Chapter 268: The Decline of the Family
In front of a mansion in the north of Lingnan City, Ji Fan looked at the plaque of the Ji Mansion above, and there were already some cracks.
From the outside, the mansion occupies a small area, the gate is slightly narrow, and the small stone trees on both sides seem to tell this cultivation family that has the inheritance of wood spirit roots.
"It's old!"
Yin Bao'er sighed in her heart, the Ji family was lonely.
"Bell!bell!bell~~~"
Because there was no doorman outside the mansion, Ji Fan hesitated, but still stepped forward and buckled the door knocker.
"Here ......
Before the door came, a man with low breath answered from inside.
"Woo~~~"
The sound of the door opening, as if it hadn't been soaked in oil for a while, was quite harsh.
"Who are the two?"
An old man didn't recognize Ji Fan, and stood in the door and asked cautiously.
"I don't know who is in charge of the house, and please bother to say goodbye, Ji Fan is back. Ji Fan said calmly to his old family Ding.
"Ji Fan?"
Lao Ding didn't react at first, and his face changed after thinking for a while.
"The master of the third master's family?"
Lao Ding didn't call Ji Fan a young master, and hurriedly invited him into the mansion.
Entering the mansion and seeing that the stone brick floor was in disrepair, and there were no eye-catching large furnishings, Ji Fan's expression was slightly complicated, and he felt that compared to when Ji Fu was in the North Sacrifice City, it was too simple at this time.
"The old slave will go and tell the patriarch. ”
Lao Ding looked at Ji Fan in great surprise, and didn't know what to say to him.
"There don't seem to be many people in the house!"
After Lao Jia Ding entered the inner courtyard, Yin Baoer whispered to Ji Fan.
"In my father's generation, there are only three branches of the sect family, Ji Ming is the only son of the second uncle, and the uncle has more wives and concubines, and the people are relatively the most prosperous. Ji Fan said with a little emotion.
It didn't take long for the sound of small footsteps to come from the inner courtyard, and an elderly woman walked quickly.
"It's back, it's back......"
The woman who was sixty years away suddenly stopped after seeing Ji Fan, and after a while, her eyes were full of tears and she muttered.
Ji Fan didn't say anything, he could vaguely recognize that the elderly woman was Ji Zhu, who used to take care of Ji Mansion in the North Sacrifice City.
"The master of the third master's family, isn't he the one who can compete with the heroes of the life and death realm, hasn't he already betrayed the family?" A young girl with a bit of a posture looked at Ji Fan behind the person, and whispered with a look in her eyes.
"That's just the family's statement to the outside world, this third uncle is the strongest of our Ji clan, and he can fight alone!" the other girl said in a very low voice.
"Ji Fan said hello to his cousin. ”
Ji Fan took two steps forward and knelt down on one knee to salute Ji Zhu.
"Still hasn't changed ......"
Ji Zhu reacted, trembling and came to Ji Fan to help him up, and couldn't help but touch his face with both hands.
Although Ji Fan had no expression on his face, there was emotion hidden in his eyes.
"Give a salute to the head of the Ji clan. ”
Yin Bao'er was blessed with an elderly woman, giving people a sense of dignified atmosphere.
"Xiaofan, who is this?"
Ji Zhu faced Yin Bao'er and asked solemnly.
"She is my companion Yin Bao'er. ”
Ji Fan replied without hesitation, but without a detailed introduction.
"Meet the Third Uncle......"
The juniors in the back saluted Ji Fan one after another.
"Get up. ”
Regarding the titles of several juniors, Ji Fan smiled and said.
As for the whispered discussion of the juniors just now, it couldn't escape Ji Fan's ears.
"Fast forward inside and talk. ”
Ji Zhu, who is old, now has the cultivation of the middle stage of Tongxuan, and his body is quite tough.
After entering the inner courtyard, Ji Fan and Ji Zhu came to a hall first.
"Sister Zhu, where is the male brother in the clan?"
