The small stone river finally entered the eyes of the four people, and the sunset left a patch of red glow in the western sky at the last moment of setting, which also added a simple and eternal color to the small wooden bridge on the river, as if it had been there for a long, long time, as if it was welcoming guests from afar, and as if it was welcoming the master who had returned from a long journey.

There were a few people standing in the shadow of the head of the bridge, and Dashan was happy, because he saw the figure he was looking forward to the most, with a slender figure, black hair like clouds, eyes as clear as a river, and a gentle smile------- all of which made all the tiredness and pain disappear without a trace on Dashan's body. The mountain ran towards the figure with joy in his body and mind.

Fortunately, he also saw the beautiful grass, once upon a time, he also had some fantasies, feeling that the grass had a good impression of him, but he didn't know when this feeling began to fade slowly, and the mountain that became simple when he saw the grass made him only look at the grass. His gaze shifted to an old man with gray hair, and he smiled and quickened his pace.

Erniu, who was so tired that he couldn't walk, looked at his brother who was running fast, and muttered: "I really don't know where the strength of the eldest brother comes from, he can still run so fast, and he doesn't say that he came to help me, so he knows that he thinks about Sister Cao'er." "Although the double tiger does not bring much prey, after all, he is still young, his physical strength is a little insufficient, and the first time he went hunting, he followed the mountain such a big pervert, at this time, he felt that his hands were soft and his feet were soft and he had no strength, and he didn't speak after listening to Erniu's muttering, and he really didn't have the strength to speak. He also saw that his father and mother were there, but he didn't have the strength to go faster.

Dashan's appearance at the moment is really scary, covered in blood, and he can't see where the injury is, whether the injury is serious or not. Dashan ran to the front and said to a middle-aged couple looking at the front: "Second uncle and aunt, don't worry, Huzi is behind you." ”

Shuanghu's parents, the old couple looked at him like this, and they couldn't worry about it, and said "don't worry" to Dashan, and the two of them still hurriedly ran to pick up their son.

Dashan smiled at the flower-haired old man and said, "Uncle Yan, why are you here today?!"

Uncle Yan glanced at the pretty girl next to him, and said to Dashan with a smile, "What do you say?!"

"It's not that my sister is worried about you, Big Benshan. A fourteen or fifteen-year-old playful little girl jumped out behind Cao'er - Cao'er's sister was called Yezi, she was bored and sat on the small bridge, but at this time she couldn't help but interject first.

"Yezi, how do you speak!!" Cao'er reprimanded her unhappily when she heard this. Ye Zi was not afraid at all, and continued: "I'm not wrong, I didn't dare to come, and I turned around and grinded Uncle Yan there." Da Benshan, I can tell you, if I weren't here, my sister would have asked Uncle Yan to take her into the mountain to find you. After saying that, he giggled to himself, and the crisp laughter spread in all directions between the world of the small wooden bridge, making everyone who heard it feel relaxed and happy, and only the grass looked at the person who made the voice with some annoyance standing in front of the mountain and was complacent.

Cao'er's face was red with shame, and she quibbled: "How can I have it." But this rebuttal was so weak that even Uncle Yan laughed, and the stupid big man didn't know how to help solve the siege, so he just grinned at himself. Being watched by him like this, Cao'er panicked in her heart at this time, and in order to hide this mood, she finally thought of a way to divert her attention and make herself feel less embarrassed.

"Dead girl, see if I don't tear your mouth. As he spoke, he went to chase Yezi, and when Yezi saw his sister chasing him, he first stuck out his tongue at her, and then ran quickly behind the mountain, and shouted: "Come and chase, you can't catch me." Then the two men chased and laughed around the mountain.

