Volume 1 Destiny

Chapter 1: The gentleman is frank, and the villain is a relative (1)

The fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, Halloween.

On this day, the sky was clear, the blue sky was intoxicating, the July afternoon sun was hot and hot, and the occasional white clouds in the sky also disappeared in a hurry. Outside Tianhe Town, looking far away, the distant mountains in the west are green in the sun, and the peak of that one rises straight into the sky and inserts into the sky, and everything is desperately growing in such weather, so as to earn a bumper harvest in autumn. Nearby is a large paddy field, full of green crops, full of life, and occasionally a few figures are busy in the field. A river that meanders through the field, bends in a narrow place, and forms a narrow sandy beach on the side, behind which are still large paddy fields.

This season of life also makes people energetic and energetic. At this time, there were bursts of equally vivid children's voices in the river:

"Liangzi, you dead fat man, don't go into the water over there, the water is urgent, I'm worried that I will push you to the river and drop eight pieces of ass, haha"

"Fart, I'll dare, my water nature is much more powerful than your black-skinned skinny monkey!" Not to be outdone, the man named Ryoko scolded in a loud voice.

Another slightly shrill voice coaxed: "What's the noise? There is a hair? Bibi look, Liangzi, the black-skinned monkey, you two are more than one!"

"That's it, it's better than one another, it's a little pig if you don't have the guts, go to the field next to it to be a mud pig......" Three or two voices fanned the flames on the side, instigating Naliangzi to compare with the black-skinned monkey.

"Okay, okay, Liangzi, black-skinned monkey, you are better than one, and we will judge you both. A slightly thick voice spoke, and it seemed that it was the head of the group.

"Who's afraid of whom?" both Ryoko and the black-skinned monkey roared angrily, "Come on, come on." "In the gentle part of the river, the six or seven boys playing in the river were all making a fuss. These children range from five or six to eleven or twelve years old, and the children in the countryside are all raised cheaply, and when they reach the age when they can walk and run, their parents are busy with their livelihoods, and they don't care about it, and they don't have time to take care of it, and they basically let them out and run around the world, which is quite self-fending. But under normal circumstances, although these children are wild, they do not make any big trouble, and there are very few life-threatening ones - as long as they do not run into the mountains and rivers.

"Slow, let's talk about it first, whoever loses, will return to the town in a while, and whoever will buy sugar gourds for a treat. The rough-voiced kid said with a wicked smile.

"Huh?" The black-skinned monkey and Ryoko immediately made bitter faces. It's no wonder that although the geographical location of Tianhe Town is not bad, facing the sea and backed by mountains, there is no special production, so the living conditions of the people in the town are not good, most of the people are digging in the soil, taking them up the mountain to hunt and fish in the river, and the life is average. In addition, there are a lot of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes in the Holy Heavenly Emperor, and the wealthy families are a minority after all, and the children of ordinary families like these do not have much pocket money in their hands. If you lose this competition, even if you only buy a few sugar gourds, it is estimated that the few dollars in your hand will have to be sold off.

"What's the matter?" the child looked at with contempt, "You two are, don't fight all day if you don't have the guts!"

"That's it, hurry up, the head speaks, let's start competing. The original shrill voice also leaned over and shouted. The child turned his head, glanced at a thin voice with slightly triangular eyes, and said, "Bamboo rat, don't be foolish, shut up." The thin voice of the bamboo rat shrunk his neck, and he was silent, obviously afraid of the child's head. However, looking at the appearance of this nicknamed bamboo rat with his head down and his eyes rolling, he probably started to think about some tricks again, it seems that this guy is quite a scheming product.

Looking at the silent Liangzi and Heipi, the child's head became impatient: "Is it better than each other?"

Liangzi and Heipi looked at each other, gritted their teeth and said: "Compare and compare, Yintou, how can you compare?" Yintou cracked his mouth and smiled: "That's right! Let's hold our breath first! Whoever holds in the water for a long time wins!"

"Okay!" Ryoko and Kuropi simply faced each other, stepping on the water and waiting for the game to start.

"Oh, Bibibi......" cheered loudly from the surrounding partners. The cheers seemed to attract the clouds in the sky, and the clouds in the sky were quietly piled up. As the saying goes, "in the middle of summer, a child's face", it really changes when it comes to change. It's just that the naughty children in the river don't notice the changes in the sky.

The noise also seemed to wake up a child sleeping on the beach by the river, covered with lotus leaves. The big lotus leaf was torn open, revealing the body of a child about six or seven years old. The child rubbed his eyes and looked into the river. The child is a little thin and doesn't seem to eat very well. A small face is surprising, it is a delicate face that is difficult to understand. The eyes under the delicate eyebrows are not big, but the eyes are smart and deep, and when they turn, they show a kind of confusion and natural stupidity. The straight bridge of the nose shows the little boy's fortitude, but the lips that are often pursed reveal shyness and shyness. Especially the kind of peace and quietness in children, and the spiritual well-behaved, people can't help but feel good. All in all, this skinny child is like a complex of contradictions, an enigmatic existence.

Hearing the noise coming from the river, the mysterious child had not yet spoken, and the Yintou in the river had already shouted to him: "Ah Chen, come to the river, quickly!" The voice was kind and gentle, revealing a love and care for this child. "Oh, here we are. Ah Chen nimbly got up from the beach and ran towards the river. Kankan went to the river, Ah Chen put his toes on the stone, jumped up, and turned around, like a nimble fish plunged into the river. This vigor can't see the cuteness and sluggishness in the previous eyes at all.

Soon, Ah Chen's head came out of the water and asked, "What's the matter?"

"It's nothing, the fat man and the monkey are going to compare, call you to come and see!" Yintou nodded at Ryoko and Hei Pinu.

