Fairy, don't try to mess with my filial piety

If only one daughter is taken away, the in-laws can still form an alliance to recruit a virtuous son-in-law without affecting the interests of the Gong family.

Under this premise, the wife of the Minister has never treated her daughter as her own daughter since she was a child. Instead, she has treated her as... a "gift" to her parents' home!

Since it is a gift, if you can't present it well, it would be like losing face. How can you do it without carefully cultivating and polishing it?

Since Gong Li was young, the wife of the Minister has demanded perfection from her daughter and demanded perfection in everything!

For a normal girl, practicing martial arts is only enough to slightly correct her posture, but the wife of the Minister of the Court asked her to reach the level of mastery and to perform at the same level as the direct disciples of a martial arts master.

"That martial arts master's direct disciple was born into a peasant family. Gong Li, do you realize how noble your origins are? Do you think you can do worse than a peasant?!"

After practicing martial arts during the day, she would learn music, chess, calligraphy and painting at night, striving to become a lady from a wealthy family. This was because the wife of the Minister of the Court judged that after her daughter was adopted, it would most likely be a marriage of arrangement, and it would be impossible for her to marry several children from her natal family, as that would not bring out her value.

However, the marriage must be decent, and the woman must become a lady of good family praised by the noble ladies in the capital, and she must know all the skills that girls should have.

But how can a girl who has not yet developed learn to play the piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, needlework and embroidery if she can't even lift her arms at night after practicing martial arts during the day?

[Gong Li, do you know how tiring it is to be your mother?! I could have rested early, but now I'm practicing calligraphy with you. I can't even write a single vertical stroke properly. I've been trying for three days! Can you please put more effort into it?]

This girl's real nightmare was the day when Gong De was selected by Kongtong Mountain. The immortal masters came to check the situation of Lihuo Mountain Range as usual. They accidentally discovered that Gong De's comprehension was decent and he could be given a try, so they took him to the mountain to practice.

When her brother was noticed by the immortals, the wife of the Minister immediately changed her mind and looked for some immortal in the capital to guide Gong Li in laying the foundation. In fact, he was just a wild cultivator whom she despised. He just gave himself a title, and the wife of the Minister really regarded him as an immortal living at the foot of the mountain.

The wife of the Minister of the Court felt that her brother had a chance to become an immortal, but her sister was adopted back to her parents' home in an ordinary way. People who didn't know her would think that she, the wife of the Minister of the Court, was deliberately picking out the bad ones to send back to her parents' home, which made her feel ashamed.

Therefore, my younger sister Gong Li has to keep up with the cultivation!

I just think of something and make decisions as soon as I get excited. When I realize it involves my face, I make a decision immediately.

However, the one who suffered was not the minister's wife, but his daughter Gong Li.

[Can you open up a little? You and your brother Gong De are twins! The talents I gave you are the same. I haven't treated you unfairly! I'm not partial to you! I've found a renowned immortal master in the capital of Tianji, and I've spent every penny!]

[Gong Li, don't be so selfish and degenerate. Just take a moment to appreciate my mother's efforts! Are you worthy of me?!]

"When you go to your grandparents' house, they'll see you're clueless and a world apart from your brother. What will they think of me? They'll think I deliberately raised you to be useless before sending you there! Do you understand?"

Then,

When Gong Li was about to be adopted, the girl felt the love of her family elders when she returned to her ancestral home to visit her relatives. Thinking about being "abandoned" and adopted, she followed her mother's example and jumped into the well in a fit of anger.

The well water was icy cold in the dead of winter, and a layer of ice had formed on the surface. When she fell in, her head broke through the ice, and she used the well water to cool her brain.

......

Gong Li hugged her knees and curled up beside her. She was much more conscious now and said:

"The well water is not as cold as I imagined. In fact, it is quite warm, warmer than outside. It is indeed warm in winter and cool in summer."

Grandfather Gong sighed and blamed himself:

"It's my fault. It's because I committed a sin back then. After I died, I have been eating incense and offerings, but I can't even send a message to my clan members in my dreams! I have always wanted to stop that clan daughter-in-law. She is such a jinx..."

The two snake spirit elders in Chu Wuzhi's sleeves were silent. They tried to speak several times, but something was stuck in their throats and they couldn't make a sound.

