Chapter 1: The Learned of Stealing
"The bright moonlight in front of the bed is suspected to be frost on the ground. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Raise your head to look at the bright moon, bow your head and think ......"
A young man who looked to be about fourteen years old, dressed in a gray robe with more than a dozen sewing and patching, kept reciting poetry as he walked along the muddy road early in the morning, and he couldn't help frowning tightly as he thought about the next line of the poem.
The young man's name is Li Yu, and he couldn't stop thinking, when suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his eyes, and said: "Raise your head to look at the bright moon, and look down to think about the fragrance of rice." ā
Gollum!
When he said, "Bow your head and think about the fragrance of rice", Li Yu's stomach screamed, and a feeling of hunger came to his heart.
Hungry, Li Yu couldn't help touching it in his arms, and he took out a big white steamed bun, holding the big white steamed bun in his right hand, and the whole person's eyes couldn't help but release fine light, and then said: "Fortunately, fortunately, when I was about to go out, my mother gave me a few steamed buns, and I ate when I was hungry." ā
While talking, the corners of Li Yu's mouth smirked, and his smile revealed the innocence that a childhood person should have, and even more so his white teeth.
Li Yu sent the steamed bun in his hand to his mouth, and he could already imagine how delicious this delicious steamed bun was after it was put into his stomach.
Indeed, as a child of a poor family, steamed buns are delicious.
However, this winter, it was too cold, and the cold wind was still blowing, and when he sent the steamed bun to his mouth, the steamed bun had not yet been delivered to his mouth, and a thin layer of frost was frozen on the surface of the steamed bun.
Crunch!
Finally, Li Yu's teeth bit on this steamed bun, it seems that because this steamed bun is too hard, his teeth did not bite this steamed bun, not only did his teeth not bite this steamed bun, but his whole front teeth, when biting this steamed bun, there is a feeling of loose teeth.
"Nima, it's so cold. Li Yu muttered in a low voice, and then he threw the steamed bun on the ground, put his hands in his arms, and continued to walk forward.
Although it was a pity that the steamed bun was thrown on the ground, he had no choice, he couldn't continue to hold the steamed bun that was frozen with a layer of ice in his hand, or continue to carry it in his arms and move forward.
"The bright moonlight in front of the bed, suspected to be frost on the ground, look up at the bright moon, bow your head and think about steamed buns, no, it's the fragrance of rice. Li Yu walked forward, his mouth chattering.
In fact, the poem that Li Yu is singing now is called "Silent Night Poem", which was written by "Li Bai", a very famous poet in Dongyang Prefecture and Zhao State.
That Li Bai, that is, when he was young, his family was poor, so he studied hard and wanted to gain fame, so Li Bai read books alone in the dilapidated room at night, in winter, it was very cold, and the ground was full of frost, Li Bai looked at the moonlight when it came down, the coldness on his body was even stronger, the cold, plus the life in the poor years was unbearable, and he couldn't eat, so he looked at the bright moon very affectionately, and then bowed his head and wrote this poem.
This poem became famous only after Li Bai became famous and became an official.
Li Yu is the same, as a person surnamed Li, he also has some admiration for Li Bai, so while walking, he can't help but deeply recall Li Bai's poem, especially the last sentence of this poem, "Raise your head to look at the bright moon, bow your head and think about the fragrance of rice." ā
This sentence "look up at the bright moon and look down at the fragrance of rice" is very charming, in Li Yu's view, and what is expounded in this poem is very similar to Li Yu's predicament now.
He Li Yu, today, is going to participate in the village examination in the village, after the village examination is completed, it is the township examination, as long as he participates in the township examination, and then he can go to the county examination, then the government examination, then the hospital examination, the meeting examination, and finally the palace examination.
Of course, as long as you can pass the county exam, as long as you pass the county exam, then you can get a nine-grade official sitting.
But now in this year, it is so difficult to gain fame, just like mountaineering, but as long as you become an official, you are a cow man, children and grandchildren, up and down, a family, all have the identity of a cow bar, food and clothing are worry-free, and even a dog in the family can eat better than ordinary people.
