Chapter 56: Wujiabao (text)
The villagers who have lived in Wujiagou for generations have experienced great changes in their hometown for more than a year. The originally barren and desolate hillside ravine wasteland, because of a strange small-scale rainfall, has magically turned into fertile soil, and now it can reap a bumper harvest with anything. This cola spoiled the villagers of Wujiagou, and sighed that God blessed, and the gods and spirits protected it. Every family has an incense burner all day long, burning incense and worshipping God.
Next door to Wujiagou Wu's father's house, in the last year, Wu's father actually invited a plasterer to come, next to his family's big house, built a row of five blue bricks and blue tiles in succession, and more extravagantly surrounded the courtyard with green bricks, built a gatehouse, hung a plaque, and said: "Wu Family Library".
Father Wu was even more arrogant to invite two highly respected Xixi from the county seat of Qingxian County to sit in the library in person, and let the children of Wujiagou enter the "Wu Family Library" to study for free.
The reputation of Wu Dashan has also spread all over the country in this year's time, which can be described as infinitely beautiful.
The sound of a childish child reading came out of the library, highlighting this barren Wujiagou, which is a rhythm that needs to be changed and developed.
Even the two Mr. Xixi sitting in the hall praised Wujiagou's reading boy. said that it was a blessed land and a spirit child, and the spirit child of Wujiagou was almost buried.
On the other side of Wu Dashan's compound, there is also a courtyard. This courtyard is also a large courtyard with blue brick walls and green tiles. However, the walls of this courtyard are more than twice as large as the courtyard on the other side of the library, and the high walls of the courtyard are more than three feet high, and the courtyard walls are more than three feet thick. There are no plaques in this large compound, and the gate is closed all day, so it is impossible to see what it is for.
But some villagers who walked under the wall could often hear the sound of knives, guns and clubs clashing in the courtyard. It seems that this is someone practicing martial arts in the courtyard.
In fact, this courtyard is indeed the Wu family's practice ground. The head of the martial arts instructor in charge of teaching is an old man in his seventies or eighties who looks like he may die at any time. The children who practice martial arts here call him Grandpa Huang. This old man is kind, but when he teaches martial arts, he is fierce and domineering, and he will reprimand loudly at the slightest mistake, and even add sticks.
Today's Wu family is no longer the courtyard of the small gate. On the basis of the original old house, it has expanded outward more than ten acres, the east is the library, the west is the martial arts hall, and the gate of the south is erected more than three zhang high, and the castle wall is about the same thickness as the city wall. The backyard to the north has been expanded into a castle-like continuous house.
This whole is a Wujiabao, where can it be said that it is an ordinary big family?
Father Wu is a good person, so naturally he doesn't have to work in the field himself. All the work is done by the tenants of the domestic servant. What he does every day now is to hold a delicate purple clay pot, and taste the beautiful tea that I heard is difficult for even the monarch of the Heavenly Wolf Country to enjoy, and he sighed in Wujiabao and gave birth to a good son.
"Dad, what about the second brother?" Father Wu was drinking tea with a purple clay pot, Leng Buding suddenly heard someone shouting behind him, turned his head to look, but it was the eldest son Wu Yan, who had not been seen for many days, with a happy smile on his face, and said: "It turned out to be Yan'er, Xiaoshan went to the martial arts hall to learn martial arts with Huang Lao just now." Why, what's the matter? You too, how do you like to wear this wide black dress all day long? No, you are too old and twilight, change Ming'er and ask your mother to make you a few bright clothes, you are not small, Dad is looking for it, help you talk about a family affair, Dad is free, I want to bring my grandson, enjoy the blessings......"
Wu Yan, who was dressed in a dark robe, did look a little too solemn and old at this time, at the age of seventeen, his appearance was originally ordinary, and then he put on this dark robe, at a glance, he thought that he was an adult who had already started a family and had a group of children.
Wu Yan showed a wry smile on his face, rubbed his nose and said, "Dad, this is not in a hurry in advance." I have something important to discuss with you and Xiaoshan. You send someone to find him and wait for me at the mouth of the valley on the west side of Wujia Mountain. Remember, don't let anyone come with you. ”
After Wu Yan finished speaking, he was afraid that Daddy Wu would nag about any family affairs, daughters or the like, so he turned his head and ran away. Father Wu suddenly laughed and said: "This stinky boy is becoming more and more disagreeable, and he dares to tell him to run errands." ”
Jokes and jokes, Daddy Wu is more satisfied with this eldest son. The Wu family can have today's development, and Wu Jiagou can have today's changes, but it is all due to this son. Father Wu did not call someone to find Wu Shan, but trotted towards the martial arts hall himself.
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Wujiashan is located in the west of Wujiagou Village three or four miles away, the mountain is just a hundred zhang high earth and stone mountain, the mountain is verdant with grass and trees, but it is some ordinary wild forest artemisia grass. In such a wild mountain wasteland, there are not even big beasts. Naturally, the people of Wujiagou can't expect to make a fortune from here.
To the west of Wujia Mountain, there is a valley surrounded by low mountains on all sides. This valley has no official name, people used to call it sour jujube ditch in the past, just because there are a lot of wild sour jujube trees growing on the low hills on all sides of the valley.
