Chapter 3: Little Return
In front of the spirit grass elixir, it is still Gu Yifeng's most treasure, seeing that Gu Ruyan has a strong medicinal fragrance on his body, his face immediately swept away the haze that had just been stolen because of Xiao Huandan, changed to a serious expression, and said seriously: "Yan'er, tell the fourth uncle, did you pick up a very high year seven-section grass today." ”
Gu Ruyan frowned, and knew that the fourth uncle suddenly shouted that he was not good, and he was really worried about his baby. I thought about pulling up the sleeve of my shirt to reveal the hideous wound on my left arm.
Gu Yifeng's eyes froze, in addition to being frightened by the wound on the girl's arm, he was even more frightened by the torn seven-knotted grass on the wound, the hundred-year-old seven-knotted grass.
Gu Yifeng's heart suddenly became uncontrollable, his head was numb, and he couldn't restrain himself from roaring anymore: "Gu Ruyan, you stinky girl of a loser, who allowed you to spoil the baby so much? This is a hundred-year-old seven-knotted grass, a hundred years, you actually use so much to stop the bleeding?"
Everyone was startled by Gu Yifeng's sudden roar, several pairs of big eyes stared at Ruyan's arm, and visually inspected the layer of herbal dregs on Gu Ruyan's arm, how could it be dozens of seven-knotted grass, not only a pain in the flesh, but also sighed in unison, looking at the patriarch Gu Qingfeng with a sad look in his eyes, and his face couldn't have expressed the same meaning clearly. "Big brother, as the patriarch, you pride yourself as a person who can sacrifice everything for the development of the family, is this how you taught your daughter how to lose the family?"
Gu Qingfeng received everyone's eyes and asked, his old face turned red, and he couldn't help but wonder where did the girl get so many hundred-year-old seven-knotted grass?
The fifth brother Gu Qianfeng has always been careful, and he guessed with just a glance at his eldest brother's expression that the eldest brother must not know about this.
So he decided to help the eldest brother say a fair word, cleared his throat and said: "Look at the freshness of this seven-knot grass as if it has just been pulled out of the soil, and Yan'er is injured again, I guess the eldest brother should not know where Yan'er got these seven-knotted grass." ”
When everyone heard this, they suddenly realized, everyone was panicked by the appearance of the stolen medicine thief and the hundred-year-old seven-section grass before, and they didn't even think about it, Gu Yifeng bent down and glared at Gu Ruyan, ready to bandage her wounds, just with this girl's qualifications Gu Yifeng didn't want to spend half a cent for her, but after all, she was the head of the Gu family and the only daughter of her own eldest brother. While pulling out the crumbs of the seven-knotted grass in pain, she cast a water magic to clean her wounds.
After all, the family had never given her any resources, so she asked patiently, "Can Yan'er tell the fourth uncle where did these herbs come from?" After speaking, he stared at her with a serious face, for fear that he would miss the slightest bit of useful information.
Gu Ruyan felt black in his heart about these uncles who were usually lukewarm to him, and only then did he pretend to be a serious memory, and only after half a voice did he speak: "Did the fourth uncle say that these spirit grasses were picked in the Yunzhong Mountains. But he secretly said in his heart: Okay, you fourth uncle, I don't see you giving me half a pill on weekdays, but now I know that I have picked up good things, so I want to come and get a piece of the pie. For those who cultivate immortals, personal opportunities belong to individuals, not to mention parents and relatives, even teachers have no right to covet them. glanced at his father again, but he didn't mean to speak for himself, and couldn't help but snort coldly, but his face didn't show any dissatisfaction.
Gu Yifeng was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Where is the Yunzhong Mountain Range?" ”
Gu Ruyan tilted his head and pretended to think, but he was even more angry in his heart, and couldn't help but slowly cool his face, just when he saw the second uncle Gu Zhenfeng's face was pale, and there were fine beads of sweat on his forehead, he was shocked, and suddenly thought of the strangeness when his father's eyes swept over the second uncle when he entered the door, could it be? Gu Ruyan hurriedly glanced at the second uncle Zhenfeng's left arm, and the black coat had a little moist trace and a faint bloody breath hidden under the rich ointment, Ruyan immediately affirmed the answer.
I remembered that I heard the conversation between Gu Changfu and Gu Changgui about Lingtian before going out, and I couldn't help but feel angry, while pretending to try to recall the place where the herbs were picked, I walked slowly and naturally towards the second uncle Gu Zhenfeng, and everyone wanted to know where the high-grade herbs were, why did the second brother scream so miserably?
Of course, everyone didn't see Gu Ruyan's small movements. Gu Zhenfeng, who was regarded as a monster by everyone, could not understand that he was plotted by Gu Ruyan's dead girl, and couldn't help but stare at Gu Ruyan.
Still glaring at me, hum.
Before everyone came to their senses, they only heard Gu Ruyan exclaim: "Oh, there is a lot of blood, second uncle, how can there be so much blood on your sleeve, second uncle, is your left arm also injured like Yan'er?"
Gu Ruyan's exclamation completely woke everyone up, and they all moved their shocked, suspicious, and unkind eyes to Gu Zhenfeng's body.
This is not the end, Gu Ruyan showed a bright smile on his lips: "Fourth uncle, you can help the second uncle take a look." ”
It was Gu Yifeng's medicine, how dare Gu Zhenfeng let the person who took the medicine go to check his wounds, wouldn't that be a self-confession, he hurriedly took two steps back, and said straight in his mouth: "No, no." "I'm sweating profusely.
If everyone was only suspicious before, then Gu Zhenfeng's behavior at this moment has confirmed everyone's speculation.
Gu Yifeng stared at Gu Zhenfeng with an unbelievable look on his face, and his lips trembled with anger but his anger was revealed.
