After being silent for a long time, He Nan suddenly asked Wei Kui a question: "Who do you think he is?"
"Do you think I care about...'who'?" Wei Kui supported his huge body with his palms and sat up. The quilt covering his body slipped, revealing the scars on his body.
He Nan put his hands behind his back and walked to the bedside: "Every wrong has its owner, and every debt has its owner. Who it is... is very important."
Every wrong has its own owner, and every debt has its owner, a double entendre.
It is very important who the perpetrator asks for it from, and it is also important from whom He Nan goes to ask for it back.
The corpse-faced monster was the first to attack him. It seemed that he was coming for him, but in fact it was not the case - if he really wanted to kill him, since he could stand on the roof in the middle of the night, why couldn't he find someone to avoid Wei Wei? What about taking action when you collapse?
What He Nan is thinking about is "motivation".
To do something, you need a motive - this motive may be reasonable or stupid, but you should always need one.
So, what would be the motivation of the corpse-faced monster?
Although He Nan is not a great detective, he does have experience in handling cases. However, even if he is a great detective and calculator, he still needs clues to figure out the overall situation.
That kind of putting the cart before the horse and deducing the cause from the effect is not within human power, but because the plug-in is too large.
Seeing He Nan holding his breath and concentrating, frowning and saying nothing, Wei Kui finally lost his temper and asked, "Then what do you think?"
"Perhaps they are friends and former subordinates of the two thieves you killed, and they may have some connection with Qing-faced Yama..." He Nanxun thought, "But I think... with them It doesn’t matter much.”
"You can feel it too..."
Wei Kui raised his eyebrows tentatively: "You mean...the person who came here has no murderous intention?" Looking back from Wei Kui's perspective, the most thrilling thing about the corpse-faced monster was his first surprise attack on He Nan. As for the stabbing on Wei Kui's body, it seemed like it was done randomly out of desperation, just to stop Wei Kui's pursuit.
He Nan nodded, then shook his head: "Yes, this guy's attack gave me the feeling that it was... casual. It's not that the moves are random, but the intention is random. It seems that he wants to kill, but it also seems that it doesn't matter. He can kill or not. .”
Lu Ding was not the person involved that night, so he just sat quietly and listened. It was not until He Nan analyzed the intention that he slapped his forehead and said, "Two worthy brothers, after hearing what you said, I thought of Something happened.”
Hearing Lu Ding, an old Jianghu man, speak, He Nan and Wei Kui both looked sideways. After all, Lu Ding is also a member of the Jianghu community and knows a lot of rumors and secrets: "There are two kinds of people in Jianghu, or two kinds of behavior." ——The first type is that the younger generation or the unknown people want to use famous figures to express themselves and make a name for themselves. Most of them come to challenge the club, which is called "Bafener" in the colloquial language. And the second type is The secret is that if the thieves target a house, they will send one or two people to check the situation first, and then make a move. The slang is called "stepping on the spot". I wonder if the two wise brothers think that the uninvited guest is for this reason. What about the two purposes?”
Although the slang, jargon, and dialects are different in different places, He Nan and Wei Kui also know the nature of these two behaviors - like Wei Kui, although it was an unintentional act, he also relied on fighting Li Duo He was "pushed out twice", and He Nan had Ni Tu as a brother, and it was even more impossible that he didn't know what stepping on the spot meant.
However, Lu Ding's words gave He Nan some inspiration: "When Brother Lu said this... I thought of a similar... slang, even those of us who have been bad guys know a little bit about it."
The original meaning of "Dianmao" is that the yamen ascended the hall at Mao hour to count the number of people in the class and count the names. Later, it evolved into different meanings. The first is to describe a person who deals with errands in a perfunctory manner, and fails at the click of a button; the second is to "meet people face to face and let others know about the existence of one's own character."
The "almost" He Nan said naturally refers to the latter, which means that the corpse-faced monster wants to let He Nan and Wei Kui "know" about the existence of his own number.
"This is a reasonable conjecture." Lu Ding commented: "But what will happen after he 'clicks Mao'er'?"
He Nan is a person who never stops talking or thinking. What he says and what is thinking in his head may not be the same thing at all, but his head is indeed faster than his mouth.
Just after Lu Ding agreed and raised a new question, the knot in his mind was untied.
"Every injustice has its owner, and every debt has its owner." He Nan laughed softly, then picked up the water-splitting thorn on the table, and rubbed the smooth handle with his fingertips: "We only need to find a creditor. That’s it.”
"It's just like farting..." Wei Kui muttered in a low voice. He Nan's words really didn't make sense. Listening to your words was like listening to half of them.
Lu Ding naturally thought so too, but after all, considering his age, he was the elder brother, and he was not so close to He Nan, so it was inconvenient for him to say it out loud.
"Huh?" He Nan suddenly looked back and smiled unpredictably: "Don't you understand what I mean?"
We just need to find a "creditor". It doesn't matter whether this person actually owes a debt.
