Chapter 23023 An eighteen-year-old boy cannot hide his grievances...
"Hey, why are you crying again?"
Shi Hua had no experience in coaxing people, and was suddenly at a loss.
If Wei Shizhou knew that he was the one who reported him, he would not be so patient in talking to her.
It should have been Qin Xiyan who came to comfort him.
She didn't know if her coming here would have any impact, but the system was not there, and she couldn't just leave Wei Shizhou alone. Unfortunately, she couldn't find anyone else at that time.
"Shut up!"
Wei Shizhou, with tears streaming down his face, yelled at her fiercely, but there was no deterrent effect at all.
After being depressed for a moment, Wei Shizhou rubbed his eyes, grabbed the pastries she brought, opened his mouth and finished one in two bites.
He had been hungry for a day. After building his foundation, he did not practice fasting and retained the habit of eating.
He enjoys the taste of food and likes to taste all kinds of delicious food.
After swallowing three pieces in a row, I felt a little sick of it.
Shi Hua kindly handed over tea.
Wei Shizhou drank it in another gulp.
Then there was a long silence.
Shi Hua changed his posture and leaned against the rock, staring at the raging wind and snow outside the barrier, waiting for him to calm down and speak.
After a long time, Wei Shizhou pursed his lips in grievance, and there seemed to be tears in his eyes again, otherwise why couldn't he see anything clearly.
The sound was very soft, so soft that it sounded like a young animal curled up, licking its wounds alone, with the aggrieved, whimpering sound coming from its throat.
“…They were the ones who insulted my mother first.”
Shi Hua's fingertips trembled, and she turned slightly to look at him.
The boy's red eyes were filled with tears, but he tried hard to hold them back. He rested his chin lightly on his knees and curled up into a ball.
There were tears hanging on her eyelashes, trembling.
She lowered her head and bit her lips to stop herself from crying.
Shi Hua suddenly remembered that the male protagonist at that time was only eighteen years old. Compared with those who were hundreds or even thousands of years old, he was still a young child.
It is impossible to hide the grievances.
*
When Wei Shizhou was still a mortal, he was not happy during the first eighteen years.
His mother died of illness when he was five years old. His father remarried two years later. On the first day the second wife came into the house, his father asked him to call her mother, but he was stubborn and refused to open his mouth. Only after being kicked in the butt did he reluctantly call her mother.
The Wei family is very wealthy. After my mother passed away, many people set their sights on my father, hoping to become the mistress of the Wei family.
Seven-year-old Wei Shizhou believed that his mother was just like the people outside, who were coveting his family's property, and he was very hostile to her.
But this mother seems to be different from what people say.
His mother treated him kindly, without beating or scolding him, nor whispering in his father's ear. She also managed the Wei family in an orderly manner, and she was a very qualified second wife.
People outside are saying that the mother is very good and is so caring towards her stepson.
Wei Shizhou felt a little uncomfortable after hearing this. Although his mother treated him well, he always felt that something was different.
He couldn't get close to his mother.
It wasn't until his mother gave birth to his younger brother a year later that he suddenly understood what was different.
The birth of his younger brother helped his father completely get over the shadow of his mother's death. On his first birthday, he held a banquet and invited everyone. Wei Shizhou stood in the corner, stubbornly refusing to admit that he was his younger brother.
He is still the eldest son of the Wei family, and no one dares to neglect him.
The mother focused most of her attention on her younger brother and only cared about his studies.
At that moment, Wei Shizhou understood that no matter how good his mother was to him, he was not her biological son after all, and she was destined to be unable to love him wholeheartedly without any reservations.
His father gradually neglected to discipline him.
Everyone in the house was happy for the newborn second son.
Wei Shizhou was fed up and started skipping classes to hang out with his bad friends. He had nothing to do all day and was no different from the street thugs.
His father didn't know that he was skipping classes.
The moment he was discovered, his father was furious and wanted to punish him with family discipline, but his mother rushed over and took the beating for him.
Nine-year-old Wei Shizhou couldn't hide his feelings. With red eyes, he pushed his mother away and yelled, "I don't want you to care about me! I don't want you! I want my mother, I want my mother, wuwuwuwu!"
