These mortal children of the Li family would light fires or do other light tasks when they were young. When they were older, they would have to do some relatively heavy tasks. They would not be assigned specific tasks until their bodies grew up. Do some long-term things, and what kind of things you do in the middle have some connection with the subsequent distribution.
There are thousands of mortals in the Li clan, and they are basically completely self-sufficient. All mortals have a clear division of labor. They seem to be scattered under the seven peaks. In fact, it is almost like an ordinary town. The teachers of the children's school, the blacksmith, the pharmacist, There are tailors, farmers, miners, etc., and correspondingly there are various stewards and big stewards.
After basic learning, there is school selection. This school selection is related to the focus of previous studies of mortal children, that is, to see what the children are good at, and while selecting school, some specific tasks must be done so that these children can begin to learn to obey.
After Li Qiao worked as a fire boy for a year, he was arranged by the family's mortal steward to collect herbs in other surrounding mountains.
Normally, it would be very easy to go to the mountains to collect herbs. If the family has immortal cultivators, who can fly with swords and have spiritual consciousness, it would be very easy to harvest the herbs from the mountains near the clan area. However, these herbs are not magical. Medicines are not used by immortal cultivators. They are just medicines used by ordinary pharmacists when ordinary people are sick.
One of the reasons is to familiarize these medicine-picking children with medicinal herbs, and the other is to exercise their physical strength. The largest group of mortals in the Li clan are farmers and miners. Assuming that there are a total of thirty children collecting medicine, one of them will eventually become a pharmacist. None, as long as the pharmacist is enough, as long as there is enough preparation when the feeling is lacking.
They are all from the same clan, and it is not easy to directly choose who will be a farmer or a miner. There is a process that depends on each person's efforts, but the vast majority of them will become farmers and miners. If they are lucky, they may become a small steward. some type of.
Most of the mortals in the clan have a pretty good life for ordinary mortals in the entire world of immortality, but among the Li clan, they are the most miserable group of people. Generally speaking, they understand this. None of the clan members were willing to come. Li Qiao's father, Li Jixiu, sent Li Qiao here because he didn't know the specific situation of the clan at all.
The reason why this branch established a clan here is because it discovered rare mineral veins. After mining, it can be used for its own use or exchanged, which is enough for the continued development of a branch.
But when they first established themselves here, in order to prevent disputes, they did not mine. Instead, they settled for hundreds of years, and finally spread out and set up formations. Mining was carried out only after sufficient mining and protection capabilities were achieved. Li Jixiu was more than a few generations away. The monk was not the core of the family and did not know about this situation.
The mining of mineral veins requires the assistance of a large number of ordinary young people, and a large number of ordinary young people require a large amount of food supplies. As for letting family monks go out to get food and arrest people? It's both time-consuming and inefficient, so let the monks keep running around for mortals? What are you thinking!
The Li clan members are scattered in various places, and they select people from several of them every year. It takes several years to come to Wangxian Town. Occasionally, those who return from the clan will usually not say how bad their life is. Li Jixiu made a mistake. I got the error message.
After three years of basic study and one year of being a fire boy, Li Qiao began collecting herbs in the nearby mountains at the age of twelve. His residence also moved from the small courtyard where he started to a relatively peripheral location in the clan area.
Li Qiao is just a little transparent. She walks around the clan area every day. Although there is no specific standard for the amount of medicine collected, and she can be lazy at will, in the end, the total number of medicines collected is the standard for the merits of these young medicine collectors.
At night, there was heavy rain. Amidst the thunder, Li Qiao seemed to hear sounds echoing in the sky. Occasionally, they were word by word, but they were incoherent and very weak. There were only two or three words before and after, as if they were words. Hallucination-like.
It must be an illusion! Li Qiao thought this in his heart. Now he lives alone in a small house. Occasionally between sleeping and not sleeping, he can feel some special tiny existences around him. He guesses that this should be spiritual energy, but he dare not Nor will I practice carelessly. He felt that he might have had such hallucinations because he had been thinking too much.
Early the next morning.
"Ouch..." The weather was wet and the road was slippery. Li Qiao accidentally fell heavily. As a child collecting herbs, even though the road was slippery after the rain, he still chose to go out to collect herbs. Even though he was smart, he still chose to go out to collect herbs. There are some reserved herbs, so he doesn't need to go out today, but he wants a good review.
The fall hurt, but he didn't cry, but he suddenly felt a little homesick. At the same time, he also remembered what his mother-in-law said to him when he was a child: "A boy can't cry easily, unless someone pinches you while holding you, or runs away." If you can’t run away, then you should cry.”
Li Qiao now thought about how anyone would pinch a child for nothing, just to make him behave better. But he did always remember this sentence and almost never cried.
Because he fell, he briefly rested in place for a while. During this process, Li Qiao once looked back at the peaks of the Li clan's land. Not sure if it was an illusion, but he felt that the clan's land seemed much quieter than usual this morning.
Then there was the normal search and collection of herbs, but a small accident occurred during the process. A small patch of crystal white appeared among the lush branches and leaves.
After hesitating for a moment, Li Qiao looked through the gaps in the branches and leaves, and then chose to leave.
It was an abandoned corpse. In addition to large expanses of shiny white skin, there were many traces of corrosion on the surface of the body.
I don’t know how long it’s been, is it rotten? Not even a single piece of clothing? Was it done by a certain family monk?
Because he had talked a lot with other children in the tribe at night, it was normal in his mind that there would be some monks who did terrible things.
But he didn't go very far before he left. Li Qiao came back again. He knew he shouldn't get involved in such things, but he often collected herbs. He suddenly thought that there was a cave nearby. It was better to be buried there than to expose his body in the wilderness.
The world of cultivating immortals is full of intrigues and intrigues. The monks trained by cultivating families since childhood have experienced various warnings and have many ways to deal with them. However, under normal circumstances, the ordinary people of cultivating families are much more simple.
After walking a little deeper, I found that the corpse was that of a woman, but there were too many corroded areas on her body, making her look extremely ugly.
Li Qiao didn't know if he could hold the other person in his arms, but when he wrapped the body in his own coat and picked it up, he was shocked.
The other party seemed as light as nothing, and he hugged him effortlessly.
Is this a cultivator? This idea first appeared in Li Qiao's mind, and he immediately doubted whether the other party was dead. With this kind of physical condition, it would be impossible for a mortal to survive, but it was not necessarily true for a monk.
I checked carefully, but I couldn't detect breathing or heartbeat.
In an instant, Li Qiao thought of two options. One was to immediately put the opponent on the spot and quickly run back to the clan to report. The second is to continue to hold the other person into the hole and check the specific situation.
Then he chose the latter without hesitation and went back to the clan to report? No matter what the outcome is, the relationship with him will not be too big, and I don't know how long it will take for the situation to change again and again.
He would choose to carry him into the cave without any thoughts of robbery. It was obvious to the other party. Moreover, Li Qiao thought that the other party could appear here. He was probably a monk from his family. No matter whether he was dead or not, it was better than just leaving it alone. If he didn't Death might be a blessing in disguise or something.
"I don't know if you're injured or something. I don't mean any harm. I'm just helping you move to another place first..." Li Qiao kept mumbling while holding her.
The other party was indeed not dead. After Li Qiao carried the other party into the cave, a white and rotten arm silently locked his throat, getting tighter and tighter.
For the first time, Li Qiao felt that death was so close to him.
At this moment, his life hangs on a thread and he is unable to struggle!
