If the overall style of the Southern Chu Grand Sima Mansion is simple, then the courtyard of the concubine Chen Zihan is the simplicity of simplicity.

From the time of the great Chen Zichu, he didn't like to come to this courtyard the most, not only because this courtyard was far away from his residence and remote. Moreover, because this courtyard is like a snow cave, there is no decoration in the courtyard except for bluestone slabs, just like his younger brother's temperament.

But today he could not come.

Because on the bluestone slab full of sword marks in this courtyard, a young man knelt upright.

It was Chen Zihan who had just returned to the mansion after the end of the Beginner Ceremony today.

Behind him stood an old man dressed simply, whose face was deeply wrinkled by the wind and frost of the years, and whose hair was mixed with silver threads, but his waist was still straight, and he did not look angry and arrogant.

If it weren't for the iron-blooded energy that still existed in his body, it would be difficult for anyone to think that this middle-aged man who was dressed no different from an ordinary old peasant in the countryside was one of the three princes of Southern Chu and the head of the Chen family of Southern Chu, the great Sima of Southern Chu, Chen Yan.

In the Southern Chu court, this man's words can make other ministers sweat and dare not refute. Only in his own mansion, he has to face his son's sword

Although he was yelled at, Chen Yan frowned and looked at the angry eldest son in front of him, then glanced at the son who was kneeling on the ground without saying a word, and spoke lightly.

"He has committed a crime today and is unfilial, and his father must punish him."

Chen Yan said expressionlessly.

"You don't have to worry about him, Zichu, go back to your own courtyard."

"You ......" Chen Zichu stared at the man in front of him and was speechless, "It's me who was beaten, I don't care, why do you have to punish him?" ”

Although he lost the battle today, he was also able to solve a knot in his heart, and he was happy, but he and Chen Zihan had just returned to the mansion, but found that their old father was waiting for them in the hall.

There was a son who entered the battle between the neighbors, but the face of the Southern Chu Grand Sima was not a trace of joy.

Chen Zichu saw a piece of paper covered with dense black characters on the table in his hand, and knew that it was a battle report that recorded today's battle situation, and frowned when he remembered the battle between him and Chen Zihan.

But before he could speak, their father was the first to speak, "Zichu, doctor, please come over in your yard." ”

Chen Zichu was stunned, but he saw the man sitting at the table looking at Chen Zihan at the next glance, and Chen Zichu obviously felt that Chen Zihan beside him was shocked.

"Zihan, come with me to your yard." The man said coldly and got up to leave.

"Daddy......" Chen Zichu looked nervously at his brother-in-law, but Chen Zihan didn't look at him, just quietly followed his father and walked out as usual.

Although his father usually punished Chen Zihan, this time Chen Zichu only felt that the atmosphere was the most sinister.

He was really not at ease, so he secretly followed the two of them and came to Chen Zihan's courtyard, only to hear Chen Yan take Chen Zihan into the courtyard and speak coldly.

"Get on my knees."

Chen Zihan still didn't speak, just took off the heavy sword at his waist and knelt quietly on the cold stone slab.

"Do you know what's wrong?" Chen Yan asked in a rough voice.

If it was in the past, Chen Zichu knew that the next moment he would hear Chen Zihan's mistake without a trace of emotion.

He has heard this sentence countless times since he was older.

But this time, there was still dead silence in the courtyard.

Chen Zihan.

Didn't open his mouth to admit his mistake.

"You used your concubine to injure your eldest brother," Chen Yan's eyes were even more angry, "What? Do you think I have wronged you? ”

Chen Zihan shook his head in silence, but the next moment he looked up into his father's eyes for the first time.

"If it's normal, it's wrong."

The young man knelt quietly on the ground and looked at his sword, "But today is the Beginner Grand Ceremony, and it is a battle between cultivators. ”

"I'm a wind cultivator," Chen Zihan looked at the sword on the ground and spoke, "Father, I'm a cultivator. ”

"I don't want to let my sword be overshadowed anymore," Chen Zihan said quietly, "Today, as a wind magician, I take my battle seriously, and that's it. ”

Chen Yan was stunned when he heard this, and looked at the son in front of him who spoke for the first time when he was punished.

