The next morning, when the first rays of sunlight were projected into the firewood room through the cracks in the window, Luo Tian had not yet woken up.

Maybe it's because you're too tired after a long day's journey, or maybe you're immersed in a beautiful dream world and don't want to wake up.

After a while, I heard a "squeak" sound, and the door of the firewood room opened, and I saw the guy from the shop pushing the door in.

Luo Tian woke up after hearing the movement, he rubbed his eyes in a daze, and after a closer look, he saw that the person who came was a guy from the shop.

"I'm sorry, Xiao Luotian, woke you up?" said the man.

"It's okay, it's time for me to get up too. If it weren't for the big brother, I guess I would have arrived home very late, and I should be grateful to the big brother. Luo Tian stretched and said.

"Big brother is going to get firewood to make breakfast, can you give me some more water, I should rush home after eating" Luo Tian said embarrassedly.

"Hehe, come with me to the kitchen. There are still some leftovers there, and the shopkeepers don't eat leftovers. It's a pity to lose these leftovers, so why don't you give it to you, it's really pitiful to see you at such a young age," the guy sighed.

When Luo Tian heard this, he followed the young man to the kitchen. This cooking guy is very good to Luo Tian, and often gets him some leftovers to eat with dry food. Although it was leftovers, Luo Tian also felt warm in his heart.

Therefore, Luo Tian was full of gratitude to the guy. In his heart, he was very grateful to this kind fellow, and he was also grateful to the kind shopkeeper for allowing him to spend the night here.

After eating, Luo Tian embarked on the journey home. The owner of the shop looked at the thin figure from afar at the door for a long time before turning back to the shop.

When the man saw the shopkeeper coming in, he stepped forward and said, "The shopkeeper, according to your orders, give the freshly fried vegetables to the little guy, but the villain doesn't know why you take so much care of him?"

"Alas, when I saw this little guy, I remembered the days when I didn't have enough to eat when I was a child. In this little guy, I saw a rare perseverance and tenacity, which touched me quite a lot. He will have to take good care of him every time he comes, you know?" the shopkeeper commanded. The guy nodded in understanding.

Luo Tian left the town and set off along the same road towards the village. He had to rush back to the village before sunset. For every night there are many wild beasts in this mountain.

A child like him, as long as he encounters a wild beast, he will definitely not escape the fate of death. Even during the day, there are quite a few wild beasts, but the chances of encountering them are much less.

Half a year ago, Luo Tian once encountered a fierce tiger during the day, and was spared thanks to a hunter hunting nearby.

The memory of that time made Luo Tian feel palpitations. But every month he had to go to the town to sell medicinal herbs, and he himself felt helpless.

Generally, people in the village will hire hunters to protect the safety when they go to the town, although it will cost some money, after all, there is no fear of life. Luo Tian was reluctant to spend money, and in order to earn money to survive, he could only risk going back and forth between the two places alone.

He had traveled for half a day, and at noon he had eaten some dry food, rested for a while, and then began to hurry again.

The barren mountains and mountains are indeed cruel to this six-year-old child. From time to time, you can hear the howl of fierce beasts in the forest not far away.

Whenever Luo Tian heard these sounds, he galloped through the forest, and when the sound was far away, he dared to stop and rest for a while, and then continued on his way.

I heard the old people in the village say that the place where their village is located is sparsely populated, and few people even in small towns dare to go deep into the jungle.

This mountain range seems to be endless, and the town of Lonely Mountain is also surrounded by this vast mountain. The nearest city seems to be thousands of miles away.

In the memories of the old people in the village, the village would often be attacked by fierce beasts, and at this time, both men, women and children in the village would come together to drive away the fierce beasts. However, in the past thirty years, there have been many fewer cases of fierce beasts invading villages, which makes people feel very surprised.

The last rays of the setting sun were still hanging in the sky, and Luo Tian also returned to the village.

After arriving at the entrance of the village, he did not stop and walked directly in the direction of his home. Every time Luo Tian goes out, what worries him the most is that there is no one to take care of his mother. His mother is the motivation for him to persevere!

Although his mother can cook for herself, Luo Tian is reluctant to let her cook for herself whenever possible. After all, his mother has difficulty moving, so the only thing Luo Tian is worried about now is his mother.

When Luo Tian walked to the door of the house, he suddenly smelled the aroma of food.

"Could it be that Mother is cooking by herself again?" Luo Tian thought worriedly, so he hurried back home.

When he arrived in the courtyard, he heard the sound of two people talking in the house. Luo Tian listened carefully, it turned out that Aunt Meng was talking to her mother, and it was estimated that Aunt Meng came to help make this meal.

"Mother, I'm back!" Luo Tian shouted.

"Tian'er is back, hurry up and eat, it's your Aunt Meng's cooking today!"

When Luo Tian entered the house, he saw a woman in her thirties sitting at a table next to her with her mother, looking at her.

"Aunt Meng. I'm sorry for you, for more than a year, thanks to your care, I can go to collect medicine with peace of mind!" Luo Tian said gratefully.

"What's so polite, my relationship with my sister is too much to say," Aunt Meng replied.

This Aunt Meng is Qingzhu's mother. Because Aunt Meng and her mother both married from another village far away, the relationship between the two is very good. I heard my mother say that the two of them are best friends who grew up together, so now that their own family is so difficult, Aunt Meng has not alienated her.

Aunt Meng and her mother's maiden home is hundreds of miles away, which is much farther than the distance to the town.

So there is no urgency, and my mother does not go back to her parents' house. In a radius of thousands of miles, there are many large and small villages. It's just that the villages are far apart, so there is little communication.

Only when the men get married and the women get married, will there be more exchanges between the villages and roads.

After a man and a woman get married, the woman will generally follow the man's surname, so she is called "Aunt Meng".

