Chapter I
In a remote mountain field, there is a village, and there is an unhappy child in the village, his name is Wu He.
Why are you unhappy all day long? Because there is an unsatisfactory family. He had a grandmother who was said to have fallen into the evil way, and she was crazy all day long, either kneeling in front of the door to worship the gods and saying that her daughter-in-law and son were rebellious, or running away, and when she met people, she said that her son didn't want her anymore, and she had to go to someone else to ask for a living.
The first time I saw it, most of them thought that Wu He's family had done something unconscionable. As he went down his life, everyone knew about Wu He's family, and he was often taken out to gossip.
Wu He's family was helpless about this. After all, most of the villagers have a happy psychology about this kind of thing, so they created a scene that Wu He remembered very deeply.
That day, Wu He's grandmother went crazy as usual and ran out with a bamboo stick, and his father went to chase his grandmother. Whenever his father approached his grandmother, the bamboo stick in his grandmother's hand would hit Wu He's father without hesitation.
His father was afraid of hurting his grandmother and even more afraid of the shiny stick, so he carefully avoided the stick, and did not dare to counteract, so he could only be annoyed, his brows were furrowed, and he shouted to his grandmother urgently:
"What are you going to do? Bring the stick, look at your crazy appearance, and be seen by others and laugh at you! Don't go crazy. ”
Grandma didn't hear it, so she continued to wave her stick to prevent Wu He's father from getting closer, and kept repeating a few words in her mouth, such as "It's a big rebellion" and "It's the opposite!" It's going to be against the sky! "Bitter, alas, how bitter!"
In this way, a large circle of people noticed the movement, so they gathered around to watch the excitement, and Wu He also came with other children and watched from the sidelines. When the children saw Daddy Wu, they blurted out a laugh and shouted, "It's Grandma Wuhe!" Ha ha. ”
The people around gradually increased, and the grandmother also pulled the people around her and said, "Help the elderly", she is "so miserable, so pitiful", and the person who was "asking for help" heard it, grinning, persuading her to go home, and she immediately screamed "What is home!" Then there was a lot of grumbling, telling the people around him to sigh jokingly, 'Hey! Those who have read books will be more able to speak when they are old! ’
As if feeling a little, grandma made a big move directly, knelt on the ground in front of everyone and began to worship her Ji Niangniang, telling her mother how many people her son is not human, how vicious her daughter-in-law is, and let the gods help her.
Seeing this scene, the people around them looked more interesting, and began to discuss in a whisper, and the children laughed and said, 'Let's start!' Let's get started! ’
Wu He was just weird in his heart at this time, he looked at his father and grandmother, and he also looked at everyone in his eyes, but he really didn't understand anything now, he was just sad with some simple reason.
When his father saw his grandmother like this, he immediately stepped forward to pull it. Of course, grandma would not follow Wu He's father's wishes, so she deliberately loosened her body, as if she was unconscious, and was dragged by Wu He's father, and her mouth never stopped, screaming mournfully.
was watched by a group of villagers, Wu He's father's annoyance burst out at this time, his face was tense, and he forcibly dragged his grandmother to the house.
When the villagers saw the curtain end, they talked a few words and dispersed. When Wu He's father was completely gone, the people and children in the surrounding villages were almost gone, and Wu He was there, scared, and didn't know whether to go home. His father's look really frightened him.
Wu He kept wandering around until it was almost dark before returning home. As usual, his father didn't say anything, just looked at Wu He and stopped managing it. It is said that his father rarely gets angry with him, and he hardly beats him, which is almost unthinkable for all children in the village.
But why Wu He has always been estranged and afraid of his father, this emotion can only be understood by him when he grows up.
From then on, Wu He "took it for granted" as the only lonely child in the village. This can't all be blamed on Wu He's thinking and fragile mind, his playmates always laugh at Wu He's family, some sharp nicknames such as 'Death Monkey' are said by them to laugh at Wu He, and grandma's actions have also been learned by them to play for a while.
