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Hu Xianxian saw his expression and knew that it was true, so he asked him why he didn't tell Bai Huifeng earlier, in his memory, Bai Huifeng always thought that Cheng Haofeng was swaying between her and Ling Ruofeng.

The corners of Cheng Haofeng's mouth raised, and the sorrow in his eyes faded a little: "Do you remember when you went to Yunhuaguan to catch Yanran Blood Fish?" ”

Of course Hu Xianxian remembered, and he also remembered that Leng Qiulang said that Yanran's blood fish was transformed by Jiang Yan.

He took her hand and sat down on a large rock by the river, and spoke slowly. Jiang Yan is the heart knot of Master Chao Xuantong, Jiang Yan's death was stabbed by the Huixin Jade Sword, and the red snow was still in Zang Xuanjiao's hands at that time.

Hu Xianxian wanted to ask Jiang Yan and Chao Xuantong about the same thing, but Cheng Haofeng said that he would naturally know about it in the future, and when he was a disciple, he shouldn't talk more about the master's private affairs behind his back.

He mentioned this period of master's past, but he only felt that several masters of the Huixin Jade Sword were trapped by love. That year, when she returned from going down the mountain with Bai Huifeng to participate in the puja, she fell into the water to catch Yanran's bloody fish. The moment he picked up Bai Huifeng from the water, he knew that he didn't want to cultivate immortals, he just wanted to stay with her for the rest of his life.

Hu Xianxian leaned on his shoulder, with mixed feelings in his heart: "I really hate myself a little, why didn't I understand your mind earlier?" If we had understood earlier, we wouldn't have had so many accidents later, and we took a big detour to understand each other's minds. “

He pulled his robe tighter, and seemed to be afraid of the cold, and she leaned closer to him.

He whispered: "Actually, it's to blame that I didn't show my heart earlier, but I really didn't know what to say back then......

He said that the Cheng family has been a civil servant for generations, and the etiquette rules in the family are so strict that they are more rigid and cumbersome than those of the royal family. He grew up in that kind of environment, and he didn't know what love was.

His father was upright and pedantic, and he was not admitted to the Jinshi until he was forty years old, and he barely gained a foothold in the officialdom by relying on the trust and promotion of Ling Ruofeng's prime minister's father.

Ling Ruofeng is interested in Cheng Haofeng, and he understands it himself, but he always refuses her affection on the grounds that worldly couples are not as good as Xiangjie Dao companions for a long time.

Speaking of Ling Ruofeng, Hu Xianxian unconsciously twitched the corners of her mouth, and Cheng Haofeng smiled and twisted her face lightly.

"That's what I thought at the time, what's wrong? I admired the nobility and arrogance of the fourth senior sister, and for me at that time, I could talk to her for a few words, which was a very close relationship. ”

The corners of Hu Xianxian's mouth twitched, and he smiled and said: "Your two families are good families, she is really infatuated with you, you should have married her back then." When I was in Lingshan, I watched her willing to give everything for you, and I was quite moved as a bystander at that time. ”

Cheng Haofeng wiped her downward pursed lips with his index finger and said with a smile: "I can't help it...... Alas, I really don't have a relationship between men and women for the fourth senior sister, but I can't tell what the difference is......"

Hu Xianxian moved his fingers away, he seemed to like to move his hands and feet more and more, which made her a little unaccustomed.

Seeing that she looked a little embarrassed, he withdrew his hand, put his hands around his arms, and asked in a low voice, "Do you know how obedient and obedient my mother is to my father?" “

She looked at him with wide eyes of curiosity, and he talked about a small incident back then.

His father was not yet a junior high school, and when he was just a village school teacher, his family was not well-off. Even so, he had to save money and use every day to stew bone broth, chicken soup and other things for his grandfather to nourish his body and show filial piety.

Once, when his mother was serving soup to his grandfather, she was busy stir-frying in the kitchen and went to serve soup without washing her hands. His grandfather looked at his mother's greasy hands and said that she was slacking off and not honoring the elderly.

