"At that time, you, Long Fei, will continue to be your little brother in Beimang and live under my shadow?"
Zhang Ruoyu curled his lips and said: "Damn dwarf, can you have some potential?"
Long Fei rolled his eyes and muttered: "Okay, brother, I have to help the engineer improve your statue drawings later. Alas, Binhai officials are so polite and insist on erecting a 1:8 real statue next to your cemetery.
Just engage in formalism.”
Zhang Ruoyu's expression was complicated, and he suddenly felt a subtle emotion: I felt that I was sorry for other people's good intentions while I was alive.
After hanging up the phone, Zhang Ruoyu lit a cigarette and found a chair to sit down.
When he decided to retire, the leader was rude on the spot. Long Fei and other Beimang veterans who had followed him for many years were crying every day...
The fact that the military organized such a grand funeral and even appeared on TV was the perfect ending to Zhang Ruoyu's entire military career, and it also provided him with the utmost protection.
If he retires alive, the dark forces, underground world tycoons, and even foreign warlords that he once destroyed with his own hands will not be able to let him live a comfortable life for a day.
With death, Zhang Xiangbei's legendary life will end, and he can live like an ordinary person.
The reason why he chose to retire at the most glorious time in his life was not because he was tired of fighting and killing, nor because he was popular and ostracized.
He retired because of one person and one word.
That person is his aunt, Lin Qingxi.
A woman who Zhang Ruoyu would never dare to say no to, a woman who has been taking care of him and protecting him since his parents passed away when he was eight years old.
When he was young, without a father or mother, he was rebellious and domineering, and everyone called him a wild boy.
Except for his aunt, there was no one to talk to him.
Zhang Ruoyu still can't forget that when he was fifteen years old, he had a conflict with a group of street gangsters. He beat five of them and lost, but he knocked down three of them and the other two were too scared to fight 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 back.
There were people nearby watching and pointing at him, but no one called the police.
His aunt who sneaked out from the university dormitory took him to the hospital alone. It was very windy and bitingly cold that night.
As always, his aunt did not criticize him harshly, not even a word.
That night, my aunt took care of him and stayed with him in the hospital, and she didn't sleep all night.
After dawn, my aunt left all his living expenses beside the bed, telling him to rest in peace and recuperate, and to come see him again after school.
That was the first time Zhang Ruoyu felt ashamed and guilty. He asked his aunt in a trembling voice: "I am a bad person, why do you care about me? Why are you so nice to me?"
But my aunt answered him calmly: "If I'm not nice to you, who will be nice to you?"
Zhang Ruoyu fell silent.
When he was seventeen years old, Zhang Ruoyu, who was about to take the college entrance examination, chose a university with the company of his aunt.
That night was the winter solstice, and it snowed heavily on the coast. My aunt made a pot of dumplings to celebrate the festival with him. The light in the living room was very warm, and my aunt's eyes were very soft.
Zhang Ruoyu's grades are good. As long as he performs normally, he should be able to go to a prestigious university in the north. His aunt gave a lot of advice, but Zhang Ruoyu didn't listen. He also tasted the dumplings.
Because while eating dumplings, Zhang Ruoyu asked out of curiosity: "Auntie, where do you plan to work after graduating from college?"
"Wherever you go to college, I will work." My aunt said casually.
But because of these words, Zhang Ruoyu gave up the college entrance examination and decided to join the army.
He wants to leave her.
Strictly speaking, he didn't want to burden his aunt anymore.
When I was young, I was ignorant and always thought that my aunt was studying in an ordinary school in Binhai just because her grades were not good enough.
Later he found out that his aunt, who was the number one scholar in Binhai that year, stayed in Binhai to study in college to take care of him. She studied in that ordinary school because it was close to home.
In order to be close to home and to take care of him, my aunt easily made a decision that changed the trajectory of her life.
Now, where she works and what kind of job she chooses are all based on which school Zhang Ruoyu goes to.
Zhang Ruoyu didn't accept it because he didn't want to drag his aunt down for the rest of his life.
"Auntie, I won't take the college entrance examination. I want to join the army."
Under the warm light, Zhang Ruoyu did not dare to look into his aunt's eyes.
He was afraid that his aunt would question him and accuse him.
But as always, my aunt didn't say a word to him. After a few seconds of silence, she put away the college materials piled on the table and said, "Being a soldier is very tiring, so 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 my aunt left Binhai, dragging a suitcase and returned to Yanjing alone.
The sun was shining brightly that day and there were no clouds in the sky.
But they were completely separated from each other's world, as if they had never appeared before.
In the past ten years, they would only make a congratulatory phone call on each other's birthdays, maybe just a few words of conversation, maybe just a happy birthday and a thank you.
A month ago, on Zhang Ruoyu's birthday, at a celebration banquet held for him in 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."
It was on this day that Zhang Xiangbei, the Beimang God of War, retired, and a legend of his generation retired to seclusion.
From the age of eight to twenty-eight, my aunt never made any request to Zhang Ruoyu. Even when he was the most rebellious and crazy age, my aunt never criticized him harshly.
But as long as my aunt mentioned it.
No matter what is proposed, he will not refuse.
My aunt said she missed him and asked him to come back.
He then shed all his halo and glory and stepped down from the altar.
His aunt said that he was old and it was time to start a family and start a business, so he came to Binhai to fulfill his engagement.
Growing up, his aunt gave him a sense of security like a father and tenderness like a mother.
He is his only relative in this world.
What she said was regarded as a model by Zhang Ruoyu.
