If I'm not mistaken, the first time the second master invited me to eat barbecue was on the night of my first order, and the store was in Shinan District, at least 70 kilometers away from the nursing home.

I can probably understand why the second master chose the meeting place there, that store is not only far away from the nursing home, but also far away from the ghost string, and I have been in the house for so long, and occasionally I have heard Yan Yanan and Yan Liyan mention several properties of the old family's family in Bohai Bay, all of which have a common feature - all of them are not in Shinan District.

As for the reason why the old family did not open a business in Shinan District, this is not something I can explain.

After talking to the second master on the phone, I hurried to clean myself up and left the nursing home before 9 o'clock in the morning.

Due to the remote location of the Binhai Development Zone, it is difficult to get a taxi, so I can only walk two kilometers to the bus point first, and then take the bus at a quarter past nine to leave the development zone.

In 07 years, there was only one bus to the Binhai Development Zone, I forgot how many buses it was, I only remember that it passed through a lot of stations, 70 kilometers of road, to walk around for two and a half hours, after getting off the bus, I walked for more than half an hour on foot before coming to the place agreed with the second master.

That's right, after I entered the city, I could get off the bus and go straight to the barbecue restaurant in Chengnan District on the side of the road, which is not only convenient, but also more comfortable than doing the bus all the time.

The reason why I didn't do this was not because I was extra saving, but because I didn't want to see the second master so soon, and even when I walked to the door of the barbecue restaurant, I was still looking forward to the second master not coming to the appointment today.

But as soon as the tips of my fingers touched the doorknob, the voice of the second master came from the store: "The old rule, you want ice." ”

I sighed inwardly and slowly opened the door.

The second master was sitting in front of the door, and when he saw me, he waved at me.

When he saw me before, although the expression on his face was not friendly at all, he would always show a little smile, but this time, the second master clearly wanted to make a loving elder, but unfortunately this was not his normal state, no matter how much he pretended, he would not give people a little kind feeling, and today he did not have a smile on his face, and the whole person looked very embarrassed.

I walked up to the second master and showed a smile.

The second master glanced at me, smacked his lips, and after pondering for a while, he finally put away the gentle expression that he deliberately pretended.

I said, "The car is a little slow, it's late." ”

"I just came, too." The second master rubbed the wine glass in his hand and said casually: "Generally speaking, this store is only open in the second quarter, but fortunately, the boss happens to be in the store today, which is quite a coincidence." ”

I nodded and sat opposite the second master.

At this time, the second master and I collectively fell silent, he kept rubbing the wine glass in his hand, and I stared at the dust on the table, occasionally glancing at what the second master was doing from the afterglow.

It wasn't until the shopkeeper came up with a brass hot pot stove that the second master came back to his senses and asked the shopkeeper: "Are you still making hot pot now?" ”

The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, and frowned again, as if he thought the question asked by the second master was very strange, but after a while, he still responded while wiping the table: "Yes, the child is about to go to school, and the house is built in his hometown, and the money from just selling barbecue is a bit tight, so I have to think about making more money." ”

The second master nodded and didn't say anything.

Then the shopkeeper brought a wine driver and two large bowls of prepared sesame sauce, the second master was staring at the soup in the pot at the time, he patted the second master's hand, and said: "The meat is cut, in the refrigerator, the wine is also there, you can eat it yourself, I have to pick up the child." ”

Although the second master nodded sullenly, I felt that he didn't seem to hear what the shopkeeper was saying at all.

After the owner left, I went to the refrigerator to get wine and meat, and then ran to the kitchen to get some tofu and vegetables.

Looking at the shopkeeper's attitude towards the second master, I think the two of them should not be ordinary cooked, even if I enter the kitchen privately, people should not say that I don't understand the rules, as for how to calculate the price of tofu and vegetables, then I have to let the second master discuss with him.

I returned to the table with the tofu and vegetables and sat down, and the second master said as if he had nothing to say: "I heard from Yan Yanan, you have taken a fancy to an English teacher in the seventh middle school." ”

I put the lid on the pot and nodded, "I've only seen people once." ”

Second master: "The teacher is very good, the work is relatively stable, and the working environment is relatively safe." ”

After that, he didn't have anything to say, and I didn't take the initiative to find a topic.

In fact, I know that as long as I am the first to speak now, I will definitely ask about those things related to my dad, the reason why I returned to my family, to put it bluntly, was to find out the reason for my dad's disappearance, but now that the answer is in front of me, I subconsciously want to retreat.

The soup quickly boiled, and the second master immediately lifted the lid, and I poured the cut meat into it.

The second master used chopsticks to break up the frozen meat in the pot, and said: "The meat is a little old, but the meat of the old sheep is also good, chewy." ”

I said "um".

