It's night. Lingzhou, Chuanling City.

Looking at the dark night sky outside the window, Lin Tian was melancholy and couldn't sleep. At the age of sixteen, since his father's industry declined rapidly within two years, Lin Tian dropped out of the Taoist Hall and had nowhere to go, so he stayed at home for almost half a year.

The Dao Hall is an education school set up by the Qingling Sect in various places, and the tuition fee is high, so ordinary people naturally have no chance to receive education, and now it is difficult for the Lin Tianjia to support it. Ever since he was seven years old when he received his education from the Qingling Sect in the Dao Hall, Lin Tian's performance has always been very good. Originally, in one more year, Lin Tian would be able to graduate from the Dao Hall and obtain the qualification to participate in the Qingling Sect disciple examination.

Alas, thinking of this, Lin Tian couldn't help but sigh. He wanted to help his father and he wanted to take the exam, but these two things were beyond his means. He felt powerless, it turned out that he was useless like this.

Another sleepless night.

By the time Lin Tian woke up, it was almost noon, his mind was in a mess last night, he didn't know what he was thinking, and when he was about to close his eyes and go to sleep, the sky was already dark.

Hey, it's over, I have to be scolded again. Lin Tian hurriedly got dressed, pushed open the door, the fragrance of bamboo in the courtyard came to his nose, Lin Tian took a deep breath, and then quickly walked through the backyard and came to the main hall.

I didn't see my father. Lin Tian breathed a sigh of relief, and when he saw his mother coming over with a bowl of porridge, he asked, "Mother, did Dad go out early?"

Lin Tian's mother looked at her son and put the porridge in front of him: "Well, he went to Qianzhuang." ”

Went to borrow money again. Lin Tian drank the porridge and said to his mother vaguely: "Mother, I'll go outside to do chores, make some money, and subsidize the family." ”

Lin Tian's mother sighed and said, "Your father thinks that you went out to help people and embarrassed him. He used to be a well-known figure in Chuanling, but now that his son goes out to help people with chores, how can he stand a person who wants to save face. ”

It's true, it's all like this, and he still cares about face, Lin Tian doesn't understand it very much. He was very afraid of his father, he used to think that his father was very great, but when he grew older, he felt that his father had done a lot of things but was very confused. Hey, it's all about face at this time.

In addition to him, Lin Tianjia also has an older sister who is two years older than him and a younger sister who is only seven years old. My sister got married a year ago, and my sister was fostered at my aunt's house a few months ago. For several months, except for the mother's daily nagging, the rest of the time, the three people in the family were speechless, and the atmosphere at home was very depressing.

Lin Tian didn't want to stay at home, so after drinking the porridge, he said to his mother, "Mother, I'll go out for a while." Without waiting for his mother to reply, Lin Tian had already dodged out of the door.

Lin Tian wandered around the streets aimlessly, thinking about it, and this small city seemed to have nowhere to go. After walking for a while, his feet involuntarily stepped onto the familiar road, and before he knew it, Lin Tian had come to the door of the Qingling Dao Hall. At the door stands a huge statue of the beast of the beast, the body of the tiger with the head of the fox, majestic and majestic.

Unable to hear any movement inside from the gate, Lin Tian wanted to enter several times, but he still hesitated, turned around, and prepared to leave.

The door creaked and opened, and an old man, who was slowly coming out, was stunned for a moment when he saw Lin Tian, and then laughed: "Boy, hurry up and go to class." ”

"Uncle Qin, I'm ......" Before Lin Tian finished speaking, Old Qin, the gatekeeper of the Dao Hall, couldn't help but say that he had pushed him into the door.

Lin Tian had no choice but to go in, he was afraid of seeing familiar friends and teachers, so when he entered the Taoist hall, he walked to the Baicao Garden, found a remote corner, and lay down to watch the sky. There were several large trees in the garden, as well as various herbs and plants that he could not name. The jagged trees and the half-meter-high weeds in the corners blocked his figure, and the dappled sunlight fell on Lin Tian's face through the gaps between the leaves, smelling the aroma of grass on the side of his nose, Lin Tian felt a lot better.