Chapter 6: The Past
The middle-aged man's words also evoked Shen Yuchen's memories that had been sealed for many years. The middle-aged man is actually Shen Yu's second brother, named Shen He, is the second son of the Shen family in the central region of the Yunxiao Continent, the current head of the Shen family is Shen Tianang, with a total of five children, Shen He ranks second, and Shen Yu ranks third.
The Shen family is famous in the martial arts world of the Yunxiao Continent, it is one of the few fourth-grade forces on the continent, speaking of which, the martial arts holy land Feiyun Valley, which Xingyu and others dream of in their hearts, is just a second-grade force.
"It turns out that over the years, you only thought I was dead" Shen Yu's face was cold and his tone was indifferent.
"I know that you still blame your father for that decision back then, Dad has been thinking about you all these years, your room Dad often goes in, and he sits for a day, although he didn't say it, but we can all see that he actually regrets it in his heart. ”
After Shen Yu knew that his father Shen Tianang had been thinking about him for more than ten years, he was also silent, and after a while, he said: "Since you regret it, why did you force me so much in the first place, I have lived freely all these years, and I want to thank him for his decision to kick me out of the house in the first place." ”
Shen He's face was ashamed, he knew very well that Shen Yu had lived a poor life all these years, she was the proud daughter of the sky who had to be watched by the entire continent, and she lived a life of fine clothes and food in the Shen family. Now, in this mountain town, I am tired all day long for firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, this contrast is really too great.
"Let's talk about what happened back then, when you were kicked out of the house by your father, I was traveling outside, and I didn't know about it, and my eldest brother went to look for you in a hurry, but what I brought back was the news that you were killed, and my eldest brother was seriously injured in order to avenge you. ”
"We all thought you were dead, so my father also mobilized the power of the Shen family to search for the murderer all over the continent to avenge you, but in the end we couldn't find any clues, so we couldn't do it. ”
"Besides, what's the matter with that child, Xingyu, you are married and have children, how is the child's father treating you?"
When Shen He said this, the usual indifferent expression on his face disappeared, replaced by a look of concern, and he desperately wanted to get an answer from Shen Yu.
Shen Yu fell into deep memories, when she was in the Shen family, among the several brothers and sisters, she had the best relationship with Shen He, so seeing Shen He's concern, she sorted out her thoughts before answering.
"Back then, for the sake of family interests, my father agreed to the Zhou family's proposal and forced me to marry Zhou Wenxuan, no matter how I objected, my father refused to change his mind, so I had to flee from the Shen family. ”
"I didn't expect that after I escaped, I actually got the news that I was expelled from the house and separated from the Shen family. ”
Shen He sighed when he heard this: "After you escaped, the Zhou family decided that our Shen family had escaped from marriage and came to Xingshi to ask for guilt, at that time, my father had just taken over the position of the head of the family, and his strength had not yet broken through to the Tianyuan Realm, and he was not the opponent of the old head of the Zhou family at all, and the Zhou family decided that my father was deliberately shielding you, and threatened not to hand you over, and he would destroy our Shen family." ”
Shen Yu's face sank, and he sneered: "So in order to protect the Shen family, you have to sacrifice me, right?"
"Dad was also forced to be helpless, he said to the outside world to expel you from the house, on the one hand, to protect the Shen family, on the other hand, it was also to protect you, the family affair was promised by the father, if you are no longer her daughter, you naturally don't need to abide by this family affair. ”
"Dad was afraid that the Zhou family would secretly look for you, so he specially asked the eldest brother to find you, wanting to help you leave the Yunxiao Continent and hide for a while. ”
Shen He knew that Shen Yu had a lot of resentment in his heart, and he had been helping his father explain.
"At that time, the eldest brother had indeed found me, but he also persuaded me to think about the family and agree to this family business, I naturally wouldn't listen to him, I didn't think that when we were struggling, a team of people in black appeared inexplicably, each with extraordinary strength, and my eldest brother and I fought hard to escape. ”
"The eldest brother wants to take me back to heal, I know that as long as I return to the Shen family, I will definitely not be able to escape the fate of marrying Zhou Wenxuan, so I took advantage of the eldest brother's unpreparedness, made a state of fake death, and then disguised myself as a corpse and rolled off the cliff. ”
After Shen He understood what was going on, he sighed leisurely: "Father suspected that it was the Zhou family who did it, but when you had an accident, all the masters of the Zhou family who could hurt you and your eldest brother followed the old master of the Zhou family to ask for the guilt in the Shen family, and it was impossible to have extra strength to kill you, and according to what the eldest brother said, the exercises and spiritual techniques used by those people in black were not the ones that the Zhou family usually cultivated." ”
"Then what happened to you, how did you come to this connoisseur town and have children?"
