"I'm from the Academy,"

While still panting, Zhou Zitong said,

"I have just taken a few days off with my husband before I came to see you, Brother Ji Yuan, and I plan to sell the land and give it to the servants so that they can have a peaceful birthday, and then I will go to study and study wholeheartedly. So come and tell Brother Ji Yuan, I may not live there in the future......"

"And where are you going to live?"

Zong Jiyuan asked in surprise.

Zhou Zitong hesitated,

"Well, it's not decided yet......

Looking at the helplessness on the other party's face, Zong Jiyuan couldn't help but think, in this way, wouldn't he be alone, he groaned slightly, and said with a smile,

"By the way, Brother Zitong, little brother, I'm about to go home. Why don't you come with me and come to my house to have fun? ”

After this period of contact, I already knew that Zhou Zitong was a kind and loyal person, and because of this, I couldn't let go of him in my heart, so I asked the other party to my home this time, and I also hoped that he would have many people who could be relied on and trusted.

At this time, standing in front of his mother Liu Xianglan, Zhou Zitong knelt on the ground, kowtowed three times in succession, and paid homage with a big salute. Seeing this scene, Zong Jiyuan's heart couldn't help but move, so he said half-jokingly, half-seriously,

"Mother, it seems that you have another son."

"Isn't it, if you can have a good boy like Zitong as a son, it's really good."

Liu Xianglan looked at her beloved daughter's expression and said meaningfully.

Who knows, the conversation between her mother and daughter has not yet landed, and Zhou Zitong saluted again,

"Then, Zitong will be your son, the mother is above, and the child will be worshipped!"

"Oh, there's really an extra son."

Zong Jiyuan smiled, muttering to himself in his heart, it seems that Zhou Zitong is not all a wooden head this time.

Liu Xianglan also smiled,

"Great, that's it."

Although it was a little sudden, it was a good thing after all, Liu Xianglan immediately called Baoyuan and Yuejiao out, and under careful questioning, it turned out that Zhou Zitong and Zong Jiyuan were the same age, but they were only three months older, and they became elder brothers.

Seeing each other, the two children took their new brother Zhou Zitong to the back garden to play under the mother's instructions, and then Liu Xianglan's eyes fell on her daughter.

"Ji Yuan, what's the matter with coming home?"

"Yes, the child's heart naturally can't be hidden from the mother,"

Zong Jiyuan walked over with a smile and took his mother's hand,

"Let's go to your room, okay?"

"Okay, let's go inside."

Knowing that this must mean something important to talk about, Liu Xianglan nodded in agreement.

The mother and daughter came to Liu Xianglan's bedroom together, it can be said that this is the quietest place in the sect's mansion, and it is also a place where no one can enter without permission, and it is perfect to say something private here.

Offering tea to his mother, Zong Jiyuan sat down in his seat beside him, and said,

"Don't tell me that the child handled a case in the yazhong, but it was investigated and investigated, and it was actually involved in the incident in Dongshangou ten years ago."

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Liu Xianglan was stunned at first, but immediately asked,

"What the hell is going on?"

"Mother, don't worry,"

knew that his family's relationship with that case was too deep, so Zong Jiyuan hurriedly explained,

"It's just one of the culprits, I heard that he is a descendant of the thieves of the East Mountain Valley."

"Posterity?"

Liu Xianglan listened for a moment of contemplation and nodded,

"Yes, those two thieves do have descendants, but it was only because Lord He had the virtue of a good life at that time and had no intention of killing them all, and it was also a factor of lack of manpower, so he didn't chase and kill."

"So, have you seen those descendants?"

Zong Jiyuan asked tentatively.

Liu Xianglan shook her head very dryly and said,

"At that time, out of some considerations, Wei Niang didn't want to attract attention, and even when she fought those thieves, she was disguised, so even Lord He thought I was just an ordinary family member at that time, let alone going to the lair of the thieves in Dongshangou."

"Oh yes......"

For this, Zong Jiyuan still remembered it vividly, and said softly,

"I see, so to speak, these cases that are happening today are just some coincidences that those descendants have not changed their thieving nature and have begun to commit adultery again, and they have been met by children."

"What? Mo Fei Jiyuan, do you think there are other factors in this? ”

Hearing her say this, Liu Xianglan also became alert and asked.

Zong Jiyuan shook his head and smiled slightly,

"Probably because the child thinks too much, there should be nothing complicated, and it is unlikely that there is such a deep conspiracy."

"It's just Ji Yuan, after all, this bowl of rice is not so good, and you still ......"

Speaking of this, Liu Xianglan paused and said,

"Anyway, it's better to be more cautious."

"The child wrote it down,"

Zong Jiyuan nodded frequently very obediently,

"You are more tired at home, and you also tell the family that you should be more careful at ordinary times, I don't know why, the child always feels that in recent years, Liaodong County is not so stable compared with before."

"Mother knows, but,"

Looking at her beloved daughter again, Liu Xianglan turned to smile,

"Ji Yuan, the child named Zhou Zitong that you brought back today, what's going on?"

"Not really,"

Zong Jiyuan's eyes moved slightly,

"It's just that he is too pitiful, and the matter in the Yazhong has been a little tricky recently, and I can't involve too much energy in other things, so I took him home to see if my mother could help him."

"Is that really all there is to it?"

Liu Xianglan smiled mischievously, making people seem to be able to see the delicate girl twenty years ago for a moment.

Looking at such a mother, Zong Jiyuan was slightly stunned, changed his mind slightly, and suddenly opened his mouth wide in shock,

"No, mother, you probably want to go somewhere else!"

"There's nothing wrong with 'thinking of somewhere else', after all, Ji Yuan, you've grown up too."

Liu Xianglan learned from her and smiled.

Zong Jiyuan pouted angrily and funny,

"Mother, don't make fun of the child, didn't I say earlier, I won't get married, I will stay in the clan for the rest of my life and protect everyone in this family instead of my father."

"That's not going to work,"

Liu Xianglan smiled faintly and said,

"In this life, it is better to be accompanied by someone who knows cold and hot, and your father must think so......"

Speaking of this, the eyes of the mother and daughter invariably fell to the east wall, where there was a life-size portrait drawn by a friend for the fourth master of the sect, and the person in the painting was staring at the mother and daughter with a leisurely expression and soft eyes.