Shaanxi Province, Tianhan County, Zhuba County Middle School.

On a bluestone-paved road, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy walked at a constant speed.

At the intersection ahead, three people suddenly jumped out and shouted viciously: "Huang Zhen! Damn Huang Zhen! It's finally waiting for you!"

Huang Zhen stared at the three classmates in the next class, tightened the backpack behind his back, and asked a little nervously, "Li Degang, what do you want to do?"

"What do you want to do? You don't know?"

"I don't know. ”

Li Degang stretched out his right hand, poked a finger in Huang Zhen's chest, and made a vicious request: "If you pay me 2,000 yuan, this matter will be over! Otherwise, don't think about going home for May Day, I will definitely beat you so much that I don't even know you!"

What? Losing money?

Huang Zhen was inexplicable, and his foot flashed sideways to avoid the other party's fingers: "What the hell is going on, why do you want me to lose money?"

"You really don't know?"

"I don't know!"

"So, Zhang Xiaotie didn't tell you?"

"Nope. ”

"Grass! Zhang Xiaotie, this dog thing, didn't tell you about this good brother? This is impossible, absolutely impossible! Anyway, I still suspect that Zhang Xiaotie colluded with you, the dead king, to blow the black whistle and cause me to lose 2,000 yuan, and you must compensate me!"

crackled a lot, and finally made Huang Zhen understand: "Blow the black whistle? You mean yesterday afternoon's football match?"

The so-called football match is the game between the first class of the third year of high school and the second class of the third class of high school, and Li Degang is the captain of the first class of the football team, and Zhang Xiaotie is the captain of the second class.

These two are both sports students, with excellent bodies and skills, so they naturally become the first brothers in their respective classes.

However, the two brothers did not accept anyone, not only did they not show signs in sports training, but also led the same class and party to all kinds of scolding.

During recess, there were both quarrels and pushing, and the smell of gunpowder was quite strong, but violence could not be engaged in on campus, so all kinds of gambling methods were engaged.

For example, yesterday afternoon, the two agreed on a gambling match.

The bet is two thousand dollars.

It's not dead, this ball game just happened to be Zhang Xiaotie's turn to designate the referee, and Li Degang was responsible for the selection of the side referee.

Then, as Zhang Xiaotie's good brother, Huang Zhen was caught by Zhang Xiaotie and became a glorious referee.

As for the process of the game, it can be regarded as exciting, and the two sides are chasing me, which can be called ups and downs.

Until the last minute, the score of the two sides was 7:6. Zhang Xiaotie's second class is temporarily ahead.

Seeing that the enemy's victory was in sight, Li Degang was in danger, raised his foot and fired a volley, magically tying the score.

The game is not over, turn to a penalty shootout!

There is still hope of winning!

Li Degang ran around the field, kissing again and again, completely in the style of an international star, which made the girls of the cheerleading team in this class scream.

Unfortunately, Huang Zhen blew the whistle and ruled that Li Degang was offside - the goal was invalidated and the game was over.

Falling from hope to despair, Li Degang almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, pointed at Huang Zhen's nose and scolded his mother, saying that he was blowing a black whistle and favoring the second class, and it was not a pity to die.

Huang Zhen saw that the situation was not good, so he saved his life and ran away, regardless of the flood.

Fortunately, Zhang Xiaotie grabbed Li Degang in time to prevent the occurrence of Quan Wuxing, so that Huang Zhen successfully escaped.

For Huang Zhen, this matter is absolutely impartial and impartial in law enforcement, but now he has to endure unjustified disasters.

"That's right! You're going to blow the black whistle! You're going to lose money or you're going to get beaten!"

The three people led by Li Degang surrounded Huang Zhen in the shape of a pin, as if they had eaten the soft persimmon in front of them.

Li Degang is tall, agile, and powerful, and it is estimated that it will be difficult for Huang Zhen to escape this catastrophe.

In addition, the timing is clever, just at the threshold of May Day.

After school and holidays, students leave school, teachers and staff go home, pedestrians disappear on the road, and there is definitely no one to persuade them.

And Huang Zhen, as today's student on duty, delayed his sanitation before he was blocked on the road by Li Degang.

As the saying goes, a good man doesn't suffer immediate losses.

Huang Zhen's eyes rolled, and he thought about it: If you can't fight hard, then outwit!

"Wait a minute, I'll take my wallet!"

