In the sinkhole.

Autumn of that year.

Wucheng since the sinkhole, began to feel curious, a long time, bored, the most anxious is like a cow fell into the pit, the force can not be used, fortunately a group of boys heard that there is a martial arts master, apprenticeship to him to learn martial arts, temporarily satisfied, so dedicated to teaching.

Seeing that although the children have grown in martial arts, they rarely have a murderous spirit, Wucheng feels very unsatisfactory.

One day, Wucheng gathered his disciples and taught: "If an enemy army comes to you like a group of little birds, even if you have superior martial arts, you will still be slaughtered like water fools. From today onwards, it must be the same as a practical example. ”

In less than a month, the children became gangsters, like their masters, and often had blue noses and swollen faces.

Especially the spoon of Zuilongwan, since Mu Mangzi (Shui Yu) returned to his hometown, he had to go to Longbao Village to learn martial arts.

When I arrived at Longbaozhai, the spoon found that it was easier to play than Mu Mangzi, there were people, and the martial arts were also high, so he followed behind Wucheng every day, as if it had become the second Wucheng, and often beat other children for no reason, and also suffered a lot of beatings. When the parents saw it, although they were distressed, they didn't care when they heard that they had to learn to be beaten before learning martial arts.

No, one day, on the way home, several children had a quarrel over a trivial matter, and they actually got into a fight, and one child was broken by a spoon and the ulna of his left hand was discounted.

The injured mother's mother naturally did not follow, and came to Longbaozhai to find Wu Zhen's theory, when Wu Zhen and Shui Rong brothers and the three ladies, Narcissus, Zhu Mengyu, Shui Xiang and so on went out.

The parent happened to meet Wucheng in the walled courtyard and wanted to go out, so he reasoned.

The people left behind in the village listened to the shouting, and they all came to see what was going on.

Mu Mangzi was in a bad mood at the time, he didn't go out, and when he heard the noise, he also came out to see. Fang Cai approached, only to hear Wu Cheng say: "I can't beat myself, don't blame people." ”

The parent was not convinced, and said that he would wait for the witch master to come back.

Mu Mangzi generally understood the reason, and said to Wucheng in the past: "Is there something wrong with you, the boys are getting wilder and wilder, and something will happen sooner or later." ”

Wu Cheng said confidently: "Today, where is not the big fish eating the small fish, the small fish eating the shrimp, the shrimp eating the shrimp, and the drinking water!

Mu Mangzi said: "Not in the Dragon Treasure Pit. ”

Wu Cheng sneered: "If you have a watery temperament like you, you deserve to be beaten!"

"You will regret it sooner or later! Those who are strong will not die!" Mu Mangzi said.

Since going down to the sinkhole, there is no opponent not to say, and he can't really do it with a knife, Wucheng has already itched his hands and peeled off his skin, and the leper can't find a place to rub itchy, seeing Mu Mangzi's strength, he thought: "Since this stupid boy came back, he doesn't want to see me, it's better to provoke him and have a dry addiction." This way taught him a lesson, and people still can't say it. I heard that he has learned a little martial arts, but he has never really seen it, and it is estimated that he is embroidering his legs. ”

Wu Cheng was secretly happy in his heart, so he said: "If I learn martial arts like yours, everyone will die on the spot." ”

Mu Mangzi was angry in his heart, but he still endured it.

Recently, Wu Zhen returned to the village, and the parents complained, and Mu Mangzi took the opportunity to add fuel to the fire.

Wu Zhen scolded Wu Cheng.

Wu Cheng was scolded, he couldn't swallow his anger, found Narcissus who was dismantling vegetables, and said: "You go tell that stupid brother, and then add oil and sauce in front of Old Master Wu, and tell him right and wrong, I beat him to vomit blood!"

Narcissus said angrily: "You dare!"

Shui Xiang urgently advised.

Narcissus was so angry that his mouth was crooked for a while, and he said, "I don't know which one was beaten and vomited blood!"

Hearing her words, Wu Cheng was taken aback and said with a smile: "In addition to short sword throwing, does your brother have other martial arts?"

Narcissus said: "It's not like you, rooster, duck, flower-footed black ghost, anything!"

Wu Cheng said: "It's a pity. ”

"What is a pity?" Narcissus wondered.

"If you don't know martial arts, you can't stand fighting, and if you can't stand fighting, you don't dare to touch it, and you won't be able to break the clay pot. ”

Seeing that he was proud, Narcissus wanted to count it but couldn't say it, so he said: "No matter if you can stand it or not, if you dare to do it with your brother, I will chop the yam on the threshold with you, and cut it in two!"

Wu Cheng naturally didn't want this result, so he left boringly.

