Tao Zang Xuan Zhi

Zou Shui'er raised her head, still unwilling to give up, and wanted to grab the hem of Zhong Shujuan's skirt, but Zhong Shujuan had already lifted her up. Zhong Shujuan helped Zou Shui'er up, straightened her clothes, and persuaded her:"I will think about it carefully, and you should not always take advantage of others. Many things have a certain destiny, and it may not be a good thing to go against the will. Just like when I helped Jia Nan refine medicine before, Jia Nan's spiritual cultivation improved by leaps and bounds, and he went to the Lin'an Branch Pavilion as he wished. But the result? Jia Nan's spiritual cultivation regressed after entering the Lin'an Branch Pavilion."

Zou Shui'er heard this, The hatred in her heart could hardly be suppressed, and she gritted her teeth with tears in her eyes and said:"Sister, what you mean is that Jia Nan just has no talent for spiritual cultivation? Do you think Jia Nan is a waste like others?!"

Zhong Shujuan was stunned. , I don’t know where Zou Shui’er started talking about this.

But Zou Shui'er felt that this was acquiescence. She grabbed Zhong Shujuan's lapel with anger and roared angrily:"Who do you think caused all this?! It was the problem with the prescription you changed that caused Jia Nan's spiritual state to decline. It was you who made it happen." Jia Nan has become the laughing stock of the whole world! Who do you think put Dad, Rujun, and Jia Nan into this desperate situation? It was you! It was you who took away Rujun’s opportunity and made him miss the opportunity! The one who cut off his path to immortality It's you! His biological sister! Now you want to let your daughter take away the opportunity of a beautiful man again! You are the one who harmed our family!"

Zhong Shujuan stood stunned, letting Zou Shui'er hold on to her. accusingly.

The quarrel between the two finally attracted the attention of others in Yulanju. Due to Zhong Shujuan's instructions, the maids and guards did not dare to enter and crowded at the door to watch from a distance. Zhang Shiyin and Zhong Wanling also came downstairs, dismissed the attendants crowded at the entrance of the corridor, and walked into the hall. They saw Zou Shui'er pulling Zhong Shujuan's skirt, her face covered with tears and snot, like a crazy woman, eating startled

"what happened! ?"Zhang Shiyin shouted angrily.

Zhong Shujuan and Zou Shui'er came back to their senses. Zou Shui'er suddenly took a few steps back, covered his face with his sleeves, and ran out of Magnolia Residence like the wind.

Zhang Shiyin was stunned. Zhong Wanling She frowned and took everything in. Although she didn't hear what Shui'er and her mother said, she guessed that it wouldn't be anything good.

Zhong Shujuan raised her head blankly and looked at her husband and her husband at the back hall. The daughter's eyes became complicated when she fell on Zhong Wanling. Zhong Wanling was looked at a little inexplicably. She had never seen her mother look at her with such eyes. She felt helpless, guilty, embarrassed and sad, all mixed together. Emotions.

No one in the family of three asked or said anything.

That night, Zhong Shujuan had a dream.

She dreamed that she was back when she was a child.

At that time, the Fairy Sect was still being revived, and her father, grandmother, uncles and uncles were always missing. Working hard day and night, my mother and her aunts also had a lot of things to worry about, and sometimes they had to go down the mountain to plant vegetables. In this way, the family could only make ends meet. She was very naughty at the time, and often brought her with her who was two years younger than herself. Her younger brother went up to the mountains to hunt pheasants and collect wild fruits to improve his food. It was too late, so he found a flat place, spread some hay and dead leaves on the ground and covered the sky, and fell asleep counting the stars in the sky.

She dreamed It was such a night.

During that time, there was a flash flood nearby. Grandma said that the people believed in the Immortal Sect, and the Immortal Sect should protect the people. So the adults in the family either helped with disaster relief, or helped take care of the young children of the clan. Ke Laoxianmen's fields were also affected, and the tribesmen could only eat a small amount of stored grain. They had not had a bite of food for several days.

