It was midsummer afternoon, and in a remote corner of the Tianze continent, a few eleven or twelve-year-old children in the village sat around a big tree, discussing their hopes for the future with a hint of coolness brought by the shade of the tree.

A strong boy took the lead in speaking: "When I grow up, I must be as strong as Captain Wang, that is a master who has entered the martial arts stage, and when the time comes, I will definitely kill many, many beasts for you to eat!

After speaking, the boy turned his gaze to a white girl who lowered her head and did not speak,

Everyone also looked at this girl with the strong boy.

Realizing that everyone was looking at her, the girl's expression was a little helpless, and then she said firmly:

"I want to be a businessman and make a lot of money!"

In their village, merchants are considered to be the lowest professions,

In this predominantly bartering village, they don't even know what the concept of money is in the girl's mouth.

The strong boy realized the awkward atmosphere and wanted to divert everyone's attention, shouting towards the corner of the crowd, "What about Lu Bai, what are your plans!"

Lu Bai was the thinnest of the children, and his face was pale due to perennial hunger.

"Ah, I, I want to be a vegetable gardener, right here for us......" Lu Bai was a little excited when he talked about this, but the friends next to him laughed without waiting for him to say, as if no matter what Lu Bai said, they would be ridiculed.

"Hahaha, you are still a vegetable gardener with your thin body and bones, and you can be a vegetable yourself!"

"Don't you know how hard it is to grow vegetables in this place, I beg you to take care of our land here, we haven't eaten fresh vegetables in a long time, hahahaha......!"

"I'll do my best, thank you!" ...... Lu Bai was surrounded by children in the middle, his face was slightly red, and he scratched his head

Lu Bai is an orphan, he always longs to integrate into this village, but the village doesn't seem to leave him any place.

After a while, everyone laughed enough, got up and patted their buttocks and said, "Lu Bai, do you want to come to my house for dinner today, yesterday my father hunted a big rabbit monster, hehe." ”

When the other children heard this, they all showed their envy for him.

"No, today, the food that the village chief gave me before hasn't finished yet" Of course, Lu Bai knew what he meant, and swallowed his saliva.

The boy got the answer he wanted, and with a good answer, he turned and ran to the house where the smoke was rising.

Lu Bai watched his partners go home one after another, lowered his head and touched his stomach, and was about to walk home.

At this time, a soft little hand patted Lu Bai's shoulder, "Lu Bai, thank you just now, I know you want to help me out." ”

Lu Bai's heart jumped when he heard this voice, he didn't know what to say for a while, he took a few deep breaths to calm himself down and turned around and said, "Haha, Lu Qing turned out to be you, I think you misunderstood... Actually, I really want to be a vegetable gardener" Lu Bai was a little flattered, but he didn't want the girl in front of him to thank him because of a misunderstanding.

This girl named Lu Qing obviously didn't believe Lu Bai's statement, and said to Lu Bai very boldly, "Okay! No matter what, you are different from their stinky boys, we will be friends in the future!"

After Lu Qing left, Lu Bai felt as if he was dreaming, he was an orphan, and his health was still so poor, the most beautiful girl in the village actually wanted to be friends with him......

Lu Bai walked to the front of his hut in a daze. Lu Bai's place of residence is in the depths of the village, and it is a ten-minute walk from the nearest house, saying that it is a hut, but in fact, it feels like a tent made of wood and mud, and only the small hill on which the hut rests tells others that I will not fall.

This hut is a legacy left to him by the old man who brought Lu Bai back to this mountain village, and the old man is not a local, so the place where he lives is not close to other villagers.

Lu Bai walked into the hut, but the inside of the house was not as dilapidated as the outside, the things in the hut were all neatly packed up by Lu Bai, and the ground was not repaired by the old man with wooden planks, which could be regarded as smooth.