"Although I faked my death, I was also seriously injured, and I rolled off the cliff by myself, and I was in a coma for a long time. ”
"When I woke up, I found that because of my injuries, my spiritual power had been constantly dissipating until the realm fell to mortal. ”
"Xingyu's father took me home, has been carefully cared for, he himself is poor, but in order to heal my injury, save money to buy medicine for me, I spent a whole year, it took me a whole year to recover the injury completely, during that time I can see, Xingyu's father is kind-hearted, is really want to treat my injury, others are very good, and saved my life, over time, we have a relationship. ”
"So in order to repay the favor, you made a personal promise?" Shen He smiled bitterly.
"You know I'm not that kind of person, I do have feelings for him, and she doesn't know my identity, and it's better to marry her than to be a victim of interests and marry someone I don't like. ”
"Since you really like him, and he treats you very well, I am relieved. Shen He looked at the inner room where Xing Yu was sleeping again, and said: "I have a relationship with Xing Yu, he is my nephew, I see that he is quite obsessed with martial arts, my injuries have not fully recovered, just here to recuperate, and at the same time teach Xing Yu to practice martial arts?"
Shen Yu didn't appreciate his second brother's kindness at all. "No, I'd rather him be an ordinary person honestly, it's better than stepping into the world of martial artists, fighting and killing all day long, and deceiving myself between various forces. ”
"Although I haven't been in contact with him for a long time, I can also see that Lu Yu's temperament is exactly the same as yours, once you decide to go down, you will definitely stick to the end, and you will never give up easily, he is so obsessed with martial arts, even if you don't want him to step into martial arts, he himself will work towards that goal. ”
Shen Yu's face turned cold, and he said unhappily, "You don't need to say more, I have made up my mind, after you recover from your injuries, leave quickly, and don't tell the people of the Shen family that I am still alive after I go back, let them continue to think that I am dead." ”
After speaking, she turned around and went into the back room, leaving Shen He there alone. Shen He was not in a hurry or annoyed, just sat on the chair, closed his eyes and recuperated, but there was a smile on the corner of his mouth.
"Third sister, third sister, since I know that you are still alive and living such a mortal life, I will naturally not sit idly by and let you continue to work day and night, and my nephew will also teach me carefully. ”......
The first rays of sunlight in the morning shone through the window, and Xingyu woke up. Because he wants to practice martial arts, Xingyu has the habit of getting up early and exercising in the morning, and although he was very tired yesterday, he still insisted on getting up early the next day for morning exercises.
He rolled over and got up, washed up, and found that his mother had also gotten up and was making breakfast for him, and the uncle was nowhere to be seen.
"Mother, where is the uncle?"
"Gone. Shen Yu didn't reply, and replied coldly.
"Why are you leaving!" Xing Yu hurriedly ran out of the door, and sure enough, he couldn't see the figure of the uncle around, Xing Yu's face was depressed, and he returned to the house with his head down, and he was not even in the mood for morning exercises.
"Liar, I obviously promised to teach me to practice martial arts, but I left. ”
"Hahahaha, who said I was a liar, I went to get you breakfast early in the morning, and it turned out to be a liar's evaluation. ”
Shen He's voice came from afar, Xing Yu was overjoyed, and hurriedly ran out of the door. Sure enough, Shen He was dressed in white and walked towards the wooden house unhurriedly.
"Uncle, you didn't leave, you said you were going to get me breakfast, but you were empty-handed, how could there be any breakfast. ”
Shen He smiled slightly, and with a flick of his right hand from the ring in his left hand, a bunch of red wild fruits were placed on the table, and there were more than thirty pieces of large and small.
Xing Yu didn't look at the wild fruit on the table, but stared at the ring on Shen He's hand, and asked curiously, "Uncle, what is the ring on your hand, why can you take out so many things from it?"
