Chapter 3: The Ranger

The old way came true, and in just seven days, he was able to get out of bed and walk, which was difficult to do even in the era of the development of medicine in the previous life, with the severity of his injuries.

Gradually familiar with the environment here, he learned some things, now it is a troubled time, countries often fight each other, the country where Chenjia Village is located is the name of the Great Zhou, and there is currently a war with the Northern Han State.

Chenjia Village was originally a relatively wealthy village, because the men in the village were conscripted into the army and gradually declined, Chen Erya's father and brother were killed in the war three years ago, and her younger brother Chen Hong was also forcibly recruited.

The person who was recruited with Chen Hong has returned, but Chen Hong's whereabouts are unknown, it is worth mentioning that the little beggar possessed by Tan Guohua is similar to Chen Hong, which made Erya feel pity, which is what happened later in the Xianweng Temple.

Knowing this, Tan Guohua judged that it is likely to be in the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, but he is not a student of history and has never gone to university, so he is not sure about this.

Chen's mother's care and Erya's care gradually gave him a sense of belonging to this family, and a month later, Tan Guohua became a child of the Chen family under the auspices of his third uncle Chen Guangyi.

In fact, many people have a lot of complaints about the inclusion of a foreign surname in the Chen family, after all, they are not of the same bloodline, but the respected third uncle Gongli pointed out that there are only five young people in the village who are fifteen to twenty years old, and one of them is disabled.

When you enter the Chen family, you have to report to the government, and you are responsible for these things, and you don't need to go into detail.

The injury is gradually healing, Tan Guohua can already wander around the village, because there are often bandits to harass, the village will organize the training of the people every day, in the evening of early autumn, he saw the training of the village for the first time in the threshing floor, and the teaching is the sixth uncle Chen who carried him back from the Xianweng Temple.

Sixth Uncle Chen's name is Chen Tang, who once fought side by side with Chen Erya's father and brother, and later lost an arm, retired from the army and returned to Chenjia Village, where his reputation in the village was second only to the third uncle who was the longest.

Like many people, Tan Guohua in his youth looked forward to one day becoming a hero who helped the needy, and now he has returned to ancient times, and finally has the opportunity to see the legendary martial arts, but what disappointed him is that what he saw was extremely simple slashing, stabbing and parrying.

The only thing worthy of praise is the momentum of the knife, accompanied by the extremely explosive word "kill", the blade is shiny, and it is terrifying to smell.

Tan Guohua has worked in the steel foundry for more than six years, and he has become interested in the weapons they use, and no one has stopped him, and he can hold the blades on the shelves and take a closer look at them.

The long knife ~ blade is one foot two inches long, less than two inches wide, the front part is slightly curved, the knife head is pointed, the handle is four feet long, and it is made of hardwood.

Looking at the style, it is very similar to the legendary Mo knife, but I took it in my hand and weighed it, but it weighed five or six pounds, and it was obviously not a real Mo knife.

Tan Guohua carefully identified the blade and shook his head slightly, the blade is only white cast iron with low carbon content, this kind of cast iron has high hardness, but it is relatively brittle, and it is definitely not the kind of 100-made steel of "Tangsteel".

Putting down the long knife, he picked up the spear again, which was not comparable to the "Zhangba Snake Spear" in the novel, and finally his eyes focused on a few longbows.

The bow is all wooden, but the weight is very heavy, obviously not ordinary wood, and the bowstring is made of some kind of animal's leather band, Tan Guohua wanted to pick up the longest bow, but almost smashed his own foot, causing a lot of laughter.

"How... Do you want to practice martial arts too?" Sixth Uncle Chen walked over.

"Sixth uncle, what kind of martial arts are you practicing?"

"Hehe, this is not a martial art, but an ordinary military formation killing technique, if you want to learn real martial arts, you need to find a master to apprentice!"

"Do we have any masters here?" I want to apprentice!" Tan Guohua's words caused another burst of laughter.

