Judgment

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Zhang Zixuan hugged his girlfriend, full of longing.

"When we get married, we will buy a small house. You do the housework and I support the family. Every morning you stand at the door and take me to work..."

His girlfriend teased him, "You still want to buy a house? With your family's situation, where did you get the money?"

"You don't have to worry about it. When you sell the house where my grandma lives, you will have money."

His girlfriend frowned and looked at him, "Didn't your grandma keep refusing to agree? Are you planning to kick her out? If it's true, I can't afford to buy a house with the money I got. In the future, I won't be scolded to death by poking my spine?"

"How can it be? My dad originally planned to take over grandma after selling it, but the old lady refused to agree. Now that things are so big, I don't know what she thinks."

Zhang Zixuan said unhappily: "I said it's because she's getting old and confused. She's going to leave anyway, and won't the rest be my dad's? Now that she's so stiff, she's not afraid that my dad won't raise her?"

The more he talked, the more unhappy he became, and he continued: "When I was a child, she had such a temper, and no one could see what she was thinking. Later, my mother forbade my father to visit her often, and there was no news about her. I Not even with her."

While Zhang Zixuan was talking, he thought of that old lady with a weird temper.

He doesn't see her much, at most once or twice a year.But even so, he was not happy.

He didn't like that old lady, and always felt that her eyes were gloomy, not like a normal person.From a very young age, the first time the old lady saw him touching his forehead, he was subconsciously afraid of her.

Dad said that grandma had a hard time when she was young, and her temper was inevitably a little weird.

Zhang Zixuan couldn't understand, what kind of life could turn a person into that weird temper?He remembered the way she looked at him, not as if she was looking at a living person, but as if she was looking at a pitiful object.

Forget it, leave that old lady alone!Living your life well is the right thing to do.

Zhang Zixuan turned away his thoughts, happily thinking about the days after he had a new house.He still has many plans waiting to be realized. After getting married and buying a house, life has just begun.Raise a family, have a big fat boy, take care of dad.He will step by step...

Just as he was thinking, Zhang Zixuan noticed something was wrong with his girlfriend's expression.She looked at herself with a pale face, as if she had seen some ghost.

"Xiaona, what's the matter?" Zhang Zixuan said, suddenly felt something strange about his nose, so he quickly wiped it with his hand. "It's cold, I have a runny nose, hehe..."

He wiped it, feeling something was wrong.Why is the snot flowing more and more?

Look down.

What is that red spot on the back of my hand?The dazzling red smeared on the back of the hand, which was shocking.

Just as he was dazed, red water dripped from his nose again, which just landed on the palm of his hand.

Blood, why so many nosebleeds?

As if to drain all the blood in his body, the red ones scrambled out of his nose.

Zhang Zixuan's mind was suddenly in a daze, and his eyes were completely dark.

He heard Xiaona's scream, the last thought before he passed out - what's wrong?

What happened here?

He obviously still has a lot of plans for living, but he hasn't had time to realize it...

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Monsters probably all like high places.

At this moment, on the top floor of the tallest building in the imperial capital, an unknown creature with two wings was sitting there bored.

Bai Fei shook his wings, shaking off the dust on the wings.Looking at the sun that had already risen to the sky, it was noon, and he felt that it was time to find that Highness.Standing up and flapping his wings twice, Bai Fei flew towards a human settlement.

In a corner that no one noticed, Bai Fei landed, resumed his human appearance and walked out.

This is just an ordinary residential area, and there are thousands of similar places in the entire imperial capital.No matter in terms of population or emotional density, there is nothing in this community that can attract monsters.However, what Bai Fei couldn't figure out was that His Highness would always come here these days and stay for a long time. As a subordinate, he really couldn't figure out what His Highness was thinking.

Of course, there are people in this world who can see through Ji Xuan, neither monsters nor humans.

Bai Fei thought a little proudly, even Elder William, who was following that young master, could at best defeat His Highness but could not figure out his thoughts.After all, in this world, there is only one such fickle and eccentric monster like Ji Xuan, and there is no branch.

The low garage in front is where Ji Xuan always visits these days.Bai Fei checked to see that there was nothing strange about his body, raised his sleeve and knocked on the door.

"Hello, excuse me. I'm here to pick up our home... home..." Seeing the person who opened the door, Bai Fei swallowed the rest of the words, it was the first time he lost his composure like this.

The "person" who opened the door for him glanced at him indifferently, and said to the room: "The guy who picked you up is here."

With such a homely tone and such a calm reaction, before Bai Fei had time to be shocked, he heard an answer that made him even more flustered.

"Understood, wait until I finish eating."

Who is this voice?Is it really that unpredictable and scheming candidate for the throne, Ji Xuan?

Why does it sound so much like a foodie who refuses to leave at the dinner table, and how can he get along so peacefully with this guy in front of him?

"This guy in front of me," Wang Chen said to the stunned Bai Fei, "You heard it too, he won't leave until a while later, do you want to come in?"

Bai Fei didn't know how he nodded, he just followed Wang Chen in with a dazed expression.

In the house, no, in the garage.

Ji Xuan was sitting at the corner of the small round table, looking at the plate with a serious face - fried shredded pork with green peppers.He didn't notice his subordinate who was in a state of world view collapse at all, he just stared at the plate solemnly, after a while, he picked up a piece and put it in his mouth.

"I still haven't tasted it." He frowned and put down his chopsticks. "Where is this delicious food?"

"That's because you have a problem with your sense of taste." Wang Chen held the bowl and ate the vegetables.

