Volume 8, Chapter 87, Chiyou's Faith
"At that time, I was still young, and the peak of the Three Emperors had passed, but Yu Wei was still intimidating the land, and one day a very strange and handsome man appeared beside me."
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The snow is falling, in an ancient city that has been covered with snow, a relatively wide street is full of family jubilation, all kinds of people on the street wear thick clothes in different shapes, some lead children who do not understand the world, some enter in pairs, and some shirtless big men, from time to time will attract people's attention, but there is not much attention, obviously already used to it.
"Little doll, what's your name?"
On a corner of the street, a little boy of a few years old, dressed in thin clothes, squatted tremblingly beside a pile of garbage, watching with open eyes at the passers-by who came and went but were not at all out of the world. Holding the frozen garbage in his hand, he tried to soften it so that it could be bitten by himself, so that he could fill his stomach that had been empty for days.
In the heavy snow of goose feathers, a man wearing a white plush knee-covering robe walked in front of the boy, the man had long snow-colored hair, and the whole person seemed to merge with the world at this time.
The boy raised his head, hid the hard stone-like "food" in his hand, and looked at the person he was talking to with some caution, as if he was afraid that the uninvited guest in front of him would take away his "food".
"My name is Jiang Niu," the boy replied innocently.
"Oh, Jiang Niu, is he a descendant of Emperor Yan?" the man's strange eyes showed a hint of curiosity.
The boy shook his head, "No, I am from the Jiuli clan, and before I was born, the clan was saved by Emperor Yan, and gave me the surname Cheng Jiang, and the cow is our faith."
"Save?hehe, that's what he told you?" the strange man chuckled suddenly, and the young boy didn't understand what that laughter meant, thinking he was laughing happily, so he laughed silly. The two sentences of dialogue made the boy relax his vigilance against the man, took out his own food again from behind him, licked the ice ballast on the "food" with his little tongue that was shivering from cold, and laughed happily, and looked at the strange man from time to time.
"This thing......" The strange man was about to stretch out his hand, but the boy hurriedly withdrew his hand when he saw this, looking like he was protecting food.
"These foods are my ......".
"Yes, it's yours, but do you know that this thing you are holding is called offal, and it is a very filthy thing that you can't eat at all?
"He's my ......" The boy didn't seem to pay any attention to the man's words, perhaps he didn't understand at all, only knowing that his food should never be taken away by anyone.
"You just said that the cow is the belief of your clan, do you know what faith is?" the strange man changed the subject, trying to attract the boy's attention.
The boy looked at the strange man, and was really attracted to the attention, in the boy's opinion, this man and himself were friends, at least he had been talking to himself for so long, and he had not snatched his "food" and threw it away, and laughed at himself loudly.
"I know that faith is to be like a cow, there is nothing that cannot be done with it, it can pull everything and create everything for us".
"Haha, is this your faith?Are you hungry?Come with me, you can eat a lot of food," said the strange man, and turned to leave.
The boy looked at the strange man, then looked at the "food" in his hand, hesitated and got up to follow, but because it was too cold, his feet were already frozen and he couldn't walk at all, so he just about to lift his feet and fell to the ground and ate a mouth full of snow.
Yes!
The strange man did not stop and turn around because of the boy's fall, but continued to walk forward, and walked farther and farther away, and it seemed that he was about to blend into the crowd.
"Yikes"
The boy gritted his teeth, his immature fist pounding his bruised legs so hard that he could relieve the numbness and struggle to spread his legs. But before he could take two steps, he fell again, and this time he got up faster, his big eyes through the crowd staring at the snow-like man, his little hands clenching the "food", and he fell down and got up, got up and fell, stumbled and followed with blood all the way.
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The boy's efforts were not in vain, the man did not break his promise, and that day he followed the man to the most fragrant meal in his life, and in the end he even forgot how much he had eaten, and only remembered that the man who served the meal looked at him with a look of surprise, and then everyone looked at him. But for the boy at that time, the eyes of others did not matter, only the food on the table and the man sitting on the table in his eyes.
From then on, the boy followed the man, who taught him to read and write, as well as to practice. And he also renamed the boy "Chiyou". The boy grew up day by day, and at the same time understood more, but his understanding was very poor, and men often called him a fool among the inheritors. And because he has been following the demon man all the year round, under the influence of hearing and seeing, he has learned to kill, and how to kill, according to the man's words, as a fool, Chiyou kills people to protect himself, and the young Chiyou protects himself very well.
One day, the strange man called Chiyou to his side and said to him earnestly: "From today on, you don't need to follow me anymore, because you can already eat a lot of food on your own, and you don't need my help anymore."
After learning that he was going to separate, Chi Youwan was reluctant, his eyes were full of struggle, but he didn't say anything, because he saw from the eyes of the man who raised himself that his words were not just words, but had to be carried out.
"I named you Chi You because you are too stupid, Chi is a very small insect, and you are especially a cultivated land, now you are just a little worm who wants to cultivate the land, and if you want to become a cow that can create everything in your faith, you still need to have too many roads. There is a place in the south called the Boundary, which is the paradise of your struggle, and there is no one to save you, and you need to protect yourself when you get there, and maybe you will be able to fulfill your faith, and then we may be able to see you again."
"Really?" The young Chi You's face at this time once again appeared the innocence of the little boy who picked up the frozen internal organs as food, and the strange man was stunned for a long time, and a long-lost smile appeared on his face after a long time.
"Yes......".
The man left Chiyou, as if he had said that he would take him away, but this time he did not follow, but chose to walk alone in another direction, when Chiyou was eight years old.
Listening to the guidance of the demonic man, the eight-year-old Chi You was alone After more than a year of walking and experiencing many difficulties, he finally entered the teleportation array and reached the earth realm, an uncivilized world in the eyes of the people of the other Three Realms.
Everything is as the demon man expected, this place is really heaven for Chiyou, and in the decades that followed, while Chiyou was desperately protecting himself, he gradually protected other people, and slowly became the faith in the hearts of others.