Time flies, the sun and the moon are like a shuttle, and in a blink of an eye, Liu Ruotian is already five years old. And in the first month of this year, he ushered in the first soul transformation in his life.

At this time, it was winter, and the ground and steps in front of Liu Ruotian's house were full of snowflakes, and he was only five years old with one hand on his head, sitting on the steps in front of the door and smirking.

"Hey, hey, hey...... Hehehe...... Hahaha...... "Occasionally, pedestrians or neighbors pass by Liu Ruotian, and when they see him giggling inexplicably, everyone will inevitably mumble in their hearts while being puzzled. I thought, what kind of hysteria is this child having? Is it a fool?

In such a long five years, Liu Ruotian has been sleeping, all day long, listless.

The brave and optimistic Liu Ruotian seems to have left him, replaced by a soulless shell. At this time, he was already in the whirlpool of despair and helplessness, and gradually lost himself.

Liu Ruotian opened his arms to catch the snowflakes dancing in the wind, and although his hands had lost sensation due to excessive cold, he was still reluctant to step into the house. He still couldn't believe that everything in front of him was real, and how he wished it was just a dream. But the white snowflakes and the biting cold wind used their special ways to tell Liu Ruotian over and over again that this was not a dream!

"Brother Ruotian, why are you sitting here alone? It's so cold, what if you catch a cold? You'd better hurry home! Liu Ruotian heard the voice and looked down to see that Mei Yuchen had already appeared beside him.

Mei Yuchen took Liu Ruotian's almost frozen hands and asked him to go back to the house to rest, but Liu Ruotian pushed Mei Yuchen to the ground without saying a word. The mud and snow on the ground immediately stained her clothes, and Mei Yuchen didn't say anything after getting up, turned around and ran in the direction of her house crying.

Looking at Mei Yuchen's distant back, Liu Ruotian felt remorseful in his heart: "Yuchen is so sensible at a young age, she is doing this for my good, how can I treat her like this?" ”

The reason why Liu Ruotian is so reckless is because he has always been obsessed with his parents' finger marriage. I'm afraid that if I am too good to Mei Yuchen, if Mei Yuchen has feelings for me, it will be even more difficult if I want to regret marriage when I grow up. Because of this, he deliberately alienated Mei Yuchen, and even repeatedly acted excesses.

The more Liu Ruotian thought about it, the more he regretted it, so he decided to follow and have a look. When Liu Ruotian came to the door of Mei Yuchen's house, he found that she was sitting on the steps in front of the door crying. Liu Ruotian was about to come forward to apologize, but he saw Jiading walking out of the Mei Mansion with Mei Jiaxing, so Liu Ruotian hid back in the corner and continued to watch.

"Sister, what's wrong with you?" Mei Jiaxing saw Mei Yuchen crying, and stopped and asked.

Mei Yuchen tried the water from the corner of her eyes and sobbed and said, "Sister is fine, let's read quickly!" ”

Mei Jiaxing saw that Mei Yuchen's clothes were full of mud and snow, so he asked again: "Sister, what's wrong with you?" Did someone bully you? ”

"It's okay, brother, don't worry, I just accidentally fell down just now." Mei Yuchen explained.

Liu Ruotian originally thought that Mei Yuchen would tell what happened just now, but she didn't expect her to say a word. When Liu Ruotian heard this, he was even more embarrassed.

Although Mei Jiaxing is only five years old, he is also very sensible. He saw that Mei Yuchen was covered in mud and his face was full of tears, and he thought that something must have happened, so he ran into the house and called Zhao Xiaolu out.

When Zhao Xiaolu saw her baby daughter like this, she asked her the reason, but Mei Yuchen still did not tell Zhao Xiaolu the real reason. In this way, Liu Ruotian's heart was even more uncomfortable, and he hid in the corner and fell into contemplation.

"If only I could go to the school like them and read and write!" Mei Yuchen was envious when she saw that all the boys of her age in the neighborhood could go to the school to study.

"Silly boy, girls don't need to learn knowledge, we just need to do our part well." Zhao Xiaolu said to Mei Yuchen.

"Why can my brother go to school to read and write, but I can't? What should we do? ”

"This ......" Facing Mei Yuchen's questioning, Zhao Xiaolu didn't know how to answer for a while. When she was young, she said to Mei Yuchen: "When you grow up in the future, you will understand everything, in short, this is the case, girls just can't learn knowledge." ”

After Zhao Xiaolu finished saying this, Mei Yuchen didn't say anything again, looking very sad.

The conversation between their mother and daughter was heard clearly by Liu Ruotian, and Liu Ruotian said very unconvinced: "Hmph, what kind of girl can't learn knowledge, what annoys me Liu Ruotian the most is patriarchy!" ”

Liu Ruotian turned around and glanced at Mei Yuchen in front of the door, and the moment he saw Mei Yuchen's eyes, Liu Ruotian's heart was deeply touched by her affectionate eyes. In addition to the deep thirst for knowledge in her eyes, there is more sadness and incomprehension, and even despair. It was this look that made Liu Ruotian think a lot, and it also made his long-dormant soul gradually wake up.

