358. each other's calculations
Fu Wenxuan returned to the guest house arranged by the Gao family alone, planning to go to see Ah Mu, who he had specially instructed the Gao family to arrange to live in the same room with him, to see his current situation, and then go to change into clean clothes and return to the front of the people.
But he didn't think about it, as soon as he entered the house, he happened to bump into Amu, who was arranged by his subordinates to live outside, and was about to get up and stay by himself.
"Amu, you ......" Fu Wenxuan walked up to him quickly, and while helping him to get up slowly, he said affirmatively: "Your poison is cured." ”
Immediately, he thought of Gao Ran, and asked, "Ran'er, has she been here?"
Amu glanced at Fu Wenxuan and replied without hearing emotion: "She fed me a bowl of blood." She said that time was pressing, and she couldn't wait for me to recover slowly......"
As he spoke, he weakly tried to push away Fu Wenxuan's support. After Fu Wenxuan let go of him cooperatively, he tried to take a few steps by himself. Wobbly, but it didn't fall after all. His legs did quickly get used to walking again.
Seeing that Amu recovered so quickly, Fu Wenxuan couldn't help but secretly sigh that the detoxification effect of Gao Ran's blood was indeed extraordinary. He silently walked to Amu's side, helped him, and helped him back to the edge of the collapse and sat down without him refusing. Then he asked, "Do you still hate her?"
Amu stared at Fu Wenxuan for a long time before lowering his eyes so that he could not see the change in his eyes clearly, and replied in a low voice: "She harmed me for herself, and now she cut blood to save me, and it is also for herself." Even so, I don't need to be grateful to her. ”
"But you don't hate her anymore. Fu Wenxuan added for him.
Amu glanced at Fu Wenxuan, and then looked away again. He really didn't deny it: at least, for the sake of Gao Ran not only detoxifying him, but also giving him an extra body that was invulnerable to poison, even if he wouldn't be grateful to her, she could be regarded as making acceptable compensation for the harm she had done to him. As for the true face of Gao Liwen whom she forced him to face...... Now, when he is no longer a wasted person, and can even be stronger than before, he finally no longer cares about what Gao Ran did.
But such a real change of mentality, even if he knew it in his own heart, he would never be willing to admit it. Otherwise, wouldn't it be equivalent to admitting that in fact, for him, what he really values and cares about the most is himself, not Gao Liwen. He didn't really care about Gao Liwen more than he cared about himself, as he himself had thought. - If it weren't for that, he wouldn't have stopped having the slightest real hatred for Gao Ran just because he had recovered his martial arts and obtained an additional body that was invulnerable to all poisons. - Whether he really hates her, once he investigates deeply, he can actually tell it himself.
Amu knew that his truest intentions were not something he could influence, nor was it something he could really deceive himself if he wanted to turn a blind eye. Even, there was a moment when he was really shaken, and he began to doubt: if Gao Ran only forced him to face Gao Liwen's true face, but did not make him a waste, then perhaps, even if he would still be angry, he should not be as resentful of Gao Ran as he was in the past.
In the past few months, especially after he finally couldn't walk freely on his own strength and really became a half-paralyzed waste, his hatred for Gao Ran began to deepen suddenly. But now, when he looked back on the past few months, he doubted himself for the first time: perhaps, what he really hated was not the reason he had always thought, but the hatred of Gao Ran for turning him into a worthless waste. hated Gao Ran, just to give himself a reason to persuade him to persist in living. Only by continuing to hate her, the more he hates, the deeper he hates, and only by continuing to think about "revenge one day" like this, can he have a reason to make his life still valuable and meaningful. - He needs such value and meaning, otherwise, even if he lives for a minute and a second, he will be worse than dead without any spiritual support and is already a wasted person.
However, for the change in his true mentality, and the deeper and more essential reasons exposed by such a change, even if he himself refuses to admit it, it does not mean that Gao Ran and Fu Wenxuan, who almost came to see him before and after, they themselves will not be able to see or think of it.
Otherwise, Gao Ran would not have come to detoxify him alone, and he would not be so confident that he would definitely drink the bowl of blood cooperatively. And Fu Wenxuan would not take his answer just now with such certainty, and explained the other half of his unspoken meaning in one word.
Everyone just clicks to the end, but for the really sensitive, they know each other.
