After noon, Lu Jingyuan leisurely returned to the mansion and walked towards a side courtyard where few people walked around on weekdays.

There are 14 main halls and 36 partial rooms in the Lu Mansion, a simple and solemn hall with a decoration The door is empty, the light in the room is complicated, and the square flower and rock slabs accumulate a layer of dust, and it seems that there has been no servant to clean and ventilate for a long time.

There is a figure standing still, the young man in brocade looks at the altar dedicated to the shrine with a dark expression, silently keeping a stick of incense for about a long time, the man in brocade slowly walks out of the hall and brings a basin of water, a handkerchief is placed obliquely in the silver basin, and the young man holding the handkerchief is Lu Jingyuan, the second son of Lu Mansion.

"Mother, I haven't come to see you for a long time, some time ago, Jing'er actually saw her mother's prime again at the moment of life and death, I was really happy, I haven't been so happy for a long time, but unfortunately it's just a dream, and it was shattered. Lu Jingyuan gently wiped the cold Zimu spirit card, touched the big characters with his fingers, just like his mother touched his face when he was young, he talked to himself to the spirit card engraved with a familiar name.

"I still remember when I was young, I didn't listen to Mr. College's lectures because I was playful, my mother was very angry and beat my palm with a wooden ruler, I was also stubborn, I didn't admit my mistakes, my mother punished me more than a dozen times in a row with tears, I pinched my red and swollen palms, my whole body trembled and stared at you, and you stared at me without fear, as if to say that if there is someone in this world who can put you in order, it is me. ”

After wiping all the objects of the altar, Lu Jingyuan pulled a cushion with his hand, sat on it with his back against the not tall and majestic altar, and recounted all kinds of stories of his childhood, including laughter, sadness, thrills, relief, and immortality.

During the period, there was no loss of grace and crying, there was no painful mourning, but the wind was light, and there was a vague and hazy shadow in his heart, no matter how Lu Jingyuan chased after her, he couldn't catch the corner of her clothes, but because of this, he would not be discouraged and would not lose his way.

The raindrops outside the gate became smaller and weaker, and they were no longer so violent and violent when they hit people, but became gentle and moist, like the little daughter-in-law who had just passed the door and was embarrassed after crying and making a fuss.

Lu Jingyuan stretched out his arm to feel the spring tide and rain curtain at the end of the strong crossbow, revealing a heartfelt smile.

The clouds are gone, the rain is gone, and the color is bright, and it is bound to usher in a good scene of sunny weather and warm ground.

"Lu Gongzi, are you inside?" A sound suddenly came from outside the huge courtyard surrounded by three halls, and footsteps approached the gate from the outer corridor of the wall.

"Miss Pei, I'm here. Lu Jingyuan walked down the steps quickly, Pei Chunyan was looking for him at this juncture, which he didn't expect, and he didn't think about it much.

"The Lu Mansion is really big, I have been looking for a long circle aimlessly, and finally under the guidance of a cadre, I finally found the traces of your noble son, how difficult to say, sure enough, rich people are willful, not comparable to me and other mountain martial arts monks. Pei Chunyan stood at the gate with his arms crossed and did not mean to step in, the woman in Tsing Yi was still dressed beautifully and swaggeringly from the mortal rouge vulgar powder, especially those aristocratic beauties with a slight appearance, as if they wanted to include all the wealthy sons in the world under their pomegranate skirts, and it was a common trend to compete for beauty.

"Hehe, Miss Pei said with a smile, how can the landlord clan of the secular dynasty compare with the chic and wanton and profligate people who practice in the mountains, just to ask for some stable days and live some comfortable days than ordinary people. ”

Pei Chunyan, who was dressed in a dark green robe, tied his hair into a cone bun and inserted a silver hairpin, the hairpin head hung down with pocket copper beads, very delicate and cute, Pei Chunyan's forehead was very white, heroic and compelling, this upright woman's posture was enough to evaluate eight points in the eyes of Lu Jingyuan, who had read countless people, and it was already not a low-class appearance.

