After the engagement, the two families quickly set off back.
During this period, the adults were busy writing letters to relatives and friends to inform them of the good news, and at the same time, the two families began to prepare to return to their own homes to visit relatives.
When no one was around, Li Xuanxuan had only one Xie Shixun who completely listened to her, and her life was so happy.
However, when the Xie family set off first and the Li family was about to set off, Li Xuanxuan's mother suddenly fell ill.
At first, I just thought it was an ordinary cold, but what I didn't expect was that I was struck by a sudden illness.
They invited many doctors to look at the problem, but they were unable to do anything.
By the time Xie Shixun received Li Xuanxuan's letter and used the magic circle to return before his parents, he had already breathed his last.
Before leaving, he watched Xie Shixun kneeling beside her bed, holding her hand, and after listening to his assurance that he would treat Li Xuanxuan well, he closed his eyes.
From the time her mother fell ill, to her death, and finally to her funeral and burial, Li Xuanxuan followed her father closely, accompanying her mother on her final journey step by step.
Behind Li Xuanxuan was Xie Shixun.
After returning, Xie Shixun accompanied Li Xuanxuan and persuaded her father to rest. He then accompanied Li Xuanxuan back to her room, but couldn't say a word just to persuade her to rest.
He didn't know how to comfort her, he could only stay with her and do whatever she wanted to do with her.
He even had some regrets, if only they had not returned to their home, if only they had not left first, if only he could bear all this for her...
When she came back, Li Xuanxuan saw Xie Shixun's face and easily guessed his thoughts. A faint smile appeared on her face. She reached out and gently patted Xie Shixun's forehead, who was squatting in front of her, and said with a smile:
"What are you thinking about? Don't think too much."
Xie Shixun raised his hand and grabbed Li Xuanxuan's wrist, saying only: "Xuanxuan, I will always be with you, and I will not let you suffer like this again."
Li Xuanxuan chuckled when she heard the words: "Birth, old age, illness and death, ordinary people, will eventually have a calamity."
Xie Shixun's eyes gradually settled: "What about cultivating immortals?"
"Cultivation?"
After Li Xuanxuan repeated the word, she suddenly laughed.
This time, she smiled a little sadly.
Tears suddenly fell from her eyes, and her hands tightly grasped Xie Shixun's sleeves. Her voice was choked and sharp:
"You know what?"
"I tried, I tried!"
"I combed her body over and over again, but it was no use! It was no use!"
After Li Xuanxuan said these words, her face was already full of tears, and her breathing was rising and falling so hard that Xie Shixun couldn't think about it anymore, so he quickly reached out to her back to help her breathe.
But it was still too late. The next moment, Li Xuanxuan vomited blood.
"Xuanxuan!"
Xie Shixun stepped forward in fear and hugged Li Xuanxuan, "What's wrong with you? Don't scare me!"
As Xie Shixun spoke, he summoned his spiritual power to protect Li Xuanxuan. Unexpectedly, the next moment, white light flashed around them, and the two of them disappeared in an instant.
When he fell to the field, Xie Shixun didn't shake his head for a moment. His attention was always on Li Xuanxuan, "Xuanxuan, are you okay?"
Li Xuanxuan scratched the soil under her body, then looked at the grass next to her. Words flashed through her mind, and she couldn't help but murmured: "This seems to be a medicinal herb?"
The two of them stood up, supporting each other, and found that they were indeed surrounded by medicinal fields, and there was a thatched house not far away.
The two walked in and saw that there was a bed, a table and a chair inside, and in addition there were shelves with books and miscellaneous items.
This is obviously a separate space, but how did they get in?
Thinking together, Li Xuanxuan reached out and held Xie Shixun's hand. After reciting something silently in her heart, the two of them returned to Li Xuanxuan's room in an instant.
After coming out, Li Xuanxuan looked down at the orchid jade pendant tied around her waist. It was already stained with her blood. She pulled it off and handed it to Xie Shixun: "That should be it."
After Xie Shixun took it, he tried it on his own and found that he could indeed get in and out freely, even if he was carrying things.
After coming out, he handed it back to Li Xuanxuan: "Would you like to try it?"
Li Xuanxuan shook her head.
"Take it, it will be more useful to you."
Xie Shixun frowned when he heard this: "Xuanxuan, this is our engagement token."
Li Xuanxuan lowered her eyes and said nothing.
Xie Shixun stretched out his hand to wrap Li Xuanxuan's hand holding the jade pendant together, and took her to the bed: "You rest first, and we will talk again after you sleep well."
