Chapter 1: Castle Mountain
The light finches swept over the top of the mountain, scattering the misty glow, and the little beasts squirmed, poking out their lovely heads, scurrying in and out of all directions, but there were also fierce eyes, like dormant beasts, quiet in one place.
The lush ancient trees shaded the day, and a few breezes blew through, revealing a little in the dense forest, a few flashes of bright light came through, mottled shadows spread all over the ground, and there were two figures hiding behind the stones.
"Xiaoqi, how many arrows do we have left?" the young man whispered as he leaned close to the boulder beside him, staring at the prey in front of him.
Mink, who are naturally extremely fast, cannot be shot by ordinary bows and arrows at all, so they have to rely on enough bows and arrows to force them into a desperate situation before they can be captured.
The little mink in front of him, the fur is as white as snow, and it is decorated with a faint snow pattern, and he only sees white light between the speeds, and now he finally stops, how can he miss this opportunity, the young man thought to himself.
"Brother Mo, we don't have enough arrows, let's go back, and your injuries are not good"
The little girl on the side looked in her pocket, but there were only two lonely iron arrows in the huge animal skin bag, and it was not enough to catch the white mink.
What's more, the brother in front of her has a lot of blood on his body, and he hasn't had a good rest for a day of hunting.
"Stupid girl, these are skin injuries, just rest for two days. ”
The boy touched the little girl's head, looked at her teary eyes, and showed a look of doting.
"Well, then we'll come back another day, since you like this ferret, my brother will definitely help you catch it!"
The sunset passed through the mountains, falling a few beautiful rays of light, and the breeze blew slightly, drunk with the figures of the two people in the distance.
A few strands of black hair were lightly raised, revealing the resolute face of the young man, and his eyes were as clear as ever, revealing determination and intelligence.
After more than ten years of hunting, he has shed his original childishness, and he is no longer the child who used to cry and be powerless, and now he can stand alone.
The boy is Mo Ran, who moved here with his grandfather when he was very young, this mountain where the trees cover the sky and the little beasts whisper.
And the little girl beside him is his sister, Mo Xiaoqi, who is naughty and cute, she brings a lot of joy to their small mountain village.
It's just that Xiaoqi is not his own sister, I heard my grandfather say that they adopted him on the way to Qingshan Village.
The original Xiaoqi has been asking about her life experience since she grew up, but these grandfathers don't know either.
Xiaoqi cried for a while because of this, but fortunately, Mo Ran was amused every day, which made her forget her sorrows, and now her life is much happier.
The two dragged the heavy carcass of the beast and marched to the vicinity of the village before taking a breath.
On the way back to the village, although few fierce beasts appeared, they could not reduce some vigilance, and only by going to the edge of the village could they really rest assured.
"Earth water python, spirit spotted rabbit, red rock wolf, and a few finch eggs, this harvest is good"
"This python skin is rare, Xiaoqi, wait a minute, send this and this, to Aunt Zhao next door, to make up for the eldest lady's body"
The young man's eyes looked at the beast on the ground, and a small silver dagger swiped, very light and skillful.
"Brother Mo, I'm almost gone" Xiao Qi puffed out her cheeks, stomped her little feet, and complained angrily.
But looking at these beasts, she still had a lot of fun in her heart, but she complained a little that the brother in front of her was too focused, and a bunch of beasts were thrown in one go, just her two thin arms, how could she move so much?
"Wouldn't it be nice to tell you to eat a little more, just be as strong as those two girls"
"Who wants to be so fat, but they are girls!" the little girl snorted, holding a pile of loot in her hand, and turned around and walked towards the village.
The young man looked at the figure that was puffing away, his face was helpless, and then he carried the rest of the people and walked along the stone steps of the mountain road to the village.
Speaking of this ancient road in the mountains, each stone and one step was built by the villagers themselves, and each stone step has existed for many years, with the atmosphere of vicissitudes.
The mountain here is Qingshan, and the village here is Qingshan Village, because there is only this village here, and it is evergreen in all seasons, and sometimes there are a lot of glows, just like a pure land outside the world, full of carefree and worry-free.
"Xiaoqi, wait for grandpa to ask, don't say that we went out of the village, otherwise we will inevitably be trained"
A young man at the entrance of the village looked around, and didn't seem to find anything, so he breathed a sigh of relief, but after thinking about it, he still admonished.
"I know, Brother Mo, you've said it several times, and you don't want to think about which time I didn't help you hide it" Xiao Qi pouted and said playfully.
In a dilapidated wooden house, two figures moved some animal materials into it, and the rickety old woman on the side squinted her eyes slightly, but her eyes were a little more gray.
"It's Xiao Ran, why did you send so much food here today, and you sneaked out of the village again, right?
Aunt Zhao touched the heads of the two, seemed to remember something, and sighed silently.
Two years ago, Zhao Hai, that is, Mrs. Zhao's son, never came back after she went to the mountains, and Mrs. Zhao's eyes began to cry and swell, and she gradually couldn't see anything.
Mo Ran and Xiaoqi would bring some food over every day, and chat about trivial matters by Aunt Zhao's side, and the bows and arrows in their hands were also left by Zhao Hai before his death, because no one used them anymore, so he took them.
After the two visited Aunt Zhao, they went back to their hut.
In front of the door of the hut, a young man poked his head out, looked around, and then tiptoed open the door, but as soon as he entered, his face changed and he smiled bitterly.
"I'm almost an adult, and I'm not sensible yet, and today I kidnapped your sister out of the village to mess around with you, right?"
