Jiang Xu and Yue Yao chatted about Tianming unconsciously, they had already noticed the departure of Candle Ming and the others, and they didn't pay much attention to the reason for leaving.

The two discussed it and decided to return to the Lang Evil Academy, and since the two of them were not much entangled, they decided to take a detour along the border of the Dongxiao Principality, otherwise they would have to pass through many county seats, and it would be inevitable to pay the county guards along the way. Follow the border, which is full of villages and does not require tolls.

Although the two countries have generally been at peace in recent centuries, they have been at war thousands of years ago, so the relationship is not harmonious.

There are a lot of bandits here, and there are some traitors who have taken the most evil kidnapping, and once the official sends monks to surround and suppress them, they will hide in the neighboring Duchy of Dongyao. For this kind of people who loot and kill in the Principality of Dongxiao, the Principality of Dongyao also turns a blind eye. Although Dongxiao Kingdom was angry, there was nothing to be done, it was not a rational move to start a war. Over the years, I rarely care about things here

The border is mostly a few villages, sparsely populated, and those who have a little money or strength have moved to the nearby Donglin County with their families, and there are people from the city lord's mansion in the county to protect the safety of the city, and those who stay here are some poor people.

In a place where everyone is in danger, and people starve to death or are killed by thieves every day, everyone is getting by, lifeless, and desperate, but there is one family that is different.

Lin Xueluo is now nearly 30 years old, and she came to this village full of poverty and sin with her husband seven years ago. It was snowing heavily that day, and everyone was crowded into the narrow nest to roast the fire, and she came to the village with a smile and a smile in her dress, and asked the residents all the way about the news.

Most of the villagers are yellow-skinned and thin-skinned, and they are born in this poor place where birds don't, and from time to time there are all kinds of robbers from the deep mountains who come to loot. Everyone spends their days in a state of confusion every day, just hoping to have a full stomach, when have they ever seen such a beautiful woman.

Hearing that a celestial immortal had come to the village, everyone ignored the cold outside, wrapped in tattered cotton wool, and gathered around them. Everyone only glanced at it and was stunned.

I saw that this woman's skin was like condensed fat and she was pretty. Every time he speaks, his eyebrows must be crooked, and his gentle and beautiful eyes make everyone's hearts tremble. Whenever she said that she was happy, the dimples on both sides of her mouth would be quietly revealed, and in the face of everyone's curious onlookers, the woman was not annoyed at all, she was generous, and talked with the villagers with a smile.

It is rare for everyone to see beautiful women in the outside world on weekdays, and they will be angrily reprimanded when they occasionally see a beautiful woman passing by, and they will be beaten by their entourage when they encounter irritable people. When I saw such a gentle woman today, I forgot to reply to her words for a while.

The hot-blooded young man of the village was even more red-faced, and he didn't dare to look at it directly, and it was difficult to stand up. When everyone saw the honest man beside her and her slightly bulging lower abdomen, they couldn't help but sigh that fairies would also get married.

A few naughty children, who had no parental discipline, saw that such beautiful clothes were gathered around the woman, and they touched the beautiful red feather satin on the woman's body with their little mud-stained hands. The woman was not annoyed, she bent down slightly, with a smile in the corners of her mouth and eyes, she reached out and touched the child's head, and gave the snacks she carried with her to the naughty children.

Then, in the astonished eyes of the crowd, she declared to them that she would make her home in this village in the future.

Lin Xueluo and her husband built a thatched house in a corner of the village, and after learning about the difficulties of the villagers, they did not hesitate to take all the valuable items on their bodies to the county seat and exchange them for copper and silver and distributed them to the villagers.

When she found out that there were often thieves and murderers who often came to the village to oppress the people, she asked her husband, Jun Tian Wuchang, to coach some villagers who could practice.

Tian Wuchang is a martial artist in his twenties in the Three Realms, although he is far inferior to most cultivators in the world, he is the most powerful in this remote village. He led everyone to form a village escort team to fight against the evil people who came to attack. Few people above the Spirit Sect of the Martial Sect are willing to be some unpopular thieves, so in the face of Tian Wuchang, who is desperate to fight, few thieves are willing to provoke. In his spare time, Tian Wu often led the guards to hunt in the mountains not far away.

When she heard that most of the people in the village were illiterate and that there was no school nearby, she and her husband built a large thatched hut and taught the children in the village for free.

She has no qualifications to practice, she has known the ordinary boy Tian Wuchang since she was a child, and because she was dissatisfied with the marriage arranged for her by the family, she resolutely broke with the family, and took some family resources and her lover Tian Wuchang to travel around the Dongxiao Principality to enjoy the scenery, and came to the border of the Dongxiao Principality.

She had just conceived at the age of twenty-three, and she had never seen such a desolate place since she had been pampered, and she saw the skinny skinny children walking up to her and touching their most beautiful clothes in their eyes with their hands full of mud in their nails. She was not angry, her eyes were full of distress, she gave the snacks on her body to these children, and when she saw the tears of hope and gratitude in the children's eyes, she was reluctant to leave.

Once again, she resolutely decided that she was going to spend the rest of her life in this place she didn't know anything about!

