Chapter 7: A Family Reunion
Wang Xiaoran, who was forced by shame, this time the potential of his body was obviously stimulated, and it only took less than ten seconds for Wang Xiaoran to complete the whole journey of more than 200 meters, and arrived at his residence smoothly before being seen by others.
Coming to the door of the residence, Wang Xiaoran took out the spare key he had placed inside from the abandoned milk box on the right side of the door, opened the security door, and walked in.
After quickly closing the security door, Wang Xiaoran seemed to have exhausted all his strength and collapsed, leaning on the security door, constantly panting in his mouth.
In this way, Wang Xiaoran leaned on the security door for five or six minutes, and then put on the sandals placed by the door, paced to the master bedroom, and took out a suit of clothes and put them on his body at will.
"Now that my body has recovered, let's go back to my hometown and meet my parents, so that they don't continue to be sad. Wang Xiaoran found that he didn't know when he had developed a habit, and every time he wanted to do something, he would always talk to himself, as if he was cheering himself up.
After getting dressed, Wang Xiaoran walked through the master bedroom to the balcony, where an old-fashioned safe was quietly placed in the corner of the leftmost wall of the balcony, Wang Xiaoran paced to the safe, then squatted down, reached out with his right hand into the gap between the right side of the safe and the wall, and took out two keys strung together from the gap.
Wang Xiaoran took these two keys strung together, opened the safe, and the safe was neatly placed with 100,000 yuan in cash, which was the spare funds that Wang Xiaoran kept for himself, and there was no chance to use them on weekdays, but now Wang Xiaoran's mobile phone wallet is not on his body, so he has to use these reserve funds now.
Looking at the 100,000 yuan in cash neatly placed in the safe, Wang Xiaoran thought about it for a while, then picked up a stack of 10,000 yuan in cash and put it in the inner pocket of his jacket, and then locked the safe again, and put the key back to its original position.
Wang Xiaoran, who had 10,000 yuan in cash in his pocket, walked out of the house generously, came to the side of the road, waved down a taxi, and asked the taxi driver to take him back to his hometown.
Wang Xiaoran's hometown is not too far from the urban area of XZ City, because the road in his hometown has not been repaired for many years, or the mud and gravel road in the past, the taxi is not very convenient to drive in it, so Wang Xiaoran was put down at the head of the village.
After Wang Xiaoran got out of the car, he reached into the pocket of his jacket with his right hand, took out one of the stacks of money and handed it to the taxi driver, and did not ask the taxi driver to find money, but directly helped the taxi driver close the car door, and walked to the village full of anxiety.
The most obvious difference between rural and urban areas is not anything else, but at night.
The city is still as lively as day at night, but the night in the countryside is silent, with the doors of every house closed, eating dinner, tidying up, resting and sleeping, and the sound of all kinds of small insects chirping around.
With the dim light of the few street lamps sparsely placed on both sides of the rural road, Wang skillfully avoided every pothole on the road and walked unswervingly in the direction of his home.
When I came to the door of my house, the first thing I saw was the white paper banners on both sides of the big iron gate, and I believe that the white paper banners had been pasted for a while.
"Bang, bang!bang!" Wang Xiaoran reached out with excitement and knocked the closed big iron door, which made a low whining sound.
"Who?" The sound of the big iron door alarmed the people who might be resting inside, and then Wang Xiaoran heard a man's unhappy voice.
Hearing this voice, the excitement in Wang Xiaoran's heart became more and more intense, the owner of this voice, Wang Xiaoran, was too familiar, this was the voice he had listened to for more than 20 years, it was the voice of his kind and kind father.
Hearing his father's question, Wang Xiaoran leaned on the big iron door, closed one eye, and tried to look inside through the gap in the big iron door with the other open glasses, and replied while looking: "Dad, it's me, your son Wang Xiaoran." ”
"Click!" came from inside the house, the crisp sound of the key falling to the ground.
