Fist of Imagination

Li Daidi returned home with a large basket of bitter hemp and purslane. After she mastered the Twelve Fengming Styles, she could climb mountains and cross ridges as if walking on flat ground. She could go to many places that were rarely visited, such as under cliffs, beside eagle nests, beside tiger dens, and at the mouths of bear caves. The wild vegetables in these places were not picked by anyone and grew particularly lush.

After the black-faced little girl killed two tigers and a black bear while picking wild vegetables, the fierce birds and beasts in this forest learned to hide their heads and hide in their nests until the king of beasts who picked wild vegetables left before they dared to speak loudly.

In the several shabby huts of the Li family, there was no one else except her babbling brother Li Fugui. Li Daidi did not have to worry about being seen, so she could use martial arts at will.

The little girl rubbed the firewood with both hands and ignited it. She stood in front of the stove, stepped on the air with her two feet in turn, and stopped in the air. She replaced the original two small stools with a style of wild geese riding clouds and began to prepare dinner for the family.

There were steamed buns made of mixed flour in the pot, and the green vegetable porridge was still being cooked in the earthenware pot.

Li Daidi took out a piece of venison and put it into the porridge to stew together. After cooking for more than half an hour, he took out the venison and ate it with the method of swallowing the sky and eating the earth, and then added a lot of bitter and astringent wild vegetables to the porridge to cover the taste of the meat.

Dad and mom would only be happy if they dug a lot of wild vegetables, and would never complain that the porridge was not tasty.

She had been cooking meat in the porridge for half a month, and no one had discovered this little secret.

Every night, she secretly used her internal energy to regulate her mother's body. Her mother's complexion became better and better. After drinking meat porridge for half a month, her brother's face became meatier.

Only Dad's arm was injured too badly for too long, and the bones had grown crooked, so there was no way to heal him unconsciously.

And if the arm was healed, when it came to conscription and war, Dad might be selected again, which was very difficult to deal with.

In Xiaosong Village, people who broke their hands and feet to avoid military service were called "lucky hands and lucky feet", because although their hands and feet were broken, they no longer had to leave their hometown to serve in the army, which was a rare blessing for the villagers.

Li Daidi was not too worried. She learned kung fu, and the family's life would only get better and better.

But what should I do after I get married?

Li Daidi thought of the two hundred kilograms of millet that her father had agreed to with the Wang family in Qinghebao on the other side of the mountain, and she felt depressed.

It was getting dark, and Li Laosan and Wang, who was carrying a hoe, returned home and sat at the worn and black square table to eat.

Li Daidi no longer swallowed her saliva when she looked at the steamed buns and porridge on the table. She set the dishes for her parents, and then carried a large basin of sweaty and sour clothes and diapers to go to the stream.

Li Laosan ate the steamed buns and drank wild vegetable porridge, with a wrinkled face and no expression.

He was chewing the bitter vegetable in the porridge, and suddenly put down the coarse porcelain bowl and the chopsticks in his hand, and reached out to pick something out of his mouth and put it in front of his eyes.

It was a piece of boiled meat, only one-third the thickness of the chopsticks, and one end had been chewed up by Li Laosan.

The wrinkles on Li Laosan's wooden face became deeper and deeper. He stood up suddenly and shouted in Wang's horrified eyes:

"Dead girl! Come back!"

Li Daidi had just walked a short distance outside the fence with the wooden basin filled with clothes. When he heard his father's voice, he hurriedly ran back with the wooden basin.

"Dad..."

Li Laosan stared fiercely, holding the cooked venison in his hand, and was so angry that his whole body was shaking.

Without saying a word, he slapped Li Daidi in the face, and used his left hand that had been broken by a stone to hold the meat in front of Li Daidi.

"You are such a troublemaker, a money-loser! Where did you steal this meat from? Did you steal it from the village? How dare you do such a thing!

Our Li family has been honest farmers for generations. If you do such a sneaky thing and people find out, how can I live in the village!"

Li Laosan became angrier and angrier as he thought about it. He pushed Li Daidi on the shoulder. Seeing that he failed to push her down, he kicked the little girl.

"I didn't steal..."

