"Teacher." Zhou Fei walked over and shouted in a low voice.
The Master gave a hum, and didn't look back: "Here it is."
Zhou Fei nodded: "Does the teacher still have something to tell me?"
The Master said: "It can be said that there is, or it can be said that there is no."
After that, the master turned around: "Come, have a drink with the teacher."
Zhou Fei said, "Teacher, I drink very poorly."
"I know." The master said, "But can you not obey the teacher's order?"
Zhou Fei smiled bitterly: "This is also an order."
"The command of the teacher, why is it not an order. Don't worry, the teacher will not drink you wine, just want to talk to you." The master said lightly.
Seeing the state of the Master at the moment, Zhou Fei's anxiety became more intense.
He had a foreboding that the Master was dying a long time ago, but the Master has always been strong and would never easily reveal the message of "death", Zhou Fei only inferred it by instinct.
But now, the master has almost carved the words I am dying on his face.
And what he wanted to say to Zhou Fei, in a sense, was a last word.
"Teacher." Zhou Fei's voice was trembling a little more.
The master gave him a glance: "What are you doing, I'm not dead yet, are you prophesying in advance at my funeral?"
Zhou Fei shook his head repeatedly: "The disciple dare not."
"In the realm of cultivation, you are the worst among my many disciples, but in other respects, you are far ahead of them. These experiences all come from another time and space." The master took a sip and sat down. On the deck, he patted the deck to make Zhou Fei sit down.
Zhou Fei sat beside the Master obediently.
"It's a pity, maybe I won't have the opportunity to take a look at another world in this life. I'm tired of seeing the landscape of the Great Wilderness." The master said mockingly: "When people are old, they tend to fall into memories, so I always want to talk to others. When I was young. Don't mind being a listener."
Zhou Fei nodded again and again and said, "Teacher, you say, disciple listens thoroughly."
The master laughed: "Don't be so serious, just listen to it as a story."
Zhou Fei was sitting with his back straight, not daring to lean on the ship's side.
The Master didn't care about Zhou Fei's sitting posture. After a few sips of wine, he leaned lazily on the ship's rail and began to recall his past.
But in this life, the Master really lived too long, too long, so long that he didn't know from which period it was better to remember.
After a long silence, the master finally spoke.
The story starts from the year of the Master and Guan.
The Master was born in Yue, a small and weak country that existed hundreds of years ago. However, because it was on the edge of a great wasteland and the land was relatively barren, other countries were not interested in crossing, and even had no idea of annexation.
The people of Vietnam have a hard time. Because the soil is not suitable for farming, the food supply in Vietnam has always been a big problem. Even the royal family lived no differently from ordinary people.
More and more people began to flee this barren land, and the sharp decline in population led to scarce food production, which was not so rich, even the royal family could not meet the supply.
The Master was born in the imperial palace under such circumstances.
"Wow, teacher, are you still a prince?" Zhou Fei said in surprise.
"The prince of Yue is not as good as a chicken." Master Zidan
Said lightly.
"But the identity of the prince is still noble after all." Zhou Fei said.
"I can’t even fill my stomach, what's the use of identity? My childhood memories are all related to hunger. The concept of fullness did not exist before me and the crown. Later, the Yue country disappeared, and my mother and queen disguised Dressing up, led me into the crowd fleeing the famine, and headed towards Chu, the country where the famine was the strongest at the time."
"The road to fleeing famine is very difficult. Hunger is always entangled by my side. At that time, I was young and didn't understand anything. I just opened my mouth and asked the queen to eat. Until one day, the queen brought back a fragrant sweet potato. I ate it in two or three bites, and asked the queen if she could have it tomorrow, the queen nodded in tears."
"From then on, I could eat a fragrant sweet potato every day, and sometimes even meat, but the queen mother was getting thinner day by day, and there were many scars on her body, but I didn't notice it. I was about to arrive in Chu country. At the time, the queen mother fell down, and it wasn't until this moment that I realized that the queen mother's body was covered with bruises, the kind of bruises drawn out by a whip."
"At this time a man came over, grabbed the queen's hair, and asked her to pick up the guests. I finally understood that those sweet potatoes were bought by the queen's body. I pushed the man hard, but I was young. As an adult’s opponent, he pushed me up and kicked me. The queen struggled to get up, holding the man’s leg, telling him not to hit me, and the mother was willing to pick up the guests."
"I didn't wait until the queen mother returned that day, and I didn't feel hungry either."
