Chapter 8: The Second and the Third
When Miao Yi was eight years old, his home was hit by a fire, and he became a lonely family and was almost sent to the 'Mercy Wish Mansion'.
The so-called 'House of Mercy' is a local charity place for widows, widows, lonely and people who are unable to make a living.
This is a shijie completely dominated by a practitioner, and the strong person places his statue in every house, and the common people worship the gods and spend three hours in front of the shrine every day to pray and contribute their wishes.
And the people who were sent to the 'House of Mercy', in addition to eating, drinking, and sleeping, had to pray to the shrine almost all the time, contributing their wishes, no different from pigs in captivity, and living an inhuman life.
Fortunately, Lu Xuexin's parents, who are also neighbors, took in Miao Yi in time, otherwise all orphans under the age of ten would have been sent to the 'Ciyuan Mansion'.
Two years later, the Lu family was hit by a fire one night, and the Lu family and his wife were also buried in the fire, leaving behind a five-year-old daughter.
For a while, Miao Yi became a disaster star in everyone's mouth, but some people don't believe in evil.
To put it bluntly, he didn't want to see the two children pitiful, and the butcher family of Zhang, who sold meat on the street, adopted two more children.
As a result, another two years later, when Zhang Butcher and his wife were working outside, they encountered a mountain fire, another pair of well-wishers were buried in the fire, and another child became an orphan, so Miao Yi became the 'Tiansha Lone Star' in everyone's mouth, and no one dared to take it in anymore.
Fortunately, in the past two years at Butcher Zhang's house, Miao Yi was not in vain, he didn't want to take his 'sister' Lu Xuexin to eat rice, and often took the initiative to help Butcher Zhang's chores, so he learned to kill pigs.
At the age of twelve, Miao Yi picked up the pig-killing knife left by Butcher Zhang, and prepared to support his younger brothers and sisters with his own ability.
But at this time, Huang Baochang, who was in charge of managing this area in the city, brought someone to the door, because Zhang Xiaofat and Lu Xuexin had no adults to take care of them, and neither of them was over ten years old, so they wanted to send the two of them into the city's 'Mercy Mansion' as orphans.
Miao Yi was in a hurry at that time, carrying Lu Xuexin on his back, holding Zhang Xiaochubby in one hand, holding a pig-killing knife in the other hand and confronting everyone, refusing to let people take his younger brothers and sisters away.
When she became an orphan, Lu Xuexin's parents did not let herself be sent to the 'Mercy Wish Mansion', and when she and Lu Xuexin both became orphans, Zhang Butcher and his wife did not let the two of them be sent to the 'Mercy Wish Mansion', how could Miao Yi watch the children of her adoptive parents being sent to the Mercy Wish Mansion.
Miao Yi, who was red-eyed at the time, knew that it was useless to come hard, he couldn't win a group of adults at a young age, so when he faced Huang Baochang and others, he went out directly, shouting for help around, causing a group of neighbors to come and watch. Miao Yi took the opportunity to ask everyone to uphold justice, and then directly stabbed himself in the thigh with a pig-killing knife, showing his heart that he would rather die than let his younger brothers and sisters go to the Ciyuan Mansion, saying that he had the ability to support his younger brothers and sisters.
Looking at Miao Yi, who was bleeding profusely on his thigh, the neighbors were moved, so they all asked Huang Baochang not to be too lacking in morality.
Under the pressure of the neighbors, Huang Baochang didn't do too much to cause public anger, after all, everyone usually looked up and didn't look down to see the neighbors, so they could only leave in annoyance.
Because of this, Huang Baochang's family doesn't seem to have a lot of interest in Miao Yi, and his son Huang Cheng often comes to find Miao Yi's ballast.
But for Miao Yi, it doesn't matter. In short, from that day on, no matter how hard he was, he made a living by killing pigs at a young age, not only supporting his younger brothers and sisters, but also working hard for his younger brothers and sisters to study, as long as ordinary children can enjoy the treatment, he worked hard to provide.
And the house where the three brothers and sisters live is left behind by Mr. and Mrs. Zhang, so the neighbors usually call Miao Yi the boss of the Zhang family.
Hearing the familiar name and seeing the familiar people, Miao Yi finally confirmed that he had really come out of the red dust.
Looking back at the treacherous sea of fog behind him, there was a mixture of joy and sorrow for a while, outsiders can't imagine the danger inside, how many times he escaped death, and he finally came out!
In order to maintain order, there are immortals stationed on the walls of the ancient city, and even if everyone knows that he has treasures on him, no one dares to rob them here.
But he was still somewhat vigilant in his heart, did not say anything, and quickly broke away from the crowd under the gaze of everyone and walked in the direction of the ancient city.
