Chapter 186

On the river surface, six coffins emerged.

They happened to surround that figure in red in the middle.

The figure in red's form had been constantly shifting and changing, but once she was surrounded, she could no longer maneuver out of this encirclement.

On the periphery, a curtain of water appeared.

Standing within the water curtain was a woman wearing a white dress.

The last time Li Zhuiyuan saw her here, she was still wearing a wedding dress.

After all, at that time, her status was still the person in charge of Bai Family Town;

And after that encounter, she became a pitiable person who, for the sake of the survival of Bai Family Town, had to endure humiliation and bear heavy burdens, having no choice but to submit to Master Xue.

All of this was due to the "oppression of the Long Wang."

No longer in red, but with a married woman's hairstyle, it meant she had already positioned herself as a married woman.

A single piece of yellow paper not only summoned six Bai family ladies to assist, but also made her appear in person.

Tan Wenbin certainly understood that this was not because of his face; however, as the one shouting from the bow of the boat, when out and about, he represented the will of the Long Wang.

Brother Xiaoyuan had never liked the Bai family.

The Bai family was also very clear about this point.

And precisely because of this, they appeared very promptly upon receiving the Long Wang's order.

It is likely that when Tan Wenbin arrived at the riverside, the moment that figure in red drifted down the river intending to station herself here, the Bai family had already made preparations.

They were very clear that they could not give that future Long Wang a formal reason to take action against them.

The Jianghu is vast, boundless and without end.

The Jianghu is also very small, so small that a single Nantong is also a Jianghu.

Under the premise that the one under the peach forest would no longer take action against Li Zhuiyuan or even actively help "open or close doors."

The youth could already establish rules here for the people of the Profound Sect and for evil spirits and ghosts.

Either follow his will and jointly maintain these rules, or stand outside the rules and be cleared away.

The young woman in the water curtain turned to face Tan Wenbin, performed a half-bow, and her cold voice echoed across the river surface:

"The Bai family, accepts the Long Wang's order!"

Tan Wenbin flicked the cigarette ash; he knew his task for tonight was already complete.

In fact, he was just here to proclaim the decree.

To a certain extent, was the most troublesome and thorny evil spirit tonight really that figure in red on the river?

It was not.

Tonight, the most powerful and the one that most needed to be suppressed was Bai Family Town.

"Creak..."

"Creak..."

The coffin lids fell off one after another.

One by one, the Bai family ladies, who had been of different ages during their lifetimes, sat up from the coffins.

Some were old women with gray hair, and some were young girls not even ten years old.

The figure in red let out a shriek.

This time, it was no longer anger, but panic.

She had originally just thought to take advantage of the situation to slip in and occupy a small piece of territory; she hadn't expected that the moment she entered Nantong, she would encounter such a situation.

She began to whisper again, but she was not launching a mental attack on Tan Wenbin; instead, she was facing those Bai family ladies.

She hoped she could retreat.

But clearly, the Bai family ladies did not agree, and her hand waved forward.

The six Bai family ladies in the coffins all left their coffins and stood on the water surface.

It was impossible to let you retreat; this was the first Long Wang order the Bai family had received, and no matter what, there could be no room for bargaining.

Only by completely exterminating you could that youth see the Bai family's attitude, and this kind of thing is most taboo when it comes to being discounted.

On the river surface, the slaughter began.

The distance was a bit far, and wind and waves had risen, so Tan Wenbin deliberately held the cigarette with his fingers and activated his spirit-walking to watch.

He saw that figure in red, when facing the siege of the six Bai family ladies, quickly fall into a disadvantage.

But even so, while her own red clothes were constantly being torn and gradually shattering, she also caused all six Bai family ladies to be injured.

She was truly fierce.

The cigarette burned to the end, scalding Tan Wenbin's fingers.

Tan Wenbin immediately ended the spirit-walking state, took a fierce drag on the cigarette butt, and only then threw it to the ground, stepping on it with the sole of his shoe.

He had gone to watch via spirit-walking just to go through the motions.

This was a requirement of the Bai family, equivalent to acting as a witness.

After proclaiming the decree, one also had to act as an army supervisor.

Now that he had seen it, it was time to wrap things up.

