Chapter Forty-Five: A Distant Past

  "Xue Er thanked Grandpa."

  "Stinky brat, do I still need to say thank you to Grandpa?" Leng Qing Tian deliberately put on a stern face and said displeased.

  "Never mind, I'll make Grandpa's favorite dish for dinner tonight."

  "This is still a bit short, do some more, it's not enough for Grandpa to eat." Leng Qingtian hastily said, it's not easy to get his granddaughter to cook another dish!

  In the evening, a fire was lit in the garden, and a group of people sat around it, each holding something to roast over the flames.

  "Xue Er, you're just going to eat this tonight? Didn't you say you were going to make Grandpa's favorite dish?" Leng Qing Tian looked around and saw that everyone was having a barbecue, but there wasn't any real food, so he complained to his beloved granddaughter with a bitter face.

  "Grandpa, this is what we're having for dinner tonight, of course it's only a part of it, there are also things you haven't had before." Lan Ruo Xue said mysteriously, she had already prepared everything and was sure to surprise them.

  "Haven't you ever eaten it? What is it?" Everyone looked at Leng Ruo Xue with curiosity.

  "You'll know when the time comes."

  After a while, the servants brought up several tables one after another and lined them up together. Then, more servants brought up what looked like pots, but these were unlike any they had ever seen before, and they emitted a fragrance that was incredibly enticing.

  "Xue Er, what is this?" asked Leng Qing Tian curiously.

  "Grandpa, this is called a hot pot." Leng Ruo Xue said, she had specially refined several hot pots in the past few days, just to satisfy her craving. Who would have thought that this world didn't have such a thing? However, if people knew that she actually used alchemy techniques to refine cooking pots, they might faint from shock. But, this alchemy technique was really too useful, the refined hot pot didn't need electricity or coal, just one fire-attribute spirit crystal and it was all settled.

  "Miss, how do you use this?" Feng Da asked somewhat anxiously. It smelled good, but when he opened it, there was only soup inside. Wouldn't they just be drinking soup?

  "Don't worry, I'll teach you how to eat later!" Leng Ruoxue said somewhat helplessly. Why were the people she knew all foodies?

  The waiter brought up a steady stream of already washed and cut vegetables and meat slices, one by one, and arranged them on the table.

  "Bring over the roasted meat!" said Leng Ruoxue, gesturing for them to sit down. Then she picked up a thin slice of raw meat and dipped it into the hot pot for a few seconds before immediately putting it into her mouth.

  "See, just like me, if you like spicy food, dip it in the spicy side, and if you can't handle it, put it in the clear broth, then dip it in the sauce." explained Leng Ruoxue.

  Everyone waited for her to finish and then eagerly followed her example and started washing.

  "Ah, I'm so full!" Feng Da said contentedly. Sigh, life is really good!

  "Xue Er, why haven't you let Grandpa try such good things before?" Leng Qing Tian said with some dissatisfaction, and it wasn't until today that he got to eat such delicious food for the first time.

  "Grandpa, didn't I just make this hot pot a few days ago?" Leng Ruxue explained, she also wanted to eat it, but there wasn't any left!

  "Refine? You mean this hot pot is..."

  "Holy Vessel."

  "What, this hot pot is actually a sacred artifact?" Leng Qingtian's eyes widened in disbelief, Snowy was so extravagant, a sacred artifact, this was a sacred artifact that everyone coveted and yearned to possess, yet they were using it to eat!

  Although everyone else was also speechless, they seemed to have already gotten used to being struck dumb by Leng Ruoxue, so it wasn't anything out of the ordinary.

  "I didn't do it on purpose." Leng Ruo Xue said with some resentment, she had actually wanted to refine a treasure to use, but couldn't manage to, and accidentally ended up creating a sacred artifact instead.

  "Xu'er is really a little pervert!" Leng Ruo Han touched his sister's head, saying very seriously. Fortunately, Xu'er was his sister, otherwise he would be jealous of her.

  "We've long been used to it." Ye Chen said extremely calmly.

  "Uh-huh." Feng Mo also agreed.