Seeing Chen Zihan talking so much for the first time, Chen Zichu was also stunned, and the next moment he jumped into the courtyard and reacted and yelled at Chen Yan.

"That's right, I lost because my skills are not as good as others, how old are the people, what kind of trick is there to release water, is there any meaning? I don't care, Dad, why do you have to punish him? ”

"Is it for your own face?"

Chen Yan's pupils shrank, and he looked at the son in front of him who seemed to have changed into two people talking back to him. The next moment, more complicated emotions rose in his eyes, he reached out and grabbed the heavy sword on the ground, and slapped the scabbard on the back of Chen Zihan who was kneeling on the ground!

"Wind Magician? What do you know? Do you think that if you learn some swordsmanship in the school palace, you will dare to speak out and dare to ......"

Chen Yan coldly reprimanded, waved the heavy sword in his hand, Chen Zihan closed his eyes and did not dodge, a wisp of wind rose from his body, but the next moment Chen Yan's hand paused in mid-air

"You...... Who taught you this? ”

Chen Zichu's eyes widened in astonishment, and he found that his father, who was as hard as a stubborn stone, actually trembled for a moment with his hand holding the sword.

"Daddy?"

"Father?"

Chen Zihan opened his eyes and looked at his father who showed such a look for the first time in front of him. The moment he just wanted to protect himself, he remembered the words that the woman had said to him, and mobilized the true yuan in his body, but he didn't expect to cause such a big reaction from the man in front of him.

The man who was not confused clenched the sword in his hand, as if he had seen something unbelievable.

“！” Chen Yan shouted loudly, "It's impossible for the gentleman in the Jixia Academy Palace to teach you this!" Who told you this? ”

Father he...... What do you know?

Chen Zihan looked at the suddenly angry man in front of him in a daze, and was speechless.

It was the first time he had seen his father so emotional, and he wondered if he would bring trouble to the woman.

"No one taught me ......," Chen Zihan gritted his teeth and lowered his head.

"None? How dare you lie? Do you think you'll be able to ignore everything when you're capable? ”

Chen Yan clenched the hilt of the sword in his hand and mobilized the true yuan of his whole body, "Treating your eldest brother like this today, is it because he was instructed by Narao?" ”

Looking at his son who gritted his teeth and didn't speak, Chen Yan was furious and swung the heavy sword with the scabbard in his hand at Chen Zihan's back.

"Old man, stop!"

Looking at the sword in front of him that contained the momentum of wind and thunder, Chen Zichu's pupils shrank slightly, and he stretched out his hand forward!

But with his half-bucket of water kung fu, how could he be the opponent of the old general on the battlefield, seeing that the sword in his father's hand was about to fall on Chen Zihan, his eyes were split.

However, at this moment, a calm female voice suddenly sounded in front of him.

"I taught it."

Chen Zichu's eyes flickered, and he saw a female figure suddenly appear behind his father, stretching out her hand to the arm holding the sword.

He didn't even see how she moved, only to see her palm flying up and down, pushing and sending, and the hilt of the sword that Chen Yan had held in her hand before actually reached her hand!

Chen Zichu's eyes widened and he looked at Ying Baoyue who appeared behind his father.

What shocked him even more was that his father's expression was as if he had seen a ghost.

Chen Yan looked at the girl who suddenly appeared in amazement.

"Ghost Hunter? Attack? ”

The middle-aged man muttered, but Chen Zichu couldn't understand what his father was doing at all.

"So you remember." Ying Baoyue smiled when she heard this, clenched the hilt of the sword in her hand, raised her head, and called softly.

"Chen Yan."

The battle-hardened veteran general of Nanchu was shocked, raised his head and looked at the eyes of the woman in front of him, stiff and speechless.

At the moment of seeing her, Chen Yan looked at the strange girl in front of him in a daze, and it was difficult to describe the mood at this time.

……

……

There are always some scenes in Rao's life that are hard to forget.

For him.

It's a pair of eyes.