Tianyun Continent, the northern part of the Liang Kingdom, within the territory of Lingcheng.

On the road from Qingshan Town to Chenjia Village, it was not yet dawn, and the morning air made people exceptionally awake, as comfortable as drinking a cup of herbal tea.

A deep sigh broke the mirror-like morning, but it was a boy who looked to be only fifteen or sixteen years old walking on the mountain road.

Dressed in gray cloth, he looked tattered, but he was cleanly washed.

This young man's name is Chen Yan, a villager from Chenjia Village in front of him, who went to Qingshan Town yesterday, and because he had no place to live, he rushed back to Chenjia Village overnight.

Yesterday, Chen Yan was asked by his father to go to the town more than ten kilometers away to borrow some food from his father's old friend Uncle Ling's house.

Because of the continuous heavy rain a few days ago, there was a flood in the mountains, and all the crops were submerged.

Now that the autumn harvest is approaching, this year's harvest is gone, and there is not much left of last year's grain stockpile, which makes Chen Yanjia may not be able to open the pot in the near future.

So I had no choice but to go to my father's old friend in the town to borrow some food to spend this time.

Unexpectedly, he didn't borrow food, and he was humiliated, whenever he thought of Uncle Ling's villainous face, Chen Yan was so angry in his heart.

The sky gradually turned white, the sky was bright, and Chen Yan walked to the entrance of the village.

Chen Yan's house was in the eastern part of Chenjia Village, and a moment later, a small low tiled house appeared in front of him, and there was a small courtyard, in which some chickens and ducks were running around.

It was the place where Chen Yan had lived for 16 years.

Push open the wooden door in front of the courtyard, walk into the courtyard, take a look around, and walk to the main house.

Before entering, a middle-aged woman walked out of the door.

Seeing Chen Yan in the courtyard, he hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Xiao Yan, how is it, did your Uncle Ling agree?"

Chen Yan stopped, lowered his head and whispered: "Mother, Uncle Ling didn't agree to lend us food, because the child was useless and didn't borrow food."

The middle-aged woman clasped her hands and looked a little anxious.

Then he said to Chen Yan: "Hey, Xiao Yan, you go back to the house first, your father and I will find a way to do this, I will go to the vegetable field to pick some vegetables now, and I will come back to cook in a while", and hurriedly walked out of the door after speaking.

When Chen Yan returned home, he saw that there was no one in the house, and he immediately knew that his father had gone hunting early.

Then he shook his head, and walked to his room with some distraught.

When I came to the bedside, I immediately fell asleep, I didn't sleep all night last night, and I rushed back from the town in the middle of the night.

Now that he has only arrived at home, Chen Yan is too tired to sleep, and he slept until the evening before being called up by Chen's mother to eat.

He walked to the small living room, walked into the yard, fed the chickens and ducks in the yard, and was about to go out with a bucket to fetch water, when he saw his father coming back from outside.

Chen Yan immediately caught up, took off the bow and arrows and hunting knife from his father's body, put them on his body and said, "Father, are you back"?

"Well, I'm back!" Father Chen returned with a smile.

But when he looked at Chen Yan, his eyes were full of indebtedness.

Then he glanced at him and said to himself: "I went out this morning to see if the animals in the nearby mountains and forests came out, and they didn't come out when it rained in the mountains and forests for the past few days."

"Last year, the harvest in several nearby villages was not good, and this year there were heavy rainstorms for several days, and most people's fields were flooded.

"But the rain has just stopped for two days, and many animals have not come out of the mountains, and there is no harvest."

"Affected by the flood this year, the price of food in the town has risen a lot now, okay, don't say much, I'll go and see it tomorrow, I hope to get a little harvest"!

Father Chen said a lot in one breath, and it seemed that he could not finish it.

"When did you come back", Father Chen said casually, walking towards the house without stopping.

"I'll be back this morning," Chen Yan replied immediately.

"Your Uncle Ling has promised to lend us food", Father Chen's face showed a hint of joy.

When Chen Yan saw his father ask about food, he suddenly said with some hesitation: "This, this."

Father Chen saw Chen Yan's hesitant appearance, and he didn't know what the situation was.

Immediately said angrily: "This old thing, I don't want to think about who helped him when he was in trouble, and now I borrow a little food like this, I was really blind at the beginning."

"Father, don't be angry, I'll go and see it tomorrow", Chen Yan was a little scared when he saw his father's angry appearance, shrunk his head and said.

"Don't go, without his relief, our family would still starve to death," Chen's father stopped Chen Yan.

"I'll go to the forest tomorrow to have a look, I hope to get something!" Father Chen said with a sigh, his expression a little lonely.

"Father, I'll go with you tomorrow", Chen Yan hurriedly said when he saw this.

"It's okay, many people have more eyes, you can go with me!" Father Chen thought for a while and said.

Then Chen Yan followed Chen's father into the house.

After dinner, Chen Yan returned to his cabin, but he couldn't sleep.

When I think of the hard life of my father and mother, my heart is not good.

"Hey, it's all useless, I can't change the living situation at home, if only the stone was real."

Thinking about it, Chen Yan took out a piece of cloth from the head of the bed and opened it.

Wrapped in it was a stone, no! a round stone, in the shape of an oval.

This stone was found in the head of a wild wolf when Chen Yan went hunting with his father in the mountains and forests when he was a child.

At that time, I thought it was an animal stone, and I was happy for a while.

Because this kind of stone is very expensive, when it was sold in the town, the shopkeeper who collected the herbs said that it was just an ordinary stone, which made Chen Yan's father and son happy in vain.

Father Chen was angry and threw the small stone to Chen Yan.

Chen Yan looked good-looking, so he kept it and kept it by his side.

Looking at it, Chen Yan slammed his fist against the wall, and a trace of blood flowed down from his fist, but Chen Yan felt nothing at all, did not feel pain, and only hated himself in his heart for being useless and unable to reduce the burden on his family.

Chen Yan took the small stone in his hand and lay on the bed, but he was thinking about other things in his heart, thinking about it, Chen Yan slowly fell asleep.

After a long time, suddenly the inconspicuous small stone moved in Chen Yan's hand, sucking away the little blood stains left between Chen Yan's fingers.

A blinding burst of white light erupted, and after a while the white light slowly faded away, but the stone was gone.

Before dawn, Chen Yan got up early.

He didn't know when he fell asleep last night, and he didn't know what happened last night.

The stone is missing and not found, maybe it is found, but for the disappearance of a stone is not a big deal, turn around and forget.

Chen Yan came to the small living room and found that his father had also gotten up, and was preparing in the yard to use things for entering the mountain, hunting knives, dry food, water, and homemade bows and arrows.

I just washed up in a hurry and didn't eat breakfast.

Chen Yan stepped forward and took the initiative to carry most of the things, and then walked out the door.

Chen's father couldn't resist Chen Yan, so he had to let him carry the things used to enter the mountain, and only carried a bow and arrow to follow behind Chen Yan.

After a while, Chen's father and Chen Yan walked out of the village and walked towards the west of the village.

It has the largest forest in a radius of several hundred kilometers and feeds many nearby villages.