Before dawn, Niu Wenlong was woken up by the sound of raindrops hitting the tiles. When I opened the door, I found that it was pouring rain outside, and the rain trickled down the eaves and turned into a beautiful beaded curtain.

Niu Wenlong couldn't appreciate this picture, and couldn't help sighing, "When the rain comes, this little cow river should lose its temper, and the villagers should be worried again." ”

Niu Wenlong turned around and went back to the room, calling up Zhang Yun, who was sleeping, Zhang Yun rubbed his sleepy eyes, opened his eyes, saw that it was Niu Wenlong, and asked, "Dad, what's the matter?"

"Yunyun, it's raining outside, and the grandfather you brought back yesterday is still in the temple in the back mountain. Are you going to bring him food?" Niu Wenlong asked tentatively.

"Ah, there is rain leaking in that temple, and Grandpa is expected to be cold, and he will be hungry. I'll take a trip, I'm familiar with this mountain road. Yunyun said sensibly.

"It's raining heavily, the mountain road is not easy to walk, the road is slippery on a cloudy day, and there are many cliffs in the back mountain, otherwise when the rain stops, it doesn't matter if grandpa is hungry for a while. Niu Wenlong dissuaded.

"Dad, I see that this rain is endless, and it won't stop for a while! I'll go for a trip, I've walked this road many times, and I can touch the small temple with my eyes closed, it's okay with this little rain, Dad, you hurry up and prepare some dry food for me." I'm going to get the robe. After saying that, he quickly got up and dressed.

Niu Wenlong knew his son's temper, and once he decided on something, even ten cows couldn't pull it back.

Seeing Zhang Yun busy looking for baskets and clothes, Niu Wenlong's heart blossomed. This son is the ancient road hot intestine. But this shouldn't be a bad thing, Niu Wenlong showed a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Holding a bamboo basket, which contained Niu Wenlong's dry food wrapped in oil paper, and a blanket, although it was summer, it was still a little cold on a rainy day, so Niu Wenlong prepared a blanket for Yumo.

Walking on the mountain road, Zhang Yun knew the power of this rainstorm.

After several days of high temperatures, the mountain roads were all loose sand, and after this torrential rain, they merged into small mudslides. Moreover, the torrential rain is also mixed with this gust of wind, and the wind direction is uncertain, one will be a south wind, and the other will be an east wind, which makes Zhang Yun miserable.

And Zhang Yun also tried his best to protect the dry food blanket from getting wet.

The storm was too big, and the cloak didn't work. Zhang Yun simply took off his coat, wrapped the bamboo basket, and held it in his arms.

Zhang Yun's every move has long fallen in the eyes of the old beggar. I saw the old beggar floating behind Zhang Yun, standing in the rain, but the rain did not touch him.

The mountain road was muddy, the bamboo basket slipped a few times, and the whole body was covered with muddy water, becoming a living mud monkey. And in order to prevent the bamboo basket from falling into the muddy water, Zhang Yun landed on his elbows. The bloodshot mixed with the muddy water slid down, and Zhang Yun couldn't care about it.

The old beggar followed Zhang Yun unhurriedly in the back, and sighed, "It's been a long time since I've met such an enthusiastic child, I should give him a makeover." ”

Seeing that Zhang Yun was about to go to the temple, the old beggar flashed into the temple and sat on the ground, waiting for Zhang Yun.

Zhang Yun went into the temple and saw that the ground was wet, and the old beggar was sitting on the ground, shivering. The old dog lay on the side, drowsy, hurriedly stepped forward, pulled up the old beggar and said eagerly, "Grandpa, you can't sit on this place, you will get sick." I looked at some dry wood in the temple, and hurried to make a fire, warm and warm, my father prepared a blanket of dry food for you, I don't know if it was wet. ”

The old beggar looked at Zhang Yun who was busy with a smile, and his heart became more and more sure of the idea of accepting apprentices.

The children who grew up in the village carried fire folds with them. Zhang Yun took out the fire fold from his chest pocket, but found that the fire fold was all soaked and couldn't be hit.

