Chapter 2: Two Brothers

The path of eternity begins in the mortal world, and then rises in the mortal world, but everything in the world has a beginning and an end, or a cycle of cause and effect.

However, those who should appear do not know what year and month, and those who should dissipate return, and the footsteps of the night are gradually approaching, and everyone is defenseless.

Only the dawn again can dispel the night, and many people are waiting, and there are many people waiting.

Some people wait so that eternity can return to earth, and some people wait for destruction.

With a loud rooster crow, breaking through the barrier between night and day, as if full of vibrant signals, the majestic early sun finally came to the world again.

It means that the day has begun, the sun slowly rises from the horizon, higher and higher, higher and hotter, frantically spitting hot air towards the earth, showing people its generosity, and starting its own day.

At the same time, on this land, there is an inconspicuous grass house, which looks like a pile of weeds from a distance, standing with a cold stomach, and seems out of place with the surrounding environment.

As the sun rose, a little soft sunlight suddenly broke through the cracks of the grass house and shone inside, and the dark grass house suddenly added a bit of color.

There was a small wooden bed in the hut, a large burlap bag, and a few chicken feathers scattered on the ground, which could be described as chaotic.

"Brother, wake up, wake up, it's time to go. A handsome eleven or twelve-year-old boy got up from the plank bed, yawning and squinting and muttering something.

I saw him supporting his slightly thin body with one hand, and the other hand hurriedly leaned to the side, and looked closely at the young man's eyes were still closed, but his mouth was shouting, as if he was light and simple, and with the messy hair at the moment, it was a little similar to a person sleepwalking at night, which made people laugh secretly.

"Xiao Mo, are you sleepwalking again? Hey, it's all my brother's fault, I accidentally burned down the original wooden house and let you sleep in this broken thatched shed, which made you unable to sleep soundly. An emotional voice came from the other end of the wooden bed.

He was also a teenager, with a delicate appearance, his hair was not unkempt, and he was slightly larger than the other.

"Brother, you are sleepwalking again, why did you run to the other side of the bed again, and the last time I roasted the chicken for two hours, you ate all the fattest chicken legs, of course I think this thatched hut is very good except for the summer heat. ”

The young man named Xiao Mo suddenly opened his eyes, rubbed it vigorously, looked at the other end of the bed with an innocent face and said, as if he remembered the scene when he ate chicken sometime before.

"How can sleepwalking have anything to do with eating chicken legs, besides, who told you to always test the chicken legs the most fragrant, eating chicken is a science, the world often says that eating chicken legs is the first step to wealth, there are these two real reasons of course I want to eat legs, which is like you eat chicken heads every time, no wonder you inherited the habit of chickens like to get up early. The voice at the head of the bed continued, with a distinctly weak voice.

"Brother, since grandpa left, I didn't wake you up one morning, sometimes I think I should be my brother, you should be a brother, sometimes I think, how can you be so timid. Ye Mo looked at his brother, who didn't seem to wake up much, and continued with a helpless headache.

As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Mo suddenly remembered the time when his grandfather was still there, and it was also the best time of his childhood, and those days were his most relaxed and happy.

The two brothers had lived in this nondescript thatched hut since their grandfather left, and there was originally a small wooden house, which was accidentally set on fire by Lumin last autumn and then burned down.

This small thatched hut was built with the help of the neighbors, and it was covered with a thick layer of thatch, surrounded by a bamboo shelf, and then also surrounded by thatch, which can protect it from wind and rain.

Although it is simpler, it is enough for the two brothers to live, and the two brothers often talk about returning the favor of the neighbor when they grow up.

The elder brother's name is Yeming, and the younger brother's name is Yemo, and the two of them are very popular with the neighbors around them when they are young, and people often come to the door to deliver delicious things to them.

At the same time, because the two children who are so young have no father and mother, and they have such a beautiful appearance, but they are very sensible, they can't help but make the people around them have some sympathy and love ideas.

At that time, when I came here with my grandfather, Ye Ming and Ye Mo were still very young, and the villagers had never seen their parents, and some people asked during the period, but in the end they all learned that these two children were orphans, and their parents left when they were very young.

But these were more than ten years ago, and the true personalities of the two brothers were exposed after the death of their grandfather, who lived together.

In the past, although there was a grandfather in charge, the two were also very well-behaved, never causing trouble or fighting, but they felt that life seemed to be too sour in the past ten years.

Yeming and Yemo have never gone to school, but they have never envied the children of other families who can go to private schools and learn those humanistic and Confucian etiquette, because since childhood, grandpa has been a mother and a father, and he is also the teacher of Yeming and Yemo.

It is also strange to say that although grandpa is just an old man hunting, he knows so many things, from astronomy and geography to piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, which also makes the two brothers' childhood happy.

The brothers liked to study when they were young, and they also learned a lot of grandpa's boasting skills in Haikou, but grandpa taught everything but was unwilling to teach the brothers to hunt.