One generation is rich, and the next generation is rich, so many people attach so much importance to fame and fortune.
But now he can't even pass the village test, because he feels that his memory is not very good, because his head, when he was young, was injured, and whenever he worked hard to read, he would be inexplicably distracted, and he didn't understand why this happened.
Hey, it's useless to think too much, what Li Yu can do now is to leisurely and wander to enjoy the surrounding purple bamboo forest, while walking forward, he likes the breeze blowing by his side.
Li Yu watched the cold wind blowing the purple bamboo forest next to it, and listened to the squeaking sound of the bamboo forest under the blowing of the wind, the sound was very clear and tasteful.
I don't know why, many times, Li Yu likes to stop and listen to all the sounds around him, although this winter is a little cold, and the clothes on his body are a little thin.
But cold, after getting used to it, is not cold, so at this time, he doesn't care about cold, because this world, many things, are used to it.
The village where Li Yu is located is called Zizhu Village because there are too many purple bamboo forests, especially on sunny days, these purple bamboo forests look very beautiful when they are contrasted by the sun.
It's a pity that now that the wind is cold, Li Yu can only bend his waist and move forward with his hands in his arms, and the whole person is like a little old man.
Li Yu was thinking in his head, how could the village try to make that village test in the winter, it was true, it made him suffer from freezing on a cold day, and what village test to participate in was really a bitter life.
Roar!
When Li Yu couldn't stop thinking about it in his mind, he didn't expect a loud roar to come from the forest at this time.
The surrounding forests are not specifically bamboo forests, and there are also some big trees, but there are more purple bamboos.
When he heard a wild roar in the forest, Li Yu couldn't help but be startled, and his whole person had a feeling of confusion now, what is it called.
From this scream, Li Yu could feel that the one who made the roar must be a terrifying creature.
"Nima, what kind of creature, it's a tiger, no, this roar is much stronger than a tiger, it's a jackal, it's not right, there is a trembling feeling in the voice of the jackal, it's an elephant, as if there are no elephants in the village....... At this time, when Li Yu shivered, in his heart, he couldn't help but think about it, and he was ready to run away.
But just as he was about to run away, he saw a tiger pounce on him, nay, a tiger with three eyes, to be exact.
This tiger is no different from an ordinary tiger, the whole body is as red as fire, in the red, mixed with black lines, but the third eye, this tiger looks unusual, from this third eye, it can be seen that this tiger, must not be ordinary.
"Nima, am I going to die like this? I still have to test for fame, get promoted, and get rich? After I get rich, I have to marry more than a dozen daughters-in-law" Li Yu couldn't help but raise his head and roared, and in his eyes, there was a sad feeling.
At this time, Li Yu was just sad, why did a tiger appear in the village, and it was a tiger with a third eye, which was simply beyond his expectations.
It stands to reason that in the village, although there are some trees and bamboos, but there are no wild beasts such as tigers, when a tiger entered the village, which he did not understand.
But now Li Yu didn't have time to think about it so much, because next, he was going to die, he saw the tiger's big mouth biting towards him, and he understood that before the tiger's big mouth, he was like scum, and he was killed in an instant.
Can he, a child as thin as a monkey, be the match for this tiger? He has a sense of tragic fate.
But at this time, although Li Yu is fourteen years old, he doesn't want to just cross his feet, being a man, everyone's personality is different, but Li Yu is not the kind of person who doesn't resist, in order to live, for life, there is nothing to fight against this tiger, so he is now a whole person, directly picked up a dry firewood on the ground, and smashed it towards the braincase of the three-eyed tiger.
The fourteen-year-old boy was too small compared to the three-eyed tiger that was several meters long, as small as scum, and if there was no accident, he would have become the food in the mouth of the three-eyed tiger.
However, in this world, there are always some accidents, there are always some opportunities, and it is precisely because of those opportunities that a person can be changed.
