Chapter 1: Lei Yin (Part 1)

  Lei Xingfeng understood the little girl's feelings, having gone through extreme difficulties in the past few years. The three of them, grandfather, son and grandson, would eat together, but they were all too polite to each other, so no one could finish their meal, especially Lei Xingfeng, who was at an age where he needed to eat a lot, and often went hungry.

  The old man Lao Bai's heart wasn't feeling well either. He gently patted Leixingyao's head and sighed, "You've suffered."

  Lei Xingyao said, "Grandpa, as long as there's meat, we're not afraid." In her careful eyes, meat and grain were the most important things. From the time she was sensible, every year during the cold season, food was what she managed and collected, really taking it very seriously. Other things were easy to say, but in her heart, food absolutely came first.

  Hu Cangya said: "A Feng, you are the main hunter, what about those eagle-led hunters?"

  Lei Xingfeng said: "You discuss it among yourselves and decide according to the majority's opinion."

  "Hu Cangya said: 'There are two opinions... one is to let the eagle leader bring the prey to exchange for people, and the other... is to kill them all, so they won't come to harass us again, and we can also occupy their hunting grounds.'"

  Lei Xingfeng said indifferently: "You decide, we might leave Hu Yanbao at the end of winter."

  Since seeing the mighty power of Old Man Lei, Hu Cangyue knew that this family would not stay in Tiger Cliff Fortress for long. However, he did not expect them to leave so quickly. He let out a bitter smile and said: "Alright, outside is your world, tiny Tiger Cliff Fortress cannot keep you here, just hope... when you have time, come back and take a look."

  The old man of Lei Bao said: "You don't have to worry, after we leave, we will give Hu Yanbao a statement, rest assured, no one will dare to provoke you in the future."

  Hu Cangyan's face suddenly showed joy, he knew the old man's words had multiple meanings. He regretted not helping the old man's family more when they were struggling, so he didn't dare ask for more.

  The old man of Lei Bao said: "I suggest... killing the eagle leader is a calamity, leaving it is a disaster." His true nature was suddenly exposed.

  Hu Cang Ya nodded solemnly: "We will consider it carefully, maybe killing is better, but many people tend to exchange food."

  The old man said, "You decide for yourselves, I'm just offering my suggestion, you don't have to pay attention." He actually didn't care about the lives or deaths of those hunters, he had a little bit of feeling towards Tiger Cliff Fortress, but it wasn't very deep.

  More than ten days later, Du Hongchen brought his apprentices and a team of cleaners, ten thousand wheel masters, with a large amount of food.

  These days, whether it's Lei Bao Lao Ren or Lei Xing Feng, they are both working hard to consolidate their cultivation. Especially Lei Xing Feng, who is about to advance to the level of Mi Lun Shi. However, under his grandfather's suggestion, he has been controlling himself and constantly refining the thunder wheel power within his body, hoping to lay a good foundation. This is also a worry that only geniuses have - advancing too quickly, it's hard to avoid having an unstable foundation. With Lei Bao Lao Ren's guidance, Lei Xing Feng naturally won't make such low-level mistakes.

  Lei Xingyao was busy sorting out the food, she was very happy, so much food, although it couldn't be eaten openly, but this winter would not go hungry. However, soon she encountered a severe situation, because in the past, the old man ate very little food, but after recovering from his injuries, the old man's appetite increased sharply, at first, just one or two pieces of meat were enough, but in recent days, Lei Xingyao found that Grandpa's appetite was terrifying.

  Originally, Leixing Feng's appetite was the largest in the family. After adding Grandpa, Leixing Yao counted with her small fingers and found that the stored food was not enough to get through the cold season. Her face suddenly fell, and Grandpa's appetite was even bigger than Leixing Feng's. One meal, even if Leixing Feng and Leixing Yao added up together, they couldn't eat as much as Grandpa did.

  Lei Xingfeng saw Lei Xingyao frowning, her small hands counting non-stop, and curiously asked: "Yao Yao, what's wrong? Are you doing math?" He had taught the little girl simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division when she was four years old.

  Lei Xingyao bit her finger, with a worried expression, saying: "Brother, the food for winter is not enough... what to do? Sigh..."

  Lei Xingfeng couldn't help but burst out laughing, gently rubbing her little head, Lei Xingyao said: "I'm so anxious to death, brother is still laughing!"

  Lei Xingfeng smiled and said, "Don't worry, Yao Yao. If there's not enough food, I'll go hunting. Ah, Grandpa can also go hunting. The cold season can no longer stop us, hehe." In the past, when they arrived at the cold season, they were helpless because they didn't have the strength. Now, with the arrival of the cold season, they are not afraid anymore. Just because hunters cannot go hunting does not mean that they cannot go either.

  Lei Xingyao suddenly came to her senses and couldn't help but laugh: "This is great, I was worried that there wouldn't be enough food, and we'd have to starve again."

  Lei Xingfeng couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, seeing the little kid already worrying about food at home. He said, "Don't worry, brother guarantees that we won't go hungry again!"

