The sea in the early morning is quiet and gentle, only to see the newborn sunrise half-hidden and half-hidden in the distant sea and sky, and the red and brilliant glow rolls and jumps through the layers of waves. Seagulls hover between the reef and the shallows, waiting for the fish to appear. After the sea receded, there were many snails and shellfish left on the beach, and there were crabs spitting foam in and out of the beach.

Luo Yin opened his sleepy eyes and lay on the bamboo bed looking at the people who had begun to be busy on the beach through the half-open panes. Among them was his father, who fell into the cold. Father, they were sorting out the fishing nets they were about to use when they were about to go to sea, and the sailboats that were ready to go to sea had already pulled up their canvases and docked at the beach. Such a fine day will surely be full of fish and shrimp.

On this peninsula at the southernmost tip of the Dawning Continent, the fishermen of the southern branch of the Jialan tribe have lived here for generations, relying on the fertile soil and warm waters, and the tribe has lived here peacefully and self-sufficiently for nearly a thousand years. The peninsula is surrounded by mountains on three sides, more than 100 miles to the north is Jialan Peak, from Jialan Peak to the northwest for 100 miles is Yangtian Peak, and under Yangtian Peak is the border town of Cangyan Nationality, Wutong City, outside the city under the jurisdiction of three counties and ten towns. The Jialan and Cangyan tribes have been living here for hundreds of years. The Cangyan clan has prospered for hundreds of years, and is the largest clan on the Dawning Continent, with towns all over the entire Dawning Continent, and at the same time, they also shoulder the obligation to protect the Dawning Continent, together with the Jialan Clan and several small tribes in the west, to maintain the life and vitality of the Dawning Land.

It is said that although the Cangyan clan and the Jialan clan are not of the same race, they are actually in the same lineage, and according to legend, they are the descendants of the god of dawn more than a thousand years ago, so they have been friends from generation to generation since ancient times, sharing honor and disgrace. Nowadays, the world is stable, there are few wars, and the trade and exchanges between the two clans are becoming more frequent and closer. Luo Yin is nearly 18 years old, only because he lost his mother at a young age, and his father fell into the water and cold, and his father went to sea every day, he needed to take care of the inside and outside at home, so he has been living on the island. Only when I bought goods during the New Year's holidays, I was fortunate enough to travel with my father over the mountains and mountains to the nearest Wutong City.

Compared with the simple and deserted fishing villages with small populations, Wutong City is extremely large, crowded with people, and very lively. Flags are displayed everywhere, and buildings are lofty. The streets are crisscrossed, the roads are neat, the lights on both sides are colorful, and the traffic is busy. The most attractive thing is the big stage that sings during the festival and the juggling of all kinds of performances on both sides of the street, as well as the towering and majestic bell tower in the center of the city. It's a lot more fun than the old windmills and rotten fish and shrimp on the beach.

After sleeping until almost noon, Luo Yin reluctantly got up, washed his face, touched two pieces of bread in the stove, and ate the dried fish. The sea breeze was blowing from the erected window at the moment, carrying the fishy smell of the sea. Luo Yin saw through the window that Granny Lu was drying shrimp on the sunny beach with her three-year-old grandson Yu Bao'er, and three large flat plaque frames had been lined up, and inside were small shrimp with white flowers. Granny Lu was gently spreading the shrimp with a wooden stick so that each shrimp was exposed to the sun. Yu Bao'er wore a belly pocket, bare-chested, and also picked up a short branch, following his grandmother's awkward movements.

"Yu Pao'er, come to my brother's place, I'll give you dried fish!" Luo Yin lay at the window, twisting a piece of dried fish in his hand, teasing Yu Pao'er.

"Don't go!" Yu Bao'er stood up and glanced at Luo Yin's small mouth, "You, you are every time, you are coaxing me." I'm not fooled. ”

Luo Yin couldn't help laughing, indeed Luo Yin often took some dried fish and dried meat and the like to coax Yu Bao'er, and when he ran to Luo Yin, Luo Yin deliberately ate close to Yu Bao'er's mouth, Yu Bao'er was about to bite down, Luo Yin swooped back his hand, and threw the dried fish and dried meat into his mouth. Every time, it makes Yu Baoer cry and stare at her, and the more fiercely Yu Baoer cries, the happier she is.

