Chen Yuan was galloping in the alleyway with Ji Tongcheng, who had been unconscious for a long time, under his arm. Dai Er, who was following closely behind, occasionally helped him. Chen Yuan didn't want to do such physical work, but Dai Er insisted: "You Carry him in front and run, and I will hold him up from behind. Your Qinggong skills are not inferior to mine. If you run away, I won't be able to catch up."
Seeing that he was about to leave the city, Dai Er suddenly remembered something and imitated an eagle cry. He saw a figure standing on the top of the city gate tower. The dark outline was clearly reflected on the full moon. The slender figure was carrying a round on his back. The silver moon swished in front of us, and the voice came before anyone else: "Why did you take so long today, you bastard!"
"Hey! Isn't this..." Dai Er said while pointing at Chen Yuan.
"Brother Yuan!" The visitor's eyes widened with disbelief on his face: "Why is it you?" Then he looked at Dai Er: "Why are you with this guy?"
Now the second generation's face was full of disbelief, and his eyes were as big as eggs: "What! You two know each other!"
Both of them ignored Dai Er. Chen Yuan came back with a smile and said, "Oh, Xiao Ming, long time no see." After saying that, he bared his white and neat teeth.
Gu Ming seemed a little embarrassed when he was called Xiao Ming in front of Dai Er. He was about to say something when Chen Yuan said, "Is Uncle Du still strong?" Gu Ming's face turned red, but he still had the courage to say He handed over his hand and said, "My father is well, my brother is worried about me."
"What? Your father's surname is Du, Du Ming!" Dai Er roared wildly, sending several night owls flying off the city wall.
"Shut up, Damn!" Gu Ming was so angry that his name was changed at that time.
"That's right. Gu and Du have the same meaning. Gu Ming and Du Ming both have the same name. However, neither name is as nice as Dugu Ming. It's also a compound surname. What do you think of Xiao Ming?" Dai Er imitated Chen Yuan's bared teeth, and then imitated Chen Yuan called him Xiao Ming.
Gu Ming had already stretched his hand to the back of his head and was about to grasp the handle of the knife. He gritted his teeth and looked at Dai Er as if he were looking at a dog that had peed on a person's leg and was running around in circles. Dog, I really want to beat him up.
"Haha, Xiao Ming, how do you know this good guy?" Chen Yuan was made to laugh by Dai Er's appearance. He forgot that there was a rich man under his arm, and fell to the ground with a "bang", letting out a muffled groan. , because he had to pretend to be unconscious, so he held back the second half of the sound.
Being called "Tian Huo" one after another, Dai Er was a little unbearable. Just as he was about to open his mouth, he heard Gu Ming say: "Brother Yuan, this is the brother I told you when you came last time, the master and apprentice of Lingyun Palace, Dai Er .”
"Oh, no wonder, his body skills are much stronger than his master's." Chen Yuan said. "I saw that he knew the true story of Lingyun Palace. When I asked him about it just now, he said he wouldn't tell me about this thief." Chen Yuan smiled again.
"Thieves?" Gu Ming stared at Dai Er in confusion, knowing that he must have done something mindless again.
Dai Er was a little panicked by the glare, and shouted: "Why are you glaring at me? Come and listen..." Then he explained the whole story with saliva flying, describing how he was raped by Chen Yuan's sword. As he walked, he was even more arrogant and staring, quite dissatisfied.
After listening to the explanation, Gu Ming ignored him and said directly to Chen Yuan: "Brother Yuan, what can I do? Let's do it together."
"Together for what? Even if you two know each other, you don't even know whether what he said is true or not! Just to be together for what?" Dai Er jumped in shock.
Gu Ming did not answer immediately. He turned to Dai Er and said to Dai Er with a serious face that he had never seen before: "As long as it is what he said, it is true." Seeing that Dai Er was still trying to bite his tongue, he said firmly : "I trust him more than I trust you."
Dai Er opened his mouth and didn't make a sound for a long time. It was like a piece of old phlegm was stuck in his throat. He kept uh and uh, so he had to blush and close his mouth. She stared at Chen Yuan hatefully, with a hint of resentment in her eyes, like a woman who had her lover taken away from her. Chen Yuan shivered a little as he was stared at, and said to Gu Ming: "Okay, Xiao Ming, you have to admit that this brother is a good man like you. No wonder you two can call each other brothers." This sentence made both of them a little bit proud. cramped. Chen Yuan said again: "Then let's go together and see how I can prove it to this brother, otherwise his second brother will kill me in an hour." Then he turned to Dai Er and smiled and said, "His second brother, right? "
"You still want to kill Brother Yuan, let's work together to see if we can keep him." Gu Ming sighed.
"Oh, Brother Gu, is there anyone who can be convinced?" Dai Er teased.
