At ten o'clock in the evening, it is the busiest time for food stalls, unemployed young people who have nothing to do, white-collar workers who work overtime and return late, and students from nearby schools all like to come to the food stalls to have a drink or two at this point.

"Hurry up, hurry up, you can't fucking do anything"!

"Dog's day, I broke Lao Tzu's plate again, don't think about taking today's salary."

"It's not served yet, I've been waiting for half an hour, and I won't come again."

"Do you remember being eaten by a dog, you served the wrong dish again, and your salary will be deducted tomorrow."

It looked like the man was sweating profusely and was in a hurry, apologizing to the boss and the customer again and again.

At a table in the corner sat a man in his sixties and seventies, watching the man's embarrassment intently.

The moment he turned around, the Sven man also saw the man.

"Why are you stunned, is Lao Tzu in a daze when he invited you here?" A shout woke the Sven man from his daze, hurriedly sighed, and trotted over to serve the food.

Nalan Zhenbang saw all this in his eyes, and his heart was extremely complicated.

Nalan Ziran is the same, and the complexity of his mood is no less than that of Nalan Zhenbang. Growing up, this father never looked at him squarely. He hated him, and tried his best to prove it to him, but he couldn't prove anything but that he was a joke.

When it was Nalan Zhenbang's turn to serve food, he lowered his head, quickly threw down the plate, turned around and ran. In a hurry, he turned around and bumped into a young man with yellow hair, and although he nodded and apologized, he was still slapped by the man and kicked to the ground.

Nalan Zhenbang's heart spasmed, and he stretched out his hand to stand up to stop it, but when he saw Nalan Ziran's hateful eyes lying on the ground, he slowly withdrew his hand.

Approaching late at night, Nalan Ziran began to wash pots and pans, and then began to clean up the mess all over the floor.

The boss was a middle-aged man with a fat head and big ears, and after changing his clothes, he walked out, and he couldn't help shaking his head when he saw Nalan Zi, who was clumsy and cleaning.

"A big man, he can't do anything, how the hell have you survived all these years".

Nalan Ziran helped his glasses, bent over, and lowered his head, "Boss, if you give me some time, I will definitely be able to do a good job."

The boss sighed, took out a hundred yuan from his pocket and handed it over, "Don't blame me for being stingy, it's not easy to support my family in the capital on this day."

Nalan Ziran took the banknote with trembling hands, "Thank you, boss."

The boss shook his head helplessly, "Remember to lock the door after cleaning up, there is one less plate and Lao Tzu will break your legs."

"Yes, yes, no". Nalan Ziran nodded yes again and again.

The fat-headed and big-eared boss glanced at Nalan Zhenbang, who had been sitting in the corner for a few hours, ignored it, patted his buttocks, and turned to leave.

After the food stall owner left, Nalan Zhenbang got up and slowly walked towards Nalan Ziran, stretched out his hand and grabbed the broom in Nalan Ziran's hand.

"Let me help you".

Nalan Ziran pulled the broom hard and said coldly: "Don't disturb my work."

The streets in the dead of night, one after the other, one old and one young, pull out long shadows under the street lamps.

"Ziran, can we talk?" Nalan Zhenbang said.

Nalan Ziran stopped and said lightly: "Are you here to see my jokes?"

"You know I'm not". Nalan Zhenbang's face was full of bitterness.

"We don't have much to talk about". Nalan Ziran took another step forward.

The two of them followed suit, walking into an old building, the lights in the corridor were dim, and they walked down the stairs, getting more and more humid.

The basement is divided into cubicles a few square meters in size, which can only accommodate one bed.

Nalan Zhenbang saw it in his eyes and felt pain in his heart.

Nalan Ziran looked at Nalan Zhenbang with a smile, with a sarcastic smile in his smile, "Didn't you say that I couldn't become a big thing, congratulations on what you said, are you very proud."

"Why do you bother?"

Nalan Ziran had just lit a cigarette lighter, and the flames stopped quietly in the air. "What do you mean"?

"Knowing the son, Mo Ruo's father, give up. You can be wrong once, but don't be wrong a second time."

As soon as Nalan Ziran's thumb loosened, the flames disappeared instantly, and the small basement became dim again.

"Hehehehe," Nalan Ziran kept laughing, "I thought you were concerned about my son and came to see me, but it turned out that you were worried that I would seek revenge on Nalan Zijian, I was so naïve."

Nalan Zhenbang opened his mouth, and there was an indescribable pain in his heart. "It is precisely because I care about you that I advise you to give up."

Nalan Ziran took a deep puff of cigarette, and the flame of the cigarette butt flickered in the dimly lit room.

"Some people say that people like Lu Shanmin can succeed, and I will definitely do it."

"Who is it?" Nalan Zhenbang's eyes widened violently.

"You can't control who it is."

"He's cheating on you". Nalan Zhenbang scolded.

"Hehe", "You used to say that I had low eyes, that I didn't know what the world was like at all." You're right, I used to be. Now I realize that life is right under my nose, but I have never faced it before. You used to say that I was too inferior in my heart, and you were right. I once read in a book that a person with low self-esteem will cover up his inner inferiority complex with blind arrogance, which I didn't approve of before, and I think it's right now. ”

said and looked at Nalan Zhenbang with a smile, "You also said that I am a stubborn person who is unwilling to admit my mistakes, and now that I can calmly admit my mistakes, should you feel gratified."