Ji Fan sat down in a Taishi chair and asked about the suspicions he saw.
The elderly woman's expression darkened, and she did not give an immediate reply, faintly revealing a sense of powerlessness.
"The men of the Ji family are not prosperous, but Ji Xuan has two sons, Chaoyuan and Chaohao, and the cultivation family is like this. After a while, Ji Zhucai's voice trembled slightly.
"Chaoyuan had a quarrel with someone when he was young, and was killed in the conflict, two years ago, the Lingsha Dynasty and the Chongming Dynasty were at war, leaving Ji Xuan and Ji Chaohao, father and son, also recruited by the Pingnan Palace, and all died on the battlefield, these three small ones are the descendants of Chaohao, Ji Rong, Ji Rui, and Ji Jing!" Facing Ji Fan's gaze, Ji Zhu had to continue.
"It's me who has been involved with the Ji clan all these years. ”
Seeing that there were still three women in the main hall, there was little room for voice, and Ji Fan estimated that it might be Ji Chaohao's wife and concubine.
"The cultivation world is the law of the jungle, especially in troubled times, without you, the Ji clan is afraid that it will be even more difficult. Ji Zhu shook his head, seeing through but powerless to change.
"There is also Ji Ying, who entered the palace of King Pingnan, is the concubine of King Pingnan, and in the past few years, she has helped the family a lot. Ji Zhu also told Ji Fan about the four small ones.
"What about Chaoran? She entered the Xuanyin Sect before, and after the battle between the two realms of righteousness and demons, I heard that she came back to Lingnan City. Ji Fan still remembered the female brother of the family's wood fire spirit root.
"Except for Ji Ming, who disappeared, and Ji Zhuo, who ignored his family in Burning Sky Valley, almost all the living people are standing here. Ji Zhu took a deep breath and calmed himself.
Ji Zhu is a concubine, and now he is the patriarch of the Ji family, so it can be seen that the Ji family is really not a person.
"It has been more than forty years since I left the North Festival City when I was a child, and the Ji clan at that time had thousands of hectares of fertile land and hundreds of thousands of stones of rice and grain, which was second to none in the North Sacrifice City, but now it has ended up like this!" Ji Fan's expression had a heavy feeling.
"Xiaofan, how are you all these years?"
Ji Zhu didn't want the atmosphere to be too depressing, so he asked Ji Fan with a smile.
"I've been hiding for nearly 20 years, and if people know that I'm still alive, I'm afraid I still won't let go. Ji Fan didn't hide anything in front of everyone in the main hall.
"It's really not a way to live!"
The old Ji Zhu said angrily, making Yin Bao'er smile slightly.
"Let's take one step at a time, people live for a lifetime, and they can't always hide and not show up. Ji Fan's expression calmed down, because the relationship between cultivating Fan Xijue would not bring any pressure to others.
If Ji Fan wears ordinary cloth clothes, I am afraid that people will think that he is a young man in a mountain village.
The three girls standing in the main hall were completely unable to connect Ji Fan in front of them with the rumored third uncle.
"Xiao Fan, how far have you reached now?"
Ji Zhu, who was old, couldn't help but ask curiously.
"In the late stage of fetal movement, it should not be too far from Crush. Ji Fan said that he would cultivate, which made all the female relatives shocked.
In the three small thoughts, the elders of some sects are also in the fetal movement period, at least they haven't heard of anyone in the Ji clan who can reach this point.
Only Ji Zhu can faintly realize that Ji Fan's late fetal cultivation is by no means ordinary.
"Is it the peak of the Dawn Breaking Realm? Maybe in Cangluan Prefecture, this is already a rare opponent in the Dawn Breaking Realm!" In Ji Zhu's cognition, after the burial of the ancient calamity, Ji Fan was already terrifying.
The cultivation background is different, and the growth of the monk will naturally be very different, often the monk with a deep foundation will not be happy to cultivate and advance to the realm, but once he advances, the skyrocketing combat power is also unimaginable.
