Concentricity

Zhuang Jin saw that he was constantly fighting wits and courage with the little eagle, so he asked: "Have you started cooking the eagle now?"

Mo Jinyan didn't intend to start boiling the eagle right now. Hearing what Zhuang Jin said, his heart moved: "Master, how to boil the eagle specifically?"

Zhuang Jin thought for a while and said: "It is said that you blindfolded it, didn't give it food, didn't let it rest, kept tossing it, and whistled it to make it remember your voice. Until it was hungry You have to go crazy, the feral disappears, let it go, feed it, and it will recognize your whistle in the future."

Mo Jinyan nodded: "Then I will start to boil the eagle now and stop feeding it."

Mo Jinyan followed Zhuang Jin's instructions, found an empty room, and started to boil the eagle.It is said to boil the eagle, but in fact it is also to boil the man. The eagle cannot sleep, and neither can the human. win.

After staying like this for three days and two nights, Mo Jinyan was so tired that he was dying, and the young eagle was almost wilting. Mo Jinyan thought, this should be the end of it.Then he pulled off the eagle's blindfold and fed it food, and the eagle devoured the fish and shrimp whole.

Mo Jinyan felt that the eagle should recognize its owner, so he whistled and reached out to touch the young eagle's white head.Unexpectedly, this guy held his grudge, turned his head and pecked fiercely, Mo Jinyan couldn't dodge in time, the back of his hand was pecked with blood.The anger in his heart, yes, after two or three days of suffering, it was in vain, but he still didn't know how to recognize the Lord, so he went to sleep first, and then he woke up.

Mo Jinyan didn't sleep for three days and two nights, and even fought wits with the eagles. After lying down, he slept for seven hours at a stretch.After waking up, the first thing to do is to see the young eagle.As a result, the originally carved bamboo pole was empty, Mo Jinyan rubbed his eyes, but there was still nothing, there was only a tattered hemp rope hanging from it.

"Master, Master." Mo Jinyan called Zhuang Jin loudly.

Zhuang Jin came in from the yard: "What's wrong? Say everything."

"The eagle is gone!"

Zhuang Jin sighed: "Not long after you fell asleep, I went out, and when I came back, I found that the thing had pecked off the rope and flew away. Forget it, this thing is wild and difficult to tame, it's no wonder you spent so much money on it. Kung fu and energy made my hands full of injuries."

Mo Jinyan was downcast, he wanted to come back again, but he ran away unexpectedly: "Forget it, just run away. Master, brother Xu hasn't come back for a while." Diao ran away, Mo Jinyan Yan finally remembered what happened in reality.

Zhuang Jin shook his head: "I don't know why, I haven't been back for more than half a month, probably because I'm busy."

Mo Jinyan was still thinking about the firecracker that Zhuang Xu said. Since he left last time, he hasn't been back. It seems that he is really busy.He said to help himself re-naturalize, I don't know if he has done it.I don't know if Japanese pirates have come to invade recently, so I waited on the sidelines, waiting anxiously.He suddenly had a thought: "Master, I'm going to visit the Plum Blossom Institute today."

Zhuang Jin also missed his son: "Then you go, go back early."

"Ah."

When Mo Jinyan arrived at the Plum Blossom Station, he was just catching up with the officers and soldiers of the navy to go on patrol. There were far more people than when he was there, and the departure time was earlier than before. He faintly felt something unusual.

Many acquaintances greeted him when they saw him. Meng Changling was also in the team and saw him from a distance. He almost disregarded discipline and wanted to talk to him, but tried his best to restrain himself.

Mo Jinyan smiled and waved his hand to greet him, but Meng Changling tried to keep a straight face. He was not angry in his heart, and he regarded Mo Jinyan as a brother, but he left without saying a word, turning his head and not looking at him. But I couldn't help but look back and look again.

Mo Jinyan didn't know what he was thinking, but he also knew that his hastily leaving would make this friend worry about him, so he kept waving him away until he couldn't see him.

"Xiaoyan, why are you here?" Zhuang Xu's voice rang in his ears.

Mo Jinyan turned his head and smiled all over his face: "Brother Xu, I'll come and see you. Are you going on patrol?"

Zhuang Xu's face looked dark and rosy, and he seemed to have been tanned and haggard recently: "Yes, the number of Japanese pirates has increased sharply recently, and the number is no less than four or five hundred. Committing a crime. We have confronted each other three or four times."

Mo Jinyan was so nervous that he was dying: "How is the battle going?"

Zhuang Xu shook his head: "Not very optimistic. A brother died the day before yesterday."

Mo Jinyan's heart was in his throat: "Brother, can I go?"

Zhuang Xu patted his head: "You'd better go home and stay. When you come back this time, brother will help you handle the household registration. You will be able to enlist in the army next month, and you can go there then. Don't worry."

Mo Jinyan said to Zhuang Xu unwillingly: "Brother, be careful, I'll wait for you to come back."

Zhuang Xu waved his hands: "Go back, I have to get on the boat. Tell Dad a message for me, I will go home tomorrow, and I want to eat the fried river eel my dad made."

Mo Jinyan smiled and said, "I'll go buy river eels tomorrow morning and wait for you to come back."