"Father, how long have you been waiting here?" Tian Xing also walked up, and Yan Lao said with a smile: "It didn't take long for us to come here, and you guys came back." ”

Uncle Yan walked up to Tianxing, touched his sweaty forehead, looked at the mountain, Tianxing, and Erniu and Shuanghu not far away, and said, "Your harvest today is good." ”

Seeing that there were more and more people, Cao'er was embarrassed to joke with Ye Zi anymore, and he didn't speak when he stood next to the mountain, and when he saw Dashan still smirking at himself, Cao'er glanced at him sideways, and said angrily: "Look at what, don't look at it again, and then see how I clean you up." ”

Dashan only smiled, and in the end, Cao'er couldn't help but turn her head and laughed.

Ye Zi jumped up and down in front of Tianxing, looked at the bear leg that Tianxing had put on the ground, swallowed his saliva fiercely, looked up and said to Tianxing: "Brother Tianxing, I have never eaten bear leg meat!" Ye Zi stood up and said confidently: "He doesn't have as much meat as yours, just a small front leg, and he can't eat it in one meal." ”

Cao'er couldn't listen to it anymore, so she came over and poked her head with her finger and said, "You're a pig, you won't eat it if you don't eat it for another meal." Ye Zi rolled his eyes and asked Uncle Yan, "Uncle Yan, do you know how to make bear meat?" Uncle Yan shook his head with a smile and said, "I don't, there shouldn't be anyone in our village."

When Ye Zi heard this, he was very depressed, not only did he want to go to Uncle Yan's house tonight to eat in the soup, but he was not sure if he could eat delicious bear meat at night.

Uncle Yan smiled and said, "I heard that the forefoot meat of this dog bear is much better than the hind palm meat, because bears often steal honey to eat, because of the honey, they are often stung by bees, and after a long time, this forefoot meat becomes particularly delicious." When Ye Zi heard this, he hurriedly ran to the side of the mountain, looked at the delicious little front legs, and then heard Uncle Yan say: "A dish with a bear's front palm can be sold for at least thirty or forty taels of silver in the restaurant in the town, and I estimate that if we sell it, it can be sold for almost twenty taels of silver!" Ye Zi was stunned for a moment and asked, "Uncle Yan, don't lie to me!" Uncle Yan smiled: "Uncle Yan doesn't lie to you." When Ye Zi heard this, he snatched the bear leg from Dashan's shoulder, hugged it his chest, and shouted to Dashan: "Da Benshan, from now on, this bear leg is mine, you are not allowed to say no, otherwise I won't let my sister marry you." “

"Dead girl, you're crazy, what nonsense!!" Cao'er said when she heard her say that it was really ugly, and she stepped forward and patted the head of the leaf.

Ye Ziqi squinted at the grass and muttered, "Anyway, you're going to marry Da Benshan, and I don't need to ask for more dowry now." ”

This was so angry that he stomped his feet: "The more you don't talk like this, look at me when I go home and tell our father, how will our father clean you up!"

Dashan smiled and said to Cao'er, "It's okay, Cao'er, I was going to send it to you." “

Cao'er listened and glanced at him, so that those straight eyes couldn't stand it, lowered his head and looked at his feet, and also saw the big soles of the mountains that crossed the mountains, and whispered: "The leaves are all spoiled by you." ”

Erniu finally came to everyone panting like a cow, Shuanghu's father carried Shuanghu's bear hind legs, followed behind, his wife accompanied Shuanghu to the end, while constantly asking some words that are far away, tired or not, dangerous or not, and wiped the sweat on his face for his son.

The sun finally set, leaving only a piece of red glow hanging there, the trees and mountains in the distance gradually darkened, everything around seemed to melt into the darkness, and everyone also walked towards Liujia Village not far away. The tall fence walls on the outskirts of the village obscured the shadows of the village houses, and only curling smoke rose in a few places, and the dogs of the village were bustling with joy as the crowd returned.

A long and undulating wolf howl came from the depths ----of the mountains and forests in the twilight, and with this wolf howl, Liujia Village also closed the wide village gate.

