longevity road trip

Chapter 223 Time is like water
Zhang Tongan leaned over, meticulously arranged Qin Xi's makeup, and trimmed her sparse white hair neatly. Even when Zhang Shiping arrived in a hurry, he didn't turn around and look back.

Zhang Shiping's chest seemed to be blocked, and he cried out sadly, "Mother!", and threw himself to the side of the bed.

Even though he practiced "Changing Yuan Gong" and endured the pain of splitting his soul, he never shed a single tear in his eyes, but at this time, tears flowed down.

Zhang Shiping blamed himself in his heart. If only he could be faster, it would be better, maybe he could see his mother for the last time!If I don't go to the South China Sea, if I don't rush to break through to the fifth floor of the Foundation Building and retreat for three years after I come back, if I... The thoughts in my mind are like numbness, all kinds of regrets are pouring into my heart, and Zhang Shiping is stunned. Your face is heavier than ever.

After a few moments, Zhang Tongan finished his wife's makeup. He grabbed Zhang Shiping's hand and said in a deep voice, "Stay with your mother more!"

He turned his head and looked at his wife deeply. She was nearly seventy years old, and she was not as young as before, but in his heart, no one could replace her.Even if he is a rich man in the secular world these days, which one is not three wives and four concubines, but Zhang Tongan has only one wife, Qin Xi, from beginning to end. .

After Zhang Tongan asked Zhang Shiping to stay, he leaned on crutches and walked out step by step, struggling to lift his foot across the threshold.With his foundation-building cultivation, he was only a hundred years old, and when he was physically strong, how could he even use a cane to walk, but because his wife was old and walking slowly, he also took a cane. , and the two walked together slowly.

It has been almost ten years since he pretended to be holding a cane, and he has long been used to the existence of this cane in his hand.After Zhang Tongan went out, he inexplicably thought of the elder Zhang Qiyue, who had been dead for many years. He used to like to lean on a cane, and I wonder if it was the same as him.After walking out the door, Zhang Tongan turned his head and glanced inside the house, and walked towards the yard with a lonely back.

The old vines in the yard were clinging to the wooden frame, the dark green leaves were very dense, and the green leaves covered the vines.This is the vine that he and his wife planted a few months after their marriage, saying that they are united and never separated.It's just that from now on, he is the only one left. He sat weakly on the stone chair in the yard, looking at the vines and thinking, "Xi'er, I broke my promise, the Zhang family is still there, I can't be with you. Let's go together. If there really is reincarnation in the world, consider me selfish, you have been waiting for me for a hundred years! Wait for me, if you can't wait, you should reincarnate first!"

In the sky above the yard, Lin Shuangxuan circled the Zhang residence a few times. He heard intermittent cries coming from the house, how could he not understand the situation.He was older than Zhang Tongan, but he didn't marry a wife, he just took a few concubines and gave birth to a few sons for him, just to pass on the incense.Immortal cultivators cannot use deep feelings. Once they are deeply involved, they cannot extricate themselves. He looked at Zhang Tongan below and sighed that the rest of his life would be long, and some of them would suffer.

Thinking of this, he controlled the flying instrument and slowly fell.Zhang Tongan saw that this person was wearing the clothes of the inner disciple of the Zhengyang Sect, and there was no malicious intent, so he endured his grief and stood up, "Zhang Tongan, the patriarch of the Zhang family, has seen a fellow Taoist from the Zhengyang Sect, please take a seat."

"Lin Shuangxuan has seen Patriarch Zhang, please mourn!"

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Zhang Shiming, who was in charge of the Zhang family's business in the secular world, rushed back quickly. At the age of nearly forty, he was not as casual as he was when he was young.Over the years, his kung fu has not fallen, but even after receiving the news from the family, he changed horses all the way and ran all the way. By the time he arrived, Zhang's mother had already been buried.

"Second brother, third brother." When he arrived in front of Zhang's mother's grave, Zhang Shiping and Zhang Shihao were kneeling in front of the tombstone, burning paper money one by one, and the firelight burned the yellow paper to ashes. It rose to mid-air and was blown away by the wind.

Zhang Shiming was kneeling in front of the tombstone, holding paper money and putting it into the brazier one by one.

The three of Lin Shuangxuan also left a few days ago.

Lin Shuangxuan, Huang Zhou and Fu Dahai who arrived behind, after bowing to Mother Zhang three times, Zhang Shiping, who was dressed in hemp and filial piety, sent them a few steps. Please let them send a message to the sect that he will stay at home and observe filial piety. three years.As long as this kind of thing is true, Zhengyang Sect will not disagree.

Therefore, the three comforted Zhang Shiping a few times, and then drove the flying instrument to fly towards Zhengyangzong. The speed was not fast, and it was not as eager as when it came.

Time passed slowly. In front of Zhang's mother's grave, Zhang Tongan leaned on a cane, put down the bamboo basket in his hand, and took out three sticks of incense. Zhu Xiang planted, and then said to Zhang Shiping who was cleaning the fallen leaves on the side: "Your mother must be very happy to have you with you for the past three years. You want to be filial for three years, I will not stop you, but now three years have passed, It's time for you to go too, you are practicing in the Zhengyang Sect, and if you can become a real person, your mother will be even happier."

"Wait until I finish sweeping the fallen leaves on the ground!" Zhang Shiping, dressed in white, nodded his head blankly. Maybe after he cultivated immortality, his mother would be even more unhappy!
When he was a child, before he started to practice, he was almost at the knee of his mother.But since the family detected his three spiritual roots and three Yang spirit bodies, he began to teach Zhang Shiping to practice. What the family taught him was how to practice and how to maintain the family's ideas.From then on, in order not to disappoint his father and his family, Zhang Shiping devoted himself to cultivation, but he slowly ignored his mother's feelings.

And since he entered the Zhengyang Sect, he has returned less frequently. Over the years, the total number of times has only been [-] or so, and in the last few years, Zhang Shiping has not returned to the family once.Therefore, in the beginning, the more Zhang Shiping thought about it, the more he blamed himself, but after all, there is no regret medicine in this world.

He looked at the tombstone, his eyes dimmed, he knew to cherish what he lost, but it was too late!

"Third brother, don't worry, I'm watching my mother here." Zhang Shihao patted Zhang Shiping on the shoulder, people die like lights go out, but those who live still have to live on, and it's better to live better!

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Half a month later, Zhang Shiping joined the Zhengyang Sect with three young members of the Zhang family, and asked them to take over the stewardship positions of the three Zhang family elders in Kunshan.

After Zhang Shiping returned, he first went to Lin Shuangxuan, Huang Zhou, and Fu Dahai, visited them, and then went to the House of Internal Affairs to report.

Then he returned to his cave mansion. The spirit stones in the Five Elements Absolute God Array in his cave mansion had already been exhausted. Fortunately, Kunshan was in the Zhengyang Sect, and there were three elders of the Zhang family watching. Even the entire formation will be moved cleanly by the passing cultivators.

The three Zhang family elders, after teaching the three Zhang family young people about Kunshan, all chose to retire and go back.After returning to Yekun Mountain, Zhang Shiping packed up the lower cave, installed the spirit stones, and raised the formation again.

Time passes by quietly like water, and the spring and autumn flow in Kunshan, the leaves are green and yellow, yellow and green.

　Sorry for the bad expression!

　　
　
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