Shi Jingtian was originally a very lonely person who could endure loneliness, he lived alone in death for so long, and he was willing to accompany Jiao to die after the catastrophe. But since he walked out of the dead place and got acquainted with Mo Yan, Nizi, Lihanyun and the Shuangsha brothers, he gradually got used to being accompanied by people around him, and suddenly he was alone, so he was naturally a little unaccustomed.

"Brothers, very hardworking!"

"Oh! I'll go to sleep when I'm done!"

Hu Zuo, who was laying out the chopping firewood, thought it was a familiar person in the mercenary group, replied casually, and casually raised his eyes to look, and his face suddenly changed color.

"You... It's you!Why are you here?" Hu Zuo stood up in some surprise, and stabbed Hu Wei twice, who was still holding an axe, "Brother, brother, which kid is here on the edge of the imperial city!"

"Who!who?" Hu Wei put down the axe, and recognized Shi Jingtian at a glance, and suddenly the horse's face stretched longer, and he was still a little afraid in his heart, "You... What are you doing at my house?"

"I was going to Jiuyao City, but when it got dark, I just stayed here with the mercenary group for the night. “

"You're a mercenary?"

"No, just a ride. ”

"Oh!"

The Hu Zuo Hu Fei brothers breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that they didn't come here to make trouble for themselves, if Aunt Lan knew about it, it would not be such a simple punishment as fetching water and chopping wood today, and it was estimated that they would be locked up in the hut for a few days and not allowed to go out.

The expressions of these two brothers made Shi Jingtian smile faintly, and at a glance, he knew that he was often naughty and mischievous, for fear that others would come to the door.

"Why, I've known each other for a long time, and you're the master here, and you don't have any wine and food?"

"Oh!" Hu Zuo rolled his eyelids a little unhappily, but still beckoned Hu Wei, "You go and bring the treasures of the two of us, the wine is there, but the food is not, our brothers are still hungry." ”

Although the two brothers like to do something to make trouble by stealing chickens and dogs, they are still very talkative, inferior but very kind. Shi Jingtian didn't feel sleepy, and the three of them sat around the ground and talked about the origin of Zicun.

There is a mountain range in the northwest of the imperial city, called the Yunshi Mountain Range, in the rolling mountains with thousands of walls, there are no towering ancient trees or even flowers and plants are pitiful, but there are rich ores, and the King Kong people live there.

Living in the barren mountains, the Vajra people live a peaceful and carefree life. Relying on the mineral deposits, each of them is the most skilled blacksmith, and the weapons and iron products they create are famous throughout the continent, and countless people have traveled here to build weapons at great expense.

Moreover, the King Kong people are naturally tall and powerful, with infinite strength, and have the reputation of heavenly warriors, known as warriors who will never fall when they step on the earth. There are no more than a thousand people in their entire clan, and they are unwilling to leave the mountains and ask about the world, and of course no one dares to trouble them.

The two brothers talked about their people, and their faces were full of pride. These stones have also heard Mo Yan say it, but now they live in this small village. Although it has not reached the point of having no clothes and no food, most of the people have patched coarse cloth clothes, dilapidated grass huts, and even petty theft, which makes Shi Jingtian have questions.

"Since the King Kong clan has no worries about food and clothing in the mountains, it should even be regarded as a superior life. You are all members of the clan, how did you come here?"

Hu Zuo, who was still talking eloquently, suddenly paused, rolled his eyelids, and said dissatisfiedly, "It's not that since the death of our patriarch Shi Kai, the patriarch's younger brother Shi Xing took over the position of patriarch. He is a bitter and mean person, cherishes money like life, and is narrow-minded, he has cultivated a group of henchmen, anyway, those who have opinions about him have been punished by him for various reasons, and he has worked hard day and night. ”

"Also, and..."Hu Wei, who has never been much talkative, said, "Originally, what we built was generally iron farm tools and machinery, and weapons were only occasionally built for cultivators. However, the new patriarch Shi Xing, for the sake of gold and silver, built a large number of weapons and sent them to the country of Wuwei, which made many clansmen dissatisfied, but they did not dare to say it. ”

"The King Kong clan has ancestral teachings, and they are not allowed to participate in disputes on the mainland, and they are not allowed to build army weapons in large quantities. But this stone line didn't even pay attention to the ancestral teachings, of course, there are many clansmen who are unwilling to obey. ”

"So you Vajra clan have a disagreement, and a group of people have come to settle here?" Shi Jingtian asked.

"Yes, it's not!" Hu Zuo nodded and shook his head, "After the death of the former patriarch, the patriarch's wife, also known as Lan Damiang, still has a high status in the clan, and Shi Xing does not dare to be too presumptuous, and there are other reasons why we moved here." ”

"What's the reason?

"Anyway, there are a lot of things, I can't say a word or two, it's all about our clan!"

"Okay then!" Shi Jingtian didn't ask much, after all, it was all the affairs of the King Kong clan, and some hidden secrets were not enough for outsiders to mention.

