During the reign of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Shizong Zhu Houxi was superstitious about Fangshi, advocating Taoism, and allowed the first assistant Yan Song to control the government, resulting in the corruption of the Ming Dynasty officials, the culture and martial arts, and the abolishment of side affairs. A large number of coastal soldiers fled, warships were sharply reduced, and coastal facilities were damaged for a long time.

At this time, after the division war between the North and the South Koreas, Japan lost some of the defeated Southern Dynasty samurai, frustrated politicians and ronins who lost their support, so they were exiled to the sea, entrenched on the islands, and colluded with some merchants and pirates along the coast to invade the coast of China from time to time. Historically known as the "Wako"!

In the twenty-first year of Jiajing, the Japanese invaded Taizhou by Ruian, conquered Hangzhou, and occupied the coastal area of Zhejiang. In Shandong, Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong, hundreds of thousands of people were killed in the coastal areas of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong.

"Woko" was rampant for a while!

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Twenty-four years of Jiajing, on the outskirts of Hangzhou;

A dilapidated mountain temple stands alone on a snow-covered mountainside.

Compared with previous years, this year's heavy snow seems to have come very early, and outside the mountain temple, the goose-feather snow is still falling, and the dense vegetation on the mountain seems to have disappeared from the ground, and there is a thick snow everywhere.

Outside the mountain temple, it is still cold and cold, at this moment, the night is gradually falling, within a radius of a few miles, only in the broken temple on the mountainside, there is still a trace of fire, and the biting cold wind outside the house continues to roar, knocking fiercely on the broken tiles on the roof of the mountain temple.

Several Buddha statues in the mountain temple have been dilapidated, and they are covered with thick dust, and no one has been here for many years, but because of this, this place has become a temporary shelter for these seven or eight street children in tattered clothes in the ruined temple.

"Brother Tianyi, are you better?"

In a corner of the temple, thirteen-year-old Chu Tianyi was wrapped in a broken blanket, lying on the ground and shrinking tightly, leaning over him was a ten-year-old girl who was asking.

Even if he was close to the fire, Chu Tianyi still felt that the surroundings were biting cold, he was sick, this disease, he had been sick for more than ten days, and he was very sick.

"Hmph, a dying waste, and ruining everyone's food here all day long!"

Beside the fire, a slightly chubby boy glanced at Chu Tianyi, who was trembling, and let out a cold snort in his throat.

"What did you say!?"

Hearing this, the girl was obviously displeased, turned her head and rolled her eyes, and squinted fiercely.

"Brother Tianyi is not a waste, I don't allow you to say that about him!"

"Heh, he's not a waste, everyone here has a division of labor every day, why is he the only one who doesn't have to do anything?!"

The boy confronted each other, stretched out his hand to Chu Tianyi, and twisted his fat body and jumped up from the ground in an instant.

"You say, is he a piece of shit?"

The boy's voice almost roared out of his mouth.

As the words fell, almost all the other children lowered their heads and remained silent, and the silence at this moment obviously represented acquiescence.

"You're ......!"

The girl held her mouth, tears beginning to roll in her eyes.

In such a season when natural disasters and man-made disasters come side by side, the survival of mortals has become extremely difficult, and these seven or eight lucky survivors have been greatly favored by the heavens, and in the previous month, they have gathered in this ruined temple one after another.

In order to survive, these children had to search for food and firewood every day, and they all had a certain division of labor, some were responsible for begging in the city and picking up some discarded bedding and rags, some were responsible for collecting firewood, some were responsible for shoveling wild vegetables, and at dusk, they had to return to the ruined temple, because if they stayed out for the night, they would definitely freeze to death!

Chu Tianyi has been sick for more than ten days, so the task that he should have undertaken is naturally evenly distributed to other people, and he can't do anything except eat and recuperate for nothing every day, and now, except for the girl who is in the same village as him and has fled here with him, who is still taking care of him, most of the other children have been extremely disgusted with Chu Tiansheng.

Because, at this moment, Chu Tianyi is an out-and-out burden!

"Enough! Ding Huai, sit down for me!"

A broken cry sounded, and the ruined temple suddenly became silent.

The one who shouted at the boy was a sixteen-year-old boy named Li Yi, the oldest of the children.

"But Boss Li, they ......"

The boy was unhappy in his heart and wanted to say something, but he inadvertently saw Li Yi's annoyed eyes, and swallowed the words back vividly.

"Chu Tianyi's rations, I'll give them!"

Li Yi retracted his eyes, took advantage of the situation to break the half of the sweet potato in his hand from the middle, got up and handed half of it to Liu Yiyi, the girl next to Chu Tianyi.

The girl's two big eyes looked straight at the half-baked sweet potato handed over by Li Yi in front of her, and couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva fiercely, in the past ten days, in order to let the sick Chu Tianyi recover as soon as possible, the girl almost left most of the rations she received to Chu Tianyi, due to malnutrition, the girl herself has lost a lot of weight.

