From this day on, Li Chen ate hundreds of meals, helped during the day, and brought secretly hidden cornbread to his grandma at night. The days passed day by day.

In the blink of an eye, Li Chen was ten years old, and his grandmother passed away that year. The neighbors helped bury the old man, and Li Chen was left alone in the courtyard.

The biological parents who had sent him here came again, and the man said, "Come home with me."

Home? Li Chen didn't know how the man said this word. He stumbled and lived to be ten years old. He was not the ignorant five-year-old at the beginning. He knew that he was abandoned three times in a row. Now they come to him because of their conscience.

Did you find out? Of course not, but because at his age, he was finally considered a good worker and could help them with things.

When he entered the yard, Li Chen saw the child who was the same age and looked almost the same as him. He was digging a hole in the yard and playing wooden tops with other children, laughing very loudly.

Li Chen's nose suddenly felt a little sore. In the past few years, he had been bullied a lot in the village, but he never felt wronged. Because of his character, he would fight back when he was wronged. If he couldn't be beaten, he would secretly remember it and fight again in the future.

go back.

But looking at that child now, Li Chen suddenly felt a little aggrieved.

Same face, same age, born in the same yard, why do we live different lives?

Li Chen was brought home and started working that day, chopping firewood, carrying water, harvesting corn, and even cooking and washing clothes. There was almost nothing he didn't want to do. In the winter, when his hands were cracked, the couple just asked him to let him do it.

Bake more fire.

Another child came back from school in the evening and said that he had a small crack on his hand, so he applied lard on it in the evening. It was said that it would heal faster.

Li Chen watched all this silently.

The day before yesterday, I accidentally tore my sleeve while doing laundry. That night, the man whipped out a cane, leaving countless wounds on Li Chen's body.

Li Chen refused to beg for mercy, looked down at the ground, hugged his legs and shrank, but suddenly he missed his grandma a little in his heart.

In the blink of an eye, another four years passed. Taking advantage of the night and the quietness of the yard, 14-year-old Li Chen sneaked out of the village with his luggage and headed eastward into a city.

The majesty of the city struck the young man's heart hard. He had never thought that there would be such a high attic, such a thick city wall, such delicious food, and that some people would live such a carefree life in this world.

The 14-year-old boy is strong and has endured countless hardships since childhood. He is a good worker at first glance, so he quickly settled in a restaurant, serving dishes and singing menus every day, busy, which is very good for him.

It's a rare good day.

Spring passed and autumn came, and ten years passed in a blink of an eye.

Back then, the young man was quite promising and had opened his own restaurant, but he couldn't explain why. He always didn't want to believe in all the feelings in the world, the so-called family ties, and the love between men and women in picture novels, which meant nothing to him.

It sounds illusory and far away.

At the age of 24, Li Chen had a sudden idea and decided to visit the original village.

He didn't go back for ten years. He first went to his adoptive parents' house. When he entered the door, he saw several children playing around in a crowd. These were the children of his adoptive parents.

Since giving birth to their first child, the couple has had seven or eight more children in succession.

The two figures in my memory were all gray-haired. The people in the village were suffering, so of course they aged faster, and they had given birth to so many children, so their lives were certainly more miserable.

The couple looked at Li Chen and chatted one after another. When they were finally sending him out, the adoptive father said, "It's because we, the couple, can't help you."

Full of guilt.

Li Chen just shook his head and said it was okay.

I wandered back to my biological parents' house, stood in the yard, and saw the white cloth inside and outside. When I went over and asked, I found out that the young man with the same face as me had drowned.

Li Chen listened to the crying inside and finally did not go in.

When he returned to the city, Li Chen started to drink heavily. He had saved a little over the years. After all, this was a prosperous city. As long as he had money, he could have any kind of life.

He went to restaurants during the day and stayed in a brothel at night. He got to know almost all the girls in the brothel and tried every trick.

He happened to sit at the attic window, watching the people coming and going in Jinling below him, with Qin Huai's whisper in his ears, but he felt that life was so painful, and it seemed that not a day was happy.

On this day, a Taoist priest passed by downstairs. When he raised his head, he happened to look at Li Chen upstairs, waved his whisk, and said inexplicably, "Fool."

Li Chen's whole body was shaken, and he hurriedly ran down from the attic and knelt on the ground.

On that day, Li Chen began to practice with the Taoist priests, and then he understood what a pure mind is and what it means to have no desires.

Fifty years later, ashes will return to ashes, and dust will return to dust.

On his deathbed, Li Chen reflected on his life. The first twenty years were full of ups and downs, but in the next fifty years, he became peaceful and comfortable after practicing Taoism.

Li Chen's first reincarnation ended.

Watching reincarnation.

Li Chen, who had just taken the first step, opened his eyes and looked at his feet with hesitation. Everything he had just experienced, whether painful or happy, and all kinds of emotions were like a real life, making him immersed in it and unable to extricate himself.

Now that he suddenly returned to the view of reincarnation, he began to doubt that that world was false, and he could not escape from it for a while.

More importantly, he was born without a father or mother. In the previous reincarnation, although he had a father and a mother, he was constantly abandoned. This kind of pain was unbearable.

On the fallen feather plain.

The Imperial Master of Taishiyuan showed a strange smile.


Chapter completed!