Dayu is the most turbulent among the three dynasties in the mountains and rivers. Because it is located between Yanling and Liangxi, whether it is Confucianism or Taoism, they all want to make this dynasty under their own rule. The two sides fight openly and secretly for thousands of years, but have not yet come to a result. Because these two sides do not want the Dayu Dynasty to completely fall to the opposite side, the Dayu Dynasty also knows this truth well. Therefore, for thousands of years, the past Dayu emperors, whether they are stupid or wise, will not have the idea of ​​completely turning to one side.

Therefore, only in Dayu, you can see Taoist temples and academies dotted across the entire Dayu territory.

But because this Confucianism and Taoism did not completely control Dayu, Dayu became the place with the most wild cultivations except the South China Sea. There were mixed with the sects on the mountain and the rivers at the foot of the mountain. Maybe even a monk could not be found in a sect under the banner of the mountain sect, and maybe one or two monks with a profound realm could be hidden in a certain sect that seemed inconspicuous.

The small fish pond in my eyes may be quite large, and the big river in my eyes may not be large.

In addition, the countries in the Dayu territory are even more large and small than the small countries of the two dynasties, Yanling and Liangxi.

According to the most widely circulated sentence on the mountain and down Dayu Mountain, that is Dayu’s number one, too many.

The Qianhe Kingdom is a barren country with a small and barren territory in the northeast of Dayu territory. It has a small territory and few people. Because there is a lake within the territory, it attracts countless yellow cranes to come here every April. This is the case every year, so the country is called Qianhe.

This barren country was sandwiched in the surrounding Qinglei and Ziyun countries, and survived. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that it would not take a hundred years to become Qianhe Prefecture.

Qinglei Country is famous for its abundant wine production. If the brewing technology is second, I am afraid that no one in the surrounding countries will dare to say first.

The most famous wine in Qinglei Country is called Changle Wine. The wine brewing technology is extremely harsh. It is necessary to make the water on the lakeside border between Qinglei Country and Qianhe Country. Therefore, the annual output is very small, and it was once a royal tribute wine.

If it is occasionally leaked, it must be a high price.

The largest winery in Qinglei Country is called Socunhan, which is located on a small town on the border of Qinglei Country. The town is called Danxi, which is very remote. Even if there is a winery located in it, apart from the vendors selling wine, few idle people come here. In order to make the winery safe, the Emperor of Qinglei Country even set up a wine supervision department here and sent hundreds of elite soldiers to escort it.

In the cold winter, it is the time when the winery starts to make wine. In the past, the winery didn't bother with it themselves. As long as you let the words go out, the people in the town will naturally cross the border and go to the lakeside of Qianhe Kingdom to get water back. The Qianhe Kingdom kept it and didn't even dare to put a fart.

But there are good or bad things about getting water. If you get good water, the price will naturally be higher. If the water is not that good, the winery will probably lower the price or even refuse to accept it. Anyway, you get what you pay for, and no one can think of cheating.

However, at this time in previous years, many people had set out to Qianhe Kingdom, but this year, no one took action. The reason was that a few months ago, news came from there that the lake called Yuelu was not peaceful.

It seemed that there was a demon cultivator with a low level emerged from somewhere, occupying the entire Yuelu Lake and preventing outsiders from getting water. Once discovered, it was killed on the spot. There were many wild cultivators and many demon cultivators on Dayu. This was not a big deal. However, the wild cultivators in many places dared not be so arrogant because they would always be raised by local people or the treasures of heaven and earth to ask the immortal masters on the mountain to take action and drive away the monsters.

But after this demon cultivator appeared, the Qianhe Kingdom immediately asked the monk, who was known as the world's number one cultivator, who was known as the world's number one cultivator, but no one expected that after the monk arrived there, he would be dismantled by the demon cultivator without seeing his body. The Qianhe Kingdom was immediately scared to death. You must know that the monk, who was known as the world's number one cultivator in the Taiqing Realm, who dared to provoke him on weekdays, but this time, he fell into a big flaw and paid his life.

Qianhe Kingdom had no choice but to do this, and Qinglei Kingdom was also a little difficult to deal with. Changle wine was said to be exclusively supplied to the royal family. In fact, Qinglei Kingdom had to use this wine to increase contact with another country with a much larger territory than Qinglei Kingdom. It was really difficult to make wine.

So the Emperor of Qinglei Kingdom invited the national teacher of Qinglei Kingdom, a real Taoist monk, to take action, with a profound realm and mysterious Taoism.

No one knows the true realm of the national master, but no matter how you look at it, you should be in the morning and evening realm.

Just over a month ago, the national master went deep into Yuelu Lake and has not returned yet.

