That night, the meeting of the strongman clan was held in the large hall of the hotel.

Zhang Nianzu walked into the venue, looking at the black people below, Rao has gone through countless ups and downs, and he can't help but feel worried, this is the strongman clan he is fighting for.

"I wish you all the best!"

"I wish you all the best in every battle. ”

After the two sides finished saluting, Zhang Nianzu went straight to the point and said: "I'm honored, according to records, the last time people gathered like this was ......" He glanced at Li Erhu under the rostrum, and Li Erhu pointed three fingers at him.

"It was three hundred years ago. Zhang Nianzu pointed at Li Erhu and said, "Let me first introduce you to a member of our clan, his name is Li Erhu, his mother Liu Yali is the daughter of the warrior Liu Yang, and the family tree is ranked 102 generations. ”

Liu Bei said "ouch".

His two brothers were busy asking what was wrong.

Liu Beidao: "Our father is only the 103rd generation, and he can't write two Lius in one stroke, don't we want to call the second tiger cousin?"

Li Erhu didn't expect Zhang Nianzu to introduce him specifically, stood up blankly, and said, "Actually...... I'm not a strongman anymore......"

Zhang Nianzu said firmly: "To count, this is also the first thing I want to discuss with you today, I propose that from now on, the women in the clan will be included in the family tree and enjoy the treatment of the clan, and the same will be true for their descendants." Do you have any comments? ”

There was silence below.

Zhang Nianzu was a little uncertain and said: "This is ...... Oppose or approve? Or do you have any concerns that you can't say in public?" He asked a few times but still didn't respond, and a man in his thirties said: "What is there to say about this kind of thing, what grandpa says is what it is." ”

Zhang Nianzu was surprised: "What do you mean by this?"

The man simply stood up and said, "Your two generations of ancestors have suffered so much for us, and you are the first to propose that we oppose it, so don't you become a white-eyed wolf?"

Zhang Nianzu said with a smile: "That's not what I said, I don't do a word." ”

The man said: "Actually, to put it bluntly, there are half men and half women in this world, and no one can guarantee that they will be able to have a son, just say me, I just got married, if I don't object to it, it seems that I don't have the confidence to get a son out, but honestly I don't want to do this." ”

"Why?"

The man spread his hands and said, "What if you really can't get your son?"

There was laughter below.

The man also smiled: "The warrior's life is short, and if he gives birth to a son, he has to continue to do it if he is not a son, how fucking tired, so grandpa, you are thinking about us all, if we don't keep quiet, don't chase and ask, no one dared to mention this matter before because of taboos, you bring it up, you are awesome, we admit it." ”

Everyone applauded and applauded, and this article was passed by all members.

Zhang Nianzu thought that this was the most resistant thing, but he didn't expect to encounter the slightest obstacle, it seems that the strongman race has also kept pace with the times and understood the same truth for boys and girls. He paused and said: "What I said next is related to the lifespan of a warrior - the 45-year-old curse has found a solution with the efforts of our scout Dr. Xu Yingdong, the principle is too complicated, I won't say it, it is basically to fight poison with poison, and the side effect is that it will become an ordinary person......"

Before he finished speaking, a clansman in his forties stood up in a daze and said stupidly, "Grandpa, what did you say...... Is it true?" and then a dozen more people of about their age stood up in the room.

Xu Yingdong said: "It is not accurate to say that the side effects are to become ordinary people, no one can say whether this medicine has deeper side effects without the verification of time, but it can ensure that the warrior passes this hurdle, and I will follow up on the follow-up research work, but it is likely that it will take the efforts of your descendants here - several generations, or even more than ten generations, to make it stable, which is also what I must say when I come to the clan gathering." ”

Zhang Nianzu said: "The choice is in your hands. ”

The dozen or so people said in unison: "We choose to live!"

Nine out of ten of the people present were warriors, and when they realized that they were finally no longer shackled by the 45-year-old, the whole venue suddenly boiled after the dead silence!

The man who stood up earlier suddenly raised his voice and shouted, "After becoming ordinary people, do you still recognize us as clansmen?"

This sentence again fell silent in the room. The barbaric vitality of the strongman clan is directly equated with their barbaric values, and the brave and warlike warriors become ordinary people, and in their subtle values, they are like beasts that have shed their claws, and whether they will continue to be recognized as clansmen has become a huge question mark, and even a sharp sword hanging over their heads.

Zhang Nianzu smiled and asked: "After your father got a cold, you won't recognize him as your father?"

