Hearing that Mu Ziru mentioned Liu Ruyun, Zhu Zimo was silent for a moment before he said "Okay", and then took the lead in getting up and leaving the front hall, retreating from all his subordinates, and walking in the direction of the ancestral hall.

Mu Ziru, who followed closely behind Zhu Zimo, looked at Zhu Zimo's very lonely figure, and his heart was mixed, but he couldn't say a word of relief.

For Zhu Zimo, Liu Ruyun used to be his hope for trying to live, Zhu Zimo secretly established such a huge force and accumulated such a huge wealth, and part of it was also for Liu Ruyun.

But now, Zhu Zimo's hope for survival has abandoned him mercilessly, just to follow the man that Zhu Zimo has resented for more than 20 years, how can Zhu Zimo bear it?

Because Mu Ziru has been wandering outside for the past seven years, before separating from Lin Zhiwu and Lin Xiaoyang in Pingyang City, Mu Ziru specially asked Lin Zhiwu about Zhu Zimo's situation over the years, and Mu Ziru also heard Lin Zhiwu mention the matter of Zhu Zimo and Cheng Xiao back then.

Now that I think about it, the two women that Zhu Zimo once cherished the most, Cheng Xiao and Liu Ruyun, both chose to abandon him forever with death, which is undoubtedly a huge irritation and harm to Zhu Zimo.

But...... Mu Ziru believes that Zhu Zimo will definitely be able to get out of the pain in the shortest possible time! Because there are more important things waiting for Zhu Zimo to complete!

When the two of them walked through the large verdant bamboo forest in front of the Zhu family ancestral hall, Zhu Zimo suddenly stopped, so that Mu Ziru, who was following closely behind him, almost hit his back.

Taking a step back, Mu Ziru immediately shouted: "Ah Mo!!, if you stop and say hello first, if you break my handsome face, what compensation will you pay?"

"Ah Wei, you said that I cut down this bamboo forest and planted all the peach blossoms?" and didn't pay attention to Mu Ziru's complaints, Zhu Zimo only asked this sentence so lightly.

"Could it be that you are afraid that there are ghosts in your ancestral ancestral hall, so you want to cut down all the good bamboos and plant peach blossom trees to suppress them?" Looking at Zhu Zimo's slender and straight back, Mu Ziru was stunned for a while before answering and teasing like this.

Zhu Zimo was not annoyed by Mu Ziru's ridicule, but said indifferently: "It just suddenly occurred to me that there is someone who seems to like peach blossoms very much." "Even the hosta that was given to him was carved with peach blossoms.

However, Mu Ziru thought that the person Zhu Zimo was talking about was Cheng Xiao, so he was silent and did not answer.

After all, Lin Zhiwu clearly told Mu Ziru that Zhu Zimo and Cheng Xiao met in the ten-mile peach blossom forest on the outskirts of Beijing, and Cheng Xiao committed suicide in Zhu Zimo's arms in the ten-mile peach blossom forest at their beginning......

Zhu Mansion. Zhu family ancestral hall.

Stepping on the polished and smooth ten-story bluestone staircase, Zhu Zimo stepped forward and pushed open the two old slightly heavy doors of the ancestral hall, accompanied by a heavy "squeak" sound, what caught Zhu Zimo and Mu Ziru's eyes was a wooden frame with a ladder shape as wide as a whole wall and very high, but the wooden frame was neatly filled with spiritual seats!

In front of the wooden shelf, there is a vermilion incense case, and there are two lighted thick white candles on the desk, and the tears of the candles flow a lot along the candle body on the desk. In front of the white candle is a bronze incense burner, and many incense sticks of different lengths are inserted in the furnace. Three plates of fresh fruit pastries are placed side by side on the side of the incense table, which is a tribute. There is also a large handful of unused incense on the left side of the incense case.

After stepping into the ancestral hall, I found that under the walls on both sides of the ancestral hall gate, there was also a wooden frame with a step shape as wide as a whole wall and very high, and the wooden frame was also neatly filled with spiritual seats!

Following Zhu Zimo and walking straight to the stepped wooden frame with the spiritual position on the right, Mu Ziru saw at a glance that there was a spiritual seat placed in the center of the wooden frame, and the words "Zhu Huiping's wife Liu Ruyun's spiritual seat" were outlined with a cinnabar pen.

Glancing at Zhu Zimo silently, Mu Ziru knew it in his chest: According to the rules of ordinary rich families, the spiritual position of a concubine cannot enter the ancestral hall of her husband's family after her death, but she can enter her husband's ancestral hall after the death of his wife.

Presumably, Zhu Zimo also didn't want to see that Liu Ruyun didn't even have a serious place to place the spiritual seat after his death, so he privately changed Liu Ruyun's concubine to a flat wife!

I saw Zhu Zimo pick up three of the long incense sticks in the large handful of unused incense sticks placed on the incense table, and held them together on the candle flame of the burning candle to light it, and then silently handed the lit long incense to Mu Ziru.

Taking the long incense handed by Zhu Zimo, Mu Ziru knelt straight on the cold bluestone paved ground, held the long incense in his hand, and respectfully kowtowed to Liu Ruyun's spiritual position three times, then got up, walked to the incense table, and respectfully inserted the long incense in his hand into the incense burner with both hands.

