Shen Tong couldn't help frowning and looked at this young girl, this is a very young-looking face, melon seed face, willow eyebrows, delicate facial features, plus a snow-white complexion, at first glance, she feels delicate and fresh, plus she is wearing a close-fitting and decent emerald green dress at the moment, which is more and more graceful and extraordinary. However, there are some pockmarks on her delicate face, which ruthlessly destroys this beauty. Although there are not many pockmarks, it is particularly conspicuous and dazzling on the pink face that can be blown and broken.

Feeling Shen Tong's gaze falling straight on her face, the maid who knew what was in her heart immediately took a sip in her heart, but she didn't dare to show it, she just lowered her head, her face swollen and red.

Shen Tong was also depressed in his heart at this time, obviously he didn't expect to encounter such an embarrassing thing just out of the secret room, originally he still thought of going directly to the patriarch and talking about going to the library pavilion, if he could go there to find out about going to the underworld, maybe he would directly commit suicide or go out of his body to the underworld to find his wife, where else did he need to waste time here?

Under such circumstances, Shen Tong naturally looked a little unhappy, frowned and asked, "Who are you?"

"Son, the maidservant Li Cui is now in charge of cleaning the East Courtyard, and Aunt Ping left the house and returned to her hometown five years ago. The pock-faced little maid replied cautiously with her head lowered, at this time she had confirmed that the person in front of her was the young master of the Eastern Courtyard who had been missing for decades, and she naturally did not dare to be the slightest slack in her words and etiquette.

"Returning home?" Shen Tong said with some surprise, but a stone fell in his heart.

That Sister Ping can be regarded as the person who knows Li Ping the most in addition to Li Ping's parents, since he was a child, he grew up with Li Ping's mother to take care of him, and after the death of his parents, only this Sister Ping, who has been taking care of his daily life, knows his habits best. Although Shen Tong has completely absorbed and merged Li Ping's memories, he is an outsider to this world after all, and it is inevitable that he will be worried in his heart.

"Apart from you, are there any other people here who usually come here?" Shen Tong asked casually.

"Son, no one else has ever come. Li Cui replied cautiously.

Shen Tong nodded with satisfaction and said, "You go to rest first, I just came out of retreat, I don't want to be disturbed, it's not too late for you to come back to clean up in three days." ”

Li Cui hurriedly said yes and retreated carefully. Although I heard that the son of this courtyard can be regarded as the most wasteful and unproductive one of the Li family's generations, his identity as a monk will not be fake, for these mortals who have no spiritual roots, it is also a high-ranking immortal figure, naturally it is not her a servant girl who dares to offend and neglect. What's more, as a slave maid of the Li Mansion, if she is favored by her master, it will also be a blessing, but when she thinks of what a sad and terrible fate it will be if she is favored by this person in front of her who has no future, so Li Cui wants to stay away from him from the bottom of her heart.

Watching this maid leave with interest, Shen Tongxin felt a lot more comfortable, at the moment he was better than one less thing, just thinking about finishing the business as soon as possible and seeing what to do next. How would you know that the girl who bowed her head and retreated had already regarded him as a plague-like figure in her heart, and she couldn't wait to never touch him.

Walking out of the house, Shen Tong couldn't help but look around, this is a rather chic small courtyard. The area is not large, but it is very elegantly arranged, there is a low ancient pine in the middle of the yard, although it is not high, but the shape is unique, very strange, the branches and leaves stretch out, like stratus clouds stacked together, interesting and extraordinary. And in the four corners of this ancient pine, there are red and yellow bonsai flowers, and the ancient pine in the center of the ancient pine set off each other, this small courtyard, embellished with chic and elegant, beautiful.

At this time, Shen Tong's location was the south wing, opposite was the north wing, and on the right hand side was the main room of the east house, which was originally the living place of Li Ping's parents. As for the west side, it is connected by a circular arch connecting the cross-courtyard corridor, and a shadow wall in the courtyard is used as a partition, separating this small courtyard into a rather secluded place. And like this cross-courtyard, there are as many as seventy-two in the Li Mansion, which is divided into three entrances, with the identity of Li Ping's father Li Xian at that time, he could have moved into the innermost one to live, but because his mother liked the scenery here, but he has stayed here.

