Zhou Yan can trust Uncle Kang, whether it is the nearly two months of getting along, or the previous memories, Uncle Kang is a person who is loyal to the Zhou family.

Although he has countless small problems, such as often taking some kickbacks, being lazy every day, obscene and shameless, he has always been the most trustworthy person in the Zhou family.

So at this moment of life and death, he could only ask Uncle Kang for help and go to Sect Master Chen.

Why trust Chen Sanye?

Because no one else can be trusted, only he, the Dan Dao Grandmaster, has the ability to save himself.

If he stood by and watched, Zhou Yan believed that he had only one way to die.

Hiding under the bridge of the sewage river, Zhou Yan looked at the world and felt extremely absurd.

The river is narrow and shallow, and on the east side of the river is the slums, where almost all of them are simple wooden huts, straw huts and dilapidated tiled houses, where most of the people of Qingzhou live, but their combined money may not be as good as the savings of a family in the rich area.

To the east, it was pitch black, with the occasional dog barking.

In the west, it was just nightfall, and there were lights everywhere, and even the sound of laughter in the green building could be heard.

Less than a mile apart, it was like the distance from hell to heaven.

The sewage in the rich area is discharged into this river, so it is called a sewage river, and it does stink, but Zhou Yan can't feel it.

He went under the bridge, only to find seven or eight people lying there, shivering at him.

Zhou Yan knew that his face was hateful now, like a demon, but he didn't see the fear in the eyes of these seven or eight people.

They shivered because of the cold.

"Who are you? I can't live here, get out. ”

One of them had already stood up, grabbed a firewood knife beside him, and looked at him fiercely.

Zhou Yan couldn't help but smile and said, "I'm like this, you're not afraid?"

This man was about twenty-seven or eighteen, skinny as wood, with a fierce face, and said coldly: "What is there to be afraid of? Is it more terrible than being poor?"

This sentence silenced Zhou Yan.

He paused for a few breaths before he said, "I'll stand here and wait for someone, and when the people arrive, I'll leave." ”

Seven or eight people looked at each other, and one of them said, "It's better to be like this, before dawn, you have to go." ”

Zhou Yan sighed, only to feel that his consciousness was becoming more and more unclear.

He shook his head to sober himself up, and couldn't help but say, "I'm bored, talk to me." ”

The man stood up again with a firewood knife and said defensively, "What the hell are you going to do?"

Zhou Yan needs to stay awake, needs to communicate with people to maintain his thinking, and knows that these people are guarding against him.

He casually took out a sum of money from the storage ring and threw it over, saying, "Can we chat now?"

For a moment, everyone stood up.

There was a glow in every eye.

The man with the firewood knife picked up the money bag, checked it, and opened it to see that it was shining with golden light.

His eyes widened and he muttered, "Don't talk about chatting, I'll give me a leg." ”

He put away the firewood knife and hurriedly said: "Friend, come and sit here, you have a storage ring, you should be a master, we don't dare to have different intentions." ”

Zhou Yan said: "It's useless to have different intentions, this knife is not as hard as my bones." ”

He sat down and looked at the men, and found that the younger one was not yet twenty years old, and the older one was already fifty or sixty years old, and all of them were yellow and thin.

This man said in a deep voice: "Friend, my name is Huzi, and they also call me Brother Tiger, they all came out to mix, not by age, but by ability." ”

Zhou Yan said: "Why are you here?"

Huzi smiled and said, "There's no place to live, so I have to live here." ”

Zhou Yan frowned and said, "You don't have a home?"

Huzi said: "Of course there is, and there are also women and children who live over there." ”

Zhou Yan followed his hand, saw the dark slum, and wondered, "Then why don't you go home?"

Huzi waved his hand and said, "If you don't go back, it's not good to go back, they will be worried." ”

Another middle-aged man said: "Friend, we all go out to work in the village, and we all tell our families to eat and live, of course we can't go back, we go back once every three or four months, and we can give the money to our families." ”

Zhou Yan's heart trembled slightly, it turned out that there was such a group of people, who went to work in the rich area and had no place to live, and they were afraid that their families would worry, so they came here to crowd.

