Chapter 2 02. Homecoming
night.

The moon is rising, and the lonely stars are twinkling.

Using the mountains and fields as the canvas and the road as the brush, a grayish-white winding line is casually drawn among the layers of mountains.

At the end of the zigzag line stood a lonely courtyard with lights coming from inside.

Luo Yihang paid the fare, carried his luggage and took the cat into the taxi.

Take a deep breath of the still slightly cool mountain air on a spring evening.

It's this taste.

I came back from the world of immortal cultivation this morning and lost my job.

Luo Yihang packed up his things as quickly as possible, checking in what needed to be checked in and packing what needed to be packed in boxes.

I went to the agency to cancel the lease and bought a ticket on the way.

Before noon, I had already checked in Fat Cat and my luggage and boarded the high-speed train back home.

On the way, I sent messages to my former company leader and several familiar colleagues, explaining that I had to go home for some urgent matters and hoped to see them again if possible.

We arrived at the doorstep in the evening.

Fortunately, he is a cultivator, otherwise he would not be so efficient.

Then Luo Yihang patted the gate and shouted inside, "Dad, Mom, I'm back!"

My goodness, his shout caused chaos in the house. Luo Yihang's parents, Luo Cheng and Zhang Guiqin, no longer watched the tragedy or smoked leaf cigarettes.

When they hurried out to take a look, they were both surprised and happy. Zhang Guiqin, the mother, patted Luo Yihang on the shoulder and asked loudly, "Why did the kid come back?", and Luo Cheng, the father, followed up with a sentence, "Didn't he just come back during the New Year?"

Then he picked up his luggage silently.

"I missed you guys." Luo Yihang answered as he stuffed the cat bag into his father's hand. While Luo Cheng was reaching out to take the cat, he took the big gift box back.

After entering the house and putting down his things, Luo Yihang went straight to the kitchen, "Mom, is there any food? I'm hungry."

"Look at you, you didn't even tell me you came back. Wait, I'll make you some noodles." Zhang Guiqin walked around the room, put the scattered luggage in order, and went into the kitchen while complaining.

Luo Yihang knew his parents. If he told them he would be back today, the old couple would definitely go to the train station to pick him up. Why would they do that so late at night? So they made a surprise attack.

Zhang Guiqin went into the kitchen muttering to herself.

As soon as he entered, he saw Luo Yihang taking sweet potatoes out of the stove, and he showed them off to Zhang Guiqin happily: "Look, the old man is hiding food again."

"You old man are a hungry ghost." Zhang Guiqin cursed her son and started busying herself in the kitchen.

Luo Cheng heard this from outside and muttered quietly, "Why is it still my business?"

He didn't even dare to speak loudly, he was such a henpecked person.

He then happily opened the cat bag and took out the fat cat Ding Xiaoman, teasing him with a "dududu" sound, and dug out the cat food bowl from under the cabinet...

After eating a big bowl of noodles and taking a shower, Luo Yihang returned to his room and put his luggage away first.

The most important thing is a jade slip, which should be put in the drawer and locked.

This is Luo Yihang's most important possession, the "severance compensation" he got from the immortal cultivation sect with great difficulty, which includes the skills and techniques for subsequent cultivation.

Whether you can live to 200 years old depends entirely on it.

After cleaning up, Luo Yihang collapsed on the bed.

He had been so busy this day that even his Qi training third-level physique could hardly bear it.

He took a long breath, covered himself with the quilt, and fell asleep.

……

The next morning.

Luo Yihang woke up early, washed up simply and walked out of the room.

Turning around, I looked at the mountains in the distance, took a deep breath of the cool mountain air, and then stretched my body.

It’s another energetic day!

His parents were still asleep, so Luo Yihang went into the kitchen, washed the rice, cooked porridge, steamed three steamed buns, and cut a plate of pickles to prepare breakfast.

If you have to "depend on the parents" for a while, you will have to do more housework.

After Luo Yihang finished his work, he heard the door of the master bedroom open. Luo Cheng opened the door a crack, leaned sideways and tiptoed out, then gently closed the door. As soon as he turned around, he saw Luo Yihang standing in front of him holding a bowl of porridge.

The father and son looked at each other in silence for a moment, then spoke at the same time.

"Why are you up so early?"

"Dad, why did you get up so early?"

"Shh~" Luo Cheng raised his index finger to his lips, signaling not to speak, then went to the kitchen to get himself a bowl of porridge and brought it to the main room.

The father and son ate steamed buns and drank porridge with pickles.

as well as……

"Well, your mother is still sleeping, don't disturb her." Luo Cheng said this a little embarrassedly.

Luo Yihang lowered his head to drink his porridge and curled the corners of his mouth, saying, "If you want to be a henpecked person, then be a henpecked person. Don't pretend."

Of course, he couldn't really say it out loud, so Luo Yihang pretended not to hear it and changed the subject to ask Luo Cheng: "Where are you going?"

"Let's go fishing while it's quiet. You?"

"Let's go play on the top of the mountain."

"Then eat quickly and don't run too far..."

After breakfast, the father and son went to the shed where the sundries were stored together.

Luo Cheng picked up the fishing gear, Luo Yihang took out a hatchet, found a small knife, put them in a bag and took them away.

At this time, Ding Xiaoman came out of the house, meowing and coming over to rub Luo Yihang's trouser leg.

Luo Yihang bent down and touched Ding Xiaoman's head, saying, "Let's go for a walk together, the three of us."

The two men and the cat left the yard and headed towards the back mountain.

Luo Yihang's hometown is a small mountain village called Ping'angou, located at the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains.

The village is very small, with only more than thirty households.

Although there are few people in the village, its area is very large, and the whole village occupies a sunny hillside.

The area is very large and the distance between each household is far apart, stretching from the bottom of the slope to the middle of the hillside, connected by a winding cement road.

The entire hillside has been turned into terraces, layer upon layer, with one family per layer and one piece of land per family.

Luo Yihang's house is on the top floor, which is also the end of the cement road.

From Luo Yihang's house upwards, there are no more fields and the roads are just old dirt roads.

You have to go up a long way and climb to a valley before you can see the abandoned farmland again.

Luo Cheng and Luo Yihang, with the fat cat Ding Xiaoman, were walking up this old dirt road which was about five or six meters wide.

It hasn't rained recently and there's no mud on the roads.

As spring approaches, weeds have grown on both sides of the road, thick and green, with wild flowers popping up in between, yellow, white, pink and purple, spreading to the top of the mountain.

It disappeared into the woods as far as the eye could see.

The forest gradually becomes denser, from low to high, all the way covering the vast mountains, covering them with a thick layer of green.

In the early morning, mist rises in the mountains, and the mist goes all the way up, following the farthest peaks and straight into the clouds.

Beautiful.

Luo Yihang kept his eyes on the distance, admiring the beautiful scenery that he had seen since he was a child but would never get tired of.

The fat cat Ding Xiaoman kept his eyes on the ground below. The grass, wild flowers, stones and insects were all things that interested him. He sniffed here and ran there, and his happy figure could be seen everywhere.

Ding Xiaoman must like this place too.

It’s right to come back.

After all, it is a cat that has stayed in the world of immortal cultivation for more than four months. The world of immortal cultivation is so comfortable that it is reluctant to come back. It has been making a fuss since it returned to Earth yesterday, but now it is finally happy.

After walking for a while and enjoying the scenery, the father and son remained silent.

(End of this chapter)