Linshui Town is located in Jianyang County, the northernmost part of Qi State, and is the only oasis on this wasteland.

People in the town live by the water and houses are built along the river. Except for the rest of the outsiders, not many people live here.

Because it is in a desolate area and there are not many residents in the town, many people are often engaged in exclusive businesses.

The ironsmith, the basket weaving, the needle, thread and brain grocery store, the dog skin plaster and the rat medicine are all unique in the town.

For example, Gou San, who is known as "Master Gou", is fortune-telling, feng shui, and date selection, and everyone looks for him.Slowly, somebody's chicken disappeared, and the wife ran away with them, and asked him about these difficult things.Later, when someone died in the town, it was troublesome for the family to go to a place far away to ask the monk, and even ask him to do such things.

In fact, it wasn't how accurate he was or how capable he was, but he was the only one in this town who had something to do with these mysterious things, and he was in a desperate life, and he couldn't do any other labors.

On this day, Gou San was doing things for a family.He sat concentrating in the middle of the room, his eyes slightly closed.Occasionally, I opened my eyes and aimed at the tender feet of a certain girl or the breast of a certain daughter-in-law.

Gou San whispered in his mouth, and the goatee on his chin shook as well. The ghost knew what he was reading, but he looked quite bluffing.

He is more than 40 years old, because he is indoors all the time, he is whiter than the average middle-aged man, plus he is thin and thin, wearing a large robe, he does have the taste of a worldly expert.

"No, the Beimang brigade is coming to town."

Gou San suddenly threw the rosary in his hand onto the table, and shouted anxiously to the people around him.

The Beimang people have lived in the northern part of Qi State for generations. In recent years, more and more Beimang people have entered the northern border of Qi State, and some even went to Linshui Town to grab property.This group of tall and sturdy people in sheepskin jackets, with arrogant and brave personalities, makes the people in Linshui Town change their conversation.Several times there were rumors that people from Beimang would come to occupy Linshui Town. At first, some people were so scared to pack their things and ran a few miles away, but after the spread, no one believed it.

"Recite the scriptures properly. Why do you suddenly say that the Beimang person is here, Gou San, why don't you speak insanely, regardless of occasion?" The master lady complained.

In fact, everyone just loves to look for Gou San for mysterious things, and really don't listen to Gou San when big things happen, because Gou San's words are indeed a little marginal, and ordinary people don't understand what he is talking about.

Gou San's apprentice Zhang Hui heard Gou San shouting in the room and rushed in.

At the age of fifteen or sixteen, the young man straddled his two long legs extremely fast, and his feet seemed to be windy.Obviously the old clothes worn on his body can no longer see the original color, but the boy has a handsome face and a slender figure. He still looks vigorous when he walks into the room.

Gou San has only one apprentice like Zhang Hui in Linshui Town. The others like to go around Gou San when they are young, but when they grow up, they seem to be naturally alienated from Gou San. It seems that being with such a warlock would delay himself The future is average.

Only Zhang Hui has followed Go San since he was a teenager. For one thing, this boy has only one adoptive father, and he doesn’t care about him at ordinary times. More importantly, in Zhang Hui’s eyes, Go San is the most like a practitioner in this town. People, he worshipped practitioners when he was a child, and loved to hear all the stories about practitioners.

He would listen to Go San, meditate and adjust his breath every day, breathe out and practice his breath, recite the "Gu Shang Yuan Zhen Pian", as if he was about to enter the ranks of practitioners.But putting aside these imaginary things, he really developed a good body, and both his strength and speed drove his peers far away.

Zhang Hui heard Gou San shouting so anxiously, knowing that this time it was definitely not groundless, and Beimang might really be coming.

When he entered, he saw Gou Sanxiang changed into a different person. He usually looked at Wenwen's weak and weak hands. He took off the robe that was wrapped around him at this moment. His face was flushed, and his brows were somewhat heroic. Angrily, as if about to fight the National People's Congress.

Gou San saw Zhang Hui coming in, and took a gong beside him and handed it to him: "You run fast, run all the way along the river, tell everyone to run away, and after you tell everyone, you run quickly by yourself, don't come back! "

Zhang Hui also knew that Gou Sanyou's things could not be said, but since he was more than ten years old, he followed Go San, and after a long time, he found that Go San seemed to be deliberately pretending to be confused, deliberately acting like a god.

This time, Zhang will have a strong feeling, and Gou San is really going to get it right.He ran along the river carrying the gong, knocked the gong a few times and shouted: "Everyone, run, the Beimang people are coming!"

A young daughter-in-law heard Zhang Hui's shout and leaned on the door and smiled at him: "Oh, little tailor, your master taught you to knock on the gong and practice your voice!"

Zhang Hui's adoptive father, Zhang He, was a tailor in this town. Everyone has always called Zhang Hui the "little tailor".Zhang He died last year, and only Zhang Hui is left in the family.

Zhang Hui also didn't bother to talk to her, lifted the gong and knocked hard in her ear, and sternly shouted: "Don't you run? If you run slow, just wait to be a wife for the Beimang people!" run.

A group of people got together and started to wait and see. Seeing Zhang Hui running hard, they felt that things seemed to be true.

An old man came out of the house with a cane and used the cane as if he wanted to drive the crowd forward: "Don’t believe it, things will be true once more. If the Beimang people don’t come, you run It won’t die. If it does come, if you don’t run, you may die."

At this time, some people ran away on the road, and several people in this group ran along. Then, more and more people ran away. In the end, the houses on this line ran out.

There was a scream from the crowd: "Someone saw the Beimang people coming, riding horses, hundreds of people, really coming to occupy our town!"

The screams that followed, the crying, roaring, and cursing of children suddenly plunged Linshui Town into unprecedented chaos.

There was sniffling smoke from several yards, and someone shouted, "I just burned the house and didn't leave it to these beasts."

The Beimang people really came to occupy Linshui Town, and they finally took the first step towards the south invasion.

Zhang Hui did not hear Gou San escaped with everyone else. After running along this long-line house, he went back a long way to find Gou San. His adoptive father is no longer in this world. Now Gou San has become his closest relative. people.

The road hadn't been completely empty yet, and people in twos and threes walked in a panic. The strange thing is that after so long time has passed, no one from Beimang has come into the town.Zhang Hui saw someone coming from the house where Gou San did the job, and asked, "Did you see my master?"

"Someone saw your master blocking the Beimang people."

When Zhang Hui heard it, he was puzzled. Everyone knew that Gou San was so weak that he would not dare to kill him. What is the basis for a person like him to stop the Beimang of this brigade?