Judging from the age of the photos, the shooting time should be Luo You’s high school time. It is likely that it was a group photo before the disaster of the first year of the Collapse Year. The family of four reunion was reunited, but who knew that after this reunion, it would be a separation of life and death.

In the photo, Luo You stood in the middle of the camera. Because of his ability, Luo You's appearance was always at the age of 17, so the photo looked exactly the same as it is now. If you want to say anything, maybe Luo You in the photo is not as cold as he is now, and replaced by a kind of youthful aura.

In the photo, Luo You was hugging a little girl from junior high school in a princess hug. There was no doubt that it was Luo Wei. It can be seen that Luo You was very poor at the time. Even if Luo Wei was delicate and soft, the posture he hugged was awkward, and the smile squeezed out on his face was also stiff.

But on the other hand, Luo Wei smiled happily, her pink jade decoration was dyed red like an apple. She just hugged Luo You's neck and kissed his face with a seductive luster. Her crescent eyes were staring at Luo You with a sweet smile, as if... No, it wasn't as if she was the happiest princess in the world.

Facing this photo, Luo You kept telling the past stories to Ling, telling about his and Luo Wei's life, telling which tree they had climbed together, throwing small firecrackers at a neighbor's house mischievously, and finally being forced to apologize. He told the puppy they picked up, took it home to take a bath, gave it food, and named it, but the puppy died of canine distemper, and the two cried for several days. He also told me that when they were reunited during the summer vacation, Luo You smashed the piggy bank for a semester just to take Luo Wei to the dim sum stall for a whole day to eat truffle pie.

Ling leaned on Luo You's shoulder, listened obediently and quietly. She wanted to cry very much as Luo You said she wanted to go back to life but could never go back, but she knew she could not cry because Luo You had already cried. If she cried again, Luo You would cry even harder.

Ling gently hugged Luo You's head into his arms, gently stroked Luo You's soft hair, and immersed himself in the gaps of time with him, returning to the distant past.

Luo You's narrative lasted from day to night. In the end, he didn't know if he was tired. He lay on the table and whispered the past stories, and finally fell asleep in his arms with the album.

Ling took off his coat and put it on Luo You, leaving a gentle kiss on his face, then turned off the light and walked out with Chu Fan.

As soon as he walked out of the room, Ling didn't have to be deliberately strong anymore. He kept sobbing and wiped the tears from his hands.

"You... are you okay..." Chu Fan felt very uncomfortable. He and Luo You didn't have the same experience. In addition, he was not a sentimental person, so he did not empathize with Ling. But when he saw Ling start crying, he couldn't help but feel a little panicked. If someone complained to Hongying and said that he had made Ling cry, Hongying wouldn't beat him into a pig's head and hang him on a tree?

"It's okay...It's okay..." Ling actually didn't want to cry in front of Chu Fan, but she had been suppressed for too long just now, and now she couldn't help it. She wiped her face with a handkerchief, her eyes were red, but she quickly stopped her tears. Ling looked at the night sky outside the corridor and said quietly, "This birthday, how great it would be if Luo You could reunite with Luo Wei."

Chu Fan didn't say anything, his eyes turned, and he seemed to suddenly think of something, and a mysterious smile appeared on his face, saying, "This birthday, I won't disappoint Major General Luo You."

Ling turned his head and said in confusion: "What are you going to do?"

"I'll know then." Chu Fan pushed Ling forward and urged, "But you, hurry up and wash your face. I've agreed that you will explain to Hongying later, and you will say that I didn't make you cry, otherwise I'll be beaten for no reason."

...

Time flies very quickly, and it is only less than a week before Luo You's birthday. For this new empire major general who owns the Immortal Army, the various forces of the Red Blood Empire have attached great importance to it. Gift cards and other things have been prepared long ago.

However, there is a special rule in the Red Blood Empire Army: at any birthday banquet, the rank of the person attending the banquet shall not be higher than that of the birthday star.

This is to reduce the phenomenon of flattery and affair. If there is no such regulation, for example, a certain university was fortunate to invite a lieutenant general, then is this birthday banquet held for the university or the lieutenant general? Who is the protagonist? Is the good birthday banquet turned into a lieutenant general's younger brother-in-law meeting?

As for Leng Yuan’s birthday banquet, the Grand Marshal attended, it was a special situation, because it was not only Leng Yuan’s birthday banquet, but also a national banquet for celebrations after the war.

So this time, Luo You, who had a rank of military general, held a birthday banquet, and the attendees' ranks must not be higher than those of the major general, which means that neither the lieutenant general nor the general of the entire empire can attend, and at most they can send envoys to visit with a week.

Among all the generals, the first to present the gift was the Imperial General Leng Yuan. She had two gifts, one was privately handed over to Luo You’s family of four. This was discovered by the Eagle Banner Army in an abandoned building while performing a mission in Yu Xicheng. The photo was buried under the imperceptible ruins. Later they learned that it was Luo You’s former home.

And the second gift is extremely special, it is...Xicheng Reconstruction!

Xicheng is located in the south of the Yangtze River. Three months ago, Leng Yuan had issued an order to Mo Gu and mobilized more than 50% of the engineering teams in the northern border to Xicheng to build the city wall and lead the reconstruction work.

Xicheng was destroyed in the first year of the collapse of the city, but was abandoned by the Red Blood Empire because it had no geographical advantage. It has always been a dead city. Three months was too short, and it was impossible to restore it to its original appearance. However, during these three months, the Eagle Flag Army and the Linjiang Army cleared the threats around the ruins of Xicheng, cooperated with the engineering team to establish preliminary fortifications, and carried out preliminary cleaning of the ruins in the city. More importantly, water and electricity were used.

To this day, Xicheng is still a waste city, but now it has fortifications, pollution cleared and water and electricity are available, which means it can already live in people. It is conceivable that in a few years, with the further reconstruction, Xicheng will restore transportation, medical care, and people's livelihood, just like all cities in the Red Blood Empire, restoring transportation, restoring medical care, and restoring people's livelihood, and then settlers continue to move in, restoring their vitality as always.

This is a very strange gift. Do you think it brings to Luo You any actual benefits? No, Luo You's undead army is the northern army, and the reconstruction of the Jiangnan city has no substantial intersection with it. Moreover, "reconstruction" does not mean "gift". The ownership of the city is under the jurisdiction of the central government of the empire. Leng Yuan can pay for the rebuilding of a city by himself, but he has no right to "send" a city to others.

If Xicheng reconstruction really brought something to Luo You, it might be a sense of homeland, giving him a way home...
Chapter completed!