One day, while having dinner, his father Zhou Yong suddenly said to Zhou Tai: "You are so lazy that you will easily starve to death in the future. Don't you think about your future?"
Zhou Tai replied in a very small voice: "No."
I want to become an immortal in the future, so how can I starve to death? To put it bluntly, even if I fail to become an immortal, I won’t starve to death.
I'm not really lazy. If I'm going to die, I'll either be facing a real desperate situation, or I'll have no hope of becoming an immortal and I want to leave.
"What will you do when your mother and I are no longer here?" Father Zhou continued, minding his own business. "Do you expect your elder brother to support you? I have never heard of raising a brother, and it is even less likely that someone else will support you..."
Zhou Tai did not answer the call. It is easy for a person to tan. It only takes a few days, but it is not so easy to become white after darkening. He is already ten years old and is about to start cultivating immortality. He has survived the past few years.
How can we lose all our efforts? So we can only remain silent.
The eldest brother next to him didn't answer either. He was thinking that after he got married, his family would have to live and eat rice, so he couldn't afford to feed a moth.
Not sure if it was his father's sudden emotion or something else, Zhou Tai felt that the porridge in the bowl was getting more and more unpalatable, not only in terms of taste, but also in his mood when eating.
In the future, when he succeeds in cultivating immortals, he will work hard to repay them. He thought in his heart, Zhou Tai didn't pay too much attention to this matter. This is not the first time, and it probably won't be the last time.
One day after that, when the family was finishing breakfast, Zhou's father suddenly said to him: "Er Gouzi, you are not allowed to run around today. You must stay at home!"
"Why?" I can't do anything at home, and I've never been in this situation before, so this request is a bit strange.
"Er Gouzi, for the sake of your future, I have a way of living. I'll find a decent job for you in the town and be an apprentice to the doctor in the town pharmacy." The mother said from the side, but her expression was a little uncomfortable.
Naturally, the big brother next to me also had a strange expression.
"You have to go whether you want to or not." Zhou's father interrupted his mother's next words in a stern tone.
"I can only stay at home. If I don't go far, you can come back at any time if you call me." Zhou Tai said again, trying to get a chance to go out for himself.
"What day do you go out and I don't see your shadow until dinner? This is the big thing today. Just stay at home." These were my mother's words.
"If you dare to run out, your legs will be broken!" These were my father's words.
…
Being able to go to the town and have someone take him with him is something Zhou Tai has always wanted to do and is very willing to go. If he walks more places, he can learn more about the world.
Being an apprentice in a pharmacy is also a good choice for now. If Zhou Tai was really just a ten-year-old child, he would either be reluctant to leave his parents and afraid of going to a strange place alone, or he would be full of expectations for the new environment.
But he is not. He has decades of life experience in another life in his body, which is weird.
There was no news about this matter before, it was too sudden. If I really asked myself to be an apprentice, I should have told myself long ago and repeated it several times before it was normal, instead of notifying me in advance.
Secondly, I know the situation of my family well. The doctor in the pharmacy is already a big figure in my family. It is not easy to be a simple apprentice. If there are really relatives or people who are familiar with me to help, why?
Now, why does this kind of good thing not fall on the big brother, but on himself, a lazy guy with a small reputation?
I couldn’t figure it out, maybe I was overthinking it, and Zhou Tai could only think this way in the end.
Although there was an accident in the memory, the body was indeed their biological flesh and blood, and he didn't show anything too weird, so it was impossible to harm him.
…
Sitting on the carriage leaving the village, Zhou Tai lowered his head and remained silent. He did not expect that the plan would not change quickly. He would leave in this way, and he left a little sad.
Although my parents tried their best to hide it, as a commodity, how could I completely stay out of it?
He was sold for ten taels of silver. He saw a little bit of reluctance in his parents' eyes, and also saw a little bit of joy in their eyes when they got the silver.
When he left, his eldest brother didn't see him, but his younger brothers and sisters, who didn't know anything about it, always looked at him with envy.
Ten taels of silver was enough for the eldest brother to get a wife, and the remaining part could buy enough food for the whole family for half a year. Zhou Tai did not expect that he was still worth ten taels of silver.
At the same time, Zhou Tai discovered another bad thing. He and his parents had fingerprinted a piece of paper at the same time. It should be his deed of betrayal. Why should he use it? Because Zhou Tai found that the words on the paper, he
Don't know anyone.
Growing up, it was the first time I saw the words in this world. They were all unfamiliar to each other.
Thinking about it, it is natural but difficult to accept that I am actually illiterate. What should I do if I put a secret book on cultivating immortality in front of me? Is it easy to learn words? This raises a series of questions.
His parents tried their best to maintain their lies, so that the preface of many words did not match the end of the words. As for the reason, Zhou Tai thought, it was more because he didn't want to cry.
Zhou Tai did not expose this lie and acted like an ordinary child who left home. Although the destination may have changed, the separation was real.
Ten taels of silver, the price of an unborn immortal cultivator.
This made Zhou Tai, who had always been a little restless and anxious, feel that his dream of cultivating immortals was like a dream, shattered by reality.
The carriage was a little crowded, partly because the carriage was small, and another reason was that besides Zhou Tai, there were several children.
It was very quiet at the moment. The noisy children had their hands, feet and mouths tied up. Zhou Tai did not enjoy this kind of binding treatment because he had always been quiet.
Zhou Tai has always controlled his emotions, because he knew that he would be separated from the immortal world forever, but after spending ten years together, people have emotions. If he were to take the initiative to break up, it would be really difficult, but his parents in this life would give him
Learned a lesson.
From another perspective, he could somewhat understand that in the eyes of Zhou Yong and his wife, not only would they get money by selling themselves, but their lazy son, who was destined to starve to death in the future, might still be able to live well.