The second master was intently stirring the meat, as if he had forgotten my existence, and I occasionally glanced at him, and I saw that his gaze kept falling on the pot.

People who don't know think that he is so hungry that he keeps staring at the meat in the pot, only I know why the second master is like this today.

Fortunately, the mutton is relatively old, and if it is the tender meat of the little lamb, it may be crushed by the second master.

Time passed little by little, and when I knew that the water in the pot was boiling again, the second master said to me, "It's almost over, let's eat." ”

I took a pair of chopsticks of mutton, threw them in the sauce bowl, and just stirred the meat and sesame sauce together, stirring again and again, and I didn't have the heart to eat it at all.

The second master has been very quiet over there, and he doesn't know what he's doing.

After a long time, I was ruthless and looked up at the second master: "Second master......"

Before I could finish the rest of the words, the second master spoke: "I asked your second uncle to pick you up at the zoo." ”

I stared into the eyes of the second master and didn't speak.

After a while, the second master said again: "On the day your parents left Chongqing, I asked Zhang Zuye to pick you up at the zoo, in fact, I have been hesitating at that time, whether to take you back to the family, but because of the agreement with the Su family, I can only entrust you to Zhang Zuye." ”

I asked, "Why did my parents disappear?" ”

Second Master: "To avoid one person." ”

I asked, "Who?" ”

After a moment of silence, the second master slowly spit out a word from his mouth: "I." ”

The second master's answer was something I didn't expect, I always thought that it was the people from Buzhou Mountain who discovered my father's whereabouts, which caused my father to disappear with my mother, but I didn't expect that the person they wanted to avoid turned out to be the second master.

I looked at the second master, and the second master stared at the boiling hot pot, and the water vapor that kept coming out of the pot blocked between me and the second master, blurring the second master's face.

After a long time, the second master sighed again, and then said to me: "Feng Yu, this child, everything is good, but the demonic nature in his body is too strong. Eleven years ago, when your grandfather learned that the demonic nature in him had been stimulated, he ......"

I didn't want to ask, so I sat opposite the second master and waited silently, but I waited until the water in the hot pot was half boiled, and the second master still didn't mean to continue.

I couldn't wait, so I could only urge: "What's it?" ”

The second master leaned his back on the chair entirely, his weight was so great that the back of the chair immediately let out a scream of "squeak", but he didn't care so much, he just cared about letting his body relax, and it took another minute or two before he spoke: "If Feng Yu just stimulates the demonic nature, forget it, the key is that he still has a Netherworld Treasure in his hand." He Heng said that if this evil thought is not destroyed in swaddling clothes, then it will cause chaos in the world. ”

I interjected and asked, "What evil thoughts, what do you mean?" ”

The second master glanced at me, but did not answer my question directly, but said: "Yu Heng thinks that if you want to prevent trouble, Feng Yu must die." Eleven years ago, I was asked to go to Chongqing to clean up the door for my old family. ”

He said it in a vague voice, but I understood it all.

The reason why my parents disappeared was because if they didn't disappear completely, they would die at the hands of the second master.

Hearing the second master's words, I slowly opened my eyes wide, on the other side of the steam, the second master's face was still very blurry, I couldn't see his expression clearly, and I couldn't see his eyes clearly.

I was a little angry in my heart, and I wanted to vent all the resentment I had accumulated in the past ten years on the second master, but at the same time, I felt that I couldn't believe it.

When the second master ran all the way to Chongqing, he actually wanted to kill my parents? How is this possible, although he usually looks fierce and vicious in the family, I know that he will never be ruthless to the people in the family, especially not to the juniors in the family.

What's more, Yu Heng is my own grandfather, he is so protective, how could he never do such a thing.

At this time, the second master let out a long breath from his nose, and then said: "Judging from the situation at that time, there is no problem with Yu Heng's decision, even if we don't clean up the portal, other sects will try to eradicate Feng Yu, so it is better to hand over Feng Yu's life to others." But now it seems that we are indeed in a bit of a hurry to make such a decision. ”

I interjected and asked the second master: "If my parents didn't leave that day, second master, would you do it?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the second master immediately fell silent, and after a long time, he replied sullenly: "I don't know." Alas, I grew up watching Feng Yu, he didn't want to be close to Yu Heng since he was a child, he just liked to revolve around me, and after entering the winter line, he followed me every day...... In love, I will never do it, but it stands to reason that Feng Yu must die. ”

The fire in my heart jumped up, and I slapped the table with a "snap" and stood up straight in anger.

Originally, I wanted to scold the second master, but when I looked through the steam and saw the second master's eyes full of guilt and apology, I couldn't say a word.

(End of chapter)