Starting from Scavengers to Cultivate Immortals

Chapter 253 The good times don't last long
The housekeeper's face turned pale with fright, and he was about to step forward to cover Xu Chen's mouth, but when he found that his hands were covered with cow dung, Zhi Neng quickly bent down and said in a low voice: "Little ancestor, I beg you, please don't speak loudly!" Shout!"

Xu Chen raised his brows and said: "I didn't want to say it at first, but don't try to bully us every day. From today on, you are not allowed to beat my sister anymore, or I will expose all these things and let you Can't eat and walk around!"

"Hey, okay, as long as you promise not to talk nonsense, I won't beat and scold you in the future, and you can just pick up a basket of dung every day!"

"anything else?"

"Also... and I will double your daily meal, so that your sister can eat too!"

"It's not too bad!" Xu Chen nodded in satisfaction, then carried the dung basket on his back, led the little girl, held his head high like a victorious general, limped to open the cow pen, let out a few cows, and then had a good time. The son drove a herd of cows out of the yard.

"How does this little bastard know..."

When Xu Chen drove the cows away, the housekeeper wiped the cold sweat off his forehead and growled in a low voice, but soon realized that his face was covered in cow dung, so he wiped it with his clothes in frustration, and then got his clothes full again. Cow dung, in the end, maniacs tend to hop and curse away.

This is a very small town.

There are only a hundred or so families in total.

Located in a relatively flat valley, there is a small river with farmland on both sides of the river.

Behind the town, there are rolling mountains.

Most of the people in the town are poor and live in thatched cottages. The few big brick houses are the homes of several big families and mayor officials in the town.

Xu Chen can't remember how he came to this place. It seems that he has been begging in the town since he can remember. He grew up begging here and there. Later, when he became sensible, he was taken in by Zhang Dahu's family as a herder. Although his family boy lived in a cowshed with haystacks, was naked every day, and was hungry and fed, he grew up to ten years old without any disease or disaster.

He remembered these experiences clearly, but he couldn't remember who the little girl beside him who seemed familiar was.

He couldn't even remember when she showed up.

Could it be that his head was broken in a fight yesterday.

Xu Chen felt very confused.

"Oh, my head may be broken. What's your name? How long have you been here? Why can't I remember?" Sitting on the grass by the small river, Xu Chen asked the little girl.

The little girl knelt down beside him, applied herbal medicine to his injured leg, and whispered: "I don't know my name, but people in the town say that I was blown by a strong wind. My clothes were all blown away, so everyone called me Feng Feiyi."

"...Feng Feiyi!"

Xu Chen thought hard.

This name is indeed vaguely familiar, but he can't remember where he heard it. It seems like in a long and strange dream, but he can't make the dirty little girl in front of him and the dream come true. Corresponding to anyone in it, it seems that there is only a little shadow left after countless lifetimes of memories.

If the little girl didn't say it, he would definitely not be able to remember the name.

"By the way, look at my forehead. When I was blown by the wind, there was thunder in the sky, and there was a strange scar on my forehead. If my brother hadn't carried me back to the cowshed, I might have died. gone."

The little girl brushed back her dirty hair, revealing a strange scar on her forehead.

It looks like a blue twisted cross mark.

Xu Chen stared at this strange scar with a look of confusion on his face. He seemed to have seen this mark somewhere before, but no matter how he recalled it, he couldn't remember it. It seemed that he saw it in a dark place in his dream. Pass.

And as long as he tries hard to remember, he will instantly feel as if countless steel needles are poking his soul, and his face will twist in pain and he will sweat coldly.

Alas, forget it, don't think about it, let's put the cows away first and pick up more cow dung.

After all, he didn't dare to publicize the housekeeper's affairs, at most it was used to scare him, because after speaking out, although the housekeeper might be kicked out of Zhang's house with his legs broken, he would definitely not be able to stay in Zhang's house or even the town. , after all, this kind of matter is too involved.

The so-called family ugliness should not be publicized, the Zhang family absolutely does not want to be ruined by others, if the newspaper officials say that he has framed him, I am afraid that he will be the first to suffer.

Although Xu Chen was young, he lived a lonely life since he was a child, and developed his own unique way of thinking about survival, which is to try not to cause trouble for himself.

In the entire Qinghe Town, there are only a few big families that can allow him to survive, and each family has its own group of servants and children, one radish and one hole. After leaving the Zhang family, it will definitely not be easy to find a better master's house .

As for this little girl who I can't remember at all, and she doesn't even know her origin, right now, she can only continue to be with her and depend on each other.

And thinking of being dependent on each other, Xu Chen suddenly felt warm and moved.

