Although Xu Xinyin often despises his rough father and elder brother in his heart, his father is his father, and it is okay for him to despise him. How can he allow others to slander him.

Therefore, after hearing Zhao Panyi's accusation, Xu Xinnian quickly calculated the ages of himself and his sister in his mind and confirmed that he was his biological child. Then he became furious, rolled his sleeves and sneered:

"Zhao Panyi, you keep saying that my father is ungrateful. What evidence do you have?"

The Battle of Shanhaiguan happened 21 years ago. He was 20 years old and Lingyue was 18. The time did not match, so he and Lingyue were not orphans of the Zhou family.

Zhao Panyi sneered: "He has been dead for 21 years, and there is some damn evidence... But Xu Pingzhi's ungratefulness is ungratefulness. Do I deserve to slander him?"

Xu Erlang didn't believe it and waved his hand: "Come on, tie this animal for me."

The soldiers who cooked the meat had been paying attention to what was going on here. When they heard this, they drew their sabers one after another and swarmed in, surrounding Zhao Panyi and other thirty soldiers.

The soldiers under Zhao Panyi drew their swords and confronted their colleagues with stern faces. Although they were wounded and outnumbered, they were not afraid at all.

Being on the battlefield is like being trapped in hell. Since the expedition, he has taken turns fighting with the Jingguo cavalry, and his anger has long been cultivated. No one is afraid of death.

Zhao Panyi pressed his hand and signaled his subordinates not to be impulsive. He spat out a mouthful of phlegm and said disdainfully: "I don't fight like my colleagues. Unlike someone else, like father, like son. They are all ungrateful dogs."

thing."

Xu Erlang's face was gloomy and he shouted: "Tie him up."

The soldiers swarmed up, knocked over Zhao Panyi and others with the handles of their swords, tied them up, threw them aside, and then went back to cooking horse meat.

Zhao Panyi was still cursing and cursing all eighteen generations of the Xu family, including their female relatives.

Xu New Year ordered his soldiers to plug Zhao Panyi's mouth so that he could only moan and could no longer spit out fragrance.

"Family matters?"

Seeing his frown, Chu Yuanzhen tried with a smile.

Xu New Year shook his head, looked at the ground not far away, and said hesitantly: "I don't believe that my father would be such a person, but what Zhao Panyi said reminded me of something. So I will leave him here first.

Come down."

When I was a boy, my eldest brother and my mother had a bad relationship, which gave my father a headache. So my father often said that he and his uncle fought against each other, and his uncle defended him from the knife and died on the battlefield.

Xu Erlang has heard about it since he was a child, but now, Zhou Biao, who appears out of nowhere, seems very unreasonable and strange.

He looked at Chu Yuanzhen and said, "You seem to have a way to contact my elder brother?"

Xu Erlang was quite cautious. There were no outsiders here. Wouldn't it be better to just tell him about the book? Chu Yuanzhen stretched out his hand and took out the fragment of the book and asked: "Do you want to contact Ning?"

It’s a banquet, tell me what’s going on.”

Xu New Year looked at the fragments of the book in surprise and said, "Tell him what happened here and ask him to ask my father for confirmation."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Chu Yuanzhen using his hand to write on the surface of the small jade mirror.

.............

The setting sun was completely swallowed up by the horizon, and the sky turned blue. Xu Qi'an finished his dinner, and while the sky was blue and not completely enveloped by night, he ate comfortably in the yard and played shuttlecock with Xiao Dou Ding.

Little Douding can't control his strength very well, and he always kicks the shuttlecock into the outer courtyard, or kicks a hole in the ground.

Her strength has increased too fast. She has only been practicing the Strength Gu Department's body-building method for a few months. Is it her luck or mine... Xu Qi'an can see it.

Almost stunned.

"Lina, what's going on with the ringtone? The progress is too exaggerated."

He turned to look at Lina, who was sitting aside, peeling oranges and eating them.

Lina wrinkled her nose when she heard this: "I said that Suzuyin has bones as strong as a calf, abundant energy and blood, and is a good candidate for cultivating force Gu. You don't believe my judgment?"

This good seedling is so good, I'm almost sore... Xu Qian held the shuttlecock in his hand, looked at the shallow pit at Xu Lingyin's feet, and said helplessly:

"She can't control her strength yet, and she will overdo it if she's not careful. In terms of practice, she should take it slow."

Xiao Douding was a lively and active child, and she was quite clingy to her aunt. She went to school at the beginning of the year, and when she came home, she would rush into the hall carrying her small schoolbag and charge into her mother's round peach butt.

Now that I'm at home all the time, I'm not so clingy to my aunt.

She might go out again one day...and with her current strength, the Xu family might have three more motherless children.

"oh!"

Lina nodded, and she remembered that Suzanne was not a child of the Ligu Club. Children of the Ligu Club could use violence unscrupulously without fear of hurting their family members.

And if you break the utensils and items at home, you have to be careful of your parents using unscrupulous violence against you.

