My surname is Zhang, a single name with an English character, and I am from Baoding Mansion. The reason why I changed my surname to Zhu was that the queen of heaven gave me the national surname later.

My family has practiced medicine for generations, and almost everyone in the family will see a doctor, but the reputation is very small, so there has never been a situation where the people are in the market. Most doctors hope that the plaque called "Miracle Doctor" will be hung on their heads as soon as possible, so they often sit in the downtown area. However, my grandfather placed the house in Zhangjia Village, a small village of more than 100 households, which was also outside the village, deliberately avoiding the official road outside the village, and there was only one small road, which was connected to the main road, and the path was often overgrown with weeds, so that when walking, I often had to be wary of small animals that appeared from time to time. My house is next to a hill, with a bluestone wall, although it is not high, but in the countryside, it is one of the few large mansions. The house is surrounded by small forests that can block the view of pedestrians on the official road, but there is a small stream in front of the door, which flows slowly into the village, but it will flood with muddy yellow water in the continuous rain in autumn, and more often it is calm and clear stream.

My grandfather was a taciturn man, and it is said that when he was young, he liked to travel all over the world, and when he was old, he stayed at home, and every day he had books that he could not read, and he could not finish practicing words, and occasionally walked outside the village, that is, he looked at the farmland and landscapes, etc., but refused to talk more with the surrounding villagers. It's just that Zhangjiacun is located next to the official road, and there are a lot of people coming and going, because it is a doctor, or someone comes to see a doctor, even so, when seeing a doctor, it is a few simple words, looking and hearing and asking, but the prescription is very accurate. As for the money for medicine, it has always been a prescription, saying how much it is, if the patient's family says that there is no medicine for the time being, the grandfather will still let the servant Uncle Chen take the medicine according to the prescription. As for when and how much the medicine money was sent to the patient, my grandfather never minded, and he did not let the family remember the money owed by others for medical treatment. Often in the autumn, the families of the people who had seen the doctor in the spring would come to pay back the money or take something, and my grandfather would never shirk it, but he would not ask how much. Therefore, my grandfather's income from medical treatment was far lower than that of people who practiced medicine outside, but he was very proud, and he probably felt a sense of accomplishment.

According to my mother, my grandfather inadvertently saved two people, one of whom later came to us as an official, and specially invited my grandfather to be a guest in the official mansion, gave my grandfather a lot of property, and even hoped that my grandfather would move his family to the city, but my grandfather did not agree and still returned here. The official reduced many of my family's taxes, and at the same time, warned his subordinates not to come to my house to harass me. Therefore, my grandfather was very proud of his time in the countryside, but he was still a country man in peace.

Every day is coarse tea and light rice, and only during the festival is the food a little better. Occasionally, I listened to my mother and a few aunts talking as female workers, and I realized that my family is actually very rich, and people will come to send money every year, of course, most of them are silver tickets! It is said that the fields are abundant, but they are in other places. My father and five brothers are not officials, but they all read a lot, and they are also proficient in the martial arts handed down by the family, and there are always some people to teach them. There are more than a dozen brothers in our generation, and I am the ninth, and I have been quite mischievous since I was a child. My father and the others often went out to practice medicine, and occasionally visited the estates in other places, and often exchanged each year's harvest for silver taels and other goods, but kept them in many places that seemed to me secret.

The best time of childhood is the stream in front of the door, I naturally like water, always looking for my happiness in the stream, fishing and shrimp, playing in the water. My grandfather, who had always had a straight face, seemed to like the way we looked, and a rare smile always appeared on his face. It's just that in the summer when I was twelve years old, I was playing by the river with a few friends, the sky was gradually darkening, I didn't want to be targeted by an old wolf, I went to the forest to get clothes without knowing it, behind me was the screams of the friends, when I woke up, its terrible figure, ricketed in front of me, I only felt that it was dark around, only the wolf's eyes were bright, that kind of murderous aura, I am afraid that I have seen the most terrible in my life, the smell of blood on my face, made me dizzy for a while, Subconsciously turn around and run.

I could feel something on my back, followed by a high-pitched howl. I looked back and watched the old wolf scream and fall, those murderous eyes still imprinted in my mind, and the sharp pain in my back immediately caused me to fall to the ground, and I immediately began to cry. Its claws still left a deep mark on my back, and to this day, five red scars can still be seen on the back tattooed with the wolf's head. It was my grandfather who was walking not far away, and the screams of the children made him discover the danger, and my grandfather, who had always walked steadily, rushed over from a distance, and then jumped and slapped to death the wolf that had just put his paw on my back with one palm.