His father reprimanded his mother for this, and his mother went back to her parents' house in anger. After his mother returned to his grandfather's house, his father not only did not persuade him, but said that his mother had a grudge against the Cheng family and wanted to divorce his mother.

Fortunately, his maternal grandfather's house was also an official eunuch's house, and his grandmother asked the prime minister's wife to intercede, and his father was very in awe of the prime minister's family, so he agreed not to write a letter of resignation. His mother knelt down to apologize to his grandfather, and everyone else persuaded him to let his father take his mother back, and the family was reunited.

Hu Xianxian covered his chest when he heard this, staring at him for a long time before he said, "What I want to say, can you guess?" Well, don't talk about it, that's your elder. ”

She saw that his expression was a little gloomy, and teased him again: "You were really a little poor child before you cultivated, and you never thought about entering Bai Huifeng's house back then?" I remember that my father was quite open-minded in my previous life, well, even my own father was a generous and simple person. ”

Cheng Haofeng's expression became more gloomy: "Can you avoid the pressure by going to the woman's house?" You can figure it out. “

Hu Xianxian couldn't help laughing, laughing and sticking out his tongue: "I used to think that I was very miserable, but compared with you, I feel that I am quite happy, at least I had a happy childhood." ”

Cheng Haofeng's face finally softened, and he put his arm around her shoulder and said, "I know that I am stereotyped and pedantic will not make people happy, and I have worked hard to change." I've changed a lot for you, what about you...... I have experienced so many reincarnations, but instead of being mature and stable, I am more and more dependent on my own temperament. “

"Has it changed a lot? It's still very stereotyped and pedantic, and it's awkward. ”

"People like me, who have been educated under the rules and regulations of the family, want me to do things that violate those rules, do you know how difficult it is for me to pass this level in my heart?"

Hu Xianxian knew that he had done a lot of things for her that he didn't think he should have done, whether it was in his previous life or in this life, he had done a lot of things that exceeded the rules in his heart. But she didn't want his heart to bear these things, she wanted him to live a more relaxed and chic life at the moment, and she also planned to make him live a more relaxed and chic life in the future.

He didn't know what she was thinking, but he could see that the smile on her face matched the crisp autumn weather, and the autumn light and smile were just as bright and moving.

She teased him: "I remember that you entered Chao Zhenren's sect at the age of seventeen, and Bai Huifeng only got started after you practiced for more than thirty years." If Bai Huifeng had been in the house for a few years before you thought about proposing, wouldn't you be in your fifties at that time? ”

"Think I was old and not ashamed? I'm almost 2,000 years old. Alas, I was indeed thirty-fifty at that time, and my father was seventy-three......"

At the age of nineteen, Cheng Haofeng finally understood that he could not follow the life trajectory arranged by his grandfather and father no matter what, and he could not directly resist and refuse everything they arranged. He decided to pursue his inner peace in a place far away from family conflicts and worldly distractions.

What Cheng Haofeng didn't know was that his grandfather and father blamed his mother for not raising him well and not having a few more children because of his insistence on cultivating, which made the Cheng family almost cut off the incense.

His mother died of depression and exhaustion at the age of forty, two years before his grandfather.

After his mother's death, he used to collect elixirs to recuperate his father's body, so his father was still quite old at that time. It was precisely because his father lived decades longer than his mother that he knew that his father had always missed his mother and often missed her for Yue.

Cheng Haofeng secretly thought that if he married a wife, he must treat his wife gently and generously. It's just that he didn't expect that his own emotional experience was much more complicated than that of his parents.

After he returned home that year, he briefly told his father about Bai Huifeng's situation, and asked his father to propose marriage for him. His father was furious, and he refused to marry the Ling family back then, missing a good marriage, and had to cultivate something. Now, the path of cultivation has achieved initial results, and he wants to marry a fox spirit and destroy his own Dao foundation.

