Early autumn in the mountains is exceptionally cold. The sky has not yet shown its outline, and a glimmer of dawn appears in the fog and shadow of the eastern sky, and the dense chirping of autumn insects like rain continues to be heard among the mountains and grasses of the reckless mountains.

As the dawn gradually brightens, a waning moon has set down the treetops, and the crisp birdsong gradually resounded in the mountains and forests.

Suddenly, two small black shadows swooped down from the cliff beside the valley like meteors, and a small leopard the size of a cat covered with yellow and black stripes, and a little boy of fourteen or five years old with a childish face, with a small bow and arrow hanging from his body, and a small scimitar peculiar to the mountains pinned to his waist.

"Good", with a vigorous shout, the flying little leopard suddenly stopped, and the boy behind made a leap, climbed onto a big willow tree 3 or 4 meters high next to the leopard, stood on a dangling willow and rose and fell with the willow, and shouted "grandpa" in his mouth.

An old man with a face full of vicissitudes slowly stood up from the hillside, "Wanlin, let grandpa see your archery skills", said a handful of gravel in his hand and threw it into a bush 30 meters away, and an unknown bird chirped from the bushes.

"Bang bang bang" A few bowstrings sounded, and 3 birds have landed in response.

"There is progress!" With the cheers, the old man threw out another handful of gravel in his hand, and 7 or 8 small birds followed, "Go pick up the birds, clean them up and pickle them, and we will go back to study." "Okay, you'll want to give me some more pointers in a moment, I can only hit two or three with a single gravel now," the child cried cheerfully, and burrowed into the bushes like lightning.

The vast mist in the mountains faded away with a sudden burst of sunlight. The grandfather and grandson followed the little leopard and slowly walked towards the thatched hut halfway up the mountain. Suddenly, the little leopard let out a short low roar, and the old man flashed behind a thick pine tree when he heard the sound, and Wan Lin took a leap and jumped on the branch more than 2 meters high, and the little leopard lay down at the feet of the old man.

"See what?" The old man asked in a low voice, "The woods on the left are shaking violently, as if large animals are fighting" Wan Lin replied in a low voice, "Take Xiaohua over to see" The old man commanded in a low voice. As he spoke, Wan Lin took the small flower and rushed from the tree to the mountain forest on the left like an arrow from the string.

As soon as they approached the forest, they heard two gunshots, followed by a terrible howl.

Wan Lin "swished" behind the tree, and took off the bow and arrow on his back. Then slowly touch the woods.

In the clearing of the forest, a big man in a green camouflage uniform held a dagger in his left hand and a pistol in his right hand, leaning against a tree with a pale face, and one lying at his feet

The wolf with blood on his neck was lying on his back, and there were two on his back more than three meters in front of him. Three big wolves about one meter long were distributed around the big tree, staring at the big man fiercely.

The big man's body leaning against the tree shook slightly, and the hand holding the gun shook slightly. "Hurt? Don't you see any wounds on him? Wan Lin thought to himself.

Suddenly, the big wolf in front of the big man opened his mouth and pounced on the big man, Wan Lin didn't have time to think about it, raised his hand and shot an arrow, and the little flower at his feet also pounced.

The shaft of the arrow was deeply inserted into the neck of the big wolf, and the big wolf screamed and fell to the side. At this time, the little leopard had jumped up from four or five meters away and pounced on the back of the other wolf, its right paw tightly clasped on the side of its neck, and its eyes suddenly stared at the other one with blue light.

The evil wolf who was stared at by the blue light retreated again and again, wanting to run but not daring, looking at the little leopard squatting on the back of his companion with fearful eyes. The big wolf, restrained by the leopard, trembled and lay on the ground, staring at his companion as if he was crying for help.

Wan Lin glanced at the big wolf under the little leopard, and saw that its belly was bulging, and it was estimated that it was a pregnant she-wolf. He waved at the little leopard, who jumped off the she-wolf and threw his head back and roared. The two big wolves let out a low howl of relief, turned and burrowed into the dense mountain forest.

