[DotA2] Holy Sword

Nine Battle Broadsword

The bridge was crossed in less than 5 minutes.The style of painting on the side of the shore has changed suddenly, and the building should have been repaired recently. Although the floors are controlled below the seventh floor, the walls are new, and there are no rain stains left.There are more people, the road is still two-way, two-lane, very narrow, but both sides of the road are full of shops, mostly selling snacks.

Yan Che pointed to these buildings all the way to introduce, and said what kind of land it used to be. He couldn't remember some houses clearly, so he had to mention them briefly.Unlike the bustling Shang'an, this small town not only has narrow roads, but also has a very different commercial structure.The decoration style of the store is very retro, a look like the 90s of the last century.

Small shops serving light meals account for the majority, interspersed with many kimchi shops, which seem to be a popular local snack.Occasionally, there are a few clothing stores, all of which have two sky-high facades and no brands. They should be picked by the proprietress from the wholesale city. The walls and the middle of the store are full of hangs.

Looking at these small businesses, Yan Che said: "Our permanent population here is less than [-]. As you can see, most of them are middle-aged and elderly people. When I was in junior high school, there were three middle schools. Now there are only three middle schools left." That school, the others have all been converted into vocational schools.”

An Rongyu took a closer look at the street. There were neither too many nor too few cars on the road. There were no good cars, and most of them were domestic family cars.Originally, if you drive honestly, you won't be stuck in traffic. It's just that this land is located in the commercial center of a small town, and men and women cross the road at will, which makes the drivers have to slam on the brakes to get out of the way.

The sidewalks are noisy, and passers-by who greet each other can be seen everywhere. The street is so long that you can run into acquaintances within two steps.There are also chatters with the shopkeepers, talking about the latest vegetable prices, what troubles the children in the family are causing, and the whole town is filled with an atmosphere called "human touch", which is not easily seen in big cities.

I don't know why, An Rongyu was happy watching, leaned over and held Yan Che's hand, pursed his lips and said with a smile: "Brother, it's really nice here, with beautiful mountains and clear waters. When we get old, do you want to come back to take care of us?"

Yan Che tightened his fingers, nodded and replied, "I can do anything. If you're here, you can go anywhere."

It was already seven o'clock in the evening, and on both sides of the main road running through Two Rivers and One City, there was an endless stream of people coming out to cool off, take a walk, and eat supper.Across the road is a vegetable market. Except for the outermost fruit stalls, other shops have closed their stalls and gone home.

Yan Che walked slightly ahead to lead the way, holding An Rongyu tightly with his right hand, for fear that he would be swept away by the crowd.Originally, the appearance of the two of them was particularly eye-catching among a group of ordinary middle-aged people, and they couldn't help but look sideways.The two of them didn't care about anything else, they still held hands tightly and walked forward.

After walking for another 10 minutes, An Rongyu finally saw the tallest building at present - the Taoyuan Hotel built on dozens of stone steps, with four stars dotted on the sign.

Yan Che pulled him over, before going up the steps, An Rongyu took Yan Che's suitcase, and jumped up briskly with one in each hand.There were bursts of rumbling horns from the top, and when the eyes looked at the scene on the platform, they found that there was a square at the entrance of the hotel, and the fountains in the middle were all dry, with accumulated dust, which looked a little dirty of.The pool separated several waves of people, and a big speaker was dancing in the square on one side.

An Rongyu was startled, and couldn't help but sigh that the owner of the hotel is kind enough. These old men and women blocked the road leading to the lobby to death, and they didn't even care about it, probably because of the folk customs.

Yan Che followed.He took the suitcase back, led him through the dancing crowd, and squeezed into the lobby to complete the formalities.Although it is a four-star hotel, somehow it is not as grand as the one in An Rong, but An Rong Yu is not a princess and the pea, as long as the room is clean.

Yan Che communicated with the front desk in dialect, and An Rong and listened to it in a fun way. After getting the room card, he approached with a playful smile and said, "Brother, you look so cute when you speak your native dialect."

