Chu Huan didn't answer, but Old Lady Xu had already ordered: "Quickly carry the little fifth son back." ”

The Xu family was busy leading the two of them to lift Xu Shun up and go to the house, but Chu Huan had already picked up the big knife that fell on the ground, held it in his hand, and stared at the big knife in a daze.

After all, Old Lady Xu has lived for most of his life, Chu Huan asked strangely, and at this time, he kept looking at the knife, so he knew that something was wrong, and said softly: "King Chu, please go to the hall to drink tea!" ”

"Uncle Xu, please!" Chu Huan didn't put down the knife, just nodded slightly.

The three of them arrived in a hall, and the free man served tea, although the old lady Xu was frightened, but at this time he had eased a lot, and said with a wry smile: "Let the two of you laugh!" ”

"Uncle Xu, with all due respect, this matter is not funny." Chu Huan said solemnly: "Xu Shun is your son, there is no reason to raise a knife to kill his father, of course there is something strange in this." ”

Old lady Xu sighed, and finally asked: "The king of Chu just said that the little fifth son had been a soldier and fought in the northwest, and only a handful of people knew about this, I don't know how the king of Chu knew?" ”

"Armor, and this knife." Chu Huan took the rusty knife in his hand, glanced at Linlang, and then turned his gaze to Old Lady Xu, "Uncle Xu doesn't know, the blade of this knife is bent a little more than an ordinary knife, and the blood groove is closer to the blade, people who use this kind of knife must have a lot of strength, as long as they have enough strength, using this knife, the lethality to the enemy will be much stronger than usual." As far as I know, the appearance of such a knife was an accident. ”

"Accident?" Old lady Xu was stunned.

"Uncle Xu should have heard of the name of General Feng Han Xiaofeng."

"I've heard, I've heard." Old Lady Xu nodded immediately, "That's a world-famous general, but this Feng General seems to have passed away." ”

"This kind of knife is an idea that General Feng came up with by chance back then, and later a team of thousands of people was specially formed, all of whom have a lot of strength and are equipped with this kind of knife." Chu Huan said: "Xu Shun's strength should not be small, right?" ”

Old lady Xu nodded and said: "Yes, Xiao Wuzi has a lot of strength since he was a child, and he liked to fight the most when he was young, and he had to ask a martial artist to teach him kung fu, the old man was very fond of him, so he practiced martial arts, so he also caused a lot of trouble." ”

"But I don't know when he joined the army?"

Old lady Xu smiled bitterly: "It's a long story, it was more than 20 years ago, when he was only fifteen or sixteen years old, the king of Chu knew that at that time, the Hua Dynasty had just been defeated, and there were wars everywhere in the world, and the common people were afraid to avoid it, but that kid wanted to join the army to fight." He likes to make friends on weekdays, and once mentioned to me that he was going to join the army, and I beat him well, and told him that if he joined the army, he would cut off the father-son relationship with him, but hey, but he took a few friends and left secretly, this time, there was no news for a long time, I inquired later, only to know that he took those people out of the customs to the northwest, and also sent people to look for it, but has not been found. ”

"I see." Chu Huan frowned slightly, "Then when will he return to his hometown?" ”

"That was more than a decade later." Old lady Xu sighed: "Since I came back, it has been more than ten years, he has been out for more than ten years and has not heard from him, this Qin country has been established for many years, but there has been no news of him, I sent people to spend a lot of money to inquire everywhere in the northwest, and also found people in the northwest army, but no one knows his whereabouts." At that time, I only thought that he must have died in a foreign land, and he couldn't even return to his hometown, so he also held a funeral at home and put a spirit card, but just more than ten years ago, when he opened the door one morning, Xiao Wuzi was lying outside the door, at that time he was in tattered clothes, and he was no longer the same, and the family thought he was a beggar! ”

Chu Huan frowned and asked, "Xu Shun only came back more than ten years ago?" ”

"Yes." Old Lady Xu nodded and said, "As of this year, it has been fourteen years, but since he came back fourteen years ago, he has never stepped out of this door. ”

Linlang was surprised: "I've heard people say that Uncle Xu has a son who suddenly disappeared when he was very young, and he has not been heard from since, and not many people have mentioned it later. But I didn't hear anyone talk about him coming back. ”

Old lady Xu shook his head, "Speaking of this, it is our Xu family's ugly, he left that year, I was furious, and I announced in the clan that he would be expelled from the house, and then he has not heard from him, and suddenly came back, although I was happy in my heart, but I still let people lock him in the house, and he did not ventilate to the outside for the time being, and few people knew that he was back at home." When he first came back, he was thin and weak, and there were many scars on his body, but he came back with a large package, which was made of animal skin, very strong, and we didn't know what was in it at first, no matter what we asked, Xiao Wuzi didn't say a word, gave him food, and he still ate, but if someone touched his package, he immediately attacked, and rushed up to fight with people! ”

Chu Huan said: "If I guessed correctly, there is at least armor and a war knife in the package." ”

"The King of Chu is right in his words." Old lady Xu immediately said: "But we didn't know it at the time, and it took two or three years to find out!" ”

"Two or three years?" Linlang was stunned.

