Only the village chief and a few elderly people remained here, and the village chief asked Liu San to sit down and asked, "I wonder if Brother Liu will farm by himself or make a living by handicraft? If so, there is no land near the south, and there is still a place to the north for you to use to open up wasteland."

"The village chief said and laughed, my brother I am also old, when I was young, I relied on a body of martial arts, I was not besieged by officers and soldiers, I was hard to beat with two fists and four hands, I escaped with my life, and I also fell into an old wound, and my martial arts were lost, and I don't understand this wasteland farming."

"That's the case, I don't know how Brother Liu lives, there are no farmers in this village who have Guangfu hunting, blacksmiths striking iron, Li butchers raising pigs and slaughtering, Lao Qi is considered a Langzhong, you Brother Liu can't teach people kung fu, there is no need for these here"

"Now there are only some moves, the skill is gone, and I don't want to fight and kill anymore, a few days ago from the village chief's house, I see that there seems to be a private school in the village, but it looks empty for a long time, if you can, the old man can be the gentleman who teaches and educates"

"I never thought that Brother Liu was still a scholar," the village chief smiled

"Let the village chief smile, although Liu is not very knowledgeable, it is still possible to teach the children in the village to read and write"

"Well, that's fine, the private school was built in the early years, and it was still in charge of my second brother at that time, but after my second brother died a few years ago, it has been empty until today, and the children in the village grow up and don't go to the test to get famous, they all farm for a living, especially before Brother Liu came, the only path out of the mountain was also covered by the mountains overnight, and the people in the village have not gone out for many years, and there are fewer and fewer children who are studying."

The other old men who stayed behind also nodded secretly

"Every family in this village lives by farming, if Brother Liu can open a private school again, he will still teach the children to read and read according to the previous rules, so that you don't need to farm, and the village will give you food,"

"Even if that's the case, brother, I'm going to do my best," Liu San hurriedly said

After that, the wind and waves passed year by year, Liu San took Lin Jiu to settle down in this nameless small mountain village, the village chief asked the villagers to clean up the private school, and the children began to follow Liu San to read and write again.

Lin Jiu also slowly grew bigger and bigger, Wang Orion later added a daughter, named Wang Tao'er, but Xiu'e died of dystocia when she gave birth to Peach, and the patriarch also died when Jiu'er was ten years old, and the name of the village let the youngest son Ah Qi, born to the third brother of the patriarch, become the new patriarch after unanimous discussion, and the patriarch has two brothers, the third died at an early age, and the third has been bedridden for many years, otherwise the seventh would not have deliberately gone to learn medical skills, just to cure his father's illness.

On this day, Liu San and Lin Jiu finished dinner at home, Liu San taught Lin Jiu the introduction of hand knife kung fu in the courtyard, Lin Jiu practiced on the wooden stake for a while, Liu San saw that he was tired and full of Han and said, "Xiao Jiu, sit down and rest, kung fu is practiced slowly, and I can't be in a hurry." ”

"Grandpa, Jiu'er knows, I just want to train as soon as possible, so as to protect grandpa, and then go to find my mother"

Liu San sighed, he didn't know what to say, so many years have passed, he has never told Lin Jiu where his mother is, whenever Lin Jiu sees that the children in the village can be coquettish in front of their mothers, he will run home sadly and ask Liu San where his mother is, Liu San was coaxing when he was very young, and later beat some of him to talk about him, Liu San always felt that he was still a child, and he didn't want him to know so early, and now he felt that his body was getting worse and worse, and he was getting older and older, thinking that he must have told him before leaving。

"Xiao Jiu is about to celebrate his sixteenth birthday, what do you have in mind?" asked Liu San with a smile

Lin Jiu took a white cloth and wiped his sweat while saying, "I want to go into the mountain with Tao'er's father once."

For many years in this village, there has been a habit that a sixteen-year-old child will follow Orion into the mountains once to hunt his own prey, so even if he is an adult, he can marry a wife and start a family

"In this way, tell him when I see Wang Orion in the past few days."

