In the lotus streets and alleys, the shouting and killing have gradually faded away, and the heavy rain has poured out, drowning the only trace of warmth left in this heaven and earth.

In the forgotten corner, Chu Xuan stood in front of the Baicao Hall and looked up at the sky.

The sky was dark and dreary, just like his heart, tightly blocked by the wind and rain, like a closed space, which made people breathless. The rain was in a line, and the earth was full of smoke, and he suddenly lifted one foot and walked down the stone steps in front of the door, the streets were soaked in blood, and he could hardly tell whether it was rain or blood, and he walked in one direction as he walked through the muddy streets paved with flesh and blood.

When passing by the rain beast, he tilted his head slightly, and a pair of eyes like knives made the strange beast tremble, and it struggled to stand up again, it roared in a low voice, and staggered backwards, as if sensing something terrible, and seemed a little restless.

"I've long heard that the rain beast knows how to avoid evil, but now it seems that it is not a lie. ”

Chu Xuan slowly spoke, frowning slightly at the behavior of the water vapor and thunder secretly condensed by the rain beast.."Listening to the rain beast gathering the bell show of heaven and earth, ordinary people say that it is ominous. But I'm not Yin Luo, he's afraid of disaster to future generations, I'm not afraid, killing you won't make me have the slightest worry in my heart. ”

This rain beast has been in trouble for I don't know how many years, most people are because it is an auspicious beast and avoid it, otherwise the whole world is hidden in the dragon and crouching tiger, and the masters who inhabit the market do not know how many, this is just a mess of strange beasts with rough skin and thick flesh and rotten cultivation, and I don't know how many times people have killed them.

"Don't think about running ......" Chu Xuan glanced at the slightly charged rain beast lightly, and said.."You...... If you dare to run, I'll eat you!!"

"I'll eat you!!"

"I'll eat you!!"

The last sentence echoed in the streets, and the eyes of the rain beast instantly became frightened, and it clearly saw that there was a rich black vortex behind the human in front of it, and when the human said this sentence, the black vortex enveloped the world, as if it was going to swallow it alive, wrapped it into pieces and eat it.

The keen instinct peculiar to the alien beast finally sensed the cause of the uneasiness, and it cried out a few times in a low pleading, Chu Xuan looked at it sideways and was silent.

Eventually, he lifted his foot and brushed shoulders with the rain beast as he walked deeper into the rain curtain.

In the streets and alleys, only corpses were left on the ground and a dazed-eyed rain-listening beast, which gradually sank in the increasing rain......

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The rain between heaven and earth was very heavy, Chu Xuan walked in the rain curtain and his clothes were not dripping, his pace was slow, but every step he took was dozens of zhang away, as if he had passed through the air, and suddenly appeared on the other side of heaven and earth.

The road ahead was very long, but the long road would eventually come to an end, and after a while, he stopped in front of a small courtyard in the alley, looked at it for a while, and finally knocked on the brass ring of the black gate.

"Crunch!"

Soon, the door opened, revealing a slightly startled face.

"Who is it?"

There was an inquiry from inside the door, Mama Chu glanced at Chu Xuan, turned her head and replied to the door, "It's Young Master Xuan here!"

The silence lasted only for a moment, and the voice inside the door said a few trivial words, and then said, "Call him in!"

Mama Chu smiled and opened the door to let him in.

In the gate, there is a very short rain corridor, but the length of three or four zhang, Chu Xuan walked on it, but his heart was indescribably strange, perhaps because this rain corridor was intermittent and not connected to each other.

"Come in. ”

The door of a room was open, and the aroma of food came to his face, Chu Xuan walked in, and saw a gray-haired woman sitting on a soft couch behind a short table to eat, the old woman's eyes were bright, and she was very energetic, she saw Chu Xuan walk in, quickly put down the dishes and chopsticks, and then beckoned to him cordially.

"Come on, haven't you eaten yet?" Linqiu, go add two dishes and chopsticks!" she was kind and instructed the old woman.

"Sit down!" the old woman patted the futon on her left hand side and motioned towards Chu Xuan.

