"Teacher. Zhou Fei walked over and shouted in a low voice.

The master hummed and didn't look back: "It's here." ”

Zhou Fei bowed his head: "Does the teacher have anything to say to me?"

The Master said, "You can say yes or no." ”

After that, the master turned around: "Come, accompany the teacher to have two drinks." ”

Zhou Fei said: "Teacher, I drink very badly. ”

"I know. The Master said, "But can you not obey the teacher's command?"

Zhou Fei smiled bitterly: "This is also an order." ”

"The order of the master, how is it not an order. Don't worry, the teacher won't pour you wine, he just wants to talk to you. The master said lightly.

Seeing the master's state at the moment, the uneasiness in Zhou Fei's heart became more and more intense.

He had a premonition a long time ago that the master was about to die, but the master has always been strong, and he never easily exposed the message of "death", and Zhou Fei only inferred it by intuition.

But now, the Master almost engraved the words I'm going to die on his face.

And what he wants to say to Zhou Fei is, in a sense, his last words.

"Teacher. Zhou Fei's voice was already a little more trembling.

The master glanced at him: "What are you doing, I'm not dead yet, is this the gesture you predicted in advance at my funeral?"

Zhou Fei shook his head again and again: "The disciple doesn't dare." ”

"In the realm of cultivation, you are the worst of my many disciples, but in other aspects, you are far ahead of them. These experiences all came from another time and space. The master took a sip of wine, sat on the deck, and patted the deck to let Zhou Fei sit down as well.

Zhou Fei sat beside the master obediently.

"It's a pity, I may not have the opportunity to see another world in this life. I'm tired of seeing the scenery of the Great Wilderness. The Master said self-deprecatingly: "When people are old, they tend to fall into memories, and they always want to tell others about their youth. I don't mind being a listener. ”

Zhou Fei nodded again and again, and said, "Teacher, you said, the disciple listens." ”

The master laughed: "Don't be so serious, just listen to it as a story." ”

Zhou Fei was sitting on the front of the ship, his back was straight, and he didn't dare to lean on the side of the boat.

The master didn't care about Zhou Fei's sitting posture, and after a few sips of wine, he lazily leaned on the side of the boat and began to recall his past.

But in this life, the master has lived too long, too long, so long that he doesn't know that it is better to remember from that period.

After a long silence, the master finally spoke.

The story begins with the year when the master and the crown were born.

Master Zi was born in the Yue Kingdom, a small and weak country that existed hundreds of years ago, but because it was on the edge of the great wilderness and the land was relatively barren, other countries had little interest in crossing it, and they didn't even have the idea of annexation.

The people of Yue have a very hard life, because the soil is not suitable for farming, so the food supply of Yue has always been a big problem, even if it is the royal family, it is no different from ordinary people.

More and more people began to flee the barren land, and the population plummeted, resulting in an already modest increase in food production, which could not even be met by the royal family.

It was under such circumstances that the Master was born in the Imperial Palace.

"Wow, teacher, are you still a prince?" Zhou Fei said in surprise.

"The prince of Yue is not as good as a chicken. The master said lightly.

"But the identity of the prince is still noble after all. Zhou Fei said.

"What's the use of being a person if you can't even fill your stomach? My childhood memories are all related to hunger. The concept of being well fed didn't exist before I was crowned. Later, the Yue Kingdom was gone, and my queen mother dressed up in disguise and took me into the crowd of people fleeing the famine, heading towards the Chu State, the strongest country in the Great Wilderness at that time. ”

"The road to escape from the famine is very difficult, hunger is entangled in my side all the time, I was young at that time, I didn't know anything else, I knew to open my mouth to ask the queen mother to eat, until one day, the queen mother brought back a fragrant sweet potato, I ate it all in three or two bites, asked the queen mother if she could eat it tomorrow, the queen mother nodded with tears. ”

"Every day I was able to eat a sweet potato, and sometimes even meat, but the queen mother was getting thinner and thinner, and she had a lot of scars on her body, but I didn't notice it. When I was about to reach the state of Chu, the queen mother fell, and it was not until this moment that I realized that the queen mother's body was full of bruises, the kind of bruises that were pulled out by the whip. ”

Then a man came up and grabbed the queen mother by the hair and asked her to pick up the guest. I finally understood that those sweet potatoes were exchanged for the queen mother's body. I pushed the man hard, but how young I was an adult opponent, he pushed me and kicked me. The queen mother struggled to get up, hugged the man's legs, and told him not to hit me, and the queen mother was willing to pick up the guests. ”

"That day, I didn't wait for my mother to return, and I didn't feel hungry. ”

"Three days later, I saw the body of the queen mother, in the grass by the roadside, unclothed and bruised. I didn't cry, I just took off my clothes and put them on my mother's body. Then a lot of firewood was found and the body of the queen mother was cremated. I know that the queen mother loves beauty very much, and I don't want to lie on the ground and be bitten by insects after she dies. ”

"I was fourteen years old. ”

At this point, the master stopped and poured himself a large gulp of wine.

