Chapter 1: Grudges

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"You 'broom star', you climb so high that you won't be afraid of falling to death, why don't you get down and work......" A sharp cry pierced the heart of everyone on the street like a sharp knife.

Broom Star is the name of Lu Chengfeng in the entire Liutai Town. Before he was born, his father was famous in Liutai Town for his single-handed winemaking, and many people came to his house to buy wine, and the family was still passable. But since he was born, there has been a sudden change in the family. On the night he left his mother's womb, his mother died, and the next morning there was a fire in the house for no reason, and his father, who was lucky enough to escape, disappeared inexplicably when he was three years old. Later, it was said that his father had also died. As soon as he was born, his parents died mysteriously, which was a big deal in Liujia Village, where he was at that time. It is said that on the night of his birth, a Taoist priest passed by here, and his father asked the Taoist priest to tell his fortune.

Later, people spread false rumors that he was a hard-nosed person who killed his parents. A three-year-old child has just learned to walk and doesn't know anything. His second uncle couldn't bear it, so he took him back to his home to take care of him. In the past five years, everything has gone wrong in the second uncle's family, and disasters have been repeated. When he was seven years old, he and his cousin Lu Ping'an, who was two years younger than him, went out to play in the water, but the two almost drowned, but fortunately, the second uncle arrived in time and survived. After that, the second uncle couldn't afford to be sick, and the second aunt kicked him out of the house in a fit of anger and scolded him for being a broom star.

At this point, the name of the broom star spread like wings overnight. Many times, people seem to forget his real name and call him a broom star all day long.

A seven-year-old child, alone, wandering, and being looked down upon and ridiculed everywhere. The adults and children in the village saw him and avoided him like a plague god, and the older children often bullied him together, and even punched and kicked him. The people of the village often saw him limp and go home covered with wounds, but no one cared about him. Like a stray cat, he relied on a secret recipe left by his father to sell it to people in the town who didn't know him, but people later learned that he was a broom star, and no one dared to buy his wine. He struggled to survive on some of the money he had sold, and one night half a year later, he finally fainted from hunger. A beautiful woman of about thirty years of age was seen carrying him away. At this point, he went to this restaurant called 'Fenglai Lou' to work as a buddy.

And that woman is the proprietress of Fenglai Building.

No one knows where the proprietress is named, where she comes from, or why she took in this child, known as 'Broom Star'. People call her the boss lady to their faces, and behind their backs they seem to prefer to call her 'dominatrix'. This proprietress is also famous for swearing, and she is often seen scolding at the landing and riding the wind, and sometimes even fighting.

At this moment, it was noon of the day, and the proprietress was cross-legging, staring at the roof angrily.

Hearing the scolding, Lu Chengfeng didn't make a sound, withdrew his gaze from the blue sky, got up and went down the ladder without hurrying, his eyes without any expression.

The proprietress grabbed his ear, threw him to the ground, and scolded loudly, "You broom star, you don't know whether you live or die...... If it weren't for the old lady who took you in, you wouldn't know where you would beg for food! I climbed to the roof every day, wanting to see the Shushan disciple Yujian flying, and I wanted to go to Shushan to cultivate the truth. You cheap bones, if you can be a cultivator in this life, the old lady should be the queen mother. I know to dream all day long, and I don't go into the kitchen to wash the dishes for my mother!"

In the first year of the Middle Ages, demons were rampant on the land of China, ghosts were rampant, and everyone was in danger. If you want to survive in this troubled world, you can only become a formal cultivator, and if you want to get rid of the fate of being slaughtered by others, you can only become a cultivator. In those years, there was no right or wrong, only the law of the jungle, power and strength represented everything, and the source of all of this was cultivation. There is a saying in the world that 'if one person attains the Tao, the chicken and the dog ascend to heaven'. At that time, as long as there was a formal cultivator, the entire family behind him would prosper. Therefore, many people even send their children to Xiuzhen at all costs, even if it is only a small sect. For hundreds of years, although people who have gone everywhere to cultivate the truth are like carp crossing the river, there are very few people who can really enter the true sect of cultivation. At that time, people talked about cultivators after dinner, and those who talked about cultivators on the streets and alleys were also cultivators, and what everyone wanted to be the most was still cultivators. In short, the world at that time was the world of cultivators.

