Chapter 123: single household

Chapter 123: single household

Twenty years after the establishment of the special department, relevant rules and departments have not been established for fairies, because fairies are really a very small minority in the world.

The first four ministers of special departments who have traveled all over the country for 20 years together have not met as many as Su Yunshao, who is at home every day, in half a year.

If it wasn't for the phone call with his boss, Gao Ran really wanted to ask Su Yunshao: Did you bring your own closeness buff? Can you lend me to use it? I will pay you back immediately.

Getting close to buff is naturally a joke, but more because Su Yunshao gave Yuanyuan and Nuomi without wisdom, and took them out of the mortal body and entered the path of cultivation. The two of them were naturally close to Su Yunshao.

Of the three cubs, only Taoyao and Su Yunshao had nothing to do with each other, and they were brought back when they met halfway on vacation.

After hearing the source of the three goblins, he hung up the phone on the other side, probably busy opening a channel for obtaining documents.

Gao Ran's phone vibrated, and he glanced down at the content of the message, and agreed.

"Yun Shao, you should go out for a walk in the future."

Su Yunshao: ?

"Otherwise, I'll take you to the giant panda zoo to see?" What if he encounters another named Gun Gun?

Su Yunshao: "...Be realistic."

After a few jokes, I quickly returned to the topic, "After the channel is opened, please let me know, and I will bring them over to handle it."

Gao Ran still wanted to see the cute giant panda cub, so naturally he had no reason to say, "If you don't have time, you can leave it to me. Don't worry, I will definitely protect them!"

The more Gao Ran vowed, the more worried Su Yunshao was that he would roll over and be bald.

If you are bald, you will be bald, and the next time the hair will grow back will be better. The problem is that she doesn't know what means to use to coax the bald Yuanyuan who is crying a lot. This is the most troublesome.

"At present, Yuanyuan and Nuomi can't transform into humanoid form. I can take them there to register first, go through relevant procedures, and then go to apply for ID card when they can transform into humanoid form."

Speaking of ID cards, Su Yunshao remembered another more important question, "What about household registration?"

Gao Ran: "Your current household registration follows your parents, right? The three of them will either follow your parents with you, or they will be released from our department... Ah, we should not be allowed to do so."

The household registration is placed under the name of the special department, which is similar to the nature of joining the special department. Yuanyuan Nuomi and Taoyao know that they are going to follow Su Yunshao without asking, and they cannot handle it that way.

Su Yunshao thought for a while: "I will be eighteen years old in two months. At that time, if I am an independent household, I will be able to keep their household registration with me."

Hukou independence requires many conditions. Adulthood is only the first one. It also requires financial independence, own housing, and so on.

For Su Yunshao, who has enough income as a Celestial Master, other conditions are not a problem. The biggest problem is age. As long as Su's father and Su's mother agree that she is a single household, it will be fine.

Dad Su already knew Su Yunshao's identity and occupation, and it was unlikely that he would object, but Mom Su... It seems that no matter whether Aunt Hong's matter can be resolved or not, the identity of the Celestial Master must be revealed as soon as possible.

Gao Ran: "Next month's Xuanmen Grand Competition is about to start. How are you preparing? You won't catch someone and throw the Thunder Talisman wildly at that time, will you?"

Of course, this is just a joke. Su Yunshao used the thunder to strike a construction site and asked him and Hengshu to help cover it up. It is impossible to use it so blatantly in the Xuanmen Grand Competition.

Su Yunshao: "What I'm good at is Talismans, take advantage of this time to prepare more Talismans."

"There are really few treasures in Xuanmen, and it's more difficult to get them. You can make a lattice plate." Gao Ran has participated in the Xuanmen competition, and he knows the rules relatively well. "You can bring talismans and array plates."

"Is there no limit?"

"No. The Xuanmen Grand Competition is held every three years. Each final will go to the place where the supernatural event occurs and ask the contestants to solve it. The organizer only inquires about the news a little to confirm whether it is suitable for the competition, and will not inquire into too much detail. , so there will be some danger, no restrictions on what you can bring."

