Lu Xiaofei woke up leisurely in a dilapidated thatched hut.
He didn't know how long he had been unconscious. When he opened his eyes, he could only barely see from the window of the hut that the sky outside had turned slightly white.
After a while, it should be bright.
He was lying on a stone slab covered with hay. He stretched out his hands to prop himself up. Unexpectedly, he felt a sharp pain all over his body under the exertion, and he had to lie down again.
Lu Xiaofei lay weakly, looking at the thatched roof with absent-minded eyes, and his mind began to recall everything that happened tonight. After a long time, he actually burst into laughter.
The laughter was bitter and sour, and tears were already flowing from the corners of his eyes.
He smiled weakly and helplessly.
After he laughed for a while, someone suddenly spoke in the hut.
"The remnants of the pure Yang Sword Qi in your body have caused the old hidden injuries that have been hidden in your lungs for a long time. Now four more ribs are broken. If it weren't for the three silver needles to extend your life, how could you laugh anymore?"
The voice of the speaker was cold and calm, with no emotion at all.
Lu Xiaofei stopped laughing, turned his head and looked in the direction of the sound.
There was a fire burning in the hut, and the flickering light of the fire gave the hut a little warmth before dawn.
In the shadows behind the fire sat the speaker.
Suddenly, dry wood crackled in the fire, and a cloud of sparks exploded. In the scattered firelight, an indifferent face was reflected.
After Lu Xiaofei saw the face clearly, his face, which had turned from yellow to black, showed an expression of surprise and helplessness. Then he sighed softly and said, "Gong Ziyu."
The person behind the fire is none other than Gong Ziyu.
There was no expression on Gong Ziyu's face. The index and middle fingers of his right hand gently stroked a ribbon scattered on his chest. He said without raising his eyes: "You know I have never been patient with meaningless things. You are already in a coma." If you don't wake up after four hours, you will have no choice but to sleep here and wait to die. You probably don't know that there are some wild dogs outside this hut that have been hungry for several days."
Lu Xiaofei smiled silently and bitterly. He suddenly stared at Gong Ziyu closely, as if he wanted to see clearly the person next to the fire. He frowned and asked, "So, it was you who saved me?"
"I have saved you now." Gong Ziyu picked up a piece of dry wood from beside him and threw it into the fire, causing sparks to fly. He still sounded indifferent and said: "If you don't have those three silver needles to renew your life, you will never survive for two hours."
Lu Xiaofei frowned. He had already noticed a faint feeling of pain in the three acupuncture points on his chest.
But he didn't care, and still looked at Gong Ziyu intently, and asked: "Isn't it you who saved me in the bamboo forest?"
Gong Ziyu said: "You and I have known each other for so many years, you should understand that I am the person who least likes to wield swords and guns."
"I don't understand you very well." Lu Xiaofei said, "I can say that the person in this world who is least understood by others is you."
Gong Ziyu finally raised his head and looked at the killer who was already furious, and said, "Then who do you think will be the person who rescued you in the bamboo forest?"
"I don't know." Lu Xiaofei shook his head slightly and said, "Although I doubt it's you, you are right. Over the years, no matter how dangerous the situation you encountered, I have never seen you take action yourself. . Or it can be said that you simply don’t have the martial arts to rescue me from Ye Suzhen.”
Gong Ziyu nodded slightly and said: "You are right about this. Looking at the entire world, no matter who wants to snatch someone he is determined to win from Lu Huaichen's closed disciple, it will not be an easy task."
Lu Xiaofei said: "So I can only guess that the person who saved me in the bamboo forest must be someone related to you, or it may be another person who signed a contract with you. Because the person who can save me at this time must also be someone related to you." It will only be you. Because you can't guarantee that I will keep it secret." He suddenly sighed softly: "In fact, with your behavior, if you want the secret not to be leaked, you can kill me in advance. That way you It saves me the trouble of having to ask someone to rescue me.”
