After marrying Princess Elena, Zhou Ming did not leave the royal capital of Woz City immediately, but stayed for a while. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

While spending his honeymoon with the princess, at the behest of King Herrian, he asked the lieutenant to lead 5,000 men and horses to gallop to the aid of Lugaburg, where the Count of Luga was besieged.

On this day, Zhou Ming, who was hunting in the forest with Elena, heard a news report from the guards who came in a hurry, put down the bow and arrow in his hand, apologized to the princess, and hurried back to Woz City.

Cheng.

In a slum where the houses are generally low, haphazardly arranged, sewage and garbage are everywhere, and a foul smell is everywhere.

Zhou Ming took a few guards with pinched noses, and under the guidance of a local guide, walked through the winding alleyways like a maze, walked for more than ten minutes, and finally came to a house with a building height of less than two meters, low and dilapidated, messy piles of debris at the door, and the foot of the stone-walled house was covered with filth and black spots.

"Venerable knight, this is the home of the 'Toxic Mama'. ”

Zhou Ming made a look, and the guards understood, took out a money bag from his waist and threw it into the guide's hand.

After taking the money bag, the middle-aged guide was overjoyed, bowed his waist again and again, looked around vigilantly for a while, quickly put the money bag into his pocket, bent over, and retired.

"Dangdang~"

In front of the low room, a guard stepped forward and knocked on the door, and after a while, he heard the sound of the deadbolt pulling, and a young and immature face poked out of the crack in the door.

Zhou Ming was shocked.

Several guards beside him also looked surprised and looked at each other.

Like, it's too similar!

The eyes and mouth, in particular, are carved out of a mold.

"What is the matter with you here?"

Seeing everyone, the young man glared at everyone and asked, hunched his waist slightly, like a leopard ready to attack, his face was full of doubt and vigilance.

When his gaze swept to Zhou Ming in the middle of the guard, the young man was also slightly stunned, this person ......

"We're here for 'Toxic Mama', is she home?" asked one of the guards.

Hearing the word "poisonous mama", the young man seemed to be greatly stimulated, and threw his arms and shouted to everyone: "No, no! You have found the wrong person, there is no mama here, you go away quickly!"

With that, the boy turned and retreated into the house, wanting to close the door.

"Wait a minute!"

Zhou Ming shouted, took two steps forward and said, "I'm Diana's friend, I just came today to see her, and I don't mean anything else." ”

Diana?

The young man was stunned, how could this man know his mother's name? Then he walked in front of him, stretched out his hand to pin the doorknob, looked at himself and whispered, "Let me go in alone, go in and see her." ”

"Ahem, ahem!"

At this time, there was a violent and hoarse coughing sound in the house, the young man panicked, let go of the hand against the door, hurriedly walked towards the house, held the hand on the bed that had been taken out of the bed, put it back in the bed, and asked with a concerned face: "Mom, are you okay?"

In the quilt, a voice like a blade scraping porcelain came: "Otto, the guest is coming, let the guest come, cough cough ......" After speaking, he coughed violently again.

"Mom, he's not a guest, he says he's your friend. "The boy is in a hurry, his mother is sick like this, and she is still thinking about her guests!

"It's me, Diane......"

Zhou Ming, who walked in, was just halfway through his words, and was immediately shocked by the appearance of a patient on the hospital bed, his mouth was wide open, and he couldn't speak.

What kind of dignity is this?

The face is full of brownish, yellow, dark, thousands of wrinkles, skin like dead wood, bones like skeletons, the beautiful face of the country and the city when he was young, a smile at this time, and even the expression moved slightly, and the wrinkle movement caused by the opening of the mouth, others will have numb scalp and pantothenic acid nausea after seeing it.

Toxic mamma.

Zhou Ming now understands why those people outside have such a nickname, poisonous, really toxic.

"Is that you?"

Hearing this somewhat familiar voice, the woman on the bed suddenly widened her eyes, as if relieved, and sighed softly: "You're finally here, okay, good......"

Letting the young man exit the house, Zhou Ming moved a stool and sat on the edge of the bed, and had a detailed conversation with this woman who had a dewy relationship with him.

Over the years, how did Diana and her son come over?

Zhou Ming wanted to know the answer to this question, and wanted to ask, how has the mother and son been doing over the years?

But about these, Diana on the hospital bed didn't say anything, just smiled "brightly", the more urgent Zhou Ming asked, the more ugly and terrifying the smile on her face.

In fact, the answer to this question was already clearly answered in his heart as early as Zhou Ming sent someone to investigate, analyze and summarize the clues.

After Diana gave birth to a son in the deep palace, perhaps because she missed her old love, the old king didn't do anything to her, even if everyone knew about it, they still claimed that it was his son, but in order to punish, Diana was demoted to the lowest level of court maids, and all favored concubine treatment was cut off, including the kind of drugs that Diana often took to maintain skin elasticity and radiance.

