Chapter 18 Suicide Notes and Genealogy
The snow was getting heavier and heavier, but the people on both sides of the long street did not return to their homes to rest, because many of them had seen the legendary immortals for the first time, so that they did not know it when time passed silently.
"How do I feel that this young immortal is a little familiar?"
"After you say this, I also feel like this, he seems to be Su Hong who was sent to Penglai by Su Dehai in the west of the city three years ago. “
"Are you talking about Su Hong of the Su Dehai family in the west of the city?"
"No, although that kid has been introverted since he was a child, his words are quite gentle, and this person's behavior just now, as well as that indifferent gaze, I would never believe that he would be Su Hong. “
The people on both sides of the shops on the long street looked at Su Hong, who was holding Liu Wenju's body and walking to the west of the city, with a look of jealousy in their eyes.
Zhou Ting didn't speak, the purpose of her coming to Huai'an Town was to find Su Hong and bring him back to the sect, now people have seen that she was a smart woman, and she knew that what Su Hong needed now was quiet, so she silently followed behind him.
In front of the gate of the Su Mansion in the west of the city, Su Hong held Liu Wenju's body and looked up at the two lanterns hanging in front of the gate of the Su Mansion.
"I have been looking forward to countless days and nights to return after learning my skills and realize the promise of stepping on the sword to show you all over the mountains and rivers of the country, but what has happened now?"
Su Hong leaned Liu Wenju's body in front of the door, he wanted to find out the reason for this matter at the moment, if he found out that Su Dehai's death had anything to do with Huai'an Town, then no matter who this person was, he would suffer his crazy revenge.
He got up, his right hand held the iron lock that locked the courtyard door, and for the first time he cast the Yin Spirit Hand, and suddenly countless black tobacco threads appeared in his palm, and the right hand holding the iron lock was broken into two after grabbing it slightly.
"Su Hong, I just returned to Huai'an Town for you, so no matter what happens at your home, I will also be by your side. Zhou Ting saw Su Hong push open the door and walk in with the dead old man in her arms, she bit her silver teeth and hurriedly followed.
Su Hong looked at the mountains of ice and snow in the courtyard, and buried the flowers and trees he had planted with Su Dehai, perhaps because no one had lived in them for too long, and the eaves in the courtyard were full of leaves blowing in the distance, as well as broken tiles that fell from the roof.
He witnessed his home become what it is now, and this feeling made his heart shrink and become even more sad.
"Su Hong, you go to find the suicide note left by your grandfather first, let me clean it up here. Zhou Ting pointed to the dusty desk in the hall, took out a piece of clothing from the storage bag, wiped it, and was comfortable with where Su Hong put Liu Wenju's body.
"Thank you. Su Hong glanced at Zhou Ting gratefully, and gently put down Liu Wenju's body, although he still didn't know much about this woman who had known her for three years, but her words three times made Su Hong feel extremely warm, especially when he was disheartened at the moment.
"I came all the way from Penglai Sect to Huai'an Town to look for you, and I didn't even count the time I went home to visit my mother, but in the two words you said to me, there was only thank you?" Zhou Ting looked at Su Hong's back as he walked towards the former Su De's living room, and felt a sense of loss in her heart.
With the sound of "squeak", Su Hong pushed open the door, and the cold wind poured into the dark room, rolling up the dust on the furniture in the house, as if telling Su Hong that his only loved one had already passed away.
Su Hong took the fire candle from the storage bag and lit the candle that had already changed color, and the dim light of the fire filled the room, and the furnishings inside were still the same as before, without much change.
He came to Su Dehai's bed, gently stroked the gray layer on the quilt, and did not return for three years, although everything here was still the same as before, but it made him feel extremely strange.
Although the room was still the same room, the bed was still made, and the furnishings were still the same, but his only dearest person was no longer alive, his fingers slowly crossed the edge of the wooden bed, and tears fell silently again.
Zhou Ting, who was cleaning in the hall, heard the sound of crying in the room, she stopped wiping her hands on the chair, and wanted to go to the room to see what was going on, but then she understood that Su Hong must be a person who saw things, she shook her head, didn't bother, and continued the work at hand.
Su Hong bent down and opened the bottom of the bed, and took out a rusty square iron box from the inside.
Inside the iron box was an envelope, which Su Hong understood was the suicide note left by Su Dehai to him, and under that envelope was a yellowed book with the words "Su Family Tree" written on it.
Su Hong took the two suicide notes full of handwriting in his hand, and when he saw the familiar handwriting, he couldn't accept the fact that Su Dehai had passed away, and the content of the suicide note was roughly as follows.
Grandson, when you saw this suicide note, grandpa was no longer alive, forgive me, I know that you have been introverted since you were a child, and you don't know anything about the outside world, but I still sent you to Penglai without hesitation.