The weather is getting colder, it's freezing this day, and it's next to the sewage river, and the smell is stinking, how can you stand it?

Zhou Yan said: "Why don't you find a random place in the rich area, even if it is a public pavilion, a corridor or something, it is better to sleep on the spot than here." ”

Hu Zi smiled: "My friend is not an ordinary person, right? Since I was a child, my family has a good family, right? So you don't know the little things in the eyes of these big people, we are too dirty, and if we stay in the rich area to sleep, we will be driven away." ”

"Women will be afraid of us and think we are robbers and villains, and men will think we are dirty and affect the environment there. ”

Zhou Yan was silent for a long time, and then remembered Uncle Kang's words: "Your father said-'I don't want to live this kind of poor life again'." ”

So he gave up his studies and began to travel everywhere, working, working, doing business, and rising step by step. ”

"Although the family has a big business, he still does not enjoy it like me, but has been working hard in business, and for many years, he has never slackened until today. ”

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but close his eyes and muttered, "What I thought was mediocrity... Alas..."

Only now did he understand these things, and only then did he understand why Zhou Yuanxiong worked so hard to make money, because he had suffered so much.

Maybe he and Uncle Kang also slept here in the past.

In my heart, I suddenly had a kind of respect for Zhou Yuanxiong and a kind of empathy.

Zhou Yan sighed and said, "It turns out that life is quite hard, it's not easy to live, right?"

Seven or eight people looked at each other, not knowing how to answer for a while.

Huzi scratched his head and smiled embarrassedly: "I haven't thought about this, I don't know how to answer, I'm tired and hungry all day, how can I think about this." ”

Zhou Yan was stunned again.

Yes, whether life is easy, what is reluctant, what poetry and distance, that is what idle people think.

People who are really miserable live almost entirely by will and instinct, and they can't think of much else.

Zhou Yan couldn't laugh, just sighed: "I just had that money..."

Huzi smiled bitterly: "If we are all counted, we can't earn so much in a lifetime." ”

Zhou Yan wanted to take out all the money on his body, but he held back, not because he was reluctant, but because he knew that the husband was innocent and guilty, and if he gave too much, not only would they not get it, but they would also cause death.

This is the world, this is the reality.

"Huh, Brother Hua is here?"

"Damn, why did Brother Hua come so late?"

Everyone suddenly shouted, Zhou Yan hurriedly turned his head to look, and sure enough, he saw in the distance, Uncle Kang and Grandmaster Chen Sanye were running towards this side quickly.

Zhou Yan was stunned: "You... Shouting Brother Hua?Which one?"

Huzi said: "You may not know, Kang Dehua, our brother Hua, often come over to bring us quilts and food." ”

"Yes, he often goes to our village and secretly subsidizes some money, he said that he has also lived under the bridge and in the village, and the older generation knows him. ”

Everyone mentioned him with a look of gratitude.

Zhou Yan opened his mouth, but he couldn't speak, Kang Dehua, Uncle Kang...

He usually eats kickbacks, is greedy and cheap, and is extremely stingy, so he spent all his money here?

It turned out that in this slum, under this bridge, he and his father really stayed.

Zhou Yan knew that he had not been there, and this was the greatness of Zhou Yuanxiong.

Idiocrity? He's not a mediocre person.

It's just that the former self is too ridiculous.

Uncle Kang's slap was right, but it was a little lighter.

"Young Master, Grandmaster Chen is here!"

Before Uncle Kang arrived, he began to shout.

Zhou Yan walked up and saw Chen Sanye with an annoyed face.

But when Chen Sanye saw Zhou Yan, his face instantly became solemn.

His pupils continued to constrict, staring at Zhou Yan stubbornly, and said word by word: "I can't believe that you are still a living person in such a state." ”