Long Chen bid farewell to the mirage, left the Void Swallowing Ring, and returned to Duan Zhu's home. Duan Zhu was seen sitting in front of a portrait, staring at the person in the portrait with tearful eyes.
"Yun'er, what's wrong, aunt?"
Yun'er shook her head and said softly: "I don't know. Every year on this day, my mother-in-law looks very painful, as if she is missing someone."
"Missing someone?" Long Chen suddenly remembered what Aunt Duan Zhu told him about an uncle named Xiao when he first came here. She said that Uncle Xiao could not exist in this world. She didn't understand this at first. The meaning of the sentence, but today I heard the teacher say that he does not belong to this world. This seems to be somewhat similar to the meaning of Uncle Xiao mentioned by Aunt Duan Zhu. Then, he took a closer look at the image hanging on the wall. Although it was not very real, it was somewhat similar to the shadow of the teacher's soul he saw today. Could there be any connection between the two?
After a long time, Duan Zhu came out of his sadness and wiped away his tears.
"Aunt Duan Zhu, are you thinking about Uncle Xiao again?"
Yun'er helped Duan Zhu sit down and said while wiping her tears: "Aniang, I have always seen you so sad every year since I was a child, and my daughter is also in pain."
Duan Zhu hugged Yun'er and stroked her hair, and said lovingly: "Yun'er, don't worry about mother, she is fine."
Then she said: "Chen'er, Yun'er, do you know why I feel so sad every year on this day?"
Naturally, the two of them didn’t know.
"Back then, Brother Xiao was trying to track down the evil man who killed his mentor, adopted father and adopted mother. I accompanied him all over the world, and finally traced the whereabouts of the evil man in a place called Xiaojing Lake.
Little did I know that this evil man was my biological father who I had never met. Although my father had never shown any fatherly love to me, he was my father after all, so I had to pretend to be my father and take my place. My father went to the appointment, but was killed in the hands of Brother Xiao, and then drifted into this world. Although I was reborn in this world, the memories of my previous life have always been hidden in my mind, so every year today I recall the pain I felt when I made the decision. "
Long Chen was surprised: "It turns out that Aunt Duan Zhu's previous life was not in this world."
Duan Zhu went on to say: "I know that Brother Xiao will be more painful than me after learning the truth. He has a blood feud and pursues the world's most evil people. He was born in Khitan and grew up in the Song Dynasty. He has feelings for both sides, and it is difficult for both sides. It’s hard to make a choice. The most painful thing for me is that I can’t share my worries with him, and I can only let him bear all the pain alone. His lifelong wish is to go with me to herd horses and sheep outside the Great Wall, but it’s a pity that all this has come to nothing.”
After hearing what Aunt Duan Zhu said, Long Chen could almost conclude that the teacher was Aunt Duan Zhu's sweetheart, but the teacher could only appear in the form of a soul now, and could only be confined to the Void Swallowing Ring.
He really wanted to tell Aunt Duan Zhu about the teacher right away, but firstly, the teacher had told the world that the matter of swallowing the ring by nothingness should not be told to the world. Secondly, after all, things are the same and people are similar, so the teacher must be Aunt Duan Zhu. Your sweetheart? Also, the current teacher is a soul body. I have no way to send Aunt Duan Zhu into the Void Swallowing Ring to meet the teacher, so I don’t want to tell Aunt Duan Zhu the truth for the time being. After the teacher confirms it, I will help the teacher recover her true body. Then tell the truth.
"Aniang, don't be sad, Yun'er will always stay by my side." Yun'er cried as she nestled in Duan Zhu's arms.
"Yun'er, you and Chen'er are my dearest people. My mother is really happy to have you by her side."
At this moment, Long Chen was also moved by the affection between Duan Zhu and his daughter. What he had always lacked most was family affection. Aunt Duan Zhu had always treated him like his own son. Why didn't he accept Aunt Duan Zhu as his godmother? So he turned over and bowed down.
"Chen'er, what are you doing?" Duan Zhu hurriedly went to help Long Chen up.
"No, Aunt Duan Zhu, if it weren't for you these days, I would have starved to death. You are closer than my biological mother. From now on, you are my mother. You and Yun'er are the closest to me. people."
Duan Zhu was moved to help Long Chen up and said with tears: "Child, my mother's life is not in vain if I have two children like you. But Chen'er, in fact, you..." Speaking of Duan Zhu's words here Stopped abruptly.
"Auntie, what's wrong?"
"No, it's nothing. You will know later."
Yun'er said a little sourly: "Brother Chen is my mother's child from now on, and he is also my brother."
How could Duan Zhu not know what Xiao Nizi was thinking? She was deeply in love with Long Chen and thought that after becoming brother and sister, they would not be able to go further.
"Silly boy, how come my mother-in-law doesn't know what's on your mind? Don't worry."
With her mother's words, Yun'er shyly hid in the room.
After dinner, Long Chen returned to his room. He activated his mind again and came to the Void Swallowing Ring, but the mirage's soul body did not appear.
"The teacher is a soul after all and cannot appear at any time. If there is a chance to find out the truth in the future, it is better to improve one's own cultivation level first." Long Chen came out of Najie.
"What is the power of fire? What is the power of ice?" Long Chen looked at the practice secrets of Ice Palm and Red Flame Fist left by Mirage, but he still couldn't understand the power of fire and ice, so he thought of Long Chen. Lonely city.
In the early morning of the next day, he sneaked onto the roof of Long Gucheng's house. With his special characteristics, he can naturally avoid Long Gucheng's Yuanli search.
In the training ground, Long Gucheng, Long Gushan and Long Huan stood in their respective positions. But looking at Long Huan's expression, he looked so reluctant. Long Gushan's expression was even more indignant.
"Brother, I can't stand Long Xiaowu's arrogant attitude. I wouldn't even die for them." It turned out that the three brothers, father and son, were discussing whether to serve Longjiabao. Long Gushan has a distinctive personality and is extremely disgusted with the senior officials of Longjiabao.
"I also agree with my second uncle's opinion."
Long Gucheng sighed: "Second brother, Huan'er, no matter what, we are still members of the Longjiabao tribe. Although there are many injustices among the senior people in Longjiabao, we still have the word "dragon" above our heads."
"On weekdays, they show off their power, but when a real disaster is imminent, they beg us. It's really shameful and ridiculous!" Long Gushan's eyes were expressionless, and he felt a lot of resistance to the family in his heart.
"We are not serving the senior officials of Longjiabao, let alone Long Xiaowu. But if Heiyunbao really wants to subvert Longjiabao, will we just watch the lives of tens of thousands of people in Longjiabao be taken away by them? ? We can adopt an attitude of escaping from the world in order to seek stability. We can hide for one or two days, but can we hide for one, two, one, or two years? But will the people of Heiyun Castle let us live in peace? ?”
Long Gushan and Long Huan were speechless.
"Second brother, do you still remember what the old patriarch said to you and me when he retired?"
Long Gushan sighed: "Yes, my third uncle did tell us before he left, asking us to do our best to preserve the family bloodline when the family is in trouble."
"Yes, when Elder Kun was talking to us last night, he secretly slipped a note over to us. He hoped that we would put the interests of the family first and put aside past grudges as a way to repay Elder Kun's kindness."
"Okay, big brother, I will listen to you this time. When the day comes, we will look at the dragon character above our heads!"
Long Gushan's thoughts were resolved, and Long Gucheng couldn't help but look at his son.
"Since the second uncle has no objection, then I will listen to my father and the second uncle, but I don't want to have anything to do with the upper echelons of Longjiabao."
"You don't need to tell me this. We are still who we are and nothing has changed."
