When the grandfather and grandson returned home, there were still a few rays of afterglow shining at the door, and the grandmother of the two stood anxiously waiting at the door. Wu Hou saw from a distance the silhouette of his grandmother in the afterglow of the sunset, she was leaning over, with an apron for cooking tied around her waist, her hands interlocked in front of her, and a few strands of white hair fluttering in front of her forehead in the breeze.

When I saw an old man and a young man appear in the field of vision, the face that was already full of wrinkles gradually showed a smile, and looking at Wu Hou's eyes full of love. For many years to come, Wu Hou often thought of his grandmother that evening, her anxiously waiting look, her rickety body, and her thin figure in the afterglow of the sunset.

"Are you back?" Grandma smiled and took the net bag that Wu Hou was carrying, carried the weight with her hand, and said, "Yo, it's quite a lot." ”

Wu Hou also laughed.

My grandfather went into the courtyard and said to the old woman, "Come, give me the fish, you boil the water, I will kill the fish, and I will have two drinks with our good grandson tonight." ”

The displeased grandmother reprimanded the old man, saying, "How old is he, let him drink." ”

"It's not small, it's not small, he'll be able to put me down in two years. When he spoke, his grandfather first pointed at Wu Hou and then at himself.

Wu Hou smiled on the side, he liked this feeling, just like when he was a child, when he lived in the mountains with his grandparents. At that time, no matter where the old couple went, they would take the young Wuhou with them, whether they were picking in the mountains or working in the fields, my grandfather would always carry Xiao Wuhou on his back, take him to see the scenery in the mountains, and tease the birds in the forest. If Wu Hou was unhappy and cried, his grandmother would beat and scold his grandfather, and his grandfather would not fight back, but changed the law to coax Xiao Wu Hou to be happy.

My grandfather was killing fish in the yard, and my grandmother was boiling water in the kitchen, preparing to make fish condiments. Wu Hou, who was idle, took out the game console from his schoolbag, sat at the door, and started playing. When he was tired of the game, he took out another martial arts novel, sat at the door, and read it carefully while it was still dark.

He envies the world of martial arts, the swords and swords in it, and the love of children. He also often wonders, in ancient times, was there really a so-called Jianghu, and was there really an innumerable number of martial arts masters?

Wu Hou, who was born in a peaceful era, knew nothing about that era.

The people who live on this land have experienced a bloody rebirth decades ago, and now they are standing in this new country that their ancestors exchanged their flesh and blood for, and everything starts anew. The emancipation of the mind has ushered in the greatest change in thousands of years for the nation that originally stuck to the East.

It didn't take long for the fragrant fish feast to be brought to the dinner table by my grandmother. She brought out the rice from the kitchen again, and beckoned Wu Hou to come and sit down. Grandpa took out his home-brewed apricot blossom wine from under the bed and said happily, "I've been looking forward to it for a long time, and I can finally open it today!"

The three of them sat down separately, and on the table was a fish feast made by grandma, which was full of aroma and made people drool when they smelled it. Grandpa also poured the apricot blossom wine into two wine glasses, then picked up a glass of wine and said, "Come, toast." ”

Wu Hou picked up his wine glass and touched it with his grandfather.

The two of them drank it all.

Grandma put a piece of fish meat in a bowl for Wu Hou, and said in her mouth, "Eat it quickly, eat it while it's hot." ”

Wu Hou nodded while eating, and said vaguely that it was delicious and delicious.

Grandma looked at Wu Hou, and her happiness was beyond words. When people reach old age, perhaps the happiest thing is that their children and grandchildren can be by their side. The old couple did not have a son in their lives, but only a daughter, that is, Wu Hou's mother. Wu Hou's mother went to school for a few years, and some culture, at the age of her early twenties, she walked out of the mountains and went to the outside world. Although he is not far from his parents, because of his work, he can rarely accompany the old couple in the mountains. Fortunately, Wu Hou was sent to the mountains to be taken care of by the two old men, and the old man had hope and loved Wu Hou.

They love Wu Hou, and Wu Hou loves them too.

Grandpa poured wine for Wu Hou cup after cup, Wu Hou had to drink cup after cup, and it didn't take long for him to feel dizzy, and when he picked up the wine glass and poured it into his mouth, the wine became difficult to swallow. Looking at the grandfather opposite, his face was already red and drunk.

When the grandmother saw that they were almost drunk, she put away the wine and stopped letting the old man pour it. The old man was probably really drunk, and shouted, "Bring me the wine, I will not get drunk with my good grandson." ”

Although Wu Hou was dizzy at this time, he was not drunk, and he looked at his grandfather at this moment, and he felt a little funny in his heart.

The grandfather, who was on the top of the wine, took Wu Hou's hand and said this and that, Wu Hou sat beside his grandfather in embarrassment, listening to him pour beans from a bamboo tube and talking about his grandmother's not. The grandmother, who was washing the pots and dishes in the kitchen, heard it clearly, and from time to time she defended herself.

After sending his grandfather to bed to rest, Wu Hou breathed a sigh of relief, sat on a small bench in the courtyard, and lit a cigarette. A young man who is not very old, he looks like an adult man.