"This is the second time I have entered your Zhu family ancestral hall. I remember the last time I came, it was after Mrs. Zhu passed away ten years ago. Standing in front of the incense case with his hands down, Mu Ziru's voice was a little low, and he didn't have the frivolity and evil spirit of the past.

Zhu Zimo turned around and walked to the tall stepped wooden frame with many spiritual positions facing the gate of the ancestral hall, stared intently at the spiritual seat directly opposite him, and couldn't help but sigh: "At that time, I will finish dealing with the matter at hand, and I am still on the way back to Zhu's mansion." And Zhu Hui and Zhu Ziyao, one is busy with the family business, and the other is busy with fireworks and wine lanes. As for my eldest lady Chen, hmph, she has always been at odds with her grandfather, and she can't wait for her grandfather to die as soon as possible...... And mother, at that time, she still only knew how to guard the small world of Nuanxiang Pavilion, and she didn't know about her grandfather's situation at all, so that when her grandfather left, there was no one around to see him off!"

Slowly walked to Zhu Zimo's side, looking at the spiritual seat that belonged to Zhu Jing placed on the stepped wooden frame, Mu Ziru said slowly: "Grandpa Zhu, I see you are here." ”

After saying that, Mu Ziru knelt down straight again, and kowtowed respectfully to Zhu Jing's spiritual position three times.

The sky outside the ancestral hall is a clear blue color, the trees and bamboo forests are lush green, and the birds are singing pleasantly, and every qiē looks so peaceful and peaceful.

In the ancestral hall, in front of the stepped wooden frame with many spiritual positions, one person stood and one knelt on the ground, both of them were silent, only the candle flame on the incense table burst out from time to time with a "crackling" sound.

After a long time, Mu Ziru still knelt on the cold bluestone ground and never got up.

When the candle flame on the incense table broke out again, the sound of words finally sounded in the quiet ancestral hall-

didn't look at Mu Ziru who was kneeling on the ground, Zhu Zimo only looked straight at Zhu Jing's spiritual position, and his tone was a little ethereal: "Ah Huan, you've been wandering outside long enough, come back and continue to help me!" Since you left, most of those who went out on a mission or were poisoned or injured have not been rescued, and if you were there at that time, none of them would have died." ”

After Zhu Zimo's words were finished, Mu Ziru did not answer Zhu Zimo, and the ancestral hall fell silent again.

"I will continue to keep your identity a secret. Without getting an answer, Zhu Zimo spoke again.

"What's the matter? Until now, none of your subordinates who have worked for you loyally and without expecting anything in return know who the real holy envoy above the deputy envoy is?"

"I don't know. Zhu Zimo replied with certainty, "I have never revealed the true identity of the Holy Envoy to any of them, and even Zhiwu, who is the deputy envoy, and the four Qinglong don't know that you are the Holy Envoy." You have never known how to fight, and I am afraid that revealing your identity will bring you death. If I can always be by your side, I can still protect you, but if I happen to be absent at any moment...... I don't want to hurt you. ”

Looking up at Zhu Zimo standing beside him, Mu Ziru asked lightly, "Then does my father know my identity?"

Shaking his head, Zhu Zimo replied without concealment: "Whether it is the identity of the holy envoy or the ghost doctor, your father doesn't know." Your father had doubts before, but I dispelled all his doubts, and in your father's heart, you are still the same person you used to be. ”

"Back then, I was already angry with my father just because I didn't study medicine properly, and if I let my father know my two identities, I guess he would be angry to death. Mu Ziru laughed.

"That's why I didn't let your dad know. Looking at the spiritual position opposite, Zhu Zimo answered.

"Did you find out about that incident?" Mu Ziru suddenly asked a question that had no beginning or end.

Shaking his head, Zhu Zimo sighed, lowered his head and looked at Mu Ziru: "There are no clues yet, after twenty-five years, besides, not everyone can enter that place, even if they enter, they will be a little constrained, and those people's methods are very clever, all the evidence has been destroyed, I have sent someone to track it down for a few years, but I still found nothing." As soon as the words changed, Zhu Zimo said again: "This matter, if it is found out one day, what are you going to do?"

"It depends on the reason. If it was really the reason we guessed at the beginning, even if I cut the other party with a thousand cuts, it would not be enough to drown the hatred in my heart. When Mu Ziru said this, he gritted his teeth without cooperating with the words, his expression and tone were very flat, so flat that people couldn't help but shiver.

No longer looking at Mu Ziru, Zhu Zimo looked up at Zhu Jing's spiritual position, and asked tentatively: "Although there is no eyebrow in that incident at present, but I found out that your biological mother was originally a childhood sweetheart with him, but later she was snatched away by your biological father, if that person is ......"

"He has always advocated kindness, and even then it cannot be him. Without waiting for Zhu Zimo to finish speaking, Mu Ziru directly interrupted Zhu Zimo's words, and his tone was still flat: "Besides, if you cut the grass and eradicate the roots, it will be a problem to raise tigers." He has always been a smart man, and it is impossible for him not to understand these truths. If it was really him, I wouldn't have survived until now. ”