The old soldier was lying on the bed, the magazine blocked half of his face, and his eyes were closed as if he had returned to fifteen years ago in an instant, when he was about the same age as Tang Yao now, or younger than him.

There was no substitute for their team, or there was no need for a substitute at all, after sweeping the Ancient Kingdom Illusionist Fighting Law Conference in the country, he took Ao Tianchong, Palace Changjun and her to participate in the Ten Thousand Kingdoms Competition.

The game was very difficult, even if their team was very strong, but there were many geniuses in the world illusionist circle that year, Kujou Shirou was one of them, and it could even be said that he was his fierce rival, but even so they won all the games in the group stage, he still remembered that on the day the group stage ended, the four of them sat in an izakaya on the side of the road, the palace chief was busy ordering food, Ao Tianchong didn't forget to read a book when he ate, and he was holding his chin with his hand and looking at the steaming sukiyaki pot in front of him in a daze.

"Hey, do you think it's better for me to buy this slide phone, or this flip phone?"

The old soldier heard a sweet girl's voice in his ears, he looked back and realized that it was just a dream, he threw off the magazine on his face and glanced at his mobile phone, it was already night, and he had actually slept all day.

walked out of the room and was about to eat, but saw Tang Yao coming over and said with a smile: "Brother Jun, let's wait for you to eat, they said that they found a very good izakaya, it is near here, let's go over and try it." ”

The old soldier nodded and said, "I'll wash my face and come." ”

Sitting in the car, I drove across a stone bridge, and saw a small street shop with red lanterns hanging under the bridge, there were not many people, and the waitress girl wearing Heian period clothes stood at the door, even if there were no customers, she was still smiling, Tang Yao and they parked the car and walked to the door of the izakaya.

"Brother Jun, they say that there is a kind of self-brewed sake in this house that is particularly delicious, you must try it." Fang Chao looked at the raider and said.

The old soldier walked to the door, looked at the signboard in front of the door and was stunned, and then suddenly said: "This family is not allowed to smoke, I will go to eat somewhere else, you can eat." ”

As he spoke, he was about to leave, but was stopped by Gong Yuling, Gong Yuling grabbed Brother Jun's wrist and said, "Brother Jun, you see that we haven't gotten together for dinner since we went abroad, you should accompany me once, it's okay to smoke one less cigarette, okay......"

Gong Yuling started to snort, there were really few men who could stop it, and the old army still didn't want to, but everyone shouted next to him that he must have a dinner together, and finally he reluctantly nodded and said, "Okay, let's do it." ”

The decoration style of the store is also the style of the Heian era, ancient but very charming, there is a black teapot in the center of the tatami room, everyone sits around the fire, the beautiful waiter kneels in to deliver the menu, ordering this kind of thing Tang Yao never interferes, while they order, he glanced at Brother Jun, in fact, he wanted to ask Brother Jun why he already knew that they would fight the opening battle, but Brother Jun didn't seem to want to say so he didn't dare to ask more.

"Order an eel, this eel is delicious, and their strawberry Daifuku is also delicious." Brother Jun suddenly spoke, everyone was stunned, and then Fang Chao asked the waiter, and the waiter said that the eel and strawberry Daifuku are the double uniques of their store, especially the strawberry Daifuku is the signature of their store.

"Brother Jun, how do you know?" Song Shun asked strangely.

The old army looked at the ceiling and didn't speak, the weird and weird look, everyone didn't dare to ask more, and soon the dishes were served, this feeling of sitting around the tea stove to eat was very warm, even if the flame burning under the tea stove in front of the summer was fake, but everyone talked and laughed, Fang Chao deliberately snatched food from Tang Yao's bowl, and Gong Yuling made a fuss about drinking an extra glass of sake, but it was true.

Brother Jun looked at the appearance of these young people playing in front of him, and suddenly wanted to smoke, he stood up and said, "I'll go outside to smoke, and I'll be back in a while." ”

I don't know when it began to rain lightly outside, and there was no rain to be seen at night, but the streets were wet, and the rain was falling down the eaves, and there was no one at the old soldier's smoking point, he leaned against the wall, and looked at the quiet long street with a cigarette in his hand, and suddenly felt that someone was standing beside him.

