Chapter 537: Sacrifice
Time was spent in peace, and Xiao Tianci had grown to more than two feet tall.
I studied with my father every day, and in a few years, I laid a solid cultural foundation.
Maybe he has been tormented by illness since he was a child, usually silent, and sometimes he is alone in a daze, I don't know what he is thinking?
After Li Yu found out, he also asked him.
As soon as he opened his mouth, Li Yu was startled.
"Father, who do you say my soul was injured by?"
Li Yu didn't expect this kid to be thinking about this all day long.
Asked:
"That's what you experienced in your previous life, how can the Father know. Why are you asking this?"
Xiao Tianci said seriously:
"I want to find the man and ask him why he hurt me?"
Li Yu put his hand on his forehead, this child is so serious, the future road is worrying.
Time passed, more than a month.
On this day, a swordsman in his forties came to the Li family's old mansion, exuding a fierce sword aura.
He is Xiaocui's brother, and his relatives are very surprised to see each other.
The Li Mansion also held a banquet to celebrate.
During the banquet, Li Yu asked:
"Brother, can you take revenge?"
The man laughed:
"Bloody enemies, none of them have slipped through the net. ”
Li Yu smiled:
"That's good, that's good. ”
Xiao Tianci interjected on the side:
"Uncle, can you teach me to cultivate?"
The man looked at the heavenly gift, and said for a while:
"Okay, the roots are good, as long as you want to learn, I will teach you. ”
Li Yu said worriedly:
"Cultivators, how dangerous it is to walk in the bloody wind and rain!"
The man laughed and said:
"Brother, you're wrong. If anyone kills me, I can't lead the neck to be killed. ”
Li Yu sighed when he thought of his ending, and no longer insisted on his own point of view.
At this point, the heavens pleaded:
"Father, I want to practice with my uncle. ”
Li Yu stroked the head of the heavenly gift and asked:
"You're going to leave your parents and stay with your uncle, would you?"
Tianci nodded.
The man laughed and said:
"Okay! You're the only disciple of my Xiaoyiren. ”
Li Yu was shocked and hurriedly asked:
"Brother is the parting wind and rain sword, the Xiaoyi person of the rooftop worshipper?"
The man smiled:
"It's just some good deeds, just a mouthful. ”
Li Yu exclaimed:
"I didn't expect you and I to have been friends for a long time, and I still know the identity of brothers. ”
After that, I sighed.
The man smiled:
"My generation is a rough person who practices martial arts, and I am not more noble than my eldest brother. Compared with the monks, it is even more different. If you don't dislike it, I'll accept this apprentice. ”
Li Yu hurriedly said:
"It's a mess for my brother. God's gift, don't apprentice yet!"
In this way, Li Tianci worshiped Xiaoyi as his teacher, said goodbye to his parents, and returned to Tiantai Mountain with his master and Xiaocui.
Under the teaching of his master, he began to practice swordsmanship.
Spring goes to autumn, cold and summer alternate, and in a flash, Li Tianci has been cultivating swords on Tiantai Mountain for ten years, and he is already an eight-foot tall teenager.
On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, Li Tianci was practicing the Four Seasons Sword Technique, and suddenly heard Aunt Xiaocui's shout:
"Godci, your master asked you to come here. ”
Li Tianci hurriedly came to the master's study, and saw that the master was holding a letter in his hand, and his face was sad.
Seeing that the heavenly gift came in, he handed the letter to the heavenly gift:
"Ten years ago, when I took you away from my hometown, your father gave me a letter telling me to open it during the Dragon Boat Festival ten years later. I just finished reading it, and I feel like something happened to your parents. Look at the letter first. ”
Li Tianci's heart tightened, and he hurriedly took the letter, opened it and saw that it was his father's handwriting.
The content is very simple, my father said in the letter that fifteen years ago, he had calculated that there would be a bloody disaster in the Mid-Autumn Festival five years later, and he specially entrusted the gift of heaven to the Xiaoyi people.
Ten years later, he handed the letter to Li Tianci and ordered him to return to his hometown to worship and track down his enemies.
