Chapter 40: The Dead and the Living
Wei Lai finally sent away Long Xiu and Liu Qingyan, and helplessly looked at Sun Daren, who was sleeping in a bewitching posture and snoring on the bed.
He knew that it was another sleepless night, so he slowly laid the floor, then took off his coat and got into the bed, and there was a quick knock at the door.
Wei Lai frowned, and before he could get up from the bed, a hurried and familiar voice sounded outside the door.
"Wei Gongzi, open the door, save my sister, save my sister!"
Wei Lai's heart jumped, and he heard that the voice was Lu Bai.
He didn't think much of it, and he didn't even have time to put on his shirt, so he hurriedly got up and opened the door. But I saw that Lu Bai's face was full of tears, his clothes were disheveled, and his hair and face were still stained with a little blood.
"Wei Gongzi, please save my sister, please......" The boy who was usually clever and eccentric, and a little unkind, knelt down in front of Wei Lai, and shouted loudly.
"Let's go!" Wei Lai's heart was filled with an ominous premonition, he didn't have the heart to listen to the boy finish the matter, pulled him up and said.
The boy also knew that now was not the time to say much, and he didn't even have time to wipe the tears on his face, so he turned around and ran towards Luoyi Lane with Wei Lai.
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Time was too hurried, Wei Lai didn't even have time to put on his clothes, the cold wind gusted in the late autumn night, Wei Lai carried the too slow deer and cypress on the empty streets of Gutong City, the cold wind cut Wei Lai's body like a blade, but he didn't realize it. He ran fast, and his face was colder than the cold wind of this autumn day.
Although Lu Bai didn't say anything, Wei Lai had already roughly guessed what was going on - there are many good people in this world, but the evil people are always the same.
He had warned Lu Wu that the Hu family might deliberately retaliate, but Lu Wu and the Lu family siblings both said that they had nowhere to go at present, and although the more than 20 taels of silver they gave Wei Lai was not a small amount, it was not enough for them to change places and start their lives again, at least until they had saved enough money. Wei Lai also knew that things in this world were by no means as simple as they were said, and many helplessness could not be explained in a word.
He had no choice but to give up, thinking that he would go to visit Yu Tong tomorrow, and talk to him when the time came, to see if he had any way to solve this matter, but he didn't want them to leave, so the son of the Hu family couldn't wait to make a move, and looking at Lu Bai's appearance, I am afraid that the situation of Lu Wu and Lu Ting should not be optimistic at this moment. But Wei Lai didn't ask, and he didn't dare to ask. If they really had a good idea, Wei Lai would inevitably blame it on his failure to insist on talking about it before.
His face became more and more gloomy, the golden and blood-colored divine gate on his chest lit up, and a roar rose, and the power of blood and qi overflowed from the divine gate, circulating his whole body, and the pace under his feet became more and more rapid, and the speed was also as fast as he could do.
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The night breeze is still there.
Before he walked into the alley, a faint smell of blood rushed into the tip of Wei Lai's nose along the night wind.
Wei Lai's heart sank, and the uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense. He lowered Lubai's body, and the black python in his cuffs slipped off and was held in his hand.
"Wait for me right here. Wei Lai said, his body was so easy to burst out at that time.
Lu Bai looked at Wei Lai's disappearing back in a blink of an eye, his brows furrowed, his fists clenched, but he couldn't listen to Wei Lai's words, he gritted his teeth, and soon chased after Wei Lai's back.
The courtyard door of the Lu family was hidden, and with a gentle push from Wei Lai, the courtyard door opened immediately.
The courtyard was a mess, with scattered wooden benches, broken cups, and a small amount of blood spilled on the ground, but there was no sound in the courtyard gate.
"Brother Lu!?"
"Miss Xiaoting!?"
Wei Lai tentatively called to the door, but there was a dead silence in the courtyard door, and no one responded to his call.
Bang dang.
Wei Lai was puzzled, and suddenly there was a soft sound in the inner room on the right, like the sound of something being bumped into the ground, Wei Lai's heart was shocked, and he hurriedly ran towards the door.
The door was pushed open, and the small room was pitch black, Wei Lai's eyesight was acceptable, and at first glance, he saw a figure lying in the corner of the wall, moving slowly and with difficulty.
"Brother Lu?!" Wei Lai called.
The figure seemed to hear Wei Lai's voice, and his body moved slightly. Wei Lai hurriedly stepped forward and was about to help him up, but before his hand touched the other party's body, he felt that the other party's clothes were soaked with a hot wetness. Wei Lai reacted immediately, a fierce color flashed in his eyes, and he said, "It's okay, Brother Lu, I'll take you to Mr. Wang." ”
But the figure that was obviously so weak that he couldn't move after hearing Wei Lai's words, he struggled hard, and spit out a voice weakly and with difficulty: "Xiao ...... Xiaoting ......"
"Where is Miss Xiaoting, I'll save her!" Wei Lai asked with heavy eyes.
