The Qing Dynasty Ma Qichang's "Tongcheng Old Biography" contains: "Gu Mingqiu is a villager in Longmian Mountain, Tongcheng, with outstanding strength, outstanding martial arts, good at using big swords, chivalrous and brave, and is a legendary martial arts person. ”

Gu Mingqiu is me, and my story is about to begin.

It is said that there is a Longmian Mountain in Tongcheng County, towering, stretching for hundreds of miles, climb the main peak of Longmian Mountain and look at it, just like a giant dragon sleeping, the forest is reckless, the cliff is a huge gorge, it is deep and unfathomable, it is not sinister, take a look at it coldly, you will know that this place is the place where the dragon and the tiger are hidden. It's just that what kind of dragon is hidden here, what kind of tiger is lying down, but it is said that during the Song Dynasty, there was a great painter named Li Gonglin, who abandoned the official and did not do it, admired the landscape of his hometown, bid farewell to the prosperous Beijing master, returned to Longmian Mountain to live in seclusion and paint, and called himself a monk of Longmian, but he was also at ease. Coincidentally, opposite the Longmian Villa, the former residence of the Longmian monks, there is a village, several bamboo fence huts, built by the mountain and the valley. There is a stream in front of the village, which is the place where the two mountain streams meet, the name is Shuangxi, which is clear to the bottom and endlessly all year round. A young couple lives in the village. The man's surname is Gu, the name is handsome, elegant and elegant, ambitious, full of poetry and writing, outstanding, but he has repeatedly failed, so he hates the world, takes his wife Li, leaves the county, and comes to this quiet place to build a thatched hut, hoping to live a self-reliant farming life. Maybe I admire Li Gonglin's character in my heart, burn a bright pine at night, and compose poems and paintings. Although the life of the two is hard, they are also in a peaceful mood and happy spirits. In the spring of the following year, Li became pregnant, and Gu Juncai was even more overjoyed, reciting poems and texts, dyeing Danqing with ink, and setting off the joy in his heart. The two of them live with affection and love, sweet and sweet, and they can't finish the way, and they can't say enough.

One day, the Li family went up the mountain to pick tea, but was unexpectedly seen by the local mountain tyrant Huang Sihai, and couldn't help but tremble and couldn't help but say to himself: What a deep mountain hidden Jiaoli!" salivating, the soul is not guarded, until the Li family goes home, Huang Sihai has no choice but to go back. After returning home, Huang Sihai thought about it at dusk, stayed awake all night, and wanted to occupy the Li family as a second room, so he sent the family to inquire around, and when he learned the details, he laughed and said: {It turned out to be a poor scholar's wife!} He ordered the family to send two hundred taels of silver to buy the Li family. Gu Juncai was deeply insulted, furious, scolded, categorically refused, and swept all the Huang family out of the door, the scolded dog was bloody, hateful, and couldn't help but add fuel and vinegar when he went back to report like Huang Sihai, Huang Sihai thought that he was a local mountain tyrant, with a lot of money, and something he didn't want to come, so he was annoyed and angry, and said with a smile:

"Toast without eating and eating and drinking - rob, go now!"

Huang Sihai waved his hand, shouted, and led a group of wolf-like family members to rob the Li family with open fire. Gu Juncai was painting at this time, and his wife Li was studying ink on the side, but he didn't expect Huang Sihai to lead a group of family members to break in. Gu Juncai was furious, reprimanded him sternly, and said: "The blue sky and the white sun, robbing the women of good families, is there any royal law!"

"Wang Fa, you go and shout injustice! You said that I want to eat swan meat as a toad—daydreaming, and now you listen, if you don't obey, I will tell you to see the king of Hades!" Huang Sihai waved his hand, and the family members swarmed up. Gu Juncai scolded endlessly, but a weak scholar, how could he withstand a burst of punches and kicks, Gu Juncai was beaten to the ground and fainted. Li even cried and shouted, threw herself on her husband, shook her husband's body with both hands, and cried loudly: "Juncai, wake up......"