Chu Wuzhi's brows frowned unconsciously. He was not like an indifferent spectator, listening indifferently to the past of the girl Gong Li. He was deeply touched because he also knew a girl named Yun Qingying. The girl who called him brother had similar experiences with Gong Li.

He was just as honest and hardworking, and he kept moving forward with gritted teeth. No matter how wronged or sad he felt, it would not affect his efforts the next day. However, Gong Li did not wait for a good result.

After taking a deep breath, he asked, "What about Fuyuan? Why is it on that zombie's body?"

Grandfather Gong smiled wryly, "This twin brother and sister are indeed extremely talented, especially Gong Li. If she practices normally, there is a 30% chance that she will be selected by the master of Kongtong Mountain and personally lead her in practice."

Gong Li's talent is not as good as Yun Qingying's who was chosen at first sight, but it has surpassed many cultivators. Quite a lot of cultivators don't even have this 30% talent opportunity.

The immortal elders took one look at him and knew that this disciple could only be an ordinary cultivator.

Chu Wuji didn't lose his focus. He asked, "What does this have to do with Fu Yuan?"

The wrinkles on Grandpa Gong's old face became even more droopy, and he looked as miserable as a pug. He immediately told him all the details of his transaction with the ancient beast in the mountains.

He was taken to practice cultivation since he was young, and eventually became a talent, but he was not able to succeed. He was not promoted to an elder on a fairy peak, and was arranged by his master to guard the mountain and practice in seclusion.

In Grandpa Gong's view, this means being marginalized by the sect and being thrown out to do unimportant things.

This section of the Volcano Mountains happened to be very close to his ancestral home. He felt a trace of warmth in his blood and wanted to do something for his bloodline clansmen.

In this state of mind, he was bewitched by the ancient beast in the mountains.

Giving it a few days of freedom every year to move around makes it less likely to be discovered by Kongtong Mountain. Grandpa Gong also reminds people in the town to hide at home to avoid being targeted by it.

The chips in exchange are a great blessing, enough to make the family go smoothly and grow stronger.

"I saw that Gong Li was very talented and believed she was the key to the Gong family's further advancement, so I transferred a lot of good fortune to her. I didn't expect... the clan daughter-in-law would completely wear down Gong Li's character and spirit!"

"After this girl died, her brother Gong De was deeply traumatized. He felt blocked in his heart and couldn't see clearly. He couldn't cross the threshold of cultivation either. Sigh!"

Aunt Green Snake listened in silence for a long time, and finally spoke at this moment. Her tone was not as cheerful as usual, but a little heavy:

"This girl, with the help of good fortune, has a hard time learning, but after stumbling and failing, she always manages to learn. It's probably because of this that the Minister's wife is pushing her to learn all sorts of miscellaneous things. It's a waste of her talent..."

In the realm of cultivators, their talents are good enough, right? But at the beginning of their practice, they usually focus on mastering a single technique until their lifespan reaches a certain limit, only then do they have the time to explore other techniques.

Not only is the Minister's wife wasting her daughter's talent, she also doesn't give her time to recover her energy. How can she have the energy to delve into the mysterious ways of cultivation?

Grandfather Gong placed the blessings of his ancestors on this granddaughter of the clan, hoping to take a gamble, but ended up being ruined by the wife of the Minister.

Gong Li committed suicide by jumping into a well, and his body was taken away by something in the mountain, refined into a mountain-guarding zombie, which also took back the good fortune. If it hadn't taken it back, the good fortune would have left the ancestral temple and dissipated on its own.

This is also the reason why many large clans with generations of history attach great importance to the construction of ancestral halls. With the ancestral hall as their ancestral blessing, the merits accumulated by the clan members during their lifetime can be included in the ancestral blessing, and become a blessing to protect and strengthen the family.

Chu Wuji lit a few sticks of incense on the heads of both the grandfather and grandson, and then asked:

"What exactly is that thing in the mountains? It has been suppressed beneath the Lihuo Mountains. Why does it have such a good fortune?"

Grandfather Gong glanced towards the mountain, his expression filled with deep awe, and said:

"It's now a 缼 beast, a strange beast that only exists in ancient legends! But it told me back then that it was an early general of the previous dynasty, and that those blessings were left behind during its lifetime."

