In winter, the boundary of Fanzhou will be frozen rain every three or five times, and long ice cubes will hang on the eaves like rakes.

Rows and rows, very neat.

Lan Xiaoqi lay on the bed made of dry grass, looked up, and looked at the sky through the hole in the roof.

The night sky was too silent, the waning moon was faint, and it was a little desolate.

"The fourth is dying, hey. ”

There was a low conversation outside, talking to her parents.

There are now seven people in their family, and she is the seventh, and there were originally four brothers and two sisters, but two sisters starved to death a few days ago.

Is it going to be the fourth brother's turn?

She thought in a gloomy mood.

Counting it up, her family was also food and clothing before, but she didn't expect that there would be military disasters for many years, bandits would enter the city to grab a wave, and the so-called righteous army would enter the city and grab a wave, and they would not be able to survive, and the court would also collect taxes for thirty years in advance.

This summer, there was another locust plague, and there was no harvest.

Nowadays, everything that can be eaten has been eaten, and many people are so hungry that they eat dirt and human flesh.

"Dad, what did you say over there in Shili Pavilion?"

"That's not an ordinary big family buying a girl, I'm looking for it, it should be a royal noble, high requirements, they said to come tomorrow, if it's qualified, buy it." ”

Lan Xiaoqi listened, her eyes moistened, and her father and mother were finally going to sell her.

can't complain about her father, she wiped away her tears, the third sister and the sixth sister have starved to death, and her father and mother can't help it.

"Gah. ”

The door of the ruined temple opened, Yang and Lan Wu walked in, and by the faint light, they could see several children hugging each other in a heap, and the nine-year-old daughter was lying in the haystack, with her eyes closed, and she was not sleeping peacefully.

The husband and wife's hearts tightened, and they turned their heads and couldn't bear to look at it.

The next day, just after dawn, Lan Xiaoqi, who had not slept all night, opened his eyes.

It just so happened that the buyer came.

"Childe, my family has four boys and a girl. ”

"I'm just a nine-year-old girl. ”

Lan Xiaoqi pushed open the door and saw a strange man talking to his mother, he was tall, his clothes were like ink, his posture was straight, and he was handsome.

obviously has a small beard, but it does not look old at all, but adds a little more toughness and majesty.

"Little Seven ......" Yang looked at his daughter's clear eyes, and he couldn't speak anymore, and his eyes were dodgy, not daring to look at his daughter.

"Is that her?"

Liu Qingyi looked at the girl whose little face was blue from the cold a few steps away, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

I saw that although she was dressed in rags and had a yellow face and thin muscles, she could not hide the compelling beauty between her eyebrows.

"Yes. Yang's hands clenched together uneasily, pinched white, and his nails dug deep into the flesh.

"Come here. Liu Qingyi beckoned to Xiao Qi.

His face was expressionless, not angry but threatening, but for some reason, Lan Xiaoqi felt that he was not terrible.

"Hold this in your hand, close your eyes, and focus on what you want most. ”

Lan Xiaoqi walked to Liu Qingyi's side, and he handed over a beautiful blue ball, round and not big, just enough to hold with one hand.

The other homeless people living in the ruined temple also gathered around at this time, exclaiming, "This is the legendary Night Pearl?"

"Look at you who have never seen the world, the pearl of the night is white. ”

"Glass?"

Lan Xiaoqi was attracted by the beautiful ball, reached out to take it, held it in his hand, and then closed his eyes very obediently.

After closing her eyes, a large plate of pork, rabbit, fish, and lamb appeared in front of her eyes......

Liu Qingyi's expressionless face suddenly smiled, and he reached out to pat Xiao Qi's head, "Okay." ”

Xiao Qi didn't want to open his eyes, as soon as he opened his eyes, those meats were gone!

"This kid, I bought it, which of you will go to Shili Pavilion with me to get food?"