Li Xuanxuan could only nod.
She hadn't had a good rest for many days in a row. Now that Xie Shixun was by her side, she felt inexplicably at ease, and she fell into a deep sleep after a while.
Regarding the ownership of the jade pendant, Xie Shixun refused to give in. Li Xuanxuan could only take a step back and let him read useful books. As for the medicinal herbs, neither of them understood it, so they did not pick them at will.
After Li Xuanxuan's mother passed away, her father decided to move back to his family after careful consideration.
Since the Li family has moved away, the Xie family does not want to stay any longer. Furthermore, Xie Shixun will take the imperial examination soon, so they should go back.
Although the two families no longer live in the same place, they have never stopped exchanging letters, sending gifts on festivals, and visiting each other.
After Li Xuanxuan returned to the Li family, she had her cousin Li Sisi as her companion, and her life was still carefree.
But not long after, her father received a letter from the Xie family, informing them——
Fortunately for Xie Shixun, he was about to give up his official career and go up the mountain to seek enlightenment!
The night Li Xuanxuan learned the news, she met Xie Shixun, who had arrived overnight.
At that time, she was sitting on the edge of the bed, her feet dangling.
Xie Shixun was not surprised to see that she was not sleeping, so he just handed over the cakes he had brought to her from all the way.
Li Xuanxuan did not reach out to pick it up. She only looked up at the young man who had grown taller in front of her and said, "Xie Shixun, you have become stronger."
When Xie Shixun heard this, he smiled.
He squatted down and looked up at the girl beside the bed: "Xuanxuan is really amazing, you can tell at a glance."
After Xie Shixun finished speaking, he still passed the pastry in his hand forward.
This time, Li Xuanxuan did not refuse.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Xie Shixun saw that she started to eat, so he got up and poured her a glass of water, and pulled up a chair to sit next to her, watching her eat and drink.
Li Xuanxuan saw that he had been looking at her, and since she came in, she seemed not surprised that she was not asleep, as if she was sure that she would wait for him, and she suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.
She wanted to turn her body away, but after thinking about it, she didn't move and just gave him the cake in her hand.
Xie Shixun did not refuse.
After the two of them finished eating the pastries, Li Xuanxuan handed the cup back to Xie Shixun, then sat down on the bed with her legs and asked seriously:
"Xie Shixun, why did you suddenly change your mind?"
If Xie Shixun really wanted to ask, he would have started thinking about it as early as when he saw those books, or even earlier, when he first came into contact with the runes, and it would have been impossible to wait until now.
Xie Shixun was not surprised that Li Xuanxuan would ask this question, or maybe it was because he knew that he came to see her day and night.
He knew he would have to tell her sooner or later, but before he said it, Xie Shixun still hesitated.
He didn't know whether he should tell Li Xuanxuan?
Just when his eyes met Li Xuanxuan, Xie Shixun knew that he had already made his decision before he left.
And his Xuanxuan will wait for him all night long, obviously just like him.
Eyes slightly lowered, Xie Shixun said softly: "Xuanxuan, do you know where our two families lived before and how it is now?"
"No more?"
"You know?"
"I don't know, but if you ask that, it should be gone."
After hearing these words, Xie Shixun's originally heavy heart suddenly felt lighter. He nodded and confirmed:
"It's gone."
"But, I burned it with my own hands."
Li Xuanxuan tilted her head and silently asked 'why'?
"Because someone has searched it."
When they moved out that day, because they knew they wouldn't come back for a long time, both families took everything they could.
But that day, Xie Shixun suddenly remembered that place again.
He followed his intuition and quietly went back, and sure enough he discovered some strange places.
"Is he a cultivator?"
If it were an ordinary thief, Xie Shixun would not have been able to be so cautious. In addition, since he decided to practice Taoism, Li Xuanxuan came up with this guess.
But why does Xie Shixun have to fully devote himself to this path because the other party is a cultivator of immortality?
unless--
The two parties are hostile!
Knowing that he would definitely be right, Xie Shixun looked for ways to become stronger to explain it.
But why the hostility?
The only person they have recently been associated with 'cultivating immortality and seeking Taoism' is the weirdo in the cave.
If it's just a matter of chance, it doesn't seem to have to go to this level.
Xie Shixun looked at Li Xuanxuan's thinking, and said with a heavy expression: "Perhaps, they came earlier."
Li Xuanxuan's hand suddenly shook.
