"Well, didn't ask—wait!What are you talking about!?you're going to have a !?clan duel in a week," Lotta exclaimed in disbelief, moving.

Li Zhen said: "That's right, about a week later, I have already decided. ”

"Anyone is allowed to watch the battle?" Lotta's excited tone trembled as if her voice had changed.

Li Zhen said categorically: "That's right, anyone, I'm going to get rid of it this time!"

"Hoo, long live Brother Dongji!Brother Dongji will win! Brother Dongji come on! Brother Dongji-" Lotta jumped up and down excitedly on the other end of the phone.

Li Zhen raised his forehead and said: "Okay, tell me what you have done to my number now, I will see if it will have a big impact." ”

"Don't worry!I promise it won't have any effect!Whahaha!" Lotta laughed.

Li Zhen said: "Okay, don't be happy, I may not be able to succeed." ”

"So what, your clan battle is so meaningful anyway!" said Lotta.

Li Zhen said: "Okay, there is a third thing. ”

"Well, listen!" said Lotta, softly.

"It's ...... the last few days"

......

Wangju Village, Chen Xiaoxuan's home.

Behind the broken wooden door is a small courtyard filled with discarded wooden boxes or plastic bottles bundled together.

On the steps in front of two crumbling brick houses, an old man with a wrinkled face sat quietly in the moonlight, a shoddy cigarette in his mouth, and occasionally exhaled a puff of smoke.

The old man looked in the direction of the door, his eyes showing a hint of worry and worry. Chen Xiaoxuan's late return again made the old man a little puzzled and surprised, he watched Chen Xiaoxuan grow up all the way, for Chen Xiaoxuan, he dared to say that there is no one in this world who can know better than him, but now he feels that his granddaughter has begun to hide something from him, after all, she has grown up, and she should have something of her own. The old man thought so, but after all, he was worried that Chen Xiaoxuan, who was not deeply involved in the world, would suffer and fall on his heels, after all, the outside world was far less warm than this dilapidated small courtyard, after all, there was him here, and this was home!

Therefore, he noticed something that night and talked a lot to Chen Xiaoxuan, he told him how to treat people, how to deal with things, how to protect himself, how not to suffer, and how to look at people......

In the end, he told Chen Xiaoxuan about her parents for the first time in the first time - since Chen Xiaoxuan was sentenced to death when his son and daughter-in-law were sentenced to death when she was nine years old, he never mentioned them in front of Chen Xiaoxuan, and the two of them maintained a tacit understanding, and no one mentioned those two sad people.

Chen Xiaohui was just over a year old when that incident happened, and he was still far from remembering.

It is precisely because of this that Chen Xiaohui often asks where his parents are and why they don't accompany him.

Chen Xiaoxuan couldn't bear to tell Chen Xiaohui that his parents were heinous criminals who were sentenced to death, so she had to lie to him and say that they were far, far away, and later Chen Xiaohui was a little older, so that the endless lie could no longer deceive him.

Chen Xiaoxuan told him that their parents loved them very much, very much, but they went the wrong way, so they never came back.

Chen Xiaohui's little heart was full of doubts, but he was empathetic and saw the sadness and embarrassment of his sister and grandfather, plus he also vaguely felt something, in order not to make his grandfather and sister sad, he didn't ask anymore after that.

In this way, the two people who were supposed to be the center of the family seemed to have never existed.

It wasn't until that night that Chen Xiaoxuan suddenly asked a question in a conversation with the old man, and she pondered for a long time before asking, "Grandpa, is there love between father and mother?"

The old man groaned for a long time, endured the sadness in his heart, and slowly told Chen Xiaoxuan and Chen Xiaohui, who couldn't see his sister in the middle of the night and still refused to sleep, about their parents.

"They met on a blind date, and there were matchmakers at that time, telling people matchmakers, there were little girls and young men in Shili and Eight Villages, and they all knew that if it was the same now as it was then, the people who came to our house to talk about matchmakers would definitely be able to crowd a yard. ”

"Although my son is not a worker cadre, he is diligent and handsome, he speaks well, and can sing, and there are many girls in the surrounding villages who like him, and later the matchmaker in the village introduced him to your mother. My kid fell in love with it at a glance, the two of them saw it right, and they got married in more than half a year, and then they gave birth to Xiaoxuan, and then Xiaohui. ”

"It's only the relationship between the two of them, which is not bad, but I don't know if it's love or not. But even if there is no love at the beginning, there should be later. I remember your mother once came back to me and told me that your son was really powerful. She said that when she was on the bus in the city, it was very crowded, and a young man took the opportunity to touch your mother, and your father saw it, raised his arm and slapped the young man, and scolded him: "You are a son of a bitch! You have not been educated since you were a child? You can also touch other people's daughters-in-law? Look for death!" I felt unbelieving at the time, your father is very honest, and he has not scolded a few people, let alone beaten people, and that time it was so rare to get angry, and the man was angry for a while. At that time, they should have been in love, right?" the old man deliberately pretended to be extremely arrogant when he said what his son scolded, as if he was honored.

Chen Xiaoxuan nodded with tears in her eyes, choked up and said, "Yes, there must be......" The two hands were clenched tightly, and they didn't let go.

......

The old man exhaled a puff of smoke again, and the worry in his eyes became heavier.

Suddenly, he turned his head to look at the crumbling wooden door in the room behind him.

"Xiaohui, why don't you sleep yet? You still have to go to school tomorrow, don't make yourself lose energy all day tomorrow. The old man said to the inside of the door.

"Didn't Grandpa sleep too......" The boy's aggrieved voice came from inside the house.

The wooden door creaked open, and a little boy who looked to be about ten years old came out with a shabby white velvet hat and sat down next to the old man.

"It's cold on the ground, and if you want to wait with me, go back to the house and get a stool." The old man said.

Chen Xiaohui said stubbornly: "But grandpa is also sitting on the ground!"

The old man poked Chen Xiaohui's forehead and scolded with a smile: "Little slippery head!"

Chen Xiaohui pulled out a grimace and snuggled in his grandfather's arms.

"Wow, ......" The crude and tattered wooden door was knocked on by a visitor, and Li Zhen slowly pushed the wooden door open.

Fortunately, Liu Zi once deliberately checked Chen Xiaoxuan's background for Li Zhen, although Li Zhen resolutely did not want to know and reprimanded him fiercely, but Liu Zi had no regrets, and this time his investigation finally came in handy.