Dusk Returns to the Ruined Building

A cup of tea, a crabapple tree and a ray of sunset can make her forget all the troubles in life and return to inner peace!

Three meals a day, three bowls and three chopsticks, four dishes and four soups, this is the home in her heart that she silently guards, even though they have never eaten together!

Since the child was old enough to understand, I have asked her countless times,

"Are those chopsticks and bowl prepared for Dad? Why doesn't he ever eat with us?"

This question has been asked for more than ten years, and her answer has changed from "he is very busy" to "he is very tired", and finally to mother and son being speechless, and finally to mother and son eating different meals!

But the three meals a day, three bowls, three chopsticks, four dishes and four soups have never changed! That is the home in her heart, whether there are people or not, it is the home in her heart!

No one knows what she is thinking or why she does this, not even the girl who has been with her for almost twenty years! Now the girl is also an old girl, not really, twenty-five or twenty-six! Because when she came to Yingzhou with her, she was only about five or six years old!

"Miss, it's time for dinner."

A maid in green took the tea from the lady's hand and helped her walk to the table that had not changed in nearly twenty years!

It’s still three bowls and three chopsticks, four dishes and four soups, and it’s still the familiar opening line!

"Let's have dinner as a family of three!"

After the lady finished speaking, she started to eat by herself, while eating, she put food into the other two bowls! She said nothing!

The maid behind her was no longer surprised, because it had been like this since she was old enough to understand. When her little master was still young, he had an empty bowl. She thought that the empty bowl should belong to the master who had never come!

"Madam, Master Hong has been in Jianying City for a long time, I think he will be back soon!"

The girl behind her really missed Master Hong, because she grew up with her Master. Although she was a servant and had to serve the Madam and the Master, the Madam and the Master never treated her as a girl. She was more like the Master's sister, a girl sister who loved the Master very much!

Unfortunately, she had never eaten at this table! Although the lady doted on her and cared for her, this matter had never changed!

"Yihong has been cooped up at home for too long. When he goes out, he's like a wild horse that has broken free from its reins. How can he even think of returning home?"

After saying that, the lady put down her bowl and chopsticks, and sat back down in front of the window, looking at the green crabapple tree under the setting sun. She was worried and sad, with no smile on her face!

This is none other than Ji Yihong's mother, the fifth most beautiful woman on the Hundred Flowers List mentioned by Ah Mei - Ouyang Zhiqing! She is also the one that Ouyang Zhengxiong, no, Ouyang Zhengyi, has been thinking about all the time, but she should have forgotten about her by now!

Ji Yihong is a lucky child because his father loves him, cares for him and protects him, and his mother also dotes on him and pampers him!

Ji Yihong was also an unfortunate child, because he had never seen his father and mother sitting at the same table or sleeping in the same bed, and had never experienced what life was like for a family of three. There would only be his mother or one of her alone by his side!

His parents were a handsome and beautiful couple in the Ji family. They were a loving couple in the eyes of others and a loving couple in family events! But in Ji Yihong's heart, they were a strange couple, or a couple like the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, separated not by heaven and earth, but by a small and quiet courtyard and an empty bowl on the dining table!

Ji Yihong always thought that his parents loved each other deeply, because they always described each other as beautiful and perfect! They never said a bad word about each other, and never complained about anything about each other, so he was really curious about where the problem between his parents came from! Why was it like this!

They didn't say a word, didn't hear or ask, because they didn't see each other! Although they would attend some of the Ji family's grand events on time, and go in and out together, they would laugh at each other, and their love was deep, as if it was real or fantasy...

Not only Ji Yihong didn't understand, his little sister didn't understand either. What made him even more confused was that since he could remember, only he and his father would go back to his mother's home - Ouyang Villa in Jianying City every year. His mother Ouyang Zhiqing had never been back!

Ji Qingli's answer to Ji Yihong was:

"If you have it in your heart, anywhere is home!"

And his mother Ouyang Zhiqing gave him the answer:

"Home is where you are!"

