Chapter 12: The Secret of Seven Years Ago
Ji Ruochen walked to a place step by step.
It was still as it used to be, with dark stone walls, yellow wildflowers, and a house made of rotten wood.
This is where Ji Lingtian really lives, as the head of the Ji family, this is his only residence. No matter how beautiful the decoration on the outside, he lived in neither a palace nor a main hall.
Ji Ruochen saw a small bench in the courtyard, and the past came to his heart.
Perhaps Ji Ling is the one who wants to be a mortal the most.
He is a very responsible head of the family, and he is also a very upright person. His identity does not allow him to do things that are sorry for his family, and his integrity does not allow him to be calm and calm that is not in his position and does not seek his own politics.
It is his attitude to bow down to everything, but it is also a burden for his life.
This village-like place fully reflects his inner thoughts.
Ji Ruochen took out a bag from his arms, which was the one that Old Lady Mu gave him.
The courtyard of the head of the family is very simple, but it is supported by a peerless array, if Old Lady Mu is really led away, he is afraid that he will not be able to enter.
Because the token was changed, he still had the token from seven years ago, and he kept it in order to be able to come back.
He untied the bag and saw something.
It's not something you can't see, it's just a red stone.
Ji Ruochen smelled a familiar smell on it...
Seven years ago he was cast out, and the rain was pouring down, and he knelt down on the stone steps in front of the portal for three days and three nights.
With his inhuman will, the three-year-old knelt in the rain for three days.
The stone steps below his knees were stained red with blood, and the rest of the stone steps were also red under the infiltration of the rain.
Ji Ruochen's fingers trembled.
As if he knew something, he walked into the courtyard.
It's like going back to your own home.
"Ruochen?"
Ji Lingtian was sitting cross-legged facing the door.
The moment Ji Ruochen entered the door, he opened his eyes.
"Grandpa... I am back. ”
Ji Ruochen lowered his head, like a child who made a mistake.
Ji Lingtian was not surprised by Ji Ruochen's arrival, nor did he ask him anything, and raised his hand to signal him to sit down.
After all, he is the head of the strongest family, and he is very knowledgeable after all.
The moment Ji Ruochen appeared, there were no thin lines running through him in his mind, and everything was connected at once.
"It's good to be back. ”
Ji Lingtian didn't have the majesty of the dinner party, nor did he reproach Ruochen, but made him a cup of tea.
"It was Granny Mu who let me in. ”
Ji Ruochen said while holding the cup.
Neither of them was unusual, as if they had returned to the past.
"That's right..."
Ji Lingtian pondered for a while, "I guessed, after all, the token has been changed." ”
What Ji Lingtian was referring to was naturally the blood-red stone.
"Grandpa..."
Ji Ruochen lowered his head with red eyes. He has always played an extremely strong role outside of the Ji family, but when he comes back here, it seems that nothing has changed.
"Don't bow your head, the hairpin will fall, don't shed tears, grandpa will laugh. ”
Ji Lingtian said jokingly.
Ji Ruochen was stunned and smiled, but tears still flowed down her cheeks.
Ji Lingtian also smiled.
"Grandpa, do you regret what happened seven years ago?" Ji Ruochen asked cautiously.
“......”
Ji Lingtian shook his head silently, "Grandpa has a lot of things that he has to do, I have to do this for you, I don't regret it for your good." ”
Ji Ruochen was stunned, "Because I am a demon, is it good for me to drive me out of the Ji family?"
"The Ji family... After all, it can't be where you belong. ”
Ji Lingtian sighed, "Do you remember your mother, who is your uncle?"
"An Ruolan, Mo Bufan. ”
Ji Ruochen read out the names of the two without thinking.
"That's right..."
Ji Lingtian let out a long sigh.
"The Mo family and the Ji family have a good relationship for generations. In other words, we are brothers. Earthly brothers, too. But do you know who destroyed the Mo family?"
Ji Ruochen was stunned again: "The Mo family is extinguished, the master only said that the Mo family disappeared, but never said that the Mo family has been destroyed!"
"The Mo family is indeed destroyed..."
Ji Lingtian sighed helplessly, "The relationship between the Ji family and the Mo family is extremely close, and each generation of the family lineage has become siblings. However, the Mo family perished because of one person. ”
Ji Ruochen's eyes flickered, no need for Ji Ling Tian to say more, he already knew who it was. But what surprised him was that Ji Chengfeng had told him countless times. Uncle is a good man. So how could he do such a thing?
"That may not have been what he wanted. ”
Ji Lingtian seemed to see Ji Ruochen's thoughts. "The Ji family is also unwilling to kill this only seedling because of the Mo family's family friends. But he was mad, slaughtered millions of people ten years ago, and killed the divine doctor Nangong Zi. caused the elders of the immortal realm to settle accounts with new hatreds and old hatreds. ”
"And then... What they never expected was that the Dark Domain Heaven lost the battle, and their uncle also ended the lives of so many people from the Ji family with his own hands?"
Ji Ruochen asked.
When Ji Lingtian said this, Ji Ruochen could roughly guess what was going on.
Mo Bufan killed the people of the Mo family, and the Ji family killed the Mo family in order to protect the Mo family's only seedlings, so that later Mo Bufan killed and tortured him even more, and when the Ji family went to crusade, Mo Bufan killed the people of the Ji family mercilessly.
This... It is indeed enough to make the entire Ji family unbearable.
