Zhang Xiaozhu looked at a group of people who had just held high the banner of morality, filled with righteous indignation, stretching out their arms to roll up their sleeves, wishing to execute him on the spot. At this time, everyone looked frightened and stammered, and they were as weak and pitiful as frightened rabbits. , he couldn't help but want to laugh.
The rogue behavior of these people made him understand a truth.
When you are strong, everything you say is right. When you are weak, everything you say is wrong.
Ridiculous, but realistic.
It took Lu Kaixue a full hour to treat Niu Dawa's wounds all over his body. His muscle-building powder and styptic powder worked wonders, quickly stopping the bleeding and scarring of Niu Dawa's new wounds.
After treating the wound, he took Niu Dawa's pulse again. The result surprised him. Niu Dawa's various body functions recovered much faster than he imagined. His pulse was strong and his breath was long. It seemed that he would wake up soon. .
This good news made Zhang Xiaozhu cry with joy. The heart that had been hanging in his throat finally relaxed, and most of the gloom in his heart dissipated.
Lu Kaixue couldn't help but glance at Zhang Xiaopou from the corner of his eye. He knew clearly how serious Niu Dawa's injuries were at first. To put it bluntly, he could have dug a hole and buried her. But after he drank Zhang Xiaozhu's blood, his nearly lost vitality began to recover quickly, and all other body functions also increased at a straight rate, which was more effective than taking a panacea.
So much so that Lu Kaixue was extremely curious about Zhang Xiaozu and wanted to know what kind of heaven-defying treasure he had taken, so that he could have such a powerful spiritual effect after giving it to Niu Dawa with his blood level.
But although he was curious, he didn't dare to ask. Because this is a private matter in the world, and exploring other people's secrets may lead to death.
Of the four buckets of water, one and a half buckets were used to clean Niu Dawa's wounds, and two and a half buckets were left.
Zhang Xiaozu and Lu Kaixue drank a lot and fed Niu Dawa some water. Lu Kaixue took out a large water bag from his pocket and filled it to the top. Finally, the remaining portion was distributed to everyone.
"We earned the water with our own ability, why should we share it with you? If you have the ability, go to the ring and win it yourself. It's all been shared with you. We're afraid we're going to die of thirst." Lu Kaixue muttered dissatisfiedly and was responsible for distributing the water. water.
He felt that Zhang Xiaozhu was just a bad guy, so why did he pay attention to these people's unreasonable clamor? He shouldn't give them a drop of water, at least let these people exchange for something of equal value.
"Hey, young people, they have a soft heart and are easily moved to compassion. They don't know the selfishness and indifference of human nature, and they will suffer a big loss sooner or later." Lu Kaixue sighed in his heart.
Looking back on those days, he was also a kind-hearted and innocent young man who opened a small medical clinic. The poor almost never charged money for consultations and medicines, so that the medical clinic could not make ends meet and had to go to the mountains to collect medicines by himself to survive.
Not only did his beloved wife never blame him, but she always gave him heart-warming comfort and encouragement when he couldn't hold on anymore and wanted to give up the medical clinic. She always said with a smile that good things come to good people.
But what's the result?
His three-year-old daughter was seriously ill and needed a very expensive medicine to cure her. This medicine was only sold in major medical clinics in the state capital and cost two hundred taels of silver.
Unfortunately, he sold everything in his house and could only scrape together twenty taels of silver.
He had no choice but to kowtow to help from door to door with his wife, but those families did not remember the past kindness at all. They either closed their doors or said they had no money. Only a few families gave them some money, but it was a drop in the bucket.
In the end, his beloved daughter died of illness, and his beloved wife was depressed every day, and committed suicide by hanging herself from a beam one night.
To this day, he still clearly remembers lying in his arms and crying loudly on the night his wife died. She cried all her tears and her voice became hoarse. She murmured miserably: "It turns out that good things may not always happen to good people."
"Boy, give me a little more. I'm old and can't endure hunger any better than young people." The old man on crutches handed a large porcelain bowl to Lu Kaixue, his voice interrupting Lu Kaixue's painful memories.
Lu Kaixue looked up and saw it was him. His voice suddenly rose 180 degrees, and he laughed twice in a strange way: "Heh-heh-"
He slapped away the big porcelain bowl of the old man on crutches, and said coldly: "You are already approaching your old age. You should have experienced all the joys, anger, and sorrows that you should experience, and this life is worth it. According to your principles, It would be a huge waste for you to drink this water. The water should be left to young people and the chance of survival to them, because their lives have just begun and their future is infinite. What do you think?"
The old man on crutches was so scolded by Lu Kaixue that his face turned red and he wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl in.
"Young man, give me some, let me, an old man, have a taste of water before I die." The old man on crutches begged with a squinting face, and stretched out the big porcelain bowl in front of Lu Kaixue.
"You are such an old man." Lu Kaixue showed no mercy to the old man and reached out to pat the old man's big porcelain bowl, but was stopped by Zhang Xiaozu.
Zhang Xiaozu stopped Lu Kaixue's hand, shook his head at him, and said, "Sir, give him some."
