a hundred times

A bean shimmers, illuminating the whole room in a dim yellow.

Ye Zhuchen curled up two fingers, and tapped twice on the wooden door.

"Enter."

After getting permission, Ye Zhuchen raised the corner of his lips before pushing the door open and entering.Once he restrained his usual laziness, his appearance almost showed a bit of obedience: "Mother."

Mrs. Luo raised her eyes, smiled, put down the scroll in her hand, and said softly, "You're back?"

"Yeah." Ye Zhuchen responded, sat down opposite Mrs. Luo, took out a letter from his sleeve, and put it on the rosewood table, "Father gave it to me, he asked me to ask you, what I said back then, Does it still count?"

Mrs. Luo showed no expression, she just turned the book on the letter upside down, and Ye Zhuchen looked down at it. It was an old "Zhuangzi", which had been read for many years, and the pages were already damaged.

"It's not peaceful outside, is the dynasty going to change?"

"perhaps."

"perhaps?"

"Foreign races can conquer Dacheng, but they don't necessarily need to conquer Dacheng. The Great Khan is still undecided... Even though he is a martial artist, he also understands that the more vast the country, the better."

Mrs. Luo smiled slightly: "How do you say?"

"Aliens have lived on animal husbandry and hunting for generations. They are brave and warlike, but they are free in nature and uncomfortable to be restrained. Even if they take down the territory of the Han people, they will still govern the country in the way of the Han people. Over time, they will be assimilated. Jiangshan cannot sit still."

"If there is a wise king, it may not be impossible for a long time."

Ye Zhuchen said indifferently: "Of course I know what the royal family of a foreign race is."

"Zhuchen, don't forget that you are also a member of the royal family. If you want, this country can be yours." Mrs. Luo stared at her son and said word by word, "You are not only a descendant of the royal family of my previous dynasty, but also a descendant of the royal family." Is the only son of a prince of a foreign race, who in the world is more qualified to rule the world than you?"

Ye Zhuchen did not speak, remained silent for a while, and asked the previous question again, "Father wants to know, does what you said 25 years ago still count?"

The beauty is picturesque, with a bit of bitterness slowly appearing between the eyebrows, such a peerless beauty, even if she just frowns slightly, who can harden her heart?

"I regret it."

Ye Zhuchen listened, his expression didn't change a bit.

"Tell your father, let me be like this for the rest of my life." Mrs. Luo said with a pale face, "After reading "Zhuangzi" for 20 years, I have long since lost the ambition that your grandmother gave me back then."

She named her son Zhuchen, which means chasing the boundless rights and supreme status of the common dust.When the child was seven years old, he entrusted all the missions of the family, just wanting to be independent in the world, to be an orchid in an empty valley in the paradise, not to be contaminated by the dust of the world.

She is the most noble, so she is also the most selfish.

"Your grandmother was a genius, she lived in the valley all her life, but she wanted to calculate the world, she was exhausted, and she passed away before she was thirty... I don't want to be like her."

So she made her son into that kind of person.

With tears in Madam Luo's eyes, she raised her eyes softly and asked, "Zhuchen, do you hate me?"

From the beginning to the end, Ye Zhuchen just watched quietly, neither surprised nor stunned. Hearing this, he smiled lightly and said in a normal way: "How could that be?" She said coldly, "You are my mother, I promised you that I would never let you down."

Mrs. Luo's breathing was slightly stagnant, and the image of seven-year-old Ye Zhuchen kneeling in front of the wooden house immediately appeared in her mind.That year, the entire Luozhu Mountain was frozen for thousands of miles. He knelt in the snow for two hours until he fell into a coma. After being rescued, he continued to kneel, begging this cruel mother not to abandon him.

What is she talking about?It's not abandonment, it's just letting Chen'er take on her responsibilities.

The seven-year-old child believed it. What he promised back then was to one day regain the lost country of his ancestors for his mother.

Mrs. Luo felt uncomfortable.

Sure enough, right after that, Ye Zhuchen said: "Mother can rest assured that what the child has said, there will be no day of regretting it."

