Chapter 39 Self-Mastery

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival, noon, the Yu Family Ancestral Hall.

Today is the day when the Yu Family worships their ancestors. At the end of the afternoon, all nine branches of the Yu Family and seventeen branches of the outer branches gathered here to worship their ancestors together.

Yu's mother got up early in the morning, dressed the children neatly, and each of them wore new clothes. Then she took them and Yu's father's tablet to the Yu Family Mansion in Linhai City.

The Yu Family Mansion occupies nine streets in Linhai City. They all live together, and the houses and buildings are arranged neatly. The Yu Mansion where the eldest son lives is located in the center, covering an area of ​​more than ten acres. It is guarded by a solid outer wall. It is simply a small city, which can be regarded as a city within a city. This is the characteristic of the big family of Tang State. The five big families in Linhai City are like this. In this way, in times of crisis, it can provide a refuge for the family's collateral disciples. It is said that there is an escape secret passage underground that leads directly to the outside of the city.

Yu Tianming came out to greet them and took them to the clan ancestral hall. Although it was only the hour of Si and the sacrifice had not yet begun, not everyone could enter the clan ancestral hall. As women, his mother and sister stayed outside. Only Yu Zecheng and Yu Zegong entered the ancestral hall.

Yu Tianming's attitude was neither enthusiastic nor cold. Under his guidance, Yu Zecheng placed his father's tablet in the group of spirit tablets worshipped by the Yu family. His grandfather Yu Dejun had not died yet, but four brothers had already worshipped here. They all died on the battlefield for the benefit of the Yu family.

After the spirit tablets were placed, they were re-registered in the clan book. The clan elders were responsible for turning to the page of the eldest house and re-writing his father's name.

Yu Tiangao, born in the year of Jiazi, was intelligent and served in the disaster of the Chen Kingdom in the year of Dingchen.

Just a few words were his father's life. The four words "intelligent" were added by his mother after she paid four hundred taels of silver. Yu Zecheng didn't know what to say when he saw this. He had an indescribable feeling.

Under Yu Tiangao, the names of the eldest son Yu Zecheng and the second son Yu Zegong were added. As for the handwriting behind the names, it would take until they died before someone would add it. His father's return to the ancestral tree was considered to have fulfilled his father's last wish.

Even if the family tree was recorded, Yu Zecheng wanted to leave. Who knew that Yu Tianming said:

"Father asked me to take you there. Zecheng, Zegong, you haven't seen your grandfather yet."

After that, he took Yu Zecheng and Yu Zegong to the outer hall of the ancestral hall. There were already countless Yu family disciples waiting here. Some of these people were stewards of the eldest house, and some were the heads of branches. Sitting in the middle was Yu Zecheng's grandfather Yu Dejun.

As the current head of the Yu family, Yu Zecheng had actually seen Yu Dejun several times in other places, but there were countless children around him, so he would never see Yu Zecheng, his grandson. You should know that Yu Dejun has three wives, ten concubines, twenty-one sons, and hundreds of grandchildren. How could he know Yu Zecheng, an unfilial son?

Entering the side hall, according to the rules, Yu Zecheng and Yu Zegong knelt down to pay their respects. Yu Zecheng thought to himself:

"No matter what, you are my grandfather. I pay my respects to you three times, and we will have nothing to do with each other from now on."

Yu Dejun said:

"Are you the children of the Seventeenth Family? Grandpa has never seen you. It is Grandpa's negligence. This is a gift for you."

After that, each of them gave a golden rat, which weighed two taels. Yu Zecheng threw his golden rat to his brother, then took out the jade pendant and said:

"Grandpa, this is the first time we meet, and your grandson has prepared a gift for you. Please accept it."

After that, he handed it over. When everyone saw this crystal clear jade pendant, they immediately knew that it was expensive, and their eyes towards Yu Zecheng changed. Yu Dejun took the jade pendant and said in surprise:

"Intermediate spiritual stone?"

Then he said:

"Zecheng, come with me, I have something to tell you."