During this period of time, with your temperament, you must have suffered a lot in the Penglai Sect, right? That day on the Yunhai Pier, I saw that the moment you stepped on the boat, I was shaken, and I wanted to call you back to don't go to cultivate immortals, but I couldn't do that, because I hope that in your generation, I can uncover that hateful secret and find the root of the sad fate of countless generations of my Su family over the past few hundred years.
My death, to be precise, in the past 800 years, the death of all the people in my Su family at the age of seventy has nothing to do with others, I won't explain too much here, when you open the past recorded in the genealogy, you will understand it all.
Grandson, it's been a year, and I don't know how your progress in cultivating immortals in Penglai Sect is, the twenty-eighth of next month is when I am seventy years old, and I have witnessed the painful death of your grandfather during the seventy tribulations, which is exactly the same as recorded in the genealogy, so I don't doubt the truth of this matter.
And the culprit who planted all this cause and effect for the Su family is the Su family immortal I told you about that day.
When you don't look at me when I mentioned this ancestor that day, my expression was envious and respectful, but it was all pretended to deceive you into going to Penglai, no matter what the ancestor's original intentions were, countless generations of my Su family only had an unforgettable hatred for him.
I don't know what year and month you will be able to return to Huai'an Town, so I can only entrust you Grandpa Liu to tell you everything recorded in this genealogy when you come back, but recently his body seems to have been sick.
Grandson, you remember for me, if that ancestor is still alive, find him, ask him how he will treat the descendants of the Su family like this, and I want you to find a way to break that curse, so that the descendants of the Su family can live their lives like normal people after your generation.
After Su Hong read the first one, he took the second suicide note in his hand with a cold face, and the content recorded on this one told him that if he failed to learn the immortal law, then he would stay in Huai'an Town and live an ordinary life, and when he had an heir in the future, he would let his heir go to the immortal gate, and if he had the ability, he would reveal all these secrets and break his curse.
"Immortal Ancestor?" Su Hong folded the suicide note and put it aside, his eyes full of cold eyes looking at the yellowed family tree in the iron box.
At the beginning of the first page of the genealogy, the name of the first generation of the Su family is recorded, followed by the second and third generations...... When Su Hong turned to page seventeen, what was recorded here was not the names of the Su family, but a long text.
When Su Hong finished reading all the tens of thousands of words, he couldn't bear the anger in his heart, and smashed the desk all over the ground with one palm.
The people who recorded these tens of thousands of words in the genealogy are the three generations of the Su family, and the first recorder is named Su Mo, that is, the only survivor of the Su family catastrophe eight hundred years ago, and the content of these three texts is roughly as follows.
Eight hundred years ago, the Su family was originally a large family in Tianshui City of the Eastern Commercial Kingdom, with a family population of more than 100 people.
On Chinese New Year's Eve that year, all the Su family heirs, relatives and friends gathered in the Su family's ancestral house, knelt down in front of the portrait of a middle-aged man painted in the hall, and shouted loudly: "Meet the ancestors, wish the ancestors a smooth path of immortals, eternal existence, bless my Su family Ding prosperous, every year has today, years have today." “
Su Mo, who was fifteen years old at the time. Also in the crowd of people who knelt down to worship the ancestors, when everyone was closing their eyes and sincerely praying for the blessing of the ancestors, Su Mo heard the explosion of fireworks and looked up at the sky.
When he looked at it, he didn't see the fireworks, but he saw a middle-aged man with white hair floating above the Su family's ancestral house.
The facial features of this middle-aged man are exactly the same as the person on the portrait in the hall of the Su family at the moment, if you have to say that there is an obvious difference, that is, he is black-haired in the portrait, and now he is floating in the air with white hair, this person is the thirty-seventh generation ancestor of the Su family, the only person who cultivates immortals, Su Tianjiu.
Su Tianjiu's body floated in the air, his eyes were gray, looking at these descendants of his next generation in the Su Mansion below, with a wave of his big sleeves, an invisible magic circle appeared on the ground outside the Su Mansion in an instant, and the function of this magic circle was to prevent outsiders from entering the Su Mansion and the people in the Su Mansion from walking out of the courtyard.
"Ancestor?" exclaimed Su Mo.
In the quiet Su Mansion, everyone's eyes looked at Su Mo, and then as Su Mo's gaze looked into the sky, suddenly the Su Mansion boiled.
"Is it really an ancestor?"
"Could it be that the ancestors heard our prayers and returned to the Su family?"
"According to the family genealogy, every time the ancestors returned, they would bring back a large number of precious pills to prolong life, as well as a lot of money and treasures. “
"Haha, yes, the ancestor is the only glory of my Su family, with his old man, my Su family will definitely be able to move the entire Dongshang Kingdom in the future." “
The old patriarch Su Yuan was the first to react from the excitement, and knelt down to Su Jiutian again and again, reciting words in his mouth, all the Su family members followed suit one after another, and hurriedly knelt down, shouting in his mouth: "Glory of the ancestors, welcome the return of the ancestors, glory of the ancestors, welcome the return of the ancestors." “