The fat man was ready to give up the trial, and according to his understanding, as long as he was lucky enough and participated in it enough, there was always a chance to draw other trials, because there was a precedent for all this.

Li Chen asked: "According to what you just said, there are still many people like you, won't the first door prohibit you from this loophole?" ”

The fat man asked rhetorically: "Why forbid?" They have nothing to lose anyway. ”

Since there is nothing to lose, the so-called vulnerability is not a vulnerability.

"Brother, I advise you not to take this trial, because the place where the dragon beard ginseng lives is too dangerous, although the future is very important, but if the life is gone, what future can we talk about? Do you have a place to stay nearby? If not, you can go to my yard to live, I tell you, my family's cooking is very fragrant, it is better than you just go to the inn to stay. ”

Li Chen finally agreed.

The fat man's family is his childhood sweetheart.

The two grew up together in a village since childhood, never quarreled, and never blushed, and they were two little guesses in the real sense.

Until one day the fat man looked at the mountain outside the village, and he said, "I want to go outside the mountain and see." ”

So his Qingmei did not hesitate, and said with a smile: "Then let's be together." ”

Before leaving the village, Qingmei's father stopped him several times, saying, "You young people always like to toss around, do you think I haven't been outside?" You will regret it, one day you will know, the outside of the mountain is still the mountain, since it is all a mountain, then what is there to see? ”

The fat man didn't believe it, he felt that no matter what it was, he should still go and see it, but he also knew that it was Qingmei's father who was worried that his daughter would be wronged outside.

But the girl said to her father, "Those of us who grew up in the village were born with nothing to be proud of, and it was not a good life, so what are we afraid of suffering?" ”

Qingmei's father finally reluctantly agreed, and finally sighed before they left: "Where is the suffering in the world, in fact, in the village? Life is the most bitter but the heart is hard, eating Coptis can't compare to one of them, I just hope you don't regret it in the future. ”

Li Chen has also done the same thing, so he understands very well that for young people, most of the experiences that are not experienced are just useless words.

The two of them went all the way, because they didn't have enough money at the beginning, and they didn't have enough cultivation, so they went around and around, wasting a lot of time all the way because of their livelihood, and finally came here with a lot of means of making a living, and after a few years, they were finally able to have a small yard in the village outside the city.

The courtyard is very dilapidated, and I heard that the people of the first gate often come to collect taxes, because a radius of thousands of miles is considered to be under the name of the first gate.

The fat man mentioned his childhood plum along the way, his face full of pride and showing off.

When he arrived at the courtyard, Li Chen finally saw the 'round' girl in his mouth, a very simple-looking girl, not very old, with a pear vortex when she smiled, not pretty, but better than stability.

"It's been a long time since I've seen you bring your friends back, and that's a good thing." The girl said to the fat man, and there was silence in her voice.

After chatting a few words, the girl turned around and went to the back kitchen to cook.

When the girl left, the fat man showed off to Li Chen again, "Not bad, right?" ”

Li Chen couldn't understand his psychology, but he could know his joy, and nodded with a smile: "In Xiuwai Huizhong, brothers are blessed." ”

It's time to eat.

The dusk in the yard was mixed with the sound of domestic animals, the boxy tables turned fiery red in the sun, the fence wall around the yard shook slightly in the wind, the sound squeaked like the crickets of the autumn harvest, their shadows were stretched very long, there was no black pressure cast at noon, but it was comfortable to look at.

Li Chen experienced this kind of life for the first time, lying on the whirring old chair in the courtyard with the fat man, and his eyes watched the distant sun move down little by little, as if he was being gently dragged by a thread.

The whole world became quiet and slow, and Li Chen asked, "You guys are really comfortable living like this." ”

The fat man snorted and said, "What's so comfortable about this, I'll be honest, you should have been wandering around and coming here with great difficulty, right?" You think I'm comfortable now, but it's because I have such a dilapidated yard to settle in, think about it carefully, what kind of day will it be when you can enter the first gate in the future? And those big people we don't usually see, what kind of fairy days are they? ”

Li Chen thought for a while and didn't speak.

