331. Obey the Destiny of Heaven (14)
Amu glanced at Gao Ran deeply, and made a decision that might completely change his fate in the future. He no longer insisted on his original intention, but turned to Gao Ran and asked, "What do you want to know, you ask." ”
The implication is that she acquiesced in her proposal: the rest of the contact with Gao Liwen will be handled by him. And now, it was his turn to answer Gao Ran's question. And, he had decided that whatever she wanted to know, he would tell her without reservation. It's just because what she just said has completely dispelled his defense against her. He wanted to try to believe once: that there was someone in this world who would live as she said. He wanted to believe in that possibility.
This is not so much to believe in Gao Ran, but rather to grasp the last ray of hope in his already tired heart, to see even a little bit of another possible existence that is completely different from the world he is in. He wanted to see such a difference, even if it was just a little bit, even if he was destined to have nothing to do with this little difference, and he hoped to be relieved by it. He wanted this relief, and then quietly kept it in the deepest part of his heart to accompany him through this life.
So, while secretly praying to himself, hoping that Gao Ran would not live up to his trust, he calmly prepared to face her next question. It's just that he looked away, and deliberately lowered his eyes, no longer looking at her, and not allowing her to easily see through his mind through the changes in his eyes.
"Okay, then you're welcome. But before I ask a question, I have to remind you that this is what you promised yourself, and you have promised that you will answer all my doubts. No matter how many questions I ask you, you have to answer them truthfully. If you are lucky and want to hide something, I can still find the correlation and contradiction between the answers to the questions I asked from your many answers.
And then, even if you try to hide something, it will eventually be exposed because of the relevance of each question I ask. Don't be naïve enough to think that as long as you don't tell the truth, I won't be able to know the truth. The truth can be spied from many sides together, and this kind of mutual proofreading, error checking, and insight into the correlation between them allows me to see possible facts that are infinitely close to the truth.
"So, I advise you not to take chances, otherwise, in front of me, the more you try to hide something, the more you will be exposed in the end. - You've been with me for so long, you should know that snooping on secrets is my forte. ”
"Huh. Amu sneered.
Although Gao Ran confessed to the means she would take, he really hadn't thought of it before. But he asked himself, if he really wanted to hide something, he was afraid that it would be difficult to deal with Gao Ran's successive and multi-angle side knocks. If it were just one or two questions, he would still be sure that he would be able to give her half-truths and misleading answers without leaving a trace, but if she really had the ability to ask him all sorts of questions that he might not have thought of at once, but which were indeed related, he would hardly be able to answer them coherently and coherently.
And what Gao Ran wants is to make it impossible for him to justify himself—as long as he is not telling the truth, or not the whole truth. And in doing so, it was tantamount to telling her the whole truth he knew. - Whether he wants to confess or not, the end result will be for him to tell her what he knows, and all the facts he knows.
Amu believes that Gao Ran has this ability. Since she dared to use such a method that tested her endurance and mental acuity to deal with his possible non-truth, she must have known seven or eight points about what she wanted to know, in addition to her own self-confidence.
He believed that the truth should be as she had said before: she wanted to give him a chance to confess, and if he didn't cherish it, then she would soon know the part of the truth that she didn't know yet.
Therefore, if he is really lucky, it seems that now he will not be able to succeed.
"So you've been tempting me to promise you this from the beginning?"
"Heh, you have to be willing to take the bait. If you have never been curious about me, how can I induce you to agree to exchange everything you know for your curiosity about me?
"Otherwise, even if I don't retaliate against you, if this matter spreads, I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to gain a foothold in the rivers and lakes. And at that time, you say, with Gao Liwen's temperament, will he still treat you as usual?—— you can not care about the eyes of the world, but can you really not care about Gao Liwen's attitude towards you? If my guess is correct, what you have done so far should be more than just following orders, right?"
"Alright! Whatever you want to ask, just ask. Hopefully, I won't be mistaken for you. ”
This remark is not only to express that Amu does not want to choose the wrong collaborator, but also to imply that he hopes that Gao Ran's proposal is indeed feasible and can indeed help Gao Liwen, otherwise, his unauthorized exchange of top-secret information just to satisfy his own momentary curiosity will be equivalent to betraying Gao Liwen, making him shameless to see Gao Liwen again.
"Well, I'm happy with your reaction. I believe that you should also know that my 'tenfold return' is not just talking. In this world, compared to the pain of the body, torturing what you care about the most in your heart can make you truly understand what life is better than death? I believe that this time you should obediently cooperate with me. ”
Amu didn't agree, but his face was obviously much paler.
When Gao Ran saw it, he no longer talked to him, but asked directly: "Okay, tell me first, who are you? What is the relationship with Gao Liwen? Even if Gao Liwen has not told you his true intentions, but according to what you see, what do you think he wants?"
After listening to Gao Ran's series of questions, Amu became puzzled: "Why don't you ask me where Gao Liwen is now? Or how is his power distributed? Isn't it more beneficial for you to know this?"
"Didn't you ask me about anything that had an interest in you, and you asked about my own private affairs......
"Then I'm just like you, what I really care about is what I want to care about. Besides, as I said, the things that Gao Liwen and I are not of the same kind at all, so as long as we can restrain each other, then we can even avoid being hostile to each other.
