May in the Central Plains is the time of early summer, but in the northern Wuyazhou, there is still snow in the sky, and the cold wind whistling through is sharper than a knife, and the sound of the thin ice on the river surface can almost be made on the skin.

In such weather, adults usually huddle around the brazier in their rooms to keep warm, and only children are immersed in the snow and ice to play and forget the cold wind.

"Fat Huzi, this time it's time for me to be the dragon Xuan, and it's time for you to be the dragon beast. ”

"I don't want to be a dragon beast! I want to be a great dragon who guards mankind!"

"You've already done Long Xuan just now, this time it's time for the three of us to be Long Xuan!"

In a small village, a small square clearing, covered with more than an inch of snow, four twelve or thirteen-year-old dolls dressed in thick leather jackets, and the sound of a heated quarrel almost drowned out the howling north wind.

"I'm the most powerful fat tiger among them! Of course, I'm the one who is the dragon!"

Among the four children, the strongest one looked like he was already a little adult, he wore a sheepskin hat to protect his ears, his chest was held high, and he looked at the other three friends with a bit of momentum, "Do you want to taste my fat tiger's fist?"

"You're trying to play tricks again!"

"That's right! I want to play tricks again!" Fat Tiger looked at the kid who kept talking and was the thinnest, and waved his fist out of thin air, "Ergouzi, aren't you convinced?"

"I ...... I ......" Ergouzi touched his frozen red nose with a big glove, looked past Fat Tiger's sturdy figure among his peers, looked at the young man walking by with a heavy bundle of dry firewood on his back at the entrance of the square, and suddenly shouted: "Brother Xiang Shang, Fat Tiger is playing tricks again!"

The fat tiger, who was still full of vigor just now, turned around and saw Brother Xiang Shang who was bowing his head and bending over, and his momentum suddenly decreased by half.

Although this Xiang Shang's brother never beats or scolds, and it can even be said that he has been relatively silent after moving to the village with his sister a few years ago, Fat Tiger always has a feeling of fear every time he sees Xiang Shang, which feels like when a person is walking in the forest or wilderness, encountering a dragon beast, and being targeted by a fierce dragon beast.

Xiang Shang stopped and exhaled deeply, and the white water vapor that slowly dispersed seemed to be frozen into ice ballast by the cold wind at any time.

He lifted the dry firewood on his back with both hands along his waist, and lifted the dry firewood stuck in his waist upward, looking at the four children not far away, showing a kind smile, and his eyes showed a little envy.

Becoming Long Xuan is almost every young man's dream.

Whether it is a boy or a girl, they all dream of becoming a dragon Xuan, holding a dragon weapon, killing all kinds of dragon beasts that invade the continent from time to time, and becoming a hero admired by people!

Xiang Shang also had such a dream, but as time went by, the dream has been oppressed by real life little by little, and it has almost been worn out. Xiang Shang knew that there would be no Longxuan Academy to recruit students in such a remote place, there were too many teenagers who wanted to become Longxuan, and when it was time for each Longxuan Academy to start, it only needed to open the school gate to test the potential of the teenagers who rushed to sign up, and then register.

What's more, I still have a frail sister to take care of, even if I can starve and save my tuition and go to Longxuan Academy to sign up, what should my sister do?

Long Xuan?Xiang Shang stopped, reached back with both hands and buckled the firewood on his back, barely straightened his waist, and exhaled a long breath from the sky, with a faint smile on his face. Long Xuan is too far away from him, it's good to dream of a hero once in a while, and life still has to go on.

Ergouzi looked at Xiang Shang's departing back in the wind and snow, and his childish eyes flashed with a faint taste of pity, "Brother Xiang Shang's body is so strong, if he goes to take the Long Xuan exam, maybe he can really pass the exam." ”

"That's not necessarily!" Fat Tiger raised his hand and wiped the frozen snot that came out of his sleeve, "I heard the old man say that every creature on the continent has dragon blood in its body, but the concentration of dragon blood is different. If you don't have five percent dragon blood, you can't become a dragon at all, and the first dragon blood test will be kicked out. That assessment is not based on how strong your body is, but only on the concentration of dragon blood. ”

"That fat tiger, you are just physically strong, maybe it is easier for the second dog to become Long Xuan. ”

Xiang Shang didn't listen to the children's quarrels anymore, he had already come to the door of his house, unloaded the firewood from his back, patted the snow on his body, pushed open the door, and suddenly felt a hot current gushing out of the room, and the cold wind outside seemed to have found a new place of aggression, whistling into the room, blowing the brazier on the ground and shaking it again and again.

On the bed in the room, the girl hiding in the quilt felt the cold wind, and her body was obviously shivering, she raised her face with a pale white sickly face, and a pair of willow leaf curved eyebrows revealed a faint happiness.

"Brother, you're back......" The girl said, and quickly moved from the bed twice, and her feet fell to the ground.

