person, and he directly explained the reason for the matter clearly, dispelling the doubts in Wu Ming's heart.
Wu Ming, who listened to Old Chen's words, frowned tightly, and among the old man's words, there were a few words that pierced his heart, and he immediately asked the old man: "May I ask the old man, what year and month is it now, why did the monarch give the Fourteen Cities of Yanyun to the Kingdom of Beiyue?"
The old man's smiling face was stunned for a moment, and then he looked at Wu Ming with a little doubt: "Isn't the little brother a person from the Tianqian Kingdom?" I listen to the accent of the little brother, he is a standard Tianqian countryman, and that armor is the standard armor of my Tianqian country's soldiers, but it is too damaged, and I don't know what position it is."
A few years ago, I went to the mountains to live in seclusion with my master, and I didn't pay much attention to the outside world, I don't know what has happened recently, as for that armor, it is a relic left to me by my master, who was a soldier when he was young, and chose to practice in seclusion after killing too much.
On his deathbed, the lonely master gave me the armor and asked me to go to the city of Buluo to find the general, saying that if I had this armor, the general would take me in taking care of the old feelings, but I didn't expect to meet a beast on the way here, and even the armor was broken. Wu Ming immediately made up a reason for himself, after all, he couldn't tell this old man that he had come back from the dead.
The old man suddenly realized, and then continued: "So that's the case, no wonder the little brother doesn't know the current changes in the Tianqian Kingdom, but it's a pity that the little brother is afraid that this trip will run in vain, because the general has already been loyal to the country." ”
The old man's words made Wu Ming's heart chuckle, and the hand he held lightly trembled slightly, although he didn't believe it in his heart, he could only suppress his emotions and wait for the old man's next words, the old man talked about this matter, and it was difficult to hide his sadness, and he sighed and continued: "It is now the one hundred and fifty-second year of the Tianqian calendar, five years ago, there was a war between the Tianqian Kingdom and the Beiyue Kingdom, and this fight was more than five years.
At first, because our country has General Li Dangguo in charge, the two sides can be regarded as fighting back and forth, three years ago, after the general's son Li Qianfeng and his son Wu Ming joined, it was even more successful, until two years ago, but there was a change, hey......"
Chen Lao seemed to have thought of something regretful, stopped and sighed, but at this moment, Wu Ming's heart was already full of turbulence, but he didn't expect that it had been two years, and the ominous premonition in his heart was getting stronger and stronger!
He was stunned for a moment, then raised his head to look at Old Chen, and asked slowly: "Then, Old Chen, what happened, since there are many good news, why do you want to send out the Fourteen Cities of Yanyun?"
"Hey...... The two children of the general, starting from the low-level soldiers, were brave and good at fighting, all the way to the position of the left and right vanguards, and the enemy army was defeated and retreated under the charge of the two of them, and it was hard to imagine that they were only fourteen or fifteen years old.
Seeing that we were about to win a great victory, the Kingdom of Beiyue actually sent killers to assassinate the two pioneers, and by the time the general got the news and arrived, Wu Ming's vanguard had already died, and the corpses were taken away by the enemy, and Li Qianfeng's vanguard was seriously injured and dying.
Under the extreme grief of the general, the blood and blood retrograde, fell ill in bed, without the command of the general, the charge of the two vanguards, our soldiers are defeated and retreated, and they have no choice but to apply for peace talks three months ago, and the price of peace talks is that this Yanyun Fourteen Cities, the backbone of our country, General Li Dangguo, also died of illness on the bed two months ago, at the age of forty. ”
Wu Ming was stunned when he heard this, his heart was depressed, and he felt sadness from his heart, and a wave of anger rushed to the top of his head, forcing a mouthful of blood to spurt out of his mouth, and then his eyes went black and he fainted.
Everything has to start from Wu Ming saving Li Qianfeng from the mouth of the tiger, Li Dangguo, the general of the Tianqian Kingdom, heard that a teenager actually saved his son from the mouth of the tiger, and immediately came to Tianyuan Village in person, after seeing Wu Ming, he tried his skills, and immediately called him a martial arts genius, and proposed to accept Wu Ming as a righteous son, and take Wu Ming to the general's mansion to cultivate.
Such a big opportunity was in front of Wu Ming, even if he didn't want to, Old Man Wu had to force him to agree, and a day later, after saying goodbye to the villagers and his sister and grandfather, Wu Ming followed the general to the general's mansion.