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"Uncle, can you have another bowl of porridge?" Zeng Yi held a large bowl and looked at the old man sitting opposite him and asked.

"Eat! You're welcome, I've boiled a big pot! I can't finish it all by myself. The old man smiled kindly at Zeng Yi, and got up to pick up Zeng Yi's bowl.

"Come, I'll help you sheng."

"Hey, no, no, I'll do it myself, how can I ask your old man to serve me porridge for a little kid." Seeing the old man like this, Zeng Yi hurriedly waved his hand, quickly stood up, and walked to the pot to serve it to himself.

Seeing Zeng Yi like this, the old man said with a smile: "What's the trouble, if you hadn't saved my old bones, the old body would have died a long time ago." ”

"Haha, it's a good job." Zeng Yi smiled and walked back to his seat and sat down.

The old man was so tired of working in the field that he happened to be seen by Zeng Yi, who was passing by, so he rescued the old man who was suffering from heat stroke and sent him home.

The old man's home was in a nearby village, and now, Zeng Yi was a guest at the old man's home.

"Uncle, why don't I serve some for you?"

"No, no, I can't eat much." Seeing that Zeng Yi stretched out his hand to take his bowl, the old man shook his head and refused.

Seeing the old man's insistence, Zeng Yi had no choice but to give up.

"Uncle, your pickles are really delicious, you made them yourself?" Zeng Yi sandwiched a mouthful of pickled vegetables and drank a mouthful of white porridge, the taste was really incomparably enjoyable and nostalgic.

Hearing Zeng Yi say this, the old man smiled happily on his face, and his wrinkles became a line, "This is my own pickling, if the benefactor likes it, take some with you when you leave." ”

"Uncle, you just call me Xiao Yi, the benefactor or something sounds weird." Zeng Yi smiled, "If you say so, then I'm welcome." ”

Looking at Zeng Yi's eating, the old man couldn't help but be in a trance, and all kinds of thoughts flashed in his heart, and then he sighed.

"How long has it been since this picture......"

Hearing this somewhat sad voice, Zeng Yi couldn't help but raise his head, looking at the old man's somewhat depressed figure, feeling a little pitiful.

"Uncle, do you live alone?" Zeng Yi asked.

"Yes, it's alone now, and my wife left last year." The old man sighed, picked up his cigarette and took a puff, exhaling a sorrowful white smoke.

"I'm sorry to remind you of something sad." Hearing the old man say this, Zeng Yi was a little embarrassed.

"It's okay, I've already seen it, I'm at this age, life and death have been downplayed, it's just the difference between leaving early and leaving late." The old man said with a light smile.

"But the good thing is that she goes first. My wife is the least daring, and if I leave and leave her alone, how will she live? As he spoke, the old man's eyes flashed with longing, and he laughed.

Hearing this, Zeng Yi couldn't help but be silent, and his mood became heavy.

"Uncle, don't you have any children?" Then, Zeng Yi asked suspiciously.

The old man replied with some melancholy, "The eldest son went to the army, and now he has never returned, and the second son has been in the city." ”

The old man knew very well in his heart that his eldest son had not returned for many years, and it was estimated that he had stayed on the battlefield forever, and his second son was really evil!

"Then your son won't take you to the city, leaving you alone in the country?" Zeng Yi also knew in his heart that the old man's eldest son might have died, so he avoided this problem.

"I'm not used to living in the city, but I still like to take the countryside with me, after all, my roots are here." The old man said faintly.

But Zeng Yi noticed that when the old man said this, there was something wrong with his expression.

This made Zeng Yi think of something in an instant, and anger couldn't help but rise in his heart. An old man, who doesn't want to be old by himself, has the company of his relatives, and this old man, obviously has a son, but he lives alone in the countryside, and it is impossible to say in his heart that he is not lonely.

And his son, but he didn't want to support his old husband, leaving him alone to live in the countryside, but he enjoyed happiness in the city, which was really a son of man in vain.

"Forget it, don't talk about this, it's ruining the atmosphere." Seeing that the atmosphere was a little awkward, the old man said with a smile. "Where is the benefactor? Looking at the benefactor's appearance, it should be a soul master, right? ”

"Well, I'm from the Principality of Mixiu, and I'm indeed a soul master." Zeng Yi scratched the back of his head and said.

"Sure enough, looking at the benefactor's temperament, it must be extraordinary, and he became a soul master at a young age, which can be described as a young and promising!" The old man stroked his white beard and exclaimed.

This made Zeng Yi a little embarrassed. Uncle is an ordinary person who has never seen much of the world, and thinks that as long as he becomes a soul master, he will be glorious for a lifetime. As everyone knows, before becoming a soul master, before he had strong strength, he was also a low-level figure in the soul master world, and it can be said that he was more cruel than the world of ordinary people.

"That's right, uncle. Is this the Heaven Dou Earth Realm or the Star Luo Earth Realm? Zeng Yi thought of this question and asked.

The area of the Star Dou Great Forest connects the two empires of Heaven Dou and Star Luo, although Zeng Yi entered the Star Dou Great Forest from the territory of Heaven Dou, but where he came out, he didn't know whether it was Heaven Dou or Star Luo.

"This is the territory of the Heaven Dou Empire." The old man replied.

"Within the Heaven Dou Empire?" Zeng Yi couldn't help but be stunned, he didn't expect that he would enter the territory of the Heaven Dou Empire from the territory of the Barak Kingdom, which was just right, and it would be convenient to go to the Heaven Dou Imperial City when the time came.

"Uncle, what's the name of the nearest city?"

The old man said, "The nearest city is called Tianshui City, and my son happens to live there. ”

Tianshui City? What a strange name.

Hearing the old man's words, Zeng Yi secretly decided in his heart that his next stop would be to go to this Tianshui City.

After that, the sky was already dark, and Zeng Yi didn't plan to take advantage of the night to hurry, but spent the night at the old man's place.

Early the next morning, Zeng Yi said goodbye to the old man and prepared to go to Tianshui City.

In front of the wooden house, the old man took out two jars of porcelain altars and handed them to Zeng Yi, and asked, "Benefactor, please go to Tianshui City and go to Fulan Restaurant, my son is there, you can give him a jar of pickles." Tell him that I'm doing well in the country and don't worry. ”

Holding two jars, these two jars weigh more than a dozen catties, and Zeng Yi, who can support thousands of catties without pressure, feels that his palms are extremely heavy, this is his father's weight.

Even if the uncle's son is not filial, the uncle still thinks about his son in his heart.

"Don't worry, I'll definitely pass it on to him." Zeng Yi promised with a smile, and he had decided in his heart that he must educate the unfilial son for the old man.

"Then I'll take my leave, uncle, take care." Zeng Yi spoke, and in the old man's surprised eyes, he put away the two jars and turned to leave.

"By the way, benefactor, on the way to Tianshui City, I heard that there are robbers, you should be careful!" Looking at the back of Zeng Yi leaving, the old man remembered this and hurriedly shouted at Zeng Yi to remind him.

"Thanks for the reminder, if I meet those bandits, I'll take care of them too, hahaha." Hearing this, Zeng Yi laughed and walked away quickly.

Listening to the laughter that came, the old man couldn't help but be stunned, and watched Zeng Yi's figure get smaller and smaller until it disappeared.

"Hope it's okay......"

The old man muttered, walked into the room, and closed the door casually.

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