The sky is slightly bright, when the morning sun does not rise, the little beggar gets up to carry water, there is no well in the mountain view, so he has to run to the bottom of the mountain with a wooden barrel, while the villagers of Xiaosheng Village make a fire to cook, when there are few people by the well, hit half a bucket of water and leak half a bucket, stumble all the way to the Taoist temple, although it is a little tired, but also to this malnourished little beggar, laid some solid physical foundation, not to mention the strength, but also less a few times sick.

After a few trips, the water tank in the view is half full, the little beggar is tired and sweaty, thinking about going to the well to draw water again, then heat some leftover porridge from yesterday, fill the stomach to clean up the body of Lao Dao, this day's work is basically completed, then you can go down the mountain, go to the neighboring town to find the little swordsman holding the rusty sword.

Most of the children of the same age in the village also study in private schools in the town, and when they get out of school, they can go to the mountains to catch birds and insects together, so as not to let the little beggar be bored in the view, and the old Taoist priest is also very supportive of this.

If you are facing a dying person all day long, it is inevitable to provoke a twilight, and have more contact with some young and vigorous children, which can be more sunny, and you will not be said to be wooden by others when you are older.

The little beggar carried the bucket on his back with both hands, and the way down the mountain was paved with a path by bluestone slabs, and there was a lot of frost in the morning in this season, and the little beggar had no strength at the moment, and he didn't dare to run too fast, for fear that one would not pay attention and fall into a mess.

"Little beggar...... Little beggar!"

Before he could descend the mountain, the little beggar heard someone call him, put down the barrel and trotted down the mountain, and saw an honest peasant man.

The man had a big skeleton and a tall man, with thick eyebrows and big eyes on his face and a straight nose, and when he saw the little beggar coming down the mountain, he said, "Run slower, be careful of falling." ”

The little beggar smiled shyly and said, "Uncle Li, what are you looking for me?"

The peasant man laughed twice, touched the little beggar's head and said, "Today I went to the town with your little Uncle Li to buy something, there are a lot of things, I want to ask you to come over and help, pay you two copper plates, and then you buy some delicious food, don't you think?"

The little beggar hurriedly shook his hand and said, "Help with this, you don't think I'm making trouble, I don't need copper coins and delicious food, and I still have some spare money in the view, so I can't be hungry for the time being." ”

Uncle Li laughed twice, and after stuffing the copper plate into the little beggar's hand, he said: "You doll, don't give you money, little fool, the copper plate is put away, and when you are busy with the things in the temple, go down the mountain to find me." ”

After that, no matter how the little beggar excused himself, he turned around and walked down the mountain.

The little beggar was stunned in place, reached out and touched the two copper plates with residual temperature, carefully put them in his arms, returned to the place where the wooden barrel had just been placed, took the wooden barrel and beat the last bucket of water, and wiped the body of the old Taoist in the view, and then went down the mountain.

Just walked into the small holy village, before the little beggar reacted, he was blocked by two slightly older young people, as the saying goes, poor mountains and bad waters out of the people, everything has two poles, there are pity for the little beggar and feel distressed, there are those who are not used to it, out of anger.

The two young people are this Diao people, it is strange to say, the two of them have similar backgrounds to the little beggars, they are both children who had an accident, eat a hundred family meals, wear a hundred family clothes, and grow up relying on the kindness of the villagers, but these two people slowly grew up, but they regarded the kindness of the villagers as the original, and they had reached the age of being able to support themselves, but they were idle, stealing chickens and dogs.

Sometimes there is a lack of money, hungry, so to a family, "borrow" some money and food, and then the villagers gave them two acres of land, and no longer care about them, it happened that at this time the little beggar was thrown down the mountain from the view of the old way, and felt that what should belong to them, let the little beggar occupy alone, so he came to pick the trouble of the little beggar for a long time.

"Hey, who am I, boy, having been doing well lately. One of them, Li Tao, had a grass in his mouth, squinted his eyes, and saw that the little beggar wanted to enter the village, so he blocked the road.

"Your nourishment has made us miserable, and we have to work in the fields every day when we are hungry. Li Hai, who was with Li Tao, was also sarcastic on the side.

The little beggar stood in place, and he didn't dare to speak, so he could only lower his head, wanting to bypass these two ruffians, but how could Li Hai and Li Tao let go of the little beggar so easily, seeing that he didn't speak, Li Hai went up with a kick, and after kicking the little beggar, he still grabbed the little beggar's hair, and said with a smile: "You kid, you don't say hello when you see your brother, it's really rude!"

"I'm sorry. ”

The little beggar didn't dare to say more, so he could only bow his head and admit his mistake, for fear that if he said something wrong, he would be beaten badly.

"I'm sorry?" Li Tao walked around to the little beggar, bent down slightly, and raised his hands to have two mouths, "I heard that Uncle Li asked you to work, you must have a salary." ”

"No ......" the little beggar lied, although these two copper plates are only two pennies, you can save more money, you can buy some food for the temple, and you can also let the old man who is bedridden eat less hungry and more.