Zhou Fei noticed that the master's eyes were a little red.

Master should never have mentioned these absolutely private matters to anyone else.

The point is, no one could have imagined that the master would have such a bumpy childhood.

In the eyes of many people, the master was born strong, born to stand on the top of the great wilderness, no one really thought about it, the master is also a human being, he also needs to grow, he can have today's status, not God's gift, but with his own efforts, little by little accumulation.

And the tragic experience of childhood should be one of the motivations for the master to achieve such great achievements.

Having said that, what happened to the master is simply the template of the protagonist of the invincible flow in the later generations, since he was a child, he was determined to cultivate to avenge his mother, and after killing all the enemies, the master entered the stage of seeking defeat in Dugu, and after letting go of hatred, the master could think about the complex problem of the origin of the world.

These were Zhou Fei's personal thoughts, but the master's next words shattered his assumptions.

Life is really miserable, and sweetness only exists in paragraphs.

"Hunger can make people forget all hatred, and when I saw the body of the queen mother, I really wanted to kill the man who appeared that day, but the anger of hatred only lasted for half a day, and hunger extinguished the fire. ”

"I'm starting to miss the taste of roasted sweet potatoes. ”

"Although I am not as pampered as the princes of other countries, my mother has protected me very well since I was a child, so when I am fourteen years old, I am not sensible, and I am a complete waste. I didn't know where to look for food, but I felt that all the things I could eat along the way were swept away by the hungry. ”

"The team fleeing from the famine is more like a swarm of locusts, and wherever they go, there is not an inch of land. ”

"Hunger drives me everywhere to find food, but there are more hungry people than me, and I can't grab them. Later, some people even paid attention to me. It is no exaggeration to say that even though I was hungry every day, I was still more handsome than other children. Those people wanted to sell me for food, and hundreds of years ago in the Great Wilderness, Lingren was still very popular. ”

"And some alchemists also need medicine boys to help them test medicines. I, a good-looking child with no father or mother, naturally became the target of this group of people. ”

"I tried to escape, but I couldn't, and eventually they caught us, and we were locked in cages waiting for the buyer to come to the door. Maybe it's luck, the person who bought me is a girl from a green house. The children who were caught at the same time as me ended up in a much more miserable situation, either being taken away by the alchemist as medicine children, or becoming powerful servants. ”

Zhou Fei was a little puzzled, and asked in a low voice, "The girl from the Qinglou took away the teacher, does she want to train you to become a turtle prince?"

The master slapped Zhou Fei's head: "Can you speak." ”

Zhou Fei covered his head, very aggrieved.

The master smiled again: "Well, you're right, she does have such thoughts. After all, it was just an impulse to buy me, and a few days after I arrived in the Qinglou, this girl ignored me. I was thrown into the back kitchen and did chores all day. Luckily, I don't have to go hungry anymore, and although I still don't have much to eat, at least I can still drink a bowl of porridge and some steamed buns every day, and if I'm lucky, I can eat some of the unfinished stuff that the guests don't eat. ”

"I stayed in the Qinglou for three years, and when I was seventeen, my charm was unstoppable. It's also a crime to be too handsome, some girls frequently secretly send autumn waves to me, and even several girls fall in love with me. In order to maintain the normal operation of the green building, the bustard kicked me out, so that I would not take away the hearts of the girls in the building. ”

"On the day I left, I went to see the girl who bought me, and she had been favored by an outsider and wanted to marry her home as a concubine. But she is not happy at all, she is a free bird in the Qinglou, and if she goes to the outside house, she will lose her freedom forever, and at the same time, the wife of the outside will definitely torture her, and the end of every concubine will not be too good. It just so happened that the wife of this member was notoriously fierce, and several concubines had already died at the hands of his wife. ”

But the old bustard didn't care so much, and after giving enough money, she naturally sold the girl. When I saw this girl, she was about to commit suicide by taking poison, and would rather commit suicide than be a concubine, which can be said to be quite strong. ”

So I asked her if she would like to come with me. ”

Zhou Fei's gossip soul burned at this moment, could it be that this Qinglou woman is the master?

The master also noticed Zhou Fei's eager eyes, and guessed what he was thinking.

But this time Zhou Fei guessed correctly.

The girl agreed to go with her master.

Under the cover of night, the two escaped from the Qinglou.

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