"It wasn't suppressed, but awakened. Inside is the general's tomb. However, when it awakened, it made too much noise, and the Kongtong Mountain Sect Leader who was passing by discovered it and suppressed it."

"I suspect this general swallowed something in his lifetime, hoping for immortality. However, his revival failed, and his corpse transformed into a beast. He developed a new intelligence and, relying on the epitaph in the mausoleum, claimed to be the general."

In legend, the beast represents the end point of the existence of zombies.

Even if a zombie reaches the highest realm of "undecayed bones", it is still an evil corpse. But once it becomes a 犼, it is transcendent!

It completely got rid of its identity as a dead object and transcended into a new existence. Its flesh and blood were recreated, its organs were revived, and its appearance changed drastically. This should be considered a disguised resurrection, except that the one who "came back to life" was not the general.

As a creature born from zombies, the Qilin beast can easily refine powerful zombies. The wandering corpse on the mountain is an example.

Chu Wuji was confused and asked:

"That sounds impressive. Why didn't Kongtong Mountain solve this problem? It's like waiting for the monster to grow stronger."

Grandfather Gong looked embarrassed and guilty, and said:

"If I hadn't been possessed by evil spirits back then, it wouldn't have had the chance to grow stronger and would have been suppressed forever. As for discovering something strange later and not dealing with it, I guess it was because I was worried about backlash..."

Chu Wuji suddenly asked, "That mountain seems to belong to the Tianji Kingdom. Is the title deed with the Gong family?"

Chapter 193: Whose ancestral hall is this?

"Land deed? That's good, but it only belongs to us in name. In reality, we don't charge any fees to the herbal farmers. As long as you are a local resident, you can go into the mountains to collect herbs on your own, but outsiders are prohibited."

Grandpa Gong doesn't take care of family affairs, but he still knows about this.

Chu Wuzhi nodded, thinking that the Gong family was quite generous. In many places, after the landlords and gentry enclosed the land, the common people could only serve as their employees and could only get a fixed amount of reward, so they could not keep much surplus food.

Compared to other families, the Gong family is quite well-off, but their ancestors left behind an unsolved case that allowed the so-called Nian beast to sneak out.

Although they did not murder the people of Chizhao Town, they probably went to cause trouble elsewhere, wreaking havoc for a few days before sneaking back to continue pretending to be honest.

The merits may not be enough to be deducted!

"Can you transfer the title deed to that mountain to me? I just want a title. There won't be any restrictions on the fees charged to the herbal farmers. Everything will continue with the old system."

"Little Immortal Master doesn't seem like someone who cares about the interests of land. That's something only ordinary people would do...Okay, the land deed is under the altar, but I can't explain it to my descendants through dreams. I can only ask Little Immortal Master to explain all the troubles."

Chu Wuzhi walked to the altar and took a look. He found that the deed to the mountain was placed under the spirit tablet of Grandpa Gong. It was placed very casually and was not hidden at all. It was just treated as a relic of the ancestors.

But it is understandable that the Gong family has no intention of making a profit from the mountain, so they naturally don't care whether it is lost. Moreover, in the area of ​​Chizhao Town, the Gong family is the local tyrant. If someone steals it one day, who would dare to argue with the Gong family about the dispute?

"Jiangjun Mountain, so this section of the Lihuo Mountain Range is called this..."

Chu Wuji cut his fingertips and signed with the holder, leaving a bloody thumbprint. The clear fingerprint overwhelmed the marks of others.

Aunt Green Snake used a little magic to erase all the extra fingerprints, thus completing the forced tampering of the title deed.

After completing the tampering, Chu Wuzhi put the deed back to its original place and did not take it away so that it would not be easily discovered for a while.

Although I don’t know whether this can be considered an effective annexation, it is an attempt.

Grandpa Gong added, "There's also a copy of the atlas over there. Little Immortal Master, please help burn it. I originally intended to leave it to future generations, but I feel like it won't be of any use to me anymore."

