Wan Qing Zhai. A man was looking for something like crazy, and he was crying while searching.

Three days later, there were suddenly more wine jugs in Wan Qingzhai.

Three months later, there was a mountain of wine jugs piled up outside Wan Qingzhai.

Half a year later, Wan Qingzhai was no longer cared for, only the sound of insects crawling across the ground and the spiders quietly weaving webs on the beams of the house.

Wan Qing Zhai at that time no one has come again, the ashes have accumulated layer after layer, no one cares about Wan Qing Zhai, and no one cares about what happened to Wan Qing Zhai.

Everyone does their own thing, and the world is still the same world, year after year.

The joys and sorrows of one or two people are like pebbles thrown in the sea, which only ripples, but cannot roll up the wind and waves. In the small ripples, in addition to the owners of Wanqingzhai, it has also affected the old man Liu who sells pastries near Wanqingzhai.

Old man Liu only felt a little worried, worried about losing the presence of an old customer, and worried about who to sell this year's mung bean cake.

In the far northern continent, there is a country that has been inherited for hundreds of years, the Divine Comedy Country.

The Divine Comedy Country is strong, strong and strong, and has the potential to dominate the world, but what other countries did not expect is that the Divine Comedy Country did not continue to expand its territory after unifying the north.

The nations wished for this, but they didn't know if the Divine Comedy Kingdom disdained to do this or if it wasn't worth it, and it would be terrible if it was the first one.

There is such a big mountain as the Divine Comedy Country hanging overhead, and the countries will not be so comfortable when they start a war in the future, in case if one of the Divine Comedy Countries is unhappy that day, it will not be worth destroying themselves.

As a result, a delicate balance has emerged between the countries, and no one dares to start a war lightly.

Further north of the Divine Comedy Country, there is a group of mountains, stretching for an unknown number of miles, as if boundless, and the locals have become 100,000 mountains.

As the saying goes, the mountain eats the mountain. Therefore, there are many people in the Divine Comedy Kingdom who live near the 100,000 Great Mountains, and make a living by hunting and collecting medicines. After slow development, some villages and small towns were formed at the foot of the 100,000 mountains.

It's just that although the 100,000 mountains are full of treasures, they can't be excavated wantonly.

After the first Shenqu King unified the north, he issued a strange order, that is, the local people can only move within 50 miles of 100,000 mountains, and only in autumn and winter can they move within 100,000 miles of mountains, and those outside 100 miles are all forbidden places, and people are not allowed to enter and leave without permission.

Although people are very puzzled why they gave such an order, it is a pity to let Baoshan not dig well, but it is still faithfully implemented. They thought that perhaps their emperor was afraid that they would be in danger if they went into the mountains, so they thanked the emperor for his grace.

The strange order was taken as an ancestral precept by later successors, and it has been faithfully carried out from generation to generation and continues to this day.

At the foot of the 100,000 mountains, a one-armed middle-aged man was smoking something, looking like he was enjoying it. Then when he opened his mouth, a lot of smoke came out of his mouth, and in an instant, he was surrounded by smoke, and he felt like a legendary immortal.

After the smoke cleared, the man reluctantly put away the long pole in his hand, then got up and put on his bamboo basket and walked towards the place called home.

Home is where there is a wife and children, and he is lucky to have a wife and children. Just thinking of his wife, he couldn't help but frown. His wife, everything, is fine, but he is a little not content, he thought, if only his wife could be as contented and happy as he is.

But he knew that as soon as he said this, his wife would scold him for being unproductive, alas, it was okay not to say it.

Unconsciously, his pace of returning home was a little slower, but he still headed towards home, because home was his roots.

As he approached the door, he heard his wife's voice coming from the house.

"Aunt her, then her affairs will be more troublesome for you to worry about, don't worry, I'll send her over to you after Ming'er, if she doesn't do well after she goes, you can teach her a good lesson, country children have rough skin and thick meat, don't be afraid of this"

"It's not as suspenseful as you said, just help me sell something, it's not difficult. Okay, when the time comes, you send the child over, and I'll go back first."

"Well, okay, auntie, you go slowly"

Then a woman of about forty years old came out of the house, and this man was also known, and it was Widow Zhang, who sold pastries in the town.

I heard that her man died a long time ago, and he accidentally fell down the mountain to his death while picking a big medicine. Later, she sold the big medicine that the man exchanged for his life, used the money to organize the man's funeral, and then used the rest of the money to open a pastry shop, and she was also a hard-working person.

The man silently made way for her, and when the woman saw the man coming back, she said hello: "Ah Gui, you're back"

"Hmm"

The man replied lightly, and he didn't know if it was because he didn't talk too much in front of his wife or because she was a widow and didn't want to talk to her, the woman didn't know, and she didn't want to know. Then without saying anything more, the man missed the body and left.

