In the greenery, a small river came in a hurry, the river gradually widened, without the slightest ripple, and the few willow leaves on the water surface did not disturb the tranquility of this moment from beginning to end. It was midday in the Mid-Autumn Festival, the sun was still like fire, there was no autumn weather at all, and a few autumn cicadas vaguely seen on the willow branches on the riverside also seemed lifeless.

The man lay on the water's edge shirtless, stunned as he looked at himself in the water, and he held this position for half an hour. Finally, he moved, and then gently stroked the silver-black mask on his face with his hand. The mask blended in perfectly with the shape of his face, covering the right cheek, which at first glance looked the same as the left side of his face, except that the eyeholes were pitch black, and there was no light or shadow. The man smiled at himself in the water, and his left eye was full of tenderness.

"Is this me?"

The man asked softly, frowned, wiped a few handfuls of stubble from his face with his hand, then sat up and laughed,

"How fucking handsome!"

"Haha...... Hahaha......"

There was a burst of laughter from the other side of the river, it was a little boy, I saw his feet fluttering in the water, cake crumbs splashing out of his mouth, one hand pointing at the man on the other side, and the other hand caressing his lower abdomen and laughing wildly. The child was about twelve or thirteen years old, swarthy and emaciated, and on his right hand stood a bundle of dry firewood with a firewood knife hanging from it.

The man was not angry, stood up, laughed a few times towards the opposite shore, then stretched his waist, and jumped into the water with a lunge, and there was no one in sight. The river was more than ten feet wide, and the child was stunned and searched everywhere. Suddenly, a half-faced human head appeared at his feet, and a jet of water erupted from the human head, which stirred the boy's small face. The boy was about to scold, but when he saw the man stand up, the boy was speechless for an instant, but timidly withdrew his hands and feet. I saw that the man's body was full of scars, large and small, horizontal and vertical, which was terrifying.

"This little brother, do you have anything to eat?"

The man sat next to the boy and took him into his arms. The boy's body trembled slightly, and he whispered back:

"And one more ...... One...... A rice ball, not ...... in the morning No...... If you're not hungry, you're not ...... I didn't eat it, I kept bringing ...... Bring it on your body, you ...... You...... You and you want it, just ...... Just take it ......"

After speaking, he reached out and touched the cloth bag next to the firewood.

The man was not polite, but he stuffed a huge rice ball into his stomach in just two bites. The boy swallowed, pointed to the man's upper body, and asked timidly,

"Who are you, for...... Why are there so many ......?"

The man patted the boy lightly on the back and smiled,

"Kong Wu's whole body is full of dragons and tigers and the like, but what can I do, how can I be so powerful! Come on, come on, let you see if I am very domineering on this big river on my back......?!

The man turned around and showed the boy the scars on his back. The boy carefully looked at the scars on the man's back, and nodded slightly, full of curiosity about this masked man who looked fierce and vicious.

"Who is Kong Wuluo, is it powerful?"

"Ah, this, ah, I don't remember, it popped up out of nowhere, don't blame it, hahaha. By the way, lend me your firewood knife!"

The boy picked up the knife with both hands and handed it to the man, asking:

"What are you going to do with it?"

"What else can you do if you shave!"

The man took the knife and threw it in his face.

"Oops, your knife is so fucking blunt,"

After saying that, he jumped into the river, felt out some small gravel, and then scattered it on the square boulder on the bank, and leisurely sharpened his knife. The boy asked softly,

"I don't think you have an accent like an outsider, why haven't you seen it before?"

The man froze slightly, and said loudly:

"Hahaha, I have a skill, it doesn't take too long to go anywhere, and I can talk and behave like the locals, amazing! Hahaha, you shouldn't doubt it. ”

The boy looked at him suspiciously,

"You mean you've been here with us?"

"I can't remember, I should have been here!"

The man's left eye was staring at the boy with a playful look.

"Little brother, can you swim, my clothes are on the other side of the river, can you help me get them?"

