Of course, Zhao Xu couldn't just leave his father at home and run back to work by himself.

In any case, he didn't do "often go home to see", but let his father travel tirelessly, and came all the way to see him, if he didn't accompany him well, it would be too much to say.

Here, Zhao Xu stubbornly helped to process the meat sausage, and when he was about to eat a rare hometown delicacy, on the other side of the city, there was also such a family, ready to enjoy the food.

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North of the city, Panlongju.

In the antique courtyard, on a Taishi chair, the old man sitting was pretending to sleep, and his granddaughter was obediently beating him on the shoulder.

The white-haired old woman stood in the middle of the courtyard, stir-frying in the patio.

This big iron pot looks like it can hold a ** pig, it should be very heavy, but the old woman is like holding a feather, not like she is stir-frying, but like she is fanning a dead leaf and teasing the breeze.

On the stone table next to it, there were already several dishes on the table, and the appearance of these dishes did not look very amazing, no different from ordinary home-cooked dishes, but when they smelled, they were fragrant, and the bodyguards outside the door secretly swallowed saliva one by one.

"The time has come, the golden crow has returned to the nest, and Wan Qi has returned to the sect. The old man, who had been pretending to sleep, said lightly.

When the old woman with the pot heard this, she quickened her movements, finished the dish in her hand, and then began to cook her last dish of the night, the golden carp.

"Are the golden scales a thing in the pool...... It's a pity. The old woman scooped up the golden carp, looked at the fish's nimble eyes in the twilight, and sighed slightly.

She picked up a small gourd from the stove, poured a drop of transparent liquid from the gourd into the fish's mouth, and then, poured half a pot of water into the pot, and threw the fish into it.

"Grandpa, why doesn't Grandma Liu clean up the internal organs and remove the scales when cooking fish?" the girl asked her grandfather.

"Hehe, Nana, this golden carp is full of treasures, and there is essence everywhere, it's a pity to waste it. The old man smiled faintly.

"Then I won't eat it, the fish cooked like this is too disgusting!" Murong Nana pouted.

The old man didn't persuade him, but just shook his head with a smile.

Not long after, Murong Nana smelled a strange fragrance, and instantly covered the fragrance of the dishes on the table.

"It's so fragrant!" Her eyes lit up: "Huh, grandpa, Grandma Liu obviously didn't turn on the fire, why is the fish in the pot so fragrant? Is it already cooked? ”

"Hehe, go and see for yourself, won't you know?" said the old man.

Murong Nana stepped forward, looked into the pot, and was suddenly startled - the water in the pot had turned into a pot of golden soup at some point, and there was a snake-like thing churning in the soup, so close that the "snake" could even be heard making a slight chirping sound.

The head of the "snake" occasionally surfaced, and Murong Nana saw clearly, what kind of snake is this? This snake-like animal has two horns on its head and a tasting-like beard on its chin, and it is clearly a miniature little golden dragon!

"Ahh......h What is this? How could it be?"

"Big girl, don't be nervous, this little dragon was transformed by the golden carp just now. Grandma Liu stirred a few times in the pot with a special vermilion chopsticks, the little dragon was a little more honest, sank down and didn't move, "Have you heard the legend of the carp jumping over the dragon gate? ”

"What do you mean, Grandma Liu, what are you talking about?" Murong Nana couldn't come back to her senses: "You must be doing magic! Haha, it must be like this!"

"Big girl, I don't dare to lie to you, since the old man gave you this good thing today, he said that there are some things that should be told to you. Grandma Liu said.

"What's the matter?" Murong Nana looked blankly at the little golden dragon that had stopped struggling, and saw that the scales and flesh on its body began to melt, and suddenly felt a little unbearable.

She is a foodie girl, usually hates the "virgin" on the Internet who is overprotected, those people run to the door of the animal slaughterhouse to protest, run to the back kitchen of the restaurant to make trouble, do not allow people to kill chickens and sheep, their slogan is: "The chickens are so cute, how can you bear to eat them?"

But after the trouble, these virgin came home, and they still stuffed steak burgers in their mouths, one on their mouths and one behind their backs, which was really disgusting.

Murong Nana hates these people, and she will never agree with these virgin, she likes to eat all kinds of food, including all kinds of meat.

But now, for some reason, she began to feel sorry for the little dragon, and a voice kept telling her: "That's different, that's different, that little dragon is different from those human livestock!"

"Grandma Liu...... Shall we not eat it?" Seeing Xiaolong struggle violently again, Murong Nana grabbed the old woman's arm and shook it.

"Big girl......" The old woman's eyes suddenly changed from plain to confused, and the words she wanted to say stopped, as if Murong Nana had some magic power in her body, making her unable to refuse the other party's request.

"All things are born to feed people. The old man's voice came slowly, and when the old woman heard this, her eyes cleared, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on her forehead, as if she had been awakened from a dream.

"Big girl, this is the little stove that your grandfather opened for you, and other grandchildren don't have this blessing!" Grandma Liu didn't dare to look at Murong Nana's eyes, and persuaded helplessly.

