On the vast sea, several sailing ships move slowly. It was the fifteenth day since the fleet set sail, but there was still no news of the "island" in everyone's mouth. In the middle, I passed by a few uninhabited islands, but unfortunately it was obviously not the destination of the fleet.

During this period, the fleet experienced a storm, but everyone on board was obviously accustomed to this, and there were no major accidents, but Li Ding vomited because he was not used to such a big scene, and had to go down to the cabin for the first time.

The long voyage was boring and boring, and Li Ding spent most of the time quietly in the corner alone, except for continuing to study the scroll. But he was not a man of few words by nature, and the other people on the ship began to approach him, consciously or unconsciously, and these people belonged to the kind of men with open-minded surnames, and gradually he began to slowly dissolve into this group.

Time will always smooth out something, and the mustard and suspicion between people cannot be avoided. Time will breed and promote some things, and the shallow feelings that the young man had because he was rescued by Yu Lao gradually became stronger.

In a single room at the bottom of the ship's cabin, Li Ding finally told his story to Yu Lao. He spoke calmly, but the unwillingness and hatred in his eyes were revealed.

As an orphan, Li Ding was brought up by his father, the head of the tribe, who taught him to read and fish. If it weren't for his father's desperate efforts to protect him that day, he would have become a ghost of the bandits. Seeing that the tribe was destroyed, all the familiar people left him, and he once desperately wanted to die when he fell into the sea, but fortunately he was rescued by Yu Lao, so he did not die.

Although the matter has passed, the tragic scene is deeply imprinted in the depths of Li Ding's mind and can never be easily erased.

Huang Gui seemed indignant about what happened to Li Ding, but Yu Lao only sighed softly after hearing this, as if he didn't want to see the hatred in Li Ding's eyes, Yu Lao kept his back to Li Ding, and did not show too much expression on his face.

"If your relatives are killed, your tribe is destroyed, and you don't want to take revenge and hatred, but you commit suicide, you are a great sin of injustice and filial piety. Huang Gui said in a deep voice.

"He's still a kid. Yu Lao turned around and waved his hand, interrupting Huang Gui's words and turned to Li Ding and said, "Didn't your boss want you to live well?

Li Ding raised his head, and Yu Lao's words actually made his gaze freeze for a moment.

With his fists clenched and his teeth gritted, Li Ding suddenly knelt in front of Yu Lao, his eyes instantly became clear, and he said sadly: "Ask Yu Lao to teach Li Ding some skills, come and say that if you have to take revenge, Li Ding is willing to use this life to repay Yu Lao's great kindness." ”

Li Ding's sudden move made Yu Lao and Huang Gui stunned, the corners of Yu Lao's mouth twitched slightly, and he said lightly: "Could it be that you are learning skills just to take revenge?"

"Li Dingmeng's father's nurturing grace will never be an unrighteous and unfilial person. Li Ding knew that Yu Lao must be a profound cultivator, so he asked Yu Lao to teach Li Ding how to practice. ”

Yu Lao shook his head, looked at Li Ding's eyes full of inexplicable meaning, and said, "There is a blood surname, but do you dare to kill someone?"

Li Ding was stunned for a moment, and the whole person was instantly stunned. But he heard Yu Lao continue: "Those pirates really deserve to die, but even if I teach you the way of cultivation, with your current situation, when will you have the ability to take revenge." Even if you are gifted, like that friend of mine, and enter the Imperial Spirit Realm within eight years, where will you go to find those pirates at that time? ”

"Those bandits are all over the world, and they are licking blood from the edge of a knife, and they may not wait for your revenge, they have already died in the sea. Huang Gui said on the side.

"Do you think your boss wants you to do this?" Yu continued.

The two sentences immediately calmed Li Ding, he was a helpless and weak teenager, and now he was talking about revenge at all. But as Yu Lao said, even if he has the ability to take revenge one day, where will he go to find those pirates? Besides, will he kill people casually like pirates one day?

"Then what should I do?" Li Ding's eyes froze again, and his expression became dazed.

"Live well, for your father, and for yourself. You don't know what kind of world this is, if you really want to be a practitioner, you have to try to live for yourself, and only by living can there be tomorrow, right? Maybe you can't figure it out now, but one day you will understand. Yu Lao said.