"Zi Ran"! "The reason why Zijian kicked you out of the Nalan family and removed you from the family tree is to save you. Just because you killed two of Lu Shanmin's men before, if it weren't for this, would he let you go?"

"Hahahaha"! Nalan Ziran raised his head and laughed, as if he had heard a big joke. "I thank him for his good intentions."

"Now that you have experienced life, it is even more important to let go, there are more unfortunate people in this world than you."

"No, I didn't go to the food stalls to be like them."

"I understand, you want to find Lu Shanmin's successful experience, but there are many successful people, and none of them can be completely replicated."

"He can, why can't I, I'm not alone, I still have cards to play."

"Listen to Dad, leave Tianjing, and don't contact Pang Zhiyuan and his son again." Nalan Zhenbang persuaded bitterly.

"Hehe", Nalan Ziran smiled coldly, "I have fallen to such a point, and they have not abandoned me." "They are much nicer to me than your biological father."

"Ziran, don't be naïve, your every move can't escape Zijian's eyes and ears."

Nalan Ziran smiled coldly, "Just because I stayed in Tianjing, is he going to kill me?"

"Will you stay in Tianjing?" Nalan Zhenbang said anxiously.

Nalan Ziran spat out a puff of smoke, "You go, we have nothing to do with each other from now on."

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Nalan Zijian stood in the courtyard, full of spring, and the green young leaves were sparsely scattered.

"One piece, two pieces, three or four pieces, five pieces, six pieces, seven or eight pieces, nine pieces, ten pieces, eleven pieces、、、"

A roar of car engines from far and near interrupted his counting, and Nalan Zijian frowned slightly, his face slightly displeased.

Gao Chang parked the car and strode towards Nalan Zijian, standing a few meters away.

"The third son, the father and son of the Pang family are unwilling to belong."

Nalan Zijian sighed, "As expected." As he spoke, he turned around and smiled at Gao Chang, "Do you think I'm doing this too much?"

"I am only beating and beating, lest they think they are wise."

"The third son is kind-hearted, because he doesn't want the second son to go to the road of no return."

"Yes, after all, it is also a very difficult thing to get rid of your second brother with your own hands." said with a faint smile, "Gao Chang, you know me better and better."

"Near Zhu Zhechi, after being by the side of the third prince for a long time, he is naturally a little smarter than before."

said and asked: "The third son suspects that the second son did it"?

Nalan Zijian looked at Gao Chang with a smile, and after a while, he smiled, "If he had this ability, he wouldn't have fallen to this point today, I just don't want him to be used by others, and when the time comes, I will be forced to attack him and get a preventive injection in advance."

"Others"?" Gao Chang blurted out.

"Who do you think someone else would be"?

Gao Chang shook his head slightly, "I don't dare to speculate."

Nalan Zijian smiled, "Zuoqiu is using me on the one hand, and on the other hand, he is laying out to guard against me." Supporting Ziying and Ziran to wait for an opportunity in secret, let me kill it, not kill it, it's not a good move, it's a good trick to make people in a dilemma."

"This man is incomprehensible."

Nalan Zijian nodded, "Yes, it seems that he is a scholar who is righteous and attaches great importance to love and righteousness, but he does not hesitate to treat Lu Shanmin's subordinates as outcasts, which seems to have traces to follow, and sometimes it is confusing to do some things."

"Compared to the great wisdom of the third prince, he is just playing tricks."

Nalan Zijian's hand touching the young leaves suddenly tightened, and he pinched off a young leaf. muttered: "Trick up"?

The change in Nalan Zijian's expression made Gao Chang a little puzzled, "Third son, did I say something wrong?"

"Gao Chang, what do you say a top smart person is most afraid of"?

"It should be that he is afraid that others will know his weaknesses, because once a person discovers his weaknesses, no matter how smart he is, he will be countered."

"That's right", "Why didn't I think of it", Nalan Zijian showed a sudden expression on his face. "I have always wondered why Zuoqiu wanted to let them die when the people in the small supermarket could not die that night, it turned out that this guy was playing tricks on me, deliberately making it impossible for me to see what kind of person he was." Nalan Zijian's face showed a hint of joy, "Yes, he held Ziran and Ziying hostage, not just to contain me, he wanted to kill them with my hand to avenge Lu Shanmin's dead subordinates, so as to atone for Lu Shanmin's sins."

Gao Chang looked at Nalan Zijian with some confusion, in his opinion, this logic made some sense, but he couldn't tell where it didn't work.

Nalan Zijian turned his head to stare at Gao Chang, his face was full of excitement, "Unconsciously, I regarded him as an opponent, but I forgot that in addition to being an opponent, he also has the identity of an ally."

The more Gao Chang listened, the more confused he became.

"Hahaha, I see, I see. Zuoqiu, you are so calculating, you really deserve to be the person I look up to Nalan Zijian."

"It's a pity, no matter how well you hide it, you also let me find my weakness"!