Chapter 2: Eternal Life
In the jungle, the old man in the green shirt was full of grief and self-blame.
Time flies, spring comes and goes.
It seems that in the blink of an eye, the world has moved forward another fifteen years.
One early summer morning.
In a small mountain village surrounded by mountains and jungles, smoke has risen and chickens and dogs are crowing.
At the door of a large house in the east of the village, where the characters of Wenwutang were written, several boys in their teens with animal skin schoolbags gathered in twos and threes, and they walked all the way, muttering or playing quietly all the way.
Behind a few people, strode Jin Yongsheng, who had red hair, sword eyebrows, phoenix eyes, a straight nose, and fair skin, who had completely inherited all the advantages of his parents' appearance. He wore a blue shirt and trousers, an animal skin waistcoat, and animal leather boots.
Seeing Jin Yongsheng, several boys walking in front of him suddenly turned around and shouted:
"There's a stupid boy in the village!
Give birth to a dead lady!
Eat bloated - break the belly!
Sleepwalking through the village at night!"
"Haha...... Child, child, stupid child...... Oh...... Hit him, hit him!" the children shouted and threw the stones and clods of soil that had been prepared in their hands towards Jin Yongsheng.
Jin Yongsheng's speed was extremely fast, his body swayed left and right, and after dodging in one godge, he was not successfully attacked, and looked at those children fiercely, and before he could attack, those children spread their feet and rushed into the door of the house next to him, shouting: "Fourth grandfather! Fourth grandfather......!
Who beat you? Are you beating me? Your method of framing people has not grown for more than ten years......
Jin Yongsheng's forehead was full of black lines, his face was sinking like water, and he was secretly ruthless in his heart, these hateful guys really don't remember to fight, and the next shot should be heavier, so that they can have a long memory.
At this time, the other children who came to school behind Jin Yongsheng were snickering and walking around Jin Yongsheng like a plague god.
Jin Yongsheng was alone and depressed, a little girl with a face as round as an apple and wearing a red dress timidly stood in front of Jin Yongsheng and handed out a white handkerchief, squeezing out two words from the pink mouth like a mosquito: "Here you go." ”
"What are you doing?" Jin Yongsheng looked at the little girl beside him and asked with an uncertain expression.
"Rub. The little girl's round face suddenly turned red, like a red apple, and her hands pulled up the corners of her red clothes, and her eyes were only fixed on the pink embroidered shoes on her feet.
"What to wipe?" Jin Yongsheng was very puzzled by the little girl's thoughts, and asked in a daze, thinking to himself that this girl was still so strange, did those guys hit me just now? Every time she brought a handkerchief, she really had a lot of handkerchiefs. Girls really can't help it, they just like these useless things.
"I'll give you a handkerchief. The little girl quickly stuffed the handkerchief into Jin Yongsheng's hand, still with her head down, turned around and left without a sound.
Really.
Jin Yongsheng shook his head a little helplessly, took the handkerchief into his arms, and followed the little girl towards the door of the house.
This little girl's name is Jin Yuanyuan, and she is one of the few children in the village who will take the initiative to approach Jin Yongsheng. But Jin Yuanyuan doesn't say much, and she is timid and cowardly, every time she stands in front of Jin Yongsheng, her voice is like a mosquito, and she will have a trill. Jin Yongsheng spoke to him in a slightly louder voice, and Jin Yuanyuan's big eyes would have tears in them, which was the thing that made Jin Yongsheng the most headache.
Most of the children in the village are very repulsive to Jin Yongsheng, and Jin Yongsheng himself can't figure out the reason, anyway, the children in the small village hate him very much, and this kind of dislike was there when he was very young, including some adults in the village, they looked at Jin Yongsheng's eyes full of disgust, indifference, hatred, and often scolded him behind his back, a little mongrel, a wild child......
Once, Jin Yongsheng also tried his best to please those villagers and children, even if he was bullied, he endured it silently, but after a long time, he found that no matter what he did, he still didn't fit in with the villagers, they treated him like a nasty garbage that couldn't be discarded, no one wanted to give him a good face, and spitting a few more mouthfuls on this garbage was what they wanted to do.