The boy nodded slightly, presumably saying what he was proud of. He quickly removed his shirt and trousers, plunged straight into the river, and in an instant swam to the opposite bank, apparently in excellent water. When he returned, he only tread water with his feet, and stood upright in the water leisurely, and the clothes in his hands were not half an inch wet. The boy placed his clothes on the stone and looked at the man with his hands on his cheeks. I saw that the man was shaving his beard with the freshly sharpened firewood knife, and from time to time his mouth was crooked to the side, and the boy laughed, and he had no fear of the masked man who was covered with scars and loved to laugh. It's just that he understands that under the mask, it may be a place that he can't reach, so he doesn't have too much interrogation.

After the man finished shaving, he stretched out half of his body to the surface of the river as before, looked left and right, and touched his cheek with his hand from time to time, and finally gently supported his chin with his left thumb and forefinger, nodded incessantly, and muttered,

"In this way, I'm afraid that the little ladies will fall to the ground again!"

The boy couldn't help laughing, "You, you're really not ashamed! I don't think you're as good-looking as the seventh brother next door!"

After hearing this, the man said angrily, "What seventh brother, take me there, I beat him so much that he can't even recognize his neighbors!"

The boy laughed,

"Brother Seventh married the most handsome girl in our ten miles and eight towns, a few years ago, those matchmakers stepped on the threshold of her house, she didn't take a fancy to any of them, and finally just glanced at Brother Seventh who was working in the fields, so he didn't marry. Do you think Brother Seven is going to be better looking than you?!"

The man was silent, then picked up his clothes and put them on his body, whistled softly, and touched himself from head to toe, as if amazed at the emptiness of his clothes. He hung up his sword, picked up the firewood, and dragged the boy down from the stone.

"Brother, eat and live at your house tonight, what do you think!"

The boy gave him a blank look, nodded, and jumped ahead to lead the way. After walking a few steps, he turned around and asked seriously,

"What's your name?"

The man replied to him,

"You speak first!"

The boy simply replied,

"Li Xiaoshan, it's your turn!"

"My name is Li Dashan, haha, it's a coincidence, haha, it's too coincidental, we should be half-brothers who have been separated for many years!"

The man stepped forward, put his left hand on Li Xiaoshan's shoulder, and sang loudly,

"Your name is Li Xiaoshan, I am Li Dashan, there are mountains outside the mountain, and there are not mountains outside the mountains......

The path along the river is narrow, but not difficult, with occasional mud puddles and only a few traces on the straw sandals. Li Dashan was carrying heavy loads, but he did not feel tired, and walked easily and comfortably, while Xiaoshan trotted from time to time to keep up. Li Dashan slowed down, straightened the rope, grabbed the hill and put it on the firewood bundle on his back. The hill had his back to the mountain, and he was extremely excited. Out of nowhere, he found two horsetail grasses, one into his mouth, and then reached back and handed the other into the big mountain pass.

"Xiaoshan, how far is it from home?"

"I'm afraid it's going to take more than half an hour. ”

"This weight is not light, you are afraid that you can only walk like this one day. ”

"Yes, I walk very slowly with firewood on my back, I carry a lot of firewood on my back every time, and I can't move on my back, so I throw away some as I go, and I can remember where I threw firewood. ”

Xiaoshan is very happy, and his mouth does not stop,

"I find that I can carry more than the last time every time, I want to grow up quickly, I want to be as strong as the mountain, and I want to marry the most beautiful girl......" Xiaoshan finished speaking, his face was full of pride, and his eyes were full of anticipation.

After hearing this, Dashan laughed again, grabbed Xiaoshan's arms with both hands, and shouted loudly,

"Sit tight~"

The mountain then began to run around at such a fast speed that it did not seem to be carrying a heavy load. Xiaoshan put his hands on Dashan's shoulders and screamed. And the man behind him, as his name suggests, is as majestic as a mountain, which also makes this child extremely reassured.

At the end of the moment, the village is in sight. The name of the village is green water, the house is built according to the water, three or two villagers are dressed by the water, and a few idle ducks are playing in the water, which is very quiet and peaceful. Dashan put Xiaoshan down, and the two walked into the village side by side.

