In the spring of March, the flowers bloom brightly, the willows draw new branches, the grass is hazy, the top of Qilian Mountain is covered with snow, and it looks like a giant standing on the top of the earth wearing a small white felt hat, overlooking the thousands of miles of Liaoyuan.

A child in a gray cotton jacket and a sheepskin hat drove a flock of sheep to the north side of Lilong Village. Look at this child is six or seven years old, with a jade face, clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and a handsome appearance, holding a thin bamboo pole about three feet long in his hand, "boom" to drive the flock of sheep in front of him, one moment left, one moment right, for fear that one or two will run away from the team. The child jumped up and down, humming nursery rhymes, and looked very happy, but the placket of his clothes and trousers were stained with a lot of mud, which was quite inappropriate compared to his handsome countenance. It is no wonder that the children in the countryside are born and raised in the soil, the soil is for pleasure, and the stubborn stones are companions, so it is not strange that they look dirty.

The boy walked a little way to a gatehouse of green bricks and green tiles, drove the sheep into the courtyard, and cried out crisply, "Mother, I'm back." A woman in her forties came out of the hall, put down the soles of her shoes that she was holding, and said with a smile: "Yo, Qi'er is back, really good, are the sheep full?" "This woman is Tianming's wife, Wang, and this child is also the son of the moth that Tianming picked up, the flesh and blood of the Demon Venerable Chongyu and the Holy Mother of Yaoji. Nearly seven years have passed, and the swaddling baby has grown into a young child.

Tianqi opened his left and right, leaned the bamboo pole in his hand against the door, and said, "Full, Mom, where is Daddy?" Wang said: "Daddy went to the door, and I'll come back later." Suddenly, seeing that Tianqi was dirty, he hurriedly said: "Oh, how did you get this dress, I just gave you to wear it this morning, why did it become like this." Tianqi said: "The little sheep is disobedient and falls into the ditch, I will go and fish it for it, and it will be dirty." Wang hurriedly approached and said, "I'll see, if you're injured, how do you crawl into the ditch." As he spoke, he pulled Tianqi to look left and right, with a very nervous look.

Tianqi smiled: "No, I'm careful, I won't hurt." Wang dotingly stroked his son's head and said, "Next time, you are not allowed to go into the ditch again, what if you get hurt." Tianqi nodded and said, "Well, I know, it's the little lamb who is disobedient." Wang glanced at Tianqi with a smile on his face, and said, "I didn't say that you were disobedient, and I also put the responsibility on the little lamb, come on, mom will change your clothes." As he spoke, he took Tianqi's hand and walked into the house.

Tian prayed: "Mom, I'm hungry. Wang said: "After changing your clothes, my mother will make you something to eat." Tianqi smiled: "I want to eat scallion oil flatbread." Wang dragged a long smile and said, "Okay, listen to the prayers." Heaven prayed, "I want to eat two." Wang smiled: "Okay, eat two." Tianqi said again: "Three." Wang said: "It's all up to you, you are really." ”

When they arrived in the back room, Wang changed his son into a new dark blue cotton shirt and pants, and the two walked out hand in hand. Wang said: "You play in the courtyard, I'll make you a flatbread." Tianqi squatted alone in the corner of the courtyard and bounced stones.

After a while, the door of the building was pushed open, and a middle-aged man walked in, it was dawn. Tianqi turned his head to look back, jumped up, and shouted, "Daddy." He happily ran towards Tianming. Tianming touched his son's head and said, "Good son, look what Daddy has brought you." "Lift a small cage to the heavenly prayers. Tianqi smiled and exclaimed with great joy, "Ah, little rabbit." Tianming knew that his son liked the playthings of this kind of small animal, so he specially caught him to play with him, and said with a smile: "Do you like it?" Tianqi took the small cage and nodded heavily. Tianming said: "You can play." He touched his son's head and walked to the kitchen.

The scallion oil flatbread is full of oil and very happy. Since the child Tianming and his wife have been happy and happy, very gratified, although Tianqi is not their own child, but the couple are regarded as their own, there is no mistreatment of the child, Tianqi does not know his own background, has been the couple is their biological parents, happy to live in this warm family.

When lunch ran out, Tianqi patted his belly and smiled, "I'm so full." Wang said: "Qi'er, don't go to herd sheep in the afternoon, go play." Tian prayed: "No one plays." Wang said, "How come there are so many children in the village who don't play?" Tianqi pouted, "They don't play with me." Wang Shi was surprised: "Well, why don't they play with you?" Tianqi glanced at Tianming and said in a low voice: "Originally, Meihua and Xiaoju, as well as Dog Egg, Li Wu, they all played with me, but Xiaoju and her father said that I was picked up by my father, and it was a wild seed, so I didn't let them play with me, and I beat Meihua and Xiaoju, so they didn't play with me." ”

Wang was so angry when he heard his son's words that he said angrily: "What is it, this ...... How can this Li Hu talk like this, I'll go find him. He stood up and went out.