After reading the letter, Li Tianci knelt in front of Xiao Yiren and said with tears in his eyes:
"Master, the enmity of my parents is not shared, and I forgive my disciples for being unfilial, I want to go down the mountain to take revenge. Please allow Master's permission. ”
Xiao Yiren sighed:
"My brother and sister-in-law were killed, and I should go as a teacher. The appointment of the snow-capped mountains is just recently, and you have done my true biography, and you can go down the mountain to experience alone. Remember, when you are strong, you will be captured when you are weak, you will not enter the forest, and you will live when you encounter water. If I don't die after the battle, I will go to you. ”
Li Tianci said goodbye to his master and Aunt Xiaocui, carried the sword given by his master, left Tiantai Mountain, and rushed to Hejian Mansion.
Xiaoxing stayed overnight, and after a month, he rushed back to his hometown in Qingfeng Village.
When he left home as a child, he returned to the village at this time, and no one knew him for a while.
I went straight to the ancestral house and found that my courtyard was inhabited.
A strong man was coming out of the courtyard, Di Hao's heart was tight, could it be that something really happened to his parents?
Along the way, he was always reassuring himself that the way of deduction was not 100% accurate, and there were many uncertainties about the consequences.
I fantasize about the joy of my parents as soon as I enter the house.
But the scene in front of him made him stunned.
looked at the big man who came in a daze, and his heart was already panicked.
Dahan looked at the young man standing at the door, frowned slightly, and asked:
"Little brother. Who are you looking for?"
Li Tianci woke up in shock, his little face changed, and he said in a deep voice:
"Isn't this the mansion of Elder Li Ge? Who are you, and why do you live here?"
Dahan looked at Tianci carefully and hesitated:
"Are you Gongzi Li?"
Li Tianci nodded.
The big man showed surprise on his face, and hurriedly said:
"Childe, please come in, there is something to say in the room. ”
The corners of Tianci's mouth twitched, whose home is this?
As the big man walked into the courtyard, his spiritual power swept by, and he didn't see his parents, and an ominous premonition rose in his heart.
The big man shouted into the room:
"Family, come out quickly, Engong's son-in-law is back. ”
A young village woman ran out of the west wing, looking at the gods in surprise.
"Childe is back, come into the house. ”
As he spoke, he walked quickly to the door of the upper room and opened it wide, his mind buzzing.
The mechanic followed the strong man into the hall and sat down at the coffee table.
The woman busied:
"Childe sit down for a while, I'll go make tea. ”
Tianci looked at the familiar objects in the room blankly, but he didn't see the familiar figure.
Asked:
"Tell me, what about my parents?"
Dahan's face changed, and he no longer smiled happily, and said sadly:
"In the Mid-Autumn Festival of the year you left, a group of men in black came, killed Engong and his wife, I don't know what they were looking for, they rummaged in the house for a day before leaving. ”
Tianci only felt that the world was spinning and fell on the rattan chair.
I don't know how long it took, but I felt someone calling in my ears and woke up.
The anxious faces of the strong couple appeared in front of them, and Tianci struggled to stand up and pleaded:
"Trouble big brother take me to my parents' graves to pay respects. ”
The strong man hurriedly said:
"Yes, wait a minute, I'll go and prepare the sacrifice. ”
With that, he turned and left.
Dejected, he walked out of the door and stood in the courtyard.
The shadows of my parents are all in front of me, I haven't seen them for ten years, and they are still so clear.
My heart was miserable, and the voice of a strong man came to my ears:
"Childe, let's go. ”
Tianci followed behind the strong man and his wife and walked towards the mountains.
After walking about three or four miles of mountain road, there was a grave covered with basil on a barren meadow at the foot of a mountain.
The strong man pointed to the barren mound and said:
"This is the tomb of Engong, my husband and wife dare not make a noise, they didn't look at feng shui, they didn't erect a monument, and they buried Engong and his wife hastily, and I felt very guilty. ”
Tianci took the sacrifice in the hands of the village woman and said:
"Dare to ask my brother and sister-in-law's name, what is the relationship with my family?"
