After the graduation ceremony, Mu Feng said goodbye to his friends and embarked on his way home.

Standing in front of the familiar spiritual food shop, Mu Feng opened the door with a landscape painting on it, and the familiar fragrance hit his face.

I haven’t been back for four years, and everything here is both familiar and unfamiliar.

There are no winter or summer vacations in school life. Unless there are special circumstances at home that require leave, you need to stay in the school at other times.

This is also the main reason why he has not returned home for four years. He usually communicates with his father through video calls.

But every time, my father looked impatient, shouting that he should do something good and not call back if nothing happened.

It was not yet lunch time, and the place was already full of waiting diners.

Mu Feng looked at the menu on the wall. Compared with what he remembered, there were several more types of dishes, and the diners were all unfamiliar faces.

In the kitchen at the end of the line of sight, you can still hear the fierce collision of shovels and iron pots, and the aroma is coming from the kitchen.

Seeing him pushing his luggage, a middle-aged clerk came forward curiously, looked at him with a smile and asked:

"Sorry, this place is already full. Do you mind sharing a table?"

Faced with the inquiry, Mu Feng was about to answer when he saw a figure sticking out of the kitchen.

When their eyes met, a smile appeared on the father's face, and then he quickly came to him and patted his shoulder gently:

"came back."

"Well, I'm back."

There was no excited hug or warm welcome. As they looked at each other and smiled, Mu Feng suddenly felt a little sad.

After not returning home for four years, he found that his father's temples had turned white, and the wound that clung to his neck like a centipede from his right wrist seemed to be more serious, and the purple marks around it like tentacles spread significantly.

The old man who had taken care of him all his life no longer had the unruly attitude of the past. The smell of blood and fire when he returned from the battlefield had faded away, leaving only the smoke and smoke in his body.

"Come here and help with the work. I don't have time to talk to you during the busiest time in the store."

Looking at the grinning father, Mu Feng couldn't help but roll his eyes:

"Dad, your son asked me to help him with the work just after he came back? Doesn't your heart hurt?"

"Why does it hurt? What's wrong with my son helping his father at work? Hurry up and help. I'll catch up with you after lunch is done."

"Okay, I'll go up and put my luggage and come back down."

With that said, Mu Feng pushed his luggage to the stairs and went straight upstairs.

When he returned to the room, he found that the room was very tidy. Apparently his father often tidied it up. The family photos placed on the desk reminded him of the past.

There was no romantic foreshadowing or story about the encounter between his father and his mother.

The initial acquaintance was completely arranged by the Marriage Department of Star City. After the contact, we felt good and decided to get together.

After Jihe's reform, Star City has got rid of many cumbersome old habits. There is no betrothal gift or dowry when the father and mother get married. They just invite their relatives and friends to have a meal together, and then register the marriage in the Star City database. Even if

It's getting married.

Although the acquaintance process was very ordinary, the relationship between my parents was very good after they got together. My father was a frontline soldier and my mother was a staff member serving on the front line. Every time my father obeyed orders and went to war, my mother would always wait anxiously at the rear.

After my mother passed away suddenly, my father also felt depressed for a while.

But my father quickly got rid of the gloom in his heart, chose to face the future calmly, and devoted all his energy to pioneering the cause on the front line.

In Mu Feng's impression, his father was a strong man with a resolute personality who never gave up.

His personality is exactly the opposite of his father's. He decisively gives in when faced with difficulties and never gives up. Perhaps this is also the difference in personality, so his father is a graduate of Daybreak Academy, while he is only a graduate of Wisdom Academy.

After briefly tidying up the room and taking out the clothes from his luggage, he went downstairs.

I followed my father busy in the kitchen until two o'clock in the afternoon, when all the guests left.

However, Dad stopped preparing dinner and hung the closing sign at the door of the shop, and then chatted with him about where to go next.

Regarding where to go next, Mu Feng himself did not have a clear answer.

According to the teachers at the school, the specific allocation after graduation will be sent within ten days. Their graduates will have 15 days of rest. After 15 days, they will go to their respective futures according to the arrangements of the spirit beast management department.

Responsible breeding farms.

During the chat, I learned that Mu Feng graduated as an outstanding graduate of the Wisdom Institute. My father seemed extremely excited and shouted that he was worthy of being my son.

At this time, Dad obviously still has hope for his future.

He believes that with his achievements, as long as he is willing to work hard in the future, he will definitely be able to make a career in the field of spiritual beastology.

But Mu Feng's idea is completely opposite.

