After the world collapsed

Chapter 42 Sun Xiaoliu

"It can't be such a coincidence, could it be today?"

Looking at the closed city gate, Zhang Sheng felt helpless. Isn't this the day before he divination to Xiao Liu's parents?Xiaoliu missed the time to go back to the city because of his playfulness, and his parents should find him by this time tomorrow noon.

"what to do……"

After all, Xiao Liu is still a child, and he can't think of anything when he is playing, so he can't go home at this time, and he is too anxious.

"Don't be afraid, do you know where those little friends live? Why don't you go to their house and stay for one night first?"

Zhang Sheng "had an idea" and immediately proposed this idea.

Who knew that when Xiao Liu heard that he could go to his friend's house to play again, he immediately left all the anxiety and uneasiness behind, and immediately set off with Zhang Sheng talking and laughing.

"You kid is really playful."

Sun Xiaoliu was still throwing the bag back and forth in his hands as he walked.

"Haven't you played enough?"

Zhang Sheng asked in surprise.

"No, you can see that there is a lot of dust on the pocket, and throwing it around can shake off a lot of dust."

Xiao Liu's answer surprised Zhang Sheng, he didn't expect this playful kid to have such a side.

"It seems that you cherish this pocket very much."

"Of course, my grandma made it for me."

"Then just ask your grandma to make you some more."

Zhang Sheng noticed that after Xiao Liu mentioned his grandma, he was not as lively as before.

"My grandma is gone..."

The atmosphere fell silent for a while.

It turned out that this pocket was left to him by grandma Xiaoliu. It seemed that grandma held an extremely important place in his heart.Inadvertently mentioned Xiao Liu's sadness, Zhang Sheng suddenly didn't know what to say to comfort him.

Birth, old age, sickness and death are very normal things in the world, and the death of a loved one is a kind of pain for everyone.But the most important thing is that Zhang Sheng has never had a similar experience, so naturally he doesn't know what to say to Xiao Liu.

"Actually, big brother, I overplayed it on purpose." Xiao Liu said with some embarrassment.

Hearing what Xiao Liu said, Zhang Sheng knew there must be another reason.

"But I didn't expect that you would not be able to enter the city even if you were tired..."

"Ah, it's okay, I'm just passing by, not going to Fengping City, but why did you do that?"

"Because my parents are always arguing these days, I really don't want to hear them quarreling anymore at home." Xiao Liu hesitated for a while and finally told the truth.

Zhang Sheng suddenly realized that Sun Xiaoliu was still just a child, maybe he didn't want to see his parents quarreling again, so he played outside all day and didn't even want to go home.

"Tell me about your family..." Zhang Sheng didn't know how to comfort Xiao Liu, so he could only see if he could tell his family stories.

On the way to the little friend's house, Xiao Liu told some stories about his family and some things about his deceased grandma.

Combined with the family affairs that Xiao Liu told him, Zhang Sheng suddenly thought of the anxious look on his parents' faces when they came to him for divination, so he said to Xiao Liu:

"Xiao Liu, your parents still love you very much. If you haven't come home so late, they must be very anxious."

"..." Xiao Liu didn't know what to do, he would definitely be scolded when he went back tomorrow, so he asked Zhang Sheng to help him think of a way.

"Big brother, if this happened to you, how would you tell your parents when you go back?"

"How do I tell my parents?"

I may be grounded by the old way for a month.

Zhang Sheng was thinking in his heart, but suddenly some long-lost feelings were touched.

"What if it's my parents? I've never met them..."

He muttered to himself.

"What? Big brother, how come you haven't met your parents?" Xiao Liu thought Zhang Sheng was trying to play him off, and didn't believe what he said at all.

"I was brought up by my master since I was a child, and I only have him as a relative. As for my parents, he never mentioned to me."

Zhang Sheng was fine when he was a child, and it was natural for him to follow the old way, but as he grew older, especially after he went to the school in the city and saw the situation of other children, Zhang Sheng finally understood the difference between him and others.

Whenever he saw the classmates at the next table wearing clothes made by his mother himself, and saw the parents waiting outside the courtyard for their children after school, Zhang Sheng would unconsciously envy them.