Strong man said:
"Childe doesn't recognize me, I'm Xiao Hei of the old Wang family in the east of the village, a few years older than you. I saw you in the crowd the day your family returned to the village. Maybe you didn't pay attention to me, my mother is sick, and the family is not doing well, and Engong often comes to my house to treat my mother's illness, and often sends some silver taels to help my family, and even the money for my daughter-in-law is from Engong. ”
"After the accident, the people in the village were timid, and no one dared to come forward to bury the husband and wife. My husband and wife hastily buried the benefactor, moved to your house, guarded the house, and waited for the son-in-law to return. ”
Tianci thanked the two of them and said sadly:
"Do you know the origin of those men in black?"
The strong man said in a low voice:
"I only heard that it is related to the crown prince's struggle for the throne, and it seems that he is looking for the edict of the former emperor, and many old ministers were killed. It's just a rumor, and the small people in the mountains and wilderness don't dare to say it. ”
God-given Dao:
"Brother and sister-in-law, please come back, I want to talk to my parents here. ”
The two took their leave.
Tianci came to the grave, cleared the artemisia grass from the grave, placed the tribute, and began to worship.
Kneel in front of the grave and tell your parents in detail about the changes you have made in the past ten years.
Time passed slowly, and there were no tears in my eyes.
Tianci knelt in front of his parents' graves for three days and three nights, and the strong man and his wife came every day to watch Tianci from afar.
The village woman couldn't bear it in her heart and said:
"In charge, how can the son stand it if he doesn't eat or drink like this?"
The strong man looked sad:
"The sadness in his heart, if he doesn't vent it, will be sick, we just watch it from afar. ”
Three days later, Tianci stood up, feeling hungry, and unfolded his body, like a puff of green smoke, and ran towards the mountains.
After entering the mountains and forests, he began to look around, he knew that his father loved to eat roast pork, and he wanted to hunt a boar and cook a family feast in front of his parents' grave.
There are many small beasts in the forest, but the boar is not easy to find.
First, this beast usually hides in the underground nest and sleeps, and even if it comes out to forage for food, it is very alert.
As soon as there is a stir, they will flee.
Tianci searched for two hours in the mountains and forests, but there was no shadow of the boar.
There are a lot of roe deer rabbits and deer in the forest, and there should be no wild boar.
Just as he was hesitating to go deeper, the sound of a beast fleeing in terror was heard in front of him.
The spirit of heaven was shocked, and he chased after him.
Sure enough, a boar was fleeing deep into the forest.
How could the heavens allow him to escape, unleash the land soaring technique, and pounce on the mountain boar.
The boar seemed to sense the danger behind him and went to the thorn bushes.
Tianci had no choice but to launch the light work of flying on the grass, and chased wildly on the thorny branches and leaves.
As the distance got closer and closer, the probe drew his long sword from behind his back, and with a shake of the sword, he stabbed towards the boar ten meters away.
The boar made a sharp turn, dodged the sword light, and fled in another direction.
Tianci snorted coldly, this beast is so cunning!
As soon as the body was folded, a swallow copied the water three times in the air, and it flew behind the boar.
The sword body trembled, and the sword flowers flashed, covering the boar in the sword light.
With a scream, the boar collapsed in a pool of blood.
Tianci looked at the mountain pig the size of a soil dog in front of him and said:
"Back then, the pig should have tasted good! If there is a piglet, make a roast suckling pig, my father must like it. ”
But these little piglets are hidden in their nests, and it is easy to find the boars, but it is difficult to find their nests.
When he got closer, he picked up a forty or fifty pound boar, which was as light as a feather for a heavenly gift who had been cultivating for ten years.
Carrying it with one hand, he quickly returned to the outside of the forest.
As soon as he walked a short distance, the sound of a struggle was heard in the forest.
God-given was stunned, could it be that there are fierce beasts hunting here?
Carefully follow the sound, through two thorn bushes, in the forest more than ten meters ahead, there is an arm-thick python with a black bottom entangled a flower mink.
is squirming and trying to strangle the mink to death.
The mink let out a squeaky scream in its mouth, and its eyes were full of despair.
Suddenly, when he saw Tianci coming, a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes, and he saw that Tianci was full of pleading.