Chapter 002 - Sugar Pills

　　Although picking a stretcher, but Li Yunsheng still in the dark before going down the mountain, their father and son in the foot of the mountain west of the roadside built a thatched hut, this thatched hut is still two or three years ago their father and son together, cut down a few trees on the mountain, and then moved some of the mountain stone, every year they will repair again, after all, to stay here for a month. 　　After two or three years, repair and mend, this thatched hut is now a different scene, stove, table, chairs, beds, all complete, the walls with mud firmly paste dead, a little wind can not penetrate in. 　　Li Yunsheng put his bucket hat and straw raincoat in order, and then began to use the stove to boil water, and then carefully scooped up a small bowl of flour from the tank behind the stove and began to make noodles. And to half, he suddenly stopped, thought about from the cylinder containing flour to take out an egg into the flour, and so on the noodles and cut into thin strips, the pot of water also boiled, he put the cut noodles into the pot, from the stove on the small pot of lard put half a spoon into the lard into the lard into the boiling water into a layer of beautiful oil, and then a handful of hot pepper, and then finally put the lid on the pot, sat down in front of the stove to burn. He was a very good cook. 　　After following Li Shanzhu outside for so many years, Li Yunsheng did make a good handful of meals, although the ingredients are extremely common, but he did it with great care, and made some ordinary food flavorful. 　　Li Yunsheng father and son to do things are very punctual, every morning dawn two people on the stretcher on the mountain, the father Li Shanzhu just a little rest in the small pavilion, then went to the purple clouds to go to the view, to help the view to do some chores. Li Yunsheng in that small pavilion to sell hats and straw raincoat, sometimes also follow a trip to the purple cloud view. Until the sky darkens, Li Yunsheng downhill back to the house to cook, every time almost rice cooked, dishes set up, Li Shanzhu came back. 　　This day is the same, Li Yunsheng will be eating in the house of the small wooden table carefully wiped once, and will be two pairs of dishes rinsed once again with a dry rag clean on the table set up, knocking on the door sounded. 　　Entered the door is Li Shanzhu, although he and Li Yunsheng the same lean black, but because of the tall figure to bend a little waist to walk through the door, Li Shanzhu look like most farmers, mute look not much to say, see Li Yunsheng also just nodded, and then straight at the table to sit down. 　　Sheng good two bowls of steaming hot noodles, Li Yunsheng followed along and sat down. 　　"The oil can be put in less." Glancing at the oil and a few wild onions floating on the bright noodle soup in the bowl, Li Shanzhu said with a hint of fatigue in his voice. 　　Li Yunsheng skimmed his mouth and without saying a word reached his chopsticks into the bowl and grabbed a noodle to bring it to his mouth. 　　"Bang, bang ......" 　　At this time the knock on the door came again, Li Yunsheng hesitated for a moment, looked at Li Shanzhu who was vigorously raking noodles into his mouth, somewhat unhappily put down his bowl and chopsticks and walked to the door and opened it. 　　At the door stood an old woman, the same one that Li Yunsheng had met at the gazebo today. 　　"I'm here to return the straw raincoat." The old man's somewhat dry mouth smiled and said. 　　"I'm sorry to trouble the old man." 　　At this time, Li Shanzhu also put down his chopsticks and stood up, pulling away Li Yunsheng who was standing there frozen, he saw the straw raincoat in the old woman's hand and understood, it should be his own good son who also sent a bucket hat and straw raincoat to people with a kind heart. 　　Said Li Shanzhu then took the straw raincoat from the old woman's hand. 　　"We are eating noodles, just one more bowl, do you want it?" 　　Li Yunsheng on the side looked at the old woman in the storm outside the house, hesitated for a moment or opened his mouth. 　　"Good wow, I asked about the fragrance from a long distance, it smells so good." The old woman squinted and smiled, her words full of joy. 　　"The old man does not mind, come in and eat a bowl of it, the house is also warmer, after eating this rain should stop." 　　Li Shanzhu wasn't the stingy type, and immediately invited the old man in, only patting Li Yunsheng's head when he turned his back to the old man - where in the house was there extra noodles? Even the bowls and chopsticks were just exactly two pairs! 　　Li Yunsheng acted as if nothing had happened, letting the old man sit in his original position and pushing the bowls and chopsticks to her. 　　"Little doll, why don't you eat?" 　　The old woman picked up the bowls and chopsticks and looked up strangely at Li Yunsheng, who at this time had already walked over to the stove and took out a book to read by the light of the fire in the stove. 　　"I've eaten." 　　At the words the old woman giggled, and then did not ask much, ate it with relish, finished the noodles inside, and also drank the soup clean, and then said contentedly: 　　"For many years, I haven't eaten such flavorful noodles." 　　Li Shanzhu only thought she was a complimentary joke, did not say anything but just laughed. 　　After eating the noodles, the rain has not stopped, the old man did not want to leave, she asked Li Shanzhu curiously: "Your father and son do not seem to be local people, why come to this deserted mountains, let the child suffer these sins?" 　　She looked at Li Yunsheng, who was reading a book in front of the stove, very painfully. 　　"Alas ......" 　　