It's not that Zhang Sheng never thought about asking the old Tao about his parents, but he was afraid of hurting the old Tao.Like other things, there are naturally reasons why the old man doesn't say it.

These memories in his childhood that he most wanted to forget were brought up again because of Xiao Liu.At this time, he actually envied Xiao Liu from the bottom of his heart, envied that he could hear his parents' quarrel, and that the family of three could sit together and have dinner together.

"Why do I have such emotions? Could it be the influence of this mental training?"

Although Zhang Sheng's mood fluctuated a little at this moment, he still remembered that this was just a trial of refining his mind.

"Wait, mind training? Everything here is fictional, so is it possible to make up a master?"

Thinking of the home outside Fengping City, Zhang Sheng suddenly remembered that if the old Taoist was there, he would not know what kind of answer he would get when he asked him about his parents.

Anyway, it is a fake old way, the real old way is building in the forest right now.

Thinking of this, he suddenly felt a little excited, he actually looked forward to that scene at that time.

"Big brother, I'm here, just ahead."

Xiao Liu pointed to a small village ahead and said.

"Come on, I'll take you there."

Zhang Sheng took Xiao Liu to the village, and several friends came out to greet them immediately when they saw it.All the families in the village were very enthusiastic, saying that they would take good care of Xiaoliu and send him back to his home in Fengpingcheng tomorrow.

After rejecting the villagers' invitation to stay and eat together, and saying goodbye to Xiaoliu and the others, Zhang Sheng couldn't wait to set off for his home outside the city.

As the sky darkened, Zhang Sheng finally arrived at his "home".

The courtyard wall of his house is not high, so the scene in the courtyard can be seen from the partition wall.

The courtyard at this time was a little different from what he had imagined.A long rope was pulled up in the middle of the yard, and clothes and bed quilts were hanging on it. It seemed that they were almost dry, but it was so dark that they hadn't been put away yet.

"Are you waiting for me to collect it?"

Zhang Sheng suddenly had such an idea in his mind.

The courtyard door was unlocked, so he pushed open the door and approached the courtyard.At this time, a woman's voice came from the room.

"My son is back? By the way, have you collected the clothes and quilt?"

Zhang Sheng was frightened by the sound of his son. He looked at the furnishings in the yard and the clothes to dry, and they were all so familiar. Did he go wrong?
How could there be a woman's voice and call her son?Could it be that the old man is practicing some strange spells?

"Why are you standing there, hurry up, dinner is coming, your father has been waiting for you for a long time."

The door opened, and a middle-aged woman was smiling at Zhang Sheng who was stunned.

He who should have been unfamiliar with the face of the middle-aged woman he had never seen before suddenly lost his mind at this moment. This... is this my mother?
Yes, this is exactly my mother.

Strong inner hints kept circling in Zhang Sheng's mind, he subconsciously responded and turned to collect his clothes.

Soon, holding a thick pile of clothes and quilts, Zhang Sheng walked into a familiar room, and he immediately saw a middle-aged man who was somewhat similar to himself sitting behind the table.

"Father...Father, I'm back."

Zhang Sheng's dry lips moved slightly, but he still said this sentence.

"Come on, drink some water." Zhang Sheng's "father" poured a glass of water, then pushed towards Zhang Sheng and motioned him to put his clothes aside.

At the same time, his "mother" came over with a hot meal.

"Eat it while it's hot, I'll go and see the soup, it's almost ready." After finishing speaking, she returned to the kitchen.

Zhang Sheng sat on the other side of the table, looking at the opposite middle-aged man who was somewhat similar to himself, but a little more vicissitudes, he felt a little emotional for a while.

"Father, you..."

"What are you looking at, hurry up and eat, and we'll talk after we have something to say." The middle-aged man picked up the bowl and chopsticks and began to eat.

Zhang Sheng didn't move his chopsticks, but looked at the closed wooden door that turned right after entering the door, which was the room where the old Taoist usually lived, and asked subconsciously:
"Aren't you waiting for Master?"

"What master? Didn't your master leave a long time ago?" The mother came over with a large bowl of soup, and put the soup on the table next to Zhang Sheng while talking.

"Master, he left?"

why did you leave?Where did you go?Wait, do you mean that?
Zhang Sheng suddenly felt his breathing became short of breath.