"Who the hell are you? My son Wang Xiaoran has been dead for four and a half months, and now you tell me that you are my son Wang Xiaoran, so whose body did we transport from the hospital at that time!!" Wang Xiaoran's father stood in the courtyard and asked sharply.
Faced with his father's questioning, Wang Xiaoran didn't know where to start, so he had to say perfunctorily: "Dad, you open the door first and let me in, and after I go in, I will slowly explain to you and my mother, okay?"
Wang Xiaoran waited for a while without hearing any response, so he pricked up his ears and pressed against the big iron door, hoping to hear the movement inside.
"What you said is true?" A woman's somewhat choked voice came from inside, this voice Wang Xiaoran was also extremely familiar with, it was the voice of Wang Xiaoran's mother.
"That's what he said, I'm not sure if it's true, after all, our son's body has been cremated, how can he come back to life?" Wang Xiaoran's father said hesitantly.
"Whether it's true or not, hurry up and open the door, what if it's true?" Wang Xiaoran's mother couldn't wait to call Wang Xiaoran's father to hurry up and open the door.
"I'm going, I'm going. Wang Xiaoran's father responded in his mouth, trotted to the big iron gate, because it was very dark, Wang Xiaoran's father couldn't see Wang Xiaoran's appearance through the big iron gate, so he could only open the big iron gate first.
With a "squeak!" sound, the big iron door that separated Wang Xiaoran and Wang Xiaoran's parents on different sides was slowly opened.
After the big iron gate opened, Wang Xiaoran's first sight was his parents who were standing together one after the other.
In just four and a half months, Wang Xiaoran's parents are already full of hair, and compared with the appearance of four and a half months ago, they are at least ten years old.
Looking at his parents with gorgeous hair, Wang Xiaoran's eyes were hot, if it weren't for the fact that he was a soul now, it is estimated that tears would have fallen long ago.
"Dad!Mom! Your second elder has suffered! Your unfilial son is back!" Wang Xiaoran didn't say a word, he fell to his knees on the spot, and kowtowed three times to his forehead.
Wang Xiaoran's parents looked at the young man in front of them who looked exactly like their son and was kowtowing to themselves, even if they were mentally prepared, they were still stuck in place.
"Old man, pinch me, and I'll see if I'm dreaming. Wang Xiaoran's mother trembled her lips and asked Wang Xiaoran's father to pinch herself to prove that she was not dreaming.
Although Wang Xiaoran's father listened to Wang Xiaoran's mother's words all his life, he still decisively refused Wang Xiaoran's mother's current request, but reached out and pinched his arm fiercely.
"Wife, it's not a dream, it's all true, it's true!" Wang Xiaoran's father felt a burst of pain in his arm, and said to Wang Xiaoran's mother in surprise.
Hearing that the old man confirmed that he was not dreaming, Wang Xiaoran's mother could no longer control her emotions, and cried and threw herself on Wang Xiaoran, who was kneeling on the ground, and hugged Wang Xiaoran tightly.
Wang Xiaoran's mother beat Wang Xiaoran's back while crying, and said with some slurred lips: "Son, how did you survive? Do you know how broken my heart was when I and your father received the news ?......of your death? Do you know?
In the face of his mother's behavior, Wang Xiaoran motionlessly let his mother cry on him, Wang Xiaoran understood his mother's current mood very well, Wang Xiaoran's father's mood at the moment was the same as Wang Xiaoran's mother's mood, just because he had to take care of the most important and fragile self-esteem in a man's heart, so Wang Xiaoran's father did not lose his temper like Wang Xiaoran's mother, but looked at Wang Xiaoran who was a little vague, and let the tears in his eyes flow out and slide over his wrinkled cheeks.
After a long time, Wang Xiaoran's mother went from crying at the beginning, to crying softly, and finally her mood completely calmed down.
After calming down, Wang Xiaoran's mother pulled her son to stand up, and her eyes were unwilling to leave Wang Xiaoran's body for a moment.
"Let's go, son, let's go inside and talk slowly, old man, you close the door before you come in. Wang Xiaoran's mother took Wang Xiaoran's arm and walked into the house, telling Wang Xiaoran's father to close the door as she went.