"Really, grandpa really agreed to let me enter the mountain?" Lin Jiu was surprised, he had also mentioned going into the mountain with Wang Orion before, but Liu San refused, he didn't expect that this time he would agree so easily

"Of course it's true, can grandpa still lie to you" Liu San smiled, looking at the sharp-eyed boy who was already a big man, and felt that these upbringing were really not in vain

After a few days, Liu San deliberately discussed with Wang Lihu about entering the mountain, Wang Lihu readily agreed, originally every time he took other villagers in the village into the mountains to hunt, Liu San returned home and told Lin Jiu about it, Lin Jiu was happy and didn't sleep well all night, the next day at noon, Wang Orion came to Liu San's house to call Lin Jiu into the mountain, Lin Jiufei ran out of the house, and saw Wang Orion standing at the door of the house, a female baby's head stretched out behind him and smiled at him, Lin Jiu glanced at it and said" Uncle Wang, is Tao'er going with us? she's too young."

Wang Orion smiled and nodded, Wang Tao'er heard Lin Jiu say that she was small, and her angry little mouth jumped out from behind his father, pinched her waist with both hands and said, "Brother Jiu, do you dare to compare archery with me? Besides, you are only a little older than me, hum"

"I know that you are good at archery, it is not Uncle Wang who added a small stove to you, and it is also a big day to fight" Lin Jiu grimaced after speaking

"What's plus Xiaozao, I'm talented, what do you know" Wang Taoer was very unconvinced

"Okay, okay, don't fight, Jiu'er, you must listen to your Uncle Wang after entering the mountain, you know?" Liu San walked slowly to the courtyard with a cane

"Okay, I remember grandpa, how many times have you been talking about it from last night to now?"

Wang Orion helped Lin Jiu sort out the simple bags on his body and said to Liu San, "Then we set off Third Uncle, it is estimated that we will return the morning after tomorrow at the latest, if you are lucky, you will return tomorrow morning."

"Okay, go, be careful on the road, Xiao Jiu will trouble you to take care of it"

"Yes," said Wang Orion, turning around, and walking towards the stone bridge to the west of the village with two small followers

At this time, there was a young man standing at the head of the bridge, and when he saw the three of them coming over, he hurriedly ran over, took out two buns from his arms and handed them to Lin Jiu and said, "Brother Jiu, my mother steamed the big buns at noon today, I took two for you, you took it to eat when you were hungry at night, hey, Tao'er also followed, I thought it was Brother Jiu himself, I knew to take two more"

"It's okay, Brother Zhang Tong, my father brought a lot of dry food"

"Uncle Wang, can you take me into the mountains to hunt next year?" the young man named Zhang Tong looked up and asked Wang Orion

"Next year's age is coming, but you are too young, in case you meet a big wild boar-like prey, you can't run"

"Then I'll eat more in the future, and strive to be as tall as Brother Jiu, Brother Jiu, I'll be here to greet you when you come back."

"Okay, Zhang Tong, don't eat it into a rice bucket"

"Hahaha," Wang Orion and Tao'er laughed at the same time

Zhang Tong's shy little face turned red

"Okay, let's play with you, grow up quickly, and then we'll go hunting together"

"A word?"

"Horses are hard to chase"

"Alright, let's go, it's not too early, there's still a long way to go from the mountains and forests to the west," said Wang Orion, looking up at the hour

"Goodbye Brother Jiu, goodbye Tao'er, goodbye Uncle Wang"

"Goodbye, let's go back"

It was dark before the three of them walked to the periphery of the woods, the two children were too tired to walk, usually walked such a long way, Wang Orion collected some dry firewood, and made a fire, this forest is a small forest growing around the low hills on the periphery of the Silver Dragon Mountains, and there are also some small caves, Wang Orion is looking for a cave that has slept many times before.

