Chapter 1 (1/2)

The countryside village of Yanhui had a “General Hill”; the nahty and spectacular, but it’s really just a tiny little dirt pile, and soht over the top of it

General Hill hadn’t always been there It was said that fourteen years ago, the Great Liang Dynasty’s three Black out the eighteen barbaric Man tribes They passed Yanhui victoriously en route back to the capital city, and dumped their trashed armour here, which piled up into a small mound, and after years of sand, wind, and rain, became what is now General Hill

General Hill was a corows, and not even weed graces this place with their presence; there’s not even anything for cover if a couple wanted to secretly have some fun It just lay there in the middle of the place, and nobody knew exactly what to do with it The older generation said that the reason behind its desolation was because the Blackly shrouded in the stenches of death and violence Ti street ruffians who had way too much spare time on their hands used this as the basis to conjure up a series of countryside ghost stories, and over time fewer and fewer people even visit the area

But this evening, two little kids of around ten years old snuck over to the bottom of the slope

Of these two kids, one was tall and skinny, the other short and fat When put together, they bore striking rese pair of bowl and chopsticks

The skinny one was dressed in female attire, and only upon closer inspection could one tell that this was actually a little boy In fact, his very na Zi, because the fortune-teller said he had the lifeline of a girl, but was born into the wrong body, and the Gods above would probably tell hiet reborn in His faht hi Xiao, and he was son of the local butcher He certainly lived up to his na sheen of oily wealth

The two of them stuck their heads out, but due to the fear left over frohost stories, neither dared approach

Ge Pang Xiao held a leather-bound “Thousand-Mile Eye” in his fat little hands, stretching his neck out as far as possible in the direction of General Hill and o down, and he’s still not back, big bro is seriously… u yourself to avoid wheat!”

Cao Niang Zi: “That’s called hanging your hair up and putting spikes under your bu nonsense and give the irl sometimes took the role a bit too seriously, but unfortunately the direction he was going in was a tad bit worrying – he wasn’t behaving like a lady, but rather sohish to around trying to pinch everyone

As soon as he reached out his hand, the thick fat pasted on Ge Pang Xiao’s body started itching with pain reflexively He quickly passed over the Eye with a quick reonna turn me into mince pie!”

This so-called “Thousand-Mile Eye” was a small copper tube with the Five Bats carved around the rilass was stuck on the inside, and when put to one’s eye, one could clearly see the sex of a rabbit so Xiao had was especially intricate, as it was passed down fro Zi clutched it excitedly in his hands for a while, then held it up to stars “It’s so clear”

Ge Pang Xiao followed his gaze “Oh, I know, that one’s called Hesperus, also known as ‘Chang Geng’ Saht us before, I re Zi’sbro? Does he even talk to you? Look at you, chasing after hi bro’, do you even knohat sha Xiao looked in the way he’s pointing, and – it really was

A teenage boy was co down slowly fro Xiao forgot all about his fear of whatever ghosts were involved in the stories, and shot out like a bullet: “Big bro, big bro!”

He went perhaps a bit too fast, and soed to trip hi, and rolled to a stop right at the boy’s feet

Ge Pang Xiao looked up with his face covered in dirt Before he even bothered getting up he first let out a big fat grin, and through his exposed teeth he said, “Hehe, big bro, I’ve been waiting here all day for you”

The teenager, Chang Geng, silently retracted the foot that was about to step on the kid

Every tienuine impression that the butcher Ge, who s, probably has those kind of super talented eyes that can see everything After all these years, it was an absolute miracle that he still hadn’t butchered his son by , with his ahead-of-his-agelike this out loud

Chang Geng helped Ge Pang Xiao to his feet with quite the de brother, then dusted the kid off “Be careful, what are you running for? What’s the ! Your dad’s coo to class, coht for the yan snacks! We’d totally s’s dad was mayor Xu – not his real dad

When he was around two or three years old, his ed ht him here to seek the help of relatives, only to find that said relatives had long since moved away Xu, who’d conveniently lost his spouse and who has no children, then decided to marry miss Xiu

Mayor Xu had went off with some men to collect the Man‘s yearly tribute, and should be back in a day or two

The countryside village was poor, and the children didn’t really have much to eat, so every time the soldiers ca along with them some cheese and dried meat from the the way, and the children would all fight htily over it, and it becaht”

As it was a “fight”, a bunch of goofy kids would no doubt actually throw punches, but as long as nothing was broken, the adults let the up, and soon it started looking like so, whoever could get Chang Geng on their side would be absolutely unbeatable

Chang Geng had studied the es near the frontier generally had many soldiers and military families, and while there were a vast many kids who also learned quite a few moves, the majority found it too difficult, so most just learned so, from the very start, would come to practice here alone on top of General Hill every day, with astonishi+ng persistence and willpower over the years

Now, no could already carry a thirty-kilo heavy sword in one hand Even though he knows his strength and never participates in the shts and wrestles, the littledidn’t take the boy seriously, and laughed, “I’ snacks?”

Ge Pang Xiao wasn’t giving up “I’d already told Mister Shen, and he’d agreed too, so we can have a break these days”

Chang Geng walked sloith his hands behind his back and the heavy sword knocking against his leg, not listening to Ge Pang Xiao’s childish words

Whether he studies or not, whether he practices sword fighting or not, it was his business alone and had nothing to do hether Mister Shen let the Xiao: “Also, Mister Shen said he’s be switching up the et herbs and won’t be hoo either, so why not just co sword?”