She and her brother sneaked up the mountain and hunted a pheasant. She wanted to He took the pheasant home and secretly added a meal to his mother and sister. Rujun originally wanted to roast the chicken and eat it, but he reluctantly agreed after hearing what his sister said. But the two of them were busy picking grass leaves. , she was hungry. She hadn't eaten for a day. After collecting firewood, she returned to the camp and lit a fire. Her brother hadn't come back yet. But she looked at the pheasant whose neck she had broken, and she suddenly became greedy. The insects made a big fuss in the Temple of the Five Internal Organs. She was not a person who would suppress herself, so she didn’t think too much for a moment. She pulled a lotus leaf by the river, wrapped it in yellow mud, and roasted the pheasant and ate it.

When her brother came back, Most of the pheasant had entered her stomach. The younger brother looked at her, and then at the few pheasants left in her hand. The strong and honest boy of seven or eight finally burst into tears. When

Zhong Shujuan woke up, she was still She felt that the boy's cries of grief and anger were still in her ears.

She couldn't sleep anymore and sat up. Zhang Shiyin was sleeping soundly next to her, snoring loudly.

The moon had set in the west, and the dim moonlight came in from the window and sprinkled on the bedside. on the ground.

Zhong Shujuan got out of bed and walked to the window in her middle coat. Facing the moonlight, she could see a courtyard not far away, which was her father's yard. The boy who cried loudly in her dream She should be sleeping peacefully in that yard at this time.

Zhong Shujuan thought of her brother's crying face in the dream and all the past events. When she was young, she was really heartless and never considered other people's thoughts. Do whatever you want, take whatever you want, eat whatever you want, without any scruples.

In fact, things like that in the dream often happened in the past, but her brother Rujun never cried like in the dream, He always endured and gave her everything she wanted. Thinking about it now, Rujun probably wanted to cry. How could he not like those things, how could he not want those things. He was just too embarrassed to say it, and she couldn't see it at all. She really is a jerk sister.

The next morning, Zhong Shujuan dismissed the servants in the backyard, took Zhong Wanling to the backyard of Magnolia House, and told Zhong Wanling what she had been thinking about all night.

Zhong Wanling had a bad premonition when she came, so when Zhong Shujuan expressed his hope that she would withdraw from the Xuantian selection, she was not surprised.

Just because you're not surprised doesn't mean you won't be hurt or angry.

Zhong Wanling listened expressionlessly as her mother repeatedly talked about the good things about Zhong Jianan's family. No one knew how much she wished she was deaf at this time.

"Wanlan, did you listen to what I said?"Zhong Shujuan asked anxiously. She really couldn't understand this child.

Zhong Wanling calmly repeated:"You want me to give up my place to Zhong Jianan. Zhong Shujuan breathed a sigh of relief, but Zhong Wanling said again:"Even if I withdraw from the selection, Zhong Jianan may not be able to get a quota, right?""

This is also something Zhong Shujuan is very worried about.

"Don't worry about this, as long as you quit, Jia Nan will naturally have a way to become the number one."Zhong Shujuan felt a little guilty when she said this, more like self-comfort. She could only believe that Zou Shui'er and Master Du Xian would try their best to help Zhong Jianan win the first place.

Zhong Wanling looked at her mother coldly , seeing her uneasiness in his eyes, he slowly said,"Are you going to help him refine medicine again?" Even if you know the consequences of doing so……"

"I don't!"Zhong Shujuan denied it flatly. After saying that, she was shaken again. She didn't know how Shui'er and Du Xianshi planned to help Jia Nan. Although Jia Nan was talented, he was not outstanding. His mental understanding was far inferior to Zhong Wanling's, and there was no way to make a breakthrough in a short period of time.. In this situation, to make Zhong Jianan stand out from the crowd of Immortal disciples, she could only think of refining medicine. But, that medicine……

"Can Lao Xianmen endure the consequences of refining medicine again?" Zhong Wanling coldly expressed the fear in Zhong Shujuan's heart,"If he continues to refine the medicine, Zhong Jianan's spiritual realm will deteriorate again. He doesn't have that kind of qualifications. He's not suitable for cultivating immortality at all."

