Chapter 1 Helping Each Other in the Dark

In today's world, the world is divided into five:

Jingzhou in the Central Plains, Shengshenzhou in the East, Huangcang in the North, Huaizhou in the West, and Yunnan in the South.

Among these five states, the territory of Xiqi Huaizhou is the broadest, and the vast area divides Huaizhou into two completely different worlds, east and west.

The eastern part of Huaizhou is close to Jingzhou in the Central Plains, the population is like a shuttle, the trade and trade are frequent, and the economy is extremely prosperous, while the western part of Huaizhou is dominated by high mountain peaks, the traffic is inconvenient, the population is sparse, and the bustle is far from the east.

In the southwestern border of Huaizhou, there are mountains and strange rocks, and the ancient town of Sanhe is located in it.

The town of Three Rivers is full of peaks and uneven trees, and it is the end of autumn, when the leaves are scattered and only the bare trees remain, and the dreary sky seems to make the vast mountains a little less vibrant.

The rising peaks seem to be forced into the clouds, the winding river is stubbornly murmuring to the east, and the vague sunset sends a faint warmth, and the entire town of Three Rivers seems to be shrouded by an invisible force, for generations, endlessly.

Among the many mountains, there is a mountain peak that is extremely tall and steep, with wide rocks and sparse vegetation, and it stands impressively and reaches into the sky.

This mountain has a very special name...... Shenfeng Mountain, Shenfeng Mountain is the largest mountain in Sanhe Town, its north, west, and south are full of abundant plants, but the east is a steep cliff, it is said that this is the "Ziyang Zhenren" left when he attained the Tao, and the cliff at the top of the mountain is also engraved with "Purple Qi from the East, the sun is shining" eight big characters, but Shenfeng Mountain is extremely steep and steep, no one has ever been able to reach the top of the mountain, and I don't know if this legend is true or false!

There is a winding path at the bottom of Shenfeng Mountain, the path is very narrow and steep, and if you go up along the path, you can go from the bottom of the mountain to the halfway up the mountain, and there is a relatively open place in the middle of the mountain, where a young man is practicing swords.

"Boom", "Clank", "Boom", ......

The boy who practiced the sword was called Su Xing, he was already twenty years old, he held a coming-of-age ceremony two years ago, according to the tradition of the town of Three Rivers, once the coming-of-age ceremony was held, he was eligible to participate in the five-year martial arts tournament, and the next martial arts tournament will be held next year, and Awakening has been waiting for this day.

In order to be able to come out on top in the martial arts competition, Su Xing has been practicing the sword hard, here, lonely and empty, there are few people, and it is suitable for practicing the sword, and Su Xing has been practicing the sword here for ten years.

At first, Su Xing's swordsmanship improved by leaps and bounds, but later, Su Xing felt that his swordsmanship had not improved in the slightest, especially in the past three months, Su Xing even felt that his swordsmanship was not advancing but retreating, despite this, Su Xing still spent a lot of time practicing swords every day.

From noon to now, it has been a full four hours since I woke up.

The muscles on his face were tense, beads of sweat the size of soybeans slowly ran across his forehead, and his sharp eyes stared straight at the long sword in his hand, which danced, swirled, and stabbed obliquely, and every sword, move, and style seemed to contain endless anger.

The east side of Shenfeng Mountain is a cliff, at this moment wake up and feel exhausted and tired, so he paced to the edge of the cliff, looked down, the cliff is twenty or thirty zhang deep, people can't help but be daunted, as if a careless fall will be crushed, wake up pale, but there is no fear in the eyes.

"Not all perseverance is meaningful, not all hard work can be exchanged for success, not all efforts will be rewarded, but some things have to be done, even if there is little hope, we must not hesitate. 』

After standing for a while, he woke up more and more tired, and his legs and feet were even a little numb, so he slowly stood up and slowly walked to the side of the mountain wall, there was a big stone next to the mountain wall, and he woke up and prepared to lie on the stone to rest.

Su Xing Fang wanted to lie down, but saw a blue leather book placed under the stone, Su Xing wondered: What is this, I often practice swords here, and often lie on the stone to rest, but I have never seen this, Su Xing felt more and more novel, so he took out the things under the stone.

This is a blue leather book, on which are also written'Taiyi swordsmanship' four big characters, this is clearly a sword book, there is a sword next to it, wake up to pick up the sword, slowly out of the sheath, a cold air from the blade of the sword, wake up hands are trembling, staring at this sword tightly, he knows, this is a rare good sword, compared with the sword he made, it is really a world of difference.