"Well, in that case, then we might as well have something to say. Say, how does Gao Ran want you to help her? In order to let me recover as soon as possible, she did not hesitate to feed me a bowl of blood...... Could it be that my recovery is vital to her?"
"Yes, it's important. But it's not as ...... you think."
"Oh?"
"The reason why Ran'er wants you to recover quickly is because I want you to help me catch my father as soon as possible. Only by letting him be under our control, and I can seize the real power of the Fu family as soon as possible, only in this way can we protect the Fu family and my father at the same time. Now that you have decided to help me, you should know that in the current situation, Ran'er's will is very important to us, and the survival of our Fu family will also directly affect the rise and fall of Yunxiang's national fortunes......"
"Don't worry," Amu naturally understood the meaning of Fu Wenxuan's words, and before he could finish speaking, he interrupted his words and made his clear position clear to him: "I understand what you mean. Nor am I unaware of righteousness. If the Fu family is really controlled by you, then I should help you. I don't want to see Yun Xiang's life ruined......"
At this point, Amu couldn't help but think of what he had just learned about his truest heart: for him, he himself was the most important thing. In fact, whether he is aware of this or not, this kind of mind has always existed and has never changed. It's just that in the past, he was always used to using Gao Liwen as an excuse, using "for Gao Liwen" as an excuse to satisfy himself and satisfy his own value that he wanted to achieve...... And now, even if the excuses of the past no longer apply, his most essential needs have not changed. Therefore, all he needs to do now is to create a new reason for himself, so that he can continue to meet the "value" and "meaning" he wants with peace of mind.
Therefore, even if he won't admit it, he will have more reasons in his heart than before to stop Gao Liwen: in addition to having to stop Gao Liwen for the sake of the so-called "righteousness", as far as he is concerned, he doesn't want to sacrifice himself in order to fulfill Gao Liwen, let alone let his sacrifice just become a "shell" that Gao Liwen needs to borrow in order to obtain "eternal life". This is not the "meaning" he wants to achieve, and it cannot satisfy the "sense of value" he wants for his existence. So, no matter what, he had to stop Gao Liwen.
But thinking of this, Amu had something that he had to ask: "By the way, does your eldest brother know about his father?"
The implication of Amu's words could not be more obvious: even if both of them had taken precautions against Gao Liwen, if Fu Wenhan did not know about this matter, it would be difficult to guarantee that Gao Liwen would not have the opportunity to take advantage of Fu Wenhan's body one day, and then continue his plot as Fu Wenhan without anyone knowing......
"Don't worry, on the night you were poisoned, I sent someone to secretly deliver a letter to him overnight. ”
"Good...... Without further ado, we might as well split our heads on this. Since I 'went to Beijing for medical treatment', my departure should not be too noticeable. Moreover, with Gao Ran's 'fanfare' mobilizing multiple forces to search for his father's whereabouts and explore the distribution of his forces, presumably Dad should not have time to care about what she is secretly doing to us at this time, let alone knowing that we have taken precautions against him now. - This is an opportunity, I'll get in touch with him before he suspects me, and then we'll get back to ......."
Having said that, Amu put forward the following conditions that he had to agree to in advance if he wanted Fu Wenxuan:
"But we must speak first: the power in my father's hands must be controlled by me after the matter is completed. Although I am willing to help you, I don't trust the Fu family. In order to keep my father, I can help you, and even coexist peacefully with your Fu family. Even if you have to protect your Fu family in order to save your father in the future, or even have to join forces with you to fight against the Yun family for this reason, I am willing to help you if necessary. But the power in Daddy's hands must be mine. And I will never be a subordinate of your Fu family, at your disposal. ”
Fu Wenxuan thought for a moment, and only nodded silently. When Amu saw it, he didn't think about it, thinking that he had agreed. And he continued:
"Besides, Gao Ran must not be involved in this matter. The power in her hands is too big and too mixed, if she is allowed to participate, even if she can help and catch her father faster, it is difficult to guarantee that the forces of both of us will not end up in her hands and be controlled by her. ”
Fu Wenxuan still didn't make a sound, still just nodded.
It is not difficult for him to think that the reason why Gao Ran is willing to use his own blood instead of the antidote to detoxify Amu is that although he does have the purpose of wanting him to recover as soon as possible, but more importantly, it should be for the sake of the part of the forces that will inevitably fall into the hands of Amu and have been in charge of Gao Liwen for many years - she wants to use Amu and the forces he will inevitably control in the future to balance him and the Fu family behind him.
