Chapter 1 A New Identity, a Job
Qihu Town is a large town in Jiangwang County under the jurisdiction of Bancheng City, with a total of seven lakes in the territory, and the name of the town comes from this.
Blue Temple Lake is one of the larger lakes, and although it is located in the deep mountains and is inaccessible, there is no shortage of tourists who come to visit it.
On April 8th, after the Qingming Festival, after the small long holiday, the lake returned to calm.
Early in the morning, Meng Lao and Gao Lao of Donghu Village carried fishing tackle to the lake, and found that there was a young man in a coma by the lake, most of his body was still soaking in the lake, and the two old men carried the young man to Meng's house.
As the sound of breathing gradually became thicker, the young man murmured: "I am not Chen Muyan...... It's not ......"
Meng Lao was stunned, he carefully observed the young man's appearance again, and sure enough, it was the old man!
Soon, the young man's breathing calmed down again, and Meng Lao had some medical knowledge, so he let go of his worries and entered the study.
"This young man can be regarded as having the same disease as himself!" Ten years ago, there were tragic changes in Meng's old family and the young man's family......
Meng Lao leaned on the rattan chair in front of the desk, looking at the photos of his three children on the desk, how could he not guess that the eldest son and the youngest daughter were unusual......
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Three days later, in the morning, the young man woke up, and Meng Lao looked at him with relief and said:
"Xiao Yan! It's been ten years, and you're only coming back! It's good to come back! It's good to come back!
The kindness of the old man makes the young man very warm. That night, he woke up from the lake, and when he swam to the lake, he used all his strength, and before he reached the shore, he was already unconscious, but now, in the old man's house, there was still an infusion stand hanging at the head of the bed, and it was obviously the old man who saved him: "Thank you for saving me! As soon as the words came out, the young man's heart was shocked, he obviously didn't know the old man?
"Thank you, folks, it's a trivial matter!" Meng Lao nodded with a smile, and said, "Xiaoyan, why did you faint by the lake?
"I-" The young man was stumped, he didn't want to deceive the old man in front of him, he wasn't used to making up stories.
He wanted to say that he was not Chen Muyan, but his original identity could not be known. He remembered that when he was very young, his father would tell him with an old book: "Those who believe in the faithful will also ...... the way of heaven Those who are sincere do not deceive themselves internally, do not deceive others externally, and do not deceive the heavens...... People don't know what to do without faith...... Faith - impermanence of words, impermanence of faith, only where the interests are, everything is poured, if so, it can be described as a villain...... Promise will be ......"
"Let's eat something first! I'll talk about it when I have the strength to finish eating!" Meng Lao saw the young man's embarrassment, and took the initiative to divert the topic first. Then he walked out of the room and went to cook for the young man.
The young man shook his head vigorously, he remembered, when he came out of the lake, there seemed to be a gust of wind blowing into his mind, he was dizzy at that time, he didn't think much about it, but it was a trace of unjust soul in the lake that invaded his heart, the unjust soul was named Chen Muyan, who was knocked out by someone and sank into the lake, Chen Muyan was only nine years old that year......
Without waiting for the young man to think about it, Meng Lao came in with a large bowl of fragrant syrup noodles.
The young man took the bowl and began to gobble it up.
Meng Lao looked at the young man's eating appearance, with some emotion and some pity, he said:
"You don't know yet, your grandmother passed away less than a month after your disappearance, and your house is already dilapidated, these days, you can live in peace with me!"
The young man's heart moved, just in time to avoid the previous question from Meng Lao, so he said:
"I want to go back home and see it!"
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After eating, the young man hurried out and found a dilapidated courtyard at the south end of the village, which was overgrown with weeds and the door creaked in the wind.
The air by the lake is humid, and when you move your hand, the old wooden tables, chairs, and old beddwells collapse, and the smell of mildew fills the house. The simplicity of the hearts of the people in the mountains has led to the fact that no one disturbs the house, and it has also led to the complete decay of the house that has been uninhabited for more than ten years......
In the afternoon, after tidying up the house, the young man sat on the raised whetstone in the courtyard, looked at the family tree that was turned out of the house, and couldn't help but sigh that God had made people - Chen Muyan's uncle and grandfather in the family tree happened to have the same name as his own grandfather.
He had heard that his grandfather was originally from Jiangwang County, and the composition of the people in the family tree was basically the same as what his grandfather knew. I remember that my father said that my grandfather once went to Jiangwang County to look for relatives, but in the end it was fruitless, but now, I let myself find it by coincidence.
With an inexplicable perception, he could be sure that the people who lived in this courtyard were his relatives, and the original Chen Muyan was his cousin. Thinking about it, Meng Lao regarded himself as Chen Muyan, and he should look a little similar to the cousin he had never met.
Now, there is just a lack of an identity, and calling Chen Muyan may be the will of God, so as not to forget his ancestors. Or maybe it was the providence of God that allowed him to avenge Chen Muyan.
Chen Muyan, don't worry, since we are brothers and use your identity again, then your business is mine!
Oh-no-I'm Chen Muyan now!
