Southwest of Yunzhou, Lingtao
Villa Lin Jiang has been hiding in the clouds above Lingtao Villa for a day. There are many golden elixirs at the Lin family's mountain gate, but he dare not be arrogant, so he did not dare to get closer. He chose to go back to the old Lin family's place to take a look.
"Mother, Lin Ying, I'm back."
Lin Jiang looked at Lingtao Villa, and his nose was sour. He had been in Lingtao Villa for decades, and there were beautiful memories here, but the scenery remained the same, and the old people were gone.
Thoughts surged like a tide, and Lin Jiang finally couldn't help it. He came quietly from the clouds to the peach forest outside the villa.
It was the season when peach blossoms were in full bloom. Lin Jiang picked a peach blossom, put it to his nose and sniffed it suddenly, and the fragrance was fragrant.
"This Taoist friend, I don't know why he appeared in my Lin family's territory."
After a while, an old man appeared behind Lin Jiang. Lin Jiang had already discovered it, but deliberately pretended not to know.
"Greetings for the ceremony, fellow Taoist. My name is Zhang Shuhua, a casual cultivator. I once knew a fellow Taoist from Lingtao Villa. He said that he would treat me to peach blossom wine, but the agreed time has passed and he didn't show up, so I came here to check it out."
"Who are you talking about?"
"The Taoist only said that his surname was Lin and didn't tell me his real name. We are just like-minded and not close friends. I just felt that he had a good personality, so I wanted to meet him again." "
Then I don't know who you are talking about. The owner of this villa is my tenth great-uncle, but my tenth great-uncle has lived away from home for a long time, so I came here to retire." "
Daoist, I don't know what to call you."
"Lin Cunyi, the sixth generation of the Lin family."
"Sixth generation?"
Lin Jiang sighed. Six generations of the Lin family were so old.
"My Lin family is full of talented people. I wasted too much time when I was young, indulging in pleasure and feeling guilty about my family, so I came here to guard. There are not many people in the Lin family's ancestral home."
"Daoyou seems very bored."
"Haha, the whole villa is full of mortals, and I am the only cultivator. How many people do you think I can talk to?"
"That's right. Meeting is fate. I have some delicious food from Medicine City. Do you have any wine?"
"Lingtao Villa has no shortage of wine, but it's not good wine. Don't despise it, Daoyou."
Lin Cunyi laughed. He didn't even guard against the visitor. Lingtao Villa didn't have any valuable things at all. The most valuable thing was the Lingtao on this mountain, but the Lingtao was still a peach blossom.
"Okay, I'll have a drink with you."
Lin Jiang nodded and took out some food from the storage bag. The two found a big rock in the peach blossom forest and sat down to drink and eat meat.
Under Lin Jiang's deliberate questioning, Lin Cunyi talked about many things of the Lin family. Lin Jiang felt very complicated after listening to it, but Lin Cunyi was only in the Qi training stage after all, and he would not reveal any secrets of the Lin family.
"This Lingtao Villa is the favorite of my tenth aunt. It seems to be the place where her brother once lived. The tenth aunt would come back to visit when she had time. Daoyou, have you seen these peach blossoms? They were replanted later. The tenth aunt planted them herself. The previous ones died long ago.
The manor at the foot of the mountain is also the same as hundreds of years ago. The tenth aunt did not allow us to build houses randomly. I can't remember when it was the last time. Someone built a village, hey, it was chopped down by my tenth aunt with a sword. He was asked to restore the place, otherwise he would be killed, and that..."
In the end, Lin Cunyi was drunk and talked nonsense. Lin Jiang cast a spell to make him fall asleep, and then used his luck and spiritual power to send him to the manor at the foot of the mountain.
Lin Jiang knew that the manor was the same as when he left, with the fish pond and the pigsty for raising iron-backed pigs. Lin Jiang's mood became even more complicated, with mixed feelings.
After leaving Lingtao Villa, Lin Jiang came to the Lin family's ancestral home, where there lived more than a hundred immortal cultivators, almost all of whom were elderly immortal cultivators, with the highest level of cultivation being the foundation-building stage. Lin Jiang eavesdropped on their conversation and found that several of the foundation-building stage cultivators were of the Chao generation, and were considered his great-grandchildren.
"The generations of the Lin family are hard to describe in a few words,"
Lin Jiang shook his head. The youngest generation of the Lin family had already been ranked for more than a dozen generations, but a large number of descendants of the fourth or fifth generation were still alive, and some of them were still having children. How could the generations not be messy? He couldn't tell them apart anyway.
