Chapter 2: Childhood Fog
"Today is really lively, two waves of people have gone, and another wave of people has come. "The old man clicked his lips and licked the chicken thighs on his mouth.
Soon after, four people came from the fairy road, but they were half-grown and half-grown children came over with a sigh of relief, and when they saw the old man, they shouted, "Old man, we have come to listen to your story again." β
"What kind of stories do you tell that affect my sleep. β
"Of course, it's to tell the story of Big Brother Baili Mist!"
The old man turned over on the makeshift bunk, snorted his nose, and said, "Hmph, I've talked about it a bit, you guys are really greedy." Besides, Baili Wu is a hundred family Zhuang people, you are all children of a hundred families, and you don't even know about your own people, and you want me to talk about it as an old man, don't you bother. β
"Look, old man, what we've brought you!" one of the teenagers smiled and pulled out an oilcloth bag, fragrant with the smell of meat.
"Roast chicken?"
"yes, exactly!" the children coaxed.
The old man's nose twitched
After three strokes, he turned around with a smile and said, "I'm talking about it, but you must not go back and tell your parents about the fog." β
"Grandpa, don't we dare, when it comes to talking about Baili Wu, in addition to being beaten, he will be beaten, and he will have to be kicked at the least. However, since it is the deeds of our hundred families, we want to hear that we have heard that he is a disaster star, and he was born with a river of blood, but is there such a thing?"
The old man nodded and said, "Yes, yes, but it's not that exaggerated." β
Another young man said: "The adults say that he is the scum of our hundred schools, the hooligan Lai Zi in the village, don't we believe it? If such a person would build an ancestral hall for him, and there are so many people who come to burn incense and kowtow, even the ancestors of our hundred families have not been treated like this." β
The old man smiled slightly and said, "He's really a scum, but he's much stronger than your ancestors." His story can't be told for a few days, as long as you still have chicken to come, I will tell you a paragraph, if you haven't heard enough, I will tell you from the beginning in the future, and yes, there are many people here who are talking about him, and I, after living here for a long time, I will know more, and there are many new legends of him. I'm afraid you don't have enough chicken legs. β
"It's enough, it's enough, grandpa, you just need to speak, and we'll have chicken legs to send." Hee-hee. The half-eldest son at the head said with a grin.
"Okay, then every day at noon, you just need to be on time, I'm just hungry. β
"Okay, no problem. β
The old man stabilized his mind, drank a sip of mountain spring water, looked into the distance, seemed to be reminiscing, seemed to be in reverie, seemed to be watching, on the top of this mountain, on the top of the falling dragon cliff, surrounded by four children, like a private school teacher who preached and taught and solved doubts, began a story that seemed to never be finished.
From Huyang to Xiguan, you must pass through Nanhe Nanhefu, go out of Wang Bashan and go to the neck dam to enter Xiguan, and the capital of Xiguan is Anhu.
If you take the waterway through the Hejiang River, it will be much closer to Anhu Province, but if you want to go to the Chuankou, you have to pass through Nanhe Beling County.
From Nanhe Province in Nanhe Province to Anhu Province in Xiguan Province, it is necessary to pass through Qiufeng, Chongbei, Fenglou Mountain, and reach Qiushan, and go to Anhu through Qiushan, which is all subordinate to the Anhu area.
A thoroughfare that has been walked for hundreds of years is the famous sheep road, which means a road that only a master climber like a goat can pass. After Chongbei, eighty miles to the west is Fenglou Mountain, and Fenglou Mountain is thirty miles away is Hejiang, and there is no need to go through Chongbei to go to Hejiang.
And the rivers and mountains are steep, the water flow is turbulent, passing through several famous mountains and rivers, dangerous beaches, waterfalls, flying springs one after another, the wide river can be a hundred zhang big boat, and the small river can not pass through the boat five zhang wide. Therefore, the largest boat here can only pass through the five zhang boats, and since ancient times, the river has also been called "the five zhang boat river".