"Grandpa...... Shall we let it go?" Murong Nana turned around and went to ask the old man again, the old man frowned imperceptibly, glanced at his granddaughter, and seemed to want to have a seizure, but he was reluctant to let his granddaughter be sad, so he could only sigh:

"Nana, you are an adult now, and you have graduated from college, there are some things that you should know. The old man said.

"For more than sixty years, I have been collecting strange things from all over the world, and in addition to those ordinary antiques, there are many more magical objects. The old man got up from the Taishi's chair and pulled his granddaughter to the pot, the little golden dragon had completely melted, the soup had become a little sticky, and it could be vaguely seen that there was only a light blue bead left at the bottom of the pot.

The old woman scooped up the bead from the bottom of the pot, and the old man took it, and the bead was about the size of an egg, and it was getting late, and it exuded a faint brilliance.

This brilliance did not last long, and soon converged, and the surface also turned dark red, as if a shell had grown.

"This thing, is the 'Dragon Pearl', I got it for me thirty-two years ago, I raised it in the middle of Taiyi Lake for twenty-four years, it gave birth to flesh, became a small fish, six years ago I moved it to the artificial lake behind this Panlong Residence, until today. The old man explained, "This is a dragon ball, it is neither born nor dead, what has just melted away is just its body, this pot of soup is prepared for you, you don't have to feel guilty." ”

Murong Nana knew that "Taiyi Lake" was the largest inland lake in China and even in the world, and the area of this lake was larger than that of West Germany and the Republic of East Germany on the western continent.

She suddenly shuddered, that is to say, this "Dragon Ball" is similar to the core of a magical animal, it can only grow into a ten-pound carp every few decades, and then it will be used as food, cruelly melt its flesh and blood, and let it turn back into a dragon ball, repeatedly, forever in the cycle of life and death!

It's 10,000 times more painful than killing chickens and taking eggs.

"Grandpa...... I...... I don't eat it. Murong Nana felt that the image of her grandfather, who had always been kind, had collapsed.

"......" The old man stared at Murong Nana for a long time, and then shook his head: "It seems that I shouldn't let you go to school to read anything, everyone is stupid." ”

"Big girl, be good, don't make your grandfather angry!" Grandma Liu said beside her: "I have raised things for thirty-two years, and I am willing to give them to you directly, how much does your grandfather hurt you? ”

"But...... I. "Murong Nana couldn't get over that hurdle in her heart.

"Alas, silly girl, it's really like your father......" Grandma Liu sighed in a low voice, "As the granddaughter of the old club, kindness is the most unnecessary thing." ”

"Why do you think you have been so smooth since you were a child?" asked Grandma Liu suddenly.

"......" Murong Nana didn't know how to answer, could it be said that it was because she worked very hard, because she was good enough?

"Since you were very young, your boss gave you that necklace, and you've never left you, right?" asked Grandma Liu.

"yes, what's wrong?" asked Murong Nana.

"From the day you put on the necklace, no one can refuse your request, right?" asked Grandma Liu again.

"What do you mean?" Murong Nana suddenly had a bad premonition.

"When you were in the third grade of primary school, you wanted to be the class president, and on the day you were elected, the whole class chose you, and before that, your classmates and teachers valued your table mate more, right?" asked Grandma Liu.

"When you were in the fifth grade of elementary school, your parents were not in a good relationship, they often quarreled, and finally they wanted to get a divorce, and then you cried in front of them, and as a result, their husband and wife were in a coma for a long time, and after waking up, they have never quarreled again, like model parents in fairy tales, right?"

"When you were in the second grade of junior high school, you envied that people could participate in the Olympiad competition, but your math score was very average, and the math teacher and the class teacher did not list you in the list of registrations, but you just wanted to participate, but the day before the competition, your teacher helped you squeeze out the math class representative of your class and let you take over his chance, right?"

"When you were a freshman in high school, you went to dance classes during the winter and summer vacations, and in the dance competition organized by the school, you obviously missed a lot of beats, but you still won the winning prize, right?"

"You ...... in your sophomore year of high school"

"When you were a freshman, a boy chased you, and you didn't like him, just a look, and the boy applied to drop out of school and went back to his hometown to marry a rural girl, right?"

"You graduated from college and wanted to publish an article in someone's academic magazine, and it happened that the editor-in-chief and team members were all giving speeches at the school at the time, and you rushed up to ask for an autograph and submitted the manuscript on the spot, but as soon as they went back, they let your paper be published, right?"

"You ......"

"Don't ...... Don't say it!" Murong Nana shouted with tears in her eyes, "Don't say it!"

She is not a fool, Grandma Liu has made it clear enough - since she was a child, she has been so smooth, she still thinks that she is good enough, she has always proudly thought that she is the pride of the sky, and others will give her the green light all the way when they see her efforts and achievements.

Who knows, it was all her self-righteousness, it was all because of the weird necklace she wore around her neck!

Just like this "Dragon Ball", who knows what this thing is?

[make it impossible for others to refuse their will...... Is it?

Her faith, confidence, and will almost collapsed at this moment!

"No! it's not like this!" Murong Nana suddenly remembered something, and shouted hysterically: "Not everyone is affected by me, there is one person who is absolutely not affected by me, so what you say is a lie! Haha! It's all fake!"

Yes, who in this world will not go crazy when all his achievements and pride are denied in an instant?