Gu Ming ignored him and said to Chen Yuan: "Brother, where are you going?"
"Outside the city, Houjiachuan."
"Okay, come on, brother, let me pick it up."
"No, I'll do it myself. It's not heavy."
"Brother, don't be polite. You've been carrying me all the way. No matter how light you are, it's still very tiring."
"It doesn't matter, it's just a small thing."
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Dai Er watched the two of them fight for the unconscious Ji Tongcheng, his eyes widened, he was angry and funny. He said loudly: "Okay! I'll do it!" After saying that, he grabbed the back of Ji Tongcheng's neck, slapped him twice in the face, and cursed: "Get up and go by yourself! You are still in a coma and you still do it! Who doesn't know you are awake? ! I can’t hear you snort, and I can’t smell your pee!” Mr. Ji, who had been frightened to pee, his face immediately swollen, and he knelt down on the ground while crying: “Grandpa, please spare my life!” There is blood in the mud in the ground, and there is mud in the blood on the forehead. He knew that he could not die anymore, Chen Yuan was here to kill him. The bearded man was originally facing him, so he pretended to be unconscious and wanted to find an opportunity to escape. He didn't expect that there was another person who was a common friend of the two of them. He just fell When he woke up, he heard the bearded man named Dai Er, who was from Lingyun Palace. What kind of behemoth is Lingyun Palace? He spent a lot of money to hire the master Yixiaotang, but in the eyes of Lingyun Palace, he might not even be considered a fart, at most a half fart, or half a stinky fart, without even making a sound. A person like this seems to be a little afraid of the one carrying a single sword, but the one carrying a single sword unconditionally trusts Chen Yuan. Any one of them would die, three of them together. Dead, absolutely dead.
"Don't be like this, Master, how can I bear this?" Chen Yuan said coldly.
"No, no, Grandpa Chen, Grandpa Chen, you are my master, I will be your dog from now on, please let me go, I will never do evil again. You destroy my martial arts, and then break my legs! Please! You, I admit it, I have done many evil things, and everyone will punish me. As long as grandpa, and these two grandpas, spare my life, I will never do evil again in the future." Uncle Ji no longer has any prestige. There is no longer any illusion of escape.
"Okay, there's no need to prove it, just admit it." Chen Yuan raised his right finger to pick at his eyebrows and sighed in a bored tone.
"Damn! It's all true!" Dai Er's beard stood straight up, almost piercing his chest. "Papa" was another two slaps. Poor Uncle Ji had a mouth full of broken teeth, and because his face was so swollen that his cheeks were pressed together in front of his nose, he couldn't spit it out. Dai Er still didn't understand his hatred. He clenched his palm into a fist, and blood was drawn from his palm. He was about to smash this bastard to death with one punch. Chen Yuan kicked away this fatal punch, just like Dai Er kicked away Chen Yuan's single palm that hit Ji Tongcheng's eyebrow not long ago. "What are you trying to stop me from doing!" Dai Er yelled, eyes wide with anger.
Chen Yuan remained silent, looked at Ji Tongcheng and said slowly: "I won't kill you, but there is a condition."
"Grandpa! Don't say a single condition, you deserve ten or a hundred! It's just..." He stopped talking and looked at the bearded man who had been protecting his life before, but now insisted on his death, and then looked at Look at Gu Ming.
"Don't worry, I promise, they won't kill you either."
"Fuck you! I didn't agree." Dai Er shouted fiercely, and before he finished speaking, he was about to shoot towards Ji Tongcheng. Gu Ming quickly grabbed Dai Er's neck and whispered in his ear, Dai Er Ercai gradually calmed down, breathing heavily and looking at Chen Yuan.
"My conditions are very simple. Go to Houjiachuan and tell everyone the truth in person before you cause any harm." Chen Yuan said.
"It should be done! This is the first step for me to repent. I will do it myself even if grandpa doesn't tell me!" Ji Tongcheng kowtowed.
Houjiachuan is less than thirty miles west of Yincheng. It is a small village with only fifty or sixty households. But the road from Yincheng to Beijing is not as spacious and flat as the road to Houjiachuan. Just because the richest man in Yincheng has his house here. People in the village are not surprised either. They think rich people are strange because they don't like to eat meat and prefer to eat wild vegetables. The houses in the city are nice and lively. If I don’t live there, I would love to live in the countryside. Although he lives in the countryside, the richest man's home is anything but simple. The largest household occupies nearly half of the entire Zhuangzi. The courtyard wall is towering. For the residents of the same Zhuangzi, the two houses stacked together are not as high as half of the courtyard wall. It is not only tall, but also thick. A small house with a city wall. Half thick, there are small rooms at the four corners of the courtyard wall. All four have lights on. It seems that they are guarded at night. There is a red painted door in the middle of the south wall, and there is a lock inside the door. Generally speaking, with such a structure, there is either great terror, great wealth, or great secrets in this courtyard. Either you don’t want something inside to come out, or you don’t want something outside to come in.
