At this time, it was the year 2046 of the Yellow Calendar, the time of midsummer. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Outside the Xiangshui City of Chu State, on the Woniu Mountain, a young man in cloth held a medicine hoe in his hand, carried a medicine basket on his back, and dug it lightly, then dug out a Chenglu grass by the roots and put it into the medicine basket behind it.

The young man's name is Li Sanbai, thirteen years old, and he has been a hunter under Woniu Mountain for generations, until his father, his father Li Minghe joined the army, but he died on the battlefield during the battle between Jin and Chu.

Li Sanbai was only six years old that year, and since then he has been dependent on his mother Lin Wanhua, and the mother and son rely on Lin Wanhua to go up the mountain to collect medicine to make a living.

However, a month ago, Lin Wanhua's true qi went wrong and went mad when she was cultivating, and she needed a hundred copper coins of the Harmony Qi Pill to be cured.

Since the human race has played gossip in Fuxi, everyone cultivates immortals and strengthens their bodies, but cultivating immortals is to fight with the sky, and if you are not careful, you will go mad.

However, the value of the pill is extremely expensive, taking the Harmony Qi Pill used by people in this Qi cultivation period to heal their injuries, the value of one pill is the cost of an ordinary person's four months.

In order to treat Lin Wanhua's injury, Li Sanbai picked up his mother's tools for collecting medicine on weekdays and went into the mountains to collect medicine, hoping to sell the medicine to make money and exchange it for a Heqi Pill.

Since he was a child, he has practiced a technique called Roushui Jue with his mother, his physical strength is acceptable, and his skills are reasonable, but he is young after all, all the way over the mountains, climbing the cliffs, gradually feeling tired of hard work, walking alone through the deep mountains and old forests, listening to all kinds of changes in the mountains and forests, and he can't help but be afraid.

However, thinking about his mother's injury, Li Sanbai put his fatigue and fear behind him, and walked farther and farther, gradually moving away from the mountain path that countless medicine pickers had stepped on, and stepping into the inaccessible place where birds and beasts were rampant.

The vegetation around is gradually thickening, birds fly overhead from time to time, and among the mountain peaks in the distance, there is a dull roar.

Li Sanbai stopped, looked around, and found himself in a valley, surrounded by weeds and trees.

And among the undulating mountains, the sun is gradually setting in the west, and the afterglow of the setting sun dyes the distant mountains and trees in a fiery red.

Li Sanbai looked around and found that there was a tall camphor tree on the hill in front of him, so he planned to go over and rest on the tree for a night.

He took a few steps forward, but then suddenly stopped, his ears moving slightly.

A gust of mountain wind blew, and there was a faint fishy smell in the air......

Li Sanbai clenched the medicine hoe in his hand and tentatively released a true qi towards the place where the smell came from.

"Po~"

After the true qi was released, it turned into a wave of water, meandering and flowing, straight towards the grass where the fishy smell came from.

"Roar!"

With a heaven-shattering beast roar, a white-fronted tiger suddenly jumped out!

The roar shook the water waves, and rushed straight to Li Sanbai's front door, Li Sanbai only felt that his ears were buzzing, and a fishy smell was nauseating, and his body suddenly shook, and he almost fainted.

He hurriedly activated the soft water trick true qi in his body, and when the real qi was moving, a faint halo of water appeared around his body, and the water halo swayed slightly, washing away the stench, making Li Sanbai regain his senses.

However, at this time, the fierce tiger had already jumped high, its claws were as sharp as knives, and a bloody mouth came straight towards Li Sanbai's head.

"Bump~"

In the midst of the crisis, Li Sanbai gritted his teeth, and waved his Chinese medicine hoe violently, right under the neck of the tiger, although the tiger was fierce, but after all, it was still a mortal beast.

Li Sanbai was still weak and lacked strength, and after this desperate blow, his hands were almost out of strength, and he was extremely scared in his heart, and his hand holding the medicine hoe trembled sharply.

However, under the fear, he gave birth to a desperate momentum, shouted "Ah", and with a fierce wave of the hoe in his hand, the true qi of the soft water trick on the hoe turned into a water ball, and the hoe hit the tiger hard!

"Whew~"

The tiger just got up, shook his head, shook off the grass clippings, and was about to entangle again, but he heard a heart-warming shout from the top of his head, and ate Li Sanbai's blow again, and he was frightened for a while, his legs were weak, and after a miserable howl, he ran into the grass twice and disappeared.

However, after a while, there was a faint unwilling roar from the direction from which it fled......

Li Sanbai looked at the tiger and fled, holding the medicine hoe high with both hands, his chest rose and fell violently, panting heavily, from his raised hands to his feet in bast shoes, he was trembling slightly.

"Smack!"

After being sure that the tiger really left, Li Sanbai's hands were weak, and the medicine hoe he held high fell, and he supported himself with the medicine hoe, and his heart was empty, and an inexplicable fear suddenly hit his heart.

His mother's injuries, the danger to his life, and the fatigue of the trek made him feel that he could no longer support him, and he leaned on the medicine hoe and cried silently.

"Mother's ......"

"Click......

"Click......

"Click......

Tears splashed down on the grass at your feet, reflecting the starlight that appeared in the sky at some point, crystal clear, bright and clean.

Tears reflected the starlight and shone into Li Sanbai's slightly dazed eyes, and in a trance, he seemed to see his mother's gentle eyes.

His mother took his hand and wrote a line of words on the sand with a branch, and said to him gently: "Sanbai, do you recognize these words?

"Really, mother, the meat is so fragrant, you can show it to me!"

"Hehe, Xiao Sanbai, then you recognize this word. Mother smiled slightly, her eyes bent into crescent moons.

"The word is 'heaven'. ”

Li Sanbai looked at the sand, his black eyes were wide open, and he said in a milky voice.

"It's 'OK'. ”

"This is 'Kin'!"

"Tianxingjian, a gentleman strives for self-improvement?"

"Sanbai, read it right, you recognize this sentence again. Mother said, and wrote another line on the sand with a branch.

"The terrain is good, and the gentleman carries things with virtue!"

Li Sanbai read word by word very firmly.

"But mother, isn't this the words of the I Ching? You taught me before, why do you still write it to me?"

"Sanbai, my mother wants you to know that our China has lasted for thousands of years, there are glorious times, there are countless sufferings and humiliations, but Sanbai you must remember: Tianxingjian, the gentleman is self-improving! The terrain is kun, the gentleman is virtuous! These two sentences are the spiritual connotation of our Huaxia, and when you grow up, you can forget your own appearance and abandon the customs of your ancestors. But at all times, you have to remember these two sentences, and you have to engrave these two sentences into your bone marrow and into your blood. Only in this way can you become an upright man, just like your father. ”

"Tianxingjian, a gentleman strives for self-improvement!"

Li Sanbai chanted softly, and his childish voice sounded among the mountains, crisp and immature, full of vitality, and even cut through the gloom that was born in these mountains as night fell.