beg for chivalry

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A bonfire burns in the night.

Birch bark sizzles and smoke rises.Like dust, the sparks flake off from the fire and fly into the blue sky.

This is a thick and dark forest, and there are no traces of people in the wild.This cluster of fire seems to be the only light in the world.There was a child in silk cloth clothes sitting in front of the fire, staring at the winding and thin tongues of flames climbing up the bamboo cage, waving straw sandals with full ears, and pointing boredly at the broken pine branches and leaves in the fire.

Although the child's body was dirty, his face was washed clean, and his eyes were big and round like apricot stones, like a porcelain doll.He stared blankly at the bonfire, where the passage of time seemed to become slow and insignificant.Although the fire was burning, his hands and feet were as cold as ever.

In the year of Yichou, Ziyue was built, which topped the sky and mountains.This year, the world was in turmoil. The Hou Jin army took Shizikou, and the official army was attacked in Puding, killing and injuring thousands of people.Blasts of wind and snow swept across the country, locust plagues flourished in Quancheng, and moths filled the sky.The Wumeng League was severely injured by a woman named Zuo Buzheng who suddenly appeared in front of the world. Within a year, the General Assembly had been held three times to gather heroes from all over the world to discuss matters.

But the turmoil in the world seems to have nothing to do with this deep mountain and old forest, and the top mountain is silent, imprisoning the mountain ghost in it like a prison.

Someone came out of the deep forest, sat down by the campfire, sat quietly for a long time, got up and left.The disheveled mountain ghosts gathered together, eating shriveled wild fruits, drinking the stolen turbidity, laughing wildly, echoing in the mountains.

In front of the fire, the child looked at the raging flames, and saw faint shadows in the flickering flames.It seemed that someone was sitting across from him, staring at him quietly.

"Hey, who are you?" the child asked.

The shadow moved dimly.

"Why are you looking at me?" The child picked up a stone and threw it into the fire. "Don't look. My aunt's mother's granddaughter's son said that peeping at others is a needle's eye."

The flame seedling swayed for a moment, and the black shadow became thinner, like a light water mist.Is it a human figure, or the shadow of a rock?The child didn't know, he said to himself:

"Who are you? I haven't seen you in the mountains."

"..."

"Why don't you talk? Are you dumb?" the child asked again, tilting his head and thinking for a while, then stretched out his hand towards the campfire, as if he wanted to touch the shadow. "I know, is it because I didn't say hello, you don't want to talk to me?"

He hugged his knees and said to the black shadow in the fire:

"My name is Wang Xiaoyuan."

"One, two, three, four, five this year... um... I can't count my fingers, I don't know how old I am."

"What's your name?"

The black shadow didn't answer, but moved gently with the night wind, as if staring at him.Unexpectedly, the child didn't feel scared, only felt that the shadow was hanging on the top of the tree, like a strip of linen cloth painted with flowers, it looked kind and not scary.

A handsome young man in rough kudzu clothes came out from the darkness, dragged the cattail sandals loosely, and sat down next to the child with a green bamboo stick in his hand.

"What are you thinking? I see you have been here for a long time."

Pointing to a wooden pole on the fire, the child said earnestly, "I was thinking that there should be a fish on a string. It's mine. I don't know who stole it."

Mrs. Wang frowned: "How can there be fish? No, the fish in our mountain streams are only one finger thick, so they can't be strung together."

"That's a roasted suckling pig." The child said.

"Without that kind of thing, I can't get it back if I sell you ten times."

The child turned to look at him, "I still had some just now. You must have stolen them, right, Dad?"

"..." Mrs. Wang was silent for a moment, then thumped his head heavily. "Stupid bastard, you want to lie to me? Do you only have rice in your mind? You eat too much, you have to eat up our mountain!"

The child was in pain from the beating, and hurriedly hugged his head, wrinkled his face, and opened his mouth to cry.The cry was loud and clear, resounding through the valleys in the mountains.Several old men with green bamboo sticks in their waists leaned over and scolded Mrs. Wang: "The head of the house, a child, why are you angry with him?" "The baby is just growing up. , it’s okay to eat more, isn’t it, Xiao Yuan?”

Mrs. Wang spat, and said with a smile: "It's all you old people who dote on this brat and treat him like a pig! He can't do anything, he can only eat wildly, steal chickens and dogs... "

After hearing this, the elders in Evil Man's Ditch were overjoyed: "You already know how to sneak around? This doll really has a bright future!"

