There is a “General Slope” in Yanhui City, a border town. The name is majestic. In fact, it is a small bump, with a long neck and a glance at the top of the slope.
General Po is not always there. Legend has it that fourteen years ago, the first iron cavalry and black iron three camps in Daliang were on a northern expedition, and the eighteen tribes of barbarians were swept away. , it became a hill on the spot, and later it became a general **** due to the sand and dust and the wind and rain.
General Slope is a barren slope, nothing grows, even weeds are lacking, and there is no cover for cheating. The old people all said that this was because the Xuan Tie Ying was too slaughtered, and the hostility was overwhelming. After a long time, some gangsters who have nothing to do have used this as a prototype and arranged a series of legends about the haunted borders. As time goes by, no one will go there.
This evening, two teenage boys ran to the foot of General Slope.
The two, a thin tall bar and a short fat man, together look like a pair of running bowls and chopsticks.
The one with the slender and tall strips is dressed as a little girl. You have to look carefully to know that it is a boy, and her nickname is Cao Niangzi, because the fortune-teller said that he was born as a woman, and if he gave birth to the wrong child, I am afraid God will give it to him. When he was called back to vote again, the family was worried that he would not live long, so he kept raising him as a daughter.
The chubby one is the youngest son of Butcher Ge, nicknamed Ge Pang Xiao, who lives up to his name, and his whole body is covered with a layer of rich oil.
The two of them looked at Jiangjunpo together, but because of the haunted legend, no one dared to approach.
Pang Ge held a copper-clad “clairvoyant” in his hands, stretched his neck and looked in the direction of Jiangjunpo, and muttered: “You said that the sun has set, and I won’t go down the mountain, my eldest brother is really …what’s that called – Hanging Bigu!”
Cao Niangzi: “That’s called hanging beam thorns, don’t talk nonsense, give me your clairvoyance.”
This fake girl often does fake dramas, but unfortunately there is a problem with the real direction. She is not like a lady, but like a shrew. She especially likes to pinch people by waving a pair of chicken claws.
As soon as he stretched out his hand, Fatty Ge’s fat body was aching faintly, and he hurriedly handed over his clairvoyant, exhorting: “You can be careful, if it breaks, my father will definitely make me into a pie filling. .”
The so-called “clairvoyant” is a small round bronze poke with “five bats” carved around it. Inside is a piece of glass that is transparent like nothing.
Pang Xiao Ge is extra delicate. It was left by his grandfather who was a scout.
Cao Niangzi held it fresh in her hand for a long time, then raised it to look at the stars: “It’s really clear.”
Ge Pangxiao followed his gaze and pointed, “I know, that one is called Evening Star, also called ‘Chang Geng’, the same name as my eldest brother, Mr. Shen taught it, I remember it.”
Cao Niangzi pouted: “Who is ‘your eldest brother’? Do you think people care about you, shyly chasing people and insisting on acknowledging your eldest brother, seeing you as cheap…Hey, wait, what do you think is that? Not him?”
Ge Fatty looked in the direction of his finger, and it was true.
I saw a young man holding a sword, lowered his head, and slowly walked down the General Slope. Ge Pangxiao immediately seemed to be no longer afraid of being haunted, and rushed out like a land mine: “Big brother, big brother !”
He ran too fast, tripped over something at the foot of General Po, and rolled out grumblingly, right at the boy’s feet.
Pang Ge raised his head sullenly, didn’t care to get up, first showed a smirk flatteringly, and grinned, “Hey, big brother, I’ve been waiting for you here all day.”
The boy named Chang Geng silently retracted and almost stepped on Ge Fatty’s foot.
Every time he saw Ge Pangxiao, he felt amazing in his heart, thinking that the butcher Ge, who had killed thousands of pigs, was born with sharp eyes. After so many years, he didn’t treat his son as a pig. However, Chang Geng has a stable personality, and his mouth is very virtuous. No matter what he thinks in his heart, he does not say hurtful words.
Chang Geng stretched out his hand like a big brother to support Ge Pangxiao, and then patted the floating soil on his body: “What are you running, pay attention to the broken, can you ask me for something?”