Yan Che gave him a helpless look, puzzled, and said, "People here have loud voices, they're not as soft-spoken as Wu Nong's over there, how can they be cute?"

Seeing that there was no one around, An Rong and Xiang Yanche kissed on the red cheek, and said proudly: "Brother, whatever you say sounds good."

The elevator went to the 20th floor, opened the door, looked at the floor-to-ceiling windows, and had a panoramic view of the nearby buildings—as expected, they were messy and disorderly.Even if the main road is winding and difficult to walk, the trail between the houses has even more twists and turns. Cars can't drive in, but there are quite a few people who go out for a walk. Occasionally, they will stop to chat with people they know. .

After two days and two nights in the car, I didn't eat any warm meals except boxed lunches.An Rongyu had just kissed Yan Che a few times, when he heard protests from his stomach, he had no choice but to look at Yan Che helplessly.

After changing his clothes, Yan Che dragged him off the elevator, passed through the dancing crowd, and went outside to look for food.Fortunately, although this mountain city is small, the nightlife is quite rich. There is a street with night food and food stalls, and a restaurant that is still open can be found within a few steps.

Yan Che pulled An Rongyu closer, leaned closer and said, "What do you want to eat? Or should I recommend it?"

An Rong and Tie went over and bit his ear: "Brother, you order, I'm not picky."

Yan Che nodded, first walked to the Fly Restaurant on a corner of the intersection, ordered a fried rice noodle and a cold noodle, and took it away.An Ronghe listened to him ordering food in dialect, covered his mouth and snickered.After receiving the lunch box, he was led down the slope a few steps, entered a bright restaurant, and sat down.

The table is made of bamboo, with a bench on each side, which is a bit strange for An Rongyu who grew up in a big city.He adjusted his sitting posture back and forth, always feeling that no matter how he sat, his butt hurt.

After Yan Che ordered a few dishes, he opened the two lunch boxes and motioned for An Rong to try them.Fried rice noodles look like Northeastern vermicelli at first glance, but the taste is completely different. When fried with chopped chili and minced meat, the salty aroma is slightly spicy, which is really delicious.In addition to the alkaline water noodles that account for half of the cold noodles, there is also a handful of thick rice noodles mixed in with fried leeks, bean sprouts, fungus shreds, and peanuts. The taste is crisp and spicy, and it is cool to relieve the heat.

Seeing An Rong and Da Kou tugging at each other, Yan Che was afraid that he would choke, so he went to the freezer to ask for two bottles of herbal tea, placed the straws and handed them over, and said with a smile, "Eat slowly, how does it taste?"

An Rongyu took a sip of herbal tea and replied, "It's so delicious! It's just a bit spicy."

Yan Che also tasted a few mouthfuls, and said with a smile, "Our dishes here are heavy in taste, unlike Shang'an's, which are light and sweet."

No wonder Yan Che always likes to find some Sichuan and Hunan dishes with heavy seasoning when he goes out to eat. After two years of training, An Rongyu has also been brought to a more serious taste. Compared with ordinary Shang'an people, he can eat much more spicy food .

After eating two lunch boxes, the waiter brought several dishes one after another, such as fried potato noodles, seafood pan, spicy crayfish, and braised pig's trotters.

After eating two different kinds of rice noodles, An Rongyu couldn't help thinking that there are so many varieties of rice noodles.Pick up a chopstick of potato flour and minced meat. It has a different flavor from fried rice noodles, but it is delicious but the same.In the seafood pan, there are sixties, squid tendrils, cuttlefish, prawns, and crabs without meat.The crayfish is different from the popular method in the city. Twenty crayfish with their heads removed and their tails split open are soaked in a large bowl of red oil, with bean sprouts, water spinach, and konjac in it. Stop salivation.The remaining cold dish of pig's trotters, mixed with coriander, oily pepper, shallots, minced garlic, and mixed with the special aroma of marinade, even those who don't usually like to eat pig's trotters, I'm afraid they can't help but taste it.