Li Shanzhu sighed a long sigh, I don't know if it was because of the reason that sitting in front of him was an old woman with no hands, he didn't hide it, and told the past of the Li family, and even the matter of his ancestor being under the spell of that evil monk. 　　"I think my Li family has been doing good deeds for generations, but we have ended up in this situation now, and even none of the male members of my Li family can live past the age of forty! We really have no way out, now this Li family is left with just the two of us, you say if the Li family is extinct in my hands, I am ashamed of my ancestors!" 　　"How can there be such a strange thing in this world? It's really unheard of." The old woman was astonished. 　　"If it hadn't happened to me, I wouldn't have believed it either." Li Shanzhu smiled bitterly, "That's why all these years but whenever we heard a trace of an immortal, we would look for a bit, seeking a chance." 　　"I'm afraid this is harder than finding a needle in a haystack." The old woman shook her head, "Not to mention that this immortal trail is hard to find, even if it is really encountered by you guys, you may not necessarily be helped, after all, mortals like us are nothing more than ants in the eyes of an immortal." 　　"Who says otherwise?" Li Shanzhu's expression was sullen, "But we can't just resign ourselves to our fate." 　　When Li Shanzhu said this, not far away Li Yunsheng skimmed his mouth again, this scene was just seen by the old woman, the old woman said in amusement, "Little doll, what are you laughing at?" 　　At that time, Li Shanzhu cut Li Yunsheng a glance, thought no one in the time you did not have big and small even if, this has outsiders in you still so do not give face to your old man, wait for the people to go to see I do not let you eat a meal of good flesh. 　　Li Yunsheng's nature of nature is not to be glared at can be scared, he put down the hand of the book in his head to rationalize the ideas, and then with a slightly tender voice said: "I think that dad you rather than go to seek that misty trail of immortality, it would be better for the two of us to spend our days, you know that the immortal is not compassionate, but a request for ten years, said that do not resign yourself to fate, but what you do is just a few perfunctory methods. Some perfunctory method." 　　Said here Li Yunsheng once again paused for a moment, seriously thought about it, and said with a stern face, "The real disowning of fate should not be begging for mercy from those immortals, but rather daring to fight with this heaven, with this fate." 　　The two adults were startled by the bold words of a small child and froze for a moment, that Li Shanzhu raised his fist and glared at Li Yunsheng once again, viciously saying, "Skin is itching again, isn't it?" On the contrary, that woman didn't laugh at Li Yunsheng, instead she thought carefully, then smiled with a loving face and said, "Not begging to the Immortals, daring to fight with the heavens! Extremely well said, extremely well said!" It seemed that Li Yunsheng's words made her very happy. 　　"Bang, bang." 　　Just as Li Shanzhu was puzzled by the old woman's extremely good words, there was another knock on the door. Li Shanzhu wanted to go and open the door, but the old man got up and waved his hand to stop him, she looked at Li Shanzhu with a smile and said, "It should be my daughter who has come to fetch me." 　　As soon as the door opened, it was indeed a woman standing outside the door, only that it was too dark to see the woman's appearance. 　　"I see that tonight this rain looks like it can't stop, so I came to pick you up." The woman's voice was surprisingly good, just like the pleasant sound of the wind chimes outside the window on that summer day, which lifted one's spirits. 　　The old woman nodded, she stood in the doorway and turned her head to look at Li Yunsheng over the stove, lifting her hand to wave at him, "Little doll, come!" 　　Seeing the old woman calling herself, Li Yunsheng walked over with some confusion. 　　"At my age, I'm still eating your little doll's food, it's really a bit inappropriate." The old woman smiled somewhat embarrassedly, "I didn't bring anything with me when I came, I only have this bottle of sugar pills on me that I brought to my little grandson to eat, here, all of it is for you!" 　　She pulled out a delicate white porcelain bottle and handed it to Li Yunsheng. 　　If it was someone else, he would have excused himself and humbled himself, but Li Yunsheng was not good at making false pretenses by nature, and casually took the bottle. 　　"Old ancestor, this is ......" Instead, the woman in the darkness whispered a sentence, although her voice was suppressed very low, but Li Yunsheng could still hear the urgency in her voice. 　　"What's a bottle of sugar pills?" 　　The old woman waved her hand to signal the woman not to say any more, Li Yunsheng's heart was a little unhappy with the woman's words, thinking that a bottle of sugar pills was just as much as that? 　　"Little doll, tonight looks like there will be thunder, nothing to go to bed early." 　　The old woman looked at the sky, then turned her head to admonish Li Yunsheng. 　　Even if the old woman didn't say it, the two of them wouldn't go out tonight, but they still nodded. 　　After the old woman finished speaking, she left without looking back, just in the moment she turned her head to walk away, the light in the room happened to hit the woman's face in the darkness of the night, even though it was just a glimpse, Li Yunsheng still saw a face that was so beautiful that it could take one's breath away. 　　Especially the pupils of the eyes in the night that emitted a faint fluorescent light, it looked very unreal and felt not like a human at all. 　　Just as Li Yunsheng froze, Li Shanzhu "snapped" and slapped him on the back of the head, then said: 　　"Go to bed early, I'm afraid it's going to rain heavily at night."