The important thing is that He Nan can use this method to reveal the real face of the real master.
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If what troubled He Nan was "motivation", then what urged Gui Sitong to act like this was "timing".
That is why he didn't take action earlier or later, but he chose such a moment.
After being hit by Wei Kui's all-out punch, Gui Sitong certainly didn't feel comfortable. His response was to "throw away the chariot and save the handsome man". He used his chest instead of his fragile jaw to bear the blow. There was really no way he could succeed. Method.
Wei Kui's strength was stronger than he imagined. If it weren't for the unexpected results of the stab he stabbed at Wei Kui, he would probably be here tonight.
After confirming that he was free, Gui Sitong did not return to the inn where he lived. Instead, he covered his chest, slowly found a nook where he couldn't see his fingers, and sat down against the wall.
"Huh..." Gui Sitong sat cross-legged and began to adjust his breath. A stream of fresh air was sucked into his body, but what he spit out was a mouthful of turbid, sticky blood.
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"Ship Ghost" did not become famous in the Sihai Gang.
Before joining the Sihai Gang, Gui Sitong made a living by looting in Kuishui. He often drove a awning boat alone at nightfall to attack ship travelers; he would also wrap his face in long silk and cover his head with a bamboo hat to pretend to be The boatman waded into the river, but when he reached the middle of the river, his dangerous appearance became apparent.
Because he was alone, elusive, terrifying in appearance, and extremely ferocious, he became an existence "like a ghost and a legend", which could stop children from crying at night. At that time, the fishermen by the Kushui River all said, "It's not as good as a seducing ghost or a life-seeking ghost." "Ghost on a boat in the water" shows how unbearable the image of Gui Sitong is, and it makes people's hair stand on end and is horrifying.
Of course, Gui Sitong did not learn the art of robbing the river when he was born. Instead, he embarked on this path, which had something to do with his birth.
In the sixth year of Xingzuo's reign, a wealthy family named Liu in Liuxi Town on the edge of Kunshui River gave birth to an ugly son. His skin was as wrinkled as an old man's, and his face was even more miserable.
Logically speaking, being born with an ugly child is nothing. After all, appearance is determined by God. Where there is beauty, there is also ugliness. Being ugly does not mean that you cannot live.
But the bad thing is that after the birth of this ugly child, the Liu family has been in constant trouble. First, the child's mother died of a sudden illness shortly after giving birth, and then the housekeeper of the family capsized and drowned in the river while riding in a boat, until the ugly child was born. After the child's six-year-old brother slipped and fell into a well and died, the Liu family finally couldn't sit still. Finally, he invited a magician to exorcise evil spirits in the hope of protecting the family's safety.
As for the alchemist, he didn't know whether he was really good at calculating or just lying with his mouth. In short, he concluded that all the troubles originated from this ugly child. As long as this ugly child is gone, the Liu family will be the "disaster". "Er" was also broken.
People say that a tiger's poison cannot eat its seeds, but Mr. Liu cares more about his own life after all. He is young and powerful, and it is not impossible for him to find a beautiful woman and give birth to a beautiful child. Why should he care about this ugly monster who brings misfortune to him? So he listened to the alchemist's words and threw the ugly child into the river to drown.
The ugly boy was innocent, so he miraculously survived and drifted down the river to a village near the lower reaches of the Kunshui River.
He really didn't deserve his death, but he happened to be picked up by an old and childless couple in this village. Although this Jili Village was also on the edge of Kunshui, the two places were far away. How could they know that this child was "A symbol of misfortune", when he thought that he would have no children for half his life, this child, although ugly, was still a blessing from heaven, so he adopted this ugly child as his own.
The same child, who was an "ominous omen" in Lao Liu's family, became a "bringing bird" in Lao Gui's family. Just a few years after the ugly boy was adopted, Mrs. Gui was actually happy, and her youngest son was born safely. ——The Gui couple felt that this was the good luck brought by this ugly child. Not only did they not abandon their adopted son, they also cared more and more about the ugly child and named him and his younger brother "Sitong" and "Bada" respectively. ".
However, although the Gui couple paid special attention to Gui Sitong, they could not hide the fact that Gui Sitong was a wild child from the countryside. In addition, he was ugly, so children of the same age often bullied and laughed at him. He is an "ugly" and "bastard".
What happened at the same time was that the Liu family's misfortune had not ended. Mr. Liu thought that after sending away the ugly child, his family would not have so many troubles, so he took a young and beautiful woman as his concubine, and had a bridal chamber every day. I look forward to giving birth to a big fat boy for myself.
But a few years later, not only did the new daughter-in-law show no signs of giving birth, but Mr. Liu's body became increasingly weak. There were rumors in Liuxi Town that Mr. Liu was dying. Until one day, he vomited blood for no reason during sexual intercourse, and passed away several times. According to the servants in the family, Mr. Liu had been in coma for the past few days, and his face was as black as smoke from a fire. This time, Mr. Liu was frightened. He hurriedly came to see the doctor, but the doctor could not explain the reason, so Mr. Liu once again put his hope in the alchemist, hoping that the gods would save his life.
