Chapter 21 Back to the Mountain
Using his light skills, he traveled alone all night, and crossed the last hill, Zhang Ming saw the familiar path. He used to want to pass this path to see what the outside world was like, but now he saw it and looked at it for a long time, but he felt it was extremely exciting.
It will be just dawn, and the village is quiet. Zhang Ming did not alarm others and walked along the dirt road in the village to a familiar place.
When he arrived at the place, Zhang Ming was shocked. It turned out that the low and dilapidated courtyard and the fence that seemed to fall when the wind blew had disappeared. Instead, it was replaced by a brick and stone courtyard wall. I could see that the main hall in the courtyard was also much taller than before.
It seems that they are doing well. Zhang Ming thought that although he has sent two taels of silver to his family every month for the past year, it is definitely not something he can do if he can buy it like this.
Suppressing his mood, Zhang Ming went up to pat the door of the yard, and a slow bang sound suddenly sounded.
"Who?" After a while, a female voice rang from behind the door.
Only when he heard the sound, Zhang Ming seemed to be able to see a middle-aged woman with terrible hair behind the door talking unhappyly with her sleepy eyes.
"It's me...mother..." Although two years have passed, Zhang Ming still feels uncomfortable with calling this title.
With a creaking sound, the door of the yard suddenly opened, and a waxy face appeared behind the door, with a little surprise on his face: "You...A Ming, you are back..."
Zhang Ming knelt on one knee: "The child is unfilial..."
"It's good to come back, it's good to come back." Zhang Ming's mother was already in tears at this time. Seeing Zhang Ming raise his head to look at her, she quickly wiped away the tears on her face: "Come in quickly, see that you are so tall now, I'll feel relieved."
Two quarters of an hour later.
On the kang in the inner room, Zhang Ming's father sat at one end, while Zhang Ming sat cross-legged with his mother at the other end. A pot of wine and a plate of side dishes were placed on the low table on the kang.
"In this way, it's the industry that your father and I have built in two years, haha..."
Zhang's father said with a proud look on his face, reached out to grab the small cup on the table, and drank the soju in it in one go.
"Father, it's not good to drink in the morning, drink less and drink less..." Zhang Ming quickly persuaded.
It turned out that the ten taels of silver left by Zhang Ming when he left two years ago was used by Zhang's father to buy a plowing cow. After finishing his own work, he rented it to another family, making a little money.
A year ago, Zhang Ming started sending money to his house. Zhang's father had only saved up for half a year, so he bought a larger piece of land and an additional ox. After making money, he changed the current house two or three months ago.
"Yiyayaya--" A baby cry sounded in Zhang's mother's arms, and Zhang Ming looked at his mother with a little relief.
This little boy was pregnant a year ago, and there was a certain reason for changing to a house to celebrate the joy of having a child in middle age.
With this belated younger brother, Zhang Ming can also let go of the regret in his heart that he cannot fulfill his filial piety for his parents' grace.
The father and son had a great time talking, and the whole family was in a happy mood. No one could think of this at this time. A few years ago, Zhang Ming wanted to go to the world, but Zhang's father tried to dissuade him for various reasons.
"Silver is such a good thing," Zhang Ming picked up the wine glass on the low table in front of him, took a sip, and thought to himself, "It's the same no matter where you are."
Zhang Ming talked about his experience of learning martial arts in the gang in the past two years. He noticed the worries in his eyes when Zhang's father and mother heard him describe martial arts, but he still forced to praise him.
It seems that although they are rural farmers, they do not understand that the things under the sky are equal. Practicing such extraordinary abilities is still nothing. It seems that Zhang’s father and mother will not guess what level of enemies he will encounter in the future.
However, no one said anything stupid to make Zhang Ming come back. Zhang's father even swallowed his saliva in the end and encouraged Zhang Ming a few words. Everyone knew how life came about now.
What's more, after listening to the description, such a powerful gang has spent so much resources to cultivate disciples and sent them to worship. How could it be free to enter and exit?
Zhang Ming swallowed up the twists and turns encountered in this mission. He didn't want to see the adoptive parents who were obviously worried but still had many concerns. Perhaps this kind of words would be a dilemma for the father and son.
After the conversation, Zhang Ming walked around the village again. The villagers had already learned that Zhang Ming had a bright future from the same group but could not pass the introductory test and occasionally came back. This was a very compliment.
From their mouths, Zhang Ming also knew that those young men who were chores actually had a bad life, at least they were much stronger than in the village since then.
After having fun, Zhang Ming used lunch at home and teased his little brother who was still in his infancy for a while. He then picked up his luggage and turned to say goodbye to his parents. His parents sent him to the entrance of the village and followed a few idle villagers.
Zhang Ming shook his hand at them to show off his hand, and made his parents more confident. He simply jumped and went four or five feet away. He also had a padded his feet. He disappeared at the corner of the path between only three breaths, which made everyone present look at each other and almost unable to believe it.
It was already late at night when he returned to the county. Zhang Ming turned over the county wall and surrounded him by several soldiers. Several of them had already met the night before.
Zhang Ming immediately laughed awkwardly, his lips moved, and wanted to ask a few questions about the person who was accidentally injured, but in the end he was determined not to ask, and only told himself that the matter of paying money would be over. Perhaps there would be many such things in the future, and he would not have so much kindness to express.
Before the other party asked him why he got out of the cage so quickly, Zhang Ming turned around and threw himself into the night, used his light skills to slap a few times, and disappeared.
Zhang Ming had been on the road and didn't have much rest. When he arrived at Changhe to help the county branch, he slept from late at night until the next afternoon.
The two-day appointment had arrived. He found Fu Chonghua and waited for a while. When the sun was about to set, the last Tang Yao arrived and was embarrassed to sue. Zhang Ming and others explained to Fu Chonghua that the entire beginning and end of the mission were clearly stated, and they made records. They returned to the gang and called the waiting coachman in the city to get on the carriage and prepare to return.
Zhang Ming was penniless, so he could only borrow some from Lin An and paid the car.
But in his perception, he found that Lin An seemed to have something different. He jokingly tried it out, but the other party didn't say it, and he didn't ask anything.
Gong Hua was also a little different, and it was easy to see that his face was about to lengthen to his chest, and his face was even darker. It can be seen that the failure of this mission had a great blow to him, and it had a great blow to his elders in his family. Otherwise, he would not have been like this when he went home.
As for Tang Yao, although it was the second time he failed, he still smiled and looked heartless.
As they set off, Zhang Ming took a good rest along the way. Since the mission had failed, they naturally would not expect that the senior brothers in the gang would appear on the way. It was even more impossible for them to see Changhe gang car flags on the way and not avoid them, so Zhang Ming slept very well.
Chapter completed!