In the winter of the twentieth year of the Republic of China, between the yellow heaven and earth, one person and one rider, like a cold arrow and a fire, galloped among the yellow sand. At the pole of the eye, there are four wildernesses and eight wildernesses, only yellow. It's all yellow---- and the air is full of yellow dust, fluttering and sprinkling. The basin is gone, and a mound of loess rises from the sunken earth. The loess is thicker and thicker, and the pile is higher and higher. Piled up into ridges, piled up into beams, and piled up into large patches.

Take off the military uniform and return to his hometown - Huo Dao of the Eight Aqueducts, riding a horse galloping on the vast yellow plateau, the yellow sand everywhere, the west wind rolls the withered lotus artemisia, and flies into the pass from outside the valley, and the yellow sand hits the face, like a cone thorn in pain. As far as the eye could see, there was nothing but sand and a few dying poplars.

The town of Eight Aqueducts, lying abruptly deep in this desolate Loess Plateau, is a small town built on the ruins of the military fortress and the border castle for generations. The earthen walls and houses of the besieged city are basically made of loess blocks, mixed with the surrounding yellow sand, if it were not for the few wisps of cooking smoke floating above the besieged city, the town would not be easy to notice from a distance.

The Eight Aqueducts are a place full of magic, and myths of one kind or another have been passed down to this day. It is said that these eight aqueducts are a basin and valley that the gods ordered to rake out with a divine rake to imprison the immortals who disobeyed the will of the heavenly court. The north and south are surrounded by the high uplift of Wu Mountain and Guan Mountain, like a high wall that rises straight into the clouds, leaving only two knife splitting canyon passes in the east and west.

But this is the birthplace of a generation of demon concubine Daji, especially the thirty-mile peach blossom forest above the ridge between the criss-crossing grooves in the middle of the basin valley, which is said to be planted by Daji;

I have to talk about the special location of these eight aqueducts. It has always been an important place for soldiers, a hub between the north and the south, and a key road connecting the east and west. Beiguan Mountain, Nanwu Mountain, Dongliantai Mountain, a valley basin of more than 30 miles from east to west, more than 10 miles from north to south. Only the south, east and west sides of the four sides are left with canyon fortresses to enter and exit. The provinces of the Central Plains from Xi'an and Xianyang to Gansu, Sichuan, Ning, and Mongolia must go north or west through this. Entering from the South Pass, leaving the East Pass, going north to Longxian, and then north to Ningxia and Mongolia; the West Pass is guarded, west to Gansu, Xinjiang, and south to Sichuan.

But no matter what you say, tens of thousands of townspeople in this small town of Basin Valley thrive here, inheriting their unique spiritual civilization from generation to generation.

Through the thirty miles of peach blossom forest, Huo Dao stood alone and one horse outside a walled gate in the northwest mountain valley. It is said that the village is more like a castle, three sides are surrounded by the cliff wall that rises high, and the front also erects a thick city wall that is dozens of zhang high, only in the middle there is a gatehouse, and the door of the building is engraved with three big characters of "Ganquan Village".

There is also a deep trench under the city wall, the drawbridge of the gatehouse is also hung high, and more than a dozen soldiers with guns and weapons are stationed on the city, but the most ordinary northwestern peasants look here with a look of trepidation.

"Open the door---" Huo Dao shouted a little impatiently.

The villager on the city wall didn't seem to remember Huo Dao, and after looking at it for a long time, there was suddenly a fat man, who should be said to be stronger and more appropriate, straightened up his rough and round body, flew and pasted it, hurriedly looked at it, and shouted: "Who is coming?"

"Meat bun, you coward, don't I know your fifth brother?" Huo Dao lifted off his turban, waved the sand and dust on his body, and scolded angrily.

The man was brave in Ganquan Zhai Township, smelled a surprise, and hurriedly shouted: "Hurry ---up, open the door of the village, it's the fifth brother, it's the fifth brother who is back, it's the fifth brother who is back, ---."

Under the sound of ---, the suspension bridge slowly landed, the gate of the village was slowly pushed open, and Bao Buji led several people to greet him. Without waiting for him to speak, Huo Dao Pegasus jumped down and kicked directly at the ushered Bao Fuji. shouted: "You coward, I don't remember your fifth brother?"

Bao Buer flew up but laughed, hugged him, the two of them put their shoulders on their shoulders, and said to each other: "Fifth brother, it's strange that the little brother didn't recognize --- for a while."

even looked at the people around him and shouted: "Quick, go and inform the brothers, the fifth brother is back, ---."

Huo Daocai calmly looked at Bao Buer, looked at this long-lost brother, and the cottage that raised him as an adult, he had a lot of thoughts and too many feelings, but now it is like a great enemy, everyone feels that they are in danger, and they have not met it since they were sensible, and asked in surprise: "Meat bun, is the village in trouble."

"Hi ---" Bao Buji sighed deeply, and Xu Xu sighed: "It's not the thief Shui Wa ---."

"Shuiwa---" Huo Dao walked towards the village surrounded by everyone, and asked retrospectively: "You mean that the Liu family supports Yang Shuiwa---."

"Well--- it's this white-eyed wolf that can't be fed," Bao Buji shouted angrily.

"Let's talk about it--- what's going on" Huo Dao was very surprised, how could a little Yang Shuiwa stir up the whole cottage chicken and dog with his own strength, and everyone was in danger.

Just about to open his mouth, there is a group of people who are very familiar with Huo Dao in the village, the leader, which is somewhat similar to Huo Dao, the square face is slightly rounded, a horizontal whisker between the high nose and moisturized lips, doubling domineering and majestic, only the beard on the chin reveals his somewhat elegant atmosphere, fifty miles away, wearing a cotton coat and long coat, it is difficult to hide his righteousness, and every step is loud.

glared at Huo Dao and shouted, "Bastard--- you still know how to come back."