"You kid doesn't smoke, why are you running here?" The old army didn't look back and knew that the person standing next to him was Tang Yao.

Tang Yao smiled and asked, "Accompany you, by the way, Brother Jun, how do you know that the strawberry Dafu in that store is delicious, and how do you know that there is a smoking spot here?" I don't think you're the kind of person who looks online for tips before eating. ”

"It's your business." The old army still didn't answer Tang Yao's question very much, as always.

But this time, Tang Yao seemed to know the answer, and he spoke: "Because you came here fifteen years ago, and you also ate here, right?" ”

This time, the old soldier was taken aback and asked, "How do you kid know?" ”

"Well...... When I entered the store earlier, I saw a photo hanging in an inconspicuous place on the wall, the photo seems to be your young appearance, hehe, my eyes are better, and I calculate the time, fifteen years ago, it happened that the Yin Yang Liao of this country hosted the team battle of the Wan Guo Competition, so I think you should have been here to participate in the competition fifteen years ago, and I happened to have eaten at this store. ”

"The proprietress ...... Really, fifteen years ago, they really took a picture of me, right...... I came here fifteen years ago, and at that time I came to play a tournament, and I was dragged to this restaurant for dinner by the guy Gong Chojun, so I knew that the eel and strawberry Daifuku in this restaurant were delicious. ”

"Since it's a revisit, why don't you want to go in, don't most people go back to the places they once liked and visited?" Tang Yao asked.

"That shop is not what I like, and I don't like the dishes in this store except for eels, especially strawberry Daifuku, which is too sweet for me, and that stinky chick likes to eat, and she is the only one in the world who will eat so sweet, and the monster who has to put eight packs of sugar when drinking coffee, hum......"

The old soldier came to his senses halfway through talking to himself, and shouted, "I'll tell you what you're doing, boy, I'm done smoking, go back." ”

He snuffed out his cigarette butt and walked into the rain, Tang Yao suddenly asked: "Brother Jun, who is the other of the four people in your team at the beginning, in addition to you, Palace Chief Jun and President Ao, I heard that you have no substitutes, so there are at least four people, who is the other person?" ”

The old soldier in the rain suddenly stopped, Tang Yao saw him clenching his fists, Tang Yao didn't know if he asked any questions that shouldn't be asked, but he heard the old soldier say: "There's no need to tell you, because that person has been dead for many years, what does a person who has long been out of the world have anything to say, go back...... By the way, don't ask about it in the future, I don't like to mention it. ”

Even if Tang Yao saw that the old army was hiding a secret in his heart, he didn't dare to ask anything more, and when he returned to the store, Gong Yuling was already drunk, and he shouted drunkenly with an empty wine bottle: "In a few months, the old lady will marry that stinky uncle, farewell, the old lady's youth, the old lady's freedom, and the old lady's twenty years old, do it!" ”

In the end, she fell drunk in Song Shun's arms, and vomited Song Shun, Song Shun said helplessly: "Let's go back, this chick is drunk again." ”

Everyone then dispersed and prepared to leave the store, when Tang Yao followed Fang Chao to check out, he looked at the photo on the wall again, and took a closer look at the photo that seemed to be hanging in the dark corner next to him, he moved a step and walked over to look up carefully, and saw that there was another photo.

The photo is a group of young men and women, a total of four people, he recognized three of the boys at a glance as Brother Jun, Palace Changjun and Ao Tianchong, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Brother Jun was really ungodly when he was young, how did he become such an uncle when he was old...... Well? Who is this beauty next to her? ”

He saw a beautiful girl with sweet braids in the photo gently holding Brother Jun's hand, although Brother Jun looked reluctant, he didn't shake off her hand, and her smile seemed to be full of happiness.

"Tang Yao, let's go, Gong Yuling is going to vomit again." Song Shun at the door urged.

Tang Yao nodded and walked out of the izakaya with questions, and saw the old army standing across the road, standing alone in the shadows looking up at the rain, I don't know why Tang Yao suddenly felt that he was so lonely.