There was nothing unusual about the sour jujube ditch before, but a year ago, the villagers who often collected firewood here suddenly found that the sour jujube ditch was somehow, seemingly overnight, covered by an inexplicable fog.
Standing on the low hills on all sides and looking down, it was hazy and hazy, and it was impossible to see the situation at the bottom of the valley. Originally, there were still mountain people who wanted to go down to find out what was going on, but since four human-like monsters ran out of the valley, the mountain people all said that there was a man-eating mandrill wood charm in this sour jujube ditch, and no one dared to come here to visit.
Occasionally, there were bold children who secretly ran to the valley mouth of the sour jujube ditch with adults on their backs, and wanted to go in to take a look, but most of them fainted inexplicably and were thrown on the mountain beam of Wujia Mountain. Since then, it has become a forbidden place where no one haunts.
Wu Shan has been learning martial arts from Master Huang Zhen since he started to cultivate internal skills, and his courage has become bigger and bigger. In ordinary times, Wu Shan, who was fourteen or fifteen years old, would often carry a hard mulberry bow on his back and go to the depths of the mountains more than ten miles away to hunt wild beasts and hone his martial arts and courage.
Wu Shan's current strength is terrifying, and his size has been soaring within a year, he naturally doesn't know that this qiē is just caused by Wu Yan taking him a lot of elixirs to improve his physique.
"Dad, the eldest brother is mysterious, why are you calling the two of us here? This sour jujube ditch is weird, I wanted to go in to take a look, but a monster suddenly broke out inside, which really scared me. I had a fight with the monster, and guess what? The monster was a wooden man, and he knocked me down in three or two strokes. Luckily, I didn't run fast when I saw the opportunity, otherwise, hehe...... By the way, Dad, did you say that the eldest brother opened a big pharmacy in Qingxian County, and really made a lot of money? This year, our family built a house again, and invited a gentleman, not to mention spending seven or eight thousand taels of silver, the eldest brother is thin and weak, and he has such a great ability. He's out alone, I'm a little worried, when I learn the skills, I must follow my eldest brother to protect him!" Wu Yan was babbling and talking to Daddy Wu while staring nervously at the mouth of the foggy valley.
Father Wu also stared at the mouth of the valley with a nervous expression, his expression was suspicious, and his heart was a little pounding, and he couldn't understand why Wu Yan had brought the two of them here to discuss important matters. Wouldn't it be better to discuss it in your own house?
"That's right, Xiaoshan, Dad always feels a little weird, your eldest brother seems to have something big to discuss with the two of us. You say, why did he let the two of us come here? This wild ravine, a few years ago, was not so mad, and there was no such fog that covered the sky and the sun, what the hell is going on? You say, what is your eldest brother doing mysteriously all day long in the past year? I asked people in Qingxian County about your eldest brother, and I didn't find out why, and the three gentlemen he invited seemed to keep silent about his affairs, which is really strange. Father Wu also said in wonder.
At this moment, the two of them suddenly heard the sound of a heavy object hitting the ground in the valley, which sounded like some huge monster was about to come out of the valley, and the frightened two looked at each other in disbelief, both at a loss.
"Dad, I seem to hear that this is the wooden monster in the valley is coming out? Although I have more strength now, and I have also learned martial arts, I still feel that I can't beat the wooden monster, what should I do?"
"Run, where are you going? Didn't your eldest brother ask us to wait for him here, as soon as we run, your eldest brother is here, what should we do if we bump into this wooden weirdo?"
The two of them were nervous, and they were talking word by word, but their eyes kept looking around and began to look for Wu Yan's traces.
"Yan'er?!Yan'er!"
"Big brother, big brother, where are you?"
At this moment, the fog in the sky at Taniguchi suddenly seemed to hear some kind of order, and it strangely gradually parted to the two sides. The father and son of the Wu family, who were originally shouting for Wu Yan, were stunned by the bizarre changes in front of them, and were shocked.
However, Wu Shan was very filial, and as early as when the fog parted to both sides, he jumped in front of Father Wu, holding a long knife in his hand, protecting the two of them.
The mist in the valley parted a passage more than three zhang wide, and a huge steel skeleton monster more than five zhang high, staring at a pair of red eyes the size of lanterns, walked out of the valley step by step.
When the father and son of the Wu family saw such a huge steel skeleton monster at first glance, they were already so frightened that their hamstrings twitched and they couldn't move. At this time, the two of them heard a familiar voice in the air: "Dad, Xiaoshan, why did you come now, I have been waiting for you for a long time." ”
The father and son of the Wu family followed the sound and looked up, but saw that above the head of the huge skeleton monster, there was a young man in Xuanyi sitting cross-legged, but it was not the Wu Yan they were worried about.
Daddy Wu swallowed his saliva, and wanted to say something in a dumb voice, but his lips stalked for a long time, and he didn't say a word. Wu Shan was different from Father Wu, he saw that the eldest brother was sitting leisurely on the head of the huge steel skeleton monster, and quickly reacted to what was going on, his eyes rolled, and he shouted happily: "Big brother, it turns out that you have been living in this valley?
Wu Yan smiled, stretched out his hand, and the two huge palms of the steel skeleton puppet were spread on the ground, Wu Yan pointed to the huge steel palms and said to the two: "Dad, Xiaoshan, this is not the place to talk, come up, I'll take you into the valley." ”