Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Curse of the Zhen Family Apprenticeship
After Jin Zhao left, Zhen Jinming paced around the secret room alone, as if thinking about something annoying, at this time, the door of the secret room opened, Xiao Lin walked in, followed by a boy, who was the young man. It's just that the young man crossed his arms around his chest, his mouth was deflated, and his head was facing to the side, and he asked her unhappily, "Hey, what are you bringing me here for, I don't want to see her at all, I want to go out to play" Xiao Lin didn't pay attention to him, just took the door and went out, the young man chased after him, but found that he couldn't open the door, he turned to Zhen Jinming, "What are you still doing there, help me open the door, I want to go out to play, come on" Zhen Jinming's heart moved, a little sad, this is her child, but she has never grown up with him, and even left him ruthlessly when he was born, and now although she wants to make up for the debt to him, she has to send him away from her side because of his illness.
"Fengzhi, come here, my mother has something to say to you," Zhen Jinming called softly.
"Stinky woman, you're not my mother, my mother won't beat me and abandon me when I was born, so I've been my mother since I was a child, and now you are my mother" The teenager roared hysterically, turned his head and ran to the corner, squatted down and hugged himself, crying fiercely, repeating in his mouth "I don't have a mother, my mother has died a long time ago, I hate you, why do you say that you are my mother"
Zhen Jinming stood stunned, his eyes were full of tears, but there were some things that should be said, "Fengzhi, do you listen to your mother, many things are not what you think, I didn't let my father tell you when you were young before, but now that you are not young, I think it's time to tell you a lot of things."
The boy was still cowering in the corner, his shoulders shaking from the crying motion, and his hands over his ears, not wanting to listen to her explanation.
Zhen Jinming walked to his side, squatted down, patted his back gently with his hand, coaxed him, and saw that the young man's mood was more relaxed, so he took out a letter from his arms, " This is a letter from your father when he was in the hospital, saying that when he is gone, I will take you back, and I will show you the letter when you are older, because taking you with me will expose your identity, which is too dangerous for you, so I have been arranging you in Xiaolin's hometown for the past two years, I can only occasionally go to see you secretly, you open it and take a look, you can still recognize your father's handwriting." took out the letter and handed it to him, he seemed to be eager to know the truth, took the letter and tore it open and read it, I used to read and write with my father, the accumulation is not small, and it is not difficult to read, this handwriting is also very easy to identify is indeed his.
Only then did I know that my mother left their father and son because of the curse of the family, and in order to cure his illness, he joined this superficial casino and climbed to today's position step by step, hoping to find a cure and lift the family curse from the strange things that this organization came into contact with, but he still couldn't convince himself to accept this fact but had to accept it, because in his memory, his father was just an ordinary scholar, and the family was not rich but quite rich, he originally thought that his father had his own way to make money, because he had a special constitution since he was a child, drank all kinds of medicines, and lived in all kinds of hospitals, but the family never seems to be short of money, it turns out that she has always been silently watching the family.
The boy suddenly didn't know how to go to face the woman who was squatting in front of him, there was still some resentment, but it was also mixed with some distress, and I didn't know how she survived here all these years, alone in this kind of place, no one supported and even misunderstood by her family, suddenly I wanted to hug her and comfort her, but the stiff hand still couldn't be stretched out, Zhen Jinming looked at the emotion in his eyes and the hand that was not stretched out, and hugged him suddenly, the pain was not stopped, as if he wanted to cry out the grievances of so many years, the young man was a little overwhelmed by her, just patted her back blankly。
After a long while, Zhen Jinming settled down, held the young man's face with both hands, and said softly, "Fengzhi, are you willing to recognize me, my mother still has a lot of things to tell you, come, sit down, drink some water, and then talk" Brought the young man to the table, sat down next to him, smoothed his somewhat messy hair, and talked about the curse of the Zhen family and his illness········
In the Zhen family, there is a profession that is unknown to outsiders, that is, "shadow refiner" To put it simply, by cultivating with his own shadow, he can prolong his life, peek into other people's hearts, and even become one with his own shadow, usually their family is a hexagram master outside, and the family background is quite rich, but when it comes to his grandfather's generation, his grandfather's younger brother doesn't know where to get a secret book, saying that he can use other people's shadows for his own use, and he can also get that person's ability, but the person who loses his shadow will become a living dead from now on, so his grandfather is very jealous, and he is even more strict against his brother, for fear that he would go astray.
However, there will be a mistake in the hundreds. Grandpa's younger brother still stole the book while he was unprepared, leaving a family letter, saying that he must carry forward the family's business, which grandpa did not think about, but this kind of shadow and harm to people, he couldn't do it in the end, and the bad guy had to leave it to his younger brother.