Sister Liang had taken action.

He saw her reach her hand out of the water curtain and grab into the void.

The figure in red immediately fell into a state of stagnation.

The six Bai family ladies swarmed up.

Only a shrill scream was heard from the river surface, and a piece of torn red cloth first floated up, then slowly fell toward the riverbank, where it was gripped by Tan Wenbin's hand.

This was a token, a head, and even more so, the Bai family's pledge of allegiance.

The six injured Bai family ladies sat back into their coffins and lay back down, and then the coffins gradually sank and disappeared from sight.

On the river surface, only the one in the water curtain remained.

Tan Wenbin looked carefully and did not notice any bulge in the Bai family lady's abdomen.

Was it obscured by the effect of the water curtain?

But that shouldn't be.

Since she was showing her attitude and wanted to involve human sentiment, what could be more appropriate than a big belly?

So, was the Bai family lady's pregnancy special... or was Brother Liangliang's seed special?

Tan Wenbin couldn't be bothered to think about it anymore.

He waved the red cloth in his hand and shouted:

"See you later, Sister Liang."

Tan Wenbin turned and left.

Returning to the taxi, through the car window, he saw the driver sitting in the driver's seat, eyes closed, as if asleep, his face covered in tear stains.

People always say one must go to see the last side, but this last side actually has no fixed number; it is just a compromise for the fact that one can no longer meet in reality.

Tan Wenbin leaned his back against the car door, not in a hurry to wake the driver.

Anyway, he had nothing else to do next, so he might as well let the driver sleep a little longer in the dream that still held the scent of his mother.

"Giggle giggle!"

In the graveyard, Benben was laughing very happily.

This child preferred and was more adapted to this environment filled with eerie ghostly energy.

Fortunately, he was still young, and everything could still be corrected.

Li Zhuiyuan looked at the child in his arms with some helplessness.

He reached out and pinched the child's mouth to make it close.

The child stopped laughing.

But when Li Zhuiyuan let go, the child laughed even more happily, seemingly thinking the youth was playing a game with him.

On the ground beside the youth were five damp human-shaped marks.

This meant that the youth had just suppressed and killed five evil spirits here that had attempted to break out of the soil.

For the youth, this had no difficulty.

Compared to the evil things carefully cooked by the river water, these randomly born wild evil spirits could only be considered a snack between meals, mainly for adjustment.

The feng shui here originally had no problems and couldn't be considered very good, but at least it wasn't bad; however, because an industrial park was built in front, one river was cut off and the flow of another was changed, which artificially turned a piece of ordinary feng shui land into a trapped, gloomy place.

In the meantime, the incident where Ding Dalin and his gang of water monkeys woke up the one in the peach forest happened to occur, causing the peach forest to suppress the surroundings and suppress the contradictions that should have appeared.

When the one in the peach forest turned over and dozed off, the accumulated gloomy energy surged in here like a dam breaking, which caused the mutation.

The progress of industrial technology has made it increasingly easy for human power to transform nature; projects that previously required gathering a large amount of manpower and material resources could now be handled by a construction team equipped with enough machines.

With the arrival of the era of large-scale infrastructure, there will inevitably be no shortage of incidents caused by such sudden changes in feng shui.

This was something Li Zhuiyuan had long anticipated.

The youth continued to hold Benben with his left hand, reached forward with his right, and after the karmic fire appeared, it surged toward the surroundings.

Through the nihilistic scorching of the karmic fire, the gloomy energy in the graveyard was cleansed, and the surroundings became extremely clean.

Benben pursed his lips and stopped giggling.

When dawn was about to break, Li Zhuiyuan returned home.

The others had not returned.

And in the next two days, they still did not return.

Because the known issues were resolved, but there was no guarantee there wouldn't be follow-ups, everyone might as well stay in the four directions and wait for orders.

Li Zhuiyuan would place the compass on Benben's belly three times a day to perform calculations and perception.

Whenever he discovered any small fry attempting to enter, or where any new things were about to be born, he would page his partners and let the one closest go to resolve it.

