There is a beautiful mountain village in the east of Sichuan called Qingshui Creek, and the beauty of Qingshui Creek is a painting, a dynamic ink painting. The mountain village is surrounded by high mountain peaks, with an open flat land in the middle, and a large water stream surrounds the village, winding in front of the village, accompanying the high mountains. In spring, the desolate peaks are slowly dressed in green, which is unusually bright in the sun, and the elegant new green brings infinite vitality to the village. In summer, there is a lush, pink, yellow, white, red, and colorful flowers dotted everywhere, and it is a colorful world. In autumn, different shades of yellow and red are staggered, with blue sky, clear water, and verdant bamboo forests, decorating Qingshui Creek into a fairy tale. The winter in Qingshuixi is also colorful, with spring green, autumn color, gray after falling leaves, and if you are lucky, you can also see snow, but this is rare, and because of the few, people have more expectations. The scenery here is beautiful, the folk customs are simple, densely populated, and far away from the city, although it is not a paradise, it is indeed an ideal place for people to live and work in peace and contentment.

On the first day, in the evening, the sound of hooves "clanged", and a sturdy big yellow horse, carrying an old man and a young man, galloped over, instantly breaking the tranquility here. Dozens of horsemen followed closely, each holding a sword, shouting loudly, "Don't go away against the thief! Don't go away against the thief!" Seeing that the distance was getting closer and closer, the middle-aged man on the horse in front turned around and shot two arrows in succession, and after a "whoosh" sound, two people rolled off the horse. The others knew that the middle-aged man was very good at archery, and they didn't dare to get closer, so they had to follow unhurriedly. After a while, the leader urged impatiently, "We hurry up and catch up, we will be able to capture them alive." Then they moved their mounts and rushed to the front, fearing that someone else would take the lead. "Whoosh" two more arrows were fired, and two more people fell under the horse. Since then, no one dares to go up to grab merit, and life is still at stake.

Suddenly, there was a fork in the road ahead, because they were only concerned about saving their lives just now, they were already too far behind, and in the twilight, they didn't even see which way they were going. With a wave of the sword, the leader will go to the left, and a few of you will go to the right. The big yellow horse had been running for a whole day and a night, and no matter how strong it was, it was exhausted, but the pursuers kept changing horses, and soon after the fork in the road, the big yellow horse slowly withered, and it really couldn't walk.

The middle-aged man and the child got off their horses, and he touched the head of the big yellow horse with pity, turned around, pulled the child behind, drew his sword from his waist, and stood majestically in the middle of the road. As soon as he was ready, the pursuers behind him had already ridden their horses to the front. When they were alarmed, he leaped forward and cut down the men in front of him with a sword. The men behind hurriedly reined in their horses, and the horses were pulled in a hurry, and they raised their front hooves and neighed. Taking advantage of the chaos, the middle-aged man walked forward quickly and stabbed the two of them off their horses again. The seven or eight people behind saw that their horses had withered to the ground, and they jumped off their horses one after another, and they rushed up, four people surrounded the middle-aged man, and the other four people were in a slight formation beside them. These people are all first-class masters, and in order to hunt down the two of them, the court is really willing to spend blood. Four men surrounded him, one of them with a double hook, one with a single knife, one with a spear, and the other with a simple knife. He stood in the middle, his sword moving lightly, and his body was quite flexible. The knife slashed at the middle-aged man, and the middle-aged man, with a change in footwork, turned sideways but slashed down at the man who made the double hook, and the man hurriedly used the double hook to go up to the sword, trying to control his weapon. Seeing this, he quickly withdrew his sword, quickly jumped to the side, and fought with the man who made the sword. So that the spear could take advantage of the opportunity, and a shot was picked, and the middle-aged man flashed outward, seeing that he was invincible. The spear was in a hurry to follow, the man turned to one side, the spear pierced under the armpit, the hand was flicked, the sword was slashed at the man's hand with the barrel of the gun, the man screamed, and the sword threw the gun. It turned out that this person's footwork was very light and steady, he fought with three people in a row, and changed directions three times in a row, and the other party thought that he must be busy, so he wanted to pick up a big bargain, and he didn't want to steal chickens and rice. The man who made the Pu knife saw that his companion was injured, and because he was the closest, he hurried to the rescue, a knife slashed, the middle-aged man, at the fastest speed, the sword to the left hand, risking the danger to grid his Pu Dao, in this way, he was very close to the man, the right hand slammed into the man's left chest, the man screamed, the Pu knife struggled to swing out, the middle-aged man was stabbed in the left arm, blood sprayed wildly, but the fist man fell to the ground on his back. The middle-aged man took a risky blow and had already succeeded, but he didn't expect the other party to hurt himself with a fatal blow. The middle-aged man thought to himself that he couldn't do both, and his murderous intent became great, and the tiger roared, and he was furious, and his combat effectiveness increased greatly. I saw him pick up the sword flowers, straight like a stormy wave, the two of them saw a white flower in front of them, dazzling, they couldn't tell where the sword flower was, where was the real sword, only heard the screams again and again, the two people instantly withered to the ground, motionless. The other four were on a par with the four of them, and when they saw that one of the four of them was injured and three were killed in an instant, they didn't think about it, so they turned around and jumped on horseback and fled for their lives. The wounded man also climbed onto the horse, and as soon as he got on the horse, he immediately urged his mount to flee for his life, and although he was wounded, it did not affect the speed of escape.

