Taoxi Village, Zhuyuan County, is a remote mountain village located at the foot of the mountain, surrounded by mountains within a radius of ten miles, and is named after a stream that runs down the mountainside.

Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, more than 30 families in the village mostly make a living by bamboo strip craftsmanship and fruit sales.

Li Laohan at the entrance of the village has two bamboo houses, which were built by Li Laohan with the money he has saved from selling fruits for many years to find an old craftsman in the south of the village, and after living in the new house, he no longer has to be drenched in the rain and freeze in the low and leaky thatched house.

It is said that the ancestors of the Li family were in business, but later the family fell into the middle of the road and somehow stayed in the village.

When Li Laohan was young, he was idle, thinking about making money in business, but he was defrauded of his family wealth by a businessman who traveled and became a well-known shabby in the village, so he had to continue to plant trees and sell fruits to make a living.

Originally, there was no girl in the village who looked down on him, and later the village moved back to an old official, who had a daughter who had not been married for a long time.

When the old man learned about it, he strongly objected, but his daughter had made up his mind, and the old man broke off the relationship with his daughter in a fit of anger and moved out of the village with his family.

Although the daughter is sad, the matter has come to this point, she can only marry a chicken and a dog and a dog, but Li Laohan and his wife, who finally got married, have never had children, and this matter has become a depression in the hearts of the two people.

It wasn't until Li Laohan was forty-seven years old that his wife became pregnant, and during her pregnancy, the couple went up the mountain to chop wood, and suddenly something came through her with golden light, and her wife was dazzled by the golden light for a while, and her feet rolled down the mountainside.

Li Laohan on the side was frightened when he saw this, and he went crazy after the first expedition, and chased down the mountain with a roll.

Li Laohan, who was covered with scratches, found his unconscious wife at the bottom of the mountain, and hurriedly carried back to the village to find someone to treat him.

Li Laohan couldn't believe it for a while, rolling down from such a high mountain, the child was actually safe and sound, but after learning that the mother and son were safe, a hanging heart finally let go, and he didn't think about it anymore, just thought about it as a blessing from God.

Half a year later, the child was born, it was a big fat boy of six pounds and two taels, Coke broke the old man who had a son, when the child was full moon, the old man took out a small amount of savings and set up three or five tables of simple dishes in the village to feast on the neighbors, and it happened that a passing fortune teller arrived in the village and was invited by Li Laohan.

When the fortune teller saw the child, his brows tightened, and he looked at it carefully for a while as if he had discovered something.

Then he forced his expression and said to the villagers: The child is full of heaven, the square circle of the earth pavilion is a blessed face, and the five long and full roots are not ordinary......

Li Laohan didn't understand these things in the clouds, he only knew that the child was blessed, and he was so happy that he took the opportunity to ask the fortune teller to name the child.

After a little thought, the fortune teller wrote two large characters on the ground with the stick feet of the hexagram flag. "Kunlun, let's call it Li Kunlun," the fortune teller said thoughtfully, touching his beard.

"Li Kunlun, a good name sounds very imposing," Li Laohan was illiterate, but he was obviously very satisfied with the name, holding the child and constantly chanting the new name, how to see how the child was pleasing to the eye, and he was very happy.

The villagers in the banquet were also infected with emotions when they saw this, and for a while the banquet was full of pleasant atmosphere, and no one cared about the fortune teller next to him, who stared at the two words on the ground, shook his head and sighed softly

"Li Kunlun ......"

He ignored the villagers, put away the hexagram flags, and left the village without looking back......

The life of Li Laohan's family in Taoxi Village is peaceful and happy, and Li Laohan and his wife, who are old enough to have a son, can be said to be extremely poor for this only son, and they can't wait to give him everything they can.

In the blink of an eye, the child is 8 years old, after all, Mrs. Li is an official lady, and she is reluctant to let her son farm and plant trees in the mountains all his life like Li Laohan......

Another five years have passed, fortunately, the son has not lived up to the expectations of the old couple, although it is not full of poetry and books, but 13-year-old Li Kunlun has been able to read and understand by himself, often tell his parents some allusions to the scriptures and history that he reads, and even the village neighbors will come to him for a simple calligraphy and painting to hang up to attract some celebrations.

In this village of more than 100 people, Li Kunlun is like a prodigy-like existence in the eyes of the villagers. The old couple is deeply gratified by this, their countless days and nights of hard work have finally not been in vain, maybe in the future, their son will be able to gain fame and fame, and get an official and a half-job to glorify his ancestors.

The family is kind and filial, happy and happy, and the days are not bitter.

In a few days, it will be his father Li Laohan's 60th birthday, Li Kunlun remembered the love of his parents in the past, and wanted to hold a decent birthday for his father, but the family was already poor, and his parents had provided all the hard-earned money for his own education over the years, so there was no money left for his birthday. Li Kunlun had to find another way.

The neighbor Zhang Mingjiang's family has two sons, the eldest son of the Zhang family, Li Kunlun, is a few years old, although he has not read any books, he usually takes care of the children in the village, and Li Kunlun also eagerly calls Brother Zhang.

A few days ago, when Li Kunlun returned to the village from the county's private school, he met him at the entrance of the village, and the honest Brother Zhang told Li Kunlun that he picked several rare herbs in the mountains yesterday and went to the market to exchange a lot of money.

After making up his mind, Li Kunlun went up the mountain with a knife and a coarse cloth bag without telling Li Laohan and his wife after lunch.

After working all afternoon, there was still a bit of gain, the sun was about to set, and the outlines of several mountains were dyed red by the sunset, which looked real and illusory, Li Kunlun didn't care about the scenery, wrapped the medicinal herbs in a coarse cloth and prepared to go down the mountain.

When I walked to the mountainside, I suddenly felt a thunderstorm overhead, and the sky was suddenly covered with dark clouds, and after a while, it began to rain heavily, and the clouds above from time to time came out with deafening thunder.

Li Kunlun was a little scared and unconsciously quickened his pace and wanted to go home as soon as possible, but before he took a few steps, he saw a few people-thick blue lightning burst out from the clouds and hit the direction of the peach forest on the mountainside.

After standing firm, I fixed my eyes and looked into the clouds, there was still thunder and lightning, and suddenly a blue thing flashed under the clouds, and it appeared for a very short time, and immediately disappeared into the dark clouds.

Li Kunlun was a little suspicious of his eyes, it was a strange big bird that he had never seen before, the whole body was light blue, although it flashed by but the moment it appeared, half of the sky was dyed blue by it, and what was even more amazing was that this bird was struck by lightning and was unscathed, Li Kunlun remembered the ghost and monster talk he had seen, and he couldn't let himself encounter something extraordinary.

Before he could figure it out, the mountain shook again, and from the place where the lightning had struck just now, there was another loud sound, which was different from the moment when Shi Cai flickered, this time the loud sound was like a thousand troops galloping.

"The voice is...... It's not good!!" Li Kunlun shouted, only to see that the previously docile Peach Creek turned into a tyrannical torrent rushing towards the bottom of the mountain, and the Peach Creek obviously wouldn't flow in that direction, but it wasn't because the lightning strike just now made the flood change course.

However, the village that was still lit up with a few bright lights just now under the mountain has been completely engulfed by the flood. Li Kunlun sat paralyzed on the ground, all this that suddenly happened in front of him was beyond his ability to bear, those villagers who used to call him Mr. Xiao Li respectfully to him, the eldest brother of the Zhang family who treated people generously in the neighborhood, and his parents who laughed with him in the morning, all disappeared in just half a day with the village that he grew up with......