Zhang Yun looked at the dry wood on the ground depressedly, shivered, and shrank his head. He smiled embarrassedly at the old beggar, "Grandpa, the fire can't be hit, there is no fire, it looks like we're going to get cold, grandpa, hurry up and put the blanket on." Thankfully, the blanket didn't get soaked. ”

The old beggar asked Zhang Yun with a smile, "Good boy, do you want to learn spells, cultivate immortal dao, and become a true god." ”

"Learn spells? Cultivating immortals? I've heard my father say that there are some immortal cultivators in this world who can do magic, but they are all legends, and my father said he hasn't seen them, and no one in the village has seen them? Are there really immortals, grandpa?"

The old beggar smiled, stretched out his hand and flicked at the wood, and the wood on the ground 'crackled' and burned, and the fire burned very strongly.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Yun clapped his hands happily and jumped up, "Grandpa, what kind of spell is this? It's so powerful, go out with them in the future, come like this, how majestic." They're not going to bully me anymore. “

The old beggar said to Zhang Yun, "This is the simplest spell, the fire control technique, as long as you want to learn it, I will teach you." ”

Zhang Yun tilted his head and thought for a while, "Grandpa, can I go back and ask my father?"

The old beggar smiled and said, "Okay, you are soaked all over, take off your clothes and dry them, and you should come and bake the fire so as not to get cold." The old beggar put a blanket over Zhang Yun.

The two of them sat next to each other, the fire was very strong, and the faces of the two people were red. Tamama built a simple shelf out of wood on the side, hung the clothes on it, and occasionally flipped the clothes so that the clothes could dry quickly.

Zhang Yun took out a corn tortilla, broke it and fed it to the old dog, the old dog sniffed the cake that Zhang Yun put on his mouth with his nose, pulled the cake aside with his paws, didn't look at Zhang Yun, and continued to sleep on his stomach. made Zhang Yun a little embarrassed.

The old beggar patted the old dog, smiled at Zhang Yun and said, "This old dog has this surname, he is old, and his temper is also big." ”

Outside is an endless storm, but the temple is warm like spring, an old and a young chatter, an old dog squatting quietly next to it, occasionally barking towards the wind and rain, looking from afar, like a picture of grandparents watching the rain.

After the rainstorm, the weather is even hotter. In the afternoon of summer, the sky is as blue as a wash, and there is no wind.

A group of villagers who knew tirelessly screamed and made people upset, and the villagers who had been working in the field for a long time gritted their teeth at this damn knowledge.

Even the leper dog at the entrance of the village, who had always been diligent, lay listlessly in the shade of the tree, drooping his head and gasping for air. The locust trees on both sides of the village path stood weakly. At this point in time, there was no one on the road at the head of the village. On this hot day, there is a hint of lazy smell everywhere.

But the Little Cow River in front of the village is a paradise for a group of people. A group of children led by Niu Zhi crisscrossed this small river. On every summer afternoon, they are full of energy while the adults are asleep, and how the adults intimidate them is repeatedly forbidden.

"Zhang Yun, do you dare to come down?" Niu Zhi shouted while standing in the water. "I know that you don't dare to come down, you will only show us pants with Jia'er on the shore, you are a gentleman, you are not ashamed.

"Forget it, Dazhi, he didn't dare to come down, he was most afraid of water. ”

"Yes, I dare to pack the ticket, he doesn't dare to come down!", a group of people around him echoed.

"I, I" Zhang Yunsheng blushed and snorted, "What don't I dare."

"Then you come down, come down," Niu Zhi said with a smile as he tilted his neck.

Zhang Yun looked at the group of people playing in the water, and then looked at Jia'er beside him, who looked at him with a pair of big watery eyes and shook his head.

Zhang Yun gritted his teeth and began to take off his undershirt. A group of people in the water also stopped playing in the water, staring at Zhang Yun with their eyes. "Brother, haven't you always been afraid of water?" Jia'er asked worriedly, "Don't listen to Brother Dazhi, let's go home." As he spoke, he went to pull Zhang Yun's hand. Zhang Yun didn't move, and vaguely saw the looming Adam's apple move. Zhang Yun subconsciously bit his lip and stood there stubbornly.

"Can't you get down?" Niu Zhi stood in the water, the water covered Niu Zhi's shoulders, Niu Zhi raised his hands and patted the water, "The water is not deep at all, and it is so cool here." If you don't dare to come down, go as soon as possible, lest you be ashamed. "yes, yes, let's go back to your house. The other companions were also in the water.

Zhang Yun's brain was hot, he broke free of Jia'er's hand, kicked off the straw sandals, and ran directly into the water without taking off his pants.

