The county seat.

Beizheng Street, Dongzheng Street, Nanzheng Street, and Beizheng Street, four wide "main streets" delineate the scope of the inner city.

Within the four main streets is the inner city.

Beyond the main street, there is a small river in the city.

On the other side of the river, there is the outer city. At the beginning, Xu Guangling and his family first came to the county town, and they lived in the outer city, which was only separated by a river from the inner city.

But in fact, this river is beyond the reach of ordinary people in a lifetime.

In fact, there are ordinary people in the inner city, but those ordinary people are more or less related to cultivators, and they themselves, or their children, and so on, are qualified to step towards the level of cultivators.

And this is impossible for real ordinary people.

Lopp is 10 years old.

His father set up a stall on East Street to sell baked cakes, and from the age of seven, Loop was a powerful helper.

In other words, this ten-year-old boy has been a family pillar for three or four years, and if there is no accident, in the future, Lope will take over his father's position and become the stall owner.

This kind of life is a little tired, but it can't be called hard work, especially hardship, and it can't be talked about.

Their lives are much better than those of many ordinary people, at least every ten or twenty days, they can buy some meat to treat their families.

The large pieces of meat, paired with their own baked crispy but still soft inside, are simply the most beautiful enjoyment.

At that time, it was also the day that Lop was most looking forward to.

Every morning, after the sun comes out, the stall is out, and every evening, when the sun will set, the stall is closed.

Loop and his father have walked from home to street many times, and I don't know how many times, this little boy will look at the river around him and the scenery across the river with an ignorant and longing look.

There are trees on both sides of the river, but they are not too dense.

The river is also not too wide.

To put it simply, walking on this side of the river, you can occasionally see the scenery on the other side of the river.

Although most of the time you can only see the high-walled compound, occasionally it is not a glimpse of the high-walled compound, but it will make the little boy envy and imagine for a long time.

A ten-year-old boy is no longer young, especially for Lop.

Maybe he didn't know anything when he was seven years old, but in the past three years, he has "seen the world" on the street, and he has learned a lot of things unconsciously.

For example, he has to pass by twice a day in the morning and evening, and there are some things on the other side of the river.

"The people who live there are all cultivators. ”

"It's not just the master, but also the young master and the young lady, they look good, but one by one is good-looking, tsk!"

Yes, Lop agrees with that.

Couldn't agree more.

Last year, that day in August, and even how many days of August he remembered, the twenty-third!

That day, when he was out of the stall, he and his father were walking on the road normally, and he also kept his eyes on the other side of the river from time to time, and then suddenly, his eyes were straight.

The steps also stopped.

He saw a very good-looking little girl.

The little girl went from appearing in his sight to disappearing, it was only a matter of a moment.

And for a moment, there is no time to look too much.

But in that moment, this little boy deeply realized what it means to be so beautiful that people lose their souls.

When he came back to his senses, the young man looked at his hands, his feet, and his clothes, and inexplicably reached out and touched his ears and hair, then lowered his head and continued to walk forward with his father.

I never felt like anything before.

But at this moment, the little boy felt that he was out of place.

It didn't fit in with the kind of beauty he had just seen.

The days went on, but the young man became a little silent inexplicably, but secretly, he paid more attention to the talk about the cultivators in the inner city on the street.

On the other side of the river, he never saw the good-looking little girl again, but he saw more people.

Many are middle-aged and elderly.

Whether it is a middle-aged person or an elderly person, it is not the same as what teenagers see every day.

The clothes are different.

Even if you don't mention clothing, many other things are different.

The boy couldn't describe, couldn't prepare to describe, he just knew, different.

The kind that can be seen at a glance is very different!

Slowly, the boy understood.

The river that he could wade through with a few flutters was actually separating two completely different worlds.

Ordinary day.

After a day's stall and stall collection, after dinner, the teenager fell asleep normally.

Today's sleep seems to be a little different.

When he woke up in the morning, the boy sat on the bed in a bit of a daze.

Last night, he seemed to have a dream?

By using "as if", it is not that he has forgotten whether he has dreamed or not, nor that he only remembers the dream but forgot the content of the dream, but ......

But he remembered the dream clearly, and he didn't forget it at all!

What made the little boy even more unbelievable was that the content of the dream was very strange, so strange that he couldn't believe it at all.

For the whole day, Lopp couldn't give up.

When I brushed my teeth, I almost popped my mouth.

When eating, I was burned in my throat by the hot soup instead of almost it.

As for the stall, the teenager made repeated mistakes and was directly reprimanded by his father.

Finally the day passed, and in the evening, the stall was closed.

When it was time to go home as usual, Lop touched his toes on the ground for a long time, and finally made a request to his father.

"What, you're looking for a bridge that leads to the other side of the river?"

"Someone will be waiting for you there to take you to the inner city?"

After the unbelievable outburst, the father was deeply worried, and wondered if his boy was too delusional and crazy, and he raised his hand, ready to give this kid a slap.

Heavyly.

Let him sober up.

But just when the big hand, which had been smoky all the year round, was about to cover the young man's still delicate little face, the father hesitated.

The look in the young man's eyes made his father tremble unconsciously.

The father never thought that his son's eyes could show such a complicated expression.

Unconsciously, this kid who is spinning at his feet has also grown up!

The father hesitated, but in the end, he said, "Let's go!"

"Let's go over and take a look!"

"If you don't see the person you want to see, you get me home immediately!"

Instead of believing Lope's words, the father decided to indulge his teenage ambitions once. - He was also a teenager.

Father's footsteps were heavy.

The young man's steps were excited, but there was hesitation in the joy, which was a lot of uncertainty.

In fact, the boy himself wondered if his dream was due to his own cranky thoughts.

But the dream was too real and too clear.

If you don't want to make sure, he's really ...... I won't be willing to die!

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