Chapter 1 Niujia Village

The wind is gentle and the rain is blowing.

The dusk has not passed, and the sky has gradually faded.

At the entrance of Niujia Village, a group of children about five or six years old are playing on the roadside. One by one, they seem to be practicing some " martial arts". However, due to the unprofessional movements, the appearance of dancing is very funny.

At this time, another child crept from afar, who was also about five or six years old. The thick clothes full of mud wrapped his thin body, with traces of tears on his face. Look at this, either you are bullied or planted in some mud.

He slowly walked into the crowd and looked at everyone with great interest.

"Go away, snot." The speaker was a little fat man, wearing a bun, bare arms, and a belly pocket. His watermelon-like round belly looked particularly eye-catching in the crowd. With the drawing of his hands and feet, a string of bells tied with red ropes on his feet jingled pleasantly.

"Can I play with you?"

"I just won't play with you snot. My mother said that you are a wild bastard. Don't pay attention to him. Let's continue to practice. The little fat man said amazing words at a young age. I don't know what a "wild seed" is, but I usually listen to his mother's parents say too much, and when I see people, they grow wild and grow wildly. After scolding, they don't forget to push others.

The child who was pushed down couldn't help falling to the ground, and the little fat man and others laughed so hard.

Speaking of the little fat man, he is a bully of the weak. His father is an entry-level disciple of the nearby Konglun Mountain Taoist Temple, and he rarely goes home. Fatty's mother does some small business in the village, fishing for three days and drying the net for two days. She likes to dig people's privacy and doesn't have any business. The couple neglected to discipline the little fat man, and no matter how much trouble the son caused, he would let it be. He is the youngest of all the children present, but he is also three or four years old, with a bloated body that can withstand two people and bully children of the same age everywhere. Well, the little fat man is "giving orders" to other children! He looks like a boss. Looking at the few children around, they are as thin as monkeys, and several of them may not be able to beat a little fat man.

"Ouch! Whose child is this? Is there anyone to discipline? Let's see if my aunt won't beat you.

A woman with more than 50 ran ahead, holding a few vines in her hand and rushing this way angrily. She looked like she had to break this group of rabbits, and the little fat man and others dispersed. In other words, you can't provoke anyone! Usually, the little fat people who bully the weak everywhere have been caught by Aunt Hua and have been beaten several times. They are very impressed!

"Xuan'er, are you all right? Get up and let the aunt have a look.

The child is very backbone. He will cry when he falls, and he will cry when he hurts, but he doesn't cry when he is bullied. Tears swirling in his eyes, and he couldn't help but let them fall.

"Madam, what is a 'wild seed'?"

"Don't listen to that group of bastards. I'll go to the little fat house to teach him a lesson later."

"Do I have no parents?"

A pair of extremely clear eyes can't help but be moved and sad.

"This..." Aunt Hua wanted to stop talking, and her expression was indescribable and difficult.

"Madam, please tell me! Do I have any parents? If not, where did I come from? If so, where are my parents?

In the face of the child's questioning, Aunt Hua is choked in her throat with thousands of words.

"Good boy, good boy, you just need to remember that you have parents."

"Poor child." Aunt Hua seemed to remember something in the past. Tears overflowed from the corners of her eyes. She turned around and lifted her sleeves and wiped them away quietly.

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"Brother Xuan, wait for me!"

Two twelve- or three-year-old boys walked one after another, a long distance in the middle. The teenager in front has obviously slowed down, but the teenager behind still can't catch up. After a few steps, he bent down and gasped.

"Fat, didn't I ask you to eat less for three meals! If Uncle Niu Gen is not here, you will eat again. I'll tell him later that there is a good fruit to eat!"

"Don't, don't, Brother Xuan, I'm about to catch up! Don't tell my father, or he should beat me."

Brother Xuan? Fat man? Yes, the handsome teenager walking in front of him is Zhao Xuan, who was called a "snot" by other children in Niujia Village. And the fat man in Zhao Xuan's mouth is naturally the little fat man who bullies the weak all day and takes pleasure in it. Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, the little children have grown so big. I'm sure he heard it right. Niu Xiaopang actually called others "Brother", and it was also his most disdainful object of bullying when he was a child. This is called feng shui rotation! Zhao Xuan was one year fatter than Niu Xiao. When he was a child, he was physically stunted due to illness and was shorter than children of the same age. Niu Xiaopang, who has just been born, weighed ten pounds. In addition, his mother does some small business, and his family is not bad. Usually delicious food and delicious food are indispensable. Since childhood, his body has been stronger than other children, and has also become his capital to bully the weak. Looking at now, Zhao Xuan is more than eight feet tall, and Niu Xiaopang is only seven feet tall, which is more than a foot away. Now it is self-evident who bullies him. Zhao Xuan has to rely on Aunt Hua for such a tall man. Aunt Hua knows that he is weak and likes to get sick. Every day, she asks him to go to the vegetable garden to water as soon as the rooster calls. After several years of "smelling chicken dancing" exercise, my physical fitness has improved and my body has been improved. Of course, Niu Xiaopang and Zhao Xuan can become good brothers not only because of who is strong and who is weak, but also because once Niu Xiaopang went to fish by the river and accidentally fell into the river. Zhao Xuan rescued him a bamboo pole. After that time, they often went out to play together, and you and I became good brothers.