She raised her eyes to look at Xie Shixun, and after moving her lips several times, she asked with some difficulty:
"Is my mother's death related to them?"
"Not sure yet."
After Xie Shixun finished speaking, he knelt down in front of Li Xuanxuan again. He stretched out his hand to hold Li Xuanxuan's hands and said firmly:
"Xuanxuan, I will go find out."
Xie Shixun didn't say anything further, but Li Xuanxuan understood: he would help her.
But……
Li Xuanxuan endured the shaking of her hands and returned her hand to hold Xie Shixun's palm. At this moment, her heart and eyes were full of confusion, but she still realized:
"Xie Shixun, did I hurt you?"
There was guilt in Li Xuanxuan's words.
After hearing this, Xie Shixun straightened up his back without hesitation, stretched out his hands, and hugged Li Xuanxuan:
"no."
Xie Shixun’s answer was decisive.
Later, they said something else, but Li Xuanxuan could not remember clearly. She only remembered the last words Xie Shixun said to her. He said:
He will always be with her.
Xie Shixun's apprenticeship at the mountain went smoothly. Although he hid his cultivation with the help of the secret method in the book left by the weirdo, he was talented after all. He quickly emerged and became the sect master's direct disciple.
After that, his original contact through letters became someone who came back to contact him.
That man's name is Xie San.
Every time Xie San comes to the Li family first to meet with Li Xuanxuan, he will hand over the delicacies and rare and exotic objects that his master has specially collected for the eldest daughter of the Li family, a thick and untouchable letter, and he will also dictate his master's daily practice routine.
After receiving a thin reply written by the eldest daughter of the Li family, he went to Xie's house. Sometimes there was a letter from home, and sometimes he just said a few words of peace and don't read it.
Li Xuanxuan also pieced together the progress of Xie Shixun's investigation from his letters.
Yes.
Even if it was a letter brought by Xie San himself, Xie Shixun would not write clearly in it.
The good news is that the investigation progress has been advancing; the bad news is that the people involved here are getting more and more important, and they are vaguely pointing to the sect leader.
Under such circumstances, it is absolutely impossible to say that Li Xuanxuan is not worried about Xie Shixun.
But all she can do is save herself and her father.
Unfortunately, she couldn't practice.
However, Li Xuanxuan did not give up completely, and instead hired various masters to teach her martial arts, and she also learned a few self-defense techniques.
One day, when Xie San was delivering a letter, Li Xuanxuan discovered that the person who came was not Xie San.
"You, a mortal, can actually see my disguise technique. I must be grateful to my senior brother for giving you the magic weapon!"
As soon as these words came out, the person in front of me turned into a young girl.
"Who are you?"
The visitor did not answer Li Xuanxuan's question. He only looked at Li Xuanxuan up and down, and then sneered:
"Are you Senior Brother Xie's fiancée?"
"So unworthy!"
Li Xuanxuan couldn't help but laugh when she heard this. She asked, "Then Miss Ying is worthy?"
"You know me?!"
Li Xuanxuan smiled: "The apple of the eye of the Yingtian Sect leader, am I right?"
Li Xuanxuan also raised her feet when she spoke. After speaking, she just passed the people who came and sat down at the master's seat in the living room.
The visitor didn't care about Li Xuanxuan's actions at the moment, but asked curiously and expectantly: "Senior Brother Xie, did you mention me to me?"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "No."
After Li Xuanxuan responded, she asked, "Don't you know the girl's name yet?"
Although she didn't hear the answer she wanted, Ying Lingfeng still raised her head high and said solemnly:
"Ying! Ling! Feng!"
Li Xuanxuan didn't care about her attitude. She just nodded, stretched out her hand and said, "Please sit down."
Ying Lingfeng subconsciously wanted to sit down to the side, but at the critical moment she quickly came to her senses, widened her eyes and said angrily: "I will sit down if you ask me to sit down?"
Li Xuanxuan followed the good example and said, "Miss Ying, please stand."
"you!"
Ying Lingfeng was so angry that she stretched out her index finger and pointed angrily at Li Xuanxuan, but Li Xuanxuan remained unmoved and continued to sit upright.
After Ying Lingfeng lifted it for a while, she flicked her arm and destroyed all the tables and chairs on the other side.
Sawdust flew everywhere.
But Li Xuanxuan, who was in the main seat, was not frightened at all, let alone moved, until Ying Lingfeng spoke again:
"Are you Li Xuanxuan?"
"I came here today to ask you to terminate your engagement with Senior Brother Xie as soon as possible! Because you are not worthy of him!"