Time flies like a white horse, and in the blink of an eye into the spring of the following year.

Mu Mangzi was resting in the room, he had been in bad spirits lately. took out the "poem" again, and then read "there is a beautiful person, clear and graceful", a real beauty appeared in front of him, and secretly thought: "The sun is shining today, why don't you talk about it."

When Mu Mangzi left the house, he went to find someone, and someone said: "Rumeng went to work in the soil with Narcissus." The man added, "The drunken maniac has also gone." ”

Mu Mangzi thought to himself, Wucheng has never been in the habit of loving labor, and the sun is rising from the west. I wanted to go back to the house, but I couldn't help but want to see the man, asked the location, got out of the village, crossed a log bridge, and saw the smoke on the hillside two or three miles away, and was taken aback, and looked closely, it turned out that someone was burning the mountain.

Mu Mangzi walked slowly along the river, and gradually approached, and saw that the mountain fire was getting stronger and stronger on a gentle slope, and it turned out that they had cut the grass and trees around the fire belt and burned them in the middle.

At the side of the fire, there are several people dancing, it is Wucheng, Yumengyu, Narcissus, Shuixiang, Shuiyun and others, they are dancing a dance unique to the burning of the mountain, which originated from a sacrificial activity that began to sow seeds.

Mu Mangzi thought to himself, it is spring now, and the grass and trees are growing, don't they know the reason why they can't burn the wasteland before the summer comes? And seeing that the weather is not like it will rain soon, what kind of waste is burning in a hurry? It must be Wucheng who wants to set fire.

He didn't know, but this time it was wrong, it was because Yu Mengyu had not personally participated in the burning of the wasteland, and Shui Yun and others made it interesting.

Suddenly, Mu Mangzi heard Narcissus shouting: "Brother, come here!"

Mu Mangzi obviously heard it, but he didn't answer, and walked slowly to the side of the soil for more than 30 steps, and didn't talk to a few people.

Mu Mangzi saw that the others were already sitting on the ground to rest, and it was estimated that they were tired of dancing, only Yu Mengyu and Wu Cheng were still dancing hard.

The two outsiders were covered in soot and sweat, and sweat and soot were mixed together, like two cats with flower faces.

Mu Mangzi felt that Wucheng's dance was simply the ugliest dance in the world, and on the contrary, Yu Mengyu's dance was the most beautiful in the world——— if she was dancing for herself.

The few people sitting on the ground continued to clap their hands and sing songs, providing musical accompaniment to the dance. Just listen to the female voice singing:

My sister is stupid and waiting, my brother is here to burn the wasteland,

At the end of the day, you're not busy.

Wait until the wheat is ripe elsewhere,

Look at you at that time, and your heart is not flustered.

Then I heard the male voice sing:

Sister, sister, don't be anxious,

The sun is in the sky, and the rest is three feet high.

One zhang is used, and the same sister (son) you play,

The second zhang stayed, and I burned the waste.

Listen to the male and female voices singing again:

There is no need to close the mountain, the mountain is self-sealed,

The south mountain is planted, and the north mountain is planted.

Today's flames, rushing to the sky,

Lairi seedlings, Kaohsiung Xiong......

After singing one piece, one after another, the performance was small but enthusiastic.

Except for Shui Xiang, who invited his cousin Mu Mangzi again, the others got carried away when he was not here.

Don't think that they are completely empty, they are burning the wasteland into fertilizer, and the rain will sow the seeds. This method of cultivation, known as "畯田", is known as slash-and-burn farming.

Of course, Wucheng only cares about the arson, not the follow-up.

In Longbaokeng, the level of agricultural production is very backward, but it is not completely in the pure slash-and-burn era, wood, bone, tooth, bronze farming tools coexist, and also know the more primitive soil, open land, plough the land, prepare the land, select seeds, plant, cultivate, fertilize, irrigate, harvest and other farming techniques;

For them, fishing, hunting, and gathering wild vegetables and fruits are just as important as farming and raising poultry and livestock.

Their biggest advantage is that there is no one to plunder the fruits of labor, plus Longbaokeng is rich in resources per capita, so it can basically be regarded as a solution to food and clothing, and the entire land of China is like hell in the war era, Longbaokeng's ordinary and peaceful life is like heaven.

The two dancers, illuminated by the firelight and the sun, became more and more excited, and Mu Mangzi's stupidity flared up again.

He even felt that the elated expressions and movements of the dream were a disregard for himself, especially the elation shown with Wu Cheng. What he hopes is that he will be like himself, and he will not think about tea for "the same thing". He felt that his hopes, at least for this time, seemed slim.

Thinking of this, Mu Mangzi remembered two other things related to it.