Chapter 1 Making a living
At the foot of a large green mountain, there is a small town called Shaoqing Town, which has existed for hundreds of years.
Although the whole town is not too big, it is the only place where people gather within a radius of hundreds of miles, and beyond the scope of this Shaoqing Town, there are no other towns within a radius of hundreds of miles, and there are even few people.
Therefore, Shao Qing Town is located in a remote area, and few people in the town know about the outside world, which can be regarded as isolated, Shao Qing Town is not big, not small, and covers an area of only five miles, but there are nearly 1,000 people living in it.
After hundreds of years of development, Shaoqing Town not only did not decline, but became more and more prosperous, with more and more people, and even some people, because the place in Shaoqing Town was not big enough to live there were not too many people, so they had to move to live outside Shaoqing Town.
Counting the area outside Shaoqing Town, the entire Shaoqing Town should be ten miles in size, and there are some scattered houses, distributed near Shaoqing Town, but it will definitely not exceed thirty miles of Shaoqing Town.
Out of these thirty miles, hundreds of miles in radius, it is really deserted.
On this day, a plainly dressed young man entered Shaoqing Town, at this time, the sun was three poles, Shaoqing Town was overcrowded, even if it was the street, it was full of some vendors, shouting endlessly.
The young man also found a place on the side of the street, so he sat down and set up a stall, and took out a sign made of white cloth, only to see that there was a medical word written on it, which was not very beautiful, but it could be understood.
The young man's name is Huang Qi, the child of a mountain village man at the foot of Daqing Mountain outside Shaoqing Town, his parents are poor farmers who farm at the foot of Daqing Mountain, and his family lives under the foot of a mountain outside Shaoqing Town.
He is already a weak crown this year, his parents are still there, there is a sister in the family, in the year of his sister and Xu, since he was favored by a mysterious old man, it is said that his sister's roots are excellent, if he worships Jincheng Academy, he will definitely be able to achieve something in the future.
What is Kejin City? The capital of the Great Jin Kingdom, thousands of miles away from here, is almost tens of thousands of miles away, the mountains are high and the roads are far away, the boat and car are tiring, my sister is just a weak woman, how can she bear it?
Moreover, after all these years, I don't know when we will be able to see each other again, although the mysterious old man also said that he can guarantee his sister's future life, but his parents are still not at ease to let his sister leave alone.
The old man was kind-hearted, but he didn't look like a bad person, and before leaving, he gave the family a dozen taels of silver, which is definitely a huge wealth for an ordinary person.
Although the family was moved, they still refused the old man's request, but for the sake of the family, my sister still chose to leave with the old man, because the recent harvest at home was not good, and they were about to be unable to open the pot.
Moreover, my sister also knew that it was not her own child, but that her father picked it up from the mountain when he went up the mountain to pick herbs, and that my sister was still in infancy at that time, and there were many wild beasts in the mountains, and many nearby peasants and people had already died in the wombs of wild beasts.
Even his father only dared to go up the mountain during the day, knowing that there were many dangers in the mountain, but his father was helpless, just for his livelihood.
It is precisely because of this that my father met my infant sister in the mountains, perhaps because my sister was lucky, and before I met my father, she was not discovered by the beasts, but if she kept it here, she would not be able to survive if she was not eaten by the beasts.
The father also sighed, which parent is this, he is so ruthless, throwing the infant child who is still in the swaddling mountains and leaving him to fend for himself, looking at the infant child, the father's face shows a trace of unbearable.
This young child is so well-behaved, even if he was ruthlessly abandoned by his parents, he didn't cry, otherwise he was afraid that he would have attracted wild beasts a long time ago, and his parents had no children and no daughters under their knees, so they took their sister back home.
Because when my father picked up my sister, there happened to be a herb next to it, called Astragalus, so I named my sister Astragalus, perhaps because of my father's kindness, within a few years, my mother was left with a boy, but my parents were very happy.
And his father knew a little bit about the art of Qi Huang, and it was by this art that he fed the family, and he couldn't bear to lose this craft, so he named the boy Huang Qi, which was the same as his sister's name but had a different shape.
Or maybe because of the names of the two, they are destined to be separated, and her sister Astragalus has been raised by her parents for more than ten years, and she can't repay it, so she resolutely prepares to leave with the old man, which is the only thing she can do.
In the end, when the father was reluctant and the mother was tearful, the sister followed the old man and left, and before the sister left, she also glanced at herself who was holding hands with her mother, and her sister's expression seemed to be reluctant and helpless.
At that time, Huang Qi was still young and not sensible, he didn't understand the deep meaning in his sister's eyes, nor did he understand the helplessness in his sister's expression, he just stupidly watched his sister being taken away by the old man, and he couldn't keep her.
After his sister followed the old man away, the family relied on these dozens of taels of silver to buy a few acres of fertile land at the foot of Daqingshan Mountain outside Shaoqing Town, and made a living by growing grain.
At least he can take care of food and clothing, and he still has some surplus, and he has made some money selling grain and firewood all year round, and Huang Qi is also in Shaoqing Town, through a person who met his father selling grain and doing business, and has a good relationship with his father, introduced him to an errand and worked there for a few years.
But after doing it for so long, he didn't make any money, and he felt that he had been fooling around for so many years, but because of those errands, although he didn't learn much, he also had a level of literacy and hyphenation.
However, over the years, he has not mixed well in Shaoqing Town, he is not good-looking, but he is also born with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and his face is relatively pale, which makes others call him a little white face, they can't see him well, and they often bully him.
And because he was thin, he couldn't beat them, and he was beaten many times with a blue nose and swollen face, although he was very unwilling and very angry, but he could only endure it silently, several times, he thought in his heart, if he knew kung fu, how good it would be, then he would have to beat them to the ground.
Whenever he fantasizes that he knows kung fu, he always fantasizes that he no longer has to be bullied, and he looks like he is thriving in Shao Qing Town, not only that, but he has also become an outsider and married a few concubines, not to mention how refreshing those days were.
Every time he fantasized about this, he fell asleep, and even when he fell asleep, he was smiling, as if he had dreamed of some sweet dream, but good dreams were the easiest to wake up, and when he woke up, in addition to being in a daze, he sighed, and he had spent an unknown number of nights like this.
And just when he was tied up, he had a trace of gray hair on his sideburns, but he was helpless, he had to get up every day to do things, and he had to endure the cynicism and fists and feet of those people, and in the end he couldn't stand it anymore, so he had to go home and help his parents farm.
And his parents didn't ask too much, and they didn't drive themselves away, that time was the easiest time for Huang Qi, even at home, his parents didn't let him work too much, and he stayed away from the hustle and bustle of the crowd.
In this way, he spent a few years in a mess, but somehow, the harvest at home has not been good in recent years, and until now, the family is almost unable to open the pot, and it is really impossible to feed too many people.
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