Chapter 47: Get back on your feet

When she woke up the next day, Natsu was sore all over.

I don't know how much pain Ruan Zhan has accumulated in his heart, I only know that he hugged her and didn't let go, at first he kept trembling, but then although he calmed down, he still refused to let go, and she had to let him hug him, using this silent comfort to calm the waves in his heart.

I don't know when, they were tired of standing and lay down on the bed, Ruan Zhan tied her limbs like grasping a life-saving straw, and the first time they slept together was in this form, because they kept the posture of being held in his arms all night, Xiao Xia felt that the bones in his body were about to fall apart.

When Ruan Zhan got up in the morning, Xiao Xia had already woken up, but in order to avoid embarrassment, she pretended to continue to sleep. She felt him stand on the edge of the bed and watch her for a few moments before leaving. And as he walked, breathing steadily and calmly, she knew he had recovered from the unexpected blow.

Last night, I only cared about comforting him and feeling sorry for him, but I didn't think about him, and when I recalled it in the morning, I suddenly felt that this feeling of closeness was familiar, and I expected to be with him forever.

And while she was grinding upstairs, immersed in the love of her children, the three men had already started another conversation downstairs, ready to get down to business.

"Do you have any plans?" Wanli asked tentatively.

Ruan Zhan's demeanor when he walked out of the door yesterday was really terrifying, he knew that he had been hit hard, and it was impossible for anyone to be calm when they knew the truth after facing their biological father for many years, let alone a person with such a heavy heart as Ruan Zhan! For so many years, he thought he was very anxious, but he didn't know what to do, but fortunately, Xiao Xia chased him out.

"Of course there are plans. Or do you think I like to talk to you? ”

Although Ruan Zhan said a word, Wan Li was very happy. They usually talk like this, and they can't help but quarrel, and now Ruan Zhan has returned to his usual attitude of talking to him, which proves that Ruan Zhan has begun to accept reality in his heart.

"Do you think your uncle's business has anything to do with those two demon boys?" Bao Datong asked.

Wan Li was shocked, for fear that mentioning this matter so soon would stimulate Ruan Zhan again, and wanted to stop Bao Datong, but he didn't have time. Raising his eyes and glancing at Ruan Zhan, he saw that he was not behaving abnormally, so he was relieved.

Ruan Zhan shook his head, "To be honest, I don't know. He had no external injuries and had been dead no more than two days ago, but when I examined his body, I felt that he was not normal - dead, and the soul was stiff and resolute when it left his body, which was not logical. He looked indifferent, as if he was talking about someone else's business, but when he said the word 'death', it still revealed that he was only calm at the moment, and the wound in his heart was far from healing.

Bao Datong nodded, "I feel the same way." But I don't know if you've ever thought about it, why is he there? And with his Dao skills, no matter how powerful those two demon boys were, even if they joined forces, they couldn't easily kill him. Could it be that there are more powerful monsters infested? However, there was no demonic energy in that vicinity, and there was no trace of demonic energy on his body, so why did he suffer? ”

It's not going to be another cheating, is it? But with Ruan Zhan and Bao Datong's current eyesight, they should not be mistaken, his old man should really have passed away this time.

The three of them were silent for a while, and no one could answer the question. After a while, Ruan Zhan sat down, intending to explain the matter openly and honestly. In fact, it's a mystery. But the old mystery has just been solved, and a new, bigger mystery has emerged.

"It's all about starting from the beginning." He suppressed his emotions and said slowly, "My father's death was very sudden, and it was also very strange, I came home to mourn and found that his eyes were blood-red, and I also had hallucinations, I saw a man carved a charm on his flesh and blood, and gave my father an invisible thing, but I could not see that person's face, and I did not know what the thing was. But after taking the things, my father, as if he knew that his time was near, began to prepare, and then calmly waited for death to come. Therefore, his bizarre death has always been a knot in my heart, and after Sima Nan's death, I immediately returned to my hometown and dug up my father's grave with my own hands! ”

"Strangely, before I dug the grave, I found out that someone had already touched my father's grave before me. I don't know who got the first step, or what prompted that person to do it, so I just kept digging. The grave turned out to be just as I expected, my father's body was gone, and now it seems that he had been dwindling to death in the first place. And the person before me must have been a profound person, because I had checked the ground in the vicinity inch by inch, including the inside of the tomb, and there was not the slightest trace, which meant that the person was carrying things in the air. Maybe it's not very difficult to lift things in the air, but at such a distance, it's still a large human being who is moving, and in this case, it's very difficult to leave a trace without leaving a trace. ”

"It's hard." Bao Datong nodded, and frowned, he didn't expect that there were still many talented people hidden in this world.