So Elder Kuci lifted the child up with his strong arms, threw it high into the air, and then firmly caught it.The elders were overjoyed, chatting around Wang Xiaoyuan:

"Hey, Xiao Yuan, remember that. From now on on the street, don't steal when you see people wearing gold and silver. Those people are all from shabby households, and the jade chains they stole after a lot of effort. The fingers are yellow and golden. They're all fake!"

"If you spot the person who is going to pick up, block him directly in front of him, and let Qian Xian'er pretend to stumble and push from behind, then you will be able to touch the bag in your hand!"

All the elders spit, but Wang Xiaoyuan went in from his left ear and out from the right.While speaking, he had already secretly removed a sackcloth bag from Mrs. Wang, found two moldy cage cakes with dust from inside, swallowed them in one gulp, stuffed her cheeks bulgingly, and kept chewing them.

Mrs. Wang frowned and looked at him, only to see that his eyes were dark, neither red nor dewy at all, how could there be such a crying appearance just now?Wang Xiaoyuan grinned at him, his mouth was full of crumbs of long cakes.

"Good boy, I haven't taught you yet, your mind is already bad!" Mrs. Wang patted his head with a smile, and suddenly gave him another heavy hammer. "I see, you will become a great weapon in the future, and all the 88 elders in our evil man's ditch can't be bad enough for you!"

This punch made Wang Xiaoyuan's head swell, and his eyes were full of stars.Grinning his teeth, he couldn't help poking out half of the oven cake, then immediately picked it up from the ground, stuffed it into his mouth, and asked inarticulately:

"Great device? What is a great device?"

Mrs. Wang said: "The people in the wicked ditch, the more bad they are, the more they are valued. If your mind is so bad that you can break the water if you squeeze it, then you can be the head of the wicked ditch. I think you can do it." Qing...Qing out of blue and better than blue, be the biggest villain ever in our ditch."

"What's so good about being the boss?" Wang Xiaoyuan curled his lips in disgust, "It's because I can't afford to eat, I can't sleep enough, and I'm chased away by the fierce officers and soldiers outside all day long... I don't want to be that!"

"If you become the head of the house, you can eat two buttery sesame cakes every day, which are as big as a palm!" Wang Tai exaggeratedly gestured to him.

Wang Xiaoyuan's eyes lit up immediately: "Father, quickly sleep in the coffin and give me the head of the house!"

In the fifth year of Emperor Xizong's reign, there were famines all over the place, and people died of starvation. It has been three years since Mrs. Wang, the head of the evil man's ditch, brought an unknown son back from the drunk spring garden to raise him.Wang Xiaoyuan was an abandoned baby picked up by Ayi from outside the valley, no one knew his origin.

It's just that from the cloud brocade swaddling the little baby, the mountain ghosts faintly realized that the baby's background was not humble.What's even more surprising is that the baby's body is extremely flexible, and it often goes through narrow holes in the ground, hangs on trees and vines and dangles here and there, and its body can be folded several times.

The mountain ghosts thought about it, and the elders discussed it every night, and finally decided to keep the child.But Mrs. Wang didn't care, she just thought that if this foolish child was sold into the Drunken Spring Garden, he would be squeezed out in a few days, so he simply led Wang Xiaoyuan to wander around the mountains every day.Wang Xiaoyuan followed the mountain ghosts in robbing, stealing, and abducting darts, and he also learned strange skills. Although he looked stupid, he could quietly pick up the belongings of passers-by and stuff them all into his pockets.

At this time, the night was dark on Dingtian Dashan, and the bonfire was burning fiercely.The mountain ghosts quietly surrounded the fire, but all their eyes were on the child in coarse clothes.

Mrs. Wang, who was in charge, was also looking at Wang Xiaoyuan, who was munching on oven cakes. He thought for a moment and suddenly said, "Hey, idiot, do you want to go out with me?"

"Where are you going?" Wang Xiaoyuan raised his face full of cake crumbs, his mouth was still chewing.

"To a place far away. In the past, you wandered around the village at the foot of the mountain with the elders. You have never been outside or taken a boat, have you?"

Mrs. Wang smiled mysteriously at him.

"Father will take you out to see the world, and if you're lucky, I'll kidnap a daughter-in-law for you by the way."

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The last volume!

It's also the last memory~

Sometimes I also feel that it would be bad to insert too many memories, but one of my wishes when writing this article is to bring everything back to the beginning.

So this volume is the story of when Wang Xiaoyuan and Jinwu first met!I will also explain some questions that Da Karma found incredible in the previous article? (^?^*) Thank you for your company