There is an inconspicuous small mountain village in the west of Jingzhou in Wuguo, this small mountain village, you say it is small, but it is also much larger than the mountain village of more than ten other households, and it is said that it is big but it has nothing to do with the real town.

At first, this small mountain village was the same size as other villages and towns, but the imperial court opened up an official road connecting with the Hungarian Manchukuo, and it happened that the distance between this small mountain village and this official road was not too far, so from time to time there were passers-by who wanted to take a shortcut to break into this small mountain village.

Over time, this small mountain village became much larger than the others.

Although there are only a few hundred households, it is said that although the sparrows are small, they are self-sufficient in all kinds of living utensils in the village.

Like a tailor's shop, a butcher's shop, a small restaurant, a blacksmith shop, a small medical hall, all of them are readily available.

The scale of the village is not very large, and although these small businesses do not make much money, they are much better than other farmers under the dismal management.

There is a blacksmith surnamed Han in the village, who is very good at iron, and although the knives he creates are not as good as cutting iron and clay, he is still very good at chopping other things.

The various bone chopping knives of the Li butcher in the village are all made by the Han blacksmith, the hunting knives used by the hunters in the village, the kitchen knives used by the families, and all the utensils stained with some ironware are also made by the Han blacksmith.

The tools made by the blacksmith Han are extremely durable, and although the ironware of the whole village is made by him, in general, the ironware business is not very common. In order to make a living, the blacksmith made some wooden tools in his spare time, although it was harder, but he could still earn some income in a year.

At first, some people called him Han Carpenter, but soon Han Carpenter was no longer called, because of the long-term iron, Han Blacksmith had long been as black as a piece of iron, and no one would associate him with the carpenter, they always said something similar:

"Blacksmith Han, make me a wooden pear"

"Blacksmith Han, get me a wooden bed, how old are you looking at it, yesterday my damn dog burned the previous bed"

In the past, when the people in the village didn't ask Han Blacksmith to make some iron or wood tools, they wouldn't deliberately mention him, but in the past few months, Han Blacksmith has become a celebrity in the village, and whoever has nothing to do always likes to talk about what happened to Han Blacksmith.

According to some village women, when the blacksmith and his family returned to their ancestral home, they encountered an evil ghost that specialized in cannibalism, which had three heads, seven pairs of eyes, and eight ears, and its mouth was open to be the size of a human head.

Some people said that this evil ghost was covered in black gas, dragging his tongue for two or three feet, and chased Han Blacksmith's family for three or four miles, until he retreated outside the village.

No matter what is narrated, there will always be a big deviation from the original version, and in the case of the ghost encounter of the blacksmith Han, there are five or six different versions circulating in this small mountain village.

But no matter how many versions there are, it is an indisputable fact that the Han blacksmith family met a ghost when they returned to the ancestral house not far away, after all, many people in the village were panicked when they saw the family worshipping their ancestors and fleeing back.

Some people also say that it was the blessing of the ancestors of the Han blacksmith that the Han blacksmith family was able to escape from the evil ghost, after all, the Han blacksmith was the evil ghost he met when he went to the dilapidated ancestral house. Some people also say that the evil ghost is the ancestor of the Han blacksmith, the soul of the unjust death of the Han family when it was destroyed hundreds of years ago.

But as the protagonist of the ghost collision incident, the Han blacksmith family was a little panicked at first, but after a few days, nothing special happened, and they gradually forgot about it.

On this day, the blacksmith of Han put out the fire of the iron-striking furnace early, hung the sign indicating the closure outside the door, closed the door panels one by one, and inserted the latch from the back of the door.

Blacksmith Han has always been happy in his heart today, because he was apprenticed to the shopkeeper of Ruyi Restaurant in the city, and his eldest son Han Tie is coming back, and he hasn't seen this eldest son for two or three months, so he also went to Zhang Orion's house to change two rabbits.

Blacksmith Han has always been proud of his son, who has been smart and likable since he was a child. When he was fifteen years old, his eldest son "picked up" a person when he was collecting firewood on the hillside, and this person was the shopkeeper of Ruyi Restaurant in Qingshui City.

This shopkeeper was robbed by thieves on the official road, and fled to the vicinity of this small mountain village alone, but he was also seriously injured, and before he reached the village, he fainted without lifting it in one breath, and happened to be met by Han Tie, the eldest son of Han Blacksmith, when he was collecting firewood.

The shopkeeper of this Ruyi restaurant lay in Han Blacksmith's house for three days before waking up and turning around, during which most of the time Han Tie personally fed him millet porridge.

After the shopkeeper woke up, he was extremely grateful to Han Tie, and in order to repay the grace of saving his life, he discussed with Han Blacksmith and his wife to bring Han Tie back to Qingshui City Ruyi Restaurant as an apprentice.

Since then, Han Tie has often sent some silver taels to his home, and the silver taels sent more than once have been sent each time, and now the monthly money sent back by Han Tie, an eighteen-year-old boy, is almost catching up with the income of Han Blacksmith's own work.

