"It is said that Gu Shiyu, the white-clothed sword god back then, resisted the barbarian army with the strength of one person, and could make the wind and clouds change color with a wave of his sleeves, and the tip of the sword pointed to the thunder. ”

In the teahouse, the storyteller is telling stories like a river.

"Thanks to all the guest officers for their faces, the little old man will talk about Gu Jianshen's extraordinary life!"

......

Li Xuetian listened to it with relish in the audience, fantasizing that one day he could cultivate and become a strong man, and his life experience was made up into a story that has been passed down through the ages.

"Okay, you kid! Don't listen to the class obediently in the school, and secretly run out to listen to people!"

Li Xuetian's fantasy was rudely interrupted, and before he could react, he was dragged out of the teahouse by his ears.

"Shhhhh

"Hahaha, Widow Li, I'm here to catch your snow baby again!"

When others saw this scene, they laughed and coaxed:

"I see, just break his leg so that he won't be disobedient. ”

"Go, go, go, I can't serve him if I break my leg, and I still count on him to give me a pension!"

Li Xuetian begged for mercy: "Mother, let go, I know it's wrong!"

"You know your mistakes every time, but you don't repent every time! I still hope that you can make a good career in your studies, and you will shine on the lintel of the Li family in the future, who knows that you are this virtue!"

Widow Li said angrily, slapping Li Xuetian on the head, this disobedient kid really broke her heart.

"I ......"

......

Widow Li's name is Li Yuanshu, and she is the shopkeeper of a carved shop in the town. The carving of the Li family is an ancestral craft, and the people of ten miles and eight towns are full of praise.

Speaking of which, Li Yuanshu's life experience is also pitiful. When she was thirteen years old, her parents went out to do business, and they were attacked by water monsters and both died, leaving her little girl struggling to support the carved shop. Fortunately, she inherited her craft well, and slowly turned the business of the shop around, and survived strongly.

Who knew that at the age of seventeen, he recruited a junior son-in-law, but he was a liar, stole her money and eloped with someone, causing her to be laughed at a lot.

Of course, what is even more unfortunate is that Li Yuanshu picked up such a son as Li Xuetian. One morning fourteen years ago, she happened to run to the winter garden to enjoy the snow, and saw an abandoned baby on the road, and saw that he was extremely pitiful in the ice and snow......

I really regret thinking about it, I have such a burden, and I fed him with a handful of and urine, but in the end I was actually a disobedient boy!

......

Li Yuanshu dragged Li Xuetian home and locked him in the yard to prevent him from running around, hoping that he could study hard while she took care of the business in the shop.

Li Xuetian was bored and teasing the two big dogs in the yard when he heard a crisp sound coming from the wall.

"Hehe, Li Daring, I'm being beaten again today!"

It was Xia Linglan, a little girl in the courtyard next door, who was sent to the martial arts hall by her parents since she was a child, and she was quite talented, and now she has received admission to Wuling Academy in Honghe County, and she will be able to study immediately.

"No, my mother is reluctant to beat me!"

Li Xuetian thought to himself, if his mother sent him to the martial arts hall, he would definitely be more powerful than this little girl.

"Liar, I saw you coming back all the way back with your aunt's ears!"

"It doesn't hurt ......"

Li Xuetian said with a red face, in fact, it still hurts.

"What are you doing climbing so high, come down and talk to me. ”

"I don't dare, your two big dogs are too fierce. ”

"No, you see, they're good!"

Li Xuetian teased the dog, but was licked and saliva.

Xia Linglan shook her head and said, "They always bark at night, and I can't sleep because of the noise." ”

"Yes, why can't I hear it?"

"You're probably a pig!"

"Okay, why are you scolding me!"

Li Xuetian was displeased, and the fact that he couldn't hear the sound only meant that he had a good quality of sleep, and he slept until dawn, and others were still envious!

"Goodbye, I won't tell you, girls don't look good on the wall. ”

Xia Linglan waved her hand and jumped back to her yard.

