Everyone ate very happily at this sumptuous dinner, and everyone was full of praise for Grandma Chen Jianing's craftsmanship.

Xu Yuxin always had a kind smile on her face, and she was happy to see the guests eating happily.

After dinner, everyone talked to Chen Jianing's family in the living room, and when they were about to go back to rest, Chen Bin took out a paper material from the room and handed it to Ding Xiu.

"Grandpa Chen, this is for me?" Ding Xiu pointed to himself and asked.

"A letter of introduction to the Eastern Front, bring this, after you go to the front, someone will naturally take care of you." Chen Bin nodded with a smile on his face.

"Thank you." Ding Xiubi respectfully picked up the letter of introduction, opened it and looked at it.

"Grandpa Chen, this ...... Did you get it wrong? This is a letter of recommendation to report to Brilliant College. Ding Xiu read the contents of the paper again, and after making sure that he was not mistaken, he raised his head and looked at Chen Bin in surprise.

"Oh? Got the wrong one? Then it's wrong, you better report to Brilliant Academy. Chen Bin smiled, Chen Jianing next to him had already understood his intentions, and his face was happy.

"Then I'm not going to the front?" Ding Xiu hadn't recovered from his shock yet, "What about the front line?" ”

"On the front line, aren't there still us old things, just as calm."

"Ding Xiu, my grandfather has actually planned it a long time ago, and the path he arranged for you is to go to Brilliant Academy." Chen Jianing smiled at him: "Put away the letter of recommendation, and I'll take you to the college tomorrow to sign up." ”

"I can let Ding Xiu rest for a few more days, they have come all the way, and they don't have to be in such a hurry to sign up." Chen Bin said.

"Grandpa Chen, I'd better go tomorrow." Ding Xiu thought for a moment: "I haven't studied much before, and I am already a lot behind compared to those students in the academy, so I have to hurry up and seize the day." ”

"The letter of recommendation has been given to you, when to sign up, you can come according to your own ideas." Chen Bin nodded: "Before you go to the academy, I have one more sentence to send you." ”

"Grandpa Chen, please speak." Ding Xiubi stood up straight respectfully.

"The route is full of each composition, so the talents have their own way; It is precisely because people have their own way that everyone has their own success. Chen Bin paused, looked at Ding Xiu and continued: "The road of life is tortuous and long, but there are often only a few steps at the critical point. I hope you can make persistent efforts to live up to your youth, ideals and country! ”

"Your words, I remember. Thank you, Grandpa Chen. Ding Xiu said gratefully. The old man's advice made his heart stir and his blood churned.

Chen Jianing sent Ding Xiu and the others back to the guest room, and everyone took a walk in the gardens on both sides of the aisle. On this moonlit and starry night, the world suddenly became extraordinarily beautiful in the eyes of everyone.

"Ding Xiu, it's good that you finally don't have to go to the front line." Chen Jianing was sincerely happy for him.

"I will cherish this life-changing opportunity." Ding Xiu was also very happy, at this moment, how could he not understand that Chen Bin's previous words to him that he would go to the front were just a test of him.

Chen Bin also learned some about Ding Xiu's situation from the housekeeper Zhao Yang, including what Ding Xiu said on the road when he went to pick up people in the car.

Regarding Ding Xiu's ability, Chen Bin could roughly guess something after asking Chen Jianing. He judged that Ding Xiu's combat strength was about 40~50, and looking at the entire Brilliant Academy, it was only the level of the middle level. Like some extremely outstanding students, such as Meng Huaiyu and Meng Zhixi, these two brothers and sisters, as the leaders of the Courage Branch, have a combat strength approaching 100, and a watershed of breaking through the triple digits is just around the corner.

Of course, if the combat effectiveness reaches the range of 40~50, it is enough for this person to crisscross a city and a town, but if you want to be known by the whole country, the combat effectiveness of 100 is just the starting point.

Ding Xiu was born recklessly, and at the age of nineteen, he raised his combat strength to a height of 40~50, which was already very rare in Chen Bin's opinion, so the old man had the confidence to recommend him to enter the Brilliant Academy after confirming his temperament.

In today's world, ordinary people, even if they have amazing luck, cannot reach the heights that the elite aristocracy can achieve, because the stronger the stronger, the weaker the weaker.

The elites are better equipped to optimize their genes and those of the next generation, and they have the wealth to do many things that ordinary people would never think possible, so the barriers of class have not cracked as the common people had hoped, but have become stronger.

Only a wealthy family in a giant city where the brothers and sisters of the Meng family are located can give birth to such an amazing successor.

"As long as you can enter the Brilliant Academy, it is equivalent to having one foot in the door of the upper class." Chen Jianing said to Ding Xiu that the girl's words are not an exaggeration at all, because the person who can graduate from the academy has become a talent from all walks of life and even the government and the army from the moment he leaves the school.

"Really?" It was Shen You who asked, "So, your school is quite powerful, isn't it?" ”

"Xiaoyou, not only is it quite powerful, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the most powerful academy in the entire Graylls." Gu Beimo said: "Think about it, Jia Ning is studying inside, and the grandson and granddaughter of the predecessor of the Gun King also come here from Tianque City to study, what does this mean?" ”

"What does it mean?" Shen You is still a little unsure.