The flight of Shushan disciple Edgeworth has always been every child's dream. Many children even dreamed that one day a Shushan senior touched his head and said with a smile that this child was destined for me, and then brought into the Shushan faction. When Lu Chengfeng was ten years old, he had the honor to see him on the rooftop, and at that time he secretly decided to worship the Shushan Sect to cultivate the truth. Later, he often climbed the roof of the mountain in his spare time to see the demeanor of the disciples of Shushan, and also buried the idea of going to the Shushan sect to cultivate the truth. But it is extremely difficult for so many people to seek a small sect at all costs, let alone the Shushan faction, which is known as the Taishan Beidou of the cultivation realm. However, at the entrance of Liutai Town, there is a psychic stone, and the Shushan faction will go down the mountain every other year to recruit apprentices, and three days later is the day when Shushan recruits apprentices. However, at this time, the dominatrix would drink a lot of wine, and then beat him up when he said he was going, and finally only in the dead of night waiting for the apprentice to finish, sneaking up on the psychic stone.

Hearing the dominatrix's words, the guys and cooks in the kitchen all laughed and shook their heads.

"I said you kid, you know dreaming all day long, is Shushan the place you go?

"You broom star, you can only be a guy in this life, or work with peace of mind, so as not to make the boss angry!"

"This kid, isn't there something wrong with his brain, talking nonsense......!

As if accustomed to this kind of scolding, Lu Chengfeng slowly got up from the ground, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and then walked into the kitchen silently.

He knew in his heart that in the past eight years, although the proprietress had usually been fierce to him, she had never lacked food and clothing, and she would buy him something to eat during the New Year's holidays and let him take it home. Although sometimes he will be angry when he scolds fiercely, but if you think about it carefully, in the past eight years, if it weren't for the proprietress, he would have starved to death on the streets, and his heart was more grateful.

Lu Chengfeng is sixteen years old this year, and he has secretly made up his mind that no matter what, he must go to Shushan this time. In the past fifteen years, except for Lu Ping'an, no one has spoken to him, and the rest are some children in the village who often bully him and scold him.

Today is August 15, the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is supposed to be a day for family reunion, but he can only wash dishes in the kitchen full of the smell of oil smoke.

The name Lu Chengfeng was given by his father. When he was three years old, his father often recited a poem when he was drunk, "There will be a time to ride the wind and waves, and hang on the clouds and sail to the sea." "I also write it down with a pen. Of course, the meaning of this poem is what his second uncle told him later. The children in the village always laughed at his name, and even though he was a 'broom star', he pretended to have a somewhat elegant name.

It was evening after washing the dishes, Lu Chengfeng straightened up, stretched his waist, and the blood-like slanting sun shone on his immature face, although he was only sixteen years old, his eyes were rare indifference among children of the same age, although he was wearing coarse linen clothes, there was a heroic spirit between his eyebrows.

"Today's holiday, take these things back to eat......" The proprietress threw him a bag of things after closing the door.

Lu Chengfeng squinted his eyes and said, "I don't eat those people's saliva...... After speaking, he turned around and was about to walk out the door.

The proprietress grabbed his ear again, "I said you little bastard, if it weren't for your pitiful eyes, the old lady would not give you these leftovers to feed the dogs." You even put up a fight with your mother, it's really shameful!"

"That's it, some eat it, and pick and choose the ......," a fat chef not far away sneered.

"I said you broom star, you still cook your own dishes, and you don't look at who you are......" The other chef next to the voice also chimed in.

Many of the people who worked here also burst into laughter and shook their heads.

Lu Chengfeng didn't make a sound, turned around and walked out.

The proprietress stepped forward and stuffed the bag of things into his arms, and whispered, "If you don't want it, I'll get the old lady out of Fenglai Building tomorrow!"

looked at his thin back, and scolded in a low voice, "You have the same virtue as your father, and you have to die to save face and suffer crimes!"

"Boss, do you know this kid's father?" asked a fat chef who was about to go home next to him.

The proprietress didn't expect someone to overhear her muttering, her face suddenly turned crimson, and she was a little speechless for a while, "You don't talk nonsense here, old lady...... How could it be...... How could it be...... Daddy, who knows this kid, you heard me wrong, why don't you get out of here!"

While speaking, Lu Chengfeng had already walked a long way alone.

Three days later, it was the day of recruiting apprentices in Shushan, and the entire Liutai Town gradually became lively. On the street, the crowd is bustling, the hawkers are shouting, and the eyes are full of lively atmosphere. He lifted the corner of the burden, revealing a fresh pig's trotter inside, seeing this, Lu Chengfeng's heart warmed, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly.

Approaching a road intersection, he saw a large group of people gathered around and pointing, as if something had happened. Out of curiosity, he walked briskly over.

When he squeezed into the crowd, he saw a large group of people smashing the sticks in their hands at a curled young man, and there was a young man in a gorgeous costume standing on the side, and said proudly, "You dare to break the master's things and beat Lao Tzu to death!"

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