Thousands of men in the audience laughed along, laughing and laughing and crying. They suddenly rushed up and threw Zhang Nianzu into the air and caught it again, because these people had excellent arm strength, and Zhang Nianzu was almost thrown out of the skylight several times in this auditorium with a height of more than ten meters......

The meeting lasted for a long time that night, and after Zhang Nianzu came down from the skylight, he promulgated some regulations for the clansmen, including refining the welfare benefits, stating the conditions for loan subsidies, ensuring that the elderly are supported and the young are educated, and stipulating that the clan assembly should be held every four years if there is no accident. In the future, more women, children, and the elderly will be seen on such occasions. The centripetal force of the strongman clan has thus reached a new height.

After the meeting ended, Zhang Nianzu found Mr. Bai standing outside the venue waiting for him.

"Why don't you go in?" asked Zhang Nianzu.

Mr. Bai smiled awkwardly and said, "It's better that I don't go in on this occasion." He suddenly said seriously, "Listening to the cheers inside, I know that the choice of the Seventeen Household Marquis was wrong. ”

Zhang Nianzu said: "You have won the prize." ”

Mr. Bai suddenly said: "Jack has looked for me again, but only asked me to buy him a ticket back to the United States." He should really be allowed to see today's scene, maybe he will be completely dead. ”

Zhang Nianzu didn't know what to say.

Mr. Bai said: "I don't deny that you are the best grandfather in hundreds of years, but you are not as good as Jack in one thing. ”

"Which point?"

Mr. Bai said: "In Jack's plan, he wants to gather the people together to do a big thing, no matter how naïve and narrow his plan is, at least he drew a cake for the people, but you don't, the people get together and disperse, they have become idle and rich from now on, but they still don't know what to do." ”

Zhang Nianzu nodded and said: "You're right, fortunately, I'm still young, what you said can be done in the next or next four years, in short, I have something to do in my life." ”

Mr. Bai was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then bowed solemnly and said, "I wish you a hundred victories." ”

......

Two years later.

From morning to noon on this day, some people came to Zhang Nianzu's villa: Ah San, Ah Si, Xu Yingdong, Lao Jiang, Liu family brothers, Li Erhu, Zhao Qing, Zhang Xiaoliang, Liu Xinliang, Xu Wei, Lao Guo......

They had not entered the house since they came, but stood together silently on the lawn, their expressions solemn and faintly sad.

Today is Li Changgui's 45th birthday, since yesterday evening, he has shown the same characteristics as when Du Heng left: blurred vision, wheezing, sensitive to pain, Li Changgui once wanted to cover it up, but how could this be concealed, friends got letters one after another, and they came one after another, but they could only stand outside silently.

At this time, Yang Jie walked in, he has always been a jumpy temperament, and he is also struggling at the moment, standing with everyone, he asked Zhao Qing on the side: "Third uncle...... Still refusing to get the injection?"

Zhao Qing said: "Grandpa is still in there to persuade ......"

Zhao Cai'e said lightly: "With my understanding of this old thing, it's useless ......"

In the past two years, Zhao Cai'e, Zhang Nianzu and Ah San Ah Si, the people around them, tried the method of knocking on the side, and said bitter words, with only one purpose: to let Li Changgui get injections, but Li Changgui never took the stubble, and he would lose his temper when he was in a hurry, and people would shut up later, but two years were coming soon, the years were sharp, it could take away the pain and bad memories, and eventually it would take away everything, and finally metabolize and let the world start again. Ranwen

Zhang Nianzu walked out of the house and shook his head gloomily at everyone, but he couldn't move Li Changgui in the end.

Chen Lingyan's eyes suddenly turned red, and he pressed his face tightly to the little face of his one-year-old son in his arms.

Liu Lao Liu walked into the lawn, saw this scene, and said angrily: "Is this old thing really not concerned?"

Ah San couldn't hold back anymore when he heard this, and shouted, "Third uncle, please!"

Ah San's son Leng Ding burst into tears.

The rest of the crowd shouted together.

"Third uncle, please!"

"Third uncle, please!"

"Third uncle, please!"

Jia Xiaolong has been sitting on the grass silently picking at the stones, after two years of growth, his figure has been drawn is no longer the little fat man at the beginning, but initially has the appearance of a teenager, then he suddenly roared hoarsely: "Changgui, I will have no grandfather if you die!"

Li Changgui's miserable white face suddenly appeared at the door, his eyes were distracted, and his ears were still trying to stand up, listening.