There is a beach near Fenglou Mountain, the water level is deeper, but the embankment is very short, there is a name Pingshui Beach in the beach, Pingshui Beach is the Falling Dragon Cliff and the Swallowing Dragon Pond for nine miles upward, and the waterfall is naturally called the Falling Dragon Waterfall.
About four miles northwest of the Falling Dragon Cliff, there is a mountain villa built obliquely on the hillside, there are one hundred and thirty households, it is Baijiazhuang, and the whole village is surnamed Bai. Baijiazhuang is eighteen miles away from Fenglou Mountain, and the road is difficult and dangerous, so it is called "eighteen miles away". Fenglou Mountain is also a place name.
Baijiazhuang was originally a bare hillside, the rock is relatively hard, and it looks very difficult to build a house, but once the foundation is laid and the house is built, the house is also very strong, and it is very firm in the stone. Therefore, the hundred families are very smart, and the choice to breed here is also a very far-sighted ancestor, and it is said that the hundred families are all from Nanhe Province, but there is no way to verify.
Fifty-eight years of Jialong, that is, twenty years ago. The Immortal Emperor was mediocre, listened to slander, and favored the evil monk to protect the dragon Zhenjun, under the bewitchment of the evil charm, he said that there was a secret recipe for the Immortal Emperor to give birth to dragons and tigers, and to be a real man, so he searched for all kinds of rare and exotic herbs in the world, but these rare and exotic herbs were secretly taken by the Dragon Protector Zhenjun, and they were changed for some chicken blood, dog blood, and weeds that did not hurt the body, and white flour were processed and changed to Jialong Immortal Emperor.
And Wei Mian, the first eunuch of the Immortal Dynasty, controls the dynasty and controls the ministers, and is the first traitor of the Demon Immortal Dynasty.
The Demon Immortal Dynasty can be said to be about to come in a storm, and the people are complaining and sick, which is the prelude to changing the dynasty, but it is just a matter of time.
The criminal law is harsh, taxes continue to rise, officials are fat, the people are miserable, producers have nothing to work all their lives, those who have power, those who invest, and those who sleep every day enjoy everything, and society has entered an unbalanced and abnormal state. Engaging in charity is all superficial work, if you ask him to take out all his wealth so that the poor can live a good life, and from then on he does not need to engage in charity and everyone is happy, then he will not do it.
The Demon Immortal Dynasty is in such decline, the demon clan will naturally not let go of the great opportunity, on the southeast coast, the dwarf demon clan picks quarrels and provokes trouble, and wars often occur, and the people are not able to make a living, complaining, and displaced. The Snow Demon Clan fought again and again, in a vain attempt to wipe out the Demon Immortal Dynasty from this cultivation continent, and the beacon flames continued, and the mourning was all over the wilderness.
What did the Jialong Immortal Emperor do? Every day, he drank dog blood, and was deceived by the evil dragon protector True Monarch.
Baili Wu was born on March 15 of the 58th year of Jialong, born in the year of the dragon, and was born in the year of the dragon.
He is the son of the second half-brother of the owner of Baijiazhuang Million Army, named Liwu. It is all named because of the limitation of the family tree, and the word used in the family tree of the past four generations is "thousands of miles of rivers and mountains", which is magnificent and atmospheric.
Baili Wu, called Wu'er, is called Xiaolong. This person called Xiaolong is often arrogant and powerful when he grows up. The so-called power of the dragon elephant, the power of the dragon and the tiger, the dragon is in front of the tiger, it can be seen that its ability, people are used to it, and the person who is called the little dragon will feel that he is very strong in his bones.
On the day of Baili Wu's birth, a rainbow crossed the sky, and a thunderbolt exploded in the clear sky, but this strange scene attracted a Taoist leader.
When the old man entered the village, he asked, "Who gave birth to a baby?"
Seeing that it was an immortal visit, the million master naturally said, "My little dragon!"
