An autumn rain and a cold, just after the early autumn, there have been four rains in a row, and the autumn wind blows in the early morning, but it feels a little cold.

"It seems that this autumn tiger was beaten away by this autumn rain," a hunched old man muttered to himself with a jujube cane and a white beard hanging down his chest

"Jiu'er followed Wang Orion up the mountain for the night, and it was time to come back when the hour was counted," the old man lifted himself with great difficulty, so that he could see farther in the early morning mist.

After a while, there were three people walking on the path in the field in the distance, one high and two low, and gradually got closer to see three people carrying various prey of all sizes on their shoulders, the black-faced strong man was carrying a half-large wild boar that had not yet reached adulthood on his shoulder, and he was carrying a gray cloth package in his hand, which should be a simple bag for three people, and a little girl with two pigtails in front of him was holding a big white fox, and he was not too angry, grinning and jumping forward, walking side by side with the black-faced man was a half-grown teenager, holding a gray hare in one hand, and two pheasants were tied to his shoulders。

The three of them may also see the old man waiting on the side of the road, so they sped up their pace, and the little girl ran quickly to the old man, "Old Master Lin, why are you here, are you here to pick up Brother Jiu? Brother Jiu was very good on the mountain yesterday, and he shot a rabbit and this fox?" the little girl said quickly.

"Peach, don't be rude, call grandpa" The black-faced man and the young man happened to walk in front of him, and the big man reprimanded.

The little girl named Tao'er blushed, and quickly said, "Grandpa Lin, I'm sorry" The old man laughed and said, "It's okay, Little Tao'er is lively and fast-talking, like her mother, and besides, the old man, I am the only teacher in this village."

The boy stepped forward and said, "Grandpa, I'm back," and said nothing, just grinned and lifted the prey in his hand.

The old man smiled and said, "It's good to come back, this time your wish has been fulfilled, can you be satisfied?" Did you cause trouble for your Uncle Wang on the mountain?"

The black-faced man hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't say that, Xiao Jiu, this kid is very sensible, and he is also calm, he is a hunter, but his body is a little thinner, but there are us adults in the village to hunt, and it is not the turn of these children, they still study more with the master, so that they can go out of the mountains in the future and gain fame."

Old Master Lin smiled and said, "It's all good, it's all good, go home, you must be tired after a day and a night in the mountains, hurry up and go home to rest and rest."

Wang Orion resisted the little wild boar on his shoulder and said, "Yes, these two children are not light, but I have to send this pig to the village chief's house first, and then let the village chief call Li Butcher to clean up at noon, and stew it in a big pot in the afternoon, and everyone will eat meat and drink soup together in the evening."

The old master nodded, turned around and walked back along the path in the field, along the path in the field until there was a mile to the east, a small river flowed from the field from south to north, the villagers' land was irrigated by this river, there were usually village women washing clothes in the upper reaches of the north, there was a stone bridge without a name on the river, it seemed that the years were very long, the river flowed south for a distance of two miles, a big bend and flowed eastward, the place to the north of the river beach is the village where this line of people lived, there were more than 50 families, the chimneys of each family were smoking early in the morning, it seemed that they all got up to make breakfast, the village had no name, and there was a big family surnamed Qian in the village, almost occupying more than half of the village's population, the other surnames are from the outside to settle here in the past few decades, the village chief is the current leader of the Qian family, this village is the only one within a hundred and ten miles, so few outsiders come here.

Although the small river under the bridge is not big, but the water has not been cut off all the year round, it has been going dozens of miles to the north upstream to the source of the river, a big mountain that does not melt all the year round, this mountain is not high and does not see the top, it is usually hidden in the clouds, the mountain exposed under the clouds is covered with snow all the year round, and it is a dense jungle at the foot of the mountain as soon as it comes, and the name of this mountain is the white dragon.

According to the old people in the village several generations ago, the mountain was not so tall back then, and at night the people in the village heard a dragon's groan, and they all went out to see what was happening, but it was too dark at night, and there was no moonlight, but they vaguely saw the mountain in the north for dozens of miles, it became black and high, and everyone was surprised what was going on, how the mountain that was not so high suddenly became so tall, and also formed a mountain range, the mountain in the north of the village was the highest, and gradually became lower in the southwest, and it was dozens of miles west of the village, and it looked like a giant dragon lying on the ground from a distance, and the villagers whispered what was going on, Pingbai came out of such a big and long mountain range and there was no movement, only a huge dragon roar, and dozens of miles away, no one dared to say to go forward to see what was going on, so everyone discussed waiting for dawn to see what was going on, and everyone went home to sleep with apprehension.

