The herbal medicine was very effective. After half a month, grandpa was able to get out of bed and walk around slowly, and his life became peaceful again.
Xiao Fengming sometimes goes up to the mountains to play with her friends in the village, and sometimes collects dry firewood and collects wild fruits.
When he was a human, he would take out a small gourd and play with it secretly. Except for the dazzling appearance of the gourd, which was very attractive, there was no other abnormality. As time passed, Xiao Fengming felt relieved.
This afternoon, I was playing with my friends on the hillside outside the village. Suddenly, I saw a dozen people walking on the path into the village, each riding a tall horse. They were all in high spirits and had impressive equipment. The last horse was carrying some goods.
It is rare to see so many people coming to a mountain village. The friends stopped playing and stood on the hillside, staring at the visitor in confusion.
After a while, the team of people came closer. The first person jumped off the horse and looked at the children. Suddenly, he saw Xiao Fengming, with a look of surprise on his face: "Young man, you don't recognize me. I am the eldest brother Qin Xiang."
Xiao Fengming was immediately stunned. He was only seven or eight years old when his eldest brother left. In his impression, he was thin, with dark skin and slightly shorter than his father.
Now two years later, the person standing in front of him was tall, mighty, majestic and rosy. Of course Xiao Fengming could not recognize him.
Looking at the visitor carefully, he could vaguely make out the appearance of his eldest brother. He immediately jumped up, ran a few steps, grabbed his eldest brother's hand, and shook it vigorously, appearing extremely excited.
The eldest brother touched Xiao Fengming's head, filled with excitement: "Are our parents, grandpa and grandma okay?"
"They are all fine. Let's go home quickly. Grandma and mother often talk about you."
Pulling his eldest brother along, he walked towards his home. At this time, the clever friend had already run to notify his family.
Qin Hong was packing hunting equipment at home when he suddenly heard that his eldest son was back. He was overjoyed and everyone hurried outside the courtyard.
Seeing his parents and others, Qin Xiang hurriedly threw away the reins, ran over quickly, knelt on the ground to pay tribute to his parents, grandparents.
Qin Hong and his son lifted Qin Xiang up with tears in their eyes. Pull Qin Xiang into the yard. Qin Xiang ordered the horses to be unloaded. The horses were carrying some cloth, grain, wine and meat.
At this time, the clan leader heard the news and brought some clan members to visit. Qin Hong quickly let the clan leader and others into the house and asked Qin Xiang to talk to the clan leader. At the same time, the neighbors were called to help, and wine was served to entertain everyone.
During the banquet, Qin Xiang recounted his experience in joining the army in the past two years, which surprised everyone.
It turned out that after Qin Xiang joined the army, he was assigned to work under an officer named Li Bingtang. Li Bingtang was then a captain of thousands in Qijia City.
After two months of training, Li Bingtang saw that Qin Xiang was very clever, intelligent and willing to endure hardship, so he promoted him to be his personal guard. He also personally taught Qin Xiang how to practice martial arts.
Six months ago, Li Bingtang was ordered to exterminate the horse bandits entrenched in Langtiao Stream in the southeast of Qijia City. During the battle, Qin Xiang showed bravery. He not only rescued Li Bingtang from the horse bandit leader's sword, but also killed the horse bandit leader himself.
This time, he successfully annihilated the horse bandits and was commended by his superiors. Li Bingtang was promoted to the commander of Qijia City. He strongly recommended Qin Xiang to be centurion and serve as an errand under him.
This time Li Bingtang went to Yingzhou City to resign and took Qin Xiang with him. When he arrived at Tenglong Town, Li Bingtang knew that Qin Xiang was a local and granted him a day off to go home to visit his relatives.
The clan leaders all looked envious as they listened to Qin Xiang's introduction to his military experience. The small Qinjiazhuang was very happy to have a hundred captains.
At night, Qin Hong sent away the clan leader and others and arranged for his subordinates to come with Qin Xiang. Xiao Fengming and his elder brother came to Qin Hong's room together. We talked about what happened at home in the past two years.
Qin Xiang was filled with sadness when he heard that his third brother had accidentally fallen off a cliff and returned home sick. I also heard that my grandfather had injured his leg, and I felt very heartbroken.
However, during this period, neither Xiao Fengming nor his father mentioned the purchase of herbs in Tenglong Town.
While chatting, Qin Xiang suddenly thought of something and said solemnly: "I heard from the commander that in half a year there will be a meeting to select disciples in Luoxia Valley. The age range is from eight to twelve years old. Do you want to give it a try?"
Qijia City is under the jurisdiction of Yingzhou County, and Luoxia Valley is one of the two sects closer to Yingzhou County. Another sect is Crouching Tiger Mountain. In the eyes of ordinary people, these two sects are just martial arts sects.
In fact, this is not the case. These two sects are actually vassals of the Xiuxian sect, but the Xiuxian sect cannot appear in the secular world, so it chooses a martial arts sect to be its spokesperson and handle some secular affairs.
Qin Hong had heard of the name of Luoxia Valley. There was a restaurant in Luoxia Valley in Tenglong Town, which was very prosperous. However, he never thought about letting his son join the martial arts sect. I couldn't decide what to pay attention to, so I had to ask my father for advice.
When he came to Grandpa's room, Qin Xiang recounted the selection of disciples in Luoxia Valley. Grandpa said in deep thought:
"Luoxia Valley is a large sect near Yingzhou County. I heard that a child from Yuejiazhuang, thirty miles away from us, joined Luoxia Valley. Within a few years, Yuejiazhuang became the most famous sect in Tenglong Town. Village.”
"Father, can I let my mistress try it?"
"Of course you can give it a try. It depends on whether the third son is willing to go." Grandpa thought for a while and looked at Xiao Fengming lovingly.
In fact, Xiao Fengming had long been envious of his second brother. Now that he knew that his eldest brother had become a general, he yearned for the world outside the mountains even more. It's just that I am young and still feel weak in my heart.
Seeing that Xiao Fengming did not refuse, he began to study how to participate in the selection. I don’t know how the Luoxia Valley is selected and what joints are needed in the middle.
"The commander once said that when selecting disciples in Luoxia Valley, each city can recommend candidates. Some large households can also donate some money and recommend candidates, but ordinary families cannot, unless there are special circumstances. The commander happens to have some There are several places available, so it shouldn’t be difficult for me to ask the commander for one.”
Qin Hong was very happy when he heard that there was a quota for him to try. He told Xiao Fengming's mother and grandmother about this matter. After hearing this, their mother and grandmother were very worried, but after everyone's advice, they felt relieved.
Qin Xiang had military affairs, so he left the mountain village early the next morning.
Before leaving, he left behind fifty taels of silver. He told his mother that this silver tael is for Xiao Fengming to replenish his health. I heard that the selection was very difficult. Later in April, Fengming was picked up at home.
