When Shu Guan walked out of the kitchen, he saw the peach wood sword in the old cripple's hand.
"Today is your birthday, Mazi. I will make you a sword this year."
The old lame man grinned, his old face wrinkled like a happy chrysanthemum, and there was a little pride that you didn't expect, either surprising or unexpected.
The kind of little pride that an honest person takes in teasing others occasionally.
...No wonder there are a few extra dishes today, it turns out to be my birthday...
Shuguan's birthday refers to the day when he was picked up from the creek by the old lame man.
However, there is no time in the mountains, and the villagers in Taoyuan Village use the lunar calendar, so Shuguan doesn't remember his birthday at all in this era.
But the old cripple never forgot.
Every year on this day, the old cripple would make a toy for Shu Guan.
Just looking at the two-foot-long mahogany sword tailor-made for him, Shu Guan felt a headache.
I really don't like these things...
Including the centipede kite you made for me last year, and the little wooden horse you made for me the year before that.
I don't want to play at all...
However, Shu Guan's face immediately showed a surprised and unexpected smile.
"Thank you, grandpa."
He couldn't wait to cheer and took the wooden sword from the old cripple's hand.
He was making him happy.
He was also making him happy.
In order to show his excitement and make the old lame man happier, Shu Guan deliberately waved his wooden sword a few times in a pretended manner, and also let out a few hums and shouts.
He learned it based on the moves he often saw in movies and TV shows in his previous life. First he did a few Japanese swordsmanship chops, and then he did a few Tai Chi sword moves.
In this life, he has been working in the fields or collecting herbs and hunting in the mountains and forests since he was a child. Shuguan's body is quite strong, and his movements are quite impressive and impressive.
Unexpectedly, the old cripple sitting on the stone bench and smoking a cigarette started laughing.
"How can you play with a sword like this? No, no."
Shu Guan was startled for a moment, then looked at the old lame man in astonishment with his wooden sword.
The old cripple who was sitting on the stone bench smoking put the cigarette rod in his belt, limped to Shu Guan, and took the peach wood sword from Shu Guan's hand.
Then, the smile on the old cripple's face slowly disappeared, and every wrinkle became still. It was as deep as the cracks left by countless years of wind and rain on the cliffs outside the village. His expression was dull and serious.
Then the old cripple slowly closed his eyes.
Shu Guan, who was standing nearby, suddenly felt his heart skip a beat.
At this moment, Shu Guan felt that the old cripple's temperament had changed, and the atmosphere in the courtyard had also changed.
He couldn't describe the feeling, but he just felt that something was different.
Shu Guan's eyes lit up slightly.
Could it be... finally...
Although he broke his leg when he was two years and eight months old, Shu Guan believed that the old cripple was really just an ordinary old man.
But deep down in my heart, there is always a glimmer of hope or luck.
As for the reason, Shu Guan always felt that he should not just travel through time in vain and spend a pale and boring life in a cage-like mountain village. This is not a time traveler's script at all!
In addition, after learning about the old cripple's past, Shu Guan found that the old cripple who raised him was difficult to explain with the simple word "genius".
Could it be that... the old lame man was really the out-of-this-world expert he had guessed when he first saw him?
That time when I was a child, I didn't save myself because I was sure that my life would not be in danger.
And now, after several years of getting along with each other, observing and testing, he is finally going to reveal his true strength and appearance in front of him?
Shu Guan, who had read too many online articles in his previous life, suddenly had this thought flashing through his mind.
At this moment, the old cripple finally opened his eyes.
Then he made a move.
The old cripple was hunched over, his legs that could only move normally were slightly half-bent, his shoulders were high, his left arm was raised awkwardly behind his back, and his right hand was holding a wooden sword, stabbing diagonally from bottom to top.
This is a very weird and funny gesture.
If I had to describe it, it was like a stupid old goose that was suddenly frightened by the thunder in the sky and spread its wings and raised its neck.
Shu Guan sighed in his heart.
...It turns out that it was an illusion...
The old lame man then made several weird moves that made people laugh and cry. At a certain moment, when he seemed ready to jump up from where he was, he almost fell to the ground because his normal leg was pinned by the lame leg.
Fortunately, Shu Guan reacted quickly and stepped forward to help the old cripple.
Perhaps when the old lame man was young, he really killed a four hundred kilogram wild boar by himself, but he is old after all now.
The old cripple took a few breaths. The few movements just now seemed to have consumed a lot of energy on his part.
"I think swords should be used this way."
The old cripple returned the peach wood sword to Shu Guan, and at the same time said this to Shu Guan in a casual and matter-of-fact tone.
Shu Guan nodded in agreement, helped the old cripple sit on a stone bench, and gave the old lame man a beating on his back and a squeeze on his shoulders.
When the moon finally rose from behind the towering cliff, shining its silvery moonlight into this isolated mountain village and into the small courtyard where an old man and a young man sat, the old lame man who was used to going to bed early, I went back to my room first.
Shu Guan still sat alone in the yard for a while.
He looked up at the moon, which was no different from his previous life, except that it was at different times in the course of time, and he still felt a little bit unwilling in his heart.
Shu Guan, who had just celebrated his tenth birthday, had not yet accepted his fate.
So after looking at the moon for a while, he took the birthday gift from the old cripple today, sneaked out of the small courtyard, and went to have a fight with the four tigers of the Wang family.
Naturally, he used the "sword skills" that the old lame man had demonstrated.
Soon after, Shuguan returned home with a bruised nose and face after being beaten.
Although Shu Guan was much stronger than himself at the same age in his previous life, Wang Dahu was also a child who grew up in the mountains and was two years older than Shu Guan. At the same time, he had three brothers who were also difficult to mess with.
That night, the fight initiated by Shu Guan ended in Shu Guan's disastrous defeat.
On the way home, Shuguan shouted while wiping his nose and tears:
"If I were firmer, never ignored you, and more considerate, would love still end...the illusion..."
What he was crying about was not the wounds on his body, but that he was naive again.
It was on this night that Shu Guan completely gave up on this time travel career.
He was prepared to accept the fate of dying of old age in Taoyuan Village for the rest of his life.
Therefore, even a few years later, when Shu Guan discovered that the familiar moon that rose from behind the cliff every night might not be the moon from his previous life, he did not feel too disturbed.
So what if I traveled to another world?
If you can't get out, your world will only be this Taoyuan Village.
