man sanctified in death row vest

In the ancestral hall.

The incense in the bronze tripod was at its peak, and the incense was curling up, and the smoke filled the air.

Zheng Xiu put three sticks of incense on the incense burner.

"Ancestors of the Zheng family, I beg you to bless Zheng Xiu, the only seedling of the Zheng family, to overcome this difficulty."

It was a good time to worship the ancestors, but last night Zheng Xiu suddenly went "crazy" and turned into begging the ancestors to do something.Chuntao looked eagerly at the names of the martyrs of the Zheng family on the spiritual tablet, and muttered something.

Why am I in trouble?

Zheng Xiu curled his lips and tugged at Chuntao's sleeve: "Mother, what's the matter with the wordless stele?"

Chuntao gave Zheng Xiu a blank look, but didn't answer, as if she was blaming Zheng Xiu for disrespecting her ancestors.

Zheng Xiu understood, and sighed secretly in his heart, mother, you don't know something, when you two elders were hanging on it, I always respected it.

"Yue'er, come on, kneel down."

Chuntao ignored Zheng Xiu.

She led the newlywed little she-wolf Yue Linglong to the front of the Zheng family's ancestors.

Before Yue Linglong offered incense, Chuntao suddenly remembered something: "Slow down!"

Yue Linglong: "?"

Zheng Xiu: "?"

"Wait a minute, let your father come." Chuntao blinked her eyes: "Yue'er, don't mind, you are from Beiman after all, and most of the ancestors above are against Beiman. Let dad come."

Yue Linglong: "..."

Zheng Xiu: "..."

After thinking about it, my mother made sense.

As the so-called Three Views follow experience, Zheng Xiu has experienced so many strange things that he doesn't even suspect that one day the ancestors will "resurrect" one after another and come out to curse.

Everything is possible.

Zheng Xiu looked helplessly outside the ancestral hall, waiting for his father to appear.

Strictly speaking, he and his father have been separated forever for 23 years. He suddenly came back to life. Zheng Xiu was a little uncomfortable for a while, and he didn't know how to face it.

Huh?
At this time, Zheng Xiu, who was bored, was thinking in a mess, and somehow he remembered the shock when he lifted the quilt last night.

Zheng Xiu was shocked, and looked at Yue Linglong's back with surprise.

The newlywed wife seemed to have sensed her husband's "fiery" gaze, her face turned red, she twisted her body uncomfortably, raised her head and glanced at her husband quietly, only to see him staring at her back with straight eyes, She quickly lowered her head again.

At this time, there was movement outside the ancestral hall, Zheng Xiu looked away with a complicated expression, and saw a white-haired old man staggering into the ancestral hall with the help of a maid.

The moment he saw the "old man", three words appeared in Zheng Xiu's mind - "Impossible".The old man had white hair, a haggard face, sunken eye sockets, and was wearing a long white gown.With the front of his clothes open, Zheng Xiu could vaguely see the hideous scars left on the old man's bony chest.

The first time Zheng Xiu saw the dying old man walk in, seeing the face with facial features somewhat similar to his own, Zheng Xiu's first reaction was "Zheng Baimei", which is indeed a bit similar.He even thought that grandpa crawled out of the grave during the shift of the world line—until Chuntao trotted forward to help the old man, and said distressedly: "You are weak, why don't you wear more clothes when you go out?"

This old man is Zheng Haoran!

what happened?
Got hollowed out?
Zheng Xiu watched in surprise as his parents walked into the ancestral hall again.

Zheng Haoran's cloudy eyes swept across Zheng Xiu's face indifferently, and when they finally landed on Yue Linglong's face, he was concentrating for a moment, and finally a smile appeared on his dry and chapped lips: "Okay, okay, okay."

He said three "good" words, and then said nothing more.

"father."

Zheng Xiu didn't know what happened to Zheng Haoran, and it was hard to imagine that his nearly invincible figure on the northern barbarian battlefield 20 years ago had become this sickly appearance now.With a sore nose, he still stepped forward. After 20 years, he saw his father again, but the scene where the father and son met was not as warm and harmonious as he imagined. Zheng Haoran nodded, said nothing, and led the Yue Linglong completed the ancestor worship ceremony.

