Chapter 21
During the time when his father and mother passed away and Suisui had not yet revealed his unique affinity for spiritual plants, Jiang Mingyan was very eager for Suisui to grow up and become a big boy, a big boy who could protect himself and not be bullied by anyone.
Because Jiang Mingyan knew that with only his third level of Qi training, even if he tried his best, he would not be able to take Suisui away.
The faster I grow up, the faster I can leave Wu'an City and this muddy place.
As for him, Jiang Mingyan always couldn't help thinking that he was a useless person with broken spiritual roots, an incompetent person who would gradually be left in a deserted courtyard by time. Just let him rot here, rot and stink together with the Jiang family, and don't drag down the years.
As long as he can get out of the quagmire and move towards a shining future, he will be satisfied.
However, perhaps their father and mother were blessing them, and everything was getting better.
Sui Sui made a contract with Hypericum virginianum, and they left the Jiang family and came to Quyuan Manor.
Silver Frost Sand suddenly appeared before his eyes, and the turning point that was originally hidden in the fog gradually became clear.
The urgency in Jiang Mingyan's heart gradually dissipated, and was replaced by completely opposite expectations.
He watched as each year passed and he grew slower and slower.
He hopes to remain innocent forever, always smiling and knowing no sorrow.
——Or rather, from the beginning to the end, what he truly hoped for in his heart was the current appearance.
Suisui does not need to brave the wind and rain, as he has the ability to protect Suisui under his wings and ensure a worry-free and safe journey.
Everything that happened in the past was just a compromise made out of helplessness.
These are actually the truest and most determined thoughts hidden in Jiang Mingyan's heart.
However, no matter how Jiang Mingyan's thoughts change, time will not stop for anyone.
Spring goes and autumn comes, time flies, it seems like just a blink of an eye, Suisui has grown from a small ball to a slightly bigger ball.
"Sui Sui is already three years old." Jiang Mingyan sighed softly.
"Yeah~" The little guy in his arms didn't know the unspeakable regret in his brother's heart, and nodded happily in response. The furry little tuft on his head swayed with his movements, like a lively furry ear.
"Brother, Si is four years old!" Sui Sui rubbed her white and tender fat fingers and finally concluded: "Brother, he is also very dirty!"
Listening to Sui Sui's baby voice with constant mistakes, Jiang Mingyan smiled helplessly, and the sudden sorrow and regret in his heart were blown away a little.
People should be content.
He cannot hope that time will go slower for Suisui while at the same time hoping that he will grow up quickly and have enough strength to protect Suisui.
"Sui Sui is awesome, he got it right." Thinking of this, Jiang Mingyan raised his hand and touched the fluffy little tuft of hair on the little guy's head, speaking in an indulgent tone.
"Brother, don't get too warm..." But Sui Sui's focus right now wasn't on her brother's praise. She quickly tilted her head back and said, "I'm going to see Dahei later."
"Big Black, Big Black..." Jiang Mingyan tapped Sui Sui's little nose with his fingertips: "Everything is Big Black, why don't you say that I was the one who pricked your hair this morning?"
"Brother, do you seem jealous?" Sui Sui tilted her head and looked at Jiang Mingyan for a while, then asked in a childish voice.
His eyes were wet, like an innocent kitten.
"What did Tang Jiu teach you?" Jiang Mingyan's eyes shifted involuntarily, avoiding the little guy's bright gaze and landing on the red mole on Sui Sui's forehead. He said in a very natural tone of condemnation, "Sui Sui can't just follow Tang □□ in everything."
"Brother seems to be changing the subject." Sui Sui stretched out her two lotus root-like arms and took the hand that Jiang Mingyan had just touched her nose into her arms. Her big, bright black eyes on her round face stared intently at her brother, and her baby voice said solemnly, "Brother, don't be shy. Brother likes to call Sui Sui, and Sui Sui also likes to call you brother. She likes you the most."
"Shameless." Jiang Mingyan seemed to want to rub Sui Sui's little head, but he remembered something, paused, and poked the little guy's soft face instead.
"Why should you be embarrassed?" Sui Sui pouted and said loudly, "Sui Sui just loves to tease me, and I love to tease Sui Sui the most too!"
"Okay, okay, I like it the most."
On the street.
Jiang Mingyan had no choice but to agree. His handsome face looked stern, but the tips of his ears were turning red.
The stall owner nearby had listened to the entire conversation and smiled as he said, "You and the young master have a truly wonderful relationship. I guess you're always so kind to him, which is why he's so obsessed with you."
And there is the big black dog that he has been thinking about.
Jiang Mingyan couldn't help but complain in his heart, but his handsome features softened unconsciously: "Although the child is ignorant, he knows who treats him well."
"Yeah..." the stall owner sighed, "People say children don't understand things, but they actually know everything!"
The little fat boy, who understood everything, nodded repeatedly with a serious look as if to say "Yes, that's it".
Jiang Mingyan laughed, held the little guy who was swinging his short legs happily, and said goodbye to the stall owner.
