Tianshui Village suffered a severe drought, and the locusts did not spare the village.
In fact, the entire Xizhou was a victim of this natural disaster.
Wei Xi was mute, and her father took her to marry her aunt in a neighboring village to borrow food.
Wei Dong, our heroine's brother, according to Wei Xi's very rude idea, is swollen like a sourdough bun and is waiting for food to save his life.
Wei Laosan limped ahead, with a rag bag containing grain stuffed into his belt. Wei Xi's mother is very good at craftsmanship, and the clothes of father and daughter don't have too many patches.
But good craftsmanship can't change Wei Xi's sallow complexion, which makes her eyes look scary.
Wei Xi was very satisfied with the effect at first, because she could stand quietly behind people, pretending that she was some kind of monster that had returned to the world, and frightened the children who bullied her into screaming. But as these children disappeared into the famine one by one, Wei Xi reluctantly gave up the idea.
The water in Kushui Village is bitter and astringent, and its cultivated land is a large area of saline-alkali land. Only the bitter wheat grown on the horns of the Immortal Master's Green Ox can survive in this saline-alkali land. During this drought, Kushui Village was the only one struggling to survive because of this bitter and coarse wheat.
Wei Laosan wiped the sweat from his forehead, and the sun miraculously reproduced the cracks of the earth on his resolute face. He turned his head and stopped to look at his little daughter, and found that she was holding a small stick in her hand. Legbone, face flushed from holding back, followed him with a squeak.
From the perspective of an old hunter, the leg bone in Wei Xi's hand was definitely not something that should appear in the hands of a child. Wei Laosan sighed silently, snatched the bone from Wei Xi's hand and threw it away.
Wei Xi's eyes were glued to the leg bone. She had a way of dealing with her father, and her father had no way of dealing with his mute daughter. He took out the water bag and handed it to Wei Xi, whose face was covered with sweat.
The gears of fate began to turn, and Wei Laosan saw the men, women, and children of Kushui Village gathered together from a distance.
Wei Laosan scratched his white temples and moved his little girl to the side to block him. "Erya," Wei Laosan's throat was very dry, "You wait here for dad." Wei Xi nodded and hugged her dad's water bag and hid it behind the trunk of the tree where the bark had been removed.
After confirming that his daughter was hidden, Wei Laosan walked towards the crowd, and he, a hunter, squeezed to the front naturally.
It turns out that there is an immortal sect who came to choose a disciple. Several immortals wearing various immortal robes gathered around a big stone. Children of Kushui Village who could walk and were under the age of fifteen, both male and female, were present. Wei Laosan's nephew Liu Hu was also inside, standing in the middle of the team with a bald head.
Wei Laosan moved towards his sister, but as soon as he had an idea, he ran towards Wei Xi's hiding place.
Little Wei Xi was sitting on the ground with a water bag in her hand. Wei Lao San looked at her feet and sure enough, she was kicking a mouse in the skull. Wei Laosan pulled his daughter up.
"Erya," Wei Laosan rarely spoke urgently and quickly, "In a moment, you will stand behind your brother Huzi. The immortal master has come to choose an apprentice, and you have to choose! Remember! You must remember it!"
Wei Xi nodded vigorously, holding the rat skull between her toes while wearing straw sandals.
Wei Laosan basically dragged the little Wei Xi and ran into the crowd in Kushui Village, but a dozen strong men from Kushui Village surrounded Wei Laosan in the crowd.
"I'm sorry Orion," the leader was the tall and powerful son-in-law of the mayor of Bushui Village, "go back to your village."
Wei Laosan let go of Wei Xi's hand and said, "Give the child a way to survive."
"Go back," when the strong man said this, a dozen of his accomplices stood behind him to increase his credibility. "The selection of immortal masters has almost finished, and this mute of yours also wants to cultivate immortality?"
Wei Xi stared at those strong men fiercely like a little wolf cub. Wei Laosan is a stupid person. He is known as an honest person in the nearby villages. Otherwise, no one would have the courage to stop a hunter.
The honest man Wei Laosan showed an honest smile, and then kicked Wei Xi on the butt.
When Wei Xi was kicked through the crowd, all he could think about was: This is how Wei Dong felt when he was kicked. Wei Xi fell face down on the ground. When she raised her face, she could only see straw sandals and various lower legs.
At this time, her father's voice passed through the crowd and fell clearly in her ears: "Climb forward! Wei Xi! Climb forward! Listen to daddy!"
When Wei Xi heard her name, she knew that the matter was serious. Regardless of the pain in her butt, she subconsciously followed her father's instructions and crawled forward.
Most of the people in Kushui Village had not yet reacted. Unfortunately, those who could catch Wei Xi in the chaos were all lining up in the fenced-in open space.
Wei Xi crawled around in disgrace. She even kicked a young man who was trying to catch her, and successfully broke through the crowd and got into the open space.
There was a little girl wearing a blue robe standing on the high platform, and she saw Wei Xi. Mainly because it was difficult for several strong men to bend down and grab a little girl who was crawling forward very fast without being conspicuous. The girl in a blue robe motioned to a young man holding a sword next to her to take a look.
At this time, Wei Xi was still trying to crawl towards his cousin, who had been bitten by him several times. The strong man behind still wanted to catch her, but he underestimated Wei Xi's years of experience. Wei Xi could crawl faster than she could run!
"Senior sister sent me down to check," the young man put his sword between Wei Xi and the strong man, "Why are you arresting her?"
The strong man was about to explain, but the goatee village chief panted and stopped the strong man who wanted to shout, "Children are ignorant, I'm sorry to trouble the immortal. These children in our village are playing around."
The young man glanced at the village chief hesitantly, but Wei Xi had already crawled to her cousin. The village chief glared at the strong man, who was a little confused and said, "Master Xian, all the children of school age in our village are here. Okay, how many of you do you think are lucky enough to be admitted to the Immortal Sect?"
"On this trip, the Beijiang sect has enrolled less than twenty students." The young man put his sword back, "This is included in the Qingcheng sect's enrollment standards."
"Master Immortal," the village chief said with a smile, "The children in Kushui Village can endure hardships. It will be an honor for them to touch the steps of the Immortal Gate in this life. Can you see if you can take a few children up the mountain? They will do the odd jobs. of creation."
"We don't need any handymen," the young man said with a confused look on his face. "The Huaixin sect doesn't need these. We all recite the mantras."
The village chief wanted to say something else, but the young man was attracted by the movement on the field.
"It seems that we have gathered enough twenty-five people," the young man nodded to the village chief, flew back with his sword, and left the village chief with a message, "It's just that this one is probably a new disciple of the Qingcheng Sect."
The village chief turned his head and found that the hand of the mute girl from the Orion family in the next village was pressing on the stone brought by the immortal master. The stone lit up but only a little. To be more precise, it turned a little black.
Wei Xi had no idea what she was doing, but her cousin who had finished the test pushed this cousin, "Second mute! You are going to become an immortal!"