When Tan Yunlong once rode a motorcycle to carry him to investigate a case and inquired at a foot massage shop, Tan Yunlong had told him that those disharmonious things in society would never disappear, and there was no such thing as a true "once and for all" in this world, but one could not deny the significance of every cleaning and strike because of this.

Dirty things are the same; no matter how clean a place is, if it isn't cleaned often, it will still gather dust.

However, news came.

The honest and steady second son of the Wu family, Wu Yougen, came here to invite Li Sanjiang to perform a ritual.

Li Zhuiyuan finally heard the whistle of the end.

One could even say that he was actually the dumpling wrapped for this dish of vinegar.

It was just that at the beginning, he really was just there to pour vinegar.

However, what surprised Li Zhuiyuan a bit was that the way the Wu family members died was somewhat different from what he had expected.

The police received a report and conducted an investigation into the Wu family.

With neither human nor material evidence, and the reporter needing to remain confidential, this investigation was very awkward from the start.

Without any surprise, Luo Jinhua, Wu Changshun, and the others flatly denied that such a thing existed, and one by one swore to heaven and earth that if they had really done such a conscience-less thing, they would die a horrible death.

They believed that someone in the village was deliberately wagging their tongue, specifically trying to make things difficult for their family to watch a joke; Luo Jinhua took people to curse in front of the houses of villagers with grudges in the village, and although she didn't know exactly who it was, she would rather curse everyone than miss one.

What was even more absurd and infuriating was that Wu Youhou, who was the husband and the father of those three children, also did not acknowledge such "groundless" things, and even took the initiative to stand out to explain and guarantee for his family to the police.

That day, Great-Grandfather sat on the rattan chair on the second floor and scolded him for quite a while, because Great-Grandfather had eaten more salt than many people had eaten rice, and he knew very well how disappointing and hateful a person like Wu Youhou was.

The point of blind filial piety is not in "filial piety," but in "blindness"; only a true fool would, when facing such unfair treatment in life, still not separate the family after so long, continue to be willingly sucked dry by those two half-brothers, and drag his own wife and children into suffering along with him.

When Tan Yunlong received Tan Wenbin's police report call, he said from the start that this matter was very difficult to handle, because he was too experienced; some cases could be black and white, but some cases were not that the police wanted to muddle through, but that it was already a puddle of rotten mud.

The police were very responsible, even digging up the remains of the newly deceased children for forensic identification; there were no signs of poisoning, and they had indeed died of illness.

But for children who hadn't developed well in the womb, in daily life, just deliberate targeting, intentional exposure to cold, plus malnutrition, and even artificial emotional stimulation, were enough to make these already fragile little lives pass away early.

The investigation ended without result.

But Luo Jinhua and the others were guilty after all, with ghosts in their hearts, so on the day after the investigation ended, they had their own fourth son borrow the tractor from the factory, carrying her husband Wu Changshun, the third son, and herself, a total of four people, to head to Langshan to burn incense.

Their family hadn't even gone to burn incense during the New Year, but now they were in such a hurry to go.

On the road, a car accident occurred.

The tractor first drove against traffic and hit a truck, then rolled over into a river ditch; the four people in the car were smashed into a bloody mess, all died, and none survived.

What made Li Zhuiyuan feel strange was that the way these four people died was too clean and too neat, and it could actually be disguised as a car accident.

This was definitely not something those three formed little guys could do.

The facts were indeed so; when Li Zhuiyuan accompanied Great-Grandfather to the Wu family again to perform the ritual and funeral, when Great-Grandfather was performing the ceremony, he saw the three small figures standing beside the offering table.

The three of them had already formed, but there was only resentment and not much baleful energy on them, meaning they hadn't had time to be stained with blood and human lives.

Therefore, the death of Luo Jinhua and those four people was really just an accident.

An extremely coincidental accident.

Li Zhuiyuan looked at his Great-Grandfather's back.

He had to suspect it, because he himself had had a similar experience.

He still remembered that time he received Great-Grandfather's good fortune, won money playing cards, and then immediately felt an unpredictable fear.

If it hadn't been for Shan Shan Daye taking away half the money to help him lose it back, the things he encountered later would have been really hard to deal with.

After all, Luo Jinhua and the others still owed Great-Grandfather's wages.