"Why didn't the second brother let me see it?"
Gu Zhenfeng panicked now, the big beads of sweat on his forehead flowed straight, and he felt that his back was sweaty, and he didn't care about Gu Ruyan anymore, so he only took two steps back before he forced himself to calm down and said: "What are you crazy about, do you all look at me like this?"
When Gu Yifeng saw his second brother's reaction, he already understood everything in his heart, a mouthful of blood rushed to his throat, he swallowed it forcibly, and said hatefully: "I want the second brother to roll up his sleeves so that the fourth brother can check it, and everything will be clear, isn't it?"
Gu Zhenfeng was even more panicked now, where would he let them check, today's incident was originally unaware, it was all made bad by Gu Ruyan, a dead girl, who caused herself to lose face in front of her brother, thinking about it, she couldn't help but glared at her with hatred, and then roared angrily: "When the great enemy came to attack, if I didn't fight to protect the clan, where would there be today's Gu family, I hurt the foundation in that battle, and the ancestor chose the eldest brother to be the patriarch, and now the fourth brother has been refined into a small pill, isn't it the will of God that gives me another chance to advance?"
Saying that, he glanced at everyone angrily, and everyone was speechless for a while, but they watched Gu Zhenfeng snort and leave.
Gu Ruyan was secretly happy, but suddenly felt that Youdao's eyes fell on him, looking for a look, but found that his father was frowning and looking at him coldly, Gu Ruyan couldn't help but shiver, and hurriedly lowered his head, but he didn't feel that he had done anything wrong.
Fourth Uncle Gu Yifeng sighed, and laughed at himself, without even asking about herbs, flicked his sleeves, and turned to leave.
The other uncles also saw that the matter was clear, and bowed their hands to the patriarch's father, and they all withdrew, and each left.
There were only Gu Ruyan and his father left in the hall, Gu Ruyan stood in the hall without his father's permission, and he didn't dare to leave, just stood quietly.
Gu Qingfeng sighed, slowly walked to Gu Ruyan's side, pulled up her sleeve and checked the wound, before asking gently, "Does it still hurt?"
Gu Ruyan was in a trance for a while, as if it was the first time he had received such careful and gentle care from his father, and the first time he was so close to him.
Gu Ruyan quickly glanced at his father, and a pitiful flush flashed on his fair cheeks. nodded slightly, and looked extremely well-behaved.
Gu Qingfeng almost mistakenly thought that the well-behaved child in front of him was definitely not the scheming girl who had just yin his second brother.
"Yan'er, do you think that the second uncle is doing something wrong?" Gu Qingfeng asked softly again, as if he was afraid that he would disturb the girl in front of him.
A moment of doubt flashed in Gu Ruyan's eyes, but he still nodded resolutely.
A wry smile appeared on Gu Qingfeng's lips, and then he took Gu Ruyan's hand and walked to the chair not far away and asked her to sit down.
Then he opened his mouth and said slowly: "Yan'er, do you know why my ancient family has been able to continue to develop for thousands of years without extinction?"
Although Gu Ruyan didn't understand why his father asked, he still thought seriously for a moment before shaking his head blankly.
Gu Qingfeng slowly paced to the upper seat and sat down, his eyes fell on the door, he couldn't take it back for a long time, Gu Ruyan didn't know what his father was thinking, and he didn't dare to disturb, just waited quietly.
I don't know how long it took before I heard my father's faint dream-like voice: "Dan Dao." ”
"Dan Dao?"
How could it be Dandao, the ancient family obviously relied on the brewing industry to maintain and develop?
How could it be Dan Dao? Except for the half-hung Dan Master of the Fourth Uncle, there was no second person who could do alchemy? How could it be a Dan Dao family?
Gu Qingfeng was so smart that he could see his daughter's question at a glance: "Yes, in fact, my Gu family was a big alchemy family thousands of years ago, but the Dan Dao is just a way, alchemy consumes a lot of energy, but it is not beneficial to cultivation, the family is intoxicated with the Dan Dao and ignores the cultivation, which leads to the strong enemies who covet the family's magic weapon, and in the end, they can't keep the family." ”
Gu Qingfeng paused and continued: "The most unacceptable thing is that the magic weapon that the strong enemy wants to snatch has long been lost in the family tradition, and until today, even the Dan Dao has been broken. ”
Gu Ruyan heard her father tell her about the history of the family for the first time, and she never knew that the family still had such a past, so she couldn't help but be shocked.
"The Gu family almost perished in that disaster a thousand years ago, and the current Gu family is only developed by the efforts of a few people who escaped at that time. Fifteen years ago, a group of masked people suddenly appeared in the Gu family, claiming to rob the Gu family's secret protection, where is there any secret treasure in the Gu family, the thieves do not believe in the blood of the Gu family, the Gu family resisted with all their might, but they could not defeat the leader, the Gu family has been hiding and recuperating in Yunpu Town for thousands of years, and it is not easy to rebuild where to allow it to be leaked again, your second uncle desperately killed the leader of the man in black, preventing the leakage of the news of the Gu family's recuperation in Yunpu Town, and ensuring the stability of the Gu family today. ”
Gu Qingfeng pondered for a moment, and then said: "In that battle, your second uncle was seriously injured, and he raised for five years, and he also injured his foundation, and he has not made any progress in cultivation over the years. After speaking, he withdrew his eyes and looked at Gu Ruyan.
The moment the father and daughter's eyes collided, they immediately understood what their father meant, but they never thought that the second uncle, who usually likes to take advantage of small advantages, arrogant and domineering, still has such a side, lowered his head, and said in a low voice: "Daddy, Yan'er is wrong, Daddy will punish Yan'er." He got up from his chair and knelt straight in front of his father.