Tianming grabbed his wife's arm and said, "Alas, what do you do with him?" Wang said: "Look at what he said, how can you teach a child like this." Tianqi glanced at Wang timidly, lowered his head and said, "Mom, am I a wild seed?" Wang said angrily: "Bah, bah, don't listen to outsiders fart, you are a good baby of your father and mother, and they are wild seeds." Tianqi stopped talking and lowered his head slightly.

Wang was angry and said, "No, I must find him and say, why do you say that about us." Tianming pulled his wife and said: "You sit down, I said everything you said to him, his kind of person is unreasonable, why should you bother with him." Wang shouted: "I'm just angry, I just want to care, it's too unusual." Tianming said: "I already knew when he said such a thing, he is angry Xiaoju or a girl, this is already Erya's third child." Wang said: "What is this about our Qi'er?" Tianming said: "What he means is that we want Qi'er to take away the blessing of Erya, so he is talking nonsense." Wang sighed heavily and said resentfully: "It's just quite unreasonable, and this can also be blamed on Qi'er, it's really unreasonable." Tianming said: "Forget it, you can't get this kind of idleness, just ignore him." ”

Wang pulled Tianqi closer to his side, touched his son's head and said, "Qi'er, don't listen to people's nonsense, if they don't play with you, you won't play with them, no one can leave anyone." Tianqi straightened his small belly, patted his chest and said, "Well, I don't play with them, I have new friends." Wang smiled and said, "Good son." Tianqi said: "Mom, can I go to herd sheep?" Wang said: "Don't you want to play with new friends?" Tianqi said: "I will herd sheep and play with him, and I will not delay." Wang smiled: "Okay, if you like to herd sheep, go and herd them, but you can't get your clothes dirty anymore." Tianqi grinned and said, "No." With that, he jumped out of the door, took the morning bamboo pole from behind the door and walked straight to the sheepfold.

Spring flowers bloom, grass is green, and a stream meanders down the mountain, from west to east, bubbling and flowing. The freshly sprouted willow branches on both sides of the stream hang down in the stream, stirring the rippling surface of the water, and clusters of aquatic plants grow densely on the banks of the river. He sat cross-legged on the grass alone, holding a few willow branches in his hand, humming a little song in his mouth, and happily weaving a straw hat, so uncomfortable.

Suddenly, a gust of wind swept by, and a tiger with white eyes and white forehead burst out of the grass with a loud roar, jumped over the bank of the stream. The flock was frightened, scattered, and fled in all directions. Tianqi hurriedly got up, pointed to the panicked flock of sheep and shouted: "Don't panic, don't panic, what are you afraid of, everyone is good friends, haven't you just met before?"

The tiger jumped in front of Tianqi, and the big tiger head rubbed against Tianqi's body, Tianqi turned around, touched the top door of the tiger's flower skin, and said angrily: "Look at you, it's all up to you, didn't you say okay, don't you scream, you scared the sheep away again, and I have to look for them." The tiger seemed to understand Tianqi's accusation, and was not angry, and its two thick tiger paws lay on the ground, lying on its knees, drooping its head and not moving, like a well-behaved big cat.

But then again, if you are a different person, don't say it's a child, even an adult will scream "my good girl" when they see this "big cat". "I was so scared that I grabbed my ass and ran away. The timid are even worse, and they may directly break out of the world and faint to death. Tianqi's body is flowing with the blood of immortals and demons, although the tiger is fierce, but after all, it is a mortal thing, and the awe is even greater, how dare he deceive the sky and hurt him?

Tianqi squatted down, patted the tiger's head and said, "What's the matter? Are you angry?" The tiger turned his head, closed his eyes, and ignored Tianqi. Tianqi pursed his lips and "snorted", and said, "Stingy, you scared away my sheep and can't tell you?" The tiger opened his eyes and glanced at him, and Tianqi was also peeking at it, and the tiger quickly closed his eyes when he saw Tianqi seeing it. Tianqi smiled: "Aha, you are secretly looking at me. The tiger let out a low "......" sound, as if to say, "I don't have it." ”

Tianqi giggled, crawled on the ground, stared straight at the tiger's face with a grin, and said, "Open your eyes and look at me." The tiger still ignored him. Tianqi plucked a piece of grass and scratched it back and forth on the tiger's nose to tickle it. Suddenly, the tiger yawned, stretched out its front paws, and rolled over to press Tianqi under him. Tianqi hurriedly said: "Ouch, you...... You've crushed me, I'm out of breath. The tiger was startled, and hurriedly got up and flashed aside. Tianqi got up, crossed his hands on his hips, and said with a smile: "Wow, you are cheating, see how I clean you up." Gearing up, he smiled and slowly approached the tiger step by step.

