Chapter 229: The Past of the Merchant
Shang Xia had been thinking about his thoughts before, even if he was provoked by Shang Dong, he was quite absent-minded.
It wasn't until Shang Bei and Shang Dong's brother and sister joined forces and he casually knocked away the weapons in his hand that Shang Xia suddenly realized that this brother and sister should have planned to use their own authority.
Although Shang Xia had no way of knowing some of the things that had happened to the merchant in the past twenty years, several elders in the family seemed to be secretive about it, and they had always been reluctant to tell him, and Shang Xia himself didn't bother to ask after a long time.
But since Shang Xia remembered, he had never seen or heard Shang Jian's name in the family, and he didn't even know that he had a second uncle of the same clan and clan who was alive.
Not only him, but among the younger generations in the family, anyone who is the same age as him probably doesn't know that there is such a number one person in the lineage of the merchant.
Because of this, when Shang gradually returned to the family, the younger clansmen may have alienated him, but he himself has a sense of belonging to the merchants, and some of the older clansmen also identify with him.
However, this sense of belonging and identity will not exist in his wife and daughter.
Whether it is his wife and daughter to the merchants, or the merchants and Shang Xia to them, there is alienation and estrangement between each other.
However, there is a difference.
The Shang family, even including Shang Xia, although they knew that they must be part of the merchant by blood, they were not in a hurry to identify with them because of their alienation and estrangement.
But Xu Huizhu is different from her children, who have been casual cultivators for a long time, but they yearn from the bottom of their hearts to become members of a big family similar to a family, and they are also eager to integrate into it.
But the little self-esteem and pride that I insisted on in my heart, but I didn't want to be looked down on because I was too eager, so I adopted a more extreme way - Liwei!
However, the end result is, and regardless of whether they chose the right way or not, at least they chose the wrong person!
Although Shang Bei and Shang Dong's brother and sister were also second-order martial artists, and even as twins, they still had a set of combined attack methods to press the bottom of the box, but unfortunately, in front of Shang Xia, they didn't even have a chance to make a move.
Seeing that the means carefully prepared by her own side were so easily cracked, under the dual emotional influence of worrying about her children's losses and being annoyed and angry, Xu Huizhu finally couldn't help but take action.
At the moment when Xu Huizhu's long sword was unsheathed, Shang Xia finally remembered why this sword was familiar, because this sword should be a pair with the sheathed long sword in the hand of his second uncle, Shang Yan, but the sword body looked slightly shorter.
The moment this sword was unsheathed, Shang Xia already felt that a sharp aura had locked it, and no matter where he dodged, it was impossible to avoid the opponent's sword.
The titular second aunt in front of her has at least completed the second sublimation of the will of the martial arts and reached the second level of cultivation of the martial artistic conception.
Despite this, Shang Xia still didn't take it to heart.
It was not the first time that Shang Xia had fought with a martial artist at the second level of the martial arts conception, and even more than one had died in his hands.
And because she had been immersed in swordsmanship in the Liangyi Realm for a long time, Shang Xia had already noticed that although her sword momentum was fierce, there were actually great flaws in Xu Huizhu's swordsmanship.
It's just that Shang Xia is now hesitating whether to make a move, whether to teach the other party a lesson.
In any case, the person in front of him is nominally his elder.
Before Shang Bei and Shang Dong made a move, Shang Xia naturally had no scruples, after all, they were of the same generation as each other.
This was Shang Xia, when facing an attack by a third-order martial artist, he actually had time to be distracted and think about other things.
Just as Shang Xia was about to summon the Bixi Sword, his eyes suddenly flashed, and the Jinyun box that had just been opened in his cuff was covered by him again.
"Stop!"
A loud cry came, and a cold light fell from the sky, directly pressing Xu Huizhu's sword down from the middle.
"Old Shang, your son and daughter are being bullied, you want to stop me?"
Xu Huizhu's eyes were red and she yelled at Shang.
As he spoke, Xu Huizhu's sword was about to break free from Shang Yan's suppression.
"Enough is enough! Isn't it shameful enough to bully the small?"
Shang's gradually low tone contained anger in it, and then he suppressed Xu Huizhu's sword momentum with stronger strength, and even directly annihilated her sword light.
In the end, it was a husband and wife for many years, and the tacit understanding that existed between them made Xu Huizhu realize something from it and calm down, then glared at her husband fiercely, turned around and beckoned Shang Bei and Shang Dong to leave the martial arts arena directly.
From beginning to end, Shang Xia remained calm and watched what happened.
Seeing his wife and children leave, Shang gradually turned around to look at Shang Xia, but he didn't know how to speak for a while.
Shang Xia didn't bother to listen to the other party's explanation, and he didn't want to watch others fall into embarrassment, seeing that the matter had been understood, he just nodded to Shang Yan, and then turned around and left the martial arts arena.
Shang gradually watched Shang Xia's back leave, and opened his mouth several times as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he remained silent.
This kid didn't know about the events of the past, and he didn't seem to care about these past events, but there is no doubt that to some extent, this child's attitude often represents, and can even be said to determine the hearts and minds of a large part of the Shang clan. ”
Shang Ke didn't know when he appeared next to Shang Gradually, and said to him in a light tone.
After a moment of silence, Shang gradually said in a deep voice, "I understand!"
Unexpectedly, Shang Ke shook his head and said, "You may not understand! You are a wanderer who has been away from the merchant for twenty years, and the merchant is not the merchant who has been looking forward to your return for twenty years." Your third uncle's concession is the premise and reason for your return, but in my opinion, it only gives you a step to return to the family, but what will it be like in the eyes of the other Shang clansmen? For the sake of the whole family, the tolerance of an elder to an ignorant junior? You should really think about it now! Who was right and who was wrong 20 years ago, can't you still understand in your heart?"
After Shang Ke finished speaking, he left on his own, but Shang gradually stayed motionless in the martial arts arena, not knowing what he had been thinking in his heart.
To be honest, Shang Xia's mood is very flat now.
Everything that happened in the martial arts arena just now seemed more like a farce to Shang Xia's eyes.
Although this farce tried his best to involve him, Shang Xia always watched what happened with a bird's-eye attitude.
The provocation of Xu Huizhu and the other mother and son could not even trigger Shang Xia's anger.
"Is this a sublimation of mentality?"
Ever since Shang Xia advanced to the Great Perfection of the Liangyi Realm and comprehended the realm of "ethereal mind", he found himself more and more immersed in this state.
The fifth uncle once told him that "ethereal will" was more conducive to the condensation of his martial arts will when he advanced.
Shang Xia had just returned to his small courtyard, and was about to start drawing a second-order martial talisman again, when he heard a knock on the door outside the small courtyard.
"Sixth brother, sixth brother, I'm Shang Fu, open the door!"