This matter could be big or small.

But that afternoon, after burying that poor child, the things Luo Jinhua and the others said, he only heard because his hearing was good.

Great-Grandfather didn't have such good hearing, but the wind could actually bring these words.

The one under the peach forest, in order to let him not need to lose merit on such matters, actively used peach blossoms to cover the map and helped him bear the backlash.

And Great-Grandfather didn't want him to dirty his hands at all.

Although Great-Grandfather didn't even know about this matter himself.

He, the initiator, was actually cleared completely clean.

What's more interesting is that the dumplings were already cooked and served on the table, only to find that there was no vinegar in the vinegar bottle at all.

After the three children stood beside Great-Grandfather for a while, they left; they didn't dissipate, but went to their father Wu Youhou.

Wu Youhou, as a filial son, wore mourning clothes and knelt there; the three children all climbed onto his body and glared at him fiercely.

The dead were already dead; even if it was an accident, they had received retribution and paid with their lives.

But besides that, the three children also held full resentment toward their father.

Some things, Wu Youhou might not have been without suspicion, but he just deliberately chose not to believe.

If Luo Jinhua and the others were the direct murderers, then Wu Youhou could actually be considered an accomplice in another sense.

Wu Youhou, kneeling there, had bloodshot eyes and a dark forehead.

He hadn't slept for several days, because as long as he closed his eyes, the crying of the children would first come to his ears, and scenes from their past life would appear in his mind.

Many details that he hadn't been willing to face or even actively ignored and blurred were spread out again and forcibly reflected in front of him.

Even if he was emotionally unwilling, he had to admit a fact, which was that the death of his three children was not an accident, and not because his wife was not good at bearing children.

Li Zhuiyuan only focused on helping his Great-Grandfather during the day and didn't bother with the three children, just letting them haunt their father.

Because four people died suddenly at once, a late-night vigil had to be added.

Great-Grandfather held a peach wood sword, sat behind a pile of Buddhist and Daoist curtains, and chanted scriptures.

As he chanted, Great-Grandfather fell asleep, but the rhythm of this snoring was also similar to the cadence of the murmurs when chanting scriptures; anyway, it was all vague and unclear.

It was the same last time when keeping the late-night vigil at the Niu family; Liu Jinxia and Shan Shan Daye were almost falling apart from being tossed by the corpse demon, but Great-Grandfather could still sleep sweetly like nothing had happened.

The second brother, Wu Yougen, knelt in front of the fire basin in the mourning hall, ensuring the fire inside wouldn't go out.

Li Zhuiyuan walked over, grabbed a large handful of gold and silver ingots, threw them into the fire basin, and stuffed a large stack of yellow paper inside.

Wu Yougen had an honest temperament, which is the kind of simple person without much thought.

Normally, when burning paper, you shouldn't throw too much at once; not only is it easy not to burn through, but it will also smoke.

But Wu Yougen just smiled at Li Zhuiyuan, then picked up a wooden stick and pushed aside the gold and silver ingots and yellow paper the youth had just thrown in, letting them burn fully.

"Bang." "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"

Inside the mourning hall, from the four rented crystal coffins, explosive sounds came collectively.

Long Wang burning paper offerings is something only close people and people of great virtue can enjoy a little bit.

Are those four inside worthy?

Like being unable to bear supplements, under powerful suppression, the serious result is the soul flying away and scattering, and the light one is losing the qualification to be reincarnated as a human in the next life.

In this life, they hadn't done much to accumulate merit, but instead had a pile of evil debts; I don't know how many lifetimes they will have to be pigs and dogs to pay back this "blessing."

Wu Yougen raised his head in surprise, and when he found the youth beside him was indifferent, he began to suspect whether the previous sound was his own auditory hallucination.

After Li Zhuiyuan stayed for a while longer, he left.

In the corner of the tent, he saw Wu Youhou curled up alone, holding his head.

The three children were lying fiercely on their "father," starting to bite.

Luo Jinhua and the others died too quickly and too cleanly; logically speaking, after these three finished their revenge on Luo Jinhua and the others, the baleful energy plus resentment would make them gradually transform into evil ghosts.

Now, they had just developed a little bit of ferocity.