Lu Kaixue's eyes widened and he said angrily: "You kid, why don't you remember to fight? Did you forget so quickly how he used the banner to force you? If you hadn't had the strength to shock everyone, have you ever thought about what would happen to you? How is it?"
Zhang Xiaozu's eyes fell on the old man's face and he asked calmly: "Old man, if I don't have the strength to shock everyone, what do you think will happen to me?"
"Yes, tell me, what will happen to him?" Lu Kaixue asked in agreement.
"This - this -" The old man's face was like a pig's liver and he hesitated.
Zhang Xiaozhu pointed at Niu Dawa lying on the wooden board, and then said: "His name is Niu Dawa, and he has two younger brothers. As the saying goes, a half-grown man eats a poor man, and there are three such half-grown men in his family. Therefore, life was very difficult. In years when the harvest was bad, the family often ran out of food, and the three brothers were so hungry that they cried.
However, even in such harsh conditions, the uncle and aunt of the Niu family still wanted to give me a bite to eat. They would rather starve their own son than an orphan picked up under a tree.
I say all this to tell you that I gave you water not because of any nonsense of yours, but simply because I felt pity for you and pitied you. It is also because the village chief’s grandpa once taught the boy during his coming-of-age ceremony: When you are born as a human being, you do not expect to do good deeds every day, but you must do good deeds.
Old man, you look like a well-educated man at first glance, but your understanding of truth seems not as good as that of our village chief grandfather who only knows two or three hundred words, because you don't even understand the simple truth of 'don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you'. We don’t understand, but our village chief grandpa started teaching us when we were wearing crotchless pants. "
The old man on crutches turned red and his body was trembling. He raised his head and drank a large mouthful of water that Lu Kaixue had filled for him in the big porcelain bowl. Then he threw the porcelain bowl to the ground with a clang, blew his beard and glared: "The scholar can't be killed. disgrace!"
"——Old guy, you are really thick-skinned! You are so strong-willed that you even threw the water in the bowl." Lu Kaixue said speechlessly.
Zhang Xiaozhu's eyes turned cold, and he continued: "Although you are not a robber, old man, you are a thousand times better than a robber. To rob things, robbers still need to use swords and guns, and if you are not careful, you may die. And you only need to call out Just drink a few words and talk a few words to confuse people's minds, and you can instruct others to help you steal money.
Old man, although you are not a butcher, you are a thousand times more ruthless than a butcher. When a butcher kills an animal, he needs a white knife to go in and a red knife to go out. This is obvious. But you kill with words, but without blood.
My brother, I, and you, the old man, have never met each other, are strangers to each other, and have no enmity or enmity. Why does the old man want to kill my two brothers when we meet? "
The old man trembled and took several steps back. He pointed at Zhang Xiaopeng with a trembling finger. His goatee was twitching. He held his mouth open for a long time before he could say a sentence: "You are talking nonsense. I won't talk to you." Calculate! Huh!”
After that, he rolled up his sleeves and left.
Lu Kaixue gave Zhang Xiaopou a thumbs up. He felt that although Zhang Xiaopou didn't scold the old guy, it was more relieving than yelling. Every sentence was heart-breaking. He felt that if the old guy was thin-skinned, he would definitely do it. Zhang Xiaopeng was so angry that he vomited blood. However, the old guy is incredibly thick-skinned and has reached the level of invulnerability, which is really helpless.
"I'm just telling the truth." Zhang Xiaopou said.
"All you need to do to deal with this kind of person is to kick him over and say nothing to him." A voice sounded beside Zhang Xiaozu.
Zhang Xiaozu turned around and saw that it was the young man with a broken arm who had gone somewhere before. He hurriedly raised his hands and saluted: "Thank you so much, dear brother, for stopping to help me twice. The two of us have recorded this kindness. We will surely repay you well in the future. Return it." There is some water, my dear friend, drink some quickly to quench your thirst."
Zhou Jianlai took action for the first time, using his sword to support him and Niu Dawa, preventing them from falling into the ring. The second time he took action was when the ring collapsed, he stepped forward in time to protect Niu Dawa and move him, otherwise Niu Dawa would be buried by the wood.
Zhou Jianlai returned the gift with one hand and said with a smile: "You're welcome. We are both from Baiyun City. When we meet in a foreign land, we should help each other. I won't drink water. I drank so much on the ring just now that my stomach is still bloated."
"Ah? My friend is also from Baiyun City?" Zhang Xiaozu was surprised and pleasantly surprised. Then he stared at Zhou Jianlai's face and frowned slightly, and asked: "Suddenly I found that my friend looks very familiar. I wonder if I have seen it somewhere? May I ask my dear friend Gao's name? .”
"You -" Zhou Jianlai couldn't help but shook his head and smiled bitterly. He thought Zhang Xiaozu recognized him, but Zhang Xiaozu didn't know who he was at all. However, thinking of his own changes, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, feeling that Zhang Xiaozu didn't recognize him. It was normal, so I had to introduce myself: "Baiyun City, Zhou—Zhou Jianlai."
He wanted to say Zhou Jianlai from the Zhou family, but thinking of the family's ruthlessness towards him after his disaster, he couldn't help but feel chilled, so he left out the word 'family'.