"Really, this time it's not to coax you, it's really for you to eat!" Luo Yin said with a sincere face towards Yu Bao'er.

"Really, Brother Yin, do you really give me food?" Yu Bao'er was skeptical, her eyes staring at the white dried fish, swallowing her saliva.

"Then I can't lie to you, come on! If you don't come, I'll eat, and that's all there is left!"

"I'm coming, I'm coming, don't eat it, it's mine!" Yu Bao'er hurriedly threw the branches, and ran from the beach with her bare feet twisting her chubby ass.

When Yu Bao'er ran to the window, a rabbit turned over, climbed out of the window, hugged the white fat boy, sat on his lap, and then stuffed the dried fish into Yu Bao'er's hand. This time, Luo Yin really planned to give Yu Bao'er to eat, although it often made Yu Bao'er angry and crying and making trouble, but Luo Yin liked this little bit in his heart. Because he lost his mother when he was a child, he didn't have any brothers and sisters, and he often walked around Granny Lu's house on weekdays, helping Granny Lu and the Lu family couple to do some work of chopping wood, carrying water and burning fire, and I loved and hurt this little brother. The Lu family and his wife have also taken great care of Luoyin over the years, seeing that his father Luoshui Han was in charge of housework alone, and was often busy fishing and had no time to take care of the lonely Luoyin, Aunt Lu often beckoned him to come to the house to eat together, and also sewed some clothes, shoes and socks for him.

"Yu Bao'er, is it okay for my brother to show you a carp fight?" Luo Yin put down Yu Bao'er and sat on the side, got up and began to move his muscles.

"Good!" the fish bubble began to snap and applaud as she took the dried fish in her mouth.

Luo Yin walked to the beach in front of the door, carefully picked a piece of sand and soft soil, shook his arms and legs a few times, and was about to start. I saw him do a backflip, and then he fell to the ground. I saw the fish bubble screaming. "Look at it, Yu Bao'er! This is coming!" With that, Luo Yin raised his arms above his head and waved his hands, his feet received his waist and abdomen, and then he suddenly tightened his waist and pushed upward, and his feet quickly kicked the ground, and his whole body bounced up like a bow, and he immediately stood up straight. It's like a carp that has turned over the river and the sea.

"Brother Yin is so powerful!" Yu Bao'er exclaimed.

Luo Yin patted the sand on his body and smiled a little proudly. He has been staying in this fishing village since he was a child, and he has nothing to do all day long, sometimes he follows the head of the guard in the east of the village Lu Tieshou to learn a few tricks of fist and foot kung fu, the Lu Tieshou has no children under his knees, and in recent years, the world has been peaceful, in addition to leading the team to inspect everywhere, he has nothing to do, so he is also happy to teach the village a group of teenage children a little fist and foot skills, one is also to teach them some self-defense skills, and the other is that they can also pass the boring time day after day. Among these seventeen or eighteen-year-old boys, Luo Yin is the most intelligent and has a unique talent, and he only needs to give a speech on any move and style, and he will be able to use it flexibly and understand it thoroughly. Lu Tieshou also likes Luo Yin very much, and often teaches Luo Yin this offensive and defensive method after tea and dinner, and also gives Luo Yin a small dagger made of cold iron that is close to his body.

Seeing the fish bubbles rise, Luo Yin planned to make another move to take off the goshawk to eat, who just bent over and was about to jump, he felt a strong soreness from the back of the right waist straight to the brain, almost unable to move for a while, presumably just now with too much force, flashing his waist. Luo Yin hurriedly supported his waist, and walked to the bench next to the house and sat down next to Yu Bao'er, kneading the sore spot vigorously, and it took a while before the pain gradually subsided, and slowly eased up.

