"Before telling the story of my site in this site, I would like to introduce my origins, although it has been a long time, I still clearly remember that when I woke up in Yanjia Village more than 200 years ago, I was already a gray-haired old man, not only my hair was completely white, but even my whole body was covered with white hair. I don't know what my name is, and I don't know where I'm from. It is said that a child in the village found me unconscious next to the stone monument at the entrance of the village, and immediately went back to inform the adults, and then I was carried by the villagers to the house of the village chief at the time. After the doctor's diagnosis and treatment, I recuperated for about a month, and I gradually regained my memory, but I chose to hide the past and lived in Yanjia Village for a hundred years. When the original village chief unfortunately passed away, everyone elected me to be the village chief, and another hundred years have passed. You might be wondering how old I am this year, right? Don't worry, listen to me slowly, and let me start with more than 300 years ago, at this site, when I was a child who just remembered......"

The old village chief stared at the blazing bonfire in front of him, his eyes were full of deep thoughts, and in a slightly sad tone, he told the villagers word by word, maybe he was too involved in telling, or maybe the villagers were too fascinated by what he heard, and all the villagers, including the old village chief, seemed to have returned to the ruins of the Lotus Kingdom three hundred years ago......

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More than 300 years ago, the ruins of the Lotus Kingdom

On the cliff of the deep valley in the north of a beautiful lake, a series of small waterfalls cascade thousands of miles into the river in the deep valley, making a subdued and sudden splash of water.

In this large deep valley, except for the large and small streams, there are all wooden houses made of extremely thick bamboo, which are built on top of the streams, of different shapes and sizes, and the wooden roofs are also planted with vines, which hang down from the wooden houses at will, drifting in the wind, which is very beautiful.

Unknown yellowish, pale pink, and lilac flocculent flowers can be found throughout the valley, scattered in clusters on rooftop vines, cliff faces, or on both sides of streams.

Whenever the wind blows, it will fly up like a butterfly, and after the wind passes, it will fall down one after another, and at a glance, it seems that a colorful flower rain will fall in the deep valley from time to time, which is very pleasing to the eye.

In this rain of flowers, many boys and girls who are only five or six years old and look very cute are chasing and playing.

However, behind a tree not far from where these children played, there was a five-year-old boy covered with white hair, hiding behind the tree with low self-esteem, staring enviously at the children who were having a good time, and in his heart he also hoped that he could be like them, free to play together.

Helplessly, because he had no parents since he was a child, he was an abandoned baby picked up from the valley by a kind mother-in-law, and his whole body was covered with white hair, so the other children looked down on him, regarded him as a monster, and avoided him, let alone play with him, and from then on, he became the loneliest child in this deep valley.

And this little boy who was covered with white hair and extremely poor was the old village chief when he was a child.

The old woman who adopted him had a somewhat withdrawn personality, so her popularity in this deep valley was not good, which also caused the old village chief to have difficulty contacting others when he was a child. Usually, except for the valley chief in this deep valley who occasionally came to see the old woman and sent some prey that had just returned from hunting to improve her food, there was no second person to come to see her.

In addition, the old woman is illiterate and can't give names, so the young village chief naturally doesn't even have a decent name.

The only nickname he has is White Fur.

Bai Mao is a very sensible child and very studious, since everyone is reluctant to play with him, he simply studies hard.

In this deep valley, there is a lotus pond with a small area, and on each water lily in it, people have carved words, almost a water lily is an article, the water lily is large, the article is long, on the contrary, the article is a little smaller, and even the smallest water lily, there is only one poem.

This lotus pond is an important place for books in the deep valley, a place for children to learn words, and a special place for adults to study knowledge and inquire about ancient books.

Therefore, it is divided into three different areas, the children's learning area, the adults' reading area, and the ancient book consultation area.

Because the old woman lived a hard life and was illiterate, it was naturally impossible for her to have her own small wooden boat, and it was even more impossible for Bai Mao to have the money to study.

Although the children of other families have small wooden boats specially used to enter the lotus pond to study, and they can also afford to pay the tuition, but those children are playful by nature, especially the children of particularly wealthy families, often come to the lotus pond, either to fight in the water, or to catch shrimp, and when they catch fish and shrimp, they are often playing with them and dying, and then they are thrown into the water, or those water lily books, which are just fooling around, and have no intention of studying.

Not only did he waste this great study time, but he also made the lotus pond full of garbage, and even the water lily book was full of dead fish and rotten shrimp corpses thrown by the children's doors.