"Dad, Mom, you go into the house, I'll close the door." Wang Xiaoran did not break free of his mother's hand, but grabbed his mother's hand, asked her mother to stop for a moment, and took the initiative to ask.
"No, you can chat with your mother in the house for a while, and I'll be over soon. Wang Xiaoran's father stopped Wang Xiaoran's plan, waved his hand, and motioned for Wang Xiaoran to follow his mother to the house.
"Just let your dad close the door, you just don't care, go, go back to the house with mom. Wang Xiaoran's mother took Wang Xiaoran's arm again and walked into the house.
Walking through the courtyard full of vegetables, Wang Xiaoran followed his mother's steps into the living room in the center, and as soon as he entered the living room, Wang Xiaoran saw a black and white photo placed on the innermost left side of the living room, and the portrait on it was undoubtedly Wang Xiaoran himself.
Except for the black and white photo of Wang Xiaoran, the facilities in the house are the same as Wang Xiaoran's memory, and there is no big change.
"Come, tell Mom what the hell is going on. Wang Xiaoran's mother pulled Wang Xiaoran to the bamboo sofa in the living room and sat down, still looking at Wang Xiaoran tightly, and opened her mouth to ask.
Wang Xiaoran's father also followed in at this time, the door was originally just a matter of a lock, and Wang Xiaoran's father trotted over on the way to the living room, so Wang Xiaoran's father was able to walk in when Wang Xiaoran's mother and son just arrived in the living room and sat down.
As soon as Wang Xiaoran's father came in, he automatically did the other side of Wang Xiaoran.
Wang Xiaoran looked at his parents who surrounded him on both sides of the left and right, nodded with a wry smile and said: "Dad, Mom, this time the matter is really outrageous, even I still have a feeling of being in the clouds, if you don't understand anything after listening, just say it first, I will explain it to you if I can explain it to you, if I don't know, let's discuss it together." ”
Wang Xiaoran first gave his parents a heart-saving pill, for fear that his parents would not be able to accept the truth when they turned around and waited for him to finish speaking, and he would be scared.
"Don't worry, just say it. Wang Xiaoran's mother urged.
"Then listen up. Wang Xiaoran prepared.
In the following time, Wang Xiaoran introduced in detail how he came back to see the two elders from the time he received the physical examination report, then to the Pangu space where he met the Pangu God, and finally how he came back to meet the two elders.
After listening to Wang Xiaoran's narration, Wang Xiaoran's parents became a little unnatural.
"According to what you said, it was indeed your corpse that we cremated at that time, and your current body is different except that the structure is the same as before?" Wang Xiaoran's father asked in a somewhat sluggish tone.
"Well, that's right, that's it. Wang Xiaoran readily affirmed his father's statement.
"Then are you a human or a ghost now?" Wang Xiaoran's mother turned a lot paler when she said the word ghost.
"I don't know much about that, but I think I'm probably closer to the ghost right now. Wang Xiaoran replied with some uncertainty.
Wang Xiaoran had also thought about this question before, after all, his current body had become a soul body, and the blood flowing in his body was no longer real blood, but it was just simulated with soul power.
However, it would be a bit unreasonable to really classify Wang Xiaoran as a ghost, after all, in Pangu's words, those cultivators who cultivated to the end also needed to choose between recasting a new spirit body from the original body or completely fusing the body and soul to form a soul body.
Wang Xiaoran's current situation is similar to the second option, the only difference is that Wang Xiaoran's soul body is not obtained by fusing the body, but by forcibly training his soul into a soul body.
Therefore, if according to this statement, Wang Xiaoran is no different from those cultivators who have achieved cultivation, since those cultivators belong to human beings, it is not an exaggeration for Wang Xiaoran to belong to human beings.
I think so, but there is no solid evidence to prove it, Wang Xiaoran can't mess around, in case Wang Xiaoran is really classified as a ghost, people can cultivate, why can't ghosts, is there much difference between the cultivation methods of ghosts and cultivators? These Pangu did not tell Wang Xiaoran, and of course Wang Xiaoran could not know.
