Chapter 1: Departure
This is a nameless barren mountain, poor mountains and bad waters, and the footsteps of modern human civilization have lost their way here.
In the barren mountains, there are a few dilapidated families, hunting and farming for a living, self-sufficient, but also simple. It was dusk, and the remnant sun caused the beauty of the sunset, covering the western sky, golden light, and maintaining the last glory.
Not far from the mountain village, there is a bay of pool water, up to the waterfall, flying down, a young man in cloth, seventeen or eighteen years old, delicate appearance, not as rough as a child in the mountains, now, he sits cross-legged on the round stone washed by the water, looking up at the colorful glow in the west, stunned.
The young man reached into the water, pinched a knot, there was a faint golden light between the fingers, under the water light, into a lotus flower, quietly blooming, this is quite a strange scene, fortunately no one saw it, otherwise, it will inevitably cause an uproar.
"Stone—" Behind him, another boy shouted, looking slightly older than him, with a very upright square face, also dressed in cloth, looking ordinary, but on his left wrist, there was a small white snake entangled, which was also difficult to exude.
The young man called Stone turned around, looked at the slightly older boy and asked, "Snake ghost, how is it?" ”
"The old man asked you to let him go!" The snake ghost whispered.
"Oh?" Shi only agreed, and only said after a while, "What did my mother say?" ”
"Aunt Yun didn't say anything!" The young man called the snake ghost sat beside him and said in a low voice, "I know you are not happy in your heart, and I am also not happy, you said okay, why did I come out of nowhere such a brother?" Moreover, why are our two families still feuding? ”
"I know a little bit!" A sarcastic smile appeared on the stone's face, "My mother is unmarried and pregnant, and then, I don't know why, my father, who has not yet met, is engaged to my mother's sister-in-law, at this time, your old man took advantage of the situation to enter, abducted my mother and eloped with him, and hid in this poor mountain and bad water, hiding for so many years?" ”
The snake ghost's face was full of disbelief, and he pointed to his nose and asked, "Then I-did I jump out of the stone?" ”
"Go-" Stone scolded with a smile, "take advantage of me?" Of course, the old man has a wife, and, I can assure you, the old man of your family did not lie to you, you and that Simon Langyue are brothers-in-law - the name of your family is really interesting, Langyue, ask the snow, and pity the wind...... What is the name of another one, cherish flowers? ”
"I guess that's what the old man thinks!" Ximen Wenxue nodded and smiled, "Get this, it means that he is an old man who is knowledgeable and elegant—but your name is not much better?" Hu Qiyan? If your mother gives birth to a girl, what are you going to call it? ”
"I don't know!" Hu Qiyan spread his hands and smiled.
"Perched geese!" An old man about fifty years old appeared silently behind the two of them, wearing an old lake-blue robe, his face was pale, as if he had not seen the sun, such a person—not like a mountain man.
Hu Qiyan turned to look at him, and the old man sighed softly: "Let him go, he is my son after all, I left their mother and son back then, I thought it shouldn't be, I can't watch you ......"
"You should know that if I let him go, you won't be able to hide in this place!" Hu Qiyan pondered for a moment before he said.
"I know!" The old man nodded.
Hu Qiyan nodded, and asked Xue to Ximen beside him: "You go and let him go, forget it......"
"Good!" Ximen Wenxue nodded, stood up, and did not see the slightest movement, his body shook, and he threw himself under the waterfall, and there was a big hole under the waterfall, which was pitch black.
But Simon Wenxue's skills were obviously good, and he was also familiar with the terrain, and a harrier turned over and jumped into the hole, but in a few moments, he had already walked out with another young man about twenty years old.
"Your old man pleaded for you, hey......" Hu Qiyan's smile was extremely ironic, and his seventeen or eighteen-year-old immature face actually showed an unconcealable smile of vicissitudes.
Needless to say, the young man was naturally Ximen Langyue, seeing this, he looked at the old man, but he didn't say anything, and only said after a while: "If you don't kill me, I will kill you one day, no matter what it is!" ”
Hu Qiyan nodded at him: "I know, since it is a feud, it is natural to die!" ”
Ximen Langyue didn't speak again, turned around and walked towards the outside of the mountain village, but never looked at the old man again.
In the western sky, the dusk hides the splendor of the sunset, there is a jade rabbit rising in the east, and the clear light is scattered——
"Let's go back!" The old man said, carrying his hands behind his back, and walked towards the mountain village first, what should come, after all, this world is sometimes so ridiculously small.
"Stone, go back to dinner!" Ximen asked Xue to greet Hu Qiyan.
"You go back first, I'll sit for a while!" Hu Qiyan shook his head.
"You go back earlier, Aunt Yun is angry, I'm afraid I'm going to have to -" Ximen asked Xue to instruct, the words were not finished, but she sighed softly, Aunt Yun has been like this all these years, and transferred her hatred for that man to the innocent child, listening to it, even when Hu Qiyan was just born, she thought about drowning him.