After chatting casually for a while, Shi Jingtian was about to say goodbye and rest, stood up and saw Aunt Lan coming from a small hut in the middle from a distance by the bonfire.

"Oh, Hu Wei, finish this little work, Aunt Lan is here!"

The brothers also saw Aunt Lan at the same time, and quickly picked up the axe and hurriedly got to work.

"Hu Zuo, Hu Wei, are you lazy again? I haven't finished all this kind of work now?" Aunt Lan walked up to them, although she had a sense of reproach, but her face was kind and her words were soft, just like a mother of two children, she loved but hated iron but could not become steel.

"Auntie, we're done!"

"Well, have you eaten? If you haven't eaten, let's go eat first, and then get up early tomorrow to do the rest. Let's see if you dare to go to the Wanma Plain next time to steal the herdsmen's sheep. ”

"Thank you, auntie!" the brothers ran back with a happy smile.

It turned out that the old problem of these two brothers had not changed, and they even went to the Wanma Plain to steal sheep, so they were punished. Thinking about the fact that the Imperial City Ion Village is so far away, they all go to steal heavy armor, how else will they not go. Shi Jingtian smiled secretly in his heart.

"Young man, you're a member of the mercenary group, why haven't you rested yet?"

"Aunt Lan, I'm from the Imperial City, and I'm just traveling with the mercenary group!" Shi Jingtian quickly stood up and said, "The Hu Zuo Hu brothers and I used to have a relationship, and they happened to pass by today, so they sat down and chatted a few words. ”

"Alas, these two are good boys, and they both complain that I arbitrarily brought them here for a while, and these bad habits can only be caused by neglect of discipline!" Aunt Lan sighed, her face full of self-blame, and the crow's feet at the corners of her eyes seemed to be a little deeper.

Shi Jingtian has no father or mother, and he has never even had the slightest impression. But the deep maternal love on the kind Aunt Lan touched him at once. I even envy the two brothers, if I deliberately make some mistakes, will there be such a kind mother-like aunt, reprimanding herself, but her heart is full of love.

"Young man, have you caused trouble for the two brothers, in that case I will educate them well. Aunt Lan asked, in her heart, the two brothers would not have any friends, and if any, they must have known each other because of trouble.

"No, no, what the eldest lady doesn't have is that she has seen it before. We just sat down and talked about the village. Shi Jingtian vetoed, unwilling to say anything about the heavy armor, not to protect the two brothers, but not to blame herself even more for this kind lady.

"It's all my fault, I brought my people who trusted me to suffer here. Now you can see the appearance of the village in your eyes, and the impulsive obsession at the beginning can be described as regret. “

"Obsession?"

"Yes, there has been no hope for a long time, but I have an obsession with fantasy in my heart!" Aunt Lan slowly sat on the wooden bench on the side, with too much sorrow and longing in her eyes, looking at the deep night sky sadly, "I don't know, my husband and son, are they okay in that world!"

Husband and son in that world? Shi Jingtian heard this, and immediately understood what she was talking about. Feeling the pain of Aunt Lan's loss of husband and child, she knelt down in front of Aunt Lan unconsciously, "They... Are they all dead?"

"My son was only 10 years old, and both my father and I doted on him. Although my son had blocked meridians since he was a child, was born with low intelligence, slurred speech, and was much shorter and thinner than his peers, we never gave up on him. Trekking through mountains and rivers to find a famous doctor but never cured, think about those days, even if there is too much suffering, as long as the family can be together, it is happy. ”

I didn't expect Aunt Lan to be such a kind and kind mother, but God refused to favor her, Shi Jingtian heard this, and he felt a little sad in his heart, and he didn't feel sighing.

"On that day, I remember very clearly, my husband's younger brother Shi Xing excitedly told me that there was an island in the middle of the ocean over there through the place of death, and that there was a miracle doctor on the island who would cure my son's illness. So, not caring about the difficult and dangerous journey, my husband took his son and Shi Xing to seek medical treatment. But... But this time..."

When Aunt Lan said this, her voice began to choke, and infinite sadness spread in her heart. I was full of hope to seek medical treatment, but I didn't want it to be the last time to part, but it became goodbye.

"Auntie, don't be sad..."Shi Jingtian wanted to comfort him, but he didn't know what to say.

"Young man, I'm fine, after all, more than ten years have passed!" Aunt Lan wiped her moist eyes, "Later, after more than two months, only his uncle Shi Xing came back alone, telling me that I encountered a storm in the sea, and my husband and son were so drowned in the sea, and even the body could not be recovered." ”

A thought suddenly popped up in Shi Jingtian's mind for some reason, and he asked without thinking, "After the patriarch dies, will Shi Xing inherit the position of the patriarch!?"

There was a wry smile on the corner of Aunt Lan's mouth, "Young man, I know what you're thinking. Why did only his uncle Shi Xing come back alive when he went to the three of them? I was thinking about this question at the time, but the relationship between the two brothers has always been very good, and there has never been a dispute, and many things in the clan are discussed and decided by the two brothers, and they will never murder their relatives because of the position of a patriarch, I can guarantee this. ”