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The next day.

Juefeng, known as the Unknown Peak by people, is over ten thousand feet high. In the past 50 years, no one has climbed it again.More than a hundred years ago, there were still people practicing martial arts in the valley of exile, but there are more men than women, and the martial arts have declined. Now most people in the valley only know a little superficial kung fu, which is only used for self-protection when collecting herbs in the mountains.

Therefore, Zhou Chuze's errand of treating diseases undoubtedly required Ye Zhuchen to do it himself.He is No. 300 in martial arts in the past 1 years of the Banished Valley, but he left home when he was young, and he would not run to the Wuming Peak if he had nothing to do. items, including firework for emergency use, to facilitate their journey.

It is midsummer, the mountains are cool, the snow melts, and the springs splash.

Ye Zhuchen walked with Zhou Chuze on his back at first, but later the mountain was steep and his feet were slippery, so he picked him up horizontally regardless of Zhou Chuze's willingness or not. Just took two steps, without even taking a few breaths, it took more than an hour to go up the mountain.

The vegetation is lush in summer, but the higher you climb, the sparser the vegetation.When he really climbed to the top of Wuming Peak, he saw a thick layer of frost and fresh white snow under his feet. Zhou Chuze was shivering with the cold in his cloak, unable to resist the bone-piercing chill.

"It's so cold." Ye Zhuchen wasn't dressed as thickly as Zhou Chuze. Under such circumstances, even with his internal body protection, it was still uncomfortable. He didn't give anyone a chance to object, so he embraced Zhou Chuze by himself, and said with a smile, "It's uncomfortable." Do you want to take medicine now?" The medicine naturally refers to the fake death medicine.

The cave has not been found yet, Zhou Chuze shook his head.

It's a world of ice and snow, and it's another world. The two of them walked casually, and Ye Zhuchen had already muttered several things: "Snow lotus, tsk tsk, it's blooming well... Bingchan, it's so ugly... and Cloud and satin snake... no wonder you're not in a hurry..."

Lie down in the cave, enter a state of stagnation, take fake death medicine, supplemented by various elixir, and reshape the body.Many of the elixir that Luo Fu talked about were obtained from local sources. Now that there are so many good things on Wuming Peak, Ye Zhuchen feels relieved.

The two walked around for a quarter of an hour, and as expected, they found a cave, which looked like a high and raised hillside from the outside.

Ye Zhuchen hugged Zhou Chuze tightly, took out the flint and lit the torch, and walked half a step ahead, seemingly casually, but actually put the person firmly within his protection range.Zhou Chuze looked at it calmly, and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

This person, why bother?

Stone caves are a habitat for humans, so why not for animals?Ye Zhuchen shone the torch on the stone wall, and suddenly he saw a lizard staring at strange eyes, making a silent startle.

The stone cave is not wide, and after walking about twenty steps, halfway through, a green light suddenly flashed in the darkness.

Ye Zhuchen and Zhou Chuze couldn't help being stunned, and then they heard Ye Zhuchen say: "You go back first." Zhou Chuze didn't respond, only saw the two green fluorescent spots moving slowly, and finally appeared in the light illuminated by the torch. In the twilight.

It is a snow leopard with pale fur.

During the exploration of the ancestors of Bangu, no creatures like leopards appeared in the cave.However, after more than 100 years have passed, wouldn't there be some new changes on the mountain?

Under such circumstances, the torch could not burn for too long. Ye Zhuchen clearly planned in his heart that he had to solve the problem before the torch was extinguished.

At this moment, he felt Zhou Chuze tugging at his sleeve.

A bad premonition surged up, Ye Zhuchen turned his head slightly, his heart sank suddenly, the sensitivity of animals is incomparable to humans, and there is no internal energy to explore in the body, unexpectedly without him noticing, the entrance of the cave did not know when, There are already two more snow leopards.

They are like three killers calmly, waiting for the flames to go out, and pounce on the fresh flesh and blood of these two uninvited guests.