After traveling through the book, I conquered the male protagonist Long Aotian!

When Rolnis saw that the Holy Spirit Fruit had been distributed, he smiled with satisfaction.

He turned his gaze to Gu Qingze who was standing beside him.

"Is Hong Jing okay now?"

Gu Qingze didn't react for a moment, and only remembered after a moment that this was his father's name.

"My father is doing fine, but he is busy with business and we don't see him often."

Gu Qingze thought for a moment and felt that there was nothing wrong with what he said. He had only met him once since he transmigrated into the book. Oh, no, that time should not be considered a meeting.

After all, he listened at the door and hadn't even entered the house. Everything he knew about his father now came from the original owner's memory.

Rolness sighed, as if the words just now brought back some memories for him.

"He still can't let it go..."

Gu Qingze became interested and asked indirectly.

"Is there anything that my father is worried about?"

"The only person in this world that he can care about is your mother."

Could it be that there is another hidden story behind the original owner's mother's death?

Gu Qingze actually likes listening to stories, especially true stories, which make him feel more involved.

"Uncle Rolnis, do you know anything about my mother? I have never seen her since I can remember. I know nothing about her life, and other tribesmen have never mentioned her either."

Looking at Gu Qingze's inquiring eyes, Rolnis sighed again.

"I only know a little about your mother."

"It's okay, Uncle Rolness, just tell me everything you know. I want to know more about my mother. After all, she is the one who gave birth to me. It would be too much if I knew nothing about her."

Gu Qingze looked at Rolness pitifully, waiting for him to speak.

While Rolness was organizing his words, Gu Qingze pulled Chu Lingxiao over from a distance.

"Is this okay? After all, this is about your mother."

Chu Lingxiao was right next to Gu Qingze, but when he heard him talking about family matters with Rolness, he politely avoided him.

The others were doing their own things, leaving them space. It was not good to listen to other people's private matters, and it was also about his late mother...

At first, Lao Shi wanted to stay with Rawlness so that he could take care of him, but he was sent away by Rawlness.

"It's okay. Maybe I'll need your shoulder when I'm sad later."

Gu Qingze teased.

How could he be alone when listening to a story?

He was an orphan and had never experienced the love of his parents. He could not empathize with such things, so he could only treat it as a story.

But he was still curious, is parental love really so magical, great and selfless?

By the time he and Chu Lingxiao sat down, Rolnis seemed to have organized his words.

"I first saw them in a tavern in a town near the Moline Cross Fields. They were dressed gorgeously and looked like rich people, so I had evil thoughts."

"Did you steal from them?"

Rolness shook his head helplessly.

"I wanted to steal it, but I failed. To be honest, you and your father are quite similar in this respect. You are both very powerful. However, your father was able to suppress me purely by relying on his cultivation, while you... almost did."

Gu Qingze was somewhat speechless. Back then, Rolness was probably only at the Qi training stage. How could he be the same as now? He didn't even look at how old he was and how old he was.

However, he did not interrupt, but calmed down and continued to listen.

"Your father kicked me to the ground and stepped on my back. I struggled desperately but was powerless. I was about to let them do whatever they wanted. But then I heard the girl next to me pleading for me. I raised my head and took a good look at her face for the first time."

"Haven't you looked carefully in the restaurant before?"

Chu Lingxiao couldn't help but ask. He didn't understand. Isn't the first thing you look at when you see someone?

"At that time, I was only concerned about the valuables on them. Who would have taken a closer look at their faces?"

"What does my mother look like?"

Gu Qingze didn't care about what they had just discussed. He had never seen the original owner's mother, and the original owner didn't have her memory. What was even more puzzling was that there was not even a portrait or photo stone of her in the house, so he was quite curious about what the original owner's mother looked like.

"She was very pretty. She had a ponytail on her head, big eyes, and bright blue pupils. Most importantly, her voice was very pleasant when she pleaded for me."

Gu Qingze was speechless. It was just that he didn't look at it carefully at all, but it was good to give a general idea.

"Your father let me go after hearing the girl's plea. After discussing for a while, they recommended me as the guide. They were not familiar with this place, but they were looking for something, and I was a local, so I just met the requirements. As long as I completed the task, they would let me go."

Rolness paused for a moment and then continued.

"It was only then that I learned their names. Your father's name is Gu Hongjing, and your mother's name is Lin Qingyue. They came here to look for the Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul Fruit. They heard that there was one in this wilderness, so they came to give it a try."

