It was just dawn, and the sun was on the other side of the mountain like a shy little girl, and his little red face had not yet been revealed, but beside the winding river, a group of seven or eight-year-old children seemed to be arguing about something under an old locust tree that several people embraced.

"Dead dog, you are talking nonsense, people outside the village in that mountain village know that our mountain is called Green Python Mountain, even our village is called Green Python Village, and the river in front of you is also called Green Python River, the green dragon that your father said must be a green python" A fairy-looking child who was wearing a coarse cloth shirt and pants but was unusually neat and tidy mocked loudly, and kicked a few pieces of dirt under his feet into the river during the process.

"Big Tail, you... My father said to me that the mountain should not be called Qingyun Mountain, but should be called Qinglong Mountain, because my father said that his grandfather had seen the green dragon on the mountain when he was chopping wood!"

"Giggles... Ha Lu Ha... Quack" a crisp voice in the midst of all kinds of laughter said, "Brother Dog, your father's grandfather has really seen that big python... Yes...... No... Did your father say what the green dragon looked like?" asked the girl dressed in a little red dress with two pigtails on her head.

"Sister Xiaohong, I don't know if my father's grandfather has really seen me, and this is what my father said to me after drinking, my father never lied to me" Gou Yu defended loudly.

I heard that it was drunk and said that the children laughed again.

At this time, I saw a thin child walking from the village, but he was wearing a bamboo hat on his head, carrying a medicine basket behind his back, and carrying a medicine hoe in his hand. When I got closer, I saw that a dress made of burlap was sewn inside and out, and I don't know how many layers had been sewn inside! Then, what was revealed on that delicate face was definitely not the calm and indifference that a seven- or eight-year-old child could have!

"Ahh Yes... Ah Qiu, Brother Qiu, little monkey... Go up the mountain to collect medicine again?" the children greeted differently

"Tiger head, stone, big tail, dog leftover, sister Qinglan, little red sleeves, hehe, you don't have to go to Peng Lao's homework today? It's a little late today, and if you don't go, you won't be able to collect much medicine!" the young man in front of him greeted his friends with a smile.

Among the children at this time, the tiger head was the largest, nine years old. And the dog left, the big tail, and the stone are all the same year as Brother Qiu, who is called the little monkey, and he is eight years old.

In addition, Qinglan is Xiaoqiu's cousin, and the little girl named Red Sleeves is Shishi's own sister. Because it is a child in a mountain village, in addition to Qinglan and red sleeves, the names of other children are varied, what tiger head, dog eggs, tail or something, in the eyes of the elders, the more casual the name is called the child, the better it is to raise, as for the one called the stone, it is said that his mother was born after being tired of planting on a stone in the forest, of course, the name of the girl is also what is red, orchid, plum, and called.

In fact, the real result of this is because the current Dongzhu Empire respects martial arts and light literature, and only thinks that his descendants have learned a good skill and then go to Qingcheng outside the mountain to ask for a good errand! On the other hand, they rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and rely on the water to draft water, and the existence of Qingbao Town does not know how many years have passed, and there are not many villagers who have really walked out of the town. For the simple mountain people themselves, a pound of fish caught in the Zhilu Dao River can be sold for three yuan, and a pheasant hunted in the mountains can be sold for eighteen yuan, and most of them are just bartering. It's like a secluded hideaway.

And Xiaoqiu's name Yi Qiu was also when he was full moon, his mother asked the old master of the school in the town with three old hens that she had raised for many years, in the words of the old master: Yi Qiu is easy to seek, everything is easy, all fate is good, straight is desirable, and the song is not begging!

As for the origin of the nickname Little Monkey, it is because Yi Qiu went down to the river to fish since he was a child, went up to the tree to pick fruits and eggs, and now he is simply proficient in everything, which can be comparable to monkeys.

"Brother Qiu, is it fun on the mountain? Usually Daddy and Mother don't let me get close to that mountain, can you take me to see it?" Red Sleeves pulled Yi Qiu's sleeve and said softly.

"Yes, little monkey, let's go together, you teach us to identify the herbs, and then everything we pick belongs to you, so it's much faster than you picking the herbs alone!"

"Brother, you can take us with you, tomorrow we will go to Peng Lao's to learn martial arts, although usually the family says that the mountain is dangerous or something, but I see brother, don't you go every day, isn't there nothing to do?" Qinglan glared at the tiger head and ran to Yi Qiu with joy

"Yes, you have to bring it today, if you don't bring it, we'll go by ourselves! Anyway, we're going to make a decision today, and don't use unsafe or anything as an excuse, you must know that if we fight with Peng Lao for several years, it's not a problem to beat you four or five!

Yi Qiu looked at the little friend and sister with a headache, some of them begged softly, and some of them were directly naked threats, so they had to speak: "You can take you, but you must follow me when you go to the mountain, and you can't run around, otherwise don't think about me taking you to the mountain to collect medicine in the future, although you often go to the mountain, but all you go to is only the foot of the mountain, and you must not have been to the mountain, so let's go to each of you to find some sticks or something, I will wait for you here." ”

"I know that Brother Daoqiu is the best...... Hmph, dare you take me to ............" A group of children chattered and scattered.

