Chapter 312: There Are No Candles in This World (4400 Words)
In the ancestral hall.
The incense in the bronze tripod is prosperous, the incense is curling, and the smoke is filled.
Zheng Xiu inserted three incense sticks on the incense burner.
"Ancestors of the Zheng family, please bless our Zheng family's only seedling, Zheng Xiu, to be able to overcome this difficulty."
It was originally a good ancestor worship, but last night Zheng Xiu suddenly "went crazy" and turned into begging the ancestor to do something. Chun Tao looked at the names of the Zheng martyrs on the spiritual throne one by one, and there were words in his mouth.
Why am I having a hard time?
Zheng Xiu pursed his lips and pulled Chun Tao's sleeve: "Mother, what's the matter with the wordless monument?" β
Chun Tao glanced at Zheng Xiu and didn't answer, as if he was blaming Zheng Xiu for being disrespectful to his ancestors.
Zheng Xiu understood, and sighed secretly in his heart, mother, you don't know, when you two elders were hanging on it, I respected it.
"Yue'er, come, kneel."
Chun Tao ignored Zheng Xiu.
She led the newlywed Yan'er's wasteland little she-wolf Yue Linglong to the Zheng family's ancestors and ancestors.
Before the moon was incense, Chun Tao suddenly remembered something: "Slow! β
Yue Linglong: "? β
Zheng Xiu: "? β
"Wait a minute, let your dad come." Chun Tao's eyes blinked: "Yue'er, don't mind, after all, you are from the Northern Barbarians, and most of the ancestors and ancestors above do not deal with the Northern Barbarians, and my mother may not be able to suppress it, so let my father come." β
Yue Linglong: "......"
Zheng Xiu: "......"
After thinking about it, my mother made sense.
As the so-called three views follow the experience, Zheng Xiu has experienced so many strange things, he doesn't even doubt that one day the ancestors will be "resurrected" one after another and come out to scold.
Anything is possible.
Zheng Xiu looked out of the ancestral hall with blank eyes, waiting for his father to appear.
Strictly speaking, he and his father have been separated for twenty-three years, and he suddenly came back to life, Zheng Xiu was a little uncomfortable for a while, and he didn't know how to face it.
Hey?
At this time, the bored Zheng Xiu was thinking chaotically, and somehow remembered the shock when he lifted the quilt last night.
Zheng Xiu was shocked, and looked at Yue Linglong's back in surprise.
The newlywed little wife seemed to notice her husband's "hot" gaze, her face turned red, she twisted her body a little uncomfortably, raised her head and quietly glanced at her husband, only to see her husband looking straight behind her, she hurriedly lowered her head again.
At this time, there was movement outside the ancestral hall, Zheng Xiu looked away with a complicated expression, and saw a white-haired old man, staggering into the ancestral hall with the support of the maid.
At the moment of seeing the "old man", three words instantly appeared in Zheng Xiu's mind - "impossible". The old man had white hair, a withered face, sunken eyes, and a white gown. The placket of his clothes was open, and Zheng Xiu could vaguely see that the old man's skinny chest had left hideous scars.
At the first glance, Zheng Xiu watched the old man who was about to walk in, and looked at the face whose facial features were somewhat similar to his own, Zheng Xiu's first reaction was "Zheng Baimei", which is indeed a bit similar. He even thought that his grandfather had crawled out of the grave in the process of the world line shifting - until Chun Tao trotted all the way forward and hugged the old man, and said distressedly: "You are weak, why don't you wear more clothes when you go out?" β
This old man is Zheng Haoran!
What happened?
Hollowed out?
Zheng Xiu watched in surprise as the two parents re-entered the ancestral hall.
Zheng Haoran's cloudy eyes swept indifferently from Zheng Xiu's face, and when they finally landed on Yue Linglong's face, he pondered for a moment, and his dry and chapped lips finally showed a smile: "Good, good, good." β
He said three "good" words and said no more.
"Daddy."
Zheng Xiu didn't know what happened to Zheng Haoran, and it was hard to imagine that he was almost invincible on the Northern Barbarian battlefield twenty years ago, and now he had become this sick appearance. His nose was sour, but he still stepped forward, after twenty years, he saw his father again, but the scene of the father and son meeting was not as warm and harmonious as he imagined, Zheng Haoran nodded, didn't say anything, and led Yue Linglong to complete the ancestor worship ceremony.
