Xiangyang County, an inconspicuous county seat in the vast land of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Outside a courtyard in the corner of the county seat.

"Ni Xin, are you convinced?"

A teenager rode on the body of another teenager and punched the teenager under him one after another, and the teenager under him was Ni Xin in his mouth.

Ni Xin curled up with his head in his hands and didn't say a word.

Xu was tired, and the young man who beat the man stood up and spat with disdain in his eyes.

"A bad seed is a bad seed, and you won't fight back when you are beaten, just like your waste father. ”

After saying that, he walked away.

Waiting for the young man's figure to disappear, Ni Xin, who was lying on the ground, slowly got up, patted the dust on his body, and turned around and walked into the courtyard next to him.

The yard is very large, and there are bits and pieces of straw scattered around the yard, and there is nothing in the middle of the yard except for a square table, and the whole yard looks empty.

Ni Xin walked to the table, shook the wine jar placed on the table, and then slowly lifted the wine jar and poured it into the glass, with a deep expression, raised his head, and drank the wine in the cup.

After drinking the wine in the cup, Ni Xin was not satisfied, picked up the wine jug and wanted to pour another glass, but after the wine jug dripped two drops of wine along the spout, there was no movement, the young man put down the wine jar, licked the corners of his mouth a little helplessly, and then squinted his eyes and clicked his mouth a few times, and carefully reminisced.

Not long after the courtyard door opened, walked into a middle-aged woman wearing a coarse cloth dress full of patches, from the corners of the woman's eyebrows, the face of the person, you can find that the woman was also very beautiful when she was young, and the shabby clothes on the woman's body also have a unique temperament, the woman turned around and closed the door, looking at Ni Xin who was sitting at the stone table drinking, revealing a complicated expression.

The woman walked to the stone table, took out a handkerchief from her bosom, the handkerchief was wrapped in about fifteen or sixteen copper coins, she took out five copper coins, hesitated, took out three more copper coins, and then slowly put the remaining two copper coins into her arms, and then put the remaining copper coins on the stone table and pushed them to the young man on the table.

In the past, Ni Xin would happily pick it up and turn around and run to buy wine, but today he didn't move, which surprised the woman.

Ni Xin looked at the copper coin in front of him, his heart was mixed, and finally he sighed and put it away, turned around and walked back to the house.

The woman watched Ni Xin go back to the house, took out a few straws from the back basket next to the stone table, sat down on the seat in front of Ni Xin, and began to silently weave draft shoes.

The woman is Ni Xin's mother, Ni Xin's father made some money in business in the early years, and the well-known wealthy family in Xiangyang County, after making money, Ni Xin's father began to be bad, made some friends who were not careful, and were proficient in eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling.

Ni Xin was only five years old that year, the orphan and widow, every day by the debtor blocked at the door, Ni Xin's mother was a well-known beauty in Xiangyang County, she could have remarried, because she was worried that Ni Xin would be bullied, refused all the people who came to say goodbye.

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The woman is carefully weaving straw sandals, which are currently the only source of income for the mother and son.

Ni Xin looked out the shabby window at her busy mother, who was once graceful and luxurious, but now she was dressed in patched clothes, the lines on her palms were as rough as the bark of a tree for many years, and the joints of her fingers were swollen from the hard work of the day.

Ni Xin's tears flowed unconsciously, he wiped his tears, walked out of the house and knelt down, kowtowing to his mother three times, because he was too hard, the stone slabs in the courtyard made a "bang" sound.

Mother was frightened by Ni Xin's behavior, and Ni Xin's behavior today was very abnormal, but she still hurriedly stepped forward to help Ni Xin.

Ni Xin stubbornly broke away from his mother's hand to help him:

"The son is not filial, after the father left, the son should have shouldered this burden, but the son is incompetent, and to this day, the mother has to work all day long, but I live like a waste. A few days ago, I heard Uncle Hu next door say that the Canglei Sect was going to recruit disciples next month, and I wanted to try it. ”

The Canglei faction in Ni Xin's mouth is the only sect within a radius of hundreds of miles, and the legend says that the people living in it are all immortals, who go to heaven and earth, and can do anything.

As long as you become a disciple of the Canglei Sect, not only can you practice immortal arts, eat and drink without worry, but also have silver money to receive every month.

Ni's mother looked at Ni Xin kneeling in front of her, her expression was complicated, on the one hand, she was happy that Ni Xin was sensible and knew to understand herself, but on the other hand, she was a little distressed, and Ni Xin, who was forced to leave her hometown, even if the days were hard, she also wanted to keep Ni Xin by her side.

She knows that because of her father's relationship, Ni Xin is much more mature than other children, and at the same time, she is more stubborn than other children.

She squatted down and doted on Ni Xin's head: "Silly boy, you are only thirteen years old, your mother can still make money, and you don't need to make money to support your family, and in two years, when you grow up, your mother will go and beg your uncle and grandfather to find you a better errand." ”

Ni Xin's uncle and grandfather is a private school in Xiangyang Town, highly respected, and the county magistrate of Xiangyang County is his student, and now the house where Ni Xin's mother and son live is also the old house of his uncle and grandfather, after Ni Xin's father left, his uncle and grandfather saw that their mother and son were pitiful, so they lent the old house to their mother and son to live in.

Ni Xin's attitude was extremely resolute: "The child has grown up, so ask the mother to let the child go out and do something." ”

Ni Xin doesn't want to live idlely, he wants to live better, he doesn't want to be bullied again, like today's beating, Ni Xin will suffer every once in a while, because he is afraid that his mother will worry, he has never mentioned it to his mother.

When Ni Xin's mother heard Ni Xin's words, she stared at Ni Xin in front of her, she knew Ni Xin's temperament, since she had made a decision, she couldn't pull back the eight cows.

Ni's mother's tears couldn't stop flowing down, but she was not an indecisive person, and finally rubbed her pants twice with her bloated hand, and said to Ni Xin:

"Don't leave yet, wait for me to come back. ”

After speaking, he walked out of the yard quickly.

Looking at his mother's thin back, Ni was sad.

Last year, my mother fainted in the courtyard due to excessive fatigue and lack of nutrition, and Ni Xin knelt at the door of the hospital for a whole day, but he couldn't ask for half a decoction.

In the end, the news reached my uncle and grandfather, who paid for my mother's medicine, and my mother's illness improved.

On that day, Ni Xin saw the warmth and coldness of human feelings for the first time, and also tasted what wine tasted for the first time.

Half an hour passed, and the woman's figure appeared at the gate of the courtyard, and she let out a long sigh of relief when she saw that Ni Xin was still there.

She took out the usual copper money from her arms: "I inquired, it will take about seven or eight days to go to the Canglei faction, you take this money, I borrowed it from your uncle and grandfather, don't starve yourself on the way, I heard your uncle and grandfather say that the entry requirements of the Canglei faction are very strict, if you fail to join the Canglei faction, you will come back, and your mother will support you." ”

Ni Xin took the copper coin, looking at his mother, who had to save money to buy himself wine even if he didn't eat, Ni Xin felt like a bastard.

This year, the young man left his hometown, leaving behind a long figure, and at the end of the figure, there was a woman with vicissitudes.