Huang Zhen moved slowly, ripped off one of the suspenders of his backpack, slowly unzipped it, and put his hand inside, as if he really wanted to take out his wallet.

I dug it around, and I tinkered for a while, but I never saw the wallet.

"Damn, hurry up!" Li Degang urged impatiently.

He didn't notice that Huang Zhen's position was quietly changing.

Unconsciously, it penetrated the pinzi encirclement and was already in the direction of leaving the school, rather than the original position where the road was blocked.

"Wait, it'll be right away!" After doing a full set of acts, Huang Zhenxu and the snake moved secretly, approaching a small stone.

"Wait a fart, I'm going to tease my sister, I don't have time to waste it with you!"

Huang Zhen didn't reply, suddenly shortened, quickly picked up the stone and held it in his hand, quickly put back on the sling, turned around and ran!

As the saying goes, if you can't provoke it, you can afford to hide.

A contemptuous sneer came from behind him: "Want to run......?"

Immediately after, Huang Zhen heard the sound of a rapid running, only a few steps away from him.

Along the slope of Qingshi Road, Huang Zhen ran all the way down, lamenting in his heart: Sure enough, he is a sports student, and he can't run away if he wants to!

That's right, exactly.

Li Degang is well-trained, with a long stride, fast stride, and strong explosiveness, completely beating Huang Zhen.

He quickly caught up to his target, and when the two men were one step apart, reached for the backpack.

I thought it was an inevitable catch, but I unexpectedly lost my goal.

It turned out that this was another junction that led to the faculty dormitory building.

Because the bluestone road has been going down, the slope of more than ten degrees has reached here, and it is already the second floor of the single dormitory building for faculty and staff.

Huang Zhen turned into the second floor alertly, just to avoid Li Degang's arrest.

Then, Huang Zhen rushed into the corridor of the floor, shouting as he ran: "Kill!

It's a pity that the way to ask for help is too exaggerated, no one pays attention to it, and no one rescues.

Li Degang persevered and chased after him.

Fortunately, the walkway on the second floor is not long, and there is a staircase in front of it.

Huang Zhen grabbed the handrail of the stairs, jumped and jumped, and quickly fled to the first floor, shouting for help: "Teacher Zhu, I'm Huang Zhen in the third year of high school, come and help!"

Let's go!

Li Degang jumped faster and farther, his palm fell heavily on Huang Zhen's shoulder, and grabbed hard, as if he wanted to crush the bone and tear off a piece of meat.

Although through the school uniform and underwear, there was still a pain in the heart, and Huang Zhen knew that Li Degang was ruthless, and it was impossible to let himself go.

Hmph, you don't let me get better, and you don't want to get better!

Huang Zhen's face was gloomy, his right hand clenched the small stone, pointed the sharp corners outward, swept his gaze to Li Degang's face, and secretly calculated the position of his hand......

Crunch!

Zhu Yunlong, a physical education teacher who lived on the first floor, opened the door of the bachelor dormitory and asked lukewarmly, "What's the matter with you two?"

"Teacher Zhu, Huang Zhen stole my wallet and put it in his backpack!" Li Degang distorted the facts, and the wicked person sued first.

Bang dang!

Zhu Yunlong slammed the door on, ignoring Huang Zhen's gaze for help.

In the eyes of physical education teacher Zhu Yunlong, Li Degang is his proud protégé, who has completed the physical education specialty, and his score has steadily exceeded last year's admission line.

What does this mean?

In the coastal provinces, the students of the famous sports school are not fart, but in the backward mountainous area of Zhuba County, it is a very important college entrance examination admission rate, which means that Zhu Yunlong teaches well, and it also means that the school's bonus.

If it is done properly, you can even leave the Qingshui career as a teacher and seek a job in the Department of Science and Education of the Ministry of Rites.

On the other hand, Huang Zhen has neither athletic talent nor learning talent, and his grades have always been in the middle stream, and it is an inevitable result that he will fall to Sun Shan.

In addition, Huang Zhen's father was just a forest ranger in the mountains, while Li Degang's father was the leader of the Chengguan Town Arrest Center.

It is clear which is more important at a glance.

At least in Zhu Yunlong's mind, one end of the balance has long been skewed.

What's more, Li Degang gave a reasonable reason for "theft", even if Huang Zhen was beaten to internal bleeding, Zhu Yunlong had an excuse to shirk responsibility.