The main reason is that those who can enter the finals of the Xuanmen Grand Competition are all good seedlings. If something happens to the baby without body protection, neither the Xuanmen world nor the organizer can afford to lose it.

Now that he said it, Gao Ran told Su Yunshao some of the rules of the Xuanmen competition in detail. For example, the Xuanmen competition was divided into three stages: knockout, semi-final and final.

The main purpose of the knockout round is to eliminate some people who have not been systematically studied, and who have learned in various ways and have no real talents, that is, half-baked and liars. The invitation letter that Gao Ran gave to Su Yunshao could skip the knockout round and go directly to the semi-finals, which would save a lot of time and effort.

In the semi-finals and finals, a camera will be hung on each participant's body to record the words and deeds of the participants. There are cameras and monitors everywhere in the venue. There are modern electronic technology, as well as the talisman formation of Xuanmen. Various methods are used to eliminate the possibility of cheating and see the most authentic performance of the contestants.

Gao Ran explained: "The knockout competition will be held in many aspects, such as talisman, formation, ghost control, feng shui, fortune-telling, etc. The time span is large and the process is cumbersome, but it has never been abolished, and the recommendation and invitation system has not been adopted. To further cultivate suitable talents, this is also the purpose of the original Xuanmen competition."

"There is no good master in Xuanmen to lead the door to lay a solid foundation, and the apprentice can't learn anything at all. In recent years, the Xuanmen Dabi has not found any good seedlings, and gradually it has evolved into a place where various sects compete to show off their own children's strength. ."

This is a serious polarization. The good ones are getting better and better, and the bad ones can't even get in.

Based on the declining trend of Xuanmen and the resistance of modern people to feudal superstition, Su Yunshao understood it very well.

Seeing that there was still time left, Gao Ran talked about the process of participating in the Xuanmen Grand Competition last time, and finally concluded: "I don't think it will be a problem to break into the final with your strength. Let's see where the final is this time, and what others can't do."

Hearing what Gao Ran said, Su Yunshao knew that there would be several powerful opponents, so he couldn't help asking out of curiosity, "How does it compare to Huixin?"

"How about what?" Gao Ran smiled, "Hui Xin and Guo Wanqing are both popular players in this year's Xuanmen competition, Fang Youde and Xiao Cheng will also participate, Daoist Hengshu and I are still judges, we Both of them are qualified to send invitation letters, I was the one who was going to step forward, and the Taoist priest didn't send it to you."

Hengshu really cherishes talents, and wants to let all the sects know Su Yunshao through this Xuanmen competition, so that she can act in the future, and she does not want her to become a loner.

Su Yunshao had never heard of any Xuanmen Great Competition in her previous life, and all that Gao Ran said was new to her. As soon as she heard it, she was all acquaintances, and she immediately lost the strangeness.

She has not yet remembered who her master of Xuanmen is, so she just took this opportunity to ask them to see who is more like her classmate, and then follow the clues to find a master.

The time is almost up, Gao Ran will go first if he has something to do, and before leaving, he repeatedly reminded: "I'll go to your house when I'm free!"

Su Yunshao: "...Let's go quickly."

This Friday, she skipped class. Seeing that it was almost time for school, she didn't plan to go back to school. She sent a message to Bai Xingchen and asked him to help bring the bag out and take a rest in the box.

After swiping the phone for a while, I received a message from the ghost messengers.

Ruan Mei: [Sir, Aunt Hong is suddenly going back to J City. 】

Su Yunshao: [What's going on? 】

Ge Yue: [Aunt Hong will take Zhuo Jinglun back with you. 】

Yunxi: [After the adults went out in the morning, Auntie asked Auntie Hong to go shopping. The two came back around one o'clock and didn't see any quarrel or a bad mood. Auntie Hong brought a few things and asked the driver to take her and Zhuo Jinglun out. 】

Ruan Mei: [No, the car is driving, I have to follow along to see! 】

Su Yunshao: [No need to go. 】

Ge Yue: […she has already gone. 】

Su Yunshao: [If you don't bring many things, it means that you will be back soon, there is no need to keep up. 】

Yunxi: [Eavesdropping two sentences should be back, right? 】

Ge Yue: [I can't tell you, she is the most daring of the three of us, so maybe she'll go with her. 】

Yunxi: [It is possible. 】

Su Yunshao: […]

Facts have proved that Ruan Mei is indeed very courageous, and she really followed by car and plane all the way.

