Volume 5: The First Song 422: The Story of the Gentleman (Part I)
The chapter of the story of the gentleman
Zhang Yi, the great gentleman among the Qi refining disciples of the Five Spirits Sect, although he is a gentleman, but he is not the same as the ordinary arrogant and domineering gentlemen, he is gentle and low-key, and can even be said to be humble and polite, and his literary quality is polite, so his reputation has always been good.
Zhang Yi was born in the Wuling Zhang clan, his father's name is Zhang Jiuming, and he is now an elder of the Wuling Sect Jiuxuan, and his mother's name is Ren Wei, who was originally also a senior of the Wuling Sect Jiuxuan, but has fallen for many years. Zhang Yi's father also has several brothers, who are the elders of Shuiyun Valley and Qixia Mountain in the sect. Zhang Yi's grandfather's name was Zhang Xuan, and he was a Yuanying monk on the Jade Pot Mountain of the Five Spirits Sect. In addition, Zhang Yi also had an uncle and grandfather, that is, Zhang Yi's brother, who was also a Yuanying monk on Yuhu Mountain. In addition to these, Zhang Yi also has several cousins and uncles who are also Jiedan monks in the sect, and even he has the youngest uncle and grandfather, although that person is not a Yuanying monk, but now his cultivation has reached the point where the high-level Jiedan is facing a breakthrough in the bottleneck of Yuanying, in addition to these or ancestor-level figures or elder-level figures, there are many younger generations of the Zhang family who have built a foundation and cultivated, and they are also running for the affairs of the sect, and there are more descendants of the Zhang family who are refining qi and cultivating, and Zhang Yi is one of them.
The above is the strength of the Five Spirits Zhang Clan in the Five Spirits Sect, from which it can be concluded that the Zhang Clan is definitely strong in the Sect, so Zhang Yi can definitely be regarded as a man with a deep background in the Five Spirits Sect.
However, these are just Zhang Yi's life experiences on the surface, and they are actually more complicated.
First of all, the fallen Ren Wei is not Zhang Yi's biological mother, and even the name Zhang Yi did not belong to him originally, of course, Zhang Jiuming is his biological father.
Zhang Yi's original name was Sun Cheng, and he was not born in the Five Spirits Sect, but in a small family surnamed Sun.
This also starts with Zhang Yi's father Zhang Jiuming, Zhang Jiuming did not look for a Taoist partner for himself after building the foundation, let's just say that he was obsessed with cultivation, and he did not have this mind for many years after he married Dan. Many years ago, Zhang Jiuming was sent out to do things outside the sect, in that outing, he got acquainted with a daughter of a small family surnamed Sun, that girl was the cultivation of the foundation at that time, and she was born like a fairy, and she was full of grace, looking forward to life, and suddenly Zhang Jiuming who had been withering for many years was stunned, and they stayed together for many days. Zhang Jiuming, who has cultivated to a high level, is quite moved.
If two people are interested in each other, then things are much simpler, and when they look at each other, they know each other's affection, so on an unknown night, these two people finally have a spring breeze, and then they are out of control.
lingering for more than a month, during this period, the two of them were like glue, swearing that one would not marry, one would not marry, and the other would not marry, and later when Zhang Jiuming had to return after doing something for the sect, the two sides left each other tokens and agreed on good things.
Then Zhang Jiuming returned to the Five Spirits Sect to resume his life.
No one expected that it was just a short time to get along for more than a month, this Sun girl actually had a secret knot, and there was Zhang Jiuming's bone and blood in her abdomen, which was later Zhang Yi, of course, after the child was born, her mother gave her the name Sun Cheng.
Speaking of Zhang Jiuming, after he returned to the Five Spirits Sect to resume his life, he climbed the Jade Hushan Mountain and told his father that he wanted to marry a daughter of a family surnamed Sun, but he didn't expect Zhang Xuan to flatly refuse after listening to his son.
Well, generally speaking, monks don't talk about the cultivation of Yudan, even if they are just foundation building monks, their own marriage is completely up to them, but these refer to ordinary monks. Well, for example, monks like Lu Ping, Li Jian, and Yan Xuan who have no heels in the sect except for their mentors are like this, and their respective masters will check the Taoist companions chosen by their disciples, but as long as the disciples are willing, they will definitely succeed. And if a monk like Qian Chao, who doesn't even have a teacher in the sect, builds a foundation, then the matter of marriage is up to him.