"Actually, it's not that I haven't gained anything at all, because I found something in the coffin, it was a crystal knife, the material was extremely pure, purer than Duan Jin's yin and yang eyes, if I didn't use other things to set it off, I wouldn't see its shape at all. At that time, my hand was cut, and the blood formed a blood line in the blood groove of the blade, which lasted for a long time. Ruan Zhan said and raised his left hand, Wan Li and Bao Datong looked at it, only to find that there was a long wound on his palm, although there was no blood, but it was not completely healed, "I don't know what this knife is for, but the place where I cut it has not healed." ”

"Or maybe this crystal knife is what the person who carved the talisman in the flesh gave to your father, I think my uncle's previous death fraud is also a mystery, otherwise why would there be a hallucination? This illusion and the crystal knife may have been left for you on purpose, and at the end of the day, you were allowed to get it. Wanli said.

"Is it a mortal thing?" Bao Datong asked.

"On the surface, there is nothing abnormal except for the material and the wound that has been cut and cannot be healed." Ruan Zhan paused, "But I always felt that this must be something more powerful than the Bloodwood Sword, the Broken Banner, and the Broken Seal, but I don't know what it will be useful for at the moment, or if it's not yet time." ”

"Put the knife in advance, let's talk about people first." Wan Li interjected, "Why does Sima Nan know these things?" I feel as if there's an invisible hand behind your back that is putting you in some kind of game. ”

"It's not someone behind it, it must be 'him' who arranged it like this." Ruan Zhan said in a low voice.

Wan Li and Bao Datong glanced at each other, knowing that this matter of concealing blood had hurt Ruan Zhan a lot, he was not so easy to understand, it was already good to be able to treat it calmly now, he needed time and unraveling the mystery to completely heal his mental wounds.

"It's not that I'm defending my uncle, because I don't know the details here, but I think he must have had a reason to do it back then." Wan Li said sincerely, "Remember the pair of little children we met when we were children who forced us to play hide and seek? It was my uncle who saved us after you passed out, and he asked me to swear not to tell me about it, that he would leave you a friend. Ah Zhan, I still remember his look clearly at that time, he loves you, loves you very much, no less than any father loves his son. He must be more uncomfortable than you in his heart when he does this. ”

"I feel the same way." Bao Datong continued, "Yesterday it happened so suddenly, I didn't say it. In fact, although your father only brought you to my house once, he himself and my father often meet. His space-time warping technique is much better than yours, just wave a finger of your hand, unlike you who have to draw talismans for half a day. Back then, I loved to eavesdrop on them. I see that though he is stern and cold in front of you, he is very kind when he talks to my father about you, as I have seen with my own eyes. When he talks about you, his eyes will light up. ”

Is it? Are they telling the truth? But why is there only one warmth in his memory? If he loves him, why should he be bullied and hurt in the cold and cruel human world? Even if there is a last resort, what can make a father make such a decision?!

"Comfort me less." His heart was distraught, but he suppressed the turmoil in his heart and resolved to focus on the 'serious' things first.

"Why should I comfort you, you big man, do you coax you, you still send a fragrant kiss?" Bao Datong was poor, "But what kind of arrangement is that?" Why put him in? Why him? Why not me? Is it because of your peculiar physique and God's arrangement? Or is there some unknown reason? ”

"I think there must be a very helpless reason, there is no father in the world who will harm his son, unless he can't help himself, unless there is no other way. Believe me, my uncle must have meant well. Wan Li recalled how when he was young, in the deserted garden, Ruan Zhan's father's gentle eyes swept over Ruan Zhan's body, and his love and pity couldn't help but be revealed. Maybe when Ruan Zhan didn't know it, he looked at his son like this! Ruan Zhan being kept in the dark may not be a good thing, for his old man who knows that the person in front of him is his own flesh and blood, but he can't recognize each other, and he still has to maintain indifference and indifference, it must be very heart-wrenching, it's not easy!