It's just that the next day, at dawn, something unexpected happened, no matter the height of the mountain range, a layer of snow fell overnight, but it was the height of summer, where did the snow come from? Although the people in the village are dozens of miles away, they don't feel the cold, and the main peak in the north direction of the village has been hidden in the clouds, the village chief at that time decided that a group of young people took hoes, sticks and other protective things to the bottom of the mountain to find out, but when a group of people walked to the distance of about a mile in front of the mountain but was frozen by the biting cold, they turned back again, it is also strange to leave the distance of about a mile from the mountain is not cold at all, the temperature belonging to midsummer is back, the cold of the mountain seems to only spread to a mile outside the mountain and then there is no more, change several directions are the same situation, the group returned to the village and told everyone againIn the end, the village chief said that since we can't understand such strange things, there is no need to worry, and everyone should not go again in the future, but this mountain must have a name, it will be called Bailong Mountain, like a white dragon lying on the ground. Everyone said that they could, which was quite a sycophant.

The following decades passed, and there was nothing to do, and the tall trees began to grow at the foot of the mountain, forming a forest that stretched to the west like the big mountain range, and there was no end in sight, the village was blocked by the mountain range, and the village had to go over the mountain to the west, and the village became an isolated place, and the sudden arrival of the big mountain range must have also alarmed the officials who governed here, but there was only this one village in the hundreds of miles to the east, and then there was another big mountain that crossed the north and south, but this mountain has existed for many years, and it is also the boundary between the Great Khanate and the Eastern Wu State today, and the north and south stretch for thousands of miles, and the small village in the middle of the two mountain rangesAfter decades of no one disturbed, that is, when the Bailong Mountain Range came to the world overnight, the local officials sent people to explore the west bank of the mountain many times and never came to the east, one is too high, the other is too cold. How many years of self-sufficiency in the village.

After more than ten years, the stream in the west of the village slowly turned into a small river, the source was originally the water flowing out of a small mountain spring under Bailong Mountain, and later became a small river, the name of the village was surprised to see how the water became bigger, so he went upstream to look, only to find that the Bailong Mountain, which had become a high mountain, did not know when a big hole appeared near the foot of the mountain, and it was black like a wide mouth, and water flowed out from it, forming a waterfall, and the water flowing was more, and the stream became a small river.

After a few years of slow and peaceful days, a stranger came to the village, saying that it was to escape the pursuit of the enemy, and fled into the Bailong Mountains, but it was too cold inside, and he couldn't go back to the west, so he gritted his teeth in the lower part of the mountains, and came to the east of the mountain, and wanted to find a place to build a house, but found the fields cultivated by the villagers, and knew that there were people living here, so he found the village, and the village chief was a kind person, so he took in the family, and gave the family a place to build a house at the west end of the village near the river, and also gave a piece of uncultivated land, so that they could grow their own food, and the first family settled here, is the grandfather of the black-faced Han King Orion,

At that time, Wang Orion was still a teenager.

It is said that when the group walked to the entrance of the village, they saw a young man with a height about Lin Jiu rushing over, and when they were far away, they heard the child shouting, "Brother Jiu, you are finally back, I thought you would be eaten by the blind bear on the mountain."

"Hmph, the blind bear in the woods has only been seen by Uncle Wang's father once, and no one has seen what it looks like since then," Lin Jiu muttered softly after waiting for the young man to run to him

The child who came here is called Zhang Tong, the third son of Zhang Carpenter in the village, two years younger than Lin Jiu, he grew up with Lin Jiu since he was a child, and he usually has a lively temperament, but he is the first to look forward to Lin Jiu, and when he plays with other children in the village, it is Lin Jiu who comes up with the idea, and he runs in the front.

After a while, seven or eight children came running from the village, surrounding Lin Jiu and the four of them, touching this prey and touching that.

He was talking nonsense, "It's okay, Brother Jiu, I followed Uncle Wang to fight a lot of things." ”

"Yes, yes, look at the pheasant is not small, and the feathers are also beautiful"

"Zhang San, your ninth brother is much stronger than you, how can it be like the last time you went but returned empty-handed"

"Ahem," the old master covered his mouth and coughed twice, "Don't you have to go to morning class today?"

As soon as a few children heard what Old Master Lin said, they quickly turned around and stood up, "Let's go to the library."

Old Master Lin smiled and nodded, and a group of people walked towards the village together, and Wang Orion resisted the pig and walked towards the village chief's house.

Sixteen years ago, in the late autumn of the Han Dynasty, in the south of the country, there was a large family in a small county near the border, the head of the family was surnamed Qin, and the son of the eldest house in the family was named Zhiyuan, who was originally an official in the capital.

