Chapter 149 Erya is back
“Brother, we seem to have arrived. Come out and see if the village in front of you is your hometown?”
Chen Siyao’s voice came from outside the carriage.
Song Jie had just finished refining a batch of elixirs and was meditating to restore his spiritual power.
When going out, out of caution, Song Jie would always meditate to restore his spiritual power after refining a batch of elixirs.
This will ensure that when an unexpected situation occurs, you will be in a better state to resolve the crisis.
Lifting the curtain of the carriage, Song Jie stuck his head out and looked forward.
I saw a green field in front of me, and many farmers were bent over and busy in the fields.
Looking across the fields and farther into the distance, you can see rows of houses connected to each other.
It was approaching evening, and white smoke was rising from many houses.
Looking at this somewhat familiar scene, Song Jie was sure that this was the hometown of the original owner.
“Yes, this is my hometown.”
Song Jie smiled slightly.
Immediately, Song Jie walked out of the carriage, came to the front of the carriage, and took over the driving rights of the carriage from Jin Jiao.
The carriage slowly drove into the field path, attracting the attention of the farmers in the field.
In their small mountain village, there are very few outsiders on weekdays.
At this time, they saw a carriage slowly driving into their small mountain village, and many farmers stopped what they were doing.
They stood up and looked at the man driving the car.
“This person looks familiar…”
“Really, he looks like the second son of the old Song family.”
“How is it possible? The second son of the old Song family left the village many years ago, but there is no news at all for so many years.”
“Yes, the second son of the old Song family should be in his forties. Looking at that person’s age, he is not even thirty years old. He is definitely not the second son of the old Song family.”
“I heard that the second son of the old Song family went to learn from an immortal.”
“I know this. When the second son of the old Song family left the village, I went to see him off. I don’t know if he found the immortal…”
“Listening to what you said, that person really might be the second son of the old Song family.
“Aren’t all immortals immortal? If the second son of the old Song family really found an immortal and learned his skills from the immortal.
“When I’m in my forties, I look like I’m in my twenties, and I feel very normal.”
“I think that person is not the second son of the old Song family, but he looks a little like the second son of the old Song family.
“Is it so easy to find an immortal? If it were so easy to find, then each of us could learn from an immortal.”
“That is, even if you find an immortal, the immortal may not be willing to teach you magic skills.”
“You all said that person is not the second son of the old Song family. Then, who is that person?”
“do not know……”
“I don’t know either…”
Song Jie sat in front of the carriage, driving the carriage while listening to the conversations of the farmers in the fields.
Song Jie didn’t pay much attention to what those farmers discussed.
What those farmers were discussing was the second son of the old Song family and what relationship he had with Song Jie.
Of course, Song Jie knew that the second son of the old Song family that the farmers were talking about was actually the original owner.
From the memory of the original owner, Song Jie knew that the original owner was the second eldest child in the family.
Above him, there is an older brother named Song Yi.
At that time, the original owner would leave his parents at home and go out to seek immortality, because there was still an elder brother at home to take care of his parents.
This allows the original owner to pursue his or her dreams without any worries.
Song Jie followed the path in his memory and drove the carriage all the way to a wooden house with a small yard.
Outside the yard of the wooden house, there is a fence and a simple wooden gate, which is the barrier of the house.
Song Jie jumped off the carriage and looked at the wooden house in front of him, comparing it with the house in the original owner’s hometown in his memory.
After a moment, Song Jie nodded gently.
This is it.
Immediately, Song Jie tied the carriage next to the big tree on the roadside, and then caught Chen Siyao who jumped out of the carriage.
Taking Chen Siyao and Jin Jiao with him, Song Jie directly pushed open the wooden door in the middle of the fence.
“Creak~”
As the wooden door was pushed open by Song Jie, a harsh sound also sounded.
The people inside the house heard the noise outside, and soon someone came out to see what happened.
The person who walked out of the wooden house was a middle-aged man, who looked to be about fifty years old.
If you look carefully, you can find that the appearance of this middle-aged man is somewhat similar to Song Jie.
“Second brother?”
The middle-aged man looked at Song Jie with some uncertainty.
“Brother, it’s me.”
Song Jie twitched the corners of his mouth to reveal a smile.
