One evening, another rain fell in front of him, and Lu Xiao, who was already twelve years old, was cleaning in the private school with a broom in his hand. Lu Xiao carefully shuttled around the desk, sweeping away the dirt left on the ground intentionally or unintentionally by the children who came here to study during the day. After sweeping the floor, Lu Xiao had to bring a bucket of water to wipe each desktop with a rag and tidy up the books on the table, so that today's task could be completed.

However, this job was requested by Lu Xiao on his own initiative.

After doing this, Lu Xiao stood at the door of the private school and quietly watched the rain fall into the courtyard, and remembered the adobe courtyard six years ago, a similar scene, but the rain had been raining for more than two months. Except for the north, the whole Luoxia Island was flooded, and it is said that very few people survived, almost not one in ten. But those who survived felt from the bottom of their hearts that it was the blessing of the gods that allowed them to survive in this catastrophe, so when they were terrified in their hearts, they still thought that when they stabilized, they must rebuild the temple for the gods and sing praises so that the gods can have more new believers.

The water in the village has flooded many villagers' homes due to the heavy rain, so the villagers discussed fleeing to the north, which is high and should not be flooded. It's okay to come back when the water recedes, at least it's better than being surrounded by water here. At that time, the village chief also felt that this was the case, after all, people's lives are the most important thing. As long as there are people, the house can still be built if it is gone, at least the roots of the Seven Sturgeon Lu family will not be broken.

With the call of the village chief, basically every family in the village responded, so at this moment, the villagers in Qicun Village are in full swing to prepare dry food and luggage to go north. At this time, the relationship between the families is also more harmonious than ever, like everyone is together to overcome difficulties, but it is also the same.

But just when the families were busy, the pretty aunt who had just been promoted to the Tufeng Temple Temple in the village was like a crazy person, and she was not ready to flee, she wore a hat, waded through the water in her knee-high socket, and held a brass gong in the temple in her hand, while knocking, while shouting loudly to each family on the main road in the village: "Don't be afraid, Feng Niangniang in our temple will bless us! Feng Niangniang entrusted me with a dream last night: Feng Niangniang will appear soon, and within three days, the rain will stop, the water will recede, and everything will return to the same as before!" Don't go, everyone! If you leave, Feng Niangniang won't bless us when the time comes!" Aunt Qiao worked tirelessly, going door to door to tell everyone in the village about her being entrusted with her dream, and some old people also listened to it, and they retreated in their hearts, but more of them were younger laborers, and when they heard Aunt Qiao's words, they all sneered.

"Does it make sense for you to listen to Aunt Qiao?

"Isn't that buried in the temple? I don't believe it!"

"If you listen to her, our whole family will definitely die here!"

"Let her go, let's go ours, the two have nothing to do with each other!"

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The camphor tree stood firm in the rainstorm, but the raindrops the size of soybeans knocked down countless green leaves, mixed with some branches hanging red silk.

In the small courtyard behind the ancient tree, the old farmer Lu Lin was constantly loading the wooden cart with dry food to eat on the road, after all, I don't know how long it would take to stop when I went to the north, the road was far away, and it was very important for those who had to eat to escape! Lu Lin insisted on taking down all the emergency food stored on the beams of the hall and house, and also instructed his two sons to quickly load it up and not to drag it.

Lu Dajin, who has returned to normalcy, is now the most capable laborer in the whole family, Lu Zhongyin hastily buried Luo Hui yesterday, and it was too late to fall into sadness again, first thinking of his son now only relying on himself, thinking of this, Lu Zhongyin has regained some vitality a little, but the strength in his body has not recovered yet, and it will take some time. Regarding the rebirth of his nephew Lu Xiao, Lu Zhongyin is surprisingly nervous, he thinks it is a good thing, after all, the eldest brother's family will no longer be as lifeless as before, and the family will be better.

The old woman Li who was packing up her clothes in the house, like some other old women in the village, was a faithful believer in Feng Niangniang in the temple, and at this moment her heart was conflicted, and the words that Aunt Qiao said made the old woman Li feel that staying in the village was the only way to survive.

