Under the attic, two old men were sitting on bamboo chairs, holding a few chess pieces in their hands, staring intently at the chessboard. There was a stove and charcoal fire next to the chess table, and the green smoke was filling, and it was actually boiling tea. I just don't know what kind of tea is boiled in this pot, the aroma is very special, there is a strong tea fragrance, but also a little medicinal fragrance, just a simple smell makes people feel awake and refreshed, the stomach is rippling, and the index finger is moving.

The two old men are both in their old age, wearing a white robe on the left, a pair of reading glasses hanging around their necks, short hair is shiny, and their complexions are ruddy, obviously they are very good people; The old man on the right is dressed as a Han peasant, with a gray homespun coat, cloth shoes, and a straw hat hanging on the back of the chair.

When Mu Yuan and the others walked to the door of the small courtyard, the two old men stopped their hands and looked at them with a smile.

"Grandpa!" Long Ling'er called out crisply, ran up in three steps and two steps, hugged the old farmer's neck, and kept swaying, making the old man sway forward and backwards, and almost fell from the chair.

"Alright, alright!" The old man raised his hand in surrender, "Don't do this, you have long forgotten that there is still my grandfather!" ”

"Hey, grandpa, our Long family knows how to count etiquette, how can there be a reason for a distinguished guest to throw others aside and not accompany them, don't you say? Isn't it? Isn't it? ”

"Yes, yes! Let go, let go, my old bones are going to fall apart! ”

The old man just glanced at Xingtian, Zhao Ren, and Zhuo Ruoshi casually, and then put all his eyes on Mu Yuan, he looked up and down, and his eyes were like X-rays, piercing Mu Yuan. After looking at it for a hundred and eighty eyes, the old man withdrew his gaze and nodded secretly.

The old man in the long robe was also looking at Mu Yuan, but he was just curious.

"Grandpa Ning, Grandpa Long!" Makihara hurriedly stepped forward and bowed to the ground.

"Makihara, you're here!" Ning Caichen came out of the house.

With a "poof", Zhao Ren, who was walking at the back, suddenly fell to the ground, kowtowed three times to the old man in a long shirt, and then fell to the ground, unable to afford it.

This move made everyone stunned, so frightened that Ning Caichen hurriedly went over to help him, and pulled a few times, but Zhao Ren didn't move at all.

"Young man, why did you give such a big salute to the old man?" The old man in the long shirt hurriedly got up, stepped forward and asked, "We've met?" ”

"Old man, do you remember a mother and son and a few children who were rescued in Xiangxi twenty-eight years ago?"

"Twenty-eight years ago? You...... Are you the oldest child? The children of the Zhao family? ”

"Yes!" Zhao Ren nodded.

"What about the rest of the children? Are you all right? ”

"Both...... He's dead! Zhao Ren's tears slid down, "I'm the only one left!" ”

"Alas, the old man is not good at learning!" The old man in the long shirt sighed and reached out to hold it, "Child, get up, a foolish doctor, it's not worth your treatment, get up quickly!" ”

"Old man, it's not your fault, you helped us back then, and pulled a few of our children back from the ghost gate! It's a pity that creation made people, and later ...... We were cornered by the enemy, the dead, the dead, and now I am the only one who survives! ”

"Iniquity, iniquity!" The old man in the long shirt stomped his foot, "Child, get up first!" ”

"Dare to ask what the old man is called?"

"My surname is Ning, my name is Ning Kongqing!" A few people were given their seats, and the old man gave his name.

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"When I went to visit an old friend and passed by Xiangxi, I saw that you seemed to have fled and had been poisoned by corpses, but at that time, there were many old and old graves being dug everywhere, and I saw a lot of them!" Ning Kongqing said remorsefully, "I knew that I would have taken you out, creating evil!" ”

"Fortunately, you didn't take us out, and my mother was also trying her best to refuse at that time, just for fear of affecting you!"

"So, was that true?" Ning Kongqing asked, "Aren't you in the same vein?" Why do you have a fight in the same room, and the thing is so desperate, even women and children are not spared! ”

"Actually, my surname is not Zhao, my grandfather's surname is Ren, he is a wandering orphan, he was raised by Taizu and joined the Zhao family, and his grandfather changed his surname to Zhao in order to repay his kindness!" Zhao Ren explained, "Taizu has always been a moderate faction in the family, and thirty years ago, the four evils joined forces to severely damage several generations of the Zhao family, and the family power was once extremely depressed. Grandpa Tai was still alive at the time, listed as a secretary, and he proposed that the Zhao family should return to the original intention of the ancestors, but it was suppressed, and the contradictions between the two sides also arose, which laid a disaster for my line! ”

Zhao Ren has mentioned before that the Zhao family in Xiangxi has a strict hierarchy, which is divided into three classes, the third class is agriculture (people), workers (craftsmen), merchants (Jia), and soldiers (soldiers), the second class is clan (old), technical (long), Jue (waiting), and division (door), and the first class is Xing (broken), Fa (Si), Qing (auxiliary), and Zun (head). Zhao Ren's Taizu listed Qing is like a Zaifu, and he has a great say in the clan.

"There were dozens of people who originally escaped, men and women, old and young, the Zhao family killed all the way, we fled all the way, in order to avoid being served in a pot, scattered into several groups on the way, presumably they are all fierce and auspicious, at least I have been looking for more than ten years, and I haven't found one!" Zhao Ren choked up and said, "When I met you when I was old, all the men I guarded were dead, and several of our children were also poisoned by corpses, and they were in danger!" After separating from you, we hid in a poor country for more than half a month, but we were finally discovered! ”

In order to save the five children, Zhao Ren's mother went out to meet the enemy, but unfortunately she was caught by a group of people led by Zhao Hongchen. In order to lure out these children, Zhao Hongchen made people kill dozens of knives, and at that time, Zhao Ren and a few children were lying on the top of the mountain not far away, and they could see it clearly.

"And then?"

"Then my cousin couldn't stop crying, and the pursuers found out, and they drove us to the edge of the cliff!" Zhao Ren choked for a long time, and after his breath calmed down a little, he continued: "We know that once we are caught, we will die, so we will hold hands and jump off the cliff!" ”

Ning Kongqing sighed again, and pinched the handle of the bamboo chair to the ground, he had seen all those children, the eldest Zhao Ren was only seven or eight years old at that time, and the youngest was only three or four years old.

"Iniquity!" Xing Tian scolded.

"There are many strange rocks under the mountain, I only survived by hanging on the tree, and the rest of my younger brothers and sisters are dead!" Zhao Ren closed his eyes, two tears slipped down, as if he didn't want to think of this past again, he quickly wiped away his tears and smiled, "Thanks to the few prescriptions you left behind, plus a little knowledge learned in the clan, I have been deeply in the cat for a few years, during which I also rescued a white ape, and I have been with it for a few years, until ten years ago, I started to explore the rivers and lakes!" Over the years, I have also traveled a lot of places, but unfortunately you did not leave your name back then, and it is not until today that I happened to meet the old man, thank you! ”

"Oh, you're the one with the white ape?" Ning Kongqing was stunned for a moment, and then laughed, "I have a senior brother who mentioned it to me a few years ago, but he is a good person and talks big, and I take it all as a strange talk, so I don't take it seriously!" ”

"You're talking about Gou senior, I didn't expect him to be your senior brother!" When Zhao Ren heard this, his face was happy again, and he raised his hand and waved it again, "I really have a relationship with you, the old man Gou has lived with me in the mountains for a few months, and he taught me some ways to restrain corpse poison, and Bai Qi's life was saved with his help!" ”

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