With his finger on his pulse, the old man's expression became more and more dignified.
Gou Liang's breathing was even as he pretended to be asleep. He hid in his sea of consciousness and had the system point its program eye at the host. He carefully observed the original owner's face, which he had never carefully looked at because of the eye-catching scar.
A handsome oval face, almond eyes, a high nose, and small lips that were delicate and delicate. Because of the illness, when he smiled, there were two not deep but gentle dimples on his face. If it weren't for this scar, his appearance wouldn't be enough to cause the downfall of a country, but he would still be as gentle as jade. Looking more carefully, he could also see a tear mole under the unscratched left corner of his left eye … … he must be very beautiful when he cried.
Gou Liang was a little restless.
When the old man withdrew his hand.
Zhong Han hurriedly asked, "Old Jiang, how is the master?"
After a night of torture, Gou Liang was now in a deep sleep. His face, which had finally regained some color, became pale again, making people unable to bear to look at it.
The old man said, "Perhaps the medicinal bath was too hot, making the poison more intense. However, this is something that will happen sooner or later. Unless this old man personally develops an antidote for the poison in his body, it will be impossible to completely cure him. The only thing that can be considered an antidote is a handle. But his temperament is stubborn … … In the future, when the poison flares up, it will only get stronger and stronger. I'm afraid that the Tranquil Heart and Few Desires Pill will have little effect in a short time. "
"Do you have a countermeasure?"
It was rare for him to be so respectful, but the old man didn't buy it. He snorted and said, "What countermeasure should I have?"
"Didn't I say earlier that I'll only cure him of one illness? Since he wants his legs and not his body, instead of wasting time with me here, it's better to find him a man as soon as possible. Hey, how about this. You go find a tall and strong martial artist like you, then seal the Zhong family's little rascal's acupoints and let him have some fun. When he has a taste, hehehe … … "
When he was talking about something interesting, he raised his voice and "woke" Gou Liang up. He called out in a daze, "Grandpa?"
The old man's laughter froze. It was rare for him to feel a little uncomfortable. He coughed and asked seriously, "How do you feel?"
Gou Liang did not feel any discomfort other than feeling a little tired and sore in his back.
The old man nodded and repeated what he had just said to Zhong Quan. Of course, the words used were much more euphemistic and serious, but there was only one theme: Quickly prepare a man, my good grandson.
Gou Liang pursed his lips and said nothing.
Zhong Quan was prepared to accept his punishment, but he didn't expect his little master to be so well-behaved today. She washed up and ate quietly, but she didn't even look at him.
As expected, he was really angry.
Zhong Quan thought to himself, but he didn't hesitate to do what he needed to do.
In the following month, Gou Liang really didn't say a word to Zhong Quan. Even when Zhong Quan reported on the current situation in the capital, he only listened and nodded to show that he understood. There was a haze between his brows that didn't dissipate, but Zhong Quan couldn't figure out what he was thinking.
Today was the same. After reporting on the situation, Zhong Quan did not immediately leave. Instead, he hesitated and said, "Master, the day after tomorrow is the fifteenth. You … …"
Gou Liang's eyes sharpened. He finally opened his mouth and said, "What do you want?"
Zhong Quan: "As Master commands."
"As Master commands?" Gou Liang laughed coldly, "How come I didn't know that you still saw me as your master?"
Zhong Quan was shocked and knelt down, "This subordinate was wrong. Please punish me, Master!"
Gou Liang looked at him calmly.
【Gou Liang: My heart hurts … …】
【System: Dear Master, the mission requires that the little target be wronged. Just turn a blind eye. (`//)】
【Gou Liang: No, I'm just feeling sorry for myself. What a beautiful master and servant play, but I don't have a whip in my hands!】
【System: ⊙ ﹏ ⊙】】
After a long time, Gou Liang said with an unreadable expression, "What did you do wrong?"
"This subordinate offended Master many times. My crimes are unforgivable."
"You're willing to accept any punishment?"
"I am."
Gou Liang curled his lips and said, "Stand up."
Zhong Quan was a bit surprised, but he stood up without hesitation.
Gou Liang looked up at him, "Let me ask you. Who are the two people in the stable?"
Zhong Quan: "… … This subordinate caught them. Old Jiang said there's no problem with them. Master can use them without worry."
"So it was Grandfather who said that." Gou Liang nodded slowly, "No wonder I can't remember when I gave you orders."
Zhong Quan knelt down again, "This subordinate acted without authorization. Please punish me, Master!"
"You know your wrongs?"
"This subordinate knows his wrongs."
"That's good." Gou Liang's voice seemed to carry a trace of a smile, but it sent a chill down Zhong Quan's spine. He said, "Come here."
