8. Chapter 8: Uncle
When Shen An returned to Fengxiang Xiaozhu, Green Sleeves was waiting at the door, and as soon as he saw him, he immediately gave a salute, and ordered Shen Aocto to be looking for him, and asked him to hurry to the lobby.
Originally, he thought it was a private fight in the woods, but Shen Aoduo found out that he wanted to teach himself a lesson and make Shen Ping angry, but when he arrived in the hall, he found that things seemed to be different from what he thought.
"It's only been a long time since I've seen you, why did you grow so big?!"
As soon as Shen An stepped into the doorbar, he heard the voice of a rough man full of joy. Before he could react, he was hugged by the man and lifted him up.
"How can it be so light! Have you eaten well!! β
Shen An's feet were off the ground, and he couldn't stop struggling, but his face was buried in the man's strong chest and he couldn't speak, and after two whines, the man seemed to realize that Shen An had something to say, and his strength was slightly loosened.
"Uncle, let me down!!"
Shen An was annoyed and angry. After being reborn, except for Shen Aoduo, no one could make him lose his temper like this. He gasped for breath and struggled desperately to break free. Su Wuwu weighed him twice, as if he was buying vegetables in the vegetable market to see if there was a shortage of catties or two, and after confirming that the amount was sufficient, he threw him to the ground at will. Shen An stumbled twice when he landed, but finally did not fall.
Shen Aocao stood aside and watched the interaction between his uncle and nephew, his brows frowned slightly, his face was gloomy, and he said in a slow tone:
"In the eyes of the wanderer, ten years is naturally 'not long'."
The wind wanderer Su Wuwu, this is also a thunderous name - not in the cultivation realm, but in the north of Pingkang and the fireworks alley, almost everyone knows about it. When this name sounded, the small fans in the Chu Pavilion of Qinlou were all smiling and went downstairs to greet them.
Even if he had never seen the two meet in his previous life, it was not difficult for Shen An to imagine that Shen Aoctao and Su Wuwu would definitely not get along. But if the two fight here, it is not the situation that Shen An wants to see, so he changed the topic and said:
"Uncle, why are you here?!"
"Come to a friend."
Su Wuwu seemed to answer casually, but Shen An was secretly surprised, didn't his uncle come to find An Ruyi?
If you count it in your heart, I'm afraid it's true. An Ruyi sought medical treatment for his son half a year ago, and Shen An used the method of "heaven and earth with the same life" to continue his life, and not long ago he gave An Ruyi some coils to let her go back and reopen the tavern. An Ruyi is not a person who cultivates the truth, there is no art of flying to the sky and the earth, and it will take a year and a half to really return to the Spirit Fairy Realm, so it is not surprising that Su Wuwu and her missed it.
"Did you find it?" In order to confirm the doubts in his heart, Shen An asked.
"It's not so easy to find someone, let's not talk about this now, eat first, eat first. I remember where your family ate, right? β
Su Wuwu walked out between the east and west gates of the hall, coming and going freely as if he was the master of this family, and several servants saw that Shen Aozao did not make a sound, and it was difficult to stop him. Shen Aocao's face became more and more gloomy, but his dissatisfaction did not affect the arrogant man in front of him at all.
The east and west courtyards did not find a dining table, Su Wuwu returned in vain, and said with a dejected face:
"Where's the dinner table? Didn't there be a dinner table before? β
Shen Aocao's face showed a slight smug expression, and he snorted coldly:
"I have already broken through the Jindan period, I can go to the valley without eating, and the restaurant has been withdrawn early."
"Why don't you say that you are reluctant to spend money on food?!"
Su Wuwu looked dissatisfied, pointed at Shen Ao and stomped his feet angrily: "Besides, if you don't eat, Shen An and Shen Ping won't eat either?" It's really unbelievable! β
Only then did Shen An seize the opportunity to carefully observe the man in front of him. It stands to reason that Su Wuwu should be in his forties, but at the moment he looks like he is only in his twenties. His clothes were patched and tattered. Fortunately, the clothes are neat and tidy, and he can also show the appearance of an elegant scholar, but he has a three-foot sword with obvious value on the waist sword. If you don't know him, you really can't guess his identity.
However, what really caught Shen An's attention was the faint blue light on his thin side face - Su Wuwu was afraid that he had already broken through the late stage of Jindan and was preparing to advance towards the Yuan Infant stage.