If it is said that Gao Liwen has bothered to cultivate Amu for many years, and made him a "successor" second only to himself, the ultimate goal of his painstaking efforts is nothing more than to want to regain control of Gao Liwen's original power as "Amu" almost unhindered and without anyone knowing that after he occupies Amu's body in the future. - If this is Gao Liwen's original calculation of Amu, then now, when Amu, who has known the truth but has not yet been noticed by Gao Liwen, he has returned to Gao Liwen's side...... If all goes well, then such Amu can indeed use the opposite—Gao Liwen's status as a "successor" that has basically taken him years to obtain, his own ability, and Gao Liwen's unwavering trust in him - these are his unique advantages, making him the most suitable candidate to take over the power in Gao Liwen's hands after Gao Liwen.
There are some things that Gao Ran doesn't need to say at all, just watch her personally come to detoxify Amu, and she didn't hesitate to cut a bowl of blood to feed him to take - her behavior like this is enough to make Amu and Fu Wenxuan have their own different plans about this matter in their hearts.
Amu knew that Gao Ran must be doing this for herself—to save him, but because she thought it was necessary to do so. However, she not only detoxified him, but also deliberately gave him the same poisonous body as Fu Wenxuan - her intentions, at least in Amu's opinion, could not be more obvious: she not only wanted to use him to help her solve Gao Liwen's hidden danger as soon as possible, but she also wanted to use him and the forces that originally belonged to Gao Liwen that were bound to be controlled by him in the future to balance the Fu family.
In Amu's opinion, although Gao Ran did this just to use him to fulfill herself, her purpose also happened to fulfill him: if he can really successfully seize the power, not to mention far away, at least in - to protect himself, so that he can not be completely subject to the Fu family, and even avoid being killed by the Fu family afterwards, and get rid of future troubles forever - these important matters related to his life and death, he can also have an additional layer of reliable protection because of his power.
Fu Wenxuan heard Amu deliberately mention that Gao Ran used blood to detoxify him, not a ready-made antidote...... Although Amu said that Gao Ran hoped that he could recover as soon as possible - this reason is indeed true, but if he chooses to take the antidote, even if the effect of the medicine is slow, he should basically recover within a month, and a month, they can still afford it, and there is no need for Amu to recover so quickly as usual. - What's more, Gao Ran is still such a person who cherishes blood like gold. But she suddenly gave Amu a whole bowl of blood so generous......
These will naturally make Fu Wenxuan suspicious: Gao Ran really values Amu's value so much? Amu is really so important? It is important that once his recovery is a step slower, it will make Gao Ran's full plan end up losing everything?—— at least, in Fu Wenxuan's view, with Gao Ran's usual way of doing things, she will never put the key to success or failure on a specific person. It was too risky to do that, and she would never take the riskiest step lightly unless she had to.
Listening to what Amu said just now, although he felt that the arrangements made by Gao Ran in order to deal with Gao Liwen happened to help him distract Gao Liwen's vigilance against him, but in Fu Wenxuan's opinion, Amu was probably also in Gao Ran's calculations, and the seemingly unintentional help that Amu thought of her was probably not really unintentional...... Even, Gao Ran may not have much hope for Amu. The reason why she helped him should be just to cultivate another chess piece for herself that she can use in the future when she still has the strength to spare, but it is not necessary to have him.
Fu Wenxuan tried to think from Gao Ran's standpoint: if Amu can succeed, then he can not only help her control Gao Liwen as soon as possible, but also help her contain the Fu family, and add another enemy to the Fu family that should not be underestimated; Although it is true that choosing the latter will take more time and cost to capture Gao Liwen than taking advantage of Amu's surprise, the final result is basically certain. The difference between the two options is only a difference in the time when it will finally be completed.
Therefore, Fu Wenxuan has basically decided from the beginning: for Gao Ran, having Amu as a chess piece is just one more help that may allow her to achieve her goal with half the effort, but without him, she can still finally achieve her goal. Whether there is Amu or not, it will not affect the result that Gao Ran wants to achieve in the end - capturing Gao Liwen, firmly containing the forces in his hands, and stabilizing the overall situation.