Xie Danzhu looked at the dragon claw locust in his back garden in a daze, this tree is still here, there are really two identical trees in this world!

Xie Qinglan, the little sister on the side, said: "Daddy said that this tree is so strange, it has not lost its leaves before, but it fell last winter, and this is the new leaves that grow in spring." ”

Xie Danzhu sighed, touched the trunk of the tree, looked up at the green umbrella-like canopy, and always felt that this dragon claw locust had an indescribable mystery, was this tree born for him?

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In Shitian Town, the Xie family is relatively poor, Danzhu's father Xie Kangcheng in addition to cultivating a few acres of thin fields, when the farm is not working, he walks the streets and alleys to sell some small items such as wooden combs and kites, and earns some small profits to supplement the family, Xie Kangcheng's wife has been frail and sickly, and died soon after giving birth to Xie Qinglan.

Xie Danzhu grew up in such a family, although he was a child selected by Xie Kangcheng, but he never felt that he was under the fence, he felt that his father Xie Kangcheng was the best person in the world, he spoiled children very much, he was frugal, but he never refused to treat his children badly, and he was the same for Danzhu, sometimes even more pampered-

Spoiling children is not necessarily to let children eat the best and wear the best, but to do their best to love children, because the family background is different, and you can't compare with others in everything.

Danzhu has been naughty since he was a child, and he has made his father and mother feel sorry, these are what Xie Danzhu himself knows, and he still doesn't remember, and then he heard the neighbor's aunt say, Danzhu was always sick before he was two years old, and he was very scary when he was sick, and he couldn't stop crying, once he got sick in the middle of the night, and his father Xie Kangcheng took him forty miles of mountain roads to Fengxinyi to find a doctor for treatment, because I heard that the doctor was originally a disciple of Zixia Mountain, and he was good at treating children at night.

It's strange to say, Xie Danzhu has never been sick since he was four or five years old, and he will play everywhere at that time, and his favorite thing is to climb on the dragon claw locust in the back garden and lie down-

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Xie Danzhu stayed at home for seven days, he helped his father sharpen wooden combs and paste kites, while telling his father about his experience in Zixia Mountain, of course he didn't say anything about almost being robbed, so as not to worry about his father, he is now grown up, and his own affairs will be solved by himself, so he only said some interesting things on the mountain, saying that the senior brother Xu Zhi takes care of him very much-

Xie Danzhu handed over all the two hundred low-grade bronze spirit stones to his father, and he only kept sixteen, he said: "Dad, don't pick up the goods and sell them in other towns in the future, it's too hard, if you can't be idle, just paste some kites, this job is easy, just sell them in the town, and the child will give his father two hundred spirit stones every year in the future, maybe more in the future." ”

Father Xie, who had a half-white beard, put away the spirit stones, and said with a smile: "I still have sharp legs and feet now, I can do what I can, and if I can't do it in two years, I will naturally have your brother raise it - I will save these spars, first help your brother marry a daughter-in-law, Danzhu, you are still young, and I will talk about it in a few years." ”

Xie Danzhu looked at his brother Xie Tingsheng's "hee" smile and said, "Great, I hope I will see my brother marrying a good sister-in-law when I come back next year." ”

The simple and honest Xie Tingsheng's face turned red, and he hurriedly sharpened the wooden comb-

The fat man Tang Xing came over at this time and asked, "Danzhu, shall we go back to the mountain tomorrow?" and pulled Xie Danzhu aside and whispered: "I am afraid when I think of running into crooked mouths, what should I do, what do you have to do?"

Xie Danzhu said: "Fatty, you are really scared, you think they are waiting for us all day long, but those people will find us trouble sooner or later, we have to be careful, we can't cultivate the first layer of magic now, so let's train our physique to be stronger first, so that we won't be powerless to fight back." I thought, "Go back this time and see if you can ask Senior Brother Xu to teach me the first layer of the method?"

Tang Xing originally wanted to discuss with Xie Danzhu whether to go back to the mountain with Fei Tianyue on the same road, but this will inevitably encourage Fei Tianyue's arrogance, and the two of them will never be able to raise their heads in front of Fei Tianyue in the future.

Early the next morning, Xie Danzhu and Tang Xing said goodbye to their families and rode on the road, Xie Qinglan held the little fox and sent it out of the West Gate, the little fox shrugged his body, wanting to break free from Xie Qinglan's embrace-

Xie Danzhu touched the little fox's head and said, "Little fox, stay with Lan'er well, it's dangerous to go back to Zixia Mountain, I'll come back to see you next year-"

The little fox turned his head to look at the little girl Xie Qinglan, and then at Xie Danzhu, and quieted down.