In less than a quarter of an hour, a kind of children gathered together one after another, and the things in everyone's hands were also called Yi Qiu's anger and funny, they had fire sticks, iron hooks, kitchen knives and shovels, and the most helpless thing was that the two little female dolls Red Sleeves took a slender bamboo, and it was estimated that it would break off after a few touches of a little thumb, and Yi Qiu's good sister Qinglan took the net pocket that Yi Qiu had knitted for her to catch butterflies before.

"Alright, everyone is here, let's go. Big Tail announced in a stinky fart.

Then a group of seven children jumped along the green python mountain outside Yiqiu Xiang Village.

"Little monkey, what mountain are we going to collect medicine," Big Tail suddenly touched Yi Qiu and asked.

"Qing Python Mountain, do we have any other mountains here besides Qing Python Mountain?" Yi Qiu was stunned

"Yes, Gou Yu said that this mountain should be called Qinglong Mountain, because his father's grandfather once saw Qinglong on the mountain!"

"That's right, Brother Qiu. You often go to the town to change the medicine, what do the people in the town say about this landscape? Is there really a dragon on this mountain?" asked Red Sleeves curiously

Yi Qiu thought for a while and said, "The storytellers in the town often say that we have a big python living here, which sometimes plays in the green python river and sometimes plays in the mountains. You see, our village and town are surrounded by mountains, and the only way to get outside is the winding Python River. The scholars in the town also said that there was no river here, but there was a tunnel left behind by a python walking on the ground a long, long time ago, and the mountains around it were also formed by the soil that the python had circled when he walked."

The tiger head sneered and laughed: "You see, this river is a hundred zhang wide, and the height of the mountain, I heard that no one has been able to climb it, so all this is really the big python, how big does the snake have to be?"

"Yes, my father has been outside along the river for food and fishing, and he said that there is a river outside that is connected to the river here with us. How could there be such a big snake in the world?" said Gou Yu suspiciously.

"Yes, yes, brother, you are a liar" Xiao Qinglan also joined the ranks of opposition.

Yi Qiu looked at the partners who were full of disbelief on everyone's faces and smiled bitterly: "Don't talk about you, in fact, I don't believe it either, but these are all storytellers in the town, and they also said that in fact, there is a god living on this mountain, and the big python was raised by the old fairy!

All the children laughed and said, "Little monkey, are you telling a story?

"Don't laugh, listen to my brother, my brother never lied to me" Seeing her brother being ridiculed by her friends, Xiao Qinglan decisively stood up to defend Yi Qiu.

"Well, don't laugh, monkey, go on, isn't that old fairy still raising a monkey? Actually, you're the monkey who became it?" said the dog, clutching his stomach.

"Dead dog, you dare to laugh at me? You are not allowed to call me a monkey! Please call me Brother Qiu, or I will call you turtle, Wang Ba ......" Yi Qiu is also a childlike after all, and he quarreled with a group of children.

"Little monkey, you see that you are weak, thin and small, and you climb up and down the mountains every day, if you don't call you a monkey, you don't call you a bear!" said Big Tail laughing.

"Stinky tail, you still call my brother little monkey, then I will call you big bug in the future!" Qinglan hurriedly helped.

"Do you want to listen to the story told by the storyteller in town?"

Yi Qiu blocked everyone's words back in one sentence, and then continued: "The storyteller talks about the jackals, tigers and leopards on the mountain in general, and often go down the mountain to hurt people, and these animals on the mountain here don't say that they hurt people when they go down the mountain, that is, sometimes they raise pigs and sheep or something, and they go to the foot of the mountain to graze, and they have never seen any wolves, tigers and leopards to eat them, and there are dogs, didn't you say that your uncle chops wood on the mountain every day?" Once when I crossed the foot of the mountain, I just cut a few more trees to the mountain, and it seemed that he fell into a coma for no reason, and when your third uncle found your uncle, he found that he was still sleeping in a recess at the foot of the mountain.

Gou Yu also pondered, "Yes, how did my uncle explain at that time, they didn't believe the third uncle, and they all made fun of my aunt at home, and often bullied my uncle at home, and my uncle was tired, but it seems that our family told us that as long as we don't cross the foot of the mountain, we are very safe? What is this for? Why do we have such strange rules? Are you afraid that we will cross the foot of the mountain to the mountain and anger the old fairy?"

This is Qinglan clapping her hands and laughing: "Brother Gouyu, your uncle is famous in our village for being afraid of your aunt, and it is not necessary to be really tired by your aunt." But my brother is right, there must be a big python living on the mountain, it is the big python that does not let the beasts on the mountain go down the mountain to harm people, otherwise everything we do here is named after the green python?