The first to go home was the eldest brother Ding Li, he was the most educated person in the family, a top student of Phoenix Preparatory School, and most of the family's economy was spent on his tuition fees in Phoenix Preparatory School. As a school specializing in arithmetic and economics, Phoenix Prep School has a lot to offer.

Only the small part of the empire is exempted, and the tuition fees for education after the national primary school have to be borne by themselves. Preparing to become an economic affairs officer of a city lord, or an economic adviser to a big chaebol, was Ding Li's ideal.

As the eldest son in the family, there should be more resources to tilt, which is understandable. Although Ding Yi has a good talent for reading, his family can only sacrifice him. It's impossible to have no idea at all, but firstly, the relationship between the two brothers is good, and secondly, this is the father's decision, there is only such a little money in the family, who goes and who doesn't, Ding Yi can't change it. The second sister was sacrificed, and he should also accept his fate.

It's just that becoming a cultivator is a nightmare that he can't let go.

The first time I watched the fantasy disc "Dream Fairy" at the home of a wealthy businessman, the world of cultivation described in "Dream Fairy" is so beautiful, Qixiong. At that moment, the idea of cultivating the truth germinated in Ding Yi's heart, and he could no longer linger.

Becoming a cultivator has become all of Ding Yi's life beliefs.

deliberately ingratiated himself with that classmate, helped him cheat, write homework, and even memorize the black pot, just to be able to watch a few more magic discs. I was able to see the world of cultivation again and again.

On the courtyard wall outside the Dream Theater, there was a dog hole, which gave Ding Yi a lot of joy, he never skipped class, just to watch those few magic disc truancy ......

"My life is different from yours". In "Starfall", the amorous chivalrous man Lotte said to the infatuated Huanhua girl vividly. Xiuzhen and the mortal world are really two worlds.

The world of cultivation is very exciting, and the world of mortal dust is too helpless.

When Ding Li went home, he also brought back two golden melons, this kind of melon is not cheap, one may cost seventy or eighty yuan, which was given by the rich female student.

This female disciple of Ding Li seems to be really unusual to her teacher. In addition to a good salary, I will send some seasonal snacks and fruits every time I go home. Ding Li has more and more potential to be a little white face.

Finding his younger brother at home, Ding Li was a little strange.

Ding Li still feels a little guilty about this family, especially this younger brother. is obviously a reading seed, but he was born in such a family. In order for him to go to Phoenix City Preparatory School to study, his family sacrificed a lot to him.

Originally, this summer, my father wanted my younger brother to go to the workshop to do odd jobs, but he persuaded my father that my younger brother would take a break from school next year, and after the transcendent festival, my younger brother would join the work and become an urban worker like most people in this city.

He is actually still a little dissatisfied with this younger brother. This is the younger brother's unrealistic ideal.

Become a cultivator, my God, Ding Li never thought about it, how could such an unrealistic idea make his younger brother never forget, the cultivator is a heaven-like existence, and there have only been a few in Jiyun City in the three or four hundred years since the founding of the empire?

Anyway, since Ding Li was sensible, except for a few so-called descendants of the Xiuzhen family in the city, it has not appeared.

fantasizing about becoming a cultivator all day long, in Ding Li's opinion, he doesn't know the height of the sky. If it weren't for the fact that he owed too much to his family, Ding Li really wanted to teach this ignorant brother a good lesson.

"Ding Yi, I didn't go out to play today, so well-behaved. At home."

"Don't sleep, get up and eat melons".

"My brother seems to be coming back earlier than usual today", Ding Yi quickly got up from the bed.

"I came back early today because there were guests from Meng Ting's house," Ding Li said, "Do you know, it's a cultivator, I didn't expect the Meng family to have a relationship with a cultivator." ”

Ding Yi became interested and asked, "What kind of cultivator is it?"

"I don't know, anyway, there are several of them, and the people of the Meng family are entertaining them, as if Meng Ting's second uncle has a relationship with one of them"

Ding Li knew that this younger brother was interested in cultivating the truth, so he couldn't help but tell him about his affairs in Mengfu.

"Brother, are you going to Meng's house tomorrow?"

"Of course, what's the matter, you don't want to go along. ”

Ding Yi had no choice but to tell his brother about several things that happened today.

"There may be something big happening in the city recently, brother, you must be careful. ”

Ding Li was a little funny, "Worry about yourself, don't help the family with some work during the holidays, go out all day long, clean up as much as you can, or learn to cook some food......"

Ding Yi ignored his brother's teachings.

"My life is different from yours," he thought to himself.

