Time flies, time flies, and this land of China has passed five years smoothly and steadily. For mortals, five years is just the ripening of five crops, and the changes are negligible

It was that small village, on this day, the sun was shining, the sky was cloudless, the sky was endless blue, the mountains in the distance were green, and the grass of the earth was long and the warbler was flying.

"Oh, little Zhao Qing, are you going to catch fish in the creek again?" a peasant woman forty miles away greeted a young child cordially. The young boy named Zhao Qing was carrying a fresh fish in his right hand, and there were still undried water stains on his little face, but his big bright eyes were very attractive. I saw Xiao Zhao Qing beckoning to the woman sweetly: "Aunt Wang, I just caught a fish from the creek, and my mother's health has not been very good recently, and I want to make up for my mother's body." After that, he shook it with both hands holding a fresh fish that touched about three or four catties, and his little face was full of excitement and joy.

The woman smiled kindly and praised: "Oh yo! Zhao Laosi is really blessed, giving birth to such a well-behaved son, he knows that he feels sorry for his mother at a young age, and he must be a big filial son when he grows up!"

A trace of ruddy flew on Zhao Qing's face, smiled shyly, and trotted all the way home, and the voices of women and others praising Zhao Qing came from behind him.

"Mother, mother, I caught a big fish today. As soon as he ran into his yard, Zhao Qing couldn't wait to shout. After a while, a woman dressed in coarse cloth walked out of the house, who did not look very old, and there were traces of time on her face. The woman put her hand on her body and wiped it, kindly touched Zhao Qing's pink little face, and said happily: "Well, our Zhao Qing is really good, is that mother going to make fish soup for you tonight?"

It seemed to arouse the little gluttonous worm in Zhao Qing's heart, and after smashing his small mouth a few times, Zhao Qing nodded vigorously. The woman took the fresh fish with her hand, waved her hand and said to Zhao Qing: "Go find the big cow and play with them, remember to come back when you eat!"

Nodding very obediently, Zhao Qing turned around and ran to the little friend's house in the village. The woman looked at Zhao Qing, who was running away slowly, and reminded from time to time: "Run slower, be careful on the ground." There was a lot of love in his eyes.

The little friend Zhao Qing is going to find is a boy half a year older than him, and it was only because he didn't come out to catch fish together today, so Zhao Qing wanted to come and see him. As soon as I walked into the small courtyard of Da Niu's house, I saw a middle-aged couple walking anxiously back and forth in the yard, and the slightly chubby woman secretly looked into the house from time to time.

Zhao Qing saw this situation and asked curiously: "Uncle, aunt, what about Da Niu, why didn't he come out to play with us today?" I don't know if I was nervous, or I didn't pay attention to Xiao Zhao Qing's footsteps, the fat woman was obviously startled, and turned around to see that it was Zhao Qing. He took a long breath, patted his chest with one hand, touched the sweat on his forehead with the other, and said: "Ah, it's Zhao Qing, you scared my aunt and me by surprise, Da Niu suddenly felt unwell today, this is not our village just happened to have an old Taoist chief, saying that our big cow hit something, this is not in the practice, Zhao Qing, don't talk, shh" said and made a silent gesture.

For a child about five years old, he was very curious about what was going on, what was going on, what was going on. So he walked lightly to the man who was silently smoking on the side, and asked, "Uncle, what is bumping into something, what is the method?"

The man glanced at the silent room, patted the dry tobacco pipe in his hand, touched Zhao Qing's head and said, "How to do it, this is just" I was for a long time, and I didn't think about how to explain this matter to Xiao Zhao Qing, so I had to say in a wistful manner: "It's to treat Da Niu, you will understand when you grow up." Zhao Qing's bright eyes flickered a few times, and he nodded "oh".

After waiting for a while, I only heard a cold wind blowing out of thin air in the room, and there seemed to be a faint flash of golden light, mixed with a crackling sound. After a while, the door was opened, and a sloppy white-bearded old Taoist priest stepped out.

The old Taoist priest slapped the white dark blue Taoist robe with one hand, grabbed a yellow gourd on his waist with the other, poured some wine into his mouth, and said to the middle-aged couple: "Okay, there are some unclean things on the child's body, the old Taoist has already got rid of it, as long as you raise it quietly for a few days, I promise to return you a lively fat boy." ”

Hearing this, the chubby woman immediately shouted with joy, clapping and jumping on the ground excitedly, and chanting words in her mouth: "Great, great, our big cow is finally fine." Of course, due to the problem of weight, Zhao Qing didn't jump up anyway, but only saw the fat on the woman's body trembling for a while.

The middle-aged man nodded and said to the old Taoist: "Thank you so much for the immortal chief for treating the big cow, this little meaning is not a respect, I can only take a few sips of wine for the immortal chief to moisten your throat." With that, he reached out and took out a string of copper coins and handed it to Lao Dao.

Lao Dao didn't push back, took the copper coin and stuffed it into a cloth bag hanging diagonally on his shoulder, waved his hand and said: "You're welcome, it's just that Lao Dao and the child are fated!" After speaking, he raised his feet and stepped out of the yard.

At this time, Xiao Zhao Qingyi stepped forward and grabbed Lao Dao's trouser legs, and asked curiously, "Grandpa, what were you doing in there just now?"

Lao Dao felt that his trouser legs were being pulled, but when he looked back, he saw that it was a young child carved like pink and jade, and said with a smile: "Grandpa, I just saw a doctor in it!"

"Then the old man will see if I'm sick, I don't want to be sick, then I don't have to play. Zhao Qing's little eyes flashed with pity.

