Chapter 3 Jianzi

"Harm, Brother Xiang Ping."

Li Xiangping walked back with the basket on his back, and a girl walked up from a distance. The girl had a round face, ordinary facial features, and a full smile that added a lot of charm to her features.

"Yunmei"

Li Xiangping looked at the girl with a smile, turned around and handed over the basket of fish

"Look at the good fish I caught, you want to go back and try a few."

"This is impossible."

Tian Yun smiled and lowered her head. Girls develop early. She is already taller than Li Xiangping, who is thirteen years old this year.

A man and a woman in Lijing Village got married at the age of 13, and among their peers, only two of them were the most suitable in age. The girl had already decided that the boy in front of her would be her husband.

"No, take it!" Li Xiangping forced two fish into Tian Yun's hands, but Li Xiangping didn't think much about it. Among the villagers, Uncle Tian was the kindest and his favorite. After meeting his daughter, he naturally had to take care of her.

After bidding farewell to Tian Yun, Li Xiangping hurriedly walked into the house and put the basket into the pond. He thought for a while, took out the sword, rubbed it on it, stuffed it into his arms, picked up the three wooden boxes on the table and went to the field.

There, his two older brothers were working on the farm with his father.

The Li family has four brothers, namely Li Changhu, Li Tongya, Li Xiangping, and Li Chijing. When talking about the four brothers of the Li family in Lijing Village, no one does not give a thumbs up. Tian Yun's father always talks about these four brothers. He said enviously: "Li Mutian is so lucky!"

Li Mutian, who was so lucky, did not think so. As the only person in Lijing Village who had traveled far, Li Mutian was in agony watching his children busy in the fields.

"A good man should study and be a soldier, but he is a coward in the fields!" He pointed at Uncle Tian and scolded him.

But life is like this. Those who have seen the light will suffer. Li Mutian served in the army and killed people. When he was in his forties, he returned to Lijing Village and used military pay to buy land and became a wealthy family. He was the least satisfied.

When Li Xiangping arrived at the field, his elder brother Li Changhu had been waiting under the shade of the tree early. He was the eldest, at the age of seventeen, he already had a beard.

"Third brother, walk slowly, don't be in a hurry."

Li Changhu smiled and touched Li Xiangping's head and looked at him gently.

"Uncle Tian said you gained a lot today."

"Too many, brother!" Li Xiangping laughed loudly, "It's a good meal tonight!"

"You."

Li Changhu wiped his sweat, picked up a wooden box and shouted to the field

"Second brother——"

"Here we come!" Second brother Li Tongya walked over quickly with a hoe. He first sat down and called Li Changhu "big brother" before looking at Li Xiangping with a smile.

"You guys eat, I'm going back." Li Xiangping was busy all morning, but he was so hungry that he hurried home.

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When Lu Jiangxian was in Li Xiangping's basket, he felt an inexplicable pulling force attracting him. As he got closer to Li's house, this feeling became stronger and stronger.

Passing by the big locust tree at the entrance of the village, this attraction reached its peak when entering the village. Lu Jiangxian felt chest tightness and shortness of breath. The mirror in the basket was shaking slightly, and there was a red light in the mirror.

"That's a part of me, or something very important to me." Lu Jiangxian had a clear understanding in his heart.

"In the north! In the direction of the big lake!" As Li Xiangping slowly moved away from the village entrance, this attraction slowly disappeared, and Lu Jiangxian secretly noted this direction in his mind.

After following Li Xiangping around the village for a while, Lu Jiangxian could basically understand what everyone he met was saying based on his own perception of psychological activities and observation of the target's movements and tone.

He found that this place seemed to be an ordinary small village. There were no martial arts masters flying over the walls or any immortal cultivators flying around.

People work regularly at sunrise and rest at sunset, and there is nothing unexpected about the tools they use or the size of their fields.

"This place seems to be just an ordinary small village. The best house is just a two-story civil structure house..." Lu Jiangxian thought, if there are immortal cultivators, they will not live in a small mud house no matter what. Bar?

"Strong power will bring strong productivity. The small village in front of us is too backward."

He already had a rough idea in his mind, and his future plans were slowly taking shape.

The Li family was particularly busy tonight, with mother and two younger brothers busy washing and cooking.

Li Xiangping returned with a full load, but his younger brother Li Chijing secretly caught a nest of fat field mice and stuffed them in a grain bag while picking mulberries and raising silkworms in the back mountain. He was so happy that his father Li Mutian patted the two young men hard on the shoulders and praised them. The tail is raised very high.

When you are fourteen or fifteen years old, when you are growing tall, most of the dishes on the table go into the stomachs of several people.

Li Mutian only tasted a chopstick, and his mother Liu Linyun also looked at the four brothers with a smile. Only the big yellow dog was running around anxiously under the table, shuttling between the legs of the six people.

Finish your dinner.

The moon slowly climbed up Mount Dali. Li Xiangping was leaning against the corner with a long tare in his mouth. His father, Li Mutian, frowned and looked at the sky, as if he was looking for something.

"That's right, Dad." Li Xiangping patted his father's trousers and took out the jianzi from his arms.

"I picked this thing up in the river early in the morning."

"Oh." Li Mutian took the jianzi and looked over it over and over with squinted eyes.

"It's neither iron nor copper, what good thing is it?"

The cold moon slowly floated down in front of the house, gathering little by little on the mirror as if it came alive, forming a faint moon halo. Li Xiangping couldn't help but rub his eyes, as if the most beautiful moonlight he had seen in the past thirteen years was there. That touch of the moon appeared on the halo.

"Dad!" Li Xiangping shouted softly.

"Shut up!" Li Mutian was shocked and turned pale. He forced himself to move his eyes away from the moonlight. His hands were trembling. He stuffed the sword into Li Xiangping's arms and whispered in his ear:

"Hide inside and ask your brothers to bring out the knives."

It was the first time that Li Xiangping saw such fierce killing intent on his father's face. His eyes narrowed slightly, like an eagle ready to attack.

"yes…"

His voice was trembling, his legs were weak, and he moved into the door little by little.

The night was still good, and Li Xiangping opened the door.

"Brother...Father said to take the guy quickly and go to the door."

Li Xiangping almost shouted, he whispered tremblingly to his two brothers leaning on the bedside.

"What?!"

Li Changhu stood up in shock, supported Li Xiangping with both hands, and looked at him with concern, "Is my father in serious trouble? Did you say anything?"

The second brother, Li Tongya, turned over and took out two knives from under the bed. He also took off the rattan clothes and long stick hanging on the wall. He looked out the window gloomily and whispered:

"It must be an enemy coming to visit."

He handed over the long knife and rattan clothes, held the long stick in his hand, and patted Li Changhu.

"Brother, there's no need to ask any more. Third brother, take your mother and fourth brother and hide in the backyard."

"good"

Li Xiangping hurriedly went to find his mother, and Li Changhu quickly calmed down, put on his rattan clothes, and walked towards the door holding a knife.

outside the house.

Li Mutian was standing at the door, quietly looking at the melon field in front of the house. When the two teenagers stood behind him, he waved his hand and took the long knife.

"You two, one on the left and the other on the right, explore the front and back of the house to make sure there is no one around." The two of them responded quickly and went to investigate in separate directions.

Li Mutian himself walked freely to the melon field in front of the house, bent down and pulled someone out of the melon field.