"Hey, buddy, it feels so good to have that kid's ears pulled, and you will have a better time in the future!" Thousand Mile Eyes arched his way to Shunfeng'er, and chuckled maliciously.
Shunfeng'er's expression froze. He never expected that the young man was actually the person His Majesty the Emperor was looking for. His hands were really mean, and he was in big trouble now.
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On the barren slope behind the village, there were a large number of barren graves scattered around. Liu Ning led Chen Jinyuan to a joint tomb standing side by side.
Chen Jinyuan looked at the words engraved on a wooden tablet in front of the grave. He didn't know why, but he felt a pain deep in his heart.
There is a handful of tall thatch stretched out on the grave, dancing in the breeze. It must have been trimmed recently, although there are many grasses around it.
The honest Liu Laoer and the money-hungry Tian Cuihua, I remember the last time they met, they were telling me about Liu Sanmei's marriage with smiles on their faces. However, ten years later, when they met again,
The two of them have turned into withered bones in the grave.
Chen Jinyuan had seen a lot of life, old age, illness and death, but every time he saw it, he would be moved by the scene. The only thing he could do was to lament that human life was too fragile.
"The voice is still ringing in my ears. We have gone different ways. Who can go with us for the ten-year appointment?" Standing in front of the grave, Chen Jinyuan took a deep breath and said, "Brother Liu, Sister-in-law Liu, I didn't expect that we haven't seen each other for ten years.
It’s a pity that one of us can only be outside the grave and the other is in the grave. I have come as promised, and I have also found the fourth child and handed him over to me. Now that you know better, you can rest in peace!"
"Father, mother, Ning'er has been waiting for five years. Finally, she has waited for the master. Ning'er thought that the two elders made up this lie just to let me live a good life. It turned out to be true. You really didn't lie to me!"
Liu Ning knelt down in front of the grave with a bang and began to cry.
When Liu Laoer asked Liu Ning to become his disciple, Liu Ning was only a three or four-year-old child. How could he remember so many things? The stupid boy back then has now grown into a handsome young man.
People say that time is like a butcher's knife, turning grapes purple, black fungus, and softening bananas; time is a whetstone, flattening mountain peaks, wilting cucumbers, and dying chrysanthemums. Chen Jinyuan couldn't help but sigh, these words
Seriously.
"Ning'er, how have you lived these past few years?" After a while, Chen Jinyuan asked Liu Ning.
Liu Ning wiped her tears with the corner of her sleeve and said, "After my parents died, my sister took me over. Before my parents died, they told me that Master would come back to me. I must wait, so these days
I would wait at the entrance of the village every day, fearing that Master would not be able to find me when he came!"
"Oh, it's really hard on you!" Chen Jinyuan patted Liu Ning on the shoulder. If he had known what happened to the Liu family earlier, he would have come long ago, and Liu Ning wouldn't have had to wait around in the wind and rain every day.
Chen Jinyuan can clearly feel that Liu Ning is no longer as naughty as he was when he was a child. Perhaps the bumpy experience has made him mature.
Before coming, Chen Jinyuan was still worried about whether he should accept Liu Laosi if he was still as naughty as he was when he was a child. The situation before him was something he had never expected.
"Before I left, I left you a copy of the I Ching. Have you studied it?" After worshiping at the graves of Liu Laoer and Tian Cuihua, Chen Jinyuan and his party headed to the village.
Liu Ning nodded and said, "My parents warned me, don't dare or forget, don't fall behind in studying these years!"
Chen Jinyuan nodded with satisfaction. When he was just outside the village, he saw Liu Ning reading a book in a tree, engrossed in it. He was definitely not pretending.
Along the way, Chen Jinyuan asked Liu Ning about his experience in the past few years. Liu Ning answered one by one, which made Chen Jinyuan sigh.
After climbing over a hill, a small village appeared in front of Chen Jinyuan. Liu Ning said, "I have been living with my sister and brother-in-law these years. My brother-in-law is a good person and he doesn't dislike me. It's almost noon now, and they should be back."
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Under the leadership of Liu Ning, the group walked into a farmhouse at the foot of the mountain. There were several chickens in the yard, a melon and vegetable rack set up next to it, and a small adobe house with several pictures hanging on the mottled walls.
Animal skins, standard poor peasant family.
"Huh?"
After sitting for a while, a man and a woman walked into the yard carrying hoes. When they saw this group of strangers in gorgeous clothes and bright lights in the yard, they were startled. When the peasant woman's eyes fell on Chen Jinyuan's face,
, but immediately stopped.
"Don't you know me, Sanmei?" Chen Jinyuan stood up and looked at Liu Sanmei with a smile.
In ten years, Liu Sanmei has also changed a lot. Like other rural women, long-term labor and the scorching sun have made her skin look dark and old, her clothes are stained with mud, and her temples have even grown white.
Fa, she was completely different from the little girl back then, but Chen Jinyuan still recognized her at a glance.
Liu Sanmei was stunned and immediately threw the hoe on her shoulder to the ground, "Brother Chen?"
Chen Jinyuan laughed and nodded, "I haven't seen you for more than ten years. It seems that Third Sister still remembers me!"
"It's really you, Brother Chen?" Liu Sanmei's face was full of surprise, and she almost thought she had seen it wrong.
"Sister, brother-in-law, I met Master at the entrance of my hometown village today. My parents really didn't lie to me!" Liu Ning ran over excitedly.
Liu Sanmei said excitedly, "Of course I didn't lie to you. You were still a child at that time, and my sister is now an adult!"
Chen Jinyuan's eyes fell on the man next to Liu Sanmei. He looked a little older, but his actual age was probably only around thirty. He was not tall, had dark skin, and had the kind of honesty unique to farmers. He was facing him at this time.
The situation is somewhat confusing to the monk Zhang Er.
"Brother Chen, this is my man Zhang Yang!" Seeing Chen Jinyuan's questioning eyes, Liu Sanmei hurriedly pulled the man next to her, "This is the Brother Chen I told you!"
"Hello, Brother Chen!" Zhang Yang called Chen Jinyuan sarcastically.
Chen Jinyuan smiled and nodded, "Brother Chen didn't have time to catch up with you last time when you got married. I'm really sorry."
"Brother Chen, what are you talking about?" Zhang Yang seemed a little introverted. Facing these gorgeously dressed relatives in front of him, he was a little at a loss and didn't know where to put his hands.
Chen Jinyuan smiled, looked into the room, and said with some confusion, "Third sister, do you have children?"
This was a question that Chen Jinyuan was confused about when he entered the courtyard. Logically speaking, Liu Sanmei and Zhang Yang had been married for ten years, and their son should have been crawling all over the floor. How could he not see any children?
Hearing this, both of them looked a little embarrassed. Liu Sanmei looked at Zhang Yang and said, "Brother Chen, Zhang Yang and I have no plans to have children. We just want to raise our fourth child, and our family can't raise it with the conditions we have."
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