At the foot of Song Mountain, in a quiet valley with bright spring and blooming flowers, there are two houses that live next to each other only separated by a stream. One of them is called "Shangxu Ju", and the owner is Li Xian, while the other is called "Qing Xiu Ju", and the owner is Miao Qiuyu, the younger sister of Li Xian in the Shangxiu School.

Li Xian and Miao Qiuyu were originally disciples of the Qinghe Daoist of the Dangshan Cultivation Sect. At that time, Zhu Wen was disrespectful to his master, and the head of the Qinghe Daoist should have repaired the rules of the sect, stipulating that the same door should not fall in love. But Lixian and Miao Qiuyu have a heart-to-heart and a mutual relationship, and they secretly corresponded and made a private decision for life. In the end, they were discovered by the master, and the two of them felt sorry for the master, so they both left the Dangshan Sect, but at that time, Miao Qiuyu was already pregnant with Liujia and needed someone to take care of them, so the two moved to this secluded place where no one disturbed and built two houses.

Miao Qiuyu and Li Xian set a rule: neither of them should cross the wooden bridge of the stream to the other's residence, otherwise they would turn their faces. In the past few years, Lixian has always abided by this agreement and has been safe. Li Xian also named this valley "Lingxi Valley", which means that although the two cannot see each other across a stream, the two people who have a spirit in their hearts have each other in their hearts.

On this day, Li Xian returned to Lingxi Valley with Yi Xi'er on his back, and he stood at the door of Miao Qiuyu, thinking twice and not daring to enter. I had to call at the door: "Senior sister, junior sister"

At this moment, a woman who looked to be about thirty, dignified and quiet, dressed in a white and purple robe, and neat and clean hair ornaments, walked out of the house and asked Lixian, "What are you shouting? Didn't you say that you can't come to me without my consent? Why didn't you come uninvited?"

"Senior sister, didn't I come to you because of something," Lixian explained helplessly.

"What's the matter, can you just stand on the other side of the stream and shout no?" Miao Qiuyu said impatiently.

Li Xian pointed behind him, a young Xi'er who was still in a coma in a back basket, and said to Miao Qiuyu: "Senior sister, look"

"What's going on, where did this kid come from?" Miao Qiuyu asked.

"Don't ask so much, she's been in a coma for two days, hurry up and get in, find a place for her to rest, and I'll explain to you slowly when I get back," Lixian said.

"Okay, let's carry her into the house quickly," Miao Qiuyu said as she opened the other half of the door.

Li Xian carried the basket containing Xi'er in, put the unconscious Xi'er on Miao Qiuyu's couch, and gently covered her with a woolen futon. (Cotton was introduced to the Central Plains from India through the Western Regions in the Song Dynasty, and there was no "cotton" word before the Song Dynasty, and there was no quilt, and most of the people covered with feathers, wool and even straw)

Li Xian looked at Xi'er's unconscious expression, and said to Miao Qiuyu anxiously: "Senior sister, please check her carefully again to see if there are any other injuries on her body."

Miao Qiuyu hurriedly checked Xi'er's whole body, and then said: "There are no external injuries on the body, why are you in a coma for two days?

"Maybe you're too frightened, you can't slow down for a while, you can get some goat's milk, oh, by the way, add some honey, children like to eat sweet," said Lixian.

"Well, just a few days ago, I collected a lot of honey for Ming'er, I'll go get some" With that, Miao Qiuyu turned around and went into the back room.

After a while, Miao Qiuyu came out with a bowl of goat's milk with honey. Li Xian picked up the unconscious Xiao Xi'er from the bed, put it in his arms and pillowed it on his arm, Miao Qiuyu used a spoon to gently feed the goat's milk mixed with honey to Xiao Xi'er's mouth, looking at Xiao Xi'er's little face with tenderness and pity like a mother, at this time, Xiao Xi'er's lips opened a little slightly, and began to gently suck the sweet goat's milk in the spoon.

"Great, you can eat by yourself, you should wake up soon," Miao Qiuyu said with a smile on her face.

"Yes, as long as you are willing to eat, there should be no problem" Lixian lowered his head and looked at Xi'er, echoing.

"Look at this girl, she looks good-eyed, and when she sees it, it makes people feel pity, hey, it's really a sin" Miao Qiuyu said pitifully while feeding goat's milk, like a mother.