Xiang Shang saw his sister Xiang Yan get out of bed, his thick eyebrows unconsciously twisted together, raised his legs and stepped into the room, and hurriedly closed the wooden door with his hands behind him to block more cold wind from entering. The snow still blowing through the crack in the door was still blowing on his back, but he could barely squeeze through his ribs and drift towards his sister's bed with a little chill.

Xiang Shang plugged in the latch with his hand, and spoke in a tone with seven points of pity and three points of reproach: "How many times have I told you, don't get out of bed if you are not in good health." ”

"I'm fine...... Xiang Yan smiled, "Brother didn't notice it, my body is much better than yesterday?"

Xiang Shang pressed Xiang Yan back to the bed, put a warm quilt on her, and added a few pieces of wood to the stove to make the flame more vigorous. The wood crackled as it burned, and the house became warmer.

"Brother, what's going on for dinner today?" Xiang Yan poked his little head out of the quilt and looked happily at the eldest brother who was busy cooking.

"I hit a rabbit today, and I'll stew it for you later. Xiang Shang skillfully used a kitchen knife to cut the rabbit meat off the rabbit bones piece by piece. In a short period of time, all the meat on the rabbit's body was detached from the bones, but the kitchen knife in Xiang Shang's hand never collided with the rabbit bones.

"I like to eat rabbit meat. Xiang Yan said happily with a smile, and tried to wrap the quilt around his body again. She knows that her health is not good, and her brother is always running and worrying about herself, and when she laughs happily, her brother will be happy.

Xiang Shang looked back at his sister with a smile, since he woke up one morning eight years ago, almost all the memories before the age of ten have disappeared, and the only remaining memory is his sister Xiang Yan, who is not in good health, she is his most important relative, and she is the person he must take care of.

As for the fathers, mothers, grandfathers, and grandmothers of other children, Xiang Shang found that in his own memories and those of his sister, there was no such relatives at all.

Xiang Shang also wanted to retrieve his memory, but found that there was no way to find it, let alone talk about any relatives. The doctor in the city said that this is called amnesia, and that it may be possible to recover memory by hitting the head with a hammer, but it can also be crushed to death by a hammer.

Xiang Shangke has no interest in trying this kind of quack method that sounds like a harmful one, if it is just by himself, then it is worth taking the risk, but there is an important sister by his side, so ...... If you lose your memory, you will lose it! Take care of the most important person in front of you first!

Knock! knock......

There was a slow knock on the door outside, which was not powerful, and Xiang Yan hid in the quilt and blinked his big eyes, "Brother, the old village chief is here." ”

"Well, got it, I'm going to open the door. ”

Xiang Shang put the rabbit meat and condiments into the pot, turned around and walked quickly to the door, not forgetting to look back at Xiang Yan who was hiding in the quilt and smiling at himself, "You can also hear the footsteps." ”

"That's ......," Xiang Yan raised his chin triumphantly. In the past, only her brother could listen to other people's footsteps and knocks once, and he could remember whose voice it was, which made her very envious, but now she can finally do it.

In the wind and snow outside the door, the old village chief was already covered with a lot of cold snow, Xiang Shang hurriedly made way for the old man, and at the same time used his body to block the cold wind blowing in the direction of Xiang Yan, "Village chief, it's cold outside, go into the house." ”

For the old village chief, Xiang Shang was full of gratitude. Four years ago, when he wandered here with his sister, the old village chief did not ask the brother and sister to show ID cards that could prove that their net worth was clean, as the village chiefs of other villages did, but accepted them warmly, and also helped them apply for the ID cards of the village members. With his identity card, Xiang Shang was able to travel freely in and out of nearby towns and sell the resources he had obtained from chopping wood and hunting.

The old village chief stood outside the door and shook off the snow on his clothes, and walked into the room with a small mud jar.

Xiang Shang brought the old village chief a cup of hot tea, handed him a towel soaked in hot water, and turned around to pick up the small wooden box placed at the head of the bed.

While wiping his face with a hot towel, the old village chief looked at Xiang Shang who was busy with relief, and was secretly glad that he didn't help the wrong person back then, these two brothers and sisters are kind children who know how to repay their kindness.

"Village chief, this is the money for the second half of the year. Xiang Shang came to the old village chief, opened the wooden box and took out two gold coins carved with dragon shapes, handed them to the village chief, and asked the old man to verify the purity of the dragon gold coins, and then took out four identical dragon gold coins from the wooden box, "The father of the fat tiger and the second dog went into the mountains to hunt last time, and they met the dragon beast, and now they are still recuperating from their injuries, and there are many places where they need money, so I will give them money." ”

"This ......"

"Village chief, take it. Xiang Shang shoehorned the Tenglong gold coin into the village chief's rough hand covered with old age spots, "Today is the day when those robbers come, if you can't make up the protection money, it will be our village that will suffer in the end." ”