A group of foundation-building cultivators couldn't find Lin Jiang, so he came to the ancestral tomb area. There were more than a dozen hills covered with tombstones, just like the cemetery that Lin Jiang had visited before.
"Auntie is here too."
Lin Jiang saw the tombstone of Lin Batian's wife, which was also next to the tombs of Lin Batian's wives and concubines. The tombs were very luxurious.
"Second mother, third mother, fifth mother, sixth mother, where is my mother?"
But Lin Jiang looked around and couldn't find his mother's tombstone, which made him a little overwhelmed.
"I buried these concubines with my own hands and guarded their tombs for many years. I won't remember it wrong."
Lin Jiang patted his head. There was no reason for him to remember it wrong.
"It was Lin Ying who moved my mother's tomb away."
Lin Jiang finally reacted. The location was not wrong. The ancestral tomb was taken care of by someone, and it would not be covered by soil for more than 200 years. There was only one reason, that is, Lin Ying moved the tomb away.
"Lin Ying, Lin Ying, my brother's wish was ruined by you."
"Forget it, forget it, these concubines are lucky."
Lin Jiang shook his head. Over the years, he wanted to come back to worship many times, but he never dared. Now he finally made up his mind, but the tomb was gone.
Lin Jiang took out things from his storage bag and placed various offerings in front of the graves of the aunts one by one.
“Auntie, I remember you liked candied fruits from Anhua city. I don’t know if it’s the same brand as before, so I simply bought more than ten kinds. Eat them with confidence, no one will snatch them from you”
“Second mother, you always like to secretly change the cards when playing mahjong. I brought you a few sets of mahjong. Just play more and don’t join forces with third mother to bully my mother. My mother is not so smart. She didn’t notice every time you changed the cards”
“Third mother, you like the clothes from Zhang’s Tailor Shop in Anhua city. Hehe, you didn’t expect that Zhang’s Tailor Shop is still around after hundreds of years. I’ll be filial to you and bring you dozens of sets of clothes. Remember to beat up fifth brother when you have the chance. He’s not as filial as me”
“Fifth mother, you liked the braised pork I made the most in your later years. I brought you a pot this time. I promise that no one will snatch it from you. My mother won’t let her. You can eat it slowly by yourself”
“Sixth mother...”
“Seventh mother...”
“...
Lin Jiang stayed in front of the ancestral grave for a long time before leaving reluctantly. No matter how beautiful the memories are, there will be a day to return to reality.
Three days later, Lin Die's figure fell from the sky and landed in front of the ancestral tomb. She came to the tomb of Lin Batian's wife and was shocked to see the candied fruit in front of the tombstone.
Lin Die did not hide her figure, and the old children of the Lin family ancestral home soon came.
"Meet the third aunt"
"Did you make all these things?"
Lin Die also found the offerings in front of the tombs of other aunts and asked them immediately.
"This..."
"Didn't you make it?"
"To the third aunt, no"
"Has anyone come recently?"
"The tenth aunt came a year ago, and no one has come since then"
"Who could it be?"
Lin Die was a little confused. She looked at these offerings and became more and more suspicious. The offerings in front of each aunt's tombstone were things that the aunts liked when they were alive. Could it be Lin Ying?
"Third aunt?"
"Ahem, find a few people to move the ancestral tombs and prepare them one by one"
"Ah, third aunt, do we have to move all of them?"
The old children of the Lin family were all stunned. There are more than a dozen hills, at least tens of thousands of tombs.
Lin Die was also startled. She came here specially because she heard from Lin Batian that Lin Ying had moved her mother's grave. But where should so many graves be moved at once?
"You don't have to move all of them. Just move all the graves of my aunts."
Lin Die shook her head. It was impossible to move all of them. She could only take care of some close people.
"In addition, my eldest brother, second brother, and those younger brothers and sisters."
Then she added, mother, aunts, brothers and sisters, she could only take care of so many.
"Yes, Third Aunt."
The Lin family's children quickly took action and asked people to prepare new coffins, and then collected the bones in the graves and put them back into the coffins.
Lin Die put the coffins into the storage bag and prepared to leave. Before leaving, she said, "You don't have much time left, eat and drink well, don't treat yourself badly."
After that, Lin Die soared into the sky, leaving a group of elderly Lin family children looking at each other in bewilderment.