"Brother Ye, your precious apprentices have all driven away, it's almost!" Old Man Long said with a smile, and Old Man Chen also nodded in agreement.

Ye Rong nodded, and then he didn't see much movement in his hand, and Old Man Long seemed to be slapped out by an invisible huge slap, directly over the fence and into Jiangning's courtyard.

"Is it real?" Old Man Chen raised his legs and wanted to run, but he followed in the same footsteps as Old Man Long.

Ye Rong clapped his hands with a smile, "Anything can scare you into joking, but my apprentice's business will not!" ”

Old Man Long and Old Man Chen got up from the ground, looking at each other and crying and laughing, what is this! They know that Boss Ye protects his shortcomings, just like when they were young, Boss Ye is so busy that he dares to tear off a single hair of his family, and now that they are all old, Boss Ye has devoted all his attention to this apprentice, it is estimated that unless Jiang Ning accepts a little apprentice for him, otherwise this protection will not be transferred, they will be honest with Jiang Ning in the future, and there will be absolutely no light if they are caught!

At this moment, if Jiang Ning knew this, I am afraid that his heart would be even more moved, and he would not be entangled in making that dish, I am afraid that he would make the real Manchu and Han banquets.

"Jiang Ning?"

Jiang Ning was struggling with how many big dishes to cook when a surprised voice suddenly came from behind him.

Turning his head to look over, a young man about his age looked at him with surprise, carefully recalled the memory in his mind, and suddenly remembered the guy who sat behind him in high school, who was a well-known cold man in their class at that time.

"It's really you!" Gao Tu pushed the myopic glasses on his face that were deviated because the expression was too shocked, and said with a smile: "When did you come back, I heard that you were kidnapped eight years ago, and I have no news since then, where have you been all these years?" If it's inconvenient, I didn't ask! ”

"Huh! It's nothing, it's been a while since you've been back, are you here to buy groceries? Jiang Ning didn't say it, he also looked at people, and people who were destined to have nothing to do with him were polite, there was no need to say too much, it was not that he looked down on people, it was for the good of others, his enemies were too many to count, in case they were seen to be enthusiastic about hooking shoulders and backs, maybe it would affect others.

A touch of disappointment flashed in Gao Tu's eyes, nodded and smiled: "Yes, my girlfriend is pregnant, and she wants to eat some vegetarian food today, but there is no more at home, so I came out to buy some and go back to do it, you are also here to buy vegetables?" ”

Jiang Ning nodded, thinking about the temperament of this cold man in high school, who would have thought that he would change so much in less than ten years, and secretly sighed in his heart that no one would spare the pig-killing knife of the years, slowly cutting people's bodies and minds.

Gao Tu saw that Jiang Ning didn't speak again, and after hesitating for a moment, he whispered, "Have you seen Xia Zitong all these years?" ”

"Have you seen her?" Jiang Ning's body trembled violently and asked in disbelief.

Gao Tu shook his head and sighed, "It seems that you haven't seen her face, too, she disappeared less than a month after your disappearance, but she happened to meet me before leaving, leave me a word to tell you!" ”

"What?" Jiang Ning's heart trembled violently, and his eyes became anxious when he looked at Gao Tu, he tried various ways to contact Xia Zitong before he returned to China, but he found nothing, and even had the idea of returning to Huaxia in person, but finally gave up, he had too many enemies at that time, and he would definitely bring disaster to his family when he came back.

Gao Tu looked at Jiang Ning a little unbearable, but finally sighed and said, "I can see that you still haven't forgotten Xia Zitong, and you still love her deeply, but if you listen to the words she left for you, you may, forget it, the extra words make you even more uncomfortable, I'll just say it!" ”

Gao Tu paused and said seriously: "At that time, I met Xia Zitong at the train station, the people around her were very strange, they were all eighteen or nineteen-year-old teenagers, but they were not our kind of clothes, but similar to ancient costumes, including Xia Zitong, at that time I thought they were going to perform somewhere, and then I thought about Xia Zitong's words, I think it is very likely that Xia Zitong was used by some cult organizations!" ”

The black light in Jiang Ning's eyes flashed, he squinted at Gao Tu, and said with a meaningful smile: "I remember that you were the coldest when you were in school, why are you so gentle now, have you been transformed by a woman!" ”

"Huh!" Gao Tu laughed dryly, obviously not hearing the other meaning in Jiang Ning's words, but fortunately, he might also feel that he had been verbose enough, so he said it directly, "At that time, Xia Zitong told me, let me tell you that she would rather exchange you for a lifetime than be afraid of you every day!" ”

"Finished?" The smile on Jiang Ning's face froze.

"Ahh Yes, that's it, you didn't know it at the time, I never talked to a girl, she probably knew that I was wrong just left such a sentence and left, and followed those strangely dressed teenagers to the special passage of the train station! ”

"Do you remember what it was that day?" Jiang Ning's voice was a little cold.

