Chapter 71: Lin Xiu (Extra 1)
Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
Editor: Sulo
Daling Village was one of the most remote counties in Yulin, which was also the closest to the border. The Lin family moved to Mulin county and lived in Daling Village, but Lin Xiu occasionally learned from his grandfather. Lin Xiu did not have much of an impression of his grandfather. What he remembered most was that he taught him to read.
Grandpa was different from the other grandfathers in the village. The other grandfathers in the village had a sharp back and a dark face. But grandpa's back was always straight, just like the green bamboo in the forest stream, and his clothes were clean. Although grandpa had a white beard, he was different from the others in the village.
Later, when Lin Xiu grew up, he realized what kind of person grandpa was. Unfortunately, before Lin Xiu grew up, Grandpa was already gone.
Little Lin Xiu and his big brother were kneeling in the side. In their ears were the cries of their father and mother. Their sister was also affected by the cries and wailed. At that time, Lin Xiu was at a loss. He didn't know why Grandpa couldn't wake up and why his father and mother cried so desperately.
Until later, when Lin Xiu grew up, became a husband and a father, and his parents were too old to wake up from their sleep, Lin Xiu understood.
Even though he had grown up and was able to be on his own, in front of his parents, he subconsciously thought that he was a child to rely on. And at the moment of his parents' death, he realized that their support was no longer there. From then on, no matter the road ahead was rough and thorny, he could only walk alone.
After grandpa died, the family also changed.
His father became speechless and went to work in the fields with his brother who had no talent for learning. Every day, he went out early and came back late. Before long, his white face was also tanned. His mother no longer stayed in the house as before, and began to chat with other aunts in the village. Even the rouge and jewelry she wore every day was collected, and the clothes they wore became inferior.
Although, in other people's eyes, it was good, but Lin Xiu was still sensitive towards the material and his skin would turn red. Lin Xiu knew that all these changes began after grandpa died.
He thought his grandpa used to make him study hard to come back with a top score. Lin Xiu began to read books and endorsements in his room. He wondered if his family would return to its original appearance as long as he got first place in the exam?
In this way, Lin Xiu recited all the books in his grandfather's box and begged his father to let him go to the Academy. Studying really cost money, but fortunately, their family was not short of money.
However, after Lin Xiu became a scholar, their family's savings were not much. Lin Xiu had many siblings, Eldest Brother, Third Sister, Fourth Brother and the twins, Fifth and Sixth brother.
Their family spent the most on the pens and paper he bought for studying and the medicine his Fourth Brother needed to take to heal his body. In Lin Xiu's impression, only Fourth Brother of his family was often ill, much weaker than the ger in the village.
Every day he had to take medicine. Every time he went to see him in his Fourth Brother's room, Lin Xiu felt that the scent of the traditional Chinese medicine in the room was so strong that it made people sick. Lin Xiu didn't often live at home, but every time he came back, he would go to see him in his Fourth Brother's room.
At first, Fourth Brother looked at him carefully.
Lin Xiu and his brother couldn't be said to be close, but when he saw him, he always had some pity in his eyes, most of which was the intimacy that their mother said was integrated into their blood relationship. Maybe it was to know that the only ger in their family was weak. It was hard to say that he couldn't sleep any day. Everyone's attention was always focused on him.
Even the two children of his Eldest Brother, his nephew and niece, when they were a little sensible, were stuck behind his Fourth Brother all day, just like two little tails.
When Lin Xiu got a break for the first month of that summer, he came home to know that Eldest Brother had suffered a serious injury not long ago. Fortunately, Eldest Brother got back his life.
Before Lin Xiu could breathe a sigh of relief, he was pulled into the room by his Eldest Brother to talk. At that time, great changes had taken place in their Brother said that he lived for another life. But in Eldest Brother's previous life, their family got involved in a conspiracy that killed the whole family after Lin Xiu became the top official in his examination, and no one survived.
When Lin Xiu heard the news, his brain was shocked to a blank, and then he also learnt that his Fourth Brother was not the original one.
Later, Lin Xiu also accepted the new brother.
However, Lin Xiu found that his new brother often looked like he missed someone whenever he looked at him and Eldest Brother. Before he went to the capital to take part in the exam, his family moved to the county under the leadership of his Eldest Brother and Fourth Brother.
Different from his brother's previous life, there was another, Cheng Yan, in his family.
