Lin Yuanxing

Su Yun walked in this small town, which was both familiar and strange to him. What was familiar was that the buildings in the town were almost the same as those in Tianmen Town, but what was strange were the people here.

However, whenever he meets an older person, he will stop and ask if there is a family that lost a child seven years ago.

——He is the lost child.

Qingyu Town is not big, and you can still see the shadow of Tianmen Town.

This town has a great relationship with Tianmen Town. Seven years ago, before the drastic changes in Tianmen Town, Qu Jin, Qu Taichang and others had realized that what they were going to do might implicate the residents of Tianmen Town, so they moved the people of Tianmen Town to Residents moved out of Tianshiyuan.

At that time, Tianmen Town was not called Tianmen Town among the locals, but Qingyu Town. It was named because the town was close to the North Sea and herrings were produced in the sea.

Qu Jin and others built another town on the edge of Tianshiyuan. The buildings were almost the same as Tianmen Town. The townspeople moved here and settled down.

Although it is far away from the North Sea, the name Qingyu Town is still retained.

Su Yun walked around the town and made inquiries.

Like other towns in the countryside, young people in this town often leave the town and go to the city to work or study. Some people become city dwellers. Most of the people who stay in the town are the elderly and children. Mainly, farming for a living.

Su Yun was a little confused and stopped under the Tianmen Archway, dazed.

After he left Tianshiyuan and came to Shuofang, he thought deeply about Qingyu Town and always wanted to come here to find his roots, but he was always timid and did not dare to come.

And now he unknowingly came to Qingyu Town, trying to find his parents. However, after searching around, he found that no one here had lost a child seven years ago.

Su Yun closed his eyes: "My mind was too confused and I ignored some details."

After a while, he opened his eyes, looked back at Qingyu Town, and said silently in his heart: "This is a town rebuilt according to the pattern of Tianmen Town, so the houses should be the same as Tianmen Town seven years ago. There are four houses in Tianmen Town There are fifteen houses, including my house, there are forty-six. And this town also has forty-six houses, so the house I live in corresponds to..."

He came to the house, which had long been abandoned and the yard was overgrown with weeds.

"Old man, where are the people who live here?" Su Yun stopped an old man who was returning from farming.

asked.

The old man put down his hoe and said with a smile: "Are you talking about the old Su family? Their family became prosperous and they moved away seven years ago."

"Old Su's family?"

Su Yun was refreshed, and the confusion and fear just now disappeared, and he asked: "Where have they moved to?"

"Said he moved to Dongdu."

The old man thought for a while and said: "His son has been admitted to some school in Dongdu, and there is help from noble people to send them to study in Dongdu... Sixth aunt, sixth aunt!"

He called an old woman who was doing laundry and asked, "Did the Su family go to Dongdu?"

The sixth aunt was dim-sighted and deaf, so she couldn't hear clearly. The old man asked twice more, and then the sixth aunt heard clearly and said with a smile: "Hey! What passed the exam? You sold your son to get it! There are two in the old Su family. Sons, the eldest son’s name is Yun, and the younger son’s name is Ye. Aren’t there many noble people in the town at that time? They said they wanted to buy some smart children to work in the ghost market..."

"Selling your son..." Su Yun's mind was pounding, his eyes widened, and he stood there blankly.

"...The nobles in the city were looking for many children. An old man with a hammer head found the eldest son of the Su family and said that he was very good and spiritual. Then he bought it."

The sixth aunt babbled and spoke incoherently: "Lao Su Niang was not willing to sell at first, but the money they gave her was too much, and they promised to move her to Dongdu so that her youngest son Su Ye could go to school. She sold it as soon as she gritted her teeth."

Su Yun was startled: "Just sell it?"

"Of course I want to sell it!"

The old man said matter-of-factly: "Tianshiyuan is always prone to natural disasters. It's hard to feed one child, let alone two. Selling one can make the other live better. Their family all moved to Dongdu and became adults." He is a master, and the people in the town are envious to death. Besides, he was not the only one who was sold? There were many other children who were sold at that time."