Lu Bai walked to the table, there were only a few dumplings wrapped with wild vegetables that the village chief sent to Lu Bai yesterday, Lu Bai picked up the dumplings that had hardened, and stuffed them into his mouth in two bites, Lu Bai knew that his body was very weak and he couldn't stand the hunger.

Lu Bai sighed and then lay down on his wooden bed, and lifted a stone pendant in the shape of a leaf hanging around his neck, this is one of the few inheritances that the old man left to himself, I heard that he has been hanging around his neck since he was carried back.

Lu Bai remembered today's experience, stared at the pendant in his hand and fell asleep...

In the dream, Lu Bai found that the pendant in his hand gradually appeared and became emerald green, Lu Bai stared at the lines on the pendant, this pattern seemed to have a special magic to attract him, just when Lu Bai seemed to feel something, the dream ended, and the time came to evening.

"Tonight is the first night of the school in the village, and the village chief seems to have something to tell everyone......" Thinking of this, Lu Bai got out of bed and ran to the village square. The village chief is the only person in the village who takes care of Lu Bai after the old man leaves, and it is because of this that Lu Bai can live in the village alone with difficulty......

When Lu Bai ran to the square in the village, the square was already full of people, and at this time, a voice shouting Lu Bai came from the crowd, "Lu Bai, come to me, I will leave a place for you!" It was Lu Qing who was waving to Lu Bai, Lu Bai walked over quickly, and looked left and right: "Uncle and aunt, why didn't you come?"

"They've gone to the city to sell our remaining game, and it's going to be a long, long time before they come back.

"Is it in the city...... Lu Bai has lived in this place since he was a child, and it has been difficult to survive, but he has never thought of leaving......

During the conversation, the noisy voices around him suddenly disappeared, and the village chief had already stepped onto the platform in the middle of the square.

"Ahem, everyone is here, I call everyone here today, mainly to talk about the problem of the children in the village going to school in the city next year...... "The village chief is more than seventy years old this year, and his voice is not loud, but the villagers here are like thunder: "Go to school, has the school in the city finally given us a place in the village?" "Only Captain Wang in our village has been to the city to contact the school, and now he has become a martial artist!" ......

"Everyone knows that our village is in the northeast corner of the mountain country, our mountain country has a total of twenty-three cities, countless villages, and our village is also backward among these countless villages, there are seven countries outside our mountain country, located on two continents, our village is not like other villages that have had mages, there is no portal to the city, our village is not open to us because of the backwardness of the city in the school, this time I don't know why they gave us a place, but no matter why. This is a turning point for our village and an important opportunity for our children!"

The crowd instantly boiled, all discussing how to send their children to the school in the city...... Lu Bai looked at the excited crowd, but he couldn't relate this matter to himself, because he exhausted all his strength for food and clothing, let alone leave the village.

Lu Qing on the side saw that Lu Bai was out of place with the people around him and asked, "Lu Bai, don't you want to go to school in the city?"

"Is there a place in the city for me to grow vegetables? Lu Bai pretended to be very relaxed.

“......”

While the two were talking, the villagers had already walked away, as if they were in a hurry to plan a trip to the school for their children. The two looked at the dispersed crowd and didn't know what to say for a moment.

"Why don't I send you home?" said the two of them. After speaking, Lu Bai and Lu Qing both laughed, and Lu Bai seemed to have forgotten the feeling he had suppressed just now and said, "I'll send you, my side is too far away." Lu Qing saw that Lu Bai no longer insisted on saying this, and the two of them walked all the way to Lu Qing's house.

The two of them were speechless all the way, not knowing what they were thinking, and suddenly, in front of a courtyard that did not look like what a village should have, with a gate with carved plates and a house made of milky white tiles that could be seen over the wall, Lu Qing said, "I'm home." Thank you for taking me home, would you like to come in and sit down?"

Lu Bai looked at the building in front of him that was at two extremes from his own house, and said, "Next time, it's not too early today." ”

After speaking, he walked in the direction of his own home in a trance.