Ji Xuan stared at his mouth, "Impossible, why can you taste it, but I can't?"

"Maybe it's because I've been eating it for 20 years, and you've been eating 'those things'." Wang Chen didn't care, "Maybe it's because you lack talent in this area."

"It is impossible for me to be less talented than you." Ji Xuandao: "I will never lose to any 'person', let alone you who are the weakest in this class."

Wang Chen endured the blue veins on his head, and said lightly, "Really? Then tell me what this plate of fried shredded pork with green peppers tastes like."

"..." Ji Xuan didn't speak, but was in a daze for a while, then silently picked up the chopsticks and took another bite.

Chewed, frowned, took another chopstick, and chewed again...

Bai Fei stared blankly at his Highness's repetitive movements, and finally understood why the two demons could still live in peace after meeting.In fact, they have been fighting, but in a different way - to eat.

Ji Xuan, who has always had high self-esteem, does not allow himself to be disadvantaged in any aspect.It was precisely because of Wang Chen's grasp of this mentality that the two sides did not go to war when they met.

He couldn't beat Ji Xuan, so he just needed to use another method to suppress the monster so that he wouldn't think of using force against him for the time being.Unexpectedly, Ji Xuan was easier to fool than he imagined.

Is this guy really one of the three strongest demons among the candidates?Wang Chen began to doubt Qi William's evaluation.

"Like eating so much? Then eat more, eat more." Mrs. Zhang, who has been out of the situation, kept adding vegetables to Ji Xuan. "Xiao Ji, don't be polite when you come to me, eat as much as you want, don't be hungry. Xiao Wang, you should eat more too."

"En." Wang Chen nodded, and said to Ji Xuan, "Pass me that bottle of hot pepper."

Under William's control, he hasn't eaten human food for a long time, and he must eat to his full this time.

Bai Fei watched dumbly as Ji Xuan handed over the spicy bottle, and he didn't want to make any more speeches in his heart, he had nothing to say.

However, this scene of sharing lunch with Le Rongrong didn't last long before it was interrupted by an unexpected situation.

The person who broke in suddenly not only brought a storm of dust, but also almost knocked down the dining table.Ji Xuan picked up the bowl to protect himself in time, and frowned at the unexpected visitor.

"Mother! Mother! I beg you, I beg you! I will kowtow to you, kowtow to you!"

The person who came in knelt on the ground and desperately hit his forehead on the ground, making a bang bang sound.

"You just promise to sell this house, this is life-saving money, save your grandson's life!" The tone is desolate and bewildering.

Wang Chen put down his chopsticks and looked at the begging man——Zhang Ruhai.He thought, what was supposed to happen finally happened, and what Zhang Sufen was thinking would soon be known.Like him, Ji Xuan watched this scene with cold eyes.

"Little Haizi." Granny Zhang called Zhang Ruhai by his baby name and supported him. "It's been a long time since you came to see your mother. Why are you covered in ashes? Come here and wipe your face, and then eat your mother's cooking. You haven't eaten with your mother for a long time." She seemed to have not understood Zhang Ruhai's pleading at all. , just wanted to help him stand up.

"Mom, I won't eat!" Zhang Ruhai refused to stand up, "I just beg you to move out of here so that I can sell the house to save Zixuan's life!"

"Don't eat?" Mrs. Zhang stared blankly at her son throwing herself away, "How can you not eat? If you don't eat, you will starve to death..."

She pointed to the steaming dishes on the table, and said to Zhang Ruhai, "Look, this stir-fried shredded pork with green peppers was your favorite food when you were young."

"At that time, my mother couldn't afford it, so you could only watch other people eat. Now that my mother can afford it, why don't you all come to eat? Why don't you stay with me by my mother's side? I eat every day I was looking forward to your coming, so I did it..."

"Mom!" Zhang Ruhai interrupted her. "My son is still in the hospital, waiting for money to save his life, mother, please! Move out!"

Mrs. Zhang stopped talking. She looked at her son kneeling on the ground and saw him begging her hard.

The dishes on the table were getting cold, Zhang Sufen suddenly spoke.

"You only remember your son, but you still remember my mother?"

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Empty room, cold tables and chairs.

Everyone left, only the old lady sitting at the table was left alone.

Granny Zhang was eating rice with pickled vegetables, thinking about how much money she had saved this month and how much food she could buy.Which dishes are Xiao Haizi's favorites, and which dishes are Amei's favorites.When they come, I can buy more and let the children eat enough.

However, no one came, and she was the only one sitting at the table.Until one day, Mrs. Zhang, who still hadn't waited for anyone, suddenly figured it out.

The children have grown up, they all have their own homes, and they have their own children. How can they remember her as an old woman?

She touched the rusty iron box on her chest, it was the only thing that accompanied her all these years.

Granny Zhang suddenly felt that life was not as good as it was during the famine.Back then, she exhausted her efforts to support her two children, and no matter how hard or tired she was, she would always be accompanied by her children when she returned home.But now, what is there now?There is nothing left, nothing left.

What do people want to live in this life, isn't it just that they can have someone to accompany them when they are old, and can someone take care of them when they are sick?If this is all extravagance and greed, then when she Zhang Sufen was famine, no matter how greedy or extravagant she was, did she come here?

In a house alone, the old lady sat alone, with no one around her, only the shadows in the corner spreading silently.

Granny Zhang suddenly understood that the only person who could accompany her for so many years was Yaya who died that year.

You can't keep it in life, but you can follow it in death.