"I ...... Boss, you go with the second. When Yang heard the word grain, his eyes lit up, and then he gloomy, and his confidence was insufficient.

Lan Dalaner, who was about to take his younger brother to dig grass roots in the mountains, watched it for a long time, and finally understood what was going on, when he shouted, "Mother, you want to sell Xiaoqi?"

was questioned by his son, Yang's already bloodless face turned even paler.

opened his mouth, wanted to defend himself, and felt that he was really sorry for his daughter, so he simply shut up.

It is said that the children of the poor are in charge of the house early, Lan Xiaoqi is already very sensible, she doesn't blame her father, she may be able to survive if she is sold, but she can't starve to death like her two sisters.

"Big ......"

Before the word brother was spoken, the small broken temple became extremely noisy, "Childe, what do you think of my second girl, no worse than Xiao Qi!"

"Childe, my family's Cuihua is also good, more obedient than Xiaoqi. ”

"My peach blossoms are better looking than Xiao Qi, son, you can buy my peach blossoms. ”

"I'm sorry, I'm just a nine-year-old girl. Liu Qingyi refused expressionlessly.

"Childe, although my peach blossom is ten years old, she doesn't eat much, less than Xiao Qi. ”

Lan Xiaoqi looked at those who were vying to sell his daughter, and suddenly felt that he could live.

She reluctantly handed the beautiful ball to Liu Qingyi.

Liu Qingyi was stunned for a moment, then smiled, took her hand, and said gently, "Let's go." ”

When he left the broken temple, everyone in the Lan family came out to send it off, including his father, who was hiding in the shadows, his eyes were red, and Xiao Qi knew that he had cried.

"Go and kowtow to your father and mother three times, thank them for their kindness, and in the future, you will have nothing to do with them. Liu Qingyi let go of her hand.

As soon as these words came out, the Yang family, Lan Wu, and the Lan family couldn't help crying, and Lan Da even shouted: "Is there any difficulty that can't be overcome? Do you have to sell Xiaoqi to live?"

No one answered him, everyone looked at Xiao Qi in silence, she knelt down very sensibly, and kowtowed three times with a bang.

"Dad, mother, Xiao Qi is gone. ”

There was one more sentence she didn't say.

Dad, mother, you should be the same as Xiao Qi and the third sister and the sixth sister, die.

When they went to Shili Pavilion, Xiao Qi hid in the tent set up by Liu Qingyi, peeking at the eldest brother and second brother who were clubbed outside through the cracks, Liu Qingyi gave them a few bags of rice and two hundred taels of silver, and they didn't want to leave.

It wasn't until it was dark that Yang and Lan Wu came and took the two away.

Liu Qingyi opened the curtain and came in, and when he saw that she was peeking, he asked curiously, "Why don't you go out?"

"Go out, the eldest brother will definitely say that no matter how hard it is, I will not starve to death, if I stay, we will definitely starve to death, if I don't stay, he will definitely say that he will redeem me and go home in the future, so be it, as the days go by, he will forget. ”

Liu Qingyi chuckled, "It is worthy of being a genius with all five spirits, early wisdom and close to demons." ”

Xiao Qi looked up at him, his eyes full of curiosity, "What is the Five Spirits?"

Genius she knew that Mr. Shoku, who used to live next door, praised her, saying that she was a genius, and if she was a man, she could be named a marquis.

What's the meaning of the marquis and the prime minister, she doesn't want it, if she has to make a merit, then be the one who pays homage to the marquis.

"This one is for you. ”

Liu Qingyi handed the spirit test ball to Xiao Qi. "This is the spirit orb, you see, has the color on it changed?"

Xiao Qi took a closer look, and sure enough, he found that the ball was no longer blue, it was full of several colors, and it looked extremely dazzling.

"The five spirits are complete, this question is a bit complicated, little girl, when you step into the cultivation world, you will understand what is going on. ”

Xiao Qi felt that his fate seemed to have changed.