Li Zhuiyuan's gaze narrowed slightly, and he beckoned to them; at his fingertips, faint black energy circulated, bringing a pressure that ordinary ghosts found hard to resist.

Just by learning the Twelve Dharma Decrees of Fengdu and being considered the only contemporary "successor" of the Great Emperor of Fengdu, the youth had a natural suppression over ordinary ghosts in this world.

Unfortunately, the Great Emperor of Fengdu was still angry with him because of some small misunderstandings.

The three children left their "father" and followed Li Zhuiyuan back to the front of the mourning hall.

Li Zhuiyuan patted Wu Yougen on the shoulder and told him his brother was hiding there alone and looked very bad.

Wu Yougen saw that the paper money in the fire basin could still burn for a long time, so he got up and went to find his eldest brother.

Li Zhuiyuan sat down on a small stool.

He had no intention of stopping the three from continuing their revenge, but the most direct enemies were already dead, and although these three children had formed, their hands and feet were currently still clean.

Once they were truly stained with human blood, there would be no way to be reincarnated.

Unless the three of them could also meet someone like Tan Wenbin who was truly willing to share enough merit with them.

But this was almost impossible.

So, while they were still clean, they should stop while they could.

Li Zhuiyuan picked up the yellow paper by his feet and folded three small boats.

Their mother had given him a red envelope when they first met, which was that wrinkled money.

Just take it as buying these three paper boats to carry you to reincarnation.

The three children should have known what this meant, and when they were beside Li Zhuiyuan, the ferocity on their faces would fade, becoming more peaceful.

Seeing they weren't in a hurry to take the paper boats, but were all looking toward the inner room.

That was the room where their mother was; she had been rescued after drinking pesticide, but her body had collapsed and would need a long time to recuperate.

Li Zhuiyuan nodded and said, "Go."

The three children ran into the room.

After a while, they ran back.

Seeing they were ready, Li Zhuiyuan threw the three small boats he had folded into the fire basin one by one.

Along with the burning of the paper boats, in the hands of the three children, one appeared for each of them, a paper boat.

The soul-ferrying boat folded by the Long Wang himself carried the blessing from the Long Wang, which could protect them to be reincarnated into a good family in the next life.

This was actually also a consumption of his own merit.

But the previous nature was a fine, while this was an active donation.

Compared to the merit gained from establishing a dojo in Nantong this time and his team slaying demons and eliminating monsters, this little loss could be considered a drop in the bucket.

The three children and the paper boats in their hands began to dissipate together.

They were too young to bow or thank, but in the process of dissipating, they smiled at the big brother in front of them.

There was not a trace of malice, but full of childhood innocence.

Li Zhuiyuan turned his head away and didn't look at them; even now, he still didn't like the innocent smiles of children.

In his heart, he just told himself that this was a very cost-effective deal.

By the way, let the Heavenly Dao see: Look, I am really different from Wei Zhengdao.

It's just that Li Zhuiyuan himself also overlooked one thing, or rather, he deliberately blurred it.

If he were truly without waves and just considered it a deal, he wouldn't need to actively find so many reasons at all.

"Children, my children, children!"

The woman's figure appeared at the door of the room.

Her originally pale complexion now actually showed a hint of rosiness, and her entire spirit was much better than before.

Li Zhuiyuan only took one look at her and knew that when the three children returned to the room to see their mother earlier, they had left some things for her.

Her body had gradually collapsed because of bearing them, and she had drunk pesticide because her grief was greater than the death of her heart after losing them.

Compared to the resentment toward their "father," the three children had always retained attachment to their mother; otherwise, they wouldn't have triggered such strong resentment because they "witnessed" their mother drinking pesticide.

Wu Yougen returned; he was a bit lost because he hadn't been able to find his eldest brother.

Seeing his sister-in-law come out with thin clothes, he immediately walked over, keeping a distance, not daring to reach out to touch, just constantly saying, "Wear more clothes, wear more clothes."

Li Sanjiang woke up, yawning as he walked out from behind the curtains.

Four people in the Wu family died at once; at the funeral, the fourth son's wife showed up and then left, and the third son's pregnant wife didn't come at all, having been taken to the hospital by her parents to have an abortion.

