Pure Yang!

Chapter 335 Zhang Family Ancestral Home! Twenty-four Years Ago
Qin ancient town.

A remote place in the south of the Yangtze River, it got its name because of the high platform built here during the Qin Dynasty.

On National Highway 233, a silver-white car sped past, accompanied by a shrill whistling sound. Not far away, the rippling waves appeared before our eyes, a red sun jumped out, and occasionally a bird flew in the sky, setting off the long sails in the distance.

“What a beautiful view, what a clean lake!”

Li Miaoyin gathered up her hair that was messed up by the wind, looked at the scenery outside the car window, and couldn't help but say.

"This is the third largest freshwater lake in Jiangnan Province." Zhang Fan whispered.

Shen Kuo of the Song Dynasty once recorded that in the Qin Dynasty, a giant clam appeared in this lake, and pearly light floated in the air, illuminating a hundred miles, making the vast night as bright as day, so it was named Pearl Lake.

Legend has it that there is a city hidden under this lake, which is an ancient ruins.

In ancient times, aquatic dragons once gathered here, and then huge waves and floods arose, submerging nearby cities.

Therefore, to this day, the legend about the hidden dragon in Zhuhu Lake still continues.

A few years ago, some media captured the natural landscape of "dragon sucking water" above the lake. In the clouds in the sky, a huge black shadow seemed to flash by, but when it was replayed, the black shadow turned into three little birds.

"Old Ge, how are you handling things in Yujing City?"

At this moment, Zhang Fan suddenly changed the subject and asked.

In the Hongri Building incident, Ge Shuangxiu and Xu Zhixia were the only two survivors. In the eyes of the Jiangnan Provincial Dao Alliance and the Ge family, they were both survivors and suspects.

After all, everyone else is dead, why should you be the only one alive?

Because of this, that night, when Ge Shuangxiu and Xu Zhixia walked out of the Jiangnan Provincial Alliance, they were under surveillance.

"I must have been released from surveillance before I dared to act with you." Ge Shuangxiu said casually.

He is originally from the Ge family, and on the surface, Ge Zhenyan is his only backer.

Judging from the interests alone, his suspicion is much smaller, and after the incident, the Ge family also conducted an internal investigation on him. Regardless of suspicion or not, he was at least temporarily released from surveillance.

"Xu Zhixia is not so lucky." Ge Shuangxiu said in a serious tone.

"Although she is from the Xu family, she just got in the middle."

"Therefore, she is highly suspicious."

"Xu Zhixia?"

At this moment, Li Miaoyin's voice sounded from behind. She leaned over and stared at Zhang Fan with clear eyes.

"It's your ex-girlfriend, right? You two are destined to be together. You can't be separated no matter what, right?"

Li Miaoyin raised the corners of her mouth slightly, revealing a meaningful smile.

"What are you talking about? I have nothing to do with her." Zhang Fan curled his lips.

"Sister-in-law, I can prove this. That night, if I hadn't persuaded him, he would have wanted to silence Xu Zhixia as well." Ge Shuangxiu testified for Zhang Fan.

Since that day, Zhang Fan and Li Miaoyin treated his soul as air, and even the way he addressed Li Miaoyin changed.

"You won't be so cruel to me in the future, will you?" Li Miaoyin looked at Zhang Fan again.

"When did I want to silence her?" Zhang Fan rolled his eyes.

"Besides, she's all in the past, you..."

"Me what?" Li Miaoyin looked at Zhang Fan with a smile.

"Cough cough cough..."

At this moment, Ge Shuangxiu coughed twice. In front of these two people, he always felt that he had entered a vacuum and nothingness.

"Not only your ex, but even her mother was under surveillance."

Compared to Ge Shuangxiu, Xu Zhixia's situation is worse. After all, she is an unexpected character who intervened in the middle. If there is any suspicion of leaking information, she is definitely the biggest one.

In addition, Xu Zhixia once lurked in Wuweimen in his early years, but his level was too low, so he withdrew halfway.

These experiences have made her more suspicious.

"Can you just say the name? Stop mentioning ex-ex."

Zhang Fan curled his lips, lowered his head to look at his phone, and tried his best to keep his eyes away from Li Miaoyin's sight.

"Um!?"

At this moment, Zhang Fan's eyes lit up and he saw a special circle of friends.

“Warmly celebrate the successful conclusion of the Beizhang Xiaoqi Academy Young and Middle-aged Key Personnel Seminar.”

"Zhang Wuming!?" Li Miaoyin glanced over and saw this circle of friends.

After parting at Shiwandashan, Zhang Fan remembered Zhang Wuming three days later. Fortunately, he had left his contact information before. He found the other party and confirmed that he had also left safely.

shuh...

In just a blink of an eye, the post was deleted.

Five seconds later, Zhang Wuming posted another new circle of friends.

“Warmly celebrate the successful conclusion of the Zhangjiaxiaoqi Academy Young and Middle-aged Key Personnel Seminar.”

In addition to the text, there is also an emoticon pack of scattering flowers.