"Hehe, you're not old, you have a lot of eyes, if you don't give you some hardship, you won't tell the truth. Li Tao said beside him, Li Hai grabbed the little beggar's hair, slapped his face twice, and was just about to raise his foot to vent the evil anger in his heart, the little beggar spoke.

"Uncle Li asked me to go to his house for dinner and didn't give me money. ”

Li Hai and Li Tao glanced at each other, feeling that the little beggar didn't seem to be lying, the two sighed, it was still Li Hai who did it, and Li Tao spoke.

"If you want you to eat, you will eat? If you want me to see you and eat at someone else's house, I will break your leg!" Li Tao patted Li Hai on the shoulder, and the two of them looked at the little beggar with disdain before leaving.

The little beggar got up, patted the dust off his body, wiped the tears that he couldn't hold back, and ran towards the village.

After a while, I found Uncle Li who was squatting at the door to eat.

Uncle Li's original name was Li Dabao, and Uncle Li was his younger brother, named Li Xiaobao, and the two twins were both men in their thirties.

"Just buy some salt cloth today, there are not many things, but they are a little heavy. Uncle Li wanted to take the little beggar to eat together, but the little beggar remembered what Li Hai and Li Tao had just said to him, so he could only insist on refusing.

As soon as Uncle Li saw the injuries on the little beggar's body, he knew what was happening, but because of the temperament of the two brothers, he didn't dare to say more, and pulled the little beggar out of the door.

The town is twenty miles away from Xiaosheng Village, and in order to come back early to clean up the crops, Uncle Li went on the road before the two of them, so Uncle Li and Xiao Qi'er didn't dare to talk much along the way.

Less than an hour later, the little beggar and Uncle Li came to this town, although the sparrow is small, the town is not big, some of the shops in it are complete, the little beggar and Uncle Li are not the first time to come to this town, after finding the salt shop with a familiar car, Uncle Li let the little beggar play by himself, and agreed to go back together, and then wait at the city gate.

The little beggar nodded, and disappeared with his thin legs around the corner, there was a blacksmith shop at the west end of the town, where there was a boy who claimed to be the first immortal swordsman in the world in the future, and he was a friend that the little beggar had met in the town before.

The little swordsman is called Zhang Dongling, three or four years older than the little beggar, he is a swordsman on weekdays, and he behaves extremely boldly, in fact, he is a door-picking ghost who wants to break the copper coin into two petals of flowers, he likes to play with knives and swords on weekdays, and he is often beaten by his father who strikes iron and can't get out of bed, but he is righteous to the little beggar, and the two often get into trouble together, and finally leave a cover, it must be this little swordsman.

Looking at the little beggar not far from the blacksmith shop, he touched the two copper plates in his arms, that is, two pennies, and went to the alley to buy two sugar gourds, thinking that he would not go to anyone's house for a long time, and it was not appropriate to be empty-handed at the moment.

"Yo! Angelica!"

A young man as unkempt as the little beggar, carrying a rusty iron sword on his back, ran towards the little beggar.

The little beggar was about to buy sugar gourds, and when he heard someone calling his name, he stopped, turned around and ran towards the young man, and the person who came was Zhang Dongling, who was the only person in the town and Xiaosheng Village who called the name of the little beggar, Li Angelica, this is the name of the little beggar.

Li Angelica lives in the Taoist temple and the town is a distance away, so there is not much time to go down the mountain to the town, Zhang Dongling saw Li Angelica walking to sell sugar gourds at this moment, how can he not know what this kid wants to do, he is poor to death on weekdays, and he can still break the bank at this time?

Thinking about it, Zhang Dongling immediately took Li Angelica's hand and said: "I have eaten too much sugar recently, and I have two tooth decays, just because of this, my father beat me, and you still want to buy sugar gourds to harm me?"

"Don't dare!" Angelica hurriedly waved his hand and said, "I didn't know that your father beat you with tooth decay, I just wanted to play with you for a while." ”

Zhang Dongling patted his chest when he heard this, and said, "Coincidentally, my father is playing a peerless sword, come with my brother and open your eyes!"

Angelica scratched his head embarrassedly and followed the cave spirit into the blacksmith shop.

As soon as he entered the door, he felt a wave of heat rushing to his face, Angelica subconsciously reached out to block it, and after getting used to it a little, he looked up at the shop again, a middle-aged man was holding a sledgehammer, constantly waving it, his body was scarred, his muscles were surging, and his expression was dignified.

"What's the matter, it's amazing!" Zhang Dongling looked at his father's appearance when he was striking iron and said, "Dad fights swords, son uses swords, and when I enter the first swordsman of the Immortal Dao, I will make my father the first swordsmith in the world!"

