In the afternoon of the same day, in the residence of the patriarch of the Yu family, he heard about Yu Lie's visit, and the residence was completely busy.

The patriarch of the Yu family almost didn't even have time to put on his shoes, so he asked, "Where is Yu Lie's nephew now?" ”

The helper in the residence replied: "I have arrived at the main gate, and the Taoist Yu Lie said that there is no need to be grand, he can enter the door by himself and wait in the side hall." ”

The patriarch of the Yu family immediately replied: "How can it be! It's the first time my nephew has come to visit my mansion, so how can he not go through the door. ”

He immediately took out a piece of talisman paper from his sleeve, and his body immediately turned into a style, pulling out one afterimage after another, and ran to the gate to greet Yu Lie.

At this time, the subordinates in the patriarch's residence couldn't resist Yu Lie, and they had already let Yu Lie go to the side door, and he was walking towards the side hall.

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As a result, as soon as his footsteps stretched out, the voice of the patriarch of the Yu family sounded: "Brother Lie, the poor road is hesitant and sluggish. ”

Yu Lie was slightly stunned, and looked up to see the Yu family patriarch who was only wearing a shoe and had no time to comb his hair.

He hurriedly bowed his head and performed the junior salute.

Who knew that the head of the Yu family was also a wonderful person, and after the other party and Yu Lie politely greeted him in front of the door, he still tried his best to invite Yu Lie, wanting Yu Lie to walk in from the gate again.

Seeing that Yu Lie was really too lazy to do this, the other party simply stepped forward in person, pushed the door open to show respect, and then took Yu Lie's hand and walked towards the main hall.

With such enthusiasm and familiarity, Yu Lie, who didn't have much impression of this person, was a little "flattered".

It must be known that the other party is also an eight-rank Taoist disciple, and he is also the elder of Yu Lie, and the patriarch of the Yu family, so he feels rare and rare to be so enthusiastic.

In the main hall, Yu Lie and the Yu family patriarch chatted with each other, and the other party really asked for warmth, and stroked his beard, asking about Yu Lie's practice:

"Dare to ask my nephew, have you ever learned breathing or breathing?"

The cultivation exercises in the Dao Tong stage are used as the guiding techniques, which are used to temper the body, increase the Tao and promote digestion by using external exercises;

In the Taoist stage, the true qi is refined, and it is a kind of meditation that is used to swallow the spiritual energy between heaven and earth with breathing or breathing, refining it into one's own true qi, and increasing cultivation.

The breathing method or breathing technique is the most important means used by the Eight-Rank Daoists to increase their Taoism, the fundamental method.

Yu Lie shook his head: "I haven't broken through for a long time, but I have only learned a small spell, and I haven't had time to select and cultivate the fundamental exercises. ”

When the patriarch of the Yu family heard this, he said happily:

"It's just right that you didn't choose, now that you have returned to the clan, my clan's breathing method can be taught to you. This way, you don't have to spend money to buy it, and you don't have to incur debts and sign contracts. The breathing method in the clan is also comprehensive, and it has the potential and content to be promoted to a Taoist official. ”

The other party said: "Poor Dao is in charge, I will go to the ancestral hall to burn incense later, please come out with the entire Yu family's secret biography, and grant it to you, and the spells passed down by other ancestors are also up to you to choose." There is no need to pay attention to what contribution is not contributed, now that you have returned to the clan, it is the greatest contribution to my Yu family! ”

The Yu family patriarch's eyes showed a look of expectation, and he didn't wait for Yu to speak, and he still muttered:

"The next day, Poor Dao will take you to visit one or two nearby Daoists. Although it doesn't have much effect now, but the sedan chair carries people, and when you go to the Chenghuang Temple to be on duty, it will definitely have some effect, which can facilitate your cultivation in the diving county...... Haha, my Yu family still has a bit of family background and favor after all. ”

Listening to this large pile of words in the other party's mouth, Yu Lie's eyes couldn't help but show a little hint of emotion, and the words of "resignation" that he was about to say in his mouth also stopped in his teeth.

"The secret of the Yu family!" He thought about this, narrowing his eyes slightly.

It is said that the Yu family is a family that has been in the county for hundreds of years, although it is only a small family, and it has been defeated, but there are still three or two nails in the broken boat, and the Taoist system left by a seven-grade Taoist official on the ancestor has been preserved in most of the clan.

Among them, there are martial arts for mortals to strengthen their bodies, instructions for enlightened learning, guidance techniques for Taoist children, breathing methods for Taoist disciples, magic cultivation methods, and even secret recipes for male and female breeding.

This inheritance is quite worthy of study, even if the seven-grade Taoist officials get it, they can also gain a little.

This is actually one of the main reasons why the Huang family wants to move the people of the Yu family into their clan.

