When we arrived at the village, it was already dark, and simple lanterns were hung at the doors of every house to illuminate the villagers passing by.

After Ye Hongfeng said goodbye to the two, he dragged the jackal to the thin monkey's house.

After Ye Lao left, the villagers tacitly took turns to greet Ye Hongfeng. Tonight, it's the turn of the skinny monkey family.

Ye Hongfeng pushed open the wooden door and handed the jackal in his hand to the middle-aged man.

"Uncle Skinny Monkey, this is what I met in the forest today, it seems that you have also opened your mind, and you are just making up for your body. ”

The middle-aged man didn't refuse, and took it with a smile.

Ye Hongfeng eats hundreds of meals, and the people in the village are happy to greet him. Don't say anything else, but whenever he catches game in the forest, Ye Hongfeng never keeps it privately, and often gives it to whoever he goes to eat. In his spare time, he can always be seen busy in the fields, and it is no exaggeration to say that the reason why the land in the village is growing well is due to his credit.

Ye Hongfeng rubbed his hands in the water casually, and he could be regarded as having washed his hands. Before he could dry it with a towel, a big fat boy ran up to him with a bowl of rice.

"Brother Feng, when will you take me to the woods?"

Ye Hongfeng raised his hand and patted him on the head, and said with a smile: "Wang Monkey, you little kid, if I take you to the woods, your father will not whip me to death." ”

"My dad is thin, he can't beat you. ”

Wang Monkey looked at Ye Hongfeng expectantly, jumping up and down.

The thin monkey's surname is Wang, and he also loses his heart. At the beginning, he asked Ye Lao to name his son, saying that it was the kind that was extraordinary. Ye Lao also knew his nickname, so he said 'Prince' by the way. However, the thin monkey hadn't read much, and he couldn't write the word 'Hou', so Ye Hongfeng pretended to be serious and taught him to write the word 'monkey'. It wasn't until a year or two later that the thin monkey knew about it, but there was no way, and the 'king monkey' who had been called for so long couldn't change it.

The thin monkey reached out and grabbed Wang Monkey's ear and said, "I can't beat your Brother Feng, but it's more than enough for me to clean you up." What the hell do you want to try my mixed doubles with your mother?"

When the king monkey heard this, he was immediately silenced.

After the thin monkey cleaned up the king monkey, he raised his hand and patted Ye Hongfeng's shoulder, "Okay, let's eat, it's all your favorite dishes." ”

Looking at Ye Hongfeng's tall back, the thin monkey sighed with emotion. The big fat boy back then can already be on his own.

When Ye Hongfeng was halfway through the meal, Aunt Monkey came over to eat after finishing her work.

"Xiao Feng, I just heard from Second Master Wang that your grandfather seems to have returned. ”

When Ye Hongfeng heard this, he immediately put down the dishes and chopsticks, thanked Uncle Monkey and Aunt Monkey, and hurried home with the lunch box that had already been packed.

Ye Hongfeng lives with his grandfather and lives in a bamboo house. The house was originally not large, but in order to facilitate teaching, a bamboo shed was specially erected. Around the bamboo shed, there is a small lake, which adds a bit of quiet and elegant atmosphere. It is also one of the best houses in the village.

Ye Hongfeng pushed open the bamboo fence in the yard, and when he looked up, he could see that the lantern on the edge of the bamboo shed had been lit up, and the word "learning" written in cursive on the lantern was gently rippling with the evening breeze. This situation and this scene do not feel a little warm.

The lights in the bamboo shed have not been lit for a long time.

When Ye Hongfeng entered the bamboo house, Ye Lao was pouring hot water into the wooden bucket.

"You're back. ”

Without the slightest surprise, as usual in the evening, Ye Hongfeng returned home after a day of wandering. The calm voice reached his ears, and the eight-foot man burst into tears.

"Grandpa......"

Ye Hongfeng choked up. Facing the most familiar and dearest person in this world, he was a little overwhelmed at this time.

"What are you doing in a daze, you want to starve your grandfather. ”

The water in the wooden bucket was already full, Ye Lao reached out to test the temperature of the water, and then took some medicinal herbs from the basket next to him and crumpled them and put them in the bucket. When the water turned lilac, he raised his hand and beckoned Ye Hongfeng, motioning for him to come over and take a bath.

