"Child, I...I am your father Zhang Guangyao." Zhang Guangyao answered Zhang Xiaopou's question with trembling lips and tears streaming down his face.
He had been hiding in this small courtyard for sixteen years, and his spirit became very fragile and easily sad.
Zhang Xiaozu knelt down in front of Zhang Guangyao with a plop, and kowtowed heavily with tears in his eyes: "Unfilial son Zhang Xiaozu, please kowtow to your father!"
The man he had missed for countless nights was finally seen by him today. Although it was very different from what he had imagined and looked a bit strange, the blood and affection between father and son filled his heart instantly, making him
His nasal cavity was filled with soreness and pain, and he couldn't help but want to cry.
"Child, get up, get up quickly!" Zhang Guangyao quickly reached out to help him, and said with guilt and self-blame: "As a father, I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for you!"
"It's not your fault, I don't blame you, kid."
"You have grown so old... You have not fulfilled your father's responsibilities for a day. You are ashamed to be a father, and you are ashamed to be a father..."
Zhang Guangyao shed tears and felt guilty and self-blame.
"Don't say that, I really don't blame you, baby." Seeing his father crying more and more, Zhang Xiaozhu quickly stood up with his father's support and comforted him at a loss.
"As a father..."
Zhang Guangyao burst into tears. The more Zhang Xiaopeng didn't blame him, the more guilty he felt.
Zhang Quan and Zhenzhu heard Zhang Guangyao's cry and ran out in panic, not knowing what was going on. When they got closer, they heard the father and son calling each other, and they were stunned on the spot.
They didn't know the existence of Zhang Xiaozu, so when their master suddenly had such an older son, it was so unexpected that they couldn't accept it.
Zhang Guangyao cried and hugged Zhang Xiaopou into his arms tightly, as if he was afraid that Zhang Xiaopou would fly away if he let go.
Feeling his father's strong embrace, Zhang Xiaozhu's heartstrings were suddenly touched, his nose became sore, and the tears that had been swirling in his eyes finally fell uncontrollably.
He put his arms around his father's back and gave his father a strong hug in return.
Zhang Xiaozu couldn't help being stunned by this hug, because Zhang Guangyao was so thin that it felt to him like a piece of dead wood wrapped in a thick cotton coat. He knew that this was because his father had been suffering from long-term injuries, and he suddenly felt sad.
Endless.
Thinking again that his mother was still suffering on the Shen family's regret cliff, that his grandfather did not have long to live, that his grandmother was also suffering from a brain disease and was about to die, and that the family was scattered and unable to reunite, and was still suffering. Zhang Xiaozhu suddenly felt sad and could not stop crying.
Can't live.
The father and son hugged each other and cried.
Zhang Quan and Pearl looked on and were moved to tears.
"Ah! My medicine!"
Pearl's scream broke the atmosphere, and she ran towards the kitchen in a hurry.
"Master, it's very windy and snowy outside, and it's very cold. Please bring the young master into the house quickly," Zhang Quan reminded.
"That's right, come in quickly, it's warm inside." Zhang Guangyao reacted, quickly wiped away the tears on his face, and pulled Zhang Xiaopou into the yard and walked toward the house.
Seeing that Zhang Xiaopeng was wearing thin clothes, he immediately took off his cloak and put it on Zhang Xiaopeng. Zhang Xiaopeng couldn't refuse, so he had to put it on.
Zhang Xiaozhu has a lot of cultivation, and he once took a lot of snow-scaled fish beads in the black forest. They were specially given to him by the black ape to resist the cold of the cold pool, so to this extent
The cold won't freeze him even if he doesn't have to cultivate to resist.
Entering the house, Zhang Xiaozhu couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, because the room was really warm, and it felt like he had stepped from winter into the warm early summer.
"Zhang Quan, add more carbon, don't let the room get cold." Zhang Guangyao ordered.
"Hey, that's good."
"Pawn, is it cold? If it's cold, let's get on the kang. It'll be warm on the kang." Zhang Guangyao asked Zhang Xiaopou and pointed to a big brick bed in the corner of the room.
Zhang Xiaozu shook his head and said with a smile: "No, I'm so hot that I'm almost sweating."
As he said that, he took off his cloak. It was really hot.
He found that the heat was radiating from the big bed and the wall next to the bed, and then thinking about Zhang Guangyao telling Zhang Quan to add carbon, he probably figured out how the room could be so hot.
Zhang Guangyao took the cloak from Zhang Xiaozu, hung it on the hanger behind the door, and then sat down with Zhang Xiaozu at the tea table.
He lifted the aluminum kettle on the charcoal stove, poured a bowl of hot tea for Zhang Xiaozhu, and said, "This is ginger tea. Drinking it can ward off the cold and warm your body. Try it."
