Chapter 1 Misfortune

Located at the junction of Guizhou and Guangxi provinces, Longpo Village is surrounded by green mountains, with ancient trees in the village and a translucent stream passing through it.

The old people in the village say that during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the ancestors of the Dong nationality migrated several times, and they did not know how many mountains they crossed and how many rivers they came to this place.

At that time, people were hungry and thirsty and couldn't walk, looking around, there was no grass here, according to the previous positioning of the accompanying priest, they were now stepping on the feet of everyone, but in the face of the reality of the situation, to go or stay?

While everyone was arguing fiercely, someone saw a large bird with golden light poking out of the clouds and laying a golden egg in the valley, and the golden light flickered all day long.

So everyone was curious to go to the luminous place to find out, when the light source gradually weakened, everyone was surprised to find that the original barren mountain collar was green one by one, and hundreds of birds sang in unison and the water murmured.

The patriarch and the people all worshipped, chanting and thanking the sacred bird for the treasure land, and the descendants will have good fortune from now on.

To this day, I don't know how many generations have passed, the clansmen have worked hard for generations to live the sunrise and return at sunset, and in the middle of the night, young men and women sing songs in the drum tower and sit on the moon to complain to each other.

However, since the Ming and Qing dynasties, there is another big mountain above people's heads, and they still have no clothes and no food in their stomachs after working all day long.

On that day, Jiang Shui and his father in the village were cutting low branches to help the village protect the original cedar forest of Changshi to help them grow, in exchange for wages to live.

Jiang Shui, 16 years old this year, is wearing a white Dong white shirt, the morning sun shines through the treetops on his handsome face, his close-fitting clothes are soaked with sweat, and his bronzed arms are clearly defined.

Years of hard work in the fields have trained him to be in good shape. A thick bowl of the branch of the shirt tree was cut back and forth by him with two knives, the action was clean and neat, so that the father was happy to see it in his eyes, thinking that in another two years in the village for him to say a good family business, he could also hug the big fat grandson earlier, and the good days are still to come!

"Jiang Shui, it's time for us to have lunch, kid." The old man took food wrapped in taro leaves from home from the shade of a branch, and the father and son sat on the ground. I really ate a lot of things today, including sweet potatoes, glutinous rice, pickled fish and pheasant meat from the river a few days ago.

"Don't eat, dad, eat quickly." At this time, his mouth was full of food, and he couldn't speak clearly.

Daddy was devoured by the look, and the sip of wine in his mouth squirted out, and he wiped the corners of his mouth with his hand and said with a smile: "No one robbed you, eat slowly, moo!" Which girl sees you like this, and someone marries you, little boy. ”

"That's good, I can eat more of my father's share, so that I don't have a daughter-in-law who quarrels every day and dies." After that, he made a grimace to his father.

"If you dare not marry a daughter-in-law, I will beat you to death, you are the only seedling in our family." The old man was about to beat him with his hand, and he flashed to the side with a cat waist, revealing a row of white teeth in the frolic.

After the meal, the old man smoked a leaf cigarette, and Jiang Shui sat next to his father. The old man slowly told him about the past, it turned out that the ancestors in this area were their family's mountains and forests, and then because they were forcibly occupied by the grandfather of the outsider Hu Shiben, that is, the old Tusi Shi who did not do evil back then, the old man said and subconsciously touched a long scar on his right arm, remembering the past.

When he was only 12 years old, his grandfather, who was tied to a pillar by the chief of the guard's family and threatened Jiang Shui with a barren mountain in their hands, in exchange for the land.

This is clearly a robber's method, at first Jiang Shui's grandfather naturally did not agree, and finally the old toast eyes flicked, viciously signaled his subordinates to use a sharp small dagger to slowly pull a blood mark from his father's arm, and the direction traveled to the neck and stopped, the wicked man with the knife had a sideways face, staring at Jiang Shui's grandfather with bad intentions.

At this time, the old man could not bear the pressure of the life and death of his relatives, and finally pressed his handprint on the exchange note with a trembling hand, which was the fertile soil on which their ancestors depended, but in order to save the life of Jiang Shui's father, they lost this mountain forest forever.

Grandpa Jiang Shui was still thinking about that ancestral land before he died.

"Fight the fire, put out the fire!" A hurried shout echoed through the valley. With the experience of fighting mountain fires in the past, Jiang Shui Daddy believes that it is possible to stop the spread of fire by immediately opening up a fire line with an interval of 20 meters and a width of 3 meters in the surrounding woods.

"Jiang Shui quickly take a long-handled firewood knife, and follow my method behind us, and make three fire lines to send it, quickly."

"Daddy! The fire is coming too fast, I'm afraid it's too late. ”

"What are you talking about! Still not moving, are you? If this forest burns, will the chief be able to spare us? ”

"Daddy! This mountain forest was originally on our ancestors, but it was forcibly occupied by the black-hearted old ghost of Toast, and it was burned, and it didn't matter what it did. With that, he threw the knife to the ground.

"You little boy, I don't know whether to live or die, I don't have to worry about this old bone when I'm old,"

Seeing a few villagers panting at the foot of the mountain, Jiang Shui recognized at a glance that it was his partner Wanglong who came to fight the fire with a few cousins of his family.

At the beginning, the brothers could still cope with the big branches broken, who knew that the wind was spreading to this side, they all knew that this was the mountain forest of the village chief, this is good, their own mountains and forests can't be saved, in case the bully's golden silk nan is burned, they have to peel the brothers.

For a time, the fire took advantage of the wind to help the fire, and the surrounding trees were burned by the fire, and the fire was so thick that it was difficult for people in the fire to breathe. Originally, three fire lines were to be opened, but at this time, they had come to the front in a blink of an eye, and no one could do anything but let the fire dragon abuse him.

"Brother Jiang Shui, it's a big trouble now, and this family can't go back."

"Anyway, a few of our brothers have no fathers and mothers since they were children, but they have affected your family." Na Wanglong insisted on going to the chief's house to confess his guilt, but Jiang Shui's father and son tried their best to stop him, because this person had a vicious heart, and he didn't know how many people he had harmed in the village, and he would be sent to death if he went.

When he was still hesitating, he only heard the drum tower bell ringing in the village. It should be that the chief of the security department found that the fire was not good, and summoned his subordinates to forcibly send the villagers up the mountain to fight the fire.

Jiang Shui's father grabbed Wanglong's hand, took out a few pieces of fiat currency from his clothes purse (the central bank began to print and circulate in the early Republic of China) and forcibly stuffed it to him.

"Child, since you were a child, you have no parents, you grew up eating hundreds of family meals, on family tree, our two families are still related to each other, run for your life! We've got our own way here. After speaking, Cui couldn't stop urging them to leave quickly.

Impatiently, Wanglong and the others turned back a few steps with tears in their eyes. Jiang Shui also waved at them from a distance, and the figure gradually disappeared into the opposite ridge.....