"Didn't you ask me for a martial arts internal martial arts book a few days ago, I went back and flipped through it, and found a book on internal qi training that should be of great benefit to you, called "Lingshu Qiying Tu". ”

Pei Chunyan stepped into the threshold with one foot, and did not walk quickly to the central hall, but slowed down his pace to scan the scenery of the inner courtyard surrounded by high walls on all sides.

This small courtyard is very different from other glamorous and gorgeous buildings Qiongyu, if you throw it in it, it will look out of place, like a group of high-talking family children rushing into a river and lake ranger who can't find the south, east and west, the two are not close to each other, so she is very curious, what is hidden in this hall.

"Isn't this the place where your golden house hides its coquettishness, and I unintentionally broke it today? You have always been unfathomable like a wealthy man, if such an earth-shattering private affair is pierced, will you kill me later?" The woman in the dark green robe suddenly turned around and covered her lips, her expression was a little frightened, although she knew that she was ridiculing herself, Lu Jingyuan had a headache for no reason, and the skin and flesh of her cheeks twitched slightly.

"Why do you follow Ziling to learn to play tricks on people so much? I don't have a straight shape all day long, and besides, am I so dirty? I really convince you. Lu Jingyuan sighed and put his hands behind his waist, no matter what the woman surnamed Pei did, he was actually not angry but a little relieved, not everyone can make friends in the rivers and lakes who can afford to make jokes and will not be easily angry and pull out a knife to slash and kill.

"This is the ancestral hall I built for my mother, it has been many years, the young family members are not familiar with this place, and there are only one or two elderly henchmen to clean it every month, and it has not been abandoned for so long, I have only sorted out the ancestral hall inside and out, and it is finally much more spacious and bright. ”

"Oh, I see...... I was talking nonsense just now, and I offended Mrs. Zun for a while, I didn't mean it......" Pei Chunyan obviously didn't expect such a thing, and his face turned pale with fright in an instant, and when he thought that his previous words were so disrespectful, he felt like he was in the mood to hit the stone pillar.

"Hmph, I'm angry, how do you want to compensate me. Lu Jingyuan deliberately ignored her, this time the ink-robed woman was like an ant on a hot pot, she was at a loss, she chased after her in a few steps, and grabbed the cuffs of the fox man, Lu Jingyuan suddenly stopped, lowered her head and didn't know what she was thinking, and all this was swallowed like a fish in Pei Chunyan's eyes, she pursed her lips and spoke.

"Next time, I will take you to Lingnan Sword Villa to play, all the expenses are contracted by me alone, you can stay as long as you want, what Tibetan Soldier Valley, Yufeng Mountain, and even in my name you can forge a sword for you in the sect without authorization, in Lingnan, I will wipe the sword Villa or the top name of the line, so it's okay!" Pei Chunyan said with a lotus flower, but her eyes were always observing the majestic young man in front of her, Lu Jingyuan didn't say a word, she had to grit her teeth and make a promise of great value.

"Really?" Lu Jingyuan finally looked at her extremely nervous face, and the latter held his breath, as if he was about to suffocate in minutes.

"Really, really, I'm a daughter of Pei Nuxia!"

"Well, I'll write it down, I'll remember it clearly. Lu Jingyuan suddenly recovered his expression, waved his big sleeves, and walked into the hall with extra ease, and did not forget to shake his hand at Pei Nuxia, signaling that she could go in with him.

"Whew! I finally breathed a sigh of relief now, I thought I was going to offend this wrongdoer, and when the time came, I would be driven out of the Lu Mansion without a word, what a shame it would be......" Pei Nuxia looked up at the angular patio, and the bright light poured down from the opening, like a waterfall cliff, and there was a trace of ethereal Zen that was not easy to detect in such a small space. Her heart trembled but she didn't know what to do, there was a weak seedling on the foundation of the martial arts that had a sign of breaking the ground and growing, but she lost her sense for a moment, she frowned and suppressed her uncertainty.