Originally, Li Yu was holding a dry firewood stick and wanted to fight to the death with the three-eyed tiger, but before he could fight to the death, he saw a puff of black smoke drifting in front of his eyes, and before he could react, he saw the black smoke passing through the tiger's third eye.
All this is too fast, giving Li Yu a special feeling, in addition to the special feeling, there is also a kind of surprise, curiosity.
Li Yu's eyes couldn't help but widen, because he saw the three-eyed tiger in front of him, after being pierced through his head by the black smoke, the whole tiger's body stiffened at first, and then as soon as his body weakened, he fell to the ground.
From the third eye of the fallen tiger, there was flushed blood rushing out of the outside, the flushed blood stained the ground, and some blood splashed on Li Yu's clothes.
Seeing the blood stains on his clothes, Li Yu just couldn't help but take two steps back to the rear, he was full of an inexplicable feeling about what was happening now, and in the inexplicable, there was also a taste of horror.
Uneasy emotions spread in his heart, and he had to recall everything just now.
"Just now, I met a three-eyed tiger, and I was about to fight with the three-eyed tiger with the dry sticks I picked up, when a burst of black smoke suddenly came out, and it was that black smoke that shattered the third eye of the three-eyed tiger, and then killed the tiger. Li Yu's mouth muttered.
"Yes, it's the black smoke. Li Yu looked at the dead three-eyed tiger on the ground, no, to be precise, it should be the two-eyed tiger now, because now the eye at the center of the tiger's eyebrows has been scrapped, and from the position of the tiger's eyebrows, there is a trace of black smoke entangled, and in the blink of an eye, the black smoke will dissipate.
Seeing the black smoke dissipate, Li Yu felt a bad feeling sweeping towards him, this bad feeling came from behind him, and in the uneasiness, he turned around and looked behind him.
When he turned around, Li Yu saw a beggar, yes, it was a beggar, and it was an old beggar, and when he saw this old beggar, he was even more surprised.
The old beggar was dressed in a shabby black gown, and the black gown and trousers were torn in many places, so the beggar looked very unbearable, and he could see his bare bones in many places.
Because this beggar is too thin, so it looks so bone, so skinny, Li Yu couldn't help touching his body with both hands, he found that this beggar was even thinner than him, which gave him a very special feeling, although he was thin, but he still had spirit, but this beggar gave him the feeling that he was like a dying old man.
Indeed, this beggar has no eyes, is poorly dressed, and has a thin body, and this beggar's height looks even lower than his, which is simply extremely simple.
But Li Yu understood that there was a saying since ancient times, that is called "people can't be good-looking, and the sea can't be measured", so he decided that he couldn't judge people by their appearance, so he couldn't stop approaching the old man, and then said: "Old man, you saved my life just now." ā
"Little doll, it was the old man who saved your life, Quack. The thin old man just smiled hideously at the corner of his mouth, and then from his smiling mouth, a black insect flew out, and this black insect went towards Li Yu's eyebrows.
Li Yu was shocked at this time, he didn't expect it, he thought that the old man had saved him, but he didn't expect that the old man would suddenly release a strange insect to attack him, he could clearly feel that the insect spit out of the old man's mouth was very terrifying.
Because this insect was the most terrifying insect he had ever seen, because when this insect came towards the center of its eyebrows, there was an evil and cruel smile in the scarlet eyes of the insect.
A bug can exude a smile, which has a creepy feeling in Li Yu's feelings.
In Li Yu's eyes, this insect is very similar to a centipede, with eighteen feet full of hooks and thorns, and its whole body is so black that it glows, in short, this black bug, although it looks like a centipede, is much more than a centipede.
At this time, because the centipede coming towards Li Yu gave him a creepy feeling, he subconsciously wanted to dodge, wanted to avoid this centipede, in his feeling, if he was drilled into the eyebrows by this centipede, there would be nothing good, maybe he would be sucked into a dry corpse by this centipede.