For example, Jin Yuanyuan's willingness to approach her own children is considered an alternative in the village. Of course, there are also people in the village who care about Jin Yongsheng. For example, Jin Shouxin, a grandfather who has nothing to do all day and wanders around the village with a wine jug, Jin Yongsheng is his life, his treasure, and the patriarch Jin Shouzhong, the fourth grandfather Jin Shouzhi who is responsible for teaching grammar, mathematics, pharmacology, pathology and setting hunting traps in the Wenwu Hall, and the third grandfather Jin Shouli who teaches martial arts and swordsmanship, they also care for Jin Yongsheng.
It is precisely because of these people that Jin Yongsheng, who was born without the love of his father and mother, and felt lonely, was much less hostile to the villagers. As he grew up, he listened to his master Yinlong's words, and didn't care about the actions and thoughts of the villagers, what he concentrated on doing every day was cultivation, and he also found his playmate, although it was a beast, but compared to the people in the small village, he regarded the beast as a relative.
As soon as Jin Yongsheng walked into the door of Wenwu Hall, Jin Shouzhi, the fourth grandfather with a fat body, came forward.
Jin Shouzhi is one of the elders with the best temper in the village, and he is very knowledgeable, he knows astronomy, geography, and he has no heirs under his knees, he treats Jin Yongsheng very well, if it is not for his bright-eyed teacher in the private school, Jin Yongsheng does not know how much punishment he will suffer in vain.
"Eternal life, beating people again? The same clan is not allowed to fight in private, and you have forgotten your usual admonitions? Go to the back hall and face the wall. Jin Shouzhi pretended to blow his beard and stare in front of Jin Yongsheng, but secretly waved his hand at Jin Yongsheng in private. Jin Yongsheng sighed very knowingly, lowered his head, and secretly grinned and walked quickly to the back of the house.
Seeing Jin Yongsheng being punished, those mischievous boys showed a gloating expression. It's just that they don't know that every time the fourth grandfather fines Jin Yongsheng to go to the back hall to face the wall, Jin Yongsheng will sneak over the wall and slip away, and when he comes back at noon, the fourth grandfather will definitely prepare a lot of delicious food for him, and they are all Jin Yongsheng's favorite food, such as wild boar meat in sauce, braised hare and pheasant, and stewed robe meat with wild yam...... It was all cooked by the fourth grandfather himself, and the taste was absolutely delicious.
The knowledge that the fourth grandfather talked about in the private school, as long as Jin Yongsheng needs it, he can ask the fourth grandfather to open a small stove for him at any time, which is the exclusive patent of Jin Yongsheng in the small village, including the third grandfather Jin Shouli, as long as Jin Yongsheng has any problems and wants to ask for advice, the old man is called a passionate and serious, and he can't wait to hand over all what he has learned in his life to him at once.
It's just that Jin Yongsheng was taught by his master Yinlong most of the time, and when Yinlong was away, he had time to enter the Wenwu Hall in the village.
The classes of the two masters of Wenwutang are divided into morning and afternoon, and there will also be a civil and military assessment once a year. When the children in the village reach the age of 16, those who pass the assessment will no longer have to come to class, and the villagers will hold a coming-of-age ceremony for them, and then assign them to work in the village according to their final civil and military assessment.
Today, Jin Yongsheng came to Wenwutang to ask Jin Shouzhi about something, his royal master Yinlong has been out for more than three months, and he hasn't been able to come up with a way to complete the homework assigned to him by Yinlong before leaving, so he wants to ask Jin Shouzhi for a way. But every time he comes to Wenwutang, as long as he meets those boys in the village, there will be the scene that makes people can't help but resent. Today is not bad, there is no Jin Xuanling in these children, otherwise, after a provocation, they will often follow the group fight. Jin Xuanling is the leader of the children in the village, and he is also the grandson of the patriarch Jin Shouzhong, he makes bad things behind his back all day long, Jin Yongsheng has always been the target of the group beating of the children in the village, fortunately, his beautiful face is very resistant, and he has not been disfigured for more than ten years, but the longer he grows, the more handsome he becomes. However, every time Jin Yongsheng thinks of Jin Xuanling's red face, he will have the urge to go berserk.