Pang Xiao Ge: “Brother Chang Geng, your father and the others will be back tomorrow. We are not going to class. Why don’t you go grab goose food with us? You will definitely beat Li Xiaomonkey and the others to the brink of shit!”
Chang Geng’s father is Xu Baihu – not his biological father.
When he was two or three years old, Chang Geng came here to join his relatives with his widowed mother Xiuniang. Who would have thought that the relatives had already moved away with his family and ran away. It happened that Yanhui’s officer and soldier Xu Baihu’s original spouse died early, and he had no children or daughters. He fell in love with Xiuniang and married her back to fill the house.
Xu Baihu took people out of the customs and went to collect the tributes from the barbarians. In total, these two days are most likely to return to the city.
The border town is very hard, and children don’t have any snacks. Every time the soldiers return from paying tribute, they will bring some barbarian cheese and jerky along the way to the roadside, often attracting urchins to scramble for it. This is called “grabbing wild goose”. Food”.
Since it’s “robbing”, a bunch of brats will inevitably fight. As long as the fight is not bad, the adults don’t care.
Anyone who can get Chang Geng to join in this kind of thing will be invincible.
Chang Geng has been meticulous in martial arts since he was a child – there are many military households in the border areas, and there are not a few children who practice martial arts, but they have to endure hardships to practice kung fu. From the day he learned swordsmanship, he went up to General Po to practice swordsmanship alone every day.
Nowadays, Chang Geng is under the age of fourteen, and he can lift a heavy sword of more than 60 kilograms with one hand. Although he knows that he has never participated in urchin fights, those little cubs are inexplicably a little afraid of him.
Chang Geng didn’t take it to heart, he smiled and said, “How old am I, what kind of goose food do I pick up?”
Pang Ge is unyielding and said: “I have already agreed with Mr. Shen, and Mr. Shen has also nodded. We will be on leave for the past few days.”
Chang Geng walked slowly with his hands on his back, his epee hit his calf at once, ignoring Ge Fatty’s children’s words.
Whether he read or not, and whether he practiced swordsmanship is up to him. It doesn’t matter if he takes a vacation or not.
Pang Xiao: “Besides, Mr. Shen said that he wants to change the medicine for Uncle Sixteen. He may have to go out to buy herbal medicine these days, and he is not at home. You have nowhere to go, so just go with us. What’s the fun in practicing swords all day?”
This sentence finally came to Chang Geng’s heart. He paused and asked, “Didn’t Shili just come back from Changyang Pass, why is he sick again?”
Ge Fat Xiao: “Ah… it seems, he has never been better.”
“Then I’ll take a look at him,” Chang Geng waved at the two little scumbags, “Go home soon, it’s getting late, your father will beat you up again if you miss the meal time.”
Pang Xiao Ge: “Hey, big brother, that…”
Chang Geng is not interested in listening to him “this” and “that” endlessly. The boy’s age is one year older and he is a year older. He is very different in size and thinking. .
Relying on his tall legs and long legs, he has already walked away in a blink of an eye.
The little fat man ran for nothing, but he didn’t invite anyone. He sighed in disappointment and looked back at Mrs. Cao: “You should say something!”
Ms. Cao’s face was flushed and her eyes were erratic. The appearance of arguing against Fatty Ge and Xiaoyi just now disappeared. The girl clutched her chest like a spring: “My elder brother Chang Geng looks better than others when he walks.”
Ge Fat Xiao: “…”
Can’t bring this world treasure out anymore.
The “Mr. Shen” and “Uncle Sixteen” mentioned by Ge Fatxiao are brothers, and they have quite a relationship with Chang Geng.
Two years ago, when Chang Geng was still young, he slipped out of the city gate to play alone. He accidentally got lost and encountered a pack of wolves. He was almost carried away. Fortunately, the Shen brothers traveled here.
Mr. Shen drove away the hungry wolf with medicinal powder and saved his life. The two brothers later lived in the mayor of Yanhui Town, and Xu Baihu rented an empty yard of his house to them, thanking them for saving their lives, and did not charge rent.
