Chapter 75 Chapter 75, right, Azhao?
As expected...
Xu Zhaoyi's premonition was correct. He glanced at Qin Sheng carefully and felt nervous. Gu Mailan was Qin Feiyuan's mother. Strictly speaking, Qin Feiyuan and Qin Sheng were just the same soul with different memories.
In other words, Gu Mailan is actually Qin Sheng's mother in a sense, and she is even more qualified than Wu Yunlian.
As far as they knew before, Gu Mailan went crazy because of Qin Feiyuan's death, was locked up by the Qin family, and died of depression, but now it seems that the truth is far more than that.
If this woman is really Gu Mailan, then it is very doubtful whether she really went crazy back then. It is more likely that it was just an excuse given by the Qin family to persecute her.
Perhaps she has been trying to save her child and has never given up. Even if she loses her life, she is willing to give up reincarnation and stay here.
Xu Zhaoyi was waiting nervously. The little paper figure opposite him seemed to tremble all over and then collapse. He was shocked and thought that something had happened to his mother-in-law.
Fortunately, not long after, the shadow of a woman wearing a light blue cheongsam with reverse sleeves appeared in front of them.
"How do you know me?" Gu Mailan stared at Qin Sheng. This face had never appeared in her memory, but after looking at it for a long time, she felt inexplicably familiar.
She didn't know how long she had been here. At first, it was fine. She concentrated every moment of every day to feel the passage of time, calculating when her child would be able to leave that purgatory-like formation so that she could go out to help him.
If she hadn't had such hope, she would have collapsed when she found that she couldn't destroy the formation no matter what she did, and her child was suffering in it!
But this was too difficult. There was no alternation of day and night, only eternal darkness and silence. She tried countless methods, even extreme methods such as hurting herself to calculate the time required for the soul to recover, but she only persisted for a few years.
Her soul adapted to her self-harm and became extremely solid, and she completely lost the ability to perceive time.
Therefore, she never imagined that decades had passed outside, and her child had already been reincarnated again, and had discovered the truth on his own and come here.
Qin Sheng closed his eyes and calmed himself down. After a while, he regained his usual composure and explained softly, "I once found out that in our Qin family, several decades ago, there was also someone like me who was born weak and unable to practice..."
Before he finished speaking, Gu Mailan had already understood what he wanted to express from his words.
Ghosts don't have tears, and most of the time they only have ferocious faces when they are emotionally excited. But maybe it was because Gu Mailan was an extremely rare ghost cultivator in the world, so she was different from evil ghosts, or maybe she was born with a gentle and peaceful personality. Xu Zhaoyi could only tell from the moisture in her eyes that she was very excited.
Not to mention Qin Sheng, the small step he took involuntarily just now was the peak of his emotional ups and downs, but now he has completely calmed down.
This mother and son, separated by a whole lifetime, had exactly the same reactions when they met again, which was far beyond the symbolic similarity between Qin Sheng and Wu Yunlian.
The situation Xu Zhaoyi imagined of mother and son recognizing each other and crying in each other's arms did not happen. When he came to his senses, Gu Mailan had already come to their side and reached out to touch Qin Sheng's face.
She could condense into a solid body, but she had no body temperature. No wonder Qin Sheng looked obedient and helpless, standing there letting her look at him.
"Fei...what is your name in this life?" Gu Mailan subconsciously wanted to call Fei Yuan, but then she remembered that she shouldn't do that. Her child had already had a new memory, and she should accept his new life.
Qin Sheng actually didn't care what she called him. He was not the original owner. He couldn't even remember what his name was before he traveled through time. His attitude towards Gu Mailan was full of warmth that he had never had towards the Qin family. It was just because of the subconscious sense of intimacy that was at work.
However, he still accepted the other party's consideration and told his name.
"Then I'll call you Sheng'er, okay?"
"Of course..." Qin Sheng hesitated for a moment, then lowered his voice and called out, "Mom."
"Yeah!" Gu Mailan smiled at him gently.