His father not only refused to grant his request, but also punished him by kneeling on the edge of the steps to make him reflect on his mistakes.

Hu Xianxian listened and asked him, "Did you let you kneel at the right angle of the edge of the stone steps?" ”

He nodded, not knowing why she was asking about this. When she saw him nodding, she lifted his robe and pulled up the hem of his trousers.

"When I was a child, I accidentally bumped on the edges and corners of those steps, and it really hurt."

He hurriedly grabbed her hands, stopped her movements, and said, "You want to see my knees?" Don't worry, it's all right. I already had some cultivation back then, and although I knelt for three days, I didn't hurt my knee much. ”

He pulled her to sit beside him, and said, "That thing hurts my brain!" Alas, I did not agree to give up the idea of proposing, and my father told me to stay on my knees and not allowed to go anywhere. I had to reluctantly agree, and my father died soon after...... The reason for my father's death was not only his old age and infirmity, but also because he and I were angry and refused to eat the nourishing spirit grass I gave me again. ”

Hu Xian Xian lay on his shoulder, and sighed faintly: "It's really nerve-wracking, no wonder you were so eager to achieve a high-level immortal rank later......

"I don't want to let anyone down, but the result is to let everyone down." Another cloud hung over his face.

Seeing him like this, Hu Xianxian stood up and ran a few steps and said, "At this time, the wild fruits are ripe, let's go pick some and taste them, okay?" Don't talk about the things before, otherwise when you go back, the senior brother will dislike you again, and you will have an awkward bitter face. ”

Hu Xianxian dragged Cheng Haofeng to the ridge and hillside, walking all the way and picking all the way. Red snakeberries, purple and black black berries, orange-red wild persimmons, jute-colored wild pears, and a lot of wild fruits were picked.

How can they eat so much? Along the way, they gave it to the villagers they met, and this gift attracted the children to follow them around.

When those children got food, they sweetly called Hu Xianxian "sister", and all kinds of flattering words made her heart flutter, and she picked wild fruits even harder.

One child saw a walnut tree growing on the edge of a cliff and said that it was smaller and harder, but it tasted the best. In addition, wild fruits such as berries cannot be stored, so walnuts can be stored until winter to eat.

Hu Xianxian flew to pick walnuts without saying a word, and asked those children to take their clothes up and pocket them, and everyone had a share.

When the children saw her flying around the edge of the cliff and moving nimbly, they were all surprised and excited, and they shouted to learn from her.

Cheng Haofeng hurriedly warned the little ghosts not to follow her example, and they were not allowed to come to the edge of the cliff without an adult.

When the children saw that he was very serious, they were a little afraid, and they took out the wild fruits in their hands for him to eat, wanting to "bribe" him. He didn't want to eat it, but he couldn't stand it, and all the little ones sent wild fruits to his mouth one by one.

By the time Hu Xianxian finished picking pecans and greeted the children to go home after distributing the wild fruits, Cheng Haofeng's face had become colorful. He looked at Hu Xianxian, who was leaning forward and backwards with a smile, and explained quite seriously that the children had to feed him wild fruits, so that his face was covered with berry juice.

It was getting dark, and they sent the children home with their clothes full of wild fruits, and the road was full of laughter.

After sending the children off, when they were about to return to Yizhuang, Hu Xianxian wiped Cheng Haofeng's face with his hands that picked wild fruits of various colors. Her wipe made his face, which was not too flowery, unable to even see his facial features clearly.

Seeing her mouth curled, her eyebrows bent, and the way she had to hold back a smile, he asked worriedly, "Am I a little miserable at this time?" ”

"Well, it's a bit like knocking over a dye vat, or a dye vat with a lot of color......"

Hu Xianxian couldn't hold back her laughter, and the laughter of "giggles" floated happily in the autumn wind. Cheng Haofeng also smiled "hehe", and the gloom in his eyes finally completely dissipated.