Chapter 3 All the Way East

The white-haired old man panted and followed behind the four children, and said, "I'm not going, I'm not going, I'm not going to be killed." While following the children in front of him closely, it seemed that he would not be able to keep up.

"Grandpa Bai, your loess is buried up to your neck, you are not in a hurry, I am in a hurry for you, let's go to Wangxing Pavilion, maybe you can also learn the spell of cultivating immortals or eat some elixir and live forever, wouldn't it be great." Li Yepi said with a smile.

"The stinky boy actually said that about your grandfather, it's really not a good thing" The old man Bai didn't have a good breath.

"Yes, grandpa is really not a good thing," Li Ye said again. Wu Ju and Li Chen couldn't help laughing, and Mo Li's smiling branches trembled. Among the four children, although Mo Li is a girl, she is generous and well-behaved and cute, Wu Ju is calm and rarely spoken. Li Chen is lively, while Li Ye is too lively, sometimes he is more honest, and sometimes he is very skinny.

"Don't go, don't leave today" The old man Bai sat on the ground, crossed his legs, and lost his temper, "It's souring me, this waist is also sore, and the legs are also sore, this hasn't been eaten by the tiger yet, but you are tired to death first." Wu Ju, Li Chen, and Mo Li also stopped when they saw their grandfather sitting down.

Mo Li came silently behind Grandpa Bai, stretched out a pair of small hands on Grandpa Bai's shoulders and kneaded them. Old man Bai smiled and said, "It's better to be a granddaughter." The granddaughter knows that she loves her grandfather. I think at the beginning, grandpa traveled all over the world and picked up two treasures......"

"You have been wandering around and picked up some treasures", I don't know when Li Ye, who was at the forefront, had returned to everyone, and he was still skinny.

Before the old man Bai could finish speaking, he was suddenly robbed by Li Ye, and his face was red for a while. Just as he was about to have a seizure, Mo Li made a silent gesture to Li Ye, and said to the old man Bai: "Grandpa, don't pay attention to him, let me guess which two treasures."

Moli tilted his head and thought for a long time, and said, "I really can't guess, it's better for grandpa."

"He picked up a flower girl," Li Yeye said with a grin. Mo Lixing's eyes were round, and he made an angry look at Li Ye. Coincidentally, Grandpa Bai ignored him this time and said: "I went to the north and picked up a baby called Moli, and I picked up a baby called Wu Ju in the south."

Hearing his grandfather's praise, Moli let out a laugh like a silver bell. Wu Ju also showed a happy smile. The white-haired old man paused and sighed, "But when I got to this place that is not east and west, I picked up something that is not a thing. It's this stinky boy," he said, pointing at Li Ye and deliberately "bah" twice.

"Grandpa, what about me, am I not a baby?" Li Chen said hurriedly.

"You ......" Old man Bai seemed to think that he had forgotten Li Chen, and said with a smile: "If it weren't for this stinky boy, you would also be a baby" Hearing his grandfather's words, Li Chen had no choice but to stick out his tongue and make a grimace.

The white-haired old man is a wanderer, and there are many people like him who have wandered the world, but few have survived. In this era of war, and in a world where monsters are rampant, even the strong cannot guarantee that they can live peacefully, and it is a miracle that this thin and weak old man is still alive after wandering the world.

And when he wandered the world, he picked up four children respectively. Because he is very old, his hair and beard are very white, and the four children call him Grandpa Bai. These four children are all about the same age, and they have been wandering with Grandpa Bai for several years.

This time the wandering passed through Lijia Village, because it was in Lijia Village that Li Ye and Li Chen were found after the war. Except for these two children, everyone else in the village died.

And Li Ye, Li Chen, the two brothers don't look like each other at all. Because they are not brothers. Poverty and despair, as well as great disasters, did not annihilate Li Chen's handsome and extraordinary face. And Li Ye was not so lucky, half of his face seemed to have been kissed by a demon, and it was extremely ugly.

Not only his face, but also half of his body skin was burned by the fire, and his hair was also curly, and some people looked disgusting.

His adoptive father and adoptive mother, the honest couple in Lijia Village, have always wanted to adopt a child because they are fifty years old and have not yet conceived a child. It was so coincidental that when they were chopping wood in the mountains, they picked up an abandoned baby with a piece of jade in their mouths.

Half of the foundling's face is ugly, but the other half of his face is cute. The body part is also half good and half bad. Although this did not affect the couple's happiness in picking up the child. Because it was picked up in the mountains, there were many leaves falling from trees around him, so Li Laohan gave the abandoned baby a simple name "Li Ye".

Often ridiculed, they picked up a monster and came back, but they didn't care. They treated the abandoned baby as if they were a few things, wrapped the jade in a cloth bag, sewed it up, put it on a string, and hung it around Li Ye's neck. But after almost a year, the woman became pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy.