After feeding the goat's milk, Miao Qiuyu hugged Xi'er, gently put her down, pulled the wool quilt, gently covered her, and patted her gently in her heart, comforting her like a mother.

Seeing that Xi'er was asleep, Miao Qiuyu said to Lixian: "Come in"

Li Xian followed Miao Qiuyu into the room inside, only to see a little boy about three years old sleeping soundly on a bed, Li Xian reached out and touched the child's face and asked, "How is Ming'er these days?"

Miao Qiuyu gently patted Li Xian's hand with her hand and said, "Light, Ming'er just fell asleep, don't wake him up"

"Look at his little face, how much he looks like me," Rikhyun said proudly.

"It's less smelly and beautiful, tell me quickly, what's the matter with this little girl?

"Senior sister, am I such an unbearable person in your mind?" Li Xian hurriedly asked.

"Who knows, if you were an upright gentleman, you wouldn't have violated the rules of the door in Dangshan back then, which would make the master and his old man angry, and we would have to leave the Shangxiu faction," Miao Qiuyu complained.

"Senior sister, do you really want to blame me? My heart for you is from the bottom of my heart," Lixian explained.

"Don't talk about these useless things, hurry up and talk about the little girl" Miao Qiuyu turned back and continued to ask.

Li Xian looked at the door, sighed, and said: "Hey, this is me and my junior brother going to Chang'an, and my junior brother asked me to save people, but unfortunately I went late, and no one else was saved, only such a little girl was saved."

"Did you go with Senior Brother Li? did you kill Zhu Wen?" Miao Qiuyu asked.

"missed, and You Daxia was also killed by Zhu Wen. Li Xian said helplessly.

"What? Even the Ranger is dead? This Zhu Wen, it's really too much, I really didn't see it, back then he was just a ruffian in Dangshan, but I didn't expect it to become the biggest bane in the world now, Master, his old man has a spirit in the sky, he must not be very comfortable" Miao Qiuyu also sighed.

"Who said it wasn't, the junior brother originally wanted to clean up the portal for the Shangxiu faction, but he didn't expect to almost die in the hands of Zhu Wen."

"Then Senior Brother Li, how is he now?" Miao Qiuyu asked.

"Hey, fortunately I escaped, I should be on the way back at the moment, I saved this girl, and I suspect that she is the daughter of the ranger, so I didn't dare to stay in Chang'an for a long time, so I came back early" Lixian said.

"Okay, I'll take good care of this kid, let's talk about it when Senior Brother Li comes back," Miao Qiuyu said.

"Yes, our Ming'er also happens to have a playmate," Lixian said.

The next morning, Xiao Xi'er slowly opened her hazy eyes. Seeing that there was a mother-like woman in front of her who was busy bringing the prepared breakfast to the table, Xiao Xi'er saw this woman wandering around in front of her, and instinctively shouted: "Mother..."

Miao Qiuyu heard Xi'er's shout, and quickly turned around, and saw that the little girl had opened her big watery eyes, looking at her with a blank eye. After the little girl saw Miao Qiuyu's face, she continued to scream: "Mother..."

Miao Qiuyu listened to the little girl's shout, happy and strange, and said: "Child, you are finally awake, are you hungry?

"Mother..."Xiao Xi'er called again.

Miao Qiuyu brought a bowl of hot goat's milk with honey to Xiao Xi'er and said to her, "Child, I'm not your mother. Haven't you fully recovered? Let's drink this bowl of goat's milk first."

"Then who is my mother?" Xiao Xi'er looked at Miao Qiuyu's face and asked with a blank and puzzled expression.

At this time, Li Xian walked in, saw Xiao Xi'er awake, and said happily to Miao Qiuyu: "Great, she finally woke up"

Xiao Xi'er looked at Li Xian, then at Miao Qiuyu, and asked suspiciously, "Where is this? Who are you?"

"Child, this place is called Lingxi Valley, and we are all the ones who saved you," Lixian said.

"Why am I here? What's wrong with me?" asked Xi'er, blank in her mind.

"I brought you here, you've been in a coma for two days," said Rie Hyun.

"Why am I in a coma? Where is my mother? Who is my mother? I want my mother..."

Only then did Li Xian realize that something was not right, so he stepped forward, looked at Xi'er's face, and asked, "Little girl, what's your name?"

"I, I... I don't know, I don't know what my name is" As she spoke, Xi'er touched her head and asked, "Who am I? I can't remember anything, aren't you my father?"