But Wu Youhou, as the eldest brother, was the host of this funeral; anyone could quit, but he couldn't.

Li Sanjiang and Wu Yougen searched together, searched for a long time, and finally, on a tree in a remote part of the village, saw Wu Youhou hanging there.

He had committed suicide by hanging.

He was taken down and sent to the town health center; the doctor checked and directly said there was no saving him.

His death had nothing to do with the three children; when he decided to die, the three children had already been sent by Li Zhuiyuan to be reincarnated.

When those things could no longer be avoided or ignored and became bloody facts, he lost the courage to live out of shame.

He didn't dare to face his wife again, and even less dared to face himself.

However, this father was indeed very unreliable; he was like this while alive, and even more so when dying.

If Li Zhuiyuan hadn't sent the three children away in advance and let Wu Youhou die first, the three children would inevitably have been stained with human blood.

Wu Youhou's wife seemed very calm after learning the news of her husband's suicide; her tears had already dried up, and her emotions had been exhausted.

Given that Wu Youhou committed suicide, which also belongs to an unnatural death, under Li Sanjiang's suggestion, no separate funeral would be held for him.

Anyway, four people were already being handled, so it didn't matter if there was one more.

No more banquet was held, and no more funeral band was invited to play; Li Sanjiang just stayed here and stopped the vigil for one more day.

On the day they were sent to the crematorium, because five people had to be sent to be burned at once, the crematorium's hearse wasn't enough, so they had to be picked up and dropped off in two batches.

Just after the burning, the wives of the third and fourth sons returned to divide the family property.

This was a normal move; originally a large family, suddenly falling apart with deaths, it was bound to scatter, especially since the wives of the third and fourth sons were still very young and had no children.

Li Zhuiyuan accompanied Great-Grandfather to pack things and witnessed the process of dividing the family.

The Wu family's matter caused a huge stir; after all, for an ordinary family, it was hard to gather five people to go to the crematorium to queue for burning at once.

Plus, Luo Jinhua had previously cursed all the enemies in the village, and swore and cursed in front of the police; she did the first day, so don't blame the villagers for doing the fifteenth.

There were many onlookers; not only did the village party secretary come, but the town and the police also sent people.

The Wu family hadn't divided the family originally, and the family income, besides being used to subsidize the third and fourth sons' marriages and buying jobs, was still held in Luo Jinhua's hands.

Now that the family was divided, it actually allowed the eldest and second branches to "take advantage."

The parents and relatives of the third and fourth sons' wives came to hold the line, wanting to divide the majority of the family property.

It was just that the officials were sitting here, so they didn't dare to be too presumptuous; otherwise, it would likely have been a fight with the third and fourth sons' wives' families, coming to an equal five-five split.

Wu Youhou's wife, the eldest sister-in-law of this family, sat there expressionless.

She had no children, no husband, and her parents were also dead; she had no support or reliance.

The scene before her was nothing more than a reenactment of the family scenes over the past many years; clearly, the eldest and second branches made the greatest contributions, but every time the good things fell to the third and fourth branches.

She didn't care, but someone did.

The most silent second brother, Wu Yougen, took out a wood-chopping knife from the woodshed, his eyes turning red.

The police and the village party secretary stepped forward to persuade him, but were forcibly pushed away by him.

He waved the wood-chopping knife in the air, pointed at the relatives of the third and fourth branches, and roared like a leopard:

"I can go without, but sister-in-law cannot; otherwise, she alone, with this body, simply won't be able to live; at least it must be divided into three parts, give sister-in-law a share!

Otherwise, I will kill your whole family!"

When an honest person goes crazy, that is truly scary.

That demeanor, that tone, that look, made everyone present believe that he could truly do such a thing.

The scene remained deadlocked like this.

Until the police and several young men in the village cooperated to take the knife from Wu Yougen's hand, and then Wu Yougen was also taken to the police station.

This kind of threatening with a knife in front of the police couldn't go unhandled, but considering the reality, at most he would be kept at the police station for education.

The village party secretary made the decision to divide the Wu family's property into four equal parts, with each branch getting one.