Su Yun's head was dizzy, so he took out some five baht money and gave it to the old man and the sixth aunt, and asked: "What happened to the child who was sold?"

He was a little dizzy and had to sit on the threshold of Su's house.

The old man leaned on his hoe and said, "You mean the eldest son of the Su family? What else could he do? He was taken by people from the city and entered the ghost market with other sold children. They said they were going to catch the same god as the one on Tianmen. Demon. Almost all of them died later, and the child from the Su family probably died too."

The old woman's sixth aunt shook her head and said: "Nonsense! I once went back to get something and saw that child. He was very delicate, just sitting there, and the nobles in the city were stuffing something between his eyebrows. It was very big and long. It's like a dragon, and somehow it was stuffed in. Someone said that it's number seventy-six and I don't know if it can still be sealed. The kid was very quiet and kept silent..."

Her dim old eyes suddenly lit up, she looked at Su Yun sitting there, and said with a smile: "The way you sit here is exactly the same as that child! The child also sat like this, silently!"

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Su Yun said goodbye to the two old people and still sat there, not moving for a long time.

After a long time, he stood up and walked into the Su family's house. It was deserted. It was obvious that the Su family left Qingyu Town for Dongdu after getting a large sum of money and had never lived here.

Su Yun walked out of Qingyun Town and waited silently at the town post station for the Zhulong chariot heading to Shuofang.

"After the chaos, the Zhulong chariot was running twice a day, and it was not as dense as before."

Chi Xiaoyao walked out of nowhere, sat next to him, and said softly: "Su Shizi, has your seal been released?"

Su Yun shook his head, his voice a little hoarse: "The seal is still there."

"So do you recall what happened back then?" Chi Xiaoyao asked.

Su Yun shook his head and was lost in thought. After a while, he stood up and said, "I didn't remember it. When I left Tianmen Town, Uncle Qu said that it was Uncle Cen who asked them to take care of me. Uncle Cen told them that they owe me something and they must take care of me." I grew up."

He took steps and walked along the post road towards Shuofang City.

Chi Xiaoyao, dressed in white like snow with gleaming scales, followed behind him, and the two of them walked along the post road.

"I always thought that they were guilty because of the drastic changes in Tianmen Town and Beihai that had affected me, so they wanted to take care of me until I could see the light again."

Su Yun turned around and smiled at the girl: "What I didn't expect was that they were actually experimenting on me."

Chi Xiaoyao followed him, feeling a little distressed.

"Number seventy-six? I might be the seventy-sixth kid they bought."

Su Yun turned around, waved in the direction of Qingyu Town, and said with a smile: "I have made up my mind, I want to leave Shuofang and go to Dongdu! I want to go to Dongdu to see my brother and see what my parents sold me to. He goes to school, how well does he study, and can he be worth the money he got from selling me!"

Chi Xiaoyao hesitated and stopped.

Su Yun turned around and said with a smile: "Senior Xiaoyao, do you want to go to Dongdu with me?"

Chi Xiaoyao shook his head and said: "When I finish my studies, I will return to the uninhabited land of Tianshiyuan. My dream is to open a school in the uninhabited land of Tianshiyuan, and then open a medicinal shop to let the people there You can go to school and study, and you can be diagnosed and treated if you have injuries. I can't go to Dongdu with you."

Su Yun looked at her, and after a moment, he smiled and said, "Okay. When I come back, I will go to the no-man's land to find you."

He stretched out his hand. Chi Xiaoyao looked at his hand, hesitated, and extended his palm as well.

Su Yun took her hand and stepped forward.

Chi Xiaoyao staggered a little while being led by him, but then let go and followed his footsteps.

After all, she had a high level of cultivation and quickly surpassed Su Yun. She was giggling in front, holding Su Yun's hand and galloping through the countryside.

The spring sunshine revives all things. The spring colors include tender green, clear waves, goose yellow, and flowers of various colors, which are spread in clusters on both sides of the post road.

Boys and girls took steps in the spring light and ran towards the city in the distance.