Soon she had all the rest of her family, and she was struggling to survive on the wild beasts her husband had hunted for some money. From then on, she changed from a young lady to an ordinary peasant woman, and in addition to teaching, she began to learn to cook and sew clothes. Starting from the luxury of small brocade clothes, these things are naturally stumbling.

The first time I cut my fingers with a knife, the first time I couldn't open my eyes from the smoke from the boiler, the first time I watched my sweater being knitted into a mess. Many times she wanted to cry, but when she thought of the children who couldn't eat and run were literate, her eyes were full of hope and happiness, and when she thought of the respect in the eyes of some villagers, she felt that life was not bad.

Later, her doll was born, a pair of white and chubby twins, she was overjoyed, she named them one called "Xiaobao" and the other called "Xiaobei". She happily recuperated for a few days, and then she had to get out of bed and do housework again. Tian Wu often has the heavy responsibility of guarding the village and hunting wild beasts outside, and he can't take away.

So this twenty-four-year-old girl shouldered the housework, teaching affairs, and taking care of the children. Although the is extremely tiring and annoying, the child is his own everything, and no matter how tired he is, he can be energetic. Family affairs are for the sake of the family, and the suffering is full of bits and pieces of happiness. Teaching is more for her own beliefs, satisfying the longing for the outside world in the eyes of these underfed children, and gradually becoming the meaning of her life and struggle.

For the sake of love and family breaks, staying in this poor and dangerous place, these two resolute decisions changed her life.

She remembered the day she left home, her father pointed at her nose and scolded: It is the family that makes you live without food and clothing, and makes you a master! Without the family, you are no different from the poor, you will never have enough to eat, you will never have knowledge, and you will be poor for all generations! You will all starve and suffer, and be plundered by the strong!

She wants to prove that this world is not what her father said it is!

Without a family, she can also be self-reliant and live a happy and meaningful life.

She wants to prove that these poor people who have no knowledge and no strength will never be worse than the strong in the eyes of her father!

Even if their money, strength, and knowledge may not be able to catch up with their father in a few lifetimes.

But she felt that there are many, many more in life, and the quality of the villagers, the meaning of life, etc., are no worse than their fathers.

At least as far as these things are concerned, we're all on the same page.

This is her meaning and belief, she wants to help the villagers, and this land is the root of the rest of her life.

A year ago, her husband Tian Wuchang died, and it was said that he had unfortunately fallen off a cliff while hunting, but she didn't believe it! She asked everyone in the security team, and everyone said that this was the truth, and no matter how much she pressed them, everyone would not change their words.

She left her young child in the care of a neighbor, went to the bottom of the cliff alone and looked for a day without eating or drinking, crying for a day and a night, she found nothing, and finally she fainted.

She was rescued by the villagers, and then fell seriously ill, and it took her three months to recover. Her illness is cured, but there will always be a blank space in her heart that will not heal.

She cheered up, she gave the rest of her love and faith to the child, and she wanted to pull the child up alone.

Later, the villagers told her that the villagers could no longer help her and that she had to work the land herself.

In this way, she had just gone through the pain of losing her husband, and while pulling her two children, she began to farm for the first time. Every night, she staggered home with her tired and broken waist, and then faced two hungry crying children, comforted them, and cooked for them. Then she has to stay up all night knitting clothes, and winter is coming. Before dawn, she got up to cook and prepare dry food for the child at noon.

In this way, she gritted her teeth and got through the hardest year of her life. Some kind-hearted villagers would often help her, but when some women who were jealous of her beauty saw her, the gossip spread, so everyone secretly talked behind her back about breaking shoes and stealing men.

She laughed when she heard it, and naturally she didn't take these slanders to heart. Although I think that I have given so much for the village with good intentions, but in the face of today's fields, my kindness is sometimes exchanged for the malice of others.

How to repay virtue with virtue?

It doesn't matter, after all, doing good is something that I once believed in, although there is no reward, but maybe doing good is something that cannot be expected to be rewarded. Doing good may only be a personal matter, it is the loneliest thing in the world, you only need to do your own thing, you only need to protect yourself, in order to let your faith persist in this troubled world.

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Jiang Xu and Yue Yao talked and laughed all the way, but the more they reached the border of Dongxiao Kingdom, they encountered more and more bandits, and they eradicated a lot along the way, and under questioning, they found that many people were deliberately sent by the Principality of Dongyao to make trouble.

When they arrived at Lin Xueluo's village, they suddenly heard a child crying and screaming in the village.

Xiaobao kept crying and shouting: "Mother has been taken away by the villains, and my brother and the villagers and uncles have also been arrested!

Jiang Xuyue Yao quickly ran over, only to see that there were still a few corpses of villagers on the ground.

Jiang Xu said to Xiaobao: "Don't be afraid, my brothers and sisters will help you, tell me what happened?"

Xiaobao cried and said: "Mother and the villagers were captured by several robbers, they went to the Dongyao Principality, and those robbers told me to inform the Lin family of the Dongxiao Kingdom, and let the Lin family take the treasure of the town clan to Dongyao Zhang's family to exchange the Lin family's daughter." ”

Jiang Xu figured out the clue and said to Yue Yao: "My strength is stronger than you, I will go to the Dongyao Principality to find out the news first, and you go to find the Lin family to inform them of the news." ”