The middle-aged man stood in place, ignoring it, "Haha, haha" There was a burst of wild laughter, and the man who fled on his horse was almost frightened and fell off his horse. When they were all far away, the middle-aged man couldn't support it anymore and slowly fell down. He had just been wounded and had lost too much blood, and it was a fluke that he had risen up to kill the enemy with all his strength and scare him back, and since the enemy had gone far away, he could no longer support it.

The kid ran up and shouted, "Uncle, uncle." There was no sound in the surroundings, there were few residents in this section of the village, and most of the people here were not very bold, who had ever seen such a scene, they were all hiding at home and trembling, just hoping that the "plague god" would not come to the door. But there was a pair of eyes in the crack of the door that kept staring at all this. He is Li Dachun, the bachelor who sells tofu in Qingshuixi.

Seeing that the officers and soldiers had fled far away, and seeing that the child was pitiful and screaming terrible, he tiptoed to him, "Don't worry, child, I'll help you." The middle-aged man, still breathing, motioned with his eyes for him to stop the bleeding. Li Dachun found a medicine bag at his signal, took out the hemostatic medicine, bandaged him to stop the bleeding, and then dragged him to the side of the house. There was a cellar there, he moved the big stone chip at the mouth of the cellar, handed the middle-aged man down slowly, and let the child hide, covered the stone chip, he pushed the pile of firewood and grass next to it a few times, and the firewood and grass collapsed, just covering the mouth of the cellar.

When he turned around, he saw that the middle-aged man's mount was still on the side of the road, and the big yellow horse was already able to stand, but he was missing his master, and he couldn't bear to go, so he picked up a wooden stick and beat it according to the horse's buttocks.

When he reached the door, a group of officers and soldiers had already arrived, and when they saw the corpse on the ground, they immediately stopped their horses. After a look, it was found that several people were not breathing. Suddenly seeing the figure standing at the door of the house, all the officers and soldiers were taken aback and shouted together, "Who are you?"

"Master Huiguan, the small ones are the residents here. The man replied tremblingly. "What you saw just now, to tell the truth, if you say half a lie, your life will be in danger. "Yes, yes, yes, the villain must tell the truth. After a pause, Li Dachun said, "The villain heard the sound of shouting and fighting in the house, and he didn't dare to come out, until there was no sound, the villain was really urgent, so he had to be bold to come out for a little relief, and when he went out, he saw a big donkey running away with two people." ”

When the officers and men heard the "haha" and laughed, they all said that this hillbilly had never seen the world at all, and insisted that the "big horse" was a "big donkey". When everyone heard what he said, they laughed loudly and chased after him.

Every once in a while, officers and soldiers came to search and patrol, but Li Dachun did not dare to be careless, he only dared to send food to the two of them in the dead of night. Time flies, a month has passed in a blink of an eye, and the middle-aged man's body has recovered and he has quite physical strength. Fortunately, Li Dachun makes a living by making tofu and selling tofu, and he is relatively wealthy, and the middle-aged man's uncle and nephew eat his tofu and tofu cakes.

That night, Li Dachun was about to go to bring them food, but the two of them were already standing at the door.

Although he had taken care of them for more than a month, and the cellar was relatively dim, Li Dachun had never seen them head-on. Through the light, Li Dachun looked at them carefully. This middle-aged man is about thirty years old, and although his clothes are shabby, it is difficult to hide his heroic spirit. The little one was only five or six years old.

The middle-aged man also looked at Li Dachun, and saw that he was five big and three thick, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and was smiling at himself honestly.

"The grace of saving your life, don't dare to report it, dare to ask Engongzun's surname?" "What is the big name and not the big name, the villain is called Li Dachun." After saying that, he smiled innocently.