Although there was some discrepancy with the appearance in the original owner’s memory, Song Jie recognized it at a glance. This middle-aged man was the original owner’s eldest brother, Song Yi.
“It’s really you, second brother!” Song Yi shouted towards the house with excitement on his face: “Dad, second brother is back!”
“What? Erya is back?”
Accompanied by an old voice coming from the house, a 70-year-old man with white hair and beard walked out of the house tremblingly on crutches.
The moment he saw Song Jie, the 70-year-old man immediately trembled his lips and said with some excitement: “Erya, it’s really you, my Erya is back.
“My Erya is finally back…”
The seventy-year-old man muttered a few words, his eyes turned red unconsciously, and two lines of old tears fell down his wrinkled cheeks.
Seeing this 70-year-old man, Song Jie thought of his parents for no reason. A hint of sourness suddenly appeared on the tip of his nose and his eyes became red.
Song Jie hurriedly took two steps forward, held the hands of the 70-year-old man, and shouted: “Dad, it’s me, I’m back.”
This 70-year-old man is the father of the original owner, named Song Liangmin, and everyone in the village calls him Lao Song.
Song Liangmin raised his hand and stroked Song Jie’s face, crying with joy.
“It’ll be good to come back, it’ll be good to come back.
“My Erya is back…”
Although Song Jie looked like a young man in his twenties, Song Liangmin recognized him at a glance. This person was his Erya.
Listening to Song Liangmin constantly chanting “Erya”, Song Jie’s infected emotions faded a lot in an instant.
This “Erya” is the childhood nickname of the original owner.
Because Song Liangmin’s first child was a boy, he wanted a girl for his second one.
As a result, his second child was still a boy.
When the original owner was a child, she was quite delicate. If she wore her hair in two pigtails, she would look like a girl.
So Song Liangmin simply raised the original owner as a girl and gave him a nickname, “Erya”.
These are the information Song Jie searched from the memory of the “original owner”.
He immediately imitated the original owner’s tone and said helplessly: “Dad, I’m already so old, so don’t call me Erya.
The original owner often retorted to Song Liangmin like this before leaving home.
Whenever the original owner said such words, Song Liangmin would have a serious look on his face and said that no matter how old the original owner was, in his eyes, he was still Erya.
But this time, the conversation Song Jie expected did not appear.
Song Liangmin was seen stroking Song Jie’s face, nodding and saying: “Okay… okay… Dad won’t call you Erya.
“Come on, come in. Dad will prepare delicious food for you today.”
With that said, Song Liangmin was about to pull Song Jie into the house.
After entering the house, Song Liangmin asked Song Jie to sit on the chair and wait, and then he walked into the kitchen tremblingly on crutches.
Song Yi winked at the middle-aged woman standing aside.
The middle-aged woman understood immediately and quickly walked into the kitchen to help Song Liangmin cook.
Song Yi looked at Song Jie, showed a happy smile, and said, “That’s your sister-in-law.”
“Looking at it, eldest brother and sister-in-law should usually be very affectionate.” Song Jie smiled slightly.
Song Yi nodded.
“Your sister-in-law is indeed very good, hardworking, housekeeper, and doesn’t lose her temper very much.
“It is my blessing to marry her.”
Speaking of this, Song Yi suddenly sighed and said: “After you left, our father always thought it was because he always called you Erya.
“You were unhappy, so you made the excuse that you wanted to learn from an immortal.
“We all thought that you were just out of anger and would come back after staying out for a while.
“I didn’t expect that it would be more than 20 years since I left.”
When Song Jie heard Song Yi talking about this, he didn’t know how to answer the question for a while.
After thinking for a while, he asked, “Where is my mother?”
“I got sick last year and passed away…” Song Yi closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and then opened his eyes while exhaling.
He just looked at Song Jie calmly, without saying anything to blame Song Jie.
Seeing the shame in Song Jie’s eyes, Song Yi sighed and continued: “Before my mother left, the last thing she said was to ask her if Erya was back…”
Although I never thought that I and the original owner were the same person, nor did I think that I would be tied down by the family relationships of the original owner.
But when I heard Song Yi talking about this, I still felt very uncomfortable.
He thought of his own parents.
