"What I'm worried about now is not whether they will make a comeback, nor whether they can continue to make trouble, but whether we will be beaten to death by Xiaojue and the others after the incident comes to light, or whether we will be sent to the mountains and forests to become savages."
Young Master Chu Ran stretched himself out and paced back and forth in the study.
"Why do you think so? We are acting under orders, and with the decrees of our father and brother in hand, no matter how angry they are, they can't blame us." The eldest young master smiled nonchalantly, "Every grievance has its owner and every debt has its owner. If they have complaints, they go to my father and brother. There is no point in going to us. We are just insignificant pawns."
"Well, that's what it sounds like, although it's a bit unreasonable." Young Master Chu Ran sighed softly and smiled sarcastically, "I have nothing to do and worry about whether we can survive until then. Not necessarily!”
"So unsure?" The eldest young master poured himself a cup of tea slowly, "The situation now is much better than it was back then."
"I admit this, but I still don't have any clue." Master Chu Ran walked to the corner of the study, moved a shelf there, pulled out a board from under the desk, placed it on the shelf, and knocked gently After a few clicks, he said, "Except for the few items on this board, I don't know anything else. What little is known is partly recognized by others, and partly found by us after spending so many years." He Look at the eldest young master, "Brother, do you think you are a special waste?"
"Not really." The eldest young master shook his head gently, "It's not easy to find out these things. You should be satisfied."
"Brother, you have such a good attitude." Young Master Chu Ran shrugged, "After a long time, I feel a little...sad."
"What is there to be mourned for? What is there to be mourned for?" The eldest young master smiled, "Some things cannot be solved by mourning. We have persisted for so many years. We have finally persisted until now, and finally we have seen a little bit of light. No. You should be sad, you should be happy."
"What are we happy about? What is worthy of our happiness?" Young Master Chu Ran spread his hands, "The relationship between us now is particularly ridiculous. Xiaojue and the others want to arrest us, we want to arrest another group of people, and we want to The person I arrested hasn’t even seen a hair after so many years.”
"Do you feel that all these years of your life have been in vain? Are you doing useless work?"
"That's not true. It's still somewhat useful, but not much."
"There is nothing we can do about it. The relationship between us and them is not about who is in the light and who is in the dark." The eldest young master sighed softly, "This relationship is as if we are living in the human world, and they are from the underworld, Just like people from the underworld, their whereabouts are mysterious and erratic. They are like having countless pairs of eyes and hands, watching us anytime and anywhere, and can attack us anytime and anywhere without any warning."
"That's what I mean. This feeling of being stared at all the time, as if you are the opponent's prey, is particularly frustrating and at a loss what to do." Young Master Chu Ran pulled a small stick and sat down in front of the shelf, " Look at what we have experienced over the years. All our actions are passive. Only when the other party takes action against us do we know what they want to do and can we fight back. But every time it seems that we want to grab their tail and let them After revealing their true colors, they suddenly disappeared from this world, as if they had never existed." He sighed faintly, "Moreover, all our plans were originally good and could protect everyone, but in the end what happened? ?Mrs. We survived, but why did things turn into such a bad situation now?”
"Because we are incompetent." The eldest young master sighed softly, "I admit this. It is our incompetence, our slowness, and even our unfounded arrogance that gave our opponents sufficient time to prepare, and the result was that they succeeded. , and we failed so miserably that we now have to deal with our mistakes. If Xiaotian asks me to take responsibility for this in the future, I will be happy to take all the responsibility. After all, I am the one who made this plan. "
"Brother..."
The eldest young master waved his hand and signaled young master Chu Ran not to continue.
"We don't have to argue about such boring issues as who will take responsibility. The question now is, how should we reveal this matter to the children bit by bit. They are basically getting to know us now. There is not much help we can give them in secret. Sooner or later, we need to face them. Before facing them, we need to let them face the truth, or face..."
"Destiny." Young Master Chu Ran nodded, "Destined to have unavoidable responsibilities." He looked at the eldest young master, "Do you have any ideas?"
"Not yet, so I'm worried about it. Take your time. It's not something that can be solved overnight."
"But I don't quite understand one thing. Why did you, Brother Huang, and Cousin Tong decide that the children would put an end to all this?"
"Isn't it what Huilan said? He said that when observing the sky at night, these children are the nemesis of the locusts. And this is exactly the case. After these children were born one after another, the situation in Daxia gradually improved, and the border customs also gradually improved. After things stabilized, the group of people became less arrogant and acted like monsters, which made us a lot quieter." The eldest young master smiled and said, "Speaking of which, Huilan's description of this group of people is quite appropriate. .”
"He's not saying that they are like locusts, not even a blade of grass grows wherever they go."
"No, Whelan said they are like locusts because they have a strong reproductive capacity, and gradually form a large scale from generation to generation. Moreover, they are also like locusts, making people tire of it."
"Speaking of which, there is another strange thing. I feel that those people are quite concerned about these children and are quite afraid of them, trying not to have a direct conflict with them. In other words, when the children were young, they tried to artificially Let them die young, just like the little girl from the A-Jiang family, didn’t she become a member of the old Shen family by accident?”
"It's a pity that they didn't succeed. They tried to kill Xiaocha several times, but they failed. Even the latest assassination that Xiaocha encountered was related to them." The eldest young master nodded, "However, this time, every time All the failures told them that this is the natural nemesis, specially designed to suppress them." He looked at Master Chu Ran, "It is also because of these facts that I am convinced that what Huilan said is true, and they can really end this. The chaos of the past century can completely wipe out this group of locusts.”
