"I'm leaving." Lao Du stood up, looked at Xiao Ding and smiled.
"Okay, it's really time for you to go." Xiao Ding sat upright without moving, looking at the street in the distance.
Lao Du had already passed by everyone and suddenly stood still because he heard Xiao Ding say: "Will we see each other again?"
"Maybe." Lao Du didn't look back. There was a little loneliness in his eyes, "I have done what I should do, and the remaining days are not very fun. If you can't find anyone to drink with, you can come and drink with me. I’ll fight again.”
"Definitely. I hope you won't pretend to be drunk again next time we have a drinking party." Xiao Ding turned around and looked at Lao Du's back, with more complicated emotions in his eyes.
Lao Du laughed, and the laughter came from down the stairs: "You are as smart as a monkey. You are the first person in so many years to find that I can pretend to be drunk."
"Pretending to be drunk?" Tang Qingqing was a little stunned.
Xiao Ding smiled and said, "Well, pretending to be drunk is also a skill."
"Bah." Tang Qingqing spat.
"Everyone can pretend to be drunk, but it takes some real effort to completely prevent others from noticing. First of all, you must have strong self-confidence, because you can only deceive others if you believe that you are drunk." Xiao Ding smiled faintly, glanced at Sikong Zhaiyue, and then said: "This skinny monkey knows a lot about pretending to be drunk."
"Both each other." Sikong Zhaiyue laughed.
Tang Qingqing suddenly remembered that when she first met Xiao Ding, Xiao Ding and Sikong Zhaiyue were also pretending to be drunk. She didn't even notice it, and she completely believed that they were outright drunks.
"Do you believe what Lao Du said? Do you think he can really kill Mr. Hu Ba?" Tang Qingqing still found this incident unbelievable to her, because Lao Du didn't look like a master at all.
Xiao Ding smiled and sighed: "Sometimes you don't have to use a sword to kill. The sword itself cannot kill. It is people and the human heart that kills."
Tang Qingqing has heard Xiao Ding say this truth many times, and of course she firmly believes it. Poison can also kill people, and she happens to be a master at using poison. Using poison to kill a friend or brother who trusts her is simply easier than pretending to be drunk.
Xu Bing looked at Lao Du who was drifting away and said slowly: "Don't you plan to follow him? Maybe you can find out something you want to know."
Sikong Zhaiyue jumped up and said, "Yes, I'll go with you to see what kind of medicine this old boy sells in his gourd. Anyway, I don't believe that he came all the way from Luoyang to Taibai Tower just to drink this drink."
"No need, for a person like Lao Du, if he doesn't want to tell you something, even if you kill him, he won't speak." Xiao Ding smiled faintly, as if the sky fell and he wouldn't let him Feeling nervous.
"Besides, he has already told me everything he can tell me." Xiao Ding looked at the intersection where Lao Du disappeared, with a hint of loneliness in his eyes.
Now the three of them were stunned. Tang Qingqing was the first to hold back and shouted: "When did he tell you and what did he tell you?"
Xiao Ding looked up at the three of them and couldn't help but smile, but the expression on his face slowly became serious: "We can draw some conclusions from what Lao Du said. First of all, he is not a member of the Qinglong Society. , it is not that the Qinglong Society wants to kill Mr. Hu Ba; secondly, Lao Du has been lurking around Mr. Hu Ba for so many years, not to assassinate Mr. Hu Ba, otherwise Mr. Hu Ba has died countless times, so he is not seeking revenge. , but to monitor the sub-rudder of Mr. Hu Bat. Now that Mr. Hu Bat is dead, as the saying goes, a snake cannot survive without a head, and its subordinate sub-rudders will inevitably collapse. What Lao Du said he should do has been done. What’s next? Although life is boring, it is no longer controlled, so it can be seen that Lao Du has not joined any sect, and his purpose of doing this may be just to repay his kindness."
Xu Bing sighed: "He is a person who attaches great importance to love and justice. Now that all grudges are over, he feels relaxed and at ease. If it were me, I would definitely visit the world without stopping after taking off the burden of so many years." , and I will not live up to the pain I have endured for these years.”