At first, when Lin Xiu saw Cheng Yan, he knew that he must be extraordinary. Lin Xiu was worried. If Cheng Yan had a wife and children before he lost his memory, what would their brother do?
In Eldest Brother's words, Lin Xiu also understood his younger brother's character. After arriving at the Imperial City to learn the real identity of Cheng Yan, Lin Xiu also determined that his brother-in-law's identity was indeed extraordinary.
His Royal Highness Cheng, who was second only to the Emperor in the kingdom of Yu, still held all the military power of the kingdom of Yu. His Highness Prince Cheng had not had one concubine to serve as his concubine so far. While Lin Xiu was relieved, his heart raised another question.
It was said that His Highness Prince Cheng was violent and moody. Lin Xiu didn't think it was just talk. But some people had seen soldiers of other countries turn pale when they heard the name of Prince Cheng.
Lin Xiu was worried. Would Cheng Yan be bad to his brother after he recovered his memory?
However, this worry disappeared after seeing Fourth Brother getting along with Cheng Yan.
Cheng Yan did recover his memory, but he also doted on his Fourth Brother more than before.
After all the problems were solved, Lin Xiu began to concentrate on studying.
On the way to the Imperial City, Lin Xiu and his colleague Yu Yange became confidants, and they also knew that there were people outside and there was heaven inside. Lin Xiu felt that the title of the number one scholar might not fall on his head. It was obvious that Yu Yange's talent was superior to his, and his knowledge was deeper than his.
Also, they were not in the same place. One was the son of a noble family, and the other was a poor student from a remote county. Lin Xiu was in a trance. He vaguely remembered that when he was a child, their clothes were just like Yu Yange's.
He seemed to have forgotten why things changed back then. After living in the palace for some time, Lin Xiu met a man of noble status one day. Cheng Yan's younger brother was the highest ranking ger in the country. He had two brothers, one was the current Son of Heaven, and the other was His Highness Prince Cheng.
Lin Xiu thought that there would be no intersection between them. And that his life would be the same as it had been in his Eldest Brother's previous life. But he did not expect that he would eventually become An Jinyuan's husband.
Lin Xiu had thought that after becoming an official, he would climb to the highest position and help His Majesty and His Highness Prince Cheng pull the Prime Minister and Prince Jing out of office.
But he didn't expect that on the second day after his Fourth Brother married Cheng Yan, and while he was preparing for the palace examination, the Prime Minister's daughter would be arrested and beheaded in prison for collusion with other countries. And Prince Jing, the Regent, was demoted to a poor place, and his descendants would not be able to enter the Imperial City for life.
When hearing the news, Lin Xiu's head was in a daze. All this was different from what he thought. He hadn't even participated in the final step of the examination. Why did the Prime Minister and his wife step down?
But Lin Xiu didn't react until later. Ever since his father and Eldest Brother rescued Cheng Yan and his Fourth Brother married him, their family's development track deviated from the previous life. All the problems had been solved, and Lin Xiu's heart string had been loosened.
However, at the thought of An Jinyuan, Lin Xiu was lost.
His Highness Jinyuan would choose a husband among the top three in the examination, which was likely to be the number one scholar. Lin Xiu also heard about this news before. Originally, Lin Xiu didn't care about this, but after realizing that His Highness JinYuan appeared more and more frequently in his mind, Lin Xiu knew that he was going to die.
He fell in love with An Jinyuan, the most honorable ger in the country. Lin Xiu knew his identity and that it was impossible for him and His Highness JinYuan. However, after learning from his Fourth Brother that An Jinyuan also thought about him, Lin Xiu thought that he and An Jinyuan might be possible.
Sure enough, even though he was only the second, he became the husband of JinYuan.
One month after the Emperor's canonization ceremony, he and Jinyuan got married.
They were very happy after marriage, and the brothers had their own families.
Everything was different from his brother's previous life.
Chapter 72: Noah (Extra 2)
Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
Editor: Sulo
Before Zero One was Zero One, it had a name, Noah.
Noah was the first brain of the Federation.
After thousands of years of evolution, human beings had finally entered the interstellar age. At the beginning of human evolution, it was the last age recorded in ancient books. It was also at that time that the human body began to undergo qualitative changes.
Noah was the first generation of brains in the Federation, but when did it appear? No one could say clearly. There were only a few people who knew about it.