The enlightened old woman Li immediately threw down the clothes that were still folded in her hand, walked to the hall and said to Lu Lin: "Old man, why don't we go! I think Feng Niangniang will definitely manifest herself! Just like letting Xiao'er come back, this rain will definitely stop as Aunt Qiao said!"

Lu Lin took a deep look at the old woman Li and said in a low voice: "When has this happened! You are still talking about this! Look at this water has flooded into the house, you still expect to rely on Feng Niangniang in the temple to manifest her spirit? If Feng Niangniang could manifest her spirit, shouldn't she have manifested her spirit long ago? Do you have to wait until this time? Hurry up and load things, and when we arrive in Xiadi Town, Feng Niangniang will manifest herself! We are worshiping her!"

When the old woman Li was speechless for a while, and when she didn't know how to answer, the pretty aunt with a hat on her head outside the door, her feet swimming in the water, and the gong was floating on the water, and she couldn't knock it. Aunt Qiao walked up to the old woman Li and said, "Old Li, you hurry up and persuade Lin Lao and them! This Feng Niangniang is about to manifest herself! If she leaves at this time, Feng Niangniang will be angry! In the future, whether Feng Niangniang will appear again and bless our village is not certain! At this time, you can think clearly!"

The old woman Li was already conflicted in her heart, and after listening to what Aunt Qiao said, she took out a chair and sat down in the middle of the door of the hall, and said, "I tell you, let's not leave! Feng Niangniang will definitely bless our family to avoid this big water!" Aunt Qiao saw that the old woman Li was like this, and hurriedly went out of the courtyard and went to the next house.

The old farmer Lu Lin sighed and gave his eldest son Lu Lin a look, Lu Lin said to the old woman Li while loading the grain: "Mother, we have to go, stay here, we really can't live!"

The old woman Li spoke firmly, as if Feng Niangniang in the temple had given a reassuring pill, and said word by word: "Feng Niangniang will definitely manifest her spirit!

Seeing this, Lu Dajin and his younger brother Lu Zhongyin looked at each other, and the two brothers immediately stopped persuading and stepped up the speed of packing up their things. Liu Cui, who gave Lu Dajin a hand on the side, was still in a trance, especially every time he saw the swaddling clothes that were changed from Lu Xiao's old clothes, he would inevitably run back to the room in fear, as if he was stunned.

Lu Dajin had no choice but to let Lu Xiao hold Lu Cong in his swaddling clothes and wait on the side, trying not to dangle in front of Liu Cui's eyes.

After packing up all the things that could be taken on the road and covering them with rainproof kraft paper and tying them tightly, the two brothers, Lu Dajin and Lu Zhongyin, saw the old woman Li who was still sitting at the gate, and they were in trouble for a while, so they had to look at the old father Lu Lin, who knew that the old woman Li was extremely stubborn, harder than a cow's horns. I had to whisper to the two brothers: "Carry your mother and others to the car." ”

The two brothers said yes, but now they had to move the old woman at the door first, push the cart into the yard, and then put the ox that the old father had brought from the side house on a yoke and bolt it to the front of the cart. The two brothers fixed the canopy tied up with bamboo poles on the cart, and then carried their old mother, Mrs. Li, with a chair, to the empty space left on the cart.

Lu Zhongyin picked up Lu Xiao and asked him to take Lu Cong to sit in the middle of the cart, while Liu Cui took out all the clothes and hats at home and asked everyone to put them on, and then the family was about to go out with an ox cart, but the old woman Li on the car was still a little stunned, but at this moment she suddenly jumped down, rushed into the hall, and closed the door tightly, Lu Dajin and Lu Zhongyin The two brothers hurriedly shouted: "Mother! What are you doing! Come out quickly, don't compete! Let's take advantage of the dawn to hurry up and make a lot of roads!"

The old woman Li in the door was not afraid at all, and her pious voice passed through the wooden door: "You don't believe in Feng Niangniang, I believe it! I can't let Feng Niangniang see no one in our house when she manifests her spirit, and it hurts Feng Niangniang's heart! I won't leave! I'm going to wait for Feng Niangniang here, I want to go!"