In this regard, Gu Chang was also helpless, so he had to row a boat to clean the lotus pond regularly, and Bai Mao always volunteered to ask Gu Chang to take him, and he climbed to the water lily to remove the dead fish and rotten shrimp stuck to it.

After all, some water lilies are very large, if you use a long bamboo pole to tie a cloth to wipe the water lilies on the boat, it is difficult to really wipe them clean, and Gu Chang's weight is too large, and the water lilies can't bear his weight, so he can't climb up and wipe them himself.

Since Gu Chang is a person who loves to read, he is a little obsessed, every time he cleans up the water lilies, he always can't help but read good words and poems again, and even comments to himself, one to analyze the meaning of the words, and the other to say his own understanding.

And Bai Mao took this opportunity to wipe the water lilies, while taking advantage of the fact that Gu Chang was not paying attention, he secretly studied the words on it with his heart, and sometimes he silently followed Gu Chang in his heart, and over time, he was inadvertently discovered by Gu Chang, and Gu Chang understood that the reason why Bai Mao was willing to work so hard to help him wipe the water lilies.

However, he pretended not to notice that Bai Mao was secretly learning the words on the water lilies, and instead deliberately left for a while, so that Bai Mao could read the words carefully and boldly.

Or sometimes for particularly difficult articles, he deliberately let Bai Mao wipe it for a while, and he seemed to be talking to himself on the side, but he was actually carefully explaining to Bai Mao.

Because Gu Chang likes this diligent and studious child from the bottom of his heart, he also wants to help him. But he can't help him clearly, after all, Bai Mao can't pay the fee, and he can't enter the lotus pond to study, especially the adult reading area and ancient book consulting area, the fee that needs to be paid is higher, as the head of the valley, he can't break the rules of the deep valley for many years because of sympathy and preference for white hair.

Sometimes, in order to give Bai Mao a chance to read more good books, Gu Chang also deliberately asked Bai Mao to climb on the water lily that was very clean and wipe it, the purpose was also to let him read a lot of books, so as to broaden his horizons and thinking.

In this way, under the special care of Gu Chang, the white hair gradually grew up, although he was still covered in white hair, but he also looked magnificent, a talent, if you look carefully, you can also feel the elegance and temperament of the literati on the white hair.

Bai Mao, who has grown up, is also very grateful when he thinks back to the time when he accompanied Gu Chang to clean up the lotus pond in the past, because he understands that if Gu Chang hadn't acquiesced in what he was studying, deliberately created an opportunity for him to read books, and inadvertently quietly pointed him out, he would not have had the opportunity to read all the books in the lotus pond, let alone become the only one in this deep valley who read all the books.

In a poetry contest held in Fukatani, he won the title of Fukaya's No. 1 Talent as an orphan and a poor person at the bottom of Fukatani, and by improvised an oral essay.

His article is concise in language, just right in wording, and profound in meaning, which is amazing, and even the chief of the valley and the old pedant in the deep valley are also sighing to themselves.

not only won the admiration of everyone in the entire deep valley, but also won the respect of everyone for himself and the old woman, and made those rich children who once looked down on him ashamed.

Just ask an old woman who can't read a single word, how can she not be respected if she can cultivate a talented person who reads poetry and books.

What's even more enviable to everyone is that Bai Mao also won the heart of the only talented woman in the deep valley who is the first place in every poetry competition.

This girl's name is Ya Miaozhu, the only pearl of the Ya family, the most mysterious family in the deep valley, not only noble, but also beautiful as a fairy, and she is also proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.

It is said that this Ya family is a descendant of the four major families of the ancient Liansheng Kingdom, and its identity is far beyond any family in the current deep valley, even if Gu Chang sees the patriarch of the Ya clan, he has to be polite and give three points.

Because Ya Miaozhu wears a veil every time she appears in front of everyone, everyone knows that she is beautiful, but she has no chance to see her true face.

Until Bai Mao defeated her and became the first place, Ya Miaozhu slowly took off the veil in front of Bai Mao, and admitted in public that Bai Mao's literary talent was indeed superior, and she was willing to bow to it.

also gave Bai Mao a portable sachet embroidered with Tilian, such an act is undoubtedly a declaration of her love for Bai Mao, and this sachet is a thing of love.

When Bai Mao saw Ya Miaozhu's appearance clearly, he knew that there was such a beautiful face in the world, and at that moment, he also fell in love at first sight and couldn't extricate himself.

After accepting Ya Miaozhu's sachet uncontrollably, he gave Ya Miaozhu a jade pendant that he had worn since he was a child, which was the only souvenir that the old woman had hung around his neck when she picked him up.

However, what neither of them expected was that their action would bring ruin to the entire deep valley......