Gong Ziyu nodded again and said: "Yes, if you want someone to keep a secret forever, letting him die is indeed the best way."
"In this case, why does Gong Ziyu, who has always only put profit first, want to save me now?" Lu Xiaofei said with a bitter smile: "Today, I no longer have a contractual relationship with you, and I have also lost my useful value. For you, saving me should be a completely meaningless thing."
"You are basically right." Gong Ziyu said calmly: "The reason why I saved you is because I want to personally confirm something."
Lu Xiaofei said: "For Gong Ziyu to take such painstaking efforts, it seems that it must be a very important thing."
"Actually, it's not an important thing to say. To be precise, it should be a very ridiculous thing." Gong Ziyu sneered and said, "Because I want to see with my own eyes what a stupid person like you has done. Do you regret doing stupid things?"
Lu Xiaofei was stunned for a moment and did not answer for a moment.
"Is everything you have done in the past few years just for a brothel woman and a promise that has long since lost its fruit?" Gong Ziyu looked at Lu Xiaofei and said, "Is it worth losing your life for that meaningless promise?" ?"
When Lu Xiaofei heard this, his heart suddenly throbbed and his blood surged.
Under the emotional fluctuations, the three acupuncture points on his chest suddenly tingled, and the remaining Qi in his body suddenly reversed, causing extreme pain.
Lu Xiaofei couldn't help but sweat broke out on his forehead.
Gong Ziyu looked at each other coldly, helplessness flashed in his eyes for a moment.
Lu Xiaofei's face twitched a few times, as if he was trying his best to suppress the pain in his body. He suddenly smiled and said: "You have not experienced what I have experienced, so you use the standard of worthiness to measure my decision. What I want to tell you is that there are many things in the world that cannot only be evaluated based on benefits. Value. Things that have lost their value are meaningless in your eyes. But in my heart, they are very important."
Gong Ziyu did not refute, but simply said: "No matter how noble you think your actions are, in my eyes, stupidity is stupidity, and it has nothing to do with whether it is valuable or not. What I also want to tell you is that , if what you do requires paying the price of your life, but in the end you cannot get even a little bit of reward, then this is a very ridiculous and sad thing."
"Because you are a businessman, you will put all the things on the weighing pole and weigh them." Lu Xiaofei said calmly: "But I am different. I am just an ordinary person. When encountering You were there before, and you are still the same after I met you. So I didn’t feel that what I did was unworthy, and I never regretted it.”
Gong Ziyu sneered and said: "What a stupid belief. I am very disappointed in you. If I had known this, I shouldn't have let others save you. Maybe you are right, I should have let you die early."
"If you saved me just to see my regretful and painful look, then I'm sorry, I did disappoint you." Lu Xiaofei sighed: "I didn't expect that you would do it for a useless person like me who has no interest in you anymore. , you actually made such a huge investment, so Gong Ziyu, who has always been good at calculation, is afraid that he will lose money this time. Maybe the little Taoist priest from Qingcheng Mountain doesn't know who you are, but the person who went to save me, He is in big trouble now, is the price worth it?"
He actually asked Gong Ziyu.
Gong Ziyu raised his eyebrows, but remained calm and said: "I saved you because I really wanted to see what you, a stupid person, was thinking in your heart. As for the person who saved you, you don't need to care. If Let me tell you, the reason why I asked him to save you was not only because I was worried that you would fall into the hands of that Taoist priest, but more importantly, the person who saved you was very lonely and had been lonely for too long. A People who have been lonely for too long always need some fresh stimulation to rejuvenate them. And the result is obvious, the person who saves you should really enjoy tonight's stimulation. So this matter is certainly not a loss in calculation. "
Gong Ziyu glanced at Lu Xiaofei and said indifferently: "If I say this, will you be able to figure it out?"
"That's it. It seems that the decision I made is not just stupid. At least it can create an opportunity for you to serve as an introduction." Lu Xiaofei suddenly realized: "I'm just telling you, how could the dignified Gong Ziyu suddenly do it?" What about a loss-making business that outweighs the gains?”
