Li Zijing has been a lonely person since he was a child. He has heard people from his hometown talk about it since he was a boy. When his parents were still alive, the old people from his hometown warned him not to take advantage of his youth and strength to have a baby.

Give birth to a daughter, hoping that in the future my son and son will be able to escape from such a remote and remote area, and one of them will be able to achieve enlightenment and ascend to heaven.

It was also a good way to get themselves out of this world that was like the scorched earth of the unjust ghosts and enjoy a few days of peace and happiness. But the two of them didn't listen, and they still decided to save Li Zijing and use their meager food and rice.

They all stayed with the young Li Zijing. Although they lived in poverty and often did not have enough to eat, they could barely survive.

But there is only one thing that the two of them have never thought carefully about, that is, this place does not belong to that kind of fertile land. There are frequent disasters year after year. It is already extremely poor, and it is difficult to have enough time every time. If it is

During times of disaster, it is no longer a rare thing for people to die of hunger everywhere.

When Li Zijing was just six or seven years old, the village was hit by a disaster eight hundred miles away. The reason was that there was no sun for hundreds of days. From early morning to night, there was no sunlight at all. This lasted for almost several months. Even when going out, lights were needed.

It's hard to see with your hands, and no vegetation is growing, let alone the seedlings in the fields. They are growing and dying in the fields, which makes nine out of ten households in the village empty, as well as bark and tender grass for more than ten miles inside and outside the village, or those who are relatively well-off.

cattle,

They were all eaten up by country people who were so hungry that they had lost their minds. They had nothing to eat but the floating soil. In a hundred days, hundreds of families in a village with a population of nearly 1,000 had starved to death, and not a single one of them was left alive.

especially that

If the old, weak, women and children still have a little bit of food left in their homes, and the news leaks out, they will definitely be robbed by many men in their prime who have heard the news and are already acting unscrupulously. They will take away the food and then beat them to death.

Normally, everyone is a kind neighbor, and they have a good reputation both inside and outside the place. However, when faced with such a disaster, everyone only cares about protecting themselves, trying to kill people just for a meter or two, and some of them are even hungry.

to the crazy man,

They all looked at the old and young in the village. At first, they still had some humanity left, but when they were so hungry that they lost dozens of kilograms and swollen two or three times, it seemed that this so-called humanity had also become

It became worthless.

But it wasn't until many years later that Li Zijing realized one thing. In times of disaster, the easiest thing to kill is not the hungry man who has given up his humanity, but the plague left over after a few days of starvation on the roadside.

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If you don't see the sun for a hundred days, you will suffer disasters for thousands of miles.

Almost no one survives in just one village, let alone thousands of miles around. The luck is pretty good. The villagers on the edge of the disaster can always take their young and old to flee to other places. Even if they leave their hometown,

But at least

They can save a life, but those who are far away from the disaster-free land outside are always unwilling to leave their homes. When there is not even a grain of rice to cook in the village, and even the bark of the trees is gnawed bare, if they want to escape from here, it will be long ago.

It's too late to regret it.

So in just two months, the whole village was already filled with hungry people. At first, because Li Zijing’s parents were always frugal, they often saved a lot of grain and rice, for fear that the young Li Zijing would starve.

, so in comparison, he can last longer than others in the village. Moreover, Li Zijing’s father

, he also practiced martial arts when he was young, so the hungry men in the village did not dare to come here to act recklessly, plunder and commit evil. But even if the surplus food was more abundant than that of the people in the same village, it still could not last so long. At first,

You can barely cope with it, but in the end you will have to endure hunger.

At the end of the third month of the disaster, Li Zijing's parents took Li Zijing to a few hundred miles away from the village. They contracted the plague. At first, they didn't care about it. They just thought it was due to excessive hunger and didn't pay attention. However, after two or three

Later, he would cough and wheeze, with countless blood spots all over his body, and he would often cough up blood. He knew that he was infected with the plague, so he had no choice but to throw scattered bark and grass roots into Li Zijing's hands from a distance every day.

, and did not dare to come closer.

Within ten days, Li Zijing no longer took the bark and grass stems sent from her parents.

There were many people fleeing along the way, and they came forward one after another. By the light of the fire, Li Zijing, who was still young, could clearly see the people's happy and greedy expressions.

Yun Zhong, who had always been focused on Li Zijing, also saw clearly.

No one knew that this child, who was only six or seven years old, picked up several gravels from the ground, sharpened two hardwoods, and guarded them in front of his parents' graves, all the while staring fiercely at the tide of refugees.

, like a vicious dog, it went without water or rice for several days.

The catastrophe suddenly disappears when children are so drowsy that they cannot wake up for more than one stick of incense, and the sun appears in the sky again. The people who fled finally seem to have woken up from a big dream, and no one knows who is around them.