Uncle Chen didn't laugh, he threw one arm, and the long knife in his hand was accurately inserted into the shelf, "It's good that you have this heart, but those hermit masters don't accept apprentices at will, when your father and brother gave away the military exploits they had to others in order to learn 'Shaking Mountain Boxing', but they died in the chaos before they could learn, alas..."

Tan Guohua has never seen a cheap father and brother, so he naturally doesn't know this, "Sixth uncle, is this mountain-shaking fist very powerful?"

"Learn to shake the mountain boxing, a punch in hand-to-hand combat can hurt people's hearts, and three or five people can't get close, if you really learn this boxing, it will not be a problem to be a general in the future!"

"Then where can I learn this Immortal Fist?"

"It is very common in the army, as long as you kill more than 20 enemies, you can exchange it for military merits!"

Tan Guohua shook his head secretly in his heart, he didn't want to just come to this world and go to the army that could die at any time, and this kind of mountain-shaking fist is obviously not a high-level martial art, at most it can be regarded as a big road.

"Sixth uncle, have you ever heard that someone can rise up to a foot high?"

"You're talking about light martial arts, this kind of martial arts is not common in the army, but I heard that ordinary people in the rivers and lakes rangers know it!"

Tan Guohua's eyes couldn't help but light up, "Is there an immortal who can fly to the sky?"

"This..."Chen Tang smiled bitterly, "Legend has it that there is a sword immortal in Shu, I don't know if it's true or not!"

"Sixth Uncle..."

"Don't ask again, you'd better heal your injuries first!" Chen Tang didn't say anything about not letting him be too ambitious, but the meaning was obvious.

Tan Guohua didn't ask any more questions, but he had already made a decision in his heart, and one day, he would definitely go to Shuzhong to see it!

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There is no male in the family, Chen Erya's family has had a hard time in the past few years, and since he has recognized his relatives, Tan Guohua feels that he should do something for the family.

The first is to improve the food, one is for the sake of his own small body, a boy of about ten years old, weighing less than forty pounds, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is skinny, in order to nourish his body, an old hen at home that lays eggs, and the eggs that have been accumulated with great difficulty, have all become his belly.

And, I don't know if it's because the original owner of the body is extremely thirsty for food, his amount of food is extremely large, as if he will never be satisfied, as the saying goes, half the size eats Lao Tzu, I believe that with his appetite, it won't take long to eat the mother and daughter to bankrupt.

In addition, it is necessary to improve the life of the Chen mother and daughter, the only remaining corn in the family was forcibly requisitioned as early as the end of spring, and now they usually eat wild vegetables and wild fruits, if it is not summer, I am afraid that there will be a famine long ago, and other people's families can still carry out some fishing and hunting, and the mother and daughter can only rely on weaving cloth to make a living.

Tan Guohua was not a person who was not diligent in his limbs and grains in his previous life, he lived with his grandparents in the countryside, he could farm, learned to cook, and worked as a construction worker for half a year, and later Gu Tianqiu recruited him into the steel foundry.

Take stock of the belongings, there are more than a dozen acres of land at home, planted corn and hemp, in fact, it is not difficult to want more land, the key is that due to years of war, there is a serious shortage of people, in the absence of large livestock, there is not much land at all, and the tax is also collected according to the number of acres of land, the more you plant, the more taxes you pay, no one wants to have a variety of land, so there is a lot of abandoned land.

Using scientific methods to farm may be able to increase the yield per mu, but it cannot solve the immediate problem, so Tan Guohua does not plan to put his mind on this for the time being.

The so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to eat the water, first hit the idea on the river at the head of the village.

Many of the villagers in Chenjia Village also rely on fishing to improve their lives when they are slack, and their fishing methods are very primitive, one is to use harpoons ~ spearfish, and then to cast nets.

Tan Guohua dug out the old fishing nets and harpoons from his home, but unfortunately his small body could not do these two kinds of fishing at present, so he thought of fishing.

"Mother, I want to fish, do you have a hook at home?"

Mother Chen stopped what she was doing, her face showed kindness, there was an extra boy in the family, although he was not his own, but he felt hopeful, "If you want to fish, give you two cents, go back and ask your sister to take you to Jia Blacksmith to buy one, there is a ready-made fishing rod at home!"