This meal was more filling than a buffet, the potato powder was the first to die, and the minced meat wrapped in sauce was swept away.Then there is the crayfish, which is really spicy and delicious, but fortunately there is less meat, 20 shrimp buttocks are enough to fit between the teeth, and the side dishes in the red oil are picked and eaten.I ate a lot of seafood in the pan, and I ate a piece of pig's trotter. It was too full, so I had to take it away.

When I left the store with my lunch box in hand, it was much cooler outside, and the evening breeze blew from the river, taking away all my tiredness.The two walked along the riverside trail for a while to refresh themselves, and then returned to the hotel holding hands.

After washing and grooming one after the other, the tiredness accumulated for two days finally rushed to the body.An Rongyu, who went to warm the bed first as usual, lost consciousness as soon as his head touched the pillow. By the time Yan Che came out wiping his hair, he had already had a big dream of Spring and Autumn, in a hazy world of fairy tales Li went on a tour with Yan Che in his arms to play in the water and fight monsters.

The next day they slept until ten o'clock in the morning. Under Yan Che's leadership, the two of them climbed a big uphill and ate a bowl of coarse noodles, a bowl of dried pickles, blood cakes and duck feet.At first Yan Che was worried that An Rongyu would not eat these unconventional parts of the food, but that silly boy had no reason to trust him, he was really not picky eater if he said he was not picky eater, and he would not refuse anyone who came.

After eating, Yan Che took him to the house where he lived when he was a child.Passing through a narrow and long alley at the back door of the hospital, stepping on the winding and rugged bluestone steps, one side is a mountain, and the other side is a small field with vegetables occasionally, flying insects fly by from time to time, scaring An Rong and a Put all your strength on Yan Che's body.

When they reached the end of the winding mountain road, it only took about ten minutes with the physical strength of an adult man. Yan Che said with a smile: "When I was in elementary school, I always felt that this alley and mountain road was long and lonely. Perfect."

At this time, it was already halfway up the mountain, and there was a small piece of flat muddy land in front of it. Several three-storey tube buildings stood, and a few narrow concrete roads were built beside the buildings, which had long been eroded and uneven by time.The outermost part of the house is a long firewood shed, which is dilapidated and overgrown with weeds, and has been completely unused.In the open space in front of the firewood shed are bamboo racks built by the residents themselves, on which clothes are hung to dry.

Yan Che found the room he used to live in, and there are still people living in it. There are several layers of black oily smoke falling from the exhaust fan, and the screens seem to have not been changed, and there is a thick layer of grime.An Rongyu frowned, this environment is no better than the faculty dormitory.

Afterwards, Yan Che led him to visit the legendary Caterpillar Changpo, the small field where he fought wits and courage with the old farmers, and the place where the mountain spring water was received.Although there is also a vegetable field where my grandfather lives, this side is obviously more rural.

Walking on the land that Yan Che walked through when he was a child, An Rongyu really wanted to travel back in time, to see Yan Che at that time, to see the scenery of mountains and rivers at that time.

I wish I could enter your life earlier, earlier.

This piece of world is really not that big, there are flowers, plants, warblers and swallows everywhere, people walking here will inevitably feel a sense of isolation from the world.

Walking down the caterpillar slope, it didn't take long to return to the main road.After eating a light meal on the side of the road, Yan Che bought a rag, a bottle of spray cleaner, and a broom, and led An Rong and walked a section of concrete floor, turning around a simple earth temple, Go up the steeper bluestone mountain road.

The randomly paved mountain road was too narrow to allow two people to walk side by side. Yan Che opened the way ahead, panting and introduced: "We still practice burial here. The boss here bought this mountain for 20 yuan 2 years ago. Later, it was developed into a cemetery, and each cave was sold for tens of thousands, and now it is very rich."