Gong Ziyu was silent for a moment, and then said: "But I am still very disappointed in you. Because you are a person who I have watched change from beginning to end. With your talent, if you are willing, even if you and I have terminated the contract, you You can also do better in this industry. To take a step back, even if you have made up your mind to leave, you can still spend the rest of your life safely with a large amount of money, instead of handing over your life casually to a miserable person. decision."
He even looked angry, but his tone was still cold, and he continued: "I really don't understand, is that brothel woman so important to you? For her, you even risked your own life."
When Lu Xiaofei heard this, he seemed to be caught in a long memory, but his expression was calm, and his eyes had a rare tenderness. After a long time, he murmured in a tone that sounded like a memory and a narrative: "Of course she is very important to me. She was not born a fireworks woman. She is actually a very good woman, but she was born in She lives in an unfortunate family, and she doesn’t have the ability to choose her own life. Five years ago, I was just a lowly poor boy selling bean curds. She was the one who went to Donglin City every day and had few dogs. I went to the entrance of the dirty alley to buy my bean curd and listened to me while eating. She was very innocent and beautiful at that time, especially her eyes, which seemed to smile. Even if she didn't speak, her eyes would make me laugh. I thought she was laughing. Although she had a father who was addicted to gambling, she was still better than me. But she never disliked that I was a poor and incompetent person, so those six months were the happiest in my life. days. Later, my father accidentally fell and died while repairing someone else's roof. Instead of compensating my father, the employer said that my father's death at their house had brought bad luck to them. I went to argue with him and almost failed. My legs were broken. At that time, I knew that a person without money and power would have to live like a dog all his life. Come to think of it, I was so useless at that time that I didn’t even have the money to bury my father. At that time, It was Yuru who secretly took a tael of silver from home and asked me to bury my father. But soon her father discovered that she had stolen the money, and she was almost beaten to death. From that time on, I I swear, I will repay her kindness with ten times and a hundred times the money. So I decided to go out and have a try. Even if I have nothing, I will take a gamble..." He said too much, and for a moment I was short of breath and felt my chest was extremely heavy. Lu Xiaofei had to stop temporarily to catch his breath.
"If you continue to babble, you will only die faster." Gongzi Yu said coldly: "There are many stories like yours in the world. But they are not as lucky as you. At least you will have the opportunity to change yourself later. fate."
Lu Xiaofei took a few deep breaths, and then continued: "I didn't want to tell you. I just think that I should let myself remember the past in the end. As for my life, I don't care anymore."
Behind the flickering light of the fire, Gong Ziyu's expression also flickered and was unpredictable.
Lu Xiaofei's eyes were very clear at this moment. He continued: "When I decided to leave Donglin City, Yuru sneaked out. She was very sad. She said she didn't want me to leave, but she also knew that she couldn't stop it. Me, so she gave me a pair of her earrings, and she told me that I must bring that pair of earrings to her in the future, and when I see her again, I must take her with me." He paused, He turned his head and looked at the figure behind the fire, whose figure had almost merged with the darkness in the hut, and continued: "So when I met you later, when you asked me to bring out the most valuable thing as a witness to the contract, I only have that pair of earrings. Although they are not worth a lot of money, they are indeed the most important thing in my life. In fact, I have to thank you. It was Gong Ziyu who gave me the opportunity to change my destiny. But also from From that moment on, I knew that I might never be the same Lu Xiaofei again."
"Because your hands are stained with blood, that's why you think that." Gong Ziyu said: "But you should also understand that living in this cruel world, any choice must have a corresponding price."
Lu Xiaofei smiled silently and said: "I know this truth. And the price I paid was not only my mentality, but also my body and even my life. You should have noticed that I have hidden wounds a long time ago, even if I didn't If I was injured by that little Taoist priest from Chongzhen Sword Sect, I might not survive for a few years."
Lu Xiaofei stopped again and began to take deep breaths to ease the severe pain in his body.
