After eating, Chou walked into the courtyard and opened the only three pieces of furniture in the house: a dark wooden box, and the other two pieces were a bed and a table.

Rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and rely on the water to draft the water.

The most common black tree on the Black Mountain is as tight and hard as the Black Mountain stone. The East and West Nine CDs in the village are made of these two materials.

Inside the box were several animal clothes and some miscellaneous tools, and he pulled out a palm-sized pouch of animal skin, and when he opened it, there were some dusty thumb-sized round iron coins.

The coin has some cold patterns on it, and a simple wolf head is depicted in a few strokes on the back.

These coins are called 'gray coins' and are made of forged iron and are heavy in your hand.

There were about fifteen or sixteen 'gray coins' in the animal skin pouch, all of which were all the family property that Ah Chou had earned from making clothes and collecting medicine this year, and there should have been more, and the part that was not had them turned into barley wine and entered Liukin's stomach.

He took out one of the 'gray coins', took a human head-sized animal skin water bag from the wall, put it on his back, and walked out.

Apo had been waiting at the door for a long time.

"Brother Ugly, this is what Mom asked me to give you. ”

Apo spread out his palm, and there were two gray coins in it.

"No, I have money, you can return it to Aunt Jin. ”

"But most of your money is bought and drunk by Abba, and the money you save is not easy. ”

"Apu, I'm really happy to be able to buy wine for Uncle Jin, this year I lived at home, and the uncles and aunts who ate at home didn't complain at all, if it wasn't for Uncle Jin's take-in, I might have been eaten by the beasts of the Black Mountain now, and the situation at home is not good now, and I can only do my best to do this insignificant strength." He stared at Apu's light gray eyes, "We're family, aren't we?"

"Yes, we are family. An innocent smile appeared on Apo's face.

When they reached the clearing in front of the willow tree in the middle of the village, Chou and Apo separated. There were more than a dozen teenagers gathered in twos and threes, and some straw man weapons.

All the teenagers in the village who have entered the blood-burning period are trained here every day by the members of the hunting party.

The village of Dead Leaves was built at the foot of the Black Mountain, and the whole village is gently sloping to the lowest part of the Blue Water River.

Ugly walked up the slope. At the top of the slope, in front of a large two-story black stone building.

He walked in.

The light in the small building was a little insufficient, Ah Cheng sat on the animal skin chair and listened to something with a wolf's head wooden cane in his hand, and the gray eyebrows on his wrinkled face jumped, obviously in a good mood at this time.

There were five or six men standing below him, among whom were the village chief Liu Hu and the hunter Liu Huang. There was also a slightly shorter, stout man, his arms thicker than everyone present, and his body was unusually large and almost horizontally, and his face was similar to Liukin's three points when you looked closely.

In the center of Ah Gong stood two teenagers, one of whom was dressed in sackcloth and Liu Tong, who had rescued Ah Cho from the river, and he was standing there with a smile on his face, his face full of joy. That man with an unusually thick arm is Liu Tong's father, Liu Yin. He is also the brother of Liukin, who is the blacksmith of the village.

Standing next to Liu Tong was a 'thin' teenage boy with a stiff smile on his face.

Ah Chou knows this young man, he is the last time he tested in addition to Liu Tong, the only child with the physique of the underworld, called the willow mouse, the willow rat has lost his father since he was a child, and there is a younger brother at home, and then what kind of family in the village belongs to the 'poor', his character is also as weak and timid as his name.

"Okay, this time the village once out of the underworld physique, this is a glory that has not been seen for decades, you must study hard when you go to the Winter Wolf Department, remember to go out, the outside world is very big, and the future of the village depends on you." ”

Ah Gong didn't know what he suddenly heard, smiled loudly, and then touched the black feather coat, and handed two one-foot square burlap bags to the two teenagers.

The two took a look, although Liu Tong was very excited, he could still hold himself, and the willow squirrel next to him had happily bared his teeth, and a hint of flushing appeared on his slightly dark face.

Ah Gong encouraged the two of them a few more words, and then the few of them saluted and said goodbye.

"Ugly is here. ”

Liu Yin took Liu Tong to pass by, nodded slightly, greeted him, and left.

Liu Tong in the back glanced at him and walked out with his father.

The squirrel also looked at him and finally nodded slightly.

When the three of them left, Ah Chou took off the basket behind him, took out a few herbs from it and handed them to Ah Gong.

"Tongjian grass, Tianhuang root, rotten heart flower. It's all I need. Ah Gong looked at a few herbs, then put them on his nose and smelled them.

Suddenly, a gray-green glimmer lit up in his cloudy eyes, and he looked straight at him.

Ah Chou only felt cold all over his body when he saw this gaze, like a hare being targeted by a red eagle. There is even a faint tingling sensation on the skin.

"Yesterday, I heard from Liu Gu that you succeeded in burning blood, and sure enough. You're a good boy. ”

Just when the blood line in Ah Ugly's body was about to be bloody, this fierce gaze quietly disappeared. Ah Gong has become his former gentle appearance again.

He paused, pondering.

Then, with a flash of light in his hand, he handed over two rolls of animal skins of different sizes.

"If you burn blood, you should practice the blood burning technique, you can take this 'blood boiling skill' and medicinal stone powder. ”

Ah Chou heard the expression of joy on his face, and was about to thank him when he heard Ah Gong say: "Okay, go back, I'm tired." ”

He saluted Ah Gong and walked out with the basket on his back.

Ah Chou walked out of the small building and picked up the two rolls of animal skins and looked at them, but finally he couldn't help but open them, put them in his arms, and walked down the slope, and finally walked in front of a small courtyard. There is a flagpole erected in the courtyard, on which is painted a simple wine gourd.

"Ah Gong, why don't you give him the 'Blooming Yuan Gong' that everyone cultivates. Although the early stage of the boiling blood skill is fast and powerful, the damage to the physical body is also very great, and no one who practices this skill can persist until the late stage of blood burning. Even if he persevered, the longevity was extremely short. ”

After Ugly left, Liu Hu hesitated for a moment and asked out loud.

"One year of successful foundation building, do you know what it means? The children in the village all started taking secret medicine at the age of eight, and it was not until they were eleven years old that they began to practice the Immortal Earth Hammering Technique for 100 days to build the foundation, do you remember when Ah Chou first came to the village? At that time, he could not even walk. Ah Gong clenched the wolf's head wooden staff and said.

"Could it be that Liukin gave him a secret medicine, he used to be a deputy hunter after all. It's normal to have some extra secret medicine in your hand. ”

Hunter Liu Huang thought for a moment.

"Even if you take the secret medicine to be able to build a foundation within a year, it is not easy, and I found a special power in Ah Chou's body, and he didn't even light up a single pillar in the underworld sacrifice ceremony three months ago, even the person with the lowest qualifications can make the first grid emit a faint light, this child is probably not a small source." ”

"Then why did you decide to let him stay in the village at the time?"

"I feel the guidance of the 'ancestor' totem!" "The wolf head on the wooden staff in Ah Gong's hand suddenly had a green glow in his eyes. "Don't go and harass him, it's business as usual. ”

The atmosphere in the small building was a little solemn for a while.

Ah Chou returned home with a bag of barley wine filled with a gray coin at Liu Li's house.

He couldn't wait to open the skin roll.

The soft and thin hides are painted with simple figures, each with arrows on their bodies.

At the top, three bright red characters with a large pen are written "Blood Boiling Gong", which are as bright and rich as blood and want to flow out of the paper.

There is also a small line of introductory text below.