It has been more than half a month since Lao Zhangtou's body was discovered.

The commotion caused in the small mountain village has not subsided.

And it's no wonder.

For people in the mountains, it is very rare to enter the yamen to file a lawsuit. Zhangjiaao is a small mountain village, and the people who live in the mountains are honest and honest. Usually, there is no intersection with the government at all, let alone entering the yamen.

Ding Qi sat at the dining table, while burying his head in his hand and gnawing on half of the black nest in his hand, while thinking about Lao Zhangtou's affairs.

It's dinner time, and the Ding family is eating.

There were four people in the house, in addition to Ding's father and Ding's mother, there was also a sister who was seven years younger than Ding Qi.

Ding Qi also has an older brother who is four years older than him, who works as an apprentice outside the mountains and does not come home often.

The so-called dinner is just the time when it is close to evening. If you look out the door, you can see the sun that has not completely set.

This is the second meal that the Ding family eats today, and it is usually the case.

The people in the mountains do not have much source of income, most of them live on a few acres of fields under the mountain, and sometimes they will go up to the mountains to hunt and pick some herbs.

The same is true for the Ding Qi family.

The Ding family usually eats at home, that is, batter and a pot of boiled mountain vegetables with salt.

One meal in the morning, before going to work, and one meal in the afternoon, at this time.

Ding Qi remembers the last time he got meat was three months ago, when a guest came to his house.

Thinking of this, Ding Qi couldn't help but swallow the mountain vegetables that he had fished up from the pot, smacked his mouth a few times, and couldn't help but recall the smell of meat a few months ago.

The old Zhang Tou, who died more than ten days ago, Ding Qi is extremely familiar.

The small mountain village is not large, with less than 100 households in total. Even if any family goes up the mountain and hits two more pheasants, it will spread throughout the village in an instant.

There are hundreds of people in the village, all of whom know their roots.

Lao Zhangtou has some reputation in Zhangjiaao compared to ordinary mountain people, and it is not the first time that he has caused a commotion in a small mountain village.

Lao Zhangtou's real name is Zhang Zhu, and he is close to the age of sixtieth, which is a rare longevity in a small mountain village. In his early years, he had two sons, but they were all pulled by the government, and he has not heard from him since. My wife also died early, and now, I have no relatives.

Fortunately, when Lao Zhangtou was young, he worked as an apprentice in a pharmacy in Qixia Town outside the mountain for a year, although he was sent back because of his poor qualifications, but he also learned the ability to collect medicine with one hand.

With this skill, coupled with the fact that he served as a nolange who treated colds and flu in several nearby villages, even if he was lonely in his old age, he did not worry about eating and drinking.

Lao Zhangtou's age, in the eyes of the mountain people, is already regarded as half of the earth. In a few years, he will die like an ordinary person.

However, Lao Zhangtou caused an unexpected commotion more than two years ago, when Ding Qi was ten years old.

That old man Zhang Tou was sheltering from the rain under a tree, and was struck by a sudden thunderbolt, and went crazy from then on.

At least, that's what everyone in the village thinks.

When Lao Zhangtou was found and woke up, he began to say some crazy words from time to time.

Lao Zhang Tou said that after he was struck by a thunderbolt, he regained the memory of his previous life, and in his previous life, he used to be the leader of a big gang called the Sun and Moon God Sect.

His last name was Let Me Go, and he lived in a dynasty called the Ming Dynasty.

However, I heard from the most learned old boy in the village that there was no dynasty called the Ming Dynasty in the world.

Lao Tongsheng's assertion has become proof that Lao Zhangtou has gone crazy after being struck by lightning.

However, Lao Zhangtou, who became crazy two years ago, died unexpectedly half a month ago.

When Lao Zhangtou's body was discovered, Ding Qi had secretly followed him to see it. At that time, Lao Zhangtou's corpse was no longer human, and his death was extremely miserable. The eyes are wide, and they are full of unwillingness, and they look like they are dead, which is very scary.

