latelenovela Chapter 77 Old Master Zhou
Chapter 77 Old Master Zhou
Fortunately, Kang Ning kept her company and chatted with her, so it wasn't too boring. Lu Jinyan was worried about Yuan Yi and the others' health, so she gave each of them a recovery pill. Then she took the opportunity to give Ruohan a pair of love stones, thus increasing her favorability.
In just a few days, Ruohan's favorability rating had already reached 17%. Lu Jinyan was very happy. Apart from Chuchu, Ruohan was probably the easiest person to gain favorability from.
Kang Ning accompanied Lu Jinyan to familiarize herself with the Golden Roc again. After a morning of training, Lu Jinyan had basically mastered how to summon and control the Golden Roc.
Before leaving, Ruohan also swallowed the second pill. He originally didn't want to take it and wanted to save it just in case, but now that he was going to travel with Lu Jinyan and the others, he naturally had to protect them.
The morning passed quickly. Kang Ning was taken away by Kang Shou. It was almost noon. Lu Jinyan didn't want Chu Chu to work so hard, having been busy outside all morning and then having to come back to cook for her. So she set up two pots in the yard to cook something delicious to reward Chu Chu and the others.
The Wang family's house has a kitchen. They hired two elderly people from the village to help with cooking. These days everyone is eating communal meals. Lu Jinyan didn't want to bother them in the kitchen, so she set up a cooking pot in the yard. Anyway, the yard she lives in is quite big, so she can make full use of it.
She hadn't eaten anything while she was unconscious these past few days, and after she woke up, Chu Chu only gave her porridge. She felt like she had no food in her stomach at all, and it was so uncomfortable. Today, she decided to cook something delicious for herself!
Lu Jinyan stewed a pot of soup, stir-fried three meat dishes and one vegetable dish, and also cooked a large pot of rice. Fearing that Yuan Yi wouldn't have enough to eat, she also took out more than ten steamed buns from her storage bag and steamed them together. These steamed buns were steamed by Chu Chu before and put in her storage bag to eat on the road, but she hadn't eaten them yet.
Everything that the Wang family had confiscated had been recovered, and Lu Jinyan had also put all the weapons back into her spatial storage. Although the food wouldn't spoil in her spatial storage, it was easy to forget about it if it was left for too long, so it was better to take it out and eat it.
When Chu Chu and her group returned, Lu Jinyan had already prepared the meal. Looking at the table full of food and smelling the aroma, Yuan Yi, Liu Xu, and the other two were already drooling. Because Lu Jinyan had been in a coma these days, Chu Chu hadn't been in the mood to cook, so everyone had been eating with the people outside.
But the taste was naturally not very good. Although Yuan Yi and the others had suffered before, as the saying goes, once you've tasted sweetness, bitterness is hard to swallow. So, they all lost weight in the past few days.
Seeing this table full of delicious food, Lu Jinyan was naturally overjoyed. She quickly told everyone to wash their hands and eat, and Yuan Yi and the others buried themselves in their food and couldn't stop eating.
This was the first time Ruohan had ever eaten something so delicious. He didn't need to eat, but he didn't want to spoil the atmosphere. Who knew that once he took a bite, he couldn't stop and almost swallowed his tongue along with it.
The group devoured the food, quickly finishing off the entire table. After eating and drinking their fill, Lu Jinyan rubbed her round belly and sighed to herself, "It really is only when we eat meat and rice that we feel truly comfortable."
After lunch, the group rested for a while before heading out again. This time, Lu Jinyan insisted on going, repeatedly assuring Chu Chu that she would only go along to take a look, not to do anything or cause any trouble. Only then did Chu Chu agree.
Yuan Yi was noticeably better in the afternoon, and if nothing unexpected happens, he should be able to run around happily tomorrow. Once everyone is almost fully recovered, she should leave.
Chu Chu was afraid that Lu Jinyan would be cold, so she wrapped her in a thick cloak. After they were all ready, they went out. But as soon as they stepped out, a hunched figure knelt down in front of Lu Jinyan with a thud.
"My benefactor, my benefactor, thank you so much for saving my life!"
Lu Jinyan was startled by this sudden scene. Upon closer inspection, she realized that it was the old man who had reminded her that night.
"Grandpa, what are you doing? Get up!" Lu Jinyan quickly helped the old man up. The old man was crying and could barely speak. Lu Jinyan looked bewildered. It was only after Chu Chu whispered a few words in her ear that she understood.
It turns out that the old man's surname was Zhou. He lived with his wife, son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter. Their life was originally quite good. However, a few years ago, that beastly Wang family suddenly came to his door with a demon crystal to propose marriage, saying that they wanted to take Zhou's granddaughter, Zhou Cui, as a concubine.
However, Zhou Cui was not yet an adult and was still a child. According to the human world's calculations, Zhou Cui was only twelve years old and not yet of marriageable age. But the Wang family did not care about such things and wanted to take her away after leaving behind the demon crystal.
The Zhou family naturally disagreed and fought back fiercely, only to be brutally beaten by the Wang family. His wife was beaten to death on the spot, and his daughter-in-law and son, unable to contain their anger, stepped forward to reason with him, only to have their throats slit on the spot. He himself was stabbed through the neck with a knife.
When he woke up again, he found himself lying on the mountain, with the corpses of his wife, son and daughter-in-law beside him. Those beasts from the Wang family hadn't killed him with that knife. Old Master Zhou endured the pain and buried his son, daughter-in-law and wife. Then, despite his injuries, he made his way down the mountain, intending to seek revenge on the Wang family and rescue his granddaughter.
Unexpectedly, he was old and frail, and collapsed at the village entrance. He was rescued by the villagers, but when he woke up, he was so traumatized that he was somewhat mentally unstable, only remembering that he wanted to find his granddaughter.
The Wang family knew he wasn't dead but had gone mad, but they didn't care about him. One day, he suddenly regained his senses and went to the Wang family to fight them, but he ended up having both his legs broken and being thrown out.
When he woke up again, he was insane again. The villagers took pity on him and asked a doctor to set his legs back on, but he was still somewhat inconvenient to move around. The Zhou family's house was burned down by the Wang family, who claimed that the Wang family had set fire to themselves and that the whole family had been burned to death.
But in reality, everyone knew the truth, but no one dared to say it. So, Old Master Zhou lived in a dilapidated house in the village where no one lived, relying on the villagers' help to make a living.
His mind was sometimes clear and sometimes confused. But whether he was clear-headed or confused, he always remembered that he wanted to find his granddaughter. So when he was clear-headed, he would squat in front of the Wang family’s door, saying that he was waiting for his granddaughter. When he was confused, he would stay in the dilapidated house by himself, crying and laughing.
Day after day, year after year, Grandpa Zhou never saw his granddaughter again. That day, he suddenly woke up and saw Lu Jinyan and the others enter the village. Seeing Lu Jinyan reminded him of his granddaughter, so he went over and reminded them.