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Xie Danzhu and Tang Xing returned to Zixia Mountain safe and sound, Tang Xing still went to Linggu Field, Xie Danzhu returned to the Spirit Weapon Academy, but heard a not very good news, the senior brother Xu Zhi was sent to the headquarters of Qixia Mountain, and the Lingfang Academy will have another manager, it is said that she is a woman, and her temper is not very good-

Zixia Mountain is a branch of Qixia Mountain, Qixia Mountain is a powerful sect in Huyue Prefecture of Dayuan State, under the jurisdiction of Chixia Mountain, Orange Mist Mountain, Huangyun Mountain, Lulan Mountain, Qingxia Mountain, Blue Wind Mountain and Zixia Mountain Seven mountain gates, a total of nearly 1,000 inner disciples, tens of thousands of outer disciples, and the other two major sects in Huyue Prefecture - Yuyuan Mansion, Jinjianmen and called the three strong Huyue Prefecture -

Xu Zhi left a letter for Xie Danzhu when he left, which said that the iron pear wood spirit horse would be given to Xie Danzhu, and encouraged Danzhu to study hard, even if he can't become an inner disciple, he will also be valued by the master if he is excellent in making spiritual weapons, and if he has the opportunity in the future, he will go to Qixia Mountain to meet him-

Although Xie Danzhu got such a generous gift from the Iron Pear Wood Spirit Horse, he was not happy at all in his heart, Senior Brother Xu Zhi could be said to be the only person who really cared about him after he entered the mountain gate, now that the senior brother had left here, Xie Danzhu felt very melancholy, and he didn't have the opportunity to ask the senior brother for the method of cultivating the first layer of the Heroic Spirit Realm, although I heard from the senior brothers in the workshop that the first three layers of the Seven Realms of Refining Soul could be bought in the Fuliang Mountain Market three hundred miles away, but the price of the first layer of the Heroic Spirit Realm method was five hundred low-grade bronze spirit stones, which was really not something Xie Danzhu could afford――

In the evening of this day, Xie Danzhu was still running with weight on the mountain road, he increased the sandbags on his legs and arms to forty pounds, and only came back after running exhausted, his heart was still depressed, and he didn't eat dinner, so he was going to the dragon claw locust to rest, walked to the dragon claw locust, looked up, and was surprised:

On the trunk of the tree stretched out obliquely, there sat a little girl with her legs hanging down, combing her hair in a double bun, snow-white clothes, two big eyes with black and white distinct, long eyelashes curled, flashing and flashing.

"Lan'er, why are you here!"

Xie Danzhu's shock can be imagined, he rode an iron pear horse back to Zixia Mountain from Shitian Town early in the morning, and he just arrived an hour ago, how could Lan'er, a little girl, also get here? Who brought her here?

Xie Qinglan, who was sitting on the trunk of the tree, was expressionless, and did not answer, just looked at Xie Danzhu quietly, and his little feet shook gently-

Xie Danzhu climbed up the dragon claw locust with his hands and feet, stood on a tree branch, leaned down, and asked softly: "Lan'er, how did you come here, who brought you here?"

The little girl still didn't speak, her eyes were clear and flawless, but her expression was so faint that she barely spoke.

Xie Danzhu touched Lan'er's baby fat little face, it was neither cold nor hot, nothing abnormal, so he sat down next to the little sister, then hugged her on his lap, helped her comb her sideburns, and asked patiently: "Lan'er, what's wrong with you, did anyone scare you?"

The little girl just didn't speak, and there was no look of horror in her eyes, not as if she was frightened.

Xie Danzhu scratched his head, what's going on, Dad and brother shouldn't know that Lan'er arrived at Zixia Mountain alone, don't rush to death if you can't find her in the town!

But now it's getting late, it's more than a hundred miles away from Shitian Town, and Xie Danzhu has no choice but to let Lan'er spend the night here first, and then find a way to send her back tomorrow-

At this time, Xie Danzhu suddenly remembered something, what about the little fox, Lan'er was holding the little fox when she saw him off at the west gate of the town in the morning-

Xie Danzhu immediately looked left and right, but he didn't see the shadow of the purple-eyed snow fox, so he asked Lan'er again: "Lan'er, what about the little fox, did the little fox bring you here?"

Although Xie Danzhu didn't believe that Xiaohu could bring Lan'er to Zixia Mountain, there was no other possibility, but Lan'er didn't know what was going on today, so he just didn't speak!

The twilight was deep, and Lan'er's eyebrows and eyes were blurred.

Xie Danzhu said: "Lan'er, brother will carry you down, you haven't eaten yet, are you hungry?" Holding Lan'er with one hand and climbing the trunk with the other, he was about to go down, but Lan'er struggled, broke away from Xie Danzhu's arms, and insisted on sitting on the trunk, and kept shaking his head and refusing to go down.

Although Lan'er is very strange like this, she finally reflects a little bit, and she will shake her head, Xie Danzhu didn't know what happened to Lan'er, and she didn't dare to force her, so she said: "Okay, if you don't go down, you won't go down, then you sit and don't move, my brother will go and get you something to eat." ”

Seeing Lan Er obediently sitting on the trunk of the tree and not moving, Xie Danzhu slipped down the dragon claw locust, and quickly ran to his small room to get two minced meat pies, and when he ran back to the dragon claw locust to take a look, his heart twitched sharply:

The trunk of the tree is empty, and Lan'er is gone!

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