"This is a space ring, used for storage, it belongs to a kind of spiritual weapon, similar spiritual weapons also have space bracelets, space jade pendants, etc., but they are not as high as the space ring, I will slowly teach you this knowledge in the future." ”
Xing Yu was overjoyed when he heard that Shen He would slowly teach him martial arts knowledge in the future, and looked at the wild fruits on the table again, and asked, "Then what kind of fruits are these, how do I feel different from the wild fruits I usually eat." ”
"These fire essence fruits have a great effect on improving your physique and helping you quickly improve your realm in the forging realm, and they also contain some flame power, you can eat these fire essence fruits when you are forging your body, so that your body can adapt to the power of flame as soon as possible, and it will be relatively easy to practice the power of flame in the future. ”
"Uncle, these fruits must be very valuable, my mother said, no merit is not rewarded, you gave me the spirit crystal because I helped you point out the direction of the wind spirit sparrow's escape, you gave me the soul snake Neidan because I helped you protect the Fa, but this time I didn't help you with anything, I can't ask for these fruits." ”
Xing Yu actually wanted to eat all these fruits in one go, but thinking of his mother's words, he still decided not to accept them because of his filial piety.
"You take these fruits, Xiao Yu is right, there is no merit, we can't afford these fire essence fruits. ”
Shen Yu walked over with a tray, a pot of porridge and two plates of side dishes were placed on the tray, and breakfast was simple and simple. Although Xingyu's family is poor, his father is a captain of the city gate guard in Jinyang City after all, and the family life is not rich, but there is no problem in ensuring food and clothing for three meals a day.
"These foods are not of the slightest use for Xingyu's martial arts cultivation, from today onwards, you will eat Fire Essence Fruits for three meals a day, three pills a day, regularly and quantitatively, until you eat these Fire Essence Fruits. ”
Without waiting for Xingyu to refute, Shen He scooped up a bowl of porridge with the old god there, drank it all, and did not forget to wipe his mouth at the end, and said to Shen Yu with emotion: "It's been more than ten years, and I finally ate your craft again." ”
After eating the porridge, Shen He said to Xing Yu again: "The power of flame contained in these fire essence fruits is more domineering to you, but it is still bearable, I have more precious spiritual materials than fire essence fruits in my space ring, but they are not suitable for you now, those spiritual materials are too domineering, eating them will only make you explode and die." ”
"After you eat the Fire Spirit Fruit, meditate and breathe for an hour, and then come to the small river in the east to find me, I have other arrangements, from today onwards, I will teach you martial arts to help you improve your realm as soon as possible. After speaking, he put the fire essence fruit on the table back into the space ring, leaving only one for Xingyu as breakfast.
Xing Yu wanted to ask again, but Shen He had already gone straight out of the door and disappeared from Xing Yu's sight.
"Mother, can I eat the fruit given by my uncle?" Xing Yu looked eager on his face.
Shen Yu stared at Xing Yu's face for a long time, which made Xing Yu feel a little uncomfortable, and thought that Shen Yu was angry and refused to let him accept the fire essence fruit given by Shen He.
"Do you really want to practice martial arts?" asked Shen Yu with a solemn face.
"Well, I want to be a top master like my uncle, knock down all the people who bully my mother, and let my father and mother live a good life, and I don't have to look at people's faces anymore. ”
Xing Yu straightened his waist and looked solemn, at this moment, his heart was extremely firm, practicing martial arts for nothing else, just to use his strength to let his father and mother live a good life and live with more dignity.
Shen Yu looked at Xing Yu in a daze, his heart was mixed, and his eyes were moist unconsciously.
"Since you have already made a decision, my mother will not stop you, but you remember, no matter how difficult it is, after a lot of hardships, you must persevere, and you can't give up halfway, you know?" After speaking, Shen Yu walked out of the door, not knowing where to go.
"Thank you, mother, I will definitely take your words to heart. ”
Xing Yu looked excited, when he usually practiced martial arts, although his mother didn't say anything, but he knew in his heart that his mother had never been very approving of his martial arts practice, and now that his mother had expressed support for his martial arts path, how could he not be excited.
Grabbed the fire essence fruit on the table, took a hard bite, and the mouth was sweet. The oval-shaped fire essence fruit is bright red in color and not very large in size, so Xingyu ate it in two or three bites.
"It tastes really good, but it's only so big, and I only eat one for three meals a day, how can it be enough. ”
Xing Yu's face was bitter, a fruit obviously couldn't let him eat enough, just when he couldn't finish tasting the taste of the fire essence fruit, a feeling of heat suddenly rose in his stomach, and it instantly rushed to his brain, and his brain was not very awake by this heat wave.
The heat was unbearable, Xing Yu felt as if he was going to burn at any time, his skin was glowing with a fiery red luster, and his internal organs were about to melt under the invasion of the heat wave.