Regarding this, the relatives of the third and fourth branches didn't dare to express any more dissatisfaction, and even tacitly agreed to leave a share for Wu Yougen; there was no way, this Wu family was too evil, suddenly the family members died until only one male remained; he said he didn't want it, did you dare to really not give it?

Who knows if one day he drinks too much, suddenly remembers this matter, and on a whim brings a knife to your house to talk about it again.

The new brick houses where the third and fourth branches lived were calculated and bought by the eldest and second branches.

Signing and stamping, they were busy until the afternoon, and the family was finally divided.

The relatives of the third and fourth branches left directly.

Just after they left, Wu Yougen, who had been educated at the police station, was released.

Learning that he had also been given a share, he took the initiative to find his sister-in-law and said he had hands and feet, so he would give his share to her.

Some villagers who were watching the fun and hadn't left yet were already stirring up the idea of letting Wu Yougen marry his sister-in-law.

Anyway, the sister-in-law couldn't go back to her maiden home and still had to live here; for the brother-in-law and sister-in-law to live here, if it wasn't a problem, it was still a problem.

These suggestions were sincere, without much teasing, because the sister-in-law had lost three children, had drunk pesticide, was older, and her body wasn't good; even if she wanted to remarry, it was almost impossible, so only this second brother who had never married wouldn't mind and might be willing.

She was a bitter person; at this time, finding a reliance would be the best thing.

But it was just talk; having just finished so many funerals, it wasn't suitable to push this deeply; some things could only be left to time to bring together.

Li Sanjiang rode the tricycle, carrying Little Yuan Hou home.

On the road, Li Sanjiang savored the sudden change in the second brother Wu Yougen.

Li Sanjiang said that some people in this world just open up late, especially men.

Before getting married and taking responsibility, they were either unreliable or muddled, just living their days in a daze, just like that Wu Old Second.

That Wu Old Second hadn't been coveting his sister-in-law for a long time; looking at it from a man's perspective, that sister-in-law really had nothing to covet; it was purely because his father was gone and his eldest brother was gone, and he knew he had to shoulder the burden.

It was just that Luo Jinhua had been suppressing Wu Old Second and didn't let him marry a wife; if he had married earlier, I'm afraid this Old Wu family would have divided the family long ago.

"A man is only a real man after he has responsibility and a sense of duty."

Li Zhuiyuan, sitting in the back, listened to Great-Grandfather's rambling; he was very curious why Great-Grandfather, who had never married in his life, spoke so reasonably about these things.

But this question, he couldn't possibly ask.

"Little Yuan Hou."

"Yes, Great-Grandfather."

"Although you are still young now, when you grow up, you must also learn to shoulder things.

The burden that should be yours, since it has fallen on your shoulders, no matter how bitter, tired, or unwilling you are, you must grit your teeth and carry it."

Perhaps stimulated by this matter of the Old Wu family, Great-Grandfather, who always liked to promote happy education, rarely started a lesson on responsibility.

"I know, Great-Grandfather."

Li Zhuiyuan responded while silently lowering his head.

In fact, he had long been facing this situation.

And this matter of the Old Wu family was a negative case that saw the big through the small, giving him a reminder.

When you should stand out, you must stand out; avoidance, hesitation, doubt, and entanglement will only make the situation develop in the worst direction.

Smart people just learn things quickly, not born knowing great truths; otherwise, he wouldn't have been unable to beat A Li at chess, because he just learned Go but never studied it deeply.

For example, Xue Liangliang, Professor Zhu, and even his own Great-Grandfather, they also had truths worth learning and realizing.

It's just that Li Zhuiyuan clearly misunderstood Great-Grandfather's foreshadowing intention.

"So, Little Yuan Hou, although you are still young, you and that girl A Li have been playing together for so long; what is this relationship called in storytelling, golden spears and iron horses?"

"Great-Grandfather, it's childhood sweethearts."

"Hmm, anyway, it's this horse. That girl hasn't been to school, and her temperament is a bit cold, but Great-Grandfather can see that girl's eyes are full of you.

As the saying goes, see the old at three; especially that girl A Li, Great-Grandfather thinks that even if she grows up in the future, the probability is that she won't change much.

