Volume 1: The Turbulent Past Chapter 1: Flowing Fire
The sun is thin in the west mountain, the sunset and the lonely bird fly together, the autumn water is the same color as the sky, and the Woniu Town, which is located in the west of Dachu, is peaceful and quiet. Woniu Town is an important town of the Great Chu State, has the reputation of "salt goes to Woniu, west out of Yangguan", Qianli Luo water traverses here, it is the only place to connect the Hanhai Desert in the west of Great Chu, the waterways are all open, and the merchants come and go in an endless stream.
On the grass outside the Sunset Pavilion on the southern slope of Woniu Town, three children are playing around an old ox who does not know how old they are. The sunset, the grass, the cattle, and the children build a quiet picture of nature.
Woniu Town has been so peaceful and quiet for countless years, the old ox was born in Si and grew up in Si, it likes the tranquility here, and will die here in the future.
"Lin Feng, you stop me!"
At this time, an immature children's voice broke the tranquility that belonged to the old scalper, and the owner of the voice was a little fat man, named Zhao Xiaopang, the youngest son of Zhao Dayuan in Woniu Town, and he was struggling to chase Lin Feng who was holding a bullwhip in his hand.
"You come to chase me, chase me, I'll give it back to you...."
Lin Feng held a two-foot-long bullwhip in one hand and a thatched cage in the other, in which a jet-black general was kept, which was caught by Zhao Xiaopang's servant to please his master.
No, I don't know where Zhao Xiaopang couldn't think of it, so he had to show off in front of Lin Feng. Lin Feng is half a head taller than Zhao Xiaopang, nothing special, to say that his eyebrows are very special, sharp like an unopened sword, with big eyes, with his seven or eight-year-old face, he looks like a little Zhengtai. And Zhao Xiaopang is a little inferior, short but his body is very wide, Xu is a foreigner takes good care of him.
"Brother Lin Feng, you're so bad!"
Next to the two, there is also a little girl with pink carved jade, her name is Li Ya, she likes to stick to Xiao Lin Feng the most on weekdays, which is why Zhao Xiaopang always likes to show off in front of Lin Feng.
Zhao Xiaopang encouraged his eldest mother to propose marriage to the Li family more than once, saying that she wanted to have a baby kiss with Li Ya. This can make the Zhao Mansion laugh, there have always been parents who say kiss to their children, but they have never seen seven or eight-year-old children ask adults for doll kisses.
In Zhao Xiaopang's opinion, Li Ya is his, why does she only play with Lin Feng and not with herself? You must know that for children, competing for playmates is no less than the great hatred of snatching people's toys. This Lin Feng is really annoying, not only robbed Li Ya, but also robbed his own "general", uncle can bear it and aunt can't bear it!
"Lin Feng, if you don't stop, I'll tell my father and let him deduct your salary!"
Lin Feng paused: "This damn fat man, threaten me with Zhao Yuan at every turn!"
In Lin Feng's opinion, Zhao Yuanwai is a good person. Lin Feng is an orphan, he was adopted by an old beggar since he was a child, traveled all the way, wandered all the way, when he was six years old, the old beggar took him to Woniu Town, but on a rainy night, the old beggar died after all, the old beggar died in an alley of the staff's house, Lin Feng cried all night until he was unconscious. When he woke up the next day, he was already lying in the servant's room of the Zhao Mansion, and Zhao Yuanwai was very kind, not only took in Lin Feng, but also gave the old beggar a thin coffin.
Because of their similar age, Lin Feng and Zhao Xiaopang played very well, and Zhao Xiaopang regarded Lin Feng as a brother until the little girl appeared and borrowed the Li girl who lived in the Zhao family. The three of them played together at first, but later Zhao Xiaopang found out that Li Ya preferred to play with Lin Feng, so there was something later.
"Cut! Now, it's not impossible to give it back to you, but you have to promise me to see it?"
Xiao Lin Feng said shyly.
