Chapter 40: Once

The innermost part of the backyard was separated by a low earthen wall, and when Yu Chen found out that Granny Yang's destination was there, his pace unconsciously slowed down.

There are the graves of his parents, when he was a child, he saw his parents' coffins buried in that corner, he didn't dare to approach here for a few days after the burial, he couldn't believe the fact that they had died, until he was taken away by the second uncle, he ran here and cried, and finally was dragged to Zhaoyang Mansion.

Granny Yang stood behind the earthen wall and waited for Yu Chen to come over, Li Qingyu didn't get too close, but Shen Nian unceremoniously probed over - it wouldn't be noticed anyway, and it wouldn't drop a piece of meat if you listened to it.

When Yu Chen stood beside him, the old man glanced sideways at him, then turned his gaze back to the tombstone in front of him and asked him, "Do you remember when your parents died?" ”

"Yes." Yu Chen's eyes flashed slightly, and his voice was very low.

At that time, their whole family was still ordinary people, and they had nothing to do with spirituality, and they never thought that they would one day become a high-ranking cultivator, and of course, they would never have thought that Granny Yang, who had always been kind to them, would be a spiritual cultivator of such a high level.

On that day, his father copied books for a wealthy family in the inner city as usual, and at that time, Yu Simin's calligraphy in the outer city was also well-known in the whole city, and with a good hand, Yu Simin, that is, Yu Chen's father, could easily earn money to support the family.

Halfway through copying the book, Yu Simin suddenly thought that it would be his wife's birthday in two days, and decided to take some time to make a birthday gift for his wife, so he secretly called Yu Chen, who was only a few years old at the time, and asked him to help cover up, and slipped out of the house.

Yu Chen's mother has hair that almost all women envy, so her favorite jewelry is hairpins, Yu Simin of course knows his wife's hobbies, so he decided to go up the mountain to cut a piece of wood to carve a few hairpins for his wife - his calligraphy is very good, the carving level is not bad, and the carvings on several pieces of furniture at home are from his hands, and carving hairpins is really not a problem.

But he didn't come back that night.

Early the next morning, the little Yu Chen couldn't resist her mother's repeated inquiries, and finally said Yu Simin's plan, but in exchange for her mother's pale face, she ran out without saying anything, and then didn't come back.

After dark, Yu Chen, who was waiting at home to cry hungry, had no choice but to go to Uncle Jiang of the neighbor's house, and then to Granny Yang, two days later, everyone didn't know where to carry back the bodies of the two, and held a decent funeral under the control of Granny Yang.

The day of the funeral happened to be Yu Chen's mother's birthday.

Until now, Yu Chen didn't know how his parents died, only that it was an accident, but no one knew the specific cause of death, and everyone seemed to know and didn't know, so he was kept in the dark.

The old man was silent for a while, took two steps forward, gently brushed down a few cloud flower petals on the tombstone, and said slowly: "I didn't let you know before, because their death involved spirituality, this is not a world that ordinary people can set foot in, besides, you were still young at that time, I didn't say it was for your good, and there was no way for others to tell you, because their memories have been cleaned up by me, and I don't know anything except some chaotic fragments." Speaking of this, the old man squatted down, and the old finger crossed a name on the tablet, and the word "Yu Simin" was engraved next to this name, which showed that the owner of the name should be Yu Chen's mother.

As soon as he heard the word "spirituality", Yu Chen's eyes immediately widened, and he asked in an incredulous tone, "How could my father and mother provoke spiritual cultivation?" What really happened? In fact, what he wanted to ask most in his heart was the question of why Granny Yang was spiritual. With such a highly cultivated servant, what kind of role will his mother be?

"The cloud flower tree in your yard is different from others, you should have known this for a long time." The old man suddenly talked about Yunhuashu, which made the two people present a little confused.

“…… Mother said that it was the reason why the people who planted the trees were different, and the cloud flower trees she planted were of course the best. When he said this, Yu Chen hesitated. When I first heard it, I didn't think about it, but now that I think about it, my mother said that there was so much in it.

As a widely planted tree species in Fencheng, the Yunhua Tree has all kinds of characteristics that are well known to everyone, even if there are occasional changes, it is within a very reasonable range, but the Yunhua Tree of the Yu family is too abnormal, even if the color is different, but the rapid growth rate is really hard to believe that it grows naturally.

Could it be ...... Mother is also a spiritual cultivator?

Yu Chen's mouth was a little bitter.

