For Zhou Kun, Li Hou only met when he was a child. Although Li Hou and Wang Hou grew up with Zhou Ping when they were young, Zhou Kun went out to work when they were a few years old, and he left for 20 years without any news. The neighbors around him thought that he had offended people outside. He was either hiding from his enemies or died outside.
Years not only blurred Li Hou's memory, but also changed Zhou Kun's appearance. Before that, he did not recognize him.
"I came back five years ago..." Zhou Kun was a little excited, tears quickly blurred his eyes, "my things, little monkey knows. I I'm sorry for Ping'er... "
"Zhou Ping What's wrong with Zhou Ping? " Li Hou couldn't help but grab Zhou Kun's arm and shake it constantly. He was a little excited.
"Second brother, Zhou Ping has married a mysterious son of a big family..." The prince bit his teeth fiercely. His face was full of helplessness and unwillingness, and his tears were dazzling.
"What? I beg your pardon? Zhou Ping married a prince of a big mysterious family? " Li Hou was so shocked that he asked, "didn't she marry you?"
"This Let uncle Zhou say that... " The prince's face was full of tears, and he could not say anything at this time.
"Well, I'm still to blame."
"Twenty years ago, I found the genealogy uploaded by my ancestors, and found that my ancestors were a huge family, and my own branch was just a branch of the collateral branch. As my family was in a difficult situation at that time, I decided to seek support from Zhou family.
"According to the address recorded in the genealogy, I found the city where the Zhou family was located. Although the Zhou family is well-known in the local area, its wealth and power cover the sky, but it took me a year to find the place where the Zhou family is located. Later, by chance, I came into contact with a guest of the Zhou family, who introduced me to the Zhou family.
"The place where the Zhou family is located is in the foothills of the outer suburbs of the city. It is not only beautiful but also dangerous. It seems like a paradise. Ordinary people don't know that place exists, let alone find it. At that time, I sighed that if there was no introduction from that visitor, I'm afraid I would never find the place where the large amount of Zhou's family is.
"At that time, I was completely shocked to see the Zhou family's large number of classical homesteads on the mountainside. It's so magnificent and the atmosphere is so broken that I'm afraid it's much worse than the royal garden. From that moment on, I knew that there was still a group of people in the world that ordinary people did not know, that is, cultivation families or cultivation sects.
"I thought I had a bad luck, but I didn't expect that this trip started my 15 year imprisonment.
"The guest who brought me into the Zhou family garden also paid a heavy price. The owner of the Zhou family abandoned all his accomplishments and became the most common servant of the Zhou family for the reason of divulging the secrets of the Zhou family. At that time, the Zhou family sentenced me to 15 years' imprisonment on the pretext that I had taken the place of Zhou Yuanzhi.
"It was not until later that I learned that the Zhou family had spent thousands of yuan, and that the Zhou family generally adopted the attitude of not asking questions. For people like me, very few people come to the door on their own initiative. Anyone who comes to the door is imprisoned for fear of disclosing family secrets to the outside world.
"I was extremely sorry for my imprisonment. How could he be so obsessed at the beginning that he went to find Zhou's family and left behind his young wife and only four-year-old daughter. "
"Uncle Zhou, how did you get out later?"
Listening to Zhou Kun's story, Li Hou could not help but be fascinated. Although he had heard of this family, he had never seen it. Zhou Kun's words made people immerse themselves in the scene, and he could not help feeling sorry for his experience.
"I thought I was going to die of old age at the Zhou family, but suddenly one day, a middle-aged man of my age came to see me, and he exclaimed," fifteen years ago, you and I were young, you and I were both in your 20s and sixties. I don't want to rush through more than ten years. Now I'm both in my early 40s. It's really unforgettable. " Then he said something comforting to me, and then asked me if I had children.
"Yes, I had been locked up for 15 years at that time. Listening to this man's words, I thought that he was looking at me pitifully and intended to let me go. As soon as I was grateful, I opened my heart and told him that I had a daughter indeed, and showed him a picture of my daughter, which was the picture of Zhou Ping when she was four.
"The other party just nodded with satisfaction, and then left without saying anything about letting me go. At that time, I was confused. I didn't know why the other party came to me.
"A few days later, the man came again and told me that he was the second son of the Zhou family, named Zhou Gong. He praised my daughter for her beauty, her strength, and her cultivation talents. Then he said straight away that he would take my daughter as his adopted daughter.
