Chapter 2: The Return of the Father

Winter mornings always come so late, Li Xiangyuan was woken up by the gurgling sound of his stomach, got up and patted his stomach.

Fourteen or fifteen-year-old children are growing their bodies, how can a bowl of gruel be satisfied.

Li Xiangyuan put on his clothes and wanted to wake up his sister to cook and eat together, but when he opened the door of the side bedroom, a ray of sunlight in the early morning shone on Li Fenger's face through the window, perhaps this ray of sunshine brought a trace of warmth to this twelve-year-old girl, and the little girl's clenched fists relaxed a little.

Seeing that the little girl was sleeping sweetly, Li Xiangyuan was reluctant to wake up, carefully covered his sister with a quilt, walked out, and squatted in the yard.

Since Li Xiangyuan was five years old, his father asked Li Xiangyuan to walk and run with weights every morning. It's just to strengthen the body. Li Xiangyuan has always done this, but it has gradually become a habit, and he no longer needs his father's supervision.

"Brother, are you walking in Zama again on this cold day?" Li Feng'er said as she opened the door and popped out of a crack.

Li Xiangyuan smiled, "It's okay, my brother is used to it, why did you get up so early, girl?"

"It's not early! My brother is up! I'll cook for my brother."

"Okay, I'll finish eating and let the sheep go when the weather is warm."

That's when Knock... Knock··· The voice came from the entrance of the village, and Li Feng'er hurriedly ran out of the house when she heard the voice, "Brother, do you hear it?"

"Eun, my brother also heard it, it must be my father who is back, let's go and have a look. Then he took the little girl and ran towards the entrance of the village.

Originally, this bell was specially set up to welcome people returning from hunting. It is placed at the gate of the village, and whenever the hunters of the village return from hunting, they will ring this bell when they enter the village. This signifies their return.

Along the way, all the villagers rushed to the entrance of the village when they heard the bell, and everyone had excited and worried expressions on their faces. It may be difficult for this kind of expression to appear on one person's face at the same time, but at this moment, every villager does have this complex expression on his face.

They are about to see their long-lost relatives, and hope that they can bring back some prey, which will be food for every family to spend the winter, but they are afraid that the hunters will not have a harvest, otherwise this winter may not survive at all.

The hope of a long-lost loved one, and at the same time the desire for food and survival, coupled with the fear of dying without harvesting food. What about all of this on a person's face at the same time?

"Second Aunt Xu, don't worry, your son will definitely come back safely," Li Xiangyuan said when he saw a middle-aged woman crying and walking towards the entrance of the village.

"Auntie knows about the child, and Auntie is happy. When your father comes back, you don't have to starve, let's go together," Aunt Xu said, wiping her tears, and took the two children's hands and ran towards the entrance of the village.

When the three of them ran to the entrance of the village, the entrance of the village was already crowded, and there was a burst of laughter, and Li Xiangyuan's brother and sister suddenly saw the tall figure in the crowd.

The little girl left tears in her eyes and shouted excitedly, "Daddy, Daddy!" and ran towards the crowd. The figure in the crowd followed the voice and saw that it was the little girl, and a kind smile leaked from his face.

Crossed the crowd and came to the little girl, picked up the little girl, kissed the little girl on the forehead and said, "Haha, Feng'er misses her father," After speaking, she didn't look at the little girl's resentful little eyes, and nodded at me with a guilty expression.

Maybe at this moment, Li Xiangyuan didn't understand why his father showed a guilty expression, in Li Xiangyuan's heart, his father was great, he always took his father as an example, took the villagers to hunt, and was respected by the villagers.

Li Xiongtian knew that the villagers were waiting, so he didn't say anything to Li Xiangyuan, so he led the hunters to divide the various bears, wolves, and venison they hunted according to each household.

Maybe the needs of ordinary people are as simple as that, watching the hunters not only come back safely, but also harvest a lot, the excited expressions on everyone's faces can't be concealed.

The villagers happily chatted with each other happily with the meat in their hands: "Hey, this winter can be regarded as safe."

The crowd gradually dispersed, and the time passed unconsciously, and the sun set in the west, and the sky gradually got dark. There was an oil lamp made of burning grass in the house, but the small grass lamp illuminated the hut quite brightly.

Li Xiangyuan and Li Feng'er were constantly banging on the table in front of the dining table and waiting for the meal to start, they hadn't eaten meat for a long time, and the long-term rice porridge made the two children's craving for meat have reached a certain level.

