Chapter 35 Story
Chapter 35 Story
When Li Wuxiang returned home, Xue Baoping was sitting at the door. When he saw him, he quickly stood up and let out a long sigh: "What happened?"
"It's going pretty smoothly. Zhao Qi likes me quite a lot, right?" Li Wuxiang walked into the room and saw that the pot on the stove was still covered, so he uncovered it. There was warm water in the pot, and a large porcelain bowl covered with a plate sat on it. He uncovered the plate, and in the porcelain bowl was half a bowl of bean rice, with oil residue sprinkled on top. The oil residue was steamed, and the surface was covered with a layer of oil.
He picked up the bowl, took the chopsticks handed to him by Xue Baoping, and sat on a small stool beside the stove to eat.
Xue Baoping sat down opposite him: "Have you eaten over there?"
"I ate a little, but I'm not used to the food at home." Li Wuxiang chewed the beans slowly. "How about you?"
"I ate half a bowl... and laid an egg. I'll beat it for you."
"Leave it till night."
"Yeah." Xue Baoping stared at him for a while, and couldn't help asking, "What did Zhao Qi say to you this morning?"
Li Wuxiang used chopsticks to slowly scrape the bowl, dividing the broad beans, soybeans, and mung beans on the surface into three portions, then sighed: "Let me tell you a story."
Xue Baoping was stunned for a moment, and suddenly he had a bad feeling in his heart - in fact, he had it all these days. When he saw him transform from a small cocoon into a good-looking person, and from a good-looking person into Zhao Qi's disciple, and when he wondered whether he stayed at Chen's house and had dinner happily with them.
But she just pursed her lips: "What's the story?"
"There's a guy, he's a gangster, right? You've heard of assassins, right? He's an assassin. This assassin is alone most of the time, with only one friend he can talk to. But he won't tell that friend what he does, although that friend might be able to guess. You know, he's afraid of the government... For example, he's afraid that the garrison troops will come to arrest him, which would cause trouble for himself and others."
Xue Baoping thought for a moment and said, "Is this person you are talking about you?"
"Well... I suggest you just treat it as a story. It's not really important who this person is."
"Ah."
"This man lived alone all the time. One day he met a little girl who was quite pitiful, hungry, cold and sick. There were actually quite a few such pitiful people, and this man had met many of them before. But he happened to be in a bad mood that day and drank too much. So when he sobered up, he found that he had brought the little girl home."
"You could feed her something and send her out, but something happened during that time. I don't remember exactly, but it was those things that forced this person to make a choice: either kill her to silence her or take her into the industry. This person thought, she's already so miserable, it's better to be alive than dead, right? So he asked her if she was willing—"
"How old is the little girl?"
"Eleven or twelve? Maybe - he asked her if she was willing, and she said yes without hesitation. He felt that she certainly didn't understand what she meant by willing at that time, and just thought that being well fed and clothed was enough. So she joined the industry. In fact, ordinary people in the world of the story live a pretty good life. Most of them have no worries about food and clothing, and live a dull life of old age and death. After this girl joined the industry, after another three or four years, she did very well and made a lot of money - she could earn in a month what ordinary people spend in two or three years, and live a good life that they would envy."
"This kind of life lasted for another three or four years. She had enjoyed almost all the best things that ordinary people could think of. Then one day she was caught by her enemies and tortured for a long time. She also suffered pain that ordinary people could not imagine. Later, the man rescued her, but she could not be saved. At the end, the man didn't know what to think, so he asked her if she regretted saying 'I do'." Li Wuxiang stopped and took a mouthful of broad beans. After swallowing it, he looked at Xue Baoping: "What do you think she answered?"
Xue Baoping's eyes fell on his chest, thought for a while, and then returned to his eyes: "I am different from her. You said that my parents might have been killed by Zhao Kui. She can choose whether to join the industry, but I have been in the industry since the day my parents saved Zhao Kui. I think what she said is that she has no regrets."
Li Wuxiang nodded: "Today, Zhao Qi was very anxious to see me and gave me a pill right away. It was the kind of Fuyuanbao Shengdan I told you about, but it's not as good as his master's pill. It seems that the thing is very precious to him. He was very reluctant to give it up, but he still had to ask me to eat it. There must be a purpose for this. I suspect that he accepted me as a disciple just to have a more reasonable reason to feed me pills. What do you think?"
Xue Baoping was stunned for a while before he reacted: "I...he...I think he is doing the same thing as Zhao Kui?"
"I thought so too. But it doesn't make sense. Apart from feeding him the elixir, his approach has nothing in common with Zhao Kui's. I am more inclined to believe that he wants to find his master through some means. It would be great if he could find another knowledgeable person to ask. But I can try to get some other details out of him. He is actually quite easy to deal with."
Xue Baoping finally calmed down his thoughts: "Can you beat him?"
"It's hard to say whether I can beat him or not, but that's not what I mean by dealing with him." Li Wuxiang ate the broad beans slowly. "I think I can guess how Zhao Qi grew up. Being accepted as a disciple by Zhao Kui since childhood, he may have no worries about food and clothing, but he was often blamed and insulted. Such people will care a lot about 'what others think' when they grow up. Just like some people, if they are slightly provoked or feel disrespected, they will immediately fly into a rage. Most of them are like Zhao Qi."
"But some of these people have a weakness: they have never been treated well by others, so if someone suits their taste, they will immediately become close friends, at least for a period of time. Zhao Qi belongs to this category. This is what I mean by easy to deal with - I think I can get what I want from him very quickly."
"and then?"
"If you have enough money now and have to leave Jinshui, can you find a stable place to live?"
Xue Baoping grabbed his sleeves in his palms: "Aren't we...going together?"
"Zhao Qi has a master. I don't know if he has any fellow disciples or friends. If he finds something after we leave, he might come to find me."
Xue Baoping lowered his eyes: "I, I, I... need to think about it again, think about whether I should go, go, go..."
Li Wuxiang reached out and patted her knees: "We can think about it slowly and find a suitable place. Hey, I didn't say that we will never see each other again after we separate. If I have dealt with things here, I will also come to find you - you are the only one in the world who knows my secret."
Xue Baoping exhaled: "Really?"
The second update is at 8:00 AM
(End of this chapter)