Lu Dajin hesitated slightly, looked at his father Lu Lin helplessly and said, "This... ”

Lu Lin stomped his feet, then turned around and took out a bag of grain from under the brown paper, knocked on the door with the copper cigarette stick in his hand, and then said to the old woman Li: "Old woman, you have to stay here and stay here, you can wait for Feng Niangniang to come at home with peace of mind, there is a bag of grain here, I will hang the door for you, you will take it in later, in addition, there are two jars of life-saving food in the partition made of the innermost wooden board of the beam in our room, you will eat there after you finish eating this bag of grain, you know? Maybe we will come back at that time." ”

The old woman Li inside the door did not make a sound, and seemed to be a little angry.

After Lu Lin hung the grain on the door, he sighed again, straightened the clothes on his body, and then waved his hand to let Lu Dajin drive off in the ox cart.

After a few people left the courtyard, the old woman Li opened the door, took off the bag of grain on the door, and reluctantly shed tears in her red eyes.

Lu Dajin led the ox cart, Lu Zhongyin was on the left side, Lu Lin and his daughter-in-law Liu Cui were on the right side, and the two children were sitting in the car.

Lu Zhongyin wanted to look back at the adobe courtyard where he had grown up, but unfortunately he couldn't see it anymore, and he could only see through the rain curtain that some of the tops of the hundred-year-old trees were holding on in the wind, but before they took two steps out of the village, there was a sudden sound, and the top of the tree fell.

Lu Zhongyin had mixed feelings when he saw this, his daughter-in-law Luo Hui was no longer there, and now that his home was gone, it seemed that all he could do was to do his best to protect his son from growing up safely, Lu Zhongyin secretly made an agreement with himself in his heart!

Lu Zhongyin, who was a little sentimental, turned his head and saw that the son in Lu Xiao's arms was sleeping, and the heavy rain didn't seem to have any effect on him, and he was still sleeping so soundly. Lu Xiao also asked Lu Zhongyin why he gave his cousin the name Lu Cong, at that time, Lu Zhongyin's bloodshot eyes suddenly had a hint of a smile, and said: "This name was thought of by your aunt when she was pregnant, and she told me that she had heard that Luoxiazhou had a kind of jade made of Cong jade, which was extremely rare, but very beautiful, so your aunt thought that if the child took this name, she would definitely look good when she grew up in the future!

Although Lu Xiao, who looked like a child, didn't quite understand the meaning given by Lu Zhongyin and his aunt Luo Hui in this name, he still nodded and remembered it in his heart, so that he could understand the meaning of this in the future.

In this way, the family who went to the unknown north to take refuge in the wind and rain, and when they walked to the main road of the neighboring town, they also met many people who thought the same way as them. As more and more people fled, it gradually converged into a dark stream of people, swimming against the current in this flooded land, which could be clearly seen even from the sky.

After half a month of northward travel, the rain has not stopped, but the water on the main road has dropped to the calf, but it still can't stop, and it has to continue to the higher Xiadi town in the north of Luoxiazhou until there is no water.

The topography of Luoxiazhou is high in the north and low in the south, high in the surrounding and low in the middle, like a huge soup spoon. At this moment, the place where the spoon was serving the soup had been completely submerged, and the turbid and yellowing flood was tumbling in it, and there were countless dead bodies in it, or frightened, or helpless, or angry... Floating in this flood with such different faces, ups and downs, floating with it, not knowing where to go.

After a month of northward travel, the rain did not stop, and the water on the road dropped to the ankle again, and the whole fleeing team was a little happy here, and the cheerful atmosphere quietly spread in it, and many smiling faces that had not been seen for a long time began to infect each other, as if they were about to see the dawn of victory.

When the team was resting, someone suddenly shouted in a place in the crowd: "Mother, Dad, what's wrong with you? You talk! Look at me! Come and save my father!" It was a skinny girl who shouted, and the girl covered in black frantically cast her eyes in all directions for help, but for a while, no one was willing to stand up to help her.