In this way, after spending three years in the deep palace, when the old king died of illness and the new king came to power, Herian did not hesitate to drive the wrinkled woman who made him want to vomit out of the palace with her three-year-old mongrel son.

In the ten years after being expelled from the palace, after spending all the savings on their bodies, how the mother and son would continue to survive is almost predictable.

Without any survival skills and only entertaining people all her life, what other jobs do she have to choose from besides career planning in the projects she is good at?

Hearing about the special services of "toxic mothers" in the slums, Diana, who is good at pondering men's psychology, has opened up a market for heavy tastes.

"What's the child's name? What's his name?"

After being silent for a while, Zhou Ming, who was not entangled in the answer, asked Diana.

"Otto, his name is Otto, and in my country it means a majestic lion. A hint of pride flashed across Diana's face, this was the name she had given her son!

"Otto...... Majestic lion ......"

Zhou Ming muttered twice in his mouth, looked at the quiet, silent, thin and thin young man standing on the side, and his green face, which was five points similar to himself, was covered with the gloom that was not suitable for his age, and the frowning brows from time to time released a heart-wrenching perseverance and maturity.

"Ahh

Outside the house, there was a sudden loud noise and fighting.

"What's going on?"

Zhou Ming frowned, walked to the door, and saw that the person lying on the ground who seemed to be a ruffian hooligan was beating with the fists and feet of several guards, and let out a scream.

"My lord, these ruffians say that Otto owes them 500 gold coins, and now they come to the door to ask him to pay it back. One of the guards came over and explained.

"Nonsense! I only borrowed 50 gold coins, and I promised to pay back 100 gold coins in a month, and it has only been more than a month or two days, and you say that I owe 500 gold coins, and I have so much money to pay you back?" the young man came out of the house, arguing angrily.

In order to treat his mother's illness, he had already sold everything in the house that could be sold, and now the only thing that was worth some money was this house in a better location, so he dared to borrow 50 gold coins from those black gang loan sharks who had knocked out the bones and sucked the marrow, and a month later, he used the house to pay off the debt.

But he stayed for two more days, and the loan shark rose to 500 gold coins......

"Boy! You don't know the rule that if the loan shark is overdue for one day, the interest rate will be doubled, right? If you moved out of this house two days ago, there would be no problem, but today, not only will you have to use this house to pay off your debts, but even you yourself will have to go with us! You are handsome, cultivate it well, those high-ranking officials and nobles in the south, I don't know how they will fight for it! Hahahaha, don't think that these people you invited can keep you for a lifetime!"

The ruffian leader, who was bleeding from the corners of his mouth, said with a maniacian smile on his face.

"Palm!" Zhou Ming frowned heavily and said to the guards on the side.

"Bang, bang, bang, bang!"

After a while, the ruffian leader, whose face was swollen like a pig after being slapped, cried desperately and begged for mercy.

"Give them 50 gold coins, get out of here! Dare to come again, kill them all!"

Frightened by the murderous aura in Zhou Ming's eyes, the ruffians who got the money bag left this place of right and wrong with a lot of urine.

And the young man who watched all this on the side, looking at Zhou Ming, who solved the most vicious and vicious hooligans in this group of slums in a few words, and Zhou Ming, who was full of the atmosphere of the superior, had a huge spiritual impact, which made him speechless, and a small spark took root and planted in his heart.

……

A few days later.

Diana on the hospital bed was dying.

When Zhou Ming came to visit, Diana, who had already finished explaining to her son, stretched out her hand to herself.

Zhou Ming hurriedly grabbed the hand that was like a dry firewood hanging cloth, leaned forward, put his ear to her mouth, and said, "I'm here, what do you have to say." ”

"For me... Shine... Take care...... He ......," said an extremely faint voice.

"Okay, I'll take care of him, I'll definitely take care of him!"

Zhou Ming made a guarantee, and after a while, he found that Diana was reluctant to close her eyes, as if she still had some wish, and slowly leaned towards her face with that dry firewood thin hand.

Zhou Ming, who seemed to understand what it meant, put this hand on his face, let her rub it gently, and his lips moved, as if he was saying a name.

In the gradually blurred vision of "Otto ......", it seemed to see Diana, who had grown up and stood in front of him, with two lines of tears flowing from the corners of her eyes, and slowly closed her eyes.

"Hey~"

Wiping the droplets of water from the corners of his eyes, even if Zhou Ming, who had experienced countless times in a similar scene, couldn't help but sigh.

However, after seeing the unwavering expression on the young man's face at a glance, as if he had nothing to do with himself, Zhou Ming was furious:

"Why aren't you crying?!"

But the boy clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and glared at him with red eyes, and said, "Mother said that you can't cry at any time! You can't be cowardly at any time! Because my name is Otto! My name is Otto the Lion!"

Rumble!

Zhou Ming trembled violently, staring blankly at the woman on the bed, and the words in his mind were echoing violently, and they did not disperse for a long time.

A great mother!

After a long time, Zhou Ming stood up, patted the young man on the shoulder, and said, "My name is Edward, and I am your father......"