"It's strange, how can there be such a good sword and sword book here? Someone can't have secretly given it to me! Or someone has hidden the sword and sword book here......

"Very few people come here, except for me and Qing'er, who else knows this place?

Over the years, although Su Xing has been practicing swordsmanship hard, but due to the lack of mental mantras and the guidance of masters, the swordsmanship practiced is very messy, and it is not a faction.

At this moment, Su Xing suddenly remembered what his father had said: Don't look at indecent things, don't move indecent people.

"Is it wrong to move other people's things without getting their permission, which violates the norms of 'etiquette'?"

"But if these things were really given to me by someone else, if I didn't accept them, wouldn't I be disappointed by others?"

After struggling for a while, he woke up and put the sword and the sword book under the stone, preparing to take three days as the deadline, if the sword and the sword book were still here after three days, he would start to practice the above swordsmanship.

After a while, the sleepiness of waking up disappeared, and he had no intention of resting, so he took his sword and walked home.

Awakening walked to the bottom of the mountain along the path of Shenfeng Mountain, the path was very narrow, just enough for the next person to pass, Awakening had walked many times, of course he didn't feel laborious at the moment, and soon came to the bottom of the mountain, the road at the bottom of the mountain was wide, and Awakening quickened his pace and walked home.

For the vast and traceless China, Huaizhou is only one of the five continents, for the vast Huaizhou, Sanhe Town is just an unknown corner, and for Sanhe Town, which has thousands of households, the Su family is just a very ordinary family.

Su Xing kept walking towards home, and soon, Su Xing walked to the front of the house, but saw a girl dressed in green looking at the door.

She looked like she was about thirteen or fourteen years old, dressed in a green dress, with willow eyebrows and almond eyes, a small mouth cherry red, a slight flush on her fair cheeks, a smile at the corners of her mouth, two small dimples looming, curly black and bright hair, and a water chestnut face, lovely and fresh.

The girl's name is Su Qing, she is the younger sister of Su Xing, seeing Su Xing coming, Su Qing seemed very happy, "Second brother came back very early today! I was about to go to look for you just now, but I didn't expect you to come back." ”

Su Xing nodded, "I've been quite tired from practicing swords in recent days, so I'm back earlier than ever before", Su Xing walked towards the house as he spoke, and Su Qing followed behind.

The wide room looks a little dilapidated, there are large and small wooden basins on the ground, some basins are soaking soybeans with clean water, some basins are filled with white tofu dregs, white and tender tofu is placed on the wooden frame next to it, and a stone mill is placed in the middle of the house.

A twenty-three or four-year-old man was turning the stone mill, and under the rotation of the huge stone mill, snow-white soybean milk continued to flow out from around the stone mill, and a large wooden basin was placed under the stone mill, and the snow-white soybean milk all fell into the basin.

The man who pushed the grinding is named Zhuang Zhuang, the brother of Awakening and Su Qing!

He has a round face, a big head, thick arms, a sturdy figure, a body tightly wrapped in light gray clothes, and his head is tightly wrapped in a rag.

Zhuang Zhuang had a serious illness when he was young, and after the serious illness, his body became more and more fat, and he no longer had the handsome face he used to be, not only that, but his speech was no longer clever, and his personality became withdrawn.

Under the long-term comfort and care of his family, Zhuang Zhuang is not rejecting people thousands of miles away, but obeys his parents' words in everything, and takes good care of his awakening and Su Qing, but his body is no longer flexible, and he doesn't know how to think about problems.

Zhuang Zhuang turned the stone mill while wiping the sweat from his forehead, he smiled, not impatient, and looked extremely calm.

Zhuang Zhuang only cared about grinding, but he didn't realize that Su Xing and Su Qing had come to him, Su Xing reached out and patted Zhuang Zhuang's shoulder, "Big brother, I'm back." ”

Hearing the sound of awakening, Zhuang Zhuang reacted, looked up at the awakening, and said with a smile: "Second brother, you are back, we can eat, hehe!"

Zhuang Zhuang spoke very slowly, and his voice was even a little hoarse, but the smile on his face was extremely bright, and there was no falsehood!

In Zhuang Zhuang's opinion, as long as he wakes up and comes back from sword practice, it is time to eat, and he woke up earlier than in the past, and his mother has not yet cooked the meal, but Zhuang Zhuang does not understand this, at this moment he is already washing his hands and preparing to eat.

When the mother saw this, she thought that she was tired and hungry, so she hurriedly prepared the meal, but after a while, the mother made the meal, and the family sat down together and began to eat.