Although the villagers vigorously stopped their children's immoral behavior after learning about it, Wu He's stabbed heart could hardly be better.
Later, an old gentleman from Dacheng County changed his position as the village head-Huan Songlin. As soon as he came, he opened a school, set it up in the village chief's house, gathered the villagers to do ideological work, and asked all the children in the village to attend the class.
At the beginning, there were many people who were persuaded, and the children were happy not to do things, and there were quite a lot of children who went, but as the days went on, there were fewer and fewer children, each with its own reasons, so only Wu He went to the village chief's house to read and read as soon as he was free.
The village chief saw that there were fewer and fewer people, and felt that there were many affairs, so he withdrew the school. Since then, only a small number of children have gone to the village chief, saying that they love knowledge to their parents, but in fact, most of them have feelings for the village chief's daughter, Huanyu.
Wu He was also interesting at first, after all, she was extremely cute, but what attracted Wu He the most was her voice, crisp, soft, humming a song to make people feel comfortable and unforgettable, Wu He They all like to praise her as "Rain Sparrow" and, although she is younger than the children, but her knowledge makes the children out of reach, and she often teaches Wu He them.
After the school was withdrawn, it was entirely she who came to teach these people who "love learning". Such a good girl, everyone loves her, and adults love her. Wu He tried to talk to this gentle little girl, after all, she was a child who didn't care about Wu He's family's past.
But she was surrounded by a few children, he couldn't go up, and he didn't want to go up, the only opportunity to contact her was before the school was withdrawn, and he could still meet her a few times, and after the withdrawal, those children rushed to surround her, but they didn't even have a chance to look.
So there are only a few people in the village chief's family who read books seriously, and the others are all looking at people. With the passage of time, those who tried their best to stick to Huanyu gradually drifted away, but Wu He had more and more contact with her because he learned more and understood more, and was called by the village chief to accompany Huanyu Zhu into the mountains to collect medicine.
This made Wu He often blushing and excited in private, but he didn't be happy for long, and some idle things were born. People began to talk about Wu He and Huan Yuzhu, and some villagers must say this when they are caught, whether it is appropriate or not, if others say that they have broken their mouths, they will say these things when they are still young? They're going to talk about it more vigorously.
At first, the discussion was just who was more suitable to be the village chief, and then suddenly someone deliberately said that it would be better for them to be together. And this statement has been recognized by people who like fun, so that the fun people spread ten, ten to hundred, this statement became a false rumor, and then every time some villagers saw one of the two of them, they would joke and laugh.
Wu He was silent on the surface, as if he had no intention, but as soon as he met Huanyu, he couldn't stop his face from burning and suppressing his turbulent heart. But Huan Yu began to deliberately avoid Wu He, perhaps because of her unique reserve, or because she didn't like Wu He, after all, she smiled at everyone. This made Wu Henan feel sad, but he stuttered when he talked to Huan Yu at this time, and he couldn't resolve it if he wanted to.
Wu He can only relieve his pain in books, and he is more focused on the study of books. Most of the books in the village chief's house are practical books on farming, astronomy and geography, so Wu He has become a person who likes to watch the night sky, drill deep mountains, and observe changes, and is called a 'wild man' by the villagers.
Time passed, and with the passing and rebirth of various things, the relationship between Wu He and Huanyu began to gradually ease. At this time, Wu He had grown up as a young man, and the trivial and troublesome things of the past were also opened by Wu He one by one, and he set up the behavior and thoughts of the young man, which all relied on the knowledge of books so that Wu He could put his thoughts on it in the sad period.
Just when Wu He's life began to improve, something happened - something strange happened to Fenglian Mountain not far from the village, a black cloud covered the entire Fenglian Mountain, and their village was also covered in it, making the village almost invisible to the sun, this scene can be described as extremely weird.
