After returning home, Tong Chen walked directly into the medicine garden, walked to the door of Zhao Lan's room, and heard Zhao Lan's low sobbing voice from inside.

"Hey, Lan'er, it's all bad for the teacher, I'm older now, my body is not as good as before, I used to be able to open the Dan furnace twice a month, but now it takes a lot of effort to open it once! ”

"Master, don't think about it, he didn't actually say anything about me, don't blame yourself!"

"You stupid boy is just too kind-hearted, you still cover it up for him when he treats you like that! Tell you, when he scolded you, the teacher stood at the door of the hall, I heard everything, you don't have to hide it from me anymore!"

After a moment of silence, Zhao Lan's voice sounded again: "He is actually just anxious, and he spoke a little heavier for a while, after all, the family has invested a lot of money in our medicine garden, I don't blame him, really, master!"

"Silly boy, master, I'm nothing, I just feel wronged for you!" Old man Qian sighed and said: "Look at what he said, what does it mean to spend money to feed on rice? What does it mean that you have nothing to do all day long, and have made no progress for more than ten years? He thinks that what is alchemy and alchemy, and he can refine it with his mouth? To tell you the truth for the teacher, if it weren't for your face, I wouldn't want to stay in the Tong family all these years!"

"Master, don't say that......" Zhao Lan choked up again: "It's all incompetent, if I could learn alchemy from you earlier, you wouldn't have to work so hard, and you wouldn't be tired and sick now." ”

"It's not your fault, you're still young, how can it be so easy to step into the threshold of alchemy?" Old man Qian comforted Zhao Lan and said: "Let's just say that I, I have been studying medicine since I was sensible, and I have been immersed in medicine for decades, until I was in ancient times, I just touched the threshold of alchemy, and after ten years, I became the first furnace of alchemy in my life, how old are you?

Old man Qian was talking to Zhao Lanzheng, when he suddenly heard a knock on the door, followed by Tong Chen's figure walking in from outside.

"Chen'er, are you back?" Seeing her son, Zhao Lan's face was overjoyed, and she suddenly realized that she still had tears on her face, so she quickly lowered her head and wiped it with her sleeve.

Tong Chen didn't speak, just blackened his face, threw the shoulder bag on the table, and then sat directly on the chair in the room.

Seeing this, Zhao Lan guessed that Tong Chen had heard her previous conversation with Old Man Qian, and her face couldn't help but be a little embarrassed.

Old man Qian has gray hair and a slightly rickety body, in Tong Chen's memory, he has always been very good to himself, he loves himself like a grandfather treats his grandson, and he is a good old man.

Seeing Tong Chen, Old Man Qian immediately walked up to Tong Chen, and looked at Tong Chen with a smile: "Has Xiao Chen completed this month's task?"

Tong Chen didn't answer Old Man Qian's question, but looked at Zhao Lan and said, "Mother, what's going on? Why did that Tong Ying call you over and scold you?"

Hearing Tong Chen's words, Zhao Lan and Old Man Qian were a little surprised, in their impression, Tong Chen's personality has always been very cowardly, not to mention in front of outsiders, that is, in front of their two closest relatives, Tong Chen spoke very cautiously, over the years, they had not seen Tong Chen speak loudly once, but they didn't expect that today Tong Chen's voice was not low, but also called out Tong Ying's name by name, which made Zhao Lan and Old Man Qian unable to adapt for a while.

Tong Chen didn't mean to explain or redeem anything, he wasn't the original Tong Chen, let him pretend to be a day or two, let him pretend for a lifetime, he couldn't do it, instead of trying to cover it up, it was better to simply do it himself, even if it would arouse the suspicion of others, it was just a temporary suspicion, who would have thought that his soul had crossed over to the original Tong Chen's body?

Besides, people live in the world, personality can not be the same, after experiencing some changes, anyone's personality will undergo some changes, it depends on whether it is good or bad in the past, Tong Chen doesn't think that the original Tong Chen's character is so good, compared to him is not a star and a half, he believes that compared to the original Tong Chen, the people around him will like him more now, as long as they give them some time to adapt.

After being surprised, Zhao Lan immediately said loudly: "Chen'er, how can you call your father's name directly, this is really disrespectful to him!"

"What father? Whose father?" Tong Chen said disdainfully: "Mother, don't you be stupid, okay? You let me admit that he is a father, but the question is does he recognize our mother? A person who doesn't recognize me as a son, but asks me to call him father, why?"

Zhao Lan was speechless for a while, but Old Man Qian stretched out his thumb to Tong Chen: "Xiaochen is right, how can there be such a cheap thing in the world, since Tong Ying doesn't recognize you two mothers, why do you rush to recognize him?"

"Master, don't you make a mess, okay?" Zhao Lan glanced at the old man.

Old man Qian glared, and finally didn't say anything more.

Tong Chen asked again: "Mother, what's going on, if you want me to be your son, tell me the truth." ”

Zhao Lan glanced at Tong Chen, and was hesitating what to say, but the old man Qian on the side preemptively said: "Xiaochen, let me tell you!"

Tong Chen looked at Old Man Qian.

Old man Qian sighed and said: "It's because grandpa is useless, he is old, and his energy is not as good as before, and recently he feels that his body is very weak, and he barely refined a furnace of Dan last month, and this month I don't even have the strength to refine a furnace, this is less than the end of the month, Tong Ying's kid saw that the medicine garden couldn't take out the pill, and it was not good to talk about me, so he called your mother to say it, and that's it." ”

Tong Chen already had a lot of opinions about his cheap father in his heart, and when he heard the words of the old man Qian, he was angry in his heart, and he stood up and was about to go outside, and said: "I think he really doesn't have a backache when he stands and talks, he is so powerful, he is looking for a powerful alchemist to come back outside, what to do to make my mother angry, I have to reason with him today, lest he think that our mother is easy to bully!"

Seeing Tong Chen walking out with his feet raised, Zhao Lan hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed him: "Chen'er, don't be impulsive, in fact, he didn't say anything about me." ”

"What else do you want to say?" Tong Chen said angrily.

Zhao Lan pulled Tong Chen's arm tightly: "Chen'er, this matter has passed, don't make trouble anymore, my mother really doesn't feel anything, don't be angry!"