Chapter 14: Coming Home Again and Scared Away Again (3,005)
Last night, in a restaurant in the county seat.
Zheng Wan and a few scoundrels sat in the corner of the lobby, and after they were full of wine and food, several people were chatting casually.
"Big brother, I heard that the boy of the Li family was rewarded with eighty taels of silver by the county government for his meritorious service in assisting in the arrest and killing of the thief. ”
"The case is also closed, do you think we should come to collect the debt?"
One of them sneered.
"Yes, those eighty taels of silver are our money, and it's not good to be spent by that Li family kid if we go late!"
"I'm going to collect the accounts in the early hours of tomorrow morning!
I'll see what else that kid can do!"
Zheng Wan remembered the last time he brought someone to collect the accounts but was frightened away by Li Yue, his eyes burst with coldness, and he gritted his teeth and sneered.
"This time, the new accounts and the old accounts will be settled with him!"
If you lose face, of course you must return it!
......
Morning.
Li Yue, who had just practiced the knife and was about to enter the house, looked at the few people led by Zheng Wan at the gate of the courtyard, and his eyes froze.
"Is that them?"
"Li family boy, it's time to pay back the money you owe us!"
Several people looked at Li Yue with ill intentions, and walked towards the courtyard while shouting loudly.
Zheng Wan noticed that Li Yue was holding a knife in his hand, and his face changed for a moment, but then as if nothing had happened, he stared at Li Yue and sneered.
"Boy, you asked me to give you time.
It's the third day.
Have you raised your money?"
"If it drags on any longer, it's not a hundred taels!"
Li Yue felt that the gazes of several people on his body were very unkind.
He knew that Zheng Wan and the others should have known that the case on him had been closed, so he had no scruples and came to collect the debt.
This time it can't be as easy as the last time, and you can fool around in a few words.
However, now is not the time when he was powerless when he first came to this world, and he could only play tricks to deal with them!
"I have the money. ”
Li Yue looked at a few people with a calm expression and said slowly.
When Zheng Wan and the others heard this, their eyes lit up.
"But I'm not going to pay back this hundred taels. ”
In the next sentence, Li Yue's voice suddenly changed.
What does the debt owed by his predecessor have to do with him.
He was preparing to practice martial arts, and it was when he needed silver to buy meat and medicine to nourish his body.
Poor scholars are rich in martial arts, and martial arts training is inseparable from silver.
How could he give most of his hard-earned silver to these scoundrels?
"What did you say?"
Zheng Wan's face was extremely gloomy.
He looked at the knife in Li Yue's hand with disdain.
"Boy, did this knife give you courage?"
"If you don't want to pay back today, you can!
Pull out your knife and cut off my head!
No one will collect any more money from you in the future!"
Zheng Wan's expression was fierce, and his tone was cold.
For some people, give him a knife, and he can lose people's lives without blinking.
And some people dare to raise their fists and smash at others, but when they give him a knife, they suddenly become hesitant, cowering, and dare not make a move.
Not everyone has the courage to kill, many people think they have that courage, but that's just self-righteousness, and when it comes to the real time, there are only a few people who can hold the knife steadily.
A teenage country boy who also dares to talk about killing?
A flash of contempt flashed in Zheng Wan's eyes.
Swish!
Li Yue suddenly became expressionless, pulled out a knife and put it on Zheng Wan's neck.
Sharp blade, less than an inch from the skin.
"Big brother?"
The others' faces changed drastically, and they were at a loss.
Zheng Wan also had a hint of panic in his eyes, the hairs on his neck stood on end, and the blade that was close at hand made him instinctively uneasy.
He didn't expect Li Yue to really dare to do this.
Zheng Wan tried to keep his composure on his face, sneered twice, and continued to ask.
"Boy, have you ever killed someone?"
"Do you know how hard you have to kill people without making the scene too bloody?
Have you figured out where you fled after killing someone?"
Zheng Wan asked Li Yue repeatedly.
The last question exposes his true purpose.
Even if Li Yue really had the courage to kill, he bet that Li Yue would not dare to do it.