This made Ding Qi, who had never seen a corpse before and was not very old, have nightmares for several nights in a row.

The recent lawsuit related to Lao Zhangtou's death and the uproar in Zhangjiaao is not because there was something strange about Lao Zhangtou's death, and there was a life lawsuit. It's just that it has a lot to do with Lao Zhangtou's death.

Although Lao Zhangtou died a miserable death, there was nothing strange about it. Together with a white-fronted tiger, he fell from a cliff dozens of meters high and fell to his death.

Judging from the traces on the corpse, before falling down, Lao Zhangtou had a fight with the big tiger.

There were more than a dozen deep scratches on his body, one eye was also scratched, and the right side of his body was even deformed by the tiger's claws, and his flesh and blood were blurred. Even if you don't fall off a cliff, you have no chance of surviving at all.

Together with Lao Zhangtou's body, five century-old ginseng plants near the cliff were found, which was also the reason for this lawsuit.

According to various signs, the old hunters in the village said that the scene was not as simple as Lao Zhangtou was unlucky enough to encounter a tiger preying on and eating people, but more like Lao Zhangtou fell to his death when he was competing with the tiger for precious mountain ginseng.

The location of Lao Zhangtou's accident this time has also entered the mountains very deeply. Generally, hunters outside the mountains hunt on the periphery of the mountains and rarely go deeper. If it weren't for the coincidence this time, even the corpse might not have been found.

The person who found Lao Zhangtou's body and the hundred-year-old ginseng was also a hunter who happened to go deep into the mountains and forests, and later had a dispute over the distribution of these ginseng, and finally got into trouble in the yamen.

That night, Ding Qi slept on the earthen embryo bed, and looked at the little sister who was sleeping sweetly next to him.

Lao Zhangtou's inhuman-shaped corpse and eyes full of unwillingness kept appearing in front of Ding Qi's eyes, unable to wave away.

"In the future, I can no longer go to Lao Zhangtou to listen to stories. ”

Thinking of this, Ding Qi turned over slightly, for fear of waking up the little sister next to him.

Since Lao Zhang's hair went crazy and began to say some crazy things, among the wild men who are still popular in the mountain village, more and more people are willing to contact him.

Even the children in the mountains, the adults are afraid that Lao Zhangtou will have a bad influence on their children, so they don't let them get close.

Tincey, however, is an exception.

He likes to go to Lao Zhangtou and listen to him tell the stories of the rivers and lakes.

These thrilling and interesting stories made Ding Qi, a young man from a mountain village who rarely had contact with the outside world, fascinated and addicted to it.

Lao Zhangtou said that the stories he told were all things he had experienced in his previous life. Although Ding Qi didn't believe it, it didn't prevent him from enjoying it.

Now that Lao Zhangtou is dead, and he doesn't have the opportunity to listen to those interesting stories anymore, Ding Qi feels very regretful.

While listening to those stories, Ding Qi sometimes felt that Lao Zhangtou might not be crazy.

Even...... The stories he told were really things he had experienced in his previous life.

Maybe no one wants to contact him, life is too boring. For Ding Qi often pestering him and asking him to tell stories about the rivers and lakes, Lao Zhangtou was not disgusted.

In the past two years, I am afraid that the person who has had the most contact with Lao Zhangtou is Ding Qi.

Whenever Lao Zhangtou told those stories of the rivers and lakes, Ding Qi could always see in his eyes a strange look in his eyes that did not belong to the rickety old man in an ordinary mountain village.

That look gave Ding Qi a domineering feeling that as long as Lao Zhangtou stretched out a hand, he could cover the sky.

Sometimes, seeing such an old man, Ding Qi will unconsciously feel scared. It seems that in front of him is not a rickety old man who is about to enter the ground, but like a fierce tiger who is addicted to breaking people.

For a while, Ding Qi was so frightened by Lao Zhangtou's strange look that he didn't dare to meet him. But in the end, the child's curiosity to listen to the amazing stories of the rivers and lakes overcame the fear of Lao Zhangtou.