He had been an orphan since he was a child, and now he suddenly had a younger sister, which gave him an inexplicable feeling that he had grown up suddenly, as if he should hold up a piece of sky for this strange younger sister, and live a good life together in the future.

So he stroked the little girl's dirty hair and said, "Fei Yi, from now on you will be with brother, but from now on, don't be as stupid as you were just now to provoke the housekeeper."

The little girl let out a weak cry, then got up with a grunt and said, "Brother, sit here and rest for a while, and I'll pick up the dung!"

Xu Chen also got up and said, "Let's go together, there may be wolves around here!"

So the two dirty children, carrying dung baskets half a person's height, wandered around the foot of the river beach and mountain, grazing cows and picking up dung, while the little white fox jumped and played around with them, and sometimes Catching some butterflies and dragonflies, the sound of laughing and laughing resounded through the mountains.

A few days passed in the blink of an eye, and Xu Chen's headache was much better.

The housekeeper also seemed to be very quiet, not only did he never come to scold him, but he really gave him an extra portion of food every day, and even occasionally gave him a few spoonfuls of broth.

Xu Chen and the little girl still get up early and come back late every day to herd cows and pick up manure. At night, they curl up in the haystack of the cowshed and sleep with the little fox together. They look at the big hole on the roof of the shed, watch the moon and count the stars. full of joy.

But Xu Chen would have some incredible dreams every night.

Either cultivating to be a god on a remote mountain, or chasing and killing all kinds of strange black monsters with flying swords all over the sky.

Occasionally, in his dream, he would travel down the mountain with some senior brothers and sisters, looking for all kinds of celestial herbs and elixir, and using a large furnace to refine elixir.

Of course, a name named Feng Feiyi would also appear, as well as a senior sister named Zhao Xuan, a female cultivator named Lan You, and occasionally a long-legged woman with a pair of blood-red wings.

But no matter what the dream is, once you wake up, it will all disappear, and you can hardly remember anything, only a little bit of vague memory, and then slowly become a blank.

The life of herding cattle and picking up dung is flat.

But with the little girl together day and night, Xu Chen feels that his life has become full and cheerful.

Every time the half-children of several wealthy families in the town saw the two of them, they would always laugh at them and even throw stones at them.

Naturally, Xu Chen would not spoil them, so he fought back with clods or even cow dung. The little girl was braver than him, and finally rushed forward to block Xu Chen, baring her teeth and claws like a little beast protecting the Lord. Then rush up and grab and plan.

But they are just a group of children. The children of the so-called rich families in the township are still like wild children, crawling and rolling in the mud pit every day. The adults don’t care much. The people in the town are familiar with each other. When the poor children picking up dung see it, they will unite and fight back.

Therefore, every day, the two groups of children have bruised noses and swollen faces.

Occasionally, the children of these rich families were beaten and cried, and went back to cry. Xu Chen and the others were at most reprimanded and scolded for taking a few sticks, and they rolled up their sleeves and started doing what they should do the next day.

In short, this is the contradiction between two completely different classes of children who started to oppose each other when they were young, and as they grow up, they will become a master-servant relationship between the employer and the worker.

In the end, it is these bitter haha ​​who suffer the most. They have been beaten since they were young, and they can only be cows and horses for the rest of their lives.

Xu Chen used to think that his life would be like this, so he would work as a helper in Zhang Dahu's family for the rest of his life, herding cows, picking dung, farming and driving horses. If he was diligent enough, maybe Zhang Dahu would help arrange a marriage, and a A black and thin little maid gets married and has a child, and then the next generation will continue to work as a cow and a horse to earn a living.

But the good times didn't last long.

It was raining and thundering that day, and the cows ran away in fright. Xu Chen and the little girl could only search around separately. When he drove the cows he found back to the cowshed, the rain had already poured like a bucket, but the little girl He didn't come back for a long time, and the two cows were also missing.

Xu Chen suddenly became anxious. He originally ordered the little girl to drive the two cows back.

Now that he's home, the little girl hasn't come back yet.

So Xu Chen had to brave the heavy rain to go out to look for it, but after searching for more than an hour, he couldn't find it until the rain stopped.

When the head of the family learned that the two cows had been lost, he was furious and arranged for everyone to go out to search for them. At the same time, he had Xu Chen tied up and beaten severely, and then drove out to continue the search.

Soon it was late and the sun was about to set.

Qinghe Town is not big, so Xu Chen asked the whole town several times, but no one saw it.

Just when he was full of worries, a cowherd boy who usually played well came to tell him that before it rained, he seemed to have seen Feng Feiyi chasing two cows into the mountain.

Xu Chen was shocked, but he didn't care about the danger, so he hurriedly searched for the mountain in the direction pointed by the cowherd boy.

(End of this chapter)