Because after killing someone, even if Li Yue can escape the pursuit of the government temporarily, there will be no place for him in the world in the future, and he can only live a life of hiding in Tibet and seeing no light.
Some people will kill people out of the heat of the moment, but the smarter the person, the less time they will be angry.
Because the smarter people are, the more things they think about before doing things.
Although Zheng Wan didn't want to admit it, the last time he met a few of them to ask for debts, he could still stay calm and come up with countermeasures in a very short time, and scare them away in a few words, Li Yue could hardly say that he was not a smart person.
"It's just killing someone, why are there so many things. ”
Li Yue listened to Zheng Wan's few questions, and became a little impatient, as if he was about to do it.
There was murderous intent and indifference to human life in his eyes.
"This look ......"
Zheng Wan saw the indifference to human life in Li Yue's eyes, and he was already a little nervous, and his face changed suddenly.
The people he deals with are all over the world.
He had seen this indifference in the eyes of others.
Those people were murderers with more than one human life on their hands, they were used to murder, and they had no reverence for human life and the law.
How could this kind of indifference to human life appear in Li Yue's eyes?
Although Zheng Wansuo knew that he was constantly telling him that Li Yue was just an ordinary country boy, and it was impossible to kill anyone, let alone many people.
But his instincts were frantically warning him that Li Yue had really killed people, and there were so many that he had become indifferent to human life.
Cold sweat appeared on Zheng Wan's forehead, his eyes flickered, and he wanted to retreat.
At this time, his neck was held by Li Yue with a knife, and Li Yue only needed a little force, but he could kill him!
He didn't want to gamble with his life!
Li Yue saw Zheng Wan's fear and hesitation, and a trace of contempt flashed in his eyes.
He didn't kill anyone in reality, but he did kill in that incomparably real dream, and there was more than one, including Zheng Wan who was standing in front of him at this time.
Li Yue suddenly moved, and he swung his knife and slashed away!
No!
Zheng Wan saw the shadow of the knife slashing towards him.
He screamed in fright, like a frightened bird, and hurriedly pulled back, forgetting for a moment the few people standing behind him, and the speed and strength of the few people behind him slammed into him.
He waited until his face was pale, and he took a few steps back before he reacted, and his head was not yet on his neck.
Zheng Wan touched his neck, and his head was still there.
But for some reason, there was a chill in his head.
Zheng Wan groped for the top of his head and grabbed a large handful of hair.
Li Yue's blade slashed against Zheng Wan's scalp and cut him into a bald scoop.
"Why are you hiding?
Didn't you tell me to cut off your head?"
Li Yue raised his eyebrows and said.
"Maniac...... Maniac!"
Zheng Wan screamed in horror.
The great fear at the moment when he thought he was going to die just now still lingered in his heart.
In fact, Zheng Wan put on a fierce appearance to scare Li Yue, as if he had killed many people and was not afraid of death at all, but he had never killed anyone at all.
He's just a scoundrel who lends money and collects debts, and it's okay to pretend to be stubborn.
But when death does come, he doesn't behave much better than other ordinary people who are afraid of death.
"Let's go...... Let's go!"
Zheng Wan looked frightened and left with the others as if they were fleeing.
Li Yue slashed the knife against his scalp, completely scared his courage and left a shadow on him.
Hehe.
Looking at the backs of several people fleeing away, Li Yue sneered and put the knife into the scabbard.
He has the courage to kill, and he also has the determination to hide everywhere after killing.
But for the sake of just one Zheng Wan, putting himself in that dangerous situation is not daring to kill, but stupid.
"It's not worth it, if you change to Yang Yi, it's barely about the same. ”
Li Yue shook his head and walked towards the house.
After eating, he took a break and continued to practice knives.
The injury to the back of the head is no longer a major problem, and it hardly affects the practice of martial arts.
Li Yue analyzed that the injuries that could have caused death should have only one flesh wound left after he passed through.
So weak at the time, it is estimated that the reason for the excessive blood loss.