"Sir, take care. Please bring your little one with you next time..." the stall owner said enthusiastically.
"Okay, okay, Suisui will come with brother!" Suisui also responded enthusiastically, and her round and soft face looked very well-behaved.
Only after Sui Sui said her goodbyes did Jiang Mingyan take a step and walk towards Xizhuang.
"Brother, you are wrong." At this time, the cub in his arms suddenly poked Jiang Mingyan's arm, and his watery black eyes flickered like two bright stars.
"What's wrong?" Jiang Mingyan lifted up Sui Sui's soft little body and asked with a smile.
"It's like Uncle Chen taught me~" The little girl said happily, with a little pride.
Jiang Mingyan was stunned for a moment, then realized that Sui Sui was refuting what he had said before, 'You can't follow Tang □□ in everything.'
"You!" Jiang Mingyan patted Sui Sui's little butt in a funny way: "Yes, yes, brother was wrong."
"Hehe." The little guy laughed, like a cat that stole some fish, and raised his chubby face with great pride.
Jiang Mingyan shook his head helplessly, but soon, he paused slightly, and then changed direction calmly.
"Huh?" Sui Sui looked at his brother in confusion.
"Shh..." Jiang Mingyan lowered his voice: "It seems that there are bad guys following us. We can't let them go to Uncle Chen's house with us, right?"
"Yeah!" Sui Sui put on a stern face and, imitating his brother's behavior, whispered, "I understand. We have to beat up the bad guys!"
Over the past year, as Jiang Mingyan carried Sui Sui in and out of Tang's Pharmacy more and more familiarly, more and more people noticed them.
There are many people among them who harbor evil intentions.
But Jiang Mingyan had been practicing sword since he was a child, and he became even more diligent after obtaining the Silver Frost Sand from the cave. He often sparred with monsters at the outermost edge of the Dusk Mountains.
In addition, there is the Hypericum virginianum with a contract every year, so those who have bad intentions will naturally never return.
As time went by, everyone in Zhongzhuang knew that this pair of handsome brothers were tough guys, and they didn't dare to cause trouble for Jiang Mingyan and Suisui easily.
Unexpectedly, another troublemaker showed up today.
——Outsider?
Jiang Mingyan frowned.
"Brother, don't be afraid." Sui Sui stretched out his fat fingers like a little adult to smooth away Jiang Mingyan's furrowed thick black eyebrows, and said seriously: "And Taotao."
Jiang Mingyan's eyes softened, and he gently nudged the little fat boy's soft cheek: "Well, brother is not afraid."
The alley was dark, and Jiang Mingyan stopped.
He held Sui Sui in his arms and turned to look towards the alley entrance: "Come out."
There was silence.
A few moments later, a group of people surrounded a young man in brocade clothes and walked into the alley.
"Jiang Ruke." Jiang Mingyan saw the leading young man clearly, his eyes turned slightly cold, and he called out in a low voice.
"I didn't expect that you and that brat escaped from the Jiang family after being lucky enough not to be burned to death in the fire." Jiang Ruke said grimly.
After not seeing each other for more than a year, Jiang Ruke has grown a lot taller, but his eyebrows and eyes have become more sinister, and even his handsome facial features are stained with a hint of gloom.
He looked at Jiang Mingyan, who was holding the baby, with a gloomy expression.
After leaving the Jiang family, Jiang Mingyan was obviously doing well. He was dressed in a black suit, with sharp eyes and an upright figure, handsome and sharp.
The little boy was also well-raised. His little face was white with a rosy complexion, and his black round eyes were bright and pure. He was as cute as a snow doll.
This was completely different from the scene Jiang Ruke had expected, and it made him feel even worse.
"Heh, I don't know what method you used, a useless piece of shit with a broken spiritual root, to be able to crawl back to health and even reach the sixth level of Qi training." Jiang Ru Ke said coldly: "What about the second-grade spiritual plants that are protecting you? They can't accept that their master is a piece of shit and abandoned you?"
He made malicious guesses, as if only this could make him feel happy.
Jiang Mingyan looked at Jiang Ruke coldly, ignoring his malicious speculation.
Jiang Mingyan didn't know what the purple fruits sent by those giant trees were.
The first time the giant trees sent five purple fruits, Sui Sui fed him one, and he made the other four into fruit puree.
The second time the giant trees sent purple fruits was on Suisui’s second birthday, also five fruits.
Jiang Mingyan learned from the last lesson and remained unmoved even though Sui Sui was throwing a tantrum.
As a result, it turned out that he underestimated Sui Sui's persistence.
Sui Sui took advantage of his rest and ordered Hypericum to fetch a purple fruit and stuffed it into his mouth.
When Jiang Mingyan found out the next day, he was quite amused and felt that his heart was melted by the little guy.
The smile on his lips never faded throughout the whole day.
If Jiang Mingyan's Dantian was originally a kettle without a bottom, after taking two purple fruits, the bottom of the kettle was repaired a little.
Although it still cannot store spiritual power for a long time, it is much stronger than before.