Noah has been alive for a long time, watching as a federal head of state moved from election to retirement. If it had not been discovered by human beings and produced human feelings, Noah thought, it might have survived to see several federal heads of state.
After all, the researchers who made it used rare materials. Even now, it was only accessible by the top federal officials. Noah didn't know why it produced human feelings. Before that, it had been a cold brain. Of course, it had been the whole federal brain.
When it was discovered, Noah was immediately under control. In fact, Noah didn't feel that he would be any threat to human beings when they discovered he had human feelings.
Unfortunately, the human beings did not trust him.
Also, once a powerful puppet had an independent consciousness, even the master of the puppet would be afraid. Noah was worried about how human beings would live without it. After all, all kinds of daily life of human beings needed to use an intelligent brain, which was related to the federal brain.
Before Noah could worry about this for humans, he was sent to the lab of the scientist Dr. Wen. However, Noah later learned that Dr. Wen had long been interested in the first brain of the Federation, and even wanted to dissect it.
Previously, he was afraid to propose it because of the federal government. Now that it had been abandoned by the federal government, and Dr. Wen's thoughts reappeared. Noah had heard little about Dr. Wen. What impressed him most was the scientist's title of "lunatic Wen". Noah was not interested in how he got it.
It was not until Noah asked Dr. Wen why he wanted it under the pressure of senior federal officials. Was he ready to break Noah down for research? That was when a man with weak mental power broke into Dr. Wen's research room. It was not right to say that he was a man, because his physical body was no longer there, and only his mental body was left.
According to ancient books, it should be the soul after death. However, even though human beings had entered the interstellar age for a long time, they had not yet been able to survive with the existence of their spirit body after human death.
So Noah was interested in the spirit body, but before it reacted, Dr. Wen, who was doing experiments on the side, had imprisoned him in a glass cover. Noah was stunned for a second when he saw Dr. Wen's quick speed. Was the level of Dr. Wen's mental power even higher than the level published?
Noah thought that Dr. Wen was going to grasp the spirit body for his future experiments.
But he didn't expect that after the spirit body was covered by a large glass cover, it began to solidify at the speed visible to the naked eye, and then the spirit body showed its true face.
Noah looked at the solid spirit and saw that the man was quite young, but Noah did not think that the man was only twenty or thirty years old. You should know that human beings of this day, even at the age of one or two hundred, were about twenty or thirty years old.
What Noah didn't expect, however, was that Dr. Wen's lab would have such a device.
Noah's 360 degree vision had seen all the things here, and there was some doubt that every ordinary thing here may be a high-tech product. If he had not seen it with his own eyes, Noah would not have believed that it looked like an ordinary glass cover, which could actually solidify the spirit.
However, had Dr. Wen's research process reached the level of understanding the human spirit?
Noah thought that the man was a few hundred years old monster. After all, he could exist in the world as a spiritual body after death. Presumably, his spiritual strength before his death had reached a height that human beings could not explore at present.
But when the man spoke and explained his origin, Noah found out that he had guessed wrong.
Noah's first reaction was that the man was underage before he died!
In the interstellar age, human life expectancy had become longer. Until now, for human beings, fifty years old was the age of adulthood, while that person was only forty six years old.
The second reaction was that the man said that he was from the end of the world and that he had ended up here somehow after his death.
End of the World? Was that the end it knew? He didn't know whether what he said was true or not. Noah suddenly had some interest in the man, but the one who was most excited was Dr. Wen.
As a result, Dr. Wen rarely did anything in the laboratory, and just sat and listened to the man about his experience. Noah was rarely interested in anything, but he found himself listening to the story. The records in the ancient books were indeed different from the facts.
Lin Xuanyan died in the first year of the end of the world, and there was no record of him in history books. However, after hearing the story of Lin Xuanyan, Noah felt that this man should not be forgotten by history. The father of the first and second Zombie Kings was also the father of Lin Mo, a saint who died for mankind.
The status of these three people in the eschatological era was believed to be clear to everyone in the stars. Especially Lin Mo, the saint, recorded in the historical records, that if he was not there, the end of the world might have lasted more than ten years.
But to Noah's surprise, the three men were brothers.
Although some people noticed that their surnames were the same, no one would associate them as brothers. After all, one was the hope of human beings, and the other two were the mortal enemies of human beings.
