Six years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Wu Zhan also grew from an unkempt child to a budding teenager, as the saying goes, the children of poor families are in charge early, and there is such a drunken father on the stall, Wu Zhan learned to feel sorry for his mother at a young age, he helped his mother work in the field, laundry and cooking, chopping wood and carrying water, but he rushed to do everything he could.

After a few heavy snowfalls, the ground was covered in thick snow, and the cold northwest wind blew the empty village as silent as death, and people closed their doors and windows and hid in their houses to keep warm.

Wu Zhan did not want to spend a long time with his drunken father, so he hastily ate lunch, put on a tattered felt hat made of animal skins, and carried the simple bow and arrow he made on his back to the ankle-deep wilderness, and quietly followed the footprints on the snow.

Soon, a fat hare appeared thirty paces away, and it was seen huddled in a ball and looking around cautiously while grazing, and a pair of long rabbits were turning around, alert for anomalies.

Wu Zhan gently pulled out an arrow made of a thin bamboo pole, put it on the rudimentary bowstring, stretched the bow and pulled the string, held his breath and condensed, aimed at the hare neck, and suddenly released the bowstring.

With a "whoosh", the arrow shook and shot towards the hare, but before the poor rabbit could escape, the arrow from Wu Zhan pierced his neck, and he didn't move after two struggles.

Wu Zhan cheered, rushed over happily, picked up the hare on the ground, and said in his heart, hare, hare, in order to improve the life of his mother, he can only wronged you and sacrificed.

After inspecting the trap he had set earlier, Wu Zhan harvested two more wild pheasants, and then fought with his hands on his shoulders and happily took the loot home.

"Mother, mother, look, what did I hunt today!" Wu Zhan shouted excitedly waving the wild pheasant in his hand.

When the mother heard the sound, she walked out, and saw Wu Zhan with two wild pheasants hanging around his neck, carrying a hare in his hand, and his little face full of smiles was red from the cold, and then she lost her sadness and said forcefully: "You are still running out on such a cold day, go back to the house to warm up." ”

Wu Zhan saw that his mother looked reluctant, so he put down his prey and walked straight into the hut, and sure enough, his drunken father was gone.

"When I meet a dad like this, I'd rather he never come back!" Wu Zhan said indignantly.

"Zhan'er, he is your father after all, don't say anything about this in the future." The mother spoke out to comfort.

"Humph!"

Wu Zhan was full of anger, he turned around and ran out again, ignoring how his mother called.

At this time, it was getting late, Wu Zhan ran out of two or three miles in one go, bending over and panting, and the white hot air just erupted from his mouth and nose, like substance.

Why? Why is his father, who he thinks about day and night, a drunkard? It's been six years since he came back, but he never seems to have looked at me in the eye, let alone fulfilled the responsibilities of a father......

Tears flowed out of the corners of Wu Zhan's eyes unconsciously, and Wu Zhan just wanted to shout to express his deep dissatisfaction and anger.

Suddenly, he found a footprint deep in the snow, and the size of it was supposed to be left by his father.

I'd like to see what you've been doing all these years. Wu Zhan was full of curiosity and followed the footprints on the ground.

After walking for about half an hour, Wu Zhan followed the footprints to the foot of a mountain outside the village, only to see that the footprints finally disappeared into a cave not far away, and there was a faint fire at the mouth of the cave.

Wu Zhan ignored the others, quietly touched the entrance of the cave and looked inside, and sure enough, he saw his father kneeling on the ground crying and worshipping, and in front of him were dozens of spiritual tablets and burning incense candles.

"General, today is the winter solstice, I have come to worship you and your brothers......"

"General, I think you are known as the god of war, you have commanded hundreds of battles in your life, won more than 70 cities for the Qin State, expanded the land for thousands of miles, and killed 400,000 Zhao troops in the first battle ......of Changping, such a record made the six countries tremble, but I don't want to be given death by the faint king."

The voice of his father's sorrow penetrated into his ears, Wu Zhan stared at a pair of big eyes in disbelief to the extreme, could the general his father say was the former Wu Anjun of the Qin State?

"Brothers, you died for the sake of Qin Guoke, leaving me alone and still surviving, how I miss the days with everyone......"

The father wept and poured the liquor from a clay bowl on the ground, drank the liquor from the jar with his head up, and bowed three more times to the tablet in front of him before getting up and preparing to return.

Seeing his father turn around, Wu Zhan hurriedly hid on the side of the cave entrance, but unfortunately the creaking sound of his feet on the snow still attracted his father's attention.

"Who?"

As soon as the words fell, his father's originally drunk body turned into a powerful arrow, and the distance of more than a dozen steps was instantaneous, and a ruler-long dagger had already reached Wu Zhan's throat.

The coldness coming from the tip of the dagger made Wu Zhan shudder, and the father and son looked at each other, and Wu Zhan felt the threat of death for the first time.

"Why did you come here so late?" Seeing that it was his son, his father immediately withdrew the dagger and asked by staring at Wu Zhan's eyes.

"Mother...... Mother asked me to call you back to eat......" Wu Zhan prevaricated.