The fire was born at the entrance of the hole, and a hare came out of the farmland on the way to come, and was seen by Wang Tao'er's sharp eyes, and the arrow was shot on the ground, she and Lin Jiu were still small and couldn't hold a big bow, this small bow was specially remade for them by Wang Orion, although it was not very powerful, but it was no problem to fight a pheasant and a hare, after Wang Orion made the fire, he cleaned up the hare, there were many streams in the woods, and after cleaning the hare, he began to roast the hare, and the two teenagers sat by the fire and looked at the flipped hare, secretly drooling, and it was already the front chest and the back。

"Although we are much safer in this periphery at night, there will still be some dangerous prey, and you will sleep in the cave, I will sleep at the entrance of the cave, don't be afraid"

The two of them ate the roasted rabbit and nodded with their mouths full of oil.

The night was calm, and the three of them got up very early on the second day, and Wang Orion took them to the nearest creek to wash up, and then packed up all the things and said, "Let's go to a few traps first, see if there is any gain, if not, let's go deeper into it."

The two nodded excitedly, and the three of them walked towards the traps left by the villagers before, and after a while, Wang Orion found the traps that were placed, they were not very complicated, some small traps were distributed in the woods in front of them, and they were used to catch hares and pheasants or something, that is, the young wild boars could not be trapped, and the three of them turned around and had no gain, Wang Orion said, "It seems that our luck is not very good, let's go inside, you will follow me, if you encounter danger, run as soon as possible, I can deal with it myself"

"Got it, Daddy"

"Okay Uncle Wang"

The three of them walked a distance inside, the woods began to be dense, although it was daytime, it was also dark, suddenly from the deep grass next to it came out of a wild boar that was not very big, the three of them did not react, they saw a white fox in the grass, the fox was snow-white, while chasing the wild boar in front, he did not forget to look back at the three people, Wang Orion saw that he hurriedly bent his bow and took an arrow at the wild boar is an arrow, and shot in front of the wild boar with a whoosh, the wild boar stopped suddenly, flashed to the right, and continued to run forward, because he was slow down, he was almost caught up by the white fox behind, Wang Orion waved his hand and said"Chase"

The three of them hurriedly ran and chased up, fortunately, there were not so many messy branches on the ground in the woods, and the three of them could follow closely behind, chasing for a while, and when they were about to catch up, the wild boar running in front of them trembled and slowed down, Wang Orion secretly said in his heart, "It's not good, I actually chased to the periphery of Hidden Dragon Mountain, the wild boar must have entered the range of Yinlong Mountain, and I can't stand the cold."

And the white fox did not slow down, and arrived at the wild boar in three or two clicks, and at this time three arrows were swished, one arrow was shot at the boar's neck, one arrow was shot at the boar's buttocks, and one arrow was shot at the white fox's leg, and the two prey fell to the ground in response, and the wild boar was still twitching, but the fox was motionless.

"Okay, okay, I shot it, I shot it, Brother Jiu, your archery is also very good."

"Of course then"

"You two are waiting here, it's cold where those two prey are, I'll go and take them out"

As soon as Wang Orion entered the range of the Silver Dragon Mountain Range, he was also shivering, and the strong ninja pulled out the wild boar and the white fox in one breath, Wang Tao'er stepped forward and looked at the three arrows on it, and turned his head and asked Lin Jiu, "Brother Jiu, why don't you shoot the wild boar and shoot the fox?"

"I think Uncle Wang will definitely hunt this little wild boar, and the white fox I think his fur is good, and I want to go back and make you a wool shoulder to wear."

"Don't kill it, I think it's cute, I want to take it back and raise her, Dad, is it okay?"

"Raise a fox, forget it, if it doesn't work, let's let it go, the fox is very cunning," Wang Orion said to Wang Tao'er as he stamped his foot

"Please, dad, don't kill it, let me take it back, we can keep it in a cage in the yard of Brother Jiu's house, and I can go and play with it for a while every day"

"Yes, Uncle Wang, since Tao'er likes it so much, let's take it back."

