Chapter 32: Homeland and Affection
As soon as Yuan Yifang returned to his residence in Hululing, he immediately quickly packed up his clothes and belongings, and then just glanced around, he did not hesitate to put on his burden, took advantage of the dark night to turn around and leave, and did not stay in place, so as not to see the once lively and noisy training ground, which is now empty and lonely, and involuntarily touched the scene, thinking of his companions who were already separated from him and trapped in the yellow box, as well as Ling Hanfang, who was separated from him and had an uncertain future, and once again added emotional scars to his body.
Yuan Yi's destination this time is his hometown, which has been absent for nearly ten years!
Thinking of the second elder in the family, he couldn't help but feel like an arrow when his thoughts suddenly rose.
So, he exerted light skills, traveled with all his might, sneaked all the way, followed various official mountain trails, passed through counties, towns and villages, and finally arrived outside his hometown of Biwu Village in the early morning of the next day.
At this time, he was standing under a mountain range of green trees, and through the dense branches and leaves in front of him, he carefully probed the surrounding environment to see if there was a hidden warrior among them.
After a while, he finished his inspection and found nothing unusual.
However, despite this, he did not dare to be careless, because this could also be due to the secrecy of the other party's hiding place.
So he didn't rush around, but stood quietly and looked in the direction of the village.
But in the sound of flowing water, a small river was meandering. The narrow part of the river is not more than a zhang, the wide place is more than three zhang, the river water is clear to the bottom, the size of the stone under it can be seen, and the swimming fish are seen chasing back and forth from time to time.
On both sides of the river, there are patches of farmland, separated by ditches, on which some golden rice are all over the place, and some straw stalks are piled up, showing that the harvest season is coming.
On the left, the fields are close to the mountains, which are surrounded by three mountains, and on the right, the farmland is connected to the path into the village, which is only a few zhang wide, and on one side is a row of plane trees.
A short walk down the path is a collection of dozens of farmhouses, mostly made of stone and mud and covered with black roof tiles.
Yuan Yi looked at the familiar scenery in front of him, and his thoughts fluctuated in his heart!
He took a deep breath and tried to calm his mind, knowing that the time was not right, and he forcibly suppressed the thoughts in his mind.
As he continued to look down, he saw a busy scene in the fields.
Although it was not long before dawn at this moment, there was a tide of people in the fields, and the sound of cutting rice and harvesting grains came from time to time, but the villagers took advantage of the scorching sun and refreshed morning to harvest the ripe crops in the fields, so as not to suffer from the scorching sun at other times.
Yuan Yi looked fixedly, and when he saw the two blurred figures of vicissitudes in his rice field, his nose was slightly sore, and he was almost about to shed tears. He hurriedly tried to stop, and then stayed for a moment, then turned and left, ready to visit his parents after nightfall.
He also had the idea of taking his parents away from home, so that he would no longer be secretly threatened by his late master, Yan Shu.
But considering that he was only one person, he was too weak compared to a force like the Dragon Yin Sect, and even if he was so forceful, he could not guarantee the safety of the second elder's life in the process of escaping. If there is a mistake on the way, even if he regrets it afterwards, it will not help.
Therefore, after thinking about it for a long time, Yuan Yi did not dare to act so rashly.
Rather than take the great risk of living in a foreign country, it is better to be as safe as his teacher tells him.
At least, although his division seems to be cold-blooded and ruthless, according to Yuan Yi's understanding, its reputation in the rivers and lakes is still guaranteed.
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Soon after dark, Yuan Yi came out of the village, his eyes were shining, he carefully examined his surroundings, and after finding nothing unusual, he jumped under the night sky and galloped towards his house.
In a few moments, he arrived at the place, where a lamp was lit in one of the bedrooms.
The bedroom is lit up, but although the house has been renovated, it is still very old.
Looking at this familiar and unfamiliar house, Yuan Yi's brows furrowed slightly.
According to the silver he sent back from the sect, it was enough for his parents to have enough food and clothing to live a well-off life in the village, instead of still living in such an old house.
Thinking of this, he suddenly turned grim and suddenly became murderous, if this was the case, then his plan would have to change.
Then, after a few more moments, he quietly climbed up to the roof, found the bedroom where the lamp was lit, and gently lifted the roof tiles.
Then, Yuan Yi stared at each other, looked down, and an impression of the room came into his eyes.
I saw that the bedroom was only a few feet long and wide, and the floor inside was very simple, but it was just a wooden bed, a table, and a few bamboo stools.
The three-foot square table was next to the wooden bed, and an oil lamp was placed on top of it, and through the dim light, Yuan Yi finally saw what his parents would look like ten years later!