Miao Qiuyu touched Xi'er's head and said: "We are not your parents, we just rescued you, child, don't think about it if you can't remember, take a good rest first, rest well, maybe you will remember it in a few days."

At this time, a voice at the door shouted: "Senior brother, senior sister..."

"It's the junior brother who is back, I'll go out and have a look" After saying that, Li Xian came to the door, and sure enough, he saw Li Qiu standing at the door of Qing Xiuju. Li Qiu opened his mouth and said: "Senior brother, you are really back, I just went to the opposite side of the void, I didn't see you, guess you are here"

"How's it going, junior brother, are you getting better?" asked Lixian.

"Well, it's much better now, you asked someone to tell me that you came back first, and I will rush over immediately, oh by the way, senior brother, how is the situation of your rescue?" Li Qiu asked.

Li Xian shook his head and said, "Hey, don't mention it, I'm late, Yi Daxia..."

Li Qiu also shook his head regretfully, and Li Xian asked, "Senior brother, how are you?"

"I didn't expect this, it was really Huang Yuetian's doing, he first deceived me and asked me to call Brother You to Chang'an, and then designed to join forces with Zhu Wen to frame Brother You, all blame me for believing Huang Yuetian's villain's words and harming Brother You, hey..."Li Qiu gritted his teeth and said.

"How do you know?" asked Rihyun.

"I also learned by accident, and after several investigations, I also found out some eyebrows, this Huang Yuetian is really insidious and cunning," Li Qiu said.

"It seems that this Huang Yuetian is not a good type, let's be careful when walking the rivers and lakes in the future," Lixian said.

"It's all my fault, it's all my fault, it's all my fault..."

"Senior brother, you are also an unintentional mistake, you don't have to blame yourself too much after the matter has come to this point, the future will be long, and there will be a chance to avenge the ranger in the future" Li Xian comforted.

"Well, Senior Brother, you're right, I want to continue to complete what Brother You hasn't done, so that I can be worthy of his Spirit in the Heavens," Li Qiu secretly decided.

"Don't talk about it yet, you can come into the house and have a look," Rixian said.

"What's wrong, what's going on?" asked Li Qiu as he walked into the room.

After entering the house, Li Qiu first said hello to Senior Sister Miao Qiuyu. Li Xian pointed at Xi'er and asked Li Qiu, "Senior brother, come and recognize it, is this the daughter of the Great Hero?"

When Li Qiu saw Xi'er sitting on the bed, he exclaimed in surprise: "Xi'er, Xi'er is really you?"

"Could it be that she is really the daughter of the Rangers?" asked Rixian with a happy face

"Who are you?Do you know me?I don't even remember?" Xiao Xi'er asked Li Qiu suspiciously.

"I was late and only saved this child, who may have been a little frightened and couldn't remember anything for a while, and we were all waiting for you to come back," Rikhyun said.

"Ouch, senior brother, you have done a great good deed!" Li Qiu said.

"Why, she's the Ranger Hero's daughter, right?"

"She is not the daughter of the ranger, but he is Yi Fang, the daughter of the Yi brothers, named Xi'er, who is five years old this year"

"Ahh

"I don't know, I heard that they were all sent to Dongwang Mountain at that time, I think it should be more than lucky," Li Qiu said regretfully.

"Hey, I'm ashamed, I was late, and I only saved this one, and everyone else... Hey, it's miserable," Rikhyun said.

"Yes, Yi Daxia is full of loyalty, only this one is left, hey, it's a pity"

Li Qiu looked at Xi'er's innocent look, so he motioned to Li Xian and said, "Senior brother, let's go out and talk."

Li Xian followed Li Qiu out of the eaves, and Li Qiu asked, "I don't know how Senior Brother plans to place this little girl?"

"I was about to ask you, how are you going to place her?" asked Rihyun.

"Brother Yi is Bo Yuntian, this time the innocent was implicated and killed. Since this little girl is the only descendant of Brother Yi, let's raise her well in everything, and it can be regarded as a little comfort to Brother Yi in the spirit of the sky," Li Qiu said.

"I think so too, I don't know about you, junior brother..."

Before Li Xian finished speaking, Li Qiu said: "I am alone in the rivers and lakes, it is inconvenient to take a child, senior brother, you and senior sister have always lived in seclusion here, and they can be regarded as stable, why don't you two raise it, what do you think?"