Zhang Xiaozu nodded, picked up the tea bowl and took a sip. Zhang Guangyao's politeness made him a little cautious.
"Master, I went out to buy some vegetables. What would the young master want to eat?" Zhang Quan came back and asked.
"No need." Zhang Xiaozu waved his hand, looked at Zhang Guangyao and said, "Grandpa asked us to go to his place for lunch."
Zhang Guangyao was startled when he heard this, then nodded in agreement: "Okay, let's go to the old man's place to eat. Zhang Quan, go prepare the carriage."
"okay."
Zhang Xiaozu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, because his grandfather told him before coming that his father had not been out of the courtyard for more than ten years, so he would most likely reject his invitation.
So when he saw his father nodding in agreement, he was secretly happy, thinking that maybe as his grandfather said, his arrival could relieve his father's heartache and allow his father to get out of the cage where the ground is a prison and regain the courage to face life.
Zhang Guangyao got himself a bowl of ginger tea, held it in his hand and was stunned for a while, and then said quietly: "When your mother was forcibly taken away by her elder brother, I had no idea that she was pregnant, otherwise she would have died.
I will also come to find you."
"My mother didn't know it at the time. She only found out she was pregnant after you separated." Zhang Xiaozhu said.
"Have you... met your mother?!" Zhang Guangyao asked in surprise upon hearing this.
Zhang Xiaozhu shook his head and said: "No, it was my mother's adopted daughter who secretly came to visit me from Zhongzhou on her mother's orders, and told me some things about that year."
"Your mother...is she okay?"
"Mom is doing well, but she has been confined at home by the Shen family and is not allowed to go out, so she hasn't been able to come to you these years," Zhang Xiaozhu said.
He did not dare to tell his father the truth for fear that his fragile spirit would not be able to bear it.
"It was me who harmed her, and I feel sorry for her." Zhang Guangyao felt extremely guilty and blamed himself, and saw tears about to fall again.
Zhang Xiaozu quickly consoled him: "My mother said she has no regrets."
However, his words of comfort touched Zhang Guangyao's tears, and the tears rolling in his eyes fell down.
Zhang Xiaozu was at a loss and didn't know how to comfort him.
Zhang Guangyao cried for a while, then wiped his tears and asked: "I heard your grandma said that the Shen family came from Zhongzhou to arrest you. What happened? I must have secretly followed your mother's adopted daughter to find you, right?"
Zhang Xiaozu nodded and immediately told the whole story.
"The Shen family is so heartless!"
Zhang Guangyao heard Zhang Xiaozu say that the Shen family came to seize his ancient immortal power. He slapped the table angrily, and two cold lights shot out from his thin and sunken eye sockets. However, he thought that he was a useless person and could do nothing to help Zhang Xiaozu.
, his expression suddenly dimmed.
Zhang Xiaozu said: "Father, don't worry, I will definitely take mother out of the Shen family, and I will definitely make them pay for the pain they have inflicted on you."
Zhang Guangyao waved his hand and said: "We should take your mother out, but let's forget about revenge. We can't make it difficult for your mother to be caught in the middle. Furthermore, it is indeed the father's fault in the first place and his failure to control his own desires.
They made a mistake against your mother, and they deserve to be beaten as a father."
"——" Zhang Xiaozhu looked slightly embarrassed, thinking to himself, it's a good thing you didn't control it, otherwise nothing would have happened to me.
"My child, how did you get here all these years? You must have suffered a lot, right?"
"The child is blessed by heaven and has met a group of kind-hearted people. They treat the child like their own child, so the child has basically never suffered since he was a child." Zhang Xiaozhu shook his head and replied.
"Can I tell my father?" Zhang Guangyao asked expectantly.
"The child was placed under the old willow tree at the head of Liujia Village by his mother, and then -"
With a reminiscence expression on his face, Zhang Xiaozu told Zhang Guangyao some interesting stories he had experienced since childhood. He couldn't help but laugh when he told Zhang Guangyao.
I just laughed and cried.
Perhaps affected by Zhang Guangyao's emotions, his heart became sad and fragile at this moment.
He suddenly wanted to go back to Liujiacun for a visit.
Zhang Guangyao seemed to know what he was thinking, and said: "My father originally planned to leave for the imperial capital tomorrow to find you, but I didn't expect you to come to Northern Xinjiang. I wonder if you have time? Let's accompany my father to Liujia Village.
, as a father, I must kneel down and thank the folks in Liujia Village in person for their kindness in raising you."
Zhang Xiaozhu shook his head and said: "I have something important to do and I can't spare the time for the time being. I'll go with you after the things are done, okay?"
