Ping'an Town has more than 500 households and a population of nearly 10,000.

As the saying goes, "Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes." ”

In this almost isolated town, it should be a paradise, but there is no legendary earth spirit in such a beautiful place, but most of them are rogue men's rogue rosters and dog thieves, and the women in the market are scolding Huai and saliva.

The town is mostly full of poor farmers and a few hunters, and some people with bright brains can set up shops in the town and do some small business, and the life is more leisurely than that of those who work in the fields. Only people who have a relationship with the outside world are really rich and noble.

To the south of the town is Fu Tao Street.

As the old saying goes: "Rich Tao Bai, Huge Cheng Luo." The mountain is good at Tongling, and the family hides the golden hole. ”

Hence the name Fu Tao Street. In fact, it's just far-fetched!

In addition to a few wealthy courtyards, Fu Tao Street is only a large alley, but the people who live here are relatively wealthy, so that the distance between the houses is particularly large. Coupled with the winding roads, compared to the dirt roads of Thorn Goose Lane to the west, the smooth bluestone-paved roads here are simply wide streets.

The east side of the town is Longjiao Lane, legend has it that there were immortals who cut off the real dragon's head here, and the dragon's horn was split into pieces, so later people are quite proud to call this place Longjiao Lane.

To the north is the Plum Garden, which at first glance sounds poetic and picturesque! However, it is the most ordinary people who live here, and the climate of the town is cold, which is suitable for the growth of plum blossoms, but it is just a forest of wild plums that are left untended.

Maybe this is "unintentionally planting willows into the willows"!

True to its name, Thorn Goose Lane is a small alley with only a few dozen households.

Legend has it that the ancients pierced the throat of a swan with an awl, killing it quickly and keeping it intact. The awl, which is used to kill geese, is called the spiny goose cone.

Thorn Goose Lane means "a place where there are no tiles and no cones." "It's really worthy of the name, and it's just the right way to describe it. Thorn Goose Lane is located on the west side of the slap, and it is stormy in the town.

If Fu Tao Street is a family treasure and Mei Garden is a family with money to spare, then Thorn Goose Lane is full of food and money.

There is a family surnamed Shi in Thorn Goose Lane, a family of three in addition to two acres of thin fields, they rely on the family to go up the mountain to hunt and collect medicine to feed, and they go down to the river to fish in their spare time, and the life is not much worse than the people on the other side of the plum garden, and the children can also add one or two new clothes during the New Year's holidays.

But the preference was not long, once the man went up the mountain alone, met a big worm, the man died soon after returning home scarred, leaving the woman and a five-year-old child to depend on each other.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, and the woman was heartbroken, and she became ill from exhaustion, so she also went with the man two years later, and the seven-year-old child was completely helpless.

The child's name is called poetry without reading.

Usually orphans are mostly homeless on the streets, either stealing chickens and dogs, or begging for food to make a living.

However, Shi Wunian did not live on the few rations left in his family, like those unfortunate orphans.

What can a seven-year-old child do? He cannot go up to the mountains to hunt or go down to the river to catch fish! But it is not difficult for a child living in a small area to pick some wild vegetables and fruits, catch crabs, and catch yellow eels. As for the loaches, the slippery gadgets are really hard to catch.

With the remaining two acres of thin land rented by a neighbor with a few consciences, he survived tenaciously.

But everyone knows it, and behind the understatement, the hardships and hardships of a young child's survival alone can be imagined.

If a person feels that life flies quickly, he usually uses words such as ten years and a hundred years to describe it, but Shi Shi Wunian counts the days and lives! He began at the age of seven and did not get used to the life of a person until he was twelve years old.

Now, eight years have passed, and Shi Wunian has changed from a child to a teenager. Now he is no longer a child who has to worry about survival every day, and he is very skilled in hunting in the mountains and fishing in the river.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, Duanyang Festival.

The young man stood by the Qinglong River, looking at the dragon boats scrambling in the river and was silent. He felt very strange why there was a sword boat mixed in with it when it was a dragon boat race, and this sword boat always stood out and won the first place every year.

There were crowds on both sides of the river, the screams of women, the scolding of men, and the sound of children fighting, but none as loud as the drums on the dragon boats.

As expected, the sword boat came out on top. The men scolded and scolded, they always felt that the dragon boat was more domineering and majestic, and this result was naturally disappointing to him.

The sun is slanting, and the annual dragon boat race is also coming to an end, and Shi Wunian returns to his yard alone.

Then I remembered a loud and excited voice: "Little lion, open the door!" Your uncle has come to see you. ”

Shi Wunian opened the door, and a tall figure flashed into the door, and then quickly came a "monkey stealing peach".