"Brother Yin, what's wrong with you?" asked Yu Bao'er.

"Yubao, brother will ...... another day I'll put on a show for you again......"

"Brother Yin, will you take me to catch crabs?" Yu Bao'er said after eating the dried fish, licking the corners of her mouth with her tongue.

"I can't catch crabs at this time. Luo Yin looked up at the bright sun and shook his head, "I'll take you to chop bamboo and make bamboo horses to ride?"

"Okay, let's go and make a bamboo horse!" Yu Bao'er slapped her face with a happy face.

Luo Yin picked up Yu Bao'er and shouted to Granny Lu, who was still busy: "Mother-in-law, I'll take Yu Bao'er to the back mountain to play." ”

"Go, don't take too long, come back for dinner in a while, your aunt is already cooking!" Granny Lu bent down and waved to them.

"Okay!"

After that, Luo Yin took Yu Bao'er and trotted in the northwest direction, passed through most of the fishing village, passed by the blacksmith Uncle Mingshi's blacksmith shop and Doctor Zhang's herbal medicine shop, and came to the northernmost foot of the fishing village. When passing by the blacksmith shop, Uncle Mingshi, who was full of stubble and had a tiger's back, was busy lighting a fire for the furnace where the molten iron was made, and a lot of charcoal and dried seaweed had been stuffed in the furnace hole.

"Go to the mountain and cut two bamboos and make a bamboo horse to play with the fish. Hey, don't pinch it so tightly, my arm is going to break!" Luo Yin was pinched by Uncle Mingshi's big hand, and grinned.

She had always been afraid of the blacksmith's inscription, because it was her uncle, the brother of his deceased mother. Mingshi is a good iron, especially for the excellent casting of the sword and declared, this dawn of the continent many celebrities have come from afar, specifically for the casting of a sword. But Mingshi has always rarely had a good face to Luoyin, just because he hates iron and steel, and he is not used to Luoyin, who is not used to learning and not skillful, and can neither write nor martial arts, and is eighteen years old and has no outstanding points.

"Where's your father?" Brightstone asked.

"I went to sea. ”

"As I told you last month, come with me to Willow Leaf City to follow the Lingyun City Lord in charge of the foundry, and you will be my deputy to build weapons for my Dawn Alliance sergeant, how do you think about it?" Mingshi shouted in a low voice, a little dissatisfied that Luo Yin had not given a reply.

"Uncle, I, I don't think I'd better go, the work of striking iron is tiring and stuffy, and the heat is unbearable, and I really have no interest. Luo Yin pouted.

"Then last month, I taught you to follow Liu Lingkong's guard, join the Jialan Guard Battalion as a first guard, one to protect my homeland, and the other to learn some skills, why don't you go?" Mingshi's face continued to sink.

Luo Yin scratched the back of his head, and said: "My father is at home alone, no one to accompany him, if I am not around, what if I have three illnesses and two pains?"

"Bastard, poor tongue, idle! Your father is not a girl, how can he want you to be a companion? Even if there is a bad pool, in this village, old and young, where is not the good neighbor of the villagers who can take care of it?" Mingshi was furious, threw down the hammer that struck the iron, and smashed it on the ground with a loud noise, and the bluffing Luo Yin and the little fish bubble were stunned, and they all stood dumbly and did not dare to speak.

Mingshi was angry, and after spitting, he pointed to Luo Yin's nose and said: "Hmph, bastard boy, don't do business all day long, look at the young people of your generation in this village, which one has not learned and has a skill? The boy of the Song family who lives in the east is only a year old, and he is already full of poetry and books, full of knowledge, good at observing the heavens and familiar with strategies, and now he is teaching in the Cangyan Academy in Wutong City. Look at the little black of Wang Mazi's family who lives in the west, who is the same age as you, has learned good marksmanship with few enemies, and has served as a garrison military attache under the head of the defender of Wutong City. By the way, there is also the nephew of the physician, who is half a year younger than you, but he has learned the Jialan Clan's inheritance method nine times out of ten, and he has become a naturalized primary gate warlock, and he will be an outstanding warlock in my Jialan in the future. ”

Luo Yin drooped his head, impatiently listening to the innocent lesson of his maternal uncle, and absentmindedly looked at the birds on the mountain in the distance, and just wanted to slip away quickly.

