Qingzhou, Shixian.

This place is close to the Heavenly Pass, as early as a few years ago, it was occupied by the Yellow Tianjun, but then with the Yellow Tianjun sweeping the world, and even almost subverted the unification, the Huang Tianjun's control over here is also constantly decreasing, and even once existed in name only, for the local intertwined Haoqiang to be hollowed out, until the Yellow Tianjun was defeated in a row, and the main force returned to Qingzhou, which regained the right to rule.

And a few years of blank, coupled with the fact that the Yellow Heavenly Army once killed and killed I don't know how many heroes, but it made this place recuperate, and now although it is also a constant war, but because the place is far away from the main battlefield, it has not been affected here.

In a corner of Shixian County, there is a blacksmith shop, the owner of the shop is a sturdy middle-aged man, in the shop, there is no apprentice, only a girl to help with the hand, at a glance, this seems to be a father and daughter, in addition, there is no trace of the hostess.

In this era, there are many turbulent things, such as the death of a father, the death of a mother, the death of a wife, the loss of a child, and ......so on.

However, from the fact that the girl is not as thin as withered grass, not only ruddy complexion, but even a little baby fat, it can be seen that the family's life is not bad.

In turbulent times, growing meat was a luxury.

"Dad, I heard this morning that the army was defeated in the Southern Wilderness, and my brother went out with the army, I'm afraid of ......"

While adding firewood to the burning red stove, the girl struggled to pull the bellows, and after several times she wanted to speak and stopped, she finally couldn't help whispering, the voice was as small as a mosquito.

"Don't think nonsense, your brother is the apprentice of the great sage and good teacher, and he has the blessing of the Yellow Sky, and he will be fine."

Because he is close to the fire all the year round, the middle-aged man with black and red skin frowned, with a bit of reprimand.

It's just that even he himself doesn't believe it very much, so he doesn't seem to have much confidence.

A few years ago, the Yellow Sky Army swept the world, at that time, everyone believed that the Yellow Sky came to the world and was invincible, but now, the Yellow Sky Army is losing and retreating, and even those mysterious Taoists have died one after another.

The apprentices of the great sages and good teachers sound noble, but in fact, the great sages and good teachers are taught without class, and the disciples can be described as innumerable, but most of them are not successful, even if they have the Dao Fa, they can't cultivate any fame, and only a very small number of elites are entrusted with important tasks.

As for the father and daughter, the father's name is Zhao Sheng, because he was born prematurely and was very thin, so he took a new word, hoping that he could survive, and in the follow-up, although there was no nutritional supplement, Zhao Sheng still survived tenaciously.

It's just that there were many children in the family at that time, so when he was eight years old, he was sent out to work as an apprentice blacksmith in a big shop in the city.

This line of work is too hard and tiring, especially as an apprentice, being tired to death and beaten to death is commonplace, so don't talk about people in the city, even if it is a person in the village, as long as it is not really impossible to live, they will not be willing to let their children do this.

However, Zhao Sheng survived with difficulty, learned some crafts, and at the age of sixteen, he even found a daughter-in-law.

The daughter-in-law is not very good-looking, but before the family fell in the middle of the family, it was also a scholarly family, but because the family was in the middle of the road, the woman saw all the warmth and coldness of the world, and saw that Zhao Sheng was hard-working and handsome, so she married him.

Later, with the help of his father-in-law's family, he directly had a small shop of his own, not to mention being rich and expensive, but his life was not bad.

A year after marriage, he had a son, and his daughter-in-law named Cheng, hoping that the child could become famous, and two years later, he had a daughter, named Xiang, but he hoped to make the child more beautiful.

If nothing else, the family and Hemeimei, compared to most people in this era, life is already very good.

But as early as when Zhao Sheng was still an apprentice, the signs of troubled times had already appeared.

By the time Zhao Cheng was five years old, the world was completely chaotic.

First, there was a great drought in many places, and then there was a great flood in many places.

The imperial court provided disaster relief, but less than 1 percent of the money and food allocated could really go to the victims.

In a great disaster, except for the people, everyone made a lot of money.

As for food, those powerful people naturally had food, but it was impossible to distribute it to the victims, but instead they used this to raise the price of grain on a large scale, so that the victims could sell their land cheaply, or even sell themselves directly into slavery.

In this case, in the end, after everything that can be sold is sold, you can only escape......

Their family was also affected, and on the way to flee, in order to save a bite to eat for the children, his wife starved to death.

Later, the rebel armies in various places rose and fell one after another, but they were all petty fights, whether it was the princes of Gon or the landlords below, they did not think that the rebels would become any climate.

Because over the years, there have been too many similar things, and even many times, in order not to bear the charge of disaster relief, the adults above will directly beat the victims as anti-thieves and use the army to directly strangle them.

As long as the disaster victims are gone, there will naturally be no disaster, and as for the population, it is like grass, if you cut a stubble and there is a stubble, even if you kill the people of a state, at most ten years, you can give birth to it.

But unexpectedly, this time it failed to be as those adults wished, a man named Huang Tiandao appeared, he took the victims, broke the city gate, opened the granary of the court and the heroes, and distributed the grain to everyone.

Many people only realized at that time that the food was enough to eat, but it was simply not wanted to be given, and even if it was burned, it could not be given to the victims.

Then, the snowball got bigger and bigger, until in the end, it was simply the opposite of the world.

Zhao Sheng's family was coerced in this way, went to a lot of places, and after settling down a little, problems also appeared, in the early years, when the Huang Tianjun continued to win, everyone had something to eat, but it was just a matter of more and less, and they would not starve to death.

But when Huang Tianjun fell into fatigue, the food he distributed was getting less and less, and if he wanted more to eat, even the field shops, he had to join the army to make meritorious contributions......

Zhao Sheng originally planned to go by himself, he would strike iron, and it was not difficult to be a blacksmith repairing weapons in the army.

In the early years, Huang Tianjun won victory after victory, and all weapons were directly snatched and ready-made, and they were not bad blacksmiths, but now they are bad.

But if he goes, there will be no one to take care of the child.

In a famine, relatives are either scattered, or simply die cleanly, the children are still young, and the situation is turbulent, and if you want to drag someone to take care of it, you can't.

In this case, Zhao Cheng, who was twelve years old at the time, ran out directly and joined the army.

At the age of twelve, in this era when you can get married and have children at the age of fourteen, it is not uncommon for twelve to join the army, but there is no doubt that compared with adults, half-grown children are in a more difficult situation in the barracks.