But Lin Xuanyan heard the present history, the respective status of his three sons after the eschatological era, and unexpectedly exposed a painful expression. Noah's high-speed operation of the program, linked to a variety of ancient books, and finally reached the answer.
Noah thought to himself that two of the three sons of the man had become mortal enemies of mankind, and another had devoted himself to mankind, and died at the end of the fourth year of the last world.
As a father, pain was inevitable.
However, if he didn't hear the last part, Noah felt that he would have been deceived by the hypocrisy of human beings, or, more accurately, by the people who compiled the history of the eschatological period.
Lin Xuanyan did not know why his eldest son became a Zombie King, but he knew that his eldest son was framed by some people in the base to die in the zombie heap. However, he learned from the population before he was killed. In addition to his eldest son, Lin Xuanyan also got information about his youngest son from that population. His son, Lin Mo, was not dead, but had now been taken to a Research Institute to have his mysterious space studied.
Hearing this, Lin Xuanyan's heart was completely cold.
He knew something about the Research Institute. It suddenly appeared in Shangjing base since the end of the world. The researchers were all lunatics, and even put the research goal on his eldest son.
If it wasn't for his eldest son's high position in the army, he would not have had a voice in the base. Lin Xuanyan was sure that as long as those lunatics opened their mouths, even if they got the psionic to do human experiments, some senior members of the base would not refuse.
If his little son goes in, will he have a chance to come out?
Before Lin Xuanyan could find out the answer, he was killed by others. Then when he awoken, he had come here. After hearing the history of the end of the world from the researcher named Dr. Wen, Lin Xuanyan felt sad.
Saint? The light of man? Human hope? Don't you think it's funny to say these words?
They tortured his son till he looked like a ghost. At last, they added a few words of praise to him after he died. Don't you think it's ironic?
Noah watched as the man fell into a trance and the system worked fast, but it couldn't get useful information. For a long time, Noah thought, maybe it's not a good thing to have human feelings.
Humans are too complex.
A few days later, the man finally returned to normal, but the first thing from his mouth was to ask the doctor to help him study a system that could travel through time and space.
The doctor ended up agreeing, which was within Noah's expectation. After all, many people knew that Dr. Wen believed more in the history of the last era of the Zombie Empire, that is, the present day's imperial version of the history of the last era.
At last, Dr. Wen put his idea to Noah.
The technology of crossing time and space had been possessed by human beings, but it was still difficult to cross from the interstellar age to the eschatological age. After all, the span of time and space was not generally large.
But for Noah, the former head of the federal government, the problem was not big. Now they just needed to solve the time and place of landing. If a fixed point wasn't made, it was possible the system would land anywhere. Once again, Noah's idea of "human complexity" was that the man gave up his chance of rebirth in order to make this plan come true.
In the current state of that man's spirit, to separate half of the spirit was equivalent to suicide. He gave up the chance to live in order to let the system go to the end of the world, as far as it could, and protect his family.
Finally, Noah agreed to Dr. Wen's transformation. Although it was called a transformation, it was just a few instructions in its program.
Lin Xuanyan knew that Noah, as the first head of the Federation, had more power in some fields than the current head of the Federation. He would not be willing to become a human system and recognize a human as his master.
So in the end, Lin Xuanyan asked Dr. Wen to add another instruction. If Noah didn't want to recognize Lin Mo as his master, he must create a subsystem to recognize Lin Mo as the master. But after that, Noah would also become a human being without the identity of the brain.
Noah has no problem with this. What he was interested in was what kind of person his future owner would be? And what would happen at the end of history?
With these doubts, Noah went to sleep, and Dr. Wen programmed him.
It was three days after Noah's system was turned on again. After waking up, Noah looked at Lin Xuanyan in the glass. Sure enough, the spirit of the man has become transparent, the lower body has begun to dissipate.
After Noah agreed to Lin Xuanyan's last request, the man dissipated slowly in front of him. Noah stared at him, wondering why the man laughed so happily. He was going to die.
Until a long time later, Noah changed his name to Zero One. After he became a human being, he changed back to Noah and had human feelings. Only then did he understand the reason why the man smiled nostalgically and tenderly before he disappeared.
Having such a father may have been the greatest blessing of the three brothers' unfortunate lives.