"You're still lying! How old are you? You dare to steal other people's meat. How could our Li family have such a thing as you? You are so unruly and full of lies. If you don't change your bad habits when you marry into the Wang family in the future, I won't care if people beat you to death with a stick if you make a mistake!"

Li Laosan couldn't stop his anger when he heard Li Daidi's stubbornness, and kicked Li Daidi a few more times.

"Dad, I don't want to get married. I don't want to go to the Wang family."

"What did you say!" Li Laosan was furious, and his eyebrows suddenly stood up.

"How dare you say such shameless words! Where did you learn such shameless words!

Although I am a poor man, I know that a word is a nail. You have already promised to the Wang family, and the Wang family is your husband's family!

Can you make the decision on marriage by yourself?

Shameless thing, I must beat you to death today!"

Li Laosan turned around and saw that there was no other handy thing, so he picked up the bench beside the square table, and regardless of Wang's crying and shouting to pull his clothes, he swung the hard wooden bench and smashed it on Li Daidi's head!

Li Daidi lowered her head, her heart was in a mess, and she unconsciously stretched out her hand to block the bench. The iron flow in her meridians naturally burst out, and her thin arms held the bench. The strong strength of Fengming Iron Cloth Shirt immediately broke the bench into three pieces.

When Li Daidi heard the sound of the bench breaking, he realized that he had made a big mistake and immediately withdrew his internal energy. However, the remaining strength, less than one thousandth of it, did not dissipate after breaking the bench. There was still enough strength to knock Li Laosan, who was holding the bench, off balance and sit on the ground.

Li Laosan was panicked, looking at his daughter as if he had seen a monster.

"Don't come over here! Don't come over here!" He supported himself on the ground with both hands, kicked his legs, and backed away desperately, retreating under the table in a few steps.

He backed away in a panic, and his left hand, which could not be straightened, hit the table leg diagonally.

The old square table shook violently, and the earthenware jar on the table fell to the ground and shattered, and the remaining meat porridge was scattered everywhere.

Li Laosan saw the porridge on the ground and hurriedly picked up the large pieces of the jar without thinking, lying on the ground and licking the remaining porridge on the jar. He was scalded by the hot porridge and gasped.

Li Fugui, who was in the cradle, was frightened by the sound of the bench breaking and the jar breaking, and cried loudly. Wang hurriedly picked up the child and shook him. Her panicked eyes moved between Li Laosan, Li Daidi, and Li Fugui, and she couldn't say anything.

Li Daidi clenched her fists, feeling like dozens of kilograms of bran were stuffed into her chest, stinging and heavy.

The little girl didn't know what to say, didn't know how to explain to her parents, but she knew that she didn't want to stay in this house any longer.

Li Daidi turned around and ran out of the village. She didn't hide her martial arts anymore, and used the Eagle Flying Body Technique with all her strength. Her figure running forward almost became a shadow, and she rushed straight out of the small village where she was born and raised.

She ran wildly in the deep mountains and old forests all night, looking at nothing and thinking about nothing, until dawn came and the sun rose.

Li Daidi stopped and began to look at the surrounding scenery. She saw familiar trees, familiar birds and animals, and familiar fields in the distance.

But these were not what the little girl wanted. She didn't know what she wanted.

Under the shining of the rising sun, Li Daidi crossed the stream, crossed the mountains, crossed the Qinghe Fort on the other side of the mountain, crossed one village after another, and crossed one path after another. The path became a big road, and the big road became an official road.

There were more and more pedestrians on the road. Li Daidi slowed down and walked forward along the flat official road.

This was the first time that Li Daidi came to a place so far away from Xiaosongzhuang.

Everything on the road was new. There were ox carts, horse carts, wheelbarrows, peddlers carrying loads, escort teams escorting commercial goods, strong men riding tall horses, tea stalls and wine shops, several-zhang-high city walls and a city gate that could accommodate four carriages side by side.

Li Daidi followed the bustling crowd to the city gate. However, the place near the city gate was ten times more prosperous and lively than the 19-mile shop she had imagined.

Li Daidi looked up and saw three big characters engraved above the city gate. This city was called Qinyang City.

The little girl used a pigeon-hiding technique to hide her figure and followed a peddler selling bamboo utensils into this tall city.