With the last one of Lao Duan leaving, I was suddenly the only one left in Shanwan.

I didn't feel too much, and after taking a final look at the place that had finally returned to normal, I silently returned to the grass hut that was "raining lightly", blowing out the oil lamp that was not extinguished, but it was always the oil lamp that was not extinguished, and the rainwater that was leaked into the grass hut was washed to a layer of unstained bronze statue, and set foot on the way home from the mountain.

Seven months is not a long time, but it is not a short time, although I have always deliberately let myself ignore the time thing, but I haven't really forgotten it, I just adapted to the life of a person in the mountains, so no matter what, I am already homesick.

Since it had been raining in the second half of the night, and it had been raining for two minutes at first, I was worried that the loss of ripe rice would be too serious, so even though the rain had only stopped for a long time, and the sky had just dawned, people who had gotten up early had already gone out of their homes to check on the situation in their rice fields. Just on the way down the mountain, I met four or five people, the Li family and the Pan family, they all know that in the past six months, in order to completely solve the matter under the ancestral grave of the Pan family, I have been living alone on the mountain, and have never returned home, so at this time, I saw me holding an oil lamp in one hand and holding the bronze statue of the ancestor in my arms in the other hand to go down the mountain, it was inevitable that they were a little surprised, and they all went around their own ridges, and at the same time came to say hello, they asked me what the situation was with a somewhat hesitant tone.

Knowing that all of this was entirely concerned about me, I simply stopped by people to explain the situation and told them that it was okay on the mountain and that I was going home now.

When I came to the foot of the mountain, crossed the Tianba and crossed the bridge, and came to the road under the Pan's courtyard, many people had already walked out of the house, and even came to the road to see me. Among them, there are the old village chief and branch secretary of the Pan family who have not been seen for more than half a year, and they are already old when they see each other again, and Pan Changhong, whose home is on the top of the Pan family's courtyard, also ran down after hearing the news.

Everyone knows that the area where Pan Guanghai's daughter-in-law is buried is abnormal, the yin qi is very heavy, and even the grass that grows is different from other places, but after admonishing each other, the village also let the people who are close to that piece of the field abandon the planting this year, and the loss is subsidized by the village, no one dares to get too close there, so it is difficult for many people to have a clear understanding of how gloomy that place is. It wasn't until I saw that I was dressed in a big cotton coat, wet all over, and my face was somewhat pale, especially the aura exuded by the whole person was also a little gloomy, that I really realized that the repeated warnings of the old people were reasonable, and that place was indeed very eerie and terrifying, otherwise I wouldn't have made this scary look of no one and no ghost.

In fact, my physical condition is not at all as serious as people think. The pale face is because I haven't been exposed to the sun for most of the year, and rural people work outdoors most of the time, and in the summer, they are basically tanned, which makes me look abnormally white in comparison, in fact, if you compare it with those people in the city who squat in the office building every day, the difference is not big.

As for wearing a big cotton coat, the whole temperament looks gloomy, which is also because of the environment I am in, which does not mean that there is something wrong with my body.

But no matter what, people care about me. Listening to the voices of me losing weight, not looking as good as before, and working hard, although I haven't had much contact with people for most of the year, and I haven't even spoken much, I am inevitably a little uncomfortable with this kind of scene, and my heart is still filled with a faint layer of warmth.

Of course, in this way, I wanted to go home quietly and give my parents and grandpa a small surprise, but naturally it fell through. Just after the old village chief's house less than a hundred meters, I saw an orange shadow, like a gust of wind, along the road, running down from Lijiazhai, not the big yellow dog Huanhuan, whose body size is close to the stereotype, who else could it be?

As soon as I turned the corner, I saw that I was really walking home accompanied by the old village chief, the branch secretary and others, Huanhuan suddenly let out a cheerful cry and rushed over at a faster speed. As usual, he jumped high two meters away, and just came to me when he landed, and the two front paws were just on his shoulders, and the huge inertia pushed me to stumble, but fortunately Pan Changhong in the back reached out to help me, otherwise I would have to fall down with this blow.

