The brocade cypresses surround the ancient temple, and the bells sing and surf the mountain village.

This ancestral temple is located next to Lishan Mountain in the southeast of Jingzhou. It is the ancestral temple of the Li clan that has lived here and has been passed down for more than three hundred years.

After the Battle of Qingtian three hundred years ago, the Jiuzhou Immortal Sect jointly enfeoffed the meritorious ministers in the world. The ancestor of the Li family, who had been seriously injured and destroyed the Daoji, did not compete for the rich and prosperous place. He felt that the mountain was named Li, and the same surname as him, and the legendary ancestors' residence and fate with him. Therefore, he chose this small valley surrounded by mountains as the place where his family lived.

The world has been stable for three hundred years, and the Li family has also grown into a large family.

According to legend, the Li family is the direct descendant of Chiyou, the head of Jiuli in ancient times. Therefore, the shrine in the middle of the main hall is the ancient military god who is responsible for killing and killing evil things, and the ancestral tablets from the ancestors of the Li family are sacrificed on both sides.

The wing rooms on both sides of this ancestral temple naturally became the place where the Li family school was located.

As the bell rang, the dozen or so school children who wrote the scriptures scratched their ears and heads were basically in pain except for a limited number of them, but they all consciously put down their brushes and sat quietly as if they were silent.

The Taoist master who sat in front of the class with his eyes closed and meditated for only thirty years, but with a hint of sorrow, opened his eyes, stood up and walked slowly down to check the school children's homework.

He picked up the copy text on the table and looked around for a few times, frowned and coughed. The examined school student obediently placed his hands on the table, and asked the Taoist master to beat him three times with the ruler he held. Occasionally, he did not say anything after reading it, which means that he had passed today's level and let the young man in the seat breathed a sigh of relief.

After the teacher finished checking, he didn't open his mouth and waved his hands and walked out of the living room. Now the school children seemed to have been in full swing, and regardless of the pain in their hands, they all rushed to pack up the books and ink on the table, and began to prepare for the most joyful time of the day, which was the game time after school.

Among them, there was only a tall and handsome boy. Although he was in the noise, he slowly and steadily tidied up the stationery on the table regardless of the sound of classmates calling friends. When he was the last one to clean up, he did not follow his classmates out of the temple and walked into the main hall alone.

The Taoist master was sorting out the incense table with his back to the hall gate, but it turned out that he was not only a clan Taoist master, but also a temple prayer for this temple. He seemed to have eyes on his back, and even the young man walked into the hall quietly made him notice it. So as soon as the young man entered the door, he asked lightly: "Zisheng, is it still possible?"

Li Zisheng smiled bitterly and replied: "The students' qualifications are dull. The phantoms in their minds were still coming one after another when they entered meditation last night. The first step of refining the body can't be fully focused."

The Taoist master turned around and said, "You are not dull in qualifications, but too smart. I have told you that this is called a hindrance of knowledge and insight! I don't know how you have so many distracting thoughts in your mind at a young age."

This teacher and temple is thirty years old. According to the seniority, he is the uncle of Li Zisheng, named Li Zhaozhou. He is the second son of Li Luyang, the current leader of the Li family.

Li Zhaozhou also has the good looks of the Li family, with a clear and swaying face, but there is always an indelible sadness on his face. Although the boy never took the initiative to inquire about his Taoist master's past, I think a master who is only half a step away from being able to get straight to the innate world. When he returned to his hometown to be a child king in his prime, there are always some stories behind it.

Li Zisheng also vaguely heard the clan members privately discussing that the clan uncle had injured the kidney water and therefore never married. He replied: "The student's Ren and Du meridians are not difficult to go backwards, for some reason, when he enters meditation, he always has distracting thoughts in his mind, especially when the true qi runs to the Baihui point..."

The Taoist master of the Li family signaled his students to walk in front of him, put his pulse door, pondered for a moment and said, "You are indeed full of energy, and you have passed the concentration level... Forget it, I still have three calming fragrances, which can calm your mind and make people not have distracting thoughts. Then take it home and try it."

This young man loves to read various books the most, so he is very knowledgeable and extensive. He has heard that the Dingshen incense is a precious thing for practitioners and is not low, so he said a little frightened: "How can this be made? I will ruin a child like me. Master, please keep it."

His uncle said a little sadly: "Although this Dingshen incense is precious, it is useless when I reach my level."

He then waved his sleeves and said seriously: "Among the juniors of the Li family, I just look at Zisheng. How much success can you have? How can you talk about ruining a few dead objects with a master of our clan?"

As he said that, Li Zhaozhou returned to his own room in the backyard, and soon handed a small wooden box to Li Zisheng. He signaled Li Zisheng to open the wooden box and saw that these three Ding Shen incense were much thicker than usual and shorter than the usual line incense, with the thickness of the pen tube, and the length of the adult middle finger, the ancient dark yellow with blue light spots on it.