This was the first time Wei Shizhou mentioned his mother in four years.
His father suddenly fell silent. Looking at his face which looked very similar to his late wife, he felt bad. Perhaps it was guilt or self-blame. His father no longer controlled him and let him hang out with his bad friends. He would only send a few guards to follow him secretly and watch him.
Wei Shizhou resisted this family. A home without his mother was no longer his home.
Everyone likes the second son and dislikes the arrogant and domineering eldest son.
"Brother, let's play together!"
The five-year-old brother stood in front of the fourteen-year-old Wei Shizhou, holding a hydrangea in his arms, and happily invited him to play together.
Wei Shizhou didn't like him, and the word "brother" made him even more angry. He knocked the bouquet away and glared at him fiercely.
"I'm not your brother. Don't call me brother. I don't have a brother!"
The younger brother was too young to understand what he meant, he just knew that he was his older brother.
Feeling his brother's displeasure, the younger brother burst into tears, jumped to his brother's legs with his short legs, and started crying while hugging him.
"Brother, don't hate me! Don't wuwuwu!"
The younger brother is very small, not even as tall as his thigh.
Wei Shizhou froze the moment he was pounced on by him. He was troubled by an emotion he couldn't explain, and he didn't know what he had done. He heard his brother fall to the ground and cry bitterly.
The crying alarmed the father and mother.
His father was about to scold him immediately, but his mother stopped him.
Wei Shizhou looked at his parents coaxing his younger brother, and his heart was calm yet desolate.
He thought that maybe it was right for him to leave.
In the five years that followed, Wei Shizhou used his identity as the eldest son of the Wei family to secretly ask people to inquire about the immortal gate, and resolutely embarked on the established plot path.
When his father knew that he was going to become an immortal, he was the first to disagree and hoped that he would stay in the Wei family and inherit the family business.
Wei Shizhou looked at him indifferently: "If I stay, no one will be happy. I will inherit the family business, but what about your son? Father, if it were mother, she would support me."
He moved his mother out for the second time, which made his father compromise.
At that moment, my father seemed much older.
Knowing that he was determined to become an immortal, his father went to great lengths to purchase spiritual tools for him, spending almost half of his family fortune.
Wei Shizhou looked at the spiritual bracelet filled with spiritual energy and felt mixed emotions.
Perhaps realizing that he had neglected his care for him over the years, his father was particularly concerned about him in the last few days of their separation. His mother also helped him pack his bags personally, and his younger brother followed him clumsily, bumping into him from time to time.
At that time, Wei Shizhou was eighteen years old and his younger brother was nine years old.
A family of three saw him off at the dock. He stood by the boat and looked back at the three of them. He felt no sadness of parting, only a sense of relief.
This home no longer belongs to him.
*
The wind and snow on Hanya never stop all year round.
Looking around, there is only a blur of wind and snow.
The barrier made a loud bang after being hit, but it still firmly covered the two of them.
Wei Shizhou's mood has calmed down, but the redness at the corners of his eyes has not yet faded.
The hoarse voice was resounding.
"I don't hate anyone in the Wei family. Everything was my own choice. I don't regret beating them. Mother is my bottom line. I won't allow anyone to insult her!" After calmly recounting his eighteen years, he felt a lot more relaxed.
He had been suppressing his feelings for eighteen years, with no one to talk to and no one to understand. Perhaps now was not the best time, but when facing Jiang Qingwu, he felt the desire to confide in her.
Perhaps it was that selfish motive that made him hope that the girl he liked would be more partial to him.
Shi Hua remained silent.
She had lived for ten thousand years and had long lost the strong emotions of mortals. She could not empathize with what Wei Shizhou said.
I couldn't even utter a word of comfort.
After a long moment, Shi Hua looked into his calm eyes and asked him seriously, "Do you still want to go back?"
"I don't know either."
Wei Shizhou lowered his eyes, with half a piece of cake still uneaten in his hand. The sweet aroma tickled his taste buds, tempting him to eat more.
He put it back casually.
"I have embarked on the path of immortal cultivation. The mortal world and I have been separated."
