Xiaoyu's surname is Yu, and she has no name, so others just call her Yu Xiaoqi, because she was born small and thin like a newborn monkey. Both parents died, and there was only one sick grandmother in the family, and after being met by Elder Zhou, he took her to the Zishui Sect to study, and asked her to bring some food back to her grandmother every day under the pretext that the food in the Zishui Sect would be wasted if she couldn't finish it, which could be regarded as a good deed.

Xiaoyu is extremely serious in reading, and compared to his peers, it can be said that he is a heaven and an underground.

There are about a dozen or so four- or five-year-old children in the Purple Water Sect, and they usually wander around in the Purple Water Sect, picking a few Blue River Flowers that Elder Chang carefully takes care of, trampling on a few hydroids carefully raised by Elder Qu, and from time to time taking advantage of the master's free time to sleep and nap to run to the river to touch crabs and catch a few butterflies, which makes the elders in the Purple Water Sect quite a headache.

Where can you expect a four- or five-year-old child to be sensible?

But Xiaoyu is an exception, she has never followed others to play elsewhere, she just reads in the school every day, and after reading the book, she walks home alone with a small bookcase on her back and steps on the rickety suspension bridge.

This four or five-year-old child has to take care of not only himself, but also his seriously ill grandmother, who is sensible to the point of distress.

Pei Changfeng met this little girl for the first time on the edge of the Huilongjiang River.

At that time, he was just able to get out of bed and walk, and after walking around the entire Purple Water Sect for two or three days, he felt a little bored, so he stepped on the rickety suspension bridge and walked outside.

On the side of the Huilong River is a small village and town belonging to the Great Sui, and Pei Changfeng walked through it.

I heard that this town was called Plum Blossom Town, but Pei Changfeng didn't know the meaning, and he didn't think much about it.

The buildings in Plum Town are very old, and there are few renovated houses. Probably because of tradition, the brick houses have been preserved for more than 100 years, but they are also unique.

As in all places, there are rich and poor in Plum Town, except that in this town there is a clear distinction between rich and poor.

There is an alley called Yingchun Lane, where all the rich live, and another alley called Kushui Lane, where the poor live.

So.

Pei Changfeng just walked through this town and never entered it again.

After he came out of the town for the first time that day, he sat down on the edge of the Huilong River.

The Huilong River is vast, but the waters next to this town are extremely shallow, so there are no ships passing through here at all, which is probably also the reason why Meihua Town and Yangzhou are very different from Yangzhou in the area along the river.

However, it also gives the people of the town a little more convenience for fishing.

It's just that in this place, fishing is a cheap industry, and farming is the right way. Perhaps, in the eyes of the people of this town, only people who do not have a field at home will make a living from fishing.

There is a small bridge by the river, which is only built with a few horizontal logs, which is roughly used as a place to settle for washing and fetching water. The crosswood is covered with dense moss.

Not far to the left of the bridge is a flat bluestone.

Pei Changfeng slowly walked to the bridge, looked at the green mountains on the other side of the Huilongjiang River with a somewhat dim afterglow, pouted, and Pei Changfeng sat down.

There are still a lot of fish swimming in the back of the Longjiang River, Pei Changfeng quickly caught a few fish and threw them on the shore, and found some dead branches to build a bonfire.

Although Pei Changfeng is a child of a rich family, he has long been young for this kind of thing

I've done a lot of things at the time, and it's not a good thing. It's just that I haven't practiced for a long time, and this skill seems a little rusty.

But it doesn't hurt.

This bonfire was born next to the bluestone.

Although there is no seasoning, the aroma of grilled fish spreads. Pei Changfeng blew his nose, staring at the roasted golden croaker, his stomach gurgling, he was indeed a little hungry.

Take a bite and go down, and the taste is still quite good. But kept eating, Pei Changfeng also heard his stomach keep screaming. patted his stomach and muttered with a smile: "Aren't you eating, you're always yelling about something!"

Just as he was about to take another bite, Pei Changfeng came back to his senses, he turned his face and saw a child standing timidly behind a locust tree behind the beach, and the child's eyes were a little glowing in the twilight.

Pei Changfeng was stunned, thought about it again, and raised the grilled fish in his hand at the kid, "Do you want to taste it?"

The boy replied weakly, "But... Is that okay?"

Facing the firelight, the appearance of the child who walked slowly became clear. It's a little girl with big eyes.

The little girl was about four or five years old, with two pigtails on her head, a tattered and thin dress, and a face covered with stains.

With a wave of his hand, Pei Changfeng motioned for her to sit down next to the campfire. But the little girl was so timid that she did not dare to look up, but dared to stand motionless by the campfire. Pei Changfeng thought about it and reached out to hug the little girl.

The little girl struggled in horror at first, and after finding out that Pei Changfeng had just put her in front of her, she pouted and didn't dare to move again. Pei Changfeng tore off a piece of fish meat from the grilled fish, and after seeing that there were no thorns on it, he handed the piece of fish to the little girl's mouth.

