"He is from the north, he is not adapted to the climate in our Lingnan, he is not accustomed to the water and soil, he is infected with miasma, and he died of illness a few months ago. Alas, there is no other force in life. Although Master Wen has become a member of the Weizhen country, glorifying his ancestors and having unlimited scenery, he has left his life at the end of the world far away from his homeland......"

Before the master finished speaking, Li's legs weakened and he collapsed to the ground......

Huineng was half-backed, half-carried and half-dragged, and finally brought his mother, who had passed out, back to the small inn where they were staying.

Huineng invited Lang Zhong, boiled herbs, and served day and night, a nine-year-old child, it was really difficult for him. Perhaps it was his sincere and filial piety that finally dragged back the Li family, who had been wandering in front of the ghost gate for three days. She slowly opened her eyes, and for a moment, she didn't know where she was, where she was - there was a feeling of being in a different world.

As the saying goes, illness comes like a mountain, and illness goes like a thread. Although the Li family has come back to life, it will be difficult for the body to heal for a while and a half, and they still can't get out of bed, and they need to take medicine to slowly recuperate.

However, after ten days and a half months, although the little Huineng was not dragged down, their money bags were wilted first-they saw a doctor and grabbed medicine, and they were about to spend all the money they had spent selling their farmland to settle down in Guangzhou. Fortunately, the owner of the inn was kind-hearted and did not kick out the mother and son who were in arrears of shop money and food money, leaving them on the streets. Huineng couldn't help but wipe the table, sweep the floor, and serve dishes in the store whenever he had free time.

The inn uses a lot of firewood to cook on the fire, and every few days a boy of about ten years old drives a donkey to bring the woodwoods. One day, Huineng was cleaning the backyard when the boy who delivered firewood came in through the back door with a donkey carrying bundles of firewood. Huineng was just about to help him unload the firewood, but the innkeeper hurriedly shouted in the lobby: "Slow, slow, don't unload." ”

The boss came to the backyard and said to the boy who delivered firewood, "From now on, don't send firewood again." ”

The boy asked in confusion, "Why?" ”

"Because the firewood from your house emits black smoke, and it does not burn. Especially when stir-frying, the fire is too small, and the dishes that should be stir-fried can only be boiled in the pot. How unpalatable it is, how unpalatable it is! Since I started using your firewood, many of my regular customers don't come to eat. ”

The boy looked aggrieved and said with a crying voice: "These firewoods are the best firewood that my father and I took the risk of cutting from the deep mountains. ”

Huineng grew up in the mountains since he was a child, and he knew that the boy sent him was indeed the hardest and most resistant firewood. However, the boss insisted: "I'm an adult, can I still deceive you as a child?" The firewood you sent is just not good for burning! If you don't believe me, go to the stove and see for yourself. ”

Huineng also felt very strange, so he followed him to the stove.

No wonder these good firewood is not easy to burn, it turns out that the fire-burning guy is trying to save trouble, and they are all stuffed into the hearth whole, whole, whole, these firewood are hard and cannot be fully burned, so the light smokes, and does not burn.

Hui Neng took out a sharp axe from his luggage and split the hard firewood, so the fire in the hearth immediately burst into flames. The innkeeper and the boy who delivered the firewood were all happy. Happy, the boss looked at the sharp axe in Huineng's hand, and asked in surprise: "Xiao Huineng, your hometown Xinzhou is hundreds of miles away from here, why did you bring a heavy axe?" Did you know that you would come to Guangzhou to chop firewood? ”

At the beginning, when my mother saw that Huineng stuffed this axe into Li, she also said: "Neng'er, you went to Guangzhou to study, what are you doing with such an axe for chopping wood?" ”

"Mother, bring it, it will always be useful."

"However, there is no light load on the road. It's too cumbersome to bring this useless thing. ”

"Mother, I'll carry it on my back."

The axe that Huineng insisted on bringing actually came in handy. Since then, he has used this sharp axe every day to break the firewood sent by the boy named "Lin Shanzi" into easy-to-burn and economical chopping wood.

Huineng got up early and worked greedily at night, although his mother and son did not become beggars, but his immature little hands could not earn the medical expenses needed for his mother's medical treatment. After stopping the drug, Lee's illness sank day by day, and it seemed that he was just waiting for death for days. Huineng's heart was like a knife, but he was helpless, so he came to the pharmacy to kowtow and ask the shopkeeper to give him a few doses of medicine on credit.

The shopkeeper said sarcastically to him: "I've heard of rice and noodles on credit, clothes to wear on credit, and I've also heard of the coffin shop on credit boards, who in the world has heard of medicine on credit?" Your mother's disease needs long-term medication to recuperate, and it can't be cured without a silver of ten taels or eight taels. Did you hear me clearly? Ten taels of silver! A strong man carries a year's long work for others, and he can't earn enough money for a tael of silver. How can you afford to pay for the medicine as a little cub who has not lost her fetal hair and her milk teeth have not changed, can't we let us sell you? Huineng was reprimanded by the shopkeeper, sarcastic, and retreated from the pharmacy empty-handed.

Guangzhou, the southern metropolis, is unusually rich and prosperous. However, Huineng stood on the busy and lively street, with no relatives and no money; I want to cry without tears, I want to cry silently; Cornered, there is no way to ask for help; It should not call the heavens, and the earth and the earth will not be spiritual......

How can he, a nine-year-old child, get life-saving medicine money to save his mother from illness in a foreign place where he is unfamiliar with his life? If possible, he would rather analyze the bones and extract the marrow, cut out the heart, and boil it into an elixir, in exchange for his mother's sudden recovery.

For some reason, the ironic face of the pharmacy shopkeeper suddenly appeared in his mind. "How do you pay us back for the medicine? Can't we sell you? ”

That's right, sell yourself to save your mother!

Since she was a child, Huineng has heard her father tell the story of an ancient righteous girl who sold herself to bury her father. At this time, he suddenly had the idea of selling himself. So, he went to the market and planted a straw on his head as a symbol of selling himself.

In the bustling market, there are grain sellers, donkeys and horses, pigs and sheep, chickens and dogs jumping, shouting and shouting, the most lively place, of course, is the scene of Huineng's selling. The onlookers were three layers inside and three layers outside, crowded and crowded.

In the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, the government is harmonious, the wind and rain are smooth, the country and the people are safe, and there is very little phenomenon of selling children and daughters, not to mention selling oneself, which is unheard of. The crowd quietly circulated how Huineng's mother and son came to Guangzhou from Xinzhou to join relatives and friends, coinciding with the death of relatives and friends, and the mother unfortunately fell ill, had no money for treatment, and was dying, so she was forced to sell herself into slavery......

How can a nine-year-old child have to bear such misfortune and tears in people's hearts? A young daughter-in-law with red circles in her eyes silently walked up to Huineng, gently put down a few copper coins, and quietly left.

So, people donated money one after another, or stuffed some money into Huineng's hands, or put it in front of him. An old lady was shy, so she handed Huineng a basket of eggs that she was going to change for tea, saying that she wanted him to make up for his mother's body......