Due to the rush of walking, some stones at the bottom of the water were slippery, and when I ran down, I tripped in the water and choked on several mouthfuls of water. The little friends in the river exclaimed, but Zhang Yun struggled to get up, spit out a few mouthfuls of water, and continued to walk forward.

Jia'er stomped her feet on the shore and shouted, "Brother, come back, don't go down." ”

Zhang Yun didn't know how many sips of water he drank before he arrived in front of Niu Zhi, stared at Niu Zhi, and said, "I'm down." ”

When the surrounding friends saw Zhang Yun's posture, they felt bored, and they all slowly dispersed. The dog slowly approached Niu Zhi and said in a low voice, "Zhang Yun is a wild boy, I don't know what kind of seed it is, you be careful." ”

"Bah, your stinky mouth is not open, right, be careful that your son has no asshole. Niu Zhi smiled and kicked the dog, the dog touched his buttocks, glanced at Zhang Yun, and found that Zhang Yun's face was gloomy.

The dog smiled at Zhang Yun and went to fight with those people.

Only Niu Zhi and Zhang Yun are left here. The surroundings also fell silent all of a sudden, only the sound of gurgling water remained, Zhang Yun's face was pale, and the lower lip bitten by the teeth could already be clearly seen bloodshot coming out. Obviously, Zhang Yun heard what he had just said.

Although Niu Zhi is a year older than him, he is also a child after all. didn't know how to deal with such an embarrassing scene, so the instinctive Niu Zhi also stared at Zhang Yun like this, but Zhang Yun didn't have the slightest posture of retreating.

Minutes and seconds passed. Although Niu Zhi is much more burly than Zhang Yun, Niu Zhi feels that the Zhang Yun in front of him, who has always looked down on him, is now like a leopard with momentum, and his attack surname is full of danger. The blood had congealed into beads of blood, dripping into the water.

Niu Zhi understands that he can't lose this battle, because there are a few pairs of eyes looking at him in the back, if he loses, how can he order these little minions. He was indeed scared, but after all, eating for an extra year was not for nothing, he came up with an idea, he said to Zhang Yun slyly, "Zhang Yun, since you are competing with me, then it is not a matter for the two of us to spend here, so let's do it, if you dare to take three steps forward, I will obey you." ”

At this time, the water had reached his neck, Zhang Yun gritted his teeth and lowered his head to think for a while, as if in the next important decision, Zhang Yun raised his head, revealing a firm look, "Okay, if I take three steps, you have to take me with me when I go out to roast sweet potatoes in the future, and you have to take me with me when I go fishing, and I have to teach me to swim." ”

Niu Zhi laughed and said boldly: "Cheng, this is not a thing, but I said it in advance, here you take another step forward, it is a whirlpool, and I don't dare to go down, it is said that it is connected to the bottom of the sea, and it is bottomless." If you're afraid, it's too late to beg for mercy. ”

Zhang Yun sneered a few times and strode forward. Hearing those laughter, Niu Zhi felt bad in his heart, he actually didn't expect things to be like this, he didn't expect him to be so stubborn, and he didn't expect it to be so difficult to make him soft. I tried to stop him, but it was too late. In a flash, Zhang Yun's steps had already been taken.

He saw Zhang Yun struggling in the water, and Niu Zhi panicked.

Zhang Yun's mind was buzzing, and all that echoed was the panicked shouts of his companions around him. After Zhang Yun stepped out in one breath, he felt that he couldn't step on it to the end. He was familiar with it and scared at the same time. He often had this nightmare at night.

There was water all around, and he had nowhere to stand, and he wanted to shout but couldn't. He felt the same as he had dreamed in his dreams, there seemed to be a strong force pulling him under the water, and he desperately tried to climb up, but to no avail, he didn't know how many sips of water he had drunk.

But in the dark, he felt that it was good to die like this, at least he could see his father and mother, and when he thought of this, he gave up struggling. In the last seconds of losing consciousness, he saw a pair of hands reaching out to him. Was it a pre-death hallucination?

This sleep seems to be eternal. In a coma, Zhang Yun saw his father again, his biological father, which was a blurred face.

