"I have been away from home for more than a month, and my mother must be very worried when I think about it," Lu Yan thought secretly in his heart. When he thought of his mother at home, he felt a little guilty. In the past few years, because of the disappearance of his father and the fact that his eldest brother has gone out to practice for a few years, he has not heard from him, so that his mother, who was originally optimistic and cheerful, has become silent and thin.

In the past few years, my mother has paid too much for herself, and she has pinned a lot of hopes on herself, and she has obviously become her only spiritual pillar and the hope to support her already strong life. In this way, Lu Yan has always felt very guilty in his heart, because he seems to have not had a good chat with his mother for a long time, and he has spent almost all his time on cultivation.

But most of the time, my mother is very tolerant of herself. It's like for her own cultivation, in fact, she has always been very opposed, and Lu Yan also knows the reason for her opposition, she is afraid that she will embark on the path of cultivation like her father, this path is full of blood and crisis, and if she is not careful, she may lose her life, which is what she does not want to see, and it will also make her worry every day.

But every time she saw Lu Yan's focused expression when she was cultivating, she couldn't bear to stop it, but she was very sad in her heart, which was an insoluble contradiction.

But for these, in fact, Lu Yan is also very clear in his heart. His mother's opposition to becoming a warrior was nothing more than the fear that one day he would have an accident like his father. She just wants Lu Yan to be an ordinary person and live a healthy life.

However, even if he knew that his mother was for his own good, Lu Yan still chose the path of a martial artist, because this was his fate, this was the only choice on his life path, he was willing to spend his life in vain, he wanted to be a man who stood up to the sky like his father, and he wanted to live a meaningful life.

He also wants to be like his father and brother, to be a man who stands up to the sky. He doesn't want to be like those ordinary people on the street, so inconspicuous, so mediocre, and finally spend decades of wasted doing nothing and then slowly disappear into the world. He also wanted to go outside to see the places that his father had said before, those places that belonged to the warriors, the happy rivers and lakes, that was the life he longed for. So he can only try his best to protect himself, not let himself have any accidents, and reassure his mother, because he also knows that his mother at this time can no longer bear any blows.

However, Lu Yan was also very ashamed in his heart, he had been focusing on cultivation in the past few years, so he neglected to care about his mother. But it's not too late to know now, I just hope to be myself in the future and care more about my mother.

Along the way, all Lu Yan's thoughts were immersed in thinking, and he didn't notice that from the moment he stepped out of the Longyan Cave, there were several pairs of eyes behind him that kept staring at him. It wasn't until Lu Yan's figure disappeared into the night that these people dispersed in different directions one after another.

At this moment, Lu Yan, who had already put all his mind on going home, had already relaxed his vigilance around him, and he didn't notice these at all. Thinking of his mother at home, a smile rose on the corner of Lu Yan's mouth, and he couldn't help but speed up his pace.

It took Lu Yan half an hour to walk through the overlapping and undulating courtyard of the Lu family. When he saw the familiar courtyard, Lu Yan showed a smile in his eyes.

The courtyard gate was ajar, and the sound of "Dodo...", intermittently, came from the courtyard.

After taking a deep breath and adjusting his emotions, Lu Yan gently reached out and pushed the door open.

The yellowed, dilapidated wooden door squeaks. sounds

"Who.." A slightly old and hoarse voice came from the courtyard.

It turned out that Lu Mu, who was washing clothes by the small pool in the yard, heard the sound, so she turned around and shouted in the direction of the door.

The woman tried to exit again, but stopped when she saw the figure standing in the doorway. Immediately, I saw the woman's excited mouth half-open, her hand shook, and the laundry stick fell to the ground and made a "clang"!

"Xiao Yan!" the woman looked at Lu Yan who was standing at the door and said excitedly. His voice was a little choked, and the corners of his eyes were even covered with a layer of rain and mist.

Looking at his mother's appearance at this time, Lu Yan felt an inexplicable pain in his heart, a very depressed and suffocating emotion kept surging upward, and his eyes were gradually occupied by fog flowers.

"Mother, it's me" Lu Yan hurriedly responded, hearing the somewhat hoarse and vicissitudes of life, he suddenly felt a little inexplicably uncomfortable in his heart.

As soon as Lu Yan's voice fell, Lu Mu stood up excitedly, clanged, threw away the pole in her hand, and ran towards Lu Yan quickly, and immediately grabbed his shoulders with both hands, looked up and down carefully, and her mouth was still chanting, and her face was full of happy smiles.

Looking at his mother's appearance and feeling his mother's care for him, Lu Yan felt a warm current in his heart, and instantly felt that his nose was a little sour, and crystal tears swirled in his eyes, but Lu Yan held back, he didn't want his mother to see him crying.