"What is this thing? Why are they looking for it?"

Gu Qingze thought about it for a while. He didn’t seem to have seen this thing in the book before. It must be very precious.

"Ice Soul Fruit is a very precious spiritual medicine, and it is even rarer when it is ten thousand years old. Once you find it, you must use a special method to pick it, and you can't just reach out and touch it. Also, after you pick it, the fruit will secrete a fragrance that will attract nearby spiritual beasts to come and fight for it, so it is also very dangerous."

"If that's the case, then what's the purpose of their picking?"

"I didn't know it at first, but they told me when they were about to leave. Your mother was born with a body that is susceptible to all kinds of poisons. They must gather the antidote before she turns 30, otherwise she will be in great danger."

"But the spiritual materials needed for the antidote are extremely precious and are not available on the regular market, so they can only search for them everywhere."

"Uncle Rolness, I have a question. As the young master of the Gu family, why didn't my father send anyone to look for her? Why did he not only go in person but also bring his frail mother with him? "

Gu Qingze immediately caught the loophole in his words.

"I don't know about that. After all, I am a stranger to them. They will definitely not reveal too much information."

Rolness smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"Did they really find the Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul Fruit?"

Whether Rolness didn't want to say it or he really didn't know, there would be no result if he continued asking, so Gu Qingze changed the question.

Rolness was silent for a moment, first shook his head, then nodded.

"I found it, but I didn't succeed in bringing it back. Is that what you mean?"

Gu Qingze looked at Rolness and asked.

"I guess so. They were able to bring the Ten Thousand Year Ice Soul Fruit back, but something went wrong with me and I was attacked by the Ice Soul Beast that was parasitic inside the Ice Soul Fruit. In order to save me, they used the newly acquired Ice Soul Fruit to attract the Ice Soul Beast. As a result, I was saved, but the Ice Soul Fruit was gnawed into pieces and lost its original effect?"

Rolnis's face was full of self-blame. If they had not done this at the time, or if they had scolded him or beaten him when the fruit was destroyed, he would not have felt so guilty.

"After that, I had no more contact with them. I had no idea whether they had gathered the antidote. When I heard from them again, your mother had passed away."

After he finished speaking, there was a long silence around him.

"Thank you Uncle Rolness for telling me this."

Gu Qingze was the first to break the silence here.

"Will your father blame me?"

Rolness suddenly asked.

"I'm not my father. I don't know what happened or how he felt back then, so I can't answer for him."

Gu Qingze said it very officially, and it was his true feelings.

No one can truly empathize with another person, and he has no right to make decisions for others.

"...That's right. My brothers and I will soon leave this wilderness and go to the nearby town to recuperate."

Rolness changed the subject.

"Then I wish you a speedy recovery."

Gu Qingze smiled and gave his blessing.

"Thank you."

After saying this, Rolnis stopped talking.

Gu Qingze pulled Chu Lingxiao towards where Zhou Yue and Su Ming were sitting.

"Have you finished chatting?"

Su Ming asked politely when he saw Gu Qingze coming over.

Gu Qingze nodded, and sat next to them with Chu Lingxiao.

Chu Lingxiao observed his emotions and found that his face was very calm, without any sadness, joy or anger.

"Um...are you okay?"

"I'm fine."

Gu Qingze looked at Chu Lingxiao in confusion, as if he didn't understand why he asked that.

"Then why didn't you say anything after listening to me just now, and why did you lower your head as if you were very sad?"

Chu Lingxiao imitated, but his imitation was exaggerated.

"No way! I lowered my head because I was in a daze. Then why didn't you say anything just now?"

"…After all, this is your family affair. It's not right for me, an outsider, to speak up, right?"

"Ling Xiao, you are so mean. How can you say you are an outsider? I have always treated you as a family member. If you want, you can call my father dad. I believe he will be very happy."

Gu Qingze said seriously that the reason why the Gu family was so strong and prosperous was because it did not focus too much on blood ties like the other two big families.

Like the homeless children adopted by the Gu family before, now that they have grown up, they are basically in charge of various industries in the Gu family's business. If they want, they can even change their surname to Gu.

He remembered that Chu Lingxiao's father had always been mean to him in the original novel, so if nothing else, he might as well join the Gu family tree, so that he could have a closer connection with Chu Lingxiao.

Chu Lingxiao was a little at a loss.

What does Gu Qingze mean by this?

Do you want to be his family?