Lao Dao stroked his beard with one hand, touched Zhao Qing's head with the other and said with a smile: "Okay, then the old man will help you take a look for free." After speaking, an almost imperceptible light flashed in his eyes, and an inaudible trace of light penetrated into Zhao Qing's clear eyes.

"Well, how is it possible?" Almost instantly, Lao Dao's face changed, and his weather-beaten face was covered with an incredible look at this time, and he muttered in an inaudible voice: "Strange, this son is actually a congenital half-soul person, how can this survive?"

"Three souls and seven spirits are the foundation of human beings, you are missing half of everything, and you can survive so healthily, this kind of thing is the first time I have seen this kind of thing for so long, could I be wrong?"

This time, the situation changed a little, as soon as the essence of the old way entered Zhao Qing's eyes, it seemed to encounter a great resistance, and it was ejected out at once. With a muffled snort, the old Taoist's thin body moved slightly. Snorted coldly, as if intentionally or unintentionally, he looked at the surrounding sky, and said disdainfully: "Hmph, if you don't let me see clearly, I just want to see it clearly, what about folding his longevity for a few years, anyway, I've lived long enough, I want to see what is going on." With that, he poured a few more sips of wine into his mouth, and pressed Zhao Qing's shoulders with both hands, with a solemn expression.

"Whew" two rays of light like a materialized essence came out of the cloudy eyes of the old man, and directly touched Zhao Qing's eyes. It's just that this time the counterattack was even stronger, and in less than a moment, the two essences were bounced back into Lao Dao's eyes. "Kicking" Lao Dao then retreated a few steps in a row, his face was strangely red, as if he had suffered internal injuries due to a violent counterattack.

"Damn, all information is closed. Lao Dao stood firm, stretched out his right hand and pinched a strange law, and said in his mouth: "Zhou Tian everything, manifest my heart, yin and yang five elements, follow my orders" A few faint blue light appeared in the palm of Lao Dao's palm, and Lao Dao kept pinching in place. If this scene is seen by a well-informed cultivator, he will be surprised, this seemingly down-and-out old Taoist priest is now using a long-lost Taoist supernatural power, called "Taiqing Xuanji", which is famous all over the world for calculating the power of foreign arts. I just don't know who this old Taoist is, and he can actually know this long-lost magic art.

After a few pinching strokes, the old Taoist priest was shocked, as if he had been hit by a giant hammer, and a mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth, his face was pale and terrible, and his whole body fell backwards. Fortunately, there was a pile of firewood behind Lao Dao, so he barely got to rely on his footing. The original light in his eyes was dissipated, and the old Taoist priest kept muttering: "This child's future is completely blank, and I used ten years of Yang Shou to forcibly probe but can only see a road paved with countless dry bones, what is going on?"

Looking at the three people who were stunned by their inexplicable blood spurting, Lao Dao waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, don't worry, Lao Dao is fine." After that, he carefully looked at Zhao Qing, who was a little stunned, and said with a smile: "Don't be afraid, child, the old man is fine, the old man has just seen that there is nothing wrong with you." Then he asked Zhao Qing a few other words, but he couldn't come up with anything, so he had to give up.

Watching Zhao Qing disappear behind the house not far away with his immature little hand, the old Taoist priest said in a voice that only he could hear: "Perhaps, you are only half of you, and when you recover that half of your soul, all this will be clear." Looking sideways at the ethereal Nine Heavens in the sky, the old Taoist priest shook his head with a sigh, poured a sip of wine with one hand, and walked slowly into the distance.

Zhao Qing was still young, so he didn't pay attention to this matter after all, and he forgot about it after a few days. As for the parents of the big cow, they were very happy when they saw that their son would become vigorous again after a few days, and they didn't take things to heart, and this little episode slowly subsided.

On this day, although the sun was shining, there always seemed to be a haze over the whole village, and the atmosphere in the village was dull and strange. When it was almost dusk, when all the families had gone home to eat, a puff of sand and dust rose at the foot of the distant mountain, and hundreds of figures rolled in with the deafening sound of horses' hooves, and the yellow sand rising behind it was like a hideous and terrible bloody mouth, rushing towards this quiet and peaceful little village.

After a few moments, the hundreds of iron horsemen were less than a few miles away from the small village, and the sound of horses' hooves also alarmed all the peasant families who were eating, and everyone went out of their homes to check what was going on.

One of them was a tall bald man with a long scar on his face, with a huge saber in his right hand across his chest, and laughed: "Brothers, wait until you will be sharp, take all the valuable things, and don't leave the beautiful woman." ”

A man next to him who was also burly, but had a pockmarked face, and was also a one-eyed dragon, then shouted: "Listen to the eldest brother, don't care if the woman is beautiful or not, as long as it is a woman, grab it for me, brothers are happy tonight." "Yes," the hundreds of people behind him echoed in unison.

"Everyone, run away, it's the horse bandits who are coming, run away" Someone in the village finally saw a hint of the coming, the most honest peasant family, the most feared are these horse bandits and robbers who burn, kill, loot and do all kinds of evil.

At this sound, the whole village suddenly shook in chaos, but it was too late, countless horses' hooves roared, and in the blink of an eye, the hundred or so bandits had completely surrounded the small village. The blade that flashed with a cold cold light pointed directly at the villagers who were running around, and countless evil smiles came into their ears.

The bald man with the scar looked like the leader of the horse bandits, and yelled at the villagers: "Stop for the uncle, or be careful of your lives."