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At the dinner table in the evening, Lu Yan chatted a lot with his mother while eating supper... Lu Mu's words were full of joy.

"Hey, by the way, Xiao Yan, Yan Qiu and Xiao Min came to look for you a few days ago, but you weren't there at that time, so I told them you went out." At the dinner table, Lu Mu sandwiched a piece of meat and put it in Lu Yan's bowl, and then said.

"Ah, Sister Yan Qiu and Xiao Min are also back?" Lu Yan was still very surprised by the return of the two of them, because the two of them had never come back since they went to the sect outside to cultivate two years ago. Now I was surprised to hear my mother say that they had returned.

"yes, they came to you that night. But you weren't there at the time, and then they said they were going to Longyan Cave to look for you the next day, didn't they see you later?" Lu Mu paused and then asked with a little surprise.

"No, I've always been cultivating in Longyan Cave, and I haven't seen them come to me, if I did, maybe I would have come back yesterday" Lu Yan thought for a moment and then said with a smile.

"Then do you want to go to them first, the two of them came to you on the first day they came back, they are both kind-hearted children, you have to remember the good of others." Mother Lu said with a smile on her face

"Mother, I know, Sister Yanqiu and Xiaomin often helped me in the past, and I remember it all in my heart. But I just came back today, and it's already midnight, so it's not convenient to go there at this time, so I'll go to them tomorrow. I'll be at home tonight with my mother first. Lu Yan pointed to the night sky outside the window and said with a smile.

"Ouch, look at my brain, I forgot that it's midnight now, and I asked you to find someone else's girl, hehehe...."Lu Mu said with an embarrassed smile.

"Hahaha......." It was rare to see his mother's embarrassed expression for the first time, and Lu Yan also laughed along.

"Okay, don't laugh, hurry up and take a hot shower first, I've already boiled the hot water for you" Lu Mu stood up and said with a smile while cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks.

"Mother, I'll help you clean it up" Lu Yan immediately stood up and snatched the rag and chopsticks from his mother's hand, and said as well.

"No need, just let my mother do these dirty work" Where would Lu Mu let Lu Yan do these things, she immediately gently pushed Lu Yan's hand away and said.

Lu Yan saw that he couldn't compete with his mother, so he had to stand aside obediently, watching his mother clean up the table and listening to his mother's nagging, but his heart was warm.

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The yellow full moon in mid-air hung high like a silver platter, and the soft moonlight poured down, adding a little more tranquility to this quiet night.

The breeze gently blew through the old tree in the yard, the leaves rustled, and the moonlight was slightly cool....

In this silent night, the entire Lu family was in silence, and occasionally a frog sound was heard in the distance.

Lu Yan leaned lazily against the window, looking at the night outside the window, inexplicably in a daze.

"There are still more than two months to go before the New Year's Festival, and it is also the most important year-end competition of the Lu family every year. I don't know what kind of scene it will be at that time, although I have broken through the Qi training, I always feel that it is not very safe. Lu Yan's lips moved slightly, and he muttered to himself in a low voice.

A gust of wind suddenly blew the long hair on his forehead. Lu Yan raised his head lightly and looked at the tallest building standing in the middle of the Lu family, the "Martial Pavilion" in the distance, and he suddenly felt an inexplicable panic in his heart. It is not only the holy place of the Lu family's martial arts, but also the location of the Lu family's annual clan comparison.

Although his strength has broken through to the peak of the first level of the Qi Cultivation Realm, he already has a little strength. Originally, Lu Yan should have been happy, but he didn't know why, since he knew that Sister Yan Qiu and Xiao Min had returned, he felt a little unhappy.

It stands to reason that his two sisters are back, and he should be happy, but when he thinks of the clan and the golden silk dragon ginseng, Lu Yan feels that this matter is not as simple as he imagined.

"It seems that the temptation of golden silk dragon ginseng is still quite great, and everyone else should come back." Lu Yan muttered to himself.

"Hmph, no matter who it is, this golden silk dragon ginseng belongs to my father, I don't think I will let it fall into the hands of others" Lu Yan's eyes flashed a trace of ruthlessness.

Soon, Lu Yan faintly had a new decision in his heart.

Although he had made a decision in his heart, Lu Yan was still a little worried. Although he has broken through to the Qi Cultivation Mirror, there is still a gap between this strength and those people in the family, because those people are all cultivating in the sect, and they have been cultivating for a longer time than themselves, so it is difficult to guarantee that their current strength has reached the late stage of Qi cultivation, or even higher.

The more he thought about it, the more uncertain Lu Yan became.

But fortunately, there are still two months before the New Year's Festival, and I still have time to improve my strength, so I secretly made a decision in my heart.