Tomb Raider: The Fox's Ways to Seducing the Kirin

Father Cheng patted the boy who was crying breathlessly in his arms and sighed softly.

After two lifetimes, this was the first time that Father Cheng saw his youngest son crying so hard. Even when he was framed by the Wang family in his previous life and took the corpse-eating pill and knew his fate, the boy pretended to be strong and comforted him, telling him that there must be a solution.

"My son, I have one last question for you. Do you really want to interfere in the affairs of the Nine Sects and the Wang Family?"

Cheng Ji said sullenly in his father's arms: "Er Yuehong and Zhang Qiling are both very good people. I just want to help them."

Father Cheng raised his hand to wipe away the tears on the boy's cheeks: "Of course, father knows that the meteorite jade given to you in that life was given to you by Zhang Qiling, the head of the Zhang family. It is also because of this that father recognized the person who was traveling with you these days."

"Go to bed early. You'll be leaving tomorrow, so be careful outside." Father Cheng warned softly.

The next morning——

Zhang Qiling had just walked to the door of the Cheng family when someone called out from behind: "Patriarch Zhang, please stay."

Zhang Qiling turned around and saw the person coming, and was a little stunned.

It was Cheng's father Cheng Shuhao who called Zhang Qiling.

Father Cheng looked at the face in front of him, which was exactly the same as the one he met in the previous life, and felt a little dazed.

It was more than 20 years later when he met Zhang Qiling in his previous life.

Father Cheng tried every possible means to find the location of the thing that could alleviate the toxicity of the corpse-eating pill.

It was in an ancient tomb, which troubled him. He had heard about the dangers of ancient tombs. The Cheng family was different from the Qi family. The Qi family would do tomb robbing after all, but the Cheng family had been doing business for generations. Even those who were famous would hide their identities. Few people knew about the Cheng family's ability.

In desperation, Cheng's father went to Jiumen. At first, he looked for Zhang Qiling, but Zhang Qiling was too shrewd. After learning about the capabilities of the Cheng family, he only wanted to get something for nothing, but did not want to help Cheng's father, so he kept delaying.

Father Cheng saw through Zhang Qishan's intention and went to find Er Yuehong, who had been buried for a long time.

Er Yuehong refused at first, but could not resist Cheng's father's repeated pleas, every word was full of tears. He finally agreed to go down the tomb. After going through hardships all the way to the main tomb chamber to get the meteorite jade, when he was about to return, Zhang Qiling appeared.

He came to take back the meteorite jade, but after hearing Cheng's father's intention to take the meteorite jade, he told him how to use the meteorite jade and left.

The memories ended, and the thoughts returned. Etiquette could not be abandoned. Father Cheng smiled and bowed to Zhang Qiling and said, "I am sorry for not welcoming you from afar, Patriarch Zhang, I am Cheng Ji's father."

Zhang Qiling hurriedly returned the greeting and waited quietly for Cheng's father's next words.

Father Cheng continued, "It may be a little abrupt, but I hope you can understand our concerns for our children as parents."

"Cheng Ji has been a stubborn child since he was young. No one can change his mind once he has made up his mind, so I would like to ask you to help take good care of him. My Cheng family will definitely reward you handsomely."

Zhang Qiling nodded slightly and said, "I won't let anything happen to him."

Father Cheng looked at the young man who had come out and breathed a sigh of relief: "Then I would like to thank Chief Zhang first. It's getting late. If you are late, don't miss the train. Take care."

After saying that, he rubbed the head of the boy who ran to his side, smiled and walked away.

Cheng Ji raised his hand to straighten his hair that was messed up by his father, and asked curiously, "What did you just say?"

Zhang Qiling did not explain, but shook his head and said, "Let's go, let's hurry up."

Seeing that he couldn't get any information out of him, the young man gave up.

After many twists and turns, the two finally arrived in Zibo County, Shandong Province, which was later renamed Zibo.

Compared with Changsha, Shandong is closer to the three northeastern provinces, and the war is particularly severe there. On the road, you can often see young college students responding to the call to go to Nanjing to petition.

The two found a donkey cart driver to replace their walking and at the same time to get some information.

The old man pulling the cart chatted with Cheng Ji as he pulled the cart: "Why did you want to go to Jishan? It's not easy to get there."

Cheng Ji looked curious and asked, "How is it? Please tell us about it."

The old man shook his head with a look of deep taboo.

Seeing this, Cheng Ji raised his eyebrows slightly, took out a dollar from his bag and knocked it lightly on the armrest of the car, without saying anything else.

The noise excited the old man so much that even the car shook.

But the old man still shook his head: "It's unspeakable!"

Cheng Ji then took out another ounce of gold and handed it to the old man. The old man stared at the piece of gold in Cheng Ji's white fingers, his eyes widened, and he snatched the gold and put it in his pocket.

Pretending to be honest, he said, "Since you are so sincere, you must have something important to do. It's not wrong to remind you."

"It is said that in ancient times, there was a Houji Temple on this Jishan Mountain. King Xuan of Qi even climbed Jishan Mountain several times, and later built the Confucius Temple. Many emperors later built their own tombs near Jishan Mountain, and many were buried directly on the mountain."

"People who live near Jishan say that gods often appear in their dreams and tell them that this is a sacred mountain. If they bury their relatives on this mountain, the sacred mountain will bless their descendants with promotion and wealth."

"Even, every hundred years they would throw a young adult girl into the well on the mountain, saying, oh yeah, they said it was to be sacrificed to the mountain god as a wife, in order to avoid the mountain god's blame for being harassed for a long time."

Cheng Ji frowned and asked carefully, "After so long, no one has doubted this statement?"

The old man waved his hands and said, "How can I not be suspicious? A girl from a family was chosen as a sacrifice, but she ran away before the sacrifice. The villagers had no choice but to throw in an orphan girl from the village, hoping to get away with it."

"Then what?" Cheng Ji asked.

"Then, for three whole years, the land in that village was inexplicably barren. It wasn't until the village offered a young adult girl as a sacrifice to the mountain god that things started to get better."

After hearing the whole story, Cheng Ji couldn't help but sigh. He turned his head and gently tugged at Zhang Qiling's sleeve, leaned over and asked in a low voice: "Brother, do you think this is true or false?"

"real."

Cheng Ji raised his eyebrows: "Brother. How can you be so sure?"

Zhang Qiling moved his lips and chose to speak: "The Zhang family has records about this."

"..." Cheng Ji was furious. He knew it a long time ago but didn't tell me. He just spent his money in vain.

He seriously suspected that Zhang Qiling was just too lazy to speak such a long paragraph, so he allowed him to pay money to find out what the old man was saying.

As expected, except for Wu Sanxing who spent a huge amount of money to get Zhang Qiling to tell a story, there was no way he could hear more than ten words from Zhang Qiling under other circumstances.

"Hmph." Cheng Ji got angrier the more he thought about it, so he simply moved away, the farther away from Zhang Qiling the better; just looking at him made him angry.