Chapter 368: Mother's Last Words
I saw that the house was dilapidated, the windows were leaking, and the yard was full of knee-high weeds.
Shi Dong was stunned for a moment, his heart was in a hurry, and he hurriedly swept his mind into the house, but after sweeping back and forth a few times, he was stunned and saw no sign of a living person.
"This ...... What's going on? Mom, sister, where have you all gone?"
After being stunned for a long time, Shi Dong suddenly didn't care about anything, jumped down from the tree, rushed into his yard, and ran into the black-lit house, and came out in a circle, except for some cobwebs and dust on his head, his expression was even more confused.
The dust in this house is so thick that it seems that no one has cleaned it for two or three years, which means that it has long been uninhabited.
"Mother, sister, where the hell have you been?" he sweated from the tip of his nose with anxiety, and his face looked confused and helpless.
After all, he is only a seventeen-year-old boy, and the only belief that supports his life and death in the Demon Gate in the past five years is to go home, but now that he is home, how many times have he dreamed in his sleep that his mother and sister are not here, which suddenly made his belief collapse, and he almost sat on the ground in a hurry and cried.
Just when his mind was in turmoil, suddenly the Xuanyin True Fire in his mind was dripping, and a cool feeling seeped into his heart, making him feel excited and sober up all of a sudden.
"What am I doing? How can I be stranded in such a dangerous situation? Hurry up!" he suddenly came to his senses, quickly took out his black cloak and draped it over his body, tiptoe, flew up lightly, and landed again on the dense jujube tree outside the courtyard.
Sitting on the treetops, recovering his form, he wiped the cold sweat oozing from his forehead. Unleashed his divine thoughts, carefully scanning the movements of the entire Shijia Village.
I saw that the whole village was still quiet. There are no anomalies.
glanced at a full cup of tea. He breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't help but blame himself: "I'm really in a hurry! When I see my mother and sister gone, I forget everything! If this is a trap laid by the enemy, wouldn't I have already fallen into the trap? Fortunately, there is nothing abnormal, otherwise if I have an accident, who will find out about my mother and sister in the future? Damn! Really damn!"
He clenched his fists and smacked his head as a reminder of his self-blame.
Calming down, he reverted to a resourceful state. With just a little scrutiny, several plans were drawn up.
He was going to take the simplest and most direct approach - "find someone to ask".
Jumped lightly from the tree and went straight to the house of the neighbor Uncle Shi.
This Uncle Shi's family is a stonemason, he is very honest and simple, he used to have a good relationship with his family, if you want to inquire about the news, this is the best choice, Shi Dong is not worried that he will reveal his whereabouts.
Quickly run outside the house, lean under the window, and listen. I heard a dull snoring sound from the kang inside, which should be the voice of a man in his forties and fifties. That should be Uncle Shi.
Shi Dong didn't hesitate any longer, stood up, aimed at the gap in the window and blew away lightly, and then heard a soft click, the bolt of the wooden window was gently removed, and the two windows slowly opened.
When I looked into the house, I saw two people sleeping side by side on the kang, one was Uncle Shi, and the other was Aunt Shi.
Shi Dong was afraid of waking him up, and if he screamed, he would alarm the whole village, and after a little groaning, he summoned the puppeteer to point into the house. The puppet man jumped in lightly and skillfully, hugged his hands, and hugged Uncle Shi who was sleeping soundly, and Aunt Shi on the side did not notice it at all, and even Uncle Shi still snored and was not disturbed.
Looking around left and right, Shi Dong closed the window and ran out of the village like a tanuki, and the puppeteer held the sleeping Uncle Shi with his arms flat and followed closely behind him.
I came to the quarry at the east end of the village, where Uncle Shi quarries on weekdays, and no one was there at this time, which was suitable for questioning.
ordered the puppeteer to put Uncle Shi on a big bluestone, and then with a move of his hand, the puppeteer put it away again, Shi Dong paused slightly, and then gently sprayed a breath of true qi on Uncle Shi's face.
Uncle Shi trembled, opened his eyes sleepily, looked around blankly, and suddenly saw a figure standing in front of him, and couldn't help but be frightened, and opened his mouth to breathe.
Shi Dong stretched out his hand, covered his mouth, and at the same time leaned his face closer to him, and said in a low voice: "Don't panic, Uncle Shi, I'm Shi Dong, I'm back to see you!"
Uncle Shi's pupils shrank, and a shocked look appeared in his eyes, and when he saw the appearance of the seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man in front of him, a round face and two thick eyebrows, the eyebrows and eyes were vaguely the stone movements in his memory, and he didn't feel "ah".
"Uncle Shi, you finally recognize me?" Shi Dong let go of his palm and smiled at him.
Uncle Shi looked surprised, looked him up and down, and couldn't help but exclaim, "You...... Are you really rocky? ...... You've grown so big!" The expression on his face was still like a dream, and he still seemed to be a little unconvinced, so he couldn't help but rub his eyes vigorously and look at it again.