Jin Yongsheng had just walked through the corridor connecting the back hall, and the red face that he hated to see the most in his heart blocked his way.
Jin Xuanling! This kid inherited the physique of the patriarch Jin Shouzhong, with a strong and burly body, thick eyebrows, small eyes, wide ears, and a face as red as cinnabar.
Jin Yongsheng would not think so in his heart, if the young man in the village was so bad that he could say that he was in the water, it was none other than Jin Xuanling. This guy relied on him as the grandson of the patriarch, and he wore a dazzling shirt with silver satin and gold trim all day long, and was domineering.
Jin Yongsheng frowned, slowed down, and secretly thought to himself in his heart, if people don't deal with the sky, just thinking about it will be unlucky to meet this bastard.
"Stop! Jin Yongsheng, the fourth grandfather punished you for facing the wall, where do you want to sneak away?" Jin Xuanling looked unruly and domineering, followed by five or six young men in the clan with horsewhips in their hands.
"You don't care where I'm going. Jin Yongsheng raised his face, his momentum was no less than that of Jin Xuanling, and he said coldly.
"I can't control where you go, but you are good at beating the clansmen, according to the clan rules, but you have to eat the whip of the fifty clans......" Jin Xuanling approached Jin Yongsheng step by step.
In the village, Jin Xuanling couldn't see Jin Yongsheng's arrogant and stinky face no matter how he beat him. He hated this face, and the reason why he hated it was very simple, when he and all the children in the clan grew up, they would have to live for Jin Yongsheng. Compared with Jin Yongsheng, Jin Xuanling's talent status in the eyes of the clan is actually higher, and he is more loved by the clansmen, how can Jin Xuanling tend to be under Jin Yongsheng, the red-haired boy has been favored by several grandfathers in charge of the village, and his martial arts cultivation is unmatched in the village Silver Dragon Master, which makes Jin Xuanling even more jealous and resentful of Jin Yongsheng.
"Jin Xuanling, are you deliberately finding fault?" Jin Yongsheng's face showed anger, he couldn't know in his heart that Jin Xuanling was extremely bored again, and he brought people to beat him...... Bullshit is good at beating the clansmen, even if there is no cooperation from the children in front of the door just now, Jin Xuanling uses this sentence every time he finds fault.
"You're right...... Brothers, flatten him!" Jin Xuanling has always been bullying more and less when dealing with Jin Yongsheng, and has never paid attention to it.
Looking at Jin Xuanling and the others who were approaching him with a horsewhip, Jin Yongsheng opened his posture angrily, sighed in his heart, and scolded secretly, Jin Xuanling, you mad dog, brother will knock you down today, and you want to bully more and less, brother will fight you to the end today!
"Xuan Ling, who allowed you to bring someone to the back hall without permission?"
Jin Shouzhi followed, he seemed to appear in front of Jin Yongsheng in just a flash, and the terrifying pressure released from his body and the sudden fierce and vicious face made Jin Xuanling, who had always been extremely high-spirited, also silent, and several teenagers behind Jin Xuanling didn't even dare to breathe. All of them know that the fourth grandfather, Jin Shouzhi, usually has the best temper, but if he starts a fire, even the patriarch will be afraid of him.
"Go to class. The whip remains. Jin Shouzhi spoke gloomily, and several teenagers threw away the horsewhips in their hands one after another, and the small broken steps were like lightning, and they fled without a trace in an instant.
"Let you go today, and you will have a good ...... another day," Jin Xuanling said fiercely as he walked past Jin Yongsheng.
Jin Yongsheng raised his face and rewarded Jin Xuanling with the words "Brother waiting for you!" and did not forget to make up for the roll of his eyes.
Jin Xuanling suddenly looked like a bulging toad, if it weren't for Jin Shouzhi turning around and staring at him, he would have gone with Jin Yongsheng to fight.