People don’t laugh

He stopped, but in the end he burst into tears, and the mournful howls resounded everywhere. But whether it was because he was glad that he survived, or because of the pain of losing relatives and friends, or because he was sad that he had lost his humanity, no one did.

know.

When Li Zijing was in a state of drowsiness and about to die, he was taken away by a wealthy family. Firstly, it was because of his good appearance, and secondly, because the wealthy family, who was a well-known good person, heard that the child was here to replace his dead parents.

After staying for many days, Dangjie felt compassion and soon took Li Zijing home as his son-in-law's book boy.

Although he is a servant, Li Zijing is still very responsible. He studies with the young master every day. They are similar in age. Although Li Zijing is taciturn most of the time, he still gets along very well with this family.

Well, I even talked to that young master about everything.

Yun Zhong also knew it, because through the young man's eyes, most of the faces of those who fled were extremely blurred, except for the appearance of his own parents and the young master, whom he remembered very clearly.

"My family is a businessman, but not a businessman. I heard from my father that he has made a lot of money over the years, and he only walked the back mountain trails, but I have never heard of how he made money. When you and I are old,

, we should go together and see if my father is bragging or if it is true."

Whenever the kind young master spoke like this, Li Zijing usually curled his lips, stopped studying ink with his hands, and said with a simple smile, "Young master does not have such talent for doing business. Even the price of pen and ink in the market is...

I don’t know the general idea, but if I have the intention, I must deduct some from it and reserve it for future marriage, and I think the young master can’t see any difference in it.”

"You have," the young master sneered, "If you really become a very powerful businessman in the future, you will wish to replace all the furnishings in your home with gold, silver and jade, and don't forget to support my old friend who is ignorant and incompetent." And Li Zi

It's indeed quite a bit of a situation

He has the ability to do business. Although his monthly salary is not much, he still likes to go out to do business with others in his free time. He spends a small amount of money to buy a few rare items, and then exchanges them with a few wealthy young men in the city for a few percent more.

The price went back and forth, but I saved a lot of money.

Li Zijing smiled happily when he looked at the money, and Yun Zhong also showed a slight smile.

Soon, several years passed by. The young master took over the family business. For the first business, the young master took Li Zijing out. The two shared a carriage and headed north.

It is still a disaster-stricken area.

The young master looked at Li Zijing who couldn't suppress the trembling with a complicated expression, but he didn't say a word.

It turns out that the business that wealthy people jokingly call Back Mountain Trail is to receive the food and wages allocated by the government from various places into their own hands. The village where Li Zijing was located back then was also done by that businessman, and the government was transferred to them.

All the money, grain and rice were collected into the bag.

After returning home, Li Zijing fell seriously ill. He was seriously ill for half a year. The young master came to visit him many times, but he rarely stepped in.

When Li Zijing was recovering from his illness, Li Zijing sat up from the bed. The first thing he did was to raise his eyebrows and quietly look at Yun Zhong who had been standing in front of him for some time, and said with a slight smile.

"This is the first half of Li Zijing's life. His parents died early. He thought he was living a peaceful life for many years, but he never thought that in the end, all the joy he had accumulated over the years would turn into a heavy burden, which made him unable to breathe.

, almost died and ended up on the sickbed."

"In the years that followed, Li Zijing was no longer Li Zijing, but became a strong and capable man. He changed his name several times, and his last name was the Master of Bafang Street.

." Young Li Zijing's eyebrows were peaceful and her expression was natural. She looked towards Yun Zhongxuan.

He said slowly, "If it were me, I would make the same choice as you. Most of the women in Baiqiong Tower have no way to make a living, so they stay in the building voluntarily. But Qiao Lan Ting Lan is a real Bafang Street

The street owner instructs his servants to do evil, so he has no choice but to commit himself to the building."

Yun Zhong frowned and looked at Li Zijing, who still looked sick but had a peaceful face. After all, he still couldn't figure out the weirdness.

And Li Zijing also knew it, shook his head and sighed, "I'll tell you one thing, young hero, and you will know the outline of it. Being here is indeed my method, but unfortunately I don't know how long I can last."

Li Zijing told Yun Zhong that in ancient times, there was an animal with a head and a human head and a snake body. It was originally gentle and never harmed anyone's thoughts, but later it was harmed by others. The immortals in the sky couldn't bear it, so they ordered him to die.

After rebirth, for some unknown reason, his temperament changed drastically. He was stubborn and ferocious. He especially liked to eat people. He was shaped like a dragon's head and an ox's body, with a horse's legs and a human face. He caused trouble in all directions. He was later eliminated by the immortal family. His soul wandered in no fixed place and liked to attach itself to people.

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"I have no virtue at all, but I still have to ask you a favor. Both I and the beast know that there is a soul-catching object in your body. If you can use magical powers, can you help me with this?

Remove the evil beasts.”
Chapter completed!