One knock, two worships and three incense, and the ancestor worship is completed.
"Take the Four Treasures of the Study! Ahem, ahemβ"
After completing all this, Zheng Haoran was a little more angry on his face, and coughed a few times when he said a word.
In ordinary people, wives and concubines are not eligible to enter the family tree. But that doesn't seem to be the case in the Zheng family. When Zheng Xiu looked through the family tree in the past, he saw the name of Chun Tao, and he was not too surprised by this.
"Go."
Chun Tao saw that Zheng Xiu was stunned and motionless, and secretly scolded his son for looking really sick, and pushed his stupid son. Zheng Xiu looked back at Chun Tao in confusion, and Chun Tao said that according to the rules, Lao Tzu wrote the genealogy and his son studied ink.
Zheng Xiu muttered in his heart, you died early back then, and you didn't teach this. But it passed honestly.
Removing the genealogy hanging on the ancestral hall, Zheng Xiu sharpened the ink on the side, Zheng Haoran opened the genealogy file and turned it to the bottom.
"Huh?"
Zheng Xiu saw his name. This is not surprising. The strange thing is that next to his name, before Zheng Haoran wrote this time, the word "Zheng" was written on the position of "main wife", and a little ink was dotted on the back, but it was not written down. gave Zheng Xiu the feeling that it was like the person who wrote down this Zheng character, and when he wanted to write the follow-up surname, he stopped abruptly for some reason and couldn't continue to write it down, so he gave up.
Zheng Haoran opened a stroke next to him, and on the other side of Zheng Zi, he had a wife and wrote down the five words "Zheng Yue's Linglong".
Chun Tao cautiously looked at the spiritual position, muttering with her eyes closed.
Zheng Xiu got closer and heard that the old lady was originally talking about "The ancestors are strange, the Northern Barbarian women are good at giving birth and raising, and they will definitely be able to renew a few more incense injections for the Zheng family", it seems that Chun Tao is really a little afraid that the old ancestors will be angry that their Zheng family will intermarry with the Northern Barbarian clan.
The group walked out of the ancestral hall.
Zheng Haoran came to Zheng Xiu.
"Daddy, your body ......"
Zheng Xiu wanted to speak and stopped.
Zheng Haoran shook his head and coughed lightly. He slowly raised his hand.
Zheng Xiu's fist moved, and he almost hammered it.
Zheng Haoran didn't raise his fist, but patted Zheng Xiu's shoulder: "Be kind to her." β
Zheng Xiu probably knew the agreement between Zheng Haoran and the Wolf King, and nodded. There were still many questions in his heart, but Chun Tao quickly said: "It's windy outside, you, hurry back to the house to rest, and it's the right thing to take care of your body." β
As he spoke, he half-pushed and half-arched, and asked the maid to send the master back to the room.
It wasn't until he saw Zheng Haoran drift away that Zheng Xiu couldn't help but ask: "Mother, ...... father's body"
"Don't ask." A faint trace of sorrow flashed between Chun Tao's eyebrows, blinking to hide the past, she suddenly remembered something, and slapped her face: "Quick!" The best doctors in the city, no, but all the doctors who are a little famous are invited into the house to diagnose the young master! β
Pity the hearts of parents all over the world, Zheng Haoran is like this, and Chun Tao is still thinking about Zheng Xiu's "illness". Zheng Xiu was quite emotional, and secretly swore in his heart that before he understood the situation, he would not let his parents worry about it anymore, so his back straightened, his spirit lifted, Yun waved his hand lightly, and thought of a reasonable reason: "Mother, no need, I overworked last night, I was in a trance, I said crazy things, I rested for one night today, I only felt that the dragon was fierce, as if I had endless strength, and I didn't need my mother to ask for a doctor!" β
"Are you sure?" Chun Tao's left eye narrowed, a little unconvinced.
"Yue'er, let's go, let's go back to the room."
Saying that, Zheng Xiu deliberately lifted his sleeves in a funny way, squeezed his developed biceps brachii in front of Chun Tao, and then pulled the red-faced Yue Linglong three steps and trotted back to the room in two steps, looking anxious to create a person.
