Three Kingdoms, at the beginning of the game, recognize the thief as the father, hit the spectacle,

……

Seeing the layers of wrinkles on the opponent's face, Zhou Yu suddenly couldn't bear it, so she forced a smile, sat up straight, and suppressed the feeling of wanting to cough.

"Um... nothing."

"Wake up, uncle."

Standing up, no matter what Zhou Yu's inner thoughts were at the moment, but after seeing his uncle looking at him with some concern, he still forced himself to look like he was cheered up again.

……

After a while, when the two of them walked out of the restaurant again, Zhou Yu had already cleaned up. Although he was not as handsome as before, he was not as sloppy as before.

The two of them were walking on the gradually quiet street, under the bright moonlight, a faint silence was brewing between them.

It wasn't until Zhou Yu sniffed and glanced at his uncle beside him that he opened his mouth and broke the silence between the two.

"Sorry……"

"I'm sorry, Uncle, for worrying you and Father."

As if he didn't know what to say, Zhou Yu hesitated for a moment, and apologized to the other party first, and the expression on his face became a little embarrassed.

On the other hand, Zhou Zhong didn't say much. Instead, he smiled lightly and turned to look at Zhou Yu. His eyes gradually focused and overlapped with the other's.

"Well, no need to apologize, it's nothing."

"Everyone goes through the same things at different stages of their lives, not just you, but me too."

"I'm not here to hold you accountable today. If you didn't go home during the Chinese New Year, you still have your own ideas."

"It's hard, hehe."

"I can imagine..."

He didn't tell the other party what happened in Lujiang. Zhou Zhong knew that the current atmosphere was not suitable for talking about that, and Zhou Yu was not a fool.

Just reaching forward, Zhou Zhong seemed to want to touch the opponent's head, but after remembering that Zhou Yu had become an adult, he changed the stroke to pat the shoulder, with a smile on his face.

From his point of view, Zhou Yu doesn't seem to be as sad as before.

"Yu'er, this is you, this is the heir of our Zhou family."

"No matter how remote the family of the third generation and the third father is, the temperament is definitely not something that those small families can guess."

"You are not a narrow-minded person. The recent incidents just happened too much and too suddenly. You can't accept it for a while. It's normal to get into a dead end. It will be fine after a while, so don't worry about it."

Instructing Zhou Yu, Zhou Zhong just said what he thought of, and there was no obvious logic in his words.

As for Zhou Yu, he neither denied the other party's statement like a rebellious teenager, nor pretended to be mature and said "no", "I'm not angry" and other nonsense, but nodded lightly. After a while, he listened to the entrustment of the elders in the family among the sentences of "I know".

Seeing Zhou Yu's appearance, Zhou Zhong was truly relieved.

Chapter 5 Zhou Yu's Changes

"Okay, Yu'er, I see that your mood has stabilized a lot, so I can rest assured."

"I came here specially from my hometown today. I saw that you didn't come back during the Chinese New Year, and I was a little worried about your safety. Since you are fine, I will go back tomorrow."

"I just don't know, what are your plans for the days to come?"

He said kindly to Zhou Yu that Zhou Zhong was just like an ordinary old man next door at the moment, and he couldn't see the slightest aura of a superior at all from him.

And Zhou Yu also faintly felt that the atmosphere between the two of them now was similar to when he used to follow each other's buttocks and ask questions when he was a child.

This feeling has not appeared for a long time since he grew up, and it even made him feel more stable.

……

"I……"

"I do not know."

……

He murmured for a while, although Zhou Yu has gradually recovered his original feeling at this moment, and is no longer as decadent as before, but after all, he has just experienced such a big thing, and there is still a faint feeling in his heart. Feeling at a loss.

Facing the old man's inquiry at this moment, he hesitated for a long time.

"Uncle, to be honest, I don't know..."

……

"do not know?"

Not far from him, Zhou Zhong suddenly laughed softly as if he heard something incredible.

"Hehe, Yu'er, this really doesn't seem like something you would say..."

Turning around to look at the young man who was already much taller than him, under the reflection of the moonlight, Zhou Zhong's eyes suddenly showed a hint of relief.

……

"Yu'er, do you know that so many years have passed, but your growth may not be as obvious as it has been in the past six months."

"You have been extremely intelligent since you were a child, and your personality is quite independent, and you can even be said to be conceited."

"As for the things you have decided, whether you say you are arbitrarily doing your own thing or saying that you are going your own way-unless your own cognition changes, you will never listen to other people's opinions."

"I really didn't expect that even if you are like this, you who were once judged by me and your father as uncontrollable, would be able to say such words one day."

The wrinkles on his face seemed to be relieved at this moment. After Zhou Zhong said these words, the previous worries in his heart had completely dissipated. He even felt a kind of joy that was not obvious about Zhou Yu's growth. .

Although I feel sorry for his good nephew, from the perspective of the patriarch rather than the uncle, Zhou Zhong even hopes that such hardships or blows will come to Zhou Yu more and more violently.

His ten years of teaching before cannot compare to the changes that have taken place in the other party in just six months. If such things happen more, when Zhou Yu takes over the Zhou family's stall from him in the future, he will The following can also be more reassuring.