"Your existence has always been secret, and your mother is known to the outside world, so that you can survive at the expense of your father's reputation. And this is also what your father personally agreed. ”
Ji Lingtian nodded and continued.
"But your spirit stone has that kind of abnormality. You are actually a demon seed, and you are Mo Bufan's nephew, so if you are left in the Ji family again, when the matter is revealed, although we are difficult to get rid of, we have no regrets. It's just that you can't escape anywhere!"
"Demon Seed?"
Ji Ruochen was stunned, and asked unwillingly, "I am a demon seed, how is it possible? If I am a demon seed, I should have been discovered by following my grandfather's side every day..."
Demon Seed Immortal Fetus, the most terrible curse... The latter is okay, the former is in the Ji family, and they are all tragic people who are not tolerated in the world!
"It's Feng'er..."
Ji Lingtian interrupted Ji Ruochen's words.
For this he was punished with two thousand rods, and he was beaten for three days and three nights. When you knelt in front of Ji's house, he was also suffering. ”
“......”
Ji Ruochen was like being struck by lightning, and tears couldn't stop dripping down.
Two thousand...
Although Ji Chengfeng is a cultivator, he is only afraid that he will have to be treated once if he is one or two hundred. And so on.
But Ji Ruochen even hated his father in his heart.
"Actually, it doesn't matter to him. ”
Ji Lingtian smiled, "Because Jue'er was there at the time, I blocked him more than a hundred times." I was fine with my legs and feet, and I gave him nine hundred rods. Your Grandma Mu personally applied medicine to us and stayed with us for three days. ”
No wonder no one came out to see him for three days...
Ji Ruochen knows that there is still someone above the head of the Ji family, and that is the Ji family in the fairy world.
It is related to the mistakes made by the young head of the family, and the punishment must be supervised by the people of the fairy world.
What a cozy place the Ji family is... But that day was only afraid that everywhere would be filled with their howls.
"Are your master and Aunt Mei okay with you?"
Ji Lingtian suddenly asked.
"Grandpa knows them?"
Ji Ruochen came back to his senses from a long period of self-blame and guilt.
"That's what I'm looking for. ”
Ji Lingtian shook his head and smiled.
"Your master is one of the only two people in the Mo family now, and Aunt Mei is a personal maid of Nangong Zi's predecessors. I asked them to accompany you because I wanted to teach you so that you have enough strength to go to other places in the future. ”
Originally... Ji Lingtian, Ji Chengfeng and the others all had a plan.
When Ji Ruochen was about to leave the Ji family and go somewhere else, Ji Lingtian and the others were already behind him, silently filling his wings for him.
"You take this and this first. ”
Ji Lingtian took out two stones from his pocket and put them on the table.
Ji Ruochen, who was stunned, looked at the two black stones on the table speechlessly.
This... What the hell?
"These two crystals are very valuable, although they have no function, but they can be sold on the market for a lot of money, and they are regarded as the travel expenses given to you by grandpa. ”
Ji Lingtian said like an old child.
As he spoke, he picked up his shoes again, tinkered with them, and took out two black stones.
This...
Ji Ruochen was speechless again, how did grandpa usually get along happily with these stones and walk?
"Why, look down on them? This is the pocket money that grandpa secretly saved, the head of the family can't go to the mortal realm often, and this is the only thing I have valuable. ”
Ji Lingtian saw Ji Ruochen's speechless appearance, and said with a blow of his beard and glaring.
Frightened, Ji Ruochen hurriedly put away the four black stones.
"That's pretty much it. ”
Ji Lingtian smiled and took out another thing from the cabinet.
Ji Ruochen is no stranger to this thing.
A dagger, with a dragon-shaped carved hilt, resembling a one-piece gray scabbard.
"Remember to return it to me when you run out. Ji Lingtian threw it into Ji Ruochen's arms with a painful face.
“......”
Ji Ruochen picked up the dagger and looked at it heavily.
Not to mention other things, this dagger is a real treasure, but its significance to Ji Lingtian is also extraordinary.
"Grandpa doesn't hold a memorial to grandma?" Ji Ruochen asked cautiously.
"That's it, what to remember, I hope your grandmother will bless you to go as far as possible. ”
Ji Lingtian waved his hand, not having the appearance of the head of the Ji family at all.
"I'll be back, Grandpa. ”
Ji Ruochen solemnly knelt down and kowtowed to Ji Lingtian three times.
"I swear, I will work hard to cultivate to the point where the Ji family can't deal with it, and come back to help the Ji family. ”
Ji Ruochen stood up.
"Grandpa... See you again this time..."
Pushing open the door, Ji Ruochen walked out without a trace of hesitation.
"Alas..."Ji Lingtian sighed.
"Stinky boy, you have cultivated to the extent that the Ji family can't deal with it, did you come back to Kuang Fu Ji's house or did you come back to pick the Ji family?"
Ji Lingtian said helplessly.
Then he turned around and walked back into the house.
As a result, he just took two steps before he broke down.
...... The pocket money is given to that kid, and he is not used to walking without them!?
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Ji Ruochen returned to his courtyard.
Inside the house, Ning Keer was still asleep, leaning on her back.
Ji Ruochen smiled helplessly and sorted out her sleeping position.
The moonlight has dimmed tonight. However, Ji Ruochen always felt that such a rare night might not be so easy to calm down.