The weather is getting colder and colder, winter has arrived, and the entire Wangping mountain area is covered with a thick layer of snow. This season is the slack period when there is no farm work to do in the fields, and the farmers from the surrounding villages will go up to the mountains to hunt, hunt some hares, wild boars and other things down the mountain in exchange for some silver to subsidize the family.

On this day, Zhang Laohan, who lives in Qingmu Village at the foot of the mountain, was invited by several farmers from the same village, all brought their own hunting tools, and went into the mountain early in the morning, ready to hunt some wild animals. Because everyone only brought simple weapons such as forks, clubs, knives, and arrows, it took several families to hunt together to hunt the prey, and they did not dare to fight some fierce beasts.

After chasing a muntjac just now, Zhang Laohan ran away with a few other hunters. After chasing in the southeast direction for a while, Zhang Laohan stood and looked around, and saw that there was no movement of any beasts around, so he sat down next to a tree, ready to take a break.

He took out from his waist the dry food that his wife had prepared for him when he set off in the morning, and was about to eat a few bites.

Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of an animal's head poking out from under a dead old tree in the distance, and when he looked closely, he was sure it was a wolf. He hurriedly hid behind a tree, held his breath, and slowly took his eyes to look around. In this season, wolves are generally in packs, and it is rare to see a lone wolf, if they are found by the wolves, it is difficult to save their lives.

There were no wolves around, Zhang Laohan looked at the old tree again, only to see the wolf probe looking around, leaning out from behind the old tree and scurrying out into the distance. After a while, the wolf returned with a mouthful of dead leaves and burrowed behind the old tree.

After two round-trips, Zhang Laohan determined that it was just a lone wolf and decided to hunt it.

By the time the wolf leaned out from behind the tree again, Zhang Laohan had already raised his bow and arrows to aim at it. With a "whoosh", the arrow was fired in response to the sound and went straight to the old wolf.

Hearing the sound of the bowstring, the wolf immediately instinctively leaned down and looked back. With a "bang", I saw a sharp arrow deeply inserted into the trunk of the tree. The wolf was startled, and immediately jumped up, pulled his feet and galloped away, and disappeared into the woods in an instant.

After seeing the wolf run away, Zhang Laohan shook his head with a wry smile, and sighed to himself that his skills were not as good as before. He walked towards the old tree, ready to retrieve the arrow he had just shot.

When he came to the old tree, he plucked the arrow from the trunk and put it in the quiver, and he turned and came behind the tree.

The old man turned to the back of the tree, and found a large hole under the trunk, and some dead branches and leaves were scattered at the mouth of the hole, which was probably from the wolf.

Suddenly, he saw a branch in the middle of the cave move, and there seemed to be a living creature in the hole, could it be the baby laid by the old wolf or the prey hidden in the hollow of the tree?

He bent down and looked into the cave, and through the dead branches and leaves at the entrance of the cave, he saw as if there was a living white creature moving inside, and he didn't know what it was.

He simply poked his head into the hole to take a closer look. I saw a naked baby curled up on a rag, a pile of dead branches and leaves under the rag, and the baby also stretched out his little arms and legs from time to time to make a "babbling" sound.

Lao Zhang's surprise was not trivial, he hurriedly closed his eyes and shook his head, opened his eyes and looked carefully, and then hurriedly got up from the ground.

What the hell, there is a baby hidden in the wolf's den, whose baby is this? The wolf brought the baby, why didn't he eat it? On such a cold day, the baby didn't freeze to death? I can't believe my eyes?!

Lao Zhang leaned into the wolf cave again, and this time he saw it clearly. He was indeed an able-bodied little boy, dirty and smelly, and smelled of wolf milk, and it seemed that the wolf not only did not harm the baby, but also fed him with milk. The little boy was not afraid to see Lao Zhang coming in, and actually reached out to grab him.

Lao Zhang saw a circle of red rope tied around the baby's neck, and a round jade bi was tied to the red rope, which fell on the dead leaves next to the child's head, crystal clear, and emitted a green and green light in the black hole, which was a piece of superb jade at a glance.

Lao Zhang stretched out his hand to take off this piece of jade from the baby's body, put it in front of his eyes, and saw that on the jade, there were two brocades carved in the sky, rolling on the waves, the waves were crystal clear, and the brocade was vivid, it was really a superior work.

"Pisces?" Lao Zhang looked at this piece of jade, and couldn't help but change his face.

Zhang Laohan hurriedly put away the jade, leaned into the hole, took the child out, put it into his cotton bag, looked around to see that there was no one, and hurriedly went straight down the mountain.

After Zhang Laohan took the baby home, he told his wife that he had picked it up on the road, and that it might be an abandoned baby thrown away by someone else's family. His wife, Aunt Qin, really liked it, and she couldn't believe that someone threw such a well-behaved boy away when she held the baby in her arms.

"Maybe your mother is poorer than my family, I'm afraid I'll starve you to death, it's really pitiful," Aunt Qin said and fed the prepared broth to the baby to drink, "It's really a godsend for us, thank God! ”

"Whatever you want," replied the old man. The old couple have been married for more than 20 years, and they are almost fifty years old, and they have not yet given birth to a son and a half daughter. But the old man seemed to have something on his mind, and he couldn't be happy.

The jade piece seemed to show that the baby's origin was extraordinary, but what was the reason why this child, who had some connection with a family that had a prominent background, actually fell into the wolf's den, and the reason was incomprehensible.

Just a few days ago, Zhang Laohan heard that a great change had occurred in the capital, saying that Yuwen Haotian, the king of Zhenbei, was plotting to rebel, and he actually joined forces with the people outside the Saiwai to overthrow the Wu dynasty. After its conspiracy was foiled, he had fled back to the north alone to resist, but it was a pity that the Yuwen family was ordered by the emperor to be beheaded all over the house, more than 300 people were killed, and dozens of officials of all sizes involved in the Yuwen family were also sitting. This once most prominent family in the world in addition to the royal family was wiped out.

Zhang Laohan couldn't believe that the Yuwen family would rebel against him, thinking that back then, the Yuwen family was a wealthy family in the world, and he had used the power of the family to help the weak country of the Western Regions to develop and grow, and become stronger and stronger. At that time, the king of the Wu Kingdom, King Wu Yu, worshiped Yu Wenbo, the son of the Yu Wen family, as the prime minister, and with the assistance of the wise and unborn genius Yu Wenbo, the Wu Kingdom actually leveled the six countries of the Central Plains, and finally unified the world and established the current Dafeng Empire. Since then, the world has been peaceful, there has been no war for decades, the people are rich, and they live and work in peace and contentment, and there has been a scene of peace and prosperity for more than ten years. Naturally, the people of the world are very grateful to Yu Wenbo, the savior prime minister of the dynasty, how could such a family with a founding father and a family full of loyal martyrs betray the country? And what kind of connection does this child who wears a Pisces jade bi and was born in a wolf's den have with this family?

Thinking of this, Zhang Laohan decided to hide the jade bi and never mention it to outsiders again, and he didn't mention anything to Aunt Qin, but he just planned to raise this son well.