But such a person is as unreasonable as a child, rummaging around in other people's houses and looking for food.
Shen An was slightly puzzled and puzzled: "Uncle, you...... It's long overdue, right? β
"Bigu is Bigu, eating is eating, how can it be confused?"
How can't they be mixed up?! However, Su Wuwu's face was full of reasonableness, but it seemed that Shen An had asked something shallow and ignorant. Although it is possible to practice the same practice as eating, the saying that "the energy obtained by eating is not pure" is an experience that has been circulated among monks, and although this saying has not been verified, it is often regarded as a classic by orthodox monastics.
When Shen An contacted Su Wuwu in his previous life, he felt that he was crazy and unreasonable, blind and good-looking, and he didn't bother to pay attention to him at all. And Shen Aoctao has never liked his brother-in-law, so he waited for him to get acquainted and leave without saying a word.
The Shen family was one big and one small, their faces were stiff, and they stared straight at Su Wuwu. If ordinary people were treated like this by the guest and host, they would have been embarrassed and ran away, but this Su Wuwu's face was thicker than the city wall - he actually began to point fingers.
"Two handsome guys over there, it's you, do me a favor and move a table to the east courtyard, big-eyed little sister, go move a few stools, right! It was also moved to the East Courtyard. β
When Su Yao was alive, the East Courtyard was a place for a family of four to eat. Although Shen Aoduo rarely accompanies his family to eat during the Chongjin Dan period. Su Yao didn't care about this, he was sure to accompany Shen An and Shen Ping, and he would not stop until the two of them eliminated two bowls of rice.
"By the way, what about a little thing?"
Shen Aoduo glanced at the maid Tao Hai, who took care of the "little things"βthat is, the "little sister with big eyes"βand the girl bowed her head slightly, and said softly:
"The second young master said that he was too tired to practice today, and he was afraid that his posture and appearance would be poor and he would collide with the master of the family. When he is well, he will definitely come to ask the head of the house for his guilt. β
"Please also ask for sin...... Your family is breaking these rules. Su Wuwu sighed on the side for a long time: "It's not that he can't get up from the bed and drags him down, I have played a lot of game, all of which are specialties of your Red Lotus Mountain, I bet he must have never eaten it." β
The second young master of Red Lotus Mountain, a specialty of Red Lotus Mountain, has never eaten it, and others may think it is a joke when they hear it, but this is a fact.
Shen Aocao raised his head slightly and said solemnly to Tao Hai: "Invite the second young master over, and say that the distinguished guest has arrived." β
The head of the house ordered, and Tao Hai ran away without worrying about moving the chair. So Su Wuwu consciously took on the "heavy responsibility" of moving the chair, with a mahogany chair under his left and right armpits, and one on his head, and said with a hippie smile at Shen Ao:
"I knew you wouldn't let me be polite, so I didn't be polite to you."
Looking at Shen Aoduo's expression that was about to turn black into carbon, Shen An felt happy.
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In the east courtyard, the three men of the Shen family sat quietly at the dining table, while Su Wuwu was busy cooking in the kitchen. The Shen family strictly forbids appetite, except for the special "medicinal food" prepared for Shen An, almost all of them are coarse tea and light rice, which makes people tasteless. Su Wuwu was accustomed to enjoyment, looking at the gray dishes that were usually eaten by his disciples, he immediately looked disgusted, and when he saw Shen Ping hurriedly said hello, he hurriedly ran to the kitchen to take charge of the spoon himself.
Shen Aocao has been busy with foreign affairs all these years, and he has already opened the valley, and when Su Yao was alive, the family of four rarely had the opportunity to sit at the same table to eat, and after Su Yao's death, the east courtyard that was originally used for eating was also abolished. More often, it is Shen An in the "Fengxiang Xiaozhu" and Shen Ping in the "Lotus Qing House", busy with their respective life practices.
If it weren't for the injury on Shen Ping's face that gave Shen Ao the "topic" to break the ice, the father and son could sit without opening their mouths until dawn the next day.
"What's the matter with the wound on your face?" Shen Aocao frowned and asked.
