What is the real world, this is the real world, but for Fang Chao, such a real world came a little earlier, after all, he was just twenty years old.

Some scholars once said that the mature age of people in modern society is constantly postponed with the extension of life expectancy, the average life expectancy of the ancients is more than 40 years old, and children have to start a family and bear the burden when they are in their teens, and the teenage children in modern society are still playing games and watching anime, but this does not mean that the society is regressing, it just means that the society is changing, it is not that the ancients are burdened in their teens and must be much stronger than the modern people who are still playing games in their teens, it can only be said that the times have changed, and what modern people pursue is different from the ancients.

Fang Chao is twenty years old this year, and Tang Yao should be at the age of college, as a child of the clan, he can get a job in the clan or circle without taking the university exam, but even in the circle of illusionists, those twenty-year-old inner disciples are also very free, they soak in nightclubs, eat delicacies from the mountains and seas, date all kinds of beauties, and give out tips as much as tens of thousands of dollars a night, and in this way, they actually have no ability of their own, and some of them don't even have the level of illusionist, just because they were born in the inner gate, Therefore, to be born is a human being.

It's unfair, it's too unfair to Fang Chao, and what's even more unfair is that if he has a next generation, his next generation is still an outer disciple, then he will repeat his own life, run errands for the inner disciples when he is studying, and he will not be treated by the clan when he grows up, and the most terrible thing is that if his child has a relatively good talent, then this talent will also be buried because there is no resource support.

Therefore, if Fang Chao chooses reality, then he should accept the conditions of the clan and exchange his friends for a beautiful piety.

But if he chooses to dream, then he may cause his parents to quit the illusionist circle, and he and his team will be disbanded in the future because they are suppressed and have no source of income, and his life will be bleak from now on.

Fang Chao lowered his head and didn't know what choice to make, his father snuffed out the cigarette butt and said: "Think about it, I won't blame you no matter what decision you make, you don't have to worry about it, your mother and I don't need you to worry, you just need to do what you want." ”

After saying that, he got up and left the living room, leaving Fang Chao alone to think silently.

The clock on the wall had reached seven o'clock in the evening, and Fang Chao sat silently in the living room for two hours, not saying a word or even moving.

Maybe the hot-blooded male protagonist in the anime plot will make a decision in less than a minute, and then beat the bad guy with a bang, with a magnificent BGM, which makes everyone who watches applaud.

But this is not a cartoon after all, and Fang Chao can't be the male protagonist even in a cartoon.

Friends or a stable future are very important to Fang Chao, the former represents his inner justice and persistence, and the latter represents his recognition and compromise of the true face of the world.

After all, he still has to provide for his parents in old age, and he also has to think about his future wife and children.

Just when he was hesitating, Fang Chao's mother came over and patted Fang Chao's shoulder lightly and said, "Hungry or not, let's eat first, I've been hot several times." ”

Today, Fang Chao's mother made dumplings, zucchini filling, Fang Chao's favorite, but unfortunately he has no appetite.

My father opened a bottle of Wuliangye that had been hidden for more than ten years, and opened a cup for himself and Fang Chao, who waved his hand and said, "I'm going to drive early tomorrow morning, so don't drink it." ”

"Oh, I'll drink it myself, then." Fang Chao's father suddenly poured several cups in a row, Fang Chao was taken aback, although his father occasionally drank one or two glasses, but it was not as bold as today, and he felt that he was going to get drunk.

"Dad, drink slowly, it hurts your body." Fang Chao persuaded him.

Fang Chao's father poured another glass of wine, then lit a cigarette and said: "I also had a few good friends when I was young, I was in my early twenties, not a few years older than you now, at that time there were three or four people we played with, all of them were children of small clans who were not valued, and when we drank together, we often sighed that there was no way out in the future, no matter how hard we tried, we couldn't fight those inner disciples, but I didn't expect that one of us proposed later, might as well find an opportunity for a few of us to steal a treasure from our own clan, Then find an opportunity to fly away and go to other provinces and cities to change their name and surname to set up their own organizations, so that everyone can get rich together in the future. ”

"Why haven't I heard you mention it before?" Fang Chao asked.

"Don't interrupt you, kid." Today, Fang Chao's father changed his usual appearance, perhaps because of the relationship between drinking and drinking, he seemed a little rude and continued, "Everyone thinks that although this proposal is risky but it is indeed feasible, the brothers made an appointment to steal things together and then go away together, I was not valued in the clan at the time, and I didn't give me any decent errands, but I know an old brother in the warehouse, so I went to the warehouse to play a few times, and I am more familiar with it, and I know that the security of the warehouse is a little loose, so I want to find a chance to steal a treasure inside, But my strength is not good and my luck is not good, I was caught by the old brother I knew, fortunately he let me go in the end, but he has not been with me since then, I didn't steal anything and didn't have the face to go to the agreed place to go to the appointment, who would have thought that something would happen later. ”

"What's wrong?" Fang Chao asked.

"They agreed to steal their own clan's treasures were stabbed out, the place where the brothers agreed to meet was ambushed by the people of several clans, they immediately surrounded and arrested, the brothers were caught except for one of them who escaped, and then they also confessed to me, I was called by the clan, the clan asked me to say the name of the person who escaped, I didn't say it at the time, I thought that I couldn't betray my friends no matter what, the clan was very dissatisfied with me, and even some cadres said that they wanted to expel me from the clan, I was scared and told the man's name, and after three or four days the man was caught, and it was then that I learned that everyone else but me had given his name, so even if I didn't mention a few clans, I would know. ”

"What happened to that man?" Fang Chao asked.

At this time, Fang Chao's father drank another glass of wine before slowly speaking: "Dead, I heard that when he ran away, he was injured by an inner disciple who chased after him, and the inner disciple said that he must die, and now I will go to sweep his tomb during the Qingming Festival, I said that this matter is not to say that stealing things is a good thing, of course it is wrong to steal the things of the clan, but the crime is not death, and these treasures of the clan can never fall into the hands of our outer disciples, My dead friend died at the age of twenty-three and had already passed the initial illusionist qualification, not a genius but the talent is still very good, a talent but because of his birth background and can never be reused and promoted, he wants to leave the clan will be warned by the clan that once he leaves the clan, he will be suppressed by the whole circle, so he took the risk to get a start-up capital, I sometimes think, if we didn't betray him back then, then he is now mixed up, Is it that he has made a fortune by the treasure he stole back then, if that's the case, maybe our brothers will also follow him to make a fortune and become a big man in the circle, of course, it is also possible that if we don't report it, he will also be caught, but our report really made him lose the possibility of success, and also killed our hope of becoming a big man in this circle. ”

Speaking of this, Fang Chao's father took a puff of cigarette and calmed down for a while before saying: "Son, I hope that you can live a peaceful life from the bottom of my heart, but I am also young, so I also hope that you can make a difference, don't be afraid, don't worry, don't be burdened, you just rush forward, follow the friends you think can do great things, Dad and Mom will never be able to hold you back." ”

"You're going to be a man of backbone, you know?"

Fang Chao's father finally added.

Maybe no one cares what a little person like Fang Chao's father says, he is not a saint, not a scholar, not a contemporary celebrity, but for Fang Chao, the story and words of his father have already given him the answer.

Fang Chao clenched his fists and nodded heavily, "I know, please reject the clan, I will not betray my friends." ”