Angelica on the side ignored him, just stared at a sword-shaped rough embryo on the anvil, and was beaten with fire, thinking, if he learned such a craft in the future, not only did he not need to worry about eating, but it was also a wish of the old way, without thinking much, Angelica opened his mouth and asked the middle-aged man: "Uncle, can I learn to strike iron from you as a teacher?"

The man striking the iron looked at Angelica and Zhang Dongling, shook his head, and did not speak.

"Huh...... If you don't cultivate a good fairy road, why do you want to learn from my father to strike iron?" Zhang Dong was happy, smiling at Angelica, touching his head and patting his shoulder, each of them was right.

"I ...... I'm afraid that I won't be able to eat in the future, the old Taoist priest said that learning a craft can make it better to live, and it's okay to be tired and tired, I really want to learn!" Angelica saw that the middle-aged man shook his head and didn't say anything, and he didn't care about Zhang Dongling's tricks around him, so he ran over and showed his thin shoulders, "Look, I have muscles and a lot of strength!"

"Hahaha!" Before the middle-aged man could speak, Zhang Dongling laughed first, walked in front of Angelica in two steps, pinched the little arm that didn't have a few taels of flesh and said, "If you call it muscle, what is my father?"

Angelica was silent, looking at the middle-aged man quietly with big eyes.

"I'll arrange for Xiao Ling and you to go to the Lingxu Sect to cultivate the Immortal Dao, if you can't come to me, I'll teach you to strike iron!" The middle-aged man didn't say much, his attention was all focused on the anvil, and he didn't look at the angelica twice, and waved his hand casually: "Go, come over in three days." ”

Angelica, who was standing next to the anvil, was stunned, looked lost, bowed his head and said, "I'm sorry, there are still old ways in the temple that I need to take care of, and I can't go to the Lingxu Sect." ”

"You stupid boy, cultivating immortal dao immortal immortality, cultivating humanity is still born, old, sick and dying, your old way is handed over to my father, you and I are right to cultivate immortal dao!" Zhang Dongling patted Angelica's head, a little dissatisfied with this stupid boy.

Angelica felt uncomfortable, the old way raised him since he was a child, and he wanted to abandon him to cultivate immortals and asked, but he was still a little reluctant, although the cultivation of immortals in this world can be immortal, but if he abandons the old way, Angelica feels that immortality is not a good thing.

"It's okay, wait until you've thought about it. The middle-aged man seemed to be a little disappointed in Angelica, and waved his hand in annoyance.

Angelica and Zhang Dongling didn't dare to disturb the middle-aged man too much, so they could only retreat first, and after coming to the street, Zhang Dongling was facing Angelica for a while.

"You go to cultivate the Dao of Immortals, not only can you live forever, but you can also pick some immortal medicine and learn some immortal methods to help Lao Dao delay aging, if you really get the Dao, you can help Lao Dao escape the reincarnation of heaven and earth, stupid boy, stupid boy. ”

Angelica just lowered his head and looked at the bluestone slab under his feet, listening to his friend's words, but he hesitated a little in his heart, on the one hand, he didn't want to leave Lao Dao, on the other hand, he wanted to help Lao Dao continue his life, and for a while, he didn't know what to do.

"I'll think about it. Angelica shook his head, looked at the moment and felt that it was a little too early, so he said to Zhang Dongling: "I still have something to do, I will go back today, and I will come to you to play another day!"

The two joked for a while, and finally separated, and when Angelica ran to the city gate, he found that Uncle Li and Uncle Li were already waiting for him with things.

Angelica couldn't help but want to share some weight, but Uncle Li smiled and gave him a sugar gourd and a small salt bag, and said, "You are young, don't crush your body." ”

Angelica looked at the salt bag and sugar gourd in his hand, pursed his lips and did not speak, thinking of the old Tao and the villagers of Xiaosheng Village in his heart, he was even more repulsed by the way of cultivating immortals, but he forgot about Li Hai and Li Tao, but at his age and experience, he has always remembered gratitude and not grudges.

The three of them had nothing to say all the way, it was close to noon when they returned to Xiaosheng Village, Uncle Li and Uncle Li wanted to stay with Angelica to eat, but Angelica hurriedly ran up the mountain on the grounds of taking care of the old way, in recent years, the villagers of Xiaosheng Village have helped him a lot, people can not get an inch, this is what Angelica used to hear outside the private school in the town, not to mention, the injury in the morning has not fallen, this Angelica remembers clearly.

After running for a day, Angelica was really hungry, remembering that yesterday's leftover porridge had not come to eat this morning, so he took three steps and made two steps, and jumped up the mountain.

The Taoist temple does not close the door during the day, and the wooden board that is used as the door is unloaded by Angelica to the side, and a few stones are moved to the bottom against both sides of the wooden plank, which can also be used as a bench and a small bed.

After Angelica went up the mountain, he found that Lao Dao was sitting on this wooden board, holding the bad radish and pickles in one hand, and the leftover porridge from yesterday in the other.

"Old Taoist, you can sit up!" Angelica laughed, his eyes were hot, and he almost didn't cry.