The fear and pain made me cry out loud, and the cry was exchanged for a very harsh reprimand from my grandfather, "What are boys crying about? It also attracted panicked mothers and fathers and uncles. My mother took me in her arms and tried to comfort me. The father frowned, and just wanted to speak, but the grandfather said in an unquestionable tone: "Ying'er should learn some skills!" ”

Immediately, my grandfather arranged for my uncle to teach me skills when I recovered from my injury. My uncle is not much older than me, just as innocent, there is always a joke between uncles and nephews, but at the winter solstice, I sit at the end of the body like a model, and watch our brothers kowtow to my grandfather with a calm face. He learned martial arts very early, and there were inevitably fights between boys, so he often made several of our brothers cry, and he was busy coaxing us, and even said that he could teach us martial arts, but we were very lazy and unwilling to endure hardships, and games were better than learning martial arts. After the grandfather's arrangement, the uncle and nephew had to face the matter of learning martial arts. After I recovered from my injury, he became my master, first of all, a serious truth, the so-called strict master out of high apprentices, and then to teach some basic martial arts, I was reluctant to learn at first, basically three days of fishing and two days of drying nets, and my uncle had no way to take me. Fortunately, my grandfather did not check my skills, he was still busy every day, and my father fully inherited my grandfather's few words, and he did not like to talk much, and he always stayed in the study and studied all kinds of books at home. My mother loved me very much, especially after the injury, when my mother was cleaning up the housework, she always found me, pulled me to the kitchen, and got me some delicious food from time to time.

I am my father's only son, naughty by nature, as my grandfather said, "born with a flamboyant tongue", I have two older sisters, more than a decade older than me, and my two sisters naturally take good care of me, and my temperament is just like the pistachio of this slightly dull family. It's just that when I started learning martial arts, people thought I had grown up.

One night in the winter, I heard my father and mother talking, probably me, and my mother said that I should go to school, after all, I was twelve years old. The father has always been noncommittal, and the mother has changed from the virtuous lady in the past, saying that the father has not fulfilled his responsibilities, and if it were other people's families, he would be able to know a bunch of words at the age of six or seven. But my father laughed and said that he had read too many books and had no words, and if I read again, I was afraid that the whole family would be stuffy. My mother was angry and said that my father was also flamboyant when he was young, and so did I.

The brothers in the family have to go to the private school one after another, which is the rule of my family. At the beginning of the spring of the following year, my grandfather arranged for my brothers and us to go to private school. The private school is in the village, and it is a gentleman who is paid by a wealthy family. I got to know more of the children in the village, and after getting acquainted with them, they said that my family was very mysterious, which probably meant that the adults in my family did not want to come into contact with the villagers, but I was very proud and could play with them. Among them, Hu Haisan and Zhu Shihua are my best friends, Hu Haisan is the nephew of the rich man in the village, he lived here with his family ten years ago, and has always been flamboyant, and the best at talking about the Hongwu Emperor and the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and even the Hongzhi Emperor today. I later thought that there must be a Ming official in his family, who can tell these things that ordinary people don't understand, and God knows what reason he came to our private school, so that sometimes the private school gentleman has to look sideways. I still have a good memory, and subtly, I remember all his things in my heart. It's just that by accident, he also learned his tone, and he became even more naughty, so that he was often taught by his father. And Zhu Shihua is a silent person who rarely speaks, but he is ingenious and can always do something fun, but unfortunately he left without saying goodbye five years ago and disappeared without a trace, I have always missed him.

Mr. Private School is an old talent, and he talks a lot about the Four Books and Five Classics, but our group of children can't listen to it at all, and it is even more difficult to endorse it. Lao Xiucai has a gentle temperament, never scolds us, his ring ruler is almost an ornament, often when we can't carry it, let us stretch out our palms, he holds the ring ruler high, we look at him with a hippie smile, but he falls gently. And my favorite thing is to learn from him, shaking his head in front, calling his friends to endorse one by one, and even the punishment scene is also learned, but once the friends stretched out their hands, but I "snapped" down, the little ones ouched, I quickly ran away, I didn't want to bump into the old Xiucai who came in at the door, he fell a big heel, injured his ribs, and stayed in bed for three months before he recovered.

When my father heard about it, he angrily pressed me on the bench and beat me with a ring ruler a dozen times, and I cried wolf, so that when I went out to play again, I limped and limped, which caused my friends to laugh at me for a while.

When children are together, they always like to play, and table tennis is inevitable. Because my uncle taught me skills, I was often able to defeat other companions, and gradually became the leader. It's just that although Hu Haisan is oily and smooth on weekdays, he is born with brute strength, and he knows some swordsmanship, and at the beginning, I was basically not an opponent. Although there are only a few tricks, it made me look greedy, and I used a lot of fun things to learn from him, although it was a little embarrassing, but compared to the original kung fu, it was indeed much higher. I curiously asked him who he learned from, he didn't say whether he was alive or dead, and when he asked about the name of swordsmanship, he thought about it and said: "Old Hu swordsmanship!" ”

The competition between the children made me gradually like the practice of martial arts. It's just that before my uncle taught me to practice martial arts, he solemnly told me that people who practice martial arts must concentrate and can't steal other people's martial arts. ”