Tang Anshu thought about it, and then smiled mischievously: "I don't understand." ”

Le Zhengxian said: "You know, you don't believe anyone, maybe you don't even believe in your master Hu Shen, I don't know what happened to you, but that past and your master's teachings have turned you into the walking shell you are now, a vessel that can be loaded into any soul." ”

Tang Anshu leaned to the side and didn't continue the topic: "Brother Xian, how do you think we can convince Sun San to stand with us?" ”

Le Zhengxian said, "I'm wondering why your master would accept you as an apprentice. ”

Tang Anshu smiled again: "Because I am well-behaved and sensible, and I am very studious, this is the master's original words." ”

Le Zhengxian smiled: "I have also worshipped a master before, my master said that he himself will never accept those disciples who have not undergone purgatory experience, I am just an exception, he accepts me just to eat a full meal." ”

Of course, Tang Anshu didn't know that the master that Le Zhengxian was talking about at this time was Hu Shen.

Tang Anshu pursed his mouth: "Your master is so strange, it sounds terrible." ”

Le Zhengxian turned his head and looked at Tang Anshu again: "Anshu, what do you think purgatory is like?" ”

Tang Anshu frowned: "The place where people can't survive and die should be purgatory, right?" ”

Le Zhengxian took a breath: "If I was present on the night when dozens of members of the Qu family were killed, and I survived, I'm afraid I would know what purgatory is, but unfortunately I didn't." ”

Tang Anshu asked in a low voice, "Brother Xian, do you want to see everything that happened that night with your own eyes?" ”

Le Zhengxian shook his head: "I don't want to see everything with my own eyes, I hope that I can leave with them." ”

Tang Anshu felt strange: "Why? ”

Le Zhengxian said word for word: "Those who kill the living do not die, and those who live do not live." ”

Tang Anshu chuckled and said: "Originally, I thought I understood the meaning of this sentence, but now that I heard Brother Xian say this, it turns out that in the past, I just thought I understood." ”

Le Zhengxian asked: "An Shu, do you know what a friend is?" Do you know what a brother is? Do you know what it means to be gay? ”

Tang Anshu's demeanor at this time became a little weird, as if he had suddenly become another person.

He sat there, staring blankly in the other direction, and said to himself, "I'm sleepy, I'm going to sleep." ”

Le Zhengxian looked at Tang Anshu and lay down like that, and the moment he lay down, Tang Anshu closed his eyes and seemed to fall asleep quickly.

What's wrong with this kid? Since he entered prison, something has been wrong with this kid, why? The uneasiness in Le Zhengxian's heart became stronger and stronger.

"Anshu, do you know what a friend is? Do you know what a brother is? Do you know what it means to be gay? ”

Tang Anshu, who was in a state of confusion, kept echoing this sentence in his ears.

Suddenly, several other voices appeared in Tang Anshu's head, the voices of several teenagers: "I, Du Liguo." ”

"Huang Zonghan."

"Duan Guangqing."

"Tang Shengtian."

"The four of us worship today as brothers with different surnames, and swear to the sky, share blessings and hardships, live and die together, and if there is a violation, the five thunders will be destroyed."

On that winter night eleven years ago, Du Liguo, Huang Zonghan, Duan Guangqing, and Tang Shengtian worshipped as brothers with different surnames in a dilapidated house outside the west gate of Rongcheng.

It was the third year of the Republic of China, and in that year, World War I broke out; That year, the Chinese Revolutionary Party was founded in Japan; That year, the average age of the four brothers with different surnames who married in that dilapidated house was less than nine years old.

For the four children, no matter what happens in this world, it is less important than filling their bellies.

Du Liguo and Huang Zonghan were orphans, Duan Guangqing was born and raised in a kiln, and Tang Shengtian was the only one of the four children who had a complete family and still living parents.

It seems that he should be the happiest of the four children.

Tang Shengtian's father was a postman, and his daily work was to carry his own flat pole and rope, walk for an hour to the Rongcheng General Post Office, put on the clothes with the four white characters written "Rongcheng Postman", and wrapped the things that belonged to him with the linen cloth written "Rongcheng Mansion of Xichuan Road", and then began the day's work.

When he started work, it was still dark.

Although the work is hard, the salary is not bad, and I can receive three yuan of Guangyang every month, and sometimes, after working a lot, I can also receive four yuan, which is enough to support my wife and children, and live a decent life.

However, Tang Shengtian's mother is not at ease, this woman born in a down-and-out landlord's family always thinks that she is everyone's best girl, and she thinks that she should marry a high-ranking official and nobleman since she was a child, and even daydreamed of being drafted into the palace and finally mothering the world.

Therefore, this woman lives in a kind of dissatisfaction every day, she always asks Tang Shengtian's father to buy this and that for herself, and spends the family's money without a penny, and even Tang Shengtian's school money is all turned into clothes and jewelry.

For her, her husband and children are not important, it is important to constantly satisfy herself.

Moreover, she does not know anything, does not cook, does not embroider, except for daily hysteria at home.

Of course, there are quiet times at home, and that is when she leaves home to play mahjong every day.

