After probably not hearing my footsteps for a long time, Practical turned around and beckoned to me again.

I put down my chess pieces and got up and chased after them.

"Where is the car?" As soon as I ran to Practical's side, he asked lightly.

I said that the car was parked in a shopping mall not far from the old alley, and asked Shipra where he was going to take me.

Practical smiled at me: "Go to a good place." ”

After leaving the old alley, I first went to the mall to pick up the car, and Shipra sat in the co-pilot's seat, directing me to drive the car to the outer ring.

I felt that the practicality might be to be bored in the thrift store, and wanted to come out and let it go, but since the car was on the outer ring, he stopped showing me the way, let me look at it casually, and I didn't talk nonsense, just went around the city in circles.

It wasn't until it was almost night that Practical pointed in the direction of due south: "Let's go, let's go to Anqiu." ”

While putting on the steering wheel, I asked him, "Why did you suddenly remember to go to Anqiu?" ”

Practical still just smiled: "You'll know when you go." ”

I drove this car out of the city, half an hour later, I arrived at Anqiu bus station, practical let me say that the car was parked on the side of the road, said that it was late, first find a place to eat.

He said that he was "looking" for a place to eat, but after getting out of the car, he went straight to a barbecue restaurant not far from the street.

It is now the end of November in the solar calendar, and the weather is getting cooler, so most barbecue restaurants have removed their ovens and only set up hot pot feasts in the stores to make a living.

But on the door of this shop, there are four red words "autumn fire and winter barbecue" pasted, and through the door and window glass, you can also see a huge oven set up inside, and there is a chef churning meat skewers, sprinkling a handful of spices on it from time to time.

I couldn't help but wrinkle no: "Build a stove in the lobby, aren't you afraid of choking guests?" ”

Practical didn't answer directly, but said: "When I first met the second master, he treated me leniently here." At that time, I was extremely embarrassed, and it was the second master who used this meal to let me let go of the burden in my heart. ”

I smiled: "I remember the first time I went out on a foreign order, the second master also invited me to eat barbecue." ”

Practical: "He's just a good mouthful." ”

I nodded: "The second master is really good." ”

When I entered the store, no one came up to greet him, so I found a clean table and sat down, before shouting at the chef who was churning meat skewers in front of the oven: "Let's order skewers, put more spicy!" ”

The other party didn't respond, just took a large handful of meat skewers and helped us grill them.

I shook my head helplessly: "This shop really doesn't do business." ”

Practical said to me: "You are also a businessman, and you don't need to evaluate whether others will do business or not." ”

I said, "If it were me, I would never be like them, and the guests would not be entertained when they came." ”

Practical waved his hand: "If not, I still say that, people, you can think that you are smart, this is self-confidence, but if you think you are smarter than others, you are stupid." Speaking of which, this sentence was still said to me by the second master at the beginning, and now I will give it to you, I hope you can remember it. ”

I said, "But cleverness is relative, isn't it?" If you don't compare yourself with others, how can you know that you're smart? ”

Practical: "Is self-confidence relative?" Is a person who can only gain self-confidence by squeezing others really self-confidence? ”

I thought about it, and there was some truth in what he said, so I nodded.

Practical then said to me, "If not, we've been together for a while, what kind of person do you think I am?" ”

I said, "In my opinion, you are a good person, but in the eyes of you, you are probably going to be heinous, hehe." ”

"So am I good or bad?"

"It should be...... Okay, anyway, I think you're a good person. ”

"Then do you know why I've been dormant in my house all these years?"

I said, "I don't know, you didn't tell me." ”

Practical stared into my eyes and said, "Because I am the most heinous, in the eyes of the practitioners, I am just a street rat, and whoever sees me wants to trample me to death." ”

I didn't know if he had another meaning in what he said, so I looked at him blankly, not knowing what to say for a while.

Practical then asked me, "Do you know why I'm willing to help you?" ”

I shook my head first, then nodded: "Because you feel that I am a person worthy of trust." ”

Practical shook his head: "That's just one of the reasons." ”

"Is there any other reason, then I don't understand. Sixth uncle, don't sell it, just say it. ”

Practical pressed his body and stared at my eyes again: "Because you, as dangerous as me." Because in you, I can see my own shadow. ”

His eyes made me feel a little apprehensive, but he still said: "No matter how dangerous I am, can I be as dangerous?" ”

Just listen to the practical saying: "If you are a conspirator at most, but you are more cunning than him, the city government is deeper than him, and more ruthless than him, he still can't compare with you." ”

It's the first time I've been told that.