Now two or three days have passed, and as long as he doesn't touch the opening in the back of his head, he is almost like no one.
After practicing the knife for another hour, Li Yue was so tired that he was sweating and sat in the courtyard.
During the break, he suddenly remembered a question and couldn't help but be curious.
Why did Zhang Zhiyuan kill his predecessor?
Before, he faced a life-and-death threat from Zhang Zhiyuan, and he should have thought more about how to survive from the other party.
But now that Zhang Zhiyuan is dead, and the crisis is over, he has time to think about it.
It stands to reason that Zhang Zhiyuan used to be a rampant thief who gave the government a headache for a while, and it was normal for him to find a place to live incognito and live like an ordinary old man as he grew old and his strength declined.
But why did he suddenly attack the predecessor with a killer.
The predecessor was only a sixteen-year-old and a half-year-old, how did he offend him?
"Did the predecessor see something that shouldn't be seen?
Zhang Zhiyuan felt that there was a risk of his identity being exposed, so he killed him?"
Li Yue guessed in his heart.
But what exactly are you seeing?
A look of doubt appeared on Li Yue's face again.
He thought for a moment, and his eyes lit up with a very likely guess.
"Could it be that my predecessor accidentally saw Zhang Zhiyuan practicing martial arts?"
On the way to practice martial arts, if you don't advance, you will retreat.
Although Zhang Zhiyuan lived incognito, he must not have been preparing for the exposure of his identity for a day, and it is very necessary to maintain his strength as much as possible, and he must practice martial arts from time to time.
Maybe the predecessor inadvertently saw Zhang Zhiyuan practicing martial arts, which caused him to be killed!
"Tomorrow should be about the same. ”
Regarding the memories of the predecessor, Li Yue has received almost the same, and there is still the last part, it is estimated that he will be able to receive all of them tomorrow, and the last remaining memories include the memories of the predecessor in the recent period.
Li Yue looked up at the courtyard gate.
noticed that the latch that was originally used to insert the door had just been kicked off by Zheng Wan and a few others.
You can't do without a latch.
Li Yue stood up, ready to find a wood and cut a latch to install it.
Halfway through, he suddenly thought of a way to deal with Zhang Zhiyuan in his dream from Zheng Wan's scoundrels.
"Get ready first, and see how big the gap between me and Zhang Zhiyuan is in my dreams at night.
It really doesn't work, and then use that kind of rogue means. ”
Li Yue muttered in a low voice.
He walked around the courtyard and came back after a while.
He had a piece of wood in his hand, and he was stuffed with a bulging bag in his arms, and he didn't know what it was.
After cutting the latch and installing it on the courtyard gate, Li Yue also rested almost and continued to practice martial arts.
In his previous life, he spent most of his time lying in a hospital bed, feeling that he had wasted too much time.
Therefore, he has the opportunity in this life, and he has a rare time to seize all the time to practice martial arts to improve his strength.
Li Yue likes this feeling of getting stronger rather than weaker, which makes him feel that life is particularly meaningful.
......
In the evening, the moon rises in the treetops.
Li Yue lay on the bed and thought about today.
After practicing martial arts for a whole day, at dusk, whether it was the basic sword technique or the more difficult Yan Ling sword technique, he felt much more natural and smooth than at the beginning of the morning.
Perhaps it may be that the sudden increase in sword cultivation is not very large, so only one day of hard training has obvious results.
The sword cultivation obtained in the dream was slowly digested and received by him through hard practice, and Li Yue felt that what he had done today was very fulfilling, and he closed his eyes.
Dream world, above the wilderness.
Li Yue looked up at the bright moon hanging high in the night sky, like a jade plate.
"It's a full moon every time.
The night of the full moon is often the time when the masters are in a decisive battle.
It's a pity that neither I nor the people I fight against are masters now.
I don't know when I and the person I fight with will be worthy of this full moon. ”
Li Yue sighed, looked at the old figure not far away, and slowly pulled out the long knife, with war intent in his eyes.
"Come on!
Let me see how far apart I am from you. ”