After three days of snowfall, silver-gray snowflakes raged in the air, every household closed the door, the weather was completely cold, Li Tongya tidied up the small courtyard of Lijing Village and handed it over to Li Qiuyang to take care of, and led Liu Rouyan up Lijing Mountain.
Stepping on the snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow, Liu Rouyan put on a long light gray fur coat, took Li Tongya's hand with a smile, and chirped:
"Brother Tongya, we will get married in the spring."
"Okay."
Li Tongya stroked the snow on her shoulder, chuckled and tilted the umbrella in her hand slightly, shook off the snowflakes on the umbrella surface, and leaned the umbrella against Liu Rouyan.
Li Jing Mountain was not high, Li Tongya led Liu Rouyan through the fog deposited at the foot of the mountain, and stepped on the snow-covered stone road to the front of the courtyard.
As soon as he entered the house, he saw Tian Yun sitting in front of the stove with a fur coat and a smile, his face slightly red, and when he saw Li Tongya and the two of them, he called out:
"Second brother and second sister-in-law."
Li Tongya responded with a smile, Liu Rouxuan was generous in the face of this younger sibling who was five or six years older than her, and snickered at the stove and discussed with Tian Yun in a low voice.
Li Xiangping went down early in the morning to give spiritual rain to the rice fields, and was currently breathing in the backyard for practice, Li Tongya took off his coat, hung it on the wall, turned his head to look at Ren who was silently sewing clothes, and said softly:
"Where's my father?"
"The old man is sleepy in winter and is still in the house."
Ren raised his eyes and smiled, looked at Tian Yun by the fireside waving hello, then put down the fabric in his hand and sat down, smiling and asking Liu Rouyan in a low voice.
Li Mutian personally widened the skylight yesterday, busy until late at night, and still asleep in the house, Li Tongya looked at the snow covering the entire mountain outside the window in a daze, and said silently in his heart:
"If the eldest brother is still here...... How good it should be."
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Winter turns to spring, last year's prosperity, spring rain is light and not dry, autumn is dry and not waterlogged, there is no hail or locusts, all pay 10% land tax, much more generous than in previous years, every household has surplus food leftover, so no one freezes to death in winter.
The second batch of spiritual rice planted in Lijing Village the year before last was also ripe, and the spiritual rice was harvested, peeled and chaffed, and obtained 170 pounds of spiritual rice, 50 pounds of spiritual rice bran, plus the spiritual rice harvested before, a total of 290 pounds of spiritual rice, 90 pounds of spiritual rice, and the 200 pounds of spiritual rice used to deliver the offering, which was enough.
With the addition of Li Qiuyang and Liu Rouyan, Li Tongya and Li Xiangping were much more relaxed, and by handing over many spiritual fields to the two to take care of, they could focus more on cultivation.
The white yuan fruit plant also bloomed, and a branch bloomed white, Li Tongya estimated that the white yuan fruit would be ripe in a few months, so that it would not be in time for the day when the envoy of the Qingchi Sect came to collect the offerings.
Li Tongya had just applied spiritual rain, but he saw Wan Tiancang entering the yard with a sad face and complaining to Li Tongya:
"That Ji Dengqi came across the border masked late last night and attacked many spiritual fields in my family, and the spiritual rice under the mountain was burned nine out of ten, killing many mortals, and even almost being attacked by him on Huaqian Mountain."
"Fortunately, my family's host Min was always vigilant during the ripening of the rice and sat in the formation in time.
Li Tongya put down the teacup in his hand and said in surprise:
"The nobleman's formation is really powerful, and he can hold the qi training period and the monks besiege all night."
Wan Tiancang waved his hand and said with a wry smile:
"It's just a coincidence, my Wan family produced a formation master two hundred years ago, with the help of a spiritual spring on Huaqian Mountain to build this large formation, as long as the spiritual spring continues, this formation can continue to restore spiritual energy."
"What a powerful magic circle!"
Li Tongya couldn't help but praise, and thought to himself:
"The formation on Lijing Mountain in my home is much inferior in comparison, but Xiao Yuansi once said that when encountering a better formation, you can still use that array of flags to arrange it! It's just a pity that my family has no formation inheritance......"
Wan Tiancang glanced at Li Tongya lowly, saw his contemplative face, and continued:
"It's a pity that he was arrogant, so he hastily wanted to refine the foundation of the Tao and fell on Huaqian Mountain."
"Practice the foundation?"
Li Tongya couldn't help but feel regretful and said in a deep voice:
"But he is also a senior at the peak of qi training."
"Hey......"
Wan Tiancang sighed and said with some yearning:
"That ancestor died for more than ten years, and the family lost three mountains in a row, and four qi practitioners died in battle.
"Later, the elders went one by one, and the one in the sect only kept the bloodline of thousands of families, and no longer took care of things, and the next generation was not as good as the next generation, but it survived anyway, until the head of the family broke through the Jade Capital Wheel more than ten years ago, which was able to open the storage bags passed down from those ancestors, only to find that there were only a few spirit stone talismans left, and there was no help."
"I see."
Li Tongya sighed deeply, added the tea bowl in front of Wan Tiancang, saw him sigh, and comforted him in a low voice.
Wan Tiancang took a sip of tea, slapped the table hard, and said angrily:
"Hate the Ji family, back then, my Wan family and the Yu family in the north were constantly at war, the Ji family was just a small family in the cracks, not even a qi cultivator, and now they are in the right and left and right, and they have grown to such an extent, almost driving my Wan family into a desperate situation."
Looking at Li Tongya, Wan Tiancang asked in a low voice:
"I don't know which adult in your family?"
Li Tongya understood that Wan Tiancang was referring to Li Mutian, so he became vigilant at the moment, but fortunately, the brothers had already agreed and drank a cup of tea:
"My father ran away from home in his early years and served as a soldier on the Guli Road, following General Yang to attack Shanyue."
"Tiancang has heard a little that Yang Tianya built a foundation and cultivated his foundation, led his troops to the east to attack the Shanyue, and many people died."
Wan Tiancang moved the teacup and said suspiciously:
"But I heard that Ling Zun was a mortal when he returned......"
Li Tongya smiled bitterly and explained:
"My father got the guidance of an immortal cultivator at home, refined qi training, and got the opportunity to practice the immortal foundation during the battle in the army.
"It's Amakura who is sloppy!"
Wan Tiancang clasped his hands and said secretly in his heart:
"I'm afraid that if you refine the immortal foundation at a young age, you will offend those children of the big family when you are young, so those children of the big family are not afraid of retaliation and love this kind of drama of being abandoned as a mortal."
He said regretfully:
"It's a pity."
Wan Tiancang looked at Li Tongya and shut up, gritted his teeth, and finally spoke:
"To be honest with Brother Li, Tiancang came this time, hoping to use the inheritance of the clan formation to exchange for a talisman for the peak of qi training or foundation building, and kill that Ji Dengqi!"
Li Tongya suddenly realized and said in his heart:
"I said why did Wan Tiancang come to me with nothing to do, this guy originally had this idea!"