Half a month later, Nian Tianqi had entered the boundary of the state capital of Changyang County.

When I left my hometown, I was really young, not to mention that I had never been to the county seat or the capital city, even the county seat, and I had not even been out of Xizuo Town, where I grew up.

Normally, a five- or six-year-old child can't remember the place of origin at all, and the memory of the apocalypse is also thanks to his identity as a traverser, although because the brain is not fully developed, the consciousness of the previous life is awake from time to time.

However, the short waking time is enough to remember many things in the apocalypse, and the address of the hometown is one of them.

Along the way, Nian Tianqi asked as he walked, stopped and stopped, the closer he got to his hometown, the slower he walked, even if he returned to his heart like an arrow.

On the third day of December, after five months of arduous trek and displacement, Nian Tianqi finally returned to his hometown, Xizuo Town, his hometown after a ten-year absence.

Xizuo Town is a small town, there are only 100 households in total, a green brick paved path runs through the town from west to east, and there is a thousand-year-old ancient camphor tree in the town.

The ancient camphor tree is three people hugging each other, and at a height of seven or eight feet, it is divided into three adult forks with thick waists, and the three thick forks grow outward, weaving a huge umbrella crown at the top of the tree.

Nian Tianqi's father and Li Tianci's father are also sworn brothers, when Nian Li and Li Langzhong opened a small clinic in the east of this Xizuo Town, practicing medicine and treatment for the fathers and villagers of these ten miles and eight townships.

The small hospital is not large, only a courtyard is surrounded by a wooden fence, the front yard is used as a medical center, and the back yard is the living place of the two families.

Nian Tianqi came from the east, and saw the small courtyard at the head of the town from a distance, and his heart was full of thoughts, ten years away from home, and he was about to see his parents who had been separated for a long time, and his eyes were moist.

Apocalypse slowed down and slowly came to the gate of the courtyard, the wooden fence was not high, and the apocalypse sitting on the horse could clearly see the scene in the courtyard, but he did not see the expected figure, and the look of expectation on his face slowly dispersed.

Nian Tianqi turned over and dismounted, and came to the courtyard gate, where a rusty iron lock was hung, and it seemed that it had been some years.

Apocalypse stretched out his hand and patted it gently, the iron lock fell, pushed open the courtyard door and walked into the yard, looking at the weeds in the yard Tianqi had mixed feelings in his heart, and returned home with great difficulty, but his family did not know where to go.

Apocalypse stood silently in the courtyard for a while, calmed down, and then opened the door of the main hall again, covered with dust and cobwebs.

Walking through the main hall with his breath and taking a closer look in the backyard, Apocalypse had to accept the fact that his parents had long since left.

Nian Tianqi left the courtyard and came to the big camphor tree in the town, thinking of inquiring in the town.

There were a few old men and women sitting under the big camphor tree, basking in the sun, and the apocalypse looked at these grandparents, and the mood that had just calmed down made waves again.

Nian Tianqi walked quickly to an old lady and asked with a smile, "Grandma Wu, are you okay? Do you remember me?"

The old lady squinted her eyes, took Apocalypse's hand, and looked left and right: "Whose baby is such a handsome young man, I can't remember the old woman." ”

Nian Tianqi sat down next to the old lady, "Grandma Wu, do you remember the medical hall in the east and the two doctors Nian and Li?"

"East?" Grandma Wu thought for a moment, "the two families have moved away for two years. ”

"Grandma Wu, I'm the kid of Doctor Nian's family, little apocalypse, when I was a child, I and your grandson Wenwen and a few of them often ran to the creek to fish and play, you were afraid that we would fall into the water, so you came to chase us, do you remember?"

"Oh, it's a little apocalypse, it's all grown so big, I really can't recognize it. Where have you been all these years, and you don't prescribe medical treatment for the big guys. ”

"Grandma Wu, didn't I come back to see you!"

"It's good to be back, it's good to be back. Why are you coming back alone?

"Grandma Wu, they are all busy and don't have time to come back, so I'll come back to see the big guy alone. ”

Nian Tianqi understands that these old men and old ladies don't know much, and they are not in a hurry anyway, since they are back, they will accompany them to chatter, and it is not too late to ask when the uncles and juniors go home.

That night, Uncle Wu's family warmly entertained Nian Tianqi, everyone had dinner, the aunt made soil tea, turned out pumpkin seeds, and the family sat at the table and chatted.

"Tianqi, according to your parents, you and Tianci were taken by the martial arts seniors to practice martial arts, where have your brothers learned martial arts all these years?

Uncle Wu held the hot tea bowl and asked, it was already late winter in early December, and the weather was already getting colder.

"Uncle Wu, Tianci and I have been learning art at the foot of Baiyun Mountain outside the capital all these years, and Tianci has been inseparable from something recently, so he hasn't come back. ”

There is no way to read the apocalypse, there are not many martial arts sects he knows, and the only one who has a connection is the White Crane Garden, since his father said that he practiced martial arts, then let it be, if he tells the truth, he is afraid that people will not believe it, and second, he is afraid of scaring people.

"Isn't it mostly in the north, I remember what your father said about the west. ”

"Uncle, I can't remember so much when I was young, maybe I went west first, and then went back to the north. ”

At this time, Uncle Wu's son Wu Wenji interjected: "Apocalypse, what skills have you learned over the years?"

"Hey, Wenwen, it's some fist and foot kung fu, what else can I do, I'll show you a hand when I'm free tomorrow." ”

"That's a good feeling, haha, enough brothers!" Wu Wenji was wearing a cotton and linen suit, but he also had three points of heroism.

"Uncle Wu, there is something I want to ask you, in fact, I came back this time to find my parents and Uncle Li and Aunt Li, since Tianci and I left, it has been ten years, and there has been no news of our parents. "Apocalypse couldn't help but be a little gloomy.

"I want to ask you if you know where my father left Xizuo Town back then?"

"Oh? ”

Uncle Wu took a sip of tea from the big bowl, thought about it and then said: "I remember that five years ago, it was also winter, and your father and they were in a hurry, and before leaving, they also distributed a lot of commonly used medicinal materials to the villagers, and they didn't bring too many things. Well, I remember asking them where they were going, when would they be back?"

At that time, Dr. Li replied, he said that something had happened in his hometown, and he was in a hurry to go back to see, and he didn't say when he would come back. Well, but I haven't heard of anyone seeing them since they left. ”

"Uncle Wu, isn't my Uncle Li a local, where is his hometown?" asked Tianqi a little anxiously.

"Your Nian family and the Li family are not locals, your father and your Uncle Li only came to the town a year before you were born, I don't know who they are, only that they came from the east. ”

Nian Tianqi was silent, no wonder they were the only ones in the village with the surname Nian, this big and far back, the parents didn't know where they went, and there was no news left, this world is big, the sea of people is vast, where do you want to find it?