After a long while, a middle-aged man who looked like Lang Zhong hurriedly came with a medicine box, and after he checked it, his face immediately showed a look of horror, and he hurriedly said to the people around him: "Plague! This is an epidemic! The plague is coming!" Lang Zhong ran as he spoke, lest he be infected with the plague here, and the people who fled around him hurriedly put away their things and hurriedly left this place of right and wrong.

Only the girl sat on her knees on the edge of the tent her parents had set up, looking at her dead parents, and letting the rain wet her.

The news of the plague in the team spread rapidly to the entire team at a speed of ten and ten to hundred, and suddenly the whole team was still in order, but now it looked like a plate of loose sand from the sky, and almost everyone was speeding towards the north, regardless of whether there was room for so many people on the road.

During this time of extreme panic, countless people were trampled to death, or killed because of scramble. A few days later, the entire team was less than half the size of the previous one, and there was a plague in the midst of which continued to infect those who survived.

After the two brothers Lu Dajin and Lu Zhongyin learned of the plague, they discussed it and then left the main road. I walked on a strange path, and finally went around a small hill, cut down some trees, leaned against the side of the mountain and set up a shelter to keep out the rain, intending to take shelter here for a while, so as not to be mixed into the panic on the road.

Liu Cui was counting the remaining grain, and after clearing it, he said to Lu Lin: "Dad, we don't have much food!"

Lu Lin exhaled a puff of smoke and said, "Then let's drink porridge first! There should be some wild animals on this mountain, see if we can hunt something and make up for some food." ”

Liu Cui nodded immediately, washed the copper pot he was carrying with him by the rain, and then poured some rice with water and put it aside. About a tea time, Liu Cui wasted the boss's strength to light the fire, the fire burned on the wet wood that had been dried, and suddenly the smoke was billowing out, and Liu Cui, who was smoked, couldn't open his eyes, so he had to squint and pick up the copper pot on the side and boil it on the fire, and the smoke bypassed the copper pot, passed through the mountains and forests, and rose to mid-air and melted into the rain.

In the next half month, relying on the wild things on the mountain, the family was quite passable, and Liu Cui deliberately cut the amount of food when cooking, after all, they had to go on the road again, and the food could only be left for more food to eat on the road.

Because of the heavy rain and the strong wind between the mountains and forests, the old father Lu Lin contracted typhoid fever, and his body was not as good as day by day, and his appetite has been declining for half a month, until today, Lu Lin seems to know that his limit is approaching, and he can't eat at all, so he has to say to the two brothers: "When I die, bury me on the ground! Make a mark, and come back to my hometown in the future to move me back!" The two brothers nodded tearfully.

At night, Lu Lin's soul returned to Jiuquan, left the suffering world, and drifted into the heavy rain to find his wife.

In the ghost domain, the Huangquan Road in the outer region was occupied by ghost fires, and the flowers on the other side of the road also increased a lot and bloomed more vigorously.

The judge's pen in Judge Lu's hand has not stopped for the past few days, and he has been writing and marking in the book of life and death, until he is summoned by the king of Hades halfway, and he leaves the affairs in his hand to the other three judges who have not been on duty for a year.

Hades's previous troubles have not been dealt with, and at this time, the dungeon is surrounded by ghost fires in three layers inside, three layers outside, and Hades's head is bigger again, it was already bigger than his body before, and now it accounts for two-thirds of his body, looking strange and infiltrating.

When Lu Juan came, the king of Hades asked angrily, "Is this another natural disaster in the world?"

Lu Juan nodded, spread the book of life and death in his hand, sighed and said: "Luoxia Continent has been raining heavily for months, and the south of the entire continent has become an ocean, and the number of people who can survive is estimated to be less than one-tenth of the number before the rainstorm." ”

The king of Hades took a deep breath and said angrily: "It's really strange! An inexplicable natural disaster, although I have found out that Luoxia Continent is a victim of some great traitors and evildoers, and the way of heaven is impermanent, and they want to punish it, but is this too heavy? It is unreasonable! I hope that there are no people fishing in troubled waters, and such a catastrophe and destroying the world is really hurtful to the heavens and the peace!"