Whether it is the three famous sects or the world's thousands of troops and horses breaking into the single-plank bridge of the martial arts dangerous road, for this kind of shaking the heart of the Tao is regarded as a roadblock out of the hole, if you punch to kill the beast of the wilderness, the lucky God gives one or two big opportunities, this life can turn over and move smoothly, but the slightest carelessness of the hands and feet will bury hidden dangers, such as maggots on the tarsal bones, God knows which day a thunder will split on your head.

Isn't it true that the ancients had a saying? There is no way for good and evil, only people call themselves, and good and evil are rewarded, and they follow you like a shadow.

Pei Chunyan absentmindedly walked into the hall dedicated to the shrine, and suddenly opened his eyes, the display in the room was elegant and sparse, in the center was an altar with a golden shrine and a sand-red tablet, and three ink paintings were hung on the empty wall.

Pei Chunyan knelt on the place and kowtowed sincerely, put his forehead on the stone slab three times, sorted out his clothes and stood up, and went to observe the calligraphy and paintings on the wall with great interest.

The innermost ink painting depicts a picture of the small town market in the south of the Yangtze River, where the blue brick houses that live next to each other meander along the slender canal, sometimes rising flat, sometimes concave and falling, and there are jasper willows on both sides of the river.

Jiangnan Water City occupies the right time and place and is humanistic, rich in talented and beautiful women, world-famous, there are drooping children riding bulls to watch the mountain, there are white-eyed old people with kind eyes, there are plump and wonderful women hugging basins and rubbing clothes, heaven and earth are one color, time is eternal.

In the second painting, a young woman wearing a golden cotton gown, the woman's appearance can be described as the kind of red-faced beauty that captivates the city and the country, a goose egg face that combines the 2,000-year-old Shaoguang of the Jiangnan water town and the gentle charm of the Xiangjiang water god, and the beautiful scenery of the thirteen counties on the south bank of the South Chu River can be foreseen by looking at her smiling and toothless demeanor.

Holding a flute in her left hand, standing dignified and elegant, behind her is a huge dragon locust tree that is as red as fire, the branches curl and stretch like a real dragon roaring, majestic, in stark contrast to the delicate woman, there is no doubt that this cloud-haired woman is Lu Jingyuan's deceased mother.

Chixia with fire locust, flowing water reflects the goddess, very suitable for the occasion, and there is a cursive poem to match it.

"Danxia covers the sun. Rainbow hanging to the sky. The valley is murmuring. The wood falls and dances. Orphaned birds are lost. Sorrowful clouds. The moon is full and rushed. Hua is no longer complicated. It's been around since ancient times. What do I say? ”

Pei Chunyan looked at her in a daze, without saying a word, Lu Jingyuan stood quietly behind her, stretched out her finger and poked, Pei Nuxia came back to her senses in an instant.

She turned her head to look at the third picture, it was a picture of the general of the Great Snow Mountain, the snow was heavy, the silver lance was in the air, and the front hooves of the Humvee were flying in the air.

"Oh, this is the demeanor of my father's early military career, when he had not yet become the head of the Lu Mansion, and my mother also met him when he went down to Jiangnan, and inadvertently it was already a matter of fact. ”

Lu Jingyuan sighed silently, then turned around and walked out of the ancestral hall, Pei Chunyan stared at the majestic figure for a long time, with doubts on his face, suddenly his pupils dilated, his eyes were full of shock and palpitations, and his body trembled, and Lu Jingyuan did not see all this.

After about a cup of tea cooled, the strong resentment in the depths of her eyes disappeared in an instant, and was replaced by that down-and-out appearance.

The figure on the wall she will never forget, when she lived with her parents in the bamboo garden in the mountains, there were two men who came to spend the night at night, father and mother did not say a word to arrange a bamboo house for them to live, who knew that a few days later, when she went up the mountain to collect medicine and returned to the bamboo garden alone, her father fell on a pool of blood, and her mother was dying, and the two had long since disappeared, leaving only a saber, which was stuck straight on his father's back......

Some revenge had to be avenged, and some had to remember.