Huo Dao took a few steps closer, stepped forward and bowed his waist, this person was none other than his father, Huo Zhennan, who was also the head of the Ganquan Zhai People's League: "Ada--- I'm back."

Huo Zhennan reached out and patted his thick shoulder, and said with a smile: "I haven't seen it dark and thin for a few years, but I am stable and mature."

Huo Dao laughed: "Let Ada worry, I have long wanted to go back to the village to visit your old man, everything is fine at home."

Huo Zhennan smiled, took his hand lovingly, and patted it gently: "Okay, it's twenty years before the New Year, and it's not yet a family, which makes people worry--- but it's good to come back."

"I, Huo Wu, if you want to be good-looking, you have to be talented, are you still worried that you won't be able to marry your mother-in-law?" Huo Dao straightened his strong chest and flaunted himself.

Huo Zhennan is still very proud of this only son, he loves and pity, loves him since he was a child, smart and courageous, somewhat of his youthful bones, pity him for his mother when he was young, and lack a mother's love, leading him to be like a wild child, scattering wild everywhere, spreading the name of a "scourge", but fortunately, he was sent to Xi'an a few years ago to train in the Youth Teaching Corps for three years, and there were more than two years of military life, which has changed a lot.

Gently tapped his forehead and smiled: "You kid, you know how to blow yourself ---."

Huo Dao smiled and hurriedly asked: "Ada, is there anything big in the village--- why is everyone in danger and locks the village?"

"Hi ---" Huo Zhennan wanted to stop, tightly pulled Huo Dao's hand and walked towards the back courtyard, and said: "Go and ask the ancestor for peace first, and then talk later."

Walking to the back village around the most magnificent courtyard, a silver-haired old woman in the back hall, is looking forward to it, even when she still stands up, keeps looking at the outside, the look of expectation and joy is not exhausted. Although she is white-haired, with a snake cane in her hand, she is ruddy and white, and her facial features are very bright. Back then, he and her husband led the three clans of Huo Wenliu to fight all the way to create this family business, and no one in the village was respectful or fearful.

Huo Dao took three steps into two, rushed into the lobby, bowed in front of the woman, and shouted: "Grandson Huo Wu asks the ancestor for ---."

Huo Baishi got up and hugged him up, looked Huo Dao up and down, and said with a smile: "You have grown so tall---" and gently knocked Huo Dao's chest and smiled: "Well, it is very strong, very much your grandfather's demeanor back then."

"That's it, will the door go out of the tiger?" Huo Dao smiled, making Huo Baishi smile, so unhappy. Carefully and gently, stroking gently, Bai said with a distressed look: "However, it's dark, thin, I've suffered a lot outside over the years, blame you Ada, I can't bear to let you suffer alone outside the outside."

Huo Zhennan grinned and replied: "Mother, you spoil him too much, I want him to go out and learn more skills over the years, so that he can guard the village and the people."

Bai Shi curled his mouth and said: "Okay, you are reasonable, but I am an old woman, I am looking forward to it day and night, and I am looking forward to ---it" and paused: "But I am back, I have grown taller, and it is time to start a family."

Saying this, Huo Zhennan hurriedly said: "Mother, I was just about to report this matter to you, I asked the matchmaker to say goodbye to the Taohuayu Tao family, and set a family matter, so that the eldest girl of the Tao family can marry into my Huo family, help preside over the housework, and restrain this wild horse."

"Ah--- no, I make my own decisions about my marriage" Huo Dao objected on the spot. The said eldest daughter of the Tao family, her appearance flashed in her mind, and she shook her head again and again with her arrogance and work.

Huo Zhennan raised his stern face and said coldly: "You are in charge of your marriage, since ancient times, it has been the order of your parents, and the appointment of the matchmaker is your own decision."

Huo Baishi saw that Huo Dao was displeased, Fan Qi was stubborn, hurriedly greeted, and said with a smile: "Grandson, be obedient, how can your father set a family affair for you at will, presumably that girl is very outstanding, otherwise I wouldn't agree."

But Huo Dao didn't seem to buy their account, and refused: "I have an intention to fall in love with someone, and whether it is the eldest daughter of the Tao family, Tianxian, or a sow, I will not accept an emotionless marriage."

"Bastard, what are you talking about, what I have set, how can you regret it" Huo Zhennan's face was gloomy, and he was angry, if it wasn't in front of Huo Bai's family, he would have slapped it a long time ago.

calmed down, looked at each other angrily, and shouted very strictly: "Don't think it's right, you are outside the sky is high and the emperor is far away, I don't know what you have done---."

Huo Dao smiled coldly: "I marry my mother-in-law, but it's not you, I want to marry you myself---."

As he spoke, he was about to rush out of the hall, Huo Zhennan shouted: "Stop ---."

When Huo Dao stopped and turned around, Huo Zhennan said in a deep voice: "You coward, I have already asked people to pick up the girl you brought back from Xi'an, you don't want to do things with consequences, and you have to wipe your ass for you."

This is exactly where Huo Dao felt anxious on the way home, thinking about how to explain this matter to his family when he went home, and knowing that he didn't have to say anything, he took two steps forward and said: "It's good if you know, if you want to marry, I will marry her--- no one else will talk about it."

Huo Zhennan said with a cold face: "Don't say that I'm old and stubborn, not civilized, if you bring back a good girl, that's fine, but she comes from a prostitution family, don't say that I don't allow her, and the family rules can't tolerate her."

Huo Dao's heart tightened, and he secretly complained, who is so lacking in her grandmother's mouth, she understands it in such detail, and retorted: "So what, she is also a scholarly Confucian, but she is in the middle of the family and falls into the dust, but she does not sell her body ---."