Old lady Xu said slowly: "After he came back, I placed him in the backyard and locked the door on weekdays, except for a few people in the clan, no one knew that he had returned." We also wanted to know where he had gone and what he had done for more than ten years, but no matter who it was, even if I asked him personally, he didn't say a word. For more than two years, he stayed at home, either lying down and sleeping, or just sitting on the ground, silent, saying that he was stupid, he would eat the food and water we sent, but he was normal, he didn't go out of the door, and often made strange noises at night, like it was like a nightmare. ”

"Nightmares?" Chu Huan was thoughtful, the corners of his eyebrows twitched slightly, as if he was thinking about something.

Mrs. Xu recalled: "It's a blessing that he can come back alive, since he doesn't go out, it's not a bad thing, he won't make any trouble outside, and I don't care too much." And at the beginning, I thought he was dead, and he was given a spiritual position, but now he suddenly came back, if this matter is publicized, it will naturally be laughed at and generous, so I have been telling the people in the family that the news of his return alive must not be spread out, firstly, for fear of being ridiculed, and secondly, for fear of trouble coming to the door. ”

"Trouble?" Linlang blinked, "What's the trouble?" ”

"When Xiao Wuzi left, he took four or five people away, and when those people left, they were all young, when Xiao Wuzi was still at home, he was their leader, they ran away from home, and they thought it was because of Xiao Wuzi, so the people in their family also came to the door and blamed Xiao Wuzi for harming their children." Mrs. Xu sighed: "After their group left, for more than ten years, no one came back, Xiao Wuzi finally came back, but the person who went out with him was not seen, you say, if their family knows that Xiao Wuzi is back, how can they not come to the door?" That's going to be a big problem. ”

Linlang then understood, nodded slightly, but she just saw Xu Shun's appearance, crazy, knowing that after Xu Shun left home, he must have experienced extremely strange things, otherwise a good person would never raise a knife to his father.

"Until the night when he went home almost three years ago, in the middle of the night, there was a sudden sound of smashing things in his house, I hurriedly took someone over, and saw that Xiao Wuzi had an extra knife in his hand!" Pointing to the big knife in Chu Huan's hand, "That's the knife, he yelled in the house with the big knife, chopped things when he saw them, and shouted that he wanted to kill them, we saw him like that at the time, they were all frightened, no one dared to go in at that time, and when he was tired, we persuaded outside, and it was strange to say, after he stopped, he was obedient, I asked him to put him down, he didn't disobey, and he didn't disobey, and he didn't care about the rotten mess in the house, so he lay on the ground and continued to sleep!" Speaking of this, his eyes were red and swollen, and he said sadly: "We cleaned up the house, and we wanted to take his knife away, but he immediately snatched it over, and he refused to let us take it away when he died, we were afraid that he would have a seizure, so we could only give up!" ”

Chu Huan leaned forward and asked, "Uncle Xu, did he have a nightmare, so he suddenly had a seizure?" Did he use a knife to chop things because he felt that someone was trying to harm him? ”

"Exactly." Old lady Xu immediately said: "He shouted that someone wanted to kill him, but there was no one in the house, originally we only thought that he just had a nightmare, but later we learned that it was just the beginning!" He shook his head with a wry smile and said: "After that time, another three or four months passed, and Xiao Wuzi began to get sick again, and that time he also put on the armor we saw today, but the armor was not as broken as it is now!" ”

"Several times in a row, every time he shouted that someone was looking for him and asking for his life, then we thought he had bumped into evil outside and ran into something unclean." Old lady Xu said softly: "So I secretly found a Taoist priest who exorcised ghosts, and asked the Taoist priest to practice in his courtyard, wanting to drive away unclean things, but before the Taoist priest's practice was finished, Xiao Wuzi rushed out with a knife, and almost hacked the Taoist priest to death at that time, but I spent a lot of money to make the Taoist priest seal!" Speaking of this, there was another long sigh, full of helplessness.

Linlang's expression was gloomy, Chu Huan held his chin in one hand, as if he was thinking about something, and after a while of silence in the hall, Chu Huan asked, "Uncle Xu, has Xu Shun been like this all these years?" ”

"Yes." Old lady Xu said: "It seems that he was really harmed by ghosts, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to get better for so many years." ”

"How's the seizure?" Chu Huan asked, "But every month?" ”

Mrs. Xu said: "It was okay earlier, it only happened once in four or five months, and it only happened twice a year, but the later it went, the more frequent it became this time, the year before last it was already once a month, and in the second half of this year, there were at least three attacks every month!" Said helplessly: "How can it be good if it goes on like this?" ”