Evening breeze swept across Willow Lake. Though Zhou Tieyi had not eaten all day, he felt no hunger. Inside his belly, the two Tiger-Leopard Marrow-Refining Pills were ceaselessly swelling his Qi and Blood.
"I was a fisherman's daughter," Mother Zhou continued. "My ability to fish felt innate. Even though I grew up on a covered sampan, I never went hungry before I turned six." She paused, reflecting, then added, "Or perhaps I did go hungry before I was three, but I was too young to remember."
It was the first time Zhou Tieyi had listened so attentively to his mother’s life story, and he did not interrupt.
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