But although his parents are only middle-aged, their faces are full of old age, they are covered with deep wrinkles, and their hair is even more gray and half-gray, with an old look. Their current appearance is very different from that of ten years ago, Yuan Yi's memory, if it weren't for the contours of their faces similar to their memories and the sense of their natural blood, if they happened to meet them on the road, I am afraid they would have passed by as strangers.
What Yuan Yi didn't expect was that in the rush of time, he was not ready, and his parents were gray-haired and wrinkled!
Although the rapid aging of their parents is due to the fact that they have been operating farming for many years, Yuan Yi knows that among them, many of the wrinkles on their faces and the gray hairs on their heads are increased by longing.
Seeing this, his thoughts naturally turned, his heart was sour, his nose twitched slightly, and his eyes were about to moisten.
Seeing this, he hurriedly tried to stop, and at the same time told himself: The man doesn't flick when he has tears!
At this moment, under the dim butter lamp, his parents are busy!
I saw that his father was sitting on the bed, and on the surface of the quilt covered by his body, his big hands were exposed, and the calluses on them were dense and rough.
At this time, he was holding a dry tobacco stick in one hand, and the smoke on it was swirling, and he was "crackling" and spitting out fog, and with the other hand, he spread out a piece of paper, and was slightly bowing his head, watching intently by the light of the oil lamp.
Yuan Yi looked at it and immediately recognized that it was the letter he had written to his home. In his memory, the second elder was illiterate, so every time he brought a letter, Yuan Yi told the senior brother to read it on the spot, so as not to let his parents understand his meaning because of illiteracy.
Now, apparently, in order to understand his son's book, his illiterate father is trying to learn the text, and he is secretly trying to figure out the meaning of his Chinese characters, so as not to cause a cognitive gap when the father and son meet again in the future because of the long-term separation.
For him, I am afraid that the hardship is even greater than the work in the fields.
Not far away, his mother sat on a bamboo chair, her hands moving repeatedly, her fingers stirring two thin strips, weaving a piece of clothing, looking at its size and style, but it seemed to be worn by a young man, similar to the thing that the senior brother brought back from him every year.
At this moment, his mother suddenly stopped her movements, sighed in a low voice, and said: "Hey! This year's padded jacket is almost knitted again! I don't know when my son will come back? I don't know if he is doing well outside? Is he well fed, warmly dressed, and not bullied by others?"
His voice was slightly hissed, with an old appearance, listening to Yuan Yi's ears, he couldn't help but shock his heart, and the sadness in his heart couldn't be suppressed.
His father, as if accustomed to hearing his mother's nagging, did not pay any attention to it, but just spat out a dry cigarette and continued to stare at the paper in front of him, while his mouth began to mutter.
At this time, his mother continued: "If he comes back, the silver taels he has accumulated will be enough for him to marry his daughter-in-law, not to mention the girl in the village, even if he marries a girl in the city, I am afraid it will be more than enough." You see that the tiger babies and dogs who are the same age as him have all married wives and had children one by one and become fathers. I don't know what happened to my son now?"
When his father heard this, he was as silent as ever.
At this time, when his mother saw this, she became dissatisfied, and said, "Hey, you should tell me! Why do you keep saying a word?"
"What's the use? What's the use of nagging like you all day long? My son ran out, after all, he wanted to do great things, and he would naturally come back when he became famous!" his father heard this, knocked on the square table with a cigarette stick, poured out a puff of cigarette ash, and then stopped his movements, raised his head, and said.
The so-called knowing son Mo Ruo's father, what he said was exactly what Yuan Yi thought of leaving home at the beginning.
As for what his mother said next, Yuan Yi didn't know it anymore.
Because of him at this time, as soon as Fang heard his father's older voice, he could no longer suppress the surging emotions, and hurriedly put the roof tiles quickly, then raised his legs and galloped away like a fly.
He ran for miles in one breath, then stopped, and immediately cried out loud under the night sky, among the barren mountains, and then ignored the possible enemy in secret, regardless of the danger that might happen.
Suddenly, the wilderness is quiet, the insects and birds lose their voices, the silence is silent, and between heaven and earth, only the sad sound echoes!
I don't know how long it took, he finished venting his emotions that had been accumulated for nearly ten years, and gradually calmed down, he opened his red and swollen eyes, looked at the direction of the village for a long time, and made a decision in his heart: after he was successful in cultivating immortals outside and found the longevity elixir, he would come back to accompany the second elder at home, so as to fulfill his duties as a son of man, so that his parents could enjoy the joy of family!