Dad, I want to learn martial arts. ”

In Jiangtou Village, in the old fenced courtyard, Lu Xuan, who had just passed his twelfth birthday, stood in front of his father and said his thoughts.

My father was an ordinary fisherman, who had been fishing all year round and had a thick black skin, and his thin linen clothes exposed his lean muscles, which were dull but solid.

Hearing Xiao Lu Xuan's words, his father stopped the work of drying fish, glanced back at his son, was silent for a while, and said: "It's not easy to learn martial arts, it's more difficult than going out on the boat with me, and you have to be an apprentice first, let others beat and scold, can you stand it?"

Xiao Lu Xuan's eyes were full of determination: "Dad, I'm not afraid of hardship, I want to learn martial arts, I can't read, only by learning martial arts can I get ahead, and only then can my family live a good life." ”

Seeing his son's eyes, Father Lu nodded and agreed: "Okay, get up early tomorrow and follow me to the town to find your fourth uncle." ”

......

Early the next morning, before the morning light appeared, Xiao Lu Xuan got up early.

In the hall, my father and mother had already gotten up to pack our things.

"His father, the child is so old, it's better to go out on the boat with you to catch fish, if you really want to go to the city to work in the pharmacy, where can you stand it, I heard that the apprentice was tired to death in the pharmacy, I think it's better to forget it, you persuade the child, life at home is harder, there is no need to go outside. ”

Before he walked out of the house, Xiao Lu Xuan heard his mother's words with a little worry, and suddenly stopped.

Somehow, he walked back to the bed and sat down, because he thought about being able to learn martial arts at night, he still had a little restless mind, but at this time there was no trace at all, but there was an indescribable discomfort, and he couldn't express what he wanted to say, as if he was stuck in his throat.

"Don't you know what kind of temperament the child has since he was a child? Don't worry, there is a fourth child in the city, you can always take care of one or two, since the child has an idea, you have to let him try, no matter what the result is, it's better than complaining about you later." ”

Xiao Lu Xuan listened to his parents talking while packing up their things in the hall, and he was in a trance for a while, and his thoughts didn't know where he had drifted.

It wasn't until his mother came to wake him up and saw him sitting in a daze, and came over and patted him, that he came back to his senses.

Turning his head, in the dim hut, the mother, who was only twenty-seven years old, could already see a few strands of white hair on her head, wrinkles on her face, and her tanned skin, like a woman in her forties.

"Mother!"

Xiao Lu Xuan's heart hurt, and he screamed involuntarily.

"Get up and eat something first, move gently, don't wake up your sister, or you will cry again when you leave with your father." ”

The mother sighed and took Xiao Lu Xuan to the hall.

When Lu Xuan drank porridge, he kept admonishing: "You go to the city, you must not fight with people, the city is not a village, your father can't help if you commit anything, if you are bullied, go to your fourth uncle, we don't fight with people, but we can't be bullied by people, you know?"

"Mother, I know. ”

Lu Xuan's eyes were red, and he drank the fish porridge cooked with dried small fish in his hand in small sips, his voice was a little low, and he lost his previous liveliness.

"If you enter the shop and live in the pharmacy, remember to add more clothes when it is cold, and listen to the words of the pharmacy master, ah......"

Xiao Lu Xuan didn't know what to reply, just nodded.

After a while, Lu's father packed up his things, went into the house to eat something, and was about to set off.

The father was relatively silent and had nothing more to say, only the mother kept instructing, as if her son would not come this time, and told the child everything she could think of.

"Okay, it's not that I don't come back, or I went to work in the pharmacy, and I can always come back once a month, the fourth child has said, don't think about it, the children are twelve years old, when I am my age, don't you go out with others to walk through the goods? ”

Father Lu's words made Lu Xuan's mother stop talking.

His eyes were slightly red, he carefully touched Lu Xuan's little head, sniffed, and finally listened to the man's words, turned around, and walked into the house.

Xiao Lu Xuan looked back at the dark hall, there was still a faint firelight inside, and under the reflection of the firelight, his mother's thin shadow appeared on the threshold, motionless.

He wanted to walk back into the house, but he hung his head after thinking about it.

"Let's go, it's better to go to your fourth uncle early, otherwise he has something to do, and he can't delay other people's efforts. ”

Father called.

Xiao Lu Xuan followed silently, and after a while, he walked out of his own fence courtyard, walked for a short time and looked back, and saw his mother's figure standing at the gate of the fence courtyard, the sky was dark, and he couldn't see the specific appearance clearly, but he was deeply imprinted in his heart.

......

Silently watched his father's solid back all the way to the Xiaoyang River.

After putting all the salutes on the bamboo raft, my father immediately untied the bamboo raft and rowed all the way to Xunyang City.

The father and son were silent all the way, and they could only hear the sound of pennies sliding in the water and the fish spitting bubbles in the water.

When Jin Wu Dongsheng rose, the father and son came to Xunyang City.

Although it was still early in the morning, there were already many people on the dock, Lu Xuan had come to Xunyang City with his father, and he was not familiar with it, but he also had a good impression. My father often came to the city to sell fish, and he was familiar with the way, and it didn't take long to find the place where Lu Xuan's fourth uncle lived.

The fourth uncle has a lot of business, although he is a relative, but now he is not a fisherman, because the fourth uncle has a lot of brains, he started a business in the city, and in the fourth uncle's life, he already has a family business in the city.

But in the end, kinship is indispensable in the past.

Usually, if no one takes the catch with Lu's father for a while, or the price is too low to sell, he will entrust the fourth uncle to help deal with it and sell it for a better price.

The fourth uncle is a relatively strong person, and he has practiced some martial arts earlier.

Xiao Lu Xuan heard about the existence of martial arts from the mouth of the fourth uncle, and he came up with the idea of learning martial arts, and the relationship between uncle and nephew is relatively close.

"Second brother, is this the family's catch sun-dried?"

When the fourth uncle saw Lu's father, he asked.

Father Lu shook his head, glanced at Xiao Lu Xuan, and said, "Fourth, this kid wants to go to the shop to learn martial arts, can you help arrange it?"

"Learn martial arts?"

The fourth uncle looked at Father Lu, then at Little Lu Xuan, and said after a while: "It's not much trouble, it's just that the apprenticeship in the pharmacy is not easy to do, it's hard and tiring, this is still a rule, I don't care too much, can the child stand it?"

"Fourth uncle, I'm not afraid of hardship. ”

Xiao Lu Xuan raised his head.

"This is not ordinary suffering, you used to go fishing with your father, that is not bitter, do you know what to do when you enter the pharmacy? Ordinary adults can't do it, Ah Xuan, you are smart when you are young, but you have to think about it, this martial arts is not so easy to learn." ”