I thought that since this was the case, the expulsion of my uncle from the house would be over. But he never thought that one day, my uncle would come back with a shadow army, and said that he wanted his grandfather to take out the family's treasure "Shadowless Mirror", and in order to prevent his grandfather from getting in his way, he would destroy this thing. Grandpa must refuse, but the shadow army is not a good stubble, the family had to flee in all directions, the uncle thought that there was still a little bit of old love and did not chase it, but ordered the shadow army to turn the old mansion upside down, as a result, he bumped into grandpa in the secret room of the ancestral statue of the old family house, he just wanted to take something to escape but was suppressed by the shadow army, grandpa bitterly persuaded him not to be foolish and do stupid things, "no shadow mirror" It is impossible to offend the family who has been worshiped for generations, but the uncle has long been consumed by the desire for profit, and he has become more and more inflated, where can he listen to it.
Uncle knocked Grandpa to the ground, snatched the "Shadowless Mirror", and wanted to smash it and destroy it, so that the Shadow Legion would be truly worry-free. Grandpa covered his eyes and couldn't bear to look at it anymore, muttering "Sins and sins, they are all the disasters of my Zhen family", the mirror was thrown to the ground by my uncle like this, but it was not broken, but it was just a flash of golden light, and a wisp of afterimage shot out of the mirror, it was an old man in a white robe, claiming to be a shadowless real person, his eyes widened angrily, staring at his grandfather and scolding, "Okay, you Zhen Zhongzhi, I have protected your Zhen family for hundreds of years, you can't even keep my true body, let your own people bully"
He turned his head and raised his eyebrows coldly at his uncle, "Zhen Zhongyong, do you think I can look at your shadow legion, and I still need to work hard to destroy it, then you underestimate me too much, as long as I blow your legion, all of it will turn into powder, if you don't worship me well, forget it, think of some crooked ways, I will let you know what regret is"
Uncle also wanted to command the shadow army to deal with Lao Dao, but the shadows didn't dare to move, as if they had seen some flood beast, and they didn't dare to move forward. Lao Dao laughed, "Do you think that my shadowless real person is called for nothing, the shadow is just a derivative of me, let them deal with me, it's ridiculous, they were supposed to stay by their respective bodies, but in order to gain the ability of others, you also let other people's shadows be used by you, come up with this method, I will let you experience the taste of loss"
Lao Dao raised his arms and shouted, "Everything is empty, Qiankun is nothing, coming is coming, going is gone" Seeing the changes in my uncle's body, the essence is gradually passing, bursts of light come out of my uncle's body, and then return to the shadow behind him, the shadow slowly disappears, on the other hand, my uncle is already moaning in pain on the ground, the passing light is that the ability he has won has become a part of his body, this loss is like ripping his flesh, in the face of absolute strength, any opportunism seems to be beyond his strength, my uncle was tortured to the point that he was not human, his internal organs were stirred up, and even the moaning sound became weak.
Grandpa still wanted to step forward to intercede, but Lao Dao took the lead in speaking, "Zhen Zhongzhi, don't worry, it's your turn next, don't think that I don't know that your brother was let go by yourself, and the cheats were also deliberately given to him by you, if you don't dare to do it, let your brother do it for you, blow the wind in his ears every day, and the final consequences are caused by you, but you don't have to be afraid, I won't do anything to you"
Grandpa was just about to breathe a sigh of relief, when he suddenly heard, "Hehe, it's just that you always have to pay for what you have done, and I will curse you for generations to come, and future generations will not see the light of day, but can only live in darkness." And as long as it is a girl, she has to endure the pain of separation, and if she is a boy, she will not live to be twenty years old, and if she does not worship this "shadowless mirror" well, she will definitely be eaten by her own shadow and die."
After Lao Dao finished speaking, he shrank into the mirror, leaving only his grandfather still beating his chest there, paining his mistakes.
After Zhen Jinming finished speaking, he looked at the young man seriously and said, "So, Fengzhi, in order for you to be able to get rid of this curse, to be able to live in the sun like a normal child, and for you to live safely past the age of twenty, this time can you listen to your mother's words once, you will go to the Xuanji Hall tomorrow night to find a person named Uncle Xu, and ask him to take you to Jin Zhao, that is, the uncle you met last time, worship him as a teacher, he will help you"
The hope that had just been ignited in the young man's eyes was extinguished in an instant, but in order to be able to get rid of these, he could also understand that everything was helpless, but he couldn't help but feel a little sad when he thought that the mother and son finally recognized each other, and they had to separate. But in order to make her not sad, she nodded with difficulty