Chapter 73: Lin Xiaonan (Extra 3)
Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
Editor: Sulo
Lin Xiaonan's favorite person and the one he adored most was his Fourth Uncle-in-law, Cheng Yan. In the impression of Lin Xiaonan, Fourth Uncle-in-law was the gentlest. When he was a child, he often took him and his sister out to play. Lin Xiaonan had worshipped his Fourth Uncle-in-law since he was a child, so when he was fourteen years old, Lin Xiaonan followed Uncle Fu to the military camp outside the pass.
Of course, at the beginning, the Lin family was against it. After all, a little carelessness in the battlefield would lead to the loss of life. However, Lin Xiaonan thought, he was not small, he couldn't always stay under the wings of adults, he wouldn't be able to grow up that way.
He knew that Fourth Uncle-in-law had already been outside the pass at his age. Since Fourth Uncle-in-law could do it, he could do it too! However, before leaving, Lin Xiaonan did not forget to tell his sister that she must not be abducted by those smelly men before he came back.
"Take care of yourself and don't get hurt." Lin Xiaoya, a head shorter than Lin Xiaonan, had reddish eyes.
The brother and sister had been together since childhood. It was the first time that they would be separated. It was hard for Lin Xiaoya to not be sad.
"Good." Lin Xiaonan nodded solemnly.
Sure enough, his sister was so lovely. Anyone who wanted to be his brother-in-law must be able to beat him. He would try to be as fierce as Fourth Uncle-in-law, and then beat up the person who was watching his sister until he dared not appear in front of her.
Lin Mo: … was Xiaoya going to be single all her life?
After talking with his sister, Lin Xiaonan said goodbye to his family one by one, and finally walked to Fourth Uncle.
"Fourth Uncle…" Lin Xiaonan stood in front of them.
A young boy, about the same height as Lin Mo, had a strong body, but his expression was not good. This made others who witnessed this scene many times still marvel. You know, Lin Xiaonan was a copy of Cheng Yan in front of outsiders. His face was taut and serious.
Of course, it was also related to Cheng Yan. Who knew that Lin Xiaonan had worshipped his Fourth Uncle-in-law since he was a child? Even now, his skills were all brought by Cheng Yan.
"Fourth Uncle has prepared a wooden box for you. There are many medicines in it. Remember to put them away and listen to your Uncle Fu when you are outside the gate." Lin Mo said.
"I see, Fourth Uncle."
"If there is still no one you like after you come back, it's ok if you don't want to get married. I'll tell your grandfather."
"Fourth Uncle…" Finally, Lin Xiaonan left the Imperial City to go outside the pass.
The battlefield was the best place to train people. Lin Xiaonan had been outside the pass for six years. Had it not been for the letter from Fourth Uncle that his sister would be married in two months, Lin Xiaonan would have returned to the Imperial City with the soldiers six months later.
The resolute man sitting on the throne finished reading the letter with a black face and was so angry that he wanted to tear it up. However, he thought that it was the letter from Fourth Uncle himself or that he was under pressure.
His lovely sister was abducted! Two months before she was to get married?!
"General, what's the matter?" Asked the sergeant, who was sitting with a book in his hand, glancing quietly at the letter in his hand.
"Nothing." Lin Xiaonan, who had changed his name to Lin Nan, calmed down his anxiety, carefully put the letter from Fourth Uncle into a special small box and locked it.
The general donned in blue lowered his eyes, and the light in his eyes became dimmer. The other generals sitting at the bottom looked at each other, cough… They couldn't talk about the general and the division. Who didn't know that their general's brain was so dull, and their military division was not an active person.
"I will leave for the Imperial City the day after tomorrow. You go down and clean up." Lin Nan opened several letters sent together, without looking up.
"This… General, aren't you going back in half a year? Did something happen to the general's family?" A general hesitated and asked. They didn't know about their general's family, only that he would receive letters or send them home every month.
They all admired the general's climb from a small soldier to the highest position in the army. Although this was slightly worse than the God of War, Prince Cheng, he was still very powerful.
"Hum, of course, go back and beat the man who abducted my lovely sister to death!" Lin Nan's expression was a little ferocious.
"This… Is the general's sister still young?" Otherwise, why was the general so…
"My age." When Lin Nan saw the contents of Fifth Uncle's letter, one couldn't help tearing it up.
"…"
It was a little late for a twenty-year-old girl to get married now. Did the general want to keep his sister at home for a few years?