Ye Hongfeng turned his face away and wiped away the tears on his face with his sleeve. He handed the lunch box in his hand to Ye Lao, slowly took off his robe, and stepped into the barrel. Xiao Han hesitated a little, and also entered the bucket together.

Since entering the bamboo house, the little guy has been very perverse. It may be difficult for others to perceive, but as a demon beast, it intuitively knows that the old man in front of him is by no means unknown. If Ye Hongfeng is just a pool of spring water that can be bottomed out with a little attention, then this old man makes Xiao Han feel like he is facing the vast starry sky.

There is no stove under the barrel, but the water temperature of the barrel seems to be still, and the temperature is constantly maintained at the optimal temperature. Ye Hongfeng completely relaxed, and his body slid down the wall of the barrel until he was lying in the barrel.

He began to soak in such medicinal baths when he was three years old, and one bath lasted for fifteen years. Ye Hongfeng didn't know what the use of this medicinal bath was, anyway, his grandfather just asked him to soak it. In fact, he was still more or less aware of the benefits, such as the jackal dog he fought in the woods in the afternoon.

His physical strength has long surpassed that of ordinary people.

Xiao Han was a little uncomfortable in the medicinal bath, it was just a raccoon dog who had just opened his mind, and he was a half-hung demon beast to death. The medicinal power in the medicinal bath is aimed at washing the marrow of the I Ching, and the domineering medicinal power impacts its limbs and bones, strengthening its body and at the same time accompanied by severe pain like shattering bones.

Ye Hongfeng suddenly thought of something, put his hands on the edge of the barrel, and asked, "Grandpa, have you gained anything from visiting immortals this time?"

Xiao Han's ears moved slightly, and after hearing the "immortal", it also became interested, stretched out its claws and picked it on the wall of the barrel, and looked at Ye Lao with big eyes full of expectation.

Ye Lao put down the dishes and chopsticks and calmly looked back at the raccoon dog in the barrel. Ye Lao frowned suddenly, and Xiao Han suddenly felt that all the secrets in his body were seen through by this old man, and even ...... Past and present lives. But soon a smile appeared between Ye Lao's eyebrows, and he turned his head to look at Ye Hongfeng.

Feng'er, you are an adult, and you can reach the rank according to the national ceremony. ”

Ye Hongfeng was confused, he really didn't understand what Ye Lao's answer had to do with what he asked.

"Grandpa, you can reach the first, doesn't it mean...... I can practice too?"

Although he was a little unclear, Ye Hongfeng still followed Ye Lao's thoughts and expressed his ambition.

When Ye Lao heard this, he said with a smile: "I thought that you were no longer entangled, but I never thought that you still yearn for cultivation to this day. It's just that I didn't let you learn from you Li Dazhuang when I was young, and it wasn't that I looked down on his mountain exercises. It's just that the path of cultivation is very difficult, and the cruelty of the cultivation realm is far from what you, an unfledgling guy, can imagine............ I can't rest assured after all. ”

Ye Hongfeng nodded as if he didn't understand.

"Feng'er, do you know the meaning of my name for you?"

"The Honghu is ambitious, and the maple is also vast. Grandpa wanted me to have big ambitions. ”

Ye Lao stroked his beard: "Yes, not all right." The ambition of a young man, although he has not experienced the world, should be like a bird and have great ambitions. Looking back in the twilight years, I recall the ups and downs of this life, like a maple returning to the old land, calm and vast. Whether it is fame or cultivation, after all, it is your own choice, and no one can interfere. May you look back on your decision without remorse. ”

Ye Hongfeng let go of his hands and sat back in the barrel. Ye Lao's words made him relieved.

The evening breeze blows from the distant sky, and the leaves rustle as they embrace each other in the wind. The wind swept the fallen dead leaves through the bamboo window and into the barrel, causing ripples. The dead leaves glow with a green glow, as if they are being reborn.

"Go and wander, take advantage of the dawn and the long night. ”

Ye Lao's gaze condensed outside the window, the sky had already been completely dark, and only the faint light of the bamboo shed was still drifting.