In the poor and backward Wujia Village, it is a tradition for boys to be in charge of the family at an early age. Otherwise, it would be impossible for Wu Fan to enter the Wu family in Xuanlan City at the age of twelve. At the age of nine, the precocious Wu Fan faced the four walls of his family, looked at his two younger sisters, one of whom could not even eat a full meal, and often went into the mountains with the villagers to grab wild fruits and game to survive the famine. It's just that the secular court paid extremely heavy taxes at that time, and even the wild fruits and game obtained needed to pay an inexplicable health tax.

At that time, Wu Fan's parents often lacked physical strength because they did heavy work but did not have enough salt supplements. At that time, it was difficult for ordinary people to afford salt, and Wu Fan picked wild fruits, in addition to taking care of his younger siblings, he also had to find ways to find wild fruits with a lot of salt. There is a kind of wild fruit called salt frost, which is rich in salt needed by the human body, and salt can be seen on the side of the fruit. This wild fruit was the favorite of the people at that time.

And the person looking for this kind of wild fruit is not Wu Fan alone, many people in the same village are looking for this kind of fruit. The rest of the villages will also look for this salt frost. In many cases, there will be large-scale fights between several villages for this.

On this day, Wu Fan and his fellow villagers brought firewood knives, ropes, sticks and other equipment and auxiliary things needed to enter the mountain. And he went to the distant mountains, thirty miles away. In the mountains around Wujia Village, there are some small low mountains, and wild fruits such as salt frost and chicken feet and pears have already been picked. It can only be obtained by looking deep in the mountains and old forests.

At that time, when the operation entered the distant mountains, it was usually the whole village that set off together. This was mainly to prevent a fight with people from another village, but no one could be found for a while. If you act alone, you may be killed by people from other villages.

There are more than 50 people in Wujia Village, many young people, middle-aged people, and a few elderly but tough people, and there are seven or eight children like Wu Fan.

Wu Fan remembered that every time he set off, his younger brothers and sisters would send him to the entrance of the village, and then shouted that his brother would come back early, so they slowly turned around and returned home. And every time he returned after entering the mountain, Wu Fan could see his younger brother and two younger sisters standing under the wall of their own earthen house, their heads always full of hope, and their immature faces were always full of anticipation, expecting his brother to pick a lot of wild fruits. Sometimes they would wait at the entrance of the village, and sometimes they would run to a high place and look far away, hoping that their brother would come back soon.

Wu Fan was on the fragrant cotton bed that day, replaying these past events in his dreams, and tears flowed from the corners of his eyes. The woman called the witch master put her hands on the Tianxiang kapok bed, and Wu Fan replayed everything in her dreams, she was as if she was there, and she could know it clearly. Wu Fan's tears made her mysterious veil also have crystal tears, dripping on the ground that was already formed by wooden planks.

Wu Fan continued to look back at the past in his dream.

On that day, more than 50 people from Wujia Village entered Wuyun Mountain, which was more than 30 miles away from Wujia Village, and then more than 40 people from Wujia Village entered Wuyun Mountain. The people of this Wujia Village are the closest to Wuyun Mountain. Because of its proximity to such tall and deep mountains, the living conditions in Wujia Village are much better. That's what the so-called backing is like this.

The people of Wujia Village were very unhappy to see people from other villages enter Wuyun Mountain. But the secular court did not divide this mountain into which village, the reason for this, ordinary people naturally do not know, but it is rumored that there are lonely souls and wild ghosts in it, which makes the originally tall and far-reaching Wuyun Mountain, but also adds some mystery, and the people of the secular court do not dare to meddle in the affairs of this deep mountain. If it weren't for the fact that there was no way, the villagers around here would not have entered Wuyun Mountain. After all, there are many people who die in Wuyun Mountain, because of the fighting, and because of the factors of ignorance of the situation, etc.

At that time, as soon as Wu Fan and the others entered Wuyun Mountain, they encountered a wild deer. The elders of Wujia Village immediately organized people to round up the wild deer. But the people from Wujia Village also saw it later. The people of the two villages, so there was a fight. Children like Wu Fan usually have to avoid it first. But at this time, Wu Fan saw that there were a few girls about the same size as himself in Wujia Village who followed the people of Wujia Village into the mountain. At this moment, he did not immediately dodge, and was already in the midst of the scuffle.

In the beginning, adults on both sides will generally take care of each other's children, and will bypass the children to deal with each other's adults. But once the fight is red-eyed, he doesn't care whether the other party is a child or not, and the firewood knife and stick beckons to the other party.

A middle-aged man from Wujia Village walked away a little because he took care of the other party's children, but he was cut by a young man in Wujia Village with a firewood knife, and the middle-aged uncle in Wujia Village was in pain when he was chopped, and immediately stabbed him with a stick. At this moment, the young man in Wujia Village picked up an axe in his left hand and slashed down like that. The direction of the split was originally aimed at the middle-aged man in Wujia Village, but the middle-aged man avoided it to the side. The young man slashed at the girl with his axe.

Wu Fan, who was still a child, didn't care about anything, just rushed over like that and knocked down the girl. The young man was also shocked, but it was too late to put away his axe, the middle-aged uncle in Wujia Village saw this, and directly stretched out his hand to block it, and a large piece of meat was chopped off in his entire right hand, the axe fell and the force of the axe was weakened, and the direction was also deviated, the axe turned, and the blunt end knocked on Wu Fan's back.

The people of the two villages stopped fighting because of this, as long as the young man's strength was a little stronger just now, the uncle of Wujia Village couldn't stop anything when he reached out, Wu Fan's heart would definitely be hit by an axe, and it was difficult to say whether he had his life at this moment. The adults on both sides breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, and put aside the weapons fighting in the past, and generally only divided a victory or defeat, if it were not for the battle of such big things as wild boars, they would generally not have killed people.

In particular, both sides will generally form a wordless agreement not to hurt the children of each other, and when fighting, the adults will order the children brought to stay away first, even if the fighting fails, the winning side will not target the other party's children. If someone from one village would attack a child, then that person would be hacked to death by someone from his own village without being cut down by someone from another village.

Despite the hardships of life, despite the fact that fighting can kill people. But children can't move, children are their hope.

Because Wu Fan took the risk to save the girl in Wujia Village, an old man with white hair but full of energy in Wujia Village came over, picked up Wu Fan and massaged him behind his back, and then said to the people of Wujia Village: "In the future, we in Wujia Village must not be enemies with the people of Wujia Village." We can be allies. The old man looked at Wujia Village. The person who spoke here in Wujia Village looked at the bleeding hands of the middle-aged man in his village. The old man of Wujia Village said: "This deer belongs to you, this old brother, until our Wujia Village is healed." ”

The person who spoke in Wujia Village looked back at some of the older people in Wujia Village, and when he saw that everyone had no opinion, he said loudly: "We, Wujia Village, agree to be an ally with you. ”

"Okay!" the two sides swore an oath, a simple agreement, but it was permanent, and the people at that time were very honest.