Gong Ziyu seemed to be pondering, and after a moment he said: "It was only after the incident in Changzhou that I discovered the hidden wounds on your body. Thinking about it carefully, it's no wonder that you have been unwilling to take on those not-so-difficult businesses in the past two years. It turns out that it's not that you don't want to. But you were not sure. So you decided to take on a bigger business, so you secretly nursed your injuries, just for an opportunity."
"Gong Ziyu is indeed Gong Ziyu. It seems that as long as you want to know something, almost nothing can be hidden from you." Lu Xiaofei smiled bitterly and continued: "The hidden wounds in my body have been there since I started practicing martial arts. I started to hide when I signed the contract with you. Shortly after I signed the contract with you, I met an old man who did not want to be named. He gave me a martial arts mental method. He told me that that mental method was quite special. , which contains methods that are faster than other martial arts. I began to practice with hesitation, and the result was exactly as he said. In just two years, I was transformed from a person with no martial arts foundation to a capable person. A master who can easily kill people. But I practiced too hastily, and the old man forgot to tell me that although the martial arts mentality can make a person become a martial arts master within a period of time, it also hides fatal dangers. Wait until I find out. By the time, it was too late. But I don’t regret it, because it was my own choice, and now that I have such a result, it should be regarded as a price."
Gong Ziyu's expression changed slightly behind the fire.
Lu Xiaofei finished speaking in one breath, his expression began to gradually dim, and his breathing began to become difficult. Then he suddenly started to smile inexplicably again, and then he suddenly looked at Gong Ziyu and said, "I would like to ask, were you the one who inserted the three silver needles on my body for me?"
Gong Ziyu nodded and said, "There is no third person in this hut."
Lu Xiaofei snorted and said, "I didn't expect that Gong Ziyu, the world-famous planner, besides being good at business planning, was also a Qihuang Sage. I was indeed right, you are indeed a People who are hard to see through.”
Gong Ziyu sneered lightly and said, "No matter how good your medical skills are, they can't cure a stupid person like you."
Lu Xiaofei didn't care, he smiled and said: "Do you know why I hate you? Because you always like to use your own judgment to define other people's behavior. You are obviously involved in many things, but you will always You stay out of the situation, looking like you are above everything. In fact, I admire you because you can calculate everything in order to achieve the most perfect result. So I hate you because you are like a stone. There’s no human touch at all.”
"That's enough!" Hearing this, Gong Ziyu actually felt a bit angry, which was extremely rare. He said in a cold voice: "You've gone too far! What kind of person I, Gong Ziyu, am, it's not up to me. For a pathetic person like you to comment.”
"It's really surprising that Gong Ziyu can also be angry." Lu Xiaofei didn't care about the other party's anger. He laughed and said, "It seems like I won this time."
Gong Ziyu said indifferently: "Compared to your life, you have already lost everything."
"Thank you for extending my life." Lu Xiaofei sighed and suddenly asked: "Then, based on your judgment, how long can I live with such an injury?"
Gong Ziyu stared coldly at the people walking across the fire, and after being silent for a long time, he said: "Your previous hidden injury has severely damaged your heart. Coupled with the pure Yang sword energy of the Chongzhen Sword Sect in your body, It has almost destroyed all your chances of turning around. If you want to continue to live now, there is only one way, and that is to immediately abolish all your cultivation. With my unique acupuncture technique, you may be able to live for one more year. .”
"One year? It's an unexpected result for me." Lu Xiaofei said with a smile: "The premise is that I must always have silver needles stuck in my body, and then wake up every day like a disabled person and wait for death to come. Yes ?"
Gong Ziyu said nothing.
Lu Xiaofei fell silent. He stared at the thatched roof above his head and did not continue to speak.
After a moment, he suddenly pulled off his clothes, exposing his chest. Then, expressionlessly, he reached out and pulled out three silver needles from his chest.
