Chapter 367: Eight-year-old Du Heng, the dying old man
Du Ruo left decisively, but it brought a great shock to Kyoto.
Leaving aside the issue of deification, just eliminating those so-called sects, or some things that everyone knows about but has been left alone, is already a big move.
Many things are actually very simple, but they become complicated because they involve power. Now that everyone is united in wanting to eliminate them, everything becomes very simple.
It wasn't that they were like hungry wolves seeing meat when they saw the List of Gods that Du Ruo took out. In fact, what they were afraid of was Du Ruo's ability to know everything without leaving the house.
And the mysterious means demonstrated today. Du Ruo's balcony is semi-open-air, and the coffee table on his balcony is placed outside the house. At that time, Xiang Yuanyuan was drinking tea there.
But Du Ruo can pick up the tea set at home at any time in Kyoto, thousands of kilometers away, which means that Du Ruo can also take off their heads at home at any time.
Many people have never seen Du Ruo in action, and some even only know about him through rumors or videos. There is always a sense of unreality, as if he is very far away from them.
In addition, as the years go by, more and more geniuses emerge, just like those young people who can stand on the edge with the crowd today.
They are the winners of the national martial arts competitions recruited in previous sessions. They can be said to be geniuses who appear only once in millions or tens of millions of people.
Coupled with continuous breakthroughs in aura research, some newly developed aura-related weapons have been born.
These things also gave many people an illusion that Du Ruo was not so invincible, so many people had some small ideas.
They wait and see whether those involved in sectarian activities can bring any surprises.
Until the appearance of Du Ruo, who became more and more unpredictable, gave everyone a warning and extinguished some people's thoughts.
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"Dad, Dad, we are back."
As it was getting dark, little Du Heng rode Tiger Vanguard back home happily.
When little Du Heng saw Xiang Yuanyuan and Du Ruo waiting for her to eat in the living room, she quickly climbed down the stairs from Hu Xianfeng and ran back holding a plastic bag in her hand.
"Dad, try it. It's delicious. It's sour and sweet. It tastes better than the ones grown by Uncle Yang at home."
After little Du Heng came back, the first thing he did was to take out a small wild kiwi fruit from the plastic bag and hand it to Du Ruo.
"Yeah, it's really delicious. Send some to grandpa and grandma later."
After Du Ruo took it, he put it directly into his mouth as he did before. After eating, he did not forget to remind little Du Heng to send some to his grandparents.
"Humph, you little heartless bastard!"
Xiang Yuanyuan on the side snorted in dissatisfaction.
"Mom, you eat too, I'll feed you~"
Little Duheng was very smart and knew the reason immediately. He smiled and also took a wild kiwi fruit and stuffed it into Xiang Yuanyuan's mouth to feed her.
"Hey~ You think I'm your dad? Peel off my skin first!!"
Xiang Yuanyuan had a look of disgust on her face and patted Xiao Duheng's hand, but the smile in the corner of her eyes showed that she was in a good mood.
A few days later, Li Qiyao came back from home. In her words, she couldn't sleep well at night if she didn't see Xiao Duheng for a day.
Time passed quickly. With Li Qiyao taking care of him, Yaya coming to play with him, and occasionally he could secretly call Hu Xianfeng to go to the mountains to play with him. Little Du Heng had a very happy time in these last moments before school.
Du Ruo did not break his promise. After school started in September, he sent little Du Heng to kindergarten immediately.
Then he didn't pack up anything and drove all the animals in the house to the mountains to roam freely. Then he took Xiang Yuanyuan and drove out to travel.
As for Xiao Duheng, he was directly handed over to Li Qiyao, and they no longer cared about anything.
Anyway, little Duheng has Li Qiyao and his grandparents around, so he will never suffer any grievances and he will be well taken care of in life.
But when the car just drove out, Xiang Yuanyuan was still excited and took all kinds of photos with her mobile phone.
It was not until the evening when the two checked into the hotel that Xiang Yuanyuan began to miss her precious daughter.
Although the time of missing him was short, as Du Ruo took her to eat various local delicacies, she had long forgotten about little Du Heng.