In the sky, the Taoist Saint was sitting cross-legged on the clouds, his two white eyebrows getting longer and longer, hanging down from the clouds.

The book monster Yingying flapped her paper wings below, grabbed his two long eyebrows, braided his hair, and braided a long ponytail. Then she flew to the clouds and continued to braid his hair seriously. eyebrows.

"Number seventy-two, what does it mean?"

The Taoist Saint looked at the boys and girls running about happily below and frowned: "Is this really the 72nd test subject? I always feel that there is something weird in this..."

Yingying knitted until she reached the center of his eyebrows, then stopped, blinked, and asked, "Has Taoist Saint been to Tiandaoyuan?"

The Taoist Saint shook his head and said: "I've been there before, but that was a hundred years ago. I haven't been there in the past hundred years."

"Emperor Ping ordered scholars from the Tiandao Academy to recreate the Eight-sided Heavenly Tower based on what Qu Taichang and others found in Tianmen Town. There are twelve gods and demons on each side of the Heavenly Tower, and the Eight-sided Heavenly Tower has ninety-six gods. magic."

Yingying turned around, looked down, her eyes flashed, and whispered: "So the seventy-two that the sixth aunt heard is not necessarily the seventy-second child, it may be the seventy-second statue Gods and demons. So at that time, seventy-two gods and demons had been sealed, and there were still twenty-four gods and demons behind..."

The Taoist sage couldn't help but shudder, and laughed and said: "Fellow Taoist Ying, you are just guessing!"

Yingying laughed out loud and giggled: "Yes, I was just guessing! Qu Taichang is not a god, how could he capture ninety-six gods and demons and seal them in the memory of a child?"

Dao Sheng laughed and said, "That's right! What's more, one of those mythical beasts, saints, gods and demons has not been seen for decades. How could Qu Taichang and the others catch ninety-six of them at once?"

Yingying clapped her hands and said with a smile: "This is exactly the truth! Since there is no place to find these gods and demons, they must be fake!"

"That's right! That's right!" Taoist Saint nodded repeatedly.

The two of them looked at each other, then looked away, each in a daze.

"I want to go to Dongdu with him."

Yingying suddenly made up her mind and said: "I am looking for Qin Wuling's whereabouts, not worried about Su Shizi or the ninety-six gods and demons."

The Taoist Saint's brows stretched, and the braids on his eyebrows immediately stretched, became shorter and shorter, and returned to normal. He stood up and said, "I also want to go back to the Eastern Capital. I'm not worried about Pavilion Master Su. After all, he is Tongtian Pavilion. Pavilion Master, it is not the old Taoist’s turn to worry. I am about to die of old age. Although I extended my life once seven years ago, my longevity is finally coming to an end."

He sighed and said quietly: "I must arrange for the new headmaster of the Taoist sect as soon as possible. Of course, since Pavilion Master Su is also going to the Eastern Capital, it is natural for us to go with him and take care of each other on the way."

Yingying nodded repeatedly.

When Su Yun returned to Shuofang, he did not rush to Dongdu immediately. Instead, he hid in Shanshui Residence and did not go to class.

Chi Xiaoyao has also been living in Shanshui Residence these days, and Yingying is also living in Shanshui Residence. Taoist Saint shamelessly entered Shanshui Residence and refused to leave.

Su Yun waited for a few days and finally caught Huahu who came back to visit Qingqiu Yue and others. He smiled and said: "Second brother, don't leave! I have sorted out the complete Honglu transformation in the past few days. There are very few flaws. I will pass it on to you." .After the teaching of Honglu Transmutation is completed, I will go to the Eastern Capital. The emperor ordered me to give him some face."

The Taoist Saint originally did not intend to listen to him teach about Honglu Transmutation, but Su Yun said with a smile: "Honglun Transmutation is not a secret that is not taught, and there is no harm in the saint listening to it. If you think it is useful to the saint, then you might as well teach the fox to be unfair to them for a few days as compensation."

The Taoist sage smiled and said: "That's fine. If your Honglu transformation is worth one day, I will teach them one day. If it is worth two days, I will teach them two days."