Of course, Zhou Zhong also knows that these things are unpredictable, and if it is not Zhou Yu but someone else who encounters this today, it is possible that the other party will never recover from it, and he will be completely reduced to a mediocrity. indefinite.

But in front of him, Zhou Yu obviously didn't think of so many things at the moment, but smiled a little embarrassedly, only saying that he really didn't know, and obviously realized that he was different from before.

……

"This... Uncle, don't make fun of me. I was too short-sighted at the beginning, and some of the mistakes I made can be explained by my lack of knowledge... But if I don't make any progress, I am not worthy of being the successor of our Zhou family. "

"Although my heart is more relieved than before, there is no good place to go, big brother... I don't know how to talk to him about this for the time being, let alone go to see him, lest I get hurt because of it. It affected his existing engagement with the Qiao family."

"Uncle...cough cough, do you have any good suggestions?"

After coughing slightly, Zhou Yu asked Zhou Zhong in this way.

"Suggestion... I can't say it."

"It's just that I'm your elder after all. If you have a place you want to go but you don't have any connections, maybe I can help you arrange one or two."

……

"Oh, that's right! Speaking of which, this incident happened after you came back this time. I haven't even had time to ask you, what did you gain from your trip to Changsha this time?"

Walking lightly, I don't know if all the elders have the habit of turning around in front of the younger generation when teaching the younger generation. At this moment, Zhou Zhong's footsteps are like this, first slowly drawing an arc around Zhou Yu, and then turning into a Making a complete semicircle is quite similar to Kotomine Ri's demeanor when he was educating his son with his friends.

And Zhou Yu was taken aback when he heard the words, then subconsciously touched the corner of his lips as if he was recalling something.

……

"If you harvest, it's actually not bad, right?"

"This time I went to Changsha, and I learned a lot from my elder brother's father, but compared to...that one, my growth is far from enough."

Gently shaking his head towards Zhou Zhong, Zhou Yu said with some regret.

"Uncle, I also know that this kind of thinking is a bit inappropriate. After all, everyone's background is different. Although I am higher than most people, there will always be someone who is tenth or hundredth grade higher. That is the real It is meaningless for me to forcibly compare with the proud son of heaven."

"It's just that even though I say this, deep down in the child's heart, it is inevitable that I will feel regretful because of it..."

A slightly melancholy voice came out of his mouth. After seeing the old man's hesitant appearance, Zhou Yu already understood the meaning of the other party, so he preemptively revealed his true inner thoughts.

As he expected, Zhou Zhong did not try to comfort him, but instead had a questioning look in his eyes.

"Is it just regret?"

"I don't think so."

Said to Zhou Yu lightly, Zhou Zhong's eyes were fixed on the other's eyes, as if he had seen through Zhou Yu's thoughts from under the cover of darkness.

"And...fear."

"Boy knows that this kind of thing will happen again sooner or later, and if next time, I'm still as desperate as I am now... To be honest, my baby is a little afraid of that future."

Sure enough, not long after Zhou Zhong's voice fell, Zhou Yu said the second half of the sentence with some hesitation.

Unlike those who only know how to remember the regrets of the past, although Zhou Yu is young, he is no longer the kind of cowardly person who can't get out of the shadow of the past all day long.

It's just that compared to the past, when he faced setbacks, he could at least resist them. This time, even though Zhou Yu tried his best, he was not confident that he would be able to resist the same after a period of growth. fate.

It was precisely because of this that he was always hesitating here, unwilling to take a step forward.

After all, some gaps in social status cannot be easily filled by the growth of ability.

Chapter 6 Zhou Yu's Changes

"It's right to be afraid! Sometimes, we just need to be afraid in order to grow."

Gently patted Zhou Yu's shoulder. Zhou Zhong seemed to have heard some good news. After Zhou Yu said that he was a little afraid of the future, not only did he not feel unhappy, but he relaxed a little.

……

"Yu'er, you have to know that it is normal to be afraid. It is because you are afraid that you want to struggle and improve yourself. This kind of motivation is compared to being forced to improve yourself by others." They are like clouds and mud, they cannot be discussed side by side."

"For example, your father Luoyang Ling Zhouyi, like me Zhou Zhong, like Zhou Jing, the ancestor of our Zhou family, maybe we are superior in your eyes, but this is also achieved through our hard work, not born in this way."

"There may be some places, such as our initial thoughts, and the reasons for our efforts are not the same... But in the end, there are always some similarities between us, that is, to let ourselves and the Zhou family face the same situation again. , no longer so helpless."

Zhou Yu taught Zhou Yu earnestly, and Zhou Zhong even took the risk of destroying the existing relationship between the two families and offending Zhang Yan to give the other party an example:

"Just like what happened this time, if the Qiao family had the vigor and strength like the Yang family and Yuan family in the Central Plains, do you think that the current Lujiang prefect, the envoy Zhang, would marry the other party's daughter into the family so smoothly? ?”

"It's not a dream!"

Although he said some remarks that violated the etiquette of the emperor and ministers, Zhou Zhong's eyes were looking around at the moment, for fear that the private conversation between the two would be spread by someone with a heart, and spread to the ears of Zhang Yan or the Qiao family.

In contrast, Zhou Yu didn't worry about these things. Instead, he asked a very critical question after thinking about it:

"Uncle, what should I do?"