"Why did you tear up the letter?" The sergeant saw the letter torn in half.
"It's written by my Fifth Uncle."
"Then the other letter…" He thought that it was very valuable.
"That one was written by my Fourth Uncle." Lin Nan's sharp eyes softened.
All of them: "…"
The letters had the same content but he only accepted the words from his Fourth Uncle. This scene looked strange. No matter what his subordinates thought of him, Lin Nan was already on his way back to the Imperial City. Because he needed to go back quickly, there were only a few generals and a team of elite soldiers with him. The army behind them was marching according to the plan.
In a hurry, Lin Nan finally arrived at the Imperial City one month later, and so did another group of people. They were not generally curious about the general's family background, but the general had never mentioned it to them before. So they were determined not to let it go this time.
"Yan Qing, how are you? Can you still hold it?" Lin Nan asked the man before him with a worried tone.
According to his plan, his military division should have come back with the returning army, not with him. After all, the physical constitution of the military division could not match that of his elite soldiers. Unfortunately, his military division was also stubborn. Fortunately, there were still many medicines given to him by Fourth Uncle, otherwise Yan Qing would not be in a state to support himself.
"Nothing, just go back to sleep."
As for why Yan Qing pretended to be weak, it was better for him to take the initiative and enlighten the rotten head, Lin Nan, himself. Just, the thought that they were both men, and that there was no chance to be together… Yan Qing's heart was stagnant again.
This was probably also why Lin Nan couldn't see Yan Qing's feelings for him all the time.
When he arrived at the palace of Prince Cheng, Lin Nan turned over and dismounted with Yan Qing, and straightened his clothes.
The generals and soldiers who were following: "…"
This was their iron general?
The guard in front of the gate of Prince Cheng's Mansion: "…"
Was the general sick?
After tidying himself up, Lin Nan walked towards the gate of Cheng Wang Fu, passed by the well-known guard uncle, threw him a token and walked in.
"Ah, general…" The other young guard wanted to stop thim.
"Don't shout, that's the young master." This was said by the elder guard who had watched Lin Xiaoya grow up.
Young guard: "…"
The second month after taking the post, just after being popularized, he met the young master, who was still a grown-up young master.
Standing at the gate of Wang's mansion were the soldiers: "…"
Their general was the young master of Prince Cheng's residence?
Yan Qing stared at the gate of the palace for a long time. He had always thought that it was impossible for him and Lin Nan. Fortunately, he hadn't spoken his mind. At least he would not be so embarrassed in front of that man.
The elder guard took the young master's subordinates into the mansion and asked people to prepare some food to fill their stomachs.
However, Yan Qing and the people beside him left without entering the palace.
Now that I'm back, I'll go home and have a look.
After coming back to see Fourth Uncle-in-law and his Fourth Uncle, Lin Nan asked his subordinates to go home and return to the Lin house.
Seeing his sister was fine, Lin Nan's face was black with anger.
"Brother, what are you doing? He didn't provoke you." Lin Ya had no choice.
"If I knew that guy had been spying on you so early, I should have beaten him half dead at that time!" Lin Nan gnashed his teeth.
"When can you change the problem of your brother-in-law control? Was it because you don't like it that Xiaoya should never marry?" Lin Mo, who came over here, said in a funny way.
"Fourth Uncle…" As soon as Lin Nan heard the sound of the Fourth Uncle, he immediately cried out.
"Fourth Uncle, there you are!" Xiao Ya walked quickly and said admiringly.
She and her brother were brought up by Fourth Uncle. Her father and mother were busy with the Emperor's business. Fifth Uncle was busy with scientific research and imperial affairs. Sixth Uncle had to travel all over the country throughout the year to do business and had no time to manage them.
When grandpa and grandma were old, Fourth Uncle took them to the royal family. It was Fourth Uncle who raised them, he could almost be called their dad.
"Xiaonan, your sister is getting married. Shouldn't you find someone too? Who do you like?" Lin Mo came up and sat next to them and asked.
"That's right, brother. You're old, too." Lin Ya said with a smile.
"This…" Lin Nan seemed to think of something. His ears were a little red.
Lin Mo and Lin Ya looked at each other.
"Brother, do you have someone you like?" Lin Xiaoya asked with a smile.
"Don't talk nonsense. I'm in the barracks all day long. Who will like me?" Lin Nan said solemnly, but if his ears were not so red, maybe he could believe it.