"It's really interesting." Zhang Fan said lightly.

"After the extinction of Southern Zhang, there was only one Zhang family in the world. How could there be a distinction between north and south? He almost let it slip." Li Miaoyin said in a serious tone.

"You're right. There should only be one Zhang family in this world." Zhang Fan said coldly.

"Why are you still in contact with him?" Li Miaoyin looked at Zhang Fan.

When they were in the Shiwan Mountains, Li Miaoyin was wary of Zhang Wuming. Although this man seemed to have ordinary cultivation and seemed normal, he was actually very cunning and clever.

Among those disciples of Bei Zhang who have not yet been deified, Zhang Wuming is definitely an outlier, a hidden outlier.

"Isn't that good? We have shared hardships and life and death together."

Zhang Fan chuckled and said, "We are considered comrades in arms."

"You want to control Bei Zhang through him..." Li Miaoyin seemed to have guessed something.

"Miaoyin, since we are comrades-in-arms, let's not scheme. Just let everything take its course." Zhang Fan chuckled and interrupted Li Miaoyin's speculation.

"Lao Ge, park the car over to the side. Let's take a break by the lake and enjoy the scenery."

"Okay." Ge Shuangxiu turned the steering wheel and stopped the car.

The three of them were exhausted from the journey, but they had a moment of leisure to appreciate the scenery of Zhu Lake.

"Zhang Fan, do you know why Chen Long came here?" Ge Shuangxiu put his hands in his pockets and finally got to the point of this trip.

"Our ancestral home is here. I heard from my father that it has been here since my grandfather's generation." Zhang Fan said in a deep voice.

More than eighty years ago, the Taoist sect suffered a great catastrophe. Since then, Longhu Mountain has closed its gates and only a few disciples of the Zhang family have escaped.

The last Heavenly Master Zhang Taixu divided these Zhang family disciples into two parts, and the teachings were passed down from north to south.

These people are considered the first generation of disciples.

Zhang Tiansheng is considered a second-generation disciple. His family moved around and finally settled in the small town of Qingu.

Later, Southern Zhang was destroyed. At that time, Zhang Lingzong was still young, only in his teens. He suffered a great change and had to leave his hometown. From then on, he wandered around the world and never returned.

It was only when Li Linglong gave birth to Zhang Fan that Zhang Lingzong brought the pregnant Li Linglong back here.

After Zhang Fan was born, his family left when he was three years old.

Since then, he has never come back.

"Chen Long's surname is also Zhang. He came back here only to go to the ancestral home." Zhang Fan said in a deep voice.

Chenlong Zhang Nanfeng, when he was in the Shiwandashan Mountains, he called Zhang Tiansheng "Second Uncle" and Zhang Lingzong "Fifth Brother".

At that time, Zhang Fan knew that this person had a close relationship with their Zhang family.

"Humans are animals that keep moving forward. If they look back, it can only be for one thing," Li Miaoyin said.

"Find!" Zhang Fan uttered a word.

The tacit understanding between Zhang Fan and Li Miaoyin is hard to describe. They interact with each other and think like one person.

"Looking?" Ge Shuangxiu asked doubtfully.

"good."

"Either look for old people, look for things, or look for memories." Zhang Fan analyzed.

The Zhang family's ancestral home had long been abandoned, and all the old members of the Zhang family had died, so it was impossible for Chen Long to go back to look for someone.

A man like him, who has cut off all sexual desires and has a calm and empty mind, would not have come all the way here to reminisce about the past.

The only possibility...

"Does your ancestral home have what she wants? " Li Miaoyin said in a deep voice.

"Very likely." Zhang Fan nodded.

"Then where is your ancestral home?" Ge Shuangxiu couldn't help asking. "I don't know." Zhang Fan shook his head.

"Don't know?" Ge Shuangxiu was stunned.

"No, don't you know where your hometown is?"

"I left with my parents when I was three years old and never came back." Zhang Fan whispered.

"How do I know where the ancestral home is?"

"What about tomb sweeping? What about Qingming Festival? Don't you need to come back to sweep the tombs and worship your ancestors?" Ge Shuangxiu asked.

"Never. My dad said that since they are all dead, it doesn't matter whether we sweep or not."

"..."

"Your father is really filial."

"But my father told me that if he is gone someday, I must burn more for him every year."

"..."

"Then what are we here for?" Ge Shuangxiu couldn't help but ask.

Zishu had already seized the initiative by passing such important information to them, but Zhang Fan didn't even know where his ancestral home was. He really got up early and arrived late.

"We don't have to do anything." Zhang Fan said lightly.

"Zi Shu passed this information to me, I'm afraid he has ulterior motives."

"Think about it, with Chen Long's cultivation level, even if he knew where the ancestral home was, he wouldn't be able to defeat him if he met him."

After these words were spoken, Li Miaoyin and Ge Shuangxiu both fell silent.

What Zhang Fan said was right. Chen Long was a master at the level of Heavenly Master, and he had also cultivated the Five Elements King. His strength was so strong that he was considered top-notch in the world.

