Untouchable Cute Baby

There was a knock on the door outside the room. Zuo Xiran put down his tea cup and took a look at Linfeng. The door was opened.

It was the women in black who had just been around the patriarch. They invited Zuo Xiran and Linfeng to have dinner. They followed her through many complicated and narrow labyrinth like roads and finally came to the dining room.

There are more lights in this room than in all places just now. On the table are incomparable delicacies that Zuo Xiran did not see in the state of Qi. Linfeng whispered in her ear, "this is Chixi family banquet. We can only eat it once a year. This is the highest courtesy treatment."

After hearing this, Zuo Xiran bowed to the leader who was sitting in the middle to express his thanks.

"You're welcome, Miss Nangong. Please have a seat."

She seems to be the only one in the room who can smile except Zuo Xiran and Linfeng, because other people in black cloaks are looking at them without expression.

In fact, Zuo Xiran can understand that these people will regenerate after taking new abdominal worms. Naturally, she has no memory. She looks pitiful. Just as she wants to pull Linfeng to sit down, she sees that she has been staring at a person.

It's her mother.

But the other side obviously has no expression at all, just standing quietly behind the patriarch, may feel the hot eyes of Linfeng from Yu Guangzhong, there is a trace of confusion on his face, but he still doesn't say anything.

"Don't look! Sit down

Zuo Xiran whispered and looked at the patriarch with a smile. Now she can hear a lot of Chixi dialect.

"Patriarch, I don't know why you live underground here? And brought these dead to this place? " Zuo Xiran asked curiously, want to know the story behind the mysterious Chixi, or the patriarch said is the most real.

She looks a bit embarrassed, as if she is considering whether to tell Zuo Xiran about it.

Then she nodded, probably thinking that Zuo Xiran was a member of Nangong family and would not hurt them.

"This place is Chixi ancestral hall, which has always been underground. I'm the head of Chixi clan, but the people in Chixi village don't know our village head. When the abdominal worms in their bodies die, we will save them. "

The patriarch said seriously. Zuo Xiran frowned and continued to ask, "they don't have any memory now, do they?"

"Yes, we don't know anything about the past. We are here to guard Chi Xi's secret."

Zuo Xiran nodded. Sure enough, he was in this place to guard something. He built the house underground. He always felt uncomfortable, like an ancient tomb.

"Who did that trick us?"

Lin Feng asked.

"It's midwives. Every midwife is a member of Chixi ancestral hall. She also provides you with new abdominal worms."

The patriarch said that he poured a glass of wine for Zuo Xiran and Linfeng.

"Abdominal worms also exist in your body. This is the mission of Chi Xi people."

Maybe the patriarch felt what Linfeng wanted to say, so he said, she nodded, did not speak.

Zuo Xiran thought that he had gone through a lot of twists and turns when he came here just now. If outsiders came, he would be dizzy. This place is a living labyrinth.

"Patriarch, may I ask, what are you guarding?"

Zuo Xiran tentatively says that it's Chixi's private business after all. She's a foreigner, and it's really hard for her to speak. But looking at Linfeng's lonely appearance, she should not be online now, or she should ask herself.

Unexpectedly, the patriarch was very straightforward, "didn't miss Nangong know? We are guarding things for the Nangong family! "

As soon as she says this, Zuo Xiran is startled. Why is she guarding the Nangong family? What is the secret of longevity that Nangong family has been guarding?

Zuo Xiran can't help but help him. Why are there so many troubles

"I I don't know. Our whole family has been exterminated, leaving me and my aunt alone... "

Zuo Xiran murmured.

"I know that the Nangong family will send someone to check it every ten years, but no one has come twice. We can guess that something happened to you. Now that Miss Nangong is here, she must be the candidate for the new patriarch? "

The patriarch asks kindly, and Zuo Xiran nods her head. She finds that she knows too little.

"We are here to guard generations in accordance with the instructions of our ancestors. In the innermost part of this ancestral hall, there is a door, which is what we have been guarding for generations. The Nangong family come with the keepsake to enter the door. "

The patriarch said seriously and bowed to Zuo Xiran.

"Wait, keepsake. What is keepsake?"

Zuo Xiran asked, never heard of this thing.

