Chapter 3: Xingyue Sect
"Yes, if it weren't for the fact that we had a good business a few years ago and saved some silver, the pot might not be able to be opened now, but it can't be consumed like this, Xiuyang has also reached the age of studying, we have been tailors for a lifetime, and we can't delay the children!"
"Old woman, you're right, my body is okay, let's see if I can go out and find some livelihood, but I'm afraid that Baxian Town will not work, if you want to make money, you have to go out and try your luck!"
"Oh, old man, is there no other way? You have an old wound on your leg, so you shouldn't travel far! ”
"Don't worry, as long as Xiuyang, this kid can change his ways and get ahead in the future, it doesn't hurt if I give up my life!"
Jin Xiuyang leaned on the crack of the door and listened to the conversation between the two elders, and before he knew it, he couldn't cry anymore, how could he still have the domineering demeanor of one person fighting seven boys in the daytime.
Ding Sangu heard the movement and immediately made a silent gesture towards Zhao Yuanying, and stopped continuing the topic just now.
"Oops, my baby daughter is back, why is she still crying? Tell my mother, who bullied my family Xiuyang, my mother will take revenge on you! ”
Ding Sangu opened the door and happened to see Jin Xiuyang hiding on the side, her heart softened, she held her in her arms, and comforted her while wiping her tears.
"Mother, I don't want to study, and I don't want my father to go on a long trip!" Jin Xiuyang wiped a handful of tears, crying even more aggrieved.
"If you don't study, you can't do it, look at what you have become now, I am conniving at you, and I can't demolish the Eight Immortals Town!" Zhao Yuanying had a black face and slapped the table heavily, looking like a strict father.
Jin Xiuyang was obviously afraid of Zhao Yuanying, timidly pricked the little brain melon into Ding Sangu's arms, and sobbed quietly: "If they hadn't called me a sinful baby, how could I be so naughty!" ”
Zhao Yuanying heard the child say this, his heart was extinguished because of the fire that had just been ignited by the collision, he sighed indifferently, and his whole face seemed to have aged a lot, he and Ding Sangu touched their eyes, and they all saw a deep helplessness in each other's eyes, behind this helplessness, it made him feel extremely frightened, in the future, their two elders will close their eyes, with the hatred of the people in the town for this child, I am afraid that they will really not be able to tolerate her! Although they are afraid of the threat of the mad demon, they dare not kill Jin Xiuyang while they are alive, but when they die, a demon who has not been heard from for ten years will still have a little bit of power left, and maybe he will become a dead soul under the righteous path knife long ago, even if the mad demon is not dead and finds the town, there will be no proof of death when the time comes, who can say clearly.
The more Zhao Yuanying thought about it, the more he felt shocked in his heart, only by letting this child receive education, even if it was to learn a craft, and sending it out of Eight Immortals Town in the future, he would at least be able to live a peaceful life.
"Is it a bad reason to repay a grudge for a grudge? In short, you have to go to this school! Don't come back if you don't learn. ”
Jin Xiuyang felt aggrieved for a while, she just didn't want to be a burden to this family, but was it so difficult to be understood? My shoulders shook and I cried even harder.
"Dad, it's not that I don't want to go to school, I heard what you said, you have an old problem in your leg, I just don't want you to travel far, I just don't want you to travel far for me...... Woowoo woo ......"
"Then you can learn something for me!" Zhao Yuanying's heart was like a stick piercing the intestines thousands of times back and forth, but his face was still unmoved.
Ding Sangu also unconsciously had tears in her eyes, and kept patting Jin Xiuyang's back: "Old man, you just don't say a word!" ”
At night, Jin Xiuyang lay in the quilt in his room tossing and turning, no sleep, only feeling upset.
She got up quietly and opened the door carefully, for fear of waking up the second elder in her sleep, and sat melancholy on the courtyard wall alone, looking at the starry sky in a daze.
Since she can remember, whenever she has something on her mind, she will sit here and talk to herself to the bright moon in the starry sky.
"My father is determined to travel far away for my schooling, but the old disease on his leg, he will sweat profusely when he walks for a mile or two on weekdays. But if I don't agree, he's going to be angry with me, moon, moon, what do you say I should do? ”
At night, the Eight Immortals Town was blind, only a bright moon in the sky, except for the chirping of cicadas hidden among the cordyceps, there was no sound.