One kowtow, two worships and three offerings of incense, the ancestor worship is completed.

"Take the Four Treasures of the Study! Cough cough——"

After finishing all this, Zheng Haoran's face became a little more angry, and he coughed a few times after saying a word.

In ordinary families, wives and concubines are not eligible to enter the genealogy.But it doesn't seem to be the case in the Zheng family.Zheng Xiu had seen Chuntao's name before when he was looking through the family tree, so he wasn't too surprised.

"go."

Seeing Zheng Xiu standing still, Chuntao secretly scolded that her son seemed to be really sick, and pushed the silly son.Zheng Xiu looked back at Chuntao wonderingly, and Chuntao said that according to the rules, it was Lao Tzu who wrote the genealogy and his son Yan Mo.

Zheng Xiu murmured in his heart, back then you died early and didn't teach these things.But it passed honestly.

Taking down the family tree hanging on the ancestral hall, Zheng Xiu rubbed the ink beside him, and Zheng Haoran opened the family tree file to the bottom.

"what?"

Zheng Xiu saw his name.This is not surprising.The strange thing is that next to his name, before Zheng Haoran wrote this time, the word "Zheng" was written in the place of "main wife", and a little ink was dotted behind it, but it was not written down.It gave Zheng Xiu the feeling that the person who wrote the Zheng character stopped abruptly for some reason when he wanted to write the follow-up surname, and he couldn't continue writing, so let it go.

Zheng Haoran wrote a line next to Zheng, and on the other side of the Zheng character, there was a wife, and wrote the five characters "Zheng Yueshi Linglong".

Chuntao carefully looked at the spiritual tablet, and muttered with her eyes closed.

When Zheng Xiu got closer, he heard that what the old lady was talking about was "the old ancestors are so strange, the northern barbarian girls are good at giving birth, and they will definitely continue to inject more incense into the Zheng family." It seems that Chuntao is really afraid that the old ancestors will be angry with Zheng The family intermarried with the northern barbarian clan.

A group of people walked out of the ancestral hall.

Zheng Haoran came to Zheng Xiu.

"Father, your body..."

Zheng Xiu hesitated to speak.

Zheng Haoran shook his head and coughed twice.He raised his hand slowly.

Zheng Xiu's fist moved, almost hitting him.

Instead of raising his fist, Zheng Haoran patted Zheng Xiu's shoulder: "Be nicer to her."

Zheng Xiu probably knew the agreement between Zheng Haoran and the wolf king, so he nodded.He still had a lot of questions in his mind, but Chuntao quickly said: "It's windy outside, you, go back to the house and rest quickly, the main thing is to take care of your body."

As he said that, he half pushed and half pushed, and asked the servant girl to take the master back to his room.

It wasn't until he watched Zheng Haoran drift away that Zheng Xiu couldn't help asking: "Mother, Dad's body..."

"Don't ask." A faint sadness flashed across Chuntao's eyebrows, and she blinked to cover it up. She suddenly remembered something, and slapped her hands: "Quick! Invite the best doctors in the city, no, all the famous doctors. In the mansion, give the young master a consultation!"

Poor parents all over the world, Zheng Haoran is like this, Chuntao is still thinking about Zheng Xiu's "illness".Zheng Xiu was quite emotional, and secretly vowed in his heart that he would not worry his parents again before he knew the situation, so he straightened his back, lifted his spirits, waved his hands calmly, and thought of a reasonable reason: "Mother, there is no need, I worked too much last night, my mind was in a trance, and I said crazy things, and today I rested all night, I only felt like a dragon and a tiger, as if I had endless strength, so I don’t need my mother to bother to call a doctor!"

"Are you sure?" Chuntao narrowed her left eye in disbelief.

"Yue'er, let's go back to the room."

As he said that, Zheng Xiu rolled up his sleeves deliberately, squeezed his well-developed biceps in front of Chuntao, and trotted the red-faced Yue Linglong back to the room in three steps at a time, as if anxious to make a man.

"Wait a minute, Xiu'er! It's broad daylight—"

Chuntao's anxious and hopeful cry came from behind.