He said: "This son was born with a vision, the thunderbolt in the clear sky, and the red hanging color is the appearance of shocking the world, but it is a pity that he was born in troubled times, but he is the reincarnation of the evil dragon, which will bring disasters to your Baijiazhuang." β
After the old Tao finished speaking, he shook off the dust gently, and everyone blinked his eyes and he disappeared in the same place, causing the people of Baijiazhuang to be in a fog, but the news spread far and wide, and since then the people of Baijiazhuang have been afraid of Xiaolong, saying that Xiaolong is the reincarnation of the evil dragon, and the result is more and more evil, saying that as long as Xiaolong speaks, there will be a big disaster, as long as he touches whoever he touches, he will not die.
Normal children will generally call their parents in four or five months, and they can speak simple words in more than a year, and Xiaolong has not spoken for three years, and the invasion of foreign demons has also been fought for three years without success, even if the Demon Immortal Dynasty is not good, the ancestral industry is strong, and the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and no one can be moved by fighting.
On the first Friday three years later, just in time for the thirteenth, and just in time to catch up with the dragon, Xiaolong opened his mouth and spoke: "I am a hundred families!"
As soon as these words came out, the people of Baijiazhuang were all panicked, thinking that he would call his father and mother first, but he didn't want this little evil dragon to open his mouth to recognize his ancestors first, this is bad, if the rumors are true, if the old way is true, Baijiazhuang will have a disaster.
The crowd spread throughout the village that night, and they didn't sleep for most of the night. In the second half of the night, a meteorite suddenly fell from the sky and smashed Baijiazhuang to a pulp, the meteorite fell to the top of the mountain first, and then rolled down, after rolling to Baijiazhuang, it suddenly exploded, whining and lamenting, the death of the people in Baijiazhuang.
In the middle of the night, the 10th patriarch million army led the clansmen to rectify and save people, but as a result, all those who were hit by meteorites did not survive, and the Baijiazhuang, which had a population of 500, was sharply reduced to 194 people in the blink of an eye, and most of them were killed at once.
Since then, the survivors of Baijiazhuang have regarded Xiaolong as a thorn in their eyes, a thorn in their flesh, and a plague god, and said that the reincarnation of the evil dragon is even more miraculous, and even spread to other nearby places.
As the patriarch, the million army must lead the good people to prosper again, which is the characteristic of the clan, and they are very united at critical times, and it is their mission to reproduce, and they must not let their own people lose their children and grandchildren. Even Xiaolong has to be raised, unless he is really a disaster in the world, maybe he can consider one or two to strangle it.
However, as the little dragon grew up, there was never a second disaster.
As soon as his father died, the uncle of the Million Army became his guardian. But what's the use of that, even the uncle and the aunt don't look down on him, and even the little brother of the uncle's family, who is a year older than him, doesn't look down on him.
At the age of six, Xiaolong has to serve pigs, horses, cattle and sheep, especially the cattle are more troublesome, and the cows have to step on the stool.
At the age of seven and a half, Xiaolong has to go to the field to do farm work, in the words of the eldest mother, the family does not raise idlers, but Xiaolong is still a child, often tired and sweaty, but Xiaolong found that his physical fitness is very good, even if he is tired, the recovery is very fast.
Uncle family leftovers only left him a mouthful, Xiaolong had no choice but to sometimes have to fight with the village dogs for food, at first those dogs grinned at the big dragon demonstration, over time the village dogs are used to the existence of Xiaolong, maybe as the same kind?
Over time, the little dragon grew tall, but very thin, eccentric, dragon-eyed, and very keen. Because of its cleverness, whether playing or stealing chickens and dogs, have become the most powerful children in Baijiazhuang, adults do not let children play with the dragon, but as long as they drill the mountain, go to the falling dragon cliff, the children will play together. Except for the uncle's Baili Feng, who wants to bully Baili Wu when he sees Baili Wu, most naΓ―ve children don't believe in that evil, what kind of evil dragon reincarnation, isn't the evil dragon bad? Curse the adults to death, and no one will take care of the play, that's good.
