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The burly man sitting in the bar with a newspaper said to his friend: "Lord Earl Kellier has returned to the city for a longer time than before. Is Lord Earl Kellier planning to live in Vankes City for a long time?"

Another ordinary-looking middle-aged man on the opposite side put down his beer glass, shrugged his shoulders and replied with a smile indifferently: "Who knows, maybe he came back to live with Vankes after a fight with his fiancée for a while?"

However, another friend of theirs who had been listening to them spoke up: "Perhaps Earl Kellier has been busy recently. Isn't the case of exposing corpses on the street still in progress?"

"Your news hasn't been updated for a long time. Two months ago, Sir Earl Kellier did not follow up on this case after he captured the murderer. Now Lord Haynes and Lord Divandale have joined forces. The real The murderer has not been caught yet."

The third friend suddenly realized after hearing this: "If this case was taken over by Earl Kellier, it would have been solved by now, right?"

The other two nodded in agreement.

Their next topics revolved around the plot of the corpse exposure case, which was half-truth and half-false, some plots were overly exaggerated, and some were discussed too simply. The cleaner was listening intently to their conversation until the head waiter let the old man who seemed to be over sixty leave.

The foreman is a 30-year-old man. He has clean clothes, no stubble, and a serious expression. He looks like a strict boss. After the old man nodded, he took his sweeping tools and walked to the back warehouse, where he stored place for tools.Before he came to this bar, the owner of this barn was a rat, and there was rat droppings everywhere, and he could see rats staring at him when he was cleaning.The old man has not been in this bar for too long, like half a month, but his colleagues in the bar know that he is a clean old man. Of course, they are also very willing to accept this old man, even the boss Like him very much.

He is never lazy in his work, as long as the area he is responsible for will be cleaned spotlessly and cleanly, someone joked with the old man that Earl Kylell would like it here, and the old man would naturally not go after hearing this Retort, he is still an old guy who never likes to laugh, no one can change this, at first he will talk about it, and then he gradually got used to the old man who doesn't like to laugh, his face is sometimes more serious than the foreman, It's just a pity that he is too old to be a foreman.

"Peter, are you off work?"

Young Xiali took off his chef's hat. He is now taking a moment to smoke a cigarette in the back. It is too hot in the kitchen. Xiali is one of the chefs in this bar. He has two apprentices, but he is willing to talk to others. Talkative old man Peter talked.

Peter also took off the blue hat that matched his overalls, and he took off the hat and put it in his cloth bag. He was a polite old man: "Well, yes, And you?"

"I'm coming too." Xiali is a man who loves to laugh, and he is born to love to laugh. As long as he twitches the corners of his mouth, he will have a friendly smile. For old Peter, this smile is even more obvious.

This bar does not serve dinner after ten o'clock in the evening, as long as there are waiters present. Old man Peter's job is to clean the lobby and the entire bar before the waiters go to work. Under normal circumstances, his working hours It is still very close to the chef, but because the salary of the cleaner is not high, his working hours will not be too long, unless some people who are so drunk that they don’t even know their mother tip him, then maybe his salary Will it be higher?

Peter is an old man who walks alone. Except for the boss who hired him, no one knows his family situation, and no one knows where he is from. It is difficult to hear from the accent.

The old man said to Xiali: "Then I'll go back first, goodbye."

Xiali was actually not in a good mood today, he patted his clothes, grabbed Peter who was about to go outside, and hurriedly said: "Hey, don't go so fast, just wait for me, we will walk together on the street. How about a couple of beers at Old Zikou Bar?"

Seeing that the other party seemed to have something to say, and he hesitated to speak, Peter knew that it must be inconvenient for him to speak now. After all, there were people clearing dishes walking around behind him. He hesitated and nodded: "Then I will wait for you to get off work." Bar."

Xiali smiled, and after explaining some things to the apprentices, he came out of the kitchen without making Peter wait long, and they left through the back door of the bar.

Ten minutes later, the two sat drinking beer at the corner of the street. This street corner was very close to Tang En's place of residence, and Xiali had found it here on purpose. He knew that Peter was a person who lived and worked step by step, and many of his habits followed his own. But he is not hypocritical, he will still make friends when he can, but he is not very proactive. Now Xiali took the initiative to speak, and Peter did not ignore him. After all, it is Xiali who thinks highly of him now that he invites him to drink. With his current ability, he can't even drink alcohol.

Tonight must be Xiali's treat, and he is also a person who likes to make friends very much, and he doesn't care about money. He likes to drink beer, and he can't get drunk no matter how much he drinks, but he just likes it. He is a man with a strange personality.

Xia Li vigorously wiped the beer foam from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand, and asked with a smile, "Hey, you clean up the bar every day, don't you feel aggrieved?"

