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He saw that his own picture had changed a lot, and it made him feel extremely comfortable. It felt like he had been relegated to the countryside.

The entire painting didn't show any signs of modification, it was more like a completed masterpiece. Even the calligraphy master Bai Xi Zhi found it hard to have this kind of ability.

In front of the picture, the mountain water had been covered with steep rocks from cold peaks, and the river was swift and the waves were billowing. It had a majestic aura to it, as well as a feeling of ups and downs.

As for the image that Zhong Ming had changed, it was even gentler. The mountain peaks were distant and continuous, and the river source was long. The brush strokes were sharp and abrupt, yet the clearly defined mountain peaks gave people a comfortable feeling.

Elder Jiang looked at the painting in front of him. There were many paintings that he had seen before, but Zhong Ming's painting was not inferior to any of them.

"Qi Qi, come take a look as well." At this time, the Elder Jiang extended his hand out and called Jiang Wanqi over to take a look.

When his grandfather saw the painting just now, even though his grandfather's expression had long since been imprinted into his heart, it was hard to notice. But Jiang Wanqi still saw his grandfather's expression change again and again.

His grandfather's age when he started drawing ink was already much older than his. To be able to cause such a change in his grandfather's expression, there must be two possibilities. Either it was extremely good, or it was far worse. However, Jiang Wanqi did not think that Zhong Ming would be the former.

A master who drew very well would need many years of accumulation and immersion, and Zhong Ming was only a few years older than him. It was already very good enough for him to be able to draw a painting that grandfather thought was pretty good.

But for grandfather to have such a drastic change in expression, to what extent would this kid's painting be difficult to see? Was it uglier than his own painting?

Jiang Wanqi herself didn't like brush and ink too much. She, who had been by her grandfather's side for so many years, had only drawn crabs before. However, to her, the crab she drew was the most beautiful. Changing a painting was something he had never heard of before. When Jiang Wanqi thought about the change in his grandfather's expression just now and thinking about Zhong Ming, he couldn't help but have a kind of ominous feeling rise up. Could it be that Zhong Ming had destroyed his grandfather's painting?

Although she had always wanted to take care of Gu Zhong Ming previously, but she had never succeeded, she knew her grandfather's temperament. If her grandfather got angry, the consequences would be unthinkable. Even if he was the grandson of Elder Jiang, Jiang Wanqi still felt a lingering fear in his heart.

Jiang Wanqi carefully approached Zhong Ming's painting, but when Jiang Wanqi's gaze fell on the painting, her beautiful eyes immediately widened. His eyes were filled with disbelief!

"Zhong Ming drew this?" Jiang Wanqi's cute little mouth had difficulty closing. The expression on his face was as if he had been petrified.

It was simply too beautiful. Although Jiang Wanqi never really liked drawing, he had accumulated a lot of knowledge about painting during these few years by his grandfather's side. The painting in front of him was really the work of a master calligrapher of his generation, how could it be related to the Zhong Ming who had a body full of talent that seemed to be very different from ink and water?

Jiang Wanqi did not immediately express his opinion. After all, his grandfather was an elder, so this kind of courtesy did not come easily.

"Better than crab, right?" Jiang Taizhou joked towards Jiang Wanqi.

"Grandfather!" Jiang Wanqi said to Jiang Taizhou in an extremely spoiled manner. This was Jiang Wanqi's trump card, the Elder Jiang was affected by her fatal strike in all sorts of ways.

Elder Jiang turned his head around helplessly.

"What did you say you were going to use painting to answer my 'distracting'? Now you can explain. " Elder Jiang was shocked by Zhong Ming's painting and asked. He didn't know why, but at this moment, he was extremely eager to hear the thoughts of this young man.

At this time, Jiang Wanqi was surprisingly well-behaved, and looked at Zhong Ming very seriously, wanting to know what he was saying afterwards.

"If my guess is not wrong, Elder Jiang has been in a high position for a long time, and thus, after a while, he felt a little empty and disappointed in his heart." Zhong Ming slowly opened his mouth and started to speak.

Elder Jiang looked at Zhong Ming with amusement. What Zhong Ming said was right, but not especially right. He could only say that they were a little bit on the side. There was always the suspicion that he was being ignorant this way.