When telling stories, Lao Zhangtou didn't always have this kind of look that scared Ding Qi. often talking and talking, the old man's expression will become full of unwillingness and despair.

It's like, the look of old Zhang Tou when he died.

Why is this so, Ding Qi inquired from Lao Zhangtou.

Lao Zhang Tou said that if he could recover the memories of his previous life when he was young, then relying on the martial arts and martial arts experience in his memory, he could quickly become a top martial arts master. Just like in his previous life, he dominates the world.

But now, due to years of hard work, his body has long been old and exhausted, to the point of running out of oil and lamps, let alone becoming a top master, it is impossible to even practice a sufficient amount of true qi, prolong life, and strengthen the body.

After listening to Lao Zhangtou's story for so long, Ding Qi also knew what the so-called true qi was.

In Lao Zhangtou's story, it is this kind of true qi that is cultivated by martial arts practitioners. A master with profound true qi can smash a boulder with a wave of his hand, which is very powerful.

Thinking of the so-called true qi,

Tin Qi rolled over to calm himself down. Soon after, he felt an undetectable, tadpole-like warm current swimming through his body.

Feeling the warm current in his body, Ding Qi grinned slightly on the bed, revealing the simple smile of a young man in a mountain village.

"It's really angry. ”

Ding Qi knew that the warm current in his body was the true qi often mentioned in Lao Zhangtou's stories.

This true qi is still crossed into his body by Lao Zhangtou.

After knowing the miraculous effect of true qi from Lao Zhangtou's story, Ding Qi yearned for this magical power. And he has been pestering Lao Zhang's head, wanting to see what the so-called true qi is.

Lao Zhangtou was annoyed by Ding Qi, so he gave Ding Qi the little true qi in his body, and passed on to him a set of superficial methods for transporting true qi.

Don't look at the true qi in Ding Qi's body now like a tadpole crawling, it is invisible, when Lao Zhang gave it to Ding Qi, it was much smaller than this.

According to that set of true qi transportation methods, after nearly two years, the true qi in Ding Qi's body was only raised to the current level.

Feeling the faint true qi in his body, as if he had thought of something, the smile on Ding Qi's face disappeared, he frowned, and his face became bitter.

When he passed it on to Ding Qi True Qi Carrying Method, Lao Zhang Tou once said it to him. Although his martial arts training qualifications are indeed stronger than ordinary people. However, the qualification requirements of martial arts practitioners naturally cannot be based on ordinary people. According to the standards of martial arts practitioners, his qualifications are very average, even

It can be said that it is a little bad.

No matter how much he cultivates, he won't achieve much. Not to mention becoming a first-class master in the rivers and lakes, even the level of fourth- and fifth-rate masters is far less. At most, that is, stronger than ordinary people.

Ding Qi, who initially felt the true qi in his body, was willing to believe that he often had the fantasy of a child, hoping that one day he would be successful in cultivation and be able to come and go like the martial arts master in Lao Zhangtou's story, coming and going, crisscrossing the rivers and lakes.

However, after nearly two years, Ding Qi has almost become a half-grown teenager. During this time, he also realized that it was just his own fantasy.

As Lao Zhang Tou said, his cultivation qualifications are not good. After such a long period of time, the true qi in the body is only at the level of nothingness.

This little bit of true qi, not to mention smashing the boulder with a wave of his hand, can't even improve his physique a little and warm his body.

This situation naturally made Ding Qi discouraged, and he also thought about giving up cultivation. However, as soon as he thought of the wonderful world of rivers and lakes in Lao Zhangtou's story, which was completely different from the peaceful small mountain village, Ding Qi would regain his spirit and carry out the cultivation of true qi with little effect.

"Tomorrow ....... I don't know what thought rose in my mind, Ding Qi's frowning brows because of the slow progress of his true qi cultivation actually stretched out again.

With this thought, Ding Qi had a look of hope on his face and fell into a deep sleep.