"I'm in a hurry to take a step ahead, you two don't make trouble, hurry up and go home!" Zhu Yunlong stepped on the motorcycle and walked away.

In the corridor, there was silence.

Li Degang didn't say a word, clenched his left fist, and with a bang, hit Huang Zhen in the chest head-on.

Huang Zhen bared his teeth in pain, didn't want to receive a second punch, and immediately raised his right hand to give the most direct counterattack.

The face is not protected by clothing, and it is the best target!

I saw Huang Zhen wave his right hand, and the sharp sharp horns of the stone started from the ears and temples, slashed across the cheeks, and reached the chin, like a buffalo plowing the ground, and the muscles rolled to both sides, leaving a terrible ravine.

Becomes elbows and armpits, and is caught off guard.

Li Degang stared at the rolling dripping blood rain, and the whole person was directly stupid, so stupid that he forgot to fight back and forget the pain.

The two followers he brought were also confused and at a loss.

In any case, they couldn't have imagined that Huang Zhen, who had never had a sense of existence, would actually kill the killer and be bloody.

If Zhang Xiaotie had been present, he would have gloated and told Li Degang in a pretending manner: What is just a stone? When he was fighting for water for irrigation in the countryside, Huang Zhen would have done it with a hoe on his shoulder, and he would not have any scruples about the consequences.

In fact, as a former neighbor and childhood playmate, Zhang Xiaotie knows Huang Zhen's temperament very well and never dares to anger Huang Zhen easily. Otherwise, Huang Zhen will definitely teach you how to be a man and tell you what it means to be a fierce folk in the mountains.

"Idiot, call an ambulance!"

Huang Zhen had a cold face, dropped a reminder, turned around and ran away from the scene.

He is not unclear, this matter is definitely not over, there must be changes when he returns to school after the holiday, and maybe even the college entrance examination will be disrupted.

However, Huang Zhen did not allow himself to be ravaged and could not endure the aggrieved beating.

If a person doesn't dare to fight back, what's the difference with salted fish?

If a person loses blood, what is the difference between him and a minion?

In a bus leading to Liuhou Town in Zhuba County, Huang Zhen frowned, thinking about the gains and losses.

In the end, he decided to inform Zhang Xiaotie of the incident, hoping that his good brother would help him keep his chance of taking the college entrance examination.

As for other side matters, Huang Zhen said that he was fearless.

......

The next day, the May Day holiday officially began.

On the southern slope of the Qinling Mountains, at the foot of Zibai Mountain, Zhangliang Temple, located in Liuhou Town, ushered in the liveliness of the festival.

Huang Zhen wore a school uniform, held a textbook, and walked into the Taoist temple, intending to find a place to review his homework.

Along the way, there was a surge of people, rubbing shoulders one after another, and squeezing back and forth could not find a good place.

Huang Xin was unhappy, and suddenly remembered a travelogue on the Internet, and immediately left the noisy "Sanqing Palace" and walked to the backyard of Zhang Liang Temple.

Sure enough, the winding path in the backyard is quiet and uninhabited, which is very suitable for empty-thinking and concentrating on reading.

Huang Zhen walked into the "Bigu Pavilion", sat on the futon, meditated and calmed down, and adjusted his breath.

In the field of vision, the eyes are full of green pines and cypresses and green bamboo.

In the nasal cavity, the rosin is bursting, refreshing.

In the ears, the birds chirp and listen tactfully.

Huang Zhen enjoyed it silently, his heart was at peace, there was no longer the hateful Li Degang, and there was no sense of oppression that the college entrance examination was approaching.

Just as the eyelids blinked, a strange bamboo suddenly burst into view.

Huang Zhenxin moved, remembering the content of that travelogue.

It is said that the bamboo of Zhangliang Temple, from the mountainside to the top of the mountain, forms an endless bamboo forest, but it is completely different from other places.

The bamboo here will inevitably grow a zigzag bend in the bamboo knots close to the ground, but after three feet above the ground, it will be normal.

If you transplant the foreign bamboo to the Taoist temple, it will also grow the same bend and become a unique bamboo.

If the bamboo is dug away from Zhangliang Temple, it will no longer bend, but will become ordinary bamboo and grow normally.

This phenomenon is not rare in the world, but unique in the world and very mysterious.

Scientists have studied for many years, but they have not yet solved the mystery of bamboo abduction.

And this section of bamboo that Huang Zhen saw was even more strange than the surrounding bamboos, with a special form.

