You are not human

Zhang Xiaobao was silent for a moment: "Are you kidding, brother?"

"No." Ao Jinyu blinked, "Old Zhang is a 300-year-old mole spirit."

Zhang Xiaobao's expression was a little subtle, and he raised his finger and pointed at his nose with difficulty: "Let me confirm, my mother is a purebred human, right? She, she knows that the old man is..."

"It's human, she knows." Ao Jinyu nodded, and said all the "secrets" that Director Huang told him, "Your mother and Lao Zhang—that is, the mole Jing Zhang shakes the mountain—are free love. of."

"Director Huang said that this was a great event for their Three Realms Mutual Aid Committee back then. The fairy couple that many people talked about - Lao Zhang took the risk and confessed his identity as a monster, and the other party also responded to his trust."

Zhang Xiaobao gritted his teeth: "My name is pretty impressive, give me such a bad name!"

"Humans and monsters combine, and it will be very difficult for human women to give birth to half-demon sons. It is said that they did not plan to have children at first." Ao Jinyu scratched his head, "I don't know the details, but I heard that you gave birth to a child." When you were in poor health, Lao Zhang felt that a humble name would make him a living, so he originally wanted to call you 'Zhang Shudan' or something like that, but Director Huang helped to name you 'Zhang Xiaobao'."

This is probably why Director Huang took extra care of him. If Lao Zhang didn't want Zhang Xiaobao to get too involved with the Three Realms Mutual Aid Committee, Director Huang would at least want to find a godfather.

Zhang Xiaobao twitched the corner of his mouth: "I have to buy a box of fruit for Director Huang later, thank you."

He pursed his lips. He didn't have such a deep estrangement with Lao Zhang at the beginning. Back then, the three of them were as happy as ordinary people.It was only after his mother died that everything seemed to come to an abrupt end.

It seemed that it was the first time for him to hear about the past of his elders from others, and he could only twitch the corners of his mouth with difficulty: "I probably understand, this means that parents are true love, and I'm just a true portrayal of an accident."

"Since you know it's dangerous, why did you let my mother give birth, and I didn't insist on letting them give birth to me."

He seemed angry and unwilling, "I'm like a superfluous gift. If he loses his love, he doesn't need me anymore?"

Ao Jinyu thought for a while: "Probably because giving birth to a half-demon is dangerous, but it's not inevitable."

"Your mother was very persistent at the beginning, and Lao Zhang was also quite vacillating. Everything in the world can't escape the fluke mentality. I always think that maybe they are the luckiest ones."

He looked at Zhang Xiaobao, "Generally speaking, they are indeed very lucky. You were born safely, and your mother survived."

Zhang Xiaobao was stunned, he didn't know if he was a bit over the top, he looked down at the beer bubbles in his glass, and didn't speak for a while.

"But my mother left anyway." Zhang Xiaobao smiled wryly, "Then he didn't talk to me anymore."

He tried his best to recall the "father" in his memory. He was not considered an incompetent father, at least he never had to worry about money since he was a child.He felt that he didn't yearn for family affection that much. After so many years, he might have gotten used to it, but he was somewhat unwilling.

Maybe without him, his mother can live a little longer, and they can continue to be a fairy couple.

"Director Huang and I are old acquaintances, and we know a little bit about the past." Yin Bei took a sip of Coca-Cola, and at a glance he could see that this brat was probably on the tip of his horns, "Old Zhang was in the logistics department at first, but he seems to have joined in the middle." Field Service for a while."

He looked at Ao Jinyu, "Have you heard of it?"

Ao Jinyu immediately took out his mobile phone: "Wait a minute, Director Huang said too much and I'm afraid I won't remember, so I will send it to my mobile phone later."

Yin Bei: "..."

Zhang Xiaobao didn't seem to care, but he still watched him look up the information.

"Ah, I know, it happened almost twenty years ago." Ao Jinyu nodded, "At the earliest time, Lao Zhang was only in charge of helping some digging events in the Field Support Department, and then he suddenly applied to join I went to the Field Service Department, and I was very desperate. I went wherever it was dangerous, and I only picked out vicious and sinful monsters."

"Later, I went to manage the warehouse because I was injured in the field."

Zhang Xiaobao was stunned: "There is such a thing, so he was pretty good before?"

"Yes." Ao Jinyu nodded in approval, "Director Huang said that many members who join the Three Realms Mutual Aid Committee may not necessarily do good deeds, and there are not a few of them like Lao Zhang who want to accumulate merit."

"It's just that he didn't accumulate merits to overcome the catastrophe. He burned all the merits and virtues, and they are for you and your mother."

Ao Jinyu raised his head, he was not very good at comforting others, but he spoke with extra sincerity, "I think, besides your mother, he should also care about you."

"It's just that after really facing the difference between monsters and mortals, Yin and Yang are separated, and suddenly realize that it will be better for you if he has less involvement with you."

Zhang Xiaobao was silent for a moment, and asked with some confusion: "Is he really dead? Are you sure?"

Ao Jinyu frowned in embarrassment, but still told the truth: "You... don't have too much hope."