Lu Juan followed Hades' words and said, "Does Hades think there is any place that deliberately causes chaos in the world?"

Hades nodded, and said: "One place is fine, but I'm afraid that there will be two places together, both openly and secretly, which will make this world restless!"

Lu Juan pondered: "If that's the case, I'm afraid those few people in the world won't stand by and watch, right?"

Hades smiled and said, "At this moment, those few are all in the Thirty-Three Heavens!

Lu Juan was immediately silent, thinking: This attempt is really too obvious, it will not be so easy to track it down after the fact, no matter who it is, it is really a good time!

Lu Zhongyin and his eldest brother Lu Dajin buried their father Lu Lin and his copper cigarette stick on the side of the mountain wall, and on the mountain wall opposite Lu Lin's burial place, they used a firewood knife to chisel out the appearance of two trees as a mark, so that they could be found later. When the two brothers had done everything, they fell to their knees together, kowtowed three times to the two trees on the mountain wall, and then took the ox cart again and set off for the north.

When the two brothers returned to the main road, there was no longer a shadow of a living person on the road, but three or five steps away there would be a corpse, soaked by the rain, emitting a putrid smell.

Lu Zhongyin took out a few rag towels before going down the mountain, soaked them in wormwood and dandelion juice all night, and then gave one to everyone, asking everyone to cover their mouths and noses, and even Lu Cong's swaddling clothes were covered with a layer.

This method of epidemic prevention was learned by Lu Zhongyin and a You Fanglang, who saved this Lang Zhong in the mountains at that time, and Lang Zhong passed this method to Lu Zhongyin to repay the grace of saving his life, but he never thought that he would use it at this time.

After spending another seven days on the road, the water finally stopped on the road, and the two brothers finally saw the destination of the trip, the town of Xiadi.

There were no dead bodies on the road near Xiadi Town, but there didn't seem to be many refugees who could get here, Lu Zhongyin couldn't help but ask with some worry: "Big brother, did you say that my cousin would take us in?"

Lu Dajin was also unsure, and he had no choice but to tell the truth: "I don't know, after all, we haven't seen each other for decades since we were teenagers, and I don't know if my cousin still recognizes us." ”

The cousin mentioned by the two brothers is the daughter of their aunt, who was in Qicun Village when she was young, and later came to Xiadi Town with her husband's family.

The original sturdy figures of the two peasant men have also lost weight to a fine body along the way, and Liu Cui has also lost weight, but the family is not sick yet, which can be regarded as a blessing.

On the way into the town, the family was also checked by the card set up in the town, and everyone and their clothes passed through the wormwood pool and poured lime powder before they were allowed to enter the area of Xiadi Town.

The two brothers came back to this Xiadi Town for the first time, and they only knew that Xiadi Town was a small town under the jurisdiction of Xiawei City in the northernmost part of Luoxiazhou, and it was praised for the wonders of the Chixia landing, so it attracted many literati and tourists to come to see the grand scenery of Xiadi Town, and this is still what others say.

After the two brothers entered the town, their embarrassed appearance attracted the fingers of many residents in the town:

"Whose relatives are fleeing here?"

"I've heard that there is a plague in the fleeing procession, but don't let this infected person into the town!"

"Don't these refugees have anywhere else? How can they come to our town?

Lu Zhongyin stubbornly found a rice shop on the street, and asked at the door: "Shopkeeper, do you know where the Shu family lives in Xiadi Town this week?"

The shopkeeper of the rice shop looked at Lu Zhongyin's appearance, waved his hand and frowned, "Zhou Shu, which Zhou Shu? I don't know, you can go to another house and ask." ”

Lu Zhongyin had no choice but to return to the ox cart and walk aimlessly through the town with his eldest brother Lu Dajin.

An hour later, just when the two brothers were about to take a break, a man wearing a dark cloth coat and a scarf and hat suddenly came to them, Lu Zhongyin suddenly stopped him, and asked with a smile: "Big brother, do you know where Zhou Shu lives in this town?"

