Time flies, and three full years have passed since Li Rui hid his name in the countryside of Haizhou.

Although Haizhou is a prosperous land, the truly developed areas are only the plains near the sea, with rolling hills in the north, mostly poor rural areas.

For three years, Li Rui has lived in this small village called "Turtle Village".

The reason why it is called "Turtle Village" is because the whole village is located in the valley. It is shaped like a turtle, with a big middle, four legs extending out from the east and west, and a protrusion in the north and south. When viewed from the top of the mountain, it looks like a turtle.

The naive "bastard".

Li Rui enjoyed a rare leisure time here. The environment here was very similar to the Lianhua Village where he lived when he was a child. Under the scorching sun, "Turtle Village" was just like the Lianhua Village in his childhood memories, backward and dilapidated.

On this day, Li Rui was rushing home from Huichuan Town, fifty miles away.

A week ago, he was entrusted by the villagers to go to the town's public office to fight for the road construction fees that Guicun had been owed for five years.

"Oh, come on, everyone, Li Rui is back!"

Just as he entered the village, in front of a magnificent house, a voluptuous woman in gorgeous clothes cooed at Li Rui.

"I'm back, Aunt Li."

This charming and enchanting woman, her name is Gao Lili, she speaks in a cooing voice, is sexy and seductive, and is very seductive. She is called Aunt, but she is actually not older than thirty-five or thirty-five, just because the former head of Turtle Village, Mr.

The cow eats young grass and takes her as his wife. As a result, her seniority is relatively high, so Li Rui calls her Aunt Li.

Unfortunately, the village chief passed away less than half a year after Gao Lili got married, and she became a widow.

"People from this big city are different, they are really energetic." Gao Lili looked at Li Rui's back, a glimmer of light flashed in her eyes, and the expression on her face became even more seductive.

Li Rui's home is in the middle of the village. Not far from the door when he arrived, his stone courtyard wall is surrounded by many neighbors.

Li Rui rushed over and squeezed through the crowd into the courtyard.

I saw Butcher Zhang from the next village with a large group of people surrounding the elderly village chief, shouting that he should pay the project money owed to them.

The poor old village chief was grabbed by the collar. Under the strong sunlight, he felt dizzy and unable to move.

It turns out that due to traffic congestion in Guicun, it is inconvenient for villagers to go out. In order to change the backwardness of the place, the local town office agreed to subsidize a sum of funds for road construction. Guicun believed that with the endorsement from above, everything would be fine.

So I asked Butcher Zhang from a neighboring village to lead people to build a mountain road. However, I never expected that the road was built, but the money was still not received.

No, Butcher Zhang brought someone to make trouble today.

The house that Li Rui lived in was lent to him by the village chief Mao Buyi. Not only did he not charge rent, he also took good care of him. He would always call him when eating, so Li Rui naturally respected him very much.

When he saw Butcher Zhang bullying Mao Buyi, how could Li Rui just sit idly by and ignore him?

"Stop it!" Li Rui shouted, rushed in, and kicked over the man who was holding Mao Buyi.

"Damn it, who is this reckless person who wants to stand out? I'll beat him up!"

A group of people immediately surrounded Li Rui, and all of a sudden they greeted him with fists and sticks.

But at that moment, those fists and kicks were like slow motion in a movie. It seemed like it took a long time for a punch to hit Li Rui.

Li Rui's eyes became extremely sharp, he clenched his fists, moved his body, and attacked Butcher Zhang and others who seemed to be standing still around them.

He didn't take any serious measures because Situ Zhao had given repeated orders and repeated orders, and he couldn't let people know that he was a cultivator unless it was absolutely necessary.

"ah……"

"It hurts so much, my hand..."

"what happened?"

In an instant, the yard was abuzz. Butcher Zhang and the people he brought were all lying in the yard rolling and wailing like bastards, while Li Rui stood there as if he had not moved.