If you go up and smell it, it will not only not have the fragrance of ordinary silk fragrance but will have a faint fishy smell.

Li Zisheng carefully put the wooden box into his arms, bowed to the ground, and said sincerely: "Students thank you for your kind gifts. When you go back, you will definitely practice seriously."

"Zisheng, you and I are both masters and apprentices and uncles and nephews. Why are you so polite? You must be brave and diligent in your practice, but sometimes you can't be anxious. Don't be too impatient. Okay, I want to meditate, you can go by yourself."

After hearing this, the young man respectfully left the hall.

Li Zisheng walked out of the school and came outside the temple, but saw his classmates in the open space in front of the temple being divided into two teams of people confronting each other and arguing with each other. The boy walked up and heard a few words before he understood the whole story.

But it turns out that humans are divided into groups. There is a stream in Lishan Village windingly passing through, dividing the entire village into east and west sides.

The east bank of the village is home to the main family, while the west bank is a small family with a single family and a scattered family of other families. Even children who are ignorant of the world are clearly divided into two groups of people playing and playing.

Li Zisheng lives in the west of the village. He has a neighbor with the surname You. The young man surnamed You paid his tuition and entered the clan school and became his classmate. A few days ago, the Mid-Autumn Festival tribe slaughtered animals and worshiped his ancestors. He secretly picked up a pig urine and fucked it home.

The teenagers in the countryside don’t have any toys. They often ask for the pig’s bladder when the village kills pigs. After washing it, they blow it inside. The pig’s bladder gradually expands into a ball the size of a human head, and then wrap it around with the thread used as socks. They can also properly correct the irregular shape of the pig’s bladder, and finally make a ball.

When he took out the balls to play with the young men in the west of the village after school, it attracted the greed of the children in the east of the village. After a while, they proposed the clan leader's grandson, Li Gangqi, who was one generation later than their son, came to ask for it.

These children of the sect kept saying that the pigs killed by ancestors were produced by the Li family, and the pig urine bubbles were also owned by the Li family. The young man surnamed You took it without asking for it, which was to steal and ask other things to return to the original owner.

How willing the You boys were to follow him, the companions next to him were also shared against the enemy. In particular, some children from the Li family stood up and said that the clan members also had their own family members, and they also had a portion of the pig urine bubble. The two sides started arguing.

During the quarrel, there was a child of the Li family in the west of the village, who was also Li Zisheng's clan brother, named Li Zixu. As soon as he turned around, he saw a tall boy standing by and watching. This boy Xu had always loved and admired him, his clan brother.

Li Zisheng has always been generous and brings more food every day. When eating at noon, he always keeps silent and secretly, with him and several other children who are not as wealthy as a family.

In addition, he also knew that Li Zisheng had been smart since childhood and was known as a child prodigy. His clan, including Taoist masters who always beat people up, looked at him.

On weekdays, although this cousin doesn't speak much in a quiet manner, sometimes he will tell these friends some strange but fascinating stories. In the stories, there are thieves, monsters, gods, wars, jokes, and fighting skills, which are very popular among these classmates.

The most important point is that he is generous and never judges right and wrong based on his relationships, one is one is two is two.

So no matter whether the little neighbors in Li Zisheng's west or the children of the sect in the east, they believed him very much, and the students in the field counted him as the most prestige. When the children had conflicts, they didn't look for Taoist masters who seemed very serious, but directly looked for "Zisheng" brother.

So he shouted loudly: "Stop quarrel. Brother Sheng is here, let me hear what Brother Sheng says first!"

The boy was exactly what he expected. Both sides, who were tense, calmed down after hearing this, and they all looked at Li Zisheng beside him.

When the boy saw this scene, his mind moved slightly, and several pictures suddenly flashed in his mind. He calmed down and walked up to him and said with a gentle voice: "The east and west of this village are all villages. We are all relatives and friends who break bones and tendons. Don't hurt the harmony of a pig's urine bubble. I have an idea, everyone can play together."

But the boy from the You family said hurriedly: "Brother Sheng, this was originally what I picked up, and I was holding my mother's tangled thread. I don't want to play with them!"

These words angered Li Gangqi, and he said with a voice: "You little thief from other surnames! This is my thing, and if you pick it up, it is yours? Then let's go to your field to pick up crops."

When Li Zisheng saw that the scene was out of control, he raised his tone and said in a pretentious manner: "Gangqi, stop talking first! What kind of thief in the foreign surname? A great man once said that unity is strength! I have said that we are all from the same village, and we have to make small circles, and what other big things have we done?"

"Uncle San, what is a great man?"

"Don't interrupt, listen to Brother Sheng!"

Then he turned to the You guy and said warmly: "This ball is yours. You should listen to my idea first. If you think it is not good, I will make the decision to take it home. Who dares to object?"
Chapter completed!