"Three days later, I saw the corpse of the queen mother. It was in the grass on the side of the road, unclothed and bruised. I didn't cry. I just took off my clothes and covered the queen mother's body. Then I found a lot of them. Firewood cremated the queen mother's body. I know that the queen mother loves beauty, and I don't want to lie on the ground and be bitten by bugs after she dies."
"That year, I was fourteen years old."
Having said that, the master stopped and took a big sip of wine.
Zhou Fei noticed that Master's eyes were a little red.
The Master should never mention these absolutely private matters.
The point is that no one could have imagined that the Master still had such a rough childhood.
In the eyes of many people, the Master was born strong and was born on the top of the wilderness. No one really thought about it. The Master is also a human, and he also needs to grow up. He can have today's position and is not a gift from God. , But relying on their own efforts to accumulate little by little.
The tragic childhood experience should be one of the motivations for the Master to achieve such a great achievement.
Having said that, what happened to the Master is simply the protagonist template of the novels of Invincible Liu. Since childhood, he determined to practice as a mother and avenge. After killing all the enemies, the Master entered the stage of Dugu's defeat. After letting go of the hatred, the Master It's just thinking about complex issues like the origin of the world.
These are Zhou Fei's personal thoughts, but what the Master said next shattered his vision.
Life is really miserable, sweet stuff only exists in jokes.
"Hunger can make people forget all hatred. When I saw the remains of the mother's queen, I really wanted to kill the man who appeared that day, but the anger of hatred only lasted for a long time, and hunger extinguished the fire."
"I start to miss the taste of roasted sweet potatoes
. "
"Although I am not like the princes of other countries, I have been well protected since I was a mother, so when I was fourteen years old, I am not considered sensible. I am a complete waste. I don't know where to find food. Yes, it feels like coming along this road, as long as it is edible, it will be swept away by the hungry."
"The fleeing team is more like a swarm of locusts, wherever they go, there is no growth."
"Hunger drove me to look for food everywhere, but there were many people who were hungry than me, and I couldn't get them. Later, some people even paid attention to me. It is no exaggeration to say that I was just like every day. Starving, looks more handsome than other children. Those people want to sell me in exchange for food. Actresses were still very popular in the Great Wilderness hundreds of years ago."
"And some alchemists also need medicine boy to help them test the medicine. My kind of child who has no father or mother and looks good, naturally became the target of this group of people."
"I wanted to escape, but I couldn't escape. I was eventually caught by them. We were locked in a cage and waited for the buyer to come. Maybe it was luck. The person who bought me was a girl from a brothel. I was caught at the same time as me. The children caught will end up in a much more miserable way, either being taken away by alchemists to become medicine boys, or they are reduced to powerful actors."
Zhou Fei was a little puzzled, and asked in a low voice, "The girl in the brothel took you teacher away, do you want to train you to become a tortoise?"
The master slapped Zhou Fei's head: "Can you speak."
Zhou Fei held his head, feeling aggrieved.
The master smiled again: "Well, you are right, she does have such an idea. After all, I bought it on an impulse. A few days after I arrived in the brothel, the girl ignored me. I was thrown into the back kitchen. , I do miscellaneous all day. Fortunately, I finally don’t have to go hungry. Although I still don’t get enough to eat, at least I can still drink a bowl of porridge and some steamed buns every day. If you are lucky, the guests have not finished eating. , I can also eat some."
"I stayed in the brothel for three years, and when I was seventeen, my charm was unstoppable. To be too handsome is also a crime. Some girls often secretly give me a goof, and there are even a few girls who love me. Get on me. In order to maintain the normal operation of the brothel, the old bustard drove me out, lest I get the hearts of the girls in the building away."
"On the day I left, I went to meet the girl who bought me. She has been taken by an outsider and wanted to marry home as a concubine. But she was not happy at all. She was a free bird in the brothel, and went away. She will lose her freedom forever. At the same time, her regular wife will certainly torture her, and every concubine will not end well. It happens that this regular wife is notoriously aggressive, and several concubines have died. In the hands of his wife."
"But the old bustard doesn't care so much. If the staff gave enough money, she naturally sold the girl. When I saw this girl, she was about to take poison and commit suicide. She would rather commit suicide than be a concubine, which can be said to be quite staunch."
"I just asked her if she would go with me."
Zhou Fei's soul of gossip was burning at this moment. Could it be that this woman in the brothel was the teacher's wife
The Master also noticed Zhou Fei's eager eyes and guessed what he was thinking.
But this time Zhou Fei got it right.
The girl agreed to go with the master.
Under the cover of night, the two escaped from the brothel.
(End of this chapter)