Chapter 10 Jade Ring
The dark clouds hanging above the Zhao family for many days were blown away, and everyone finally had a faint smile on their faces. Although their relatives had left, the living still had to live as usual. In this world, they could not enter other people's houses during the period of mourning, and could not celebrate, to keep mourning for 49 days, and to keep mourning for three years for their fathers.
In this world, ordinary people are busy for three meals a day. Warriors fight with beasts or evil people for martial arts resources, and even die of broken limbs and arms. Almost every day, there are news of warriors or hunters tragically in Hengshan. Even the bones are left without traces. The deceased's relatives are sad for a few days and have to raise their heads again and go to the place of death one after another, fighting with beasts and robbers for martial arts resources.
In this world, men and women get married when they are less than 20 years old. Green food, no environmental pollution, no nightlife, go to bed early and get up early, and have strong reproductive ability. Martial arts can live for one or two hundred years. It is common for ordinary families to have three or four children. One dies and another one. If you see too much life and death, you will become accustomed to it.
Modern people are only allowed to have one child, so of course they are afraid, and they are not surprised if they are spoiled; when they fight, deserters will emerge one after another! When they are sure to have two child, they will not be able to have one child, so they are still afraid!
The Zhao family is a strange existence in Chenjiacheng. It is the only son of the Five Dynasties and cannot practice Qi. It is known to the whole city and is well-known far and wide. If one dies, the Zhao family will be defeated! Zhao can suddenly penetrate the Ren and Du meridians, and the sun comes out from the west, but many people still don’t believe it.
Zhao Neng has seen countless funeral scenes in his memory, and sometimes he buried several items of clothes or items used by the deceased during his lifetime.
After lunch, Zhao Neng walked around the city with his eldest cousin Chen Yunfeng and his second cousin Wan Pingbo.
The city lord's mansion is the highest in the center, with shops on both sides of the streets on the second floor, and at most a first floor courtyard. The plan is neatly planned. Standing on the tower of the city lord's mansion, overlooking the whole city, inside and outside the city, fire and theft protection, and the war is clear at a glance. Ordinary people are not qualified to go up and there are people on duty day and night.
In the afternoon, it was the peak period for businessmen and customers to buy and sell. The streets were bustling and bustling. Pedestrians looked relaxed. There were no soldiers patrolling, no street stalls or beggars, nor did evil people bully the market, the playboy bully men and women, and the strong bully ordinary people. The city lord was well-managed and the city was safe.
Zhao Neng bought five sets of training clothes (with leather boots) at the second floor of Tianditong at one go. According to the figures of the two cousins, he also bought one for them. They were all the best in the store. One hundred taels of silver per set, and the shopkeeper He came forward and gave a 15% discount. He spent more than six hundred and sixty taels of silver in the blink of an eye, and he didn't feel sorry for him.
The two cousins were very happy. Although they were born in wealthy families, they were born in ill families and had low qualifications. The resources in the clan would not be tilted towards them. The brothers and sisters in the family were practicing qi, and they consumed a lot. They were already sympathetic. Now they envy Zhao Neng, the cousin.
Three young men were talking and laughing, walking among the bustling crowds, wandering around each other.
Zhao Neng planned to buy protective equipment such as knee braces and wrist braces used in his previous life. His two cousins didn't hear about it, so they asked several shops. The guy had never seen or heard of it. He realized that he had thoughts from his previous life again.
Once you have more strange things like your words, behaviors, and styles of behavior, familiar people will doubt it. The more you pay attention to you, the more you will be exposed, it will inevitably be.
I saw iron sandbags in a shop that specializes in training equipment, and there were all kinds of models. The shopkeeper could also book according to the needs of the customers. Zhao Neng bought a pair of medium sizes for his eldest and second cousins. He bought a set of large, medium and small sizes for his own. Tomorrow, he started to tie it to his legs and arms to strengthen physical training. Before he saw such iron sandbags, Zhao Neng was a little worried, afraid that he would be unique and dare not ask.
This is how warriors in this world practice their power.
Zhao Neng also bought a set for his cousins who did not come with him, all of which were from small quotations.
Everyone is happy if the gift is light and the affection is heavy!
The Zhao family saw off the guests and the house became quiet.
It was dark, and the old lady ordered the maid to close the yard door and wait behind the door. She also asked her daughter-in-law to close the door and wait behind the door, holding a candle, letting her grandson follow behind, entering Zhao Neng's parents' room, and turned around and told Zhao Neng to close the door and pull up the curtains.
It’s mysterious, what does Zhao Neng’s premonition of grandma want to explain?
When she arrived at the bed, grandma wiped the candle into the wax table, and moved the bed with Zhao Neng to collapse, lifted the blanket, exposed the bluestone floor. Grandma smiled at her grandson, lifted the curtain, held the right handrail, and asked Zhao Neng to hold the left handguard. She turned right, Zhao Neng turned left, and turned nine times in succession, rumbled... The sound of the winch turning was particularly clear, and the two thick bluestone slabs moved away opposite each other, revealing a dark secret room. The old lady took the candle handed over by her grandson and slowly descended along the steps. Zhao Neng then knew why she couldn't find the wealth of her family when she was a child!
There are a lot of bluestones in the surrounding mountains and are mined by special people.
Chenjiacheng is close to Hengshan. The forests are dense, the rainwater is sufficient, and the air is humid. In order to avoid moisture, when building a wealthy family like the Zhao family, lime is first laid on the sand and gravel to prevent insects, then charcoal is laid on the moisture, bluestone slabs are covered, and the gaps are filled with volcanic ash. It is cool in summer and blankets are laid in winter to make it warm and comfortable.
Who would have thought that the secret room was under the bed? It was discovered that two people needed to turn the handrails at the same time to enter. The ancestors of the Zhao family were scheming.
"Neng'er, the ancestors have passed down the legacy of the ancestors. Among the men born in the Zhao family, those who are connected to the Ren and Du meridians will receive the jade ring left by the ancestors and this sect's Qi Condensation Skill. They will use the property accumulated by the ancestors of the Zhao family for practice, and warn the jade ring to be kept on the chest, and the precepts are there!"
The old lady took out a dusty stone box from an inconspicuous place, took out a jade ring and an animal fur from it, handed the fur solemnly to Zhao Neng's hand, put the chain on Zhao Neng's own hands, and stuffed the jade ring into her underwear.
The transparent chain is colorful under the candlelight, not ordinary things, but the jade ring is dull and looks ordinary.
Legend has it that jade is spiritual and can save lives, accumulate vitality and nourish spirit.
Zhao Neng believed that the jade ring left by the shrewd ancestors would not be an ordinary thing, but its secret has not been discovered among future generations.
Zhao Neng suddenly felt a burst of coolness overflowing from the jade ring close to his chest, and his restless heart suddenly calmed down.
"Neng'er, the ancestors also left behind their own lessons. I hope that future generations can cultivate the truth. The animal skin on Neng'er's hand records the sect's Qi Condensation Skill. They warn future generations to be careful. Once it is leaked, the Zhao family will be hunted down. This is the biggest secret of the Zhao family! It is that your mother, your eldest aunt and second aunt cannot know! Neng'er will remember it carefully at night and put it in this secret room with his grandma tomorrow morning. Don't tell anyone!"
"Yes, grandma! The ancestors of the Zhao family cannot practice mortal martial arts, and have not tried the sect magic techniques?"
"Your grandfather and father have tried it. Once you practice, the dantian still hurts unbearable! Neng'er found the pain unbearable when she practiced, so don't practice it! Neng'er can already practice mortal martial arts!"
"Neng'er listens to grandma."
Chapter completed!