"It's back"

After coming out of the house, the widow's wife spoke to the man.

"Well, it's back"

"How's it going?"

The man knew what his wife meant by this, so he took off the bamboo basket from his back and put it on the ground.

"That's all, bad luck today, that's all"

The woman bent down and looked at it carefully, and then said very dissatisfied, "You, you can't find something better."

The man muttered in his heart, good things, how easy to find. This is not flowers and plants, once a year. Medicinal herbs can only be harvested for years or even decades, but after so many years, they have long been picked by others.

The rest of the good stuff is either deep in the mountains or in some very dangerous place.

But he still comforted his wife, because he knew that if he didn't talk about it, his wife would talk to him about it for a long time, and he didn't like to talk too much about money. He thinks it's good for the family to be reunited, money, more ways to live, fewer ways, just starve to death.

The man said, "Well, I know, it's autumn soon, I'll go deeper and dig some good herbs."

"That's pretty much it"

The man saw that his wife's attitude had eased, so he changed the topic and said, "By the way, did Aunt Zhang come here just now?" ”

He didn't say he heard his wife outside. He thought it would be better for his wife to tell her herself, otherwise his wife would have to explain what he was eavesdropping on for a long time, and he didn't seem to want to explain anything, it was too troublesome, and he hated trouble.

"Oh, I invited Aunt Zhang here, and I want Yuanzi to go to Aunt Zhang to help. Yuanzi is not young anymore, it's time to find something for her to do."

"But she's only fourteen, isn't it a little early?"

"It's early, it's fourteen. I went to Aunt Zhang's place, I can take care of food and housing, and I can earn a little money to subsidize my family. Otherwise, you alone will feed our four mouths, and you will not die of hunger, but what will our family Bao'er do when she grows up, and his bride price money has not yet arrived, and I am about to die."

The man felt that it was a little strange to think about these issues so early, so he argued with reason, and said, "Bao'er's matter is still early, I will find a way when the time comes."

"What is early, Bao'er is eleven years old, and she can marry a daughter-in-law in a few years, in case she meets a good girl, and our family can't get the bride price, won't he hate us to death, no, I will never allow that kind of thing to happen, I don't want Bao'er to be like me"

When the man heard her say this, he knew that she remembered the past.

The reason why his wife married him was because their family was originally because her brother wanted to marry his daughter-in-law and couldn't get the bride price, so she experienced a series of life events in just one month, talking about matchmaking, blind date, and getting married.

Her future is so planned, there is no choice. She felt that her life was so worthless, not worth mentioning compared to money, and not worth mentioning compared to the men in the family.

That's why she was so obsessed with money after marrying herself, and she would make herself motivated, although she spent most of her family's savings to marry her.

She didn't realize that when it was her turn, when she was a mother, she also attached great importance to her son at home, and ignored her daughter's feelings. Although it is not an arranged marriage, let her get married, but it is also an arranged future, and she chose her destiny, just for her son to face the fate of the choice is to have more bargaining chips.

"That's right."

The man has nothing to do, and the wife feels sorry for her son, which is understandable, because the son is her flesh and blood. It is understandable that the wife let her daughter go early to earn money to support the family, just because the daughter was picked up from the mountains by herself, not her flesh and blood.

But the man is just uncomfortable, even if he picks it up, he picks it up by himself, and even if he picks it up, it is the person who has eaten together at the same table for twelve years, and the person who called her daughter for twelve years. How can it be nice to be treated like this, although it is just a simple to go to the town to help, but it is not all because of love to let her go.

I think when I met her, she was still a doll who could just walk.

That fall, he had just been married to her for two years, and she told him she was pregnant. Pregnancy, that is a big deal, and then his family really does not have much money, he does not want her and the child in his womb to suffer, so he ventures into a hundred thousand mountains and a hundred miles, he wants to dig up some better herbs in exchange for money.

It didn't go well at first, he walked around the mountains for three days in a row and didn't find anything valuable, but he didn't want to give up, he couldn't look directly into his wife's eyes, he was afraid that the other pair of small eyes in her eyes would say Dad, I'm hungry.

So, he took the risk and continued to search in the mountains.

When he searched for another day and a night without finding anything and was about to give up, he suddenly faintly heard the cry of a child coming out of the forest.

The sudden cry made his tired body and spirit suddenly alert, and there must be a demon when something goes wrong, so he followed the sound.

He searched for the sound and kept walking, but suddenly the sound stopped, and he wanted to see what was going on, so he continued in the same direction. As he walked, he suddenly saw an open space in front of him, and then he stopped. In fact, it can't be said to be an open space, but compared to the towering trees around him, the small grass in front of him seems quite empty.

In the middle of the clearing there was a small pool, and beside it was a deer, which was looking at him. But he didn't bother to look at the deer, his eyes widened and he stared at the child sucking something under the deer, and he felt like he was dreaming what he saw.