Chu Wuji picked up the map under the spirit tablet. It was a copy by Grandpa Gong, named "Yin Fu Jing·Di". The content of the map was mysterious. One part was a diagram of human luck, and the rest was a painting with a more artistic conception. It had the momentum of collapsing the sky and splitting the earth, splitting mountains and shattering peaks. Just looking at it for a few times, one felt shocked.

There is also a mnemonic attached, which says "Dragons and snakes come out of the land."

"What is this?" he asked.

"I learned this magical skill from Kongtong Mountain. It's one of the few that can be passed on to outsiders because it's incomplete. The 'Heaven' chapter is in the Shenxiao Sect. I hoped that if a genius emerged among my descendants, with the blessing of good fortune, they would be able to comprehend it."

"Can you really understand something from such a simple diagram?" Chu Wuji was very skeptical and looked at the bottom of the spirit tablet to confirm that there was no missing page.

"It was copied from the Sutra Library on Kongtong Mountain. It can't be fake. A true teaching can be conveyed in one sentence, but a false one can only convey ten thousand volumes. To be able to perceive the artistic conception in that atlas is to have grasped the feeling of enlightenment."

"Okay, I'll help burn it later."

Chu Wuji put away the atlas and returned to sit near the girl Gong Li. He held an incense burner in his hand and occasionally handed a few sticks of incense to the girl. Then, in a casual tone, he asked:

"Sister Gong, are you sad?"

"What are you sad about?"

"Your parents' attitude towards you, and even after you became a lonely ghost, you can still see them from the Yin and Yang. Will that make you sad?"

The girl thought about it for a moment, neither shaking her head nor nodding. It was difficult for her to express her inner feelings, so she said hesitantly:

"When I was in the capital, my father was busy with court affairs. After he confirmed that I was to be adopted, he also treated me as an outsider, a daughter temporarily fostered in his own home. As for my mother..."

She paused, skipped her mother, and showed a complicated smile:

"When I first died, my great-grandfather brought me here. I could clearly see my family's reactions. I found that after I died, they suddenly seemed to care about me and love me very much. I had never seen them so sad for me when I was alive. They looked so heartbroken."

Chu Wuji looked at the girl. She was actually a little confused about her current situation, but her expression was very calm, and she had a kind of desolate state of mind that seemed to accept death.

There is no such thing as life or death.

But when Chu Wuji asked her why she jumped into the well and died, she said ashamedly that she was useless and became a deserter to avoid her incompetence.

Chu Wuji's heart seemed to be filled with emotions. He sighed and said:

"You've done very well. It's not your fault. Even your immortal great-grandfather recognizes your talent and has bestowed upon you the blessings of his ancestors. He just praised your courage."

"I think my great-grandfather was comforting me. I'm already dead, so it's not easy for him to scold me to my face."

"You're already dead, why would he still care about you? If he can make you happy, his talented granddaughter will come back and restore the clan? I won't pretend with you!"

"It seems so. Grandfather really praised me..."

The girl felt a little relieved and surprised, as if it was the first time she truly felt the joy of being praised.

During her lifetime, she was scolded and criticized by her mother so many times that no matter what she did, she was scolded and blamed for everything. Gong Li couldn't believe that her great-grandfather's praise was sincere.

Now, after listening to Chu Wuzhi's analysis, she felt that her great-grandfather's praise must have come from the heart.

The old man didn't want to talk, fearing that it would disrupt the atmosphere, but he couldn't help but feel angry:

"You can only blame your mother. Even if she had let you follow a path to the end, whether it was martial arts, embroidery, calligraphy and painting... you could have achieved success. If you had retained your determination and courage, and then found a casual cultivator to guide you, you would have been able to embark on the path of cultivation soon.

But that stupid woman gave you random advice! She scolded you like an enemy! Even at such a young age, she scolded you so hard that you lost all your confidence! "

This is equivalent to the smoke rising from the ancestral grave repeatedly, which was extinguished by the minister's wife.

At this time, there were dense footsteps outside the ancestral hall. The second patriarch led several gods from Kongtong Mountain to the ancestral hall.

squeak-

The Gong family members gently pushed open the door of the ancestral hall, not daring to be disrespectful to their ancestors.

Only when the door was completely opened did they see the white-haired young man from the evening. He was sitting on the ground, holding the incense burner in one hand.

The clean and tidy floor of the ancestral hall was covered with incense ash by him.