I didn't care if I couldn't stand it, the big yellow dog, who was in a state of excitement, let out another cheerful bark, jumped and barked excitedly, and his head went straight to his face.

"Hey, look at this earth overlord, his strength is great." Seeing that I was a little hard to resist the enthusiasm, the old village chief suddenly said with a smile next to him.

"It's really a good dog, look at the head and claws, as well as the size and running posture, if you teach it well, it's no problem to take it to the deep mountains and old forests to pick up a wild boar or something, but this dog is too smart, I'm afraid ordinary people can't teach it, and I can't hold it down." The old branch secretary also nodded matterfully and said that he liked dogs the most when he was young, and he would take a few dogs he trained into the mountains to hunt if he had nothing to do, and now there is still one at home, and the offspring of one of the three hunting dogs left behind is no longer able to run, and he does not have the energy to temper the dog, but he still likes it in his heart, and he has a common language with a few people in the village who love to take the dog to the mountains.

Although I don't understand dogs, except for the idea of training Huanhuan to bring me food, I have never had the idea of training it to do anything, but since the branch secretary says that it is a good dog, it proves that it is indeed not much worse.

And the old village chief called Huanhuan the earth overlord, in fact, there is a saying, because when he was half old, this guy had already begun to run rampant, and at first he was just a powerful man in Lijiazhai, beating all the dogs in Lijiazhai, and then gradually spread to Panjiayuan. Although at the beginning, he was often beaten by a few chasing dogs in Pan's house, but this guy just has a spirit of not admitting defeat, it doesn't matter if he suffers a loss this time, he will recharge his energy and come back next time, in short, since his "debut", he has not really been beaten by a few villagers and which dog is afraid that he will never dare to provoke again.

It was only half a year old, and as he grew taller day by day and became more and more skilled in fighting, the balance of victory began to tilt towards Huanhuan little by little, and gradually, even those chasing dogs were no longer his opponents. Up to now, the entire Lijiazhai Panjiayuan, and the dogs of Luojiaping Zhoujiawan have been all subdued by it, as if they have become the overlords of several villages, usually everywhere they go are in groups of three or five, everywhere to make a fortune, the last week, it seems to feel that a few villages are no longer enough for its majesty, and began to hit the idea of the Yang family row, nothing to do with a few chasing dogs to run over there, making the chickens and dogs restless.

Listening to my absence from home for more than half a year, this guy still has such a "brilliant record", like a hooligan and a troubled boy, he fights for territory everywhere and fights the world, I can't help but be a little funny and angry at the same time.

Fortunately, although it sounds a little bloody and violent, it seems to have become a big scourge, rampant in the township, and all kinds of evil, but this guy has never really bitten anyone's dog, just subdued it and stopped, never dead, and completely limited the rampant domineering to the same kind, he has always been very gentle to people, never grinning, and he will not eat anything outside his own home, let alone steal chickens and ducks, and even helped people find lost cattle several times, so over time, people have figured out what virtues this guy has, Knowing that there is no harm, let it be a blessing. Otherwise, if you are sincere, your parents will already have a headache.

When the big yellow dog tossed enough, stopped, and walked home with a smile again, the parents who had been left behind by it finally came over, and they couldn't help but be surprised and happy to see that I had really gone home. Yesterday, I was still having a headache about how to go to Zhang Xiaowei's house, and when I said that I would definitely be able to go then, my mother didn't dare to believe it, but just one night later, I really ran down the mountain, and it was strange not to be surprised.

Including my parents and parents, people just know that it rained for more than two minutes last night, and it rained all night, and the temperature was lower than after the rain in the past, and they even needed a jacket to prevent colds, but they didn't know the reason for the cooling, because this sudden rain was the immeasurable yin under the mountain bay, which was forced out at one time.

This is not a normal form of rain, and cooling is inevitable.