Ding Li is only a younger brother who is young and not sensible. Maybe a little bit older will change. In the past two years, I have been studying in other places, and I haven't talked much with my younger brother, and when I saw that my younger brother was silent, I stopped.

"Today, the Meng family sent two golden melons, you go and cut one and leave one for your father. ”

Ding Yi hurriedly took the gourd and went to the well in the yard to fetch water to wash the melon.

The second sister Ding Yun came back, as the eldest daughter of the family, it was actually the hardest. As a girl in a small family in the market, she has been sensible for a long time. Thirteen years old is the age of flowers. However, he is already the main laborer of this family, cooking, cleaning, washing clothes, shopping, and working in the embroidery village.

She silently dedicated, sacrificed for this family. Like other girls in the city, she continues the life trajectory of her parents, and yearns for a different life with a hazy heart.

The three children of the Ding family, Ding Li is fifteen years old this year, Ding Yun is thirteen, and Ding Yi is nine years old.

My brother is studying in Phoenix, his grades are very good, and he has also met many young ladies from rich families, and he will be the pillar of support for this family in the future.

The younger brother is stubborn, but he is also very smart.

He had to drop out of school before he finished elementary school, but Ding Yun didn't complain about his family. Although I saw Erya and Xing'er next door going to school every day with their schoolbags on their backs, I was still very envious. It's just that the family only has this condition, if my brother is admitted to college after finishing the preparatory school, his hard work will not be in vain.

It's just that I can wait for that day in this house? I heard what Aunt Hua said to my mother yesterday.

The diet of the seven southeastern states is not quite the same as that of most northern states, and it is also different from the coastal states. Apples are a staple of these seven states. The apple fruit tree, which is more than ten meters high, grows like a watermelon, and looks like an apple-long fruit, removing the hard shell and seeds, grinding it into rice flour, steaming, stir-frying, boiling, frying, and eating it raw.

Especially near Qingyun Mountain, together with the area of Jiyun City. This fruit is most famous for its pale green flesh. The wine made from this apple fruit was famous throughout the empire.

However, in the local area, this apple fruit is just an ordinary food for mass consumption.

Originally, there were only two or three of these apple fruit trees, which only grew in the Jietianling of Qingyun Mountain, and were a specialty of the Qingyun faction. After the establishment of the empire, cultivators of friendly plants cultivated rare species on a large scale, planting a large number of them around this Qingyun Mountain, and the original varieties were also improved, so that the delicacies that could only be enjoyed by cultivators were able to enter the homes of ordinary people.

There are many ways to cook the fruit of Pingshi. It is the most common practice to crush into powder, add water, mix good noodles, add refined salt, fragrant fruit oil, and brand into cakes. Different fillings can also be added. Make different flavors of fragrant fruit cakes.

There are also fried, baked, and steamed ones. There are also those that are directly mixed into a paste and made into a gnocchi soup, with herbs, salt, and meat floss, which is also delicious.

There are also noodles made from flour, but that's the way the Yankees eat it.

When Ding Yun went home, Ding Li had already cleaned his hands and was about to make a fire, but Ding Yun hurriedly stepped forward to stop him. The Ding family is still a very traditional family, and the situation of male superiority and female inferiority is still obvious.

Otherwise, my mother will nagging endlessly.

Although this family is not wealthy, the family is harmonious, and like ordinary market families, they live a peaceful and peaceful life. Ordinary, ordinary life.

Ding Yi may be the only restless existence in this family.

Ding Yi often imagined that an old monk with a white beard would break into this courtyard and say to his parents, "I have a relationship with your child, and now that his spiritual aurtura has been opened, I want to take him to Xianshan to cultivate." Then he picked him up in the envious eyes of his parents, elder brother, and sister, and he said to the old monk coolly, "Immortal Master, I have been waiting for you for a long time", and embarked on the road of cultivation in the tears of his family.

Every time he thinks about this scene, Ding Yi thinks it's funny, but it feels like this should happen.

But for many years, in addition to the neighbors, only a few of his friends have come in, and no white-bearded immortal master has appeared.

Baixiangyuan's shopkeeper Hu is a cultivator, he is the only cultivator Ding Yi knows who has dealt with him, Ding Yi once ran over to ask for advice, but that Hu Zhenren obviously didn't care about him, which made Ding Yi's evaluation of him very low.

put the shopkeeper Hu into the classic drama "Fengyun", it is estimated that the ability and cultivation of the shopkeeper Hu can only be ranked at the level of soldier A and soldier B at most.

Isn't the cultivator very particular about the so-called chance, the level of the shopkeeper Hu is too low, and he may not be able to see through his qualifications. His master must be the most famous monk, and he is a well-known existence in the empire......

Thinking of the nonsense, I can't help but laugh out loud when I think of the highlights.

