Shendou Continent

Chapter 3 Meeting Liu Jia for the First Time

Chapter 3 Meeting Liu Jia for the First Time
The annual Awakening Day is over, Xiao You's heart is empty after saying goodbye to Xiaodong.Although he is only 6 years old, the unfairness of fate, the misfortune of life, and the hardships of life make this child much more mature than his peers.Looking at his father's stooped body, he wanted to grow up quickly and help his father share some housework.

And Xiaoyou firmly believes that although he can't become a fighter right away, he is only 6 years old and there is still the next awakening day.As the old man who sells soy milk at the entrance of the village said, good things take time!
Just now in the small house in the middle of the village, he actually faintly felt an inexplicable force fluctuating in his heart, and just about to get up, but was forcibly stopped by the impatient priest.He wasn't reconciled, but he was a broke household, so what qualifications did he have to question the priest's decision?

Maybe fate is just so unfair.While helping his father to share the housework, he also looked forward to the early arrival of the next year's Awakening Day. He hoped to meet a responsible priest who could help him awaken his soul.

But things backfired!On the Awakening Day of the second year, Xiaoyou met the same priest, who directly disqualified him from the test.Lin San knew that Xiaoyou had feelings for his soul last time, so he brought Xiaoyou to the county seat during the second year's awakening day. Taking advantage of the opening of the rudder of the Holy See on the Awakening Day, with Xiaodong's help, he slipped into the main hall of the rudder and brought him to the county seat. Xiaoyou knelt in the hall, hoping to get the test again.But the little people, how can they arouse the sympathy of the high-ranking Holy See, finally a priest came out, and when he found out that he was eliminated by the fat bald head, he didn't want to spend any effort to help Xiaoyou test, so he directly issued an expulsion order.Terrified, Lin San and his son hurriedly withdrew, never daring to go to the Holy See again.

After returning home, Xiaoyou was even more depressed, but helpless, he had nothing to do but continue to help his father share the housework. He went to the forest to chop firewood, went to the village to buy rice, went to sea to help his father fish, and came back to kill fish to dry. Still have to go on.

The children of the poor are already in charge of the family, and the precocious Xiao You is already very capable, especially in the clean and neat way of killing fish and drying them.He grabbed the fish and slammed it on the chopping board until he passed out. Then he laid the fish flat and scraped the fish back and forth with the fish killing knife. Soon, the scales of the fish were shaved off.Then split the fish maw in half from the bottom into two connected pieces, remove the intestines and gills, and then wash the rest of the fish body.Then take a small wooden stick or bamboo strips to support the two petals of the fish body to fix it, and finally hang it on a rope to dry.After a whole set of movements, he is smooth and flowing, which is not much better than that of adults.

However, seeing such a young child about to start doing heavy work, Lin San couldn't bear it. He asked someone to find out the address of a local sect called Longqiuzong. He wanted to send Xiaoyou to Longqiuzong. His master helped Xiaoyou awaken his soul, but he heard that Long Qiuzong was closely related to the Vatican Zhiduo, and he dared not and would not offend the people of the Holy See.

He also wanted to send Xiao You to the study halls in various parts of the empire. Although the future of fighters is very good, how can people who cannot awaken their souls talk about fighters?For children without qualifications, the best way out is to study essays. The empire pays equal attention to both civil and military affairs, so it is also a good way out to study essays and take the imperial examination.But there is no private school in the village, and Lin San can't afford to let Xiaoyou go out to study, so he can only give up.In fact, he wants to go to sea to make a living, and as he is getting older, he can only concentrate on going to sea, and other things are more than enough.

The village is close to the sea, and occasionally outsiders will come in and out, which is not surprising.But one day, Xiao You, who was still killing fish, discovered that a group of people were particularly strange.Speaking with an accent that doesn't seem to be local, he has been asking around for something, as if to investigate an old incident by the sea a few years ago.Lin San went out to sea, and he still had work to do, so he didn't care about it at all, but there was a little girl in the group who kept watching him kill fish, and seemed to be very interested in his skillful techniques.

Lin You looked at the girl, she should be a few years older than him, taller than him by a head, with ponytail, big eyes, fair skin, she is a very beautiful girl.The girl was wearing an elegant purple gauze dress, with a beautiful white belt around her waist and a silver bell on it. When she walked, she jingled, which was very eye-catching.Beside her was a well-dressed middle-aged burly man, and beside her were several men who looked like guards and a man who looked like a local villager.The guards were holding knives, and this was the first time Lin You had seen weapons.

He heard the girl say to the middle-aged man beside him: "Daddy, this little boy is really good at killing fish. You see, he is small, and he is not much longer than a fish. It's really interesting." Her voice was very sweet and soft. , but Lin You could hear it clearly.

But Xiaoyou couldn't hear her father's words clearly, his accent was heavy, and he said something to the local villager, looking at him from time to time while speaking, as if he was praising his amazing sword skills.He had heard too many such kind words, and it didn't affect him at all.However, he unconsciously raised his head to look at the older sister. She was also looking at him, but she just smiled. This smile was very sweet, and Lin You deeply remembered it with just one look.At this time, Lin You's inner world was like a pool of isolated lake water, but suddenly the running water was dredged, and ripples appeared on the calm lake surface.

But Lin You didn't dare to look at her too much. This girl was so well-dressed, which was beyond his reach as a child from a poor family.As for being friends with her, Lin You didn't even dare to think about it. In this case, he simply didn't read too much, and it was more important to work.

But Lin You didn't look at the girl, but the girl took the initiative to walk towards Lin You.

"What's your name?" The girl asked proactively.

"My name is Lin You." Lin You stopped his work, and Hao replied with a straight face.It was the first time that such a beautiful girl talked to him, which made him very excited.

"Lin You, what an interesting name, little brother, you are good at killing fish!" The girl said to Lin Youshu with a thumbs up, "But why are you killing fish at such a young age? Where are your parents? "

"I don't have a mother, my father has gone to sea, and I have to finish the work in hand."

"Oh..." the girl said half-understanding.But then, she returned to her father and didn't speak again.Not long after, they left. Before leaving, she turned her head and smiled at Lin You.Lin You's heart warmed up, and he also smiled naively, with his right hand on his head, and he couldn't stop scratching his hair.It's not that he has an itchy head, it's just that he doesn't know where to put his hands.

However, with the girl's departure, Lin You also returned to reality.He can't afford such a girl. He is just a child from a poor family and has to work to support his family.After he figured it out, the lake in his heart followed the girl's departure, only rippling for a while and then disappeared.

Later, he heard from an old man in the village that this group of people came from the Guangchu Empire, and they seemed to have come all the way down from Xuantian Cliff in Linzhou, and they were looking for a seven or eight-year-old young fighter nearby.He is 7 years old, but he looks like five or six years old, and he has not awakened his soul at the age of 7, so he should not be the person they are looking for.

Recalling the scene that day, Xiao You felt that the middle-aged man looked at him for a long time, thinking that he was praising himself, but unexpectedly he was just asking about himself.However, Xiaoyou still had a deep impression on that girl, and often recalled her smile and her tinkling sound.Xiaoyou sometimes wonders whether he will have a chance to meet her again in this life.

Many years later, Lin You recalled the scene of that day, and felt that he and Liu Jia were destined to each other after all.

(End of this chapter)

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