Wan Lin turned his head to look at the big man, only to see that he was sitting crooked under the tree, his head hanging down on his chest and unconscious, and his pistol and dagger scattered on the grass.

Wan Lin hurriedly ran over and picked up the dagger and pistol and inserted them in his waist, and then carefully observed the big man, and saw that he had no scars on his body, and he was wondering in his heart, the little leopard on the side suddenly stretched out his right paw and shook the big man's left leg, Wan Lin quickly reached out and pulled up the big man's trouser leg, and sure enough, he found that there was a small triangular hole in the right calf that was bleeding out.

"I was bitten by a snake. Xiaohua, save him" Wan Lin pointed to the injury, Xiaohua lowered her head and stuck out her tongue to lick the wound of the big man.

After a while, seeing that the big man's tightly knit brows seemed to stretch a little, Wan Lin leaned over and easily picked up the big man of one hundred and sixty or seventy pounds and ran out of the forest.

"Grandpa, a soldier, was bitten by a snake. It's quite powerful, I was bitten by a snake and killed three wolves," Wan Lin, who ran quickly to the front of the house, shouted at his grandfather. The old man standing in front of the house took the big man and put him on the kang in the house. Then I took a closer look, and saw that the big man lying on the kang was a colonel wearing a camouflage uniform and two three-star strips on his shoulders, with a painful expression on his face.

"Bitten by the white snake" Grandpa looked at his wound, took out the knife on his waist and drew a small cross on the wound of the big man, carefully squeezed out the poisonous blood, and then took out a small green bamboo tube from the small bamboo basket on the kang head, and poured the white powder in the tube on the wound of the soldier. "It's okay, Xiaohua has already licked him," Wan Lin said beside him.

After taking the medicine, the grandfather and grandson quietly looked at the soldier lying on the kang, only to see that he had a Chinese face, thick eyebrows upturned, and a resolute look on his face. "Give him some water," Grandpa frowned and ordered Wan Lin.

As soon as the words fell, the soldiers on the kang suddenly let out a low moan. "He's awake," Wan Lin shouted. When the soldier opens his eyes, he turns over and is about to sit up. "Don't move, you've been bitten by a snake" Wan Lin hurriedly supported the soldier.

The soldier looked at the grandparents and grandchildren, and then looked at the surroundings. I saw that the furnishings in the house were very simple, only some ordinary daily necessities, and the only eye-catching thing was a large antique bookshelf standing against the wall, which was full of rows of wire-bound books.

"Where did you come from, and why did you come to this deep mountain forest?" Grandpa glanced at the pistol and dagger that Wan Lin put aside with a dark face, and asked in a low voice. "I'm looking for Mr. Wan Hong, I'm Wan Ming's comrade-in-arms," the soldier replied weakly.

Hearing the soldier's answer, the old man's body shook, his squinted eyes suddenly shot out a ray of light, he looked at the soldier without saying a word, stared at the soldier tightly for a while, and then slowly said, "You can rest for a while", turned around and walked out of the thatched hut after speaking.

Wan Lin felt the dullness of the air, got up and poured a bowl of water and put it next to the soldier, "Uncle, drink some water", and also turned around and came outside the house.

Grandpa held a long dry tobacco pouch in his hand, sat on a small bamboo bench in the courtyard, and smoked dry tobacco one after another, and the hand holding the tobacco pouch was trembling slightly.

"Ahem," two slight coughs came from the doorway. "Hey, why are you up" Wan Lin hurriedly ran over to support the soldier. The soldier stroked the top of Wan Lin's head with his hand, "You are Wan Lin, right?" "How do you know my name," Wan Lin said in surprise.

"I'm your father's comrade-in-arms, and my name is Li Dongsheng," the soldier said. Then look at the old man

"You're Mr. Wan Hong, right?" After speaking, he didn't wait for the old man to answer, and put his heels together and gave the old man a standard military salute.