Although he is not an official in a high position, he is a celebrity in front of the emperor, one is because of his deep knowledge, and the other is because he is taciturn by nature, and he can help the emperor with deep knowledge.

The Great Khanate has been passed down for more than 30 generations, after more than 500 years, it was once a vast territory, the country was rich and strong, but the later generation was not as good as the generation, the land was ceded and reparated, the taxes were exceeded, and the dispute between friends and friends could be said to be precarious

It's just that on this day, the secret spy around the emperor, after the routine report on all the daily activities of the various officials secretly stared at by his subordinates recently, presented a wooden box, the emperor put his hand on the lid and trembled slightly, this spy just said before presenting it that this is a secret about Lord Qin before coming to Beijing, the emperor knows that what has been done by this person is not a good thing, and the pro-government has made this young man more and more suspicious in recent years, although Qin Zhiyuan is a strategist who has been with him before he ascended the throne, but his companion, the son of the prince, is also a chess piece placed by the old minister, and the partner who grew up together since childhood, was personally sent to the prison by himself and will never be releasedThe emperor really didn't want to open the lid, he was afraid that he would be a chess piece by his side, but Qin Zhiyuan had helped him too much, and he was reluctant to use him as a knife, but what if it was really a chess piece? For the sake of his own country, he would rather kill the wrong one than let it go.

The late autumn wind blew on the deserted streets, and the people in the county town flocked to the law field, Nuoda's law field was surrounded by the people on the third floor and the outer three floors, there were more than forty people kneeling in three rows in the law field, with their heads bowed, Qin Zhiyuan knelt alone in the front row, still holding his head up, his eyes closed but his face was calm, and the whispers of the people around him came from his ears

"What's wrong with this Qin family?

"Yes, yes, even though it's a big family, it's not in the township, the family is all scholars, what kind of mistake did you make, you have to be beheaded"

"I heard my cousin say, saying that he was colluding with traitors and intending to betray the country and rebel, my cousin was on an errand in the county government, and he went home yesterday and secretly told me, I heard that three auxiliary ministers were removed in the capital."

"It's really fake, the last time the Qin family was fighting against the southern Lu country, they made a lot of contributions, donating money and food, everyone can see it."

"What do you know, can you guess what the big family thinks? It's just that I don't know how much his Qin family's field can give us after this raid?"

"What are you thinking, it's not your turn, the relatives of the county magistrate came to the house early this morning."

"That's what your cousin said too?"

"Isn't this nonsense, I'm not on an errand in the county"

On the platform of the prison beheading of the law field, in the middle sat the parent official of the county seat, with a look of embarrassment, and there was a eunuch in a red robe standing next to him, according to the rank, he was higher than the county order, but he did not sit alive, and looked at Qin Zhiyuan's expression was very complicated, this eunuch came to announce the decree of the beheading, and he was not afraid that someone would come to intercept the law field.

I saw that the eunuch raised his head, looked down at the sun, and looked at the time hourglass next to him, took a few steps forward, pulled out a roll of yellow silk holy decree from his cuffs, and glanced at Qin Zhiyuan after unfolding it, and said, "Fengtian carrier, the emperor edict said, the criminal minister Qin Zhiyuan colluded with Wang Lang, the secretary of the military department, Dong Xishan, the secretary of the household department, and Lin Hanyu, the hussar general, and the Yue State conspired to kill the monarch and usurp the throne. ”

Qin Zhiyuan opened his eyes, looked at this eunuch, and slowly bent down, "Sinner Qin Zhiyuan, receive the order." ”

The eunuch walked down from the prison beheading platform, stood beside Qin Zhiyuan, and whispered in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "Lord Qin, don't blame the emperor, when you left the imperial study that night, Your Majesty asked you, but what else do you want, you said that you hope that the crime will not be as good as your family, although Your Majesty did not speak at that time, but when he gave this holy decree, he specially explained to the slaves, although this holy decree is the Nine Clans, but it is only more than forty members of your Qin family" The eunuch paused and continued, "The others are just changing their surnames and staying away from their homeland." With that, he waved his hand at the stage.

"Execution"

Qin Zhiyuan didn't speak, his face was calm.

Thinking that he was loyal to the emperor and the Han, but in the end it became a sword for him to expel the auxiliary ministers, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly, but he pitied his wife and the unborn baby in his belly

The three executioners were one in a row, one by one from west to east, and some of the timid people turned their heads with pale faces and did not dare to look again.