Next came the much-anticipated meeting-the-parents segment. Xu Zhaoyi, who had been standing awkwardly aside, uncontrollably picking at the soles of his shoes with his toes for a while, was instantly suffocated when he saw the mother and son getting to know each other so simply and then both looked at him at the same time.
Qin Sheng raised the corners of his lips, and regardless of his resistance from head to toe, he generously introduced his newly married male wife to his mother, who was born in a large family in the old society in the 1920s.
Well, it’s a pity that the word “straight” had to be removed, otherwise it would be even more explosive.
Xu Zhaoyi couldn't correct her in such a situation, so he could only stutter and call her: "...Ah, Auntie."
Gu Mailan covered her mouth and smiled as she responded, looking like she didn't mind having a boy as her daughter-in-law at all.
It's not that she was born more open-minded than others, but that she has spent much more time in nothingness than being disciplined by feudal ethics. In addition, she has been thinking about how to save her children from suffering over the years. Just because this handsome young man in front of her is willing to disregard his own safety and come here with Qin Sheng, she can only be grateful.
You have to know that back then, she begged her husband, her relatives from her mother's side, and all her closest relatives, but in the end, until she died of despair, no one really extended a helping hand to help her.
Thinking of this, her attitude towards Xu Zhaoyi became three points softer.
"I'm glad to see Sheng'er has a steadfast partner like you by his side. Unfortunately, I don't have anything nice to give you right now. It's really rude. I hope you don't mind."
"No, no!" Xu Zhaoyi shook his head quickly.
"Good boy." Gu Mailan smiled and said, "Can I call you A Zhao?"
Xu Zhaoyi: “…” This is my real mother. It turns out that Qin Sheng’s habit of calling the middle name is like the DNA engraved in his soul, right?
He glanced at Qin Sheng out of the corner of his eye and was about to agree when Qin Sheng noticed his little move, raised an eyebrow and spoke before him, "Mom, just call him Xiaoyi. His parents, elders and friends all call him that. It will help him get used to it and not always be able to react to who is calling him, right, Azhao?"
“………”???
Xu Zhaoyi was about to laugh, but finally pursed his lips and stepped on him. Gu Mailan also tapped Qin Sheng's forehead from a distance. For a moment, the familiar yet unfamiliar awkwardness dissipated a lot.
Since Gu Mailan has been here for many years, there must be no other dangers here. Think about the overlapping roads when they first came in. If an outsider breaks in, he will be like Xu Zhaoyi who took the wrong path without realizing it and will not be able to get in here at all.
So Qin Sheng let Noodles out as well, patted its cartoon cub head, and asked it to call grandma.
Noodles looked up and smiled cheerfully, "Hello, Grandma! My name is Noodles, and I'm the robot butler of my two dads!"
After listening to its self-introduction, Gu Mailan visibly breathed a sigh of relief. Although she was born before the founding of the People's Republic of China, she had lived for decades and was not completely ignorant. Although she had never seen a robot, she was not so ignorant as to not understand what a robot was.
I just hope his son isn't crazy.
The little thing looked weird, but quite cute. Gu Mailan thought that since Qin Sheng had found a same-sex lover, he was destined to have no children in the future. It would be nice to have such a good grandson, so she reached out and pinched Noodles' face.
Then he pinched it and was amazed by the feel of it. In the end, he picked up the noodles without hiding his love.
The family found a place to sit down and talk, and Qin Sheng learned the truth about what happened decades ago from Gu Mailan.
It turned out that Gu Mailan had never known the secret since she married into the Qin family until Qin Feiyuan grew up and became weak and on the verge of death when he was nearly thirty years old.
Later, when her husband Qin Shihao saw that she was so desperate that she wanted to use her own life to prolong her son's life, he had to tell her the truth. His original intention was just to make her give up. Qin Feiyuan had to die, and no matter how much she sacrificed, it would be in vain.
Qin Shihao really liked her. After she gave birth to Qin Feiyuan, she was unwilling to have a second child in order to take care of her son who had been in poor health since birth. Qin Shihao let her do what she wanted even though he knew that Qin Feiyuan would not live past the age of 30. In that era, it was considered a very good destination.