"Uncle Shi, I'm really a stone!" stretched out his hand to grab his broad palm, sat down next to him, Shi Dong smiled: "Uncle, have you forgotten? When I was young, you once carried me to this quarry, quarried out stones, carved them into ponies and lambs, and gave them to me to play with. ”
"Ah, ah, remember, remember!" Uncle Shi nodded again and again, the surprised and nervous look on his face suddenly eased a lot, hugged Shi Dong's shoulders with both hands, pulled his body towards the bright place, looked at it carefully, and sighed in his mouth: "Grow up, grow up, really become a young man." ”
Seeing his loving face, the wrinkles on his forehead were deeper than before, and his sideburns and gray hair were more, Shi Dong couldn't help but feel sour, and sighed in his heart: "Uncle is much older than before, alas, ......"
In his heart, Uncle Shi used to be like his father, taking him to catch birds and fish, quarry and carve, although he didn't recognize him as a godfather, but Shi Dong already recognized him as a godfather in his heart. At this time, I saw each other for a long time, and I felt a lot of emotion in my heart.
"Uncle Shi, don't you hurry up and look at me, tell me where my mother and sister are?" Shi Dong didn't forget his business, and hurriedly urged him.
When Uncle Shi heard this, his expression suddenly changed, the corners of his mouth twitched a few times, and he opened his mouth to speak, but he couldn't speak.
Shi Dong chuckled in his heart, his face changed, he grabbed Uncle Shi's wrist, and said in a deep voice: "Uncle, tell me quickly! Is something wrong with my mother and sister?"
His lips trembled, Uncle Shi nodded with difficulty, and squeezed out some words: "Shi moves you...... Don't be sad, not long after you left, the immortal master of the Lingxiao Sect came and said...... Say that you have been taken away by demons, and your family cannot live anywhere, lest you come back in the future and bring the spirit of demons.
It's going to ...... Later, I heard that your mother and sister were separated, and your mother did not see you and your sister, and she was seriously ill and was about to die, so she ordered someone to carry them back.
Before your mother died, your aunt served her, and the only thing she couldn't worry about was you and your sister.
Tell you that if you come back one day, let you try to go to the northern steppes to find your real birth mother and your adoptive father. As for your sister, alas...... has been lost in the Lingxiao Sect, I advise you not to look for it, lest you be caught by the immortal master of the Lingxiao Sect and harm your life. ”
Shi Dong's eyes were full of tears when he heard this, and he couldn't hold back from crying, but he was already trembling with grief, and his two fists were clenched and rattled.
Unexpectedly, he rushed back with all the difficulty, but he encountered the bad news of his mother's death and his sister's disappearance, which made him so sad that it was like the heavenly spirit cover exploded, and his heart seemed to be stabbed by thousands of knives.
"Shi Dong, you...... Are you okay? You can cry if you want to, it will hurt you to hold it like this. Uncle Shi saw that his eyes were red, his whole body trembled, his face was white and red, he was already sad to the extreme, but he still couldn't bear to cry, and hurriedly persuaded.
"I'm fine, uncle, you take me to my mother's grave, I'm going to kowtow to her and ask for guilt!" he said in a deep voice.
Uncle Shi saw that he was really scary like this, and he didn't dare to say anything, so he said: "Okay, you come with me, your mother's grave is buried on the hill at the east end of the village, and your mother said that she will watch you come back day and night." He got up and walked to the east end of the village.
Shi Dong stretched out his hand to stop him by the waist and hug him, kicked his feet, and immediately flew out more than a zhang away, and then kicked again, and ran quickly towards the small mountain bag at the east end of the village.
Uncle Shi was shocked enough at first, but later realized that Shi Dong was no longer the same as before, but had come back from learning a great skill, so he was no longer surprised, but showed a look of relief, happy for his dead mother.
Soon came to the hill in the east of the village, and saw a lonely tomb standing in a field of fragrant grass, and a tombstone was erected in front of the tomb, which was engraved: "The tomb of Shi's Li Ping".
Li Ping is the maiden name of Shi Dong's mother before she got married, and Uncle Shi erected a monument on behalf of an outsider, so it is natural to mention his real name, otherwise it is a little disrespectful to just set up a "Shi's tomb".
Seeing his mother's tomb, Shi Dong let go of Uncle Shi, grabbed two steps, fell to his knees with a pop, and knocked his head several times.
The banging sound frightened Uncle Shi directly, and he hurriedly stepped forward to stop him: "Shi Dong, be careful, get up quickly!"
Shi Dong straightened up, still maintaining a kneeling position, his forehead had broken through the fist-sized flesh, and two lines of blood flowed.
The big bluestone paved on the ground was shattered and cracked, and it was actually broken by him just kowtowed.
When Uncle Shi saw this scene, he couldn't help but gasp.
How did he know that at this time, Shi Dong's physical body was strong, and it was no longer comparable to mortals, after five years of cultivation in the body forging technique, his body was able to resist slashing and stabbing stabs, and now he broke his scalp, that is still shallow in cultivation, if he wants to practice to the foundation building period, it is the big bluestone smash, and his forehead is not damaged at all. (To be continued......)