The three siblings, Shen Xia, stared at the eldest brother drinking three bowls of chicken soup, and they all let out a long sigh.
As long as you can eat it, for a while, laughter could be heard in the small courtyard.
The houses in the village were scattered, and the Shen family lived near the foot of the mountain, so few people heard the laughter.
Someone with whom I have good relations came to visit me before noon, bringing a few eggs and half a basket of peaches.
In the courtyard, Shen Xia was sitting by the well, washing the peaches picked yesterday with her eldest sister.
And Shen Heng was in the kitchen, sterilizing jars one after another in boiling water. Every year they would make some candied peaches to sell or give away.
Father Shen was considered a military commander. He left a lot of money for them in the secret room in the past. They usually had enough food to eat and kept a low profile in the village.
Their house was also built when Shen Li was a child. It has three main rooms and two wing rooms in the east and west.
In the main room, Shen Li was meditating after eating and drinking, and did not stop until dark.
He touched the peach on the Kang table and took a bite, which contained a little spiritual energy.
I bought this peach tree from Shanshuiguan and planted it. The fruits are sweeter than those from the mountains behind Shanshuiguan.
Now it seems that there are spiritual veins in this mountain range.
He made a decision and shouted: "Brother Heng."
"Here we come." Shen Heng was washing his face, dropped the towel and entered the room, "Brother, what do you want from me? Flint and steel?"
"Where are your eldest sister and the others?"
"Cooking in the kitchen."
"Help me go out to find them."
"No." Shen Heng refused, "You can't move around now, I'll call them over."
After saying that, he went out to call someone, and three people came in holding candles.
Ah Shui was lying at the door, and no matter how much Shen Xia coaxed him, he wouldn't come in.
"Brother, you coax it, it always liked to look for you in the past."
Shen Li put his hand to his lips and whistled a few times. Ah Shui stood up hesitantly and slowly took one foot forward.
"Jiaoqing." Shen Heng turned around and carried it into the pit.
It stood up with a defensive look and saw Shen Li smiling and handing over a piece of peach. After looking sideways, he bit into it.
Here, Shen Hua led her sister to sit on the kang, "Brother, the meal is ready, but the only thing left is the cold dishes. What do you want from us?"
Shen Xia was also very curious, so she decisively closed her eyes and used her consciousness to look at her elder brother.
Seeing her eldest brother looking at her keenly, she quickly opened her eyes and sat upright.
Shen Li looked around them and said seriously: "Have you all heard the story about the immortals in Shanshui Temple thousands of years ago?"
The three siblings nodded in unison and listened to him: "That's not a story, it's true."
Shen Xia asked first: "Brother, is there really an immortal flying with a sword?" She was reborn in the world of immortality? She came not to farm but to cultivate immortality?
Shen Heng was surprised and yearning at the same time, "Brother, did you hear something in Beijing Camp?"
Shen Hua remained silent, but also looked curious.
"Well, I also accidentally learned a fairy mantra." In fact, Shen Li had not heard of it, and the mantra was just a memory from his previous life.
"I've tried it, and it should be true. However, the formula says that cultivators need to have immortality, that is, spiritual roots."
"Brother, how do we know if we have spiritual roots?" It was Shen Xia who spoke first again. She didn't care about immortality. She just wanted to know whether after cultivating an immortal, she could see the world without using eyes like in the novel.
Next to them, Shen Hua and Shen Heng also wanted to know. They believed in what their elder brother said.
Shen Li looked at the three pairs of longing eyes and couldn't help but smile, "You'll know after practice." He didn't test the spirit stone, and he didn't have the consciousness to check it out.
Since there are spiritual veins nearby, let's just let the younger ones practice together. "Even if we don't have spiritual roots, we can strengthen our bodies, which will help increase our internal strength."
Shen Xia nodded repeatedly, "Brother, teach us." She was very tired every time she used her mental power to look at the outside world.
Moreover, except for the eldest brother in the family who has entered the early stage, the three of them have acquired martial arts skills, so it would be good to increase their internal strength.
Shen Heng sat upright, "I'm ready, brother."
"Let's study after eating, otherwise we have to heat up the food in the middle of the night." Shen Hua held back.
Shen Heng instantly jumped off the kang and rushed out the door, "I'm going to mix the cucumbers."
"Second brother..." Shen Xia's extended hand failed to catch anyone.
"Naughty." Shen Hua didn't expect her brother to be so quick.
Shen Li shook his head and laughed, "I'll teach you two first."
"No, the three of us are together." Shen Xia and the eldest sister said in unison.
In the past, when my mother taught them to read, they were together.
After dinner, Shen Li told them the beginning of the Five Elements Qi Refining Technique.
This set of exercises is the basic exercise passed down from ancient times. It is the most righteous and peaceful. It is most convenient to modify other exercises after the third level of Qi Refining.
Shen Xia couldn't write down things with a pen like her brothers and sisters, so she could only memorize them over and over again.
More than a hundred words were easy to memorize but difficult to understand. Shen Li broke it into pieces and told them about it. Before he knew it, he fell asleep after midnight.
The next day, they all got up half an hour late. Shen Li opened the window and watched the three of them finish a set of boxing in the courtyard before meditating again.
Last night and the night after, he successfully introduced Qi into his body, and his injuries were much relieved.
Not long after entering samadhi, I heard someone talking outside the gate.
"You girl, how do you know if you recognize me if you can't see her?" A woman stroked her hairpin and glanced at Shen Xia several times. "Tell you, I am the third daughter-in-law of your fifth uncle's ancestral family, you have to call me Aunt."
Shen Xia stood outside the door. Her eldest sister and her second brother went to the river to wash the sheets. Ah Shui followed them. She really didn't recognize the middle-aged woman in front of her.
"Axia, I am Tu's second sister-in-law. This is really your elder.
As soon as I heard that your eldest brother was injured, I came here overnight." The Tu family had a smile on their faces, but it was a pity that Shen Xia couldn't see it.
She said calmly: "It's only a ten-mile mountain road from Baixi Village to our Yuntao Village. Sister-in-law Tu, did you spend the night in the mountains?
There are tigers and wolves in this mountain, you two are really brave." Shen Xia gave a thumbs up.
Xu Jincheng, who came with them, put his hand on the shoulder of his friend Da Niu and laughed out loud: "Pull him down, you went to the village next to Hei'er yesterday and spent the night at the second sister-in-law's house."
He caught up with the two people who sent them here. They were obviously going to the town hospital to inquire.
Brother Shen and his camp are stationed ten miles north of the town. When they are short of medicine, they often go to the town to get it, which is closer than the capital.
I was the one who returned to the village overnight. I woke up late this morning and didn't bother to inform Brother Heng.
The woman raised her voice and said, "If I want you to be meddlesome, Brother Li is seriously injured. Sister Hua, a girl with haircuts, how can she manage dozens of acres of land?"
Those merchants who harvest the fruits are not easy to deal with. Is it possible if there are no elders to help?"
"You sound nice, but you just want to take advantage." A villager who was holding a bowl and watching the excitement said with a smile.
Someone else laughed and said, “You’ve traveled all night to visit with nothing?
Are you afraid that you want to take advantage of dozens of acres of farmland into your own hands?"
"I'm not just trying to steal Brother Li's family property."
Hahaha, all the villagers laughed loudly.
Shen Xia couldn't agree more. She was too lazy to talk to this woman, but she heard her scream: "Whoever comes to seek wealth will be struck by lightning."
Rumble, click
Thunder suddenly sounded on a sunny day, and everyone looked at each other in shock.
The woman was also frightened and hid behind Tu Er's family.