He nodded and sat down cross-legged, at this time, Mama Chu also brought the dishes and chopsticks and put them in front of him, the old woman squinted her eyes, looked at him with a smile, and couldn't help but stretch out her finger and nodded, saying.."It's like that!"

"Linqiu, look, is it exactly the same as when Wen Yuan was young?"

Mama Chu smiled and nodded.."Of course it's like it, after all, it's the son of the head of the family, how can it not be like a father!"

"You......"

The old woman smiled and shook her head, then picked up her chopsticks and put a piece of fish meat in Chu Xuan's bowl.."This person, he is so greedy when he gets old, don't look at the time to eat yet, my wife and me, I have to eat several meals a day! You kid, don't just look at it, taste it, sweet and sour carp, it's very sweet——"

Chu Xuan picked up the chopsticks and tasted them, the old woman looked at them and asked, "How is it, how does it taste?"

"Good. ”

He ate carefully, chewed slowly, and swallowed a mouthful of fish into his stomach.

"It's good to eat if you like it, this is Linqiu's craft, for so many years, the dishes she cooked are the most in line with my taste. It seemed that she was getting older, she leaned back slightly, and Mama Chu brought a soft pillow and put it behind her and put it on the cushion.."Oh - last time, your father invited a cook, and the things he made were fine, but I always felt that it didn't taste right when I ate, and in the end, I tossed for about half a month, and I hardly ate anything, and your father looked at it, thought about it, and got the cook back." ”

Like ordinary people chattering about homely things, the old woman picked and chose and told Chu Xuan about some of the things that happened nearby.

"Then you really should beat him up, and if you did something wrong with good intentions, you should be punished. Chu Xuan's reaction was neither enthusiastic nor cold, according to his seniority, this old man should be regarded as his grandmother.

"Who's to say it's not!" she sat cross-legged on the soft couch, leaned slightly, waved her hand, and spoke in a slow tone, "But not now, he is now the head of the family, and he can't fight at every turn like when he was a child, so he has to save some face." She pointed to her face and smiled, "Man, it's all good!"

"It's simple. He opened his mouth and said, "The next time he provokes you, you will let him secretly copy the ancestral teachings in the ancestral hall at night, so that he will not lose face and let him receive the punishment he deserves." ”

"That's a good idea. She glanced at Chu Xuan with a smile, "Is it that when you were young, your mother punished you like this?"

"My mother?"

Chu Xuan shook his head, "My mother, she won't do this." ”

"Oh, how did she do it?" the old woman seemed curious.

"When I was young, whenever I did something wrong, my mother wouldn't punish me, she would buy me a turtle to eat. ”

"Hey, why is that?"

"My mother said, eat a turtle, grow a wisdom. After eating soft-shelled turtles, you will have a long memory next time, and you will not make mistakes. He saw the old woman laugh before he continued: "However, every time I finish my mother's stewed turtle, I have a nosebleed in the evening, and after a long time, I dare not do anything wrong." ”

"Huh...... Your mother is smart, but she ......" she paused and shook her head.......

She sighed, not knowing if it was a pity that the person was dead, or a pity for something else.

"Back then, I also sent someone to find your mother, but the world is so big, I sent someone to look for a long time, and finally found that the clue of your mother and son is in Nanzhao Kingdom, when I sent out the people to get there, the whole town has been abandoned for a long time, and then I inquired and found out that the town had been attacked by pirates, at that time, I thought that you two had encountered an accident, but I didn't expect so many years to pass, it turned out to be ...... You can even let me see you child!" Her tone was very soft, with a little sigh of fate..."Tell grandmother, what happened to you back then?"

The old man's eyes were damp, and his emotions seemed to be a little excited.

After being silent for a while, Chu Xuan asked, "Do you want to hear it?" ”

The old man nodded, looking at him.

His eyes were warm, and his mind sank into a memory: "On the day my mother died, I had just turned five years old, and on that day, pirates attacked the town, and they killed everyone in the town, except for women and children. Then, in several large ships, we were transported back to the island, which was a post house for the slave traders, who carried us in iron cages and sold them like cattle......"

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