In the following days, Shaoyang was slowly infected by the care of this family, especially Cai Fei'er and her brother Cai Da, who were as old as himself.

Lively and lovely, they pulled the silent teenager into the gang within a few days, ate together, slept together, played together, and were carefree and full of laughter every day.

The boy gradually integrated into this family, and for the first time in many years, he felt the warmth of real home.

One day at noon, the weather was clear, and the gentle sun shone brightly on the snow.

"Brother Shaoyang, what is this?"

Cai Fei'er pointed to the purple ball in front of Shaoyang's neck and said:

"It's so beautiful."

Shaoyang touched the purple ball and said:

"I don't know what it is. ”

He frowned, shook his head, and said:

"I've been wearing it since I woke up, maybe my mother left it to me!".

"Cai Fei'er, if you like me, I will give it to you. ”

As he spoke, he wanted to take off the purple ball.

Cai Fei'er waved her hand and said eagerly:

"Brother Shaoyang, this may be the only thing your mother left you, I can't ask for it. ”

Shaoyang was stunned for a moment, nodded thoughtfully, put on the purple ball again, and said:

"Cai Fei'er, will I give you a more beautiful one in the future. ”

Cai Fei'er laughed and nodded vigorously.

Cai Da on the side saw that Shaoyang and Cai Fei'er were chatting very happily, completely ignoring himself, unhappy in his heart, and said angrily:

"What are you talking about, I'm almost done with my snowman. ”

"Oops, I forgot we were still building a snowman race!"

Cai Fei'er woke up and said with an anxious face:

"It's over, my brother is almost done. ”

She glanced at Shaoyang apologetically and slowly lowered her little head.

"Cai Fei'er, don't worry, I will definitely win Cai Da. ”

Shaoyang touched Cai Fei'er's little head and said confidently, and then sped up.

"Don't brag, I've already completed seven or eight points, as long as I put my facial features on the ground again, my snowman will be completed, and I will win this time!"

Cai Da said proudly, he glanced at Shaoyang, who was still riding a snowman, and then slowly hummed a song and began to make the eyes of a snowman.

Shaoyang didn't pay attention to it, just set up his body with peace of mind, and then quickly wiped his body evenly with a shovel.

Then he took off his gloves and began to make three small pits above the snow mound, and then made his nose out of the snow until he finally pulled his mouth out.

He patted the snow on his hands and said indifferently:

"I'm done. ”

"What?"

Cai Da and Cai Fei'er shouted at the same time, unable to believe it, and then Cai Da pointed to the snowman and said loudly:

"If you don't even have a head, how can it be a snowman?"

Shaoyang glanced at Cai Da and said unhurriedly:

"Who said there is no head, isn't it connected to the body, and besides, my snowman is much more powerful than yours, and it's still three-eyed. ”

"You, You"

Cai Da didn't slow down for a long time, and finally popped out the word cheating, and then said to Cai Feier unconvinced:

"Cai Fei'er, you give a comment, is he cheating?"

Cai Fei'er hesitated for a long time, looked at Cai Da who was huffing and puffing, and then looked at Shaoyang who was grinning, and finally said:

"I don't know, Brother Shaoyang seems to have some truth in what he said, but what my brother said is right, how can there be a head and body connected together in the world, isn't it a monster?"

"How could it not be, there are no wonders in the world, and it's normal to have monsters. ”

Shaoyang said.

"Is it true? Brother Shaoyang has seen it, tell me what a monster is like. ”

Cai Fei'er asked curiously, and then pulled Shaoyang aside to listen to the story, leaving Cai Da there alone.

"You guys"

Cai Da was so angry that he couldn't speak, his little face instantly turned red, and he muttered to his parents for a long time

in the hall

The big man in a white winter coat with a knife shaving face said eagerly:

"Big brother, next week, the immortals will come to our village to choose disciples. According to the regulations of the village, the quota this time is from the eldest brother's family, but what should I do?"

This person is the person who was left to preside over the fishing work last time after the big man left.

He is the younger brother of Dahan, named Cai Bao, and his face is full of worry at the moment.

"Man, think of a way, you can't let our Da'er go with those immortals!"

The woman was equally eager, and as she spoke, she wiped away her tears.

"What are you crying about, isn't this thinking, who wants to send the baby somewhere, I won't see it in my life!"

The big man said loudly, with an angry face.

Half a day later, Cai Bao, who was sitting on the chair, suddenly stood up and stopped talking.

"What's the matter, second, if you have something to say, just say it. ”

Dahan said with a frown.

The woman standing at the door of the room asked earnestly:

"Uncle, did you think of a solution?"

"Yes, sister-in-law, I just don't know if you want to. ”

Cai Bao is a little hesitant, obviously this may not be a way to do it.

"What method we don't want to do, is it more important than the baby going with those immortals?"

The woman hurriedly urged.

"Then I'll say it. ”

Cai Bao shrugged his shoulders and said slowly:

"If Yang'er can replace Da'er, then Da'er doesn't have to go, after all, we have an agreement with them that they can only take one baby from us every year."

Without waiting for Cai Bao to finish speaking, the Han couple said in unison:

"No way!"

Glancing at each other, the big man said:

"Shaoyang is my son, although he is not his own son, he has been with him for many days, and I have treated him as my own son. Besides, let him replace Da'er, if this thing is going to get out, what face do I have to stay in the village?"

