One Qi Chaoyang

Chapter 319 320: Rain in the Past Rain in Today

Sixteen Kingdoms of Yanyun.

One country, one city.

There are misty rains, hot and dry weather, perennial fog, big trees all over the city, and the entire country is built on a mountain.

The Sixteen Kingdoms of Yanyun responded to Emperor Wu's call to establish a new country, but they were actually sects or descendants of the former kingdom of God.

They had an alliance with Emperor Wu because they had a common enemy.

But they are all independent and live their own lives.

The State of Zhao was located among mountains. From a distance, the mountains looked like a besieged city, with a plain in the middle and houses scattered in an orderly manner on the plain.

The State of Zhao used mountains as city walls and valleys as city gates.

There are palaces and caves of various sizes built on the mountains.

Only the cultivators who have established their foundation can obtain a cave on the mountain. Of course, there are also people who like to live in the city inside.

This city, the State of Zhao, had a population of about three million.

The country was named Zhao, and the city was also named Zhaocheng, so the surname Zhao here is the same as the surname Wang. There are many people with the surname Zhao, but only the foundation-building cultivators can be included in the Zhao family tree.

There are many rumors about the surname Zhao, such as someone in so-and-so's family broke through to the Purple Mansion and was awarded the title of Marquis, or one of the Zhao family's children produced a genius disciple.

However, no one knows how the Zhao family acquired this place, and few people know who this place once belonged to.

The State of Zhao was closed, self-sufficient and stable. These were the characteristics of the State of Zhao. There were few outsiders because it was not easy for outsiders to settle down here. In addition to being guaranteed by a local person who had held a local household registration for more than ten years, they also needed to work here for five years, pay enough taxes, and participate in public welfare activities such as building bridges and roads every year.

If a cultivator wants to settle here, he needs the guarantee of a foundation-building cultivator and undergo an examination. He also needs to join the patrol army here and serve Zhaocheng for ten years before he can obtain Zhaocheng household registration.

Of course, after obtaining the household registration of Zhaocheng, you can obtain a cave.

This is just on the surface. In fact, the best guarantor must be someone with the surname Zhao, and it would be best if he or she could join a certain Zhao family mansion and obtain a stable household registration.

After obtaining household registration, you will be able to obtain basic spiritual stones and elixirs.

There is also a secret realm in Zhao State, which is the foundation of the existence of the Zhao family and Zhao State.

These secret realms are opened once every ten years and are a grand event for the Zhao family.

But the relationship with people of other surnames and outsiders is not very close.

Over the years, the State of Zhao has been very peaceful and stable. The real big event is the change of the position of the previous patriarch of the Zhao family.

It has been raining a lot recently, and Zhao Yan is in a bad mood, because every time it rains, he can't help but think of his missing brother.

She is the eldest daughter of Chengze Mansion and the oldest of her generation, so she knows a lot of things and has deep memories of them. She cannot comment on her father, especially since her father is not only a Jindan cultivator, but also the patriarch of the Zhao family and the ruler of the State of Zhao.

In her mind, she attributed the fact that she always thought of that scene whenever it rained to her age. Although she still looked very young, she had not met any new people or made any friends for many years.

Therefore, people and things from the past will always appear in a certain scene.

That year, the younger brother also ran in from outside on a rainy day like this, shouting, "My mother is dying."

But the whole house was quiet. The servants didn't dare to make a sound, and she, as an elder sister, could only watch.

He wanted to go to the courtyard where his father lived, but was blocked.

So he could only run back and forth in the mansion, seeking for possible hope. She remembered that the window was open at the time, and she was looking out through the window, while he ran past under the window.

His body was wet, his hair and clothes were all wet from the drizzle, water was dripping from his hair and face, she couldn't tell whether it was his rain, sweat, or tears.

She only remembered that his eyes were red.

She saw hatred and despair in his eyes.

It was after that day that she heard that the wild woman of unknown origin had died, and that her younger brother had also disappeared.