The largest household is Ji Tongcheng's house, and the villagers are not surprised. Rich people should not protect themselves tightly. At this moment, the small half of the village is brightly lit, which is Ji Tongcheng's house. This big house is divided into more than twenty small courtyards. At this moment, all the people in each courtyard are gathering in the banquet hall in the north courtyard. This banquet hall is as big as four or five ordinary people's homes. The head of the house ordered the servants to bring all the sleeping and sleeping people here, as long as they were still breathing. Although the head of the house was somewhat unrecognizable, or it could be said that he could no longer see his face, he was completely alone. Butt on face. If everyone hadn't confirmed from the clothing, body shape, and waist accessories that this was the head of the family, they would have burst into laughter. After a while, everyone in the house arrived. The house was crowded with people, and there were more than a dozen big men standing outside with evil faces. They were the evil slaves of Ji Tongcheng. Around the middle were fifty or sixty children, both boys and girls. The oldest of the group of children was fourteen or fifteen years old, and the youngest were a pair of twins who looked to be only three or four years old. They were being led by a little girl of eight or nine years old, one on each side.
"Start, do as I teach you." Chen Yuan gently stroked Ji Tongcheng's back. The latter shrank his neck, shuddered, and said in a trembling voice: "Wang Pin, tie up all the servants first." "Okay, sir!" The domestic servant who was called Wang Pin stood out from the dozen or so big men around him and already went to get the rope with small steps. It seems that this is Ji Tongcheng's chief lackey. If he is really regarded as his master, no matter how the master's appearance changes, how the years change, or how wrong the situation is, Wang Pin's loyalty to his master cannot be changed. He smells the master's The flavor can clearly identify the object of allegiance. In less than half a moment, Wang Pin had quickly tied up the two of them. Someone, not like Wang Pin, realized that the momentum was wrong. The two of them had quietly moved towards the person who was holding the gold master hostage. They moved closer and suddenly jumped up to launch an attack. . But the leaping figure stopped just as it reached mid-air, and fell stiffly to the ground with a muffled sound. Chen Yuan didn't make a move, but Gu Ming took out two peanuts from his arms and hit the jumping man's acupuncture point. When he was done, he took out two more and threw them into his mouth, chewing them and looking at them. This was the leftover meal while we were drinking on the roof while waiting for Dai Er. There were two other big men who turned around and tried to run away. Like these two men, they fell down at the door with two bangs, unable to move.
The children were all frightened. A brave little boy looked up and asked, "Who are you? Why did you hit your uncle?"
"Uncle?" Before Chen Yuan could speak, Dai Er couldn't sit still: "Aren't you happy if we beat him?"
"Uncle is a good man! You hit uncle! You are the bad guys!" The little boy was really courageous.
"Those in this village are those who have not yet been harmed, or even though they have been harmed, they have not known the truth yet." Chen Yuan turned around and whispered to Dai Er.
"Okay! What a good man!" Dai Er's chest began to rise and fall violently again, and he slapped Ji Tongcheng on the back of the head: "Tell me! Hurry up!" The slap made Ji Tongcheng stagger, and he finally regained his balance. Ji Tongcheng said tremblingly: "Children... you, you are all orphans adopted by me, but, but, the person who made you orphans is also me." After Ji Tongcheng said, all the children in the audience They all looked at him intently, with confusion written on their faces. "You should speak in a more layman's terms! I almost didn't understand, let alone the child!" Dai Erzhao slapped him on the back of the head again. "Yes, yes..." Ji Tongcheng Weiwei kept saying, then turned around and said: "I killed your parents and family members!" Now the children all understood, with some expressions of fear and confusion on their faces. Some of them are unbelievable, but they just don’t suddenly realize it.
"I do not believe!"
"Nonsense!"
"Uncle is a good man!"
…
Immediately, there were a lot of childish shouts, almost all of them believed that Ji Tongcheng was the child of the "good uncle" who adopted them. Chen Yuan said: "Children, be quiet and listen to me." The shouting became even louder.
"Stop arguing!" Dai Er yelled. Children are children after all. There is no point in speaking softly. If you are fierce and frightened, you will be quiet immediately.
"Point out who you have harmed." Chen Yuan said to Ji Tongcheng. After Ji Tongcheng called a few names, four little girls of 12 or 13 years old emerged from the crowd, and a little boy who looked to be just ten years old came forward.
"There is another boy!" Dai Er asked loudly, but Chen Yuan remained silent.
"Who are you?" Dai Er asked the boy.
"I'm a pet." The boy answered innocently with his eyes wide. Dai Er's pupils shrank suddenly. He had heard this name not long ago and looked at Chen Yuan.