Alas, the second young master Ji Yihong is also feeling depressed, but outsiders just don’t know about it!

In the sunset, in front of the curtains, Ouyang Zhiqing drank tea and whispered to herself:

"My body and my heart are bound to this land, day after day, year after year. You thought you had trapped me! But have you ever thought that the desire for freedom in my heart has never disappeared, but it is only limited to my heart!"

Everyone has the freedom they desire in their hearts, and Ouyang Zhiqing is no exception!

What about her son Ji Yihong, who longed for freedom and finally got it? He was now running for his life, calling out for his mother and father!

Ji Yihong did not listen to Ji Wuque, but entered the Vast Sea Oasis with Ouyang Jingde. Although they also entered the Vast Sea New Oasis, only Elder Jianchi and Uncle Qi in yellow were left by their side. In fact, there was another person, the ragged Ji Wuhen, but Ji Yihong didn't know it!

The two lustful young masters originally came for the two beauties Murong Ruoxi and Mu Wanqian. No, not for them, but for all beautiful women! I don’t know if Ji Yihong thinks so, but Ouyang Jingde is here for all beautiful women!

After entering the vast sea oasis, he only saw the women of the Qingwei Xuannu sect, so he followed them all the way. After entering the black hole, he paddled among the crowd and entered the new oasis of the vast sea without exerting any strength, but the people of the Qingwei Xuannu sect were nowhere to be seen!

He told his two subordinates that he was looking for Sea Crystal Pearls, but in reality, he was looking for a beauty!

They didn't find the beauty, but encountered a few demon snakes, which appeared and disappeared mysteriously, and beat the four people all over. Ji Wuhen hid in the distance and watched, muttering to himself:

"Why is the evil spirit so strong here? Even flying makes me tired. It's hard for this child! But it's time for him to suffer a little. He has nothing to do all day!"

He had no intention of taking action, he just wanted to make Ji Yihong suffer!

Unfortunately, it seems that the one who suffered was not Ji Yihong, but Ouyang Jingde. The snake demon seemed to be intelligent. It did not fight them head-on, but instead launched a sneak attack, and its target was Ji Yihong and Ouyang Jingde. However, Ouyang Jingde's cultivation was low, so he could not dodge and was now covered with wounds!

Ji Yihong complained in her heart:

"I brought such a burden with me! Damn it, I still have to protect him!"

Although Ji Yihong is also a playboy, his cultivation is not weak. He is even stronger than Shen Yichen. After all, he is a member of the Ji family. All kinds of natural treasures and elixirs are enough for him to improve his cultivation. Of course, he also has treasures!

While Ji Yihong was protecting Ouyang Jingde, he took out a lotus platform from his storage bag, injected some true energy into it, and exclaimed softly:

"Minglong Buddha Lotus!"

The yellow lotus platform in his hand transformed into a golden Qi lotus platform, covering the four people in it, shining with golden light!

"Cousin, what is this? Why didn't you take it out earlier? I'm almost dying!"

Ouyang Jingde looked at this strange lotus platform. The surrounding green-eyed demon snakes hit it, but the Qi lotus platform did not move at all. He knew that this was Ji Yihong's treasure. How could he not complain when he waited until now to take it out?

Ji Yihong wanted to complain. This was the money his father gave him to save his life, but he used it for this idiot. He was so angry that he shouted:

"You two go out and drive away the demon snakes around!"

Elder Jianchi and Uncle Qi were also filled with rage, and had been on the defensive to protect the two young masters. Now that the two young masters had treasures to protect them, they flew out. Elder Jianchi swept his sword across, with sword energy running rampant; as for Uncle Qi, he directly used the Saint Emperor's Hundred Swords, and thousands of sword energy killed the surrounding demon snakes!

The attack of the two looked magnificent and imposing, but! The effect was not ideal. Many demon snakes coiled together and withstood the attacks of the two people. The demon snakes gathered together with a heavy demonic aura around them, emitting a green halo, and collided with the attacks of the two people in the void!