It was on the top of a thousand mountains, and his father was holding a sword majestic. In the scorching mountain wind, he stands proudly against the heroes who surround him. The males swarmed up to chop his father to pieces. I saw his father smile sadly, and then slashed into the crowd with his sword. In a trance, he noticed that the monks who had besieged all his father had turned into poisonous snakes and bounced towards him, and then went to see his father. found that his father was gone, and the mountains were all over the wilderness, all of which were snakes spitting letters, slowly surrounding him.

He cried and ran away, but to no avail. He was slowly surrounded by snakes, the snakes slowly climbed up his body, wrapped around his neck, he felt suffocated, he couldn't breathe, he couldn't cough, he kept struggling. He felt that his neck was loosened and his breathing was much easier, but he couldn't help coughing, and he felt that as he coughed, he also vomited a lot of things.

Then he heard a lot of people shouting, "Wake up, wake up." He opened his eyes in a daze and saw Niu Zhi's flustered eyes, but at the same time mixed with joy. Jia'er's pale face. There are also anxious and nervous expressions of many companions around.

Zhang Yun was particularly reluctant to wake up, and he still missed the feeling his father gave him in a coma. He didn't want to wake up because he was jealous of his friends.

In particular, other partners were seen sitting on their father's neck watching the big play.

Seeing other partners, after being bullied and beaten, he scolded angrily, I will go back and let my father settle accounts with you. Seeing that the dog was doing something bad outside, his father chased him all over the street with a stick.

When I saw Niu Zhi being spanked by his father for being naughty.

When he saw Jia'er being scolded by her mother, he couldn't help but want to cry. But he never shed a tear in front of others.

Putting away the messy thoughts, Zhang Yun saw the admiring eyes of the friends around him, and he smiled secretly, he knew that he had won the bet this time, because he had successfully proved himself, he was no longer rejected by them, he was already a member of this collective.

Zhang Yun said to Jia'er, "Good girl, don't tell your mother about today's incident, okay? I'm afraid that my mother will scold me and take you out to play again."

"Okay, I won't say it, brother, you scared me to death just now, I don't know what to do" Jia'er paused, her eyes rolling, "But you also have to take me when you play with Brother Niu Zhi." ”

"You brother and sister, it's really alike. Niu Zhi couldn't stop admiring.

"By the way, how did I wake up? Who saved me?" Zhang Yun remembered the hands that stretched out to him before losing consciousness, and hurriedly asked Niu Zhi.

"We were all scared to death when we saw you sinking, but there was an undercurrent under the water, and no one dared to go down to save you. Just when we don't know what to do, you come to the surface in a big bubble, we push you to shore, and then in a few moments you wake up on your own. Niu Zhi took it and said.

In an instant, Zhang Yun understood that it must be the beggar grandfather in the temple.

Zhang Yun got up from the ground and rushed towards the temple.

Jia'er shouted, "Brother, where are you going?"

Zhang Yun turned around and shouted as he ran, "Jia'er go home early, lest my mother scold you, my father asked me where I went, and you said that I went to hunt pigweed." I'm fine and I'll be back soon. ”

Zhang Yun panted and ran into the temple, the old dog opened one eye, glanced at him, and continued to squint. Zhang Yun saw the old beggar sitting facing the temple gate, looking at him with a smile.

Zhang Yun knelt down in front of the old beggar, kept kowtowing to the old beggar, and shouted, "Ask grandpa to accept me as an apprentice, beg grandpa to accept me as an apprentice." ”

The old beggar let Zhang Yun kowtow until Zhang Yun kowtowed on his forehead. dragged Zhang Yun's forehead with his sleeve, "A good boy wants to enter my sect, and the rules of the door must not be broken." I'm going to put you to the test before I can join my sect. Tomorrow morning, you will set off from your home at midnight, and if you do not arrive at the mountain temple at noon. Even if it doesn't pass. ”

As if seeing Zhang Yun's question, the old beggar followed up and said, "Although you have walked this road thousands of times, it does not mean that you can easily pass it." ”

This sentence made Zhang Yun's face flush with shame, but in fact, he was disdainful of the assessment of this level, because it usually took less than an hour for him to get from home to the temple. But when he saw the old beggar's serious face, he knew that this matter was not simple, so he held his breath and patiently listened to the old beggar's instructions.

"You were born with an unusually pure heart. If you are desperate, you can try to listen to the sound of all things, communicate with all things, and every grass, tree, bird and beast along the way will tell you how to go. Okay, good boy, it's not early, you go back, there is a pile of pigweed at the door, you can carry it back. ”