"It's okay, it just so happens that Ming'er also has a companion," Lixian said.

"That's what I wanted to say, too."

"Then I'll leave it to you, I'll come and see her every once in a while," Li Qiu said.

"Okay. Ay... I've always felt sorry that I couldn't save anyone else when I was late, but why didn't you hear from Zhu Wen's wife when you went to ask for it?" asked Lixian.

"Hey, it's a shame."

"What's wrong?"

"I wrote a letter to Mrs. Wei Guo, and when she learned what her son had done, she was so angry that she vomited blood and died," Li Qiu said regretfully.

"What? Zhu Wen's wife is dead?" asked Rihyun, shocked.

"Yes, now that he is mourning, Zhu Wen wants to bury him back to his hometown in Dangshan," Li Qiu said.

"Hey, as soon as this Lady of Wei Guo dies, there is no one in the world who can contain Zhu Wen's jackal beastly nature, I'm sure that the chaos in the world has just begun," Li Xian said earnestly.

"What should we do? Do we still want to continue to fulfill the last wish of the ranger?" asked Li Qiu.

"This time, we have made a big move, we have already taken precautions, so don't act rashly for the time being, just wait and see what happens," Lixian said.

"Okay, I'll go to Qingfeng Mountain where the ranger lives first, and practice Qingfeng swordsmanship, if you have anything to do with Qingfeng Mountain, it's not far from here anyway," Li Qiu said.

"Okay, then junior brother, take care of yourself!"

"Well, help me tell my senior sister that I've worked hard!" Li Qiu said.

"Okay, take care!"

In this way, Li Qiu entrusted Xi'er to Li Xian and left Lingxi Valley alone.

Li Xian returned to the Qing Xiu house. Seeing that Miao Qiuyu was caressing Xi'er's heart, Xi'er had quietly fallen asleep.

Miao Qiuyu found that there seemed to be something in Xiao Xi'er's clothes, so she gently took out a scabbard from her clothes. This scabbard is the scabbard inlaid with colored gems that his brother Yi Anjie carried in Xi'er's arms at the beginning. Miao Qiuyu gently put the scabbard under the pillow and put it away.

At this time, there was a noise from the back room after the child woke up, and Miao Qiuyu hurriedly walked gently to the back room. The little boy named Ming'er was lying on the bed obediently, with a pair of clear, bright and watery eyes, watching every movement of Miao Qiuyu walking in, he seemed to be familiar with this figure. Just as birds are familiar with the blue sky and fish are familiar with the river, their eyes reveal natural trust and dependence.

Miao Qiuyu walked to the side of the bed, and the child showed an innocent bright smile, kicked off the woolen quilt with all fours, staggered up from the bed, and opened his hands to ask Miao Qiuyu for a hug.

Miao Qiuyu hugged the child, then asked him to stand on the bed, picked up a small piece of clothing, and said, "Come, stand up, I'll dress you."

Li Xian walked in gently, and when he saw Miao Qiuyu who was busy, he was a little distressed and a little embarrassed and said, "Senior sister, I want to discuss something with you."

"What's the matter?" Miao Qiuyu said as she dressed the child.

"You also heard Senior Brother Li say just now, this little girl is Yi Daxia's daughter, Yi Daxia and You Daxia, Senior Brother Li and Kwai Daxia, assassinated Zhu Wen together, only Senior Brother came back alive, Yi Daxia was beheaded all over the house, and now there is only such a child left in the Yi family, I want to discuss with you, discuss, you see if we should raise this child..."Li Xian said hesitantly.

"Of course, Yi Daxia is so chivalrous and tragically destroyed, how can we let his only descendant live alone and helpless in this world?

"Great, I knew you would agree, junior sister, you are such a kind and good person, I really didn't love you in the first place" Lixian said with a slightly flamboyant tongue.

"Go and go, don't be so flamboyant, it's the same thing, this is the righteousness of the rivers and lakes, not a matter of children's affection, don't get confused" Miao Qiuyu's words were like a basin of cold water, like Lixian splashed over.

"Okay, I understand. Senior sister, wouldn't it be too tiring for you to take care of two children alone? Either Youming will get Shangxuju and let me take it?" asked Lixian.

"It's okay, I'm just saving some snacks, this child is growing up day by day, you have to discipline it well. It is up to you to decide whether to teach him martial arts or not, but loyalty, filial piety, honesty and trustworthiness, these minimum rules of life must not be left behind, and I don't want my child to become a person who lacks discipline and lawlessness in the future."