Li Xiongtian quickly brought in a large pot of hot broth. The two of them drooled, and they didn't forget to say: "Fragrant, fragrant!" Not to mention Li Xiangyuan, even Li Feng'er, a little girl, didn't care about the girl's subtlety, the two of them picked up the dishes and chopsticks and ate them.

Li Xiongtian kept looking at the two children's eating appearances, and smiled without saying anything.

But he turned his head and frowned together, and he didn't know what he was thinking, as if he had made some great determination.

When the two of them had eaten almost, Li Xiongtian took out a box made of wood from his arms very carefully, and the two who were full of food also looked at Li Xiongtian in a daze, Li Xiangyuan rarely looked at his father so cautiously, and he didn't dare to ask.

Li Xiongtian cautiously opened the wooden box, but he didn't expect that there was a layer of delicate jade box inside, but when he opened the jade box, it was a black thing similar to ginseng.

Li Feng'er looked at this black thing and said, "Daddy, what is this? It's black, it can't be eaten when you look at it, is it used to make toys?"

"Daddy, if you use this as a toy, I don't want it!" After speaking, he ignored Li Xiongtian's beard-blowing and gnashing teeth, and drank the broth again.

Li Xiangyuan didn't dare to speak when he looked at his father's cannibalistic expression, but in his heart, he was inseparable from his sister's thoughts. But looking at his father's expression, he definitely can't say it, if he really says that, it would be light to be scolded. If you don't know it, you'll give him a head shot, and it would be miserable to fix it.

Li Xiongtian was angry and angry, and he knew that he couldn't complain about the two children. Not to mention Li Feng'er, even the fourteen-year-old Li Xiangyuan followed Li Xiongtian to Dragon Slaying Town last year because he wanted to sell animal skins or something.

That was because Li Xiang had been pestering Li Xiongtian for several days before taking him there. So how can you possibly know about heaven and earth treasures and the like?

In this world, small towns like Dragon Slaying Town can be seen everywhere, and they can't be counted, let alone a small village!

People in such a small place can open a medical hall if they know a little about ordinary herbs and understand pharmacology, and they are respected by the people, how can they have the knowledge of heaven and earth, let alone know the high-ranking cultivators.

Getting back to the point, Li Xiongtian looked at the two of them and said, "This is 'ground ginseng'." Li Xiongtian knew that the two children definitely didn't know what ground ginseng was.

So he continued: "The so-called ginseng is a mutant type of common ginseng, but it is very different from ginseng, ginseng is only used by mortals to live longer and treat the disease every year, while ginseng is different, it is used by 'mysteries', that is, cultivators, so that cultivators can increase the probability of breakthrough by two layers when breaking through the mysteries. For example, when a cultivator breaks through the mystery, one is a mystic person who has taken ground ginseng, and the other is a mystic person who has not taken it, so the mystic person who has taken ground ginseng has two layers more probability than a cultivator who has not taken ground ginseng" After speaking, Li Xiangyuan and the two of them were silent.

Li Xiangyuan and Li Feng'er may not know how valuable ginseng is, but they know about ginseng, and I still remember that two years ago, a hunter surnamed Qian in the village accidentally picked up a ginseng and sold it to a rich family in the town for 500 taels of silver.

Later, the family moved to the town, and it is said that a tavern was opened. In the first two years, it was the hottest topic in the village. For this reason, many people went to the place where they picked up ginseng to search, but after searching for several months, there was still no result.

Li Xiangyuan's eyes lit up and stared at the ginseng and said, "Dad, you said that this ginseng will not be worth more than that ginseng."

And Li Feng'er also looked at the ginseng in a daze, and she didn't think he was black, the corners of her mouth drooled, and she didn't know what she thought of deliciously.

But the two of them forgot that Li Xiongtian also mentioned that this ginseng was for cultivators. Even before they, mortals, took out the ginseng and bought it, they were killed and robbed.

Li Xiangyuan didn't know this point, but Li Xiongtian knew it very well. So when he heard the words of the two children, he slapped Li Xiangyuan's head without saying a word.

Li Xiangyuan knew that he was wrong after being slapped in the face, but he just rubbed his beaten head.

Li Xiongtian looked at Li Xiangyuan and looked like he was admitting his mistake before he gave up and said, "Hey, my father may be able to tell you something." In the end, it's up to you how you choose." (End of chapter)