Chapter 527: Going Home
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Probably seeing a change in my expression, Liang Houzai stopped in the middle of his speech and asked me what was wrong.
I raised my chin at him, "You go on." β
Liang Houzai continued: "Remember the matter of the old Huang family in the Northeast, when Luo Youfang's note appeared in Brother Dao's textbook, no one could figure out what Luo Youfang was going to do, but now that he thinks about it, he may just want to tell us that the person behind the funeral sect is either Luo Zhongxing, or has a great relationship with Luo Zhongxing." Later, he entered the underground palace with us, and it didn't seem that he was trying to steal Yin Jade. β
I was still frowning, "What's that for?" β
Liang Houzai: "In order to paralyze the people of the burial religion." Do you remember, after we left the underground palace, Brother Zhuang and the others conducted a big sweep in the area of Lao Huang's house and arrested a large number of funeral sect members. The mercenaries who entered the dungeon were just a handful of them, so many funeral sect members were guarding near Lao Huang's house, not just to pick them up, I think, if there was no news for a long time after the mercenaries entered the dungeon, there should be more funeral sect members entering the dungeon. And as long as Luo Youfang bites us tightly, in the eyes of the Funeral Sect, there is no need to send more people in. β
I said, "But, in such a dungeon, the people who enter it should not be able to keep in touch with the outside world." How did those mercenaries who entered the dungeon convey news to the outside world? β
Liang Houzai thought for a moment and said, "They should have their own means." β
I still don't quite believe that Luo Youfang is one of us, so I immediately shook my head: "This statement is a bit far-fetched." β
Liang Houzai continued: "Let's talk about this time again, if it weren't for Luo Youfang to let Ashiya Masanobu spread evil arts, you wouldn't have the curse of Han Jin, and we wouldn't have been able to come here, and of course we wouldn't have seen that ancient man who looked like Luo Youfang." After seeing that old man has become younger and younger after several years, I remembered Luo Youfang's hint to us, he once asked you, do you believe that there are people in this world who can live forever. β
Indeed, when I saw that old man, I also thought back to Luo Youfang's words.
Liang Houzai's words were not finished: "Now there is one more thing that makes me haunted. If Luo Youfang really caused Zhang Xiaopan's death, then even if Luo Youfang is our person, he is also guilty. β
After saying this, Liang Houzai kept staring at me, as if expecting me to give an answer.
I pondered for a long time before I said to him, "Although, all these things that Luo Youfang did gave us a lot of hints, and the two magic weapons of the Yin Branch have also returned. But there's no direct evidence that he's one of us, right? β
Liang Houzai: "There is really no direct evidence, but I think that Luo Youfang is a smart person and thoughtful, otherwise, it would be impossible for people in the righteous path to fail to catch him for so many years." If he really wants to deal with us, he can't leave us so many clues for everything he does, right? Unless he deliberately gave us clues. For now, this is the only reasonable explanation. β
Liu Shangang couldn't help but ask: "What is that Han man in the illusion doing, why is he so similar to Luo Youfang?" β
Liang Houzai shook his head: "I don't know, Luo Youfang only gave us clues, but didn't give us answers." β
After speaking, he turned to me again: "Brother Dao, what do you think?" β
I rubbed my temples and asked, "How many pills do I still have to eat?" β
"Six, three days." Liang Houzai responded.
I nodded and said, "In three days, let's go back to my hometown, it just so happens that I haven't been back for a long time." Go back and see my father and mother, and check Zhang Xiaopan again by the way. β
Liang Houzai asked me, "Do you want to call Brother Feng first and ask him to check first?" β
I shook my head and said, "If Luo Youfang is really our insider, this matter must not be known to Senior Brother Feng." β
Liang Houzai looked a little incomprehensible: "Why? β
I sighed helplessly: "No why, anyway, the fewer people who know about it, the better." After we go back, let's start investigating with the thin monkey. β
Liu Shangang responded: "No problem." β
In the next three days, the three of us couldn't be interested in anything we did, and everyone's thoughts were on Luo Youfang.
Three days later, we bought tickets at the train station, but when we went through the security check, I was stopped because of the green steel sword and the Fantian seal. Liu Shangang saw that the situation was wrong and hurriedly called Senior Brother Zhuang, if Senior Brother Zhuang hadn't sent local people to deal with it, I wouldn't have been able to get into the bureau.
Although the green steel sword is broken, it is still a wooden sword, but it is very sharp after all, and it belongs to the controlled weapon. And Fantian Seal can be regarded as a cultural relic.
This is the first time I've been blocked by security, and it was far less strict when I went through security before.
By the way, EMU trains also appeared in those two or three years.
Later, there was no way, so we went to the second-hand car market and bought a four-seater mini truck, the owner of this car has only been driving for a year, and the car still carries a card box at the back, which is just convenient for transporting coffins in the future.
In the afternoon of the same day, we went through the relevant procedures, hung up a temporary license plate and went on the road.