"Gollum-" his stomach began to protest, he touched the storage ring that was still on his finger, and shook his head - what if he had a huge amount of money, the ring could not be opened, and he was so poor that he had no choice but to go to Meng's house again and rub it a few times first.
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The next morning, Mr. Gao had nothing to do and came to Mr. Meng's house, and the two were playing against each other in the courtyard...... Meng's old house was built with three floors, and Chen Muyan simply climbed to the top of the building to enjoy this rare peace-
It is the spring season, the rape flowers blooming in the fields around the Blue Temple Lake, reflecting the golden sky of the mountains, there are willow silk rippling with the breeze by the lake, and from time to time swallows fly to the village and build nests under the eaves......
Feeling the soothing of spring, Chen Muyan didn't feel a little drunk.
Last night, he completely sorted out the information in his mind, and also fused the original Chen Muyan's memory.
According to the time calculation, he was in a coma in the lake for fourteen months, according to common sense, it is impossible for a person to survive in the water for such a long time, but he is different - at that time, he was already a half-step foundation cultivator, he could almost open the valley, and his body cultivation had broken through the third change. When I was injured that time, in my last memory, the dantian was broken, the meridians were broken, and I don't know if it was broken to the sea of consciousness, and the divine sense was gone...... Luckily, he was finally whipped by the monster's tail, and who could have known that three hundred miles away, he came back to life in the lake!
"The old man is gone, and the living should be self-reliant!" these are the last words of his parents that he dreamed of in a coma when his parents died. Since then, he has always engraved it in his heart and never discarded it for a moment. He was born and grew up in a mountain village, just like the wildflowers and weeds that can be seen everywhere in the mountain township, he has a strong and stubborn force.
Although the cultivation is gone, the dantian and tendons have already healed, and it is only a matter of time before they want to come to the cultivation to recover.
The aura in the air is very thin, but it is better than nothing, maybe it is a good choice to live in seclusion here and cultivate with peace of mind......
"Xiao Yan, you come down and talk to the two old men of us. Meng Lao called.
"Young man, tell me what you've done over the years, tell us about it?" Chen Muyan went down to the courtyard, but it was Elder Gao who spoke first.
"I-" Chen Muyan smiled, lowered his head, and could only be silent.
"Let's talk about it! Your grandfather Gao turned out to be a leading cadre in our county, I think you should have had a bad time before, maybe your grandfather Gao can help you!" Meng Lao said on the side.
"People have to look forward! I just heard from you, Grandpa Meng, about your situation, no matter what happened before, what matters is how you live in the future! After all, you are only nineteen years old. Elder Gao's expression was full of seriousness and a bit of majesty.
Chen Muyan nodded, feeling a little touched in his heart, Elder Gao was a warm-hearted person. He was hesitating about what to do with his seclusion. Now that his cultivation is gone, not to mention those enemies who once wanted him to die, or those who had plans against him, if they learned that he was still alive and no longer cultivated, what kind of measures would they take against him; However, those people in the past can no longer be contacted, and those who are close to each other are likely to bring crisis and misfortune to others, and those who are far away know whether they will sell themselves. Now penniless, although he has made up his mind to treat Meng Lao as his own grandfather in the future, he has been eating in the old man's house, which is not acceptable to him who has strong self-esteem since he was a child.
"Recently, the town is building a road to Lansi Lake, and construction has begun outside the mountain of Beihu Village, and I know the person in charge of building the road over there, if you have nothing to do-" Gao Lao saw that Chen Muyan's attitude was quite correct, and he became polite when he spoke, and said: "I see that you are very energetic, tall and big, go to Beihu Village to build a road outside the mountain! Work hard, as long as you have the strength, you can earn two or three thousand yuan a month! A young man, what kind of effort does it become to stay at home!"
"Well, okay! Thank you, Grandpa Gao!" Chen Muyan nodded, his cultivation of refining the body is still there, and the strength work is nothing, the important thing is that this kind of work is eaten, as long as the construction party's funds are fine, the workers' wages can be settled soon, which is a good job for him who urgently needs to solve the problem of eating and doesn't want people to find out.
In the afternoon, Gao Lao took Chen Muyan to the road repair site outside the mountain of Beihu Village, more than ten kilometers away, and the contractor of this road was a company in Bancheng City, the person in charge of the construction site was called Zhang Quan, and the workers called him Zhang Gong, who was very polite to Gao Lao.
Zhang Gong is a technician in the project department, he found a middle-aged man surnamed Lin, told Chen Muyan to work hard, and left.
The construction site is less than 10 kilometers from the town of Qihu, and the construction unit rented two yards on the outskirts of the market town to arrange for the workers to eat and lodge. Recently, Chen Muyan was also asked to live in the courtyard, and the ten-person Chase Shop was full at night.
The middle-aged man surnamed Lin, the workers privately call him Lin Tangyuan, he is a foreman, and I heard that he is from Yizhou Province. There are two construction teams on the construction site, and there is also a foreman surnamed Wang, who is a native of Bancheng. The corresponding two construction teams are also workers from two places, living in two adjacent courtyards.