On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, Chu Chakun came to Jinshan to visit Dong Lingye. He wanted to ask questions about something.
Dong Lingye was still in the small courtyard behind Jinshan Temple, holding a book and reading it. When he saw Chu Chakun coming, he put down the book in his hand, poured a cup of tea and asked him to sit down.
"Why are you here? As the end of the year is approaching, why don't you spend more time with your eldest brother, sister-in-law, and nephews? After all, you will be leaving after the New Year."
Chu Chakun looked at Dong Lingye and asked, "Is what you said to my elder brother and sister-in-law true?"
Dong Lingye: "Some are true and some are false. But this statement is the best for your eldest brother and sister-in-law."
Chu Chakun: "Then I..."
Before he finished speaking, Dong Lingye said: "Don't think too much. I said I want you to go traveling with me. This is not true. After the New Year, we will return to Fang Xiangshi, and everything will be the same as before.
It's the same, there's no difference. What I'm saying is just to prepare your brother and sister-in-law mentally. After all, you won't be able to come back to visit them often."
Chu Chakun: "Why can't I go home? Is it really because my destiny and that of the Chu family are at odds with each other?"
Dong Lingye: "That's not the case. On the contrary, it was your birth that changed the fate of the Chu family. As for why I said that...first, it's because you may really have no chance to go home again.
I want your brother and sister-in-law to know in advance. Secondly, this is also an excuse for you not to go home often. Why can't you go home? In fact, it's not that you can't go back, but that I'm afraid of you. I really don't.
The opportunity, or in other words, the next time, it will be too late to come back. Now that you are in Fang Xiangshi, you have experienced too much influence of Yin Spirit Qi, so that’s it. But the problem is that you often use this Yin Spirit Qi, so you and
The ties to the underworld are getting deeper and deeper, and maybe one day you will enter the underworld and become a person in the underworld."
At this point, Dong Lingye changed the topic: "Don't take it too seriously. This is the worst plan I have made. If the situation is good, you can come back to see them at any time."
Originally, if Dong Lingye told Chu Chakun that he would enter the underworld, Chu Chakun would be indescribably happy. After all, this was what he had always expected. But now he suddenly knew that the price of going to the underworld was to be with the underworld.
When his family members are separated, it is inevitable that he will feel a little heavy.
Seeing that Chu Chakun looked sad, Dong Lingye continued to comfort him: "What I said was too serious. I just told you and your eldest brother and sister-in-law the worst outcome in advance. In fact, it may not happen.
That's right. Look at Zhao Yu, isn't it the same that he can come and go freely in front of mortals? You will be similar to him when the time comes. As long as you want to come back, you can come back at any time."
Chu Chakun was slightly relieved by Dong Lingye's persuasion. In fact, he was still not ready. But if he was asked to give up and return to Fang Xiangshi now, he would be very reluctant to do so. It was still the same reason. I don't know why.
He always felt that Fang Xiangshi or Dong Lingye was a bond that touched the depths of his heart.
Chu Chakun nodded and said he understood, sat down and chatted for a while, and agreed with Dong Lingye that after the Lantern Festival, he would come to Jinshan to find her and go back to Fang Xiangshi with them.
Months later, he still stayed with his elder brother and sister-in-law.
The end of the year was approaching, and although the Chu family didn't have many relatives, they still had a lot of interpersonal contacts. However, after the New Year, Chu Chakun would have to travel away from home for five years, so the Chu family declined all these banquets and social gatherings.
.There were many people who heard that the second master of the Chu family had returned to Nancheng and tried to get acquainted with them, but they could not even meet him and could only return disappointed.
On the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, Chu Chakun followed the Chu family uncle to the ancestral hall to pray for the family. Although the Chu family had no heirs, they were wealthy, so the ancestral hall was particularly grand.
The uncle of the Chu family and Chu Chakun knelt on the futon and kowtowed to the ancestors of the Chu family. The uncle of the Chu family looked at the memorial tablet above, with unspeakable sadness in his heart. Outsiders saw the Chu family as powerful, famous, and wealthy.
But the enemy country, and who can know the sorrow and sorrow involved in this. But now they know that the prosperity of their Chu family for hundreds of years was exchanged for their heirs, and the stable life of future generations will now have to be exchanged for the life of his younger brother.
Sure enough, no wonder things happen for a reason.
Chu Chakun came to this ancestral hall every year. It can be said that even though he could understand yin and yang and see ghosts and gods since he was a child, he had never seen any of his predecessors in the Chu family ancestral hall.
In fact, this can be regarded as a kind of deal between the Chu family and the underworld. The fate of the Chu family will be changed by Pluto entrusting the birth of the Chu family.
Chu Chakun didn't know about these, he just thought that every ancestral temple was like this. He stayed at Fang Xiangshi for more than half a year, and he saw all kinds of things in the world, not to mention seeing them all, but he also saw more than before.