The man propped his chin on his hand, pondered for a moment, and then said with a smile: "You are asking the right person! I, Liu Mang, am the most famous bag in Xiadi Town, and there are no people and things in Xiadi Town that I don't know, but if you really want to know... Liu Mang stretched forward his right hand and raised the tips of his fingers to rub them non-stop.

Lu Zhongyin immediately understood what Liu Mang meant, and said with a smile: "Brother Liu Mang, you can also see that we are fleeing, and now we have no long things, so there are only these on the ox cart, if you are willing, just see if there is any agreement!"

The corners of Liu Mang's mouth twitched, and he lost interest when he walked to the ox cart and took a look, seeing that this man was not a liar, so he said: "Forget it, I am in a good mood today, I won't charge you money, you go to the private school in the town to have a look, maybe there is someone you are looking for, remember not to go wrong, there is that private school in the town." After Liu Mang finished speaking, he left in a hurry, not bothering to listen to Lu Zhongyin's thanks.

When the two brothers asked about the location of the town's private school, they walked towards the place with hope in their eyes.

Outside the sky, above the Seven Heavens, a black-robed man and a barefoot man covered in a fire robe, with red eyebrows and a red beard, were talking secretly in a secret corner of the Fire God Temple.

I saw the black-robed man say with a divine thought: "Zhu Rong, shouldn't this rain stop? There have been countless deaths and injuries in the world, and there are even more mortals in Luoxia Continent, don't you plan to stop?"

Zhu Rong, who had a hair like a flame, said with a smile: "It's time to stop, but your harvest should be good, a rain has created so many resentments and wandering ghost fires, your cultivation must be able to go further!"

The black-robed man scoffed at Zhu Rong's words, and said in a disdainful tone: "Zhu Rong, I'm not like you, this action is really hurtful to the heavens, you beware of being detected by the way of heaven and sentenced to death!"

Zhu Rong, who was originally just smiling, laughed and said at this moment: "Heavenly Dao, I am not afraid of Heavenly Dao, what about the impermanence of Heavenly Dao, I Zhu Rong still live happily in this Seventh Heaven!

Seeing this, the black-robed man didn't say much, turned around and left, and dropped a sentence: "The rain has stopped, you are so self-conscious!"

Zhu Rong saw the black-robed man leaving, and a treacherous smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then he turned to look at his golden body with a stronger and stronger light.

The black-robed man was in a corner, his sleeves waved, and his whole body changed from a black robe to an incomparably gorgeous divine robe in an instant, and then walked towards the outside of the Fire God Palace with a handsome appearance.

The two brothers, Lu Dajin and Lu Zhongyin, kept asking for directions, and then they walked to the only private school in Xiadi Town-Changshuxuan, where two pine trees were planted at the door of the private school, and the pine cones had been hung at this time, and some small pine trees came out in the light rain to see if the pine cones were ripe.

At this time, there were still bursts of children's reading sounds in the private school from the stone wall and square window next to the pine tree, which made the two brothers, who had never studied before, a little cramped for a while. After waiting for a while, Lu Zhongyin rubbed his hands and thought for a while before knocking on the door of the private school.

After a while, a plainly dressed Fengyun woman came to open the door with an oil-paper umbrella, looking at the two men who looked like homeless people outside the door, Zhou Shu hesitated, frowned and asked, "Who are you looking for?"

Lu Dajin hurriedly replied: "We are looking for Zhou Shu, that is our cousin, I heard from the people in the town that she lives here." ”

Zhou Shu thought for a moment, and asked with a shocked face, "You two are Dajin and Zhongyin?"

The two brothers nodded hurriedly, and Lu Dajin hurriedly introduced: "On the car are my daughter-in-law Liu Cui, as well as my and Zhongyin's sons, Xiao'er and Cong'er. ”

Zhou Shuyi covered her mouth and exclaimed, "Ah! This is !! fast! Hurry! Come in!"