In the following years, this car also became our exclusive car, but Liang Houzai and I still sat more on the train, and the car was always driven by Liu Shangang himself.
When we returned to our hometown all the way, it was already the evening of the second day, and I didn't tell my parents before I came back, looking at my watch, it was already past ten o'clock, and if I went back at this time, my mother would definitely get up again to cook for us. After much thought, I decided to spend the night at the hotel tonight and go home tomorrow morning.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I settled in a hotel, my mother called me and asked me when I was on vacation.
I said that I had come back, and I saw that it was a little late, and I was going to stay outside for one night, but my mother was beaten down, saying that I didn't come back to the house and didn't come home, and I was going to live outside.
So I called Liu Shangang and Liang Houzai again, checked out, and went home.
After I went to college, my parents moved back to my hometown, but I was not too familiar with the road in my hometown, and I commanded Liu Shangang to go around a long circle before I came to the entrance of the village.
Liu Shangang drove the car into the village and asked me, "Brother Dao, why don't you even know where your hometown is?" β
I said: "I haven't been back a few times, but my uncle and Wang Qiang picked me up when I went home last year. β
When I think about it, when I was so old, it seems that I have only been back to my hometown four or five times, the first two times when I was very young and did not remember the road, and then the master brought me once, but not long after that time, the road outside the village was rerouted, and that was the only time I memorized the road by heart, and the result was in vain.
Later, it was after I came back from Jisoul Village, but every time I sat in Senior Brother Feng's car, I basically either slept or looked at my phone, and I didn't bother to remember the road at all.
Even if I entered the village this time, I had to keep thinking about where my home was, but fortunately my dad walked to the village road to pick us up, otherwise, I guess I wouldn't have been able to find my home.
As soon as we got out of the car, my dad asked me, "Where did this car come from, and why are the license plates not the same?" β
I explained to my dad: "What we bought in the second-hand car market in Guizhou was only a temporary license. β
My dad stared at me for a while, and then suddenly smiled: "You look so much better than before." β
When I heard my dad's words, I just smiled and didn't say anything.
In the two years since Master's death, to be honest, I have not been able to cheer up, needless to say the first year of mourning for Master, when I first entered college, I untied the knot in my heart, but the state of my life has not changed, and I am still immersed in my own small world and cannot get out.
Until something happened in Bohai Bay, a phone call from Senior Brother Zhuang made me think back to the side of the industry, otherwise, I don't know when I will recover.
When my dad saw that I didn't speak, he also smiled and ran to find a place to park for Liu Shangang.
As soon as I entered the house, the smell of noodle soup wafted into the house, and I knew that my mother had cooked the noodles.
In my hometown, there is a saying called "dumplings that get out of the way, noodles that welcome guests", that is, when someone comes home from outside, they make him a bowl of noodles to eat, and when someone is about to leave the house, they make dumplings for him.
I don't know how many people still practice this old tradition in my hometown, but I know that every time I go home, my mother will give us noodles, and every time I want to leave, hehe, the meal before leaving must still be noodles.
I guess I wish I could come back sooner.
When I was young, my mother was a very gentle person, she didn't talk too much, and everything was reflected in action, so every time I made a mistake, she usually didn't preach, but just slapped her. I don't know when my mom became verbose, and every time I got home, she liked to babble in my ear.
This time, too, as soon as I entered the door, my mother came up to me and asked me why I didn't get to the door of the house, asked me how I was at school, and asked me how I came back with Liang Houzai and Liu Shangang......
I sat down at the table and responded one by one.
I was also very annoyed by my mother's nagging in the early years, especially when I was in high school, as long as she nagged, I felt like my head was about to explode.
But then my master told me that the reason why my mother nagged was because she had too few opportunities to see me, and she always had a lot to say to me.
Since then, I don't feel annoyed by listening to my mom's nagging again. Sometimes when I get home, she's too busy in the restaurant to take care of me, and I feel like something is missing.
While talking to my mom, my dad came in with Liu Shangang.
Seeing that I had been sitting at the dining table chatting, but I didn't move my chopsticks, my dad said to my mother, "Yangyang's mother, you let the child eat first, the noodles are all messy." β
So my mom started urging me to eat again.
The place where my parents live is still the same old house they left back then, but before moving in, they cleaned it up, rebuilt the walls and made the floor, but in any case, the conditions here are worse than those in the family home.
No matter how good the house is, it is just a pile of concrete and steel buildings, but as long as there are people in the family, I can eat a hot meal that may not be particularly delicious, and I feel warm in my heart.
The reason why home is home is probably because it has such warmth.
After dinner, my dad and I sat in the yard and chatted, I can't remember exactly what we talked about, but I remember that my mom brought the town's watermelon from the kitchen.
There is no well at home, and the watermelon is also put in the refrigerator, I don't know why, I always feel that the watermelon from the refrigerator town is far less cool than the watermelon in the well town.
(End of chapter)
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