Jin Xiuyang curled up her little head between her knees, two lines of tears slipped silently, and suddenly a soft light enveloped her body without warning, and under the moonlight, it seemed to have life, detached from her body, transformed into a bunch, and gently wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.
Jin Xiuyang raised his head blankly: "This feeling is so warm!" This is? ”
Just when Jin Xiuyang's face was full of doubts, the light pointed to the starry sky at night, and then it seemed that there was no strength left, and suddenly dissipated out of thin air.
"It, what does it seem to be guiding me?" Jin Xiuyang muttered to himself in shock while looking at the direction in which the beam dissipated, his little face was full of doubts, "Starry sky, what's in the starry sky?" There seems to be nothing but the stars and the moon! ”
"No, stars and moon?" Jin Xiuyang's eyes widened suddenly, and his little hand covered the corners of his mouth, a little difficult to be confident, "Could it be that it is talking about the Xingyue Sect, right!" Calculating the time, the time for the enrollment of the Star Moon Sect is still half a year away. ”
Jin Xiuyang was happy for a moment, and suddenly thought of something else, and the look on his face suddenly became sad again: "It is said that the Xingyue Sect is full of immortal-like characters, and recruiting disciples is even more one in a million, how can you fall in love with me!" ”
"But...... But if you can't enter the Xingyue Sect, your father will have to travel far away, and the injury on his leg ......" Jin Xiuyang's eyes changed back and forth, and when he thought of Zhao Yuanying, he instantly became firm, and his two pink and tender little fists clenched tightly, "No, for the sake of Daddy, even if it is difficult and dangerous, I must enter the Xingyue Sect!" ”
On the erection day, as soon as the sky was bright, Jin Xiuyang trotted into the room of Zhao Yuanying and his wife.
"Dad, mother! I've figured out how to go to school! ”
Ding Sangu opened her eyes sleepily and poked out half of her head: "It's not dawn yet, I'm starting to be naughty again, you little girl, what can you think of to go to school?" Go back to bed! As he spoke, he lay down again, as if his dream had not been broken.
Zhao Yuanying obviously thought it was a child's prank, so she didn't pay attention to it at all, and she didn't even raise her head.
Jin Xiuyang saw that the second elder was not moved at all, jumped on the head of the bed and began to put his hands up and down: "Oh, daddy, get up quickly, I want to go to the Xingyue Sect!" ”
"Well, let's go, let's go, the five-year Xingyue Sect is the day of enrollment!" Zhao Yuanying dozed off, took the opportunity to continue, turned over and was about to continue sleeping, when he suddenly realized that something was wrong, and a fierce man sat up straight from the bed!
"What do you say? I'm going to the Star Moon Sect! ”
Jin Xiuyang's eyes flashed, and he played with his ponytail with both hands: "Yes, Daddy, as long as I go to the Xingyue Sect, you don't have to worry about my schooling, and you don't have to leave the town to travel far away to do business, and it is said that the disciples who are selected by the Xingyue Sect not only do not need to pay any fees, but they can also give the family five taels of silver every month, which can also solve our urgent needs!" ”
Ding Sangu listened to Jin Xiuyang's eloquent talk, she was already sleepy, and she didn't know when to sit aside: "Xiuyang, Xingyue Sect is treated very well, but it's not something that ordinary people can say can enter!" My mother has lived for almost fifty years, and this Xingyue Sect has only taken three disciples from Eight Immortal Town! ”
"What your mother said is not wrong, and the Xingyue Sect recruits disciples extremely strictly, a total of three levels, I think I couldn't even pass the first level back then, the old disease on this leg is that will fall, and even if you pass the first two levels, how many people will not be able to connect with this sect in the third level!"
Zhao Yuanying seems to think of the past many years ago, and after a few years, he still talks about it.
"Daddy, don't scare me, maybe your daughter is a genius in the sky, and she is the only candidate in ten thousand."
"That's not good, this Xingyue Sect's selection of people is outrageous, and it can easily cost people's lives, your mother and I are just your precious daughter, and I will not let you participate in it no matter what!"
Jin Xiuyang saw that Zhao Yuanying was a little angry, lowered his head and puffed out his mouth, and muttered in a low voice: "If you don't let you participate, you won't participate, you will be locked in a cage every day, when will you grow up!" Ignoring the stunned expression on the second elder's face, he ran back to his room with a smoke.