C3 Family School

"Grandpa Seven?!" Lin Ke was slightly surprised.

Like the other five elders who had become elders of the family, the seventh grandfather, Haiman, was called by Cohen as his grandfather but was actually not Rhine's blood brother. By now, except for Rhine himself, the first generation of the family had all passed away, leaving only a limited number of descendants to protect the Moutes family. Rhine was also very good to the descendants of his brothers, and those under the age of eighteen were all sent to the family school to study, which was no different from his direct line of descent.

The six elders were all old brothers of Cohen's grandfather, Rhine, during his military days. It was only when Rhine was able to return to the Wind City to set up his family did the six elders, who were almost a hundred years old, and also over sixty years old, suddenly look back and realize that their original civilian families had already become different. They were still living a difficult life without the protection of the powerful family, and after Rhine learned about their situation, he sent out an invitation on behalf of the Moutes family, and the latter brought their respective family members to the Wind City, joining the Moutts family together to become the six elders of the Moutts family.

Among the six elders, only the youngest one, Patriarch Seven, came alone. Speaking of which, this expert who was only sixty-four years old now looked no older than Cohen's father, Jason. However, at the insistence of Rhine, he became the seventh uncle's grandfather, Cohen.

As for why Patriarch Seven didn't get married, this was something that many people in the family were willing to spend some time guessing in private. For Patriarch Seven, who was a bit eccentric, he never minded.

Rincewind had only seen a few of the most rigid smiles of this serious elder in Cohen's memory.

Such a person would be sent by his grandfather to protect him? Lin Ke couldn't help but think about it, but since he couldn't get any information, he could just let it pass.

Cohen's mother, Ce'Nedra, chatted with him for another half day before noticing that Lin Ke was a little tired. She repeatedly warned him not to leave while he was recuperating and even warned him not to leave with a stomach full of unease. Lin Ke knew that Cohen's mother, Selina, was a very important person in the family. She controlled most of the family's businesses, and no matter how many people she worked, she would always be busy and busy. This was a feeling that Lin Ke understood.

At the same time, Rincewind was a little worried. He didn't have the confidence to stay with Cohen's mother for a long time without revealing anything, because he didn't want to lose her and the family that had first given him warmth.

He kept telling himself over and over that Lin Ke was Cohen and that I was Cohen!

Before he closed his eyes and lay down, he spoke to Cohen, who he did not know existed, in a deep voice, "I'm sorry, Cohen."

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Rincewind was awakened by a sob.

He did not know how long he slept, but he knew that when he woke up, his mind was exceptionally clear. There was not a single part of his body that was not filled with energy, making him desperately want to find a place to release his excess energy.

This feeling could not be any better. Back on Earth, he had never experienced such a feeling.

"Master Cohen, you're awake."

The one who spoke was a girl that even Lin Ke, who was used to seeing artificial beauties in the Earth magazine, had his eyes lit up. She had bright golden hair with clear blue eyes, like a Barbie who came back to life.

Lin Ke felt that he had been stunned for at least a thousandth of a second before he stood up and greeted her, "En, good morning big sister Xue'er." As he said this, he naturally brushed past her shoulder and caught a whiff of a faint fragrance.

"Master Cohen, please," Alice, who was crying on the other side, threw herself in front of Cohen as if she was drowning. "Please, for the sake of all these years, don't drive me away. Please."

"Of course." Link felt a little thirsty, so he took a look at Ally. She obviously wouldn't help him store water, so he poured himself another glass of water and drank it.

"Really, you, you really agreed to not send me to the West District?" Ellie's watery eyes widened as she stared at Link as if she were looking at someone she had never met.

"Master Cohen, Lady Selina is very dissatisfied with Ally's dereliction of duty. She has already decided to leave the family and return to the Western District." The Barbie girl, Xue'er, answered the questions in Link's mind.

"Oh, so it's like this. Then will you give her a sum of money?" Link asked casually, ignoring the despairing look in Ellie's eyes.

"Of course, Lady Ce'Nedra has already told me to take care of her life," she said, going over to Link and gently taking the glass of water from him and refilling it again.

"I seem to have slept for a long time." He naturally walked to a large mirror, and only then did he see his current appearance for the first time: a pair of light blue eyes exuding a peculiar luster under long golden hair, a towering nose and faint smile on his lips. Everything looked so harmonious, compared to the public face in his previous life, it could be said to be quite enchanting.

"Three days." Xue'er's three slender, porcelain fingers caught his attention. "Moreover, it's not early morning yet. Doctor Ka Ma came by yesterday to say that your body recovered shockingly fast. You'll probably wake up today."