After a few people entered the hospital, Zhou Shu poked her head out to look left and right, and found that no one was looking at the private school, so she breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly closed the door.

Zhou Shu was quick with her hands and feet, and placed a few people in the side wing room at the back of the private school, and then drove the ox cart to the backyard again, and cleaned the door of the private school.

When Zhou Shu arrived in the room, she looked at the two brothers who were almost unrecognizable, and said with some sadness: "I've suffered you all the way! But when you get here, you can rest easy, stay in peace, and don't need to go back in a hurry." ”

Lu Dajin held a cup of freshly brewed hot tea in his hand, looking at the dry environment around him, an indescribable sadness suddenly welled up in his heart, and he thanked Zhou Shu in his mouth: "Thank you, cousin!"

Zhou Shu nodded lightly, still very concerned and said: "What else do you want to thank me! By the way, uncle and aunt are not together... ”

Lu Zhongyin lowered his head and said in a sad tone: "The second elder has passed by on the road. ”

Zhou Shu was still a little uncomfortable when she heard this expected answer, remembering that her uncle was still good to her when she was a child, but she didn't even see the last one.

Seeing that the room was a little sad for a while, Zhou Shu immediately said: "You guys rest first, I'll prepare some food, give you a cushion for your stomach first, you look at you, how thin you have become! I feel really uncomfortable looking at you, hey!" After that, Zhou Shu went out of the room and went to the kitchen.

The two brothers, Lu Dajin and Lu Zhongyin, are extremely grateful to their cousin Zhou Shu for their warm hospitality.

Zhou Shu and her husband Li Xinting are in this private school one after the other, Li Xinting is a teacher, responsible for earning money in the front, Zhou Shu is responsible for the housework in the back, the two of them perform their own duties, this day is indeed getting better and better.

This Changshuxuan is run by Li Xinting himself, and he is the only gentleman, and the people in the town also respect Li Xinting very much. One is because Li Xinting was in high school when he was young, but he shocked the entire Xiadi Town, and at that time Li Xinting's father was just a long-term worker of a family in Xiadi Town, and then the family also took the initiative to give Li Xinting's father a real estate, which was the predecessor of this private school; 。

In the evening, the children of the private school went home, and Li Xinting met with the two cousins of Zhou Shu. Li Xinting was rude and walked through one by one, but when he saw Lu Xiao holding Lu Cong, he saw at a glance that Lu Xiao's talent was not low, and he also said that he would definitely be able to achieve fame in the future, and asked Lu Xiao with a smile if he wanted to come to the private school to study, without waiting for Lu Xiao to speak, Lu Dajin hurriedly agreed, as if he was afraid that Li Xinting would regret it.

I ate at night, because there were not many rooms in the private school, and there was usually only one guest room, Zhou Shu arranged for Lu Zhongyin and his son to be in the firewood room, but fortunately, the firewood room after Zhou Shu cleaned up was still clean and it was okay to sleep.

The next day, when many people in Xiadi Town went out with umbrellas, they suddenly found that no more rain fell on the ground, and when they looked up, the whole sky was clear, which suddenly surprised the people in the north of Xiazhou.

As Luoxiazhou gradually regained its former vitality, several dynasties followed the instructions of the sect to send people to clean up the mess, and buried the corpses that were exposed to the wilderness on the spot and began to recuperate. In particular, the Duanyuan Dynasty in the central part of the country was almost wiped out, and even the royal family could not escape, so the entire territory was annexed by the neighboring Xiayue Dynasty, and no one objected, so the Seven Sturgeon Village is now also in the territory of the Xiayue Dynasty.

After the catastrophe, the surviving people on Luoxia Island still have lingering palpitations, and many places have begun to rebuild temples to worship the gods and pray for peace in the future.

In the past six years, the two brothers Lu Dajin and Lu Zhongyin have been looking for a job in Xiawei City during the period, so they stayed in the city to make more money, and the two had to go back to Xiadi Town to see their two sons only during the New Year's Festival. Lu Xiao's mother, Liu Cui, contracted typhoid fever after the rain stopped, and finally died after a few months. At this moment, there was only twelve-year-old Lu Xiao and six-year-old Lu Cong living with Li Xinting and his wife in this private school.