When they returned to the hotel in the evening, Xiang Yuanyuan was originally thinking about sending a video or something to her family, but when she saw Du Ruo took out two bottles of strong liquor and a plate of peanuts, poor little Du Heng was forgotten again.
Du Ruo didn’t know whether little Du Heng cried when he went to bed at night, but Xiang Yuanyuan seemed to be having a lot of fun.
Moreover, her clothes are becoming more and more fashionably dressed and she is playing more and more crazily, as if she has regained her youth.
Du Ruo was also carefully tidied up. It seemed that time had left no trace on the two of them, and the happy time passed quickly.
The two of them went on the trip without any destination at all. They just played wherever the car took them, as if they wanted to make up for the youth they had lost in the past few years. It was only when the Chinese New Year was approaching that they returned home, allowing little Du Heng to feel his mother's love again.
But this maternal love did not last long. After the Chinese New Year, her dear parents rebelled and ran away from home again, leaving her to her aunt Qiqi. Even the small animals in the house were gone except for the occasional sight of Ada and Aer, or the red kestrel flying in the sky.
She never saw Tiger Pioneer again.
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Time passed quickly. Little Du Heng would occasionally miss her parents at the beginning, but as time went by, she found that her parents' absence didn't seem to be a big problem.
She also discovered that some of her playmates in her village also had parents who were not at home. She secretly inquired and found out that their parents had gone out to work to earn money.
Once, she curiously asked Aunt Qiqi whether her parents also worked outside to earn money. She saw Aunt Qiqi nodded unnaturally, and the sensible girl began to understand her parents.
Her grandparents would come over to cook delicious food for her, and occasionally her grandparents would come over to see her. Usually, she lived with Aunt Qiqi.
When taking her hiking, to the town's amusement park, to the movies, or to parent-teacher meetings, Aunt Qiqi always went there in the name of mother.
Of course, she has to do her homework, and during holidays, Sister Yaya will come over to practice martial arts with her. Aunt Qiqi usually goes along with her in everything, but she is particularly strict during martial arts practice.
Fortunately, she had a good talent for martial arts, and she felt that her parents must be very tired working away from home, so she practiced martial arts even more diligently.
There would also be a heroic auntie at home who would deliver some things regularly, which were either very good ingredients or medicinal materials that were said to be very precious.
She secretly went over to ask the very cool aunt if these were sent by her parents, and the aunt nodded in the affirmative.
She secretly asked the fox aunt how her parents were doing, and the fox aunt nodded with a strange expression to indicate that they were doing well.
But she didn't find it strange. Instead, she felt that her parents must be very busy and hard-working.
So...little Du Heng made a big wish at a young age, that he would practice martial arts well in the future and try his best to make his parents less hard-working.
No wonder when her parents came back, her father always rested on the recliner, looking like he never got enough sleep, while her mother had to drink some medicinal wine every day. I heard that her mother couldn't sleep at night without drinking the medicinal wine.
"Sister, sister, this is not delicious. It tastes fishy and is hard to chew."
At the foot of Mount Huangshan, in Du Ruo's home, little Du Heng was watching her sister Yaya taking out a piece of fish maw from the alchemy room and eating it as a snack. When she thought of the taste that was so hard to bite, she hurriedly tried to persuade her sister to stop.
"It doesn't smell fishy. It's okay if it's hard to chew. I can eat it for a long time by tearing it into pieces."
Yaya didn't mind at all. She bit a corner of the fish maw, tore off a long strip, and chewed it slowly.
"Hengheng, when will my uncle and aunt come back? I won't enjoy eating fish until my uncle comes back."
Yaya is already sixteen years old at this time. She has short hair and is very beautiful. Her love for fish has never changed. She also has a very good foundation in martial arts and achieved very good results in the city competition last year.
As long as she goes to college, she can participate in provincial competitions. In fact, some of the top universities have already sent her invitations, but her parents are not in a hurry to let her go to college. They decided to let her finish her senior year of high school happily and then choose a major according to her own preferences.
So she is actually very happy and content, but the golden retriever that grew up with her is no longer with her.
"My parents can't come back until I'm on vacation. Sister, eat this. It's delicious and tastes like barbecue."
