Chapter 40: Father's Relic

This wooden box, Shen Yun is no stranger, he saw it when his father was alive.

The wooden box was originally painted, but after a long time, it peeled off seriously everywhere, and it was not shiny.

Shen Yun looked sad, opened the thin wooden cover, and saw two letters and a seal lying inside, and a red thread was still wearing at the end of the seal.

First, he put aside a letter with the inscription "My brother personally opened at the beginning of the year", and then took out the rest of the letterhead and the notes in the gray cloth bag and looked at them one by one.

It turned out that before Shen Yun was born, Shen's father had rescued an injured young scholar in the mountains.

The scholar's name is "Bao Zhengchu", Shen's father took him home, and recovered from his injuries for more than a month.

After Bao Zhengchu recovered from his injury, he said goodbye to Shen's father and went to Beijing to take the exam, and never came back, but after high school, he sent a letter to inform Shen's father and gave him some silver taels.

Shen Yun's movements suddenly slowed down, his complexion gradually changed, and finally turned into a sad face: "It turns out that my mother didn't have a ...... not long after giving birth to me."

After Shen's mother passed away, although Bao Zhengchu did not come in person, he sent someone to come to mourn.

When Shen Yun was four years old, Shen's father was seriously ill and knew that his days were numbered, so he asked someone to write two letters, one for Shen Yun, roughly describing this period of the past, and asked his son to find the righteous brother when he grew up.

Another letter was left to his brother-in-law Bao Zhengchu, and Shen Yun needed to hand it over on his behalf, and the seal was the token that Bao Zhengchu had left to Shen's father.

Not long after, Shen's father left and returned to the west.

When Shen Yun was ten years old, Bao Zhengchu sent someone again to deliver the letter.

The letterhead said that although he was a junior at the beginning, the officialdom was not satisfactory, but now he has finally won the emperor's appreciation and has been promoted to a member of the Ministry of Rites in one fell swoop.

The capital Liangdu is far away from Shen Yun's hometown, so Bao Zhengchu sent a capable family member to visit Shen's father, brought a handwritten letter, and invited his brother's family to Liangdu to find him to live.

After the family came over, he learned that Shen's father had also returned to heaven, and Shen Yun was nowhere to be found, so he was embarrassed.

I couldn't do it left or right, so I had to leave a note and tell Shen Yun that if he returned, he could go to the capital to find his righteous uncle, and even left Bao Zhengchu's address so that Shen Yun could find it in the future.

Shen Yun pondered for a long time and sighed softly.

In the end, he decided to leave for the capital tomorrow to find the righteous uncle he had never met, so that he could present his father's letter.

Anyway, this is not much conflict with the "immortals" looking for famous mountains and rivers, maybe there are many people in the capital, and it is easier to find out the news, and it is not known.

After sitting stunned for a while, Shen Yun cleaned up his mood, got up and asked the fourth uncle to borrow a sickle and a shovel, and planned to go to the cemetery to worship his parents.

"Xue Ling, will you stay and play for a while, or will you go with me?"

"Chirp!" Xue Ling suddenly turned into a white shadow, and rushed into Shen Yun's sleeve pocket like lightning.

The two little dolls obviously wanted to play with the little fox, but they were caught by the fourth uncle and instructed: "Yun'er, go early and return early, slow down on the road." ”

Shen Yun responded and came to the village entrance to buy some paper money, incense and candles.

"Xiaoyun, are you back?"

"Yun'er, when will you come back, come back to my house for dinner. ”......

Along the way, the clansmen in the village enthusiastically sent out invitations, and Shen Yun also politely returned the salute with a smile.

In the wasteland next to the bamboo forest, overgrown with weeds, two tombs are located alone in one corner.

Light incense sticks and burn paper money.

"The child is not filial, I have come back to see you......"

It took most of the day to renovate the two tombs.

Xue Ling was in the wasteland, catching birds and insects, and had a lot of fun.

......

