Yunwu Mountain, named because of its majestic mountain, cloudy and mist-shrouded, lush forest vegetation. The mountain is also higher than the surrounding mountains, and those who have been lucky enough to climb the main peak can see countless mountains shrouded in fog in the early morning.

Because of its high mountains and deep valleys, even the hunters and medicine pickers in the surrounding mountains rarely set foot in the Yunwu Mountain. But it is such a rare and precipitous place, but from time to time you can see the enticing aroma of smoke rising from the bottom of the mountain.

As usual, not long after the night covered the mountains, a smoke with the smell of meat wafted in a valley under the Cloud Mountain. If you look at the location where the smell of cooking smoke came from, you can see that the cooking smoke is actually wafting from a rock wall.

On the smooth and hard Danxia rock wall, even the birds are difficult to stop, where does this smoke come from?

Only when you approach the rock wall of this red sandstone structure can you see the height of several houses on the rock wall, and there is a wooden door and two wooden windows on the red rock wall that was originally integrated, and the cooking smoke is wafting out of a hole next to the wooden window.

In such a precipitous valley, is it possible that there are still people living in seclusion here?

When the wooden door opened, a delicate and immature face appeared. At this time, he was holding a large bowl in his hand, covered with meaty bacon slices, and below was a bowl full of rice.

"The green pepper bacon is topped with rice, and it tastes fragrant. This food standard, if you want to let those children in the village outside the mountain see it, I am afraid that they will also be hungry and cry! Although their lives are a little better now, they are only barely getting enough to eat! ”

It didn't take long for his face to show pity for the hard life of the people outside the mountain, but after taking a bite of food, his expression instantly changed to a look of satisfaction: "The life with meat to eat is extraordinarily fragrant!" ”

The boy who entered the dry rice mode sat on the threshold embedded with wooden boards, and in a short time wiped out a large bowl of rice bowls. When the last bite of food was swallowed, Xiao Xiao burped, which made him look extremely satisfied.

Looking at the jungle in front of him, the young man suddenly said to himself: "Autumn goes to winter, and after this winter, I have been alone in the mountains for almost three years. Before the snow falls, it is necessary to go into the city again. ”

It is not difficult to hear from the words of the young man that he lived in the mountains for a long time. The rock house where he lives seems to be small from the outside, but there is a hole in the house. In the words of the teenager, he enjoys the treatment of three bedrooms and one living room!

So who is this young man?

Xu Zhengdao, 16 years old, was born in Kyoto. As for why he lived in seclusion in the mountains, in his own words, it was all unbearable to look back on. Even though he remembers these events clearly, many times he is reluctant to recall.

Xu Zhengdao, who returned to the house, looked at the rock house that had been living for several years, and didn't feel that there was anything wrong with this life now. In the eyes of others, his life may be empty, lonely and cold, but he feels willing.

As the saying goes, 'sit and watch the wind and clouds, and wait for the clouds to roll up', isn't this kind of life what he dreamed of in his previous life?

That's right!

The young man in front of him, who has lived alone in the mountains for several years, seems to others to be a hard-working person who escapes the world. But only Xu Zhengdao himself knows that the real 'he' has quietly passed away on that cold winter night three years ago.

Instead, he is now living alone in the mountains, a visitor from a foreign land from a parallel time and space. The difference is that the previous 'he' was withdrawn and had low self-esteem. On the other hand, Xu Zhengdao at this moment, even if everything has not changed, he is still optimistic and cheerful.

The reason may be related to Xu Zhengdao in his previous life, who was an otaku who liked to live alone. If there is anything you don't like living in the mountains, maybe it's that there is no Internet and no entertainment to enjoy.

In fact, although Xu Zhengdao was born in the 80s in his previous life, he was born in the late 80s. On the other hand, the time and space he is in at the moment is in the early eighties. To be precise, when this winter passes, it will be considered to be truly in the 80s.

Thinking of the current situation of the era that he knew about occasionally going down the mountain to purchase daily necessities, Xu Zhengdao felt more and more that staying in the mountains at this time was actually more free and comfortable than staying in the city. If he really wanted to go to the city, he couldn't even find a place to live.

When the kerosene lamp is lit, the originally dim vision of the rock house suddenly brightens. This kind of lighting tool, which was an antique for Xu Zhengdao in his previous life, now accompanies him through every dark and dark night.

"If only there was a generator, the night might not be so boring!"

Although he misses the electric lights he used in his previous life, Xu Zhengdao knows that it is really not an easy task to use electricity in the deep mountains. After all, the nearest village to him is still lit by oil lamps.

Only those villages that are closer to the city and have finally been electrified, but there are still villagers who are reluctant to use electricity at night. In the eyes of these villagers, electric lighting is good, but it also costs money. Sunrise, sunset, careful planning is their life!

Sitting in front of the window, feeling the cool breeze blowing into the house from time to time, Xu Zhengdao also pondered the living materials to be prepared next. If you don't prepare in advance, you can imagine the results of surviving this long and cold winter after the heavy snow closes the mountain.

"There is plenty of dry firewood, and I want to have enough to use it until the spring flowers bloom. But the food prepared at home also has oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and I am afraid that I will have to go to the city to replenish it. In the next two days, there will be a hunt, and some prey will be exchanged for money for shopping! ”

In the past few years of living alone in the mountains, Xu Zhengdao's hunting skills have been sharpened. If you want to survive alone in the mountains, survival skills are essential. And hunting is just one of the survival skills that Xu Zhengdao has learned in recent years.

Hunting, herb gathering, planting, cooking, calligraphy, painting and other skills, it is with these life skills that Xu Zhengdao will have something to do every day. Otherwise, if you nest in the house every day, even if you don't starve to death, it's no different from waste.

I found a notepad and wrote down the supplies I needed to buy in two days to get into the city, as well as the approximate amount of money I would need to buy them. After stopping writing, Xu Zhengdao couldn't help but sigh: "No matter when and where, money is really essential for anyone!" ”

Even if Xu Zhengdao 'one person is full, the whole family is not hungry', but the life in the mountains is still inseparable from money. Every time he entered the city, he would bring a lot of things he had taken from the mountains, and then sell them in the city to exchange them for money.

Then he used the money he earned from selling things to buy the supplies he needed to live in the mountains. In the mountains, he has no shortage of meat to eat, and even cultivates a few vegetable plots in the valley outside the house, but the staple food still needs to be purchased from outside the mountains.

In addition to the daily necessities of firewood, rice, oil, salt, clothes, shoes, etc., he needs to buy everything from the city. Because of this, Xu Zhengdao, who doesn't like to go to the city very much, will buy the materials he needs for at least half a year every time.

In that case, he only needs to go to the city twice a year, and he can basically ensure all the necessities of life in the mountains!

At midnight, Xu Zhengdao, sitting cross-legged on a futon in the Iwaya hall, began his three-year meditation practice, rain or shine. Before closing his eyes and concentrating, Xu Zhengdao habitually said silently in his heart: "Sign in today!" ”

'Sign in for the 991st day, there is no shortcut to practice, only perseverance! Heaven blesses and helps practice. Eight wisps of aura, three talismans, and three taels of broken silver! ’

Listening to the voice in his head, Xu Zhengdao was used to it. Being able to live in seclusion in the mountains for so long, and not feeling that life is boring at all, naturally has a lot to do with the sign-in system that his soul has obtained through this time and space.

It is precisely by relying on this sign-in system that Xu Zhengdao, who was obsessed with Taoist practice in his previous life, will willingly live in seclusion in the mountains in this life. He longed for the day when he could step on the sword and volley in the air, but now that he finally sees hope, how can he not work hard?