An Ronghe knew in his heart that Yan Che was going to take him to visit his parents' graves, and immediately adjusted his solemn posture, as if it was the first time seeing his father-in-law and mother-in-law, but then he was a little nervous.

The boss earned at least a million dollars, but he didn't even repair the road well. Except for the rough bluestone road at the beginning, the whole journey was a dirt road stepped on by life, and the people who climbed were exhausted.

After walking for ten minutes, sweating all over his body, Yan Che stood still, turned around and said with a smile, "Here we are."

This is a joint burial, and even the photo on the tombstone is a photo of the two of them.In the photo, the heads of men and women are pasted together. The woman has a delicate face, and the man has thick eyebrows and big eyes. It is a match made in heaven.

Yan Che took out the broom to sweep away the dust around the tomb, and said softly, "Dad, Mom, I'm here to see you." Then he tugged at the corner of An Rongyu's clothes, "His name is An Rongyu, I like him." People. You don’t have to worry about me there, he will accompany me in the future.”

An Ronghe's heart moved, and his eyes turned red instantly. He took a deep breath and said, "Uncle... Dad, Mom, I will take good care of brother." Then he took the broom and swept up the rest of the place.

Unlike other grave sweepers, in addition to cleaning tools, they also bring fruits, pork belly, wine, paper money, and candles.Yan Che said that his parents hated these red tapes the most in their life, they didn't realize it, and all superficial efforts were wasted.

After that, Yan Che picked and talked about what had happened in the past two years in front of the tombstone, stayed for more than an hour, and then went down the mountain with tools.

In the evening, I changed to a food stall for dinner. The tastes are different, but the seasonings are heavy, and I will keep wanting to drink water after eating.After returning to the hotel, nothing happened as usual, the two fell asleep one after another, highlighting that one was pure-hearted and ascetic.

The next morning, I went to an old restaurant that has been open for decades to eat the special Xiaolongtangbao.Afterwards, Yan Che pulled him back to the house where he moved after junior high school.

The new home was on the sixth floor, and Yan Che hadn't been home for two years, and the study room that had been locked had never been opened since his father passed away.Before opening the door, Yan Che took a deep breath, An Rongyu hugged him from behind, and whispered into his ear, "Brother, I'll be with you."

Yan Che turned around and kissed him on the lips, then opened the door with a "creak" sound.The room is well lit, the curtains are all open, and the whole space is bright and majestic, except for a door on the right side of the entrance that is locked.

There was a thin layer of dust on the furniture, stepping on the wooden floor, it was hazy.Yan Che walked into a room on the left, and said, "This is my former room. But after high school, I lived here much less time."

The bedroom is very clean, except for the dust, the bed and the bookcase are neat and tidy.Yan Che picked out a few books from the bookcase, and planned to go downstairs and post them back to Shang'an.Then I went to my parents' bedroom, found some photo albums, and planned to take them with me.The rest of the clothes and sundries were left as they were.

I went to the kitchen and the balcony to look around again. All the plants in the flowerpots were dead, and the dust on the balcony was even heavier, with thick rain stains sandwiched between them, and even the wall skin swelled and fell down.

There was still the closed study room left. After Yan's mother died, Yan's father was depressed all day long. When he was at home, he locked himself in the room, and he didn't know what to do in it except drink.After his death, Yan Che didn't even have the courage to open the door, and his heart was full of turmoil.

After standing at the door of the room and thinking for a few minutes, Yan Che put his hand on the doorknob, as if he was still doing mental work.An Rongyu hugged him from the side, kissed his forehead, and said distressedly: "Brother, don't look at it if you don't want to, don't force yourself."

Yan Che shook his head, looked up at An Rongyu, there were already tears in those two clear eyes.After a few more seconds, he exhaled and opened the door.

The door was pushed very fast, and a gust of wind was blown in the room, blowing the dust into the air and dancing, the two couldn't help covering their mouths and closing their eyes and coughing a few times.After the eyes calmed down, the two of them stared at the scene inside, and couldn't help but stagnate for breath.

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