"Whose pet are you?" Chen Yuan asked in a deep voice.
"I am the master's pet." After saying that, he walked towards Dai Er, slowly hugged Dai Er's butt, called the owner, and then started to undo Dai Er's belt with his young hands.
Dai Er pushed the child over. Seeing the grievance and confusion on the child's face, he asked Chen Yuan in a trembling voice, "What's going on?"
"He not only harmed the little girl, he also harmed the little boy." Chen Yuan whispered to the two of them in a hoarse voice: "This little boy is different from everyone else. He has a separate yard and has been trained like this since he can remember. If you greet an adult like this when you see him, the adult will be happy, he will be rewarded, and he will have food to eat. He doesn't even speak much, he doesn't know what a pet is, and he doesn't know what the owner means. He even He has never left this courtyard since he was a child. In his perception, the world is only so big, and the end of the earth is the courtyard wall of this house. He has no knowledge, no thoughts, no right or wrong, and no understanding of joy and anger. Sadness, let alone glory and shame." Chen Yuan choked up: "He was really trained by Ji Tongcheng to be a pet, an upright pet."
The little boy looked at Chen Yuan who was speaking with confusion. He didn't understand what Chen Yuan was talking about, but when he heard the word "pet", he happily walked towards Chen Yuan, opening his immature arms to hug him. Chen Yuan's butt. Chen Yuan touched the boy's head lovingly, pressed his middle finger on Baihui, and the boy fell asleep.
"Where are you four?" Dai Er asked the four and a half-year-old girls standing in front of him.
"I voluntarily serve my uncle. I have no repayment for my great kindness. If my uncle hadn't passed by and rescued me, I would have died together with my mother at the hands of bandits. I am of no use and know nothing. I can only repay you in this way. As long as uncle doesn't mind it," said the oldest-looking person among the four.
"Me too, my uncle bought me on the roadside so that I would no longer suffer from hunger and torture." Another person agreed.
"I was a little hesitant about whether to repay my uncle like this, but after being enlightened by Butler Wang, I decided," said the third person.
"Yes, I didn't want to repay uncle like this. In the future, I can go out and wash and cook for others, sew and mend. I can learn some music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and I can even work as a singer in the city. I will provide for Uncle Ji in his old age." The last girl said: "But Butler Wang said, how could he have raised me for so many years in vain? If I don't repay the master, I will never leave. The master is kind enough to let me go, but he will not let me go." The girl began to sob.
"Which son of a bitch, Butler Wang?" Dai Er asked harshly.
The girl looked back and glanced at Wang Pin, who had already tied up everyone on the outermost side, and then settled on Wang Pin, who was crying even harder.
Dai Er wanted to curse something, but Chen Yuan opened his mouth and asked the four of them: "How old were you when your uncle rescued you?"
"I was nine years old when my mother was killed by bandits. This year I am fourteen. Five years have passed." One person answered. "Very young, four or five years old?" One person was unsure. "Seven years old" "Eight years old" the other two replied.
"Will you recognize the gangster who killed your parents or sold you on the street when you see him again?" Chen Yuan asked.
"I don't know," answered the eldest.
"You can't recognize it... I was too young and scared at the time," another person said.
The other two also shook their heads.
The three of them were silent, and the whole room thought that their uncle was a good man. On one side were the "good people" who had "brought up" them, and on the other were three strangers, especially the bearded stranger, who didn't look like good people at all, and the uncle's face was swollen. Yes! My uncle is very wealthy, so he must have been targeted by these three gangsters! It's not enough for them to steal the money, they must want to defraud us and sell us again.
The oldest ones couldn't recognize their enemies, let alone the rest. How could the children believe it? The three of them were at a loss for a while. Dai Er let out a long sigh: "You silly girls are about to be killed by your good uncle and you don't even know it."
"How could it be possible? In a few days, I will be adopted as a daughter to a family in another village. Once I have a family, I can get married in the future." A girl's eyes were full of longing.
"Hey..." The three of them sighed at the same time.
"Just like Sister Yanqi, she married into a good family, the husband and wife are loving, and I heard they have children." The girl whispered again as if gibbering.
Upon hearing this, Dai Er and Chen Yuan suddenly stood up straight, looked at each other, and said at the same time: "Do you recognize Yan Qi?"
"We all recognize the four of us." The little girl opened her eyes and said, "Sister Yanqi lives in the same courtyard as us. She is the eldest and the most beautiful among the five of us. She is usually very nice to us. Okay." After a pause, he added: "It's just that I was picked up by my uncle one day two years ago. He said that he had found a family for my sister who was willing to marry a maid from a wealthy family like us."
"I'll pick it up!" As soon as he finished speaking, Dai Er had crossed the east wall and left the courtyard, leaving only Chen Yuan who was still opening his mouth to explain something and Gu Ming who was confused.