What else can I say about this? It must have been killed by that foreign demon cultivator.

This time, not only Qianhe Kingdom, but also Qinglei Kingdom was panicked.

The court and the country were frowning and had no choice but to do anything about this.

They even posted the imperial list, saying that they could kill the demon cultivator, a high-ranking official and a generous salary, and could become the national master of Qinglei Kingdom. However, even the national master with mysterious Taoism was dead, and no one dared to take action again.

Yuelu Lake must have an extra demon cultivator with a profound realm. The people of Danxi Town dared not go there easily. The winery had no water and could not make wine. For this reason, they would not hesitate to raise the price to collect water, but no one responded.

My life is almost impossible to save, who still wants to make this money?

Just as everyone was consuming, it was snowing heavily in Danxi Town.

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On the easternmost part of Danxi Town, there is a dilapidated courtyard. People in the town know that there is a couple in this courtyard, and there is a girl under her knees. She is only seven or eight years old. They are both poor families. Men are tall and have the strength to quarre off the mountain south of the town on weekdays. They can't earn much money in a month, but the family of three can still make a living.

There is no private school in the town. Fortunately, the woman studied and recognized her words, so she taught herself that the man always went out early and came back late. After returning home, he didn't talk much. After eating a simple supper, he teased the child for a while. After washing his feet, he fell asleep and soon snored like thunder.

Day after day, year after year.

Never changed.

However, since the beginning of winter last year, the woman fell ill and her health was getting worse day by day. The man first knocked on the clinic of the doctor in the town on a cold winter night, put the money left at home on the counter, and then said something, saying that he wanted to see a doctor. Fortunately, the old doctor who had always been medically ethical was not angry because he got up in the middle of the night. After carefully taking the pulse for the woman, the old doctor only gave a conclusion that he had a disease and was not easy to treat and could only take medicine to maintain his life in the future. It was almost impossible to cure it.

The man didn't say much, but asked for a few medications, so he took the woman back to the yard. In the following year, the man did not do anything except come down from the mountain every day and went to the clinic to get medicine silently. The medicine cost was not expensive. After this year, the man who had not had much money completely lost his family's assets. The things that could be mortgaged at home had almost been mortgaged. The man could no longer take out the extra money. Fortunately, Lao Lang was kind in the center, and many herbs that could be found on the mountain were no longer sold to the man, and he asked him to pick them by himself. In addition, he found other herbs that could be used in exchange for herbs.

This made the man survive these few months. However, after the beginning of winter, herbs are hard to find. The man went down the mountain today and was empty-handed.

But he still knocked on the old doctor's door.

The old doctor was thin and pale. He looked at the man and sighed, "Xu Li, if you continue to waste like this, there will be no result."

The man opened his big eyes and said in surprise: "Can we let her die like this? She is my wife."

The old doctor grabbed the medicine skillfully and said, "Xu Li, life and death are fate. Even if you insist on reaching out to grab your wife and not let her go on the Huangquan Road, how long can you actually hold on? You have a daughter. If you don't think about yourself, you should also think about your daughter. If you continue to waste this, it won't take long for your daughter to follow you to beg for begging. If you don't say anything else, do you have the heart to let your daughter suffer this crime? Listen to Uncle Yang's advice, let go. There are many good families in the town, and you are at ease. It will be not difficult for Uncle to find you a wife in the future."

Xu Li thought about it, then shook his head, and just said, "Uncle Yang, I will pay back the medicine money soon."

The old doctor looked at the guy who obviously didn't listen to his words and stuffed the medicine into his arms, feeling a little angry, "You guy, you must not listen to advice, you will only know the good people's words after suffering losses."

Xu Li didn't say much, but just bowed to the old doctor, then turned around and walked into the cold wind, and soon disappeared.

The old doctor looked at his far away back and sighed.

This stubborn guy is a donkey.

Xu Li walked across the corner of the street with medicine and saw a notice on a stone wall that the winery had to pay for water. In previous years, he felt it was troublesome and had never followed the people of the town to Qianhe Kingdom to get water, so he had never cared about the price. But today he stopped in the cold wind for a long time and was sure that it was the worst water in previous years. Now, after only two silver per kilogram of water, Xu Li crossed the street, walked through an alley, and walked into the dilapidated courtyard.

When I opened the door of the house, a woman was holding the little girl and roasting the fire to study in front of the fire. There were a few sweet potatoes next to the fire. The woman looked quiet and didn't look like a woman from the town at all.

When the little girl heard the sound of opening the door, she called out "Dad".

Xu Li nodded, smelled the smell of medicine from the room, squeezed out a smile, and then squatted in front of the medicine jar beside him and started boiling medicine.