Tang Shengtian can only take advantage of this time every day to secretly turn out the few broken books at home to read, this is one of his hobbies, and the other hobby is to "do chivalrous righteousness" with the three brothers with different surnames he met by chance.

Maybe he listened to too many books in the teahouse, or maybe he watched too much of the romances of the rivers and lakes, the eight-year-old Tang Shengtian defined his future career as a chivalrous man who was happy to take revenge, and also set a rule for himself to do a good deed every day.

It's just that Tang Shengtian's daily good deeds are usually to carry water for the old lady next door, although it is only to carry water, but it is too hard for eight-year-old Tang Shengtian, because of his weak body since childhood, he can only carry half a bucket of water from the well every time, and then walk through the two alleys back to the old lady's house.

However, even so, he persevered for a long time.

At that time, for Tang Shengtian, in order to be a good person, he must do good deeds, and a good person must have a good reward.

However, this sentence was finally broken by the police who came to the door one early morning not long after, and the police told Tang Shengtian's father that the old lady next door was killed last night, because all the valuable things in the house were taken away, so she must have been killed for money, and asked them if they heard anything last night?

Tang Shengtian felt very surprised and surprised, because that old lady was very good, how could someone rob and kill her with such a good person? Aren't good people rewarded?

Tang Shengtian didn't know that this incident was just the beginning, a day later, the police came to the door again, rummaged in Tang Shengtian's house, and finally found a small cloth bag, which contained five pieces of ocean and a pair of silver earrings, and there were blood stains on it.

The police immediately arrested Tang Shengtian's father, and no matter how much he tried to defend himself, it was useless because there were eyewitnesses who saw him enter the old lady's house that night.

"Who saw me go in?"

"You let that guy come forward!"

Tang Shengtian's father refused to leave, shouting there.

Soon, the police brought the three witnesses, and when the three appeared at Tang Shengtian's house, Tang Shengtian was dumbfounded, because they were his sworn brothers Du Liguo, Huang Zonghan and Duan Guangqing.

Tang Shengtian only came back to his senses at this time, and gradually understood something, but just when he was about to say something. His eldest brother Du Liguo actually said to the police: "Tang Shengtian brought us the cloth bag that night and asked us to buy food, saying that his father gave it to him." ”

Huang Zonghan also said: "We asked him why his father gave him this, and he said that it was because he came out at night to pee and saw his father come back over the wall, so his father gave it to him." ”

Duan Guangqing continued: "We saw blood on it, and we didn't dare to ask for it, so we let him take it home." ”

Tang Shengtian was stupid, Tang Shengtian's father was also stupid, Tang Shengtian kept shaking his head, kept waving his hands, and didn't organize the language for a long time, and finally only said: "No, it's not like that, it's not ......"

Of course not, because the cloth bag was given to Tang Shengtian by Du Liguo and the others, saying that it was a brother's token, so that he could keep it for good life, so that no one could find out, not even his parents.

The human and material evidence was complete, and Tang Shengtian's father was arrested immediately.

When Tang Shengtian ran to beg his sworn brothers for help, in exchange for a beating, and in the process of beating, he saw another side of the sworn brothers-

"You're a turtle son! Your turtle son eats and drinks every day! God is blind, you pug Rile. ”

"Your old man is a melon baby, you are also a melon baby, melon baby seed, you have been a melon baby for eight lifetimes."

"Tell you to take out the money from your house and use it, and you don't take it, and you still treat us as brothers?"

……

Why are you doing better than we are?

Is this why the father was framed and himself was beaten?

Tang Shengtian returned home with a full body of injuries, and saw his mother crying, he knelt in front of his mother and kowtowed to admit his mistake, but this time his mother did not scold him, and hugged him and cried bitterly.

At this moment, a man wearing a robe and a horse coat and glasses, like a gentleman, entered the house.

Mother told Tang Shengtian that it was the lawyer she paid for, the most famous lawyer in Xichuan Province.

The most famous lawyer in Xichuan Province listened to Tang Shengtian's words while writing a statement next to him, with a serious expression.

Although Tang Shengtian didn't understand, he also knew that no matter when, don't give up hope, this was what his father taught him, so he kept forcing himself to recall all the details when he got the cloth bag at that time.

The lawyer finished writing the pleadings and asked Tang Shengtian to put his handprint underneath.

Not long after, Tang Shengtian's father was sentenced to death, not only because of the presence of human and material evidence, but also because of Tang Shengtian's paper.

When the verdict was announced, Tang Shengtian realized that it was not a statement at all, but a confession, and what was written on it was completely opposite to what he said at the time.

It was also at that time that he noticed the unconcealable smiles on the faces of the lawyer and his mother.

That night, Tang Shengtian sat outside the cell where his father was imprisoned, holding on to the railing and staring at his father who was sitting inside, while his father had a smile on his face, recalling how he met Tang Shengtian's mother from the beginning of talking about the media, how the media was marrying home, and his joy when his mother was pregnant with Tang Shengtian, as well as the excitement and anticipation in his heart during the pregnancy of ten months.