"To live for yourself?" Li Ding became more and more dazed.

"People can't give up on themselves, let alone be self-righteous, before doing anything, they must think about whether they have the ability, men must have blood surnames, but they can't be stupid. The old man said with a serious expression.

Huang Gui next to him had a look in his eyes, and said to Yu Lao: "What is the clan elder telling him to do this? If he can't even think about this, he is not suitable for survival in this world at all." ”

Survival, whether for revenge or whatever, is only possible if you live. Li Ding didn't understand this truth, but to make him immediately let go of his heart of revenge made him struggle in his heart.

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On this day, it was another beautiful day, and the fleet continued along its course, and everything seemed so calm except for the occasional shouting among the crew and the chirping of seabirds.

"Little Dingzi, get out of here, I want you to go fishing with me. The girl's crisp voice resounded through every corner of the ship. But there was no movement for a while, and the girl reluctantly continued to shout: "If you don't come out again, see how I clean you up." ”

"I said you can't stop for a day?" Li Ding's slightly hoarse voice came from inside the cabin, and after a while, a thin figure appeared at the mouth of the cabin and said to the girl: "By the way, don't call me Xiao Dingzi in the future, my name is Li Ding." ”

However, the girl stuck out her tongue and said with a smile: "Li Ding, Li Ding, I have never heard such a cheesy name, and I don't know what your father thinks, he gave such a substandard name, so I called it, Xiao Dingzi, Xiao Dingzi." ”

"Xiaomin, shut up. Just as the girl was being proud, Yu Lao's voice suddenly came, and the girl stretched out her tongue again, but immediately stopped her mouth.

Looking at Li Ding, who had his fists clenched and a hint of anger in his eyes, Yu Lao shook his head and said, "Hehe, my granddaughter is spoiled for me." ”

"It's fine. The anger in Li Ding's eyes flashed away, and he smiled at the old man and said: "Old Yu and Second Miss Yu are Li Ding's life-saving benefactors, and Li Ding will not take this little thing to heart." ”

The girl's name is Yu Min, and it is not difficult to see from Yu Lao's attitude towards her that she is Yu Lao's heart. Not to mention that she is also Li Ding's savior, just because she is a girl, Li Ding will not meet her in general. It's just that Yu Min inadvertently mentioned the head man's father, which made Li Ding feel a little uncomfortable.

"You were born in great trouble at a young age, and it is rare to have such a surname. Remember, in the future, everything will be calmer, a forbearance word will never be wrong, as long as you work hard, there will be a future. Yu Lao said.

"Yu Lao's teachings, Li Ding must keep in mind. Li Ding responded sincerely.

In the past few days, when Yu Lao persuaded Li Ding, he gave him a lot of reasoning. From Yu Lao's words, Li Ding understood that Yu Lao did not want him to forget hatred, but to turn this hatred into a force to motivate himself, and gradually Li Ding's state of mind was completely freed from the previous pain and struggle.

Li Ding's appearance of concentrating on being taught is also very much liked by Yu Lao, and Li Dingtian's surname is indeed not bad, many things Yu Lao does not need to tell in depth, he can fully understand, which makes Yu Lao think a little more highly of this young man.

"Then what did you think about what I told you?" asked Elder Yu.

Li Ding pondered for a moment and said: "If it weren't for Yu Lao's rescue, Li Ding would have died in this sea, it can be said that Li Ding's life was given by Yu Lao, and the future will depend on Yu Lao's arrangement." ”

"Hehe, your high hat can make the old man a little unbearable, but it sounds really useful, hahahaha......"

"Slap the horse's ass!" The old man's laughter did not stop, and the girl on the side said coldly, which couldn't help but make the old man's laughter stop abruptly, and an old face showed a little red.

"Ahem. Yu Lao coughed, and after the embarrassing atmosphere was eased, Zhengse said: "Li Ding, we will be able to return to Lingyan Island in half a month, although the Jinguangmen is located overseas in the Southern Ming Kingdom, it is a first-class sect in China, and whether you can start practicing at that time can only depend on yourself." ”

"Yu Lao thinks about Li Ding everywhere, and Li Ding will live up to Yu Lao's high expectations. After speaking, Li Ding wanted to kneel down.