  "Feng Ge, are you going back home to take a look?" asked Leng Ruo Xue suddenly.

  "Go home? Not going back for now." Feng Mo said lightly, he had been away from home for many years and never went back, probably the people at home thought he was already dead.

  "Feng Ge, I met Feng Ao Ran in the academy and he asked about you." said Leng Ruo Xue. Since Feng Ge had already returned to Feng Du, it was inevitable that he would meet people from the Feng family. Although she didn't know why Feng Ge was unwilling to return home, she had to let him prepare himself mentally. After all, avoiding the issue wouldn't solve anything.

  "Is Arrogant... doing well?" Feng Mo Yan couldn't help but ask, as he recalled that when he left home back then, Arrogant was still very young. In the blink of an eye, now he's also a grown adult.

  "Very well, he is now a student of the Holy Temple of Phoenix Heaven Academy." said Leng Ruoxue.

  "Feng Ao Ran's status in Feng Tian Academy is second only to mine, and I heard that he is also highly valued in the Wind family." Leng Ruo Han explained.

  "That's good." He only had this one younger brother, Wind Ao Ran, and hearing that he was doing well now made him feel at ease. As for the Wind family...

  "Let's all get some rest early today!" said Leng Ruoxue after glancing at Feng Mo Ran and seeing that everyone had almost finished eating.

  "Feng Ge, why haven't you slept yet? It's already very late." Leng Ruo Xue said looking at Feng Mo Ran who was standing in the garden staring blankly.

  "Can't sleep."

  "Troubled? If there's anything unhappy, you can tell me, don't keep it in your heart." Leng Ruoxue comforted.

  "Xue Er, I have been away from the Wind family for twelve years. At that time, Ao Ran was only 5 years old when I left, and I didn't expect him to still remember his brother." Feng Mo Ran said with some emotion.

  "Xue Er, do you know why I left the Feng family back then?" Feng Mo Ran suddenly asked.

  "Why?" asked Leng Ruoxue cooperatively, but in fact, even if Feng Ge didn't say it, she could more or less guess.

  "When I awakened to my spiritual power back then, I underwent the qualification test and found that my qualifications were very low. From then on, my life changed. A once pampered young master suddenly became a useless person in everyone's eyes. Those who had envied me for being pampered began to kick me when I was down, taking advantage of me and framing me. And I left home amidst those repeated frames."

  Feng Mo said lightly, as if he were talking about someone else's business. Back then, when his test results came out, his mother comforted him, saying it didn't matter, that he was the eldest son of the Feng family, and that when he grew up, the family would give him a spiritual yuan pill. At the time, he had also naively believed this. However, as he grew older, with the birth of his younger brother, his parents gradually began to neglect him, and only then did he realize that it was just his mother comforting him. With his qualifications, even if he were the eldest grandson of the Feng family, he didn't qualify for a spiritual yuan pill. After all, top families like the Fengs weren't lacking in descendants.

  He knew very clearly that with his current abilities, if he returned to the family, he would definitely be treated as the successor. However, he didn't want to go back. He wanted to follow Xue Er, to stay by her side. Not only because she was the noble person who had changed his fate but also because only when he was with Xue Er did he feel a sense of home.

  In fact, although he left the Wind family, he has not left the family. He is still a member of the Wind family now. If the Wind family encounters difficulties and needs him, he will go back. However, if the Wind family becomes an enemy of Xue Er, then he will also stand on Xue Er's side without hesitation, because for him now, no one is more important than Xue Er.

  Leng Ruo Xue listened patiently as Feng Mo Ran told his story, not interrupting him because she knew that what Big Brother Feng needed was someone to listen.

  "You now know how much I envy you, although you used to be a fool, but your grandfather and brother treated you like a treasure, your status in the family is even higher than those geniuses. " Feng said with a face full of envy, those so-called geniuses in the family are just pawns for the family's power, wanting to get a position also requires effort, but Xue Er doesn't need to do anything and already receives all the pampering."

  "Grandpa and brother are also the most important to me!" Leng Ruoxue said, so she must protect this hard-won kinship, gods block killing gods, Buddhas block killing Buddhas!