At first, Zhou Shu was good to the two, but as Lu Cong grew up, Zhou Shu never conceived a child, and her attitude towards Lu Cong gradually became bad.

Lu Xiao followed Li Xinting to read and write, and won his true biography, which made Li Xinting very happy, but Li Xinting also realized that Lu Xiao's talent was far beyond his imagination, and what he had learned in his life was no longer able to satisfy Lu Xiao, so he wanted Lu Xiao to go to Luoxia Academy, which was where he studied as a bottom student. There are many geniuses in Luoxia Academy, and Lu Xiao is likely to shine in it, laying the foundation for becoming a famous sage in all continents in the future.

But this is just Li Xinting's wishful thinking, and I don't know what Lu Xiao thinks himself.

Lu Xiao, who was standing at the door of the private school, looked at the dripping rain, in the past few years in Xiadi Town, he understood a lot of things in this world. The purple-clothed Taoist he met in the Seven Sturgeon Village also disappeared and never appeared again, as if his previous experience was like a dream. Lu Xiao also asked Li Xinting about his views on other existences in this world, but Li Xinting smiled and said: "It's useless for me to tell you now, when you go to Luoxiazhou Academy, you will find other interesting things in this world, just like many myths and legends are actually real! ”

Lu Xiao asked calmly, "Really?"

Li Xinting nodded.

Recalling the conversation with Li Xinting, Lu Xiao seemed to have a little interest in the Luoxia Academy in his heart.

Facing the rain, a clattering sound sounded, Lu Xiao smiled, it must be Lu Cong who came running. Lu Cong had a green snot on his nose, and happily ran to Lu Xiao's side, and said timidly: "Brother Xiao, my cousin pinched me again!"

Lu Xiao squatted down, rubbed Lu Cong's inner thigh, and asked, "Does it still hurt?"

Lu Cong immediately shook his head with a smile on his face, and said in a milky voice: "It doesn't hurt now!"

Lu Xiao took out a cloth towel he brought with him to dry Lu Cong's snot, but as soon as he wiped it off, the snot came out again, and so many times, this snot seemed to have no end, Lu Xiao also gave up, put the cloth towel aside, and had to take it to wash it well.

Lu Xiao asked again, "Lu Cong, have you upset your cousin?"

Lu Cong suddenly looked back and found that no one had a talent and whispered: "My cousin said that I didn't wash the dishes cleanly, so she pinched me and said that she wanted me to have a long memory, but I obviously washed it, you don't know that the water is cold, she insisted that I wash it again." ”

Lu Xiao asked, "Then have you washed it?"

Lu Cong replied: "Of course I washed it, if I don't wash it, my cousin will pinch me again, but after I finished washing, I blew my nose her clothes hanging on the porch, I know that it is my cousin's favorite clothes!

Lu Xiao stretched out his hand and touched the door of Lu Cong's head, and suddenly said: "Lu Cong, I'm going to Luoxia Academy, you may be the only one left here in the future." ”

Lu Cong asked indifferently, "Brother Xiao, how many days are you going to go?"

Lu Xiao couldn't bear it, but still said: "I don't know, maybe it will be a long time." ”

Lu Cong's eyes suddenly turned red, and he asked with a crying voice: "Brother Xiao, is Luoxia Academy far away, can you come back often?"

Lu Xiao shook his head and said honestly: "I don't know, but when I can come back, I will definitely come back to see you." You're going to have to take care of it yourself, you know?"

Lu Cong sobbed and nodded.

The next day, Lu Xiao took a letter from Li Xinting, packed his bags, and went on the road alone to Luoxia Academy on Xinhua Peak in the west of Luoxia Continent.

Lu Cong quietly followed him all the way, until he sent Lu Xiao out of the town, and watched Lu Xiao disappear into his eyes, he wiped away the endless tears in his eyes, blew his probosc, turned around and hung his head and walked back.