Grandpa always said that hunting is just to make ends meet, and since you can live in other ways, don't learn the stupid thing of hunting.

Originally, the life of the three of them was quite happy, until two years ago, when Grandpa went out hunting, and then Grandpa disappeared in the mountains.

Many people helped to search for the old man many times, but in the end they found no trace of the old man, only some scraps of clothes, and they didn't say anything to each other but knew the end in their hearts.

Since then, the two brothers have lived on their own, and neither of them can do anything, and their grandfather did not teach them to hunt before leaving, and the two of them felt that those literary knowledge did not have much effect, so they came up with an idea, an idea that they could eat meat every day without having to work.

The two brothers, who were originally young, were in a period of youthful rebellion, and because of their grandfather's discipline a few years ago, although their childhood life was carefree, they did not have the innocent and playful experience of other children.

And now with the departure of their grandfather, the two of them know the beauty of their previous lives, and they also understand that the old man must have bothered a lot for the life of his brothers.

Not far from the thatched hut where the brothers lived, there was a rich man who managed hundreds of acres of land, lived a very solid life, and raised chickens all over the mountains.

And the proprietor himself is very stingy, rich is not terrible, but stingy rich people are very hateful, villains like to show off when they have money, and their fat faces often show ugly faces.

The idea of the two brothers is related to this chicken farm, tens of thousands of chickens stay together and call the flock, after one is missing, it is still a flock, and after two, it is also a flock, or even a hundred.

So the next day the rich man's flock of chickens is always small, and very regular, usually two less a day, when it comes to the festival will be less than four, and no one knows where the chickens went, is it gone?

Every day, as soon as the sun climbed over the horizon, Xiao Mo would wake up miraculously like a chicken's blood, and then reach out to wake up his brother, and then the two of them went to steal chickens together, and each time they only stole the rich man's chickens.

Ye Mo is responsible for catching the chickens, and his brother is responsible for putting the chickens caught by Ye Mo into the prepared bag, the two cooperate perfectly, never missed, and of course never been caught, because the time they chose to steal the chicken was early in the morning, and the originally clean morning became very lively because of the rooster's crow, and it was not easy to be suspected that this was an important reason why the brothers chose to steal the chicken in the morning.

At night, the chickens would go into their respective cages in batches, and people would lock up the cages to prevent weasels from catching chickens in the middle of the night, but the rich man was not only a weasel but also a mysterious chicken thief.

After more than two years of stealing chickens, the life of the two is quite nourishing, and the rich man is worried every day, according to this speed of losing chickens, his chickens will really become extinct in a few years.

The rich man was so anxious, he really couldn't help it, looking at the decreasing flock of chickens every day, his heart was dripping blood, and he said that the richer he was, the more stingy he was, and he would go crazy if it was half a tael of copper coins.

On weekdays, he always looks high in front of his father and fellow villagers, and his eyes can't accommodate these people who seem to him to have been rolling in the loess mound all his life.

He has always enjoyed the envious look when others look at him, but in the past two years, with the theft of chickens, he was originally full of pride, but he was distracted by the gossip of the villagers, so he became more and more angry.

In the past two years, he has been suffering from the loss of money every day, and he has lost more than 1,000 chickens every day, and he is even a lot haggard.

There are a few more wrinkles on his still obese face, and his eyebrows are even more wrinkled, which looks funny.

He didn't know how long this kind of life would last, let alone how long he could last, and he was very entangled, so he made up his mind that this time he must catch the chicken thief.

In the past, many people were invited to squat overnight and did not squat, but this time he was confident that his brother came back yesterday, and although he cared about why his brother came back, he was more concerned about his chickens.

Money can make ghosts grind, but in fact, there are some things that cannot be bought with money, and money may be very useful in the eyes of mortals, and it is very useful, and everything can be done properly when it is used well.

But for the lamp repairers who have stepped on the road of repairing lamps, the copper coins covered in patina do not have the slightest attraction to them.

Lamp cultivation also has a currency for trading and cultivation, in a lamp day, the Yan coin is the most common currency circulated between the lamp cultivation, and the Yan coin is also a cultivation resource, which is equivalent to the copper coin used by mortals, but the level is different.

On top of the Flame Coin is the Flame Crystal, which is more precious, because there are very few, so the value is higher, and the uses and effects are more and more complex.

The rich man's brother is the lamp cultivator in the country day and night, and this time he came back to be ordered to go down the mountain to find some seedlings who may have hope to become a lamp cultivator for the country day and night, so he first thought of his hometown, but this is also the first choice, and in the end it depends on whether these people can succeed in lighting up.

If he can succeed in lighting up, there will be lamp repair in his hometown, which is something he is willing to see.

He is different from the rich man, although the two are brothers, but the personality is completely different, the rich man loves money like life, narrow-minded, and he is dedicated to the Tao, the mood is naturally open-minded, and the things outside the body are like a feather, the only thing that has nostalgia is the hometown of human affection.