Time flies, the years are like a shuttle, and more than twenty years are like a blink of an eye.
Zhang Xiaozhu has grown from a seventeen-year-old young man to a forty-one-year-old middle-aged man with a beard, and his dark and rough face is full of traces of the passage of time.
Liu Queer also changed from a sixteen-year-old young girl to a forty-year-old middle-aged woman, but her appearance was well maintained and she looked like she was in her early thirties.
Zhang Xiaozu had loved her very much over the years, and would hardly let her do any menial work in the fields. He would often go to the county town to buy some rouge and gouache for her to use.
Liu Queer felt that the greatest luck in her life was meeting Zhang Xiaozu, who made her live every day as sweet as honey.
In order to repay Zhang Xiaozhu's love and care for her, she planned to give birth to a bunch of sons and daughters for Zhang Xiaozhu, so that Zhang Xiaozhu would have more branches and leaves. Because Zhang Xiaozhu was his own tribe in Liujia Village, if he had fewer children, he would be in trouble.
The ward seemed lonely and lonely.
She gave birth to two boys and a girl in one breath, which made Zhang Xiaozu grinning happily all day long. Every time she met, she would praise how smart his boys were and how beautiful his girls were.
Seeing the happy look on Zhang Xiaozu's face, Liu Que'er felt a sense of accomplishment. She was ready to keep up her efforts to give birth to three children for Zhang Xiaozu, but things didn't work out as she wanted. Her stomach suddenly became unsatisfactory and there was no movement, which made her very upset.
At one point, he even came up with the idea of marrying Zhang Xiaozu, but he was severely rejected by Zhang Xiaozu.
With two sons and one daughter, Zhang Xiaozu was already content.
The eldest son was named Zhang Yanbei, the second son was named Zhang Yannan, and the younger daughter was named Zhang Nianyou.
Niu Dawa joked that Zhang Xiaozu was uneducated and not as nice as his son's name.
Niu Dawa also got married. He married a girl from Zhangjiacun and gave birth to two sons. The eldest son was named Niu Qi, and the second son was named Niu Chongtian. Together, the two sons were Niu Qi Chongtian.
Zhang Xiaozu thinks that Niu Dawa was able to come up with this word and turn it into a name, which is definitely a superb performance. This must be given a thumbs up.
The eldest son Zhang Yanbei married and started a family four years ago, and the second son Zhang Yannan started a family two years ago and married all good girls from nearby villages.
The little girl was abducted by Niu Dawa to be the second daughter-in-law. They said that the wealth would not go to outsiders. It was a happy event just last month.
He and Niu Dawa changed from brothers to in-laws, and their feelings and relationship became closer.
At the wedding banquet, Niu Dawa asked what he meant by missing you. Zhang Xiaozhu replied that he missed an old friend. As for who the old friend was, he couldn't remember him.
The flying time, trivial matters of life and various emotional bonds are like an invisible cage, which makes Zhang Xiaozhu willingly trapped in Liujia Village, and gradually wears away his edges and corners.
"The world is so big, I want to see it."
The heroic words of my youth have all come to nothing, leaving a trace of regret in my heart.
Liu Queer knew that Zhang Xiaozu had something he had to do, but for the sake of her and three children these years, he had kept this matter deep in his heart and never mentioned it.
Now that her children are married and living a relatively happy life, there is no need to worry or care about her. Liu Queer feels that she can't be too selfish. It's time to let Zhang Xiaozu do the thing and not let it become a permanent regret in Zhang Xiaozu's heart.
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Despite all the reluctance and worries, Liu Queer still resolutely packed the luggage for Zhang Xiaozu and handed it over to Zhang Xiaozu one morning.
"Go ahead and search everywhere. If you can find it, it will be a great joy. If you can't find it, don't leave any regrets in your heart. At least we tried hard.
You have always been mature and steady in your behavior. I have nothing to tell you. I only have one sentence to tell you that no matter how long or far you go, Que'er's heart will always be with you. This will always be your home, Que'er and your children.
We have been waiting for you to come back."
"I'm so lucky to have you as my wife in this life." Zhang Xiaozhu didn't expect that Que'er would always be thinking about his search for a relative, and even packed his luggage for him. He was very moved and hugged Que'er into his arms and promised, "Don't worry.
, I will definitely come back.”
Zhang Xiaozu picked up his luggage and left the house. He took the silk with his name on it and asked questions all the way as he went north, passing through various counties, prefectures and prefectures, and finally arrived at Baiyun City.
However, it was too difficult to find the writer in this vast sea of people with just three words without beginning or end. A year later, he returned without success.
After living at home for half a year, he hugged his grandson and grandson, and then left the house again, this time he went all the way south.
This has been going on for five years and there is still no delivery.
When he returned home, he was shocked to find that his grandson and grandson had grown up, and they had added several more grandsons and a granddaughter. However, they did not know his grandfather. Zhang Xiaopou suddenly woke up. Instead of looking for the impossible
, it is better to settle down and live the life in front of you.
There is nothing happier than having children and grandchildren in the world.
Since then he has never traveled far away from home.
Niu Dawa inherited his father's skill in blacksmithing. Zhang Xiaozu went to the county town and bought a large piece of high-quality iron, and asked Niu Dawa to build him a giant axe.
Niu Dawa asked him what he was doing, and he only said that he saw knights walking around in the rivers and lakes outside, carrying such a huge ax on his back, which was very majestic, and he wanted to feel the feeling of a knight.
Niu Dawa scolded him for being short-sighted and said that an ax was not as powerful as a sword.
Zhang Xiaopou, however, insisted on asking for the axe.