Because from a personal emotional point of view, he feels that his life in the yard at this moment is actually stable and happy enough, but if you say that it is impossible to make him give up his current efforts to climb.

Because he has many reasons why he can't give up, and maybe for others as well.

"Your trial, I'll help you complete it." Li Chen said coldly.

The fat man looked at him in surprise.

Following.

Li Chen took the fat man to the market in the city, in the middle of the market there is a simple street vendor dominated by small traders, on both sides are connected to the three-story shops, the vendors sell most of the objects and food cheap, the merchants on both sides are magnificent, and the main ones are those that are difficult to complete are trial materials.

It is said that the merchants here are also related households, and if there is no one to talk to at the first gate, no matter how much it costs, there is no chance of opening a stall here.

The two of them had already arrived at the door of the store, but the fat man temporarily retreated, and said to Li Chen: "It's nothing for you and me to be embarrassed when you go in, how old am I, I am your brother, the main thing is that the things inside are really expensive, even if you really have some family resources that can afford the things here, I have no merit and should not bear your kindness." ”

Li Chen said: "Actually, it's nothing, those big people like to pay attention to what fate, you met once, and you had dinner yesterday, and you bothered at your house for a night, and when you pass the trial, if you can really join the first door, it's not too late to pay me back then." ”

The fat man was still hesitating, he had been dragged in by Li Chen, he wanted to break free, but he found that he couldn't break free at all, and his strength was so great that he was frightened, and then he realized that it seemed that this young man's talent was a little better than he thought.

When he entered the shop, the fat man looked at the elixir of his own trial task, and his heart was half cold first, and then he looked at the price of the dragon beard ginseng that Li Chen needed, which was even more unacceptable, thinking that even if he sold the yard, he would not be able to buy one-tenth of this herb.

What makes him even more cold is that his savings over the years are quite a lot, but he tried to come in once three years ago, and he wanted to see how many years he could save to pass such a trial task.

The rise of these elixirs is inevitably too fast, and if it goes on like this, he will still only be able to buy one-tenth of it after a hundred years.

Li Chen didn't know how expensive these things were, because he had barely bought anything in the upper realm, he just looked at the objects on his body, and casually took out a double-ringed thorn, which he had obtained from the secret realm and handed it to the shopkeeper casually.

The shopkeeper looked at it for a long time, hurried to the back, ordered the others to take a good look at the two of them, and brought tea and wine, and the names of the two people became different.

In the fat man's surprise, he found that he seemed to know a little bit about the young man next to him who had been calling him brother for a long time yesterday.

In the end, the real boss behind the store personally handed over the elixir to Li Chen, Li Chen didn't feel anything, he was a person who had faced the Buddha World-Honored Sect, and of course he wouldn't take the situation in front of him to heart.

After going out, the fat man hesitated for a long time before finally asking: "Brother, you know through the bottom, how thick is your family's foundation?" ”

Li Chen thought for a while and said, "It's not that thick, this has nothing to do with your friendship with me." ”

The fat man's heart is also quite big, and after thinking about what Li Chen said carefully, he really didn't ask anymore, which happened to be the situation that Li Chen hoped for the most.

After passing the trial, the link of joining the first place began to become simpler, from the talent test, to the outer door elder who bribed 1 to screen the outer disciples, the fat man watched Li Chen take him through step by step throughout the whole process, and suddenly understood a certain sentence: The support of nobles is also greater than their own efforts in many cases, because this itself is a kind of chance.

On the day he joined the first door, the fat man told the news to his Qingmei.

The girl looked at the fat man and the joy of the bamboo horse, but her expression became a little complicated.

