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"Why do you say that?" Jiang Feng had heard this for the second time today.

"What kind of martial arts am I......"

"It's just a little basic skill that I learned from the master in the village since I was a child."

"Only those with good qualifications will be selected by those who are very powerful, and it is possible to learn martial arts." Ah Qing said helplessly, his expression was a little resentful, as if he was a little unconvinced.

"Hehe......"

"Those very powerful people are the people in Cloud Mountain, right?" Jiang Feng asked.

"Huh? Do you know Cloud Mountain? Oh...... It seems that grandpa told you. Ah Qing was obviously a little surprised.

"That's them! Every five years, the big masters would come down to the village to pick up qualified children, but I was not selected twice. ”

"They all said I was too poor." Speaking of this, Ah Qing looked a little lonely.

"Oh......"

"Poor qualifications?" I don't know what those people are based on to judge a person's qualifications, but Jiang Feng thinks Ah Qing is very good.

Looking at the little girl beside her, her fingertips rubbed together, and her mood seemed a little low.

"It's okay if you don't pick it, it's actually very hard to practice martial arts, and it's nothing to be an ordinary person." Jiang Feng could only say comfortingly.

"Why is there nothing ......" Ah Qing stood up with a serious expression.

"You haven't seen them, you don't know how powerful they are, the time I saw that big master, there were three or four feet tall when I jumped casually! Just jump at will, and you'll be five or six feet away! Ah Qing said with a yearning expression, "I heard that those people have a much longer lifespan than us!" ”

"Yes......" Jiang Feng pursed his lips, "Then do all the children in your village have to practice martial arts?" ”

"Hmmm! Everyone wants to be chosen by those people, and who doesn't want to be a little more powerful. ”

"It would be great if I could go out like those amazing people, and I want to see the outside world." Ah Qing said quietly.

"Big brother, can you tell me about the things outside?" Ah Qing's eyes widened, very curious.

Jiang Feng shook his head with a wry smile, and swallowed the words when they came to his mouth, human beings are full of curiosity about unknown things, Jiang Feng understands it very well, but he doesn't know that the outside world is not as beautiful as he imagined.

A little girl like Ah Qing, who doesn't care about the world, goes to the outside world and is sure to be eaten to the bone.

"Grandpa!" Ah Qing suddenly stood up and shouted.

Jiang Feng turned around, it was Ah Qing's grandfather who came back.

He was dressed in a garment and holding in his hand something wrapped in lotus leaves.

Jiang Feng asked with a faint smell of blood.

When the old man's gaze fell on Jiang Feng, his expression was a little unnatural, and then he quickly looked away.

"Those boys in the village have a good harvest today, hit a wild boar, Ah Qing, stew some soup for this young man tonight to make up for his body." After the old man finished speaking, he gave Ah Qing the things in his hand, turned around and went back to the room on the far right.

Ah Qing caught it, and there were two pig's trotters in the lotus leaf, and Ah Qing couldn't help but feel a little happy on his face, "Big brother, you are so lucky, you can't catch game in the village every day." ”

"Huh!" Jiang Feng smiled lightly, but he had some doubts in his heart.

Ever since he told Grandpa A Qing that he was leaving, his expression on his face had always been a little unnatural, what the hell was going on, Jiang Feng was also a little puzzled.

"Big brother, you sit here for a while, I'll go and clean up these two pigs' trotters!" Ah Qing showed a sweet smile towards Jiang Feng, and then ran to the back of the house.

After Ah Qing left, Jiang Feng stood up and took a good look at the place.

Three wooden houses, a small courtyard, surrounded by simple mud walls, are really a little simple.

Jiang Feng walked towards the room on the far right.

The old man sat on a small stool, his hands were busy, as if weaving...... A pair of straw sandals, looking at the bamboo strips and grass roots piled up next to it, maybe the old man made a living by weaving shoes.

After Jiang Feng came in, the old man didn't raise his head.

"Old man......" Jiang Feng shouted.

"Huh?" The old man bowed his head and answered.

"Are you hiding something from me?" Jiang Feng asked.

"No ......" the old man lowered his head and continued to be busy with his own business.

"Oh, then I'll go ask A-Qing." Jiang Feng said lightly.

The movement in the old man's hand paused, raised his head to look at Jiang Feng, and did not speak for a long time.

Jiang Feng waited patiently.

The old man put down the pair of unwoven straw sandals in his hand, took the cigarette stick and a bag of tobacco leaves from his waist, tossed it for a while, lit it, and took a hard puff.

"Lad......"

"My name is Jiang Feng!" Jiang Feng said politely.

"Oh, Jiang Feng!" The old man nodded.

"I'll ask you first."

"You're not an ordinary person, are you?" The old man stared at Jiang Feng and asked.

"What do you mean?" Jiang Feng was stunned.

"When we found you, you were lying by the river, and you didn't see any boats, not even a plank, and you were soaked."

"As you said, you were swept here by the river."

"Not to mention the turbulence of the river at the entrance of Daxi Village, it is that length, but there is no end in sight! Let's ask, how can an ordinary person be washed here by the river and still survive? ”

"And when we were bathing you, we saw the shocking wounds on your limbs, such serious injuries actually recovered in just three days."

"Could this be an ordinary person?"

"So, you should be the same as those people in Cloud Mountain."

"Definitely martial arts, right?" The old man said.

"Uh......"

"Then you may have guessed wrong, I'm just a little better physically than ordinary people!" Jiang Feng pouted and said, although he could defeat Master Zhao and kill the mysterious old man, he was fighting through instinct, and he didn't have any specific martial arts moves or anything.

"Is that so?!" The old man couldn't help but be stunned, and there were some doubts in his heart, "That's a little strange!" ”

The old man thought for a moment, then continued:

"Our Daxi Village is not big or small, with a population of dozens of families, but if you go to the village, you will find that almost all the people in the village are elderly, children and women at home, and there are no young and middle-aged people at all."

"Why?" Jiang Feng couldn't help but ask with some curiosity.

"The people in Yunwu Mountain will select some children with good qualifications to go up the mountain to learn martial arts as disciples, and not only that, but they will also select some young people to help with the work."

"After all, they also have to eat and dress!"

"They are delicate, and these things can only be done by the next people! Most of these young men are able-bodied men. ”

"Isn't the man who was chosen to break up his wife?" Jiang Feng couldn't help but interrupt the old man and asked with a frown.

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(End of chapter)