"It means it's the best, otherwise why would everyone rush in?"

"Lao Gu is right." Song Xijun nodded, "When I was in Jiaping City, I was fortunate to hear people talk about this college, and a few years ago, my father planned to spend a lot of money to send me to study. ”

"And then?" Song Xijun's words aroused everyone's curiosity.

"And then there was no more." Song Xijun said, and smiled self-deprecatingly: "Since then, I have understood a truth, some things are not something that can be done with money." ”

"But it's better to have money than no money." Gu Beimo sighed with some emotion: "Xiaoyou and I traveled from south to north, and what we ate was a loss of no money." ”

"But now it's fine." He continued: "Being able to come to Brilliant City with Ding Xiu can be regarded as coming to the end of the day. ”

"We're going to do something here." Shen You followed and said: "On the way here, I said to Lao Gu, anyway, I used to do business when I ran around, so it was better to fix it in one place." ”

"Do you do business?" Chen Jianing was a little curious.

"Open a store or something, people can't be idle anyway, and if you stay idle for a long time, you may become decadent." Shen You nodded.

"If we open a store, we can help." Chen Jianing said.

"Really? That's great. Shen You's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but look happy, "Then I'm going to open a flower shop." ”

"Why do you want to open a flower shop?" Song Xijun was a little curious.

"Hey, hey." Gu Beimo took over and said: "It is said that it is a flower shop, but it is actually an intelligence station, taking into account selling some materials." ”

He explained: "I discussed with Xiaoyou, the flower shop is the watch, and the intelligence station is the inside. Flowers and plants attract insects, and Yo's ability is to communicate with them, so we have countless 'little helpers' to help gather information and intelligence. ”

"That's a good idea." Chen Jianing clapped her hands and praised.

"Sister Xijun, you and me and Lao Gu can open a store together." Shen You said to Song Xijun.

"Okay." Song Xijun hadn't thought about what he was going to do next, but when he heard the invitation of his companion, he readily agreed.

"It's good that everyone has something to do now." Ding Xiu is very happy, he is about to go to Brilliant Academy to study, so he can't stay with his companions every day like before, now that everyone has arrangements, he can relax and better concentrate on learning.

"Then it's settled." Shen You looked excited: "Tomorrow, when Ding Xiu and Sister Jia Ning go to the academy to register, we will also go to the neighborhood to find a suitable store, and then set up a store." ”

Everyone happily discussed for a while, and did not return to the guest room until it was getting late.

"Good night everyone, see you tomorrow." Chen Jianing is also going back, she is the host, and she will not stay in the guest room at night.

"Jia Ning (Sister Jia Ning) good night!"

Everyone said goodbye downstairs in the guest room, went upstairs to wash up and get ready to rest.

Outside the window, in the dead of night, Ding Xiu lay on the tatami mat by the floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the bright moon and a few stars overhead, and couldn't sleep for a long time.

"Second Lieutenant Zhang, I have avenged my brothers."

"Uncle Chen, you asked me to go out and see more of the world, I saw it...... But I can't see you anymore......"

"Uncle Rong, you used to say that if you are a soldier all your life, the most disadvantaged thing is that you are uneducated, so in addition to teaching me to shoot since I was a child, you also taught me to read and write...... I'm going to read now, so you'd be happy to hear that, right? ”

……

In the hazy moonlight, everything in front of him seemed a little unreal, and Ding Xiu had a dreamlike feeling. He opened his eyes and looked out the window in a daze, and there seemed to be vivid faces flying in front of him, which only stayed for a moment, and then disappeared with them.

After a long time, Ding Xiu still couldn't sleep, he had insomnia.

Ding Xiu sat up from the tatami mat, pushed open the door, and gently walked to the living room to pour a glass of water. He took a sip in his mouth and swallowed it for a while.

As he was about to go back to his room, his eyes suddenly fell on the bookshelf next to the cabinet.

"Since you can't sleep, let's read a book." Ding Xiu thought like this, and his feet had unconsciously walked towards the bookshelf.

Reading books was a very luxurious thing for him, who used to be in the barracks of the border guards, but now it has become readily available.

Ding Xiu's gaze swept over the bookshelf, because there were too many books, he had some difficulty in choosing.

Fortunately, this kind of trouble quickly disappeared, because he saw a familiar name on the spine of that row of books - Chen Bin.

"The Walking Dead? Is this a book written by Grandpa Chen? ”

With surprise and doubts in his heart, Ding Xiu opened the cover of the book. Sure enough, the introduction inside is the information of the book and the author, along with the author's photo.

"Sure enough, it's a book written by Grandpa Chen!" Ding Xiu's eyes lit up and he took the biography back to his room.

The book was opened, and a story that happened forty years ago jumped out of the book, firmly attracting Ding Xiu's gaze.

"It turns out that Jianing's grandfather and grandmother met like this......"

"Where is Songhu City?"

……

"The zombie virus was so bad?!"

"Chongming Island, Changxing Island, Hengsha Island? Don't...... Could it be that these three islands are the 'paradise' that the old people in the camp often talk about? ”

……

"Professor Zhang Dada's Lie ......"

……

The sky was slightly white, the moon and the stars were gone, and the young Ding Xiu was still immersed in the world of the book, he was swimming in the long river of history forty years ago.