Little Du Heng is already over eight years old this year. She didn't feel any emotion when she heard her sister mention her parents. Instead, she jumped lightly, stepped on a big box, and then found a very large dried gecko from a pile of various medicinal herbs.
After finding it, she didn't eat it herself, but handed it to Yaya.
"This... this is a lizard? Can it be delicious?"
Yaya frowned and took the object that looked like the dried flesh of a giant lizard that Xiao Duheng handed over to her, but she still couldn't eat it.
If it was a fish, no matter how ugly it looked, she would have to taste it to see how salty it was, but she couldn't eat this big dried lizard. "This is not a lizard, it's a palace gecko, a type of gecko, it can reduce swelling and resolve knots, and it can also detoxify and relieve pain. It's delicious, why don't you try it."
Little Duheng took out a big gecko from the cupboard. She was worried that Yaya would not believe it, so she took a bite of it with her mouth and started eating it with a "crunch crunch" sound.
“Haha ...
Yaya was speechless. Could it be that just because it was a gecko, it would avoid being disgusting?
But when she saw little Duheng eating with gusto, she couldn't help but feel curious. She forced herself not to look at the dried gecko's head and took a small bite of its leg.
"Woo~ It has a bit of a fishy smell, but the meat flavor is very strong, and it's dry and chewy, and the bones are crispy. It's really delicious."
After Yaya tasted it, her eyes lit up. It was indeed more delicious than fish maw.
"Yeah, let's have some of this. This is nine-processed polygonatum. It tastes sticky and can neutralize the fishy smell."
Little Du Heng was delighted when he heard it, and he took out another jar of black nine-processed Polygonatum.
The two of them just sat on the box, eating one bite of gecko and one bite of polygonatum, and they were eating very happily and happily.
"It's a bit greasy to eat."
Yaya felt a little full after eating a piece of processed Polygonatum odoratum. She thought she was feeling sick, so she picked up the dried gecko and took a bite.
"Sister, wait a minute. I'll get the chili powder. You can dip it in the chili powder and it won't be greasy."
Little Duheng was very experienced. When she heard Sister Yaya say she was fed up, she immediately jumped down from the big box and ran towards the kitchen.
When she ran to the living room, she deliberately slowed down her steps and looked up from the stairwell.
Seeing that Aunt Qiqi had not come downstairs, he ran to the kitchen, took out the dipping sauce from the refrigerator, and returned to the alchemy room.
In fact, the alchemy room has become a decoration. Even the big furnace has been buried by a large number of stacked boxes. Little Du Heng always thought that this was a storage room.
After all, Du Ruo only makes pills once a year, and when he reaches Du Ruo's level, he no longer cares whether there is an alchemy furnace or not when making pills.
The two sisters started to eat in the alchemy room, eating whatever was delicious.
Especially little Du Heng, she often eats like this, and she knows all the medicinal materials. When her grandparents come over, they will teach her these things. It’s because she is still young, otherwise they would even teach her how to prepare medicinal wine.
“Heng Heng~Heng Heng!!”
Just when the two little sisters had finished eating, Li Qiyao's voice came from outside the door.
"Hey~ Aunt Qiqi, we are here~"
As soon as Xiao Duheng heard Li Qiyao calling her, she responded immediately. Yaya hurriedly put away the bamboo sticks and other things that the two had eaten, and put away the jar of Polygonatum odoratum and put it back to its original place.
"Hengheng, come on, change your clothes, we are going out for a while. Yaya, go back to grandpa's house by yourself later, we won't be back for the next two days."
Li Qiyao was standing at the door holding a piece of clothing in her hand. She saw at a glance what the two people were doing just now, but she said nothing. Warriors have sharp ears and eyes, and the actions of the two people could not be hidden from her ears and eyes.
"Aunt Qiqi, where are we going? Aren't we coming back tonight?"
Xiao Duheng walked up to Li Qiyao, put on his clothes, and asked casually.
But Yaya didn't ask anything at this time. She started to take her clothes and prepared to leave.
"Go to your grandmother's house. You may have to stay there for a few days. You will know the details when you get there."
Li Qiyao was very busy. After helping Xiao Duheng dress, she went upstairs to pack up Xiao Duheng's things.