City J is not far from City B. Aunt Hong and Zhuo Jinglun set off in the afternoon and arrived at six o'clock.

The mother and son had dinner on the plane, then got off the plane and went straight to their hometown, the old apartment where Aunt Hong lived for more than ten years.

Aunt Hong and Zhuoran bought Zhou Ma a big house and storefront. The neighbors praised their daughter and son-in-law for their filial piety, but Zhou Ma would rather let the new house accumulate dust and live in the old apartment.

When others asked, Zhou's mother said that she was used to living here for decades, and she was familiar with the neighbors. She could take care of anything and didn't want to move to such an unfamiliar place.

Aunt Hong felt that her mother had been poor for a long time, and she was not used to the life of the rich and would not enjoy it. Every time she goes back to her parents' home, she either lives in a hotel or in that big house, but never at home.

She doesn't like this place where she has lived for more than ten years. Here, she always sees the shadow of her brother and Zhou's father. They seem to come out at any time and accuse her of being a murderer.

Today, when I revisited the old place, Aunt Hong was unexpectedly calm.

She even had the mood to tell Zhuo Jinglun that she once fell down somewhere in this community, buried a dead bird under a tree, and fed a stray kitten by the wall.

Zhuo Jinglun felt that today's mother was a bit strange. She seemed to be very amiable and easy to approach, and she also talked about trivial things that she would never talk about.

Obviously, my mother never liked to listen to him talk about things in school before. Every time he started his speech, his mother would say: You have time to think about the waste of time, why don't you read a few more pages of papers.

He hoped that such a scene would last longer, so long that it could be connected and woven into a memory, hidden in the memory, and can be taken out to see when he was coldly treated by his mother again.

Zhuo Jinglun did not dare to disturb his mother's interest in telling stories by talking indiscriminately, and listened quietly.

A neighbor who was walking in the community after dinner came over and saw Auntie Hong who could still recognize her, "Zhou Hong? You haven't been back for a long time, and I didn't hear from your mother that you were coming back."

Aunt Hong said with a smile: "Good evening, Aunt Hua, I have something to go back to China, and I suddenly want to see my mother. Every time I come back, she has to prepare for this and that for several days. It's too tired, so I didn't tell her in advance. ."

"So that's what it is." The neighbor was persuaded, and saw Zhuo Jinglun in a blink of an eye, and his eyes lit up: "A handsome young man, he looks like he came out of the TV, who is this?"

"It's my son." Aunt Hong asked Zhuo Jinglun to come closer to say hello.

"Good evening, Grandma Hua." Zhuo Jinglun greeted politely.

Grandma Hua squinted her eyes and couldn't see clearly. She took out the reading glasses hidden in her pocket and put them on the bridge of her nose. After seeing Zhuo Jinglun's facial contours and facial features, she suddenly realized something, and was so shocked that the hand holding the reading glasses was on the bridge of her nose. trembling.

No wonder Zhou Hong didn't bring her son back to visit her grandmother for so many years, so that's what happened!

Aunt Hong could see what Grandma Hua was thinking at a glance, didn't she just think that she cheated on a foreigner and gave her husband a cuckold and didn't dare to bring her son back?

Before the change, Aunt Hong would politely explain a few words. If Grandma Hua talks too much, she will stab back in a way that makes her so popular that she can't speak.

Today, she thinks all this is boring, so what's the use of managing her own reputation with heart? No matter how capable and smart she is, her husband is still cheating, and her son is still going to die.

Fame is not brought in life, or not in death, she will die in death, who cares whether she is famous for a lifetime or a stigma for thousands of years? Do you have a dime relationship with her?