"I don't know what happened to Ji Ming and Ji Zhuo, after all, they are also the children of the Ji family. Ji Zhu said with some concern.
"They are still alive, if there is still the Ji clan in their hearts, they will come back soon. Ji Fan smiled a little meaningfully, and now he can't talk about hatred for Ji Zhuo.
"Because the Great War of the Hundred Sects of the Ancient Dao is approaching again?" Ji Zhu remembered that Ji Fan disappeared during the last time of the Ten Demon Dao Classics, and when there was news of him again, it was in the sea of fog and clouds.
Different from the Great War of the Hundred Sects of the Ancient Dao, it is held once in twenty years, and the big competition of the Ten Demon Dao List is once in ten years, after Ji Fan escaped from the siege and killing of the strong people of all parties, the Ten Demon Dao Classics opened again ten years ago.
Nearly 20 years have passed, Ji Fan and Yin Bao'er seem to have evaporated from the world, and Ji Zhu is even worried that something has happened to him.
"All the way back, I must be tired, I will arrange a courtyard, let you rest, and talk about what you have to do. Ji Zhu, who was old, said to Ji Fan and Yin Bao'er.
Ji Fan accepted with a smile, he didn't mind living in the family for a while, and just after he came back, he could see that the family's situation was very bad.
As for Yin Bao'er who followed, Ji Fan was more secretly grateful to her.
Although I don't know what the specific situation of the Tongtian Treasure Clan is, if there is a need, Ji Fan will help Yin Bao'er.
There are three courtyards in the small courtyard, and it is very clean at noon, and there are not many people in the Ji family, and Ji Zhu is not disturbed.
"Do you want to go to the ancestral hall to pay respects?"
In the small courtyard, when there were no other clansmen, Ji Zhu asked Ji Fan.
"Go ahead. ”
Ji Fan had the meaning that it should be, and motioned for Yin Bao'er to follow as well.
The reason why Ji Zhu asked Ji Fan's opinion was because he was afraid that he would have something to mind.
As far as Ji Zhu knew, when Ji Fan was young, the family did not let him enter the ancestral hall, because there was a family inheritance in the ancestral hall, and in the end, the only heavenly spirit was given to Ji Ming.
"Over the years, a lot of people have died in the clan, even the second uncle has been killed, the second aunt is missing, life and death are unknown, Ji Ming came back to look for it, and even had a conflict with the Lin clan, and finally escaped with the injured enemy. Ji Zhu whispered to Ji Fan.
"Can you escape if you're hurt?"
Ji Fan muttered and asked, thinking in his heart that a woman like the second aunt might not die.
In Ji Fan's memory, although the second aunt is vicious, she is a very beautiful woman, and she has seen her in the Xuanyin Mountains before, and her face has not seen any age.
"If it weren't for the old prince, I'm afraid it would be difficult to say!" Ji Zhu's wrinkled eyes had a faint look of emotion.
"King Lingnan? He didn't keep his promise. ”
Ji Fan's face was expressionless, he still remembered what King Lingnan said in the Yin Demon Peak Cliff Pavilion at the beginning.
"The King of Lingnan was lost two years ago, and the current palace is already the head of the King of Pingnan, that person is naturally noble and moody, I didn't say it before, in fact, Ji Ying had a very hard time in the Pingnan Palace, but fortunately, Bai Xueyan followed. When Ji Zhu talked about Ji Ying, he didn't surprise Ji Fan in the slightest, after all, he was a concubine.
As for Bai Xueyan, Ji Fan remembered that he left her in the Tianji Pavilion in the Hundred Tomb City, originally wanting her to read more classics, but later because she was remembered by the powerful people of all parties, he didn't care about her.
This time Ji Zhu mentioned Bai Xueyan, Ji Fan didn't know whether she followed Ji Ying or wanted to enter the Pingnan Palace.