What he is trying to do is not only the bloodline of the Yu family, but also the Dao system that has been inherited by the Yu family for hundreds of years, especially the breathing method that can be achieved as a seven-grade Taoist official.

Because although the Huang family is now a family of four Taoists, but when their family was established, the ancestor was not a Taoist official from the family, but a Huang family girl who married outside, and the other party fell in love with a Taoist, and the Huang family happened to have a Taoist disciple born, so under the support of the Huang family daughter and the husband's Taoist official, they took root in the diving county and became a monastic family.

In terms of age and heritage, the Huang family is far inferior to the Yu family.

And if the Huang family included the Yu family members into their clan land in advance, and when the Yu family was removed, they would be eligible to inherit the Yu family's Taoism from the Taoist court and increase their own heritage.

At this moment, the cultivation exercises that the Huang family had been trying to obtain with all their hearts, as well as many methods that could be obtained without spending money, were placed in front of Yu Lie.

Yu Lie only needs to nod now, and he can easily obtain the accumulation of more than ten generations of the Yu family and take charge of the family!

Thinking about this, he suddenly sighed lightly: "Cultivating for others, if you really still have roots, it's good!" ”

When the patriarch of the Yu family heard this, he didn't understand what Yu Lie was sighing for, but he also stroked his beard proudly, and echoed:

"That's nature. Although my Yu family is getting worse, it is also a hundred-year-old family in this diving county, even if it is not a sitting tiger, it is also a ground snake. How can anyone who has no followers in the city compare with those of my family? ”

The other party paused, and whispered:

"But Brother Lie, you must not say this kind of thing to the Daoists in Blackwater Town. Those who are themselves in the countryside, or who have been reduced to the countryside, are mostly people who have no roots, and those who have no foundation in their families, so don't make them jealous and ruin the relationship......"

Hearing this, Yu Lie seemed to be smiling, and looked at the Yu family patriarch who looked like an elder in front of him.

Yu Lie suddenly made a decision in his heart: "I have already made up my mind when I came, how can I see the benefits and forget, both ends of the snake and the mouse?" ”

Huo Ran, Yu Lie got up from the stool, arched his hand towards the Yu family patriarch in front of him, and said:

"Thank you for the love of the patriarch, but the inheritance in the clan, Yu Lie deserves it, so there is no need for this."

The head of the Yu family, who was talking energetically, immediately froze the words in his mouth, and it took a long time to open his mouth and say a word:

"Huh?"

This person's eyes jumped, and he vaguely understood what Yu Lie meant, and his eyes suddenly showed complicated emotions.

But the patriarch of the Yu family rubbed his hands, also stood up, and said politely: "Brother Lie, but the patriarch and uncle heard it wrong, such a good opportunity, the family business passed down from the ancestors, do you plan to do it?" ”

Yu Lie was polite, with a confessional look on his face:

"The patriarch heard it right, Yu Lie is ashamed of it, this huge Yu family is still in your hands, and it is better to hand it over to the outstanding children of the next generation to inherit."

The Taoist court stipulates that the exercises cannot be taught and received privately. There are good and bad things in inheriting the family business, at the very least, it is necessary to settle down and return to the Yu family, which is inseparable from the Yu family.

Hearing Yu Lie's affirmative and affirmative answer, the patriarch of the Yu family, who was originally amiable, suddenly became angry on his face.

But the man still suppressed his anger and said with a dry smile:

"Nephew Yu Lie, you have an opinion about your uncle, if you don't want to return to the clan because your uncle is still there, don't worry, as soon as you return to your hometown, your uncle will abdicate immediately."

"No, no, you don't have to wait for the registration, as long as you open the golden mouth, I will hand over the position of patriarch to you in advance!" The patriarch of the Yu family said urgently.

Hearing this, Yu Lie was stunned, but still spoke faintly:

"The patriarch has said a lie, Yu Lie really can't afford such a responsibility."

He bowed slightly and saluted the other man.

At this moment, the patriarch of the Yu family, who had been quite nervous, couldn't hold back at all.

The other party looked at Yu Lie in a daze, waved his sleeves fiercely, and said in a low voice:

"Yu Lie, since you entered the door, I have been polite to you, and today's good things have come to this point, so you might as well say some bad things."

The patriarch of the Yu family was angry, pointed at Yu Lie's nose, and shouted:

"Such a good opportunity, if it weren't for your surname Yu, with the blood of the Yu family flowing in your body, would you be able to reach it? Although you became a Taoist disciple in three years, you can be regarded as a Taoist, but there are many people like this in the world, and your ancestors have not never been! But what is the situation of our people now, do you know? Do you really think you can make persistent efforts and continue to break through and become a Taoist?

