The Tale of the Kraken

Chapter 70 Go home with Zuo Yong

Because Michelle is going to sweep the graves of her grandparents on Ching Ming Festival, Yang Yang suddenly has a few extra days off.

In fact, to be honest, for Yang Yang, who has been living by himself since a very early age, it doesn't make much difference whether he takes a holiday or not.

The only difference may be that he can sleep until he wakes up naturally, and then play games happily all day long. Besides, seeing his parents and relatives, and returning to his long-lost home are as far away as the sky for him like the stars.

Especially after getting acquainted with Michelle and those monsters, it might be easier for him to get the stars in the sky.

His parents divorced when he was very young, and he couldn't remember exactly why, but it seemed that it wasn't long before he had an accident and was able to see monsters.

The current parents have already remarried and have new families and children, and he has grown up, so it is inappropriate to disturb their lives.

As many people said on the Internet, being a parent doesn't require an exam or a qualification certificate, so Yang Yang doesn't blame them.

In other words, in his mind, they have fulfilled their responsibilities as parents by giving themselves life and enough material conditions to grow up.

As for love and companionship, I have no right to demand what others must give me.Yes, in his heart, the parents who were originally connected by blood have become "others" who occasionally make a phone call.

Fortunately, God may love him. Although Yang Yang has not been accompanied by his parents since he was a child, he has a very good uncle from afar.

He took care of Yang Yang until Yang Yang went to high school before immigrating overseas, so Yang Yang's childhood was very happy, even more so than most children.

This also created his strong sense of justice and integrity and kindness in his bones.Yang Yang usually doesn't mention these pasts, except for his best friend Zuo Yong, few other people know about them.

On this day, he was alone in a daze at the door of the store. Michelle had already left yesterday afternoon. The news that the dim sum shop would be closed for a few days had already been released two days ago, so no one came these few days. Originally, Yang Yang also Have a good time.

I just don't know why, after waking up in the morning and seeing that Michelle, who was usually smiling at the counter, was gone, he actually felt a little empty.

Turn on the computer that I haven't touched for a long time, play games for a while, and turn it off when I feel bored.In the end, I simply moved a chair and sat in front of the shop, and became dazed.

This is what Zuo Yong saw.He looked at Yang Yang's bored look, stepped forward, kicked the leg of the chair, and said, "Hey, wake up, don't lie down in broad daylight, okay?"

Yang Yang was startled by his voice, looked up and saw Zuo Yong looking at him with a mean smile, goose bumps on Yang Yang's body instantly, he jumped up, rubbed his arms and said: "Fuck, Can you stop being scary? Don't you know that you look ugly and look cheap when you smile?"

"I'm ugly? Is there something wrong with your eyes? Why don't you go to the ophthalmologist? Four-eyed frog."

After Zuo Yong sneered at Yang Yang's eyesight, he began to mock his aesthetics again: "I said, is there any defect in your aesthetics? I'm so handsome, the little girl from the office building next door has chased after our company, okay? How ugly am I? "

Facing his best friend who was full of confidence, Yang Yang rolled his eyes and responded with two words: "Hehe..."

Before Zuo Yong could answer, he continued, "Tell me, why are you looking for me?"

"Oh, I just thought I'd go back and come to see you." Zuo Yong said, waving his hands to indicate that it was nothing serious, and then asked when he saw that there was no light in the shop behind his friend: "Oh, Is your store not open?"

"The boss went home to sweep the grave, I'm on vacation." Yang Yang said, turning his head and glanced at the dim sum shop and said, "It's just on vacation, I'll take you out for a meal, I recently found a very delicious hot pot restaurant, also Not far."

"Eat hot pot? All right!" Zuo Yong became energetic when he heard that there was something to eat.

Seeing this, Yang Yang put the chair back into the shop with a smile, closed the door, and went to the ice cream shop next door, said hello to Yue Bing and asked her to take a look, then took Zuo Yong to Xiaochen's hot pot shop .

The two hadn't seen each other for a long time, and they were chatting all the way, and they arrived soon.Yang Yang knocked on the door from behind and entered the store familiarly, and after explaining to Xiaochen what he wanted to do, he dragged Zuo Yong to sit down in the yard.

Zuo Yong was shocked by the hot pot restaurant that entered from the back, so Yang Yang explained to him that the owner of this hot pot restaurant, Xiaochen, is a good friend of his boss, and because the expired certificate is still being reissued, it is temporarily closed.

But the hot pot they make is very delicious, so they often drag their relationship in from the back yard to ask the boss to cook a meal for them.

Xiaochen originally wanted to say something, but when she saw that Yang Yang brought a mortal who obviously didn't know anything, she obediently went to make hot pot.

When the two were eating hot pot, Zuo Yong seemed to have suddenly remembered something, and asked, "How many days are you on vacation?"

"About a week." Yang Yang recalled the time Michelle told him and replied, then looked at Zuo Yong and added, "Oh, by the way, my boss said, if your father can't leave , tell her, she can grant you a longer leave."