Father looked at the footprints on the snow outside the cave, and naturally understood how Wu Zhan found him, so he turned around and walked outside, saying as he went: "You go to find a pine branch and wipe off our footprints, so that no one can follow the footprints to find here." ”

In the moonlight, the father and son walked like this, one walking in front, the other waving a pine branch in the back to wipe the footprints in the snow, slowly walking in the direction of home.

"Dad, the general you worshipped just now is the god of war Bai Qi?" Wu Zhan asked with a pant, but in exchange for his father's silence.

"I have heard the deeds of the god of war Bai Qi before, he is the great hero of our Qin State, and the people of the Six Kingdoms are not afraid of him." Wu Zhan continued.

The father remained silent.

"Dad, who are you?" Wu Zhan stopped the waving pine branch in his hand and stopped and asked.

The father still wanted to be silent, but when he saw his son staring at him without blinking, he had to tell him after all.

"My affairs have always been confidential, and you have to promise not to tell anyone, including your mother!" Father said solemnly.

"Do you want to keep it a secret from your mother?" Seeing that his father nodded, Wu Zhan had no choice but to swear: "I promise not to reveal my father's secret to anyone." ”

Father looked up at the starry sky, as if he had suddenly returned to his memories of the past, and only listened to him: "Twelve years ago, Qin and Zhao broke out the Battle of Changping, which was an unprecedented war, and both Qin and Zhao blocked their respective national fortunes. ”

"Spies?" Wu Zhan asked in surprise with a pair of big eyes.

Father took a deep breath of cold air and continued: "A group of brothers and I were sent by General Bai Qi to Zhao State to spy on intelligence and carry out counter-plots, and finally made the Zhao people believe that Zhao General Lian was quite afraid of war, so King Zhao changed generals and handed over the command of the Zhao army to Zhao Kuo, who had no combat experience and could only talk on paper, and our army had a great victory in Changping. In this battle, we wiped out a total of 400,000 Zhao troops, so that Zhao no longer had the ability to stop our Qin army from advancing eastward. ”

His father's words deeply shocked Wu Zhan and made him feel like he was in a dream.

"After the end of the First Battle of Changping, we could have taken advantage of the victory to destroy the Zhao State, but who would have thought that the king would be bewitched by the traitorous ministers, and let Wang Ling lead the army to attack the Zhao capital Handan...... In the end, General Bai Qi was also framed by traitors, and was given death by the king in Du You......"

My father's voice was a little choked: "I and a group of brothers were also chased and killed by Zhao Guo, and in the end, I was the only one who escaped back to ......."

Wu Zhan looked at his father's tall and straight figure, and felt his majesty for the first time.

"My mother said that you are a great hero, I didn't believe it before, but now I believe it!" Wu Zhan's eyes were full of respect and admiration.

"Heroes? Hehe......" The father sneered and said sadly: "What kind of hero am I?" The real heroes are buried in the ground......"

The secret buried in his heart was finally released, and his father seemed to be a different person, and his eyes were full of life.

"Dad, you drink less wine in the future, let's live a good life with my mother, I will honor you and my mother!" Wu Zhan's immature face was shiny.

The father smiled knowingly, reached out and touched his son's hair for the first time, and said, "Okay, Dad won't drink in the future." It's been hard for you and your mother all these years......"

By the time the father and son returned home, the moon had already borne its branches.

The cold wind outside the house is cold, but the thatched house is a warm place, a pot of rabbit meat is bubbling and fragrant, the mother is still busy, seeing the father and son return with each other, the bottom of my heart is extremely happy.

"Quick, taste the rabbit meat that the war hunted back." The mother beckoned the father and son to take a seat, and was busy serving rice and bowls.

Wu Zhan winked at his father and said in a low voice: "Dad, I also want to become a hero like you, and you have to teach me your skills." ”

The father couldn't help but hesitate when he heard this, and let his son take his own dangerous road was something he had never thought of, and was about to answer, but when he saw his wife walking up with the fragrant rabbit meat, he hurriedly swallowed the words that came to his mouth again.

"What are you two talking about, so mysterious?" The mother's face, which was originally covered with frost, finally had some luster, and the dim mutton fat oil lamp reflected a little more charming.

"Nothing." Wu Zhan laughed and said, "This is a secret between our men. ”

"Hahaha," the father couldn't help but look up and laugh.

This smile actually made Wu Zhanniang stand on the spot, and after so many years, she finally saw her husband laughing again......

Since Wu Zhan's father and son eliminated the estrangement, Wu Laosan seemed to be a different person, he also quit drinking, talked more, and the smile on his face became brighter and brighter.

These days, he secretly taught his son some fist and foot kung fu and espionage skills behind his wife's back every day, and told Wu Zhan some of his past experiences in his spare time.

Wu Zhanniang saw it in her eyes and was happy in her heart, in the early years, she worked hard, and only hoped that God would protect her husband and her husband to return safely, and now her husband not only returned safely, but also got along with Zhan'er so well, looking at the smiles on the faces of the father and son, she could wake up with a smile when she slept.

Turning around and putting down the half-stripped corn cob, Wu Zhanniang folded her hands in front of her chest, closed her eyes and prayed: "Thank God for reuniting our family, I hope this life can continue forever, for this, I am willing to do good deeds for the rest of my life, even if it costs my life......"