"Lao Jiang, how much money did you make this trip?"
"Xiao Jiang, you bought a lot of things in a big bag and a small bag."
Jiang Liu was walking on the trail in the mountains, and occasionally encountered a few villagers who greeted him warmly.
His peers called him Lao Jiang, and his elders called him Xiao Jiang, but along the way, he hardly met his peers. Most of the people living in this village were left-behind elderly people and children.
Shi'ao Village, Damin County, this village located deep in the mountains is the most impoverished village in this impoverished county.
With the development of the times, more and more people can't stand the loneliness in the deep mountains, so they moved to other villages down the mountain to live. Most of the people who stay here are from poor family conditions and cannot move their nests.
Of course, there was an accident here, and that was the Jiang family.
No one can say when the Qingjiang family moved here, but since the villagers can remember, the conditions of the Jiang family are not bad.
Jiang Liu's grandfather Zeng brought his only son to this deep mountain and old forest. He used bacon and wine, which were rare at the time, to buy land from the captain at the time. Then Jiang Liu's grandfather married the most prosperous local people after the house was built. The girl from the family's family has since stood firm in this small isolated village.
During the years of the Cultural Revolution, they were just like ordinary villagers, working in the fields to earn work points. Once in a while, Jiang Liu’s grandfather Zeng would always come back with some good things from outside. Moreover, he was an extremely generous person, and he always refused to Forgot to share something for the nearby neighbors, in this area, the reputation is very good.
Because he was an outsider, Jiang Liu's father also married a girl from the village. After several generations, when Jiang Liu was born, they were completely integrated into the village.
At that time, the society was changing with each passing day, and many ghosts and demons who had been defeated during the Cultural Revolution were rehabilitated one after another. Many people who were engaged in low-level industries during the Republic of China, but who could not hide, gradually regained their old jobs. At that time, only the villagers knew that the original The man who hid in their village with his only son back then was the famous "ghost shadow" Zhang Yibox.
According to rumors, Zhang Yibox once performed a juggling show for the leader of the Beiyang warlord. Under the watchful eyes of the public, he stuffed his body into a small box. His bones and muscles were like cotton, which could be compressed and folded at will, because this miraculous Zhang Yihe was a frequent guest at many celebrity banquets. With this ability, he earned a lot of silver dollars during the Republic of China.
After the war, Zhang Yibox disappeared. Many people thought that he was dead, and this stunt was also broken in his generation.
But in fact, he not only did not die, but also cultivated an extremely excellent descendant, that is, Jiang Sanchun, Jiang Liu's father.
In the 1980s, Jiang Sanchun was also a well-known figure in the juggling scene.
Many people who have seen him perform are amazed by this bone-shrinking stunt, but it is a pity that Jiang Sanchun has an independent temperament and does not like to perform with others, which also leads to the weak strength of his team. It's hard to get fired up.
However, the grass troupe team made enough money from the tour. With this ability, Jiang Sanchun rebuilt the house on the mountain, built a three-story small house at the foot of the mountain, and added a TV, radio and refrigerator to the home. There are also majestic motorcycles and Santana. In this impoverished small village, Jiang Sanchun is the richest one.
Many people envy the Jiang family's ability and want to send their children to the Jiang family as apprentices, but they are all rejected by the Jiang family. Their attitude is very clear and they can help the villagers improve their lives within their ability. The craftsmanship passed down from the family will never be passed on to outsiders.
Not only the Jiang family is like this, but many craftsmen are like this, so many stunts and secret recipes are lost because of this.
The descendant of the Jiang family is the object of Jiang Liu's possession in this world.
Many people only see the chicness of making a lot of money after practicing the bone-shrinking exercise, but they ignore the difficulty of practicing the bone-shrinking exercise.
Looking at the memory of the original body, in the few years when he first started practicing bone shrinking, he cried almost every day.
The key to practicing bone-shrinking exercises is to dislocate the joints. When the original body was young, his father Jiang Sanchun would dislocate several bones on his body using a special technique passed down from his family, and then put the bones back and apply a special ointment.
This kind of procedure is almost repeated every three or five times. The pain of dislocated bones is unbearable for most people, not to mention the frequent dislocation and alignment of multiple bones.
This is the secret of Kebone Kungfu. The reason for this is that children who learn this acrobatics are used to dislocating their bones at an age when their bones have not yet been shaped, and they can dislocate at will according to their own wishes.
In the later stage of this kung fu practice, due to frequent dislocation and reset, there will be no more pain.