After finishing all this, Yaya had already taken her things and walked towards her grandparents' house.
"Let's go~get in the car."
Li Qiyao closed the door of the house, put Xiao Duheng's things in the trunk, and fastened the seat belt for Xiao Duheng in the back seat. Then she came to the driver's seat and drove.
The vehicle started silently and drove out of the yard directly. After the vehicle drove out, the iron gate of the yard was automatically closed by an invisible force.
The car that Li Qiyao drives is a model from last year. It is neither a gasoline car nor a new energy car, but a latest spiritual energy-driven car. It is said that there are spiritual stones inside the car, so its endurance is extremely strong and it can burst out at an extremely fast speed.
But little Du Heng didn't understand any of this and didn't know how precious this car was.
At this time, she opened the car window and looked at the scenery outside the car curiously, while recalling in her mind what her grandparents' house was like.
It has been a long time. She hasn't been to her grandparents' house for a long time, and her memory is a little fuzzy.
However, she still remembers the appearance of her grandparents, and she also has a clear memory of her great-grandfather who loved drinking.
Every few months, her grandparents or great-grandfather would come and stay for a while, teaching her about herbs or taking her out to play.
"Hengheng, close the car window. I'm going to speed up."
Li Qiyao seemed to be in a hurry. After Xiao Duheng closed the car window, the scenery outside the window receded at a very fast speed.
The vehicle did not stop for a moment, and Li Qiyao was driving at such a fast speed that no one came to check the car. After about five hours, the vehicle arrived in Fujian.
After getting off the highway, Li Qiyao slowed down the car, and then drove along a straight road for a while before stopping at the gate of a very large yard.
At this time, the yard outside was full of parked cars, and many people that Xiao Duheng didn't know at all were talking outside the yard.
When they saw Li Qiyao and Xiao Duheng getting out of the car, they all stepped aside and made way.
Little Du Heng held Li Qiyao's hand and looked at the crowd around him curiously.
There were a lot of people outside the yard, but when you actually entered the yard, there were even more people standing inside.
People gathered in twos and threes. When they saw Li Qiyao and Xiao Duheng walking in the middle, only someone would occasionally glance at Li Qiyao and then continue talking. No one paid any attention to Li Qiyao and Xiao Duheng.
"Grandpa~~"
When she was about to reach the hall, Li Qiyao finally saw a familiar figure, it was her grandfather. She shouted quickly and then ran over quickly.
When the crowd heard Xiao Duheng call her "Grandpa", they all fell silent and turned their eyes to Xiao Duheng, looking her up and down.
"Hey~ My dear grandson is here, come and give grandpa a hug~"
When he saw little Du Heng, a smile appeared on the face of the father-in-law, and his tone, which was usually of few words, became much softer.
"Hello uncle, I brought Hengheng here as soon as I received the news. How is grandpa?"
Li Qiyao watched the father-in-law pick up little Du Heng, and asked him a question.
"Well, thank you for your hard work. My father is not in good condition. The doctor said it is difficult for him to survive the night."
The father-in-law nodded at Li Qiyao, then restrained his smile and frowned again.
"Is Brother Du here? What did he say?"
Li Qiyao also frowned, but the first person she thought of was Du Ruo. Like Xiang Yuanyuan, she had blind trust in Du Ruo, even when facing life and death.
"He's already here. He came the day before yesterday. It was Xiao Du who told us about my father's condition. Otherwise, we wouldn't have noticed it."
The prime minister nodded, and when he mentioned Du Ruo, his originally frowned brows relaxed a lot.
"Is Dad here? Grandpa, let's go find Dad!!"
When she heard that her father was there, little Du Heng's eyes immediately lit up. She looked around for her father's figure and even twisted her body to get out of her father's arms to find her father.
"Okay, okay, let's go find your dad. Not only is your dad here, but your mom is too."
When the husband saw little Du Heng like this, he was afraid that she would fall, so he hugged her tightly and walked into the house.
"Wife, you...you can let them stay in the hotel in town first. I'll take my granddaughter inside first. We'll see what Xiao Du has to say about the details later."
When the father-in-law walked inside, he saw the mother-in-law coming out. He quickly asked her to settle these people first.
(End of this chapter)