"Zhang Guoqiang, we will give you your money, but if you act wild again, I will beat you every time I see you."

The villagers who were watching couldn't believe it when they saw the scene in the yard.

No one knew what was happening, even Butcher Zhang himself was stunned.

But Li Rui knew in his heart that he never expected that he could use that little power to defeat them in an instant. He had only used less than 10% of his power. If he had used 100% of his power, Zhang Guoqiang and the others would not be able to get up.

"What a hell..." Zhang Guoqiang, the butcher, struggled to get up from the ground, with a look of confusion on his face.

"Brother Qiang, I just got kicked twice, both on my legs. I don't know who kicked me?"

Several people stood up and looked at Li Rui with fear in their eyes.

Li Rui resisted the temptation to continue beating him. He just stared at Zhang Guoqiang and said word by word: "I will pay you back the hundred thousand yuan I owe you within three days. Don't let me pay you back within three days."

If I see you again, otherwise, I won’t be so lucky!”

Zhang Guoqiang stared at Li Rui fiercely and opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't curse.

"Okay, I want to see what you are capable of. I will come to get the money in three days. What if there is still no money?"

Li Rui said coldly: "I will take the initiative to deliver the money to your door in three days. If you don't pay back the money, I, Li Rui, will do whatever you want."

Zhang Guoqiang covered his chest and shouted, "Okay," and although he couldn't save his face, he still took the people away.

"Li Rui, our village really doesn't have the money to pay him back..." Mao Buyi, the old village chief, choked out.

Li Rui said with a confident look: "Village Chief, I will figure out a way to deal with the money. You don't have to worry."

"Do you have any idea?"

"Huh, isn't it just money? A living person can still choke to death with urine!" Li Rui said viciously in his heart.

Money is all about money. People who live in big cities scheming and deceiving each other just for money.

If it weren't for money, the Xiao family wouldn't have suffered. If it weren't for money, there wouldn't be all the disputes, and maybe I wouldn't be here.

But the top priority now is to get the money quickly!

That night, Li Rui took a mat and laid it on the ground in the yard, staring at the dark night sky in a daze.

Memories from three years ago flooded into his mind again, and Li Rui felt like he was in a dream, wondering how he managed to persevere.

Situ Zhao just told him that if he was asked to lie dormant and wait, he must be patient and never reveal his identity.

But if you wait like this, when will it end?

When he came to Haizhou, he was alone, like a rootless duckweed, drifting in the wind. Fortunately, the old village chief took him in and gave him a second home.

Coincidentally, this place is very similar to Lianhua Village, with rolling mountains, deep valleys, groups of wild animals, and precious medicinal materials all over the mountains and plains.

For the past three years, Li Rui has only done one thing almost every day, which is to dig herbs in the mountains.

What I dig is not only the herbs, but also my longing.

For three whole years, Tan Lingling was nowhere to be seen.

Liu Xiao promised him that as long as he collected a hundred kinds of medicinal materials and prepared a hundred kinds of prescriptions, he could meet Tan Lingling.

This sentence became the belief that supported him to persevere.

Because, he misses her all the time.

Li Rui will classify the collected herbs and put them in one place.

A year later, one hundred kinds of medicinal materials were filled in the small hut. So Li Rui no longer just dug herbs, but began to prepare prescriptions.

I have been doing this for another year, drinking a different liquid every day.

At first, Li Rui didn't understand pharmacology, so he blindly tried the medicine and almost died from the pain. The pain penetrated deep into the bone marrow.

But he still persisted.

Only by persisting could he hope to see Tan Lingling.

However, the long wait not only caused physical suffering, but also emotional emptiness and loneliness, which tormented him all the time.

There are many women in Turtle Village. The women in the village are as simple and pure as a piece of white cloth, spotless.

However, Liu Xiao had told her not to have any relationship with any other woman and to remain a virgin.

Once he breaks the precept, he will never see Tan Lingling again.