"I was so happy that if my daughter became his adoptive daughter, it would be a wonderful thing. So I asked if I could go home.
"He said that if he took my daughter as his adopted daughter, he and I would be brothers, and we would be able to go home naturally."At that time, I felt that although I had been imprisoned here for 15 years, if my daughter could really become the adoptive daughter of the other party, would it not be that the sparrow would become a phoenix and enjoy the wealth of her whole life, so I naturally agreed to him.
"He told an old servant to send me back to Chengyang city and told me not to tell anyone about the Zhou family's secret. The old servant was kind enough to send me home and tell the secret behind it.
"It turns out that Zhou Gong didn't sincerely accept my wife as his adoptive daughter, but he wanted to attract a large family to work for him. The young master of that big family is still unmarried. He intends to marry that family by marriage, but he is reluctant to give up his daughter. Seeing that my daughter is beautiful, he plans to take my daughter as his adopted daughter, and then marry the young master of that family in the name of his daughter. "
"Until then, I was surprised how the big family that ate people and didn't vomit bones could give me any benefits."
"Although I was extremely angry in my heart, I did not dare to offend Zhou Gong. I stepped back and thought that if my daughter could marry the young master of that big family, I would have no worries in my life, so I gave up. But where did I think that Ping'er had already been on good terms with little monkey. Although I don't want to beat the mandarin duck, the old servant reminds me that if I repent now, I'm afraid all three of my family will disappear in this world.
"After 15 years in prison, I'm not afraid to die, but I pity my wife and daughter."
"Later, Ping'er cried and said to me that she was willing to sacrifice her lifelong happiness for me and her mother. My poor daughter, for fifteen years, I have seen her only once, and then I have parted again. I'm afraid I will never see her again in my life. "
After saying these stories, Zhou Kun was already in tears and broke into tears.
"His grandmother's, this week's family is too much of a thing, that Zhou Gong is simply an animal, and the word" Zhou Gong "is homonymous, it is a great insult to Duke Zhou!" After listening to Zhou Kun's words, Li Hou hit the wall hard, and then asked Wang Hou, "why don't you tell me so many years?"
"I don't have the face to see you, and I've looked for you once, but you've been driven away, and I haven't seen you at all." The prince said helplessly.
"Well, there seems to be such a thing." Li Hou sighed heavily and said to the prince, "compared with Zhou Gong, the third brother, I don't hate you any more."
"Second brother, there is one thing I haven't told you." The Marquis hesitated for a moment and said, biting his teeth.
"What's the matter?" Li Hou asked in surprise.
"In fact Ping'er has never fallen in love with you. " Wang Hou thought about it, and now he had to tell him the truth.
"Never fell in love with me?" Li Hou was deeply surprised. After half a sound, he asked, "why did she accept my love show and say she would wait for me ten years ago?"
"At that time, we were young, and our minds were very simple. Zhou Ping grew up with us when we were young. In fact, she always liked me. The reason why she agreed to you was that she was afraid that you would delay your studies because you were rejected. In the years that you left, after you gradually mature, we will naturally be together He said, "second brother! Zhou Ping and I are sorry for you... "
"Ha ha, so it is..." Li Hou's face was bleak. What he had been worrying about was actually a dream empty flower. After a while, he looked into the eyes of the prince and said, "third brother! Now that she's already married far away, why bother about it? "
"Second brother!" With tears in his eyes, the prince gave Li Hou a heavy hug.
Although they are full of hate in their hearts, they feel that cultivating the family is something they will never offend in their lifetime.
Later, Wang Hou and Li Hou asked about their experiences in the past few years. After they said that, they talked about their childhood with emotion. Naturally, the topic returned to Zhou Kun.
Zhou Kun said with emotion: "after 15 years of imprisonment, when I returned home, I knew almost no one except my closest relatives, and even forgot the names of others. The shantytowns in those days have been transformed, and the former neighbors have never met again. Even these days, I didn't even recognize the big monkey. "
"Uncle Zhou, didn't you recognize me then?" The Marquis also added with some emotion.
"Uncle Zhou is too sorry these two days. If I knew it was you, I would not treat you like that." Li Hou still said sorry.
"It doesn't matter. I don't know. I'm really happy to see you and monkey again Zhou Kun said with a smile that he had never been so sad and happy in these years, except for the time he went home five years ago.