As soon as I entered the village, I was greeted by an old woman, about fifty years old, with a dark face and wrinkled forehead. The old woman approached, stared at the mountain for a few moments, and then was overjoyed, and exclaimed,

"I think I saw you a few days ago!"

Dashan looked stunned, "Auntie, I'm afraid you recognize the wrong person!"

"Impossible, my Mrs. Liu, that's a well-known sharp-eyed person, those who have met will definitely not be mistaken, and you wear such a mask, it is difficult to admit your mistake!"

"Auntie must be wrong, I'm afraid the one you saw is my fellow brother, all wearing masks, it's hard to tell the difference, hahaha!"

Mrs. Liu looked at the mountain suspiciously, looked up and down again, and muttered,

"It's really not like it, today seems to be a lot more cheerful, the other day the other day had a melancholy face and couldn't ......speak," she kept babbling in her mouth. After Xiaoshan greeted her, she walked away. Xiaoshan was very curious,

"Brother Dashan, do you still have a compatriot brother? Does he look exactly like you? Also, is he as powerful as you?"

Dashan rubbed his head and replied embarrassedly,

"I don't know, it seems to be, and it doesn't seem to be, I don't remember, what do you think!"

Then he burst out laughing.

Xiaoshan's face was full of suspicion, noncommittal.

The two of them continued on their way, and soon came to the courtyard of the small mountain house. The yard was simply enclosed with burrs, and there was a scaffolding, covered with vines.

"Brother Dashan, look, this is my home!"

At this moment, the door of the neighbor's house opened, and the "seventh brother" in the small mountain pass stepped out with his big-bellied daughter-in-law, and the two looked at each other and smiled, showing the love of husband and wife. The mountain looked at them intently, not knowing what was going on in his mind. "Seventh Brother" and the pot-bellied woman nodded to the big and small mountains, and then slowly walked away.

Xiaoshan smiled evilly, "How about it, is the seventh brother much better looking than you, and the seventh sister-in-law, she is also too handsome!"

Dashan looked relaxed, nodded and smiled,

"The women are really smart, and the men are good-looking, if they are a little whiter, I am afraid that they will not have to spend money to visit the Chunxue Building. The mountain turned to look at the hill,

"But, I'm more attractive, hahaha~"

Xiaoshan looked at this masked freak who liked to laugh, and thought about his inexplicable words, but he was speechless. I had to open the door by myself and welcome Dashan into the hospital. Xiaoshan brought a small stool, and brought cold water and Dashan to drink.

"Why is there no one at home, what about your father?" the mountain leaned against the vines, leisurely.

"My mother and sister should go to work in the fields, my father...... My sister died before she was born......" Xiaoshan looked lonely.

A big hand touched the back of Xiaoshan's head, "Heh, Xiaoshan, you are the only man in this family, but you have to puff up your chest." ”

Xiaoshan snorted, his eyes blazing.

The sun was scorching, but it was unusually cool under the vines. The big and small mountains fell asleep unconsciously, and the snoring came and went. What an autumn afternoon!

I don't know how long it took, the courtyard door creaked open, and the big mountain woke up at the same time. Xiaoshan jumped up, ran to the courtyard gate, and welcomed a woman, followed by a young girl of six or seven years old, who at a glance knew that it was Xiaoshan's mother and sister. Xiaoshan took his mother and sister and walked to Dashan,

"Mother, this is Dashan, the eldest brother I met by the green water, he is amazing......" Xiaoshan gushed all the previous thoughts, but he still deliberately concealed the scars on Dashan's body. The mountain pulls over the hill,

"Xiaoshan, in the future, you have to call me uncle, seeing that your mother is so young and beautiful, calling me eldest brother will call her old! Hahaha, hello sister-in-law, I am Dashan, I rubbed Xiaoshan for a meal at noon today, so I thought, I can't eat Xiaoshan's for nothing, so I came over to see if I could help with something......" Dashan said a lot of polite words, and then laughed. The little girl is not afraid of life at all,

"Hello Uncle Dashan, I'm Xiaoqing, did you really carry your brother on your back and run down the mountain from the mountain? can you help me bring it next time......" Dashan laughed again, thinking that this little girl's mouth was as broken as her brother.