"Fat, when will your father ask you to leave?"

The two carried baskets to fish by the river early in the morning, and now they ran to a big tree to rest.

"I just wanted to tell you. Brother Xuan, I'm leaving Niujia Village soon. My father said that good men are ambitious and want to go out. Therefore, you must learn Taoism well and have a strong body to protect yourself. How about it? Envy me!"

Niu Xiaopang said with a yearning face, but Zhao Xuan lowered his head and said nothing, just scratching on the ground with a branch.

"Why don't you tell my father that we should go to Konglun Mountain to learn Taoism!"

Niu Xiaopang seems to remember something and is very excited. Zhao Xuan was still listless and depressed.

"I want to go too, but the aunt won't agree."

When it comes to Aunt Hua, Niu Xiaopang hates it. He lifted his sleeves and looked at the traces of blue and purple on his hands, which were all given by the flower worship.

"It's Aunt Hua again, don't worry! Brother Xuan, when I return with some success, I will find more than a dozen or twenty little hooligans..." Niu Xiaopang narrowed his eyes and looked fierce, immersed himself in his intention**.

"Oh, why did you hit me?"

"Fat man, tell you to talk dirty nonsense." Zhao Xuan began to roll up his sleeves.

"I dare not, I dare not." Niu Xiaopang rushed around with his head in his arms.

"So, why didn't Aunt Hua let you practice? I think she always loves you." Niu Xiaopang was much more honest after being beaten, but he didn't dare to say bad things about Aunt Hua.

On this point, not only Niu Xiaopang is puzzled, but also Zhao Xuan himself is very puzzled. Why doesn't the aunt let herself practice? Although he didn't understand, he never resented Aunt Hua. From the day he became conscious after he was born, Aunt Hua was his only relative in the world.

"Brother Xuan, let me ask you a question, don't be angry!" Thinking of the beating just now, Niu Xiaopang was still lingering, and he said cautiously.

"Ask! I'm not angry."

"Then I asked!"

"If you have something to say, say it quickly and fart quickly."

"You haven't seen your parents since you were a child. Is it possible that you don't have parents at all? As my mother said, you jumped out of the stone, or is Aunt Hua your mother?

"Nonsense, I have parents, and I didn't jump out of the stone."

The first time I saw Zhao Xuan so excited, Niu Xiaopang was so scared that he didn't dare to make a sound. It was really that the dog couldn't spit out ivory in his mouth. It is said that he jumped out of the stone. Needless to say, this is probably heard from his best mother. The woman can say anything. When Niu Xiaopang was seven years old, she deliberately spoiled many vegetable seedlings out of anger when she passed through Aunt Hua's vegetable garden. When Aunt Hua saw it, she picked up the ladle and chased it out of the inner room and gave it to Niu Xiaopang for a good time. After that, Niu Xiaopang's mother came to the door with Niu Xiaopang and said extremely unpleasant words, probably saying that Zhao Xuan was actually the son of Aunt Hua, and Aunt Hua did not dare to admit that she had old clams and beads.

The name of Aunt Hua Xiaocui is not a villager in Niujia Village, but a foreigner. She came to Niujia Village with Zhao Xuan on a thunderstorm night more than ten years ago. At that time, Hou Hua was only in her forties, and Zhao Xuan was just a baby. No one knew where they came from. Later, an old bachelor named Niu Tian in Niujia Village saw that Aunt Hua was pitiful and took them in. It happened that Niu Tian was also a lonely family, so they called Zhao Xuan as a couple and asked him to call Niu Tian "Uncle Niu". The couple loved Zhao Xuan in every way. Niu Tian is also a man of his own knowledge. He only knows how to live with Meimei. Although he has been puzzled in private, he has never asked about the background of Aunt Hua and Zhao Xuan, and Aunt Hua herself is also secret. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. Niu Tian died repeatedly two years later because of the wind and cold, leaving the old and young to rely on each other for their lives.