The dilapidated AllBright Mansion burned quietly in the remnant sun.

Everyone who walks in this city is like a walking dead with a lost soul.

They looked at the devastated AllHeaven, and there was indescribable confusion in their eyes.

The joy and enthusiasm of victory will eventually fade.

People have to face reality in the end......

What is the reality?

The reality is a dead city.

A ruined city......

A hometown at hand.

I can't go back to my hometown.

......

Zhang Chu and Da Liu walked into the wreckage of what was once called a cattle and sheep market.

On both sides of the street, which looks like a sheep's intestine path, are the ruins formed by the collapse of houses.

Among the ruins, there are already some scattered figures.

There are old and young.

There are men and women.

They are using their hands, trying to clean up the scorched earth and wreckage that once called home.

Zhang Chu walked in front of them.

They threw down their work and walked briskly to the sides of the street, silently bowing to him.

Zhang Chu didn't stop.

Didn't look back.

Walking through the long street step by step without squinting.

Their courtesy.

Zhang Chu can stand it.

It must also be accepted.

He's back.

But there are a lot of people.

Never coming back......

This is an area that Zhang Chu once knew well.

Nowadays, there are no familiar landmarks or objects to be found.

But the familiar smell that became stronger and stronger, like a guide, guided him towards the center of the cattle and sheep market.

Zhang Chu could even tell that there were a few spices missing in this taste.

"Second brother, this is going to smash my signboard!"

He tilted his head and smiled at Da Liu.

Da Liu smiled, but his eyes noticed that the eldest brother's eyes were a little red.

After a few more steps.

In the midst of the dense wreckage like a mound, a flat section of ground suddenly appeared.

On that piece of ground.

A tattered wood-paneled bungalow, which seemed to be unable to stop the rain or rain, stood abruptly among the wreckage.

Outside the bungalow is a tarpaulin to protect from the rain.

On the side of the tarpaulin lay a few rudimentary tables and chairs nailed to broken wooden boards.

On the other side was a large iron pot, still steaming.

Zhang Chu just glanced at it, and his gaze was fixed on the wooden board signboard hanging on the tarpaulin.

It was a very simple signboard, that is, a few words were written in red lacquer on a thick wooden board, and the characters were written one big and one small, like the graffiti of a child who had just entered school.

The simple signboard has experienced too much wind and rain, and the handwriting written in red paint has fallen off.

I can barely make out the handwriting: Zhang Ji Miscellaneous Soup.

But Zhang Chu recognized it at a glance, this signboard was the signboard he wrote when the first chop soup stall in the cattle and sheep market opened.

When AllHeaven's retreat, Yu Er didn't bring anything, so he took this signboard and went to Beiyin County.

Later, when I opened a miscellaneous soup stall in Taibai Mansion, this signboard was hung.

Unexpectedly, he finally came back with this signboard.

Somehow, when Zhang Chu saw this signboard, tears poured out at once.

I can't stop it......

......

Yu Er stood behind the big iron pot and saw Zhang Chu from a distance.

But he didn't come out, like a restaurant shopkeeper who was accustomed to seeing big scenes, waiting for the diners to come to the door calmly.

It's just an old face with vicissitudes of life, and it's all laughing out of folds......

"Master Chu. ”

He called softly.

Zhang Chu rubbed his cheeks vigorously, put on a smile, and strode into the chop soup stall: "Xiao Er, come to a bowl of authentic chop soup, dare to fool the master with the goods, be careful that the master orders your stall!"

"Hahaha!"

Yu Er laughed: "Left and right are your own stalls, if you don't feel distressed, just order!"

He lifted the lid of the pot, and the fragrant spicy taste came to his nose.

Zhang Chu glanced at it, and saw a large bowl of mixed soup with a thick layer of red oil floating in the cauldron.

He smiled again.

This old thing, let's call him stupid.

He is good enough to inquire about his itinerary in advance, and prepare food for him to come.

Let's say he's fine.

He was so stupid that he risked the destruction of the city at any time, dragging his family back to AllBright Mansion to hold on to their home.

Zhang Chu really didn't expect it.

There were so many brothers back then, but it turned out to be Yu Er, who seemed the most realistic and old-fashioned, and the most idealistic......

Zhang Chu smiled and casually found a table and sat down.

Yu Er was busy.

"Hun family, warm up the half of the old wine I hid and send it out!"

"It's coming, it's coming!"

"Boss, second, come out and kowtow to your uncle. ”

"It's coming, it's coming!"

......

"Wu Dashao's affairs, have you done it clearly?"

Yu Er asked in a low voice while pouring wine for Zhang Chu.

Zhang Chu knocked lightly on the table, signaling that he had enough wine, and with a faint "um" in his mouth, he asked instead, "How are your body bones?"

As soon as Yu Er heard this, he knew that the eldest brother was reluctant to talk more about this topic, so he raised his arm and smiled: "Except for some small profits, it's all good!"

Zhang Chu casually smashed a light fist on his chest.

Yu Eryi hunched his waist, coughed repeatedly, and his cheeks were swollen and red.

The years are unforgiving.

He's in his early forties.