Looking at the bits and pieces here, imagining how lively this small courtyard was at the beginning, but now it is cold and silent, even Shen Tong, an outsider, can't help but feel a sense of sadness in his heart. Things in the human world are so inflammatory, and so is the human world, and so is the spiritual world!

Maybe it's the part of the divine consciousness that belongs to Li Ping that is very active after seeing the old scene at this moment! Originally, Shen Tong's idea of going directly to the patriarch was inexplicably calmed down, and he began to walk along the corridor to the main room of the east house. Stretched out his hand to push open the door of the house, although it was cleaned as usual, but there was no one to live in, the cold feeling of lack of life still made people feel sad, slowly walked into the room, caressed the desk dressing table, recalled the happy scene in Li Ping's memory, and for a while Shen Tong couldn't help but think of his parents, thinking of those scattered memories of his childhood.

At that time, it was still the early stage of reform and opening up, and the rural areas had just been connected to electricity, but there was a serious shortage of power supply.

Whenever night comes, my father plays with my neck on my neck, and my mother holds a fan to drive away mosquitoes. What a happy and beautiful scene it was, what a warm and touching picture it was. Gradually, the scene in his consciousness became this courtyard, into this room, a middle-aged man who was not too handsome, but gave people a feeling of unusually mature and steady, was looking at the son who always couldn't hold back his temperament when he sat up with a smile, and after a little longer, the child always secretly opened his eyes to look at him, and his body was also twisted and right. At this time, the middle-aged man pinched the magic trick in his hand, and the child quickly shuttled through the house under the control of spiritual power, and this feeling of soaring clouds and fog also made the child laugh, and then began to sit down obediently cross-legged and practice Tuna.

These are two completely different scenes, but at this moment they overlap a little, different worlds, different people, but the love and spoiling of children are completely the same. Although nearly 100 years have passed, the scene of my childhood is still deeply engraved in my mind, and I still look back on it as happy and carefree as if I was still on the spot.

A noisy sound came from outside in vain, pulling Shen Tong back from his memories and forcing the smile that involuntarily appeared on the corner of his mouth back.

Shen Tong couldn't help frowning, his heart was full of doubts, and he didn't know what was going on outside for a while. That kind of irritable look of being disturbed by others also made his face show a trace of unhappiness, just came to the spirit world, and was disturbed by people one after another, this feeling was really very bad, and then he realized that Li Ping was resentful of this world at the beginning, and would rather stay alone in the secret room than deal with people.

"Yo, when my nephew comes back from retreat and cultivation, why don't you come out to say hello to the elders in the family!" Just as Shen Tong walked slowly to the door of the east house, several people came out of the shadow wall, but before they could see clearly, the voice had already reached Shen Tong's ears far away.

Looking at it intently, it was a very fancy woman with heavy makeup and glamorous dress, who looked quite old, but she was very eye-catching in red and green, but her fat body and fat face really couldn't support the clothes and jewelry that looked precious. At this moment, the woman was still looking at Shen Tong with a flattering smile, the silk handkerchief in her hand swinging, and her posture was twisted.

Looking to the side again, the woman was followed by two old women and two men, the two old women needless to say, obviously domestic servants and slaves, the two men were slightly younger than Li Ping, one was very young, but the corners of the eyebrows were seven points similar to the woman.

Seeing Shen Tong frowning at them with a cold face, the woman waved her silk handkerchief and said with a smile: "Yo, I haven't seen you for so many years, and my nephew is still the same!

This look, this tone and posture, naturally makes people not have the slightest good impression, and Shen Tong's heart is full of disgust, obviously Li Ping's memory has a deep mustard for this woman, and he was obviously not angry with her at the beginning. It's just that with Li Ping's weak temperament, in the face of the elders in the family, he has no choice, and he can only accept it. In those years, I lost my parents in vain, suffered a heavy blow, and was sneered at by these so-called elders.

But at this moment, Li Ping is no longer the Li Ping of the year, although Shen Tong's experience is as unfortunate as Li Ping, but his character is tenacious, his temper is stubborn, he has been a soldier and committed crimes, and he has been alone in that strange secret room for several years and is still trying his best to escape. Why, I haven't seen you for so many years, and you're still thinking about this other courtyard of my house?"