"Okay, okay, next time I'll hold Xiaoshan in my right hand and Xiaoqing in my left hand, and then run down from the highest mountain over there!"

"It's a deal!"

"It's a deal!"

The woman's face was slightly red, and she looked at the two children, and her heart was very happy. She looked the mountain up and down, and then smiled,

"I'll get you food, and you'll play with Uncle Dashan in the yard. ”

With that, he walked towards the house.

The two children were very rare as an uninvited guest, so they pulled up the corners of Dashan's clothes and asked some questions that the children often asked from time to time, and Dashan also patiently answered them one by one.

About half an hour later, the woman called the children in, and the two children brought a small table and food, and they sat down under the vine and began to eat. Two seasonal vegetables, a plate of crispy yellow bacon, and a large bowl of fatty fish. The children's eyes lit up as they stared at the bacon, but they just put their chopsticks to their mouths. Dashan smiled happily, this family regarded themselves as honored guests,

"Eat quickly, it's not so particular!"

After speaking, I picked up the chopsticks, picked up the meat slices and put them in the children's bowl, and I also came to a piece, which was fragrant, soft and delicious, and the mouth was full of greasy and refreshing. Dashan couldn't stop praising and said that he wanted to open a restaurant and invite a woman to be a cook. The woman's heart rejoices,

"We have a lot of fish and shrimp here, and there is no shortage of vegetables, but this bacon can't be eaten a few times a year, and these two children like it very much. The people in the village want to go hunting, so they have to go up along the green water and walk more than 20 miles of mountain roads, usually returning for three or two days or even ten and a half days, and in most cases they do not harvest much. Xiaoshan will also go over there to look for firewood, and I will meet you on the way. Although it was a little inconvenient, there were no wild beasts in the village, and life was stable. A few years ago, a number of officers and soldiers came, and they took away all the big cattle, leaving only a few old cattle to plow the land. After that, they came every year, and although they would give a few dollars, it was pitiful. The people in the village were not happy, but they were afraid that the other party would make trouble, so they just gave up their wealth to avoid disasters. Therefore, this bacon is very precious. ”

"This group of bastards, let me meet them, and they don't know their own mothers!" said Dashankou loudly while chewing bacon.

When Xiaoqing Xiaoshan heard this, he giggled. The woman looked at the mountain, smiled slightly, and lowered her head to pick up the food. This meal was very comfortable, and Dashan alone ate enough for these three families to eat for two days. Xiaoshan helped the woman clean up the dishes and chopsticks, Xiaoqing and Dashan sat on the rattan chair, puffed up their stomachs, and saw whose stomach was more bulging, and Dashan won the victory without any suspense.

Dashan put Xiaoqing on his shoulder, and then walked out of the yard. After walking around the village, Mo Ran walked to the back of the village,

"Is this Pingshan? It seems to be fun!"

"It's not fun, people can't get out as soon as they go in, my mother said that there are monsters in this mountain, and you must not go in!"

"I seem to have been in, Xiaoqing, do you believe it or not!"

Xiaoqing ran his hand through the mountain's hair and didn't answer. Dashan looked at the miasma that filled the mountain, shook his head, and muttered to himself,

"I think I've really been there......"

The top of this Pingshan is straight, the whole mountain is like a wall, separating the two worlds, and the mountains and rocks on both sides are extremely dangerous, at first glance, it is more like a door, so that the mountain has an urge to open the gate and go in to see. Dashan suddenly looked in a trance, and two boys appeared in his mind, one of them was fourteen or fifteen years old, but he was somewhat similar to Xiaoshan, he squatted in the courtyard, looking at the boy next to him with a big smile. The boy next to him was about the same age as him, and he was munching on food, only to see that his clothes were in tatters, and a black wooden stick was tied to his back, and the burden behind him had long been cracked, and there was nothing inside.

Dashan was distracted, Xiaoshan ran over happily, Dashan grabbed him by the collar and threw him to his shoulder. The two children were happy and loud and noisy, and the mountains were not annoying, jumping and jumping, causing the villagers to keep looking. The woman in the distance looked happy and silently shed tears.

