"Xiao Qi, Sister Xia Xi is here to give alms again" A five or six-year-old girl squatted next to a seven or eight-year-old boy lying on a broken straw mat, shook the boy with her fleshy little hands and said urgently......

Soon, I saw a beautiful woman in green clothes, looking about eighteen or nineteen years old, she was carrying a basket in her right arm, and her left hand was taking out a snow-white meat bun from the basket, and handed it to the children around her, the oldest of which was about fourteen years old, the boy called Xiaoqi saw the woman and happily called "Sister Xia Xi" and also surrounded him, stretched out his dirty little hand and wanted to grab the meat bun, but just about to touch the meat bun was patted down by the hand that has been slender as jade, Xiao Qi looked up and saw a pair of bright eyes that cut water, with a look of feigned anger and love, "Wang Xiaoqi!" How many times have I told you, you have to wash your hands before you eat, otherwise you will get sick" The woman's voice was very good, glutinous, and you could hear the majesty of the hard work, it was very cute, Wang Qi stuck out his tongue and said, "Isn't there still Sister Xia Xi here, you are an immortal, and you haven't caught those minor illnesses and disasters."

"You......" The woman stretched out her white index finger and tapped Wang Qi's eyebrows, and said, "Go, wash your hands and come back" Wang Qi promised to turn around and leave, a moment later, Wang Qi trotted back, his hands were still wet, and he couldn't wait to grab the meat bun again, the woman sighed lightly, shook her head helplessly, took out a pale pink handkerchief embroidered with lotus flowers, wiped Wang Qi's wet hand dry, and then handed the meat bun to Wang Qi, Wang Qi just got his hand and bit down, chewing the meat bun with a happy face, Looking at the eight children of all sizes who were happily gnawing on meat buns around him, Xia Xi sighed in his heart, and couldn't help but complain that he had limited ability and couldn't adopt them, so he could only send them some meat buns every few days, so that these children could also eat a hot and full meal.

She thought of Wang Qi saying that she was an immortal before, Xia Xi showed a somewhat mocking smile on her face, immortal? After a long road of cultivating immortals, he has just taken a little more than one step, and this is also an immortal? Thinking about it, Xia Xi began to wander the world, until the little girl pulled the corner of Xia Xi's clothes, Xia Xi came back to her senses, she squatted down and touched the little girl's head, smiled and said, "Little Eight, what's the matter with calling my sister?" The little girl said weakly, "Xia, Sister Xia Xi, is it okay to play with us for a while, Hachi, Hachi and his brothers have been wanting to play with her sister for a while" Xia Xi was stunned, glanced around, and found that the children around her had stopped gnawing on meat buns, and looked at Xia Xi with hope, that kind of look made Xia Xi's heart soft again, and nodded and agreed, "Okay, my sister will play with you for a while today" Hearing Xia Xi's promise, the children all jumped up, shouting words like "yes" and "great" in their mouths, Xia Xi smiled, A pair of eyes became crescents, very beautiful, as if the sun was shining a little.

That afternoon, Xia Xi has been playing with the children until the sunset in the evening, only a ray of afterglow shines on the world, Xia Xi waved goodbye to the children, and gradually disappeared into the corner of the street under their eyes, the children reluctantly returned to their home - a broken temple, the temple enshrined like a dilapidated only a pedestal remained, no one knows who was once enshrined there, the roof of the temple has a big hole, so it is a trouble to snow or rain anywhere, but the children don't care, after all, it is good to have a place to live, After all, they are just a group of little beggars, just like the tender grass on the side of the road, no one cares about it except Xia Xi, and they don't look up to it, so they used to fight with those big beggars for this broken temple, and in the end, Xia Xi came forward to teach the big beggars a lesson, and gave the big beggars some money, which settled the matter, and that was also the first encounter between Xia Xi and the children, and it was only since then that the connection was established, which is why Xia Xi brought meat buns from time to time to give alms......

At night, the children gathered together to cover a few broken quilts from well-wishers, and lay down one by one in the most sheltered place in the temple, the eldest Zhao Daqian Er lay on the outside, Wang Qi and Zheng Xiaoba lay in the middle, Wang Qi held Xiaoba in his arms, and used his body temperature to provide a little more warmth for Xiaoba, "Ah, Sister Xia Xi is so good, beautiful and kind, I have grown up, and when I grow up...... Hmph" Friday suddenly opened his mouth to break the calm of the night, this time, opened the children's chatterbox, Sun San Ying and said, "Yes, yes, Sister Xia Xi is so good, if I grow up in the future, if I marry a daughter-in-law, I will definitely marry her like that"

"Ha, third brother, can you pursue a little, then you will be satisfied?" Wu Liu laughed at Friday, and Friday was angry, "As long as you have a pursuit, you have a pursuit, what pursuit do you have, it is a blessing that you have been cultivating for several lifetimes to marry a woman like Sister Xia Xi, and this is not a pursuit?" Wang Qi said lightly, "Haha, third brother, you don't know, the sixth brother means that he will marry Sister Xia Xi in the future."

"Oh~" The children didn't care if they could see it or not, they all turned their heads to look at Wu Liu's position, and Wu Liu, who was lying next to Wang Qi, blushed in the dark, "What, what, I'm not right, don't tell me you don't think like this" Everyone said in unison, "No" The youngest Xiaoba poked his head out of Wang Qi's arms, "Shame, sixth brother is ashamed, giggle~" Wu Liu snorted and buried his head in the quilt, and said angrily, "Ignore you, it's necrotic"

"Alright, alright. Let's sleep, I'm still busy tomorrow, I remember that tomorrow the second child and Xiao Qi should go out" (going out, referring to going out to beg, the eight brothers and sisters have always been a larger one with a smaller one, the other larger ones have to go out to work, and the rest of the housekeepers) "Well, that's right" Wang Qi and Qian Er were silent when they replied, Zhao Da said, "Pay attention to safety tomorrow, I heard that there is a big family of gentlemen going out tomorrow, you be careful, hide, especially your second child, you must keep my hands on it, don't make trouble for me." After speaking, without waiting for Qian Er to refute, he half ordered, "Okay, go to bed now, no one is allowed to speak" The children gradually fell silent, leaving only the sound of breathing and the sound of Friday's grinding teeth, Sun San's whispering......

Xia Xi lay on the bed, thinking about the smiling faces of the children today, and sighed again, she didn't have any sleepiness at the moment, so she turned over and got out of bed, walked out of the door and walked by the lake outside her door, the moonlight was like water, it was the height of summer, so she could hear the loud cicadas, unconsciously, she had walked around the lake, so she sat on the ground, looked up at the moon, thought about the past, thought of her late master, and thought of the children in the broken temple.

"Life is really hard," she said to herself.