"Really?" Zuo Yong was amused when he heard that, "Your boss is really nice, hey, I said, you have nothing to do anyway, how about going home with me? It's just a trip."

Zuo Yong said, fearing that he would not agree, he said again: "My parents have wanted to see you for a long time, and you have always said that you are not free, so you must be free now, right?"

Yang Yang originally wanted to refuse, but when he thought that he had nothing to do recently, and Michelle wasn't here, he was bored by himself, so he nodded and agreed.

Seeing that he agreed, Zuo Yong immediately called to book a train ticket, and then the two happily finished the hot pot, and then went out through the back door.

Before leaving, Xiaochen asked Yang Yang if he was going to Zuo Yong's house, and he didn't come here for a while.

Yang Yang nodded and said yes.Xiaochen didn't say anything, just wished him a good time.

Zuo Yong accompanied him back to the dim sum shop to pack up the change of clothes, took his ID again, and closed the shop door.

When leaving, Yang Yang thought about it, turned into the ice cream shop and said goodbye to the little fox, then asked Yue Bing to help him take a look at the pastry shop, and then followed his good brother to the taxi.

Zuo Yong's family is in a small mountain village in western Hunan, Yang Yang already knew this.So Yang Yang wasn't surprised at all when he followed Zuo Yong from Modu to train for more than ten hours, then changed cars, and finally arrived in the town.On the contrary, Zuo Yong was a little embarrassed, and said, "Thank you for your hard work, brother."

"What's the hard work?" Yang Yang waved his hand indifferently and said, "I haven't arrived yet? How do I go next?"

"I'll go and ask if there is a car back to the village. If not, we may have to stay for one night." Zuo Yong said.

"Is it that far?" Yang Yang couldn't help asking when he heard that he would stay overnight without a car, "It's only 04:30 now."

"It gets dark at seven o'clock, and it takes more than three hours to walk. We have a rule here, you can't walk the mountain road after dark." Zuo Yong said, reached out to stop a van, and went in to communicate with the driver in dialect.

Yang Yang's heart skipped a beat when he heard Zuo Yong's words.Thinking of all kinds of legends about Xiangxi that I have seen on the Internet, such as Miao Gu, witches and gods, and the scariest thing is Xiangxi driving corpses.

Yang Yang is really thinking about it here, and Zuo Yong has already talked about it over there.He turned his head, patted Yang Yang who was in a daze, and said, "Let's get in the car, this elder brother is just going to our village to pick up his wife."

Being slapped by Zuo Yong, Yang Yang almost cried out in fright.But fortunately he held back, he let out a breath, calmed his beating heart, and got into the car with Zuo Yong.

The mountainous terrain in western Hunan, especially the Wuling Mountains meanders from west to east, so most of its roads are built around the mountains.

Because it is located in the subtropical zone, there are many vegetations, especially around the Qingming Festival, when driving on the mountain, the green everywhere is very beautiful.

In the same car, besides Zuo Yong, there were also a bunch of Miao girls. Along the way, I heard Zuo Yong, a stinky hooligan, teasing the girl, making her laugh all the time.

In the end, without knowing what Zuo Yong said in dialect, the two girls actually sang.That song is the tune of the Miao family, ethereal and melodious, very pleasant to the ear.Yang Yang slowly fell asleep amidst the singing.Maybe it was because he was too tired recently, but this time he actually slept in front of Zuo Yong's house.

When he opened his eyes, he rubbed his shoulders, looked at Zuo Yong who was slapping himself in front of him, and said, "What's wrong?"

"When it's time to get out of the car, do you still want to sleep in this car overnight?" Zuo Yong smiled helplessly.

"Ah? It's here?" Yang Yang regained his energy when he heard it. He put his backpack on and got out of the car. He glanced at the village in front of him where the cooking smoke was rising and said, "It's so beautiful!"

"Of course!" Zuo Yong accepted without hesitation when someone praised his hometown.

The two expressed their gratitude to the van master, and Zuo Yong forced him to pay 100 yuan in the end, and then dragged Yang Yang into the village.

All the households in the village were cooking at this time, so Yang Yangzhi saw several old people and children sitting in the yard, as well as a puppy wandering on the road.

"You have a lot of dogs here." Yang Yang said while turning his head to look at the yellow soil dog that had been following them since they entered the village.

"That's right, guard against thieves! And it doesn't take much trouble. They are much smarter than those pet dogs in the city. They never bite guests or passers-by." Zuo Yong reminded Yang Yang to be careful under his feet, and said, "Seeing that Is that the red door? That's my house."

As soon as Yang Yang looked up, he saw a red courtyard door, a big pagoda tree in front of the door, and smoke rising from the courtyard, presumably Zuo Yong's parents were preparing dinner for their children who hadn't returned home for a long time.

"Abba! Aunt! I'm back!" Zuo Yong started to shout before reaching the gate of the courtyard.

Seeing his friend like this, Yang Yang followed behind him, showing a little smile.At this time, a familiar voice came from the door, which made Yang Yang unable to laugh for a moment.

"Auntie, shall I help you?" said the voice.

(End of this chapter)