The alchemist back then might have poisoned himself to death while refining elixirs, and the person who came here was his apprentice. The apprentice followed his master, and after a lot of talking, he said: "The ugly child in your family may not be dead yet, so the root of the problem has not been cut off."
After hearing this, Mr. Liu was very anxious. After sending people to investigate in four counties, eight counties, ten miles and eight townships, they finally found the Gui couple, hoping to "buy back the child."
They said they were buying it back, but in fact they were buying it back and killing it with their own hands. Although the Gui couple didn't know what the secret was behind this, how could they just sell a child they had raised for so many years as their biological son? Gui Sitong himself prefers to stay with his adoptive parents.
But this was undoubtedly a situation that Mr. Liu was unwilling to accept, so he gritted his teeth and ordered someone to snatch her away. Even if he couldn't snatch it away, he could not keep the ugly child in the world even if he risked breaking the law.
In the end, only Gui Sitong survived. He jumped into the Kunshui and hid for two days and two nights. When he was thirsty, he drank a lot of water from the river. When he was hungry, he ate raw fish and shrimp, but he did not dare to close his eyes.
The scene of the tragic deaths of his parents who were over sixty years old and his little brother who was less than three years old flashed over and over in front of his eyes. How could he forget them? How can you let it go?
The cold and turbid river water hurt his eyes, and he could hardly see in Gui Sitong under the sun, but at night and in the water, his eyes could see better than anyone else; the river water swollen his body, and he felt like he was drowning Half of his body was white and swollen, but after the swelling disappeared, he found that he had opened his Qi channels without any guidance.
But he wanted to use his "special power" to get the old man and old lady back.
Gui Sitong has no friends. Apart from his dead relatives, he only has enemies. The children in Jili Village said he was a bastard, and the townspeople in Liuxi Town said he was a freak. Even his biological father regarded him as a curse and wanted to kill him.
The only thing he trusted was Jiang Lengshui.
A big family named Liu in Liuxi Town was wiped out. The townspeople said that the ugly boy turned into a ghost and sought his life. There was a ghost ship on the Qishui River with a mysterious behavior. No one could encounter this. Survived after a ghost ship.
The ship ghost returned to all directions, and on these countless nights, he used the anger in his heart that had nowhere to vent to take revenge on this world that made him feel afraid.
Gui Sitong is actually not a taciturn person, but his appearance makes him feel inferior, and his experience makes him introverted. There were times when he talked a lot, but usually he told his stories in his awning boat to the dying people before him.
"Do you think people like me should deserve to die?" This sentence is usually the end of Gui Sitong's speech.
He didn't care if the other person's answer was whether he should die or not. He just wanted to ask. Maybe he really wanted to communicate with someone, even if it was someone he was about to kill.
"Ah... I think you deserve to die, but not when you were a child, but now." The young man on the boat was as calm as a bell, "Don't you think your life is very pathetic?"
The young man did not give Gui Sitong time to react, and then continued: "I am not a Buddha or an immortal. I have no intention of persuading people to put down the butcher's knife for good. I just feel that what you are doing is meaningless."
"Now that you have avenged yourself, why do you indulge in the hatred of the past? Why do you vent your anger on innocent people like you as a child?"
"If you feel that the world is unfair, you can change it; if you feel that your heart is filled with despair, you might as well hit a wall to death."
"What is ugly is not your natural appearance, but your heart that is riddled with holes." Everyone seems to be able to say these words like chicken soup for the soul, but not everyone has the opportunity to fight against Gui Sitong. Live to tell it, "The reason why I don't kill you is not because I am compassionate, nor because I agree with what you are doing, but because I can't row a boat. If you don't help me cross the river, then I won't be able to cross the river without you." If I kill you, I will starve to death on the ship."
"But...it's better to save yourself than to save others, what do you think? My friend."
This word "friend" may not be the person's sincere words, it sounds more like a mantra, but this is the first time in Gui Sitong's life that he has heard someone call him that.
After Gui Sitong got off the boat, he got into the river and escaped without looking back, and the man who talked about a lot of chicken soup for the soul did not chase him into the water again.
Many years later, he boarded Gui Sitong's boat again. At this time, both his appearance and name had changed, but Gui Sitong still recognized him at a glance.
Although his eyes with white coverings could not see clearly under the light, they could see longer and clearer than ordinary people at night.
"I ferried you a few years ago, can you ferry me again today?" This was a bit strange - back then, the ferry was obviously a four-way ferry, and the young man was just a passenger.
But obviously what he said was not what he said on the surface.
"Although you are now the leader of the Sihai Gang." The young man who likes to make friends smiled: "But it is not difficult to do a favor for a friend, right? What do you think? Friend."