However, because Xiaolong is too naughty and mischievous, he is often beaten by the Baili Army, who has a whip and hangs it on the wall, which is Xiaolong's childhood nightmare, and the whip is like a demon's tentacles that often whip his young heart.
In this way, he wasted his childhood in the time when no one cared for him, only the time of beating and scolding, and the only happiness was that the children were not taboo about him, and the time of giggling was the happiest.
There is a village of 200 households in the southwest direction of Baijiazhuang, according to the direction of the river, it is the downstream of Baijiazhuang, more than two miles apart, it is called the village of the pot, the name of the village is not very good, but it is a village with many surnames, and there are four big surnames: Zhang Wang Li Zhao. The head of Shaoguo Village is called Zhang Bangchang, who is also a businessman and a farmer, leading the whole village to get rich. This is much better than Baijia, Baijia since the meteorite fell from the sky, the rest of the people's morale has been greatly reduced, to deal with the life, no one cultivates the farmland, the livestock do not like to raise, listless all day long, most of them have died relatives, and a small number of people have fled from Baijiazhuang, nowhere to be found, and now there are more than 150 people counting the heads.
The million army is also a bit of the owner, and the village of the pot village advocates Bangchang research will send the children of hundreds of families to the village to learn private school, the village of the pot invited a gentleman, it is said that the decline of Xiucai, the surname Qiu Confucian, Qiu Confucian, Confucianism is the meaning of Confucianism, so the people in the village affectionately call him Qiu Ru, this person not only teaches, but also writes couplets and blessings to the people of the two villages during the New Year's holidays, which can be regarded as being able to mix food and clothing. This person is elegant, and he is liked by many people, and he has the temperament of a country man, but people are also curious, is it not good to go to the city?
This is a world of cultivating immortals, children have to practice martial arts from an early age, if they don't have any skills, they can't be healthy, they will suffer more in the future, and there are monsters in the mountains and forests, one accidentally dies in the mouth of the beast, the body is light and healthy, the hand is neat, and the critical time can also protect itself. The conditions of the pot village are better, and two more martial artists were invited, the martial artists are not ordinary civilians, they are two Taoist priests who have destroyed the Taoist temple, and the two Taoist priests have nowhere to go for a while, so they are at the foot of the pot village, under the arrangement of the village owner, a small Taoist temple was built, and the two Taoist priests are considered to be living in peace, and at the same time they are responsible for teaching the children of the two villages martial arts. I have to say that the village chief of Shaoguo Village attaches great importance to education, and although Baijiazhuang also attaches importance to it, he has no money to hire people, so he borrows the light of Shaoguo Village.
The village chief Zhang Bangchang was very happy to accept the children of the hundred families, one to promote the friendship between the two villages, the second to exchange marriages, and the third to increase the number of people, in case there is a big event, the two villages are united, and they depend on each other. I have to say that this Zhang Bangchang has economic acumen, foresight, and a certain mind.
The million army is not so generous, and the words on his lips are: "The surnames of the two villages are different, but they both drink river water, and they are also considered compatriots!"
The set is almost not to say, it is still very blunt, it is really a price drop, but there is no way, it has declined for a while, and I have to rely on the nearest big tree to enjoy the shade.
Because the children of Baijiazhuang have to walk more than two miles to go to Shaoguo Village, don't underestimate this two-mile road, the road in the mountains is not so good, and stumbling is inevitable, but over time, one by one is also vigorous, and the environment creates people. Baili Wu had no money to study, so he went to class, secretly eavesdropping under Mr.'s window, and was never discovered, but he often deserted, after all, he was a smart child, and he could be distracted when he saw an ant, and he was even more happy to catch frogs, so he forgot about listening to the class.
In this way, Baili Wu, who grew up in a rare innocence, grew up in whipping, and grew up without parental care, like a wild monkey in the mountains, his eyes were cold, his skin was dark, and he was really like a little black dragon.