After that, Yu Dejun walked into the ancestral hall, and Yu Zecheng followed him. The two came to the ancestral hall, which was a forbidden area with no one around. Yu Dejun said:

"I know you are dissatisfied with me, and I don't care about your feelings. Your father abandoned the marriage I chose for him for the so-called love. Useless trash, made our Yu family's plan to unite with the Li family fail, so I drove him out."

After saying this, Yu Zecheng immediately got angry and replied:

"Yes, grandpa, you are the head of the Yu family, and everyone is a waste in your eyes. Now you have great power, a virtuous wife and filial children. In fact, they all wish you would die soon. When you die that day, I'm afraid there will be few people who really shed tears.

Although my father is a waste in your eyes Things, but he is a real man, a real father. Although we are not rich, we are very happy. I am very grateful to you. Fortunately, you drove my father out of this family, otherwise I don’t know what I am like now. Look at those cousins, it’s really pitiful. "

Yu Dejun smiled and said:

"Sharp-tongued, it’s a pity that you can’t wait until the day I kick my legs. I have reached the peak level of the innate realm and can live for hundreds of years. You are only at the intermediate level of the Qi-inducing realm, with pseudo spiritual roots of the five elements. I think it’s hard to enter the fetal breath in this life. It’s hard to say who will die first. "

As soon as these words were said, Yu Zecheng was stunned. It turned out that Yu Dejun was also a cultivator. Yu Dejun continued:

"I let you brothers return to the family tree. The purpose is not for you brothers, but for your descendants. It’s hard to say which descendant will have spiritual roots, so that we can continue the current status of our Yu family.

Our Yu family can have this day because of how many ancestors sacrificed their lives and shed blood. I could have continued to practice inside the mountain gate, and maybe I have already completed the foundation. But for the sake of the Yu family, I gave up the path of immortality and returned to the Yu family to marry and have children in large numbers like breeding pigs. You kid is the offspring I created. Without me, there would be you.

Without my care, do you think that at a young age you could go to work at Black Tiger Hall and be someone's book boy, and that someone like Zhu Li, the master of law, would accept you as his apprentice? So train you? Without my protection, do you think your mother can raise you safely without anyone peeking at your mother's beauty? Without my cover-up, do you think that if you killed the adulterous couple in the Chen family, no one would take revenge, and everything would be fine?

In fact, your father is my favorite child. He is very similar to me. I named him Tiangao because I want to be as high as the sky and let birds fly. I plan to let him inherit our Yu family business in the future.

He lived up to my expectations, but ended up abandoning the family business and the temptation to become the head of the family for a woman. In a sense, he is flying freely and is not restricted by the family, but I can only stick to this place, so I expelled him from the family. For him, this is actually a kind of happiness. It is a pity that this child is lucky. Too shallow, he died in Chen country. "

Speaking later, Yu Dejun showed a kind of unexpressible sadness, and Yu Zecheng suddenly had an understanding of this old man and felt the old man's care for him. It turns out that my master Zhu Li taught me so wholeheartedly because of my grandfather. It turns out that my grandfather has been secretly protecting his family and I was able to grow up.

But he didn't seem to know that he killed official Li and framed the blame on others. So how did he know that he killed the adulterer? Understand, he must have been following that immortal to discover him.

But no matter what, it is still touching to have such a relative who secretly protects and loves oneself. Yu Zecheng stood up, knelt down, bowed sincerely, and said:

"Thank you, grandpa, for caring for us all these years. I give you my thanks."

Then he bowed again and said:

"I pray for my father. He will always remember you."

After bowing, he stood up and Yu Dejun nodded in reply. He said:

"It's a pity that Tian Gao, he also has spiritual roots, but he just didn't want to cultivate as an immortal, and he just didn't listen to my words. In the end, he died in a foreign land, my son.

Ze Cheng, during the Qingming Festival next year, the six major sects of the Xiling Alliance in Gunzhou will hold a disciple recruitment ceremony. Our Yu family belongs to the outer sect of Shuiyun Sect and has a disciple quota. I plan to give it to you so that you can participate. Six sects disciple recruitment meeting, join the Immortal Cultivation Sect. "

Yu Zecheng asked hesitantly:

"The six major sects of cultivating immortals in Xiling, Gunzhou? What are these?"

