"I can."

Ye Zilin's eyes showed determination, with a calmness and firmness different from that of a nine-year-old boy.

"Zilin."

Ye Yunzheng looked worried, and wanted to persuade him again.

"Brother Yunzheng, you don't need to persuade me anymore."

Ye Zilin interrupted him with a wave of his hand: "It's my father's wish to have Master Chixia as my teacher. I can't let my father down."

"Hi."

Ye Yunzheng's eyes dimmed, guilt and apology filled his heart, he had never resented himself for bringing misfortune to the third uncle's family as he did at this moment.

*

Three days later, Ye Zilin knelt in front of his parents' tombstone, kowtowed respectfully three times, took his brother and sister to bid farewell to their relatives, and left Lanshan Village.

His younger sister was young, so he wrapped her in a bed sheet, wrapped it into a braces, and tied it in front of him.

Ye Ziyan was well-behaved and sensible, hugging her brother's neck without crying or fussing.

Ye Zimo helped his elder brother carry the basket, which contained clothes, a medicine box, and the few taels of money left at home.

The two brothers climbed mountains and ridges along the mountain trails, ate and slept in the wind, crossed the Ridgeback Mountains, and headed northwest all the way.

*

A month later, Ankang town.

Ankang Town is located at the junction of the Ridgeback Mountains and the Grasslands, and it is the only place to go to the Western Regions.

The town is quite prosperous, and there is an endless stream of caravans traveling between Ankang and the Western Regions.

Ye Zilin was holding his younger sister, Ye Zimo was carrying a pannier, the two brothers were unkempt, wearing tattered clothes, walking on the streets of the small town, pedestrians who came and went looked sideways and avoided them.

Ye Zimo stopped in front of a small inn, touched his shriveled stomach, smelled the smell of meat, and took a deep breath.

"Where is the beggar coming from? Let's go, don't stick around the door, it's bad luck."

The restaurant clerk gave him a disgusted look and waved him away.

"We're staying in the store."

Ye Zilin's eyes dimmed, and a murderous look flashed in his eyes.

"You want to stay at the hotel?"

The man curled his lips in disdain, and just about to sneer, a cold light flashed, and a short sword was pressed against his neck.

"Little Xia, spare your life, spare your life."

His face turned pale with fright, his calf trembled a few times, and he almost knelt down.

"Take us in."

Ye Zilin spun his wrist, put away his dagger, and kicked him.

"Yes Yes."

The buddy was dumbfounded, and ran into the inn.

*

The three brothers and sisters asked for a guest room to take a shower and change clothes.

Ye Zilin tidied up, and told Ye Zimo to take good care of his younger sister Carrying a basket on his back, he walked out of the inn alone.

After a while, he stopped in front of a pharmacy.

After looking at the plaque of Jishi Hall for a few seconds, he took a deep breath and entered it with a basket on his back.

In the back basket were the herbs picked by the three brothers and sisters in the deep mountains, half a catty of angelica, two ginseng plants as thick as a thumb, and a hundred-year-old Ganoderma lucidum.

He wants to exchange medicinal herbs for silver, and follow the caravan across the endless prairie to the Western Regions.

The clerk at the pharmacy heard footsteps, looked towards the door, saw that it was a small boy, and looked away indifferently.

Ye Zilin didn't make a sound, entered the pharmacy, walked around the counter selling medicinal herbs a few times, he probably had an idea in his mind, and then went to the clerk.

"I want to meet your shopkeeper and sell medicinal herbs."

He straightforwardly stated his intention of coming, and deliberately turned his body sideways so that the buddy could clearly see the dagger pinned to his waist.

The man was stunned, staring at the dagger for a few seconds, his heart trembled in shock, and the indifference and indifference on his face disappeared without a trace.

"What herb do you want to sell?"

He asked tremblingly with a smiling face.

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