Cao Jing gently pushed open the door of Cao Shan's room, walked straight to Cao Shan, and knelt down.

Cao Shan knew that Cao Jing's temper would not be so solemn if it was not an important matter, and he also knew that Cao Jing had suffered over the years, the gossip behind it, and the pressure that could not be broken through, was always borne by one person, and he had never said anything in front of Cao Shan.

Cao Shan stepped forward with a solemn face to pull up Cao Jing, and said:

"Jing'er, if you have anything to say, don't kneel. ”

"Please tell me, father, am I the biological son of my father and mother?" Cao Jing knelt stubbornly, did not get up, raised his head and asked Cao Shan, his eyes staring at Cao Shan's face motionless.

Cao Shan was obviously stunned for a moment, hesitated slightly, and then said firmly: "Of course you are my son, didn't you already tell you not to listen to those foul words before? Why did you ask again today?"

Cao Jing, who was kneeling, continued to ask, "Is it his own son?" The two eyes did not leave Cao Shan's face for a moment, without blinking.

Cao Jing didn't wait for Cao Shan to answer and continued: "A month ago, I heard Cao Xinqiang's mother say to Cao Xinqiang that I was a wild child that my father picked up outside, not a child of Cao Zhuang, not a surname Cao. Father, I am thirteen years old, I have grown up, I should know the truth, and please father tell me the truth. ”

Looking at Cao Jing's clear eyes and firm face, Cao Shan obviously hesitated, it seemed that if he didn't make it clear today, he wouldn't get up with Cao Jing's temperament, so he said:

"Jing'er, get up, I'll tell you all today, explain to you, you have really grown up, I shouldn't hide it from you anymore. ”

Cao Jing knew his father's character, stood up, and then bowed to Cao Jing and said: "I heard what the fifth aunt said a month ago, and I have been thinking about this question again, and today I can't help but ask my father, please forgive my father, I didn't mean to offend my father, I just want to know the truth." ”

"Jing'er, you have always been a polite child, and I have always been very pleased. Ever since I was told that you weren't Cao Zhuang's child, I've been thinking about telling you the truth. Since you asked today, I'll tell you. The last time you came back, locked yourself in the house, and didn't come out for a day, you told me it was because you felt like you were going to break through. Not really, right?"

"Yes, I told a lie at that time, please forgive my father!"

"Come, sit down, I'll tell you slowly, don't get excited. ”

Cao Shan watched Cao Jing sit down, did not speak, and pondered alone: I wanted not to tell Jing'er these things, it seems that it will not work, I used to be the most skilled person in the clan, and I can still suppress the clansmen without talking nonsense, since the patriarch broke through to the ninth layer of the forging body and I am the same, there have been more and more rumors, alas, I also know that one day I will not be able to hide it......

Just when Cao Shan was pondering, Wang Rong walked in, and the footsteps of opening the door interrupted Cao Shan's train of thought, and he raised his head and saw Cao Jing giving up his seat to his mother, and Wang Rong was holding hands and sitting together.

Cao Shan sorted out his thoughts and said to Cao Jing.

It turned out that Cao Shan longed for life outside when he was young, and when he cultivated to the seventh layer of the forging body, his cultivation speed slowed down, so Cao Shan walked out of Caozhuang, and after a few months in Wushan Town, he felt that there was still no sign of breakthrough, so he walked out of Wushan Town, and walked north to Wuguan City, and continued to cultivate there, Wuguan City is also close to the Jade Emperor Mountain Range, the city closest to the main vein of the Jade Emperor Mountain Range, thirty miles outside the city is the periphery of the Jade Emperor Mountain Range, Wuguan City is also the place where the three parties shili meet, and the personnel are mixed, plus many cultivators in the Jade Emperor Mountain Range by killing fierce beasts and spirit beasts to improve their cultivation, obtain cultivation resources, and pick herbs, elixirs, etc. Therefore, all parties have shops in Wuguan City, or assign strong people to purchase herbs, elixirs, refining materials, fierce beasts or spirit beast materials. When Cao Shan came here, he found a lot of cultivation resources, and he didn't have the money to buy them, so he entered the Jade Emperor Mountain Range with others, hoping to kill the fierce beasts, capture the Inner Dan, or be lucky enough to pick high-quality herbs, so he could break through. In this way, Cao Shan was in Wuguan City, killing the fierce beast and picking herbs to obtain resources for cultivation, this stay was seven years, seven years later Cao Shan broke through to the ninth layer of the forging body, because he had been out for a long time, homesickness, so he returned to Cao Zhuang after packing up, and became the highest person in Cao Zhuang in one fell swoop, before leaving, the clan had determined that Cao Shan would take over the position of the patriarch, but in the fifth year of Cao Shan's outing, due to a forging body nine-layer fierce beast attacked Cao Zhuang, the patriarch Cao Hong protected Zhuang heartily, fought to the death with the fierce beast, and died of serious injuries。