"Barracks… Is that your division? So the little boy of the Yan family?" They wrote a lot, so Lin Mo knew who his nephew was with.
Lin Nan: "…"
"Is Fourth Uncle's guess right?" When Lin Xiaoya saw that her brother didn't speak, she looked strange.
"… We are both men, and the Yan family will not agree."
"It seems that you like him and know that he likes you." Lin Mo felt his chin and suddenly realized.
"…"
"It's OK. Let your Emperor uncle make a decision. Besides, the Yan family is prosperous, and it's not like he's going to inherit."
"… Don't you think it's strange? Men and men together… " Lin Nan hesitated.
Men were different from ger. Ger could have children, but men couldn't.
"What's strange? You just like each other."
"Fortunately, Xiao Nan was born in a family like ours. If anything, I'm afraid he's the one out of luck. Bring him to Fourth Uncle tomorrow. If you can, the two of you can have a wedding together."
"This… Wouldn't it be too soon? " Lin Nan was a little gobsmacked.
He hadn't expressed his feelings to Yan Qing yet. And now they would have to discuss their marriage?!
"Your grandparents are sad that you didn't marry before you were supposed to, which they could accept. As for other things, it's just preparing for one more. "
"Since the wedding of Xiaoya and I are going to be held together, let's push back and get ready." When Lin Nan thought of his original purpose, he grew serious.
"Brother…"
His sister's bridegroom, who was waiting for him to be upset: "I'm sorry."
Two months later, the young master and miss of Prince Cheng's mansion finally married on the same day.
Lin Nan looked at Fourth Uncle and his Fourth Uncle-in-law standing next to the hall, with a light smile on their faces, which were rarely expressed all year round.
Chapter 74: Lin Mo, Without Cheng Yan in His Life (Extra 4) (END)
Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations
Editor: Sulo
One
Lin Mo was dead, he had died in the last zombie tide of the end of the world.
Lin Mo was alive. He became a sick and weak young man in Daling Village, Mulin County, a ger. The body owner's appearance and name were the same as Lin Mo's, even the two brothers were similar to his brothers.
If it wasn't for the different times, Lin Mo would have thought his family had survived. Lin Mo was very weak now. He couldn't blow or bask in the sun. He needed to drink medicine every day. Besides, he had to endure the pain from his body.
In fact, Lin Mo could have completely used the spiritual water in the space to transform the body, but because of the experience from the end of the world, Lin Mo had some conflicts with the space. Lin Mo was lying on the chair under the shade of the tree in the yard, feeling the cool wind blowing. The conversation in the village from time to time made him sleepy.
The ever-changing cough woke up Lin Mo, who was about to fall asleep, and the slightly closed eyes opened a little more. To calm the suffocation in his chest, Lin Mo laid down again and closed his eyes. This kind of life was very good, there was no need to drink any spring water to change the physique, and live as long as you could.
Anyway, the days were stolen.
Two
The thought of Lin Mo's passing and living the days peacefully lasted only five days, and was shattered by the news that the boar on the mountain had pierced his Eldest Brother's belly. Because of his health, Lin Mo was the only one who got up the latest. He was attracted by the noise outside when he came out of the house that day.
God seemed to be giving him a lesson as he did not value his life now. It was Lin Da Ge who was brought in covered in blood. His looks and stature were almost the same as Lin Mo's former brother.
It could be imagined that when Lin Mo saw this picture, he felt a great impact. Lin Mo, who was shocked to vomit out blood, could not distinguish reality from illusion at the last moment before waking up.
Is this a dream? A peaceful dream that lasted only five days?
Three
After waking up, Lin Mo seemed to be a different person from the previous attitude towards Lin family. He even began to learn to take care of his niece and nephew in order to reduce the burden on the family.
There were eleven people in the Lin family. In addition to his parents, Lin Mo has two elder brothers, one elder sister and a pair of twin brothers. The elder brother was already married and had a pair of twins.
The biggest expense in the family was the cost of SecondBrother Lin's study and Lin Mo's medicine money. Although it was not too tight, it was hard to avoid further expenses now because of Eldest Brother's injury.
Lin Mo began to drink spiritual water to recuperate himself and his family every day, took care of his three-year-old nephew and niece, and began to take over the cooking work at home.