"Uncle, I don't agree with this approach, do you have any other way?"

The woman's tone was gentle, but the idea of letting Shaoyang replace Da'er obviously didn't agree either.

Cai Bao was embarrassed, shook his head, and said:

"Big brother, sister-in-law, let me go back and think about it again!"

After speaking, he got up and left.

The Han couple looked at each other helplessly

The next day, the day dawned, and the sky was slightly bright

In the room, a small figure emerged from the bed and climbed onto another bed.

"Who?"

Shaoyang said in a daze, his eyes closed, but he moved his body and moved out of a position.

"Brother Shaoyang, it's me!"

Cai Fei'er whispered, and glanced at Cai Da next to her from time to time, with a cautious expression.

Shaoyang slowly opened his eyes, rubbed his eyes and said:

"Cai Fei'er, why did you come here to me, it's not dawn yet, it's not good to sleep. ”

"Brother Shaoyang, I have something to tell you. ”

Cai Fei'er paused and said:

"Hurry up and pack your things and leave immediately."

Shaoyang was stunned, looked at Cai Fei'er with a serious face, and asked:

"Cai Fei'er, what's wrong, what's wrong?"

"Shh

Cai Fei'er hurriedly said:

"Be quiet, don't let your father and mother hear it, or you may not be able to leave. ”

Shaoyang said cautiously:

"Cai Fei'er, what's going on, you tell me what happened. ”

Cai Fei'er drooped her head and thought about it for a long time before telling her what happened.

It turned out that after she pulled Shaoyang away yesterday, Cai Da was not convinced, so she went to the house to find her parents to judge, and as soon as she arrived at the gate, she heard his second uncle saying that he should let Shaoyang follow the immortals on his behalf.

Then he stopped, hid under the eaves of the door, eavesdropping, and did not run away until at last.

In the evening, he told Cai Fei'er about today's incident, and Cai Fei'er didn't want Shaoyang to go after hearing it, so she had the current thing.

After listening to this, Shaoyang understood the ins and outs, pondered, and said in a half-loud voice:

"Isn't it good to be able to learn spells from immortals, why don't everyone want to go?"

"I don't know, I just know that I haven't seen my neighbor's chubby since he was taken away by the immortals last year. ”

Cai Fei'er shook her head and said:

"Brother Shaoyang, I don't want to see you in the future. ”

Shaoyang was moved in his heart, stroked Cai Fei'er's hair, and said:

"Well, Cai Fei'er, sleep well, since my father didn't mention it, it should be fine. ”

After speaking, Shaoyang clenched his fists, as if he had made up his mind.

After lunch, taking advantage of Cai Fei'er and Cai Da's absence, Shaoyang suddenly knelt in front of the Han couple.

The Han couple was stunned, and was really taken aback by this sudden move.

The woman hurriedly bent down to help Shaoyang up, and asked kindly:

"Child, what's wrong, what's wrong, tell my mother quickly. ”

Shaoyang sat the woman on a wooden bench and said respectfully:

"Father, mother, Shaoyang is grateful for your life-saving grace and the care you have taken care of these days, if it weren't for your kindness, Shaoyang would have died a long time ago, you are like my own parents. ”

He looked determined:

"In my mind, I don't remember what my parents looked like, let alone how home felt, but here, it was my father and mother who made me feel the warmth of home. ”

The woman wiped away her tears and said:

"Child, this is your home, we are your parents, forever!"

Then he turned his head to the big man next to him.

"Man, you can say something!"

The big man next to him didn't respond, just looked at Shaoyang with a solemn expression.

Shaoyang's voice is sonorous:

"Daddy, you have the grace of regeneration for me, and Shaoyang can't repay it in this life and this life. ”

After a pause, he said:

"I want to go with the immortals instead of Cai Da. ”

The Han couple were stunned, and then they knew why Shaoyang knelt in front of them and said such a thing. Again, they rejected in unison.

The woman lifted Shaoyang up, with a loving face.

"Child, if there is really no way, this is Cai Da's life. Maybe in the future, our family will really be able to produce an immortal. ”

As he spoke, he wiped away his tears.

After a long time, the big man said in a low voice:

"Yang'er, everyone has their own way to go, and we can't control it. We once hoped that Cai Da would be able to study hard, gain fame in the future, and achieve a career, so we named him Da, brilliant Tengda. Unexpectedly, contrary to what we had hoped, he did not want to read, but only thought about playing and hunting, and became as well limbed as I was. ”

He sighed, turned his back, looked to the sky, and said:

"Cultivating immortals is a good thing, what a great grace it is to be able to become an immortal, not to mention the lintel of the light gate, it is simply the glory of the ancestors. In the past, the people in the village were proud that their babies could cultivate immortals. From generation to generation, to this day, countless babies have gone out, but none of them have ever returned. Those who sent their babies out never saw each other again until they died, so that now the villagers think that sending their babies to cultivate immortals is equivalent to sending them on a road of no return, so they are unwilling to let their children go with the immortals, but they can't do anything. In order to avoid the collection of those immortals, many villagers moved to other places. ”

After Shaoyang heard this, he faintly felt the original tail and said:

"If we refuse to send it out, are those immortals going to kill us?"

Dahan shook his head and said:

"That's not all, but it's not much better!"