But Lingyin is not good, the Xu family are just ordinary people.

Xu Qi'an was satisfied. Although Nanjiang Xiaoheipi was a naive girl, the advantage of being naive was that she was not coquettish and obedient and sensible.

If the same question were asked to Li Miaozhen, she would say: Don't worry, from now on, the training intensity will be doubled to ensure that she can control her own strength in the shortest possible time.

Lin'an: Then we won't study, let's play together.

Change to Caiwei: Cultivation is so boring, let’s eat something.

Change to Huaiqing: Are you teaching me how to do things?

At this time, the familiar feeling of heart palpitations came, and Xu Qi'an immediately left Xiao Douding and Lina behind and quickly entered the room.

He took out the fragments of the book from under the pillow, and it was Chu Yuanzhen who requested him for a private chat.

[3: Brother Chu, how is the war going north? 】

[Four: The war was difficult, but not bad, and everyone had their own victory or defeat. I came to you to ask you something on behalf of Erlang.]

Ten seconds later, the second paragraph of the letter came over: [4: We met a general bannerman of Yongzhou Xi County named Zhao Panyi, who claimed to be good brothers with the second uncle of the Xu family during the Battle of Shanhaiguan. ]

[When he saw Xu Erlang, he yelled and cursed Uncle Xu as an ungrateful person. The reason was that Zhao Panyi, Uncle Xu and a man named Zhou Biao were good brothers in the same team and fought against each other on the battlefield. 】

[Later, Zhou Biao blocked a knife for Uncle Xu and died on the battlefield. Uncle Xu had sworn to treat his family well, but Uncle Xu broke his promise and never visited Zhou Biao's family for twenty years. I didn't believe this happened, so

Let me pass a letter to you and ask you to ask Uncle Xu.]

Xu Qian almost wrote the reply with trembling hands: [Wait for me!]

After collecting the fragments of the book, he did not go to his second uncle immediately. Instead, he poured himself a glass of water and drank it slowly. After drinking the water, his hands stopped shaking.

"squeak........"

Opening the door, Xu Qi'an walked towards the east wing with an expressionless face and knocked on the door, which was illuminated by candlelight.

Second Uncle Xu, dressed in regular clothes, came over to open the door and said with a smile: "Ning Yan, are you okay?"

Xu Qian opened his mouth, closed it again, spoke for a few seconds, and asked softly: "Second uncle, do you know Zhao Panyi?"

Uncle Xu was obviously taken aback, his eyes widened slightly, and he said in astonishment: "How do you know the brothers I made during the Battle of Shanhaiguan? Let me tell you, those are my brothers who we have known for a lifetime."

Xu Qian nodded: "Why didn't you contact me later?"

Uncle Xu shook his head and laughed: "You don't understand. In the military career, each person has their own responsibilities. As time goes by, it will fade away."

Xu Qian still nodded and asked again: "Then you must also know Zhou Biao?"

Uncle Xu looked at his nephew and frowned, "What happened to you today? Why do you know about Zhao Panyi and Zhou Biao?"

Xu Qian shook his head gently: "Second uncle, answer me first, did Zhou Biao die in the battle?"

"Yes, it's a pity that a brother is missing."

"How did you die?"

"Back then, we were sent to intercept the corpse soldiers of the Witch God Cult, and Zhou Biao died in that battle." Second Uncle Xu said with a sigh on his face.

"Aren't you going to block the knife for you?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? It was your father who took the knife for me."

"..."

A bleak autumn wind blew, and under the eaves, the lanterns swayed slightly, and the candlelight swayed, illuminating Xu Qian's face, which was uncertain.

"I understand, thank you uncle..."

After a long time, Xu Qi'an said in a solemn voice, and then, in Uncle Xu's confused eyes, he slowly turned around and left.

Uncle Xu watched his nephew leave and returned to the house. His aunt in white clothes was sitting on the bed, bending her long legs and reading a folklore comic book.

Comics are books specially developed for children and illiterate people like aunts.

The beautiful and plump aunt didn't even raise her head. She concentrated on reading the comic strip and said, "Ning Yan, what do you want from you? I heard what brother you are talking about."

Uncle Xu frowned and said in confusion:

"It's strange that you asked two brothers who fought with me through life and death during the Battle of Shanhaiguan. But one has died in the battle and the other is far away in Yongzhou. He shouldn't know each other.

"He also asked me if Zhou Biao blocked the knife for me. Am I that weak on the battlefield? This person blocked the knife for me, and that person blocked the knife for me."

Auntie raised her head, looked at him with her dark and smart eyes, and frowned: "Wait, who is here?"

"Zhou Biao, you don't know him, that's my brother when he was in the army."

The aunt shook her head, "No, I remember him. When you wrote the letter home, you seemed to have mentioned this person, saying that it was thanks to him that you were able to survive. I remember that Ning Yan's mother read that letter to me.

of."

It's a pity that the letters home from twenty years ago are long gone.
To be continued...