For the existence of a large sect that can be called a "clan", the younger generation must be approved by the elders to choose the Taoist couple, and more often the younger generation's Taoist companion is selected by the elders for them.
The meaning of the word "clan" in Zhongzhou is very different from that in Yingzhou, in Yingzhou, "clan" represents a powerful force that can influence the direction of Yingzhou, such as the seven surnames of Yingzhou, which refers to the seven families composed of monks with seven different surnames, and the single one is a powerful family such as Yingzhou Ram or Yingzhou Zhuang; In Zhongzhou, the word "clan" is only used in a certain large sect with the same surname of the same surname who is related by blood, such as the nine Bai clan that appeared earlier, Bai Shen, the daughter of the Bai clan, also worshiped under Tang Bonian and became his closed disciple. And in the cultivation world of Central Continent, even the biggest family does not use "clan" to call it, for example, the largest family in Central Continent is the Qizhou Tian family, that's all, people will not call it Qizhou Tian, and in the Five Spirits Sect, there are not many people who can be called "clans", there are five spirit sects, five spirit Zhang clans, five spirit Feng clans, five spirit Huan clans, etc., these all represent a powerful and powerful group in the sect. I can say more here, the reason why Lin Jian has always been looked down upon by many big people is because there is no such thing as the Lin family in the Five Spirits Sect, and the power of Lin Jian's father and ancestors in the sect is not strong enough.
Zhang Jiuming is a member of the Wuling Zhang family, and his marriage must be decided by his father Zhang Xuan's generation, which is done in order for the Zhang family to continue to grow in strength in the Five Spirits Sect, and Zhang Xuan will never agree to the matter of his son and the daughter of the family surnamed Sun, the reason is very simple, because the Sun family is too weak, and marrying it is not beneficial to the Zhang family. Seeking a good companion is not only a bargaining chip, but also a transaction, and an important transaction, not a child's play, let alone easily use this chip hastily, so even as a Yuanying monk, Zhang Ji is inevitably vulgar to beat the mandarin duck in person first, and then choose a family for him that is considered to be the right person.
In addition to the inevitable contradictions between each other, the Five Spirits Sect does not want these "clans" to gradually grow through marriage and become an uncontrollable force in the sect. Therefore, the children of the "clan" generally set their sights on the cultivation world when choosing Taoist couples, looking for targets from those powerful families, and Zhang Yi took great pains to choose a woman for his son, the woman was definitely from a powerful family, of course, it is definitely inferior to a super family like the Tian family, but it can also be ranked under the Tian family...... Ren Wei, the daughter of the Ren family in Jizhou.
Zhang Jiuming was very reluctant at the beginning, but he couldn't disobey his elders, he was a big man in the sect at a young age, which was also the price that the big man had to pay, so in the end, he could only be ruthless to bear the Sun girl, and under the arrangement of his own parents and brothers, he married Ren Wei, the daughter of the Ren family, and became a Taoist couple, fortunately, this Ren Wei is also a woman with bright eyes and bright teeth, graceful and graceful, and she is also a monk who has knotted Dan, Zhang Jiuming was still happy after seeing it, Gradually, I forgot about the girl Sun.
And that Sun girl, after waiting for a long time, I didn't expect to wait for the news that Zhang Jiuming and the daughter of a big family had formed a Taoist couple, and she suddenly regretted and hated and then fell seriously ill, and at this time, Zhang Yi was already born and raised in the Sun family, and now she simply let the child take her surname and name Sun Cheng.
And Zhang Jiuming and Ren Wei also gave birth to a son after marriage, and Zhang Jiuming named him Zhang Yi.
When Zhang Yi was very young, of course, what is said here is not Zhang Yi who Qian Chao and others have to deal with now, his mother Ren Wei once took him back to Jizhou to live in Ren's house, and the people of the Ren family left him for a while in order to make this child close to his family in the future, but he didn't know that not long after Ren Wei left Zhang Yi left, the Ren family sent someone to send bad news, Zhang Yi was killed by a demon beast when he went out to play!