After eating, Tianxing sat in the courtyard with his father-in-law, Uncle Yan. Tianxing slowly wiped his long knife, this knife was a gift from his father-in-law when he was eighteen years old, I heard that it was bought by his father-in-law in Xifeng Town, hundreds of miles away, not to mention that there is no second one in the village, even in Dongjiaji, there are not a few handles, so the hunters in the village, both old and young, are very envious that they have such a good knife, for three years, this knife has been by their side, and they don't know how much prey they have hunted by stabbing, wild boars, red deer, deer, roe deer, badgers------ but they have never broken their mouths and rolled their blades, and Tianxing also cherishes it very much。

Uncle Yan sat next to him and smoked dry cigarettes, just like an ordinary old man in his sixties and seventies in the village, swallowing clouds and spitting fog, and he was enjoying himself.

"Father-in-law, I want to ask you something!" Tianxing stopped what he was doing.

Uncle Yan smiled, as if it was a victorious smile, and said, "Let's hear it." ”

Tian Xing asked cautiously: "Father-in-law, what do you think of my martial arts compared to Brother Dashan?"

Uncle Yan pondered for a while, spit out a puff of cigarette, and said: "I taught you all kung fu, and you and Dashan are the best in the village, if you say that you have the learning and comprehension of kung fu moves, you two should be about the same, well, you should be stronger." “

Tianxing asked again, "But ------"

"But today you obviously feel that Dashan's kung fu is a little higher than yours, right?" Uncle Yan took his words and asked.

Tianxing nodded: "Not bad." Uncle Yan said, "Well, tell me the details of how you killed that bear."

So Tianxing told the story in detail. After listening to this, Uncle Yan closed his eyes and smoked for a while, looked at Tianxing and said, "There are three points, I think, are the reasons why you are not as good as the mountain." ”

Tianxing stared at his father-in-law, and Uncle Yan continued: "First, Dashan has the spirit of righteousness in the face of danger, this point, don't say that you are all inferior to him, many people are inferior to him, it can be said that they are inferior in spirit. Secondly, the kung fu I teach you is simple and direct, so you can only exert the greatest power if you grasp the three points of speed, accuracy and ruthlessness, and at this point, Dashan has the advantage of innate qualifications, his qualifications-" Uncle Yan stopped, looked at Tianxing, and Tianxing saw that Uncle Yan didn't continue, and hurriedly asked: "How is it, what is Brother Dashan's qualifications, father-in-law?"

Uncle Yan smiled and said, "It should be said that it is the best I have ever seen." Tianxing listened, lowered his head and wiped the knife again, Tianxing sighed and said: "I am aware of these two aspects, but my father-in-law, you said that there are three points, so what is the third point?"

Uncle Yan just smoked, but didn't speak, and Tianxing urged: "Father-in-law, why don't you say it again, tell me quickly!!"

Uncle Yan smiled: "It's not time yet, stay for a while, I'll take you somewhere." ”

Tianxing knew that he would always know the answer he wanted today, so he suppressed the curiosity in his heart, waited for his father-in-law to take him to that somewhat mysterious place, and when his father-in-law finished smoking a bag of cigarettes and put away the cigarette gun, Tianxing also stood up and put away the long knife. Next, Tianxing saw his father-in-law enter the house and change into a short clothes, walked into the yard as usual, stretched his body, and began to box, a set of speed and flexibility of the night killing boxing was actually beaten slowly by the father-in-law today, a lot of beating and attacking moves were so slow that Tianxing felt awkward, but Tianxing knew that his father-in-law would not punch like this for no reason, he must have his deep meaning, Tianxing did not relax for a while, he wanted to see what effect this set of boxing techniques that were originally intended to hurt the enemy's life in a short time would be played by the father-in-law。 Next, Uncle Yan fought the night killing punch several times in a row, but the speed slowly increased, and the last time actually made Tianxing feel like he couldn't catch it, Tianxing was deeply shaken - this set of boxing moves he thought he could get with confidence, but now Tianxing is not so confident - in the end, Uncle Yan's movements are too fast, Tianxing believes that if his father-in-law makes a move against him, he will not have any power to fight back or even parry.