The patriarch shook his head. "I don't know. No one from the Nangong family has ever come with a keepsake, so no one has been able to get in so far, and we Chixi people can't get in either. "Zuo Xiran was lost in thought. What is that thing? Looking at the patriarch's face, which is a typical Chixi woman's appearance, she suddenly thought of a person

"Wait a minute, your ancestor, was he called Qing?"

The patriarch looked at her in surprise, then nodded, "yes, it's Qing."

Zuo Xiran understood that the thing given to Qing by Nangong crane recorded in the book should be either the keepsake or the thing guarded by Chixi people.

Is it the love between Nangong crane and Qing that made Qing willing to step into the secret and sacrifice his whole life for generations in order to protect a secret that has nothing to do with him.

She couldn't understand it, but she felt great. It seemed that through the years, she thought of what her ancestors had looked like when they made a promise in front of Qing.

The patriarch saw that she was in a trance and said, "Miss Nangong, don't worry. Everything is OK here now."

Zuo Xiran nodded and thought to herself: if the patriarch knew that he had come here by mistake, he would not be so respectful to himself. Thinking of this, she looked at the costumes of the people around her and asked:

"is this black cloak the dress of Chixi people?"

The patriarch nodded, "this is our Chixi women's dress. We all wear it like this in our times."

"Have you ever seen a group of men in black cloaks? Carry weapons with you? "

The patriarch shook his head and said he had never seen it.

Zuo Xiran now understands that at the beginning, she always confused the two. It was not the same group that took the body and kidnapped herself. She confuse the public as like as two peas in the black cloak, who were all chic, and later felt that they were all chiefs. Now she realized that the other side had played a very clever trick, dressed up like their chic women, so that they could confuse the public.

Zuo Xiran couldn't help getting more angry. He turned back to see Linfeng and wanted to share the news with her, but she was stunned.

She knows that Linfeng is full of her own mother now. Maybe it's better to accept her mother's death than now. Although her mother is still alive now, she can't remember Linfeng at all. This is the most torture.

Zuo Xiran had never seen her parents, and she didn't know what it was like to have a mother's love. Maybe it was too sad to see Linfeng, so she boldly said to the patriarch, "patriarch, I have a heartless request. I hope you can agree."

"Go ahead, Miss Nanfeng."

Zuo Xiran looked at Linfeng and said, "I want to plead for my friend. Her mother is behind you now, but I don't know her. There are so many people here. I don't know if I can recover her memory and let her and her daughter go home."

When Linfeng hears Zuo Xiran's words, he looks at her in surprise and shakes his head. But Zuo Xiran held her hand tightly and motioned her to be calm.

"This..."

The patriarch looked very surprised. For the first time, she was asked to do so.

"I'm afraid not. First of all, the abdominal worms have been taken out. It's impossible to recover the memory."

Zuo Xiran felt that Linfeng's hand was suddenly cold.

"Secondly, it's the duty of every Chixi woman. Linfeng will come to this road in the future and face the separation of flesh and blood. Now in this Chixi ancestral hall, she has completely separated from her previous life."

The patriarch said seriously that of course she knew the pain of Linfeng.

At the beginning, when she was chosen as the patriarch, she also experienced the pain of remolding her memory. The first three days when you put in a new abdominal worm are the most painful. At that time, the old memories will be intertwined in your mind, and then slowly deleted. It is very painful for your body to fit in with the new abdominal worm.

However, these are fates, just like the last words of our ancestors:

"do not regret this life, carry on the past and open up the future."

Linfeng took a deep breath, wiped the tears on his face and said to the patriarch, "Linfeng knows that I'm not a child now. I can do it by myself. I want to kowtow her three times, OK? "

The patriarch nodded, put his head underground and put his hands together. He didn't know what he was saying.

Zuo Xiran looks at her painfully. Linfeng stands up from her seat, goes to her mother who doesn't know her at all, and kneels down.

The first one to ring her head, she said, "thank you for your mother's years of nurturing."

Zuo Xiran's throat choked.

The second ring head, she said: "I hope my mother's future life carefree."

Zuo Xiran did not turn his head, tears fell.

The third ring head, Linfeng continued: "I will remember my mother's teaching, do not forget the original heart."

Maybe this time is farewell, looked up, found his mother's face no expression, staring at her.

Linfeng smiles and leaves the room.

Zuo Xiran ran ran after her immediately. No one saw that a tear fell from the woman's right cheek. She didn't even know why.