Chapter 2: Twelve years later, the vicissitudes of life

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That night, although it was not full of wind and rain in the city, it made the Taoist priest busy and unclear.

After listening to what the Xuanwu Great Seal Phantom said, the Taoist priest felt that he had to go to the village the next day, and this demon had not done anything, so he had to solve a matter of blood dragon veins.

"The next day, in the morning"

There are some footprints on the muddy road, and the outline looks a little like cloth shoe prints, and there are usually only some dog paw prints, which are afraid that these footprints belong to the Taoist priest.

The hurried march made the Taoist priest keep stepping on the mud, and the splashing muddy water soaked the trouser legs, and a kind of rubbing sand muddy water wet his pants, making him a little uncomfortable.

He frowned tightly, muttered, and quickened his pace again.

He ran to Xiao Lang's house in a panic, stepped on the ground in one step, and jumped and yelled: "Old ghost, you dare to harm Lang boy, I am not finished with you!" ……”

Then, he began to knock on the small wooden door that was half rusted again and again, and the sound of "knock knock~" kept ringing.

In an instant, the door was opened, and a fury rang out.

"Which guy disturbs people's dreams in the morning and mourns in the morning!!" A figure sprang out of the door, and a gloomy face of Foran blocked the door frame.

Fu Lan is Xiao Lang's mother, and she is also a well-known temper in this village, and not many people dare to contradict her.

In the same way, she is the representative of the women's wing in the village, and with her as a great god standing, no one who is uninterested dares to look for trouble.

The only bad thing is that she has a big skeleton when she is young, and she looks fatter when she gets to the back.

What are you doing here early in the morning, believe it or not, I knocked you!! Fu Lan finally saw the skinny Taoist priest, and she kicked the stinky Taoist priest to the ground.

It is so strong, it is like the roar of the lion in the east of the river, a great spectacle that is difficult to find through the ages.

The Taoist priest was kicked by this kick and lost consciousness.

"Hey, hey~ I'm old-fashioned...... he stroked his waist and looked towards the door, a body occupied the short door frame, and a mighty momentum struck.

He glanced behind the door frame, and his view was limited, and he could only see an "old antique" - a water tank.

In the face of such a fierce and vicious Fulan, the Taoist priest had to slip away with tears in his eyes.

He had to stumble a few steps into the muddy water, and he was afraid to think about it, and he didn't care about the muddy water on his body and ran back to the small bamboo forest.

(As a "Taoist priest with high moral character", he said: "I admit it, will it be successful?") ”)

"Mom, what's wrong?" Xiao Lang kneaded his sleepy-eyed glasses and looked at his mother blocking the door.

"Okay, don't rub your eyes with your hands, there are bacteria. Hurry up and call your father to get up and eat~ This guy, I drank with your fifth uncle yesterday, lay down on the bed, look, I fell asleep again and fainted!

It's really an unsuccessful thing, Xiaolang, don't learn from him in the future! You're going to learn from that old guy who doesn't respect you, I'm going to have to ......."

"Okay, okay, I got it!" Xiao Lang saw Fu Lan's posture and ran back to the room at once.

It was also at that time that Xiao Lang had an impression of his fifth uncle.

The fifth uncle started to make a fortune in the past two years, and when he heard that he had done a small business outside, he also heard his father nag that the fifth uncle would not return to the village.

……

In the summer of twelve, the government suddenly sent a team of soldiers and several archaeologists to the vicinity of the village.

I heard that the second child of the village head family fell into a pit when he was going up the mountain and dug up a treasure. I thought about selling it, but I was "liked" by the state.

Things must be confiscated first, how can national cultural relics be passed on to the homes of gentlemen and nobles, and if they are circulated abroad, it will be difficult to get them back.

Then it was to organize personnel to go into the mountain to investigate, and excavate a huge mausoleum halfway up the mountain.

I heard that it was an imperial mausoleum in ancient times. The entrance was blocked at the scene, and there were many strange things that could not be named.

Xiaolang is a country child, and it seems that what amazing treasures are being excavated in Sumeru Mountain now seems to have nothing to do with him.

When he was seven years old, he was sent to an elementary school in a nearby town, and he only had time to come back to play during the summer vacation.

Mount Meru is divided into columns, and the intersecting and intricate trailheads are often piled up by muddy water, which affects the days of entering the mountain.

In the summer of that year, I heard that the second brother of the village head, who had made great contributions to the country, was seriously ill and dying.

died on the seventh night after finding the baby, and the whole person was miserable. Then the archaeologists disposed of the corpse in a different way, saying that it was to avoid bacterial infection and malaria or something.

