182. Fear and Seeking
"Dad, I'm not going to the northwest."
In the bitter cold land of the northwest, how can people live? What he wants is the kind of drunken and luxurious life, although the Du family can't be compared with other big families outside, but he is confident that he can get it, he is not greedy.
"If you don't go, you have to go, you can't help it." Duhan's tone was flat.
If you want to live, he added in his heart.
"Why, what kind of place is that in the northwest, you don't know, if your son goes there, his life will be over." Don't jump in anger, "You can't bear to watch your son be buried there for the rest of your life"
"Will be back." Duhan interrupted calmly.
"You mean?" Surprise appeared on his face, and he swallowed the second half of his words, "We're going to the northwest, I want to go out, I have to meet my friends and talk to them." β
I don't have much time to spend in Basin Floor, so I don't have any friends, but I want to find an excuse to sneak out. During this time, he was also wronged, thinking that he would leave tomorrow, Du Han nodded, and he was gracious.
"You must be back before the time comes."
"No problem." Putting on a smile and saying, "When I come back, I'll bring my dad your favorite hibiscus cake." β
In order to come back, he had to leave for a while, but during this time, someone had to watch the Du family, and the girl named Du Ruojin.
As for the candidates, they have already been chosen.
It seemed to walk aimlessly around the town several times, after making sure there was no tail behind him. put an end to it and cautiously entered Cuibei's house. A little different from what he imagined, Cuibei did not complain, did not sneer, but told him that something was wrong with a panicked face.
"What's going on?" Put an end to the immediate look of sternness.
Cuibei stabilized his mind and told him everything that had happened in the past few days. After that, I also asked if there were any other capable people in my hands.
"I'm not the son of a high-ranking official, and I'm not a person in the rivers and lakes, do you think that people in the rivers and lakes are so easy to make friends?" If you can't give benefits to others, why should people give him their lives? The Three Heroes of Granite still had the promise of three things since he saved their lives by coincidence.
If it weren't for the fear that they wouldn't be able to stand the criminal law and confess her, how could Cuibei panic and mess with herself? She can't do anything. It can only play some small intrigues. Doesn't she only have to die with real guns and knives? She just wasn't willing to fall short like this.
"I thought it was a sure thing, but I sat all night and didn't wait for them. Today, I heard that Yang Liu had a fetal gas, and two thieves were caught at home. I'm sure something happened to them. Cuibei's tone was indignant: "I have also had contact with Yang Liu. It's just an ordinary woman. Who knew she was in good fortune. β
"Her brother is a county magistrate, isn't she a good life?" put an end to the unceremonious scolding: "You women just love to think blindly, you think it's a big deal." Maybe it's a fart in the eyes of others! Don't forget, what is your identity now, when the two maids meet, people will have leisure and elegance to talk about? It's too much of a way to exalt yourself. β
What's wrong with the maid, she can't be a maid for a lifetime. And one day, she, a maid who is not a fart in the eyes of others, will also have a gorgeous counterattack and stand in a position as high or even higher than Yang Liu.
However, she told Wai that this matter was for help, not for the sake of being left behind. Suddenly appeared after disappearing for more than ten days, I was afraid that there was something to ask her, so Cuibei said in a lighter tone: "What are you looking for me?" β
After pointing out that kind of thing in front of everyone, what else could he do when he came to her? Naturally, it's about the alliance, and he can't come to have a good time with a woman who has been used by others. But at present, Cuibei is still useful to him, and he can only be careful to curry favor with him, so as not to anger this woman.
"I want to see you, so I naturally came." Don't laugh and say nice things.
"I heard me right, the young master actually misses me?" Cuibei snorted coldly: "Do you think I will have no news for more than ten days?" "Where was he, missing her, when she was most depressed and in dire need of comfort? Hmph, when she's a fool Meng.
"I don't want to, you don't know, I was locked up at home by my father for more than ten days, and I didn't take a step out of the door, and someone followed me when I entered the thatched house." Quan explained: "Isn't this the first thing I will see you as soon as I have a way to go out?" β
Cuibei was noncommittal, she only heard the show-off in her words, but she didn't feel flattered at all.
"I've locked you up for more than ten days, why did I release you again?"
Finally got to the point, and sighed, "I'm going to the northwest, and I have to go." β
The last four words calmed down the anger that Cuibei was about to explode a little, and she said clearly: "Is it the way that Old Man Du pointed you out?" β
"I don't have a choice." Don't spread your hands.
It seems to be the same situation as she is now.
"Then the young master is here today."
"Cuibei, the two of us almost got married, it's too much for you to ask me to put an end to the young master now, so let's ask me to put an end to it." Put an end to the first set from the title.
If they almost got married, they didn't get married, so the relationship between them is still the same, and they can talk about what they don't have. However, Cuibei did not dwell on this issue too much, and he wanted to put an end to having something to say quickly.
Well, if he hadn't taken advantage of this woman, how could he have so much patience to look at that woman's face. It took a lot of effort for him to swallow this evil breath.
"And an alliance?" Cuibei said with a smile: "Put an end to the young master going to the northwest, there are thousands of acres of fertile land, can't you let go of the Du family?" β
Now I hate it to the core, and I can't let it go.