Zhao Xiaopang subconsciously shrunk his neck, but he still asked in a crisp voice, "What's the matter?"
Xiao Lin Feng took the initiative to approach and patted Zhao Xiaopang's shoulder, full of little adult appearance, which he learned from Wang Ergou's gangster brother Wang Dagou next door: "Brother Zhao, with the relationship between you and me, how can I rob your grasshopper, so let's do it, I heard that the head of the martial arts sect gave you a wooden sword, and you will give me the wooden sword another day." ”
Zhao Xiaopang quickly broke free, Lin Feng shook his head vigorously and said, "No! I don't! I want to become a man of the Great Sword Immortal." ”
"Poof, just you, the chubby sword immortal, what if the broken wooden sword is lent to Brother Lin Feng to play tricks?" Li Ya chuckled, the little girl was still very cute.
Zhao Xiaopang was so angry that the fat on his face trembled: "You... You two are a partner to bully me! He pretended to be angry and wanted to turn away, but he secretly said in his heart: "Xiao Er actually wants to deceive this little master's wooden sword, hmph!
Before Zhao Xiaopang turned around and took a step, the sky changed, and the sky, which was already about to darken, suddenly became fiery red again, and the three of them looked up at the sky, only to see a huge fireball falling from the red sun, and falling rapidly towards Woniu Town.
"What's that?" asked Li Ya.
"Flowing fire!" Lin Feng seemed to have heard the old beggar say.
"Is the fire going to fall into the town?" Zhao Xiaopang asked weakly.
The three children looked at a magnificent scene that they had never seen in their lives, and what they didn't know was that if this fire fell, the entire town of Woniu would be wiped out. Seeing that the fire was about to fall in the town, Lin Feng heard a cow's cry of "Moo!" in a trance, and then he felt that the bullwhip in his hand was ripped away.
"Moo!"
Another cow barked. I saw that the old cow that was still chewing the grass slowly had appeared in the sky above Woniu Town at this time, and I saw its flexible cow tail curled with a bullwhip, as if it was drawing something, and in an instant, a translucent barrier appeared in the sky above Woniu Town, overflowing with a trace of white light.
Immediately after that, the old ox's body quickly became larger, at first it was only the size of a house, and finally it became a small mountain, until it became a giant bull standing on the sky, and its body exuded an inexplicable majesty, even the Luoshui rolling east in the distance was far inferior.
The flowing fire from the red sun did not stop because the scalper became larger, but continued to fall with the action of gravity, and the flowing fire, coming from the red sun, was like another red sun. The old scalper, who stood up to the sky, kept making a "moo" roar, and in the face of this natural power, the old scalper finally went up with his body.
"Boom...."
With a loud bang, a moment of brilliance erupted in the sky above Woniu Town, and the flowing fire turned into a small fireball and smashed on the formation barrier arranged by the scalper just now, after shaking the mountain for a while, the scalper and the flowing fire disappeared, and then a red fire rain fell in the sky, and the fire rain fell on the grass and turned into ashes.
In the rain, two rays of light fell from the sky, one fell into Lin Feng's hands, and the other fell into the Luoshui River not far away. Lin Feng looked at the bullwhip that went and returned and didn't think about it, and hurriedly held Li Ya and the stunned Zhao Xiaopang to hide under the mountain rock to avoid the blood rain of this evil sect.
The blood rain dissipated, and in the sky above Woniu Town, deep in the clouds, a sloppy old man couldn't help but sigh: "It's a pity, thousands of years of cultivation have turned to ashes, how many monks in the world will be blocked by these three calamities and five calamities......?"
The sloppy old man shook his head, and he couldn't help but ask himself, can he hide? This bullshit heaven, in order to come to the catastrophe, he actually took thousands of people as a threat, it is difficult to protect the heart of this demon bull's fist, the way of heaven is unfair, how unfair!
At this time, the villagers of Woniu Town, who came to their senses, walked out of their homes and flocked to the ancestral hall.