The speaker is unintentional, but the listener is intentional. Xiao Ding's eyebrows jumped. He looked at Tang Qingqing and Sikong Zhaiyue and asked: "What if it were you, would you go back to Luoyang where you have stayed for twenty years, or travel around the world? "
Before Tang Qingqing had time to answer, Sikong Zhaiyue had already shouted: "If it were me, I would have left overnight and wouldn't be able to stay for a moment. Isn't it enough to hide in that wretched place under a different name for twenty years?"
"Wait a minute, you mean Lao Du will go back to Luoyang, why would he go back?" Sikong Zhaiyue looked stunned.
Xiao Ding took a deep breath and sighed: "I hope my guess is wrong."
"Uncle Heng is back." Tang Qingqing looked out the window and shouted suddenly.
Zhou Ziheng looked a little tired. He took the wine poured by Xiao Ding and drank two bowls in a row before his expression softened slightly.
He was the only one who came back.
Ye Rongqiu disappeared.
In the past few days, Xiao Ding used the tokens of the leaders of the major sects to mobilize a large number of people and searched almost all over Chang'an City, but still could not find any news about Ye Rongqiu.
Looking at Xiao Ding's haggard appearance, Xu Bing suddenly felt a little guilty, but couldn't say a word of comfort.
Xiao Ding was sitting in the yard. There was wine on the table, but he didn't touch it.
Xu Bing walked slowly to Xiao Ding, tore the corners of her clothes, and slurred, her voice was as thin as a mosquito, she said: "I didn't think Miss Ye couldn't stand the joke, but I really didn't mean to make her angry. You have to believe me."
Xiao Ding seemed to be thinking about something. When he heard Xu Bing say, he smiled calmly and said, "Of course I can't blame you for this. Xiao Yezi is not such a stingy person."
"Then will something happen to her?" Xu Bing was so anxious that he spoke indiscriminately. After he finished speaking, he felt it was inappropriate and hurriedly explained: "I didn't mean that. What I meant was that she was alone. What dangerous things will happen?"
Xiao Ding took a long breath and said slowly: "Probably not. Although Xiao Yezi is young, she has already joined the ranks of top experts. Moreover, she has traveled around the world since she was a child and knows how to take care of herself."
Ye Rongqiu suddenly disappeared. Xiao Ding was not worried about her safety, but the reason for her disappearance, because he knew that Ye Rongqiu would never leave him for a joke by Xu Bing. It's a pity that he can't figure out the problem these days even if he racks his brain.
When he couldn't figure it out, he stopped thinking about it. Xiao Ding sighed in his heart and said slowly: "I want to go to Luoyang..."
"I'll go with you!" Before Xiao Ding finished speaking, Tang Qingqing's voice came from far away, and then people came to Xiao Ding like a gust of wind.
Xu Bing hummed: "I want to go too."
She didn't care about Tang Qingqing's murderous eyes.
"It seems that I have no choice but to go with you to avoid the trouble." Sikong Zhaiyue walked in with a bottle of wine, took two steps to take a sip, and before he reached Xiaoding and the others, a bottle of wine The wine is mostly gone.
"It's shameless..." Xu Bing muttered softly.
Sikong Zhaiyue walked up to Xu Bing, stared into her eyes, smelled of alcohol, and said with a squinted smile: "If I don't go, who will drive for you?"
Xiao Ding smiled bitterly and said: "Okay, go and pack up. We will set off in an hour. Let Uncle Heng know that he will stay in Chang'an and take care of each other with the people of the major sects."
"Okay, I'll tell him right away." Tang Qingqing jumped up and left, coming and going like the wind.
Xu Bing glanced at Xiao Ding secretly and asked softly and tentatively: "Then are you planning to give up looking for Miss Ye?"
Xiao Ding turned to look at the distant mountains, smiled and said: "What should come will always come, and what should go will always go. If everything is destined, why bother forcing it."
The distant mountains are blurred, and so are the people.