After Cao Shan returned to Caozhuang, he did not deliberately fight for the position of patriarch, but only obtained the position of elder and guarded Caozhuang, and Cao Shan was at home for the next two years, got married, and lived a stable life. From time to time, escort the fierce beasts hunted in Wushan, and the herbs picked to Wushan Town to buy, and at the same time buy some daily necessities back to Zhuangzi, at the beginning of the third year, Cao Ming found Cao Shan and said, hoping that Cao Shan can take the fierce beast Neidan that he hunted before, as well as some high-quality herbs picked to Wuguancheng to sell, and buy some cultivation resources that Wushan Town does not have to come back for the clan to cultivate.

So Cao Shan took the herbs and Neidan and set off for Wuguan City again, and after dealing with things, Cao Shan went out of the city to prepare to return to Cao Zhuang, and found a child about one year old in a forest fifty miles away from the city, the child cried more than once, Cao Shan was attracted by the crying, Cao Shan picked up the child, I don't know if it was because he was tired of crying or because Cao Shan was closer, and fell asleep after a while, at this time Cao Shan looked at the child carefully, and found that the child was wearing a jade pendant around his neck, and the jade pendant was a dancing nine-clawed dragon on one side, and the head was xiangshang, as if he wanted to take off two green dragons, and the other side was engraved with oneThe word "Jing", Cao Jing searched for a long time nearby and found no one, and did not find anything, I don't know where the child came from, so he killed a few fierce beasts to obtain some fierce beast milk, and returned to Cao Zhuang with the child, because of the word "Jing" on the jade pendant, so the child was named "Jing". After returning home, I carefully checked the child's body and found that the child's right arm and upper arm also had a green dragon that was the same as the jade pendant, and I don't know if it was a tattoo or a natural birthmark. Cao Shan has no children of his own, so he raises this child as his own.

After finishing speaking, Cao Shan took out a jade pendant from a box behind him and handed it to Cao Jing.

Cao Jing took the jade pendant, looked at it carefully, and found that the jade pendant was soft in his hand, giving Cao Jing a feeling of blood swelling, as if the jade pendant was connected to his own blood, and the dragon was exactly the same as the one on his right arm.

Cao Jing looked at the jade pendant and was silent for a long time, and kept rubbing it with his hand, feeling it carefully, I don't know what I was thinking, Cao Shan and Wang Rong didn't speak, they just kept looking at Cao Jing, for fear that he wouldn't be able to bear it.

After half a ring, Wang Rong said: "Jing'er, don't be sad, I believe that your parents are also looking for you, worried about you, maybe one day they can find them." ”

Cao Jing raised his head, looked at Cao Shan and Wang Rong and said, "Father, mother, I'm fine, don't worry! I will always be your son!"

Cao Shan and his wife were very relieved to see that Cao Jing still called their father and mother.

Cao Jing put the jade on his neck, bowed to Cao Shan and his wife, and returned to his room, Cao Jing, who was lying on the bed, still touched the jade pendant with his hand, his eyes were hazy, and he muttered: "Mom and Dad, do you want a son?" Cao Jing kept thinking about his thoughts, it was difficult to sleep, and he was alone in bed all night muttering, not knowing what to say.

Cao Shan and his wife saw Cao Jing return to their room, the husband and wife bowed their heads and whispered, and they could hear intermittently that it was Cao Shan who told Wang Rong to pay more attention to Cao Jing in the past few days, not to let him do stupid things, to care more about him, and to enlighten him. Wang Rong couldn't help nodding, and when he looked at Cao Jing's room, he showed a look of concern from time to time.