Seeing this, his father immediately said:
"Okay, okay, let's eat first, talk nonsense, and talk about your master's affairs later, come, drink soup!"

After speaking, he pushed Tang towards Zhang Sheng.

Zhang Sheng, who couldn't resist his parents, had no choice but to stop asking, and started to eat dinner with his head down.

For some reason, he always felt as if he hadn't eaten such a delicious meal for a long time.Seeing him devouring, the mother just looked at him with a smile while eating slowly, and the atmosphere at the dinner table was very warm for a while.

"Is this the scene I have been looking forward to since I was a child? Is this the love from my parents?"

Zhang Sheng's heart was enriched like never before at this moment, and he didn't even notice that little loss.

"In two days, you and Xiaofan are going to join the army. You should take care of each other in the army."

"Xiaofan? Oh, you said Dazhuang?"

Zhang Sheng, who had eaten, was chatting with his father, when he suddenly mentioned Xiaofan, he didn't react for a while.The next moment, the memory that he was about to join the army emerged as a matter of course.

It turned out that he and Da Zhuang had already made an appointment to join the army together, and the Izumo and Dongyang countries were about to go to war. It was time for these passionate men to join the army and serve the country.

"By the way, father, I want to see Master again before joining the army."

At this time, even Zhang Sheng himself didn't know why he had to see the master, and he couldn't even remember the face of the master in his mind, as if the master had been away for a long, long time.

"Forget it, I'll take you to see his old man tomorrow." Father said with a sigh.

Everything was so natural, late at night, when Zhang Sheng returned to his familiar room, he didn't know what to do for a while, and fell asleep after lying on the bed for a long time.

In his dream, he seemed to hear someone calling him. He kept searching for the source of the voice, but he could never find it.

Early the next morning, Zhang Sheng, who was woken up by his father, had breakfast and then went up the mountain with his parents to meet the master he was talking about.

When he saw the master's tombstone in the bamboo forest on the mountain, his heart seemed to be hit hard, and many memories of the past also emerged.

"The tomb of the teacher Zhang Tianfeng."

Seeing the tombstone in front of him, Zhang Sheng seemed to have a lot of memories awakened in his mind.

"Hey, you've been like this since the old man passed away, and you've been refusing to accept the fact that he's gone."

The father explained next to him.

It turned out that Zhang Sheng's master had passed away for a long time, but Zhang Sheng was too sad to believe it, subconsciously refused to admit the master's departure, and often fell into some of his own fantasies.

Whenever this time, parents will bring him here, and then he can recover normal memory.

Zhang Sheng looked at Master's tombstone dully, and had unprecedented doubts about himself.

"It was all my fantasy before me?"

"Master took me to Ningcheng, took me to Pojun Mansion, I practiced with Ding Jun, I became a cultivator of immortals... all this is just my fantasy?"

By the way, Zhihai, all these things are impossible, this is my fantasy, they are real!
Inside vision.

How to do it?What is consciousness and how to control it?Zhang Sheng was stunned.

At this time, his father patted him on the shoulder lightly, and sighed at the same time.

"Accept it. It's not the first time you've been like this. This situation may be lighter after you shift your attention to the military."

Only then did Zhang Sheng calm down slowly, and gradually accepted the reality of the situation.

It turns out that all of these are my fantasies, otherwise how could I grow up so old that I have never seen my parents, they are standing beside me alive now, as for the cultivators and so on, they are just legends, they are all imagined by me.

After paying homage to Master, Zhang Sheng accepted the fact and returned home with his parents.

At this time, he cherished the short two days he spent with his parents before joining the army.

Two days passed in a hurry.Da Zhuang came to the door early in the morning, with only a small bag on his back, Zhang Sheng, who had already packed his things, and he was about to set off with him to report at the Military Enlistment Office in Fengping City.

Before leaving, Zhang Sheng hopes that time can stay here forever. After joining the army, he does not know when he will be able to return home and see his parents again.

But according to his father's words, he has grown up, and it's time to defend his family and country. Even if he dies in battle, he can't embarrass their old Zhang family.

With the blessings of his family, Zhang Sheng put his previous fantasies behind him. He knew that what he had to face next might be the real life and death, and he must not back down.

(End of this chapter)