I heard a swishing sound of a Hidden Blade shooting in from the periphery, and the sound of a knife falling to the ground was heard by the sound of the blow hitting the iron. "The sword has no eyes, and the idle people want to leave quickly if they want to live" shouted and walked quickly far and near, it can be seen that this person threw out his hidden blade from a distance, his hand strength and accuracy were first-class, accompanied by the sound of several horses, and several people also rushed to him.

The onlookers were stunned by the scene for a moment, and immediately some people understood that this was to rob the Dharma field, and suddenly someone shouted, Run, and everyone scattered in a hurry, running in all directions, so that the officers and soldiers on the periphery of the Dharma field were also scattered a lot.

The eunuch who announced the decree stood motionless, squinting at the middle-aged man who broke in, dressed in black, covered his face with a black scarf, and was tall and full of energy, and the middle-aged man in black also looked at this father-in-law.

Suddenly, the man in black was strong at his feet, a forward rush was nearly a zhang away, it can be seen that this person's kung fu is not low, the man in black slashed a palm knife to the eunuch, the palm wind blew in front of the eunuch, the hair of the temples floated to the back of the head, the eunuch raised his leg and kicked the man's wrist with his toes, although it was a back hair, it was slightly faster than the man in black, the hand knife slashed to the ankle from the bottom to the side, the eunuch took a step back and quickly punched the right hand to hit the past, the hand knife Yu Youquan hit each step back, and then made a move to fight together, the man in black hand knife, the knife and knife are clever, or vertical chop or horizontal chop, the thin eunuch fist is not small, a set of boxing techniques are tiger and tiger, and there is more merit and less workFrom the distance of the man in black who set off and rushed more than a zhang, this person's kung fu is very good, especially this person has a knife on his waist, but he has never been unsheathed, it can be seen that he is very confident in his skills, but after dozens of moves, he has not been able to succeed for a long time, and the eunuch has fought back more and more, and his eyes are more and more solemn.

"Let's fight quickly in case they have reinforcements, quickly. One of the masked men in a satin coat shouted loudly, and raised his hand to stab a person to death with a long face, turned around and cut the ties of a Qin family member nearby, and kicked a long knife used by officers and soldiers in front of the person and said, "Save people." ”

The black-clothed man changed his hand knife and punched the eunuch two steps back, quickly pulled out the long knife on his waist and flashed up again, the first knife was split diagonally from the right shoulder, the speed of the knife was so fast that there was an afterimage, the eunuch's face turned pale, he quickly retreated, his back was full of cold sweat after standing still, and the red robe in front of him was a one-foot-long knife mark, the red robe was torn, revealing the fine armor inside, and he avoided a disembowelment, the man in black stabbed one after another, not giving the eunuch a chance to breathe at all, the knife was getting faster and faster, the eunuch was very hard to dodge, and it would be good to be able to return one move in ten moves, there were already good knife marks on the body, and the clothes were tattered, if it were not for the close-fitting fine armor given by the emperor, the eunuch is already dead and can't die anymore.

The battle group of the few people next to him has also reached a white heat, although these people are a top master, but the two fists are difficult to defeat the four hands, there are too many officers and soldiers, and these people are surrounded in the middle of the law field and constantly fight with wheels and swarm beatings, and sometimes they can hurt one person, the people of the Qin family have been untied, and the eunuch in front of the stands has only the share of parrying, and suddenly the eunuch used a very strange move, instantly pasted in front of the man in black from a distance, quickly pushed out two palms to force the man in black away, took out a whistle from the cuff, and shouted to the officers and soldiers surrounding him" Everyone hold on a little longer, and the reinforcements will arrive soon" After speaking, he flicked the whistle into the air with his hand, and a long sharp sound resounded through the sky

At this time, the man in black took advantage of the eunuch's opening and his breath was unstable, so he quickly handed out a knife and plunged it directly into the left chest, and the eunuch slapped away the long knife with his hand, not caring about the bleeding from the wound, and punched the man in black.

"Quick, make a hole to the west, quickly retreat" The man who reminded the man in black to draw his sword just now said anxiously, but the long sword in his hand did not stop for a moment, and he killed faster.

When the other people heard this, they quickly rushed to the west, and the leader flashed to the head of the Qin family and asked, "The body is not in the way, Master Qin."

The head of the Qin family hurriedly said, "At this juncture, Xie Zhuangshi cares, and the old man is still moving."

The leader nodded, shouting "Retreat" to the man in black

The man in black stepped up two knives faster, one slashing at the eunuch's left arm and the other on the left shoulder, directly smashing the eunuch to his knees, raising the knife and preparing to cut off the eunuch's head, when suddenly the eunuch exerted force with both palms and slapped a palm on the ground, and one got up and slapped a palm on the chest of the man in black.