Ming Dynasty: A hundred-year-old immortal cultivator, Zhu Yuanzhang’s biological father

Chapter 17 Madam, thank you so much in this life!
"Madam, you are over fifty years old..."

Zhu Changye sighed.

A few days ago, the first thing he did when he came down the mountain was not to go to Zhu Xiongying's Ancestral Hall to bring his ghost back.

Instead, we went to the Ming Dynasty Emperor’s Tomb.

There are many disciples of Longhu Mountain all over the world. As the leader, it will not be difficult for him to find the tomb of Queen Chun.

It was only after I went there that I discovered that it was not the resting place of my wife. It didn't even have any familiar smell. It was obviously a cover-up.

"Tai Chi Mountain in Zhujia Village."

Looking at the address in the letter, Zhu Changye's eyes flickered.

And the next moment.

Where he was originally sitting, he had long since disappeared.
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Zhujiacun.

In a cave on the mountainside of Taiji Mountain, there is a peach blossom tree next to it.

Zhu Changye looked at the peach blossom tree and could tell with just one glance that the peach blossom tree was often taken care of, presumably by Chongba's arrangement.

"This kid has a heart."

Zhu Changye laughed and walked into the cave.

The further you go inside, the familiar feeling engraved into your soul becomes deeper and deeper.

This is indeed his wife's cemetery.

Inside the cave, there is a different world.

It's a cemetery.

It is the resting place of his wife...Chen Changle.

When you walk into the tomb passage, you can see the patio, passages, niches, corridors, and tomb chambers. The entire tomb passage is very open and majestic.

The most classic thing in the underground palace is the murals on both sides of the tomb passage. Both sides are painted with soaring black dragons, roaring white tigers, galloping horses, and majestic armored guards.

They are all attendants who guard the souls of the dead.

Seeing this, Zhu Changye's expression became more complicated.

How would it feel to see your wife's grave as a living person?
How will you feel when everything you once knew has disappeared and only you are left?
There were many villagers next to the guards on those murals. Through their outlines, Zhu Changye knew that they were villagers from Zhujia Village back then, and villagers who were very close to their family.

Zhu Changye could even recall their names, Zhu Ayun, Ajiu, Liuzi, Guer...
Zhu Changye can recall every moment of his time with every villager.

There were quarrels, we went to the county town to do business together, and we herded sheep together...
There are also chariots and horses in the clouds painted on the tomb passage...
In the clouds of auspicious air, two horses with distracted eyes were driving a red wooden cart. They were their old horses...

These two horses were so listless that even the rich people didn't bother to take a look at them.

But they are the cornerstone of the survival of his family. It is they, carrying piles of grain, grass and other things, that Zhu Changye can sell in the county town to make money and support his family.

Other than that,

Stone mill, table, clothes….
Everything in the cemetery was familiar to Zhu Changye.

The further you go, the feeling of close connection in your bones reaches an unprecedented level.

Exceeding Zhu Xiongying several times, even dozens of times.

Zhu Changye came to the coffin with a bouquet of flowers in his hand and touched the coffin carefully. The feeling of things being different and people being different came over him again.

This coffin was made of red sandalwood. He clearly remembered that this was the piece of wood that he had worked tirelessly to collect in Taiji Mountain.

And under the coffin made of wood, he lay... He had worked hard all his life, and when the Yuanting soldiers finally arrived, they had to choose the wife who would spend life and death with him.

Zhu Changye stared at the coffin, watched, watched, kept watching...
Eyes twinkling.

In his cloudy eyes, the sight of his eyes no longer looked at the decorations in the tomb passage, as if he had gone back to his youth and saw a pretty girl standing under the peach blossom tree.

"Zhu...Mr. Zhu Shizhen, right? My daughter has just arrived in Zhujiacun. My family asked you to introduce the peach blossom, a specialty of Zhujiacun. It is expected to stay for a month. I will trouble you in the future."

"No trouble, this is what I should do."

