Chapter 1: Attack on Homecoming
The cicadas in the deep valley are singing, the morning breeze is slow, the valley is quiet, and the bamboo houses are in the sun. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Inside the house, a man was packing up some things, clothes and miscellaneous items, and packed them into the package one by one, but the package was almost full, and there were still many things that had not been packed in.
"Go up the mountain to seek immortals for more than ten years, have not learned half of the immortal arts, nor have they sought half of the immortal fate, none of them have been obtained, but they have exhausted their family wealth, exhausted their energy, ten years of time, muddy and nightmarish, and they have all been consumed in this ethereal thing, if you listen to the words of the old mother, study the scriptures at home, and now may not be able to win a fame, which is like more than 20 now, but it is useless, everywhere is not successful, it is really ashamed, ashamed. ”
Wu Xinqiu has already made up his mind, and he knows that if he continues to ask for immortals here and study the immortal method, he may not gain anything in another ten years.
Then I heard that my mother had been sick in bed for a long time, I asked the fairy to ask for a farewell for more than ten years, in addition to sending money and food to myself at home, almost rarely exchanged letters, after all, the letters were consigned by someone, and the correspondence was expensive, and the door was thousands of miles away from home. This also happens to have the profession of helping people send letters on their behalf, most of these are people from fellow villagers or nearby villages, and they just happened to send money and food to Wu Xinqiu on behalf of them.
What's more, I don't have enough money and food, and I can't stay here anymore, and the old mother at home is sick in bed, unable to cultivate the fields and engage in production, and naturally has no money to support myself to practice and learn arts.
I am useless, I have practiced for ten years, not to mention learning the immortal law, and I have not even been able to strengthen my body, and now, I can't plow my strength, I can't write it, and if I continue like this, I can't starve to death. And now the fellow townsman took the order of his mother to bring him some entanglement and a letter, so that he could go home to see her, after all, he hadn't seen her for ten years, how could he not miss it.
Looking at his mother's font Juanxiu, Wu Xinqiu was full of thoughts, his mother Chen Quyi was originally a beautiful girl, and her family was solid, so she shouldn't have been working in the field and living in the field. However, when the upright youth was young and peerless, his mother met the peerless and heroic Wu Xinjia, and the two fell in love at first sight and made a private decision for life.
However, the Chen family disdained that Wu Xinjia was just a poor scholar, so they wanted to block the two. Helplessly, the two pointed to heaven and earth as marriage, and took the sun and the moon as evidence, and eloped after secretly getting married. Then the family hurt face, and even wanted to cut off relations with Chen Quyi. Later, his father fell ill in his early years, and his family was poor and difficult to treat, and then he died.
The matter has come to this point, the intention has been decided, and the husband should not stay for a long time.
Wu Xinqiu picked up the package, locked the bamboo house, sighed, and left resolutely.
This bamboo house was originally built by a person who came to practice many years ago, but that person was also like Wu Xinqiu, who had been unable to seek the law for decades, and in a fit of anger, he tore up all the books and went home to take the exam. Because he saw that Wu Zhiqiu was sincere, calm and not frivolous, the two had a lot of intersection in the past, which left a good impression on him, so he gave this bamboo house to Wu Xinqiu.
It's just that now, Wu Xinqiu is leaving again, but he finds that he doesn't know how to deal with this bamboo house for a while, and he hardly does anything else except practice on weekdays, and he doesn't have much interpersonal communication, almost rarely talks to people, and there are few acquaintances. Wu Xinqiu often said that cultivators are actually more indifferent than the mortal world, most of them only think about themselves, and rarely think about others, and the warmth and coldness of people are reflected one by one.
"Forget it, someone will take it for themselves. Wu Xinqiu threw the key at the door, and it was naturally inappropriate for him to go back and occupy the house. The Huangmen is a disciple who does not have the same strength as himself, and needs to take care of his own daily life.
Among them, most of the wealthy people can practice with peace of mind, and do not need to work for other livelihoods, etc., most of these disciples are quite concerned about cultivation in the mortal world, and naturally enter the door as a matter of course, and most of the inner disciples also come out of this.
In addition to needing to work hard for their livelihood, they also have to make more efforts to make up for the lack of cultivation, and because of these, most of the disciples of the poor sect can enter the inner gate, all of them are talented, and only these can suddenly be encircled, gather strength successfully, and enter the inner gate.
After all, the disciples of the poor sect have paid ten times the effort, and the disciples of the Yin Shi family have not necessarily paid twelve points of spirit, and the practice of all the way is already arduous and abnormal, and if they do not advance, they will retreat, since they have chosen this road, there are a few who can not be diligent and diligent, and the disciples of the Han Sect are passing through the wall to draw light, and when the winter is cold and hugging the ice, the disciples of the Yin Shi family may not be and are not studying in the pond, and the thorn hangs over the beam. The most terrifying thing is not the Yin Shi disciple, but the Yin Shi disciple who is talented and hard-working. This made many poor disciples stop and be unwilling.
