"When I saw the old man last time, although he was weak, he had not deteriorated to such an extent. We also have a lot of medicaments and secret medicines at home. How could the old man's health deteriorate so fast in only 2 years?"
Zhang Lin hesitated for a second before answering Zhang Tie in a low voice, "The old man's health deteriorated sharply in the past 4 months …"
"In the past 4 months?" Zhang Tie slightly narrowed his eyes.
"Yes, after the old man knew that you were struck by the thunder of nirvana after the battle at the bank of Weishui River, he didn't know whether you were dead or alive. During the period of medical treatment in Xuanyuan Hill, the old man's health deteriorated rapidly. During that period, the old man would ask about you a few times a day. If not being stopped by our family members, he would have long gone to Xuanyuan Hill to see you. He was afraid that we would hide it from him. Therefore, he even had people collect newspapers from all the provinces for him every day. Sometimes, he even insisted on listening to others' discussions in teahouses. We advised him not to listen to us. Therefore, we had people check on him. They all said that the old man was sick and haggard mentally and physically. Previously, the old man's health depended on taking care of himself. As he was exhausted mentally and physically, he couldn't take any medicine no matter what he ate …"
'I've not imagined that the old man's health deteriorated suddenly because of me.' When he recalled the old man's voice and smile, Zhang Tie's nose suddenly turned sour as his eyes turned red at once.
'Blood is thicker than water.'
Zhang Tie endured his grief as he asked, "Have my parents gone there?"
"They've already gone to Golden Light City 3 days ago. Zhang Yang is also in Golden Light City. All the family members have arrived there. The old man just wants to see you and Zhang Su …"
Zhang Tie didn't want to ask them anymore as he just wanted to arrive at Golden Light City as soon as possible.
Thankfully, the speed of the airboat was not slow. Additionally, Zhang Tie's imperial airboat gifted by the crown prince could move 20% faster than the fastest speed of common airboats. Even though Golden Light City was thousands of miles away from Fire-Dragon Bounty Territory, Zhang Tie's airboat finally arrived at Golden Light City 3 hours later before sunset.
In the setting sun, the entire Golden Light City was covered with a layer of dim and bloody color. In normal times, such a color was nothing special; however, in Zhang Tie's eyes, the sunset in the west carried an ominous omen.
Although the old mansion of Zhang family in Golden Light City covered a large area, it could never hold such an imperial airboat which was almost 1,000 m in length. Even common airboats could not hold it. Such an airboat could only be parked outside the city. However, Zhang Tie didn't care about that. He directly had the airboat hover over 100 m above the old mansion of Zhang family. Closely after that, he jumped off the airboat.
After jumping off the airboat, Zhang Tie activated the bloodline of Liezi Yufeng that he awakened at the bank of Weishui River using the remaining spiritual wave. When he was only over 10 m away from the ground of the old mansion, he suddenly felt light like a feather as he slowed down his falling speed. Closely after that, he landed firmly on the lawn of the old mansion.
When Zhang Tie's airboat arrived, many people had gathered in the old mansion of Zhang family. All of them walked out of their courtyards and watched Zhang Tie getting off the airboat.
Following Zhang Tie was Zhang Su. Compared to Zhang Tie, Zhang Su landed in a more direct way. He also jumped off from the air. When he was not high from the ground, he opened his rotor parachute, which slowed down his speed abruptly. After that, he rapidly closed his parachute and landed steadily from over 10 m high in the air, which was neat and tidy.
After the two people jumped off the airboat, Zhang Tie's eldest uncle was put down from the hatch at the bottom of the airboat using the landing equipment like taking an elevator.
At this moment, Zhang Tie didn't have time to wait for Zhang Lin to get off the airboat. Almost the moment he landed, Zhang Tie had opened his mouth, "Where's the old man? Hurry, take me there …"
Among the onlookers were Zhang Tie's relatives and servants. Some of them had already seen Zhang Tie. Even though they had not seen Zhang Tie, they had already guessed Zhang Tie's identity at the sight of the imperial airboat above their heads. Nobody else across Northeast Military Region was qualified to take the same airboat except Zhang Tie, Immortal Qianji.