His mother and Aunt Meng's family are both surnamed Li, so when outsiders call them, they will be called "Luojia Li" or "Mengjia Li", instead of their real names, which is also a custom passed down from ancestors.

Aunt Meng talked with Luo Mu for a while and then went home, and when she left, she invited Luo Tian to have time to play with Qingzhu, and Luo Tian happily nodded and agreed.

However, Luo Tian knew that the next step was to trouble Aunt Meng again, because he decided to join the expedition in the village for a long time to collect medicine, which would take several days.

After eating, Luo Tian settled his mother, and sat at the door of his house again, only to see him looking at the school in the distance in a daze

He decided to take a dangerous adventure because he wanted to scrape together all the money to pay off his debts, so that he could scrape together the tuition fees to go to school. In the back of his heart there was a very strong desire to go to school, a feeling that children who looked down on him did not experience.

In the past, most of the people who went out to collect medicine would not go too far, and they would go out in the morning and come back in the evening. But with the day after day of picking, the herbs in the mountains near the village have become very scarce.

So some people in the village began to venture further into the jungle to collect medicine. Although it was very risky to do so, every time he saw other herb pickers come back, he would gain a lot, so he couldn't help but want to try it once.

It took many days to go to the mountains to collect medicinal herbs, and the danger of this Luo Tian was still clear.

In addition to the complex and changeable weather, it is also very difficult to eat and live in the mountains. The most dangerous thing is that the closer you get to the depths of the mountains, the more fierce beasts become.

Legend has it that in the depths of the mountains, there are powerful monsters that are larger and more intelligent than the fierce beasts.

I even heard the longest-lived old man in the village say that he actually saw a monster with a mouth when he went deep into the jungle, and he directly scared the old man out at that time.

Luo Tian didn't believe these rumors, he thought that the old man was teasing them children, how could any animal speak human words, if there was really it, it would be incredible.

Whether the rumors are true or not, the people of the village organize expedition teams to go deep into the mountains every year.

In addition to the herb pickers, the others are the hunters in the village. In this way, the safety of the herb pickers is guaranteed, and the hunters can hunt and kill the huge beasts in pairs.

Every time the expedition team returns, the villagers will greet them at the entrance of the village, which is the moment of great harvest in the village. The harvest of each member of the expedition is mostly the income of the previous few months.

Three days later, the village organized an expedition to the deep mountains, and Luo Tian also signed up.

When he signed up, some people in the village were reluctant to let him participate. After all, it's just a six-year-old child, and it's not something they want to lead. This shows that everyone thinks Luo Tian is a burden.

Thanks to Qingzhu's father, everyone agreed to let him join. Qingzhu's father was the leader of the expedition and was very respected in the village. Moreover, he and Luo Tian's father are good brothers, and everyone agreed to take this thin and cumbersome little boy for the sake of the captain's face.

Qingzhu's father is called Meng Hu, he is five big and three thick, and he looks like he has a lot of strength, and the people in the village think that he is the best hunter.

In the past, the captain of the expedition team was Luo Tian's father, but unfortunately his father disappeared.

At that time, Meng Hu and Luo Tian's father Luo Yun were brothers in life and death, one of them was the captain of the expedition and the other was the deputy captain.

I heard my mother say that my father also saved Uncle Meng's life back then. So Uncle Meng was very grateful to his father, and the two became friends of life and death.

This expedition team formed in the village consisted of a total of fifteen people, including five medicine pickers, and the others were hunters.

Although there are many hunters, and the herb pickers need to pay a lot of money, they have to earn more for the medicinal herbs they collect. Luo Tian used the money he had saved for a few months, and he took it out as a reward, so he was very painful.

But when he thought about it carefully, he could earn more in this way, and he was relieved. The group prepared for another day, and the next day, surrounded by a large group of people from the village, the expedition set off towards the mountains.

This time, the expedition will go along the same route as the older generation has explored. After all, there are many unknown dangers in this deep mountain, and no one wants to wander around without a head.

The expedition team went deep into the mountains for half a day, and Uncle Meng arranged for everyone to eat and rest. Luo Tian was more excited because of his first expedition, so he only ate a little dry food.

It is still relatively close to the village, and Luo Tian has occasionally visited here when he was collecting medicine. But if you go any further inside, you will find a place that is inaccessible, and even the most seasoned hunter will not dare to go deep alone.

After everyone rested for a long time, Uncle Meng took out the map to check the route. This map is carved on the skin of an animal, which is recorded by the predecessors again and again in the test of life and death. Therefore, maps are very valuable, and they are usually kept by the captain.

"Everyone, let's start cheering up, we may be attacked by fierce beasts at any time. So the hunters open the way in front, the herb pickers in the back, and arrange three hunters at the back to break the back!" Uncle Meng said, pointing to a road not far away.

Everyone didn't dare to be careless when they heard this, after all, they came here to make money, and if they were unfortunately killed by a fierce beast, it would be worth the loss!

So at the front of the expedition, Uncle Meng led six hunters to open the way, and Luo Tian and the five of them followed. The remaining three hunters walked at the back to observe the situation behind them, preventing the beasts from attacking from behind.

In this way, I went deep for fifty miles in one day, and now it was dark. The expedition had a smooth journey, and did not encounter large beasts to attack. It's just that a few small beasts are hunted by hunters.

Everyone on the expedition was in a good mood and were looking forward to a bumper harvest this time.

"Let's rest in place, and then go deeper fifty miles into the land, there is a mountain marked with medicinal herbs, and the medicine pickers will prepare to collect medicine at that time!" Uncle Meng looked at the map and explained.

Hearing the captain's words, several herb pickers were very excited, and Luo Tian was even more excited, he really hoped to collect rare medicinal materials