The tiger hurriedly turned around and ran away. Tianqi shouted, "Don't run. "Spread your legs and chase. But how could he, a little seven-year-old naughty boy, catch up with a sturdy tiger, the tiger ran for a while and stopped, looked at the heavens and prayed "whoop" and roared, as if to say: "Come on, come on, you have the ability to come." Tianqi pursed his lips, rolled his sleeves, and exclaimed, "You wait." The tiger turned around, pointed his butt against Tianqi, and turned his head to look at him, and the tiger's tail kept shaking back and forth. Tianqi shouted angrily: "Dare to laugh at me, hehehe." He spread his legs and chased after the tiger.

The tiger flashed to the side, Tianqi pounced in the air, chased for a while, Tianqi never touched a tiger hair, panting and said: "No, I can't catch up with you, don't play." Then he sat down on the ground. The tiger jumped to Tianqi's side and pulled him with his paws. Tianqi said: "I really don't play anymore." But the tiger didn't seem to follow, the tiger's head was rubbing against his body, Tianqi smiled, pounced on the tiger, and said with a smile: "Who said not to play, this can catch you." The tiger roared, turned over and lay on the ground, Tianqi crawled on the tiger and scratched around, the tiger rolled all over the ground, left and right bones, this tiger is a person, one big and one small, teasing and playing, playing so unhappy.

Tianqi rode on the back of the tiger and rushed left and right, galloping back and forth, ahh After playing for a while, Tianqi jumped off the tiger's back, patted the tiger's body, and said, "I know you're going home, let's play tomorrow." The tiger rubbed his head sideways in Tianqi's arms, and Tianqi said, "Okay, okay, you go, you are my only friend, let's play tomorrow." The tiger turned and walked, leaped over the stream, and turned his head to look at the heavens reluctantly. Tianqi waved his hand and said, "Let's go, go home, remember to come tomorrow." The tiger roared, turned his head and ran quickly into the distance, the mountains were high and the forests were deep, the grass was fertile and the water was long, and in an instant there was no trace of the tiger.

The cool breeze was sluggish, Tianqi stood in place and looked at the whereabouts of the tiger's return, and the immature child's voice sighed softly and lowered his head slightly. Suddenly he remembered something, and exclaimed, "Oh! He turned and ran after the flock. On the side of a small hill, ten sheep, four big and six small, no more and no less, are grazing together, Tianqi held a bamboo pole and guarded it tightly, looking at the sky to see that the sun had not yet set, and said in his heart: "It's still early, and they haven't been full yet, let them eat for a while." Throw the bamboo pole on the ground, sit down and lean on the stone pier, look up at the blue sky, the clouds, the birds, and the small heart is empty.

Suddenly, a messy sound of horses' hooves came from afar, getting closer and closer, and faintly heard the sound of people boiling, shouting: "Hold it, hold it, where it is, don't let it run." "The sound of hooves is very messy. Tianqi was looking up at the blue sky, thinking wildly, hearing the sound of shouting and being curious, turning over and lying on the stone pier to look, only to see more than a dozen big men riding a fast horse like the wind, galloping towards this side. Those big men all carried tigers and bears, like wolves and tigers, and rode fast horses and horses, as fast as flying dragons. Tianqi opened his eyes and was very curious, and said to himself, "What are these people doing?" Suddenly, a white light flashed in the grass, and he couldn't see what it was, but these people were looking for the white light to chase after him, and it was obvious that these people were here for this white thing.

The white light flashed and moved, and after two circles, it jumped behind Tianqi, Tianqi hurriedly turned his head to look back, and then he saw that it was a white monkey, but this monkey was a little special, the whole body was snow-white without half a stray hair, a pair of round light blue eyes were as bright as pearls, and what was even more incredible was that the monkey's tail was blood-red, like a red-hot iron rod.

The white monkey hid behind Tianqi, straightened up, and grabbed Tianqi's pants tightly with his two front paws, trembling, obviously terrified. Tianqi looked at the white monkey in a daze, only to see that the monkey's eyes were full of horror, and he was panting, obviously exhausted from running, so he regarded Tianqi as a life-saving straw. Tianqi looked at the white monkey and said, "Is it a bad guy chasing you?" The white monkey suddenly hid his face, and Li Liu was uneasy and didn't dare to show his head. More than a dozen horsemen rode fast horses and galloped in front of Tianqi, and a big man in front of the row sat on a horse and pointed at Tianqi with a horsewhip and shouted: "Child, quickly hand over the red-tailed spirit ape." ”