"Okay, take a towel and tear it open, don't let it bite you" After speaking, he began to tie up the wild boar, because it was not big, so Wang Orion was ready to resist by himself, Lin Jiu looked at it and secretly smacked his tongue and wondered when he could have the strength of Wang Orion.

The three of them chased the distance relatively far, and when they came back, they walked very slowly with something, and on the way back to Wang Orion, they went to the trap to take a look, and it seemed that they were not giving up, but the result was really a harvest, although there were hares and pheasants, although they were not very big, but at least there were some more things, and the three of them were very happy, and seeing that the day was about to pass again, they returned to the small hole where they stayed last night.

It was cold at night, Peach slept next to Lin Jiu, and the fox that came back lay next to the two, it was strange to say, such wild beasts must be struggling to find life and death after being caught, but this fox was not only very quiet, but also very docile, but when Peach didn't hold it, it leaned on Lin Jiu, as if it was born to be close to Lin Jiu, and originally tied its mouth with a towel, and when feeding it to eat, it found that it carefully went to pick up the things in Tao'er's hand, as if it was afraid that the fangs in its mouth would bite her, Wang Orion said to throw things on the ground to feed, Peach said how dirty it was, after feeding, Wang Orion had to tie it again, so it hurriedly ran to Lin Jiu's side, Hiding behind him, he looked at Wang Orion with black eyes, as if with a hint of pleading, Lin Jiu said, "Forget it, Uncle Wang, it doesn't seem to be malicious, I now wonder if it deliberately drove the little wild boar here, I regret shooting an arrow at it."

Wang Orion looked at the fox and said, "But you two should be careful with it."

Lin Jiu was a little hot and couldn't sleep because of the peach and the fox, so he got up and came to the outside of the cave, and saw Wang Orion looking at the fire alone in a daze, so he stepped forward and sat next to him and looked at the fire without saying a word.

"Can't sleep?" said Wang Orion, adding a handful of wood to the fire

"Hmm," Lin Jiu replied softly

"Jiu'er is sixteen this year."

"It's not a birthday yet, but it's almost there"

"It's so fast, sixteen years have passed, and Tao'er has grown up. What does Jiu'er want to do when she grows up?"

"Why did Uncle Wang suddenly ask about this?"

"It's nothing, you used to ask me what the outside world was like, and you didn't understand when you told you when you were young"

Lin Jiuyi heard the spirit and asked excitedly, "Uncle Wang, do you want to tell me about the world tonight?"

"Fei Ye, Fei Ye" Wang Orion Yaoyao "I was about the same age as you when I came here, and I didn't understand the world on the other side, so I didn't know how to tell you"

"Then what do you mean when I grow up?"

"Will you stay in this village when you grow up? Farming, marrying wives, having children, and dying of old age all your life?"

"No, I'm going to find my mom, although grandpa never told me where my mom was"

"And what about finding your mother?"

"Find your mother, find your mother and be with her every day" Although Lin Jiu had fantasized countless times, he didn't know what to say when he came to his mouth

"The premise is that we have to be able to get out, the hole I used to enter Yinlong Mountain had already collapsed, and now only your grandfather knows the way out."

"I asked my grandfather many times and he said he was old and couldn't remember"

"One day he will tell you, he knows that you don't belong to this small mountain village, you must have to travel to the outside world, not just to find your mother, when I was young, I wanted to go out, but there was no road, now there is a road, but I am no longer young"

Lin Jiu looked at Wang Orion and couldn't understand what he was saying, but he knew in his heart that he would have to find his mother sooner or later

The next morning, the three of them started to walk back early, and Lin Jiu said, "Tao'er, you put that fox on the ground, don't keep holding it, it's angry."

"No, besides, what if I put it on the ground and it ran away?"

"If the stupid girl runs away, it ran away last night, you can put it on the ground."

