The city lord said softly to his little grandson: "Good grandson, don't cry. How did you get here, do you know that this worries grandpa. ”

Still sobbing, the grandson said in his childish voice, "I... I'm going to protect the city of Alan... Grandpa, you told me that I am the grandson of the city lord, and I want to protect the monsters in the sea of Ailan City... So..."

Hearing his grandson's words, the old city lord was stunned, and the scenes in his memory of educating his grandson since he was a child came to mind. When his grandson was still very young, he had been educating him to protect the city of Ailan when he grew up, because he was the grandson of the city lord. The old man said that these were not simply told to his grandson, he knew the rules of the city lord in the past dynasties, so he actually began to subtly change his grandson's mind a long time ago, and when he wanted to sacrifice him to the god of the sea, let the boy have this kind of awareness.

It's just that when the sea god sacrifice was really going to be carried out, the old man never had the ability to say it, after all, this was too cruel for a child who was only five years old, and this responsibility should not be pressed on him. So even if the child is sent to the "ship of death", he doesn't know what will happen in his heart, but simply thinks that he and his family are separated.

Thinking of the scene before he illuminated his grandson, he was obviously picking up stones, using his ability to fight the "sea god", and guarding Ailan City, the old man's mouth was full of bitter taste. The boy is indeed guarding the city of Alan, which is something he should be happy about, but his method of protecting the city is different from what he imagined. Coupled with what Xiao Hachi said before, the old city lord of Ailan City had already begun to shake in his heart at this time.

"Is it true that the ancestors of the past generations and their own ideas were wrong?"

The boy sobbed as he stole at his grandfather, seeing that he had not spoken for a long time, and that a look of pain appeared between his brows. The little boy thought that he had said the wrong thing, so he launched the coquettish tactic again, hugged his grandfather's neck tightly, and shouted aggrievedly while crying: "Grandpa, I was wrong, don't be angry..."

……

With a "bang", a table made of fine mahogany turned into countless debris and scattered on the ground under the man's palm.

At the table, there was a little boy of four or five years old, who was frightened by this sudden scene. Then, he immediately threw himself forward, hugged the thigh of a man in front of him, and cried.

Hearing the boy's cry, the man's heart softened, and he sat down, reached out to pick up his son, and let him sit on his lap, gently patting his back while wiping away tears for him.

Seeing that the child stopped crying, the man sighed and said, "Child, don't cry." ”

The boy saw that his father's anger subsided, and he also stopped crying, his eyes were red, and he looked at his father in a blink and asked, "Father, why did you send your brother on the boat, he..." His own brother was buried at the bottom of the sea right in front of him. And his father didn't say anything about this, so the little boy went to question his father.

When the man heard the child's words, he sighed heavily again, and he was in the prime of life, and he suddenly became much older, revealing a deep sense of exhaustion.

But the little boy apparently did not give up on the question he had asked, and his two big eyes stared curiously at his father, wanting to get an answer from him.

The man struggled to raise his "heavy" head, looked at the child in front of him, reached out and touched his hair, and sighed: "Since you asked, then sue you, anyway, sooner or later you will become the city lord of Alan City..."

"Outside the harbor of Alan City, there is one..."The man told his children what had happened in the previous struggle between Aylan City, the sea monsters and the martyrs, and the boy listened attentively.

After the man finished speaking, the child's innocent voice came again.

"Father, isn't there a little brother and sister who are separated from their parents every year?

"As I said before, even if he kills that sea monster, he will come back, and more people will die here. ”

"Run away again, what if it doesn't come back? And as long as it comes back, we'll run him away, wouldn't it be good? Father, you see, the little brother of the Zhang family, he used to bully me, but then I learned kung fu and defeated him, and he didn't dare to bully me anymore. The boy said earnestly, and he still had a little joy in his heart, because the boy thought that what he said was very right and reasonable, and his father should praise him.

But who knew that in exchange for it, my father shouted angrily!

"Shut up! That's a sea monster, it's not you children making trouble!" The father was a little angry at this time, looked at the boy and said word by word: "Do you know how many people will die if the sea monster doesn't leave and come back! Do you know that if a new sea monster appears, Ailan City will not be able to hold on to it here, and the whole city will be relocated to bring great losses! Don't mention the matter of fighting the sea monster to me again in the future, have you heard it?"

The boy was taken aback by his father's sudden change, although he didn't understand what the migration was, and he didn't understand how much loss it would be, but judging from his father's stern expression, the boy knew that his father was really angry.

Maybe it's the child's nature, even if he doesn't think what he said is wrong, but under the anger of adults, he will directly choose to admit his mistake, and the same is true for boys. He threw himself into his father's arms and cried tremblingly: "Father, I was wrong, don't be angry..."

……

The old man looked at the little grandson in his arms, and suddenly there was an overlap with him and his father in his memory. At the beginning, it was his father who stifled his thoughts and forcibly instilled in him what he thought was the right choice, and now he is not doing the same thing as his deceased father?

The old man was silent... The little grandson didn't dare to disturb him, lying on his shoulder and secretly looking at him, while at the same time repeating his wrong words.

"No, maybe I'm wrong. The old man's voice interrupted the little grandson's words.

The little grandson's eyes widened, and he didn't understand what his grandfather meant, in his opinion, what his grandfather should say was to forgive himself, not to say that he was wrong.

The little grandson felt a little confused, could it be that the grandfather was blaming himself? He said that on purpose? This was the only possibility he could think of.

Thinking of this, the little grandson became even more anxious, and hurriedly exclaimed, "Grandpa, grandpa, it's the grandson who is wrong, don't be angry." ”

The old man raised his head, looked at his grandson, and smiled kindly: "No, it's grandpa's fault, grandpa apologizes to you." After saying that, he looked at the battle at sea and muttered, "Father, maybe the concept you taught me should indeed change..."

The old man put his little grandson down, took a few steps forward by himself, looked at the battle on the sea, and suddenly shouted loudly: "Warriors, please don't blindly defend, please help us expel this monster!"

The old man's voice came from afar, and everyone who was fighting with the "Sea God" was stunned and looked at the old man.

One of them, an emaciated old man who was older than the city lord of Ailan City, scolded angrily: "Xiaoyu, what are you talking about! Do you want to break the rules set by the ancestors of Ailan City!?"

In the eyes of others, although the city lord of Ailan City is not very old, he is at least sixty years old, and it is indeed a bit strange to be called Xiaoyu. But for the city lord, he didn't feel anything wrong, because the emaciated old man was his own uncle.

"Uncle, it's because of those rules that Ailan City has been enslaved by sea monsters for too long, especially since we, as the city lords, look very beautiful in the eyes of others, but in fact, all the aborigines of Ailan City know that this is a mess, because of that agreement, every generation of us has to watch our own grandchildren, our own sons are sent into the mouth of monsters, haven't you had enough of this life!"