Tianxing was still in shock and couldn't extricate himself, still thinking about what would happen if Dashan was in the face of such an attack, but he heard Uncle Yan say to him: "Tianxing, it's time, let's go." ”

Fortunately, he came back to his senses and found that his father-in-law had put on his coat at some point, so he hurriedly answered and followed. Tianxing caught up with Uncle Yan and said excitedly: "Father-in-law, I really didn't expect that this punch can still be fought like this." ”

Uncle Yan asked him with a smile: "Well, what do you think is the effect of boxing like this, you think about it first, and tell me when you think about it." ”

Tian Xing thought for a while, and then said: "Father-in-law, you started to punch slowly, the moves of this set of boxing methods are unreasonable, and they have no effect on the enemy, I think, this kind of boxing should be of great help to understand the technique of each move, right?"

Uncle Yan nodded: "That's right, this method was thought of by myself before, and it hasn't been used for a long time, what you said is not wrong at all, I also thought of this when my father-in-law practiced like this, but then I also found another point, that is, when fighting with people, the speed and slow change of moves can sometimes become a key to affecting victory or defeat or even life and death, and there are many times, your moves change between fast and slow can confuse the opponent to a certain extent." In most cases, people with fast martial arts moves can often defeat the enemy, so most people think that fast must be better than slow, but I don't think it's entirely like this, the real master should master different degrees according to different opponents, and make fast and slow changes, rather than rigidly copying and not knowing how to be flexible. “

Fortunately, he couldn't understand this at this time, but he had memorized these words from his father-in-law, and maybe in the near future, he would be able to have his own understanding of this.

The two were talking, and before they knew it, they had reached the east side of the village. There is a large open space here, which is usually a place for the young children of the village to practice archery and martial arts, and it is here that he and the hunters of the village come here to practice martial arts and archery around midnight.

When there was still some distance from the venue, Tianxing heard the sound of breaking the air during the practice, and the sound of stepping on the ground came from the front, it should be the time of the day, who was still practicing at this time? Tianxing looked at Uncle Yan, and said in his heart, could it be Brother Dashan?

With a hint of curiosity in his heart, Tian Xing slightly sped up a few steps.

The martial arts training ground under a crescent moon was hazy, and the middle of the field was white because of being trampled on for a long time, and he could only see a little in the hazy night, there was a black shadow that kept dangling there, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, sometimes high and sometimes low, the voice came from there, and he could now be sure that person was Dashan, because this figure was too familiar to him. Tianxing paused for a moment and saw that Uncle Yan had walked to the front, so he followed again and walked towards the mountain.

Dashan was putting the steel fork in front of the left side of his head, making a blocking action, and when he saw Uncle Yan and Tianxing coming, he stopped, and asked with a smile: "Uncle Yan, Tianxing, why are you here?!"

Uncle Yan smiled and said, "You are only allowed to come, but we are not allowed to come?!" Uncle Yan looked around and asked, "Cao'er, I didn't accompany you today?"

Dashan said: "Cao'er, Cao'er went back to get water, hey, Uncle Yan, how do you know that Cao'er will accompany me to practice?" Uncle Yan smiled and said: "I couldn't sleep and came out to hang out before, and I saw it a few times." The mountain scratched his head and laughed. Tianxing didn't expect that Dashan and Cao'er were already getting better to this extent, it seems that Cao'er's father and mother have recognized Dashan's future son-in-law.

Uncle Yan saw that Dashan had practiced more of the stabs, dodging, and blocking movements just now, and asked, "Dashan, did you experience it again when you went out hunting today?" Dashan nodded and said, "Well, Uncle Yan, to be honest, when I met that bear, I thought I would have no problem fighting it alone, but as soon as I fought, I knew that I had no chance of winning at all. “

Uncle Yan nodded and did not speak. Dashan continued: "My biggest experience this time is that my strength is still very insufficient. ”

Tianxing felt unbelievable when he heard this, he originally thought that Dashan would say that his movements were not fast enough, and his body was not agile enough, but he said that he was not strong enough!! you know, Dashan is recognized as the most powerful person in the village, and it is easy to hold up two or three hundred catties of stones with one hand.