The intersection of several energies produced a huge explosion, breaking trees and branches, and breaking green grass. After the huge air wave dissipated, the four people had disappeared!

It turned out that Elder Jianchi and Uncle Qi saw that the situation was not good, so they took the two of them and fled while the demon snakes did not disperse! The demon snakes also disappeared in the woods, but left behind several corpses!

The direction they fled was also the seaside, because it was really the only place they could go forward or backward!

The place they came to was not empty, but there was only one person, a person dressed in black, who seemed to be from the Gongsun family, and the clothes were very similar! With disheveled hair, he sat on a huge rock by the sea, looking into the distance at the vast ocean!

The four of them didn't care and chose a curved rock and sat down to rest!

Ji Yihong and Ouyang Jingde took off their clothes and jumped into the vast ocean. The smell of blood on their bodies was so disgusting!

After a while, they turned into handsome men in gorgeous clothes, looking radiant! But there were still some bloodstains on their faces!

Lying on the curved boulder, Ouyang Jingde whispered:

"Cousin, life is not easy for cultivators either! I always thought that people with high cultivation levels were either showing off or living a carefree life all day long!"

Actually, it was useless for him to say anything to Ji Yihong. Although Ji Yihong's cultivation was higher than his and not weaker, he had too little experience and did not necessarily know much more than Ouyang Jingde!

Ji Yihong ignored him, but thought of his own cultivation, which seemed to be still weak, and said to himself:

"If we can't even easily deal with the monsters, how can we fight?"

I don’t know what Ji Yihong is fighting for!

Looking at the azure blue sky, he actually thought of his mother, the mother who never left the house, the mother who lived in peace and did not care about worldly affairs!

Maybe our mother is the person everyone thinks of when they are in danger! But Shen Yichen thinks more about his master!

Ji Yihong couldn't understand his mother. She was also the eldest daughter of the Ouyang family and was so beautiful, but why didn't she care about anything? If his mother's yard was a nunnery, maybe his mother was a nun! No, his mother's yard was a nunnery hidden in the downtown area. Although his mother lived in the downtown area, she was isolated from the world! Although she ate grains and lived a life of luxury, her heart was spotless!

A person can sit alone for a whole day, a cup of tea can last a whole year, a crabapple tree can be admired for ten years, even twenty years without getting tired of it!

Ji Yihong didn’t know what his mother’s cultivation level was, but this state of mind was definitely stronger than that of many enlightened masters!

Ever since Ji Yihong grew up and became sensible, he had a hunch that not only was there an unbridgeable gap between his mother and his father, but there was also an invisible wall between him and her!

Ji Yihong couldn't walk into that courtyard, not because he couldn't walk in physically, but because his heart couldn't get close! To be exact, he wanted to get close, but he didn't know where to get close to!

She is generous, open-minded, and greets everything with a smile. But Ji Yihong, on the other hand, deliberately angers people, deliberately hurts people, and deliberately makes trouble, but there is always that faint smile on his face!

He admitted that she was a good mother, she doted on him, cared for him, and indulged him, but she never seemed to hug him or touch him! Everything in his life was taken care of by that girl. He always thought it was normal for a girl to take care of everything for a young lady, but as he grew older, he felt that this was not normal, too abnormal!

Ji Yihong sometimes even doubted whether the mother trapped in the yard was really his mother? Except for the fact that they had eaten together since childhood, everything else was becoming less and less real!

Moreover, he became like his father, unwilling to enter that courtyard again, wanting to stay away, no, it should be said that he wanted to escape, yes, he wanted to escape from his mother! The mother who had been with him growing up! On the contrary, he wanted to be with his father even more, but his father disappeared all day long. Maybe that was what his mother said, that his father was too busy and too tired!

Alas, the young master of the Ji family also has troubles, who can understand these, who can know them? Who can he talk to?

"Cousin, please give me your treasure. You are too strong to use it!"

Ouyang Jingde is also very annoying. I see him twice every year and he has been following me around since he was a child!

Ji Yihong sighed inwardly:

"Brother Jinyu, where have you been?"