"You, you, you don't know how to be diligent and motivated, it's exactly the same as your unproductive father!" Mingshi looked at Luo Yin with a deaf look that it was better to die than to live, and seemed to be even more angry, but helpless, half muttering to himself, "I really feel sorry for your dead mother, how many young heroes and celebrities from famous families begged to marry, but finally married the wreck of Luoshui Han, and gave birth to such an unscrupulous son as you, alas......"

Seeing that Mingshi didn't look at him anymore, he was just sad, and Luo Yin took advantage of the time to quickly slip away with Yu Bao'er. He carried the fish bubble on his back, and disappeared without a trace as soon as he slipped through the smoke and entered the mountains and forests. Mingshi came back to his senses and found that there was no one, so he had to shake his head and sigh, his face full of loss and disgust.

To the south of this Jialan Mountain, there is a bamboo forest, which is not on the ordinary mountain road through the mountains and mountains, but there are also trails to reach. In the past, I often came here with a group of teenagers to cut bamboo and cut swords for fun, and I was familiar with the road. After walking for about half an hour, Luo Yin took Yu Paoer to the bamboo forest. The bamboo here is called spotted bamboo, its body has dark spots, shaped like teardrops, the bamboo body is often no more than one or two zhang long, thick no more than two fingers, but the texture is extremely hard, most suitable for making sharp weapons such as spears and spears, or traps such as ground thorns.

Luo Yin put down the fish bubble, told him to stand and wait, took out a firewood knife, looked for a new bamboo and began to chop. After cutting four or five knives, the bamboo with two fingers thick was cut off, and Luoyin picked up a rough stone, polished the two ends of the broken bamboo round, and then folded a few bunches of green bamboo leaves, and tied a horse's head at one end of the bamboo pole. Seeing this, Yu Bao'er danced happily and shouted: "Give me quickly, give me quickly, I want to ride a bamboo horse!"

Luo Yin handed over the bamboo horse to Yu Bao'er, and sat down on a piece of bluestone to rest. Looking around, I found that there seemed to be a white light flickering in the depths of the bamboo forest, although it was faint, it was still detected by Luoyin. Luoyin put aside the bamboo, walked slowly, and found an octagonal white stone plaque on the branch near the bottom of a bamboo, worn with a purple-black knotted rope, and the front of the stone plaque was engraved with a claw-shaped object, like a wolf's claw and a tiger's claw, and the back was engraved with several pictograms similar to words, not the words used by the Shuguang people such as Cangyan and Jialan. The stone plaque is polished smooth and round, and the whole body is white and clear, and I don't know what precious gemstones are made of, shining in the sun. Luo Yin took down the stone plaque, looked at it for a long time, kept playing and rubbing, couldn't guess what it was, but loved its exquisite workmanship, thought that he had picked up the treasure, hid it in his arms, and couldn't help but be happy. At the same time, around the bamboo tree where the stone plaque was found, Luoyin also found a few shallow footprints, but he didn't care, thinking that it was about a few boys in the village who were playing here.

Coming out of the forest, I saw Yu Bao'er straddled the bamboo horse, riding around the two bamboos in a circle, and kept shouting from his mouth. Luo Yin looked up and saw that the sun had reached the top of his head, and it was noon at this time, so he remembered Granny Lu's previous instructions, so he put on his back the fish bubble, held a bamboo horse in one hand, and went down the mountain along the original road and returned to the seaside village. In the Lu family's house, Aunt Lu had already set up the food on the table, just waiting for the two boys to come back, and Granny Lu was sitting on the firewood at the door and was sewing a pair of pants that had torn the crotch of the day before yesterday.