"No, no"

Lin Jiu and Wang Orion smiled at each other, both with very helpless expressions

When I was about to arrive at the village, I saw Liu Laohan standing on the side of the road waiting from a distance, and Tao'er smiled happily and ran towards Liu Laohan.

Since this time into the mountains to hunt, Lin Jiu returned home to practice archery more hard, Liu Laohan saw that he liked hunting with Wang Lihu so much, to the point that he did not deliberately urge him to practice kung fu, thinking that it would not hurt to follow Wang Lihu into the mountains to hunt a few times, but also went back to two or three, and never met any big prey, and the white fox brought back from the first time into the mountains has been kept at home, originally to be locked in a cage, but Lin Jiu thought it was pitiful and put it in the cage without locking, the door was open

"If you want to leave, go, if you want to stay, this is where you live, I can't feed you meat every day"

The fox looked at it, then looked at Liu Laohan behind him, rubbed Lin Jiu's hand with his head, and honestly lay in the cage, Liu Laohan looked at the white fox and said, "I have always heard people say that this fox will become a fine after a long life, and this little white fox doesn't know how old it is, but it seems that it understands human nature a little, Xiao Jiu wants to keep it, just keep it, and it can be regarded as a playmate."

Lin Jiu stood up and clapped his hands and said, "Play with it, it's so big and small, it's not that Tao'er wants to raise it, so I'm too lazy to raise it."

"Hahaha, it turned out to be for Peach, but speaking of which, this girl hasn't come to play with you for a few days, is it that the two of you are making trouble again?"

"What's the matter, how can I have an awkward relationship with her, a little girl, I let her, but it's true that I haven't seen her for a few days, but the village is so big that she can't run anywhere, I guess there are some new rare things in the past two days, I didn't think to see this fox"

It's just that as soon as Lin Jiu's words fell, Xing'er hurriedly entered the door with Tao'er, "Third grandfather, my father may have had an accident, you should think of a way" Xing'er was about to cry when she said it

Liu Laohan hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "What's the matter, say slowly"

Ten days ago, my father took Tao'er to go there, I saw that he was dressed very neatly, so he asked how to find Beidi, he said that he was going into the mountains this time, he wanted to play more things, he was going to take care of a few days, Tao'er himself was not at home, sent to me to take care of a few days, I wanted Qian Li to follow him into the mountains to have a good response, he didn't let him live or die, I told him to be careful, come back early, but it has been ten days, and I didn't see him go to the north to pick up Tao'er, originally I thought my father wanted Tao'er to play with me for a few more days, But when I came back from the north today, I went to my father's, and found that there was no one at home, and my father hadn't come back yet, so I hurried to Uncle Seven, but Aunt Seven said that Uncle Seven had gone to the mountains to collect medicine, and he would come back in two days.

Liu Laohan groaned and did not speak, thinking that according to Wang Orion's calm temperament, he would never do such an unprovoked thing, presumably for other reasons.

Xing'er saw that Liu Laohan didn't speak for a while, and only stomped his feet in a hurry.

"Grandpa, I'm going to go into the mountains to find Uncle Wang," Lin Jiu said suddenly.

"Nonsense, you can do it alone, and besides, I don't know which forest he entered, so I have to find someone to go with me. Then he said to Xing'er, "Then you go to Lao Qi's house with me, and ask Lao Qi's daughter-in-law if she knows which mountain Lao Qi went to collect medicine, so that people can call him back."

"Row"

A few people hurriedly returned to Lao Qi's house, but Lao Qi's daughter-in-law didn't know which mountain Lao Qi would go to pick medicine, and only knew a rough idea, Liu Laohan thought about it and took them to the old family, usually if Lao Qi went out to collect medicine in the village, he listened to the boss's opinion on big and small things, after all, Lao Qi entered the mountain for many days, and the boss understood the meaning of what Liu Laosan said, so he said, "I'll go to the village to ring the bell and call the big guys, let's discuss"