Longevity starts with learning

Chapter 618: Where is he?

Nanshan Town.

In the early morning, the mountain fog still existed.

People were coming and going on the street, and there was an endless stream of hawkers. A man with the name of inspecting armor stopped in front of each stall and shop. After breakfast, he headed towards the mine on the mountain in groups.

In the courtyard on the street, the door opened and a middle-aged man wearing patrol armor and a sword hanging from his waist walked out.

The man walked out of the courtyard and seemed to have remembered something again. He turned around and looked into the hospital: "Mu'er, Dad won't be back at noon. You can get some food to deal with it. Dad will take you to a restaurant to eat in the evening."

"Dad, then give me some money and I will take Xiaoyuan to Beifang to play at noon..."

In the courtyard, a young man trotted out and looked at the middle-aged man with his head held high.

"Don't go out of town, it's in the wilderness outside..."

The middle-aged man casually warned, took out a few banknotes from his arms, handed them to the young man, and walked out quickly.

As soon as the courtyard door closed, the young man held the banknotes and jumped up and down with excitement.

"Wangcai, let's go to Xiaoyuan's house. Let's have a big dinner today."

The young man hugged the dog lying lazily under the eaves, his eyes full of excitement.

The puppy looked like a full moon, and his eyes seemed a little dull, but occasionally, a touch of intelligence emerged, and the gaze he looked at the young man seemed to be a little intimate, but more, it seemed to be doubtful and wary.

The young man obviously didn't notice this. He picked up the puppy, trotted open the courtyard door and ran away in the street.

The puppy huddled in the young man's arms. The dullness in his eyes was gone. He looked at the people coming and going on the street, especially looking at the young man's happy face from time to time. There was clearly a hint of trance in his smart animal eyes. , even seems to have some memories.

As time goes by, the teenagers playing in the street slowly grow up, and the middle-aged man wearing patrol armor also gets older little by little.

Until one day, the imperial court issued an order, ordering Qinghe County to recruit a thousand corvees to the county to repair the river.

Such an order may be nothing in an ordinary county, but in Qinghe County, where the corvee is already overloaded due to the existence of Nanshan Iron Mine, it is obviously not an easy thing.

Since the imperial order was issued, more than a thousand patrol officers and soldiers in Qinghe County have hardly had any leisure time. Teams of patrol officers, armed with recruitment orders, went to Fifty-three Villages, Fifteen Towns, Qinghe County, fully armed. This quota of corvées was forcibly imposed on the already overwhelmed people of Qinghe County with the threat of swords.

The young man's father, who was on inspection duty, was naturally busy like this.

The boy is still carefree and plays carefree every day.

In order to inspect families, it is obviously impossible for the young people to be involved in the suffering of the people.

This recruitment of corvees took nearly a month, and the recruitment of these thousands of corvees was barely completed.

For the young man, and for the people of Qinghe County, this was almost an unbearable month. The only change in his life may be that his father has been away for a long time, and he has become more and more comfortable without anyone to control him.

Playing with his childhood friend all day long, the pup in his arms grew bigger and bigger. The pup was different from those local dogs that ran around and had fun. On the contrary, the pup was extremely quiet and did not like to play around.

Young people play together by nature, and the puppies often lie aside, just like old people who have seen too many things in the world, quiet and indifferent.

This kind of life goes on forever.

The boy grew up slowly, and the pup also grew up slowly. It wasn't until that night that a fast horse rushed from the county town, completely breaking the young man's carefree life, and also breaking the long-term stable order of the town, and even the county town.

All the thousand corvees who came to the county and nearly a hundred patrol officers responsible for escorting the corvees died.

The final result was only a notice from the county seat and an official document instructing Qinghe County to deal with the aftermath.

Apart from that, there is nothing else. When the carefree young man heard the shocking news, he fainted and fell to the ground. With the help of his father's colleagues, he managed to complete his father's funeral.

The young man had been depressed for a long time, but at this time, the puppy, who had been calm for a long time, was obviously a little restless. But if you look closely, you can see that the puppy's restlessness seems to be more of expectation, as if he is looking forward to something. Something is coming.

However, as time went by, the puppy's expectations slowly turned into disappointment as always.

After the young man lost his father and was alone in his family, he had no right to feel depressed.

Silently took over his father's mantle and took on the duty of inspection, just like his father, he was responsible for the inspection day after day in Nanshan Town...

Day after day, year after year.

As the boy grew up into a young man little by little, the puppy became quieter and quieter, as if he had lost his vitality and spirit.

On the day when the boy turned twenty, he married a wife. The next year, the boy had his first offspring.

Just like how many patrols there are in Nanshan Town, the duty of patrols has been passed down from generation to generation.

Spring goes and autumn comes...

The young man grew old slowly, and he also made some achievements in the inspection station. He took the post of corps commander, the Chu family became the Chu family, and he was considered a moderate figure in Nanshan Town.

He married two concubines, had two children, and his life became more and more complete.

Although Gouzi also has an unusually long life, he has obviously become older and more silent as time goes by.

And all this lasted until a late winter many years later.

The sky was full of wind and snow, and the puppy was lying next to the fire pot. On the bed in the room, the former young man, surrounded by his children and grandchildren, had only the last breath of vitality left.

The old man used up his last strength and looked at the old dog who was also dying in front of the brazier.

The four eyes looked at each other, and they were all turbid.

The old man was puzzled, but at this moment, he had no energy to ask any more questions.

As these four eyes met, the old man passed away.

There were cries in the room, and the eyes of the old dog lying in front of the fire pit seemed to be filled with tears, and it was obvious that there was deep confusion and doubt, and even despair.

that……

Leading it from the secular world to the world of immortality, from being as insignificant as an ant to being the most famous person in the world of immortality, where did he go?

Why, doesn't it have that familiar scent?

Who is this person, and why is he both familiar and strange at the same time...

He... is not him, absolutely not.

It's convinced.

But where is he...?

How long does it have to wait?

I don’t know when, this old dog, which was jokingly called a sperm by the people of Nanshan Town, finally slowly closed its cloudy eyes, breathed silently, and grew old in another despair...

……

(End of this chapter)