Long Beach in the wind.

A young man in black stood on the low slope of the green willows, with a deep melancholy in his eyes, silently looking at the river beach winding in front of him into the distance.

In the setting sun, the river beach resembles a golden snake.

The boy's body was a little thin, and the corners of his clothes fluttered gently in the wind, and they were covered with dust.

The young man's face was blue and purple, there was a faint blood stain on the corner of his mouth, and his hair was sticky into locks, which was very embarrassing.

It's like you've just been beaten.

But the young man's hand was tightly holding a silver iron sword, a two-foot-long iron sword, stained with aquatic weeds, which was a little dazzling in the afterglow.

Such a poetic picture was broken by a muffled voice the next moment:

"Brother, don't be blind, aren't you tired after standing there for most of the day?"

The black-clothed young man's name is Ji Longjun, and he calls his little fat man his second uncle's younger brother, Ji Kai.

"Dead Dakai, what do you think I'm standing here for? Looking at the scenery? I'm thinking about the major events in my life!"

Ji Longjun snorted indignantly, but Ji Kai laughed, and couldn't help coughing up a trace of bloody phlegm in the laughter.

"Phew, it's a big event in life, I think you just like to pretend to be an elephant too much! Otherwise, we wouldn't be beaten today!"

After Ji Kai finished taunting, he immediately wiped the corners of his mouth with his sleeve and said:

"Brother, aren't we really going back?"

Ji Longjun shook his head firmly, looked into the distance and said, "I have decided, from today onwards, I will never return to the mining city!"

"You can pull it down, and if you pee your pants without fear after a while, it will be counted as a loss. I'll never go back, I can stand you!"

Ji Kai stood up with the willow tree, and his stomach "growled" a few times.

Ji Kai is a little fat man, but he obviously hasn't eaten enough for several meals, and his eye sockets are deep in hunger.

Ji Kai looked at another teenager sitting on the ground against the willow tree, it was a thin and short child, with very black hair and extremely narrow eyes.

"Hey, no, are you hungry? You must be hungry, I hear your stomach growl. ”

The child sitting on the ground is the younger brother of Ji Longjun's third uncle's family, named Ji Ye.

Ji Bu shook his head gently, didn't get up, didn't speak, just looked at Ji Longjun's back blankly.

He was also covered in mud and had several scratches on his face.

Ji Kai rubbed his stomach and sighed: "Brother, the sun is going to go down in a while, let's not go back to the city...... And where are we going to spend the night? And what are we going to eat at night...... You can't see that you're almost fainting from hunger, and you won't be able to speak. ”

Ji Longjun looked back at Ji Kai and Ji Ye, Ji Kai's body was full of footprints, and Ji Ye looked at him directly, and there was no bottom in his dark eyes.

Ji Longjun looked up at the sky and said silently, "Let me think again...... There will be a way!"

Just four days ago, the Ji Longjun brothers had a happy family that almost everyone envied.

Ji Longjun's father, second uncle, and third uncle are all guards in the mine, and they are trusted by the lord of the city in the mining city and respected by the neighbors.

Ji Longjun's father and second uncle were absenteeism in the mine, and they had been digging the mine for more than ten years, and they were just introduced to the city lord's guard by the third brother a few days ago.

Although they don't know much about martial arts, they have a powerful third brother, and no one dares to say anything.

Ji Longjun was just twelve years old, and his two younger brothers Ji Kai and Ji Bu were eleven years old, so it was the time to be naughty.

Every day, they either fight and make trouble in the academy, or secretly skip class to play in the willow forest outside the city, and the life is called a happy and worry-free life.

Ji Longjun has a good partner named Shi Dalei. But whenever Ji Longjun fights with others, Shi Dalei always goes on immediately without saying a word, and takes care of Ji Longjun as his own little brother.

Shi Dalei always said: "Ji Longjun is messing with me, whoever dares to bully him is bullying me Shi Dalei! Bullying me Shi Dalei? Haha, that's a lack of beating!"

Shi Dalei is known as the first in the academy and has a great reputation.

Three days ago, the happy childhood life was ruthlessly shattered.

It is not only the peace of life that is broken, but also the families of countless people in the mining city.

That afternoon, Ji Longjun and Shi Dalei led Ji Kai and Ji Bu to the river beach to catch frogs.

They weren't supposed to come because there was a class this afternoon.

But Ji Kai said: "Brother, I heard others say that roasted chicken is super delicious, so what is chicken? Have you ever eaten roasted chicken?"

Ji Longjun was stunned, he didn't know what "field chicken" was, and he didn't know how delicious the "roasted field chicken" was.

So Ji Longjun immediately found Shi Da Lei: "Da Lei, do you know what 'field chicken' is?" Is 'roasted field chicken' delicious?"

If Shi Dalei didn't know what "field chicken" was, and didn't know how delicious "roast field chicken" was, the tragedy would not have happened.

It's a pity that he knows: "Hey, Longjun, you don't know this?"

"'Field chicken' is a frog! 'Roasted field chicken' is a roast frog, the old waves are delicious! It's a puppy who deceives you!"

Ji Longjun and Ji Kai exclaimed: "Really?"

"I, Shi Dalei, said one thing or another, when did I lie to you?"

Ji Longjun and Ji Kai glanced at each other, and said in unison: "Where did you catch the frog, let's catch it and roast it!"

Shi Dalei shook his head: "Where there is water, there are frogs, and there are no frogs in our city." There is a river farther out of the city than the willow forest, and only there can be frogs. ”

Farther than the willow grove? That's a long way indeed.

