A small town in the south of China, located in the mountains, is said to be more than 200 years ago, the three major surnames of the people in the south of the Yangtze River - Li, Liang and Lingju moved here. Later, it moved into several other surnames - Wu, Xu, Xu, and Luo, thus forming a small mountain town of more than 70,000 people today.

The surname Li is the first surname in the town, and the surname Ling is the second, so most of the time, intermarriage is carried out between the two surnames.

The sun rises and sets, the town is closed, people work hard, and the poor but contented life has been lived for generations. But I don't know when it began, Ling Luo didn't get married, Liang Xu didn't communicate, but it existed in the first teaching of each of the four surnames when they were children.

Ling Lang, a former native of Shangcun in Qianpai Town, has a mother's surname Li and a maternal great-grandmother's surname Xu. The topography of the mountain city is a basin, the Ling family is at the top of the town, the Li family is in the middle, and the Xu family is at the lowest part of the basin. The three families are not connected to the same line, and they are all a little off the main thoroughfare of the town. If the lines are connected, it is not difficult to find that it looks like an oblique triangle.

Historically, in the southerner region of China, in ancient times, poor mountains and bad waters, miasma was a disaster, and now because it belongs to the subtropical region, most of the people in this region have a yellow and dark complexion, and their bodies are thin and small. But it seems that this law does not hold true in this town. The whole small mountain town like a soup plate can be described as beautiful mountains and rivers, outstanding people, girls are white and beautiful, surprisingly smart, young men are also shrewd and smart, the torso is slender and slender, healthy and strong. If so, more than ten generations in succession.

However, this situation began to change in Ling Lang's uncle's generation, and people began to find that the white and chubby babies in the past would become weak, even if they were conceived by healthy women who had never gone out. Some of the girls' skin began to turn black and yellow, their eyes were not as clear as before, and the young men began to become uneven, tall, short, fat and thin, and they were not as vigorous as before.

What is even more surprising is that there is a side branch of the Li clan in Sanhe Village, which is separated from the former Shang Village by two rivers and one mountain, and the people there have become more and more violent, and when they have disputes with other surnames outside the village, they often disagree with each other, and they will speak evil at each other at every turn, waving their fists. It is often reported that there are discords between concubines and daughters-in-law, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law fight, and even in the eyes of rural people, the heinous adultery and promiscuity are faintly spread all over the city. In people's impressions, Sanhe Village, which has always been built with the purpose of building a village with the three harmony of heaven, earth and man, is completely contrary to it, which is jaw-dropping.

Seeing the repeated and two-ended, the momentum of the bad development of the villagers, more and more difficult to suppress, finally, the old man of several major clans in the village can not stand it, invited a big family surnamed Xu (feng shui master), Xu everyone in the village, climbing mountains and wading water, tossing and turning for three days, and finally said, "Sanhe Village, the place of the cow, the ancestral hall is just built in the position of the cow's head, the incense is flourishing, and the cow's temper is also greater." ”

Later, under the auspices of Xu everyone, the village people contributed to dig a well in the Li ancestral hall, the pond outside the ancestral hall was also widened and enlarged, and a straight village road was opened straight on the flat from the village entrance to the ancestral hall, Xu everyone also let the town government come forward, and diverted water to generate electricity in the opposite side of Sanhe Village, and built a small hydropower station at the foot of the mountain, although the hydropower station is small, but between the mountainside, two long aqueducts that look like they are more huge than the hydropower station itself, diagonally traversing down from the middle of the mountain.

Later, when the old people in the other villages talked about this, they speculated that there were different versions, and one of them was, in everyone's opinion, the most convincing.

Lying cow and lying cow, the road is a cattle slaughtering knife, the well is a blood bucket, the pond is expanded to ensure that it does not die, and the iron pipe is a double bolt so that it cannot be slaughtered.

Since then, although the villagers of Sanhe Village have slowly recovered to the previous harmonious environment, the physical fitness of the villagers has become the worst group of people in Shili Eight Villages.

Ling Lang's father, Ling Jin, has a Chinese face, a burly figure but not stout, he did not graduate from junior high school, and he dropped out of school because his family was poor, but he is very shrewd and has an outstanding business mind since he was a child. Mother Li Yuhua is not tall, but she is as good as her name, Yinghua is like jade, the skin on her face is as delicate as a baby, and the bottom is full of lustrous red rhyme. After years of farm work and the birth of five children, there is no way to change the slightest.

Ling Lang's eldest sister Ling Hui inherited her father's height, her skin looks like her mother's shadow, she is tall, Zhong Ling is delicate, her temper is also with her mother, her small family is graceful, diligent and kind. She is a good boy and a good girl who is famous in the village and outside the village.

And although Ling Lang is not short with his peers, he is not outstanding, and his skin is white, but he is sickly white, and his complexion is dark yellow. When his mother was pregnant with him, she followed his father all year round to earn a living, and she had no place to live and ate a messy diet. So it should be a little congenital deficiency, born in, frail and sickly, especially often nosebleeds, even if you touch his nose lightly, it will bleed.

Later, his parents were afraid that he would not be able to support him, and Ling's father was a big house, so he had to consider having more boys to inherit the incense, the peasant family was not rich, there was little land and many people, and the children grew up to barely be regarded as a laborer, but when he was a child, he was just a gold-swallowing beast that only knew how to open his mouth to eat.

Ling's father and Ling's mother took into account their own conditions and hoped that they would have another child and be a boy. So I prayed to God and Buddha, asked for more than medicine, and asked the feng shui guy to see it for a long time, but unfortunately it didn't work out, and I still gave birth to two younger sisters in a row, and the third had a little brother Ling Jie. Of course, because of this reason, the mother could no longer run away from her father, and had to choose to stay in the village to farm and watch the children.

The younger brother Ling Jie beats the little dragon and the tiger, eight or nine years old is like a little calf, although he is seven years different from his brother, he is almost the same height and body when he stands together. And it's very strong.

Therefore, one meter eight eight but people say that his one-meter-nine grandfather said that this is like his baby, saying that the little brother will grow taller and stronger than him, and he will have the strength that he can't finish, so grandpa loves him very much.

Of course, this did not change Ling Lang's status as the eldest in this small family, after all, the concept that the eldest son is the greatest. In the isolated countryside, there is still a certain influence.

Of course, there is only a grandmother who fully supports this concept, a grandmother from a "scholarly family", in a small mountain town, she can really be regarded as "everyone's ladies". Grandma's traditional concept is well maintained, even if she has a wife like a barbarian, and the children around her are not very good at reading, or it should be said that they do not have the conditions to study well. But as the eldest sister in the Li family, she has always had her attitude, dealing with people, and never changing her original intention. Grandma's position in the family is very high, and her preference for Ling Lang has never been concealed at all.

Parents also love the eldest very much, family affection and debt, plus they are afraid that the eldest son will be able to grow up healthy and try their best to make up for it, Ling Lang has really become the eldest young master in a small family, including the other two uncles, and even the aunt's family calls him "eldest young master".

In order to allow the "eldest young master" to grow up healthily, his parents, uncles, aunts, uncles, uncles, and aunts really tried all kinds of methods, until he was in the third grade, it may be that all kinds of ancient secret recipes have finally worked, or the pig's nose stewed houttuynia cordata, stewed Huaishan stewed enough, or the divination and hyphenation methods of the three fortune tellers have finally shone brightly, and the eldest young master Ling has slowly not been so prone to nosebleeds, so that after a few years, the eldest young master who has only seen the height and the flesh finally has a little blood on his face.

Ling Lang's personality is actually not cheerful, and his temperament is still a little soft, so his father often criticizes him for it, like his mother.