Having visited and studied at Daybreak Academy, he knew very well that what they learned was only related to breeding technology, and they had not been exposed to any knowledge applicable to the development of spiritual beasts in four years. Even though he was a graduate of Wisdom Academy,

But what I learned was far less than what I learned at Dawn Academy’s School of Spiritual Beasts.

It seems to be the same field, but in fact it is very different.

He could only smile awkwardly at his father's high expectations.

In the evening, his father personally cooked a table of food for him to celebrate his graduation.

After getting used to the light diet in Wisdom Academy, Mu Feng couldn't help but recall his childhood when he ate the spiritual food meal made by his father again.

At that time, his father also had high hopes for him and spent his retirement money to buy spiritual food for him. The purpose was to hope that he could better enter the combat system and lay a good physical foundation in advance.

He had to admit that his father was very talented in everything he did.

Originally I just made spiritual food meals for him, but as my cooking skills improved day by day, I finally opened a spiritual food shop.

My father, who could have retired to recuperate, chose to get busy again so that he would have a set of top-notch equipment when he went to the front line in the future.

Although he has thrived under his father's iron fist since he was a child, he can clearly feel his father's love for him.

Before he retired from the army, his father worked hard for the rise of Star City. After he retired, his father gave all his energy to him. He usually cursed and had a bad temper, but he just wanted him to work hard and make progress instead of continuing to grow under his protection.

Mu Feng was inexplicably sad at the thought of saying goodbye and coming back again.

As if he could see what Mu Feng was thinking, the father sitting next to him put down his wine glass, looked at him and grinned:

"Xiao Feng, just work hard when you go to the breeding farm. You don't need to worry about me here. Dad, I am retired from the front line. Star City will be responsible for living security. All medical and other services are free. Your dad and I will definitely be better than you in the future.

Live comfortably.”

Mu Feng was speechless when he heard these words, but he knew that his father was telling the truth.

The various welfare benefits for my father who returned from the front line are much better than those he received from his job at the breeding farm.

"Dad, there will be less chance of coming back in the future. I don't know how many times we will have the chance to meet in this life."

Mu Feng expressed his inner thoughts at this time.

The father grinned after hearing these words:

"You kid, don't be so stupid with me. Good men are everywhere. Don't always think about going home. I just hope you can make a career in the field of spiritual beasts. If that doesn't work, get married as soon as possible before I die.

, I still have time and energy to help you take care of your children... If you have nothing to do in this life, I will hope that my grandson will be able to do something good."

The sadness in my heart was diluted by my father's words.

Looking at his unruly father, Mu Feng sighed in his heart, then raised his glass to his father and drank it in one gulp.

After drinking for three rounds, my father suddenly stood up and left the room. When he came back again, he had a wooden box in his hand.

It can be seen that my father attaches great importance to this wooden box. He holds the wooden box with both hands, and his expression is no longer as informal as before.

"Dad, are you ready to hand over the family heirloom to me?"

Seeing his father placing the wooden box in front of him, Mu Feng couldn't help but asked curiously.

The father did not answer, but gave Mu Feng a hard look, and then solemnly opened the wooden box.

Mu Feng immediately looked into the wooden box and was surprised to find that what was placed inside the wooden box was actually a miniature statue of Feng Qi.

"Your father and I had outstanding military exploits on the front line. In the battle to dispel the demon field, your father and I led our brothers to fight through a front line with two big knives. Unfortunately, I was seriously injured in this battle.

I will no longer be able to practice and will have no choice but to retire, but your father and I also received many honors because of this battle, and were even given this statue of faith by the military."

After hearing these words, Mu Feng suddenly understood what his father meant.

How could he not know how precious the statue of faith is.

If a believer wants to establish a faith connection with Fengqi, the first step must be to establish preliminary faith through the faith statue.

This miniature version of the faith statue is equivalent to a mobile faith connection station.

Normally, this kind of precious miniature faith statue would only be given to those warriors or scientific researchers who have made outstanding contributions to the development of Star City.

Dad looked at the statue at this time, with memories in his eyes, and sighed:

"Your father, what I admire the most in my life is Feng Qi, and I am also his loyal believer. Relying on this belief, your father and I have escaped fatal dangers several times on the front line by borrowing our talents. This time, I will give the statue to you. I hope

You should establish a faith connection as soon as possible, and you can borrow knowledge and power from Feng Qi through faith in the future if necessary."

"Dad, then I will accept it without any courtesy."

"You are so polite to me. This thing will become the heirloom of my Mu family. Remember to pass it on from generation to generation."

"Okay." Mu Feng declined without any pretense and immediately took the wooden box containing the statue of Fengqi's faith.
To be continued...