"Aunt Hua, it's so late, I won't tell you any more." Aunt Hong nodded, turned to leave, and Zhuo Jinglun followed.

Before their mother and son had gone far, they heard Grandma Hua chatting with people about gossip, and the beginning was: "In my opinion, Zhou Hong must have been kicked out by her rich husband! The children born with the old king next door are all So big, her husband can really bear it!"

Zhuo Jinglun: "..." He is clearly the illegitimate son of his father's cheating lover, and has nothing to do with his mother. Why does Grandma Hua think that his mother cheated when he saw him, not his father?

He really wanted to rush back to explain to Grandma Hua and clarify for his mother, but seeing that her mother raised her chest and didn't care what others said, he felt that it was unnecessary.

The mother who used to buy all the new products of the season because someone said, "Is that an out of season?", suddenly doesn't care about gossip, doesn't care what others think or say, and lives a relaxed and comfortable life. OK

Zhuo Jinglun didn't know about it, and only thought about the good side, and Ruan Mei who knew about it probably had some guesses.

It is said that when a person is about to die, his words are also good. That is because in the face of death, many things that were attached to before death become no longer important.

For Aunt Hong, what she cared about most in her life was that others looked down on her and slandered her. For this reason, she trapped herself in the cage of fame all her life.

It was not until she was about to sacrifice her soul to save her own son that Aunt Hong realized what was most important in a person's life, and abandoned those external things and restraints that could be discarded at any time.

Looking at Aunt Hong like that, Ruan Mei's eyes gradually became wet.

No matter how many bad things Aunt Hong did during her lifetime, how many people she calculated, how unforgivable she was, at the moment when she decided to sacrifice her soul for her son to bravely face unknown dangers, she was a great mother.

There is no elevator in the old apartment, and the lights in the stairwell are not voice-activated, so you need to press them yourself.

Aunt Hong stepped up step by step on high heels, Zhuo Jinglun was behind with one hand carrying luggage, and the other hand used the flashlight of her mobile phone to illuminate the way for Aunt Hong.

Layer after layer, the crisp sound of the stiletto heels hitting the concrete floor stopped.

Home is here.

This is an old door with the characters of "Fufu" and the big red spring couplets pasted. The house is a few years old, and the paint on the door is peeling off.

Auntie Hong stood outside the door for a long time, not knowing what she was thinking, before she raised her hand and knocked on the door.

"dong dong dong"

"Mom, I'm back."

This "Mom" shouting was very calm. I didn't have to come back with ginseng and bird's nest every time to show off the wealthy life. I didn't have to travel across the ocean to visit Zhou's mother every Spring Festival because of the reputation of filial piety. It seems to have traveled back in time and space back to more than 30 years ago.

At that time, there was a family of four living in this house, with huge debts, financial constraints, busyness, and the smell of fireworks.

The teenage Zhou Hongmeng only had a picture of herself holding a love letter she had written for a long time and shyly confessing to her senior, not her brother's dead eyes and her father's bruised corpse.

The teenage Zhou Hong dreamed that a family of four lived in a beautiful and tidy big house. She was wearing a princess dress and she was playing the piano. Rub his shoulders and press his legs.

"It's so late, who is it?" Zhou Ma came over, stepping on plastic slippers, and opened the door with a creak, "Red? Why are you back at this time?"

Zhou Hong was wearing high heels and was a bit taller than Zhou's mother. With her height advantage, she could clearly see the white hair on Zhou's mother's head that could not be hidden, the exaggerated crow's feet at the corners of her eyes, and the age spots on her face.

Mom is old.

At no point did Auntie Hong realize so clearly: I made this family incomplete, I thought that my mother would be happy if my son and husband got rid of the hindrances, and I made my mother grow old and not be by her side. One person can rely on, alone guarding this old house where a family of four once lived.

"Mom." Aunt Hong heard the cry in her voice, she turned around quickly, and quietly wiped away her tears, "Jinglun, hurry up and call grandma."