The elder brother’s name is Shen Yi. He is a failed scholar. Although he is young, he has no desire for an official career. He has become a hermit in a place where birds don’t shit, and the neighbors are polite. Calling him “Mr. Shen” angrily.
In addition to being a hermit, Mr. Shen also serves as a doctor, a ghostwriter for letters and couplets, Mr. Xixi, and a “long-armed master”. Running a private school, teaching a bunch of teenagers to read and write, and sending the students away at night, they can roll up their sleeves to repair steam lighters, steel armors, and various puppets, and subsidize the family.
Mr. Shen can do everything, he can make money and take care of his family. He is also a good cook with fire. Six”, I heard that I was in poor health since I was a child, and I was afraid that my family would not be able to raise them well, so I didn’t give a large size. Because I was born on the sixteenth of the first month, I took the name “Sixteen”.
Shen Shiliu neither read nor work all day long. He didn’t know how to help the oil bottle when he poured it. A little advantage.
Except for good looks.
He looks really good. The old birthday star in the town personally identified him and said that he lived to be almost ninety years old, and he had never seen such a neat man.
It’s a pity that no matter how good it is, it’s useless–Shen Shiliu suffered from a serious illness when he was a child. He was burned out, and his eyes could see things two feet away, and even ten paces away, he couldn’t even tell the difference between male and female. . He was still deaf, and he had to shout anything to say anything to him. Every day when he passed by the door of Shen’s house, he could hear the gentle and elegant Mr. Shen barking at him like a mad dog through the courtyard wall.
All in all, Shen Shiliu is deaf and blind.
According to his conditions, he should have been a blessed little white face, but unfortunately in this border town, apart from poor ghosts, there are poor gods.
According to local customs, when the great kindness and virtue cannot be repaid, they will recognize their relatives, those who have children and grandchildren, and those who do not have children and grandchildren.
The Shen brothers saved Chang Geng from the wolf’s mouth.
Mr. Shen’s reading has ruined his brain. He insisted that it was unreasonable and legal, but he didn’t dare to bear it. On the contrary, his brother, Sixteenth Master, was happy and called out “son” on the spot.
In this way, Shen Shiliu’s **** took a huge advantage – if this idle and sickly seedling becomes poor in the future, Chang Geng will have to give him old age and death.
Chang Geng walked through his yard with ease, turned out the corner door, and arrived at Mr. Shen’s house.
There are two bachelors in the Shen family, and they don’t even have a hen. Naturally, there is no need to shy away from anyone.
As soon as I entered the yard, the smell of medicine and the sound of a gossamer-like Xun rushed to my face.
Mr. Shen is frowning and cooking medicine in the courtyard. He is a young scholar with the appearance of a scholar. He wears an old long gown. He is not old, but he always frowns.
The sound of xun came from the house. The slender figure of the man blowing the xun was hit by the dim light on the paper window. It was obviously not good at the level. No sound, the whole passage is hoarse and hoarse, bringing out a strange desolation and exhaustion.
It might be a bit far-fetched to say that this is music. Chang Geng turned his ears to taste it, and felt that if he had to praise it, it would only be said that he was very tactful.
Shen Yi heard the footsteps, smiled at Chang Geng, and then shouted at the back room: “Ancestor, be merciful, you will blow your urine out, Chang Geng is here!”
The one who blows the xun is deaf. With his ear, he may not really hear it.
Mr. Shen looked disheveled.
Chang Geng felt that the person blowing Xun was still full of anger, and he didn’t seem to be sick, so he put his mind half at ease and asked, “I heard that Mr. Ge Fat Novel wants to change the medicine for Shili, what’s wrong with him?”
Mr. Shen looked at the quality of the medicinal soup, and said in a bad mood: “It’s nothing, it’s just a change of season, and the medicines are different at four seasons. This sick seedling is delicate and difficult to treat – yes, you came just right, he doesn’t know what to do today. Where did you get something, and I want to send it to you early tomorrow morning, go and have a look.”