Many people's eyes fell on Miao Yi's package, speculating whether he had found a treasure in it, after all, there were not a few people who were scared and came out empty-handed.
The ancient city is only two miles away from the treacherous 'Ten Thousand Zhang's Red Dust', and the ancestors of the residents of Miao Yi's city lived in this ancient city at the earliest, but after an earth-shattering upheaval appeared in this lore array, most of the day's sunlight was blocked by the vast blood mist. For ordinary people's lives, the loss of half of the sunlight will have a big impact, such as simply drying clothes, so they moved to a place more than ten miles away to rebuild a new city.
And whenever the 'Ten Thousand Feet of Red Dust' opens, the local government will organize people to renovate the ancient city to welcome the arrival of a large number of cultivators.
The three brothers and sisters made an appointment to meet under an old willow tree next to the ancient city wall, an old willow tree that was killed by lightning a few years ago, and the three brothers and sisters came this time but were surprised to find that the dead old willow tree was actually resurrected, so they agreed to meet under the tree.
Under the shade of the tree, a fat little fat man with a round belly, his clever and cunning eyes were full of anxiety, and he kept looking around.
A little girl with a girl's braids, sitting with her back against the old willow tree, carved in pink and jade, a natural beauty embryo, but her eyes are red and swollen, and she seems to have cried.
"Could the big brother be dead?" the little girl whimpered as she grabbed the little fat man's trousers.
The little fat man snorted, "Crow's mouth, I didn't listen to the neighbors, the eldest brother is the 'Heavenly Evil Lone Star', and it is not the turn of the eldest brother to die even if others die." ”
Having said that, but his anxious eyes betrayed the thoughts in his heart, a few months before the opening of the red dust, the eldest brother suddenly asked him to learn to kill pigs, and at that time he knew that the eldest brother was ready for what happened, once the eldest brother had an accident, he also had a craft to take care of his sister to continue to make a living.
The brother and sister didn't want the eldest brother to take this risk, but they couldn't stop it.
The little fat man is a little older, and he knows what the eldest brother thinks, and the neighbors all say that the eldest brother is the 'Heavenly Evil Lone Star' who killed the parents of the brother and sister, maybe to repay the kindness, maybe to feel guilty, maybe to prove something to the neighbors, as long as there is a chance, the eldest brother will go out to fight for a more lifeful life for the brother and sister, this time there is a chance to make the brother and sister become immortals, and the eldest brother does not hesitate to play with his life.
I heard that the old Li family in the tofu shop opposite refused to marry Sister Li to his brother as a daughter-in-law, just because there were two of us in the family. The little girl cried and cried.
"Third child, don't cry, crying is annoying. ”
When the little fat man was patting the little girl's head impatiently, he suddenly heard a familiar voice shouting: "Second, third." ”
The little fat man and the little girl looked up suddenly, and saw a person who seemed to have crawled out of the coal pile, and was running at a faster pace.
"Big brother, big brother!"
The little girl was pleasantly surprised, jumped up and rushed out with the little fat man.
The three brothers and sisters hugged each other, and they couldn't be happier.
As soon as the three of them separated, the little girl immediately helped Miao Yi pat her body, and the little fat man smiled obscenely: "The third child is still worried that you will die inside, Lao Zhang, I will say, what kind of person is the eldest brother, no one can die on the head of the eldest brother!"
After speaking, he looked around, sneakily leaned into Miao Yi's ear, and said in a low voice: "Big brother, you went out in person, did you succeed?"
Look at him like that, you know it's not a good thing. It is also true that Zhang Xiaochubby has done all kinds of evil since he was a child, he likes to do something like stealing chickens and touching dogs, and when the neighbors hate each other, he regrets why he didn't let this kid be sent to the 'Mercy Mansion', which is also a scourge.
Miao Yi patted his bulging chest and hinted.
"Really?" Zhang Fatzi and Lu Yatou's eyes suddenly lit up.
Miao Yi shook his head slightly, looked around, and signaled not to make a noise.
Zhang Xiaochubby was like a fox who stole a chicken, holding his fat belly with both hands, and said for a while: "Damn, didn't the old Huang family just give birth to a beautiful daughter and give it to the immortal as a maid, relying on her daughter to be a security chief to dare to always bully us, go back and wait for us what, look at how Lao Zhang and I clean up the Huang family, especially Huang Cheng's bastard, I have to pinch out his eggs, if you have revenge, you don't have a gentleman, wait for me!"
He was stunned here, but Miao Yi's face changed.
As the saying goes, the road is narrow, and when it comes to Huang Baochang, I saw Huang Baochang leading more than a dozen people with knives to appear.