"Wait, Xiu'er! This in broad daylightβ"
Behind him, there was Chun Tao's anxious and expectant shout.
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Bang!
The door closes.
Yue Linglong's white hands twisted the corners of her skirt uneasily.
She tilted her head to look at the sheets.
Early in the morning she folded the bedding.
I didn't have time to change the sheets.
There is also a large hole cut out of it.
"Husband......
Yue Linglong's eyes were open empty, and she was foggy, and said weakly: "Or, wait until it's dark?" β
Zheng Xiu stepped forward, so that he could say that he had taken off Yue Linglong's clothes, leaving only his belly pocket.
Today's belly pockets are pale green, which is quite fresh and elegant, and has a different flavor.
Yue Linglong was ashamed to death, and was about to drill into the bed, but was picked up by Zheng Xiu and turned around.
Zheng Xiu didn't see it clearly last night, but when he was in the ancestral hall this morning, Zheng Xiu thought about it and realized that it was wrong.
Now that he has a closer look, Zheng Xiu has found a problem.
Zheng Xiu's pupils shrank suddenly, and he reached out in disbelief and touched Yue Linglong's back, he suspected that there was fake skin on it.
"Hot!"
Zheng Xiu was even more shocked in his heart.
At first, Yue Linglong thought that her husband wanted to live in the daytime, but her husband was acting strangely at the moment, and he didn't look like he was going to do anything at all. The ripples in his heart calmed down a little, and his face showed doubts: "Husband." β
No, neither.
It's all messed up.
Yue Linglong is obviously a [corpse sewer] Inhuman, she has a Inhuman mark on her back, her body is cold, she obviously can't bask in the sun, and now, everything has changed.
Yue Linglong's back is smooth and fair, there are no marks, her body is warm, she can bathe in the sun freely, she lives like a normal person now.
She's not an alien!
Zheng Xiu's mind moved, and he wanted to enter the heart prison, but found that the passage that usually entered the heart prison was obscure, and he couldn't get in. Try again! Zheng Xiu rushed out of the room and left the dumbfounded daughter-in-law in the room. After turning a few corridors, Zheng Xiu snatched the pen, ink, paper and inkstone from the strange maid's hand, and quickly ran back to the room.
Zheng Xiu's back and forth was as fast as the wind, and Yue Linglong hadn't even reacted to put on her clothes.
In Yue Linglong's strange gaze, Zheng Xiu bit his fingers, mixed ink, spread out the white paper, thought about it, and drew a pool of water on the white paper.
As soon as his mind moved, the deep pool on the white paper suddenly moved, sparkling, Zheng Xiu stood up, brought his face closer, and the reflection of Zheng Xiu's face was reflected in the deep pool.
The door is still there!
Thaumaturgy is still there!
"Whew!"
Zheng Xiu breathed a sigh of relief.
But
Zheng Xiu remembered the scene when he was finally bound by the Void Chain in the [Ancient Battlefield] ghost.
A sense of disobedience came to my heart.
"Husband?"
Yue Linglong, who had been silently watching her husband go crazy from beginning to end, stood up and gently hugged Zheng Xiu from behind: "Are you ...... Too tired? β
"I have something to ask you."
Zheng Xiu looked at Yue Linglong's white body and put on a long skirt for her.
"Where is the Wolf King now?"
"Is there a great witch in your clan?"
"What is the relationship between Beiban and Daqian now?"
"Did you have a serious illness when you were a child, and your father went to Bagnamo Mountain to ask for help from the Great Heavenly Witch and get the elixir?"
Zheng Xiu threw out questions one by one, and Yue Linglong was stunned at first, not knowing what her husband was asking for.
But she answered them one by one.
Zheng Xiu listened to Yue Linglong's answer, and the more he listened, the more wrong he became.
"I'll go out!"
Zheng Xiu rushed out of Zheng's house in a hurry, leaving his bewildered newlywed wife alone in the empty boudoir.
The weather in the Imperial City is sunny today.
Outside, pedestrians are crowded, and there is a beautiful scenery of living and working in peace and contentment.
The street vendors shouted enthusiastically.
Everything related to the Zheng family has other plaques hung up.
There are no ravens in the sky.
There were no strangely behaved black-clad people on the roof.
In the small courtyard of Qing Shisan's home, a strange old man lived in it, knocked on the door, and he said that he had never heard of Qing Shisan.
