Yinquan Town, is located in the southernmost border town of the Great Xia Kingdom, surrounded by mountains, only a rugged mountain road in and out, the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but because it is too remote, even the nearest Baiyun City needs to run fast horses for six or seven days to arrive, and Yinquan Town itself does not have the slightest specialty, so except for the day of tax collection every month, there will be tax officials to collect taxes in the town, basically there are no outsiders in Yinquan Town, and the whole town seems to be isolated from the world.

Hidden Springs has existed for a long time, and the dynasties outside the town have changed and changed, but Hidden Springs has never been affected.

When the old people in the town tell stories, they will occasionally talk about the mountains and forests to the west of the town, and if you are lucky, you can find a pool of sacred springs, which have the effect of curing all diseases and prolonging life.

However, it is not a simple matter to find the Divine Spring, the Divine Spring itself is mostly passed on by word of mouth, and the versions that have been passed around do not know the geometry that has changed, except that the approximate location and effect have not changed, the time of the appearance of the Divine Spring cannot be determined at all, as for what kind of time and place are needed to find the Divine Spring, it is even more ethereal.

Moreover, in the mountains and forests to the west of the town, the trees are dense, the area is huge, and there are countless poisonous insects and beasts, and the degree of danger is not at all something that ordinary people can bear. Therefore, for a long time, whether in the town or outside the town, there will always be some people who are too confident in themselves who want to find the sacred spring, but the result is either there is no return, or nothing is found.

Slowly, the sacred spring in Hidden Spring Town has become a story of an old man teasing children, not to mention that no outsiders come to visit Shenquan anymore, even the people in the town are just a joke.

The town is very small and the population is not large, except for the Long family in the east of the town, the townspeople live on the farmland around the town, and the villagers help each other a little, and life is also happy, but the townspeople are a little xenophobic.

More than ten years ago, the Long family didn't know why more than 200 people from the whole family came to Longquan Town as a family, and it still caused a burst of rejection in the town at that time.

The Long family has some business dealings with Baiyun City, operates the only tavern in the town, and also opens a tailor shop, a medical hall, the Long family has been in the town for many years, from time to time to repair roads in the town, to the villagers and neighbors to see the disease, who has a bad harvest, but also to help subsidize subsidies, plus the Long family has money, slowly won the recognition of the townspeople. The Long family built a courtyard in the east of the town, which can be regarded as a home in the town.

In the westernmost part of the town, near the entrance to the mountain, there is a small courtyard that has fallen into disrepair.

In addition to the broken doors and windows, almost all stone building materials are also a must in the town, why so, the oldest old man in the town can not say, but the legend says that the courtyard was once inhabited by a strange person who did not interact with the townspeople, as for the owner of the stone courtyard where he went, no one knows, only know that one day many years ago, the gate of the stone courtyard that was originally open all day was suddenly locked, and then it was never opened.

A person with good deeds once dug a hole in the corner of the courtyard wall and climbed in, but when he came out, he became crazy, and it is said that he had hit a ghost, fell into an evil spirit, and some unbelievers or dared to venture into it and saw it, but none of them were out of the column, and when they came out, they all went crazy, and they said vaguely that there were ghosts, and since then, no one has ever gone in.

Fortunately, the things in the stone courtyard never hurt people in the stone courtyard, as long as they don't enter the courtyard, even if they walk by the edge of the stone courtyard at night, they never have an accident. Over time, the stone courtyard will no longer be taken care of, and the perennial wind and rain, coupled with uninhabited and repaired, will naturally be dilapidated.

Seven years ago, the town welcomed another group of outsiders, only this time it was a strange one, a leper dog and a baby.

When the leper dog came to the entrance of the town along the only mountain road in and out of the town, he also startled Uncle Ling, who was sitting under the big tree at the entrance of the town.

At that time, the leper dog was dying, and his whole body was covered with scars, and the mixed leper skin looked miserable. The leper hobbled and as soon as he reached the entrance of the town, he fainted and fell to the ground, and the basket that he had been holding in his mouth fell to the ground, and a baby's cry came from the basket.