For these injustices, Wu Xinqiu also knew that there was no way in the sect, after all, there were hundreds of disciples in the outer sect, and the disciples in the inner sect did not produce, so it was naturally impossible for everyone in the outer sect to have clothes to wear and food. Allowing these outer disciples to take care of themselves is the only feasible way.
Leaving the Qiulai Valley, Wu Xinqiu actually felt a little hot, think about it, Qiulai Valley is a cool place to escape the heat, naturally cool, and the outside of the valley is the sun shining at the moment, it is a little hotter than the valley, Wu Xinqiu's body is weak, and he has not moved around much over the years, and he also practices the most basic breath induction technique of "Huangmen General Essentials" on weekdays. However, after ten years of practice, except for feeling some aura when I was still a teenager, I have never felt it now.
He made an appointment with his fellow messengers and prepared to return together. This fellow villager is the one who sent the message to Wu Xinqiu, and he was passing through here, so he also brought a letter to Wu Xinqiu by the way.
"Brother Li, I've been waiting for a long time. Wu Xinqiu stepped forward and said to an ordinary farmer.
Li Jieshi smiled, "I didn't wait for a long time, I didn't wait for a long time, Brother Wu, let's clean up, let's leave when we're ready." ”
The two went all the way out of the mountain, without saying anything all the way, Wu Xinqiu, who Li Jieshi wanted to talk about, was not interested, and Li Jieshi, who wanted to talk about Wu Xinqiu, knew nothing.
Li Jieshi is both in awe and a little contemptuous of Wu Xinqiu in front of him, and the awe is because the other party has learned immortal arts for ten years in this inexplicable place, not to mention that he has achieved great cultivation, it is estimated that dealing with himself is also a matter of raising his hand, and he is still more in awe of these things as a country people, although Wu Xinqiu does not look like an immortal, but he entered the immortal gate, worshiped the immortals as teachers, and became a disciple of the immortal gate, how can he be regarded as having immortal energy, which is different from their ordinary people.
It's just that where does he know the mystery, except for these tedious things, not everyone can apprentice, and in addition to their own practice, almost no one can guide their own cultivation, so they can only rely on their own study.
Li Jieshi also looked down on Wu Xinqiu, the situation of his Wu family was there, except for a weak mother who was making a living, there was no labor force left, and in the farmer's family, the man represented the guarantee of the family's productivity. But this Wu Xinqiu had to learn what Lao Shizi Immortal Method, and it was estimated that he would not have achieved anything, otherwise he would have walked all the way back with him, and how could he not ride the clouds. And a person in his twenties, he is not sensible, and he still wants his mother to support him, and he is not a scholar, so delicate. But since Mrs. Chen doesn't care, it's hard for outsiders to say anything.
After walking for a few miles, Wu Xinqiu couldn't stand it anymore, panting, and his pace gradually slowed down. But Li Jieshi is different, he walks south and north on weekdays, and he doesn't take much breath when he walks ten miles, which is naturally not comparable to Wu Xinqiu.
"Brother Li, why don't we rest for a while, ...... whirring" Wu Xinqiu gasped and tried to keep up.
Li Jieshi naturally refused, if he really followed Wu Xinqiu's speed, what a monkey year and Ma Yue would be when he wanted to return home, and maybe he wouldn't have gone back when the two of them had exhausted their entanglement. "Brother Wu, this is not good, according to the speed, we can't go back, and we have to rush to the straw hat village thirty miles away before dark, there is a broken temple, live there at night, you can save some housing money, when it gets dark, it will be difficult to hurry." ”
Hearing this, Wu Xinqiu couldn't do it, after all, along the way, he still had to rely on the other party, so naturally he couldn't embarrass the other party, so he had to grit his teeth and follow, how far was the thirty-mile road, he didn't have an impression, and whispered "Huangmen General Essentials" in his mouth, hoping to share some pain, after all, in his heart, practicing this mental method is the most painful.
The two walked for more than ten miles, but Wu Xinqiu couldn't stand it anymore, sat on the ground and gasped for breath, took out the kettle, and drank the rest of the water inside.
Li Jieshi smiled and handed over his bamboo kettle, after all, he was still an unborn young man, and he couldn't compare to his old rivers and lakes, Wu Xinqiu took the kettle and drank it in a big gulp, he had suffered along the way, he had never walked such a far road on weekdays, and today was the first time he had walked so far in so many years.
But ten years ago, I was only a dozen years old and traveled thousands of miles alone, with enough entanglement, the pride and ambition of seeking immortals, vividly, I don't know if it was young and ignorant or less and fearless, so many difficulties and obstacles, they were overcome one by one, and finally finally inquired all the way to Huangmen, but things were not as good as people wanted, and the way of cultivation was not as simple as they expected.
It's just that now that he is going back like this, he is still a little unwilling in his heart, is it true that he has to go back to guard the one acre and three points of land, and from then on he will live the days of plowing the land and farming, watching God's face and live the harvest, this is not what he thinks, what he thinks is the end of the sword world, the days of holding the sword freely, but, is this possible, Wu Xinqiu asked himself.
"Stop, two people in front, hand over your stuff. ”
The two were shocked, and it was difficult to meet a strongman to rob the way.