Grandma came to Wu Hou's side at some point, looked at Wu Hou who was smoking, and said, "How did you learn to smoke? ”

Wu Hou extinguished the cigarette, looked up at his grandmother and explained: "Some classmates smoke, I will be able to smoke it for a long time, grandma rest assured, I smoke much less than my grandfather." ”

Grandma said helplessly: "You child, go to bed early." Then he went back to his room.

Wu Hou was the only one left in the courtyard, sitting quietly on the bench. The wine has long since faded, and Wu Hou is very sober at this moment, and his head is thinking about what he will do next.

That's right, he was going to climb the highest and most precipitous mountain within a radius of hundreds of miles, Pinghuang Mountain.

This idea was there before he came back, although his grandfather persuaded Wu Hou not to go, but Wu Hou's heart would never stop there. That's why he decided to climb the mountain at night, climb to the top of the mountain before dawn, and watch the sunrise from the top of the mountain, fulfilling his childhood dream.

After confirming that the two of them were asleep, Wu Hou tiptoed back to his room, took out a flashlight from his schoolbag, and prepared to go on the road. When he reached the door, he turned back and took the dagger with him.

After walking out of the courtyard gate, Wu Hou trotted all the way. The night was already deep, and I don't know what kind of birds were in the mountains, and the cries came intermittently from afar, adding a touch of solemnity to the night. If it were someone else, maybe it would be because of timidity and turn back. But Wu Hou, who walks alone at night, is not afraid, he is bold when he fights a little, and sometimes adults are afraid of long insects when they see them, in Wu Hou's eyes, they are just a small earthworm, which can be caught in their hands and played at will.

Wu Hou, who troted all the way, sweat mixed with the fog in the mountains, unconsciously wet his whole body. But his mood became more and more cheerful as he ran, laughing from time to time, or humming a little song like his grandfather.

In this way, Wu Hou, who ran and rested, did not long arrive at the foot of Pinghuang Mountain.

He looked at Pinghuang Mountain by the moonlight, looking up from the foot of the mountain, this mountain is towering, the only way up the mountain is already a mess of rocks, overgrown with weeds, and there are towering trees on both sides that have grown for an unknown number of years.

The branches and leaves of the big tree were luxuriant, obscuring the bright moonlight, Wu Hou turned on the flashlight, and began to climb the mountain by the light of the flashlight. With potholes under his feet and the slope of the mountain road, he walked a little hard.

When he reached a more dangerous place, Wu Hou had to bite the flashlight with his mouth, and then pulled the weeds or tree roots on both sides with both hands, so as to use his strength to continue climbing.

Several crows were alarmed by Wu Hou, crowed a few times, and flew away with their wings instigated. There was another rustling sound in the woods, as if something small was passing through the grass. Wu Hou shone it with a flashlight, looked for a while, and found that it was a small squirrel, and the relieved young man continued to walk.

Fortunately, the mountain is not too high, and Wu Hou, who has good physical strength, did not delay along the way, and it only took two or three hours of hard work to reach the top of the mountain.

Wu Hou, who was standing on the top of the mountain, gasped for breath, wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hand, and turned off the flashlight casually. He found a larger rock and sat down so that his legs could rest for a while.

At this time, it was the second half of the night, the moon was already in the west, and a few particularly bright stars were sparsely distributed around the moon, and there were not even extra clouds in the dark blue night sky.

Look at the bottom of the mountain, uneven, far and near the peaks, through the moonlight. The thin mist swirls in mid-air, like a dream, and the moonlight shines on the mountains, flowing like water.

The moon never skimps on its brilliance, and has been sprinkled on every mountain for thousands of years.

Wu Hou, who was immersed in this scene, gradually forgot the fatigue of his body. He involuntarily got up and walked forward, walked to the edge of the cliff, looked up at the sky, and felt that it was extremely beautiful, the most beautiful thing he had seen since he was a child, a round of clear light and bright moon.

There seems to be a breath in the chest that wants to break out of the chest, not shouting unpleasantly. Wu Hou opened his mouth wide and shouted hysterically from the top of this mountain, and the shouts echoed between the valleys for a long time.

And at this moment, behind him, a deafening voice suddenly sounded, which was more powerful than Wu Hou's shout, and it came from a farther distance, reverberating in the valley for a longer time.

Wu Hou was frightened by this loud roar, and beads of sweat the size of beans immediately appeared on his forehead. If he heard it correctly, the deafening roar just now should be a tiger's roar!

He turned around tremblingly and looked forward in the moonlight.

At a distance of more than ten meters in front of him, a huge white tiger was impressive!

When the white tiger saw Wu Hou turn around, he walked towards him step by step. Wu Hou's heart hung in his throat, and he didn't dare to act rashly, but he picked up the flashlight at a loss and shone it at the white tiger. Seeing the white tiger walking on the ground and making an offensive posture, Wu Hou hurriedly pulled out the dagger and aimed it at the white tiger, but the arm holding the dagger trembled involuntarily.

The white tiger jumped up suddenly, opened his bloody mouth at Wu Hou, and Wu Hou, who was in a panic, threw away his flashlight and dagger, slipped under his feet, and fell off the cliff.