The two purple fruits each helped Jiang Mingyan improve his cultivation by one level. In addition, he never slacked off, and after accumulating experience day by day, he actually reached the sixth level of Qi training.
After Sui Sui took the purple fruit, other effects were not obvious, but at least Sui Sui was able to store both the Green Leaf Hypericum and the Blood Clotting Grass into his dantian, and he no longer had to go out with two strange-shaped "bracelets" hanging on his fat wrists.
Jiang Mingyan was also worried about whether storing the Jade Leaf Hypericum and Blood Clotting Grass in his dantian would be harmful to Sui Sui, but when he asked, Sui Sui could only describe it haltingly, "Tao Tao and Xue Xue are on Xiao Su, in the leaves."
Looking at Sui Sui's pretty chubby face with a rosy complexion, Jiang Mingyan had to suppress his worries and not mention them for the time being.
However, these things naturally cannot be told to Jiang Ruke.
Jiang Mingyan figured out who was following them, and he no longer had the heart to continue arguing with Jiang Ruksen.
"What do you want to do?" he asked coldly.
"Aren't you showing off your power by relying on that second-grade spiritual plant?" Jiang Ruke smiled grimly. "I want to see how proud you can be now."
He clapped his hands, and a giant silver wolf half the height of a man walked out of the spirit beast bag.
Jiang Mingyan's eyebrows moved slightly.
Second-grade spiritual beast, the Frost Silver Wolf.
His strength is equivalent to that of a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building.
In order to make up for his brother's evil act of breaking off the branches of Hypericum virginianum, Suisui promised Hypericum virginianum that he would bring more spiritual energy to it.
These days, Suisui has been fulfilling his promise seriously.
He fed most of the spirit stones his brother gave him every month to Hypericum virginianum. Under the careful care of the little fat boy, although Hypericum virginianum had not yet broken through to become a third-grade spirit plant, its cultivation had increased significantly, and its strength was comparable to that of a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building.
Therefore, Jiang Mingyan was not panicked.
He was about to take out the Yuansu Sword from the Lanqiuying bracelet when he heard Jiang Ruke speak maliciously: "You've heard of the Guizi Yuelian, right? Our goal this time is to pick the Guizi Yuelian from the Guiyue Beast."
Hearing the familiar name, Jiang Mingyan's expression changed slightly.
Jiang Ruke saw this and thought Jiang Mingyan was frightened. He laughed and said, "Once we catch you, we'll use you as bait to feed the Guiyue Beast. The Guiyue Beast loves to eat human flesh."
His gaze shifted to the cub lying obediently in his brother's arms. "Especially this little one. I can't wait to hear his screams as he's torn apart by the Guiyuemon."
Jiang Mingyan's heart felt cold. He calmly withdrew his fingers from reaching for Lan Qiuying's bracelet and said calmly, "The Guiyue Beast is about to advance to the third rank. If I put up a desperate fight, I'm sure the Frost Silver Wolf will be injured. How can it possibly handle the Guiyue Beast?"
"Just you?" Jiang Ruke showed disdain on the surface, but he was murmuring in his heart.
Jiang Mingyan was able to escape from the fire with that brat. What if he really has some hidden cards?
He had heard from his father that there was something strange about Jiang Mingyan's mother, Yun Zhaoming, and she was not a simple person.
If Yun Zhaoming really left something for his son and Jiang Mingyan hurt the Frost Silver Wolf, then who would deal with the Guiyue Beast?
The followers behind him?
No, no, their cultivation is not as good as his.
"What do you want?" The more Jiang Ruke thought about it, the more uneasy he felt, and he couldn't help but ask.
"I won't struggle and will go with you to find the Guiyue Beast. You can't touch us. After seeing the Guiyue Beast, life and death will be determined by fate. How about it?" Jiang Mingyan said lightly.
"Really?" Jiang Ruke had a hunch that something was fishy.
They have the Frost Silver Wolf to protect them, so what does Jiang Mingyan have? Isn't he afraid of the Guiyue Beast?
Could it be that Yun Zhaoming really left something for Jiang Mingyan?
Jiang Ruke's expression darkened.
In fact, the best way to deal with it now is to let Jiang Mingyan and the others leave. There is still a long way to go, and he will always find a chance to kill Jiang Mingyan and that brat.
However, Jiang Ruke was unwilling to give up.
Jiang Mingyan was a thorn in his side, a side issue that had weighed on him for so many years.
Now, it seems that he is only one step away from removing this thorn. How can he be willing to give up?
"Okay." Finally, Jiang Ruke gritted his teeth and said, "I want to see how you can survive the mouth of the Guiyue Beast."
Jiang Mingyan's expression remained unchanged, and his slightly drooped eyelashes concealed the dark color in his eyes.
He had long understood Jiang Ruke's sinister and twisted nature. Even if he had doubts in his heart, Jiang Ruke would definitely agree.
Jiang Mingyan's slender palm gently stroked the small back of the cub in his arms.
Don’t be afraid, every year.
Brother will protect you.
Since Jiang Ruke wanted to hear screams so much, his brother would naturally let him get his wish.
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