Only they know what they are posting. Also on the seventh night, panic and screaming were uneven at the top of the hill.

In a panic, they left the next day, which became the busiest day in the small village.

More than five years later, the mountain became taboo at first. But then the crops were low, and some people began to venture into the mountains.

More and more people are wandering at the foot of the mountain, but they have never crossed the cordon drawn by archaeologists.

The women picked some wild vegetables, and the men in the family all went to work in the fields, and only in their spare time did they go hunting in the mountains to get some game to eat.

In this way, Sumeru Zishan returned to its usual days, only the Taoist priests in the small bamboo forest had sad faces every day and the sallow cordon on the mountain fluttered in the wind.

Then there is talk and laughter, so happy, the people in the mountain village are refreshing.

"Five years later, when Xiao Lang is seventeen years old"

"Dad! I am back! A voice came from outside the small wooden door, causing an old man in his forties and fifties who was sitting in the courtyard to drink a small wine stagger.

His calves didn't dare to tremble, his glasses widened, and he quickly kicked up his slippers and put away the small wooden table. I didn't forget to put away the wine, and I suddenly felt a little less drunk.

ran out of the yard, picked up the hoe and slipped out the door, and said hello to let his own Xiaolang in. After glancing at Xiao Lang, he ran to the crop field.

Xiao Lang looked at his father who was walking in surprise, and muttered, "No~ My father doesn't seem to be so diligent, right?" ”

Only the "" who was resting in the room knew that the bad old man had drunk and had to sneak into the crop field so that he would not be discovered by the mother and son.

But this trick has been used for two or three years, and Fu Lan has also discovered it a few times, but he didn't expect that he was still a stunned young man to continue to use this trick.

"Humph! You don't know what virtues you have! Every day, I made a small table and drank a little wine there, and some of the grain in the crops withered and I didn't know how to take care of it! ”

"Okay, I'll tell you good news, do you want to hear it?" Xiao Lang is still used to leaving his luggage in his small room as before.

"What's wrong? Is there any scholarship or something? You don't study hard, so do you want that little profit? Foran asked, his eyes twitching.

"No~ I passed the exam in our school, and I was specially recruited to a private high school. The school specially asked the class to hold a commendation meeting for me~ Of course, I will not refuse to come with a scholarship. ”

"Really? You didn't lie to your mother, did you? That's a big deal! Hurry up, call your father, go to the town to buy some meat to make up for it, forget it, you're tired too, just let me go......" The woman hurriedly tried to rush out of the threshold.

"Alas~ Wait, I'm still here for this kind of thing!" Xiao Lang grabbed Fu Lan, trotted away, and slipped away.

"This kid!" Foran took off her apron, stamped her feet and complained, knowing that the boy was there to protect his father's "position".

Crop Land

Autumn is approaching, and the green ears of wheat are beginning to turn pale yellow, and the branches that are pulled out move with the wind.

In the middle of a field of crops lay a body, snoring in the middle of a crop, snoring like thunder.

He also ignored the dirt on the ground, and a few grasshoppers were dancing on his drunken red face, and he touched his face casually, and threw a few bugs aside.

He wiped the saliva from his face, then rolled over and went back to sleep.

After a while......

He straightened up slowly, and carried the hoe with no strength, spitting on his hands as he gasped.

"Dad! Mom told you to go to the town to get some buckle meat, saying that it was to get some snow cabbage and buckle meat at night to beat your teeth......"

"Really? Your mother is so buttoned, can she buy button meat to eat? The middle-aged man looked at Xiao Lang walking on the path with disdain and surprise on his face.

Holding the hoe and waving the sweat on his face, he realized that he hadn't turned over a few pieces of soil all afternoon.

"Oops~ What have I done this afternoon?" The middle-aged man scratched his head and muttered quietly.

"Alright, take the hoe home and go early."

"Nacheng, listen to your son!" He carried his hoe on his back and walked in the direction of his home.

Father and son were busy for a while, got on a borrowed old motorcycle, and drove towards the town in the sunset.

I bought the last small plate of pickled cabbage and pork in a small shop in the town, which was a good thing for those of them who were far away from the town.

I bought some bananas on the way, which was quite cheap, so I bought some.

The money to buy snow cabbage and meat can be used to pay for the fuel of the borrowed car, because you have to pay double the price to buy some things, and you will only get some things in a hurry during the New Year (like melon seeds and peanuts, and it hurts to go to the town after buying some New Year's goods). )

(Transition, the next chapter to the real beginning of the first volume.) )

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