Uncle Yan also looked at Dashan, and said after a while: "Dashan, it's not wrong to pursue great strength, but it's not right to just blindly want to have great strength." “

Dashan asked respectfully, "Please Uncle Yan teach me." “

I saw Uncle Yan take a few steps back, his feet slightly apart, and said, "Dashan, you might as well attack me with all your strength." ”

Tianxing stood aside, with a large mountain steel fork at the end in front of him, and said, "Uncle Yan, please be careful." ”

Uncle Yan smiled slightly when he heard this, in the dim night, Dashan actually saw the smile on Uncle Yan's face, clearly, he took a deep breath, "Hey ----", the steel fork in his hand stabbed out violently, through the night, Dashan's figure appeared faster, with a powerful momentum, like a beast pounced on its prey, Tianxing once again felt the wild aura emanating from Dashan's body.

Seeing that the steel fork was about to stab Uncle Yan's left shoulder, but hearing a soft sound of "whoosh", Tianxing only felt that Uncle Yan had moved forward with a very fast body, and he didn't see what was going on at all, so he saw Dashan's body continue to fly forward and flat, and then fell heavily to the ground, fortunately the ground was not stone, better than Erniu, but it was not much stronger. Tian Xing saw that Dashan did not move for a while, and just wanted to go up to see if he was injured, he heard a crisp and anxious voice coming from behind him: "Dashan ??!!" When I looked back, I saw a figure running over in a hurry—it was grass. It turned out that Cao'er brought water back to Dashan, and when he saw that Uncle Yan and Tianxing were there, he was embarrassed to come over again, and he wanted to go home, but when he saw that Uncle Yan was going to teach Dashan Kung Fu, he was curious, so he looked at it for a while, and Dashan fell to the ground, fell a dog and gnawed, and felt funny in his heart, and after waiting for a while, he saw that Dashan had not gotten up, so he panicked in his heart, and hurriedly ran over to see how the injury was.

Cao'er came to her and called again, "Brother Dashan, did you hear me?!" shouted quietly as he pushed Dashan's shoulder.

Seeing that Cao'er was about to cry, Tianxing asked Uncle Yan, "Father-in-law, ------- you just now?"

Uncle Yan knew that he wanted to ask if he would be heavy-handed, so he glared at him and said, "Do you think I'm still like you, no matter what?!" Having said that, he still stepped forward to take a look.

Cao'er saw that Dashan had been silent, so he stretched out his hand to straighten his face, and as soon as he reached Dashan's mouth, he felt that the sticky thing rubbed on his hand, and it was still hot, so he quickly put his hand in front of him, and when he saw that it was blood, he shouted to Uncle Yan: "Uncle Yan, Brother Dashan is bleeding, what should I do?"

Uncle Yan walked to him, turned Dashan's body over, took a closer look, and saw that Dashan didn't react with his eyes closed, and after a while, he slapped Dashan on the right cheek, "Bang", the voice was so loud, "Ouch!!" Before Cao'er had time to feel distressed again, he saw Dashan screaming, but he saw Dashan rubbing his face with his hands, and said to Uncle Yan: "I said, Uncle Yan, you can't start lightly." Uncle Yan ignored him, stood up and walked to Tianxing's side and said to Tianxing, "Tianxing, let's go back." Seeing that the two of them were leaving, Dashan hurriedly got up and ran over and asked, "Uncle Yan, you haven't said how you practiced that hand just now, so fast!!"

Uncle Yan didn't stop with Tianxing and said, "You think about it yourself." ”

Dashan asked again: "Uncle Yan, go to Dongjiaji tomorrow to buy something, will you go?!"

"We'll talk about that then. “

Dashan saw that Uncle Yan and Tianxing were gone, and when he turned around, he saw that Cao'er was still kneeling there and not moving, and it seemed that he was getting angry, so he hurriedly ran over.