Ji Longjun was a little reluctant, Ji Kai licked his lips and said, "Brother, let's go!"

Ji Longjun glanced at him: "Go to Mao, it's so far, do you want to skip class again?" I was just spanked by my dad yesterday, but I don't dare to skip school anymore." ”

Ji Kai's whirring face was full of evil smiles:

"Brother, you can't fight, you don't dare to skip school, even the lynx outside the city can scare you into peeing your pants, you say that you don't fail in life!"

Ji Longjun couldn't stand the excitement of others, so he immediately got up and said:

"Okay! Then let's go now, go catch frogs! Whoever doesn't go is a bad seed, and whoever doesn't go will pee on the kang for a year!"

Ji Kai was already eager to try, and he immediately called Ji Ye.

Shi Dalei was speechless, unable to resist Ji Longjun's repeated requests, so he had to take them to skip school and run out of the city and go to the willow forest.

On a clear afternoon, the sky was cloudless.

Shi Dalei said solemnly: "Since you want to roast frogs, you have to have guys peel the skin and cut the meat! Roasting frogs is a technical job, and you can't do it empty-handed." ”

Ji Longjun said: "Da Lei, your father is a blacksmith, it's not easy to get a kitchen knife?"

"That's not going to work!"

Shi Dalei flatly refused.

Ji Kai said secretly: "Brother Lei is really an obedient and good boy. If it were me, I would steal all the rolling pins, iron pots, and kettles in order to eat roasted frogs, not to mention kitchen knives!"

Of course, whether the latter few cooking utensils have anything to do with roasted frogs is not something that Ji Kai is willing to consider.

Shi Dalei said proudly: "The kitchen knife is for cutting vegetables, and you need to use a bone chopping knife to chop live animals!"

Ji Kai and Ji Longjun were surprised: "It is worthy of being the son of a blacksmith, and he knows a lot!"

"Da Lei, then you go home and steal a bone chopping knife and use it?" Ji Longjun asked tentatively.

"That's not going to work!" Shi Dalei flatly refused again.

Ji Longjun frowned and said: "You talk about you, this is not good, that is not good, then you say a hammer! Let's use our hands to peel the frog, right?"

Shi Dalei glanced at Ji Longjun with contempt and said:

"You are still clamoring to catch 'field chickens' and eat 'roast field chickens', a group of laymen!"

Shi Dalei said: "To peel a frog, you must use a sharp short sword! The kitchen knife is too wide, and the bone chopping knife is too heavy, neither is suitable!"

Ji Longjun gave Shi Dalei a thumbs up: "Da Lei, you are a particular person." But it's so clear that there's a fart, we don't even have a kitchen knife, where are we going to get a short sword?"

Shi Dalei smiled mysteriously: "Hehe, Longjun, I'll take you to get a baby! First of all, don't tell me any of you, otherwise my father will definitely beat my ass twice!"

The three of Ji Longjun hurriedly nodded in agreement, and Ji Longjun said secretly: "Isn't the butt originally two-petaled?"

Shi Dalei's father is the best blacksmith in the mining city.

In addition to producing iron ore and copper ore, the mine behind the mining city is also associated with a rare mineral - black iron ore.

Weapons forged from black iron have a strength and toughness that far surpasses those of iron, and are extremely precious metals.

Lord Shi Tian, the lord of the mining city, deliberately handed over the hundreds of catties of black iron ore refined to the stone blacksmith, and asked him to carefully forge a peerless short sword.

This sword will become the personal sword of Lord Shakti.

Shi Dalei led his companions to the depths of the willow forest and dug out a silver iron sword from a pile of rocks.

Shi Dalei said: "This is the short sword that my father forged for the city lord! I just stole it out to play with yesterday, and I haven't had time to put it back yet." ”

Ji Longjun exclaimed: "Big ...... Da Lei, you're too bold, aren't you? You dare to steal the treasure prepared for the city lord to play with? I think let's stop catching frogs, you hurry up and take it back, otherwise your father will definitely be punished by the city lord if he loses the iron sword!"

Shi Dalei shook his head and said, "Afraid of Mao, Lord City Lord is very busy these days, I heard that a messenger has come to the Strange City in the West, and Lord City Lord has no time to look for my father." ”

"But ......"

"Needless to say. I Shi Dalei has always been vigorous and resolute in doing things, and if I want to make a knife, of course, I must make the best knife in the world! What kind of kitchen knife and bone chopping knife, that is not enough to see!"

Ji Longjun swallowed his saliva: "Da Lei, what do you mean...... You're going to use this castle lord's personal sword to peel frogs?"

"That's right. Why don't you find another dagger to come out?"

"That's definitely not going to be the case. ”

Shi Dalei's courage is unexpectedly great, and his ghost ideas are always unexpectedly exciting.

The brothers finally agreed to Shi Dalei's plan, and took the precious iron sword through the willow forest several miles deep to the reeds outside the river beach.

Here, before they could find the frog, they found countless figures.

The two groups of people confronted each other on the river beach, and the atmosphere was tense. The little brothers hurriedly hid in the reeds, and quietly watched the confrontation on the river beach without daring to breathe.

On the river beach, more than a dozen men in black surrounded a group of unarmed guards with knives, and the leader of the guards was fiercely arguing with the leader of the men in black.

Ji Longjun squinted his eyes and watched carefully, and exclaimed, "That person...... Isn't that the lord of the castle?"

Shi Dalei was taken aback: "What?