"And since I don't care what he wants, how much strength does he have to take it, and what does it matter to me?
"But to be able to measure how much he can help me, but first of all, I have to know what he might want, so that we can deduce how much intersection we can have in the future.
"That's why I'm asking you. ”
"Well, I believe you. I hope I won't believe you wrong. ”
After Amu said such a sentence meaningfully, he answered Gao Ran's question truthfully:
"Gao Liwen is my father, and my mother is the daughter of a criminal minister. But before that, she actually grew up with my father's childhood sweetheart. My mother was sentenced to be imprisoned in the sub-building because she was implicated, and she was not executed until she was unable to have children. But at that time, my father was already quite influential in the court, so he dredged up the relationship, although he couldn't save my mother, he could keep her in Zilou from being disturbed by others......"
"Oh - I see. In other words, Gao Liwen is her only man, and you, her only child, and after giving birth to you, your mother died?"
"Hmm. ”
Gao Ran didn't realize that the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned. She intuitively felt that Amu's mother's death must be related to Gao Liwen! But she didn't know whether she took the initiative to die or was assassinated by Gao Liwen?—— at least, judging from Amu's care and loyalty to Gao Liwen, no matter what the truth was, Amu believed that her mother's death was to save their father and son; moreover, he must have believed that what Gao Liwen really loved in his heart was his mother, not Fu Tong, the head of the Fu family.
But looking at this matter from Gao Ran's point of view, she had already preconceived that Gao Liwen could not really fall in love with anyone in the first place, and the reason why he secretly kept the little "Qingmei" who was nearly ten years younger than him (this was learned by Gao Ran from the information found by Tiange) was just to leave him with his own bloodline, so that he could be completely used by him in the future. Moreover, because he is his own son who was raised by himself, his loyalty will naturally be more credible. And Amu's mother is just a fertility tool that he left for himself that can still enter his eyes, and after she completes her "mission", there is no need to stay.
Gao Ran believes that with Gao Liwen's ability, it is not difficult to coax a woman who truly loves him to give birth to a child for him and be willing to die for him.
It's just that regardless of whether her guess is the truth or not, she doesn't plan to mention it to Amu. After all, no matter whether Amu had such a guess in his heart, once Gao Ran uncovered this layer of gauze, the consequences would probably only do more harm than good to her.
As for harmful and unprofitable idle matters, Gao Ran naturally has no reason to interfere in them. It's better to play stupid to the end.
So, she agreed, "Hmm...... You can rest assured, I will never reveal your true identity to anyone else - especially the Fu family. But you should also think that since I, an outsider, can find out some clues, let alone the Fu family? If one day, they also begin to be alert to this matter, then it will be a matter of time before they find out about it.
"So I advise you that it is best to prepare early, and don't be naïve enough to think that Gao Liwen will protect you to the end. You should also know a thing or two about your father's temperament, right?
"Although I have met him twice, I know that if it is not good for him, he will not keep it. Or do you think that just because you are his biological son, you can make an exception?
"Even if we can make exceptions, but these are extraordinary times, and if you are not careful, you will lose everything. Can you bear to be a burden to your father and increase the risk of his failure?"
After frowning and thinking about it for a while, Amu agreed with some of Gao Ran's views. Although he never believed that Gao Liwen would abandon him as easily as she said, at least, he really shouldn't and didn't want to be a burden to Gao Liwen. On the contrary, he is to be his help.
"You're right. Sooner or later, this matter will be known to the Fu family. I really should have prepared early...... Thanks for the reminder. ”
"You're welcome, since we all have the intention of cooperating with each other, not enemies, it is also appropriate to remind you in time. Hello, I'm good, aren't I?"
Amu listened, but only smiled lightly.
"Well, now I know who you really are. What might be Gollivian's real purpose, in your opinion, or what did he say to you?"
"My dad told me that everything he did was just to protect me. You know, my birth was not honorable, he couldn't keep my mother anymore, so he thought at least he wanted to keep me......"
"What......? Do you believe that?"
"Huh. Amu sneered, "I want to believe ......"
"Okay. When Gao Ran heard this, he was inevitably a little frustrated. But she also knows that with their current relationship, at least for now, she really can't push him too hard—especially not to force him to face the reality he doesn't want to face......
"But," who thought, Amu then added to himself, "judging from the power in my father's hands, it would be a bit far-fetched to say that he was really just trying to protect me...... I think on the one hand, he really wants to keep me safe, and on the other hand, he probably hopes that after he has completed his great cause, he will have a successor......"
"Ambition? Could it be that he wants to dominate the world? Not only does he want to dominate Yunxiang, but even the Banana Kingdom is among his coveters? However, there are still a few small countries between these two countries that are now firmly controlled by the Heavenly Pavilion, how can he annex them? And if he can't annex them, then how can he invade the Banana Kingdom?"
"Are you sure those small countries are really under the control of the Heavenly Pavilion?"
"What do you mean by that?"
Although Amu's answer had admitted Gao Ran's guess in disguise, it also led to doubts that Gao Ran had never thought of before: yes, how did she determine that those small countries must be firmly in the hands of Tiange? Even if they were indeed firmly controlled by Tiange, how could she conclude that it was equivalent to being firmly in Qiu Yueze's hands?