"Grass ------"

I saw Cao'er suddenly stand up, and said to him viciously: "Liu Dashan, you are going to die!!!!" As he spoke, he stretched out his two hands to twist Dashan's arm, "Sizzle------" Dashan gritted his teeth and inhaled and pretended to be in pain, and let Cao'er do it. Seeing that Dashan knew that it was painful and there was still a lot of blood on his face, Cao'er stopped and said to Dashan: "Don't tease me again in the future, otherwise see how I clean you up." ”

Dashan just laughed, Cao'er stretched out his hand and twisted him lightly, and said angrily: "You are still laughing, you are not allowed to laugh." ”

Dashan stretched out his big hand and brushed the flowing sea in front of Cao'er's forehead, and said, "I didn't tease you just now, really." ”

Seeing that he was serious, Cao'er glanced at him, and asked with an expression of a ghost believing you, "Then why didn't you get up just now?"

"I think about it, don't you know, Uncle Yan just used that kick to kick the ground, and I don't have any strength at all. Dashan said.

"Uncle Yan kicked you??? why didn't I see ??!!"

Dashan smiled and asked her, "Then what did you see??" But I thought it would be strange if you could see it-it was so dark, and Uncle Yan was so fast.

As soon as Cao'er heard this, she giggled, laughing a little inexplicably, Cao'er smiled: "I saw you fall a dog and gnaw!!" Dashan looked at Cao'er at this time fixedly, and felt that Cao'er's laughter was so good, she couldn't listen to it from childhood to adulthood, and she also made herself feel personal happiness, and she laughed with herself. Cao'er couldn't help but smile, took out a handkerchief from her sleeve, and stepped forward to wipe the blood off Dashan's face. While he was wiping, Dashan grabbed Cao'er's hand and said, "You can go tomorrow!!"

Cao'er asked, "Where are you going?" Dashan said, "Come with us to Dongjiaji!"

Cao'er lowered her head and whispered, "You are going to buy things for everyone, what can I do when I go?" It turned out that Liujia Village lived in the mountains, and every ten days and half a month, someone would team up to go to Dongjiaji, forty miles away, to sell fur, herbs, dried mushrooms, and buy firewood, rice, oil, salt and other daily necessities to return to the village.

Dashan said: "You don't have to do anything, you just look at it, I heard that there is a market there tomorrow, and when I'm done, let's go to the market, okay?"

Cao'er nodded and gave an "um" through her tiny nose.

On the way back, Tianxing asked Uncle Yan, "Father-in-law, how did you knock Brother Dashan down just now?"

Uncle Yan glanced at him and said, "Haven't you already seen it!"

"It's too fast, I don't see it clearly. Tianxing said. Uncle Yan said: "Actually, it's nothing, it's a very ordinary move, I just pulled him with my hand, and then kicked him in the belly of the mountain." “

When Tianxing heard this, he asked the same question as Dashan: "Father-in-law, how did you do it?!"

Uncle Yan asked him, "Do you think it's incredible?" Tianxing nodded and said, "Well, I never thought that one person could do it so fast!"

Uncle Yan was silent for a moment, stopped, and Tianxing also stopped when he saw it.

Uncle Yan looked at Tianxing and said: "Tianxing, I want to tell you something, there is a sky outside the sky, there are people outside the world, you think I can't be faster, but there are people in this world who are faster than me, even several times faster, more than ten times faster than me." He sighed heavily.

"More than ten times!" Tianxing didn't believe it in his heart, if someone could really do it, what kind of monster would it be, or was it a human being!

Uncle Yan looked at the gray sky to the south, turned around and continued walking.

Uncle Yan continued to say to Tianxing: "If you want to practice to my level, I have only one way to tell you, and that is to make friends with death. Only in the face of death can a person exert the greatest strength in his body. Hearing this, Tianxing clenched his fists tightly, and after listening to his father-in-law's words, he suddenly felt that he had gained a little more than the mountain--the courage to face danger, plus the third point that his father-in-law said before-diligent study and hard work.