"Don't you want to?" No rhetorical questioning.
"That was before, if I succeeded, I would be the wife of the Du family." Cuibei looked at Dem, "Now even if I help you succeed, what can you give me?" Do you still dare to marry me? β
The whole town already knew that he had a green hat on his head, back then
"Look, you're hesitating. Both want to win by any means. I'm afraid that after standing on the bright side, I will be wrongly spine, and you want to take advantage of it, but how can there be any benefits in the world that you can get for nothing without paying? Cuibei looked down on him more and more, he was simply a child who was spoiled and didn't know what he wanted, and thought that he would be happy with whatever he wanted. Actually, it's stupid and naΓ―ve. Can't even lie to her, pretend to promise to marry her, and still want to make a big deal?
Hum!
"I can do it."
It's late, if she can't answer so quickly and firmly when she finishes asking questions. Maybe she'll trust him again.
He's going to take advantage of her. And she also has a place to use him, it depends on who is the winner in the end.
"Okay, then let me ask you, you go to the northwest. When will I be able to get back? β
"When my dad is completely at ease with me..."
"Was that a few years or decades?" Cuibei interrupted: "You want to survive until the old immortals of the Du family are dead." Let's deal with Du Ruojin again, a female streamer? Don't forget. We have now revealed our flaws, and we may be pinched to death by someone else's backhand at any time, can't you use your brain except waiting? β
was provoked by Cuibei's words. He also had a little arrogance in his heart, he thought that he was a person who had traveled south and north and seen the world, but he was scolded by a woman who was born as a maid, how could he swallow this breath?
"I'll figure it out."
***
The lights were like beans, fragile and tenacious flashing in a large black space.
In the midst of the snoring sound one after another, the quilt moved somewhere.
A voice that sounded a little painful came out: "Master Liao, are you okay?" β
If you look closely, it is the deflated three who have disappeared.
"I don't think I'm going to die." Liao Si'an hissed, the good days have passed for too long, and his pampered body has become delicate, and he hurts all over his body when he moves.
Mi San shuddered and grinned, "I don't feel like I have long to live." β
Today they planned to escape, but they were caught again without accident and beaten as usual. This kind of day after day, with no way out, Qi San was really fed up, and he took the initiative to block most of the whips for Liao Si'an. The injuries on his body last time have not healed thoroughly, and now he has added a new injury, this broken place, ghost weather, only makes his situation even worse. The black coal cave was the first place he had ever seen. No one here cares about anyone's life and death, and there is no medicine at all when they are sick, so they can only rely on their own life and death, and they can survive, no one cares, they can't get through, and if they die, they are just a broken straw mat, and they are all lives anyway. But he can't seem to hold on.
The thin, shrunken quilt on his body did not bring him any warmth at all, but was like a piece of ice, absorbing the temperature from his body little by little.
Maybe because of the cold, or maybe because he felt that he was about to die, Misan's mind suddenly became very clear, and all the past passed through his mind. In the days when he was at his most proud, he never imagined that his last days in the world would be spent like this, all the eyes were heavy black, and there were those who were dead and numb around him.
This is a real hell on earth.
"Cheer up, we can still get out." Liao Si'an couldn't help but raise his voice. What people fear most is not despair, but the lack of hope. He is also afraid, but in order to live, he has to endure fear.
"Master Liao, don't lie to me." At this time, Qi San actually laughed, and said in an empty tone: "We can't escape, they just want to torture us bit by bit and consume us." We can't fight them, we can't fight them."
"So you have to pull yourself together and you can't let them get what they want." Liao Si'an said, while enduring the pain on his body, he turned over and kneaded his deflated body to warm him up.
"I can't wait, Master Liao." Qi San smiled silently, squinting at the flickering light, "I'm afraid of death, I'm very afraid, at first I thought I could live by bowing my head and leaving you, but I didn't expect to live now, but it's so difficult to live," Qi San coughed twice, "It's better to die than to live like this." Originally, I always thought that it was difficult to die, because there were so many people who had to give up, but now I realized that I had never tasted this kind of life worse than death. β
Liao Si'an was also in a trance, did he ever think that there would be today's situation before he came to Basin Town? He didn't even think of the word 'death' on himself. Now in this dark coal hole, the hard work every day can only be exchanged for a little food for the stomach, and the tired head falls asleep, the original intention is that people can't afford to run away. It's only been more than ten days, he is sloppy, his beard is unkempt, and he is like two people before, and he doesn't even have time to think about the relationship between children and daughters. After many failed attempts to escape, he only thought that if he could trade what he had for his freedom, he would be willing.
"I think I'm also in my thirties, if I die in this place, I don't even have a person to go to the grave during the Qingming Festival every year, and this life is in vain, right?" Qi San looked at the top of his black head with his eyes open, closed his eyes and muttered, "I'm so unwilling." β
"Stop talking." Liao Si'an said: "Save the body, we can go out sooner or later, believe me." β
"I naturally believe in Liao Ye. Believe..."Mi San slowly fell asleep.
Feeling the breath of Qi San, Liao Si'an's heart returned to calm. It's just that he's already starting to fear the sun tomorrow. (To be continued......)