Three years later, Li Rui's body quietly changed, and his whole body became muscular. When the women in the village saw it, they screamed repeatedly.

During this period, only Liu Xiao came to see him and brought him a few medical books. So Li Rui learned the art of acupuncture. Acupuncture can cure all diseases when used on people. He also learned some martial arts, which must be studied and practiced hard to become

Stronger.

With the blessing of the medicinal properties, Li Rui's body became stronger and stronger. In just one year, he completely consolidated the level of a third-level warrior and entered the ranks of a fourth-level warrior. In another year, he integrated medical knowledge and advanced to the level of a first-level master.

Li Rui's speed was greatly improved as a result, and the movements of Zhang Guoqiang and others naturally became slow in Li Rui's eyes.

However, Liu Xiao warned that medical acupuncture and martial arts are of the same origin, and contain the secrets of the universe. If used to the extreme, the power will destroy the heavens and the earth, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the world will be shocked and ghosts and gods will cry.

"Herbs? That's right! Haha!" Li Rui's eyes suddenly brightened.

If you take the refined medicinal materials and sell them in the market, Situ Zhao once said that a good elixir can easily cost hundreds of millions.

Thinking of this, Li Rui almost happily shared it with the old village chief, but he stopped and didn't bother them for now. They probably wouldn't believe it.

"Go to bed first, and go to the mountains early tomorrow. Maybe you can find suitable herbs." Li Rui immediately lay down and fell asleep soon.

The next day, as soon as the sky turned white, Li Rui got up.

Mao Buyi's door was closed and he was probably sleeping.

Li Rui boiled the hot water and cooked rice porridge to start making breakfast.

Li Rui rummaged through the kitchen, but couldn't find anything that could be used for breakfast. He only had a few steamed buns that were about to go rancid, a small plate of pickles, and only a small bag of millet left.

It was almost impossible to open the pot at home. Li Rui couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Li Rui ate a small bowl of millet porridge and hurriedly carried the hoe and basket on his back and went out.

It was still dark, and he didn't go far when he went out and met a person head-on.

"Is this Li Rui?"

The man took the initiative to say hello to Li Rui.

Li Rui took a look and saw that the person coming was Mao Yurou, the family planning director of the village and the niece of the village chief Mao Buyi. She was the only college student in the village. She was seven or eight years older than Li Rui and should be less than thirty.

Mao Yurou is a scholar and has a good reputation in the village.

"Hello, sister Yurou. I haven't seen you for a few days. You look better and better as you grow older."

Li Rui said with a smile.

Mao Yurou's face turned red and she said angrily: "Hey, it's all gone, but it still looks good. What's wrong with you going out so early in the morning?"

Li Rui said hurriedly: "I want to go up the mountain to collect some herbs."

"Collecting herbal medicine? Do you know these things? Li Rui, I knew that Zhang Guoqiang brought people to my house yesterday to cause trouble. Thanks to you, otherwise my uncle would... Hey, but I can't do anything. Sister really can't

Sorry..."

Li Rui shook his head and smiled: "Sister Yurou, I haven't done anything in the past few years, I just studied these herbal medicines. Don't worry, I will find a solution. Sister Yurou, I am very grateful to you for having this heart.

"

Mao Yurou approached Li Rui and whispered: "Li Rui, you have to pay attention. Zhang Guoqiang is ruthless. Don't..."

"Well, thank you Sister Yurou for your concern. I will solve it properly. By the way, Sister Yurou, are you married?"

Hearing Li Rui suddenly ask this, Mao Yurou nodded and said, "Of course."

Li Rui smiled and asked: "Where is my brother-in-law from?"

Mao Yurou said softly: "I am from the county town, and now I teach in a high school."

After listening to Mao Yurou's words, Li Rui understood that marrying a teacher from the county town was a very honorable and honorable thing, but the couple were so far apart and Mao Yurou didn't like going to the city to work.
Chapter completed!