He did not answer the question directly.
In fact, he himself didn't know. He got the storybook by chance when he was fourteen years old. It was written in great detail. He thought it was a prank at first, but later, as the events overlapped, he realized that the matter was not simple.
Even though he ended up going against the plot and becoming a gangster, he was still pushed to become an immortal.
When he stood at the foot of Xuanyin Xianzong Mountain, he vowed to live his own life by himself instead of letting a few words of the plot dominate his life.
He has no obsession with cultivating immortality. If he has to say what he has an obsession with, it is probably to escape from this life controlled by others.
"Xiu Xian... Then why did you come to Xiu Xian in the first place?"
Shi Hua could not see any desire to cultivate immortality in his eyes.
Wei Shizhou remained calm: "Why so many whys? Sometimes you don't need a reason to do something."
Because of the so-called plot, because of the so-called male lead.
Wei Shizhou slowly bent his right leg. His limbs were frozen stiff, and his cheeks were even more so. He seemed unable to even smile.
"Well, other people may cultivate immortality for fame, to become powerful, or something like that, but I'm different from them. I'm not interested in those things."
He wants a free life and a future that is not bound by constraints.
Shi Hua pondered, and she seemed to have a better understanding of this male protagonist.
Unlike the long descriptions in the plot, the Wei Shizhou in front of us is a lively male protagonist with his own ideas, and he cannot be described in a few words.
But what can she do with all these things in front of her?
"Jiang Qingwu, what about you? Why do you want to cultivate immortality?"
"...Why cultivate immortality?"
Shi Hua was stunned and suddenly became confused.
She seemed unable to answer this question.
Millions of years have passed. The young girl enthusiastically became a disciple of the Immortal Master Chenxu. Her talent was so brilliant that no one could catch up with her. But now she is the Immortal Master Shuyu in the world of immortal cultivation. She has many invisible burdens on her shoulders and can no longer remember why she wanted to cultivate immortality in the past.
Shi Hua pursed her lips and said, "I don't remember."
Wei Shizhou was stunned. Jiang Qingwu, who came from the past, was probably about the same age as him, but he didn't even remember why he wanted to practice Taoism.
It's unbelievable.
It's only been a few years.
"You actually don't remember such an important thing. Jiang Qingwu, you are really hard to figure out."
People have good and evil. The good or bad intentions of cultivating immortals may not determine a person, but it can definitely show how far he can go on this path.
Those with bad thoughts may destroy themselves with just one wrong thought.
"Is it...important?"
It seems that Master has also said this.
After the death of her master, she and her fellow apprentice shouldered the responsibility for the future of the world of immortal cultivation. They devoted themselves to it and had long forgotten their original intention. They only remembered one thing - to revitalize the world of immortal cultivation.
Shi Hua tried to recall, but apart from the vague voice of her master, she could not remember anything that happened.
“When it comes to painting, cultivators must not abandon their original aspirations. If their original aspirations are extinguished, inner demons will arise.”
A gentle voice flashed through my mind.
Shi Hua could not remember the face of Immortal Master Chenxu, only her voice kept lingering in his mind.
Earnest teachings.
"I……"
Shi Hua had just opened his mouth when a strange voice suddenly sounded in his blurry past.
"You will have a very powerful master in the future."
The boy's voice was full of smiles and teasing, but his face was still unclear, and only a hint of pink could be vaguely seen on his face.
Shi Hua unconsciously changed the subject: "...someone seemed to say that I would worship a very powerful master...and then I did."
"What did you say?!"
With a bang, Wei Shizhou's head hit the rock.
He held his head and looked at her, with shock and joy in his eyes. This was what happened in the Liangyi Floating Life Formation, and this was what he said to Xiao Shihua. Could Jiang Qingwu, who came over, also have an impression of it?
Wei Shizhou crawled over using his hands and feet, almost sticking to her face.
"What do you remember?"
Do you remember the time you teased someone?
Remember you said you would come find him and not allow him to fall in love with other female cultivators?
Shi Hua was startled by the sudden shortened distance, and he opened his mouth subconsciously: "I..."
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