Uncle Ling hurriedly ran closer to look into the basket, only to see a pink and tender baby boy wrapped in fine soft gold silk was crying hard in the basket, the baby had a small piece of jade plate hanging on his chest, and the jade plate was engraved with a word, this font Uncle Ling had never seen, but when Uncle Ling saw this word, he clearly knew in his mind that this was a cloud word.

Uncle Ling has no two daughters under his knees, and there is only one wife in the family, and he is distressed and happy when he sees the baby in the basket; and then looks at the leper dog lying on the side and covered in wounds, Uncle Ling hesitates for a long time, and finally takes the child and the leper dog home.

The kid in the basket was in good health, and he was still crying when he first entered Old Man Ling's house, and the old man hurriedly explained to the old woman of the Ling family who heard the sound and ran out of the door, which was gratifying to the old lady Ling.

Mrs. Ling hurriedly carried the child into the back room, looked left, looked again, laughter kept coming out of the back room, and after a while, the old woman hurriedly ran out again, asking Old Man Ling to take care of the child, and then busily went into the kitchen.

The old woman of the Ling family is old, and she has long run out of milk, so the old woman Ling was busy scooping rice, cooking some rice cereal to feed the child, and after the child finished eating, Xu was tired of crying, closed her eyes and fell asleep.

In order to thank the leper dog who sent the child, Old Man Ling cleaned up the wounds on the leper dog's body, got some herbs and smeared them on his body, and then bandaged them carefully, during which the leper dog woke up once, looked at Old Man Ling deeply, closed his eyes again and let Old Man Ling heal his injuries.

The old couple of the Ling family were worried about whether anyone would come to find the child at first, but no one came to find them in the month, and the blind dates in the township came to congratulate the old man Ling.

Ling Yun grew up slowly under the care of the second elder, and the tiger-headed boy has a sweet mouth, coupled with his intelligence and cleverness, he is also deeply loved by the neighbors.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, five-year-old Ling Yun suddenly got a strange illness, and suddenly his whole body would be cold and hot all day long, foaming at the mouth, the old man Ling was busy, and rushed to Baiyun City to invite Lang Zhong a few times, but none of them could be cured, and even the cause was not found, and the old woman Ling, who loved Ling Yun the most, followed closely and also got the same strange disease, and died soon after;

Old Man Ling was angry and anxious, and he was reluctant to Lingyun, so he entrusted Lingyun to the care of his neighbors, and went to the mountains and forests west of the town to find a divine spring to treat Lingyun, and finally never returned.

A year and a half later, the neighbor who took care of Ling Yun actually got the same strange disease for the whole family, and no one in the family of four was spared, and Ling Yun was miraculously cured, and since then, the people in the town have regarded Ling Yun as a disaster star and no longer want to see him.

Seven-year-old Ling Yun only has a leper dog and is always around, and there is no one around him who can take care of him, and he can only eat something at the stall vendor on weekdays, or go to the garbage heap to pick up a few mouthfuls of scraps to survive, the people in the town know that Ling Yun is pitiful, and seeing him stealing things is to drive away things, there is nothing more excessive, only the third young master of the Long family, Long Xuan, leads a group of children in the town, and often chases Ling Yun for fun.

Originally, Old Lady Ling also left a room for Ling Yun, but one day, this house caught fire inexplicably, and from then on, Ling Yun could only live on the streets.

Once, Ling Yun was chased by Long Laosan and them, and when he arrived at the edge of the stone courtyard, Ling Yun, who had no one to take care of, didn't know the story of the stone courtyard at all, and took the leper dog into the courtyard, but he didn't find that the small jade plate that had been hanging on his chest since he was a child shone up while entering the courtyard.

Turning his head and finding that Long San and the others didn't chase in, they breathed rapidly for a while, but they also calmed down, and lay down in a casual place to rest for a while, Long San and the others laughed and scolded outside for a while, but they had no choice but to leave.

After a long time, the former clever Lingyun has become withdrawn, except for the leper dog, he is not willing to talk to people, he goes out of the yard to find something to eat during the day, and when he meets Long San to chase after him or hides in the yard at night, although no one speaks, he is also settled.