Of course, what even I didn't know was that this would have been a big hailstorm that was enough to cause a loss of harvest to our rice harvest, but it was because the old man who had already expected it to disperse the clouds of yin qi over a wider area, and finally dissolved the hail into a rain. Even if he knew the old man, the grandfather who had changed into his clothes and gone out, he couldn't know what was going on.

Based on not knowing the inside story, after my parents were happy, they were naturally faintly worried, for fear that I couldn't help running down the mountain because I learned that I was going to Zhang Xiaowei's house. So when I was about to get home, my mother found an opportunity, pulled me aside and whispered, "Niannian, can you tell Mom honestly, did you go home because you wanted to go to Xiaowei's house?" Will you do this to make your master and his old man unhappy? "Although there is no way to say the words that will bring me back to the mountain, how can they not be worried when they are about to get home and see the old man.

"Mom, I know what you and Dad are worried about, does your son look like such a disobedient person? So don't worry, nothing will happen, because the matter on the mountain has been settled, and I can go home completely, and Master knows it. Knowing that they were worried, I didn't sell anything anymore, and after looking at my father, who was talking to the old village chief on the surface, but was actually paying attention to this side, I chuckled and said.

In fact, after withdrawing from that state last night, I got up and put my hand on the bronze statue of my grandfather, what happened, I don't know very well, and I don't obviously feel that there is something more on my body. It's just that I know with great certainty that everything has become different.

Just like the old man made me feel at the beginning, this is a very mysterious feeling, I can clearly feel the difference, but I can't tell what the difference is, at least I can't describe it accurately.

The old man just drove me up the mountain, never really forbade me to go down, so in essence, I didn't want to go down. Now that I've found that feeling, or that breath, it's time to go home.

If it weren't for the fact that I was going to Zhang Xiaowei's house and didn't want to disappoint this little woman, I would have even forgotten to go home.

When he entered the courtyard, the grandfather, who had already realized something, had completely opened the door of the hall, vacated the table of eight immortals in front of the incense, and put the incense burner and three incense sticks, while the old man, dressed in the costume that I had only seen once, stood calmly in the center of the gate.

"Master, the disciple is back." didn't say much, put down the oil lamp, walked straight to the old man and kowtowed three times, then raised the bronze statue of the ancestor with both hands, and slowly sent it to him.

"It's good to come back, and in the future, be cautious and fearless." The old man nodded lightly and said with a solemn expression.

"Disciples should remember the teachings, be cautious, and be fearless." On the surface, these are two contradictory words, but I know what the old man is expressing at this moment, so I said seriously.

After nodding lightly again, the old man took the bronze statue of Master Zu from my hand, turned around and walked into the hall, and placed it on the table of the Eight Immortals. And I got up and followed into the hall, and after bowing to the bronze statue three times and bowing nine times, I offered the three incense sticks that had been prepared.

From this moment on, the bronze statue of the ancestor will completely belong to me, but it will have no effect on me, the symbolic meaning will be greater than the actual meaning, and there is no need to carry it with me at all times as before. Until I also found the next generation of successors, and then like the old man threw it to me, I passed it on to my disciples to take with me, and use it for self-protection when needed.

And I will officially inherit the mantle and become the thirty-sixth generation of the Painting Spirit School.

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it should be the second thirty-sixth generation of painters.

In the afternoon of the same day, Zhang Xiaowei and Sister Yun, who received the news of my departure from the mountain, temporarily put down everything and rushed over from the provincial capital with Xiao Li Nuo, who was already over one year old. Arrived together, in addition to Yuan Jinzhu, a slut, and Yang Xiaotian, who had officially worshipped him as a teacher, there were also two guests who surprised me a little.

The first one is because of the original Seven Evils, Yuan Jinzhu kept saying that he wanted to get it and marry him home as a wife, but in fact he was a Lala He Shuman.

The other is Luo Wenxin, who has recovered from his injuries and has been discharged from the hospital and regained his freedom, but has also lost his entire left hand forever.

Unfortunately, as the night fell, I had just finished dinner and had drunk some wine, when I suddenly developed a high fever without warning, and soon fainted unconscious......