However, when Li Yu wanted to move his body, he found that his body could not move the slightest, let alone his body, even his eyes could no longer be opened, and the whole person now seemed to be completely frozen.
The body couldn't move, and in an instant, the black centipede completely penetrated into Li Yu's eyebrows.
At this moment, Li Yu felt a sharp pain in the center of his eyebrows, and the sharp pain made him come back to his senses from the fixation just now, and he couldn't help covering his forehead, and then began to roll on the ground.
"Pain, pain, pain, old man, get this centipede out of Lao Tzu's skull. Li Yu kept rolling on the ground and couldn't stop talking.
"Ah, it hurts. ā......
Li Yu couldn't stop yelling on the ground, the roar in his mouth was getting louder and louder, and the whole person was now suffering from a headache.
This kind of headache is something Li Yu has never experienced before, this kind of pain may be more painful than death, although he doesn't know what death is like, he only knows that in the end, he really can't bear the pain, so that in the end he directly fell into a coma.
The feeling of being in a coma is very wonderful, it is a very short and long feeling, but whether it is short or long, Li Yu just feels that when he is conscious again, the whole body is warm up and down.
Li Yu now feels that he is lying on the ground, his body seems to be lying in a hot spring, that feeling is very comfortable, very enjoyable, and the feeling of enjoyment makes him feel a little impulsive to sleep a little longer.
Such a comfortable feeling was the first time he had appeared since he was fourteen years old, and he really wanted to live in such a feeling for the rest of his life, and this feeling was so amazing, so amazing.
"Boy, don't sleep. ā
When Li Yu was lying comfortably, he heard a voice echoing in his ears, this sound was like thunder, like a god, which made him have a feeling of fear, in this frightened feeling, he subconsciously sat up and opened his eyes.
When he opened his eyes, Li Yu saw that the thin old man before was sitting on the bar of a big tree, and when he was sitting on the bar, the old man was still holding an ebony cigarette stick in his hand and smoking, this ebony cigarette stick was very short, ten inches long.
The old man was very leisurely, after taking a deep breath of cigarette, he couldn't help but spit out a smoke ring, watching the smoke ring float in the air, there was a kind of enjoyment in the old man's eyes.
Li Yu looked at the old man's smoking, he couldn't help but be stunned, and now at this time, he found that when the old man smoked, he had an inexplicable leisure, and there was an indescribable feeling of being light and light, and he had seen through everything in the world.
However, Li Yu only looked at the old man's leisurely appearance a little, and he remembered the matter before, when the old man put a centipede into the center of his eyebrows, that thing, when he thought about it now, the whole person still had a feeling of fear, so he hurriedly stretched out his right hand and touched it on his forehead.
There was an inexplicable surprise in Li Yu's eyes, because when he touched his forehead, he didn't find any abnormalities, but instead of finding any abnormalities, he felt that his whole spirit was getting better and better.
Even if there was a cold wind blowing around, Li Yu also had a very warm feeling, and he looked at his body, and the place where his clothes were wet because he was lying on the ground before was also dry.
Thinking of this, Li Yu's eyes widened even more, and now at this time, he thought of something even more awesome, that is, when he was lying on the ground just now, he found that the water on the ground was warm, and it was as warm as a hot spring.
Thinking that the water on the ground was as comfortable as a hot spring, he couldn't help but quickly squat down, and his right hand touched the stagnant water, and when he touched it, the stagnant water was really warm, but not only that, but the right hand moved to the side, and touched the ice cubes on the ground, which were also warm at this time, and the ice cubes, under his touch, melted.
Looking at all this, Li Yu's eyes widened, there was an inexplicable excitement in his eyes, panic, excitement, jealousy, puzzlement, in short, now his eyes were very complicated, he looked at the old man who was sitting on the branch and smoking a cigarette leisurely.