The baby boy was born very handsome, and the longer he grew, the more handsome he became, compared to Li Ye, it was the difference between heaven and earth, angels and devils. The couple, the more they looked at their children, the more they loved them, and they actually took the jade off Li Ye's neck and put it on their son's neck.

The couple's family is very poor, and it is quite stressful to raise two children, and the most important thing is that Li Ye, a child who is very strange, has some strange dreams almost every night, and talks strange dreams.

I couldn't bear it, Li Laohan and his wife invited a barefoot Langzhong and an exorcist priest to this eccentric child, and spent a lot of money, but they didn't solve this dream problem. There was really no way, it was also because of the excessive financial burden of the family, when Li Ye was two years old, Li Laohan walked dozens of miles of mountain roads and threw him into the mountains farther than he picked him up.

But when it got dark, Li Ye actually walked back by himself. Later, the husband and wife discussed, and threw Li Ye in the alley of the market, by the lake, under the bridge, at the door of the rich and noble, in the brothel, in the slave market, etc., and as a result, Li Ye returned to Li Laohan's house after three or five days, or seven or eight days later.

At this point, Li Laohan and his wife no longer dared to think about this picked up son. Until Li Ye was five years old, Lijia Village suffered a war, and the whole village died.

And because Li Ye met a fortune teller who loves to play chess, Li Ye, who was naturally interested in chess, has been pestering the fortune teller to teach him chess skills during that time, and the five-year-old Li Ye learned chess as soon as he learned it. On the day of the incident, Li Ye was pestering the fortune teller on a mountain outside the village to learn his last trick, so he happened to avoid the disaster.

And his younger brother Li Chen escaped because he was playing outside the village. Soon after, he met Grandpa Bai, and so that the five of them began a new wandering life.

"Grandpa Bai, you are duplicitous. You don't hate Brother Yezi. Not only is it not annoying, but the favorite among the few of us is probably Brother Yezi. Mo Li blinked Shui Lingling's eyes and said.

"I like him the most, I ......" Old Man Bai said angrily.

"My favorite old man, why don't you go?" Li Ye said with a smile.

"Yes, grandpa, why is that?" Mo Li tilted his head and wondered.

Old Man Bai sighed: "The road to Wangxing Pavilion is extremely difficult, not only is it difficult, but there is also a road that must be passed called the Valley of Death.

There are often wild beasts and spirits that haunt it, and all who pass by it are dead and alive. It's not that I won't let you go, it's just that I'm afraid that we'll be buried in the valley of death before we reach Wangxing Pavilion. After the old man Bai finished speaking, the atmosphere immediately fell silent.

"In that case, it's all the more important to go." Li Ye's words broke the silence. "Only the strong can survive in this world, and to survive, you must become strong. Our parents, parents-in-law, uncles and aunts in the same village were all kind people, and they died tragically one by one. How precious their lives are, a person only has one life, and how humble their lives are, jackals, tigers and leopards, monsters and even people who are stronger than them can take their lives at any time. In this world of the jungle, only by becoming strong can you better protect yourself, your family, and your friends. If you don't cultivate immortals, even if you don't get eaten by tigers, you will be eaten by other demonic beasts, or even die at the hands of bad people. And going to Wangxing Pavilion, although there is also danger, at least there is a glimmer of hope. If one day, we can really become strong enough, I really want to take the peace back from the bad guys and return it to the world. From the moment the people in the village were slaughtered, I had this thought, and in the past few years of wandering around the world with Grandpa Bai, I saw the devastation of life everywhere, and my idea became even stronger. ”

Hearing Li Ye's heart, Li Chen, Wu Ju, and Mo Li's eyes were all filled with tears.

They remembered their respective life experiences and their experiences over the years, they all stared at Old Man Bai, and said the same sentence in unison: "Grandpa, we have to become strong." "I want to be strong, and I want to help those who are suffering." Mo Li said again.

Li Ye pulled up the curly hair that covered half of his face, and said, "From now on, I will face everything bravely, including the ugliest side of myself." When his hair was pulled up, his unsightly face was completely exposed to the air.

Seeing his determination, Old Man Bai sighed and said, "Okay, I'll take you there, it's just that this Wangxing Pavilion doesn't accept disciples easily, even if you are lucky enough to cross the Valley of Death, whether you can enter Wangxing Pavilion depends on your chance." ”

After speaking, the five of them went all the way east and started to hurry, this time it was no longer Li Ye who was walking in the front, but Old Man Bai. And he had an extra wooden staff on his right hand. This wooden staff was deliberately picked up by Li Ye on the road.

Along the way, they will beg for some dry food in the village where there are people, and in the wilderness where there is no one, they will also hunt some wild meat such as hares to eat, and the chef turned out to be Li Ye. Mo Li is a happy little cook. Li Ye has been cooking all these years of wandering, and he seems to be very talented in this.

Because Mo Li was born with a cold for deliciousness, he naturally became a loyal fan of Li Ye. And although Li Chen and Wu Ju also liked the food cooked by Li Ye, they were both a little unhappy because Mo was too close to Li Ye.