"Xiaochuan, come and thank Engong!" After speaking, the two of them knelt down, and Li Dachun said in his mouth, "I can't help it, I can't help it" I hurriedly went to help, but how could I help it. The two of them kowtowed and stood up, "You are too tormenting villains, I usually hate the officers and soldiers for oppressing the good, and I also know that the officials force the people to rebel, you are good people, I should save it." Unexpectedly, Li Dachun would say such a thing, and he continued, "I admire you from the bottom of my heart." ”

"Engong's life-saving grace, there is nothing to repay, there are some silver taels here, leave it for Engong as an errand. After speaking, the middle-aged man took out a few ingots of silver from his arms. "What do you think of me, I saved you because I respected you, is it to ask for money?" Li Dachun looked very angry. "I'm sorry, Eungong, but I was wrong. After a pause, the middle-aged man said, "Engong, I really don't want to hide it, my name is Zhang Peng, this is my nephew, we killed officials and rebelled, and were chased and killed by officers and soldiers, we have been harassing Engong for a long time, in case we are involved in Engong, and we will leave now." ”

"Have you figured out where to go, do you have any plans?" asked Li Dachun uneasily. "Back to Engong, that's not true. Zhang Peng looked dazed. "Since there isn't, you can live here in peace, I don't usually have people here. Speaking of this, Li Dachun felt inappropriate, paused and said, "Oh! No, I can't let you hide in the cellar for the rest of your life." As the saying goes, 'Save people to the end, send Buddha to the west', I have to think of a perfect solution. He touched the back of his head and turned around on the ground twice, then patted his head and said, "Yes, there is a big cave in the back mountain north of the village, which is very hidden, you can live there, and I will help you with food and clothing, what do you say?" There was nowhere else to go for a while, so Zhang Peng had to settle down first and then make plans.

Zhang Peng and Zhang Xiaochuan lived in the cave for more than half a year, and the officers and soldiers never came again. At this time, Zhang Peng's cheeks were already full of beard, his appearance had changed a lot, and Zhang Xiaochuan had also grown a lot taller, looking very white.

Li Dachun found a particularly dilapidated house on the edge of the village, and took the time to help them repair the house.

After settling down here, the two also cultivated some land and planted some crops, and Zhang Peng also helped others do some work to make ends meet.

The uncle and nephew seldom went to the village, they seldom socialized with other people, and they did not talk much except to do their work. It's just that they have a habit, that is, every day before dawn, the uncle and nephew get up to practice martial arts, and a bamboo forest not far from the village has become their martial arts training ground.

Every day when Zhang Peng goes out to do things, he leaves Zhang Xiaochuan at home alone. Zhang Xiaochuan is a child after all, and he can't stay at home anymore, so he wants to go out for a walk. One day, Zhang Xiaochuan kicked a small stone all the way, bored, and walked forward carelessly, and when he looked up, he walked to the door of a house, and a little girl of the same age as Zhang Xiaochuan was playing in the yard. The little girl straightened up and asked him curiously, "Who are you?" "My name is Zhang Xiaochuan." "I've never seen you. "I just got here. ”

After a long time, the two of them became familiar with each other, this girl's name was Ye Ziyan, and Zhang Xiaochuan called her "Little Yezi". Since then, Zhang Xiaochuan is no longer bored, every day will find small leaves to play, two people ride a bamboo horse together, play games, go to the river to catch fish and shrimp, go to the bamboo forest to dig bamboo shoots, after all, the childhood life is colorful.

It's just that since Zhang Xiaochuan was ten years old, Zhang Peng always had to take Zhang Xiaochuan out, every time he went out, he always had to go for half a year, he was used to playing together, and when he was separated, the two of them would inevitably miss each other. When Zhang Xiaochuan came back, Xiao Yezi asked him, "Xiaochuan, why do you always have to go out, and it takes so long to leave." "Uncle, take me out to take me out to see the world, and then to travel all over the famous mountains and rivers, visit famous teachers, and learn swordsmanship. "Well, the outside world must be beautiful. So Zhang Xiaochuan told Xiao Yezi about what he saw and heard outside, and Xiao Yezi was envious and yearning.

The two of them have gradually grown up, Zhang Xiaochuan is not low, and he is very handsome, he has been practicing martial arts for a long time and is influenced by his uncle, at a young age, he can also reveal a heroic spirit. The little leaf has also grown, and the longer it grows, the more beautiful it becomes, and she will be a beautiful big girl in a few years. As they grow older, when two people are together, they are not as free as before, and there is naturally a different kind of affection between the two people. This may be the love that came from childhood sweethearts and two little guesses.