"He is just like you. He has not changed at all after so many years." The old man said.

"If one day, can I visit you?" Yan Xuexin asked.

"If there is such a day, I will return to my hometown of Kizlyar and be buried on a hill full of abandoned ores. Looking at my ancient family, I will stand on the cliff facing the southeast.

, my epitaph...young man, what do you hope to see on my epitaph?"

"A person who never gives up." Yan Xuexin said without hesitation.

"Hahahaha, okay, okay!"

The old man burst out laughing, then choked on his wine and coughed violently.

"I will always be there waiting for you, my friend." He stretched out his hand and patted Yan Xuexin's shoulder hard several times. Then he stood up and said, "Okay, I'm done telling my story.

It's time to go... Young man, this blacksmith shop and everything here are given to you."

"Ah? Are you leaving now?"

"I came alone, and naturally I went alone... Why should I bring anything with me? Maybe... I should go to more places before going back to my hometown. Is there any place in this world that I can't go to?

?”

Looking at the old man's face full of hope, Yan Xuexin was suddenly touched for some reason.

Is his self-confidence because he no longer has any final worries, or because he knows that he will eventually reach his hometown?

Yan Xuexin doesn’t know.

"My friend, if you want to do something, I just hope you never give up." Before leaving, the old man turned his head and said to Yan Xuexin.

Then, he walked out of the blacksmith shop and walked forward step by step.

As he stepped forward step by step, his figure slowly became dull. Yan Xuexin looked at his back and slowly crouched. His hair became whiter and whiter. Finally, Yan Xuexin saw a cliff. On top of the cliff

, there are no flowers, no vegetation, just pieces of abandoned ore. His tombstone is also a piece of ore, with no name engraved on it, only a line of words.

"A man who never gives up is here waiting for his friends."

Yan Xuexin didn't care how the next mission was unlocked.

He caught the last flight from Hailonggong to Russia.

One day later, Yan Xuexin came to Kizlyar and inquired all the way. He came to the ancient stone house, and then looked at the opposite side of the stone house. On a cliff, there was a tomb, inconspicuous among a large number of people.

In the abandoned ore.

Yan Xuexin wanted to go up the mountain, but was stopped.

"I'm sorry, this mountain is our family's property, what are you doing here?" The young man who stopped him looked at him warily.

"I have an agreement with a very old friend of mine."

"Agreement? When was the agreement made?"

"Uh...three hundred years ago?"

young people:"……"

This guy must be crazy.

"Okay, what's his name?"

"I don't know his name. I only know that on his tombstone is engraved 'A man who never gave up, waiting here for his friends.'"

The young man's mouth opened wide.

"I always thought that this incident was a family legend..." When the young man took Yan Xuexin to the ore mountain, he turned around and asked Yan Xuexin, "Are you here to fulfill the contract for your ancestors?"

What can Yan Xuexin say?

He could only respond in silence.

"Here, this is it." The young man led him to the unnamed tombstone, "Did you bring wine?"

"Yes." Yan Xuexin said, "If I get drunk, can you take me down the mountain?"

The young man spread his hands and sat down next to him.

Yan Xuexin turned around and sat down. There were piles of rocks on the mountain and withered grass and trees at the foot of the mountain.

At that moment, Yan Xuexin felt that the world was so absurd, yet so sad.
Chapter completed!