Looking down from the sky, the Grand View Garden is a building in the shape of a Chinese character "米".

It is not a single commercial street, but a huge commercial park built around the intersection of Xianglong Road, Baibao Street and Changfeng Road.

The foot bath shop that Zhou Yidian had his eye on happened to be located at the westernmost side of the crossroad of the Chinese character "米". Through the window, one could just see the colorful scene of Baolong Plaza.

The vast crowd, thousands of people look the same.

Sitting on opposite sides, each person has thousands of faces.

The woman's eyes were scattered on Zhao Yulin, some falling on his shoulders, some climbing up his face. In short, she was not serious, so when she answered Zhao Yulin's question, it seemed to be a casual remark.

"Love debt."

"Debt of favor?" Zhao Yulin's eyes were full of amusement.

"A love debt of a promise made in the prime of life." The woman smiled even more.

"Oh, that's a romantic debt."

Zhao Yulin leaned back on the sofa with his head raised, believing it 80%, but still doubting 20%.

Since he was old enough to understand, the third senior brother Shen Li has always been a wild and unrestrained person. He is also the most similar character in his fantasy martial arts novels, who travels the world with a sword in the mountains.

Later, as he grew older, the third senior brother left Longdong Village for the first time and went to the outside world. The songs always sang that the outside world is wonderful. Whether it is really wonderful, the young Zhao Yulin did not know, but he knew that the outside world can change a person.

After Shen Li came back from outside, the words he often said changed from "Life should be free and easy" to "If you don't have romantic youth, you will be in vain."

Originally, Zhao Yulin had always hoped that he could live like Shen Li, but later he suddenly felt that his third senior brother seemed too wild.

Later, he did not become like any of his senior brothers, but instead became most like the old man Feng Duanyun.

Shen Li had countless stories of flirting with other girls outside. The most exaggerated one was that he tricked a girl outside into being so foolish that he even traveled through mountains and rivers to chase her to Longdong Village.

That night, it was Zhao Yulin who got up and opened the door in the yard. As soon as the door was opened, he saw a young lady with tears on her face - she was the most beautiful sister he had ever seen, except for Leng Hanshuang. Moreover, although the clothes she wore looked strange, they always made people feel that they were better looking than the clothes Leng Hanshuang usually wore.

When he left Longdong Village and started his eight hundred li ascetic journey, he realized that it was called fashion.

The coarse linen clothes of the mending were naturally not as beautiful as the floral dresses in the city, not to mention that it was a high-end item that was worth two cows.

The young lady lived in Longdong Village for a while and slept with Leng Hanshuang. Zhao Yulin liked her very much, and so did the brothers and sisters. Even the old man Feng, who enjoyed beating up his apprentices, liked her very much. She

was a very gentle and lovely girl, and she always spoke in a soft voice.

Of course, the more important reason was that she came to Longdong Village with a lot of money, and she bought cigarettes and wine for the old man every day, and treated everyone to meat every meal.

One day, Shen Li was leaving Longdong Village again. The 800-li ascetic journey was over, and the next time he left was naturally to carry out his mission. The little sister followed him and left. No matter how much she tried to persuade him, she said she would stay with him through life and death.

After she left, Zhao Yulin entered the most difficult period of his childhood.

He was used to eating Wowotou and pickled vegetables every day, and he didn't feel bitter. As a result, he ate chicken, duck, fish and meat for a long time, and then ate the food he used to eat. Zhao Yulin felt like he fell from heaven to hell in an instant. During

that time, he was depressed every day, had no appetite, and lost five pounds. He finally understood how Ruda in the Water Margin could make a bird fade out of his mouth.

So, after practicing, he would stand by the entrance of the village all day, hugging the big pillar, looking out of the village with a silly look in his eyes. When the neighbors saw him, they all joked, "Yu Wa is so young and he's already thinking about a wife", but he was actually just waiting for his little sister to come back.

After waiting for about half a month, Leng Hanshuang was jealous, he finally waited for Shen Li to come back at the entrance of the village, but Shen Li came back alone, without his little sister.

He asked Shen Li where his little sister had gone, and Shen Li said she had left.

"She follows me around every day, annoying me to death, and also affects your senior brother's play with other girls. What do you think a woman like this would do?"

These were Shen Li's original words.

Zhao Yulin couldn't remember what he felt at first, but he remembered hating Shen Li for a long time. He stayed in bed for three days and couldn't get up. He cried every time he thought of his sister.

After all, children are fickle-minded. They felt better after a few days and didn't bear a grudge against their senior brother. The days passed by peacefully. Without the sadness of his sister, Zhao Yulin's heart gradually faded. Nine years passed in the blink of an eye.

Zhao Yulin also began to carry out the organization's mission and became famous in the battlefield of Afghanistan. The same was true for his senior brothers and sisters. They basically didn't see each other when they returned to Longdong Village, and they were apart more often than they were together.

It was not until his 20th birthday the year before last that Old Man Feng called Shen Li and his second senior brother Chu Liao back to the village. The three brothers finally had a good meeting and got drunk.

At night, Zhao Yulin was snoring before going to bed as usual, but he saw Shen Li sitting alone on the doorstep, holding a photo in her hand and looking sad.

He went over to take a look with the light, and Shen Li did not avoid it. The person in the photo seemed familiar.