Shen Ping bowed his head respectfully: "The child was accidentally injured." β
"Accidentally?" Shen Aoduo's brows furrowed even tighter. Shen Ping was brought up by him, and he couldn't be more clear about this son's strength. Right now, in the Red Lotus Villa, those who can cultivate higher than Shen Ping, except for Shen Fu and a few people, I am afraid that there is only himself.
"The child saw a water spirit sword trick in the book, and thought it was really interesting, so he couldn't help but try it, who knew that the child's cultivation was not high, and he couldn't control it, and as a result, he hurt himself with an oversight."
Shen Ping's face was sincere and not pretentious, but he still couldn't help but glance at Shen An - the latter had an indifferent face, and he didn't mean to care about this younger brother's "inadvertent" self-injury.
However, this skimming did not escape Shen Aoduo's eyes.
"Cultivation should be specialized, not miscellaneous, and should not be too much. You are a single root of the fire spirit, just focus on the cultivation of the fire element, and don't touch the things next to you. Shen Aoduo harshly criticized.
"If he doesn't touch it, how do you know if he can practice?" Su Wuwu continued to dismantle the stage.
Several domestic servants opened their mouths wide, stared at their round eyes, and looked at Su Wuwu's left hand with a plate of "Four Seasons and Three Fresh" and a plate of "Spicy Fried Hare Meat" with his right hand, and a bowl of soup with something invisible on his head, so he walked into the east courtyard with such a big grin. Everyone didn't know what to be more surprised aboutβthe aroma of the vegetables that made the mouth salivate, or the juggling of the left and right dishes, shaky appearance.
Even Shen An was stunned for a moment when he saw Su Wuwu's appearance - in his previous life, he didn't find that his uncle liked to use his head to carry things so much.
Facing a table of fragrant hot rice and hot soup, Shen Ping didn't dare to move his chopsticks. He glanced at Shen Aocao, and saw that the other party had no unpleasant intentions, so he tasted a chopstick with confidence, and his eyes suddenly lit up:
"It's delicious! How did my uncle do that?! I've never eaten anything so good! β
"Eat more, eat more! Look at how thin you two have become! β
Shen Ping only tasted two bites, and his eyes lit up and he couldn't stop chopsticks. Seeing this, Shen An was also a little eager to try, and after confirming to the system that there was no deduction for eating meat, he tried it, and was instantly shocked, Shen An didn't know that Su Wuwu was so familiar with the art of easy teeth, and it was a pity that he didn't invite him to cook in his previous life.
Speaking of which, such a spicy and sweet taste is also Su Yao's favorite, and these two are worthy of being brothers and sisters.
However, Shen Aoctao didn't look at the delicacies on the table, only touched the rice and tea.
After sweeping the dishes on the table, Shen Ping saw that Shen Aocao only moved the rice bowl and teacup, and immediately put down the chopsticks, and smiled at Su Wuwu: "Uncle, I'm full." β
"I only ate so little, what are you full?! My disciples don't sweep away two bowls of rice every day, and they don't call it eating at all! The rice bowl in front of Su Wufu Bibi added: "As for your family's bowl, at least five copies must be eliminated!" β
"But doesn't it mean that cultivators can't pay attention to the appetite of the mouth and stomach, and they have to have no distractions?"
Shen Ping's big round eyes were full of surprise.
"Nonsense, abstinence and cultivation is something they can't eat! If you really want to have no desires, you should enjoy everything you can enjoy in the world! Only then can you understand that Hongchen is tempted, but that's it. β
"Boom." Shen Aocao put the bowl on the table and glanced at Shen Ping: "Eat and sleep." He turned his head and said to Su Wuwu: "After eating, please come to the house, there are important things to discuss." β
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A delicious meal, but the second half of the food was tasteless, Shen Ping didn't dare to speak, Shen An was too lazy to speak, Shen Aocao didn't want to speak, and Su Wuwu had nothing to say. The four of them hurriedly finished their meal and dispersed.
Back to "Fengxiang Xiaozhu", the green sleeves are here again, and the bowl of delicious medicinal porridge is still in his hand, but the aroma is completely different from usual.
Shen An frowned, didn't there be "Hua Gen San" in this bowl of porridge?
Yes, it seems that Shen Aozao is still afraid of the name of the "Miaoshou Su Family", if he lets the brother-in-law know that the head of the Shen family assassinated his sister's son, I don't know what kind of uproar it will cause.