If we really meet these three little guys, every one of them will be used as fertilizer.

"Then why are we here?" Ge Shuangxiu asked.

"We don't have to do anything." Zhang Fan chuckled.

"Before coming here, I have submitted a report to the Dao League General Assembly, telling them that the Chenlong among the thirteen zodiac signs is here."

At this moment, Zhang Fan seemed to be possessed by Zhao Jiexuan.

"Daoist Alliance? Report?" Ge Shuangxiu said in surprise.

"Yes, it is the duty of every citizen to combat evil forces and provide clues."

Strictly speaking, the Wuwei Sect can indeed be classified as a first-class evil force, and it has not been completely wiped out even after thousands of years of sweeping.

Zhang Fan said righteously: "I will never tolerate evil."

"You are so mean." Ge Shuangxiu curled his lips.

From a standpoint, he is a member of the Ge family on the surface, but in fact he is also a member of the Wuwei Sect.

"Are you sure that there will be experts coming from the Taoist Alliance?" Ge Shuangxiu asked.

"of course."

Zhang Fan nodded: "Have you heard the story of Wu La and Xi Hai?"

"Um!?"

"There will definitely be a fight between them!" Zhang Fan chuckled.

His own power is limited, but the power of the Taoist Alliance is unlimited.

What he said was indirectly defending the righteous path, raising the banner of Taoism's righteousness, and contributing his own efforts to cracking down on gangsters and eliminating evil.

"The struggle between the Dao Sect and the Wuwei Sect is like the rising and falling waves, it will never end."

At this moment, Ge Shuangxiu looked at the vast Zhu Lake in front of him and couldn't help feeling emotional.

"I will quit this job and go to a remote mountain to practice Buddhism."

"Hahaha."

Zhang Fan couldn't help but burst out laughing when he heard this.

"What are you laughing at?" Li Miaoyin couldn't help but ask.

"When I first started working, a colleague named Jiang Hu told me that there is a type of person in the workplace..."

"I say I'm quitting every day, I get perfect attendance every month, I curse my boss behind his back, and I sing "Thank You" at the end of the year."

Having said that, Zhang Fan's smile became even more pronounced, and he looked straight at Ge Shuangxiu.

"We usually call this kind of people curly dogs."

After hearing this, Li Miaoyin couldn't help laughing.

"You two should just laugh."

Ge Shuangxiu rolled his eyes and walked straight ahead along the embankment.

Willows are swaying, waves are rising with the wind, and occasionally pedestrians pass by.

Not far away, an old man came into everyone's sight. A drawing board was placed in front of him, and vivid portraits were hung on the display racks around him.

In this kind of scenic spot, many people take photos, but not many people draw hand-drawn portraits, especially at this age.

The old man had white hair and beard, and wore a tattered straw hat. He had a thin figure, slightly dark skin, and was in good spirits. His eyes were very bright. It was obvious that he had been making a living by the lake in the wind and sun for many years.

"Uncle, how much does it cost to draw a picture?" Zhang Fan asked casually.

"two hundred."

"It's so expensive." Zhang Fan couldn't help but mutter.

"You think it's too expensive? Young man, you don't have a girlfriend yet."

At this moment, the painter raised his head, looked at Zhang Fan, and grinned, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth.

"How do you know?" Zhang Fanqi asked.

"How can you find a partner when you are so stingy?" The painter chuckled.

"..."

Li Miaoyin couldn't help but smile when she heard this.

Zhang Fan curled his lips and was about to leave, but suddenly, his eyes flickered and fell on a painting on the display stand. After just one glance, he could no longer move.

The background of the painting is the vast Zhu Lake, the setting sun, a lone sail in the distance, and a girl standing on the bank, with shoulder-length hair and ethereal eyes. She looks...

"Jiang Lai... has she been here?!"

Zhang Fan raised his eyebrows, walked to the portrait, and couldn't help asking, "Master, when have you seen this girl?"

The painter said nothing and just pointed a finger.

"What do you mean?"

"one hundred."

"..."

Zhang Fan frowned slightly, took out his mobile phone, scanned the QR code, and transferred a hundred yuan.

“I can’t remember.” The painter replied.

"..."

"When did you paint this picture?" Zhang Fan asked.

The painter stretched out another finger.

Zhang Fan suppressed his temper and transferred another hundred yuan. If he didn't get an answer this time, he planned to burn down the stall.

“Isn’t there time on the painting?” The painter grinned and laughed very happily.

He hasn't met such a sucker for a long time.

"That should have been a long time ago. The girl was very pretty. She should be quite old now." The painter muttered to himself.

Zhang Fan looked at the yellowed drawing paper, which had the time written in the corner.

"The year of Xin Si..."

"That was twenty-four years ago!?" Zhang Fan raised his eyebrows and looked at the last date.

"September 9th!"

At this moment, his expression was moved again.

Twenty-four years ago, on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month.

That was the day he was born!!!

(End of this chapter)