Although her face had changed, Zhao Yulin glanced at her for a while and still recognized her. It seemed that she was the little sister who treated her to snacks and drinks when she was a child and made him feel very proud in front of his friends.

Then that night, Shen Li, under the influence of alcohol, talked to him about great principles all night long, and the muscular man weighing more than 150 pounds cried with snot all over his face.

Zhao Yulin still wants to laugh when he remembers what happened that night.

"Fuck!"

He didn't laugh, but raised his head suddenly and stared at the woman who was quiet but a little cold and arrogant across the tea table.

The woman looked at his sudden excitement and moved her body slightly. Perhaps she was slightly frightened, or perhaps she was displeased with this sudden behavior. She said calmly: "I saw you frowning and grinning. What's going on? Did you remember some important information?"

Zhao Yulin frowned and asked in a low voice: "What's your last name?"

This question was a bit stupid, because in the lobby, the coquettish manager had already said that the person in the office was Ms. Gu.

Ms. Gu, of course, should have the last name of Gu.

But Zhao Yulin had a stubborn idea in his heart, and urged him to ask like this.

The woman was still calm and composed, with a hint of aloofness, and said, "Since you know Shen Li, it's okay to tell you my real name, Li Zhining. As for your name, it's up to you."

Zhao Yulin's expression suddenly became extremely complicated.

The woman looked at him inquiringly: "It seems that you have heard of my name. Did Shen Li tell you, or did you hear it from somewhere else?"

At the end of the words, she laughed mockingly, revealing sadness, and then murmured as if she was talking to herself or to others: "Forget it, how could that man mention me to others? Maybe he has already forgotten me."

Zhao Yulin swallowed several times in a row, and the tough battle in his mind was finally over. He said with difficulty: "Sister Ning, I am Xiao Linzi."

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The mist gradually dissipated, but the cold rain came again.

Li Zhining's flawless and delicate oval face was filled with an inexplicable dark expression, with a sad cloud, but it seemed that the sun was about to break.

As if in great joy, as if in great sorrow.

The original cold and aloof look, so cold that it even made people feel cold, was slowly melting away at this moment, and finally warmth quietly flowed out.

"Are you really Xiao Linzi?" There was surprise in her eyes, but there was still a trace of doubt, not quite believing it.

Or rather, she didn't dare to believe it.

Zhao Yulin sat up straight, sitting upright on the sofa with his face raised, and didn't say anything.

Li Zhining then carefully examined the face. The childish innocence was gone, and the slightly chubby face was replaced by more fluent facial contours, but the eyebrows and nose roots, and the lips that were neither thick nor thin, could still vaguely see the traces of the childish face, and -

beautiful.

A few years ago in Longdong Village, she had praised Zhao Yulin countless times for being so beautiful, and it was a pity that he was not a girl.

But now it seems that it is not a pity. Although she is not a girl, her pretty face does not have the slightest sense of femininity, but is full of masculine aura.

She is both pretty and handsome.

Li Zhining was a little dazed. It turned out that she had not seen the sweet-mouthed brother who used to run behind her and always called her "little sister" for more than ten years.

And she has been looking for that man for more than ten years.

"It's really you, Xiao Linzi."

Li Zhining's eyes were faintly shining with tears.

Many feelings surged in her heart. Apart from the chance encounter with an old friend after a long absence, there was more of the silent sadness of the running white clouds and flowing water.

Twelve years, twelve years.

When they first met, she was only a 19-year-old girl in her prime. When they met again, she had already stepped into the ranks of middle-aged people.

The little brother who followed behind her, sometimes obedient and sometimes naughty, was not even as tall as her shoulders back then. Today, he is a 22-year-old boy standing in front of her, half a head taller than her even when wearing high heels.

The only thing that has not changed is that she is still foolishly chasing Shen Li's footsteps all over the world, running to South America and almost being shot in the head.

He searched for him in the crowd for hundreds of times, and turned back suddenly. He thought that person would be in the dark, but looking back was always disappointing.

"Come on, sister will take you to eat meat!"

Putting away the sad things that made her more and more depressed the more she thought about it, Li Zhining drank the tea poured by Zhao Yulin in the cup, stood up and walked to the sofa opposite, and stretched out her slender hand to her brother.

At this moment, she no longer had the coldness that she had before when she looked down upon everyone. She was like a completely different person, just a gentle and kind older sister.

She remembered that Zhao Yulin used to like eating meat the most.

Zhao Yulin frowned. It was only a little after ten o'clock, so breakfast was too late and lunch was too early. However, he didn't want to ruin the little sister's rare sunny mood, so he stood up happily and looked at the slender and tender hand with a slightly embarrassed expression.

Li Zhining didn't care, she bent her waist, grabbed his hand forcefully, and pulled it in front of her to look at it carefully: "People who practice martial arts can have such beautiful hands, you really know how to take care of your image!"

Zhao Yulin struggled to get out the words: "Sister, I'm so old now, it's not good to hold hands when going out, right? Besides, this is in the city."

"What? How can it be bigger than me when you're this big?" Li Zhining asked with a very questioning tone, and straightened a part of her upper body. Although it was not as exaggerated as the front desk manager, it was much bigger than Zhao Yulin after all.

"Come on, take your little friend from the Zhou family and go out to eat meat!"

After saying that, she walked in front and knocked on the door of the small compartment. Zhao Yulin was dragged behind passively, unwilling but not daring to resist, just like when they were little, the little sister had the final say in everything.