It is said that Zhang Yi has a stubborn personality since he was a child, and he is a fool of himself, and Zhang Jiuming is in charge of his parents in the sect, he doesn't dare to do anything out of the ordinary, but after arriving at the Ren family, all the people greet him and please him, and dare not disobey him, so he becomes more and more lawless, and privately avoids the eyes and ears of the elders and follows a few children older than him to go out, but when he runs to a dangerous place outside, he encounters a demon beast and dies, in fact, the grade of the demon beast is not in the stream at all, But those children who couldn't stand it were even more like straw bales, and they didn't care about Zhang Yi when they saw the danger, which led to a tragedy.
Ren Wei lost her son, and she was heartbroken, and Zhang Jiuming was even more sad and gradually held a grudge against the Ren family.
Later, Zhang Jiuming told his father Zhang Xuan about the loss of his son, and while sighing and regretting, Zhang Xuan suddenly said to him:
"I heard that you still have a son, so you will be raised in the Sun family, since it is your blood and bones, you should not throw it outside, find a time to take it back and raise it by your side, as for the Sun family, give them some compensation."
And this is also the reason why the current Zhang Yi is in the Five Spirits Sect.
Not only did he come to the Five Spirits Sect and come to the side of a strange man who claimed to be his father, but he was also inexplicably changed his name, from the original Sun Cheng to Zhang Yi.
In fact, the current Zhang Yi is the same age as the Zhang Yi who died before, almost a few years old, and the appearance of these two children is similar to Zhang Jiuming, the difference is not big, and the size is about the same, if it is not a close person, almost no one in the sect knows that the current Zhang Yi has changed people.
At the beginning, Zhang Yi was terrified almost every day, he didn't know why he was brought to this strange place, why he called a stranger father, but it seemed that he had to come, he clearly remembered that when he left the Sun family, his mother cried very much, kneeling on the ground and begging to stay in the Sun family, and the Sun family's face was also ugly, the person who claimed to be his father and later called him uncle or uncle had a stern face, of course, there were also people who gently coaxed Zhang Yi, But he didn't want to leave his mother at all, but not to mention that he couldn't make the decision at that age, even the entire Sun family dared to be angry in front of those few Jiedan monks, and in the end he was forcibly taken away. Zhang Yi still remembers that he was carried away, unable to break free, and could only hear his mother's last desperate cry in the distance.
And by Zhang Jiuming's side, Zhang Yi's life was not easy.
Zhang Jiuming was still full of hope for this son at the beginning, and after bringing him to the Five Spirits Sect, he tested his spiritual root, but as a result, Zhang Jiuming was very disappointed, this son's spiritual root qualification was much worse than that of the previous son, which made him very dissatisfied, and he didn't even bother to give another name, and directly gave the name of his son to this son, so that later there were not many people in the sect who knew that Zhang Jiuming had lost a son.
After being robbed, Zhang Yi didn't get any care at all, the person he called his father rarely asked him about his affairs except for asking him to practice, and that's it, every time he saw his father, he felt that the person's eyebrows were depressed, his face was pale, and he seemed to have never been happy, which made him avoid Zhang Jiuming every time and didn't want to meet him. In addition, the look of the woman next to his father made him even more frightened, the woman's eyes revealed a deep disgust and disdain, and Zhang Yi hated this woman even more, he also knew something at that time, and understood that it was this woman who robbed his mother's status and status.
Even Zhang Yi secretly heard the quarrel between these two people, which had something to do with him, when he heard the woman shouting in a sharp voice:
"He's not my son at all, why use my son's name!"
"But he's my son!"
And then there was silence!
Zhang Yi stayed in the Five Spirits Sect in desperation, and while he missed his mother, he practiced seriously and diligently, thinking that one day he would be able to achieve something, and then he would go out of the Five Spirits Sect to find his mother.
In this way, after a few years in Wulingzong, Zhang Yi always wanted to write a letter to his mother, but even if he did, he couldn't send it to the Sun family, so he had to give up, and he did everything possible to inquire about the Sun family, and there was no news about the Sun family in those years, until the bad news that the Sun family was destroyed.
It is said that it is the act of a loose cultivator who wanders around to commit crimes, and there are several small families near the Sun family who have also been destroyed and their assets have been robbed, but Zhang Yi of other families does not care, he only knows that his mother died in that disaster, not only that, but the Sun family, all the people he knows, and the people close to him are gone!
When he heard the news, Zhang Yi only felt a cramping pain in his chest, his eyes were black, his throat was sweet, and he fainted after a mouthful of blood spurted out.