"What an experienced doctor," Rincewind said, putting the cup of water on the table and stretching. "Let's go out for a walk, it's been too long in this room, it's time to get some air." Rincewind stood up and ruffled Ellie's hair, which was very soft and maroon. "I agreed to your request, little Ellie," he said, looking up at her with a smile that revealed his white teeth.

Xue'er could no longer conceal the astonishment in her eyes. Following that, a bright smile captivated Linke. "Madam will definitely be very happy to hear your words."

With a smile, Linke turned around and walked out.

"Did you just call me big sister Xue'er?" Xue'er quietly walked a little behind Lin Ke, not far away but not too close. Behind her was Ailee. She had already put down the heavy burden. She was like a little bird in the spring, walking much faster than usual.

"What, you're afraid I'll go back on my word?" With his hands behind his back, Lin Ke passed through one courtyard after another, as if he was casually visiting some historical monument.

The natural environment of this world was much better than Earth's. The air was fresh and clear, the flowers and plants were bright and moving, and even in the Moutes' family mansion located in the center of Wind City, there were still trees everywhere that would probably need two people to surround them before they could be embraced. The lush treetops cast mottled shadows on the flat stone surface of the road that swayed with the wind.

Xue'er shook her head. "You have never called me that before. Even though we have met countless times, you have become a little different."

Rincewind hadn't expected that the first person to notice such a difference was not Cohen's mother, Selina, but the girl who had only been with Cohen for less than ten minutes. In Cohen's memory, they had only met for a very small amount of time.

Maybe it was because of that one moment of upheaval, which allowed me to clearly see a lot of things that I had never seen before in my life, those things that I had neglected before, those things that I had persisted in, those things that I had once disdained and those things I had once been proud of, it was as if I had lived fourteen years anew.

Xue'er was still not used to his jumping thoughts, so she was a little stunned.

Passing through a simple, hard, wooden door on the tall, thick academy wall, there was a huge square. Based on Cohen's memories, Lin Ke knew that this was the Mutsi family's academy, where all the children under the age of eighteen studied and trained, hoping that they would be able to successfully stimulate their energy before leaving the academy to become a noble, professional, and henceforth change their lives.

Countless facts had proven that if a human being could not awaken their relationship with the free energy of the outside world before he or she became a professional, he or she would never be able to make a breakthrough in his or her entire life. He or she could only live as an ordinary person.

The academy consisted of several types of people. The first type was Rhine's direct bloodline, which included six boys and three girls, including Cohen. They were the most favored students in the school, the oldest being nineteen years old but still unwilling to give up and leave. The second type was the young descendants of the five great elders. This was a relatively loose group, and everyone was keen to go up, hoping that one day they could break through their limits and become a professional, with a better future within the family. The third type were the descendants of Rhine's dead brothers. They were the most united because they were discriminated against in the family. The fourth group was the group of servants. They were the group with the largest number of students in the academy and were the future reserves of the big families. They were all children from poor families or orphans. From a very young age, they were adopted into the academy by the various large families, and were given treatment and a life that the common people's children would never be able to have until the day they became professionals and entered the circle that the family focused on nurturing, or became servants or guards after the age of eighteen, and completely integrated into the family. Like a rootless drop in the sky, they destined to fall into the river but only created a small ripple.

He would never be like a savior who would barge into the shackles to save someone, because he knew that only he could save himself, and only he could break free from the shackles that surrounded him, giving him a new lease of life.

He didn't come to class. Today, he came to see someone, a brother who gave him a bowl of broth.

The arrival of Linke attracted the attention of almost everyone in the square who was exercising. At the edge of the square, there was a small forest. It was quiet and secluded, and under the shade of the trees, a few young men in long robes were meditating, and at the moment, there were already people looking over, while in the center of the square, a large group of boys with bare upper bodies looked even darker and brighter under the sunlight, because they had smeared medicine on them. Their teammates with wooden sticks were hitting their hard muscles one by one at a set rhythm, using the most primitive pain to stimulate the acupuncture points all over their bodies.

Around the square, groups of girls were fighting and fighting with wooden spurs, dancing like swallows, while scattered youths were hacking at the stakes with blunt swords, as if they were angry cubs.

This was the most important color in Cohen's memory. It was where he spent most of his childhood! While the other children on Earth were playing in the playground, he had already meditated in the forest day after day. When the children in the school square had all left, he was still silently meditating in the familiar woods, trying to figure out the true meaning of magic.

Cohen was never a genius.

However, he had done everything that everyone thought was impossible!