"At that time, you Long Fei will continue to be a junior brother in Beimang and live in my shadow?"

Zhang Ruoyu pouted and said, "Dead dwarf, can you have a little luck?" ”

Long Fei rolled his eyes and muttered, "Okay brother, I'll have to help the engineer improve your statue drawings later." Alas, the Binhai official is really polite, you have to erect a one-to-eight real statue next to your cemetery, and engage in formalism. ”

Zhang Ruoyu's expression was complicated, and he suddenly had a subtle emotion: he was alive, and he felt sorry for the good intentions of others.

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Ruoyu lit a cigarette and found a chair to sit down.

When he decided to retire, the chief was rude on the spot, and Long Fei, a group of Beimang veterans who had followed him for many years, washed his face with tears every day...

And the military department held such a big funeral, and even appeared on TV, which can be regarded as the most perfect ending to Zhang Ruoyu's entire military career, and it is also extremely protective of him.

If he retires alive, it will be impossible for him to live a comfortable life with the dark forces that he has destroyed, the heroes of the underworld, and even the foreign warlords.

If he dies, Zhang Xiangbei's legendary life will come to an end, and he can live like an ordinary person.

And the reason why he chose to retire at the most glorious time of his life was not that he was tired of fighting and killing, nor was it that there were many people who were popular and were excluded by others

He retired because of one person, one word.

That person was his aunt, Lin Qingxi.

A woman Zhang Ruoyu never dared to say no, a woman who has been taking care of him and protecting him since his parents died when he was eight years old.

When he was young, he was rebellious and domineering without a father and mother, and everyone scolded him for being a wild child.

Except for his aunt, there was not even anyone to talk to.

Zhang Ruoyu still can't forget when he was fifteen years old, he had a conflict with a group of street thugs, he fought five of them and lost, but he put down three, and the other two were too scared to do it again.

And he was covered in blood and his face was hideous.

Like a wild wolf that is not accepted by the world.

When the aunt arrived, Zhang Ruoyu, who had been stabbed in the thigh, could no longer straighten his waist.

There were people nearby who watched and pointed at him, but no one called the police.

The aunt who sneaked out of the university dormitory took him to the hospital alone, and it was very windy and bitterly cold that night.

As always, the aunt did not criticize him, not a word.

That night, my aunt took care of him in the hospital, accompanied him, and didn't sleep all night.

After dawn, my aunt left all the living expenses at the bedside and told him to recuperate with peace of mind and come to see him after school.

That was the first time Zhang Ruoyu felt ashamed and guilty, and he asked his aunt with a trembling voice: "I'm just a bad person, why do you care about me?" Why is it so good for me? ”

The aunt replied to him very calmly: "I'm not good to you, who is good to you?" ”

Zhang Ruoyu was silent.

At the age of seventeen, Zhang Ruoyu, who was about to take the high school entrance examination, chose a university accompanied by his aunt.

That night was the winter solstice, and it snowed heavily on the coast. The aunt made a pot of dumplings to accompany him for the holiday, the light in the living room was very warm, and the aunt's eyes were also very soft.

Zhang Ruoyu has good grades, as long as he plays normally, he should be able to go to a prestigious university in the north. My aunt put forward a lot of opinions, but Zhang Ruoyu didn't listen to them, and he also ate the same dumplings as chewing wax.

Because when eating dumplings, Zhang Ruoyu asked curiously: "Auntie, where do you plan to work after graduating from college?" ”

"Wherever you go to college, I'll work." Auntie said casually.

But because of such a sentence, Zhang Ruoyu gave up the college entrance examination and decided to join the army.

He was leaving her.

Strictly speaking, he didn't want to drag his aunt down anymore.

When I was a child, I was ignorant, and I always thought that my aunt was reading an ordinary book in Binhai, just because her grades were not good enough.

Later, he learned that as the aunt of Binhai Champion that year, he stayed in Binhai to study in college in order to take care of him, and he read that ordinary book because it was close to home.

In order to be close to home and take care of him, my aunt easily made a decision to change the trajectory of her life.

Now, even where she goes to work and what kind of job she chooses is based on which school Zhang Ruoyu goes to.

Zhang Ruoyu didn't accept it, he didn't want to drag his aunt down for the rest of his life.

"Auntie, I won't take the college entrance examination anymore, I'm going to join the army."

Under the warm light, Zhang Ruoyu didn't dare to look at her aunt's eyes.

He was afraid that his aunt would question him and accuse him.

But the aunt didn't say a word to him as always, but after a few seconds of silence, she put away the college materials piled up on the table and said, "It's tiring to be a soldier, take care of yourself." ”

On the day Zhang Ruoyu joined the army, his aunt came to see him off.

It was also on that day that the aunt left Binhai, dragged a suitcase, and returned to Yanjing alone.

It was a sunny and cloudless day.

But they completely withdrew from each other's worlds, as if they had never existed.

In the past ten years, they will only make a blessing phone call on each other's birthdays, maybe it's just a conversation of three or two sentences, or maybe it's just a happy birthday and a thank you.

A month ago, on Zhang Ruoyu's birthday, at the celebration banquet held for him by Beimang, he received a call from his aunt.

This time, my aunt didn't say happy birthday.

What she said was, "I miss you, come back." ”

On this day, Zhang Xiangbei, the god of war of Beimang, retired, and a generation of legends went into hiding.

From the age of eight to twenty-eight, my aunt never made any requests to Zhang Ruoyu. Even at his most rebellious and crazy age, my aunt never scolded him.

But as long as the aunt mentions it.

No matter what he proposed, he would not refuse.

My aunt said that she missed him and asked him to come back.

He faded from all his halo and glory and stepped down from the altar.

The aunt said that he was old and it was time to start a family, so he came to Binhai to fulfill the marriage contract.

From childhood to adulthood, his aunt gave him a fatherly sense of security and a mother's tenderness.

It is his only relative in this world.

What she said, Zhang Ruoyu took it as a guide.