He suddenly traveled to this world, and he could fully imagine how sad his parents would be.
Fortunately, like the original owner, he is not an only child, so he doesn’t have to worry about having no one to support his parents when they grow old because of his time travel.
“I’m sorry…” Song Jie said these three words softly.
After being silent for a long time, Song Yi suddenly said with a smile: “Let’s not talk about this anymore. Second brother, as long as you can come back safe and sound, it will be fine.
“There has been no news about you for so many years, and we all thought you had…
“But fortunately you are back. You can see how happy our father was just now.
“I haven’t seen our dad so happy for a long time.
“I must have a few more drinks with our dad tonight.”
“Well, have a few more drinks.” Song Jie smiled and nodded.
After the two brothers finished reminiscing about old times, Song Yi turned his eyes to Chen Siyao who was hiding behind Song Jie.
Grinning his mouth and showing a pair of white teeth towards Chen Siyao, Song Yi smiled softly and said, “Second brother, is this little girl yours?”
“Yao Yao, come here, introduce yourself to the uncle.” Song Jie pulled out Chen Siyao who was hiding behind him.
Chen Siyao looked at Song Jie, then at Song Yi, and felt that the uncle looked like his eldest brother’s father.
However, from listening to the previous conversation between the two, Chen Siyao already knew that this uncle who looked a bit old was actually Song Jie’s eldest brother.
Muttering in her heart, Chen Siyao still politely saluted Song Yi and said, “Hello, uncle, my name is Chen Siyao, and I am my father’s adopted daughter.”
On the way here, Song Jie made an agreement with her that after arriving at Song Jie’s hometown, she could no longer call Song Jie big brother.
The relationship between the two temporarily became that of an adopted father and an adopted daughter.
Before, they were in the city where monks lived, so no matter how they called them, there would be no big problem.
But now, they are in a village where mortals live.
If Chen Siyao continues to call Song Jie brother, then he will call Song Jie his father, uncle or uncle.
But Song Jie’s father is already an old man in his seventies, and Chen Siyao is only six years old. There is a big age difference.
It is too strange for a six-year-old child to call a seventy-year-old man uncle or uncle in a village where mortals live.
After Song Jie briefly explained the rationale, Chen Siyao obediently accepted Song Jie’s proposal.
So, now they are an adoptive father and an adopted daughter.
Song Yi was stunned for a moment when he heard Chen Siyao’s words.
He also thought that Chen Siyao was Song Jie’s daughter or granddaughter.
Although Song Jie looked young, as the eldest brother, he knew how old Song Jie was.
At Song Jie’s age, having a five or six-year-old granddaughter was not an exaggeration at all in Song Yi’s opinion, but rather a very normal thing.
After praising Chen Siyao for being so good, Song Yi looked at Song Jie with a strange expression.
After hesitating for a moment, he still asked: “Second brother, eldest brother wants to ask you, are you married?”
“No.” Song Jie replied confidently.
Hearing Song Jie’s answer, Song Yi didn’t feel surprised at all and seemed to have guessed it.
“That’s right. Looking at your appearance, second brother, you are still so young. You must have learned your true skills from the immortal.
“Marriage is not that important to the second brother.
“Unlike big brother, I am already old~”
Song Yi smiled self-deprecatingly.
Song Jie smiled slightly and asked, “Eldest brother’s child should be very old, right?”
“Your eldest brother and I are already a grandfather. How old is my child?”
Thinking of his somewhat naughty grandson, Song Yi couldn’t help but have a doting smile on his face.
When Song Jie heard this, he was suddenly a little stunned.
He learned from the memory of the original owner that when the original owner left home, Song Yi was still a single man without a wife.
In their village, a single man in his twenties without a wife can be said to be a proper older leftover man.
Unexpectedly, more than 20 years later, Song Yi not only had a wife, but also became a grandfather.
This actually surprised him.
After being stunned, Song Jie immediately smiled and congratulated Song Yi.
“Congratulations, brother, you have become a grandfather.”
Song Yi was naturally very happy for Song Jie’s blessing.
However, Song Jie hadn’t told him clearly just now whether he really learned the true skills from the immortal.
So Song Yi simply asked directly: “Second brother, after you left the village, did you really find an immortal?”
(End of chapter)