It was already nightfall, and the woman had already made her bed, and the rooms where the mountain and the hill lived were clean and tidy. Dashan walked around the room, nodding his head, thinking that the people in this village also lived a very comfortable life, compared with the rich villages in the Central Plains, it was not the same. Light a candle and the room will feel more comfortable.

Xiaoqing didn't want to be with her mother, so she directly picked up Dashan's body, and stroked the mask with her little hand, and the two children were curious about the face under the mask, but they tacitly agreed not to ask.

Xiaoshan suddenly asked in a low voice,

"Brother Dashan...... Uncle, do you know martial arts?"

"I don't know, it seems like it's going to be a little bit!"

"Many brothers in the village have gone to serve as soldiers, I heard that everyone is a martial artist now, and they are no longer afraid of being bullied by others, I also want to go, but I am young and my body is very thin......

"Xiaoshan really wants to learn martial arts!"

Xiaoshan's eyes lit up, "Of course I want to!

"Why is that?"

"If you learn martial arts, you can protect yourself, protect your mother and sister, protect the good guys, punish the bad guys, and I want to be a big hero!"

"But being a hero is hard. ”

"I'm not afraid of hardship, I'm willing to suffer anything. Uncle Dashan, can you teach me?" Xiaoshan looked at Dashan, his eyes full of anticipation. Dashan thought for a moment, tilted his head to the side,

"I can't even remember what it will be! But Xiaoshan, if the practice of martial arts is only for physical fitness, there is no defense in practice, if it is to defend the city and kill the enemy to defend the homeland, that is also the duty of my son, but if he has evil intentions, he only wants to be above others, and he bullies the good everywhere, and the practice of martial arts becomes an evil thing. Therefore, the practice of martial arts is ultimately the practice of the heart. I don't have any tricks or formulas to teach you. However, martial arts moves and the like are all learned from life. Just like going up a mountain to chop wood, a big man uses the same firewood knife, facing the same tree, and may not be as fast as a small hill. A pig killer can easily cut off the head of an ordinary martial artist with only a pig-killing knife, and he has never learned martial arts, but he can kill. Fight steadily, kill ruthlessly!" Dashan cleared his throat,

"Let's not talk about killing. This martial arts still has to be realized from life. Of course, the most important thing is that you have to train your body well, just like me, others don't dare to bully you when you see it!"

"I want to make a mask like Uncle Dashan, and when the village Amu gang sees it, they don't dare to bully me anymore!"

"Haha...... Masks are all bluffing, you have to have that strength yourself, so that people will not look down on you. Xiaoshan remembers, no matter how strong you are, don't bully others. ”

Xiaoshan nodded knowingly.

"There are many so-called famous martial arts, but in fact, they are all fanciful, and there are very few people who can understand the essence of them. If you want to become a martial arts master, it is extremely important to understand the root bones, but ordinary people can also achieve a little with unremitting efforts. This martial arts practitioner, the most important breath is breathing, but it's a pity that this most fundamental skill is the most easily overlooked......"

Dashan said a lot, suddenly stopped, and touched his head in embarrassment,

"I suddenly feel like a master!"

Xiaoshan was distracted, and he couldn't help but laugh when he heard this. "Uncle Dashan is a first-class master!"

The two talked happily, Xiaoshan would stop and ask one or two questions if he was puzzled, and Dashan also tried his best to answer, and then taught him the method of vomiting that was very beneficial. Xiaoqing didn't quite understand Dashan's words, and after a while, he lay down on Dashan and fell into a deep sleep. Dashan picked up the candle flame, hugged Xiaoqing and walked towards the door, as soon as he went out, he bumped into the woman, the woman was obviously very embarrassed, quickly hugged Xiaoqing, nodded lightly to Dashan, and went back to the room. The mountain noticed a crimson patch on the woman's cheeks.

It was late at night, and the snoring of the mountains came and went, and there was a lot of noise in the farmhouse. Xiaoshan also seems to have not slept so peacefully for a long, long time.