Seeing Jin Xuanling walk away, Jin Shouzhi suddenly showed a loving smile, and said to Jin Yongsheng: "It seems that Master Yinlong has taught you those escape skills in vain, and sometimes you have to show weakness to the enemy, and you can't clash with them head-on." There are many people, so you will suffer, and you can't do the things that suffer. Do you remember the words of the fourth grandfather?"
"Remembered. Jin Yongsheng smiled at Jin Shouzhi, "Fourth Grandpa, I have prepared a big gift for Master Yinlong, it will be completed tonight, and when you have time tomorrow, help me take a look and see if there is anything else that needs to be added." Referring to the trap gift he had carefully prepared for his master during this time, a trace of excitement appeared on Jin Yongsheng's face.
The apprentice wants to frame the master, and he still looks excited, if this kind of thing is placed in the eyes of outsiders, he will definitely scold Jin Yongsheng for being rebellious, but Jin Shouzhi smiled and nodded, and after saying "good", he didn't forget to remind Jin Yongsheng, " Eternal life, hold on hard under the sword of Master Yinlong for an hour, it is not enough to rely on traps alone, if your master really comes out of that sword, with your current level, no matter how good the trap is, it will become paste under his sword, and the trap can only be used once. ”
Hearing Jin Shouzhi's words, the excitement on Jin Yongsheng's face suddenly swept away, and turned into sadness, thinking in his heart that he was not forced by his master to do this...... God, I don't have any weapons.
"I'm trying to figure it out. I went to the third grandfather to ask for a weapon, but the third grandfather refused to give it to me, fourth grandfather, or you should go to the third grandfather for me to talk about it. ”
"This matter, the fourth grandfather can't help you, don't blame your third grandfather, it's your Yinlong master who has already put down his words, and no one in the village is allowed to use weapons with you. ”
"Hey, that's a terrible thing. Jin Yongsheng sighed in a very old-fashioned voice.
Jin Shouzhi looked at the depressed Jin Yongsheng, and hurriedly comforted him: "Master Yinlong has his own reasons for doing this. Eternal life, you can't be discouraged. Jin Shouzhi said things that did not discourage Jin Yongsheng, but his eyes were full of sympathy.
This baby had a hard life, and he was born into the hands of the cold-blooded master Yinlong.
As soon as the mother closed her eyes, the baby was carried by the silver dragon and thrown to the waterhole in the mountain, which frightened everyone present. Miraculously, the baby cried twice in the water, sinking into the water without dying, and staring at everyone by the pool with a pair of extremely clear black eyes, and the layer of fine red hair fluttering above her head.
Jin Shouzhi remembers the scene the most, when the moon is in the sky, the pool is like silver, and a baby is floating in the water, like the cutest elf...... Before you knew it, the baby had grown to almost as tall as herself.
Yinlong has always been strict with Jin Yongsheng's cultivation, and these old guys in the village naturally know that Yinlong is all for Jin Yongsheng's good, but secretly they are also heartbroken for Jin Yongsheng.
Yinlong's devil-style training is not something that ordinary people can bear, and the healing medicine and life-saving medicine in Jin Shouzhi's hand are almost all given to Jin Yongsheng, and of course there are some mountain supplements.
Thanks to this child's solid skin and tenacity, no matter how painful and tired he is, he hides his teeth and never complains.
Jin Shouzhi reached out and touched Jin Yongsheng's red hair, which was the old man's favorite thing to do, and every time he saw Jin Yongsheng, he would touch his red hair.
Jin Yongsheng smiled at Jin Shouzhi, whose eyes were full of love and seemed to be recalling the past, raised his head and said, "I'm not discouraged, fourth grandfather, then I'll go first." Jin Yongsheng thought about his unfinished trap array, turned around and walked directly to the back porch, turned over the wall, jumped off the wall like a cat, and ran towards the mountains and forests outside the village.
Behind Jin Yongsheng, Jin Shouzhi shook his head and sighed: "It's really old......"