Zhong Quan raised his head. After confirming that he had no intention of calling him up, he knelt down and walked towards him.
"Come a bit closer."
Zhong Quan obeyed.
Gou Liang looked him up and down. Zhong Quan couldn't see through his eyes. As if he had seen enough, he opened his mouth and said, "You've been by my side since you were ten years old to protect me in secret. Nineteen years have passed in a flash. I still remember when Grandfather brought you to see me for the first time. You said that you were a member of the Zhong Family in life and a ghost of the Zhong Family in death. Even if you had a butcher's knife on your body, you would protect me. Isn't that right? "
Zhong Quan didn't expect him to remember. He nodded emotionally, "Yes. Zhong Quan will not change his mind. As long as I'm alive, I'm willing to serve Master like a dog or horse. "
"No, from today onwards, you're not."
Gou Liang said.
Zhong Quan's eyes suddenly widened. For the first time, he revealed a stunned and helpless expression. He anxiously said, "This subordinate has repeatedly made mistakes. Master, you can punish me however you want. Please don't banish Zhong Quan!"
Seeing that Gou Liang was indifferent, Zhong Quan couldn't help but kneel forward. "If Master can't forgive this subordinate, this subordinate is willing to die. I only beg Master not to remove my name!"
Gou Liang subconsciously stepped back a bit. Seeing Zhong Quan stiffen on the spot, he said, "You would rather die than leave me?"
"Yes!"
Zhong Quan said resolutely.
If Zhong Quan wasn't flustered at this time, he would definitely be able to hear Gou Liang's uncontrollable heartbeat with his hearing.
It took a lot of effort to forcibly stop his heart from beating wildly. Gou Liang's face hooked up into a shallow smile. It didn't mean anything, but it slightly revealed a pair of dimples. It seemed to be somewhat happy, but it also didn't seem to be.
He said, "When did I say I would remove your name?"
Seeing that Zhong Quan was stunned again, the smile in his eyes gradually disappeared.
"Do you know why the Zhong family's ancestral rule says that before the age of thirty, you can't have sex?"
Gou Liang didn't wait for him to answer. He continued, "In addition to the recognition of the heavens, there are two important reasons. The Zhong family can see into the mysteries of the heavens. If you want to live a long life, you have to keep your mouth shut and take care of yourself. You have to keep your body clean and your Yang is stable. Moreover, standing at thirty isn't just a saying. Only when you're thirty years old can your destiny be determined. During this year, the elders will divine for the younger generation. They can accurately determine whether the rest of their lives will be smooth and safe. "
"But now, there's no one who can divine for me … I have no descendants. What does it matter if the rest of my life is good or bad? "
"Master …"
Gou Liang ignored him and continued, "In the past, I only wanted to carry out my grandfather's will, take revenge, and restore the Zhong family. I always thought that what I did was right, but in this year, I've thought about it over and over again, and I'm not sure anymore. Do I have to return to the old path and become the Imperial Advisor of Da Liang just to restore the family? So what if I take revenge and kill the mastermind of that year? The Gao family shouldn't be the only one who should pay the price for the hundreds of lives of my Zhong family. "
"Back then, my grandfather knew that the Martial Emperor was the Zhong family's doom, but because of the favor of becoming a dragon that had long been forgotten, he didn't get rid of the trouble. Later, the prophecy came true, but he didn't kill the boren. The boren died because of him … "
"In the end, whose fault is the Zhong family's calamity?"
He paused for a long time, his eyes full of loneliness.
"These days, it's rare for me to have peace. I've thought about many things more clearly and see more clearly." He said, "Back then, my grandfather owed the Great Ancestor of Da Liang a life. He paid for it with thousands of miles of rivers and mountains. The karma has long been severed. It's just that my grandfather left the family. In this vast world, there was no place for him to stay. The Great Ancestor of Da Liang sincerely urged him to stay, so he stayed in the capital of Da Liang. He was trapped for a lifetime, and also trapped us descendants. "
"Do we owe the Li family? Does the Li family owe us? "
"Neither."
Gou Liang shook his head. "In terms of gratitude and morality, the Zhong family and the Li family should have been clearly separated."
"The Martial Emperor didn't use or even expel the Zhong family. He wasn't wrong because the Zhong family had no gratitude to him. It's not wrong for the Zhong family to work for the Li family. It's not wrong for the Gao family to frame the Zhong family … The Zhong family was already deeply involved in this chess game and became a chess piece. They were destined to kill and abandon. But should the Zhong family be troubled by the so-called imperial order and be willing to die? Is the Zhong family's loyalty to the imperial family to the extent that they would give up their lives without any regrets? "
"Only now do I understand that such a miserable ending is ultimately the fault of my Zhong Clan."