The fat man didn't get a response from the girl, noticed that her mood was a little strange, and asked, "Yuanyuan, aren't you happy for me?" ”

The girl said faintly: "Brother Ming, I am naturally happy for you, you and I came out of the village, I have seen your persistence for ten years, I know that you are worried about this matter, and I also know how many injustices and white eyes you have suffered over the years, but Brother Ming, I have always wanted to tell you that I don't like such days." ”

The fat man tugged at the corners of his mouth, as if he was laughing, but he couldn't laugh, "Yuanyuan, you're joking, right?" ”

The girl said, "Brother Ming, we have been out for ten years, and we have been walking for a few years just from the village to the bottom of the mountain. When I first came out with you, I thought that as long as I was with you, I would not be afraid of anything in this world.

It's just that after all these years, I don't think like this anymore, I just know that Brother Ming, the moment you are in now is difficult, I shouldn't have left you and walked away, until now I see that you have finally entered the first door, and I am relieved,"

The fat man's face turned pale, and he said bitterly: "Yuanyuan, what do you mean by this?" ”

In this sentence, he is questioning, or maybe he expects the girl to say that everything just now is just a casual lie.

The girl shook her head and said, "Brother Ming, you don't understand, in fact, I have never thought of anything to soar, I just think that since you have such a mind, it doesn't matter if I follow you for a long walk."

But people will change, and after a long time, I have found more and more that what I used to think was an overestimation of myself, but I am not worried about hardship, otherwise Brother Ming, you should know, if you are afraid of these, I will not choose to leave at this time.

After all, I wanted to go back to the village, and my dad was right, what was there to see behind the mountain, it was nothing more than another mountain.

Of course, you and I have our own ways to go, and now that you have your wish, it is even more impossible to go back, but I am different, I don't like today's life, even if I enter the first door, I may not be happy, I don't hide it from you, since the beginning of the past few years, I have a lot of complaints about you in my heart, and this kind of complaint is something I will never have in the past. ”

The girl's words were calm, and there was no sign of impulsiveness, which made the fat man even more flustered, because this calmness made the words seem firm.

Li Chen was also on the side, and after listening to this, he actually began to understand her in his heart, because in fact, the girl has a deep love for the fat man, and the ups and downs over the years have been overcome, even if the last complaint in his heart was finally confided today.

On the contrary, it was the fat man, who owed a lot to the girl, and perhaps he thought about compensating her after joining the first place, but now it seems that the girl never cared about his compensation.

Two days later.

When the two parted ways, Li Chen was also beside him.

waited until the back of the girl named Yuanyuan became smaller and smaller, and almost became a small black dot in this world.

Rustle, rustle.

Lin Tao in the distance was bursting, and the fat man next to him sat on the ground and cried, such a separation, decades of feelings, there has never been quarrels and suspicions, and the current ending is tantamount to stripping off a piece of flesh in his heart.

All kinds of love in this world are full of tragedies, just listen to how far away the cry is, but it is rare to see a smiling face and consummation.

Li Chen suddenly understood Cheng Zhi'an and Qiu Feng at this moment, and understood Zhang Qian and Liu Dan, for them, perhaps every time they separated, they were ready to see each other again, just because the countless joys of meeting in this world were not worth a moment of parting

Separation is the background color of emotion, above this background, people began to rely on their brains and feelings to build illusory pavilions, each pavilion has its own life, and when the pavilion collapses, the background color is revealed, only to know that everything is yesterday's bubble, today's dream.

Li Chen has always been sluggish in this regard, and suddenly he had an epiphany, thinking about everything, his face swept by, throbbing inexplicably.

At this moment, what a good situation it would be if they were all here, whether intimate or not, chatting about the past in the wind, talking about each other in the mountains and wilderness, and watching the voices in the freeze frame of time.

There is no need to be too intimate, all these feelings are beautiful.

The fat man's cry was next to him, but it seemed to be extremely distant, and Li Chen's thoughts were fluctuating because of the cry, like the autumn fall of the leaves in the mountain wind, unable to be autonomous and unable to ponder.

Two young men, one sitting on the ground whimpering in pain, the other standing aside and looking at the past with his own heart.