"What's the comparison?" Ah Chen asked.

"No, it's breathless. ”

A fat child who was about five or six years old and six or seven points similar to Ah Chen swam to Ah Chen's side: "Brother, you are awake!" Without waiting for Ah Chen to answer, he asked again: "Brother, you say, Brother Liangzi or Brother Heipi, which one will win?" Ah Chen looked at Liangzi and Heipi who were a few feet away, and said, "Liangzi will win." ”

"Xiaoyue, do you believe what your brother said?" the bamboo rat with a thin voice said to the fat child with good intentions, "Maybe, your brother is coaxing you." ”

Yintou listened to the words of the bamboo rat, frowned and said, "Bamboo rat, shut up, you want to sow discord between the two brothers again, don't you?" After a pause, Yintou shouted: "Stop, go to the shore first!"

"Oh......" The children in the water all went to the shore. Eleven-year-old Yintou is the largest in this group of children, and his family has opened two grain and oil shops in the town, and he has lived a better life than the average person in the town, and Yintou is usually very righteous, so these children listen to him.

"Isn't it comparable?"

"Let's settle old accounts with the bamboo rat first. Yintou said with a calm face.

As soon as he heard this, the bamboo rat panicked: "Yintou, I don't mean anything else, I just talked and played with Brother Achen." Yintou sneered: "You usually play a little cautious, but don't treat everyone as the object of tricking, are we really stupid? If you are very old-fashioned, don't play with us!"

The bamboo rat was even more flustered, and hurriedly said: "Yintou, listen to me......"

"What else are you talking about? Let me ask you, last night I, Ah Chen, Liangzi, Heipi and the five of you went to catch the brook frog, and said that the money from selling the brook frog would be divided equally. But in the end, who secretly hid a few brook frogs and sold them themselves? Don't think we don't know! You know, it was Ah Chen who caught the most last night, not you! Hmph, it's better for you to keep the bamboo basket and watch the brook frogs, but you actually secretly tied two of them to hide in the crotch of your pants and sold them for your own money?"

The white jade stream frog is produced in the stream on the outskirts of Tianhe Town, which is cold and yin, and only breeds in the hot season, which is relatively rare. The brook frog is prepared by the pharmacist, and after taking it, it can remove the toxic heat and stagnation qi produced in the body during the cultivation of martial artists, and even if it is eaten by ordinary women, it can also benefit the qi and nourish the body. Therefore, this brook frog can still be sold for a few dollars, and for children, it is a lot of income.

Last night's incident, the bamboo rat did not do a good job, and the other partners didn't say anything in their eyes, but they would definitely have a pimple in their hearts. Now Yintou said this thing, just to give the bamboo rat a wake-up call, and he didn't want his friends to make a lot of trouble! In this group of children, except for Brother Ah Chen, who is an outsider, the others are all members of the Lin clan, one of the three major clans in the town. Because several families live closer to each other and can get along, they play together. Yintou's name Lin Yin, because his family background is relatively good, and he has some talents, so he can worship under the spiritual master of the spiritual retreat hall in the city, but he is lazy and playful by nature, and he doesn't like to read, and the nominal master is not very strict with him, so he can often run back to the countryside. The other friends are just ordinary farm doors, and they haven't found any special talents, so they can only be ordinary children with peace of mind, and pray that God will give them a lifetime of peace.

Besides, this bamboo rat, the big name Lin Yishu, in this group of children, his figure is slightly thin and tall, and his two front teeth are big and convex, like a bamboo rat on the mountain, so it seems natural to be called a bamboo rat. Of course, he himself hated the title of bamboo rat, but he was "outnumbered", so he had to enjoy the honorific title of bamboo rat with peace of mind. However, this Lin Yishu is not as stupid as the bamboo rat on the mountain, and he still likes to take advantage of small advantages and play a little cautious, so Lin Yin doesn't like him very much. It's just that they both belong to the Lin family, and the two are relatively close by blood, so it's not good to exclude bamboo rats. And the other Liangzi and Heipi are also members of the Lin clan, one is called Lin Liang and the other is called Lin Xi. Lin Liang is fat, and there is no doubt that he is called fat, but Liangzi has a lot of strength. Lin Xi was black and thin, with a flexible brain and skills, so he had no choice but to occupy the nickname of "Black Skin Monkey" without hesitation. Ah Chen's grandparents moved to Tianhe Town, and later Ah Chen's father married a woman from the next village, it is said that when Ah Chen was born, the people in the village felt inexplicably abnormal, but they couldn't say what was strange. Only the old madman who had been hiding in the small temple at the edge of the village for many years suddenly woke up for three days, and then went crazy again, shouting that the sky was going to change. Ah Chen Liangzi and Heipi are the same age, but Lin Yin prefers Ah Chen, and even he himself doesn't know why he feels kind to Ah Chen.

Anyway, Lin Yin brought up what happened last night, and he became angry as he spoke, coupled with the small action of the bamboo rat just now, which made him even more angry. After thinking about it, Lin Yin said: "I think it is necessary to give the bamboo rat a punishment and let him have a longer memory." What do you say?" the children on the side looked at each other, shook their heads and said they didn't have any opinions.

It seems that the popularity of bamboo rats is a bit miserable!

Ah Chen thought for a while and said, "Head, forget it, it's not a big deal!" When the bamboo rat heard this, he was grateful, Lin Yin smiled: "It's okay, it's just a slight punishment, don't worry, hehe"

The bamboo rat was about to cry: "Head, my Ah Chen, look at this, oops, oh, I suddenly feel a little sick in my stomach"

Lin Yin waved his hand: "Don't pretend, come on, everyone will lift the bamboo rat to the sand, I want him to understand what a gentleman is and a villain hides."