Zhang Tongan leaned over and meticulously arranged Qin Xi's makeup and neatly trimmed her sparse white hair. Even when Zhang Shiping rushed there in a hurry, he did not turn around and look back.

Zhang Shiping's chest seemed to be choked, and he cried out sadly, "Mother!" and threw himself to the bedside.

Even when he practiced the "Yuan Yuan Gong" and endured the pain of splitting his soul, his eyes had never shed a single tear, but at this time, tears were streaming down his eyes.

Zhang Shiping blamed himself in his heart. If only he could be faster, faster, maybe he could see his mother for the last time! If he didn't go to the South China Sea, if he didn't rush to break through to the fifth level of foundation building when he came back.

After three years of seclusion, what if I... The thoughts in my mind were so chaotic that all kinds of regrets came to my mind. With a dejected look on his face, Zhang Shiping slapped himself in the face repeatedly, one by one to compare the severity.

After a few moments, Zhang Tongan put his wife's makeup in order. He grabbed Zhang Shiping's hand and said in a deep voice, "Please spend more time with your mother!"

He turned his head and looked deeply at his wife. She was nearly seventy and no longer as young as before, but no one could replace her in his heart. These days, even among the rich and powerful officials and gentry in the world, which one

It’s not that there were three wives and four concubines, but Zhang Tongan only had one wife, Qin Xi, from the beginning to the end. The two of them had been in harmony for decades and gave birth to three sons and two daughters.

After Zhang Tongan asked Zhang Shiping to stay, he walked out step by step with crutches, and struggled to cross the threshold with his feet. With his cultivation in the foundation building period, he was not more than a hundred years old, which was when he was strong.

How could he even use a cane to walk? But because his wife was old and walked slowly, he also took a cane, and the two of them walked slowly together like this.

He has been pretending to hold a cane for almost ten years, and he has long been accustomed to having this cane in his hand. After Zhang Tongan walked out, he inexplicably thought of the elder Zhang Qiyue who had died many years ago. He also liked to use a cane.

I wonder if he is the same as him. After walking out of the door, Zhang Tongan turned his head and glanced inside the house, then walked towards the yard lonelyly.

The old vines in the yard are clinging to the wooden frame. The dark green leaves are very dense, and the green leaves cover the vines. These are the vines he and his wife planted a few months after they got married. It is said that they are of the same mind.

, will never be separated. But from now on, he is the only one left, and he is powerless

Sitting on a stone chair in the yard, looking at the vines and thinking, "Xi'er, I broke my promise. The Zhang family is still here, so I can't go with you. If reincarnation really exists in the world, consider me selfish.

You have been waiting for me for hundreds of years! Wait for me. If you can’t wait any longer, just reincarnate yourself first!"

Over the courtyard, Lin Shuangxuan circled around the Zhang Mansion several times. He heard intermittent crying coming from the house, so he could not understand the situation. He was older than Zhang Tongan, but he was not married.

He just took a few concubines and gave birth to a few sons for him, just to pass on the incense. Immortal cultivators should not have deep feelings. Once they are deeply involved, they will not be able to extricate themselves. He looked at Zhang Tongan below and sighed that the rest of his life will be long.

Some endured it.

With this thought, he controlled the flying magic weapon and slowly landed. Zhang Tongan saw that this person was wearing the clothes of an inner disciple of the Zhengyang Sect and that he had no ill intentions, so he endured his grief and stood up, "Head of the Zhang family

Zhang Tongan has met fellow Taoists from the Zhengyang Sect, please take a seat."

"Lin Shuangxuan has met Patriarch Zhang, please express your condolences!"

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Zhang Shiming, who was taking care of the Zhang family's business in the secular world, hurried back. At nearly forty years old, he was not as careless as when he was young. Over the years, his skills have not been lost, but even if he received a message from his family

After hearing the news, he switched horses and ran all the way. By the time he arrived, Zhang's mother had already been buried.

"Second brother, third brother." When he rushed to Zhang's mother's grave, Zhang Shiping and Zhang Shihao were kneeling in front of the tombstone, burning paper money one by one. The fire burned the yellow paper into ashes little by little, and the fire was bright and there were wisps of green smoke.

It rose into the air and was blown away by the wind.

Zhang Shiming knelt in front of the tombstone, took paper money, and put them into the brazier one by one.

Lin Shuangxuan and the other three also left a few days ago.

Lin Shuangxuan, Huang Zhou and Fu Dahai who arrived behind them, after bowing to Zhang Musan, Zhang Shiping, who was wearing sackcloth and mourning, walked them off a few steps and asked them to send a message to the sect that he would stay at home and observe his filial piety.

Three years. As long as this is the truth, Zhengyang Sect will not disagree.

Therefore, the three of them comforted Zhang Shiping a few times, and then drove the flying magic weapon to fly towards the Zhengyang Sect. The speed was not fast, and it was not as eager as when they came.

Time passed slowly. In front of Zhang's mother's grave, Zhang Tong'an leaned on crutches, put down the bamboo basket in his hand, took out three sticks of incense, lit it, and shook it gently with his hand to extinguish the flames on the incense.

I planted a fragrant incense plant, and then faced Zhang who was cleaning fallen leaves aside.

Shiping said: "Your mother must be very happy to have you by her side these three years. If you want to observe mourning for three years, I won't stop you, but now that three years have passed, it's time for you to go and practice good life in the Zhengyang Sect.

, if it could become a real person, your mother would be even happier."

"Wait until I finish sweeping the fallen leaves on the ground!" Zhang Shiping, dressed in white, nodded numbly. Maybe his mother would be even more unhappy after he became an immortal!

Before he started practicing as a child, he was almost at the knee of Zhang's mother. But since his family detected his three spiritual roots and three yang spiritual bodies, they began to teach Zhang Shiping how to practice. What the family taught him was how to practice.

, the idea of ​​how to protect the family. From then on, in order not to disappoint his father and his family, Zhang Shiping devoted himself to practice, but in this way he gradually ignored his mother's feelings.

And since he joined the Zhengyang Sect, he has come back even less often. Over the years, the total number of times has only been about twenty times, and in the last few years, Zhang Shiping has not returned to the family once. Therefore.

At the beginning, the more Zhang Shiping thought about it, the more he blamed himself, but after all, there is no regret medicine in this world.

He looked at the tombstone with dim eyes. Only when you lose do you know how to cherish, but it was already too late!

"Third brother, don't worry, mother is here to watch." Zhang Shihao patted Zhang Shiping's shoulder. Death is like a light going out, but the living must continue to live. Fortunately, they live better!

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Half a month later, Zhang Shiping took three young members of the Zhang family and joined the Zhengyang Sect, asking them to take over the stewardship positions of the three elders of the Zhang family in Yekun Mountain.

After Zhang Shiping came back, he first went to Lin Shuangxuan, Huang Zhou, and Fu Dahai to visit them, and then went to the Internal Affairs Hall to report the matter.

Then he returned to his cave. The spiritual stones in the Five Elements Divine Formation in his cave had long been exhausted. Fortunately, Kunshan was in the Zhengyang Sect, and there were three old men from the Zhang family watching over it. Otherwise, the things inside would not be there.

Even the entire formation will be moved cleanly by casual cultivators passing by.

After the three elders of the Zhang family taught the three young people of the Zhang family about things in Yekunshan, they all chose to retire and go back. After Zhang Shiping returned to Yekunshan, he cleaned up the cave, installed the spiritual stones, and restored the cave.

The formation rose.
Chapter completed!