  At this time, Du Hongchen led his men into the small courtyard and shouted: "Senior, junior Du Hongchen has come to pay respects."

  The old man with a loud thunder brought Lei Xingfeng and Lei Xingyao out of the hut and said, "What are you doing here?"

  Du Hongchen said: "Delivering food, and there is also a letter, it was given by the Great Elder to the senior."

  The old man nodded and took over a leather volume, saying: "The hut is narrow, you can stay in the yard."

  Du Hongchen nodded respectfully and said, "Put the things in the courtyard. This group of people all have wheel storage space, of course, the size of the wheel storage space is different depending on their cultivation. There are various processed cured meats and dried meats, as well as relatively rare rice flour, various seasonings, and a large quantity of dried vegetables and fruits."

  When she saw the food, Leixingyao's eyes lit up and she said: "Is this for us?"

  Lei Xingfeng smiled wryly, thinking of his past life. The so-called rich girl was indeed correct, and some food had attracted Lei Xingyao, who didn't even know she'd been deceived.

  Du Hongchen said: "Yes, they are all yours. Oh, I have a package here for you." He took out a bag woven with rattan strips and handed it to Lei Xingyao.

  "What is it?" asked Leixing Yao curiously.

  Du Hongchen smiled and said: "It's candies brought by the merchant group outside, and some small trinkets."

  Lei Xingyao had never seen candy before. Her experience with sweet things was limited to various ripe wild fruits. "Candy? What's that?"

  Lei Xingfeng sighed inwardly, he walked forward and picked up the bag woven from rattan, opened it, and inside were various bags made of animal skin. He opened one of them, and indeed saw some very primitive candies, he didn't know what they were made of, with a layer of sugar glaze on top, all about the size of a finger, there was no packaging on the candies. He took out one and directly let Lei Xingyao open her mouth, putting the candy into her small mouth, saying: "Eat, the candy is sweet."

  Lei Xingyao's mouth moved slightly, and her eyes curved instantly. This was a taste she had never tried before. She grasped the woven bamboo bag tightly in her hand and said, "Delicious, delicious, thank you Grandpa." She was very polite and knew it was Du Hongchen who gave it to her.

  Du Hongchen secretly took a glance at the old man, saw the smile of relief on his face, and immediately knew he had done the right thing. Flattering an old man is much easier than flattering a child, as they will definitely appreciate it. Sure enough, the old man's tone became much milder.

  Inside the bamboo tube bag, there were not only candies, but also a lot of dried fruits, and even some rare flowered cloth and satin. Those must have been brought by foreign merchant troops. The mountainous area doesn't produce fabric, at most it produces fur. Fabric and satin are all brought by foreign merchant troops, the price is absolutely expensive, many furs are needed to exchange for them.

  Lei Xingyao carefully put the bag into the small house, took out a pack of candies, and hurriedly walked outside. She said: "Brother, I'm going to Xiangxiang's house." When you get something good, you always want to share it with your best friend.

  Lei Xingfeng responded with a sound, knowing that the little girl was going to offer treasures. In the past, others always gave her things to eat, and now that she had something good, of course, she would take it out at the first opportunity.

  The old man opened the scroll and read it through, saying: "Qī Xuán invites us to go to Dà Hóng Cave?"

  Du Hongchen said: "Yes, the Great Elder instructed us to offer sacrifices to our predecessors along the way."

  The old man pondered for a moment and said: "A Feng, do you want to go on a trip?"

  "Lei Xingfeng said: 'If we go, will we come back?'"

  The old man smiled and said: "Of course, we won't be back. Let's go out directly from the Dahong Cave, it's more convenient."

  Lei Xingfeng lived in Hu Yanbao, and was really fed up. He wanted to see what the world was like as soon as possible. He nodded: "Alright, let's go."

  The old man nodded and said: "My grandson agreed to go, well, let's go this time, it's been a long time since I've seen the little ones, it's good to take a look."

  Du Hongchen secretly wiped his sweat, the Great Elder was called a little friend, this is also too crazy. He also greatly relieved in his heart. The Great Elder personally entrusted him that no matter what he had to invite the old man to Da Hong Cave. In the words, it seemed to be mixed with some urgency, and told him that if he succeeded in inviting the senior, then he might enter the inner gate, this was the reason why he was nervous.

  Lei Xingfeng had Hu Cangya find a place for them to stay, and arranged for Du Hongchen and the others to move in. However, his small house was unable to accommodate so many people.

  In the past few days, Lei Xingfeng and his family were busy saying goodbye to familiar people in Huqiaopu, and also distributed the collected food to good friends and those who had helped them before, all of whom received not a small amount of gifts.

  Du Hongchen also promised that in the future, Baijiazhuang would arrange for some masters to come and garrison Hu Yanbao, as for Yingling, they would arrange for people to move all of Yingling's people away.

  Everything was settled, and Lei Xingfeng's family finally left Huayuebao with Du Hongchen and others.

  Lei Xingfeng walked out of the suspension basket from Shigubao, he looked up at the top of the cliff and thought: "I don't know if I will come back again in the future..."