Actually, that airboat had already aroused a sensation in Golden Light City. Besides those on the side of Zhang family's old mansion, those near the old mansion had been in uproars due to the sudden arrival of this airboat.
"The old man is in Benigncloud Building …" The moment Zhang Tie opened his mouth, someone had stood out and rapidly led the way for Zhang Tie and Zhang Su towards the place where the old man was. Zhang Tie and Zhang Su hurriedly walked. On the way, all the maids and servants hurriedly avoided them. In less than half a minute, Zhang Tie and Zhang Su had arrived at Benigncloud Building of Zhang family's old mansion.
At this moment, those who were gathering outside Compassionate Clouds Pavilion were Zhang Tie's juniors and nephews. It was the first time for all the juniors to gather here, including Zhang Tie and Zhang Yang's kids. There were over 100 juniors, male or female, ranging from 6-7 years old to over 20 years old.
Zhang Tie and Zhang Yang's kids gathered together with a special temperament. Being surrounded by a group of people, they looked very special and outstanding among all the juniors of Zhang family.
Among these kids, Zhang Shiyu, Zhang Yang's 4th daughter, was almost 15 years old. She was slim and dignified. She was already a beautiful girl. By contrast, Zhang Chengba, Alexander and the other kids were still curious. Although they looked well-behaved, they kept glancing around and didn't seem to be affected by the depressed atmosphere in this mansion. Only Zhang Shini and Zhang Shixia were a bit jealous. The others were comforting them.
As the old man was going to leave the old mansion, Zhang Tie was in secluded cultivation. Therefore, Zhang Tie's parents and Zhang Yang brought the next generation of Zhang family here so that the old man could see them for the last time.
"Ah, second uncle, you're here …" Zhang Shiyu hurriedly greeted Zhang Tie at the sight of him.
"Ah, papa …" Zhang Chengba and the other kids exclaimed at the sight of Zhang Tie.
Zhang Tie didn't say anything; instead, he just nodded towards them and signaled them to wait here with his eye light.
Many juniors of Zhang family were not qualified to see Zhang Tie before. It was their first time to see Zhang Tie. Given Zhang Tie's look, they thought that Zhang Tie was a junior of Zhang family like them. Therefore, they didn't recognize Zhang Tie. After hearing Zhang Shiyu calling Zhang Tie "second uncle" and Zhang Chengba calling Zhang Tie "dad", they even looked around as they didn't know who they were calling. Those smart juniors who had seen Zhang Tie had long pushed out of the crowd and directly knelt down on the roadside to pay their respect to Zhang Tie.
"Uncle, it's my pleasure to meet you …"
After throwing a glance at them, Zhang Tie nodded towards those juniors before striding into Benigncloud Pavilion.
There were dozens of Zhang Tie's male and female cousins in Benigncloud Pavilion. At the sight of Zhang Tie, all of them sprung up from their chairs as if there were springs on their butts.
At this moment, Zhang Su who was walking on Zhang Tie's side only threw a glance at them. Closely after that, all of them had lowered their heads. All of them dared not look straight into Zhang Su's eyes, male or female.
"Where's grandpa?" Zhang Su asked in a muffled voice.
"He's upstairs!" Someone replied at once.
Zhang Su nodded. Zhang Tie didn't say anything as he directly went upstairs.
After coming upstairs, Zhang Tie saw over 20 people in the side parlor outside the pavilion, including Zhang Tie's 11 sons and daughters, Zhang Tie's uncles, aunts and uncles, including Zhang Tie's parents and Zhang Yang. They were talking about something in a low voice.
At the sight of Zhang Tie, everybody let out a deep sigh at once. Zhang Yang hurriedly walked towards Zhang Tie with a sad look as he said, "The old man has just woken up. He's talking about you and Zhang Su …"
(To be continued.)
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