Both parents are ordinary people, and the child only has a very small chance of having the talent for spiritual cultivation, let alone a genius like him, which is almost completely impossible. But if his mother is a spiritual cultivator, this probability will be much greater, there are people who can cultivate spirituality among his parents, and there will be a high chance of spiritual cultivation among the offspring, but it is difficult to say the talent, such as the previous generation of Tianxuan Peak Elder, his wife is also a very high spiritual cultivator, but the son's cultivation can't break through the Ning Yuan period, and a lot of elixirs can only be a spiritual cultivation in the Qi refining period, but the fertility rate of spiritual cultivation is extremely low, and the two only have such a son, and in the end they can only go with the flow.

As if he knew what he was thinking, the old man immediately answered: "Your mother is not a spiritual cultivator, and she has no talent for spiritual cultivation. The tone was very helpless, "But what she said is not wrong at all, the trees planted are different, and it is indeed because the people who plant trees are very special." ”

Yu Chen closed his mouth and swallowed his saliva, deciding not to ask anything next, just waiting for Granny Yang to speak, if the old man didn't plan to say, he probably couldn't get an answer no matter how much he asked.

The old man really didn't wait for Yu Chen's reaction, and continued: "Although your mother is an ordinary person, her background is not ordinary, the cloud flower tree was originally the totem plant of her family, and it can only grow where there is the bloodline of this family, the purer the bloodline, the more purple the color of the cloud flower, if the person who planted the cloud flower tree is still spiritual, the higher the cultivation, the deeper the purple." There was no way to plant a living cloud flower tree in the city a long time ago, but then a side branch of that family that was not very valued and had not shown the talent for spiritual cultivation for a long time came here to take root and live, so it was brought here, but now the descendants of that tribe basically have few who know their background, if it weren't for the cloud flower tree, the young lady would not have known that there would be clansmen here. ”

"Although Miss is from the lineage, but for some reason she doesn't have the talent to cultivate spirits like other brothers and sisters, although it won't be anything to stay in the family like this, but Miss's temperament really makes her unable to accept this kind of life, so she ran out."

"I was originally the maid of Miss's mother, I grew up watching Miss, and I only stayed by Miss's side after Miss's mother failed to attack the baby, Miss couldn't cultivate her spirit, I looked really pitiful, and I thought that if I was next to me, I could at least help one or two."

"But I didn't expect that something happened in the end."

The old man stood up from the ground with his hands propped up, but he still stood in front of the tombstone and did not move his position.

"During that time, on Qingyun Mountain in the north of the city, a casual cultivator discovered a cave left by an infant spiritual cultivator, and the surrounding spiritual cultivators immediately heard the wind and rushed there to ask for some benefits. I told Miss about this news, but Miss didn't tell your father, firstly, because he had no contact with cultivators in his life except for marrying Miss, and told him that he could only worry about it; The second is because he basically doesn't leave the house every day to copy books, and no matter how chaotic the outside is, it has nothing to do with him, how did he know that this scholar would go to the mountains to cut down trees in order to carve hairpins for Miss? ”

"Miss is also concerned about chaos, if she didn't run out to find him at that time, but came to tell me first, then neither of them should have lost their lives...... In fact, it's hard to say, those spiritual cultivators have long been red because of the competition for the spiritual treasure in the cave mansion, and no one even cares if the young lady takes out the family jade card, in that case, I am weak after all, whether I can really keep them is still two words. ”

"When I found the bodies of the two of them, there was a spiritual battle not far away, and after discovering that the spiritual methods they used were very similar to those used to kill the young lady, I killed those people after asking clearly, and it was also regarded as revenge for the young lady. After you left, I inquired about those people's sects, and I almost put myself in order to destroy them, but I finally succeeded, and you don't have to think about revenge anymore. ”

The old man said, turned to look at Yu Chen, and showed kindness: "Actually, if you don't come back after a while, I want to go to you, Miss is no longer here, and the murderer has been killed by me, so there is no point in staying here, but I didn't expect that in just a few decades, you have grown to such a point, such a talent is unique even in Miss's family, originally I just wanted to see if you were doing well, but now I have changed my mind." ”

Yu Chen's heart jumped!

The old man said so much, but he never mentioned what kind of family his mother's family was, and where it was, but his words showed the strength of this family everywhere, you know, in the world of all spirits, as long as there is a spiritual cultivator, this family can gain a firm foothold in at least one city, if the family lineage is spiritual for generations, then it will definitely be able to make a name for itself in one place, not to mention that his grandmother has actually hit the bottleneck of the infancy! The infant period is the level of being able to take charge of the land of a house!

Mother actually has such a background...... If you can return to your mother's family, you will definitely be taken very seriously, right......?

Sure enough, the old man's next words confirmed his conjecture.

"Your mother left the family because she couldn't do spiritual training, but if you are willing to change your mother's surname and return in her place, her name can be reinstated, you will have the support of the whole family, and you will have the opportunity to fight for the inheritance of the next head of the family. So I want to ask you, would you like to go back with me? ”