I smiled helplessly: "Sixth uncle, why are you drunk before you drink?" ”

Practical stared at me and said, "If not, I'll ask you a question, and I hope you can answer it truthfully." ”

"Say it."

"Why do you want to come back when you've already left the family?"

When he asked this question, I looked at him again and felt as if he had a sharp sword in his eye that was about to pierce my heart and lungs.

A huge sense of fear suddenly rose, and this fear, which penetrated deep into the marrow of the human body, made me tremble faintly from head to toe.

I said hesitantly: "I stayed at the house mainly to use the power of the family to find my father's whereabouts. ”

Practical shook his head: "No, there is another reason. ”

I was silent for a long time, but finally I mustered up the courage to say what I really thought: "I really want to find my dad, I didn't lie to you." But I did have other reasons for returning home...... What the family can give me, I can't get outside. ”

After getting along with Practical for so long, I know how powerful he is, and I also know that there are some things that can't be hidden from him.

Hearing my words, Practical Long breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank you for your honesty. If not, have you thought about it, all the shadows of the past generations will be bewitched by the Netherworld Treasure, why are you the only one who is not controlled by it? Do you really think that you can resist its temptation by relying only on your true nature? ”

Once again, I was silent.

There is no need for my answer to be practical, he gave the answer directly: "If not, you are kind by nature, which is very good, but in addition to being sexually good, your desire is great, which is greater than the evil thoughts of the Netherworld Treasure itself, and greater than your true nature." In this world, some people struggle all their lives, looking for fame, and some people, looking for profit, although most people want fame and fortune, but they know that many times, fame and fortune, can only get one. The truth that fish and bear's paws cannot be both, others understand, and you understand, but you will not let go of any of them, fame and fortune, you want it! ”

I said, "I don't have that much desire, I think I'm pretty innocent anyway." ”

Practical shook his head: "You just can't see yourself clearly." When you left home, the head of the Sky Cloud Dao taught you to feel, but I think that even now, you still don't know how to feel the people around you and the things around you. ”

I couldn't help frowning: "This is what the second master told you?" ”

"Of course he told me, and he knows you better than you do, that's why he told me these things."

"What is the purpose of the second master doing this?"

"You don't care about that, you just need to tell you, by now, have you really learned to feel?"

"Nope."

"Why not?"

"I don't know."

"Because you don't dare to face your desires, since you can't face your heart, how to feel with your heart."

I couldn't stand it anymore: "Sixth Uncle, what do you mean by saying these words to me?" ”

Practical still didn't respond to me directly, but just said, "Second Master asked me to teach you the art of war." ”

I looked at him with a frown: "Teach me the art of war?" ”

"The second master wants you to become the current me, but he doesn't want you to become the past me." As he spoke, Practical stretched out his hand and held my wrist tightly: "A person like me, there must not be a second person in the industry!" ”

I felt that I couldn't understand what he was saying, but I didn't know why, but my heart was so nervous that even my pulse was beating uneasily.

At this time, Practical said to me again: "My strategy is a shortcut for you, it allows you to get anything you want, but you have to remember that once people find a shortcut, there is a danger of losing their hearts, which is the last thing the second master wants to see." ”

My brows furrowed more and more: "Sixth Uncle, what do you want to say?" ”

Practical saying, "You have to face your desires, you have to face them." Only when you have picked up such a desire can you know how to let go. If one day, you lose your heart because of desire, go to him. ”

As he spoke, he slapped his left hand on the dining table, and when he moved his hand away, I found that there was an extra chess on the table, and the word "horse" on the chess board was bright red as blood.

I looked at the practical: "Left is there a way? ”

Practical relieved, leaned back in the chair a little tiredly, and nodded at me: "You and him are originally one and the same, he is good, and you may not be evil." ”

One Twin ...... When I think back to the first time I met Zuo Youdao, I did have a strange feeling, I only felt that he and I seemed to have known each other a long time ago, and I felt that he and I seemed to be the same person a long time ago.

But I don't understand the meaning of the last half of the sentence.

At this moment, someone slammed an aluminum dinner plate, along with a large cluster of meat skewers, on the table.

Practical looked at the strings of brown-red meat, and slowly spit out a sentence: "I remember when I first came here, the second master once said to me that people live for a lifetime, sometimes, just for this mouthful of spicy, and sometimes, for a mouthful of tasteless lightness." ”

I asked him, "What does the second master mean by this?" ”

Practical raised his eyes to look at me and smiled: "It took me a whole ten years to understand the deep meaning of the second master, maybe you don't need so long." Let's eat, as soon as the barbecue is cold, the taste changes. ”

(End of chapter)