The little girl opened her mouth slightly, but she didn't dare to bite down, and her stomach began to rumble again. Pei Changfeng was not in a hurry, he kept stretching out his hand and did not make any other movements.

After struggling for a while, the little girl finally made up her mind to bite down. Pei Changfeng smiled, he saw that the little girl's eyes lit up at least twice as much after biting it.

The time of hunger is certainly not short, but because it is still young, it is actually not enough to eat. After half a grilled fish was in her stomach, the little girl couldn't eat it. With a hiccup, the little girl's face turned a little red and she said thank you.

I'm afraid that a little girl at this age is not so sensible, Pei Changfeng thought so in his heart at that time.

"What's your name?" asked Pei Changfeng.

"Yu Xiaoqi. ”

"Which fish? Is it a fish that grills fish?"

"No, it's that I don't have enough to eat today. ”

Pei Changfeng replied with a smile: "Isn't that also a fish for grilled fish?

"No, no. The little girl first shouted to Pei Changfeng to correct her mistakes, and then wondered if she would annoy this big brother, so her tone lowered, "This surplus means that there is no surplus food." ”

"Really?"

"Really... ”

Pei Changfeng looked at this little girl, he only felt very cute, and he stretched out his hand and was about to caress the top of this girl's head, but he didn't know that this girl took a few steps back in panic, and shrank her head into her clothes.

Pei Changfeng was stunned, and suddenly took the little girl into his arms, and gently pressed his chin against her head, making her already messy braids even more messy.

The little girl screamed first

With a sound, he didn't speak again after feeling that Pei Changfeng had no malicious intent, and after feeling the slight warmth, he buried his head in Pei Changfeng's arms.

"Do you know so much? Did you go to school?"

"In the Purple Water Sect, it was Elder Zhou who took me there, and Elder Zhou is very good. The master of the school is also very good, but he has a fierce face and makes people afraid. ”

"Is that brother fierce? Are you afraid?"

"Don't be afraid. ”

Pei Changfeng laughed, "Come over tomorrow, my brother will steal it for you." Buy a nice little coat, it must be very cold to wear so little on such a cold day!"

The little girl raised her head and looked at Pei Changfeng's side face, Pei Changfeng raised her head and looked at the mountain peaks in the distance. The cold wind blew ripples on the surface of the stream, and a stone rolled down into the Huilongjiang River, and the sound was very crisp.

"Well, brother, can I get that fish back?"

"Well, bring another basket tomorrow, and I'll load you with a basket of fish!"

"Hmmm... ”

Pei Changfeng, he probably didn't think that after enjoying a lifetime of happiness, there would be a day when he would do chores.

Because the grandmother in the family needs someone to take care of her, Xiao Yu does not sleep in the Purple Water Sect like the children of her classmates. Since he knew that Xiao Yu had to walk across the shaky suspension bridge to and from school by himself every day, Pei Changfeng no longer dared to let Xiao Yu walk alone, and he was already waiting outside Meihua Town every day before the rooster crowed, and he was willing to go back to the room to practice after holding Xiao Yu across the suspension bridge.

The same is true in the evening when school is dismissed.

In this way, Elder Zhou noticed something unusual, and he frowned, realizing that things were not simple.

After secretly observing Pei Changfeng's work and rest, he was furious, thinking that Pei Changfeng's cultivation every night was just a fart, but in fact, he ran to Meihua Town every day to look for flowers and ask willows while it was dark, and waited until the early hours of the morning to sneak back and make an illusion of cultivation.

Elder Zhou rushed to Pei Changfeng with a fierce momentum, which scared Pei Changfeng a lot.

Pei Changfeng was actually not very interested in this cheap master, after learning that the reason why he had no disciples was that every time he accepted a disciple, that disciple would die unexpectedly and tragically within ten years, Pei Changfeng was even more angry with this cheap master.

"I see that you fucking accepted Lao Tzu as a disciple because you wanted to curse Lao Tzu to death!"

This is Pei Changfeng's original words.

Pei Changfeng originally just said it casually, but how did he know that Elder Zhou was secretly sad. I just thought that I had touched Elder Zhou's sore spot, and I felt a little sorry in my heart, so Pei Changfeng had no choice but to comfort this bad old man.

How could he have thought that in addition to comforting the newlyweds in his life, he would have to comfort such a bad old man? Pei Changfeng panicked in his heart.

At this time, Elder Zhou scolded Pei Changfeng with a split head and face, and then Pei Changfeng became angry and scolded loudly: "Lao Tzu wants you to take care of it, get out of your ball!"

Elder Zhou became more and more annoyed, and followed Pei Changfeng to chatter for a few hours. Pei Changfeng was really annoyed and had no choice, so he told Zhou Chang the truth.

Elder Zhou was stunned for a long time, and then he became angry and scolded, Why didn't you say it earlier, didn't Lao Tzu scold you for scolding for so long?

Pei Changfeng was a little amused, and suddenly asked, "Yu Xiaoqi, this kid... ”

"Call me Master! No rules!" Elder Zhou's face softened after scolding, and he sighed, "This kid, life is hard." ”