The New Year is in the New Year, and the small mountain village where the wood lives is this exquisite, so although more than half a month has passed since the Spring Festival, the small mountain village still has a New Year's flavor.

In the afternoon, a group of children had dinner and played games at the entrance of the village, the small mountain village was desolate and remote, there was nothing interesting to do, just a group of children got together to be poor and happy. The children drew a circle on the ground, threw a stone far and wide, and let the wood pick it up, while the rest of the children scattered to find a place to hide.

Wood picked up the stones and put them in circles on the ground, and then searched for the children who were hiding one by one. He was different from ordinary people since he was a child, and he could always hear subtle sounds that ordinary people could not perceive, and listening to the breathing of those children, Wood quickly caught six children out of hiding.

"Wood must have peeked at where we're hiding, otherwise how could we have found it so quickly?"

"That is, when he went to pick up stones, he must have cheated. ”

A group of children were chattering about the "battle situation" just now.

"Erniu, fat baby, let's not play with him in the future. What's the point of cheating all the time, playing?" said a kid named Tie Dan angrily.

"It's just that he's really skinny and won't play with him anymore. ”

A group of children, encouraged by the Iron Egg, expressed their disdain for the wood, and then rushed to the west of the village, leaving the wood alone.

"I didn't cheat, I really didn't cheat!" Wood yelled at their backs, but no one paid attention to him, not even looking back.

"Hey, really, why doesn't anyone believe me?" Wood turned in frustration and walked towards his cabin, muttering to himself as he went. After walking about a dozen steps, suddenly a flower appeared in front of him, and an old man dressed in black appeared out of thin air two or three steps in front of him, looking at him with a strange expression.

"Boy, they don't play with you, can I play with you?" the old man looked straight at the wood, his eyes shining brightly, and a faint flash of brilliance.

"Help, the old demon of Montenegro is here!" Wood shouted in fright, turned around and ran towards the village.

"Black Mountain Old Demon?" the old man couldn't help but laugh.

This old man is none other than the sect leader of the Lingyun Mountain Sect, one of the five major cultivation sects in the world, and this time he made a special trip to pick up the wood from the mountain, but he was mistaken by the wood for the old demon of Montenegro just after they met. He sighed, turned into a black shadow and followed the wood unhurriedly, and asked, "Hey, boy, don't talk nonsense, okay?

"You... You—" Wood turned his head to look at it, and he was even more frightened and couldn't speak. He had heard the adults tell the story of the old demon of Montenegro before. said that there was an old demon of Montenegro on the black mountain at the end of the field of vision, who specialized in eating children. If anyone's child is disobedient, the old demon of Montenegro will run out and eat him. The old man in front of him walked without a sound, breathed without a sound, and his figure was erratic, like a wisp of black smoke that appeared and disappeared. With such obvious characteristics, he is embarrassed to say that he is not an old demon of Montenegro? He really talks nonsense with his eyes open, and he is too inappropriate to look at children.

The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and the more he thought about it, the more scared he became. He thought that he was at the moment of life and death, so he spread his legs and ran wildly, shouting as he ran: "Help, the old demon of Montenegro is here!"

"You kid, I'll tell you again, I'm not an old demon of Montenegro!" the old man said impatiently, suddenly reached out and grabbed the arm of the wood, and jumped onto a big tree more than ten feet high with a brush.

The wood only felt that he was running and flying like a cloud, and the wind was whistling in his ears, and the earth and houses in front of him were getting smaller and lower, but his vision was getting wider and wider. He sat with the old man on a fork of a tree that staggered horizontally in the wind.

Mom, isn't this the tallest red pine in the village, how did I get to such a high place all at once? This red pine is a very famous old tree in ten miles and eight townships, as high as more than ten zhang, so thick that several people can't hold it. Usually these children only look up, but they didn't expect to run to the tree all of a sudden. Haha, I saw the fat baby and the second girl in the future, but some of them blew it.

He was still thinking about how to brag in the future at this moment, which was really speechless. But this is the child's natural surname, and the wood himself can't control it.

"Boy, do you know why those people don't play with you?" the old man raised his hand and pointed to a group of adults and children who were running from the west end of the village to the entrance of the village. They all heard the shouts of the wood, and they ran over to fight the "Black Mountain Old Demon".

"Fat baby, second girl, Uncle Zhang, I'm here. Look up, the wood is here. Help!" Wood did not answer the old man's words, but suddenly shouted loudly. He felt that the reason why the old demon of Montenegro flew to the tree must be afraid of the people below who were looking for him, so once the people below could look up and find themselves, he would be saved. But his young mind couldn't think of another question: since this old demon of Montenegro had the ability to fly up such a high tree, why should he be afraid of the ordinary people below?

"It's strange, I obviously heard the voice here, why can't I see people?" Under the tree, Uncle Zhang's voice came faintly.

"That kid must be deliberately playing tricks on us. "It's the sound of an iron egg.

"Haha, he was afraid that we wouldn't play with him anymore, so he deliberately yelled, right?"

"That's it, what an old demon of Montenegro, he can figure it out. ”

......