Although he was saved by the old man, he hurt his heart and fell ill - even so, Hu Qiyan still grew up under her stick education.
Waiting for Ximen to ask Xue to leave, Hu Qiyan lay on the stone by the waterhole again, for a long, long time, until the Jade Rabbit Zhongtian, he got up, looked at the mountain village not far away, and then knelt down, kowtowed three times in the direction of the mountain village, got up, and walked in the direction of the village.
However, at the moment when he walked to the entrance of the village, a voice smiled abruptly: "I guessed that you would go!" ”
"Snake Ghost!" Hu Qiyan stared at the man at the entrance of the village, shook his head and said, "If you don't stop me!" ”
"I'm not trying to stop you, I'm just going to follow you!" Simon asked Xue and smiled heartily, "We've been together since we wore open crotch pants, how can you just leave me like this?" ”
"Does the old man know?" Hu Qiyan frowned and asked.
"I know, Aunt Yun also knows!" Ximen asked Xue and sighed, "Aunt Yun asked me to give this to you!" As he spoke, he handed over an embroidered purse.
The purse was a little heavy in his hand, Hu Qiyan opened it easily, and sure enough, there were two gold ingots inside - he knew that his mother was from a famous family, and this should be what she brought out back then.
"Aunt Yun asked me to bring you a word!" Ximen asked Xue in a low voice.
"What?" Hu Qiyan asked.
"If you walk out of this village, from now on, she has nothing to do with you!" Simon asked about the slopes.
"Oh...... I know! Hu Qiyan clenched his fists hard and agreed lightly - he knew that as long as he walked out of this mountain village, there would be no turning back, but he had no hesitation.
"In addition—" Seeing that Hu Qiyan walked out without looking back, Ximen Wenxue followed, and continued, "Aunt Yun said that if you don't want to die too early, it's best not to touch a stone in your life. ”
"I won't touch a stone!" Hu Qiyan still just agreed indifferently - this is probably his mother's last instruction to him.
The figures of the two disappeared at the entrance of the mountain village after all, and at this time, a timid shadow appeared in the darkness, tiptoeing, looking at the place where they left.
"Miss Merciful!" Suddenly, a cold voice sounded from behind her.
Simon was startled and hurriedly turned around, but saw Simon Langyue standing abruptly in the dark, and under the moonlight, his face was as pale as death.
Simon was a little scared, and his father said, "This person is her brother?" However, it feels really strange and strange, in the mountain village, no one has ever called her - miss?
"Doesn't Miss Mercy want to go out and see the world of flowers outside?" Simon Langyue asked.
"I ......" Simon Lianfeng took a step back again, the outside world? It's really tempting, but she's a little scared, she's not Hu Qiyan or Ximen Wenxue.
"You should know that your brother stone will never come back!" Simon Langyue's voice was still cold.
"Brother Stone really won't come back?" Simon asked in a low voice.
"Of course, so if you want to see him, the only way is to follow him out!" Simon Langyue said again.
"But, I'm afraid!" Simon Lianfeng looked up and looked at Simon Lane Yue.
"Don't be afraid, the girls of our Simon family are all princesses who are held in the palm of their hands, how can they be buried in this wilderness?" Simon Langyue said lightly, "If you want, you can leave now......"
"The outside world? Hu Qiyan - her stone brother, he said that he would marry her, but he left...... "Simon is moved by the wind and follows his footsteps?"
looked up, but saw Simon Langyue's outstretched hand, after thinking about it, she still reached out and held the hand of this nominal brother who only had a one-sided relationship, and he led herself, deep and shallow, towards the unknown world.
In the outside world, there are bright lights and drunken fans; There are also deceitful and deceitful people every step of the way!
Soon after Hu Qiyan and Ximen Wenxue left the mountain village, they discovered a cruel fact - everything in the big city is good, and there are many things in the mountain village that you can't even think of, there are many people, cars, and money......
But in the same way, this place costs money for food and lodging, but the two of them are penniless - Hu Qiyan is reluctant to sell the two pieces of gold left to him by his mother, and the five hundred yuan of cash that Ximen Wenxue carries on him will soon shrink greatly.
When he was in the mountain village, Ximen Wenxue's father was a well-known miracle doctor in the village, and he was good at Qihuang's technique, which was deeply admired by everyone, and he was literate and hyphenated, not to mention their village, even some small villages nearby, who had a headache and brain fever, they were all looking for him.
The mountain is full of treasures, all kinds of herbs are rich, the old man often collects some herbs, go down the mountain for some money, Ximen asks the snow to be skilled, often go into the mountain to play some game, fur can be exchanged for money, the family lives a very rich life, but down the mountain, the two are completely black-eyed.