Therefore, when Wang Xiaoran answered his parents, he answered the worst-case scenario, so that his parents could adapt to his current state as soon as possible.
"Even if it's really a ghost, what can I do, he is still our son, as long as our son is still there. Wang Xiaoran's father quickly adjusted his mentality, enlightening Wang Xiaoran's mother while telling him that he needed to accept this fact.
"Yes, yes, yes, no matter what, as long as our son is still by our side. Wang Xiaoran's mother hurriedly shouted.
"That ......" saw that his parents' eyes were a little confused when they spoke, Wang Xiaoran knew that his parents still had a lot of discomfort in their hearts, and opened their mouths to say something comforting, but they didn't know what to say.
"It's not too early, so you can go back to your room to rest, your mother and I are also going to rest, and we have to get up early tomorrow to do things."
Your bed is still there, and the futon is in the closet of your room, so take it out and make it yourself. Just when Wang Xiaoran was embarrassed there, Wang Xiaoran's father opened his mouth to relieve Wang Xiaoran.
"Okay, I happen to be a little tired, Mom and Dad, then I'll go and rest first. After Wang Xiaoran finished speaking, he broke free from his mother's grasp of his arm as if evading, and walked quickly to his bedroom.
Just after Wang Xiaoran walked into his bedroom and locked the door, Wang Xiaoran's parents glanced at each other, and then glanced in the direction of Wang Xiaoran's bedroom, shaking their heads at the same time.
"Let's go, let's go to sleep. Wang Xiaoran's father said to Wang Xiaoran's mother.
"Okay, let's go. Wang Xiaoran's mother chimed in.
Then Wang Xiaoran's parents got up at the same time, and the two walked side by side to their bedroom.
As soon as she arrived at the bedroom, Wang Xiaoran's mother quickly closed the door, turned her head to Wang Xiaoran's father, who had already walked to the bedside, and said, "What should I do?"
"What else can I do, just don't know, what, do you just don't recognize our son because Xiaoran's current state resembles a ghost?" Wang Xiaoran's father replied in a nonchalant tone.
"But we can identify with our son, how can others agree?
If anyone else knew that our son was now living with us as a ghost, he wouldn't have done anything terrible. By then, we'll have lost our son forever. Wang Xiaoran's mother said with a worried face.
"Isn't this simple? Tomorrow you can hand over to our son the items that the hospital gave to us, and let our son go to a foreign place where no one knows him to develop his life.
Anyway, we just need to know that our son is still alive, and when we really want to see our son, we will take the car to find our son and stay with him for two days. Wang Xiaoran's father didn't think about it, and directly said a solution.
"Okay, old man, I didn't expect your mind to be so good, so it's decided, send our son out early tomorrow morning and go back to him, let him pack up his things and go to a foreign place where no one knows him. Wang Xiaoran's mother agreed with Wang Xiaoran's father's method, and said with a hint of joy in her tone.
"Okay, hurry up and go to sleep, it's almost two o'clock in the morning, sleep a little to replenish some energy, just sleep until five o'clock, and then call my son up and ask him to go back and pack his things, otherwise someone else will get up later." Wang Xiaoran's father took off his coat three times by two, lay down on the bed, picked up the bedside alarm clock and set the time until five o'clock.
Wang Xiaoran's parents didn't know, and all their conversations were greatly increased, and Wang Xiaoran, who was listening carefully against the wall, listened to it.
After listening to the conversation between his parents, the uneasiness in Wang Xiaoran's heart disappeared.
Wang Xiaoran has always been worried that his parents will mind that he is biased towards ghosts, since his parents don't mind at all, Wang Xiaoran is at ease, as for his father's mouth to let him go to a foreign place where no one knows him to develop, there is no pressure on him at all.
Wang Xiaoran, who was at ease, took out the futon from the wardrobe and spread it on the bed, and the whole person lay on the bed without covering anything.