It's the sound of a bunch of kids chirping.

"I didn't lie to you, I didn't lie to you. Uncle Zhang, look up, the old demon of Montenegro is here. Wood shouted hoarsely from the tree. The strange thing is that no matter how much he shouts, the people below just can't hear it and don't look up. They just blindly searched the ditches, cellars, pyres and even pigsty in the village.

When night fell, the sound of mothers calling their children home for dinner came from the village, and a group of adults and children searched the village but could not find any wood, so they had to go back to their respective homes to find their mothers.

"Look, boy, they're all gone, ignoring you. The old man pointed to the crowd that had dispersed under the tree and gloated.

"Are you embarrassed to say, but you didn't hurt it?" Wood looked at the old man angrily, and suddenly burst into tears. This old demon of Montenegro really hurt himself. This is a good thing, the adults and children in the village think that they are a little liar who deliberately lies, and they really can't wash it when they jump into the Yellow River.

"Don't cry, manly man, what do you look like?" said the old man unhappily, "Boy, wipe away your tears, and come with me." ”

"Coming with you?" Wood was stunned, "Why should I go with you?"

"Why do you want to come with me? Hehe, that's a real problem. The old man glanced at the wood, "Let me tell you this, I carried you to this small mountain village six years ago, and now I want to take you away, that's it." ”

"You brought me here?" Wood was stunned, "And who are my parents? Where are they?"

This is the question he has been most concerned about since he became sensible, and it is also a question that has never been answered.

"Your parents? I don't know who your parents are. The old man shook his head, "There was a war and then a plague in your place, and when the old man found you, you were surrounded by dead people. The old man picked you out from a pile of dead people, and your parents, most likely, are also dead. ”

"Oh. Wood nodded, and an indescribable taste welled up in his heart.

Regarding his life experience, especially his parents, Mu Tou has asked countless times in the past few years, but unfortunately he has not been able to get an answer without exception. When he heard the old man say that he knew his life experience, he immediately ignited a ball of hope in his heart, but in the end, he was greeted by disappointment and despair.

"Alright, boy, don't be upset. The old man touched his head and said, "The old man will take you to a place now, where everyone will like you very much, all your brothers and sisters, and you will have a home there." ”

"Everyone likes me, they're all my brothers and sisters, is there really such a place?" Mutoi, stunned, muttered.

When the girl didn't get married, she always treated the wood as her own brother, and the wood felt the warmth of her sister for a few years, but since the girl got married, this warmth is gone, and these children in the village and even the second girl are not very able to play with the wood, and the wood always has a very estranged feeling when living here, so when I hear that there is such a place, my heart is very yearning.

"Yes, I'm from that place to pick you up. The old man said.

Mu looked at the lights in the dark night, imagining the place that the old man said, and a warm yearning rose in his heart. He thought for a moment and said, "Okay, then I'll go with you." ”

"Well, make a decision at the right time, the true character of a man. Let's go!" said the old man, drifting down with a log.

The two were about to walk forward, "Wait." Wood said suddenly.

"What, do you want to repent?" the old man looked at the wood with displeasure and reproached: "Manly man, the most important thing is to keep your word, do you know?"

"I'm not going back!" Mu Tou shook his head, "I want to say goodbye to Uncle Zhang, Second Aunt Wang, and them." They're usually nice to me, so if I leave like this, how can I be worthy of them?"

"Well, you kid still have a bit of a conscience. Go, go and come back, I'm waiting for you here. The old man nodded appreciatively.

"Oh. Wood agreed, turned around and ran towards the village.

He ran and ran, ran and ran, and first ran to the gate of Uncle Zhang's small courtyard.

Through the fence courtyard wall, the lights in Uncle Zhang's house were on, and someone was faintly heard talking.

"Wood, where did you go?"

"Daddy, why don't you go out and look for it again. This black light is blinding, and the wood is only six years old, what if he really encounters some monsters?"

"Nonsense, you believe what you say to coax children, where are there any monsters?"

......

The conversation between Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang spread word for word to the ears of the wood, and a wave of warmth welled up in his heart.

It seems that they still care about me. Wood thought silently.

He picked up a hard stone, and by the faint light, drew a few words at the gate of the small courtyard:

The wood is gone, the wood is good, and the wood will come back to repay you.

He finished writing in one go, reluctantly glanced at the lights in the small courtyard, turned around and ran to the next one.

Time passed quietly, and Mu Tou left the same words at the door of the small courtyard of seven or eight villagers, and took a good look at the small village that carried his childhood, before turning around and running towards the entrance of the village.

The old man stood in the night dressed in black, and the wood saw his back from a long distance with his extraordinary eyesight. The wood has the illusion that this old man is obviously not tall and thin, but standing there, it actually gives people the feeling of being as tall as a mountain.

"Let's go!" said Wood, panting to the old man.

"It's only been a little bit of a run to catch like this, you have to practice hard. The old man glanced at the wood coldly, took the wood's hand, and disappeared into the dark night.

The small mountain village is slowly regaining its former tranquility.