If you leave your hometown, you will study hard, study hard, practice for three years, and work hard for more than ten years, and you must go to the bottom of the city again, and fight for that illusory opportunity? The family is so slight in your heart? ”

This person scolded a lot, and said hatefully: "You must know that if it weren't for the offerings of the clan, you would have had the opportunity to cultivate in this life, and I'm afraid you would even be able to read and write!" ”

Although Yu Lie came to "resign" today, he expected to be blamed, but he did not come to listen to the humiliation and insults.

was scolded by the other party like this, Yu Lie's complexion also changed suddenly, and his eyes showed a cold color. But he resisted the urge to scold and go back and argue with the other party.

Yu Lie just looked around at the exquisite patriarch's hall, and said lightly:

"Tsk. The huge Yu family fell into the hands of Daoyou, how could it be so defeated. Fellow Daoist, do you still have the face to talk about me? ”

Yu Lie still remembered something, and said in confusion:

"By the way, your son seems to have been poor for a year, and he was admitted to the Taoist class, and he became a Taoist disciple within three years, why didn't he come back to serve the family, help the patriarch, and repay the family's funding?"

He seemed to be smiling, and looked at the Yu family patriarch coldly.

When such words came out, the angry Yu family patriarch was immediately stunned, and he was speechless, he stared at Yu Lie's young and youthful face, and the expression on his face was extremely complicated.

Yu Lie laughed: "Haha! Just allow him Yu Fenggao to have a future, and if he can abandon his home and go away, and stay in the state city to cultivate the Tao, will I not be allowed to go to the state city to see the world and find his own way? ”

Yu Fenggao is the descendant of the Yu family, the son of the patriarch, and the cousin of Yu Lie.

Yu Lie flicked his robe, turned around, and strode out the door.

At the end of the day, when he was about to step out of the door, he threw down the last sentence:

"Yu Lie is only here to inform fellow Daoists today, not to ask for instructions. Yu Daoyou, farewell! ”

Suddenly, Yu Lie's body was like a wind, completely flowing away from the wide hall.

The patriarch of the Yu family leaned against the square table, and he hurriedly stepped forward, his sleeve pulling the teacup on the table to tipple over, making a clanging sound. The man stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to hold on to something, but his fingers were empty, and he couldn't grasp anything at all.

He stepped back, like a little old man, and sat weakly on the stool.

In the huge hall, this middle-aged eight-rank Taoist disciple with a delicate face seemed to be more than ten years old in an instant.

The patriarch of the Yu family looked up at the roof, his face was ashamed and angry, and he muttered: "Ashamed of the ancestors, ashamed of the ancestors!" ”

After a long time, this person was an eight-grade Taoist after all, and he was not young, and he came back to his senses. But as he stroked the wet table, the remorse in his eyes was even more incomprehensible.

Heavy sighs and questions sounded in the hall:

"The world of Dao City, is it really so tempting......

The other side.

After Yu Lie left the residence of the Yu family patriarch, he walked around the clan for a while, and he found that the Yu family at this time happened to be full of people, and the faces of the clansmen showed happy expressions, which was quite lively.

Some relatives and friends who had not walked around with the Yu family for many days, or even several years, also appeared in the Yu family's mansion, carrying bags and gifts, and flocked to the house.

The members of the Yu family, all men, women and children, went into battle together, warmly entertaining these relatives and friends who came to the clan as guests.

Yu Lie walked out of the patriarch's mansion and paced.

Someone saw Yu Lie, whether he was old or young, inside or outside, he showed a happy face, greeted him with a smile, and proudly introduced it to others.

From time to time, the crisp voices of children sounded, pointing to the rest of the columns one by one:

"Look, that's Brother Yu Lie!"

Without thinking too much, Yu Lie knew that he had not only become the focus of the Yu family, but also a big breath of confidence for the Yu family.

Many relatives and friends learned of his appearance, so they hurriedly came over to cheer, mingled with each other, and continued their friendship.

Yu Lie paced, looking at the ancestral land of the Yu family, which was not yet spring, but was already a tree with new shoots, full of an early spring scene, he sighed softly.

Walking in the lively crowd, the rest of the column passed through the crowd, but his face was calm.

He was only polite, and from time to time he greeted his clansmen and outsiders, but he never stopped a step in his footsteps, and went straight through these crowds.

Only the Yu family members who were either looking out or pointing from afar, smiling and talking in their mouths, looked at his back.

Walk alone.

Staggered out of the crowd completely, Yu Li appeared on the vicissitudes of the "more than enough" small stone bridge, his body was slightly stunned, but in the end he didn't look back, so he walked off the stone bridge and left Yu's house.

Just near the stone bridge, several nearby families were watching Yu Lie leave, chatting and talking. One of them was holding a sprouting withered willow tree, and his eyes flickered for a moment.

She wiped the apron around her waist, as if she saw Yu Lie when he was fifteen years old, he was still a short head, carrying a tall book, alone, staggering down the small stone bridge, never looking back.