"Take it!"

Li Yi couldn't help but say, and stuffed the sweet potato into the girl's hand.

The girl held the sweet potato from Li Yi with trembling hands, stunned, and then quickly and carefully stuffed it into her arms, she still planned to leave this half of the sweet potato to the sleeping "Brother Tianyi" next to her.

Unbeknownst to him, Chu Tian under the broken carpet was with tears in the corners of his eyes, he had already woken up, but he was still unwilling to open his eyes.

"Bang!"

There was a sudden loud bang outside the door, and the wooden door of the broken temple was suddenly pushed open from the outside. A figure flashed in in an instant!

Suddenly breaking through the door seemed to be an adult man, only to see that this man was dressed as a Taoist priest and holding a long sword in his hand.

After the Taoist priest rushed into the door, he couldn't help but rush directly to the fire and pulled a clay pot that was cooking on the fire in front of him.

With a "bang", the clay pot shattered, and the uncooked wild vegetables were scattered on the ground along with the soup.

The Taoist priest was unkempt, his eyes were full of bloodshots, and there were still stains of blood on his body, and he didn't care that the ingredients on the ground were still in a hot state, so he grabbed them with his bare hands and instantly devoured the soil on the ground.

In the face of such an uninvited guest who suddenly broke in, seven or eight children were so frightened that they shrank to the other side of the fire, their eyes full of fear.

Perhaps noticing that something was wrong around him, after the Taoist priest gobbled it up, his consciousness seemed to wake up, and he gradually raised his head.

Looking at the group of tattered little beggars in front of him, the Taoist priest was stunned in place, and his hands holding wild vegetables trembled slightly.

The Taoist priest was instantly ashamed in his heart, if he hadn't been chased and killed and cornered, how could he have ended up in such a field, and would have robbed a few beggars of food.

"Children, I'm sorry, it's a sin that the poor road really shouldn't be like this!"

Although the Taoist priest felt guilty in his heart, he knew that what he had eaten just now was probably all the rations of these little beggars today, but how could he return what he had already eaten?

Reaching out to his waist, he found that the money bag was already empty, and not even a copper plate was left, and the Taoist priest couldn't help frowning tightly. Of course, if he still has money to spare, how can he not eat a grain of rice for five days in a row?

The Taoist priest looked around, and his eyes fell on Chu Tianyi, who was still lying on the ground trembling, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Since we can't return the rations to you, then Poor Dao will do his best to save this child's life to pay for it!"

After saying this, the Taoist priest no longer hesitated, got up and walked to Chu Tianyi's side and squatted down.

After carefully giving Chu Tian a pulse sign, the Taoist priest couldn't help but have a trace of gloom flashing between his eyebrows, but then it quickly disappeared.

After some fumbling, the Taoist priest took out a pitch-black pill from his arms and stuffed it directly into the mouth of the dying Chu Tian.

Seeing that the girl next to her was still a little guarded, the Taoist priest smiled slightly and comforted:

"Don't worry, little girl, this pill is my Wudang Mountain's secret elixir, and it will definitely save this little brother's life!"

Chu Tianyi's body was very weak at the moment, although he felt in his heart that this Taoist priest was from an unknown origin and didn't know whether he was trustworthy or not, but now that he was a dying person, even if this Taoist priest wanted to be unfavorable to himself, he didn't need to go through such a big effort, so he didn't think about it anymore, and swallowed the pill directly.

After doing all this, the Taoist priest returned to his original position and sat down, took a long breath, and suddenly felt much more relaxed in his heart.

"Brother Tianyi, how are you feeling?"

Seeing that Chu Tianyi had woken up, the girl hurriedly helped Chu Tianyi up from the ground, her face full of concern.

Miraculously, after taking the pill, Chu Tianyi, who originally looked like he didn't have a few days to live, actually showed a trace of blood on his pale face, and his eyes became a little energetic.

Although Chu Tianyi felt better due to the effect of the Taoist pill, his body still didn't have any strength, so he didn't speak, just nodded and smiled hard at the girl.

Several children who had been watching from the side showed surprise on their faces at this moment, but they didn't expect this sloppy Taoist priest to have such magical medical skills, and they couldn't help but be impressed, and their original vigilance gradually relaxed.

"Not good!!"

Just as several children were sitting around the fire again, the Taoist priest's face suddenly froze, and he secretly said that something was wrong in his heart.

This is because, outside the broken temple at this moment, there is a rush of footsteps, although the sound is rapid and close at hand, but it is very weak, such a silent footstep in the snow is clearly only a martial arts master can do.

Of course, except for the Taoist man, these dolls in the broken temple naturally can't perceive this voice.

At this moment, in addition to perceiving the silent footsteps, the Taoist man could also sense the fierce murderous aura mixed in it!

"Chased after me so quickly!"