Zhuo Jinglun saw his grandmother for the first time at the age of 21, grinned, and shouted crisply, "Grandma!"

"Hey!" Zhou Ma smiled so that the crow's feet at the corners of her eyes became more obvious.

Looking at the happy reunion of the family of three in front of her, Ruan Mei felt that she was too unpleasant here, she took two steps back, and was ready to wait in the corridor.

As soon as she moved, she saw Zhou's mother's gaze surpassed Zhuo Jinglun and looked at her.

Ruan Mei: ? !

He jumped up in shock, and subconsciously hid behind Zhuo Jinglun.

After hiding like this, when she stuck her head out to look at Su Ma, Zhou Ma stopped looking at her, as if she hadn't seen her.

Ruan Mei wasn't sure if Zhou Ma just passed by her because of her bad eyesight. She was frightening herself, or if Zhou Ma really saw her.

She didn't dare to wait outside with a ghost, so she whispered "Excuse me" and entered the door behind Aunt Hong and Zhuo Jinglun.

The unforeseen arrival of her daughter and grandson made Zhou's mother busy immediately.

Aunt Hong didn't stop Ma Zhou from being busy, and sat on the chair and watched silently, as if she wanted to imprint Ma Zhou's figure in her mind.

"You guys came back so suddenly, and I didn't prepare anything good, what should I do?" Zhou Ma wiped her hands at a loss, and turned to go to the room to get her wallet, "I didn't know the supermarket was still open. No, I'm going to buy something now."

"Mom, you don't have to be busy, Jinglun and I have eaten." Aunt Hong stopped.

"Have you eaten it?" Zhou Ma rubbed her hands, her eyes rolled around, and she saw the oranges on the table, "How about fruit? The oranges sent by the neighbors are very sweet. I remember you liked oranges the most before. "

Aunt Hong smiled and said, "Okay."

Zhou's mother took the ugly black oranges on the table into the kitchen. Knowing that her daughter loves cleanliness, she turned on the tap and washed it several times. She found the most beautiful plate in the house, placed it on it, and took it out. come out.

"I remember that you used to like peeled oranges, but you didn't like to cut them. You said that cut oranges are easy to get stuck between your teeth."

Zhou's mother peeled the oranges with her dark and rough hands that had been labored by housework, "I'll peel it for you, so you don't have to get your hands dirty."

"Okay, thank you mom." Aunt Hong smiled.

Zhou Ma, who was peeling the oranges, suddenly stopped and stared at Aunt Hong, as if looking at her, as if she saw her five or six-year-old daughter through this forty-year-old daughter.

The five- or six-year-old daughter is so well-behaved. She never takes other people's efforts for granted. She peels an orange and an apple for her daughter, and she will receive sweet thanks from her daughter.

When did it start to change?

It's been too long, and Zhou Ma can't remember much, maybe after moving here? Or maybe it was after she sold her daughter's precious princess dresses and leather shoes.

"Grandma, let me come." Zhuo Jinglun's voice pulled Zhou Ma out of her memory.

"No, your mother likes to eat the oranges I peeled, and neither her brother nor her father want them." Zhou's mother lowered her head and peeled the oranges little by little, daring to look at her daughter again.

Aunt Hong overlapped the mother Zhou, who was peeling oranges with her head down, and the mother Zhou who peeled oranges and apples for her more than 30 years ago.

Maybe people can only understand how ignorant they were in the past after they really became mothers and changed their identities?

When she was young, she said thanks to her mother, was she really grateful? No, that's just the polite language the teacher taught them.

When she was older, she shouted to her mother willfully: Don't touch my fruit with those pork hands! She shouted that Zhou's mother quickly put away the pair of hands that had been washed with detergent.

A few years ago, she would say to her mother: Can't you move out of this broken house that is about to collapse? Zhou's mother smiled reluctantly and only said that the house was fine and would not collapse.

Today, she calmly took the peeled and pitted orange, tore a piece of it, stuffed it into her mouth, smiled and said to Zhou Ma, "Thank you, Mom, it's very sweet. Mom can try one too?"