The town at midnight, under a silvery moonlight, is as quiet as an ancient wilderness.

The stars in the sky are twinkling, perhaps decades, hundreds or even tens of thousands of years ago, reflecting here at this time.

Countless stars converge into the Milky Way, hanging upside down, from one end of the sky to the other.

Under the warm spring breeze, the buds that had been dormant for a long time in the soil quietly struggled and germinated.

'Do! ’

Chen Zhi, who was lying on the bed and couldn't sleep, suddenly heard the sound of the window as if it had been knocked on by a small stone.

He jumped out of bed with a carp and opened the window.

Outside, a tall figure in a white robe stood downstairs at the inn, next to a vegetable garden.

He immediately put on two clothes, went downstairs lightly, and went around the back of the inn to the vegetable garden.

When the figure on the other side of the garden saw him, he walked back, jumped over a small stream, and disappeared into a dark tree.

Chen Zhi didn't think about it, and quietly trotted to the vegetable garden like a tanuki, jumped over the stream, and burrowed into the woods.

The forest was so quiet that even the insects seemed to be asleep.

He scurried through the trees.

After running for more than 100 meters, he suddenly heard the wind behind him, his head tilted, and he reached out to the side to grab it, and his hand felt round and rough, like a dead branch.

Immediately after, a figure leaped down from the tree, and a fierce palm wind hit in the darkness.

He didn't dare to take it hard, so he turned around and took advantage of the situation to dodge.

At this time, he was about to use a dead branch to make a backstab, but unexpectedly, the man was faster, slammed his palm into the air, and immediately landed a roundhouse kick.

Chen Zhi was short enough to dodge, but he was so embarrassed that he almost fell to the ground.

"You've grown in kung fu!"

"It's you who keep your hand, otherwise I won't be able to dodge a single move."

"You shouldn't have taken the branch just now, if it's a sword, your hand will be injured, and if a master throws it with strength, your hand will be useless at that time."

Chen Zhi lowered his head and said; "Not next time."

"Are you crying?"

In the dark, Chen Zhi was silent for a long time before he choked up; "Daddy, I thought I'd never see you again?"

The man in the white robe reached out and touched his head; "Even if you can't see it, you have to be strong, and you're not a child anymore, how can you cry when you say it."

"Hmm!"

"Where's your mother?"

"She and I are together again, and we are all right."

The white-robed man slapped his hands fiercely and said happily; "Great, ancestors bless! Our family is fine. ”

After a pause, he continued; "At that time, the situation was urgent, your brother was two steps behind, he slid down a steep slope six or seven meters high, jumped down to find him, fortunately there was no big problem, and when he came up again, he disappeared you, thinking that you had been captured."

CHEN Zhidao; "At that time, the night was dark and windy, it was rainy and cold, my mother and I turned around and disappeared from you and my brother, I panicked, the bandits behind were fierce, as long as I saw a figure, I shot arrows, Luo Yonghao's family next door was shot, I didn't dare to stay, so I helped my mother to run ...... in a panic."

This man in white robe is Chen Zhi's father who was separated when he fled last year.

The two fathers and sons met here and joyfully told the experience of this year.

From my father's mouth; He and his younger brother couldn't find him, so they infiltrated the mountain bandit village and killed the group of bandits who secretly attacked and robbed the refugees' property, but they couldn't ask about the whereabouts of their mother and son, and he was also injured.

Later, he dragged his wound south, met the mountain bandits of Dagui Mountain, and was forced to find a place to settle down, so he had to join them.

Later, he recuperated in the mountains for three or four months, and after he recovered, he wanted to use the power of the bandits to find his mother and son, so he became their third master.

Listening to his father finish talking about this year's adventures, Chen Zhi sighed in his heart, and then he also told what happened to him.

"So, your mother is now a slave in the Bu family, and you have become a coachman?"

Chen Zhi hurriedly waved his hand; "No, Madame never treated us as slaves, and treated us very well. We eat whatever they eat, and I'm not an ordinary coachman, I'm the captain of the coachman, and I have six hundred dollars a month. ”

Speaking of which, there is a little pride.

"Hahaha, my son is so good, he became a captain at a young age." The white-robed man laughed.

Then he said; "But after all, it's useless, let's go with my father, I'll take you back to the mountain, I'll pick up your mother tomorrow, let's reunite as a family, and eat and drink spicy food on the mountain."

"This ......," Chen Zhi looked embarrassed when he heard this.

"What is this? Dad has already killed the second master, and when he goes back, he will find an opportunity to kill the big master, and then the entire cottage will be our Chen family. ”

"But ......"

The white-robed man looked displeased; "Don't be sluggish, but what?"

"I don't want to go!"

The white-robed man gave him a blank look and said angrily; "Hehe, silly boy, are you addicted to being a subordinate? And it's not an official family, it's just an ordinary people's family......"

Chen Zhi hurriedly defended; "I just said, I have never felt that I am a subordinate or an outsider in the Bujia, and the owner also taught me to read and write, and I am very happy to live with their family, and I am also very happy with those coachmen."

The white-robed man said earnestly; "When you go up the mountain, you will be very happy with your father and younger brother again, and there are many young people on the mountain, who will also be your good buddies, and they will be unrestrained, and they don't have to look at anyone's eyes to tell you to do things, isn't it better? Besides, you can't bear to step on the people of the family, we are not far away, you can go down the mountain to find them at any time......"

"It's not that my son disobeys my father, I really don't want to go back, now the owner is going to take a scientific examination, if he is admitted, he will be a person with fame."

The white-robed man was finally angry; "I haven't seen you for more than a year, and I don't listen to my father's words? What's the point of messing around with those coachmen? Just because you're a vice-captain? Teach them some tricks? ”

Chen Zhi lowered his head, but said stubbornly; "These things about marching and arraying are still taught to me by my father before, you said that my great-grandfather used to be a general, how can the art of war that he left to march and fight is a little trick? Besides, my father has always been proud that we are behind the gate, and although I am a lowly coachman, it is better than a bandit, and if my great-grandfather in the spirit of heaven learns that his descendants have become bandits, I am afraid that he will be so angry that he will jump out of the grave......"

"You!" The white-robed man raised his hand angrily and was about to fan it.

Seeing that his son didn't take a step back, he didn't give up in the end.

"Father, I will go back the day after tomorrow and tell my mother that if she wants to be by your side, I will send her to the village, and I will stay in the Bujia family to continue to work as a coachman, after all, the two places are not far away, and I can also meet my parents and brothers in the village at any time."

When the white-robed man heard this, he looked at this much taller young man, and remembered the way he led several teenagers wielding knives and sticks in the stone pavilion.

When the child grows up, he is about to soar with bright wings, and he doesn't need to be by his side all the time.

"It's good! Then after you go back, send your mother over as soon as possible, and I'll go back to the village to clean up now. When he talks about cleaning, he actually gets rid of those who get in the way.

CHEN Zhidao; "Good father, I'm going back, and I'm going to hurry tomorrow morning."

After the two said goodbye in the dark woods, the figures swept in opposite directions and quickly disappeared in place.