Tan Guohua took two pennies, the words on the coin were blurred, and he could vaguely see that one was Kaiyuan Tongbao and the other was Tianfu Tongbao, don't look at it as just two pennies, and the linen cloth that Chen's mother weaved in a month was only more than 200 yuan, excluding the cost, it was only a net profit of dozens of yuan.

"Mother, I will definitely catch a lot of fish and come back!"

Chen's mother smiled slightly, she didn't expect Tan Guohua to catch a few fish, the children in the village also fished, I didn't hear of anyone who made a fortune, she just hoped that her son could live a few happy days, and when he grew up, he would take on the responsibility of being the family, "Go play, your sister will come back in a while!"

Chen Erya picked a basket of wild vegetables, and also got two mountain pears for Tan Guohua, and watched him finish eating, then he showed a satisfied smile.

The sisters and brothers had lunch and rushed to Jiajia Village.

Jiajia Village is four or five miles away from Chen Village, the village is relatively large, and it is the only way to Huangchi County, there are not only blacksmith shops in the village, but also a grocery store and noodle soup restaurant, so this street has become the most prosperous place in Shili Eight Village.

Chen Erya first went to the grocery store and exchanged three feet of linen for some salt, and then led Tan Guohua to Jia Ji Blacksmith Shop.

The business of the blacksmith shop is very prosperous, there are repairing farm tools, and there are also building weapons, Tan Guohua watched with great interest the process of forging a long sword by a person who looks like a worker, he can't look at this most primitive process, but how to cast it without modern production equipment, he has a more intuitive understanding.

There are ready-made hooks, there is no need to wait, the hook here is just a hook, and the hook he used before cannot be compared, he can only say that it will be used.

I bought the things, and it was time to go home, but at this moment, there was a "crackling" movement from the noodle soup restaurant not far away, and some people were shouting and scolding, "Lao Tzu was born and died before the battle, and it costs money to eat a few bowls of noodles from you, and I don't want to live!"

"A few soldiers, a small business, you can't do this!"

"you!" the noodle shop shopkeeper was kicked to the ground.

Seeing this, Chen Erya hurriedly pulled Tan Guohua to the corner of the street, "When those bandits are gone, let's go over!"

"Sister, where did these bandits come from, the government doesn't care?"

"I heard that the Great Zhou is at war with the Northern Han Dynasty, although we belong to the Great Zhou here, but it is not far from the Northern Han Dynasty, so there are often routs coming to harass, in addition to collecting taxes, where will the government care about the life and death of our people!"

Seven or eight routed soldiers completed the "smashing and looting" and were about to leave, when three young men dressed tightly and with swords hanging from their waists blocked the way, and the two sides said a few words, and then hit one place.

"Sister, those are rangers, right?"

"En~" Chen Erya stared at the young man on the street with his hands in his hands, his hand was very tight, and he seemed to be cheering up the three rangers.

"Sister, do you know them?"

"The tallest one is my brother's friend Pang Yuan, who has been to our house a few times~" Speaking of this, her pretty face showed a hint of redness, which happened to be seen by Tan Guohua, and of course the soul of an adult understands that this is the beginning of girlish love, Chen Erya will soon reach the age of marriage after another year, and that Pang Yuan is tall and big, and it is normal for a girl to have a heart of admiration.

However, the combat effectiveness of the three rangers made him shake his head slightly, individually, he may have beaten the bandits, but after the initial panic, those bandits gradually took out the combined attack method learned in the army, and the three of them gradually lost their support.

Seeing Pang Yuan being slashed, Chen Erya was anxious, and she couldn't rush up to help, but she rushed forward as a girl, not only did she not help, but it would add to the chaos.

Tan Guohua is a little strange, Jiajia Village and Chenjia Village also have a village brave guard, why don't they help the three rangers?" "Sister, do you want to help them?"

"How can I help, you and my sister and brother will go up for nothing!"

"You just have to say help, I have my own ideas!"

"If you have any ideas, hurry up!" Chen Erya was already out of order.