She also heard that her father asked the servants to bury the woman. As for where she was buried, she had never asked, so she didn't know. But what was certain was that there was no grave for her in the Zhao family cemetery because she had never seen it.

She had seen that woman before. She looked very pitiful, with a pair of watery eyes that seemed to be shrouded in mist, making people feel like they were trapped in it. So when she was a child, she heard the most that the woman was not a good woman. As for her origins, she only heard that she came from the polar night, but she didn't know whether it was true or not.

She always felt that it was fake, and that her mother and other concubines had given the woman some bad background.

But now thinking about it, it is not impossible. After all, she herself has never said where she came from. And according to the time, her arrival was when her father was traveling around the world. It was heard that her father had been to the border of the polar night.

She suddenly wondered where the woman was buried.

So we found the two people who had worked for my father back then.

Those two men were just Xuan Guang cultivators back then, and now they are just Foundation Establishment cultivators. One of them is still alive, his name is Liu Kun.

Facing Zhao Yan, the eldest daughter of Chengze Mansion who had already reached the Purple Mansion realm, Liu Kun did not dare to hide anything and immediately told her the place where he had buried the woman.

Zhao Yan asked him to lead the way, and he dared not refuse.

So many years have passed, and Liu Kun is already in his old age, but whenever he thinks back to what happened that day, he still finds it unbelievable, but he dares not tell anyone else.

He clearly remembered that when he and another man went to bury the young wife of Chengze Mansion, it was raining heavily. After he and his men buried the coffin in the ground and left, he looked back and saw a woman standing in front of the grave.

When he wanted to take a closer look, there was nothing. He went back to the grave and looked, but there was still nothing there. It was all new mud that he had dug out when he buried it, so he never told anyone about this.

Over the years, another colleague who carried out this mission with him has died.

He was already very old, so he told Zhao Yan the things he had kept hidden for many years along the way.

The first thing Zhao Yan thought of was the disappearance of his younger brother.

A woman came here and took him away.

Who could it be? She wondered, but she wasn't too worried, after all, so many years had passed.

The two came to the foot of a mountain. It was quite desolate here, with some tombstones scattered around.

Liu Kun has a good memory, perhaps because this incident left a deep impression on him. Even after so many years, he still went all the way back there.

"It's over there, under the rocks. We chose this place because we thought that if the owner asked about it one day, we would still be able to point it out." Liu Kun pointed to a pile of tall rocks over there.

Zhao Yan followed Liu Kun without saying a word. They arrived after turning around a bush. However, Liu Kun suddenly stopped, as if he was startled by something.

Zhao Yan did not ask "what happened", but quietly stepped aside. She saw three incense sticks inserted in front of a pile of white rocks that was almost one meter tall. The incense had burned to the bottom but was still not completely extinguished, and a wisp of smoke was floating up.

In front of the three incense sticks, there was a pile of ashes on the ground, as if someone had burned a pile of paper money here.

She did not see the grave.

Asked: "Are you sure he was buried here?"

"Miss, there is absolutely no mistake." Liu Kun replied immediately: "Maybe the grave has been flattened over the years, but I buried two bricks as a tombstone, and there were words engraved on it."

As he spoke, he walked over and found a brick buried in the mud under the weeds. He dug out the brick and wiped off the mud. She immediately saw the blurred words on it.

"Zhao's young wife Yun Yihong."

Zhao Yan recognized it, even though the handwriting was unclear, she still recognized it. She knew that it was just a mark made by Liu Kun.

Her eyes fell on the pile of ashes in front of the flat grave.

Who is worshipping her?

For no reason, she felt a chill run through her body. She looked around and saw that the sky was dark and rain was dripping from the leaves.

The wind blew through the treetops, making a whimpering sound, just like the suppressed crying of the younger brother while running in the rain on that rainy day.

　I recommend a book, "Becoming a God by Working Hard in the Mountains".

(End of this chapter)