The woman taught the little girl to read for a while, and then asked the child to go and read by himself. She dragged her sick body to Xu Li, leaned on his shoulder, and said softly: "There is something that I have been thinking about for a long time."

Xu Li stopped his hands and his body became a little stiff.

He asked in a warm voice: "What's the matter? My daughter goes to school? It's okay to go to the county town. The journey is a bit long, so I'm not very relieved. If I'm older, it's okay. It's better to live in the school anyway. The gentlemen have a bad temper. Don't think that my daughter will be bullied. Of course, if I'm really bullied, I, a father, will definitely vent my anger for my daughter. You know, I don't talk much on weekdays, but it's not bad to say the truth..."

The woman reached out to interrupt Xu Li and said seriously: "You know I'm not talking about this."

Xu Li stopped and sighed.

The woman squeezed out a smile, "I have lived enough of this kind of life. I want to vomit when I take medicine. I don't want to live like this anymore. Xu Li, please let me go."

Xu Li turned his head and looked at the woman with tears in her eyes and asked softly: "What should Yue'er do if you leave? How old is she?"

The woman laughed softly and said, "Yue'er will know why the mother-in-law chose this one. She is very sensible, don't worry."

When they said these words, neither of the couple covered their voices. In fact, they were heard by the little girl. She looked down at the book, but there was no sound, but the book was quickly wet.

Xu Li coughed, swallowed the phlegm in his mouth, and asked in a warm voice: "What about me? Yue'er can accept it, but I can't."

The woman walked on his back and said softly: "Xu Li, you have no more me and Yue'er, Yue'er will accompany you on my behalf."

Xu Li shook his head, "It's different."

The woman's smile became gentler, "Xu Li, you have never been a domineering person. Why do you have to suffer now because you don't want me to leave?"

Xu Li knew that this sentence was definitely not what the woman originally thought, but she still didn't know what to ask for to refute it. She just asked softly: "Don't leave me, I can have nothing, what I fear most is not without you."

The woman's face was red by the fire. She laughed in a low voice and said, "Xu Li, it is a blessing for us to walk together for a long time. Don't expect to reach the end together."

Xu Li said seriously: "But that is my biggest dream."

The woman shook her head and said nothing.

Xu Li thought for a while, and then said, "I will go to Yuelu Lake to get water tomorrow. After I bring it back, you will have the medicine fee next year. Don't leave me, Yue'er and I don't want you to leave."

The woman shook her head and said, "There are monsters over there. If you go over, you will be eaten. What will Yue'er do then?"

Xu Li felt guilty and whispered: "What if you are lucky and don't meet me? I know you are afraid that Yue'er will not have enough food in the future, so you think of leaving. But in comparison, if you can't have enough food and Yue'er has no mother, it is the most painful thing."

The woman's eyes were dull, but she didn't know.

She opened her mouth and wanted to say something. Xu Li had already picked up the medicine bowl, blew the cold medicine, and whispered: "It's okay, the difficulties will always be overcome. You have to get better soon. Watch Yue'er grow up and see Yue'er get married in the future. If you leave early and don't see your son-in-law, how can you feel at ease?"

The woman swallowed a sip of the medicine soup.

Xu Li said again: "I will leave tomorrow, you can have a good sleep. When you wake up, I will come back."

The woman was a little surprised, "It takes half a month to travel here without going back and forth from Yuelu Lake?"

Xu Li smiled, didn't say anything, just fed a few puffs of medicine, and then said, "I'll leave faster."

The woman wanted to say something, but she felt dizzy and couldn't open her eyes. She leaned against Xu Li and fell asleep.

Xu Li carefully carried the woman to the bed, covered her with a quilt, then reached out to the little girl and smiled, "Yue'er is here."

The little girl walked to Xu Li and did not call her father.

Xu Li wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and said softly: "Silly girl, how could my dad let your mother leave? My dad has to go out far tomorrow and will come back the day after tomorrow. Take good care of your mom and don't let her get into trouble, okay?"

The little girl raised her head and frowned and asked, "Dad, this place is far from Yuelu Lake. Can you really come back?"

Xu Li rubbed the girl's head, took out the remaining copper plates from her arms, put them in the girl's hand, and whispered: "Dad tells you a secret, Dad can actually be faster."

The little girl widened her eyes, and Xu Li just smiled slightly.

"Wait, Dad will come back tomorrow with the money. It would be better to buy candied haws for Yue'er. It seems wrong. There should be no candied haws at this time."

The little girl bulged her cheeks and said angrily: "Dad, you are so stupid."

Xu Li smiled knowingly and didn't say much.

The next day, the sky gradually began to rise, and Xu Li tucked the snook of the little girl and the woman, so he picked two not-so-small wooden barrels out.

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To be continued...