It's quite good, really, Little Yuan Hou."

Li Sanjiang supported the tricycle handlebar with one hand and scratched his head with the other.

His great-grandson was still young, and he felt it was inappropriate to tell him these things, but he could feel that his great-grandson was smart and could understand, so he had to say what should be said.

"So, Little Yuan Hou, no matter what, don't delay her, and don't let her down.

Great-Grandfather sees that snobbish old lady now also accepts her fate and no longer puts on airs like before.

Don't mind her previous faces; forget them if you should; after all, raising such a granddaughter is not easy."

"I understand, Great-Grandfather."

"In short, Great-Grandfather is a person who has been through it; I think this girl A Li is good; when you are all adults, Great-Grandfather is willing to see her as my great-granddaughter-in-law.

She can also be considered as having been watched by me growing up; our own child, our own child."

"Great-Grandfather?"

"Hmm?"

"Where did you come from?"

Li Sanjiang's old face flushed, and he pedaled the tricycle hard, letting the whistling wind blow away the youth's questioning behind him.

After returning home, Li Zhuiyuan first went to Auntie Zhang's small shop to call Lu Yi, asking Lu Yi to page his four companions to tell them they could withdraw.

Afterward, the youth came to Hu Zi's house and walked into the peach forest.

It was time to remind it that the nap was over.

The wind blew up again, and like last time, it was very hard and painful.

Clearly, it hadn't vented its anger yet.

But this time, Li Zhuiyuan didn't lower his head to dodge, still standing straight, letting the cold wind constantly cut openings on his face.

It was definitely painful, but this just-right pain could make him better think about and ruminate on the things of the past few days.

Admittedly, in the future, when facing personal interests and so-called responsibility, he would still feel pain when making decisions, but isn't this also a kind of foreshadowing to resist this kind of torment.

When thinking and contemplating about responsibility, a person's temperament will also undergo subtle changes.

Being in the peach forest, any subtle change could not escape its eyes.

The wind gradually subsided.

Petals fell one by one, lightly covering the wounds on the youth's face; after they fell off, the thin cuts made by the wind were almost healed.

Li Zhuiyuan felt his face was a bit itchy, reached out to touch it, and found that after the wounds disappeared, he suddenly felt it was a bit funny.

He was just standing here in a daze, thinking about things; he didn't expect that even so, the one in the peach forest could launch a "hundred turns and thousand sorrows."

It is likely that it once again compared him with Wei Zhengdao, and might have found that it couldn't see through him again.

It is really a sentimental person.

"I am increasingly... unable to see through you..."

Li Zhuiyuan heard this, sighed, and said:

"How excellent must you have been to make Wei Zhengdao hold his nose and acknowledge you as a member of the team."

This was not a compliment, but a kind of helplessness, and could even be said to be a kind of teasing.

Anyway, even the current Li Zhuiyuan couldn't tolerate a member in the team who had such a rich inner drama and was so sensitive every day.

And the Wei Zhengdao of that period had a much more serious illness than himself.

"Hahahaha..."

But this kind of compliment that wasn't a compliment was the most joyful thing.

The one under the peach forest laughed very happily, and even the petals here collectively spun a few more times when falling.

This emotion of it made Li Zhuiyuan feel a bit infected.

Without any performance, the corners of Li Zhuiyuan's mouth also slightly pulled out a curve.

Now, he understood a bit why Wei Zhengdao kept him in the team.

It is possible that many times back then, when Wei Zhengdao looked at it, he would also be rendered speechless and want to laugh like himself.

It's just that the original Wei Zhengdao couldn't wrap things up well; he let himself down, let his companions down, and ultimately left sighs and regrets in this world.

He couldn't make the same mistake.

Li Zhuiyuan's gaze became firm.

The laughter in the peach forest also subsided.

"It seems... my nap... is about to end... what a rare good sleep..."

"If you want to sleep, you can continue to close your eyes and sleep."

"In this world, when it comes to speaking pretty words... who can compare to you two... hehe... are you really not afraid that I will take the slope and get off the donkey... and close my eyes?"

"Not afraid."

"Why..."

"Because from today on, I will keep my eyes open."

(End of chapter)