I'm not a pet

Chapter 257

In the southwest corner of Mafa Continent, inside the Qingming Temple.

Qing Mingzi was sitting quietly in the wing room holding a ponytail whisk, his eyes were dimmed, but he was staring up at a spider that was spinning a web in the corner of the room.

After a long while, he finally sighed, got up and walked under the net, raised the ponytail in his hand, and brushed away the half-made web together with the spiders.

The horsetail whisk in his hand is really just an ordinary whisk made of ponytail, not an illegal weapon, but it is a token of the head of the Qingming Temple passed down from generation to generation.

Qingmingzi knocked the ponytail whisk against the corner of the table, trying to shake off the spiders and dust that had just been caught in the whisk.

After finishing all this, he looked at the whisk in his hand, sighed again and sat down.

The token of the head of a generation, but it only serves as a duster...

Everyone in the world thinks that Qingmingzi is pretending to escape from the world, but only he knows in his heart that he really wants to escape from the world.

The Mafa Continent has no strict requirements for those who practice Taoism. There are no taboos in diet, and they still marry and have children in life.

But Qingming Temple is the birthplace of Daoist cultivators in the Marfa Continent, and with his status as the master, he is destined not to be as simple and wanton as ordinary cultivators.

He is really reluctant to be the leader.

Just because his old father who passed away was the head of the previous generation, so the inheritance right of Qingming Temple naturally fell to him after his old father passed away.

Everyone knows that Qingming Temple has declined from generation to generation.

The Ching Ming Temple lacks the authentic inheritance of skills from its ancestors, and its decline will happen sooner or later.

In his generation, the situation seems to be even worse.

First of all, compared with cultivation, he yearns for the leisurely life of retiring to the mountains and forests regardless of the mundane world.

He was tired of the fights and fights in the Marfa Continent, and the key point was that he knew that it was impossible for his strength to remain invincible in the bloody disputes.

Furthermore, he has no children, only Yin Ruoyu, a daughter.

Since the establishment of Qingming Temple, there has never been a story of a woman inheriting the head.

In the past, when encountering the same situation as his generation, it was solved by recruiting a son-in-law.

The husband and son-in-law need to change their name and surname to "Yin" before they can inherit the position of head of Qingming Temple.

Regarding this question, Qing Mingzi deliberately checked the ancestral genealogy, only to discover a shocking secret.

It turns out that the ancestor of Qingming Temple, the founder of Qingming Temple, did not have the surname "Yin"!
Moreover, according to the ancestral genealogy records, the ancestor himself has not yet married, so...their Yin family generations are not the direct descendants of the ancestor!
no no no!It is because the ancestors have never had offspring at all...

The ancestor himself doesn't care whether the blood of the heir is pure or not, and he really doesn't understand why his ancestors care so much about the blood of Qingmingguan's inheritance.

After all, their surname Yin has no blood relationship with Qingming Patriarch.

The surname is Yin, so the surname is Yin. Although Qing Mingzi is dissatisfied with the rules of the ancestral genealogy, he does not want to break the rules of the ancestors in his generation.

Fortunately, her daughter looks like a fairy, so she doesn't have to worry about finding a good husband who is willing to join their Yin family.

Sure enough, the daughter came back to visit relatives at Qingming that year, and told him shyly that she and her younger brother Lu Yunchu had fallen in love with each other.

It was Lu Yunchu, who was 16 years old. His title of number one genius had already been heard throughout the Mafa Continent. He was also handsome and unparalleled, and he was a perfect match for his daughter.

The most important thing is that Lu Yunchu was an orphan since he was a child, and there must be no external obstacles to his Yin family's inheritance of Qingming concept.

He immediately wrote a letter to Gingko Villa, and discussed with Venerable Perak about his daughter's marriage to Lu Yunchu.

Although he doesn't walk in the Marfa Continent, and doesn't come into contact with too many ordinary people and common things, he still understands the principle of first strike first.

As a result, Venerable Perak quickly wrote back to him, to the effect that Lu Yunchu, as his most beloved disciple, could only marry his beloved daughter Ye Ziqing.

He had already planned that when Ye Ziqing became an adult five years later, which happened to be his fiftieth birthday, he would announce their marriage and the inheritance of Gingko Villa to Marfa Continent.

The letter also mentioned that as a godfather, he had been paying attention to Yin Ruoyu's marriage for a long time. It just so happened that the second son Long of Banyue Valley was about the same age as Yin Ruoyu, and that second dragon had always been valued by Dragon Blood and had a bright future. immeasurable.

Qingmingzi took the letter and hid in his room, cursing Venerable Perak secretly for more than a month before he felt the anger in his heart subside.

What the hell is Dragon Two?He was already well-known at a young age, if it wasn't because his mother was favored by the dragon's blood, could he be valued by the dragon's blood because of his Long Aotian virtue?

But scolding is scolding, and after scolding, you still have to write back to Venerable Perak, and you have to follow the wishes of Venerable Perak.

Relying on people's nose and picking up people's teeth, this is roughly the current situation of his generation of Qingming Temple masters.

After Yin Ruoyu learned about this, she went back to Qingming Temple and cried in front of him, hoping that he and Venerable Perak would take back this decision, and hope that he could fulfill her daughter's lifelong happiness.

But what can he do?
He has no ability, no financial resources, and even mana is pitifully low.

Only the patriarch of Qingming, whom he had never seen coming out of the gate, and the humiliation of the head of his generation can survive until today in his Qingming concept.

The Qingming Temple has always declared to the outside world that the ancestors of Qingming have been practicing in seclusion, and the time of each retreat ranges from decades to hundreds of years.

Anyway, Qingmingzi, who is already over half a hundred years old, is the ancestor of Qingming who has never seen him leave the customs.

After a long time, even Qingmingzi himself began to doubt whether there is really such a person as Qingming Patriarch in this world?

However, for him, it doesn't matter whether he believes in the existence of Qingming Patriarch or not. What matters is whether other people in Mafa Continent believe it or not.

As long as the world believes in the existence of a god-like figure like Patriarch Qingming, even if it is just a legend, then this legend is enough to support Qingming Temple to survive the ups and downs of Mafa Continent safely in the hands of his generation.

In his whole life, he was pure-hearted and ascetic, but he wanted An Ran to be the head of the sect, and never asked about the past and the afterlife.

Venerable Perak's birthday, he excused that the ancestor Qingming was going out of customs and did not attend.

Later I heard that on the day of the birthday, the ginkgo villa became a mess.

He was glad that he was wise enough not to go there, otherwise it is not known whether the messy porridge would burn him.

Later, he also heard the news that his daughter was held hostage by a witch on Venerable Perak's birthday and finally disappeared.

Although his daughter separated from him at the age of eight, and the relationship between father and daughter has gradually faded in the past 15 years, she is still his biological daughter anyway. After learning of her disappearance, he was once anxious.

Just as she was about to write a letter and go to Gingko Villa to ask for clarification, her daughter returned to Qingming Temple by herself. At that time, it was more than half a month before Venerable Perak's birthday.

He was relieved that his daughter came back safe and sound.

But for some reason, he felt that the daughter who came back this time seemed to be quite different from before.

(End of this chapter)