"Hmm~ So what? I happen to have rice cakes here. Do you want a piece?"

"No...this thing is too expensive, I can't eat it."

"It's okay, it's okay, let's have a piece." "I..."

"Come on, just one piece..."

Looking at the girl's expectant eyes, he compromised.

That too….
His first conversation with her.

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After spending half a month together, the two gradually became familiar with each other.

"Mr. Zhu, my little girl feels that you are different from other villagers in Zhujia Village. Have you ever read a book before?"

"No, it doesn't exist in this era. It did exist in previous eras, but at that time, they didn't teach me how to survive in war-torn times."

"What? Mr. Zhu, you spoke too quietly just now, and my daughter didn't hear you."

"No, it's nothing. I've read books before."

……

The time flashes.

Unknowingly, perhaps because of the depth of their love, or perhaps because of their tacit understanding, they fell in love.

However, the girl's family found out.

"What? Are you in love with that farmer? Ridiculous! I, the legitimate daughter of the Chen family, am not as good-for-nothing as you! No, I must stay away and get married to the prince of the Wang family in a month!"

"Dad, no, I am relying on Zhu Shizhen. I will only follow him."

"No! If you follow him, my Chen family will be ridiculed for marrying their legitimate daughter to a farmer. Where will the face be? How can we gain a foothold in Huaixi?"

"Dad, I have made up my mind. He said he would marry me and support me, and I promised him."

"You! Humph, Chen Changle, if you insist on going with that farmer, then our Chen family will treat you as our legitimate daughter!"

"Dad, are you really going to do this?"

"That's right. You've realized your mistake. It's okay. Come back to me tomorrow..."

"Dad, in that case, my daughter is willing to give up her position as the eldest daughter of the Chen family and become an ordinary civilian woman, the wife of Zhu Shizhen!"

"What, Changle, you! You...Okay, okay, okay! Chen Changle, the eldest daughter of the Chen family in Huaixi, is marrying a farmer. He ignores the dignity of our Chen family in Huaixi. From now on, Chen Changle, the eldest daughter of the Chen family in Huaixi, will be demoted. If you leave the family, you will never return to the Chen family!"

"Dad... no, civilian daughter Chen Changle, thanked the Chen family master for being kind to me."
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Another month later, they got married.

"Husband, I will leave it to you for the rest of my life."

"So serious... Then I'll be serious too. I'll take care of you for the rest of my life. We don't want to be born in the same year, the same month and the same day, but we want to die in the same year, the same month and the same day."

"Pfft... Stupid husband, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid! We are getting married, not a favor, but... you idiot, hmm~ It's not bad to say this, I believe in you... I will always believe in you."

Time flashes again.

In middle age, the beautiful figure in the memory, the woman who once shocked the whole county and even Huaixi when she was young, could not bear the passage of time after all, and she was also... old.

"Husband, Yuanting soldiers are here, let's go."

"We can't leave. Yuanting soldiers have surrounded everyone nearby. No! They are coming. Changle, please leave quickly. I will follow you later!"

"No, I won't leave. There are more than a dozen of them. You are no match. If I don't leave, I will never see you again. I will follow you."

"Changle, you...just go, I, Zhu Shizhen, beg you."

"If you don't leave, have you forgotten the promise we made when we got married? You don't want to be born on the same year, the same month and the same day, but you just want to die on the same year, the same month and the same day. This is what you promised me."

"You... Hey, okay, that's the case, then you and I will go to Huangquan Road together! Unfortunately... we didn't wait for Chongba in the end, but he will avenge us in the future and will bring these Yuanting Kill everyone."

"Husband, do you really believe in our child?"

"Well, he is the only pride I have in my mediocre life since I came to this era. Madam, let's not talk about him. In this life, I really... thank you. It's you who made me feel that even in ancient times, there was no entertainment. It’s not that sad, there is always hope.”

"Pfft... We are already an old married couple, and you still say these things. Husband, I am too... thank you. I will follow you in the next life."

(End of this chapter)