After Chen Yuxi and the Zhang family father and daughter bid farewell, they left Qianxi Town and led their senior sisters to the imperial city as planned.

Zhang Xiaolian also gave up the idea of ​​being a slave and regained her confidence in the future.

But Mr. Zhang was confused by the side and didn't understand what these young people were thinking. He didn't understand what Chen Yuxi said just now and what he meant. He didn't understand why his daughter seemed to get better after hearing those words?

All of this seemed too complicated for him...

Or, until now, what he cared most deeply in his heart was the most deeply rooted question. So after everyone left, he couldn't help but ask with a hint of fantasy: "Did those robbers treat you in the past two days..."

Zhang Xiaolian knew what he wanted to ask, shook her head and said, "Those are no longer important."

"Not important?" Old Mr. Zhang stared at his eyes, obviously trying to ask! Because in his opinion, this question is extremely important.

"If I said no, would you believe it?" Zhang Xiaolian asked back.

Mr. Zhang was slightly stunned for a moment, and his expression quickly dimmed...

Because he understood that this question was not a question of whether he believed it or not, but a question of whether the villagers would believe it, or whether the people in Sanli and Wu Village would believe it...

If everyone doesn't believe it, but he believes it, it will be useless! His girl's reputation will still be ruined.

To be more precise, from the moment Zhang Xiaolian was kidnapped, regardless of whether the robbers tarnished her afterwards, her reputation had been ruined.

Thinking of this, Old Man Zhang couldn't help but sigh, secretly annoyed at the injustice of fate! Then he stopped asking and thought helplessly in his heart: "Maybe it is not important to regard that question as not important, but it is also a good idea."

Little do they know that what Zhang Xiaolian said, "It's no longer important" and what Mr. Zhang thought, "It's no longer important." have completely different meanings.

Because in Zhang Xiaolian's opinion, everything is really not important. Because she no longer cares about what others will think of her. Because... no matter whether she has an innocent body or not, it is difficult to like other men anymore.

If she couldn't like other men, why should other men know whether her body is innocent?

Then, she looked at Chen Yuxi's figure at the end of the street, and after looking for a long time, she suddenly said, "Dad, I want to learn the martial arts that I passed down from my family."

"No!" After hearing the words of family-born martial arts, Mr. Zhang suddenly became excited and scolded, "Have you forgotten the ancestral teachings? The Zhang family's martial arts have fatal flaws. Once any mistakes occur during the cultivation process, they will become crazy! Not only will they suffer great pain, but they may also become a devil and cause disaster to all directions! At the beginning... Our Zhang family was at its peak... and suddenly fell to this point, which is also related to that set of martial arts."

"Even if you have always adhered to the ancestral teachings, the Zhang family has never been able to achieve success in the past three hundred years." Zhang Xiaolian said.

This sentence immediately touched the pain in Mr. Zhang's heart.

He was in pain for his deceased old father and grandfather, and for the successors of the Zhang family in the past three hundred years...

The Zhang family was so glorious... They will never forget the brilliance recorded in the genealogy, and they dream of reviving again. However, they are so eager to be powerful, but they have to cut their wings because of their ancestral teachings. They clearly have powerful ancestral skills, but they dare not practice easily, so that generations of decline are more and more...

Just as Zhang Xiaolian said, after giving up the practice of that set of exercises, the Zhang family has never been able to achieve success in the past three hundred years! Now it is even more declining!

If even the entire family is declining and disappearing! If even the remaining successors cannot survive, perhaps...then the so-called ancestral teachings are not important anymore, right?

Seeing the sadness on his father's face, Zhang Xiaolian felt a little distressed, but said something even more hurtful: "And... you can't protect me."

"I..." Old Mr. Zhang felt a sharp pain!

This is the biggest pain in his heart!

Yes, he is old and he can't protect his daughter.

No, even if he is not old, with his low cultivation and superficial skills, he still cannot protect his daughter!

Since the incident of the robbers happened, he had thought about what to do if he met a robber in the future! Even if he fought his life, would he be the opponent of the robbers? Can he protect his daughter?

He can't do it! He can't do anything!

The old man felt very painful...

All the pain is caused by the lack of ability of the person involved...

However, when his father was in the most painful and powerless state, Zhang Xiaolian continued to say, "If I could practice that set of skills, I would be able to protect you in the future."

The old man looked up at her Aokiji's face, and the tears rolled down. It was not because of sadness, but because of his nose sore... Maybe he suddenly felt that his daughter had grown a lot.

"I'm old. You are the only descendant of the Zhang family. You must know everything you should know sooner or later! If you insist on making this choice... then please follow me to the ancestral house." said the old man.

Zhang Xiaolian nodded and followed the old man toward the ancestral house.

She thought she would be very nervous or excited, but in fact she was so calmer than expected that she seemed a little mature.

Mature?

Yes. People actually grow up in an instant and mature in an instant.

Or, she woke up in an instant.

What she awakens is not her bloodline or ability, but her own heart.

After being kidnapped by robbers, she was almost defiled and finally rescued. After Ping An returned to the village, she was attacked and humiliated by personality... Finally, after being woken up by Chen Yuxi, she suddenly understood what she wanted to do when she was alive and how to choose in the future!

If she had not experienced these things, even if she was a descendant of the Zhang family, even if she had a strong and brave heart, she would be just an ordinary girl who would go back to the dark.

She may be like most girls in the village in the world, after she became an adult, she was crossed by the matchmaker. Then, by the orders of her parents and the words of her matchmaker, she was confused to marry a man she had never known before, gave birth to a child in a mess, and then she was left with only tea, rice, oil and salt, and her parents were in trouble, and when she looked back, she was no longer in her youth.

But! Why did she have to choose this way?

Just because 99.999% of the girls in the world live like this, does she have to live like this?

If Zhang Xiaolian’s choice is no different from the choice of 99.99999% of women in the world, then is her choice really the choice she wants?

What's more! She is different from others! She is a descendant of the Zhang family! She has other choices!

That being the case, why didn't she try to go on another path?

Just as Chen Yuxi said, she didn't have to care about the rumors in the village at all. By the same token, she could certainly not care about the messages in the ancestral teachings.

After all, the ancestral teachings are just ancestral teachings!

The ancestor is dead, and she, Zhang Xiaolian, wants to live her own life...
Chapter completed!