Chapter 3: You're a Man

"Probably someone wants to make it up to me. Xia Chan also sat down.

"Compensation?" Lou Dad touched his chest, took out a silver flat wine bottle from the inner pocket of his white-washed jacket, unscrewed it and poured several large sips of soju.

Suddenly, he made a move that he didn't even expect, and handed the wine jug to Xia Chan.

Xia Chan only stayed for a moment, then took the wine jug, tilted his head to the spout and poured a large mouthful of snow roast from Snow Mountain Town, wiped his mouth with his sleeve, and returned the wine jug to Lou Dad.

Lou's father grinned: "There was only one man in the Lou family, but now you have two." ”

"Big brother doesn't count. Xia Chan said with a smile, another timeline has also been depressed and decadent for a long time, and he is no stranger to wine.

"The boss is not like Lao Tzu at all, he is not bloody. ”

"Big brother, I haven't seen it. Xia Chan shook his head, in that timeline, after the second sister suffered misfortune and followed Lou's father in a battle to defend the city in Phoenix City, the eldest brother walked out of the ivory tower and carried the entire Lou family.

Lou's father repeated: "That kid just didn't plant, and he saw old at the age of three." ”

"Dad, you're drunk. ”

Father and son were in the weedy on the side of the road, and the flat pot was soon empty.

The two sat for a long time, the night was deep, and the dim dilapidated street lamps could only reflect two lonely shadows.

"What's the name of the person looking for you?" Lou Dad burped, looked at the wine jug that could no longer pour a drop of wine, and suddenly turned his head to raid.

Xia Chan stone, as if he didn't hear it.

"By the way, what did you say earlier, compensation?"

"Fuck it!" Lou Dad suddenly spewed out a mouthful of wine, staggering and struggling to get up: "Your innate blood roots have been pulled out, what compensation is used, that is the foundation of immortality above ten thousand people." ”

Just got up and walked down, "it, ouch, I'm down." ”

Xia Chan picked up Lou's father.

"Let go, how can this little wine put down Lao Tzu. ”

"Dog days, it's not fair!"

"It's Dad who is useless, and he hasn't been able to keep your immortal talents. ”

"Go, where, this is. ”

"Don't go home, let's go and drink!"

This journey home was not long, and Dad Lou scolded and blamed himself after drinking all the way, but it warmed Xia Chan's cold and lonely heart, which made him firm in his determination to change the fate of the Lou family.

In that timeline, he graduated from high school and chose to serve in the military to escape from the Lou family for many years, although he made many military exploits in the pioneer corps, but his shallow cultivation and foundation were asserted by the Shangguan that there was no way out, so he was arrogant and began to be a mercenary and an adventurer wandering around after his service expired.

At that time, there were only three people left in the Lou family, the old lady, the eldest who was still single, the Lou mother who was much older, and the younger sister Lou Mulan went to the Northland Truth Tower for further study and had not returned for many years.

The war subsided slightly, and Xia Chan even changed several martial arts halls, all of which were unsatisfactory, and finally ended up in a kendo hall to teach children swordsmanship to support his family.

At that time, he had already been worn out by the years, and he had already forgiven Lou's mother for her unintentional mistakes, but he didn't dare to meet the Lou family because of his face, so he could only secretly fund the Lou family, which had been rebuilt many times due to continuous wars.

He was judged to be a waste wood many years ago, because of a woman who always loomed in his life journey, he suddenly had a delusional idea to find a way for ordinary people who did not have the qualification of awakening the blood roots.

During those years, while working as an instructor in a kendo gym, he also searched for various resources with her help, and struggled to find ways to break through his limitations.

Heaven can see mercy, counting the past twenty years, he finally broke through the Qi refining period and reached the Gang Qi Realm at the age of forty.

On the day of the breakthrough, she came to see him again and told him the truth about the misfortune of being deprived of his innate bloodline roots at a young age.

The affection between the two was instantly torn apart by blood, Xia Chan knew better than anyone else that it was not a vernacular for him to be asserted in his early years that he would be trapped in the Qi refining period for life, and it was she who used various top-level resources and secret techniques to help him complete the breakthrough.

He couldn't tell whether it was to make up for the guilt or the woman's affection for him.

Years of invisible ties have made him unable to regenerate hatred, but he can't face her either.

Pride and low self-esteem are sometimes a thin line, so he sold all his belongings to leave the Lou family and 'fled' again.

This time he won't 'run away'.

He's going to settle it with her in the reopening 'this game'.

Back to the day he was eighteen years old, he had already made a move, how would she respond?

He couldn't wait for it.

No matter what the ending will be with her, this time he will face life head-on.

Early in the morning, the biological clock woke him up at four o'clock in the morning, even if he was a little hungover.

I got up from the small attic, put on my blouse, picked up the birthday gift from my eldest brother last night, a rune alloy longsword, played with it and put it down, and still removed the ironwood practice sword hanging on the wall.

Before jumping out of the window, he looked down and took out his phone and glanced at it.

January 16th.

It's the second day he's been back in his teenage years from the previous timeline.

Stepping on the solid ground for countless days, Xia Chan raised the ironwood sword against the street lamp at the far end, this kind of wooden sword with a density and weight no less than iron and stone is produced in the Great Wilderness, a dense strange wood, and it is also the most common student sword, although it is not sharp enough, but it is tough enough.

The knuckles of the tiger's mouth felt every concave and convex detail of the hilt wrapped in nylon rope, including the countless sweat-poured pulp, all of which were so strange and familiar, everything had been lost for a long time.