It wasn't until the sun was in the west that Shen Yun, who was spotlessly clean, walked back to the village.

The fourth uncle had already arranged a table of wine and food, and specially opened the table of eight immortals, and the whole family was waiting, and when he saw Shen Yun coming back, he hurriedly stepped forward with the fourth aunt.

After seeing the ceremony, all the young and young people sat down.

There was fish, there was meat, and a chicken was killed, and the smell of vegetables overflowed.

"Yun'er," the fourth uncle pointed to the wine jar on the table and said with a smile, "This is a good wine sent by the patriarch, and he said that he wanted to give you a pick-up, so the uncle took some of it." ”

Shen Yun was busy and humble.

With a sound of "jumping", the fourth uncle opened the lid of the altar, carried the wine jar and tilted it, and suddenly the thick yellow wine slurry "goo-goo" was poured into the porcelain bowl in front of Shen Yun, and a mellow aroma of wine instantly diffused.

The fourth uncle took a deep breath, looked intoxicated, and saw the fourth aunt squinting at him, laughed dryly, and quickly poured a bowl for himself, announcing that he was eating.

The two little ones drooled early, stretched out their chopsticks one by one, and clamored to eat meat. The fourth aunt hurriedly knocked it off, one of them glared, and helped each of them clip two pieces, and then it quieted down.

Shen Yun was secretly glad that she had deliberately fed Xue Ling before she came, otherwise, this table would not be enough for her to eat.

The fourth uncle still remembered Shen Yun's favorite, and directly stuffed a huge chicken butt into his bowl.

When the wine enters the mouth, it is fragrant, bitter and spicy, and the taste is strange. This is the first time Shen Yun has drunk alcohol, but after taking a sip, he is dizzy and fragrant, and he feels that it tastes good.

The uncle and aunt kept picking up dishes for him, and Shen Yun hadn't eaten with the family elders for many years, so he was really a little uncomfortable.

"It turns out that the taste of the wine is so special. "I probably drank a few more bowls, and my head was even more dizzy.

It can be regarded as a joy for the guests and hosts, the uncle and aunt invited him to stay, Shen Yun resigned, and refused the fourth uncle with a big tongue to send him, and staggered to the ancestral hall alone.

Halfway through, the true yuan force turned, and suddenly the wine dissipated and he regained his senses.

When I arrived at the ancestral hall, the corner gate was still open, and the main hall and the wing room were also lit up, presumably the old patriarch had informed the two uncles who were on duty at night.

The inner hall of the ancestral hall is filled with ancestral tablets, and two large red butter candles as thick as children's arms are lit on the table.

Shen Yun offered incense to the ancestors, and after bowing respectfully, he sat skillfully cross-legged on the futon, he didn't want to go to the wing room to sleep, and planned to sit here for a night.

After a long time, there was a "pop", and a huge light burst on.

Shen Yun opened his eyes, looked at the sky outside, and then at Xue Ling, who was sleeping heavily, and released his divine sense, intending to see if the two clan uncles guarding the ancestral hall had slept.

"Huh?"

Suddenly, his expression moved, his eyebrows raised, and he looked at the ancestral tablet with a strange expression.

The two clan uncles had already fallen asleep, but what was surprising was that there was a secret grid behind the wall of the ancestral tablet niche for the first generation, among which Huo Ran had a "jade slip".

Standing up and walking around the dark back wall, Edgeworth slowly rose, and when he touched his hand, he touched a moving brick, pushed it away, took out the dusty jade slip, and landed.

Wiped the jade slip on his body indiscriminately, put it on his forehead and looked at it slightly, and was stunned in surprise.

This jade slip was left by the ancestors who migrated over at the beginning, and it recounted some of the past of the Shen family, but it was said that some of them were extremely old, and they were even more unbelievable.

Legend has it that hundreds of thousands of years ago, a great war broke out that swept the universe.