Under the influence of this incident, Liu Ruotian suddenly changed his previous negative practice of being tired of studying and avoiding the world, and returned home silently. A few days later, he carried his schoolbag and entered the school, and Liu Ruotian's parents were very happy to see this. Liu Ruotian was reluctant to enter the academy at first, but in order to let Mei Yuchen learn the knowledge he dreamed of, Liu Ruotian resolutely changed his previous thoughts.

Since then, Liu Ruotian has been studying diligently day and night, and soon became the hardest working of many students, and is often highly praised by Mr. Teaching. Although it was very hard for a long time, Liu Ruotian had no complaints. In the following ten years, whenever he had free time, Liu Ruotian would take the initiative to find Mei Yuchen and teach her all the knowledge he had learned that day, just like a "little adult". Their respective parents were very happy to see that the two of them got along so well.

As time went by, everyone found that Liu Ruotian had more and more "shining points". But people can't be perfect, and Liu Ruotian is the same, there must always be some shortcomings in him, such as being "nosy".

In fact, it's not so much nosy as it is love to fight. However, whether it is nosy or uneven, you must do what you can. And an incident that happened in the middle of summer when Liu Ruotian was ten years old made him experience the second soul transformation in his life.

One morning in August 722 A.D., the weather was fine with a light breeze. Liu Ruotian, Mei Yuchen and Mei Jiaxing were playing in the alley not far from their homes.

Suddenly, I saw two guards chasing a little beggar in rags who was unarmed with knives, and the little beggar slipped and fell to the ground, and the guards caught up with him and punched and kicked him. The two guards beat him while still muttering that they would tell you to steal something, see if you dare in the future, little rabbit, I think you are tired of living or something.

Seeing this scene, Mei Yuchen and Mei Jiaxing were frightened, and only Liu Ruotian hurriedly stepped forward to stop them. Unexpectedly, those two guards were so blind that they even had to fight Liu Ruotian. Although Liu Ruotian is good, he is still too young after all, so he was cut in the left shoulder with a steel knife by one of the guards. The two guards saw that they were in trouble, so they hurried away.

Liu Ruotian rescued the little beggar, but he almost died of injuring his left shoulder artery. A few days later, Liu Ruotian woke up from a coma to find that the little beggar had changed into new clothes. After chatting carefully, Liu Ruotian learned that he was taking care of himself in the past few days, and the little beggar told him his life experience when he saw Liu Ruotian being so righteous.

It turned out that his name was Li Yuqi, a native of Huazhou, whose parents died when he was a child, and he has been dependent on his elderly grandfather since then. When he was ten years old, his grandfather died of illness, and Li Yuqi, who had no relatives and no reason, began his long and arduous career of begging. In the past four years, he has traveled to many places and tried to find a job to make ends meet, but because he is too young to do heavy work, he earns very little money. A few days ago, he came to Chang'an City, thinking that he was old enough to find a job, but people thought he was dressed in tatters and an orphan, and he was afraid that he would carry some infectious diseases and endanger others, so no one was willing to take him in.

That morning, Li Yuqi was wandering on the streets, so hungry that she couldn't do it. When he passed by the gate of the Guogong Mansion, he saw a sea of people inside, as if he was doing a happy event. Li Yuqi saw that the table in the courtyard was full of snacks, so he wanted to sneak in and eat it. He finally entered the courtyard, and before he could pick up a piece of snack and put it in his arms, he was discovered by the guards. Li Yuqi wanted to put down the dim sum and leave, but he didn't expect the two guards to chase after him, and finally ran into the alley where Liu Ruotian was by mistake, which led to everything that happened later.

Liu Ruotian was deeply sympathetic when he learned of this, he saw that Li Yuqi had a pitiful background and had nowhere to go, and he was very close to him, so he decided to marry Li Yuqi as a brother with a different surname.

After Li Yuqi heard this, he repeatedly shirked, he thought that his status was low and he didn't dare to climb high, but where could he be strong against Liu Ruotian, and he still agreed after several excuses. Since then, the two have lived in the same room, and gradually they have become close friends who talk about everything. Because Li Yuqi is four years older than Liu Ruotian, Liu Ruotian calls him the eldest brother.

After this catastrophe, Liu Ruotian deeply realized that no matter what he does in the future, he must do what he can, and he must no longer act recklessly as before.

For some reason, when I was a child, time always passed so quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was 727 AD.

One morning in the early spring of this year, Liu Ruotian changed out of his heavy winter clothes, sat on the stool in a daze, looked at the familiar face in the bronze mirror, and said to himself: "I like to wear ancient costumes since I was a child, this is good, you can wear enough!" ”

"Brother Xian is really born with a good appearance, it can really be said that Yushu is in the wind, my brother and sister will definitely like it when they see it!" Li Yuqi on the side exclaimed.

"Oh, big brother, don't make fun of me! If others don't understand me, don't you know me? I'm worried about this, and I think she's going to know about it now. ”

"That's a good thing, what's there to worry about? Sooner or later, you have to go through this step, just calm down. Li Yuqi persuaded him.

Because Liu Ruotian told Li Yuqi about the marriage of his fingertips, Li Yuqi called Mei Yuchen his younger brother and sister here. In Li Yuqi's opinion, this is a good thing, although he is not married, there is nothing wrong with calling him so. But Liu Ruotian didn't think so, seeing that the matter was in front of him, what would Liu Ruotian do? Let's wait and see!