It is the human form, the facial features are emerging, the limbs are sound, and even the fifth limb is straight and straight, like a thousand-year-old He Shou Wu, which is very realistic.

"What the hell is this?"

"Is it an adventure?"

Endless speculation poured into my mind.

The next moment, the bamboo knot disappeared.

It turned out that he was excited, his body tilted to the left, his eyes shifted slightly, and he suddenly lost his bamboo figure.

"It's not a dazzle, it's not an illusion, it's that the bamboo forest is too dense and requires a very special perspective to see!"

Huang Zhen corrected the angle of view little by little, and after a long time of adjustment, he finally found the original angle.

Through the gaps in the bamboo forest and bamboo leaves, you can once again see the humanoid bamboo knots.

This time, Huang Zhen did not move, stared at it for a long time.

Faintly, the limbs of the bamboo knots lit up with dots of light, converging into a thin dark green line shuttling through it, like a flowing meridian map.

"Although I wear glasses, I only have 200 degrees of myopia, so it is absolutely impossible to see it wrong!"

"So, is this the essence of bamboo, or is Zhang Liang resurrected?"

"In the face of unknown risks and opportunities, do you quietly retreat, or rise to the challenge?"

Huang Zhen was nervous, worried, and expectant, frowning, and lost in thought.

Gradually, a resolute look appeared on his face, secretly remembering the direction of the bamboo joints, measuring the distance between them, and observing the route of travel......

With a bang, Huo Ran got up.

Huang Zhenli opened up the valley pavilion, squeezed into the bamboo forest, overcame thorns and thorns, and approached the target with difficulty.

Without saying a word, he reached out and held the human-shaped bamboo joint.

It just fits perfectly in the palm of your hand.

It is warm and moist to the touch, like a beautiful jade that has opened the light.

A cool and gentle breath flowed along the wrists, through the shoulders and elbows, and into the spine, instantly circulating the limbs and bones, and suddenly felt refreshed and comfortable.

Huang Zhen carefully experienced it and found that his thinking was extremely active, and even the vague knowledge in high school textbooks became clearer.

It seems that the implicit memory of the subconscious, only in the blink of an eye, becomes a clear explicit memory.

Even the childhood that has long been forgotten has some fragments that come to mind.

Obviously, memory has been greatly improved.

Thinking of his academic performance in the middle of the stream, thinking of next month's college entrance examination, and thinking of the huge difference between undergraduate and junior college, Huang Zhen suddenly gritted his teeth and used his strength to eat, so he wanted to break the bamboo and take it for himself.

Whoa......

The bamboo is not tough at all, but rather fragile, and it is suddenly overwhelmed, and it breaks in response to the sound and collapses with a bang.

Hiss......

At the tiger's mouth between the thumb and index finger, there was a sharp pain, and Huang Zhen couldn't help but gasp.

hurriedly withdrew his hand, but was shocked to find that the broken bamboo strips pierced the tiger's mouth, and the skin and flesh rolled open, revealing the white bones of the forest, and blood gushing out.

The strange thing is that the blood does not drip down at all, but all flows into the bamboo knots in the palm.

The green human-shaped bamboo knots quickly emerge with wisps of red blood, like real blood vessels, full of vitality and fun.

Huang Zhen suddenly felt that his hand was loosened, and the bamboo knot in Yingying's hand became smaller and smaller, and it quickly condensed into a mung bean.

The mung bean snorted, shot into the wound, and disappeared.

At the invisible level, mung beans turn into unknowable fine particles, like a warm current, along the blood, up the stream, and into the mind.

Rumble!

It was as if a tall building had collapsed, as if the world had collapsed, and there was a roar in my head.

Huang Zhen's eyes were dark, his consciousness was blurred, and he fell into a coma.

Tick!

The blood beads condensed in the tiger's mouth finally dripped down......

I don't know how long it took, Huang Zhen woke up and found that he couldn't go up to the sky or down to the ground, and his whole body was sandwiched in a clump of bamboo forests, which was the posture he used to reach out to probe the bamboo before he fell unconscious.

At the same time, two strong feelings, in no particular order, poured out in unison.

Itchy!

Hungry!

Intense itching, from the tiger's mouth, from the wound.

Huang Zhen raised his hand and looked at it, his heart was extremely shocked, and he couldn't help blurting out: "Such a serious wound has actually scabbed and healed!"

He was stunned and thought it was incredible, but the facts were in front of him, and they spoke louder than all words.