"Since we don't owe each other anything, why didn't we leave earlier? People outside of the secular world can't stay in the secular world for long. The country and people's feelings should have nothing to do with us. My grandfather might have understood this principle, but he was bound by affection. My grandfather might have understood it, but he was bound by loyalty. Now, I understand it too … but I'm bound by hatred. Don't you think it's ridiculous to do something when you know it's impossible? "
"Master, you …"
Seeing Gou Liang's eyes filled with tears but his gaze was as calm as stagnant water, Zhong Quan felt a little uneasy.
"But what about it?" Gou Liang suddenly laughed and said contemptuously and arrogantly, "Since the Li family owes me karma, I'll cut it off myself. At that time, who's the master of the world? What does it have to do with me? "
At this point, his voice paused and his eyes suddenly widened.
As if there was a force boiling in his blood, Gou Liang couldn't help but let out a long moan. His face suddenly became rosy, startling Zhong Quan.
"Master?!"
Seeing that he didn't respond at all, as if he couldn't hear his voice, Zhong Quan was shocked and immediately flew out to bring in the old man who was hiding outside the room and holding the jar of fire toads.
"Master, what's wrong with him?"
At this time, Gou Liang had closed his eyes and was sitting motionless with his head raised. His face was red and white, and his eyebrows showed a strange look of joy and relief.
The old man was also surprised. Unexpectedly, he couldn't find the problem no matter how he checked Gou Liang's pulse. His pulse was steady and strong. Judging from his pulse, it couldn't be better. But his complexion was so abnormal that it would be strange if there was no problem! But even the Divine Doctor, who was known as a Jianghu doctor, was helpless at this time and couldn't find the cause.
Fortunately, Gou Liang soon regained his consciousness.
His eyes hid an unprecedented coldness, as if he didn't have the slightest touch of the world's smoke and fire. His disdainful attitude was exposed, without a trace of human emotion, making people afraid to offend him.
"Master, how are you?"
Zhong Quan couldn't care less and asked repeatedly.
With a layer of sweat on his body, Gou Liang raised his hand to wipe his forehead, showing an exhausted look. He couldn't sit still. Zhong Quan hurriedly sat next to him and supported him to lean on his chest. He looked anxiously at the old man, who frowned and had an incredulous look.
Gou Liang smiled. The coldness in his eyes dissipated and brought some warmth. He said softly, "Grandpa, I'm fine."
The old man was skeptical.
Gou Liang said, "Really, Grandpa, I've never felt so good."
The old man, "…"
He raised his hand to touch Gou Liang's sweaty forehead and murmured, "Is this child's brain sick?" He had already begun to reflect on whether he had used the wrong medicine and made this child stupid.
Zhong Quan's eyes were also full of worry.
Gou Liang relaxed his body and leaned on him. He asked the old man, "Grandpa, have you heard the rumor about the Zhong family's Destined Body?"
"What's that?"
The old man only liked things that were one or two or two, such as medicine and poison. He had no interest in metaphysics. Even after his adopted daughter married into the Zhong family, he still didn't have a good impression of it and never tried to understand it.
Gou Liang said, "In the Zhong family's ancient records, it is written that knowing one's life and death, knowing one's beginning and end, knowing one's cause and effect, knowing one's nature and knowing one's nature, one is the Destined Child."
Seeing the confused look on the old man's face, Gou Liang patiently explained, "The meaning of this sentence is that one can predict the life and death of all things in the world, peek into the cause and effect of an event, understand the cause and effect of others and oneself, understand why things have such a foregone conclusion, and also understand why it will not end differently."
"This is the ability of the Destined Child."
"You should know that my great grandfather came from the Zhong family of Tianji Mountain. The Zhong family has been passed down for thousands of years. To date, four people have awakened the Destined Bloodline, and two of them have become the Destined Child. At that time, they were all people who could command the wind and summon the rain, but later on, they disappeared from history. There was no record of them in the outside world, and even in the family records, there were only a few words. No one remembers what they did, and no one knows why they disappeared … "
"What are you trying to say?"
The old man was confused and sweating profusely.
Gou Liang raised the corner of his mouth and said, "The Destined Child has an important legend, and that is that they can borrow life from the heavens. I originally thought that this was just a legend, but I didn't expect … it to be true. The reason why the traces of what they did were erased was not because others wanted to, but because they didn't want their name to be passed down for generations. As for why they did this, it was because — — they had lived for too long. "
"The Destined Child only appears once every few hundred years. Only when the original Destined Child dies will the Zhong family's bloodline be able to reawaken the Destined Child. In other words, my previous Son of Destiny lived for nearly six hundred years. "
The old man was stunned.