Gao Tu didn't think much about it, thinking that Jiang Ning might not be able to stand this blow for a while, and said comfortingly: "It was around September 20th, I don't remember it clearly, don't be sad, Xia Zitong may be doing well now, but she doesn't want to come back, after all, she doesn't have her parents, you know, there are no things and people she is nostalgic for, and she may come back, we don't know, you say yes!" ”

"Hmmm! Thank you, I went first, and there are still a lot of things to buy! Jiang Ning was anxious, but he also knew that this kind of thing was not in a hurry at all, so he said goodbye to Gao Tu, walked directly to the meat stall on the side, picked up a few pieces of good beef and a sturgeon, and walked out with them.

Walked to the front of the car, threw the ingredients into the trunk casually, sat directly in the driving position, and the hand that took out the mobile phone was even trembling, eight years, a full eight years, he changed himself out for her, and she was the only one who was held hostage abroad, and now there is finally a trace of news, he can't even say what he feels in his heart, the closest may be the gain and loss!

The news is very clear, he believes that the ability of the mouse should be able to find out these information, at the beginning Zitong followed a group of teenagers in strange costumes, a very clear goal, and it is still a special channel, it is easy to check, it is also difficult to check, this kind of information is generally backed up, but after all, eight years have passed, even the clues that were obvious at that time are basically blurred now!

In any case, it is better to have a clue than nothing, and he at least has a direction to follow, so that he will not run into it like a headless fly.

Dialed the mouse's mobile phone, told the mouse this useful information, and finally added a sentence, very important, more important than life.

The mouse went to check, this time was a kind of torment, Jiang Ning decided to go back to the master to hold a table to thank the master for the most important thing, people have to live in the moment, he doesn't want to chase when he goes away, except for this woman, because she is an obsession in his heart, an obsession that he will never forget in this life.

Gao Tu looked at the shadow of Jiang Ning driving away at the door of the vegetable market, a smile appeared on his face, he took out his mobile phone and dialed a number, and said with a soft smile: "Big brother, the news has been leaked to you, you can prepare over there, it is estimated that it will not take long to find you!" ”

After saying that, Gao Tu hung up the phone, and a gentle smile of a good family man rose on his face again, and he walked towards the community not far away with the vegetables in his hand.

Jiang Ning drove away too early, if he heard Gao Tu's words, it is estimated that there would be no big trouble in the future.

It's a pity that he didn't hear it, and when he drove back to the Soul Detention Palace, he had already returned to his usual appearance, took out all the ingredients from the trunk, and carried them into the courtyard, the first thing he saw was the gray-headed old man Long squatting on the side and playing chess with Old Man Chen, and Old Man Chen was no better.

What made Jiang Ning cry and laugh was that the two old men were obviously stinky chess baskets, but they were still babbling and playing very hard, while Ye Rong was sitting on the stone table in the courtyard and sipping tea gently, Li Min was in charge of making tea on the side, and it was still kung fu tea, which made him a little surprised, but he didn't expect Li Min to have the energy to learn this tedious craft.

"Xiao Ning is back, what are you going to cook for Master? This thank-you banquet can't be simple, this is a formal form, don't fool Master! Ye Rong was in a good mood, and there was a hint of ridicule in his words with a smile.

Jiang Ning smiled, hid those emotions in his heart to the bottom, raised the bag of ingredients in his hand, and said with a smile: "Master rest assured, this place is not as rich as the capital, the ingredients are not so rich, although the banquet is a little shabby, but with your apprentice's skills, even cabbage and tofu can make flowers!" ”

Ye Rong looked at Jiang Ning, "Okay, I'll wait for you to carve cabbage and tofu, if you do it well, where do I have ten catties of good wine that you have never drunk when I go back, and I will give it to you!" ”

"It's a pity that there is no good wine today, otherwise the thank-you banquet will be even richer!" Jiang Ning said with some loss.

Old man Chen's eyelids jumped, threw the seven or eight chess pieces in his hand directly on the chessboard, jumped out and smiled: "It's okay, I have it!" My old Chen lacks everything, so there is no shortage of good wine, I will go to the Los Angeles branch to pick it up, and I will be back in half an hour at most! ”

Old man Long's hateful teeth itched, he saw that he was about to win, but he was stirred up, Ye Rong was in the courtyard, he didn't dare to come out even if he had a temper.

The corners of Jiang Ning's mouth twitched, although the Chen family is a large group that distributes alcohol, there is not much real good wine, and most of them are in the middle and low grades.

But it doesn't matter, it's a big deal to make four wine dishes, and stimulate the mellow aroma of the wine ten times more, "I'm going to cook!" ”

After speaking, he ignored Old Man Long's gaze, and went directly to the kitchen, and the mobile phone in his pocket began to ring, and the call was from a mouse.

"Jiang Ning, you have to compensate me for all the losses, sooner or later you will be made into a psychopath, the psychological shadow of the zombie has not passed, you will let me go to see the head descending master in the south again, if I don't happen to know that thing is fake, I have to be scared of a heart attack today!" The rat's voice was angry.

The corners of Jiang Ning's mouth twitched, and then he thought of what Gao Tu told him, and his heart suddenly beat violently, "What do you mean by this?" What a head lowerer, that's all a lie to a three-year-old child, you make it clear! ”

"What else could there be, through your description, I really found that woman!" The mouse's voice was a little smug.