Gollum......

Hungry and groaning.

Huang Zhen looked at the bamboo forest, his mouth was filled with sour water, as if the bamboos had turned into sections of sugar cane, obviously hungry.

"What's going on? Have you become a starving ghost?"

"Uh, no, it's supposed to be conservation of energy!"

"For some unknown reason, the energy in the body repairs the wound quickly, that's why I'm so hungry!"

didn't think much about it for a while, Huang Zhen used both hands and feet, stretched out the bamboo, squeezed out a way, returned to Bigu Pavilion, and quickly escaped from the "crime scene".

It wasn't until I left the backyard that I knew that the sun was setting in the west, and I was in a coma for six hours!

With apprehension and anticipation, Huang Zhen left Zhangliang Temple quickly and walked home, planning to review his homework and sprint for the college entrance examination.

Along the national highway and stream, Huang Zhen trotted all the way and soon returned to his hometown in Liuhou Town.

He continued to run, but he didn't feel out of breath, and it seemed that unconsciously, his physical fitness had been greatly improved.

There is even an illusion that he can outrun Li Degang and Zhang Xiaotie!

Babble!

Huang Zhen pushed open the door of the courtyard and shouted, "Grandpa, I'm back!"

"Didn't you say that you went to the temple to study? Why didn't you go home at noon? Have you eaten?" Grandpa Huang's voice was a little far away.

Huang Zhen touched his hungry belly, walked through the inverted room, stepped into the main courtyard, turned into the kitchen, greeted his grandfather's smiling face, and asked about dinner without pretentiousness: "Grandpa, you said that May Day will be a tooth sacrifice, is it true?"

"It's rare for you to come home from the county once, of course you have to cook something delicious, let's serve it quickly!"

Huang Zhen pulled out a stool and sat down at the table of the Eight Immortals: "Quickly bring the good ingredients, I'm really hungry!"

Grandpa Huang immediately brought up the "good ingredients" one by one.

As the eldest grandson of the Huang family, Huang Zhen pinned the hopes of the whole family, although his academic performance was not satisfactory, Huang Laohan still cared for him and did his best to cultivate.

In a few moments, a huge table of eight immortals was filled with all kinds of food.

There are pastries and rice, seasonal vegetables and fresh vegetables, as well as special snacks, as well as two large goose eggs and a pot of stewed goose meat.

All of them are rice and vegetables grown by Huang Laohan himself, and poultry and livestock are personally fed.

Home-cooked, raw, green food, absolutely no additives and pesticide residues.

Huang Laohan cleaned up, picked up his chopsticks, and said with a smile: "It's time to eat!"

"Great!"

Faced with fragrant and hot food, Huang Zhen feasted like a wind, quickly filling his stomach.

Even he didn't realize that he was eating at least three times as much today as before.

"Grandpa, I'm already eight points full, go back to the house and read!" Huang Zhen got up and left the kitchen.

Huang Laohan looked at the eldest grandson who was growing up, nodded lightly, full of relief: "Today's dinner will be made up first, and when your parents, your mother and your uncle come home tomorrow morning, we will kill another sheep as a celebration of May Day!"

Huang Zhen stood at the door and asked puzzledly, "Isn't it?"

"That's right, kill the sheep! And eat them all by yourself, and don't sell a pound!"

"Grandpa, the flock of sheep you raised yourself can be sold for more than 2,000 each, how can you be willing to eat it yourself and not sell it for money?"

The reason why Huang Zhen asked this is because Huang Laohan is an authentic "Huang Laoqiao" in the minds of his neighbors.

Not to mention killing a sheep to eat by yourself, even a stitch and a thread are also very saving, and even during the New Year's holidays, they are reluctant to add a new dress.

In the course of his 63 years of life, he has always been diligent and thrifty, so he saved some money, raised his children and grandchildren, and built a courtyard house to live in.

At this time, it is actually said that "kill sheep and eat them yourself, and don't sell a catty", isn't this the sun coming out of the west?

"Ah Zhen, you have to take the college entrance examination next month, grandpa hopes that you will supplement your nutrition and be admitted to a good university, so you will eat a whole sheep banquet tomorrow!"

Huang Zhen was moved, nodded heavily, and said goodbye.

Before I had taken a few steps, I felt a sudden heat in my stomach, as if something unknown was digesting food and absorbing nutrients.

Then, a meridian map suddenly flashed!