……

boom!
The door closes.

Yue Linglong twisted the corners of her skirt uneasily with her white hands.

She tilted her head to look at the sheets.

Early in the morning she folded the bedding.

The sheets were not changed in time.

There is also a large hole cut out of it.

"Husband..."

Yue Linglong opened her eyes vacantly, foggy, and said weakly: "Why don't we wait until it gets dark?"

Zheng Xiu stepped forward and took off Yue Linglong's clothes, leaving only her bellyband.

Today's bellyband is light green, quite fresh and elegant, with a different flavor.

Yue Linglong was so ashamed, she was about to get on the bed, but Zheng Xiu picked her up and turned around.

Zheng Xiu didn't see it clearly last night. When he was in the ancestral hall this morning, Zheng Xiu thought about it and realized something was wrong.

Now that he took a closer look, Zheng Xiu found a problem.

Zheng Xiu's pupils shrank suddenly, and he stretched out his hand in disbelief to touch Yue Linglong's back. He suspected that it was covered with fake leather.

"hot!"

Zheng Xiu was even more shocked.

At first Yue Linglong thought that her husband wanted to have a bright day, but unexpectedly her husband was behaving strangely at the moment, it didn't look like he wanted to do anything at all.The rippling in my heart calmed down a bit, and doubts appeared on my face: "Husband."

No, neither.

Totally messed up.

Yue Linglong is clearly a [mortician] alien, and there was an imprint of an alien on her back, her body was cold, and she obviously couldn't bask in the sun, but now, everything has changed.

Yue Linglong's back is smooth and fair, without marks, her body is warm, she can bathe in the sunlight freely, she is living like a normal person now.

She is not a stranger!

With a thought, Zheng Xiu wanted to enter the prison, but found that the passage to enter the prison, which was usually smooth, was obscure, and he couldn't get in.try again!Zheng Xiu rushed out of the room and left the dumbfounded daughter-in-law in the room.After turning a few corridors, Zheng Xiu snatched the pen, ink, paper and inkstone from the strange maid, and quickly ran back to the room.

Zheng Xiu's back and forth was as fast as the wind, and Yue Linglong hadn't even realized that she had put on her clothes.

Under Yue Linglong's weird gaze, Zheng Xiu bit his finger, mixed ink, spread out the white paper, thought for a while, and drew a pool of water on the white paper.

With a thought, the deep pool on the white paper suddenly moved, sparkling, Zheng Xiu stood up, and approached his face, the reflection of Zheng Xiu's face was reflected in the deep pool.

[Painter] The doorway is still there!
The thaumaturgy is still there!

"call!"

Zheng Xiu breathed a sigh of relief.

but,

Zheng Xiu remembered the scene where he was finally bound by the void chains in the [Ancient Battlefield] among ghosts.

A sense of disobedience came to mind.

"Husband?"

From the beginning to the end, Yue Linglong, who silently watched her husband go crazy, stood up, and hugged Zheng Xiu from behind tenderly: "Are you...too tired?"

"I have something to ask you."

Zheng Xiu looked at Yue Linglong's white body, and put on a long skirt for her.

"Where is the wolf king now?"

"Is there a great sky witch in your clan?"

"How is the relationship between Beiman and Dagan now?"

"Did you suffer from a serious illness when you were a child, and your father went to Bagnamo Mountain to seek help from the Great Heavenly Witch and fetch the elixir?"

Zheng Xiu asked questions one after another, Yue Linglong was stunned at first, not knowing why her husband was asking these questions.

But she still answered one by one.

Zheng Xiu listened to Yue Linglong's answer, and the more he listened, the more something went wrong.

"I'm going out!"

Zheng Xiu rushed out of Zheng's mansion in a hurry, leaving the newlywed wife alone in the empty boudoir with a bewildered expression.

The weather in the imperial city is fine and sunny today.

There are many pedestrians outside, a beautiful scene of living and working in peace and contentment.

Street vendors yelled loudly.

All other properties related to the Zheng family have been hung with other plaques.

There are no ravens in the sky.

There are no strange men in black on the roof running around telling each other.

In the small courtyard that used to be Qing Shisan's home, a strange old man lived in it. He knocked on the door and entered. He said that he had never heard of Qing Shisan.

