Chapter 573: A Miserable Life Under the Mask of Joy (Part I)
Lang rode a bamboo horse and went around the bed to make green plums.
Living together for a long time, the two have no suspicion.
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My name is Lin Pinglu, I have been an orphan since I was a child, I don't know who my biological parents are, and I have forgotten where I am from. At that time, there was a war in China, maybe they were already dead. I had been wandering aimlessly until I was seven years old, just relying on instinct to survive. In order to survive, I have done everything, for a bowl of cold porridge, to fight wild dogs for food, or to steal the clothes of large families when the weather is cold, to be caught and almost killed, and even to eat the corpses of dead people lying on the side of the road in extreme hunger!
Under the pressure of hunger and cold, even adults who know etiquette, righteousness and shame often give up the bottom line, let alone a child as old as me.
At that time, the army of the Oriental devils was sweeping every day, and all the people were wiped out in the war, and the capable people were running, the coastal ones ran inland, and the inland ones ran abroad, leaving a ruined country, full of beacon smoke, and tigers and wolves everywhere.
According to the situation at that time, it is estimated that a child like me would die before he reached adulthood, just like the corpses I once saw lying on the ground.
I don't want to die, even if it's so humble to live better than to die.
When I met Master and Master, I hadn't eaten for several days. The village I borrowed had just been swept away by Oriental devils, and there wasn't a grain left. The villagers were burned to ashes by the fire, and even the bodies of the dead could not be seen. I escaped by hiding in the cellar, and hid in it for days before I dared to come out, my eyes red with hunger, and I wandered about like a wild beast in search of food, but found nothing.
I fainted from extreme hunger. When I woke up, I met the person who changed my life, my Master.
Master said that he was the head of the Huashan faction, Yue Feifei, and his wife Ning came down the mountain to participate in some "Cultivator Alliance Conference", and on the way back, he passed by the village where I was borrowing, and when he saw that I was still alive, he rescued me.
According to the current statement, my master is a standard angry young man, shouting some words like "expelling the Tartars and restoring China" all day long, and no matter if I am still a weak sick person, it is a great truth that "the rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the husband...... To be honest, I was too young at the time to not know much about Master's thoughts. But I know that with him, I can live. So, without the slightest hesitation, I knelt down and bowed to the teacher.
In fact, compared to my master, my relationship with my master is closer. Shi Niang doesn't say it, she only does it. A bowl of hot porridge is sometimes more heartwarming than a thousand words.
Shi Niang is a very virtuous woman, she was still pregnant at the time, but she followed my unreliable master down the mountain without hesitation, and no matter how dangerous it would be for her to be a pregnant woman.
Master was not very worried about this. He told me that he and his wife were both cultivators, that is, the so-called "immortals" who have been passed down from ancient times to the present. Although he has the ability to control the clouds and fog, call the wind and rain, etc., he is not at home, but it is still no problem to deal with a few small ruffians who are not long-eyed. And Shi Niang is more powerful than Master, and when she fought on Huashan, Master never won. This is what the master said when he was drunk, but I doubt the truth of this statement, how can a woman as virtuous as the master be able to fight each other?
I asked Master if I would become an "immortal" like them, but he just smiled awkwardly and didn't answer directly.
Later, I learned that cultivating immortals must first practice martial arts, and the entire body refining period is a process of boiling up the body. And after a person reaches the age of seven, the roots and bones have already been formed, and the practice of martial arts is a step late, and no matter how good the qualifications are, it is useless. If there are no adventures in the future, that will be it.
If I can't cultivate, I'm not very sad. As the saying goes, people are poor and short-sighted. At that time, as long as I could eat and clothe, I was already satisfied.
Master and Master treated me very well. Listening to them, the Huashan faction has weakened, and there was a split before, and a Huashan senior took most of the good men in the faction down the mountain to fight the world with others. I can get the master's life, and I don't have a good seedling as a mantle disciple. After I officially apprenticed, I automatically became the senior brother of the Huashan faction.
After that, I embarked on the journey back to Huashan with my master and sister.
But just halfway through, Shi Niang still couldn't help but give birth.
That was the first time I had seen Master panicked, and he was always dignified...... I thought it wouldn't stump him, but I didn't expect it......
After I shook off Master's tightly held hand, I finally met the person I would call "Little Junior Sister" for decades to come.
Newborn children are not very good-looking, small lumps, eyes can't be opened, skin is wrinkled, like a little old man. She sleeps all day, and her mouth unconsciously spits bubbles. I'd love to pop that bubble of hers, but on second thought, forget it.
Shi Niang smiled and said to me, it will be up to you to protect her in the future.
I wanted to hug her, but I didn't dare reach out. She is so weak, so innocent, and she doesn't know the cruelty of this world. Can someone like me really protect her?
After that, we went back to Huashan. Master said that Huashan has been passed down for more than 1,000 years, and it cannot be cut off in his hands, and accepting me as an apprentice is just the beginning, and there will be many senior brothers to join in the future. Although my roots are not good, I still hope that I, as a senior brother, can work hard for the development of the Huashan faction.
To be honest, I didn't understand what Master said at all. But after that, I took care of all the clutter on the mountain. Cooking, laundry, taking care of kids......
Alas...... That's not good for Master, I talk too much! If I say it directly, I will not hesitate to do it, I have to let me guess! Tut......
The days that followed on Mount Hua were the happiest times I ever lived. Although my cultivation realm has improved very slowly because of the root bones, I have been cultivating for fifteen or six years, and I am still lingering in the late stage of the body refining period. Because of this, I was often used as a negative example by the Master, and I was made fun of by my younger brothers and sisters.
I don't really care about that, though. I was an orphan who had been wandering since I was a child, and I never felt the presence of my family. Now that I have a master, a teacher, and a younger brother and sister, what am I not satisfied with?
During this period of time, the little sister became more and more slim, not at all like the little thing like a monkey when she was born. No wonder people in the world often say that the eighteen changes in the female college are really getting better and better.
She has always been so gentle and innocent, and she has never looked down on me like other junior brothers and sisters because my cultivation has stagnated. After all, I brought her up from a young age, and the relationship is naturally good. But I also have self-knowledge, the little junior sister is a genius, and the cultivation is like playing, and she has broken through to the Jindan stage at a young age, and the master has released his words early, looking for a young talent with Zhong Lingyuxiu to be a husband, where can I remember!
As I said before, my master came down the mountain to participate in the "Cultivator Alliance Conference". In this era, if a small sect cultivator who has no backing behind him wants to achieve something, he can only go out and increase his knowledge. Our group of young disciples in Huashan naturally want to do the same.
The people of Huashan are not prosperous, no matter how much the master cheats and cheats...... Oh no, it's a painstaking effort to operate, and a total of more than 20 apprentices have been accepted, and they are all just beginning to cultivate, and their strength is not very high. The monks of the Jindan period, counting the junior sisters, are only three people, and they are all only in the early stages.
Master didn't want to look too cold in front of outsiders, so he simply waved his hand and took us all down the mountain to see the world.
It was this time that I went down the mountain and changed my life again.