Seeing this, Yu Lao grabbed Li Ding and said: "Forget it, this kneeling will be left until you enter the Jinguang Gate, you kid, you don't look very old, and you still know a lot about this poor rule." ”

"I know a fart, I don't allow people to call me Xiao Dingzi, but grandpa is full of boys, it's not fair. The girl's voice came out at the right time.

Regarding the girl's words, Yu Lao and Li Ding directly chose to ignore them, "It seems that I have to tell you more about cultivation, let's talk about it below." As he spoke, Yu Lao walked down, followed by Li Ding.

For Yu Lao and Li Ding's ignorance, the girl was so angry that she stomped her feet.

......Suddenly, there was a low and short horn sound from the leading boat, and the sound of hurried footsteps sounded again, and many men in Tsing Yi leaned out of the boat to look ahead.

"Damn, it's a pirate. Someone shouted loudly, and for a moment everyone's faces changed.

Li Ding, Yu Lao and others also came to the bow of the ship, only to see that ten hulls in front of the big ship were densely covered with more than a dozen dhows of different sizes, and there were several black figures standing on each boat. There were so many small boats that Li Ding's fleet had to be forced to stop at the position of two more hulls.

"I don't know if you are friends on that road, we are the Qing Yu family of Lingyan Island, and I hope to pass by by the road, and we can make friends. Huang Gui stood at the bow of the ship and shouted. Behind him, more than a dozen men in Tsing Yi were waiting with daggers in their hands.

Hearing Huang Gui's shout, after several big men on a big boat on the opposite side exchanged words, one of them raised a small red flag and waved it this way, and a small boat came up. Huang Gui smiled mysteriously, and threw a gray cloth bag towards the small boat, just when it was caught by a big man in black.

The man in black checked the cloth bag in the shop's hand, then opened it and grabbed a handful of things, which turned out to be all thumb-sized gold coins.

"It's ...... Why do you want to give them money?" Li Ding, who was standing beside Huang Gui, obviously didn't understand the former's approach, he was so big, it was the first time he saw so many gold coins, but Huang Gui gave it to the bandits. With an angry face, he hated the pirates to the core, even though they weren't the ones who killed his relatives.

"When you go out, some unnecessary troubles can be avoided. Yu Lao whispered.

"There are so many of us, are we still afraid of them?" Li Ding looked at Yu Lao puzzled.

"Isn't this the time to be stubborn, have you forgotten what I told you before? These are people who don't want to die, living a life of licking blood from the edge of a knife. Although their lives are not valuable, our people can't be killed or injured because of these people, understand?" Yu Lao continued.

Teeth clenched, the fingers pressing the side of the boat gradually became numb, and after hesitating for a moment, Li Ding finally replied in a low voice: "Understood." ”

Indeed, if it weren't for standing on Yu Lao's ship, facing so many pirates, Li Ding would not have the backbone to say what he just said. This may seem too cowardly in the eyes of ordinary people, but if you choose to act irrationally and radically for the sake of unnecessary things, it is the biggest mistake.

Looking at Li Ding's angry but unusually calm gaze, Yu Lao smiled and nodded.

I don't know if it was because of the bag of gold coins or because the name of the Yu family of the Qing clan played a role, the pirates didn't say a word, they got out of the way one after another, and the fleet was able to move on.

"If those pirates don't get out of the way, what will you do?" Looking at the direction of the pirates who had been thrown away and had disappeared, Li Ding asked Huang Gui softly.

"They're going to disappear forever in this sea. Huang Gui said lightly, for this fat man who usually behaves very open-mindedly, Li Ding heard a trace of coldness from his words for the first time.

"It turns out that a person with strength can also do this?" Li Ding's originally disappointed eyes flashed with a gleam, and he said to Huang Gui with a smile.

"Don't worry, you'll say that one day, too. Patting Li Ding's shoulder, Huang Gui turned around and walked away.

Looking at the endless sea, "Will there be that day?" Li Ding muttered to himself, for the first time, this teenager was full of hope for his future.