Shi Wunian dodged and said helplessly: "Can you not use this obscene move on me!"

"Of course not, Uncle Ben is here for your own good, don't you know! Those girls outside like to use this trick, I'm afraid that you won't be able to resist it in the future, so let you raise your awareness of prevention in advance." The tall boy grinned.

When the tall boy turned around, Shi Wunian kicked the tall boy on the ass and said, "Get out of your ball." ”

The tall boy didn't care, he just patted his ass and said triumphantly: "Do you guess Uncle Ben encountered something good today?"

"Did you catch that white deer?" Shi Wunian asked in surprise.

The tall young man said proudly: "That's it, Uncle Ben said that you must catch it." ”

It was a white deer they met on the mountain half a year ago, full of aura, and the two teenagers liked it very much.

At that time, the tall boy said that he must catch it, and if he sold it to the rich old men on Fu Tao Street, he would definitely be able to exchange it for a lot of silver.

Shi Wunian said that if you catch it, don't sell it, how good it is to stay around.

The tall boy laughed and scolded and said, "What are you thinking, kid, haven't you caught it yet?

So the two teenagers waited for half a year, and they would meet every three or five days. Every time, I was almost able to catch it, but I just couldn't catch it, I didn't want to go to the mountains today Shi Wunian suddenly wanted to see the dragon boat race, so he didn't go to the mountains, and he was caught by the tall boy who persevered.

Shi Nian asked, "Do you really want to sell it to the rich people on Fu Tao Street for money?"

"Sell a fart, it took me half a year to catch it, why should I sell it to those old kings. One by one, they exert their strength on the belly of their maids every day, so that Uncle Ben will not let them slaughter the deer to make up for their bodies!" said the tall young man proudly

Shi Wunian breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Then what are you going to do with it?"

The tall boy said casually: "Raise it first, anyway, it doesn't eat meat." ”

"Hey, do you know that there are a bunch of outsiders in the town? I heard that some immortal sect sent them here to select disciples. The tall boy asked

Shi Wunian remembered that he did see a group of strangely dressed people by the river during the day, and they were sitting in the place where the Liu family was watching, and it seemed that the Liu family had special respect for them. You must know that the Liu family is one of the five wealthy families in the town, and the other four families in the town are the Li family, the Zhou family, the Lin family and the Zhao family.

Shi Wunian asked, "Are those people who live in the Liu family on Futao Street?"

The tall young man said: "I just heard about this today when I came down from the mountain, do you want to try it?" Uncle Ben is going to try it, or let's go together, if this thing is done, the outside of the flower world in the future, not to mention like the girls in the town, even if the legendary mountain fairy, how much is not, then it is really free and happy." ”

"I'd better forget it, I heard that you need to have some cultivation qualifications. Shi Wunian sighed

The tall young man said angrily: "Fuck your eggs, how do you know that you don't have that bullshit cultivation qualification if you don't try it." ”

He smiled slowly and said, "Actually, I think you have the qualifications, my trick monkey stealing peaches has not been successful once, you kid is talented." ”

Poetry is thoughtless and speechless

The tall boy continued: "Are you afraid that you won't be able to choose to be laughed at?"

Poetry is silent

The tall boy sneered: "I said that poetry is not in mind, do you think you are very remarkable? Do you think that you are more noble than the old fellow of the Futao Street Horse Gang? Do you think that being laughed at is a great grievance? I tell you, no." No one can live without being wronged, the old guys on Futao Street can't, and neither can the so-called immortals from the mountains, let alone you, a poor and white guy. Do you think that when you are starving to death, you still grit your teeth and insist on not begging people, not stealing chickens and touching dogs?"

He breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "Yes, you are very hard, I admit that I can't do this, I have touched people's houses and steamed buns when I was too hungry to stand it. But are you really willing to live your whole life in this broken house? Do you think that so people will not look down on you? To tell you the truth, it's not a matter of whether others look down on you, it's that people haven't looked down on you at all. It's nothing, it's just a test, and it doesn't get in the way of other people's things, you don't care about other people's rumors. Don't you dare to try it?"

Long!

Shi Wunian muttered, "I almost can't survive in this town, will it be okay to go outside?"

The tall young man said: "Those old men in the town didn't say that people moved living trees and killed people, this shouldn't be complete." Besides, we're all like this, can it be worse?"

Shi Wunian said: "Then let's go together." ”

The tall boy laughed, he got up and patted his ass and said, "Okay, that uncle will call you tomorrow morning." ”

Shi Wunian said: "Come on, if you were expected to call me, I'm afraid that people would have chosen someone to leave a long time ago." ”

The tall boy smiled and scolded and left.