However, Elder Jiang wanted to continue listening. If the brat in front of him could explain everything clearly, that would mean that he was serious.

"Has Elder Jiang ever neglected his family because of work? "Have you ever lost anything important?" Zhong Ming only spoke a few indifferent words next, and for a moment, Jiang Taizhou was stunned. Then, Jiang Taizhou fell into deep thought.

At the beginning, Jiang Taizhou thought Zhong Ming had accidentally seen through his worry, and was blindly worrying about something. Since he had retired, he rarely had a smile on his face. As such, anyone who knew a little about themselves, or had asked about the situation beforehand, would easily know that they had been feeling depressed and depressed during this period of time.

But when Zhong Ming pointed out that he had neglected his family, and lost something, Jiang Taizhou knew that the boy in front of him was not only someone he could see with his own eyes.

Jiang Taizhou married Jiang Wanqi's grandmother when he was in his twenties.

Jiang Wanqi's grandmother wasn't very old when she married Jiang Taizhou, but she was beautiful, generous, and kind. The two of them were extremely fond of Jiang Taizhou, and their relationship was very passionate as well. After the marriage, the two of them had still not lost any of their temperature, leading a life of a divine couple that everyone admired. Very quickly, in a few years, they had had a few children of their own.

However, when his eldest son was ten years old, a war had occurred between the Empire and a neighbouring country. At that time, Jiang Taizhou was a Company Commander in the national army. However, the temperament of the military, for the nation to abandon individual love, brave to fight to protect the country.

The gentle and thoughtful Jiang Wanqi's grandma didn't agree to Jiang Taizhou's participation this time, because at that time, Jiang Taizhou had already submitted his application for retirement. But right at this moment, Jiang Taizhou decided to go to the front line and fight with his life on the line, regardless of whether he was afraid of death or not.

Because of this, the two of them, the young couple who had never quarrelled before, finally, Jiang Taizhou left his most precious wife and child after a few rounds of quarreling.

In the three year war, Jiang Taizhou fought with his life on the line. He spent the whole day dodging the bullets with his gun. Finally, under the heavy attack of the Taixi army, the neighboring countries finally hung the rod and asked for peace.

The snow-white surrender flag fluttered in the wind, Jiang Taizhou took a deep breath.

'I'm finally going home.

However, when the complacent Jiang Taizhou returned to the house that he had been looking forward to day and night, he did not see the person he had been thinking about.

Jiang Wanqi's grandmother had already found out that she had a congenital heart disease before Jiang Taizhou left. After a few times of childbirth, her body had already reached its limit. His heart, which was in a worse state, made Jiang Wanqi's grandmother feel that her death was near. Therefore, it wasn't because of the hardships of her life that she was no longer gentle and sensible.

She just wanted to be able to be a human in the last moments of her life, so that the people she loved deeply did not leave her side.

But things did not go as he wished. Jiang Taizhou had been gone for three years, and during these three years, she awaited day and night for her husband's return. One person took care of the four children and left them to their own devices.

Finally, she passed away the second year after Jiang Taizhou left home. At that time, the last thing she had said was not to send a letter to Jiang Taizhou who was currently at the frontlines, in case it affected his ability to perform. The battlefield was not an ordinary place. Just a small defeat was enough to cause him to never be able to return.

They had four children, and the eldest son was already a teenager. Jiang Taizhou's mother-in-law had brought the four children over to her side after her daughter's death. It was only when Jiang Taizhou returned home and saw that the furniture inside the house was already covered with thick dust that he realized how big of a mistake he had made.

Jiang Taizhou, who knew what it really was, painfully ran recklessly in the torrential rain for a long time, hissing and shouting, but the bone-piercing pain in his heart still did not go away.

At that time, Jiang Taizhou was already the Guild Leader. After that, the victorious Jiang Taizhou, because of his many meritorious deeds in the war and some very good deeds in the later stages of the battle, was highly regarded by the Army Chief of Staff of the army. Relying on his own abilities in handling affairs, he was promoted all the way until he finally became a general.