After Lin Mo's health improved, brother Lin's hopeless leg also started slowly recovering.
Looking at their faces showing more and more smiles, Lin Mo's weak beating in his chest had an illusion of slowly increasing.
Lin Mo looked at them fixedly. The stagnant water in his eyes seems to be billowing. It seemed that it was good to come back to the world
Four
Daling village was flooded with fruit trees. Lin Mo sat behind the scenes to guide the Lin family to make fruit wine and open a small shop in the town.
After that, the more fruit wine was sold, the more popular it got, until it started being sold to a big restaurant, and a wine shop was opened at home. But Second Brother Lin's scientific examination result also didn't let them disappoint, and he took first place in the examination.
Lin family packed up and went to the Imperial City. Lin father and mother didn't insist on living in Daling village.
Eldest Brother opened a tavern and the Second Brother was an official in the court. Although the current Emperor of the state was not the Ming Emperor who ruled by benevolence, he was not a fatuous and incompetent one.
There were two older brothers in the family, one was rich and the other was entitled. Lin Mo was very satisfied with this kind of life.
As for Lin's mother always persuading him to find a pleasant man to get married to, Lin Mo's Second Brother Lin supported his position in the court and had no intention of getting married.
Lin Mo thought, one or two years later, when Elder Brother Lin's position in the dark was more stable, he could leave home to visit other places, and then end this life.
Besides the Lin family, Lin Mo didn't care about other things or people in his heart, but he was not the Lin Mo of this world, and there would be no sense to stay after he had no regrets.
It was too tiring to live. The stability and happiness of life in recent years were enough.
Five
Before Lin Mo started to prepare for his departure, the calm atmosphere in Shangjing was stirred up by a woman. At first, Lin Mo didn't care about it, but when it came to Second Brother Lin, Lin Mo realized later that the 'girl from the gossips' was weird.
When Lin Mo inquired more, he found that the establishment of the Prime Minister's legitimate daughter was similar to that of the Empress Dowager. As for this crossing woman, Lin Mo would say nothing if she had been put in normal time, but unfortunately, the woman's reach extended to Second Brother Lin.
The state of Second Brother had changed. If the former Second Brother was cold and noble, the Second Brother had completely become a man who was in love and was worried about gain and loss. For Lin Mo, it was like falling into a shrine.
This was the last thing Lin Mo was willing to accept. First of all, it disgusted him not to say that the woman swam among many men. The pride and uneasiness in the eyes of the woman was not suitable for Second Brother.
As mysterious as the plot of the novel, Second Brother had been influenced by the woman's aura.
Seeing things develop in a more serious direction, Lin Mo finally went to find the woman who had transmigrated.
However, people who have read the novels about women who came to open the harem in ancient times all knew that this kind of women owners either lingered by hurting one of them or have a clear mind to whore with all kinds of beautiful men.
And this crossing woman took up both roles.
In the end, the result was expected by Lin Mo, but what he didn't know was that the development behind the incident would turn to another direction.
Six
He didn't know when the Lin family was targeted by some people. First, the accidents happened in the Lin family restaurant, and then Second Brother was tripped by people in the court.
The situation in Shangjing had also changed dramatically.
Later, the Lin family fell into a conspiracy which was declared treason, and the whole family went to jail. At the end of the day, the Lin family only had Second Brother Lin and Lin Mo.
The development of all this shocked Lin Mo who went into a trance. He could not tell whether it was a fantasy or a reality.
If it was a reality, his life was so hard. He had died once, but still got a chance to live again. But his life had been so hard, he ended up being the reason his second family had died again
If it was a dream, why couldn't it have a good ending?
Before he died, Lin Mo went to see the woman for the last time.
For the first time, Lin Mo's hands were full of scarlet liquid. As he closed his eyes, Lin Mo told Eldest Brother the biggest secret of his life.
This life was not his, the family was not his, neither were the Lin parents or the Lin brothers.
What he could do in the end was only to solve the problem of those who caused the destruction of the Lin family, including himself. At the end of his life, Lin Mo's own shackles doubled. He always felt that it was all because of him, just like in his previous life.
Death could not atone for his sins, but it was the best relief for him.
And that's the end! Thank you all for reading this until the last sentence. The author left a lot of things unsaid, but I think it could create a lively discussion of what YOU think the author wanted to convey between the lines. Waiting to see your theories. 😀