However, the most painful part of practicing this kung fu is not the practice process, but the practice environment. It is said that three-nine practice in winter and three-fu in summer. No matter how bad the weather is, the original body must wear thin practice clothes. In the open air, practice basic skills such as cross-legged, lower back, and bent over.
The original body did not dare not to practice, because he knew that this was a cooking technique passed down by their family, and when he was in his generation, he would be the only one left.
So he gritted his teeth and swallowed it. No matter how hard or tired he was, he would only dare to cry while sleeping. When he was 16 years old, this kung fu could be considered a mastery. Craft money.
It's just that the original body's life is not good. A few years after he started to establish a family, his father and mother died of illness one after another, and he married a wife. However, when he was pregnant in August, he fell and had a difficult childbirth.
The original body, who was attacked one after another, was very depressed, and moved back to the mountain from the beautiful small house at the foot of the mountain. After staying at home for three years, it was only then that he cleaned up and resumed his old business.
Just because he couldn't let go of his deceased wife, the original body never remarried, and now he is almost forty, and there is no child to inherit this skill.
The original body came back this time to find a few apprentices. He didn't want this craft to be broken in his own hands. Even if it was passed on to a foreigner, he wanted to pass on the craft.
Jiang Liu came here at this time.
And his mission is also related to this matter.
According to the trajectory of the previous life, the original body found three apprentices in the village. These three children happened to be the children of the three most difficult families in the village.
The barrenness of this village is hard to imagine for outsiders. The annual income per capita is less than 800 yuan. Except for a handful of young people, the village is basically occupied by left-behind old people and children. Couples, many leave and never come back. No one knows what happened to them, or if they plan to abandon these drags and start a new life.
In this village, many people's houses have walls made of cow dung, soil and straw, leaking water on rainy days, and smelling like nothing, without a piece of decent furniture, a family of seven or eight crowded on a wooden bed.
The status quo of life that many people think is impossible is everywhere on this mountain.
The family situation of the original's first apprentice, Xiao Binbin, was the most miserable among them.
6-year-old Xiao Binbin has a pair of twin sisters. Because he couldn't support his two newborn daughters, Xiao Binbin's father went out to work and never returned. After Xiao Binbin's father, Xiao Guohui, disappeared, his mother Zhang Yanfen began to feel unwell. At first, she just thought it was because she didn't have enough rest after giving birth, until later, the symptoms of physical discomfort increased. For the sake of her three children, Zhang Yanfen had to spend money to go to the hospital under the mountain for examination, but the result was bad news, she had uremia , must do dialysis and kidney transplantation to save life.
How could a family like theirs afford such a high cost? Zhang Yanfen didn't tell anyone, and secretly went back to the mountain. Then, as if nothing happened, she wanted to grit her teeth and support her children with enough food to eat for a few years.
But such a serious illness, how could she be able to endure it if she insisted on it.
Zhang Yanfen passed out while working in the field, and was sent to the hospital at the foot of the mountain. Only then did the village know what was wrong with her.
Although every household is short of money, everyone is still five yuan from you. I collected a sum of ten yuan, plus the twenty thousand yuan that the original body gave at the time. At Xiao Binbin's strong request, Zhang Yanfen received a period of treatment. .
But the money was not spent, and the medical expenses that had been collected soon ran out. Zhang Yanfen moved back home from the hospital and relied on some herbal medicines from unknown sources to continue her life.
The original released the words to accept apprentices, Xiao Binbin was the first to sign up.
Although he is only six years old, he knows too much the importance of money. Learning this skill may be very hard, but only in this way can he earn a lot of money, save his mother, and support his two sisters.
The other two apprentices of the original body, Xu Quanjun and Wang Gouzi, were children abandoned by their parents and lived with their elderly grandparents. Like Xiao Binbin, they and their families were also informed in advance of the difficulty of practicing this skill, but in order to make a living, In order to make a lot of money in the future and live a good life like the original, they agreed without hesitation, and were selected by the original among a bunch of competitors.
Children from poor families can endure hardship beyond everyone's imagination, especially these children are persistent and persevering. As long as they have enough time, they will be able to pass on this skill well, just as they think In the same way, relying on this craft to improve the current embarrassing life.
It just happened unexpectedly.
A group of backpackers who strayed into this mountain village took pictures of Yuanshen teaching a few children to dislocate their joints. After Xiao Binbin and others were red-eyed but dared not say a word, the video was uploaded to the Internet, and Yuanshen suddenly became the target of public criticism. .
What made the original body even more unacceptable was the betrayal of several apprentices who had been regarded by him as his own children.