In the valley of the deserted village, Zhang Xiaozu's shadow has turned white and his beard has turned white. He looks old and vicissitudes of life. He looks older than the three butcher Zhangs.
The same is true for Taoist Qinglian on the side.
Tianwu Daoist and others saw the two of them aging rapidly and were helpless. Their hearts were depressed and painful. They knew clearly that the changes in the body in the illusion were real, because the human body was really pulled into the virtual world in the illusion.
, this is the brilliance and terror of this illusion formation.
In other words, even if Zhang Xiaozu and Taoist Qinglian are awakened now, they will not be able to return to their original age, so awakening them now would be cruel to them. It is better to let the two of them immerse themselves in a beautiful illusion like this.
There isn't much time left.
At least from the smiles on their faces, we can tell that they are living happily in the illusion.
"What a pity." Butcher Zhang kept lamenting and regretting in his heart. He had regarded Zhang Xiaopeng as a talent and wanted to cultivate him well, but he never expected that the world would be unpredictable and he would suffer such a disaster.
He got a resurrecting plant in a deserted village, and wanted to use this treasure to Wen Buwu and give it to Zhang Xiaopou in exchange for ten years of growth time. After all, being cared about by a semi-saint all the time, the probability of surviving ten years is too small, unless
He followed Zhang Xiaozu all day long to protect him, but this was obviously impossible.
A plant of Resurrection Grass can increase one's life span by ten years. To be honest, Butcher Zhang was quite reluctant to part with it, but he thought that Zhang Xiaozu could save his son and pass down the incense to his old Zhang family. Moreover, he really felt that he was very close to Zhang Xiaozu, so he gritted his teeth and decided
It's cheap but not powerful. But now it seems that it is no longer useful.
Taoist Tianwu suddenly took out the small yellow flags from his robe sleeves and began to arrange them within ten steps of Zhang Xiaopeng.
"Old Taoist, what are you doing?" Wen Buwu asked in a bad tone.
"Set up the formation," Tianwu Taoist replied.
"What formation are you going to take?" Wen Buwu asked with a frown. Tianwu Taoist just threw four small flags on the ground, and he felt the biting cold. Even though he knew that the power of this formation must be very terrifying, he immediately felt uneasy in his heart.
Feel.
"The Extermination Formation of Gods and Demons, I don't know if you have heard of it," Tianwu Taoist said and threw two small flags in different directions. Suddenly, within ten steps of Zhang Xiaopeng, a sinister wind blew, and the murderous aura was everywhere. And in his hand
There are still six small flags that have not yet landed.
Wen Buwu's face changed greatly when he heard this, and he said anxiously, "Let's not talk about whether this formation can break this illusory formation. I just want to say that if you wake them up now, you are actually being cruel to them. It is better to let them live in a happy world until the end of their lives."
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"I don't mean to wake them up." Taoist Tianwu replied, and at the same time he threw out two small flags. The murderous aura became stronger, and a faint bloody aura emerged from the ground.
"Then what are you doing?" Wen Buwu asked with eyes wide open.
Tianwu Taoist suddenly looked up at him and asked, "What are you worried about?"
"Who knows what kind of array you can set up?" Wen Buwu snorted and looked away, not looking at Taoist Tianwu.
Tianwu Taoist asked, "Are you going to retreat to the outside of the formation, or are you just standing here and staying in the formation?"
Wen Buwu was only two steps away from Zhang Xiaopeng, so Taoist Tianwu asked this question.
Butcher Zhang shook his head and stepped back ten steps away.
Tianwu Daoist's intention is very clear, he wants to drive everyone away from Zhang Xiaozu, and his intention is also very obvious, to wait for Zhang Xiaozu's death to take the rare treasure from him. He is Zhang Xiaozu's master, so doing this is not a good idea.
There is nothing wrong with that.
But Wen Buwu was unwilling to do so.
But everyone had already moved away, and he was the only one who stayed by Zhang Xiaopou's side. He was looked at with puzzled looks by everyone, and felt very embarrassed for a while.
Seeing that Taoist Tianwu only had the last flag left in his hand, and that it had been thrown out and was about to land in formation, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and retreat.
He had heard about the power of the God and Demon Extermination Formation. It was one of the forbidden techniques of the Three Purities. It was said that even saints were afraid of it. So even though the one arranged by the old man Niubi was very crude, he did not dare to look down upon it.
"You want to take advantage of Master Tianwu, but you think too much." Butcher Zhang looked at Wen Buwu who was forced out of the range of the formation and said teasingly.
"Huh?" Wen Buwu rolled his sleeves and snorted in embarrassment.
Butcher Zhang happily took out a nine-leaf spiritual grass and waved it towards Wen Buwu, and asked proudly, "A nine-leaf resurrecting grass, you are not greedy."
Wen Buwu stared at the Nine-Leaf Resurrection Grass in Butcher Zhang's hand, and his eyes widened for a moment, with unabashed greed in his eyes. However, when he thought that Butcher Zhang had deliberately taken it out to gratify him, he immediately got angry and looked at him.
Butcher Zhang puffed his beard and glared, "You bitch, do you want to have a fight?"
"Not interested." Butcher Zhang curled his lips and put away the Nine-Leaf Resurrection Grass, not forgetting to say, "It's great to have ten more years of life."
""Wan Qiuqing and others were quite speechless when they saw the two bickering like this.
The cemetery in Liujia Village is on the hillside to the west of the village.
Zhang Yanbei and Zhang Yannan buried their mother in grief and mourning.
After everything was done and everyone had dispersed, Zhang Xiaozu walked out from a distance, went straight to Liu Que'er's grave and sat down. He reached out and touched her tombstone and murmured, "Que'er, if you leave, I will too."
