It seems that a lot has happened in the secular world in the past hundred years.
Xu Chunniang shook her head and walked in the direction of Xujia Village in her memory. Soon she arrived at the village.
At the entrance of the village, several children were playing and mentioned the teacher and public school, which aroused Xu Chunniang's curiosity.
She walked over and asked a few people, "What's going on with the teacher and the public school you just mentioned?"
Several children looked at her warily, shut their mouths and did not answer.
A brave girl saw that Xu Chunniang did not look like a bad person, so she asked instead of answering.
"Where are you from that you don't even know the Master and the public school?"
"I used to live here, but I haven't been back for a long time and haven't heard of these things."
"Did you live here before? Why haven't I seen you before?"
The girl blinked in confusion, not wanting to dwell on it too much.
"A master is a teacher, and a public school is where we learn to read and write.
I heard that there are teachers and public schools out there. Where did you come from? How could you not even know these things? "
Xu Chunniang touched her nose somewhat awkwardly. Why did she feel like she was being looked down upon by a little girl
"Um... I came back from a very far place. Is this Xujia Village?"
"Of course it's Xujia Village. Who are you looking for?"
"I'm looking for..."
Subconsciously, Xu Chunniang wanted to say the names of her mother and brother, but when she came to her senses, she remembered that they were probably no longer alive.
"Forget it. You won't know even if I tell you. I'd better go find it myself."
Xu Chunniang shook her head, walked past a few children, and walked towards her hometown in the village.
I originally thought that since the Xu family in Shuanggui Lane was gone, their hometown must have been abandoned for a long time.
But soon after entering the village, I saw seven or eight bright blue brick and tile houses from afar, replacing the once dilapidated thatched huts.
Xu Chunniang's originally silent heart suddenly began to beat.
It seems that they moved back from Shuanggui Lane.
I just don’t know what happened in the past hundred years, and when they moved back from Shuanggui Lane.
Xu Chunniang thought for a moment, then used the Dayan technique to deduce, and soon got the answer.
It turns out that the world was not at peace during these hundred years, and the war even spread to Taiping County.
In order to escape, the Xu family moved back to the village from the county.
It was not until the past twenty or thirty years that the country was pacified and people's lives began to improve.
Xu Chunniang approached cautiously and could hear voices coming from the house, the sound of running water, and the laughter of children running around.
She could no longer hold back and quietly released her spiritual sense to sweep through every corner of the room.
When her spiritual sense swept across the ancestral hall and saw the spirit tablet clearly, she was finally sure that this was his former home.
The people in the room are the descendants of my eldest brother and eldest sister.
Xu Chunniang's eyes were slightly moist, her figure disappeared from the spot, and suddenly appeared in the ancestral hall.
Looking at the neatly arranged tablets in the ancestral hall, she seemed to have a thousand words to say in her heart, but in the end she just silently took the incense beside her, lit it, and placed it in the incense burner.
Cultivation is the way to transcendence, but unfortunately, although she has reached the Nascent Soul stage, she has not yet achieved transcendence.
As the incense in the stove burned to ashes, Xu Chunniang's mood gradually calmed down.
As a Nascent Soul cultivator, her determination to follow the Tao has long been extremely firm.
The road ahead is long and difficult, but she will keep moving forward.
After leaving the ancestral hall, Xu Chunniang originally planned to leave quietly, but eventually she knocked on the Xu family's door.
"Who is it?"
A plump middle-aged woman opened the door and looked at her back and forth several times with a puzzled look.
"Who are you?"
Xu Chunniang opened her mouth but was unable to reveal her identity. She only said, "I am a wandering monk who happened to pass by here."
"A wandering monk?"
The woman looked at her warily for a few more times and whispered, "Is this true? Is this a lie?"
Xu Chunniang did not argue, "If there are children in your house who have spiritual roots, they can follow me to the mountains to practice."
As she spoke, she raised her fingertips slightly, and a flame appeared out of nowhere, causing the temperature around them to suddenly rise.
"Oh my god, he really is an immortal with great cultivation!"
The woman's eyes lit up, and she changed her previous skeptical attitude and welcomed Xu Chunniang in respectfully.
"I was a little rude just now, please don't blame me, Immortal."
"I don't dare to be an immortal. I'm just a cultivator."
Xu Chunniang shook her head. How could she blame them
The woman seemed to understand, but not quite. After asking her to sit down in the main room, she called the whole family over in a hurry.
"Second sister-in-law, you must have seen it wrong. Even if there is an immortal, can he come to a small place like our Xujia Village?"
The woman called the second sister-in-law snorted coldly, "You will know when you see him in a while. The demeanor of the immortal is different from that of ordinary people like us."
The others walked into the main hall doubtfully. In order to convince them, Xu Chunniang had to use a few more magic tricks.
"Immortal, he really is an immortal!"
"I heard in the early years that the Xu family had an immortal in their ancestry. I didn't notice anything different after marrying here for so many years, but now I have seen it."
"My lord, please accept my humble obeisance."
Xu Chunniang was about to stop him, but then she changed her mind and thought that if she acted like a "senior expert", they would be more convinced.
And strictly speaking, these people are her juniors, so just pay them respects.
After paying homage to the "immortal", the whole family stood in a neat row.
"Immortal, all my children are here. Please take a closer look. Do they have spiritual roots?"
Xu Chunniang nodded slightly, her spiritual sense swept over the nine children in the room, and her gaze fell on the two at the back.
"They both have spiritual roots, so they can follow me to the mountains to practice."
Everyone was surprised and happy. They didn't have much hope at first, but they didn't expect that their own children would actually catch the eyes of the immortal.
"Immortal, take a closer look. Don't the other seven have spiritual roots?"
Xu Chunniang shook her head and looked at the two children with spiritual roots.
"Practicing is difficult. Once you follow me up the mountain, it will be difficult for you to have the chance to reunite with your family in the future. Have you thought about this?"
After hearing this, one of the boys shook his head and even burst into tears.
"I don't want to practice, I don't want to go up the mountain, wow..."
Although the other girl did not cry, she still looked hesitant, not knowing how to choose.
The boy's mother picked him up and slapped him hard on the butt.
"Practicing cultivation is a great thing. It can help you become an immortal. Others can't even ask for such an opportunity. How dare you not go?"
She was beating and scolding him while tears were falling.
She was reluctant to send her ten-year-old child away, but as a mother... she couldn't ruin her son's future.
However, no matter how she beat and scolded him, the boy still bit his tongue and refused to go up the mountain to practice.
The boy's mother wiped away her tears and said through gritted teeth.
"Immortal, this child has been spoiled by us. You don't have to worry about him. Just take him up the mountain."