"What's wrong with him?"

"I'm daydreaming again. ”

So the brother and sister couldn't help but shake their heads.

In the evening, the west is dyed with a red glow. The Ding couple just came back, Ding Ding Ding is a man who is nearly forty years old, and the men of the Ding family are not the kind of powerful and powerful figures. There is always a serious face on the white and pure face.

The third-class steward of Yunsen Commercial Bank is Ding Zhaoding's position, although he does not have to work hard himself, and there are only three or four people under his command for him, but it is only an errand with little oil and water, less than ten silver dollars a month, it is impossible to feed this big family.

The well-proportioned figure and good face are the mother Wu Shuhui.

Wu Shuhui can only work in the fish stall after giving birth to the second child Ding Yun, fortunately, the fish stall is her brother's, in addition to helping the family, all kinds of vegetables in the vegetable shop can also be bought cheaply.

Wu Shuhui is counting on Ding Li, the eldest in the family, not only to read well, but also to have a gentle personality and outstanding appearance, who in the market does not praise her for having a good son, as for Ding Yun, it is a girl who will marry sooner or later, and this child is also sensible.

The one who worries the most is the young son. Thinking about cultivating truth all day long, I don't pay attention to it. But children are not like that, naughty and innocent when they are young, and when they grow up, they will understand the reality of this world, and they will understand the distance between reality and dreams.

When I was a girl, I didn't fantasize about the handsome son coming to the door to find relatives all day long, and playing a drama of a talented man and a beautiful man. Who knew that after marrying such a boring husband, he had to work by himself to support these three children.

The house was lively, Ding Li was talking about meeting the cultivator in the Meng family, his mother and sister were busy cooking in the kitchen, and Ding Zhaoding took out the gramophone as usual, put on his favorite sound disc, and listened quietly. (The phonograph is a kind of sound disc that uses spirit stones to drive sound under the action of the amplification array)

Ding Yi felt very bored, and suddenly remembered that Yuan Zhen and the others went to the Xishan Tiger Camp, and they should come back even if they counted the time. So he got up and walked out.

"The meal will be ready soon, you go there, and you won't be home all day after the holidays, and you'll run out again. ”

Ding Zhaoding drank, and Ding Yi stopped in disdain.

"Qianmen Xu Ji is the puppet of the agency, there is a shortage of manpower in the store, you go to the front door tomorrow to find him, just say that it is my son, first do it there for a few days, it doesn't matter if you learn the technology or not, work there first, idle all day long, what does it look like to do a job. ”

"Didn't you say that Xiao Yi was asked to go to see the work after the transcendent sacrifice," his brother Ding Li hurriedly helped

"Boss, your mother and I are not at home during the day, you usually teach your brother more and see his virtues."

"Isn't there still more than half a year, let Xiaoyi finish the elementary school first, and then go to see the work after the transcendent sacrifice, didn't I tell you before?" Mom also came over to help.

"Although the family is not rich, it is okay for my younger brother to go after finishing elementary school, just let him stay for a few more months, I will increase my salary next month, and all the money from my part-time job will be given to you, so let my brother wait a few more months." My sister also helped persuade her.

"You are all for his good, but what about him, he hangs around all day long, and doesn't put his cleverness on serious things," Ding Zhaoding was not easy to speak, "Ding Yi, let me ask you, what did you do the afternoon before yesterday?"

"Didn't do anything",

"It's not honest, let me ask you, did you steal into the dream theater with the Lu family's boy?" Dad apparently knew what his son was doing.

"Lu Zhongda said, you brought his son in, what else do you have to say? People were arrested and fined money, you weren't arrested, did you? People asked your father and me to pay this money, don't you know?" Ding Zhaoding said angrily.

"Then did you give him how much?" Wu Shuhui asked.

"Five silver dollars, do you think I will give it to him", Ding Zhaoding glanced at his wife, "His son was arrested, and it was not my son who was arrested, why should I give him money",

"Just quarreled with him, it's all a good thing that this unfilial son did, don't say good things for him, he will go to work tomorrow, and then go to school after the summer, it's good for him to let him step into the society as soon as possible, don't think about what you have all day long, and daydream!"

"I can be regarded as fulfilling my promise, it is he who is not at home well, and wants to cause trouble outside, and he is asking for himself."

The old man angrily explained the matter without question, never looked at Ding Yi again, picked up the gramophone and turned around and entered the house. The rest of the people didn't know what to say.

"Xiao Yi, your dad is angry, I can't persuade him, you just listen to your dad first, go to the front door and your Uncle Xu to learn the craft for a few days, and then let you come back when he is angry" Mom comforted.