An old man in the room sat upright in the hall, staring at the two people who had slipped in, his snow-white beard almost blowing straight up.
"And you, it's good for a girl to stay at home, and walk blindly with your brother all day long, I'm really angry!"
"Grandpa, okay, don't be angry, you're angry, wait until no one cooks us dinner, we can fetch a lot of food and come back."
Xiaoqi stuck out her tongue, sat down next to her grandfather, and said coquettishly.
"Okay, you two are still here for me to eat!
The old man's eyes widened instantly, looking at the two living treasures, his heart was inevitably angry, and then he got up and threw the door away, leaving only two large and one small.
Outside Qingshan Village, along the village road, a group of tall and strong figures, and the rough roar spread throughout the village and outside the village, full of joy.
"Village chief, fortunately, we are back, some of the ingredients today are good, enough to eat for a while"
A swarthy strong man outside the village dragged a big Jiao full of knife marks and arrow wounds, and threw it on the ground, and many people followed behind him one after another.
In the blink of an eye, a hill full of beast carcasses appeared on the ground at the edge of the village, all of which were the trophies of the hunting party in the village.
"Okay, big pillar, call all the people in the village, except for some animal materials for sacrificing the mountain spirits, the rest will be divided."
An old man with a white beard walked slowly on crutches, looked at the beasts all over the ground, nodded and smiled.
He is the head of Qingshan Village, and he is responsible for everything in the village, especially hunting and sacrifices.
"Lao Zhang, although this harvest is good, but the beasts in the outside world have also bloomed a lot, look at the beasts around this village have not been seen many times in recent days, I'm afraid I will have to get some food in the future, I have to go far."
One by one, the old men walked out, looking at some beasts on the ground, although they were very happy, they were also a little worried.
Many of these beasts are on the outskirts of the village, and it is not easy for the hunting team to come back unharmed.
But after all, this situation is rare, if you go to hunt so far away, maybe the Zhao family's child will happen again
When the old village chief heard this, he sighed softly a few times, how could he not know in his heart?
In order to survive in the mountains, these animals and food are necessary, but the cost of each hunt is too great, and sometimes many people are killed or injured.
"If it really doesn't work, I'll ask Old Man Mo, maybe there is another way out, I can't watch the people in the village take risks, and then go to hunt so far away, Zhao Hai's child, we are sorry for him, if we didn't acquiesce back then, let him go out of the realm so far, how could the tragedy happen today"
Several old men nodded, and their expressions were silent for a long time.
"Brother Ran, wait for me"
"Erniu, don't chase me, I'm a man who is determined to get out of the mountains"
The young man fooled the second girl next door, took the opportunity to take a few animal legs, hurriedly pulled out his legs and ran, and returned to his house in a puff of smoke.
"Little Brother Mo, hey, didn't you say that the second girl next door is strong and big, how good, I can help you carry a lot of food in the future"
Xiaoqi nibbled on the roast rabbit leg given by Mo Ran, and teased playfully from time to time.
"I'm not here to get you food, or I'll get entangled in that girl," said the boy as he gnawed on the rabbit meat.
The dilapidated hut, inhabited by three people, has been repaired for many years, but it has become more and more vicissitudes, but this small cottage has carried more than ten years of worry-free and joy.
Especially the small broken wall on the wall, there have been a lot of graffiti left in the past few years, of course, these are all from the masterpieces of the Mo Ran brothers and sisters.
"Why can't I feel it, what is strange about that spirit, grandpa's codex is clearly written like this, am I so stupid?"
The young man by the wall looked depressed, and seemed to draw something on the wall with his hand.
A few years ago, he dug out his grandfather's codex in the house, and saw a few words, all things have spirits, and the spirit first understands the heaven and the earth, which is called the feeling of the spirit, and records many wonderful uses of the spirit.
It's just that before he knew what the spirit was, he was taken away by his grandfather, and he never saw it again.
On weekdays, he often goes to the back mountain to practice his fists and feet, hone his muscles and bones, and occasionally be in a daze, thinking about spiritual things.
I hope that one day, like my grandfather and the village chief, I can communicate with the spirits of the mountains and bless the villagers.
"Alright, you two go to sleep. Mo Ran, you will become an adult in two months, and the coming-of-age ceremony is still indispensable, and a few old men in the village also estimated, taking advantage of the coming-of-age ceremony, to pick a few good daughters-in-law for you people, give birth to a few babies, and be lively."
An old man pushed open the wooden door and came in, and when he saw the two of them graffiti on the wall again, he immediately knocked on the brains of the two of them.
"I don't want to look for a daughter-in-law so early, there are many adult people in the village, and it's okay to be one less than me."
The young man rubbed his head, pouted, and looked like a bitter melon, and then he didn't care, and went straight back to the room to lie down.
The night is as quiet as water, the moon is like a hook, the mountains are spiritual, the turbidity of the clear world, scattered with a little starlight, showing a piece of peace.
Bright green light, whenever the night comes, it will quietly envelop Qingshan Village and protect the villagers of Qingshan.
Mo Ran, who was asleep, didn't know that every drop of green spiritual light, whenever the night moon, slowly integrated into his body, for a long time, moistened his body and replenished his spirit.
(This is the first novel of the leaves.,It's going to be written very long.,It's a big world.,Tianjiao is a group of heroes.,Many characters will be described in the character profile before the chapter.,You can pay attention to it while reading the novel.,It's very good>_