As soon as the silver needle came out of the body, Lu Xiaofei's expression changed suddenly, as if a great pain had lost its confinement and began to violently invade his body. The already weak vitality began to dissipate at an extremely fast speed.
Gong Ziyu was suddenly startled. He did not expect that at this moment, Lu Xiaofei would pull out the three silver needles that had extended his life!
"What are you doing?" Gongzi Yu stood up suddenly, strode in front of Lu Xiaofei, grabbed him by the lapel of his clothes, Yu's voice was unexpectedly trembling, and he shouted sternly: "If you want to die, you can find someone to kill you." A place where no one is around, but not in front of my Young Master Yu!"
His eyes burst into an unprecedented anger. The knuckles of the fingers of the hand holding the hem of the shirt turned white from the excessive exertion.
Lu Xiaofei didn't feel any strange. He was still smiling because he knew why Gong Ziyu was so excited.
The ashen-faced man in front of him had always allowed himself to ignore everything, but he could not accept or tolerate others' indifference to him. Lu Xiaofei's suicidal behavior was tantamount to a slap in the face of Gong Ziyu, which greatly shocked his deep and weird self-esteem.
Not long ago, Hua Pian Hua Wuji was like this, but now, in just a few days, the killer Lu Xiaofei, who was cultivated by himself, actually treated him in almost the same way. How could Gong Ziyu not be angry?
In other words, Gong Ziyu, who has always been good at manipulating and arranging others, would never accept someone slipping out of his control. But at present, it seems that his insight and control of human nature are obviously not foolproof yet.
Lu Xiaofei looked at Gong Ziyu, who looked ashen and cold, and smiled: "You don't have to be angry. I don't have to have trouble with you. I'm just tired. Although I know how wonderful it is for a person to be alive, but I can't stand the days of sitting and waiting to die every day. I have lived for thirty years. Although the time is not long, it is not short either. I have tried everything I should have experienced and things I never thought I would experience, so it doesn't matter. It's a pity. If I want to say regret, it's that I couldn't take Yuru away. I also know that she didn't want to, but I didn't have the time. So I can only respect her decision, just like she clearly didn't want me back then. Leaving, but still not stopping me..."
His words suddenly choked, and the brilliance in the pupils of his eyes began to dim and dissipate rapidly, and the unspeakable pain overwhelmed him like a huge wave.
He had begun to lose sight of Gong Ziyu's face who was so close.
Gong Ziyu grabbed his clothes with both hands and lifted his limp body up. He said angrily: "You, the most stupid fool in the world, how could you die in front of me without my permission?" A cold light surged in his eyes, but he was helpless.
Lu Xiaofei had lost all his strength. He showed his last smile and said in a trembling voice: "I left a flaw this time, which is considered a mistake... So after I die, you should know what to do... "
"I don't feel scary at all..." He murmured to Gong Ziyu: "One thing I am better than you... is that no matter before or now, I know what I want..."
The words stopped suddenly, Lu Xiaofei's hands dropped suddenly, he was dead.
This sentence was also the last sentence Lu Xiaofei said in his life.
Gong Ziyu suddenly froze. The words Lu Xiaofei said before he died were like a hammer hitting the bottom of his heart.
Because it was a sentence that felt both familiar and unfamiliar to him.
In life, the happiest thing is knowing what you want most. But the most unfortunate thing is knowing what you want most.
Knowing but not knowing is the most hurtful and helpless thing in the world?
In that moment, Gong Ziyu felt a sudden sense of powerlessness.
After a long time, Gong Ziyu slowly put down Lu Xiaofei, who had died, and placed him on the stone slab.
He looked at Lu Xiaofei's calm face, suddenly sighed softly, and then said a short sentence.
"sorry."
No one knows why he said these three words.
After saying this, he turned around and walked towards the dilapidated door of the hut. When passing by the fire, he stopped and then lightly kicked up a burning dry firewood. The light fell on the path. Beside Fei, the thatch on the stone slab was lit.
After a while, the entire hut was in flames.