"It's okay. I used to think that it would be the same with him or without him." Zhang Xiaobao lowered his head and reached out to grab the skewer of squid. He caught it a few times but it was empty. Suddenly he thought he was drunk, even the barbecue skewers I can't pick it up.

Then he realized that it was the tears in his eyes that dazzled his eyes.

"Cry as long as you cry, there's nothing shameful about it." Yin Bei didn't go to see him, "Anyway, we met by chance, and we won't see each other again after a while, and it's not a big deal to cry in front of us, and no one we know would Know."

Zhang Xiaobao wiped his face indiscriminately: "I just didn't expect that I would cry for him."

"I originally thought he was the scumbag father who disappeared after my mother passed away. I held my breath in my heart. I thought that if he didn't look for me, I wouldn't look for him either."

"The only time..." He blinked like a memory, "The only time I took the initiative to find him was when I was about to take the college entrance examination, and the teacher came to talk to me."

"He asked me to talk to my parents about the future, saying that he was just far away from me, and he must also care about me."

"As soon as my brain got hot, I sent him a message, saying that my grades were not good, and I was very confused. I didn't know what major to study in the future..."

The other two people present had never experienced beatings in the college entrance examination, and it was difficult to empathize with his confusion for a while.

But Ao Jinyu still flattered him and asked, "What happened next?"

Zhang Xiaobao took a sip of beer, almost choking on tears: "...he asked me to learn about excavators."

"He said I might have talent in this area, and I just hung up."

"I thought he was mocking me, saying that after my grades were bad, I could only learn how to drive an excavator, I..." He grinned half-crying and half-smiling, "Who the hell would have thought, I might actually drive an excavator talent, after all, I am the son of the mole spirit!"

"I've seen a lot of that kind of chicken soup. When you grow up, you will understand the difficulties of adults. I never expected to have such difficulties!"

Yin Bei's expression was delicate: "...Have you learned it yet?"

"No. At that time, I thought he was looking down on me by saying that, so I just wanted to learn some grades for him to see." Zhang Xiaobao touched his nose, "It's a pity that studying is not easy, and my final grades are still not good." How about it, I went to learn hairdressing."

Yin Bei glanced at his brilliantly colored hair, and guessed that it might be that the leftovers from dyeing his hair were all glued to his head.

"I had a stubborn temper at the time, and I wanted to make money quickly and be independent, so I don't need to rely on him to live." Zhang Xiaobao lowered his eyes, "But I couldn't make much money, and in the end I still depended on him to live."

"My grandparents tried to persuade me, but I didn't want to go to him, so I just made do."

Ao Jinyu scratched his head: "I remember there is a saying among monsters that - the more you like the mortal, the less you can touch."

"No matter how sweet it is at first, human beings are as fleeting as flowers, old in an instant, and dead in an instant."

"It's just that the monsters do what they want, and they never listen to people's advice. They always repeat the same mistakes over and over again."

"Old Zhang should have realized from your mother's death that you have a long life gap after all, so he stayed away from you and let you be an ordinary person."

He paused for a while, "Of course you can also choose to be a monster, but you are a half-monster, and you belong to the type of monsters who are not born with enough talent."

Zhang Xiaobao scratched his head incomprehensibly: "Then...does he also live a little longer than ordinary people?"

"Probably." Ao Jinyu thought for a moment, "But monsters practice against the sky. You are a half-demon, and your lifespan may be no different from that of humans."

"If you want to break through the limit of your lifespan, you have to break through the Tao and survive the catastrophe. So many monsters are wiped out in the catastrophe, you..."

Ao Jinyu was considering whether there was any euphemism to say, Zhang Xiaobao had already nodded his head: "I may not be able to bear it."

He smiled wryly, "It seems that I can only be an ordinary person as a human being, and I can only be an ordinary monster when I am a monster."

Yin Bei changed the subject: "How did the person who arrested you find you?"

"They came to the store where I work and said they were looking for Zhang Xiaobao." Zhang Xiaobao sighed, "My brother also joked with him, saying that there is no 'Zhang Xiaobao' here, only 'Zhang joker'—ah, this is the one used in my store. The English name looks more fashionable."

Ao Jinyu whispered, "Shouldn't it be Joker Zhang?"

Yin Bei raised his hand and gave him an elbow, and Ao Jinyu kept his mouth shut.

"Anyway, that group of people is very fierce, and they made a move when they disagreed. I have to help my brother!" Zhang Xiaobao slapped his thigh, "I copied a hair dryer and rushed up... Then I fainted."

"When I woke up again, I was in the hospital, and I saw the old man—I haven't seen him for a long time, and I almost didn't recognize him, but those guys said, if you want my life, just obey them."

"I guessed it must be him."

Ao Jinyu asked nervously, "What do those people look like?"

Zhang Xiaobao was stunned for a moment, then hugged his head belatedly, with a confused expression on his face: "They...what do they look like? Strange, why don't I have any impression?"

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Zhang Xiaobao: Is it too late to switch to driving an excavator now?