Li Xuanxuan raised her eyes and asked again: "Is Miss Ying worthy of it?"
After hearing this, Ying Lingfeng raised her chin slightly, "Of course!"
"You just grew up together and became childhood sweethearts, so what? You are still not worthy of him! Because you are just an ordinary person, and we are immortal cultivators!"
"My father is Ying Tian, the sect leader of Tianyuan Sect, the first person in this world! I, Ying Lingfeng, will be the next sect leader, and I am the proud daughter of heaven!"
"So what if Senior Brother Xie has talent? Our Tianyuan Sect has no shortage of geniuses. You are nothing but ants in front of our Tianyuan Sect!"
"But if Senior Brother Xie is lucky enough to become my husband, his status will naturally rise!"
"How can you give these?!"
Speaking of this, Ying Lingfeng looked Li Xuanxuan up and down again: "I see that you are mediocre in appearance and have no qualifications for cultivating immortals. If you don't want to lose your life by asking for things you don't deserve, I advise you to let go as soon as possible!"
After Ying Lingfeng finished speaking, she turned around. After taking two steps, she suddenly remembered the missing words, so she turned back and said:
"I forgot to tell you that as long as I'm here, you can't even think about going to Tianyuan Sect!"
As she said that, she extended her index finger, pointed at Li Xuanxuan, and said word by word in the air: "Get out of here!"
After finishing speaking this time, she finally turned and left.
After Ying Lingfeng left, the living room fell into silence. Li Xuanxuan, who was sitting in the main seat, also lowered her head and lowered her eyes, unable to see clearly the expression on her face.
Until the real Xie San arrives.
"Miss Li?"
"What's going on here?"
Xie San looked at the mess on the ground and was very confused. But before he could think about it, he heard Miss Li ask him:
"Did you bring a letter this time?"
After Xie Sanyi heard this, he quickly got up and said, "Miss, my master is away on sect missions during this period, so it's not convenient for him to write a letter, but he asked me to——"
"Needless to say, you can go to Xie's house to deliver the letter."
Thank you for a moment. He thought Miss Li was angry, so he quickly took out the package and explained, "Although the master didn't write a letter, he prepared a lot of things. These are-"
"Hey! Miss! Miss!"
Without waiting for Xie San to explain or to persuade her to stay, Miss Li had already stood up and left. Xie San could not transfer the things to other members of the Li family, so he could only leave angrily.
Originally, Xie San only thought that this time was a special situation, but he didn't know that in the next two or three times, even if he brought letters from his master, the eldest lady of the Li family would not accept them, and even later, he did not even see him.
This made him secretly feel aggrieved for his master.
But what Xie San didn't know was that Li Xuanxuan did not accept it on purpose at first, but the next few times, she couldn't see him anymore.
Because her father is ill.
After learning that her mother's death might be related to immortal cultivators, Li Xuanxuan paid closer attention to her father.
She was convinced that her father's illness had nothing to do with Ying Lingfeng.
However, not long after the other party came and left, her father collapsed, which made Li Xuanxuan hate the immortal cultivator even more.
But Li Xuanxuan also knew that she missed her father and became ill.
He missed his mother so much.
Over the years, the only one who has supported him is himself, which is why Li Xuanxuan dare not leave.
After Xie Shixun went up the mountain to seek enlightenment, it didn't take long before he sent the two families a body-building elixir.
If it hadn't been like this, I'm afraid her father would have fallen earlier.
Although she knew what was going on intellectually, she saw her father lose weight overnight and was even bedridden. Li Xuanxuan immediately thought of asking Xie Shixun for help, because if there really was an elixir, then at least...at least...
She can let her father stay with her for a while longer.
But Li Xuanxuan’s father also said it himself: He was too tired...
Moreover, he also strictly prohibited Li Xuanxuan from telling the Xie family and Xie Shixun about this matter.
It was at this time that Li Xuanxuan realized that her father had heard everything Ying Lingfeng said that day. And as early as when Xie Shixun decided to seek immortality and practice Taoism, her father had already been worried about their future.
Finally, before leaving, Li Xuanxuan's father made the completely opposite decision to his wife -
He asked Li Xuanxuan and Xie Shixun to break off their engagement.
After waiting for her father's funeral to be completed, Li Xuanxuan locked herself in her room for three days and three nights.
When she came out again, she packed the trinkets given to her by Xie Shixun into a package, along with an orchid jade pendant and a letter of divorce, and handed them to her uncle, to be handed over to him when Xie San came back next time.