The boy named Chang Geng silently shrank back the leg that almost stepped on Ge Pang Xiao.

Every time Chang Geng saw Ge Pang Xiao, he always felt that it was quite magical. He thought that Butcher Ge who had killed a thousand pigs might have been blessed with extraordinarily keen eyes, thus, for so many years, he managed not to mistake his son as a pig and accidentally butcher him. However, Chang Geng’s character was mature, and his mouth was very good, so no matter what he thought inside, he would not say hurtful words out loud to people.

Chang Geng reached out to help Ge Pang Xiao up, then brushed off the dirt on his body, appearing like a big brother: "What are you running for, be careful or else you'll break a bone. Did you need me for something?"

Ge Pang Xiao: "Big brother Chang Geng, your father and the others will come back tomorrow, we don't have to go to class, will you come with us to grab the Yan rations? We can definitely beat those little Li monkeys!"

Xu Baihu was Chang Geng's father, though, their relationship was not by blood.

When he was two or three years old, Chang Geng came to this place with his widowed mother, Xiu Niang, to search for her relatives. Unexpectedly, those relatives had already moved far away.

Coincidentally, Xu Baihu’s original wife in Yanhui Town passed away early, and he had no children. He fell in love with Xiu Niang, and thus married her as his second wife.

Xu Baihu took people out of the gate to collect the yearly tribute of the Barbarians, and he was due to return within these next few days.

The frontier town was poor and full of hardships, and the children did not have many snacks or food either. Every time the soldiers returned from tribute collecting, they would bring along some cheese and dried meat from the Man people, and scatter it along the roadside. And every time, the little urchins always gathered together to fight for it: this was called "grabbing the Yan rations."

Since it was called "grab", a group of young children would inevitably get into a scuffle. As long as the fight was not so bad, the adults would not care, and so the children would form into gangs and fight with all seriousness.

In this kind of thing, for whichever side could get Chang Geng to join their gang, it was equivalent to being invincible.