He did not dare to tell his father that he was going to Canghai City in the Western Regions with his grandfather to fight Cang Yihai.
"That's fine." Zhang Guangyao nodded.
Squeak——
Pearl opened the door and walked in with a bowl of hot black concoction, walked to the table and placed it in front of Zhang Guangyao, saying: "Master, drink the medicine."
Zhang Guangyao picked up the medicine bowl and drank it all in one breath.
"Father, can you let me see your body?" Zhang Xiaozhu asked with worry on his face.
Zhang Guangyao nodded and stretched his wrist in front of Zhang Xiaopou.
Zhang Xiaozu reached out and clasped his father's wrist. He didn't understand Qihuang's pulse diagnosis technique, so he could only put his power into his father's body and slowly feel and probe it.
After some exploration, he couldn't help but frown. He found that except for his father's Dantian Qi sea being damaged and blocked, his meridians, flesh, bones, organs, etc. were all intact. He thought that his grandfather was right, and his father's injuries and illnesses were no longer serious.
, the main reason is heart disease.
He explored his father's soul again and was shocked to find that his soul was full of cracks. Fortunately, there was a steady stream of nourishing power from the soul flowing into the sea of consciousness, constantly nourishing the cracks, and it seemed that the condition was about to be repaired.
.
"Father, take out the jade bead that grandpa gave you, and I will bless it for you again," Zhang Xiaozhu said.
He suddenly regretted not buying a jade bead from Tian Can. That jade bead greatly enhanced the soul's nourishing power. It would have been better if he had bought one for his father.
Zhang Guangyao took off the jade beads from his neck and handed them to Zhang Xiaozu, and then Zhang Xiaozu spent a cup of tea to re-bless the jade beads with the power of nourishing the soul with nine functions.
"With this orb, my father's disabled soul can be healed in less than a year." Zhang Guangyao exclaimed as he felt the power of the nine-fold effect of the soul's blessing.
"Master, congratulations, you are finally getting rid of the torture of the disease. Young master, you are really amazing!" Pearl was very happy after hearing this and gave Zhang Xiaopou a thumbs up.
"Thanks to you and Zhang Quan for your careful care for more than ten years, I should really thank you two." Zhang Guangyao said gratefully.
"Sir, you are too polite. Taking care of you is the duty of this servant and Zhang Quan. We don't dare to take credit." Pearl said.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Xiaozhu took out a blue jade pendant from Xumi mustard seeds, handed it to Pearl and said, "It's our first time meeting, so I didn't prepare any gifts. I'm giving you a small object. Don't dislike it."
"This... is too valuable, I dare not take it." Pearl waved her hand.
The jade pendant was transparent in color and looked like a valuable item, so she didn't dare to ask for it.
"The young master rewarded you, just take it." Zhang Guangyao said.
"Slave, thank you young master for the reward." After hearing Zhang Guangyao's words, Pearl reached out and took the blue jade pendant that Zhang Xiaopeng handed her in front of her.
When she got the jade pendant, she looked startled, and then showed an expression of extreme shock. She hurriedly handed the jade pendant back to Zhang Xiaozu, and exclaimed: "Young master, this treasure is too precious, I can't have it."
This jade pendant was blessed with six levels of soul nourishing power by Zhang Xiaozu, which frightened her.
Squeak——
Zhang Quan pushed the door open and came in, saying: "Master, young master, it's getting late, it's time to set off."
Zhang Xiaozu took out a brown round jade pendant from the mustard seeds, put it on the table, and said to Zhang Guangyao: "Father, give this to them. I will go out and see how thick the snow is."
"Put on the cloak." Zhang Guangyao quickly warned.
Zhang Xiaozu obeyed and put on his big cloak, pushed the door open and went out. He couldn't help but be shocked.
The snow was heavier than when he arrived.
The snow on the ground was almost two inches deep, and it made a soft crunch when you stepped on it.
Prince Zhenbei's Mansion.
Butcher Zhang was already standing on the stone steps in front of the door, looking at the street to the east and waiting for a long time.
His collar, shoulders and head were already covered with a thick layer of snow.
Suddenly, the sound of horse hooves and carriages driving in the snow came from the snow curtain at the east end of the street.
Butcher Zhang's spirit trembled, and he stared at the white snow curtain with hope.
Before that, seven or eight carriages had passed by the door, each time giving him hope and disappointing him. He hoped it wouldn't happen this time.
When he saw Zhang Guangyao's shabby carriage driving out of the snow and appearing in his field of vision, his heart beat a little faster.
He hoped that Zhang Guangyao would get off the carriage when it stopped in front of the door.
Zhang Xiaozu has unlimited potential and unparalleled combat power. He is no longer worried, so the one he is most worried about now is Zhang Guangyao.
This chapter has been completed!