When the villagers saw this, they all shouted that it was not good, "it is going to change the sky", "the gods on the peak and the mountain are dead", but the villagers were in a panic against the black fog, and after more than ten days, there was nothing strange happening, and they gradually began to get used to the black fog.
The black fog became more and more concentrated over time, becoming more and more condensed, and the villagers only sighed a few times when they occasionally glimpsed the changes in the black fog, and then continued to bury their heads in their own business.
A few days before the black fog appeared, the village chief sent a report to Puyang, the county under his jurisdiction, for help, but he did not answer as before, because the group of officials in Puyang has always been "official", and corruption and greed are regarded as legitimate things to talk about, and they only make a profit when they collect money and taxes.
When the village chief saw the strange changes in the black fog, he deliberately went into the crooked wood forest to observe, and after several back and forth, the village chief found something even stranger:
From that day on, the spirits of things rested, and the birds in the mountains did not fly, the fish did not swim, the flowers did not spread, and the forest beasts were silent. The more you move towards the peaks and mountains, the more silent it becomes, even the wind seems to be suppressed, even the rapids seem to be blocked, as if everything is choked by the throat. But the people who are also under the black fog are fine? How can people exclude things from whimpering and dying? This is weird and ruthless, and the black mist is really a fairy trick......
Wu He didn't care much about this celestial phenomenon at first, but he often saw Huanyu staring at the black fog, and he began to pay attention to the black fog.
'Strange places, day by day, turn like chickens, will give birth to strange pills. This black mist scene is a little different from the legend described in the book, and it is not enough to conclude that it is the process of natural birth of the Divine Pill written in the Dan Book. ’
In this way, for the sake of the village, and Wu He is probably for interest, they are all exploring what this black fog is. Wu He wanted to find similar records from the book, while the village chief went into the crooked wood forest many times to observe to find more subtle signs and changes.
Wu He used up his leisure time and even stole a little lazy when he was doing business, and he really couldn't see any fame, he turned over a lot of books, most of which had nothing to do with it, although he was so tired and useless, but he was not in a bad mood but happy, because he read some other interesting things.
The village chief made some new discoveries in the past few days. The strangeness of the crooked wood forest is not as simple as it seems, and the creatures in the crooked wood forest and its surroundings do not seem to have been killed, but have avoided the sound and become dangerous.
Some of the strange herbs he found were all stretched out at dusk, moving without wind, and when he approached, they immediately stopped. This made him feel horrified, these flowers and plants have knowledge? Thousands of years of medicinal herbs can have a chance to be recognized, how can they all be available in the blink of an eye?
The most bizarre thing is that he meets the first beast since the Black Mist, the long-flowered wolf. This head is strangely ruthless, completely different from what I have met in the past, I am not afraid of people alone, I shake my head and move my body, my eyes have been looking at the village chief spiritually, as if I have become a spirit, and I am teasing and observing the village chief.
Being stared at by those eyes, the village chief couldn't help but feel weak in his heart, and many questions began to arise:
'Why is it one?' It looked much more intelligent than the long-flowered wolf of the past, and it didn't rush straight up, nor did it run directly. It's weird! You can't stay here for long! Gotta get out of ...... quickly'
When the village chief saw that it was not behaving strangely like before, he was determined to flee, and went straight into the woods. Seeing this, the wolf immediately rushed in the direction of the village chief's escape. After chasing for a while, the long-flowered wolf's physical strength ran out before the village chief and was thrown away by the village chief.
'So it just seems to be smart?' Some of the flaws are still ......'
The village chief pondered, turned around and went back to the village. This bizarre and strange incident made the village chief secretly decide that something big would happen. But the signs he detected were beyond his cognition, and the village chief was completely puzzled by what would happen in the future, so he could only send another urgent letter to Puyang, an emergency letter, and remind the villagers to pay attention to it at all times.
The villagers were mostly unimpressed by this, except that the weather was darker, everything was as usual, what should be chatted, what should be done, a strange pastoral scene of black fog.