The money sent back is nothing, and the most happy thing for the blacksmith Han is that the shopkeeper of Ruyi Restaurant has a daughter who is twenty-eight years old, and the letter sent back by his son faintly reveals that the shopkeeper has the intention of cultivating Han Tie as a quasi-son-in-law.

"If it weren't for Huang Sangu wanting to match this stinky boy with the girl of the Li family, this stinky boy wouldn't know how long he would hide it from me, and he must teach him a good lesson when he comes back" Han Blacksmith said to himself with a smile on his face, compared to the daughter of the Li family girl and the shopkeeper of Ruyi Restaurant, Han Blacksmith undoubtedly chose the latter as his daughter-in-law.

Although he was ruthless in his heart to clean up his son, Blacksmith Han couldn't help but snicker twice when he thought that his eldest son would come back tomorrow.

When the blacksmith returned to the back room, he saw his nine-year-old son squatting on the ground, holding a small branch and drawing something on the ground.

"Little third son, your eldest brother is coming back tomorrow, just now when I went to change the rabbit, I forgot that your eldest brother has grown up, you go to the Zhangjia shop in the west of the village from the back door to sell two catties of rice wine, and tell him that the money will be recorded first" Han blacksmith walked over from behind his little son.

The young man known as Xiao Sanzi slowly stood up, and with a very natural movement of his feet, he stepped on the crooked small characters written on the ground on the soles of his feet, and the young man touched his head with his left hand, and his footsteps moved inadvertently to the ground.

"Okay, Dad, I'll go," the boy threw away the stick, blinked his big smart eyes, and turned his head and trotted out the back door.

Blacksmith Han looked at the back of his youngest son with satisfaction, and his heart was happy again, his youngest son was also extremely smart and sensible.

The youngest son of the blacksmith Han did not go straight to the tavern in the west of the village, he changed the direction after leaving the house, and then trotted all the way to Wang Xiucai's house in the south of the village.

This Wang Xiucai is not a local resident, he moved later, it is said that the family used to have some money, all day long in the mind is reading, I don't know when I hit the big luck in a show, and then I have been trying to be a big man, so that I can be a big man, the original few acres of land, but also take care of the careless, resulting in now eating a meal without a meal.

If it weren't for the fact that there were some places in the village that needed to be written, and whose relatives were away, he needed to write two letters on his behalf, and he had to read the letters when they came, he would really be ignored by everyone.

There are also people who kindly persuade him not to dream of the old man, take care of those few acres of land, and wait for some money to continue the strings, otherwise what will he do when he is old?

But Wang Xiucai said: "Scholar's business." How can you laymen understand!"

Wang Xiucai is so self-righteous, naturally no one is willing to deal with him anymore.

"Wang Xianggong, are you at home? I still want to learn a few more words" The young man who had just run out of the house finally arrived at his destination, and he walked directly into Wang Xiucai's house, the door of Wang Xiucai's house was never locked, because there was nothing worth stealing.

Wang Xiucai, dressed in a shabby robe with shiny oil, was sleeping on a wooden board.

"It turned out to be a kid from the Han family, what's the matter, come to learn to read and write again?" Wang Xiucai originally planned to lose his temper with the person who woke him up, but when he saw that it was the young man in front of him, he changed his face.

"Wang Xianggong, I came out in a hurry today, I didn't bring sweet potatoes, or I will make up for it tomorrow, teach me a few words today, and give you sweet potatoes tomorrow." The young man surnamed Han blinked.

When Wang Xiucai heard that there were no sweet potatoes, he said angrily, "No, you give me sweet potatoes, I will teach you to read and write, you can't change it."

The young man was not in a hurry when he was rejected, and stared at Wang Xiucai with innocent big eyes without blinking;

"Wang Xianggong, if I don't give you double the sweet potatoes tomorrow, you will teach me first today"

When Wang Xiucai heard that it was double the sweet potato, he seemed to remember something, and he said with a kind face, "I can teach you first today, but you have to pester your father and let him allow you to study with me, if he doesn't agree with you, make trouble, okay?"

The young man didn't think about it and said, "Okay, Xianggong Wang, I promise you, I will tell my father tonight." ”

Wang Xiucai saw that the young man agreed so readily, but he hesitated, but after thinking about it, he had nothing to lose, so he agreed to teach the young man a few words.

The boy was extremely smart, and after a while he learned those words, he said, "Wang Xianggong, can you give me a piece of letter paper and a pen?"

"Hmph, don't even think about it, can the pen and paper be used for you?" Wang Xiucai snorted disdainfully, "Unless you exchange sweet potatoes, this is not one or two can be exchanged for land"

When the young man saw Wang Xiucai's categorical tone, he knew that there was no room for negotiation, and he did not hesitate to turn his head and leave, and trotted all the way to see that the direction was the direction of the small restaurant in the west of the village.

Wang Xiucai saw that the young man had run away, so he snorted again

"Everyone thinks they can read! Learn your father's iron, wait for you to pester your father and let me teach you to read, and don't give me money for learning, hehe"