Although he was already retired, the only general who had experienced a real life and death battle was Jiang Taizhou.

This was also why all the people Jiang Taizhou brought out were dead fans.

After so many years, his four children had all grown up with the help of the elderly. The situation in the country was becoming more and more stable, no longer the usual border wars.

However, for some reason, Jiang Taizhou who had retired for the past two years suddenly recalled that what happened when he was young was not the smoke from the battlefield or those hot-blooded days. It was the woman who had accompanied him through ten years of spring and autumn, the woman who cared about him. The family who left him with four lovely children.

Back then, he owed her and Jiang Taizhou also did not marry again after that. Jiang Taizhou tottered unsteadily until his temples turned white.

In this life, for Jiang Taizhou, there would only be one small family and one country.

He was too old, and the country no longer needed him. The heavy burden that Jiang Taizhou had spent so many years to disperse the suffering of his love for her was no more. The memories that he had accumulated for so many years, that he had never changed, covered the skies and covered the earth, and submerged Jiang Taizhou within them.

The reason why he loved brushstrokes and paintings was because brushes and ink could make people feel as if they were being poured everywhere. Jiang Taizhou was able to relax from such a feeling and leave himself in his own world.

After all, things that could no longer be made up for were always as fresh in one's memory as they were before.

"Dang, dang, dang, dang …"

At this moment, a light and careful knocking sound came from the door.

Jiang Taizhou's thoughts returned to reality.

After all, there were many things that would never happen again. Many people would never appear again after losing someone.

"Master, the banquet is about to begin!"

"Alright! You can leave first! "

Jiang Taizhou kept his thoughts, and for a moment, he looked at Zhong Ming with a different expression.

"Grandfather, what happened to you just now?" Seeing that her grandfather had finally spoke, Jiang Wanqi finally dared to speak.

"It's nothing. It took me a lifetime to figure out the value of my family. However, if I were given another chance, I would still make the same choice as before. Because maybe I'm the one who died, but because of me, more families in the country can be reunited. This was what a soldier should do. I don't regret it! " Jiang Taizhou's eyes were now filled with determination.

"Not bad, not bad!" Jiang Taizhou said, and lightly patted it with both hands.

Jiang Taizhou said two consecutive "not bad"?

If someone was here, they would have already rolled their eyes in shock.

Who was Jiang Taizhou, since when did he praise others in such a manner? He had a face that was always like an iron mask, if he didn't come up and scold you, it would already be burning incense. Even a simple glance was enough to make one's legs go weak.

Jiang Wanqi also felt that today's situation was something that he had never encountered before. The boy in front of him was not simple at all. This was the first time he had met him, and this made his grandfather have a whole new level of respect for him.

"Zhong Ming, you can come to my study often. It's not bad to discuss it when you have nothing to do!" Elder Jiang said to Zhong Ming.

The Elder Jiang actually told Zhong Ming to come to his study room and have a seat if he had nothing better to do!? Jiang Wanqi rubbed his ears with all his might and after confirming it again and again, he realized that he was not hallucinating.

Grandpa's study was a forbidden area. No matter where it was, his study was either locked or guarded by someone. It was not only because his grandfather had to review the documents in the study when he was young, but also because the study was his grandfather's personal domain.

Only when Jiang Taizhou was completely alone and quiet could he relax for a little bit.

Jiang Wanqi looked at Zhong Ming with anticipation. She was afraid that this guy who was different from the others would think twice before rejecting her grandfather's invitation. Grandfather's invitation just now was the most honorable invitation in the entire Taixi Kingdom. A person of such a high rank can take the initiative to invite you into his own 'private' domain. This is something that you can do as a friend or even as a confidant.

Although it had been almost half a century since Zhong Ming's age, today, Jiang Taizhou actually had a feeling that he had finally encountered someone who spoke the truth. It was just like how, in the underworld, Jiang Taizhou came all the way from the Tai Xi Country to the Eastern Emperor Kingdom under the guidance of the heavens.

"It's my honor!" Zhong Ming said indifferently.

Hearing Zhong Ming's words, Jiang Wanqi's heart finally dropped. She was really afraid that Zhong Ming would say something that would not stop until he was shocked to death.