Once at Pei Gaoya's home, Zheng Xiu knocked on the door and saw Pei Gaoya's "ex-wife"—yes, it was her ex-wife, and the woman was still that woman, but the woman's man was replaced by a skinny one. look.

With a blank expression on his face, Zheng Xiu walked through the streets and found Ji Hongou's home.

The closed door was covered with dust, and the door was deserted, obviously no one had visited for a long time.When Xun Neighbors asked, the enthusiastic neighbors seemed to know Zheng Xiu, but he was a well-known figure in the city—the son of Zheng Haoran, major general Zheng Xiu, who didn’t know him.Neighbors told Zheng Xiu that a sick man lived here. Before he died of illness a year ago, thieves broke into the house and hacked him to death. The real culprit has not been found out so far.

Zheng Xiu left blankly.

He went into the teahouse, found a secluded corner, ordered a pot of hot tea, two or three small dishes, and listened to the storyteller's stories for a whole day.

Back at Zheng's house at night, Zheng Haoran took the decoction early and fell asleep.

Zheng Xiu slept all night with Yue Linglong in his arms, unable to sleep all night.

Stayed in the teahouse for three days.

Storytellers are full of people, talking endlessly about the past and the present.

On the fourth day, Zheng Xiu came to the study that used to be the great writer Ximen Bei.

It is now a tofu shop.

A beautiful widow is grinding tofu.

Going to the place where the medical center used to be, the medical center is still there, but the old doctor who sits in the medical center and picks up medicine is not the old miracle doctor Situ Yong who "has six knives in his back and goes to heaven and enters the earth to heal the benevolent heart". Busy in the middle of the day, with a scar on his eye, the sixth scar who used to be a prison guard.Zheng Xiu was dumbfounded.

"Huh? This isn't General Zheng Shao? I heard that you didn't get married a few days ago, and now you're visiting the humble house...so that's how it is!" Ba Lao Liu was full of righteousness, and politely cupped his hands. He carefully scrutinized Zheng Xiu's ugly face, His face was stunned, but he hesitated to speak, and said vaguely: "Understood! It seems that the major general has something hard to say, it's okay! There is a 30-year-old Shaoyang ginseng in my medical center, which has the miraculous effect of nourishing qi and kidney. The major general returned to his youth overnight..."

Boom!
With a dark face, Zheng Xiu punched the gentle and scarred Liu Liu dry, and slammed the door out.

Ba Lao Liu covered his eyes, stared blankly at the figure of the major general leaving domineeringly, and cried: "If you don't eat, you don't eat, why are you still beating people!"

……

After half an hour.

Zheng Xiu appeared on the roof of Xiangmanlou.

The six-storey attic is about seven feet high, allowing him to look down on the whole city.

Strange sky, strange city, a group of strange people live.

History has all changed.

After several days of inquiring, Zheng Xiu understood one thing.

Now is not the Year of Respect.

Wei Yangzun passed away a year ago. At that time, the prince who was still a baby came to the throne, and the eldest princess listened to the government behind the curtain and assisted in state affairs.

Since Zheng Haoran returned after 20 years, Dagan and Beiman have completely reconciled.In the past 20 years, the Dagan and the Northern Man have worked hard to seek peace, established trade routes, and communicated with each other. The marriage was decided a long time ago.

The couple is Yue Linglong, the daughter of the Wolf King, and Zheng Xiu, the son of Zheng Haoran. This marriage of Bi people can be described as a match made in heaven.

When the two really unite, it means that Dagan and the Northern Man will establish a peaceful day that lasts for decades.

Peace in the world!

No more war!

In addition to the above-mentioned changes, Zheng Xiu also vaguely noticed an unbelievable but extremely possible thing.

This world... has no candles!

It's as if candles never existed!

Without Ye Weiyang, Yue Linglong didn't become a stranger because of the Great Sky Witch!
Everything has changed!

Zheng Xiu sat on the top of the attic and let out a long laugh.

At this time.

A dirty orange cat walked through the busy city. It raised its head, looked at the lonely figure in the attic, and lowered its head to lick its paws.