Gu Mailan once really believed this, so even though God gave her a heartbreaking test and made her give birth to the only child in the Qin family in decades who was unable to practice and was weak and sickly, she firmly believed that she could overcome the difficulties with her husband and children.
So when she learned the truth, she went crazy.
Sometimes she was like a madman, wanting to kill everyone in the Qin family, and sometimes she begged everyone she met to spare her child.
Qin Shihao could only tell others that she was ill and put her under house arrest. It was during that time that she tried to seek help from her natal family, but the Gu family was only interested in the Qin family's secrets and never really helped. Gu Mailan also gradually realized that her natal family was unreliable, so she did not tell them everything and simply cut off contact.
Until Qin Feiyuan died at the age of thirty according to the fate written for him by the Qin family, Gu Mailan also lost the will to live, but she could not die in vain. At the very least, she had to save her child's soul.
She herself was a genius from a family of cultivators. She had neglected her cultivation for many years because she had devoted all her energy to Qin Feiyuan's health. During that time, she had figured out a way to allow her soul to leave her body while her body could maintain vital signs for a period of time like a madman who had lost his mind. In this way, she could make Qin Shihao relax his vigilance, and then decisively detonate the landmines buried in Hanyan Forest before his soul left his body.
——After all, she came from a non-peaceful era, so this thing was not rare for her. She just thought it would be a good precaution to keep it hidden, but she never thought that she would actually use it.
The power of landmines in that era was not too great, but even those who had established their foundation were still flesh and blood and cherished their lives very much. The huge noise caused the foundation-building guards in the forest to scatter, and Gu Mai Lan's soul came to the forbidden area unimpeded.
Maybe it was because she was already in ghost state that she got stuck in a bug, so she didn't take the wrong path the first time she came in.
After that, she stayed here all the time and didn't dare to go out easily, for fear that if she left the environment here, she would accidentally lose her mind and turn into a ghost. She didn't seize the opportunity and didn't even have the chance to remind her son to reincarnate.
This past was so exciting that Xu Zhaoyi suddenly felt that Qin Sheng didn't look like Wu Yunlian's son at all. The similarities he had noticed before were more like far-fetched psychological fabrications, and they were vulnerable in front of a real mother and son.
Gu Mailan and Qin Sheng have the same obsession with being prepared for any eventuality, and their ability to plan everything out is just like copy and paste!
Qin Sheng was silent for a while after listening to this. Then he looked at the time, but found that his watch had stopped a long time ago. So he asked Noodles to tell him the time. It was almost midnight.
The auction will not stop without receiving his notice, but the remaining people in the Qin family are just sleeping, not dead.
He hurriedly asked the main point: "Mom, with the combined strength of Foundation Establishment and the ninth level of Qi Refining, is it possible to break the formation from the outside?"
Gu Mailan first looked at them both in surprise, then shook her head regretfully.
"Honestly, if we act rashly, our chances of success are slim." She analyzed the situation carefully with Qin Sheng. "I haven't wasted my time these years. I became a ghost cultivator. Relying on my own exploration and cultivating the Yin energy here, I have also reached the equivalent of the early stages of Foundation Establishment. If another Foundation Establishment cultivator joins forces with me, we do have a chance to shake it, but that won't happen in an instant. And there are several Foundation Establishment-stage Qin family members guarding outside. If they arrive, we will definitely be defeated..."
This is a problem. Although there are not as many foundation-building ancestors outside as Gu Mailan thought, even if there are only two, his wife will definitely not be able to handle it.
I have to team up with his mother to deal with the remaining two foundation-building cultivators first. I just don't know if his mother's strength will be greatly reduced after leaving here. After all, she is a ghost cultivator...
etc!
Qin Sheng suddenly took a breath as he thought of something.
He said that most of the Qing Dynasty people in the forest had disappeared, and only two of them were left, relying on each other!
I’m afraid he was killed by his mother back then?
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