Once at Pei Gaoya's home, Zheng Xiu knocked on the door and saw Pei Gaoya's "ex-wife" - that's right, it's his ex-wife, the woman is still the same woman, but the woman's man has changed to a thin one, and at first glance it looks like he is overindulgent.
Zheng Xiu's face was expressionless, walked through the streets and alleys, and found Ji Honglotus's home.
The closed door was dusty, and the courtyard was deserted, apparently unvisited for a long time. Looking for the neighborhood, the enthusiastic neighbors seem to know Zheng Xiu, he is a well-known figure in the city - the son of Zheng Haoran, the young general Zheng Xiu, who doesn't know. The neighbor told Zheng Xiu that there was a sick man living here, who died of illness before he had time a year ago, and was broken into the house by thieves and hacked to death with a knife, and the real culprit has not been found in the six doors.
Zheng Xiu left expressionlessly.
He entered the tea house, found a secluded corner, ordered a pot of hot tea, three or two small plates, and listened to the storyteller's storytelling, and listened to it for a day.
When he returned to Zheng's house in the evening, Zheng Haoran took the decoction early and fell asleep.
Zheng Xiu slept all night with Yue Linglong in his arms, and couldn't sleep all night.
Stayed in the tea house for three days.
The storyteller is like a river, talking endlessly about the past and the present.
On the fourth day, Zheng Xiu came to the study that used to be the great writer Ximen Bei.
It is now a tofu shop.
A beautiful widow grinds tofu.
Go to the location that used to be the Divine Doctor Medical Center, the medical hall is still there, but the old man who is sitting in the medical hall to pick up medicine is not the old divine doctor Situ Yong, who is not "a doctor who has six knives in his back and goes to heaven and earth", looking at the scar Lao Liu, who was busy in the medical hall, with a scar on his eye, and who used to be a prison guard. Zheng Xiu was dumbfounded.
"Huh? This is not Major General Zheng? I heard that you got married a few days ago, and now you are visiting the humble house...... I see! Scar Lao Liu's face was full of righteousness, Sven politely arched his hand, he carefully looked at Zheng Xiu's ugly face, his face was abrupt, but he wanted to speak and stopped, and said vaguely: "Understood!" It seems that the young general has something unspeakable, it doesn't matter! There is a 30-year-old Shaoyang ginseng in my medical hall, which has the miraculous effect of nourishing qi and nourishing the kidneys, and it will definitely make the young general return to his youth overnight......"
Boom!
Zheng Xiu punched Wen Crepe's scar Lao Liu with a black face and slammed the door out.
Scar Lao Liu covered his eyes, stared blankly at the figure of the young general leaving domineeringly, and cried: "If you don't eat, you won't eat, why are you still beating people!" β
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Half an hour later.
Zheng Xiu appeared on the roof of the Xiangmanlou.
The six-storey loft is about seven feet high, giving him a condescending view of the city.
A strange sky, a strange city, inhabited by a group of strange people.
History has completely changed.
Zheng Xiu understood one thing after a few days of inquiry.
It's not the year of Zun'an.
Wei Yangzun died a year ago, when the crown prince, who was still a baby, ascended the throne, and the eldest princess listened to the government and assisted in state affairs.
Twenty years later, Zheng Haoran returned and completely reconciled. In the past 20 years, the two sides of the Great Cadre and the Northern Barbarians have devoted themselves to seeking peace, establishing trade routes, and communicating with each other.
The two sides are Yue Linglong, the daughter of the wolf king, and Zheng Xiu, the son of Zheng Haoran, and the combination of this pair of beautiful people can be described as a match made in heaven.
When the two were truly united, it would mean the establishment of a decades-long peace between Daqian and the Northern Barbarians.
The world is peaceful!
No more fighting!
In addition to these changes, Zheng Xiu was also vaguely aware of an incredible, but extremely probable thing.
This world ...... No candles!
It's as if the candle never existed!
There is no night Weiyang, and Yue Linglong has not become an alien because of the Great Heavenly Witch!
Everything has changed!
Zheng Xiu sat on the top of the attic and let out a long laugh.
Then.
A dirty orange cat walked through the downtown area, it raised its head, looked at the lonely figure in the attic, lowered its head and licked its paws.