"Of course, I'm his father, you can rest assured, junior sister."

"There is one more thing, you must promise me," Miao Qiuyu said.

"What's the matter?"

"It's that when he grows up, don't tell him, we are his biological parents," Miao Qiuyu said.

"Why?" asked Rihyun, confused.

"At least the child won't be too arrogant and willful in the future," Miao Qiuyu explained.

"Isn't this too cruel? Besides, we are not relatives of the emperor or a powerful person of the Zhu family, why are the children arrogant and willful?" asked Li Xian.

At this time, Miao Qiuyu said with a little embarrassment: "How did this child come here? At the beginning, the two of us were together privately, violating the door rules. I left the Dangshan Sect because I was pregnant, do you want me to be embarrassed to tell him these things in the future? You have the face to say it, but I don't have the face to admit it."

Li Xian suddenly realized, so he comforted: "Okay, okay, just don't tell him, just say that we picked it up, master and apprentice are commensurate, okay? In the future, I will be his master, and you will be his master, so it's always okay, right?"

"Okay, Ming'er will follow you in the future, and the little girl will follow me," Miao Qiuyu said.

"Okay, in the future, I will be responsible for teaching them to practice, and you will be responsible for teaching them to read and write?" Li Xian suggested.

"Okay, but this girl seems to have forgotten what happened to her before, so let's just name her again?" Miao Qiuyu said.

"It's okay to forget all the unhappy memories, at least it won't affect her happy growth, so let's give him a new name," Li Xian agreed.

"Then what do you say, what should you name this girl?" Miao Qiuyu asked.

Li Xian thought about it, so he said: "Yi Daxia is full of loyalty, a Dan heart, let's name this girl Yi Dan, I hope that when she grows up in the future, she can be like his parents and relatives, and she will always have a pure heart, so that Yi Daxia's spirit in the sky can also be relieved."

Miao Qiuyu hugged Ming'er, walked to the room outside, looked at Yi Dan's cute face, and said, "Okay, it's called Yi Dan."

In this way, Lixian Miao Qiuyu and the two took Yi Dan and Ming'er to live day by day in Lingxi Valley, watching the two children grow up day by day. The two dwellings were separated by a stream, but the brook was no more than ten feet wide, and the water was knee-high. Children as young as seven or eight years old can cross it smoothly, not to mention that there is a small wooden bridge over the stream. The two children are like two sisters and brothers, you come and go every day, and the number of times you run on this small wooden bridge is incalculable. Children are always very innocent and lovely, they play in this quiet valley surrounded by mountains and rivers and blooming flowers, playing hide and seek, catching butterflies, catching praying mantises, herding sheep, herding horses, as well as practicing and reading and writing.

In the blink of an eye, three years have passed, and Yi Dan is already eight years old. Youming is also more than five years old, the same age as Yi Dan when he first came to this Lingxi Valley. However, eight-year-old Yi Dan, since the earth-shattering catastrophe, can't remember anything before the age of five. The older Xiao Yi Dan gets, the more playful, cute and eccentric she becomes, while Youming, who is three years younger than her, has a dull, cute and quiet personality. Ming'er was often robbed of the sugar man and the little windmill toys by his senior sister Yi Dan, and Xiao Yi Dan would return them to him if he had to make his nose cry.

Li Xian saw that Xiao Yidan was already eight years old, and it was time for her to start getting in touch with some weapons, so under the old persimmon tree at the mouth of the valley at the foot of the mountain, he began to teach them the basics of weapons and martial arts. Swords and spears, slashing with knives and axes, rushing with sticks in both hands, hiding with open guns, defending with hidden arrows, watching the six roads and smelling all directions; punching acupuncture points, palming the key points, and standing firmly under the feet. These and other basic formulas for the introduction of martial arts, the smart and clever Xiao Yi Dan has long memorized the rolling melon. Li Xian and Miao Qiuyu were very happy, but You Ming loved to read and write, and he couldn't put down the scroll, but he didn't have much interest in martial arts. Li Xian did not force Ming'er to practice martial arts, but followed Miao Qiuyu's meaning, let him choose, Miao Qiuyu said to Li Xian many times, as long as the child does not make moral mistakes, it doesn't matter if he learns martial arts or learns martial arts, as long as he grows up healthy and happy.