Zhang Nianzu took the needle from Xu Yingdong's hand and walked to Li Changgui's side, and said word by word: "Changgui, it's not easy to live, so you need more courage, if you choose to go now, we will always miss you, but if you are willing to stay, we will thank you." ”

Li Changgui raised his chin in astonishment, as if he was entangled.

Zhang Nianzu put the needle in his hand and said, "You choose." ”

The shouts outside suddenly became urgent.

Li Changgui finally trembled and plunged the needle into the vein.

People poured in and put Li Changgui on the sofa, his face slowly became bloody, Li Changgui opened his eyes and said tiredly: "My body is so heavy." ”

Liu Lao Liu squeezed into the crowd and dragged Li Changgui's collar and shook it vigorously: "Your body is so heavy, and the sixth master has also been demoted-in order to keep you, I followed them and shouted the third uncle for a long time!"

Li Changgui reluctantly smiled: "Then I'll call you Sixth Uncle to give it back to you." ”

Liu Lao Liu said with a smile: "It's about the same-" Then his face changed, "No, you kid is only 45, I'm over 60, you should call me Uncle Sheng!"

Everyone laughed while wiping their tears.

Yes, it's only 45, and it's a bit too much for ordinary people to say that there are infinite possibilities, but he is Li Changgui, the golden guard of the strongman clan, although he will find himself in the long years to come, his body becomes heavy, easily tired, and afraid of pain, but in fact, these are not important, what keeps him is care, this ignorant warrior will understand in the future that care is the greatest source of strength and courage in the world.

......

One sunny afternoon, in Zhao Cai'e's bedroom, she was sitting on the edge of the bed wearing reading glasses and looking through the photo albums she got back from her old home, while Lei Tingting was lying on the bed, crossing her calves to listen to the old lady talk about the origin of those photos.

"Mom, I've always had a question for you. Lei Tingting said.

"You ask. ”

Lei Tingting poked the left side of her face and said: "How did the scar on Nianzu's face remain, he said that he had it before he could remember, so he couldn't say why." ”

Zhao Cai'e's face changed, and she slowly took off her glasses.

Lei Tingting was startled when she saw this and said, "Can't you say it?"

Zhao Cai'e paused, and finally opened her mouth: "At that time, Nianzu was just three years old, and that day, I was at home with his father...... Suddenly, two people came. ”

"Is it the enemy?"

"No, it's Du Heng and Liu Yuejin, they came to my house to eat. ”

Lei Tingting rolled her eyes: "Then you said so nervously, what about later?"

"Later, when the meal was cooked, we drank it, and the four of us drank six bottles of liquor, hey, I was so happy at that time. ”

Lei Tingting said speechlessly: "I'll let you talk about the injury on Nianzu's face." ”

"Oh yes, I was so drunk that I heard Nianzu crying in the outhouse, and when I went out to look, I saw this kid climbing the cabinet and falling down, and his face was hanging right on the corner of the glass table-" Speaking of this, Zhao Cai'e stroked her legs and laughed, "Why do you say this kid is so naughty?"

Lei Tingting was dumbfounded: "That's it, I thought it was ......"

Zhao Cai'e said: "How can there be so many ups and downs in life, ordinary is the truth." She suddenly lowered her voice and said, "You are not allowed to tell Nianzu about this before I die." ”

Lei Tingting laughed and said, "What should I do if I can't help it?"

Zhao Cai'e said: "Then you will get a wicked mother-in-law who forces you to have children every day." ”

At this time, Zhang Nianzu knocked on the door outside, and Zhao Cai'e gave Lei Tingting a threatening look again, and then said leisurely: "Come in." ”

Zhang Nianzu pushed open the door and said, "Mom, tell you something, Xu Yingdong is a guest at our house." ”

Zhao Cai'e suddenly said with a hint of panic: "So what?"

"So you make more for dinner. ”

Zhao Cai'e hurriedly said, "Got it." ”

Zhang Nianzu rested one arm on the door frame and said with a smile: "Please explain to me again that 'the ups and downs of life are bland'." ”

Zhao Cai'e stood up and walked out of the door and said, "I'm going to cook." ”

After her mother-in-law left, Lei Tingting lay on her side on the bed, looking at Zhang Nianzu playfully with one hand on her pillow.

"Why are you looking at me like this?" Zhang Nianzu blushed a little for no reason.

Lei Tingting said: "The place where you have been injured seems to become invulnerable, right?"

"What's wrong?"

Lei Tingting scratched her face and said: "So someone, he has had an indestructible cheeky skin since he was a child." He giggled as he spoke, with infinite tenderness.

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