Chapter 96: My former home "I'll go out and look for that chicken." Zhou Ling slammed the table and stood up, his expression determined and serious. "Find it and give it to the monsters to make them retreat?" Zhou Li felt that his daughter was not that bad, but he asked cautiously. "How is that possible? I want to find it. Isn't it injured? Let's see how serious the injury is. If it can be cured, then I will cure it and let it reproduce its glorious past. If it can't be cured, and the monster's target is indeed it, then my flying magic weapon flies fast, I can take it to the monster, and then flee from here and lead the monsters away. No matter what, there is always a way out!" "That guardian beast only exists in legends. Everyone wants to find it, but no one has succeeded. How can you be sure that you can find it?" It's not that she wants to discourage her daughter, but it's really better not to think about such uncertain things. "Mom, look at this." Zhou Ling smiled slyly, and suddenly reached into her sleeve pocket, rummaging around. Zhou Li, who was still sitting at the table, suddenly heard a familiar voice. She once lived in this city, and for a few copper coins, my god, she almost got into a fight with someone. The memory of the death was attacking her again. She was very familiar with the sound of copper plates colliding. "Mother, have you forgotten what I have been studying so hard during the one year or so I have been in seclusion?" She wanted to do a thorough fortune-telling for herself and the sect, but she never had the time.
Now that I have learned divination, is it difficult to find a chicken? To be honest, Zhou Li really forgot this. My daughter is a multi-talented person. She wants to learn a little bit of everything and master a little bit of everything. She has so many skills that sometimes I forget what exactly she can do. I heard that divination, finding people or things, is very effective, so maybe there really is hope. "Then mother won't bother you, just calculate it quickly." "Ok!" Zhou Ling placed the copper coins one by one into the tortoise shell, then suddenly knelt down, looked up at the sky, closed his eyes and prayed. Zhou Li was frightened by his daughter's behavior. He stood up from the table silently and took a step back. Until the daughter seemed to have finished praying and began to shake the tortoise shell in her hand left and right. The sound of copper coins colliding with each other made Zhou Li's scalp tingle. All kinds of memories that she didn't want to remember also reappeared in her mind along with the collision sounds, one scene after another. As it floated, a face that looked particularly worthy of a beating suddenly emerged. The child's biological father, with his impeccable handsome face. That silly smile, that silly man who, in the middle of winter, ran to the snow cave and insisted on digging bamboo shoots for her as long as she said she wanted to eat bamboo shoots, regardless of the cold snow. She shook her head and turned away the handsome face with a silly smile. At this time, the copper coins in her daughter's hand had been scattered on the ground. Zhou Li didn't understand. He saw his daughter lowering her head and rummaging around for a few times, then counting with her fingers, and suddenly pointing to the southeast. "Mom, please go with me." After the last separation operation that resulted in his mother being injured, Zhou Ling never dared to be separated from his mother again. "it is good." How could she not respond to such a small matter? But as she walked with her daughter, she found that this route was actually quite familiar! After several years of changes, some road conditions and buildings have changed in appearance. She just felt that they looked familiar but did not recognize them completely.
Until the mother and daughter left the city and walked along a small path, whether it was the wheat fields beside the road, the locust trees at the entrance of the village, or the river, small bridge, and tree shadows in front of the village, they all stung Zhou Li's eyes. She didn't know how her daughter found this place, but this was their former home. That silly man had washed clothes with her by the river and enjoyed the cool under the shade of the trees. When there were floods in the summer, they used to sit together on this bridge, feeling the clear, cool river water flowing over their ankles and through their calves. When the monsters invaded, she fled with her big belly and walked out from the back of the village. Everything she saw, including the houses and walls, had been flattened by the monsters. She thought the entire village had been razed to the ground, but unexpectedly, the area in front of the village had been preserved intact. "Do you want to go forward?" She really didn't want to go any further. Nothing is more heartbreaking than seeing your once sweet home turned into a wasteland. Oh, it is also heartbreaking to see that your missing man is not dead, but is having an affair with another woman. "Well, we still have to move forward." Zhou Ling nodded, but her mother's tone seemed a little off, so she turned around to look at her, and happened to see her mother quietly wiping her tears. What...what's going on? "God damned ungrateful man!" It could be that the scene brought back memories, or it could be that he was homesick. Anyway, after noticing that her mother looked upset, Zhou Ling went over to comfort her, and the result was that things got out of control... All those mysterious things that were hidden by her mother were dumped out by her today. Except for her life experience, the story of how she met and got to know her biological father, how they fell in love and stayed together, and how they finally separated was told in great detail. Zhou Ling looked around again, checking the current environment and felt strange. The location indicated by the hexagram was right here, but why... was it his mother and father's former home? "Why don't you stay here first, mother? There's no need to go any further. The rest of the way is probably not far, I can go by myself." Although she couldn't understand, she was willing to understand. It must be very sad to see the place where you once lived being destroyed. "No need, we are already here, it doesn't matter if we take a few steps." After Zhou Li finished crying, she raised her head, wiped away her tears, and walked forward, leaving Zhou Ling behind. Zhou Ling had no choice but to quickly catch up. Zhou Ling no longer needed to lead the way the rest of the way because his mother knew the way. The deeper you go into the village, the more dilapidated the scene becomes. The houses collapsed, leaving only broken walls and ruins. All traces of past life were buried. She even walked a few more steps and saw several dry bones under the collapsed house. This must be my mother’s former neighbor.
I looked up again to observe my mother's figure, and saw that she paused slightly, but did not stay in front of the dry bones for long, and quickly passed by. The final location we stopped at was a desolate area with only gravel left. At least there were still some walls left in other places, but their former home was covered with rubble and overgrown with weeds, and it was even difficult to tell where the foundation was. Zhou Ling, who was behind, also stopped and counted with his fingers. The location is correct, but where is the guardian beast? Although it is summer, there are still no insects chirping here. The weeds are so thick, maybe the chicken is hiding somewhere? Mother ran to the corner to wipe her tears, while Zhou Ling lifted her skirt and stepped onto the land where her mother and father once lived. She bent down and looked for chickens in the lush grass. After walking a few more steps forward, the gravel gradually became less and the shape of the foundation could be vaguely seen. If one looked carefully, this should be the backyard. Some of the courtyard wall had not collapsed yet, standing among the tall grass. Suddenly! Zhou Ling's eyes lit up, and she discovered that in addition to the courtyard wall, there were still some man-made buildings. It was a very simple thatched shed with a little bit of decayed and incomplete fence. It looked like it was used to raise poultry. and many more! poultry? chicken!!? Oh my god, she actually found me! ? (End of this chapter)