The ancestral hall enshrines the ancestors of Woniu Town, and on the most central sacrificial seat, there is a lifelike copper bull, but at this time, I saw that the copper bull was covered with cracks, and the clan elder knelt on the ground and wept, and at the same time, the cultivated cattle within a radius of 100 miles in Woniu Town also knelt down, and tears of beans dripped from the cow's eyes, and a layer of mourning clouds were covered in the sky of the entire Woniu Town.
Approaching nightfall, Lin Feng took Li Ya and Zhao Xiaopang back to the town, the three of them lost their souls, and even Zhao Xiaopang's hair was burned into a chicken nest by the blood rain, and he had long lost the appearance of Zhao Yuanwai's little son.
Along the way, Lin Feng was looking for the old scalper who had accompanied him for a year, just like the old beggar, in his opinion, the old scalper was also his relative, Lin Feng had been with the old cow since he entered the Zhao Mansion, sleeping together, counting the stars in the sky together, and he also told the old scalper about the old beggar.
But the old scalper is gone, just like the old beggar, the only difference is that the old scalper doesn't even have a chance to get a thin coffin!
Along the way, the little fat man also cried and lost his face, the old scalper was lost, this is the old scalper that his father has been there since he was a child, it can be said that the three people, including Li Ya, have a deep relationship with this old scalper.
Li Ya's face was full of pear blossoms and rain: "Brother Lin Feng, will we never see Lao Huang again?"
This question made Zhao Xiaopang cry, he collapsed on the ground, crying: "My old scalper, my father said, you are the baby of our family, my father said that you will watch me grow up, why did you lose it?"
Zhao Xiaopang's cry attracted the townspeople of Woniu Town, and Zhao Xiaopang's father, Zhao Yuanwai, was also among them.
Zhao Xiaopang crawled all the way to Zhao Yuanwai's feet. "Dad, you quickly send someone to find the old scalper, the old scalper is lost, woo woo woo ......"
Lin Feng also stepped forward: "Lord Zhao!"
Zhao Yuanwai's middle-aged appearance, as one of the richest people in Woniu Town, his face was difficult to see, he looked at the bullwhip held in Lin Feng's hand, which was handed down by his grandfather, and it belonged to the old scalper.
Every thirty years, the old scalper will choose a cattle herding baby, thirty years ago it was Zhao Yuanwai, thirty years later it was this young man named Lin Feng, looking at him Zhao Yuanwai seemed to see his childhood self, blue sky, white clouds, green grass A teenager and an old cow.
A year ago, on that rainy night, the young Lin Feng suddenly landed in the courtyard of the Zhao Mansion from the sky, and it was the bullwhip in Lin Feng's hand that brought him here.
Zhao Yuanwai looked at Lin Feng and stepped forward, and he took the bullwhip from Lin Feng's hand. Zhao Yuanwai looked at the townspeople who were gathered around, and he shouted loudly: "Zhao Qian Sun Li of Woniu Town, the sons and daughters of the four major families stand up!"
In an instant, the sons of Woniu Town stood up for the most part.
Zhao Yuanwai: "Open the ancestral hall, please go home!"
The sons and daughters who stood up fell to the ground and shouted with tears: "Please go home to the ancestors!"
Under the incredible expressions of the outsiders, the sons of the four major families in Woniu Town knelt and escorted the bullwhip to the ancestral hall.
Li Ya and Zhao Xiaopang were also taken back to Zhao's mansion by their subordinates, only Lin Feng stood in place in a daze, he remembered the time with the old scalper, Lin Feng cried, he cried heartbreakingly, at this moment he didn't think about why the ordinary old scalper would become a big cow standing up to the sky, he only knew that the most important person around him left him again.
"Immortality is a ruthless thing, if there is love in the sky, the sky will be old!"
At this moment, behind Lin Feng, a sloppy old man walked out with a rusty broken sword on his back, and he asked:
"Boy, apprentice?"