I lost an arm, and I hurt my vitality.

How could it be okay.

Zhang Chu patted him on the back, smoothed him out, and said with a smile: "People want to serve the old, when you are still in your twenties and thirties, you can still use a knife and cut people?"

Yu Er wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said with a smile: "What you reprimanded." ”

He is older than Zhang Chu.

But Zhang Chu is his eldest brother.

Even if he reaches the age of eighty.

Zhang Chu reprimanded him.

He had to listen, too.

He was willing to listen, too.

"You are a toiler, and you can't enjoy pure blessings, so I won't stop you. ”

Zhang Chu picked up the wine bowl and touched him: "Those two half-grown sons just now, I will send someone to pick them up after a while, if you want them to eat Jianghu rice, I will find an old brother to teach them to read literature and martial arts, and give them two good seats in the future, as long as our Beiping League is still in one day, they can enjoy a day of glory and wealth." ”

"I don't have an opinion if you want them to eat this bowl of rice in the rivers and lakes, if you want to do business, where does Zhang Meng have a way, it is easy to be an official, as long as you don't cause trouble, no matter how bad you are, you can mix a seven-grade background. ”

"It's better than following you and staying in this little stall. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Chu paused, and looked at him again: "You have to be okay, hurry up and give birth to a boy and a half girl, we have a family business, and we have to hand it over to our sons and daughters to inherit, we can't let our brother cheaper outsiders after a few hundred years." ”

Just then Yu Er called his two stepsons out to kowtow to him.

Zhang Chu understands.

But they are only Yu Er's stepsons after all.

For the sake of their filial piety to the remaining two.

For the sake of them accompanying Yu Er to Jintian Mansion.

Zhang Chu can give them a way out.

But it's just a way out.

There is no comparison with Li Jintian's own son.

If those two are Yu Er's own sons......

Even if they are not as good as Li Jintian, there will definitely be a place for them in the three states in the northwest of Yan in the future!

Zhang Chu is very open-minded and generous in many ways.

But in some ways, he is no different from those old people who can't eat the old.

Yu Er grinned, and the smile lines in the corners of his eyes revealed a warm smile: "You are willing to give their brothers a bowl of rice to eat, it is already their blessing, what to eat, of course, you have the final say!"

Zhang Chu looked at him, frowned, and asked in a low voice, "What's the matter, it's not okay?"

Yu Er shook his head slightly helplessly: "I didn't try less, how could I have more than enough strength but not enough strength." ”

Zhang Chu tugged at the corners of his mouth: "I'll find a doctor to recuperate and recuperate for you when I go back, and if you work harder, maybe it's done?"

Yu Er took a sip of the wine bowl and said calmly: "Look at the will of heaven." ”

Providence......

Zhang Chu stopped talking, picked up the wine bowl and dried it up, and then spit out the wine and said slowly: "Here, I can't come back." ”

"If you want to stay here, just stay, I'll get a branch hall here when I go back, and you will be a deputy hall master who doesn't care about anything. ”

"As for the branch master, I will find a subordinate of yours to come over and be the branch master, what do you want to do, just call him, don't buckle the rope, our brother is in the water and the fire, don't you just want to live a good life?"

Yu Er smiled: "Master Chu, there's no need, just the way I am now, don't embarrass our Beiping League." ”

Zhang Chu let out a "heh" and skimmed him out of the corner of his eye: "Are you big or am I big?"

Yu Er smiled a little helplessly: "Yes, Master Chu." ”

Zhang Chu patted him lightly on the shoulder, got up and said, "Live well, live well, I won't bother you......"

Yu Er hurriedly got up: "You just came and are leaving?"

Zhang Chu smiled reluctantly: "I'm a little tired, and I want to go home early to accompany my aunt and children, so I won't stay long." ”

Yu Er opened his mouth, and finally bent down and said, "My subordinates will send Chu Ye." ”

Zhang Chu patted him on the shoulder, turned around and strode out of the low canopy, and went straight to the West City Gate.

There was no looking back......

He actually has a lot to say to Yu Er.

But I saw Yu Er.

Those words are either impossible to open or impossible to mention.

For example, the news that Li Zheng is still alive.

In addition to Li Youniang and Li Jintian, the most important thing to tell is Yu Er.

But this old guy seems to be submissive, and he can't beat a fart with three sticks, but he is also a calf with a heart and opinions.

After he knew Li Zheng's current state, he designated that he would ride a donkey and take a trip to the Tianji Grassland......

In his current state, if he goes to the grassland, even if he doesn't meet the Northern Barbarians, the wind and snow in the grassland will kill him.

Let's stay alive.

How good is it to be alive......

Although the days may not be so high-brow and not so smooth sailing.

But how down-to-earth.

was so down-to-earth that Zhang Chu wanted to sit with Yu Er for a while, but he was afraid of disturbing Yu Er's life.

He is covered in bloody sins, grievances and grievances that cannot be washed away.

It's like a giant ominous communicator.

Too close to him.

It's easy not to die well......

Yu Er watched Zhang Chu's back disappear at the end of the long street, and after a long time, he sighed suddenly.

Big brother, it's much older......

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