Yu Dejun replied:

"The six major sects of cultivating immortals in Xiling include Shuiyun Sect, Jinyan Sect, Yuanzhu Sect, Yunxiu Sect, Qian Moling Zunjiao, and Ziyu Sect. Some of these sects are branches of the 108th sect, and some of them were also in the same year. He once entered the ranking of 800 side gates.

These six factions alliance controlled the western part of Gunzhou. They originally formed an alliance on the Xiling Peak of the Qilian Mountains, so they were called the Xiling Alliance. Our country of Tang, as well as the country of Mu, and the country of Chi, and the distant countries of Jiang and Jun are all the territory of the Shuiyun Sect. The Chen family, the leader of the Tang country, our Yu family, the Tie family, and the Shi family can all It is considered a branch of Shuiyun Sect. Now you know the power of Shuiyun Sect, right? "

Yu Zecheng was dumbfounded for a long time after hearing this, and Yu Dejun continued:

"Every five years, the Xiling Alliance will hold an Immortal Ascension Conference to allocate talented seed disciples found by the six sects. It also recruits casual cultivators and disciples from major cultivating families for testing. The lucky ones will be selected by the six sects. If you are selected as an inner sect disciple and go to practice in the six sects, ordinary disciples will practice in the outer sect of the six sects. The outer sect of our Shuiyun Sect is the Chishui Sect. If you are good friends with Bai Hexi, you will definitely get his care when you get there. .

Your spiritual root is the Five Elements Spiritual Root, so the possibility of building a foundation is extremely slim. When you reach the intermediate level of fetal breath realm, you can return to the Yu family. I will give you the position of the head of the family, so that you can enjoy a lifetime of wealth.

Tomorrow you will resign from your job at Black Tiger Hall, and I will send you to be a bookboy with Mrs. Zhiyun in Xiaohan Mountain. Although you will be a little angry, Mrs. Zhiyun is the concubine of the head of the Yunxiu Sect, and you have this relationship. , I will speak for you in the future. If you feel aggrieved, just accept it. A man, just endure it and it will be over.

Whose girl will you arrange to be your wife? Shi Tianfei of the Shi family may take over as the head of the family. Let him be his girl, so that he can build a good relationship with the Shi family. The seventh eldest son of the Chen family has the opportunity to be the leader of the Tang Kingdom. He only has one daughter. Although he is twenty years older than you, he can still consider it. Women, that's all.

When you come back tomorrow, I will teach you etiquette and family rules first, and then..."

Yu Dejun began to make calculations. He arranged all of Yu Zecheng's future, but this arrangement completely did not take into account Yu Zecheng's wishes. In his case, Yu Zecheng was a puppet, and everything was decided by him. Yu Zecheng suddenly understood his father's choice.

Yu Zecheng suddenly said loudly:

"Grandpa, thank you for your kindness, but I will not take this place, nor will I take the position of the head of the Yu family. I will cultivate myself, and there is no need to participate in any ascension conference."

Yu Dejun stopped thinking and said:

"Self-cultivation? Hahaha, then you are a casual cultivator. Poor grandson, you don't even know the spiritual stone and don't know what it is used for. You gave it to me as a jade pendant. Why are you practicing?

Look at the protective jade talisman on your chest. It's a pity that this half piece of spiritual stone is very rough. The carved magic circle is extremely rough, and the spiritual stone has been wasted in vain. It's like buying a casket for a pearl, and it can only play one-tenth of its effect. It's really atrocious. Lose Tianzhen.

As long as you join the six major sects, you can learn..."

Yu Zecheng interrupted him and said:

"Grandpa, what you need is just an obedient puppet, not a living person like me. I am free and will not enter a cage and be manipulated by you. I live well without you. Now that I have you, I will live well." Even better, I control my own destiny.”

Yu Dejun was speechless for a long time, and then said:

"Your father seemed to have said this back then. Am I wrong again? Like father, like son. Well, I won't force you. Just remember that your body contains the blood of our Yu family. The blood of our Yu family The door is always open to you.”