"She......" The figure raised its hand with difficulty, its voice trembling, and its outstretched fingers trembling violently.
Wei Lai looked in the direction of his finger, and before he could see it clearly, Lu Bai, who was following him, rushed in: "Sister!"
He shouted loudly, and found a candlestick out of nowhere, the candle flame jumped, and the light poured into every corner of the house, and with this light, Wei Lai finally saw the scene in the door.
At that moment, Wei Lai's body was as if he had been seriously injured, and his face turned pale......
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"People are so strange sometimes. ”
"You've known him for only a few days, and you don't have any lifelong friendships, and you haven't exchanged heartfelt conversations when you're drunk. ”
"But you've seen him crawl out of the darkness and hold on to hope, you've seen the starlight in his eyes, and you've seen his smile as he looks forward to the future. You empathize with all this, as if his happiness can also give you the strength to think that one day in the future, you too can have such a beautiful situation. ”
"That's why you're so angry when somebody destroys, tramples it all up, smashes it to pieces. Because it's like you've seen your future and been smashed by someone. ”
In the Yu Hou Mansion, the sleepy-eyed little marquis stared at the gloomy young man in front of him, and talked about everything.
"But you don't have to, everybody has a different life. Your fate is not good, even a little miserable, but at least for this moment, you are still holding your life. You also have the right to make choices for yourself, but some people have their lives out of their hands from the moment they are born. His joys, sorrows, and sorrows are actually all things that the superior thinks about. In a sense, you're much happier than me, better than them. ”
"So, you're not going to make a move, are you?" asked Wei Lai as he stared at the little marquis in front of him with a calm brow. Yu Tong's face still had a lazy taste, as if he would never wake up, as if there was nothing in this world that could make this little marquis interested.
"Everyone is already dead, kill Hu Xu, or slaughter the Hu family, will she be able to come back to life?" Yu Tong slowly lifted the teacup with spirits on the table, raised his head and took a sip, and asked with a smile.
"Don't dead people deserve justice?" Wei Lai's brows furrowed even deeper, and his hands under the table clenched into fists.
"Of course. Yu Tong gave his own answer without thinking about it: "But what about the living? Do they deserve their justice more?"
"What do you mean?" Wei Lai asked.
"Of course the woman doesn't deserve to die. But she is in slavery, and I just want to ask for an explanation, and I can only ask her for some money as compensation, and if I do more, I will put the scapegoat introduced by the Hu family in prison and exile elsewhere, which is far from the justice you want. The rules of Dayan are like this, it has nothing to do with right or wrong, unless you can turn Dayan Dynasty upside down, otherwise this rule cannot be changed. The court cut me off my candidate, but they won't go back to move the name of the city lord for a while, and at this juncture, if I stand out for a dead man, those guys in the court will just catch my sore feet and cut me off the position of the city lord. ”
"I still have to keep my position as the lord of the city, and seek justice for the living. Yu Tong said this, his eyes sank, and he narrowed into a slit and stared at the young man in front of him.
Wei Lai bowed his head and was silent, his fists under the table clenched more and more, so that his knuckles turned white.
"What are you thinking?" asked Yu Tong suddenly.
There was a deep light flashing in his slightly smiling eyes, and he seemed to have seen Wei Lai's thoughts through and through.
Don't blame me for not reminding you, although Hu Fuxing's son is a scumbag, Hu Fuxing is not an easy person, and there are at least five fingers of the three realms in Hu Mansion, not to mention that the people of the Qiankun Sect have been very close to them recently, and if one of them makes a move, it is enough for you to walk around without eating. This time, I don't have a reason to save you again. ”
"Why bother, you can leave Gutong City with your friends tomorrow, why risk your life for a guy you've only known for a few days?"
Wei Lai didn't pay attention to Yu Tong's rhetorical question, which he didn't know whether it was sincere or mocking, he sank his brows, looked up at the little marquis in front of him, and asked, "What about you?"
"Your talent is so outstanding, the world says that it is only a matter of time before you ascend to the Holy Realm, why do you want to stay in Gutong City? Wouldn't it be better to take off this burden and avenge your ancestor's 100,000 Yin Souls after opening the Eight Gates?"
Yu Tong smiled again: "It's been seven hundred years, even the Eight Great Sages have survived to death, not to mention some ghosts, after so many years, they have long been gone, and what is left is only obsession and resentment, I am too lazy to guard the ancestors who are not ancestors for a long time like my father, my old man, and my old man, and live a lifetime!"
Wei Lai frowned, he couldn't understand what the little marquis in front of him was saying: "Then what are you going to do?"
Yu Tong winked at Wei Lai: "Didn't I say that?"
"Of course, the revenge and justice of the dead are important, but even the justice of 100,000 dead people is not as good as the life of a living person in my heart, this is my Yu Tong's truth. ”
"And I'm going to get justice for a living person now!"