At that time, he touched his head and said, "Good boy, then let you remember this." I don't know when I'm going to die, this kid needs a friend, it's too pathetic to be alone.

"Let's put the knife and the human thing first." Ruan Zhan avoided the question, love or not love, today is something that cannot be mentioned for him, "Let's first summarize how many questions need to be answered." ”

"It seems like a lot." Bao Datong scratched his head.

"It's a lot, but it seems like there's a thread that can string them together." Wan Li also shifted the topic of father-son feelings and said, "First, is it a natural disaster or a man-made disaster that Ah Zhan has been separated from his father since he was a child? Was it intentional or unintentional to return to his father later? ”

"I tend to think that he threw me and that it was his arrangement that I came back."

"You can't be inclined. There are many things that are not as we think, and there are deeper reasons. Even what we see with our own eyes and hear with our own ears may be false. Wanli overturned Ruan Zhan's judgment, "The truth will not be revealed until this matter is over, and your assumptions are unfair to my uncle!" ”

Ruan Zhan raised his hand, indicating that Wan Li was right, and he agreed unconditionally.

"Then who is Ah Zhan's mother? When did his dad give birth to him? Bao Datong came out with a sentence.

Ruan Zhan was stunned, he had never thought about this problem, because all the memories after being sensible were his father, and he never thought about who his mother was? It certainly wouldn't be the mother he had before he was five years old, and although he was young at the time, he remembered that it was just an ordinary woman, and a man like his father would not fall in love with such a woman. But since when did his father's image in his mind be so great that he would feel that worldly women were not worthy of him!

"That's included in the first question, don't interject, listen to me. Otherwise, it will be a mess like this. Wanli straightened the topic, "Second, as a father, why is he so cold to his own flesh and blood, but why does he teach him his skills? Does this serve any purpose? If so, what terrible thing did he feel? ”

"Third, why does Ah Zhan have a difficult time every three?"

"Fourth, why did my uncle cheat to death? Since he cheated to death, why did he hallucinate Ah Zhan? What is he going to tell Zhan? Who is the faceless person in the hallucination? Later, when Ah Zhan went to dig the grave, who was the one who took the lead? Are they the same person? ”

"Fifth, what's going on with that crystal knife? Why should it be left to Ah Zhan, what is the use? ”

"Sixth, how could Sima Nan know these things, and what kind of master-apprentice relationship does he have with his uncle?"

"Seventh, since you cheated to death, why did you stay in the grave all the time, waiting for Sima Nan to reveal the information to Ah Zhan before leaving? Why did you go to the Xitou store after leaving? ”

"Eighth, how did he - died? Is it the one who hurt the demon boy? ”

"Ninth, when others are gone, where does the soul go? He is an amazing man, and it is impossible to be like a mortal. If his soul is alive, is he gone? ”

"The tenth, and final question, if all this is just a game, what is the role of each of us in the game? What is this bureau? Why is there such a bureau? ”

After Wan Li finished speaking in one breath, even he was startled, it turned out that there were so many things they had to solve. So many problems seem to be caused by a game that was laid out as early as when Ruan Zhan was born, or even before. But what is that?

There was silence again.

In the end, it was Ruan Zhan who spoke first, "Don't think about it, solve the matter of the demon boy first." When I came back from my hometown and discovered the mystery of my father's death, I thought that the person who couldn't see his face clearly was the key to solving the problem, so I thought that I would intervene in any supernatural event. Because there are not many people like us in this world, if we are often involved in supernatural events, the mountains will not turn around, and sooner or later we will encounter them, and then the mystery will be revealed. It's a stupid idea, but it's the only way. Unexpectedly, I just intervened in one thing, and I got the news of his death. So I thought, either he's leading me, or I'm stupid and right, so let's just keep doing it that way. ”

"I hope those two demon boys are not Ah Zhan's father-killing enemies, otherwise some of them will be unlucky." Bao Datong muttered in a low voice, seeing with his own eyes that this emotionally hurt person stood up again, although the scars in his heart were still there, but his personality seemed to be stronger.

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