Tang En shook his head, feeling quite emotional in his heart: "No, this is a very easy job. Everyone has their own ambitions. I don't have the great ambitions of young people."

Peter was none other than Tang En who left Earl Kellier's hall. At this time, he was an old man without passion. Beer like boiled water.

"You don't have a family, do you?"

"You know very well."

"I'm just guessing, there's no other meaning." After thinking for a while, Xiali continued, "The city has recently mentioned that the knights of the palace are always wandering in the streets, and they don't know what they are looking for. Isn’t Lord Earl Kellier taking over the case of exposing corpses on the street again?”

Tang En's heart skipped a beat, and his face changed slightly. It had been more than half a month since he left the hall.

Since that day when he grew old, he has never returned to Earl Kellier's side. After some things have changed in nature, it is very difficult to return to the original feeling, and it seems impossible now. Tang En slammed the beer I poured it into my stomach in one gulp.

Following Xiali's movements, he wiped the beer foam from his mouth with the back of his hand, and said: "Those things are far away from us. I am an old man who will die alone. I have no children, no wife, and no children. Bring it, don’t take it if you die, it’s easy, why do you have to think so much?”

Xia Li is a man with a family. He was surprised at Tang En's words and then agreed. He picked up his wine glass and clinked with him vigorously, and said loudly: "Yes, it's up to him whether he lives or dies! Cheers! Forget about women who love money! Forget about the crying of children, come! Let's drink!"

Tang En raised his glass to clink with Xiali. A man must learn to be bold, a man must be able to take it and let it go, a man must take responsibility, and a man must learn to give up...

"cheers!"

……

"If you don't get drunk, you won't return...

"There is wine today and drunk today, worry about tomorrow..." This is Tang En's poem before he passed out. In fact, he is also a well-educated young man, but he knows that he will never become such a person again. .

In the middle of the night, the two of you put my shoulders on my shoulders, and I hooked your neck and talked nonsense. Dunn somehow returned to the narrow and small home, and Xiali staggered back to the house relying on his own memory. In a house that was one lane away from Tang En's house, it was not difficult to hear women roaring at men, which was absolutely deafening.

The rainy season has passed, the ground is no longer as wet as before, the air is more dry, and the night is still relatively cool.Tang En fell on his hard bed that groaned. There was no light in the room of more than ten square meters. The moonlight hid behind the clouds and did not show his face. He stared straight at the ceiling with his eyes open, but it was dark and he couldn't see anything.

He seemed to be drunk, but he didn't seem to be drunk.

The too thin quilt couldn't cover the coolness of the night. Tang En didn't know whether he was sober because he was too drunk or because of the cold night temperature. After a long time, he raised his right hand to cover his own eyes, and moved his mouth. , then suddenly got up, and suddenly lay down on the edge of the bed...

"vomit……"

All the food he ate at night was vomited on the ground. Tang En's stomach was completely empty. No one except Kylier knew that he couldn't drink alcohol. Once he drank, he would vomit half to death. Isn't he speeding up his own death now?In retrospect, the reason why Kelier knew that he was not good at drinking was because he reminded Kelier not to drink too much every time. Over time, that smart guy knew, and occasionally he would take two sips before going to bed, mouth to mouth of……

Then his head will be dizzy, and then Kelier will take the opportunity to kiss his earlobe, making him blush like a shrimp. This is a wonderful time, and it is a time that Tang En will never forget whether he is drunk or not. Although the time is short, he is very satisfied, at least he can still get the care of others before he dies of old age.

He almost forgot his past life, what was he like before?

Indifferent, selfish, ruthless, he had killed people, betrayed his brother, and finally died under the gun of his most trusted friend. At that time, he had no regrets or felt sad.However, right now it feels so special...

It was only when he met Kelier that he realized that he hated the smell of blood. It turned out that he is also a person with feelings. From another perspective, to understand, he can also care about people and take care of others.

A long time ago, he was taken care of by others, and then he betrayed the person who took care of him. He deserved his death, and it is normal for him to be cast aside.

So now, he took so much effort to take care of Kylier, but he didn't get a complete response from the other party, is it also the result that he deserved?

I can't remember the faces of those people who passed by, the twisted smiles of others before death, the friends who made him eat bullets crying on his corpse, and the subordinates who were born and died for him...

Now, only Kelier's face dangled in front of him, and he was happy here.You don't need to chase fame and fortune, you don't need to be vigilant all the time, and you don't need to wrap yourself up so that others don't peep.

Vomited and fell asleep.

Tang En had many dreams, and there were many people in the dreams...

The last thing that fell was a note he left for Kylier: I'm sorry, I'm leaving first.

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↑Twain who is having many dreams.

Lying in the hut without even a quilt, he mumbled after being drunk: "Kelil, it's cold..."