Since it was non-toxic, Shen An rarely drank the bowl of porridge honestly in front of Green Sleeves, and then walked out of the house to relax.
Shen An hadn't eaten anything that was really called a "meal" for a long time.
If you add the previous life, is it considered that you haven't touched a hot dish in a hundred years? All kinds of precious elixirs were taken by Shen An as food. However, a steaming fresh meal......
Compared with this, what puzzled Shen An even more was why Su Wuwu appeared here?
Shen An smiled bitterly. Since An Ruyi can appear in Red Lotus Town, it seems that Su Wuwu's appearance should not be strange. Still, he felt that there seemed to be a missing fragment that had to be filled in to get a full picture.
In his previous life, Shen An and Su Wuwu only had the fate of Taixuan Dayan's medical treatment, and the old anecdotes about his people were just hearsay. When I met in my previous life, I only felt that the world was exaggerated, but when I saw it today......
Don't think about these things for now, the most important thing at the moment is to come up with a way to escape from the Shen family. If you can't find Tianyuan Zhenren, I don't know if the Su family can become your temporary support?
If Su Wuwu came to find An Ruyi, then why did Shen Aoduo find Su Wuwu? Su Wuwu is a trustworthy person? If reincarnation is restarted and his life is changed, will Su Wuwu be Shen An's enemy or a noble person in this life?
Mother, is there still a trustworthy person in the world?
Shen An stood under the maple tree and looked to the east, where was the direction of Taixuan Dayan, Su Yao always liked to tell him interesting stories about her cultivation there when she was a child, so she was taken away by Tianyuan Zhenren back then, Shen An was extremely happy, but who would have expected to meet a master like Gao Wanshou.
Now that I think about it, it's just fate.
Shen An closed his eyes, the breeze was blowing, he could hear the ripples on the water being blown away, and he could hear the birds singing home.
He felt droplets of water dripping down his cheeks, but he didn't hideβShen An needed to be calm, and his hidden anger needed a baptism of storm to be quelled.
The rain became heavier and heavier, more and more violent, and then it was like a downpour, forcing people to breathe, Shen An opened his eyes and was about to leave but suddenly found -
- Only the woods above him were in a storm!
Shen An ran away, but the dark clouds followed, pressing forward step by step, drenching him with wolves. Fortunately, it is now the middle of the night, and the servants have already been driven away by Shen An, so the appearance of the "young master of the Shen family" hiding in Tibet has not been laughed at.
"Who is pretending to be a ghost here?"
"Hahahaha, I haven't noticed it for so long, you and your father's stupidity is exactly the same!"
There was a long sword stuck in his waist, and under the moonlight, Su Wuwu stepped on the branches of the tree and jumped down lightly, looking like an immortal descending from a distance.
"Seeing that you are sad, please drink." Su Wuwu shook the wine gourd in his hand at Shen An, and with a wave of his left hand, a dark cloud above Shen An's head was sucked into the gourd.
Shen An wiped his face and licked his palms - there was really a faint smell of wine.
You use spells for such boring things.
Shen An replied expressionlessly: "I borrow wine to eliminate my sorrows." β
"Tsk, don't be so hateful and bitter at a young age."
Shen Anxin was unhappy, in terms of age, he was much more worry-free than Su Wuwu. But he knew that Su Wuwu had no malicious intentions, so he changed the topic and said, "What did my father talk about with my uncle?" β
"What else could it be? It's just when to return to the Su family, when to inherit the Su family, when to Chong Yuan's infancy, whether to join the Demon Slayer Alliance or not, anyway, it's a mess. Su Wuwu took a sip of wine and continued: "The current Xiuzhen clan, which one is seriously seeking to become an immortal? looks good on the outside, but in fact, it's just a fist-sized earning a life, and a big bird grabs a head and breaks the bloodstream. This kind of smoky place, there is only your father who is like a treasure in his arms for fear of being robbed, I really don't know what Ah Yao liked him back then. β
Mother, is there still a trustworthy person in the world?
Looking at Su Wuwu's indignant and disdainful side face, Shen Anxin jumped wildly - Su Wuwu is the one who can be trusted?
In his previous life, Shen An didn't have much intersection with him, but at this moment, he appeared in the Red Lotus Shen family.
However, Shen An knew at least one thing that he couldn't trust Gao Wanshou.
He ran out of time......
"Uncle, there's something I have to tell you."