Zhong Quan was much calmer than him, and did not doubt Gou Liang's words at all. At this time, he only asked, "Master, have you awakened the Destined Child's bloodline?"
"No," Gou Liang shook his head, "I am the third Destined Child of the Zhong family."
That's right. Just as he was having a good time acting tough, he suddenly felt as if he had been enlightened! A mysterious power suddenly began to flow in his blood, as if pulling his mind to another world, allowing him to witness the so-called Seeking the Heavens bloodline inheritance.
For Gou Liang, this was a complete surprise.
Although he did not want Zhong Yue to become the Destined Child after experiencing the love tribulation with Li Yan, he never thought that he would be able to replace him.
Because the words in the secret history of the Zhong family limited his thinking, he preconceived that the Destined Child of the Zhong family must be someone who was born with all kinds of strange phenomena, like Zhong Yue.
At this moment, Gou Liang knew that it was completely misleading.
In fact, every descendant of the Zhong family, whether direct or collateral, had the possibility of awakening to become the Destined Child! This was the legacy left behind by the founder of the Zhong family, who was the first Destined Child to have a fortuitous encounter. It was just that people with talent and intelligence were more likely to explore the mysteries of the Zhong family's secret art, so there was the so-called strange phenomenon.
And the Destined Child had to go through a life and death tribulation to be recognized, which was even more nonsense.
There were hundreds of tribulations in life, and everyone had their own destiny, sorrow and joy.
The so-called life and death tribulation was not a strange thing, but only the descendants of the Zhong family who had experienced life and death and seen through the world of mortals could have the state of mind to coexist with heaven and earth, and be able to activate the Seeking the Heavens bloodline inheritance to help the descendants survive desperate situations.
It could be said that the limiting condition for the Zhong family to become the Destined Child was to have the courage to fight and a fearless state of mind, and the only prerequisite was that the previous Destined Child had died.
The Zhong family knew very little about the Child of Destiny. Their records were not detailed and contained many subjective conjectures. Instead, it restricted the future generations, causing many people who had the potential to become the Child of Destiny to have no chance.
Gou Liang did not explain the details to them, so the old man checked him again to make sure that he was really fine, and did not want to waste his brain thinking about the Zhong family's secrets.
He stood up, folded his sleeves, and put his hands behind his back, looking like an expert, and said condescendingly, "It sounds like a powerful thing, but can it cure your illness or detoxify your poison? Could it be that by becoming the Destined Child, you have to be a crippled old thief who has to live for hundreds of years? "
Gou Liang was speechless.
"Grandfather is right." Gou Liang could only say, "Grandfather's medical skills are naturally more practical than the Destined Child. Grandson will rely on your magical hands for the rest of my life."
Only then did the old man leave with his fire toad in his arms, satisfied.
Zhong Quan did not dare to let his guard down, Gou Liang said to him, "Grandfather and I once talked about this in secret, and he calculated that there would be a Destined Child in my generation. When I first saw Zhong Yue, I thought that person was him, but I didn't expect … Ha. "
His tone was contemptuous and full of satisfaction.
Zhong Quan did not doubt his words, and hurriedly said, "Congratulations Master, you are more Destined Child than Zhong Yue."
Gou Liang leaned over and lifted his chin, asking him, "Do you know why I was able to see through the mysteries of heaven this time?"
Zhong Quan obviously did not know, and Gou Liang did not need him to answer, and said, "That is because I have let it go. The world is in a hurry, and no matter how deep the grudges, love and hatred, they are all just fleeting clouds. Li Yan is my predestined fate, and now I have no love or hate for him, only unsettled karma … Once he has tasted the bitter fruit, we will not owe each other anything. "
Zhong Quan saw the calmness in his eyes, with an unprecedented clarity and relaxation, and was happy for him.
Just as he was about to congratulate him again, he heard Gou Liang continue, "Just now, I still have something to say to you." Zhong Quan immediately tensed up.
Gou Liang said, "I have thought about Grandfather's words, and if I really need someone to cure my poison … there is no one more suitable than you. If you are willing to cure my poison, from today onwards, you are no longer the leader of Cang Ya, or the private property of the Zhong family. You are only my man, and if I want you to be my ghost, you will be my ghost. If I want you to be my dog, you can only be mine — — it has nothing to do with the Zhong family, and only me. Are you willing? "
Zhong Quan was stunned, and met Gou Liang's calm and gentle gaze. His Adam's apple moved violently, and he quickly knelt on the ground, saying in a low voice,
"Zhong Quan, I am willing."
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