The blade of the sword lightly sliced through the air, and one sword after another tossed and galloped in the open space under the forest in the night sky, and he could still feel the breath of the air, and every tremor caused by the friction between the blade and the air, this was still the realm where his mind and will fly.

is different from the previous eighteen-year-old, this eighteen-year-old has the essence of decades of comprehension and blood and sweat experience.

The sword is more stable, lighter, more freewheeling, and there is a clear sword heart that the last eighteen-year-old did not have.

Even if there are countless flaws in the body polishing at the age of eighteen at this time due to the lack of cultivation, even if the slightest trace of tiger roar true qi in the body brings limited help, what does it matter.

Yes, that's right, this body was deprived of the innate bloodline root by a secret method when he was one year old, which is the fundamental qualification for a person's qi refining.

So since the catastrophe when he was one year old, his life has turned a corner, and the pride of the sky has fallen into the dust.

In the seventeenth middle school, a civilian public middle school, compared with his peers, he also belonged to the bottom group of the worst qi refining, even if he paid several times more energy than others, it was in vain.

No one in the school class, teachers, classmates, including the Lou family, thought that he had the opportunity to set foot on the cultivation side, and the comprehensive university on the secular side was his best way out.

That hatred had almost worn out in the previous life, and it was the sorrow of not being able to take revenge, not being able to take revenge, and not even being willing to take revenge.

The problems that were not solved in the previous life were left for him to return to the age of eighteen.

As his thoughts soared, his sword blade seemed to sweep away his resentment, tearing open the night, and before he knew it, the sky was showing the dawn.

After collecting the sword, Xia Chan felt that his underwear was soaked, not the morning fog and dew, but the sweat of physical exhaustion, and his hands and feet were so sore that he could barely hold the hilt of the sword.

He smiled blankly, unexpectedly that the physical strength of this eighteen-year-old young body was not as good as that of himself at the end of the previous timeline.

But fortunately, the body is tired, but the mind is extremely lively and relaxed, and the whole body is full of a strange sense of transparency after overdraft.

Early in the morning, the kitchen of the building was lit up early, and the mother of the building was preparing breakfast.

As soon as he fell into the courtyard, Xia Chan, who was about to go upstairs along the eaves, suddenly heard the sound of a spatula smashing, and then a quarrel fell into his eardrum.

"Shut up! Tell you Mu Fangfang, even if he doesn't have the surname Lou, he is still my son. ”

"Tell me to shut up, Lou Muyi, you are capable, you can take out the money for your son to go to college!"

"There is always a way for money, let him go to the service as cannon fodder after graduating from high school, how can you bear it!"

"But that's all he has for the rest of his life!"

"I have news from the front, there will be war soon!"

"The second child didn't mean that he was going to be on the cover of the magazine, maybe it was the way. ”

"Artist, huh. ”

"Then what should you tell my mother, Mulan's qualifications are so good, she is the first in her grade, and if she doesn't transfer to a private middle school, it will be abolished, it will take a lot of money!"

"The public sector is not good, and there are many children who come out every year. ”

"I don't care, I'll ask you, do you want the surname Xia, or Mulan!"

"Be quiet, the children heard. ”

Xia Chan didn't expect that even if he interrupted the original process yesterday, the quarrel between Lou's father and Lou's mother was still fateful, just a few hours late.

In all fairness, Lou's mother has not been biased towards that child for so many years, and she treats him equally, Mulan is the most talented at home, and even has signs of awakening of blood roots, and whoever is the parent will be a little more partial.

In that timeline, he was stimulated for a day, but it detonated the thorn in his heart, laying the trigger for him to finally leave Lou's house in a negative mood.

He silently turned around and crept back to the attic from the backyard.

A breath of injustice still surged up Xia Chan's chest and hit his heart, he was a flesh-and-blood person after all.

When there was movement in the whole building, he stepped on the point and went downstairs again, just today it was his turn to clean up the weeds that grew wildly in the vegetable garden and flower garden at night, and when he was busy taking a shower and washing, it was his turn to eat at the table, and only Lou's mother was left at home.

"Mom, why is there one more egg. ”

"Mulan has no appetite today. ”

"Oh. ”

I don't know if it's a weak heart, Lou's mother avoided Xia Chan's gaze a little, and inexplicably gave him a 100-yuan ticket before going out to let him order more food at noon, saying that he was still growing taller recently.

"Mom. Xia Chan, who had already gone out, took two steps back.

"Hey. "Lou's mother borrowed to clean up the dining table and didn't look back.

"I will earn money so that my sister can go to a private secondary school next year. ”

Lou's mother seemed to have been immobilized, and when she turned around to look, she only found the figure of her adopted son outside the hospital stepping on a skateboard and flying away.

Suddenly, Lou's mother squatted down like a child, hugged her knees and cried.

On the way to the school a few miles away, Xia Chan felt that even though he had lived dozens of years in the last timeline, he was still like a child here, and sometimes it was just a thought between love and hate.

As always, Xia Chan's campus life is very simple and boring, although he has a skin that can attract many little girls, but he has never had this consciousness, silently going to class, leaving class, borrowing and returning books from the library, almost not interacting with anyone, and over time, he has become a marginal figure in the class.

After the bell rang for the end of class in the fourth section of the basic rune, the head teacher, Lao Zhou, suddenly came in, making the students in the room lament that they were going to drag the class again.

"Next week's semester chief student challenge is about to start, if you want to sign up, find the class leader to register, it's over, school!" Lao Zhou glanced at everyone, and Shi Shiran went out again.