The old man looked at Ling Yun's complicated eyes, just took a puff of cigarette, and then leisurely exhaled a puff of smoke, and said, "Boy, what do you see, these abilities are all given to you by the old man." ā
Hearing this, Li Yu's body couldn't help but shake, his heart was happy, his face was even more happy, the feeling of joy permeated his mind, he never imagined that he would have such a good day, in fact, when he was young, his family was poor, and when it came to winter, he was hungry, what he actually wanted most was to one day, to be able to get rid of the cold.
Li Yu once fantasized about how good it would be if there was no winter in this world, because winter is too cold, and of course, it shouldn't be as hot as summer.
Li Yu's previous infatuation was realized at this time and on this day, which made him have an unbelievable feeling, he finally didn't have to be afraid of the cold, now even if it was winter, even if the cold wind was blowing on his face, he also felt a kind of cool feeling like summer, and that feeling was very comfortable.
Therefore, at this time, Li Yu couldn't help kneeling down to the old man, then kowtowed three times, and said: "The apprentice meets the master, in the eyes of the apprentice, the master must be a master, he must be an immortal, I am really honored to meet the master today." ā
Li Yu is very sincere at this time, because he has heard of the immortals that can only be seen in legends, and he actually saw them at this time today, so what rose in his heart was a deep worship.
"Don't be too happy, boy, you know what the centipede I put in your eyebrows is called?" the old man sitting on the branch took a puff of his cigarette and smiled, and in his smile there was a sense of cunning, and there was a special smile.
At this time, Li Yu was curious, and he couldn't help but say: "That centipede, is it still in my head at this time?
"Hey, that centipede, it's called the Hell Centipede, it has to eat one person every day, and if no one eats it, it will eat yours, quack. The old man smiled evilly.
"What, there is such a thing, old man, you actually hurt me. Li Yu's heart was furious, he couldn't help standing up, and then his right hand hurriedly touched the center of his eyebrows, and there was a feeling of hair spreading on him, especially when he thought of a centipede hidden in his head, he was even more uneasy.
As he spoke, Li Yu looked at the old man with resentment in his eyes, he originally thought that the old man was giving him a great transformation, but he didn't expect that this old man would actually harm him, and it was really a sinister person.
The old man looked at Li Yu's hostile eyes, he just smiled and said, "Little doll, don't be so stubborn, in fact, there is a way to make this centipede not suck your blood and not eat you." ā
"What a way. Li Yu seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw.
The old man's eyes just narrowed slightly, and then said: "I'll take you to a county master's house to steal money, if you can steal something in the end, I can let the hell centipede that didn't enter your mind not suck your blood." ā
Hearing this, Li Yu had a strange feeling in his heart, and said for a long time, this old man actually wanted to take him to steal people, and it was to steal money, how does this look, how unreliable, this old man, although he looks thin and thin, and he is dressed like a beggar, but since this old man's ability has always been seen, this old man must not be like the existence of lack of money, this old man asked him to go to the county master's house to steal money, how to listen to this, how awkward, so he was more surprised in his heart.
The old man looked at Li Yu's frowning and hesitant look, he just couldn't help sighing, and then said: "Hey, since you don't want to, then I won't be reluctant, if you want to kill, just kill it, after killing someone, the centipede in your head will absorb that person's flesh and blood, and it won't suck you, if you don't want to kill, then you just wait to be sucked by that hell centipede." ā
With that, the old man jumped down from the tree, and with his staggering steps, he walked off into the distance.
In Li Yu's eyes, the old man's pace was getting farther and farther, and gradually, the old man could only see a vague back, which seemed to be about to disappear.
Li Yu was entangled just now, whether to steal the county master's house, or kill someone, or be killed by the centipede, seeing the figure of the old man gradually blurred, he understood that when the old man's figure disappeared completely, it would be too late, so he gritted his teeth and kept saying: "Master, I am willing to steal people." ā
Li Yu's voice was loud.
The old man paused for a moment towards the figure walking forward, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl a little, and then turned to look at Li Yu, and said: "Good apprentice, yes, in fact, stealing is a very profound knowledge, and then, the teacher will take you to steal, so that you can make a fortune." ā