Huang Sihai wanted to occupy the Li family, so naturally he did not allow the family to collide with the Li family, so he stood aside and brazenly persuaded him with rhetoric. Li only called for her husband vigorously, and after a thousand calls, Gu Juncai woke up, opened his eyes, used all his strength to breastfeed, grabbed his wife's hand tightly, and said weakly: "I want to give birth to a child, whether it is a man or a woman, I must raise it as an adult!"

Huang Sihai couldn't see that the Li family was reluctant, and in order to cut off his back road, he glanced at the family next to him. One of the family members raised his foot viciously and stomped on Gu Juncai's chest, only to hear a miserable scream, Gu Juncai's chest suddenly broke and his heart cracked, his seven orifices bled out, his eyes rolled, and he died immediately.

Li was so sad and indignant that he remembered Xianggong's last words in his ears, so he stopped crying and said: "The matter has come to this, let me temporarily restrain Xianggong's body, and it is not too late to discuss it after the first seven days." ”

When Huang Sihai heard this, he suppressed the impulse in his heart, smiled and promised, and said: "Virtuous, virtuous! ”

One of the family members interjected: "Master, don't dream too much at night, you take her back, let's dig a pit and bury her!"

Huang Sihai sneered and said: "I'm afraid that she won't be able to fly with wings, and besides, she can't eat hot tofu in a hurry." With that, he waved his hand and led a group of family members away.

Seven days later, Huang Sihai prepared a sedan chair and invited a band to blow and play, and came to marry Li. When the family came to the village, they were shocked when they saw the Li family, the Li family was unrecognizable, and the original flower-like woman became a gray-haired old woman. It turned out that after Huang Sihai left that day, she held back her tears with grief and tears, collected the body of her husband, and the next day she used gravel chips to cut her own sides and rubbed her black hair with lime.

Sometimes I have to admit that women are cruel to themselves and make men feel terrible. No, Huang Sihai was taken aback when she heard the news reported by Jiading, but she still came to Li suspiciously, and when she saw Li, she was really disfigured, and hurriedly chopped her feet, and even said "It's a pity, it's a pity", and then secretly rejoiced, thinking that if such a fierce woman really marries home, my Huang Sihai's life will not be guaranteed.

In the winter of this year, Li gave birth and gave birth to a child, seeing that it was a man, mixed with joy and sorrow, sad that Xianggong could not see the birth of the child with his own eyes; happy is that revenge is hopeful, so he named the child "Ming Qiu", that is, the reason for "my" mother is to let "me" always remember the hatred of my father's murder, of course, this name will accompany me all my life, as for the later name of "Dadao", it is just a nickname given to me by friends on the rivers and lakes.

The years are like flowing water, and fifteen years have passed. I've grown into a sturdy man. On a snowy night in the cold winter, my mother told me about the tragic experience that she had been holding in her heart for fifteen years. When I heard this, my eyes were really on fire, and I couldn't wait to find an opportunity to avenge my father and vent my hatred for my mother.

From then on, I became more filial to my mother, got up early in the morning and went up the mountain to cut firewood, picked firewood into the city every day, and gave my mother all the money from the sale. The mother and son depended on each other for their lives, and some time passed. Until one day, my mother told me about my father again, and said, "If only your father were still alive." He taught you to read and write, to gain fame, to get a half-official position, and to avenge your father. ”

I said, "Mother, although I am illiterate, I have the skills and strength to avenge my father." “

I picked up an egg-sized stone from the corner of the wall, held it in the palm of my hand, gritted my teeth, pinched it vigorously, stretched out my palm, and the stone instantly turned into powder.

When my mother saw this situation, she was overjoyed and said, "My son is just chopping wood all day long, how can he have such strength." ”

I didn't answer, but continued to show off, saying, "Mother, you don't know, the child can also dance a knife, and three or five people can't get close to me."