Seeing the soldiers saluting, the old man slowly stood up, looked directly at Li Dongsheng with his eyes, and asked slowly, "Is he gone?" ”

Hearing the old man's question, Li Dongsheng burst into tears in his eyes, and choked up: "Report to the old man, entrusted by Wan Ming before his death, Li Dongsheng came to see you and Wan Lin."

Hearing Li Dongsheng's words, the old man's body shook for a moment, his eyes gradually dimmed, and he slowly sat down on the bamboo bench. Wan Lin looked at Li Dongsheng blankly.

Wan Lin has no impression of his father and mother. Since he was sensible, only his grandfather has relied on him for his life. I only remember that my grandfather would knock him up with a thin bamboo every day before dawn, and let him practice standing piles, luck and some unknown movements; After practicing, I have to follow my grandfather to learn to read and memorize; At night, his grandfather forced him to lie down in a large wooden basin with the pungent smell of medicine.

Year after year, day after day, in addition to practicing and reading every day, Xiao Wanlin spent the rest of his time hunting with the little leopard all over the mountains. In order to keep up with the speed of the little leopard, Wan Lin used the family hand-me-down method to practice as fast as the little leopard, and now even his grandfather can't keep up with his speed.

When he was hunting, his grandfather instructed him to use his family kung fu to engage in hand-to-hand combat with large animals such as leopards, big black bears, and wild boars. Now fifteen years old, he can subdue a large wild boar of more than 100 pounds with fangs with his bare hands, and directly confront the big leopard with his bare hands and be unscathed.

But in the past ten years, grandpa has never mentioned his father and mother to him. Whenever his grandfather took him out of the mountains to exchange mountain goods and animal skins for daily necessities, when he saw that children of the same age as him had fathers and mothers around him, he always pestered his grandfather to ask his parents, and every time he was reprimanded harshly.

"Sit down," Grandpa pointed to the small bamboo bench in the courtyard and said slowly to the soldiers.

"This is a letter and relics that Wan Ming asked me to hand over to you before his death," the soldier took out a letter and a small cloth bag soaked in blood from the small bag he was carrying on his waist.

The old man slowly opened the letter: "Father: If this letter reaches you, it means that the unfilial son is no longer alive. Please forgive your son for his unfilial piety. ”

"Since the great change in the family thirteen years ago, after my son killed all the brutes, he directly followed the soldiers who worked with his son to eliminate the brutes without saying goodbye. Because I know that the ancestral training of my family is that I can't go out of the mountains to join the army for the rest of my life, and I can't hurt people with my family's martial arts. But I have a shocking kung fu, but I can't even protect my wife, am I still a man who stands up to the sky? I swore at the time: I must kill the bastards who hurt Lin Er's mother! Otherwise, I will never go home to see you old."

"Li Dongsheng is a brother who was born and died with me, and we are both comrades-in-arms of the Special Brigade of the K Military Region, and he is the captain of the brigade. I entrusted you and Lin Er to him. ”

"In addition, Lin Er is not small, now that the times have changed, our Lin family has a peerless martial arts, and it is time to go out of the mountain to do something for the country. I hope you can let Elder Li Dongsheng take Lin Er away, so that he can use our Lin family's kung fu to serve the country. ”

Child's masterpiece".

After reading the letter, the old man trembled and opened the small cloth bag with blood, which contained a thick stack of meritorious service certificates, one special meritorious service, two first-class meritorious service certificates, and a thick stack of second- and third-class meritorious service certificates, as well as a passbook.

Colonel Li looked at the old man with tearful eyes and said: "Wan Ming has not disgraced you, he was the deputy captain of our special forces brigade lieutenant colonel and deputy captain during his lifetime, and he died honorably in order to save his comrades in the latest battle with foreign terrorists. These are the honors he received with his blood and life, and they are the highest rewards that the state has given him. He used your Lin family's martial arts to train an invincible special forces for the motherland. On behalf of all the officers and men of the Special Operations Brigade, I salute you," he stood up abruptly and gave a solemn military salute to the old man.