"No, he's already in the fusion realm……"

"Does his mother really think that is his own strength?"Zhong Wanling interrupted Zhong Shujuan's defense with a stern tone and stared at her with stern eyes.

Zhong Shujuan could not refute. She actually knew very well that Zhong Wanling was right. The Immortal Sect would never be able to withstand refining medicine again. If it happened again. The spiritual realm has regressed, and it is not Zhong Jianan who will be ruined, but the entire Zhong family and the entire Lao Xianmen. Zhong Shujuan leaned on the stone table, holding her forehead, unable to make up her mind with so many things.

Zhong Wanling stood up, cupped his hands in salute, and said :"I know my mother feels that she owes Zhong Rujun. However, has mother ever thought about it, do you really owe them?"

Zhong Shujuan raised her head and looked at Zhong Wanling in confusion.

"In this case, you have told me many times since I was a child, and I have thought about it many times. You think it was Zhong Rujun who gave you the opportunity, and you took away the future that belonged to Zhong Rujun. But is this really the case? Yes, we can all see that Zhong Rujun is indeed talented. His body, mind and spiritual veins are indeed more mellow and strong than others, but he is stupid by nature and cannot understand the Tao at all. No matter how good he is, it is useless. It was the fundamental reason why his path to immortality was cut off. It's not that you took away his immortal path, but that his immortal path should be like this. He didn't give that spot to you, it was God who chose you, it was Tao who chose you. This is natural selection"

"No...no, it's not just this!"Zhong Shujuan tried to interrupt Zhong Wanling.

Zhong Wanling disagreed. She was too aware of her mother's clichés."Are you going to talk about the care their family gave to our family in the past?"

Zhong Wanling suppressed the inexplicable feeling of nausea and said solemnly:"The old lady is donating materials, she really doesn't ask for anything in return. But is it the Zou family? The Zou family came to Huaining to do business. Who do you think the Zou family relied on to make their fortune in Huaining? It’s my brother-in-law, Zhou Mu! Are you grateful for the little gift the Zou family gave to our family? Those materials are commodities. They are not even easy to bring, and what they give us is just a drop in the bucket. The things they give us are, at best, a courtesy; at worst, they are bribes! Are you still grateful for those things? Are you treating your father and yourself too cheaply?"

"To put it another way, over the years, how many disputes have you helped the Zou family and Zou Shui'er resolve? How many opponents have you defeated? Isn’t this enough to repay Zhong Rujun’s love? His love should have been repaid long ago!

And Zhong Jianan. Zhong Jianan is a child, what does he have to do with you? This has always been the case since you were a child. Whenever you have something good, you don't think about bringing it home, you immediately think about sending it to him. Even if it's my book, you have to take it away and give it to him"

"Those are all books you have read! You don't use it anymore.

Zhong Wanling said angrily:"Have you ever asked me if I need it?" You don't care whether I want it or not. You just think that 'Jia Nan might be able to use it'! But does he need it? Will he use it? He has never even opened a book! I don’t even know what those books are about!

Oh, there is also the matter of refining medicine. He who conceals it cannot know it. Do you really have no idea that the origin of the prescription is questionable? Do you really not know that there may be something wrong with the wine dragon claw? I have checked this medicine, because this medicine only exists in the demon world, and the human world knows very little about its growth environment and medicinal properties. We laymen all feel that this medicine comes from a strange source. Do you dare to say that you did not have any doubts when using it?"

"……That is because it has been cultivated now……"

"It was just cultivated, but the result is still unknown! In the past, when you developed wound medicine for the military, you would never dare to use this kind of medicine. Why do you dare to use it for Zhong Jianan? Don't fool me with the same rhetoric that fooled King Yan! It’s not that you dare or not, it’s that you don’t care! As long as you can turn Zhong Jianan into a genius who cultivates immortality, you don't care at all whether he is forbidden or not! You've already done something similar! When he was young, wasn't it just for this that the Zou family sent Zhong Jianan to Huaining? You doubt it, and you know it, but in order to promote Zhong Jianan to the top, you don't care whether it's a banned drug or not!"

Zhong Shujuan was silent.