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nLing Pingan raised his head as he yawned and looked at the clock.

nIt was already seven o’clock in the evening.

n“The Hero of Canyon is just so-so!” He looked at the enemy crystal that had exploded on the screen of his phone and smiled smugly.

nHis account had been unblocked last night.

nHowever, he had been busy typing yesterday and had forgotten about this.

nToday, he was naturally engrossed in the battle of the canyon.

nNot to mention, absence makes the heart grow fonder. Gaming was just the same theory.

nThe battle of the canyon had once again become fun for Ling Pingan.

nAfter playing for the whole day, he had won at least twenty games but only lost three games.

nThis account had forcefully ranked first in the national server.

nPutting down his phone, the bookshop owner, who paid a lot of attention to his health, began to get up and stretch his muscles.

nThen, he sat down, ordered takeout, and turned on the television.

nThe evening news was reported on the television.

n“Today, the navy fleet of our country in the Kingdom of Malin and the navy of the Kingdom of Malin have held their annual military exercises…

n“The armies of the two countries have jointly conducted several subjects, including naval artillery bombardment, maritime rescue, personnel transportation, and missile drills…”

n“The King of Marlin and the First Minister of the Marlin Cabinet have watched this exercise together… and they have highly appraised the quality of the officers and soldiers participating in the exercise!”

nOn the television screen, the joint operations of the navy destroyers and frigates appeared, as well as the joint drills of the marines and armored forces.

nLing Pingan watched the news in a daze. Because fourteen years ago, his parents had stepped onto the land of Kunlun Province from the Marlin naval base.

nHe turned around and looked at the family photo in the cupboard.

nThe photo in the photo frame was a little blurry due to improper maintenance.

nLing Pingan looked at it and sighed.

nHe walked over, took down the photo frame, and held it in his hand.

nThe photo was blurry that he could no longer see the appearance of the family of three.

nHe gently stroked the last image of his parents in the world.

nHis hand touched something behind the photo frame.

nHe curiously took it out and found that it was a small card.

nThere were words written on the card.

nHe took the card and walked to the counter.

nAfter looking at it, he frowned. “Strange!”

n“Why would someone write a historical story on this card?”

nOn the card, there was a story written with a pen.

nThat was a story that many people had read when they were in school.

nDuring the Warring States period, the state of Qin was powerful. South Korea was afraid that the state of Qin would attack them. Therefore, the water conservancy expert, the state of Zheng, went to the state of Qin to carry out the plan of tiring the state of Qin in the name of building a water conservancy channel.

nHe used the Water Conservancy project to delay the state of Qin’s attack on South Korea.

nLater, when the matter was exposed, the state of Zheng said to the king of Qin, “At first, I was acting in order to cause dissension, but when the canal is completed it will surely be a benefit to Qin. I have been working for the South Korean for years, and it was for Qin’s contribution to the world.”

nThe King of Qin was incredibly pleased, so he ordered the state of Zheng to continue to build the canal.

nAfter the canal was completed, the King of Qin conquered the six states.

nHe looked at the card, which was copied almost everything from historical materials.

nLing Pingan scratched his head and turned the card over. He found that there was a paragraph on the back, “How would a person who drinks dove poison to quench his thirst, not knowing the strength of the dove poison? Without it, one would die if they didn’t drink it, and one could linger for a moment if they drank it!

n“So…” Ling Pingan thought, “my parents once copied this?!”

nThinking of this, he put the card back.

nWhen he put the photo frame back, Ling Pingan realized that there seemed to be a thin book of a family tree behind where the photo frame was placed.

nHe immediately took it down out of curiosity.

nAfter all, a family tree was the thing that most affected the hearts of the people in the country.

nThat was because a family tree was something that could tell every single person in the federal who they were and where they came from?

nLing Pingan took down the thin book of a family tree and realized that it was covered in dust.

nHe blew on the dust and saw the name of the family tree.

n“The family tree of the Ling Clan of Jingchu”.

n“So…” Ling Pingan scratched his head. “My ancestor’s surname is Ling?”

n“This is a rare surname!”

nHe flipped open the family tree and looked at the words on it. He finally knew that his ancestral home was in Jingchu.

nTwo hundred years ago, they moved to Guangnan.

nWhen his ancestors were in Jingchu, they were the famous local family, who worshiped God and ghosts. They worshipped the Youth God for generations.

nLing Pingan knew some about the Youth God.

nThe infant protector god described in the poet “Nine Songs” of the famous poet Qu Yuan, was a god that Jingchu was worshipped during the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Periods.

nLooking at the words on the family tree, Ling Pingan knew that his family had been passing the tradition down from generation to generation.

nEvery male of every generation of the Ling family existed as a god devotee who served the Youth God.

nIt was not until two hundred years ago, for some unknown reason, that the entire family moved away from their hometown of Jingchu and came to Guangnan to live and work in peace.

nSince then, the Ling Clan had changed to the Ling family.

nAfter reading the family tree, Ling Pingan smiled.

n“I didn’t expect my ancestor to be a god believer!” As a firm materialist, Ling Pingan was not interested in those feudal superstitions. He would use them as material only when writing novels.

nJust as he was about to put the family tree back, a small card suddenly fell out from the pages of the family tree.

nLing Pingan picked it up and looked at it. It was a passage from the Tao-Te Ching (Tao’s Teaching).

n“The skillful masters of the Tao in old times….” he read the words on it. “with a subtle and exquisite penetration, comprehended its mysteries, and were deep, so as to elude men’s knowledge…”

n“It’s the 15th chapter of the Tao-Te Ching!” He laughed.

nAs a web writer, how could he not read the Tao-Te Ching?

nTherefore, he knew that the 15th chapter of the Tao-Te Ching was about the saints’ situation that Lao Tzu described.

nIn Lao Tzu’s description, the so-called saints were a kind of existence that others could not understand or recognize.

nThey were nameless and shapeless, indescribable.

nThey were distant and profound, with infinite wisdom.

nOutsiders cannot perceive the existence of the saint, but they can perceive a great way of the Saint subtly.

nOutsiders would not understand the movements of the saint.

nOutsiders would not understand the actions of the saint.

nIn short, it is a very pretentious, elegant, and refined high-dimensional existence.

nIt is above all things, representing the ultimate truth and rules of the universe.

nHuman beings needed to learn and follow their path and wisdom.

nIn the end, it was new and hidden.

nThat was also the theme of this article.

nLing Pingan chuckled. “I didn’t expect one of my ancestors to like reading the Tao-te Ching!”

n“This must be the Tao-te Ching he copied!”

nAs he said this, he carefully put the card into the family tree book and put it back where it was, and then closed the window.

nBut he did not know, nor could he see.

nFrom the moment he saw the first card, the kitten, Bastet had already stood up.

nAnd around him, there were pairs of evil eyes that surrounded him.

nOne by one, indescribable monsters looked at him nervously.

nIt was obvious that these things were afraid, nervous, and uneasy.

nFinally, when Ling Pingan put the family tree book back, they scattered away in all directions as if they were relieved.

nOn the glass door of the bookstore, a huge eye-opening.

nIt mercilessly glanced at those monsters.

nThen, punishment came.

nIn the eye, strange-shaped whips were released. These whips rolled up those terrifying and indescribable monsters and threw them around.

nBam! Bam! Bam! Bam!

nMournful howls lingered in the bookstore.

nThe entire world shook upon their wails.

nThe kitten, Bastet, trembled and curled her body. She leaned against the computer and carefully laid down.

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