"Okay, brother is leaving. Let's go back." Zhuang Xu gave Mo Jinyan a smile, waved his hand and left.

If Mo Jinyan knew that this was the last time he saw Zhuang Xu, he would not have agreed to go back so easily, and would have tried everything possible to follow him on board.

Even if the arrow couldn't help him block it, it could at least save him, and it wouldn't be swept away by the rolling waves.At least he could personally kill the enemy and avenge Zhuang Xu.

This incident has become a wound on Mo Jinyan's heart that will never heal. In the future, whenever he thinks about it, his heart will be pierced with pain.

However, everything was not known earlier.

Mo Jinyan bought eels and fresh shrimps early the next morning, and waited for Zhuang Xu to come home with Zhuang Jin.At noon, Zhuang Jin cooks himself and cooks fried river eels. He waits for Zhuang Jin to come back for dinner, but until it gets dark, he doesn't wait for Zhuang Xu to come back, but instead waits for Zhong Yong.

Zhong Yong came on horseback alone, and when he dismounted, he almost rolled off the horse's back.Mo Jinyan heard the sound of the horse, and hurried to open the door.

Zhong Yong outside the door was haggard, his face was covered with stubble, his eyes were red, empty and lifeless.

Mo Jinyan thumped, with a very bad premonition: something happened.

Before he had time to ask anything, Zhong Yong entered the door without saying a word, and when he saw Zhuang Jin, he knelt down straight.

Zhuang Jin was taken aback: "Master Zhong, why is this?"

Zhong Yong's voice was hoarse, with extremely suppressed sadness: "Uncle, I didn't take good care of Xu, Xu, he died in the line of duty!"

A lightning strike struck Zhuang Jin and Mo Jinyan, and the world suddenly became empty, with nothing but boundless darkness.

Zhuang Jin leaned back and fell straight back, Mo Jinyan subconsciously caught him: "Master!"

"Uncle!" Zhong Yong rushed to help him.

Zhuang Xu is dead.Liu Ya, who died of Japanese pirates, was injured by an arrow. The building boat he was in was colliding with the Japanese boat. The bow of the ship was broken and the hull tilted. Zhuang Xu was injured and never came up again.The navy searched the vicinity all night, but failed to find him.

Zhuang Jin fell ill.After his wife died, his son became his only sustenance. Ever since his son entered the military camp, he had been worried all the time, worried that his son would follow in his footsteps, but he never expected such a result.Once the old man couldn't get sick, his hair turned gray overnight.

Mo Jinyan's bright life just now turned gray all of a sudden. This is another severe winter in his life.The eldest brother who rescued him from the pool of blood fell into the pool of blood himself. This time, God did not favor them, and there was no second promise to snatch him back from King Yama.Sea God took him away, as if he was worried that his relatives would see his cold, broken body, leaving no trace, leaving them only a vivid memory, as if he had just left, not died up.

But those who are alive know that he will never come back again, and the rest, apart from pain, is still pain.

Zhuang Jin has been bedridden since the death of his son.Mo Jinyan took care of the elderly meticulously in front of and behind the bed.

After Zhuang Xu left, the old man regarded Mo Jinyan as the last straw, and he was no longer willing to let him join the army.Mo Jinyan couldn't bear to disobey the old man's wish, and the current situation did not allow him to join the army, so the matter of joining the army was pressed.

Besides, Zhuang Xu hadn't had time to handle the matter of household registration for him in the future. He wanted to wait for Master to get better before going to Zhong Yong for help.

Before Master got better, Zhong Yong hurriedly came to say goodbye, he was demoted and transferred.

Mo Jinyan was stunned for a while: "Master Zhong, are you leaving now?"

Zhong Yong never recovered after Zhuang Xu's death, as if he had lost his soul, and his eyes no longer had the radiance of the past.He nodded: "I have been transferred to Shaowu Mansion." This battle suffered heavy losses, and the commander of the Zhendong Guard shifted all the responsibility to Zhong Yong. Zhong Yong was demoted and transferred to the more remote Shaowu.

Mo Jinyan said: "Then my household registration——"

Zhong Yong's eyes turned red: "If it is possible, I really hope that you have never been in the army."

Mo Jinyan knew that he thought of Zhuang Xu. He only found out after Zhuang Xu left that Zhong Yong and Brother Xu were lovers. No wonder Brother Xu was always picky about Zhong Yong in every possible way before, and Zhong Yong didn't mind. .But what Mo Jinyan didn't know was that before Zhuang Xu died, he had conflicts with Zhong Yong because of his affairs, and he never had time to reconcile. This will definitely become the pain of Zhong Yong's life.

"If possible, I hope Japanese pirates never existed." Mo Jinyan lowered his head and murmured.

Zhong Yong looked at an unknown place: "One day, I will come back, and all the debts I owe must be repaid."

Mo Jinyan didn't know whether he was talking about the debt owed by the pirates or the debt owed by himself.

Before leaving, Zhong Yong said to Mo Jinyan: "I can't help you with your military service right now, you have to wait until I come back."

Mo Jinyan asked, "Master Zhong, when are you coming back?"

Zhong Yong shook his head, he didn't know the return date himself: "I will look for you when I come back. Take good care of Uncle Zhuang."