The two Shen brothers, from the Shen family of the Golden Lake Star in the Luo Tan Star Domain, rushed to the Fairy Continent of the Ethereal Planet to fight together.

The war has been fought for thousands of years, and after thousands of years, the children of the two brothers have gradually increased, and they are the ancestors of the Shen family.

"Hundreds of thousands of years ago?, a war that lasted for thousands of years?" Shen Yun smiled bitterly, this ancient legend, who knows if it is true or false.

Later, the alliance between the human race and the demon race won the final victory on the battlefield of the Fairy Continent, and the two ancestors of the Shen clan also paid the price of one falling on the battlefield and the other missing.

Many years after the Great War, the descendants left by these two ancestors continued to grow and become the most powerful immortal cultivator in the Central Plains of the Fairy Continent, and took on the important task of guarding the "Tower of Babel".

"What is the Tower of Babel?" Shen Yun frowned and shook his head slightly.

Later, about 100,000 years ago, another major war broke out for unknown reasons. Almost all the immortal cultivation sects, families, alliances and other forces have come to be enemies of the Shen family.

This battle lasted for hundreds of years, and as a result, the Shen family, from the largest family in the world, was beaten into many small families, and the major forces gave up and gave up the pursuit of the Shen clan.

Over the years, a large number of forces have risen and fallen like a tide, and no one has mentioned the vendetta of the year. However, the Shen family has long been in a slump and has been scattered into some very small families.

Shen Yun's mouth opened and he didn't say a word.

A few years ago, Shen Yun's ancestor, because of his qualifications, suffered from being unable to break through for a long time, and in despair, he decided to give up cultivation and migrated westward to this extreme west with his own branch of the clan.

Although there are few immortal cultivators here, it is safe, but the aura is lacking, so it is not suitable for cultivation. Many years later, because the people of this tribe no longer cultivated immortal cultivators, only one ancestor was left as a monk.

Before the ancestor sat down on his deathbed, he recorded this jade slip in the ancestral hall.

Finally, the ancestor said that the legend of 10,000 years ago was recorded in the ancient classics of the Central Plains clan, but he also did not know the truth.

If future generations of descendants unexpectedly come out of the immortal cultivator and can find this jade slip, then don't forget that the Shen family also has an extremely glorious ancestral era.

It is also a warning: The world of cultivating immortals is extremely cruel, and you must be careful every step of the way.

I hope that future generations will one day be able to unite the clansmen, glorify their ancestors, and reproduce the glory of their ancestors.

At the end of the record, Shen Yun's expression was complicated, and he shook his head with a wry smile.

When I was a child, I heard that the Shen family migrated here from other places nearly a thousand years ago. Now it seems that it was the ancestor who left the jade slip who led the people to this place.

Shen Yun's mood was very agitated, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.

I really didn't expect that my ancestors were also immortal cultivators, and the family was once such a behemoth.

However, this time span is really too long and too long, not to mention hundreds of thousands of years, hundreds of thousands of years ago, even nearly a thousand years ago, Shen Yun felt that it was too ancient and distant.

"Luo Tan Star Domain, Golden Lake Star, Ethereal Planet?" Shen Yun groaned slightly, for the places mentioned on the jade slip, they should all be place names, but they must be very far away.

Since the ancestors of the Shen clan were from the Shen family from the Jinhu Star in the Luo Tan Star Domain, why didn't anyone recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors later? And after the Shen clan was besieged, why didn't they send people over to ask for help?

Countless questions came to mind, Shen Yun shook his head, and smiled dumbly, how can these legendary things be clear.

Just as he was about to stand up and put the jade slip back.

Suddenly, his heart moved, and a ball of essence light burst out in his eyes, and he said happily: "Since the ancestors of the generation are immortal cultivators, and they are sitting down, then they will definitely leave a storage bag!"

Thinking of this, my heart was on fire, and I carefully probed it with my divine sense......

The next morning, Shen Yun said goodbye to the people who saw him off, and strode in the direction of the capital Liangdu.