"Hmph, what's so proud, if I practice martial arts, I can jump so high. ”

Li Xuetian was envious, jealous and hateful. He has wanted to cultivate since he was a child, but his mother disagreed, saying that cultivation was too tiring, and it was very dangerous to fight and kill. It's better to study literature, and maybe you can get a top score.

He was lying on the bench bored, speaking of which, he had never left Riverbend since he was a child, what was the outside world like?

As soon as I turned my head, I saw the locked courtyard door, alas, I couldn't get out of the yard and talked about looking at the outside world.

"Sister Lan!"

Li Xuetian shouted towards the courtyard next door:

"Can you do me a favor?"

"What are you doing?" replied Xia Linglan, who was in the courtyard next door.

"I want to go to your yard, and you pull me. ”

"No, my aunt will blame me when she comes back!"

"No, if you don't say she won't know, and I'll just go out and play for a while, and then sneak back when the time comes!"

"Not good"

"That's it!" Li Xuetian held a small wooden ball in his hand, and said with determination, "Don't you always think that my carved fragrant wood is very beautiful, pull me out and I'll give it to you!"

"Hmm......" The courtyard over there hesitated slightly, "Then what if my aunt asks about your fragrant wood?"

"I'll just say I lost it. ”

"Okay!" The little girl jumped on the wall and stretched out her hand to Li Xuetian, "Can you catch me?"

Seeing this, Li Xuetian started to sprint and jump, but he was still a little behind.

"Stupid, you don't know how to move the stool!"

"That's what I'm going to do, don't remind me!"

“......”

Li Yuanshu was carving a delicate fan in the shop, and sighed when she thought of her son at home.

"Alas, my son is not angry, and there is no hope for being a mother. ”

"Widow Li, just now I came from West Street and saw your stupid son playing with the girl from Lao Xia's family. An acquaintance walked by on the street and said to her, "The girl of the old Xia family is good, she is smart, and she is also handsome." ”

Stinky boy, I really can't stay at home.

"The girl is going to Wuling Academy, I'm afraid that stupid boy in my family is not worthy of it. ”

Li Yuanshu shook her head, she had heard of Wuling Academy in Honghe County, but it was not an ordinary academy, and the most disadvantaged person who came out of it in the future was also a little monk, where would she be able to look down on Xuewa.

"It is said that childhood sweethearts are the most memorable and hopeful. ”

Li Yuanshu smiled and said: "I don't dare to think like that, I just want to earn more money and ask for Xuewa's wife, and my wife doesn't have to be too good-looking, as long as she can give birth." ”

After carving the fan, she began to carve with a pipe, and it was not for her stupid son to be so busy. I don't know if Li Xuetian was stupid because he was frozen in the snow when he was a child, and his head always seemed to be lacking tendons.

......

In the evening, Li Xuetian and Xia Linglan were still wandering on the street.

"Xuetian, if you don't listen to me when I urge you early, you will definitely be beaten if you go back so late. ”

Li Xuetian didn't say a word, and he was a little stunned. I enjoyed watching the play in the pear orchard before, where did I care what Lily of the Valley said.

"But it's okay, you'll cry when the time comes, and your aunt will be reluctant to beat you if she is soft-hearted. When Lily of the Valley saw that he was afraid, she comforted him.

"A manly man does not shed blood and tears, so I do not cry. ”

"Yo!

"Of course!"

When Li Xuetian returned home, Li Yuanshu was already waiting for him.

"I'm willing to come back, let's eat!"

"Oh"

Unexpectedly, Li Yuanshu didn't hit him, but she was a little helpless. Li Xuetian thought to himself, sure enough, his mother still loves him.

"Lan Mei'er will leave Hewan Town and go to Wuling in a few days. Li Yuanshu put a piece of fish meat in his bowl and said tentatively, "The family has moved, and they may not come back." ”

Hewan Town also belongs to Honghe County, but it is more than 300 miles away from Wuling.

"I know!" Li Xuetian was so hungry that his mouth was stuffed with food and said vaguely, "Lan Mei'er told me." ”

Li Yuanshu was a little annoyed when she saw his indifferent look, and then she was relieved, after all, her son has always been so virtuous.