Chapter Eighty-Nine: Human Nature
Chen Fan and the others rescued the old man, and just as they were about to leave, an old and weak voice suddenly came from behind: "Everyone, please wait a moment." ”
The three of them looked back, and saw the old man who had just been beaten up walking towards them step by step, and said to them: "Thank you, three for saving your life! You are really good people, can you go to the cold house? I hope I can thank you." ”
Chen Fan smiled, took two steps forward, and said, "Uncle doesn't need to thank us, it is what we should do to help when we see injustice." ”
"How can this be?" The old man was resolute and insisted that the three of them come to his house to sit down, but Chen Fan and the other three couldn't resist him, so they had to agree to the old man's request.
"Please follow me. The old man immediately led the way.
The three of them followed the old man left and right in the alley, and after walking for about ten minutes, they came to a wooden dilapidated house. The house is not big, the appearance looks dilapidated, the windows are broken, and the roof has some traces of repairs many times.
"This is my home. The old man walked in with the two of them, and there was nothing but a broken wooden table and some broken wooden chairs.
The three of them sat around the wooden table, and Chen Fan asked, "Uncle, are you the only one living here?"
The old man nodded and said, "Sort of!"
After resting for a quarter of an hour or so, the old man finally recovered a lot, and he said with a smile: "When I was young, I could have worked very hard, don't look at the life I live now, I used to open a shipyard by myself. ”
After a pause, the old man continued: "I came to this city with my bare hands, and tried my best to help others build ships and make money, and at last, I opened a shipyard, although the scale was not very large, but it was my own, and later I also got married, and gave birth to a daughter, her name is Mary. ”
The old man's smile became brighter and brighter, and he believed that this time was very happy and beautiful for him.
"And what happened later?" Chen Fan asked, "Why did it become like this again?"
"Later, I was persecuted by a bully named Zhang Kefu here, who said that he wanted me to build a large ship in three days, and with the size of my factory, I could only build a medium-sized one in three days, but he said that if I couldn't do it, he would confiscate my factory and return the deposit a hundred times. ”
Chen Fan secretly frowned and said, "It's really hateful!"
"This is Zhang Kefu's style!" Luo Qingyun nodded lightly and said quietly: "I heard my father-in-law say that Zhang Kefu is not so much the city lord of this city, but rather that he is a slave owner and a rich man. ”
Speaking of this, a look of despair and sadness appeared on the old man's face: "Later, of course, I couldn't do it, so my shipyard was confiscated by him, and because I didn't have enough money to compensate, he actually forcibly took my daughter away. I know this request is very unreasonable, can you ask a few adults to bring my daughter back from Zhang Kefu?"
Luo Qingyun wanted to speak and stopped: "Uncle, you ......" said, she turned her eyes to Chen Fan on the side.
At this time, the old man took out all the money on his body, the only few silver coins, and then knelt in front of Chen Fan and the others, and begged: "I know that the money is not enough to hire you warriors, but I promise that I will work hard, and I will definitely pay the money off......"
At the end, the old man burst into tears, drop by drop on the dusty floor, and pleaded, "Please, let me see my daughter!"
"Old man......"
Just when Luo Qingyun was about to say something, Chen Fan's eyes opened slightly, revealing a cold expression, and said, "I'm sorry, the money is not enough." ”
"Chen Fan!"
Chen Fan said expressionlessly: "We are not philanthropists, and we are not obliged to help you save your daughter when we don't have enough money." What's more, we didn't want to make a fuss here, so, uncle, if you really want to see your daughter, I advise you to invite another master!"
"......Chen Fan!
When Luo Qingyun was about to continue to persuade, Chen Fan met Luo Qingyun's face with terrifying eyes: "I definitely won't go, if you want to go, go yourself!"
"You ......"
"Alas... Don't care......" The old man smiled as he collected the few silver coins scattered on the table, and although he was smiling, anyone could see the pain in his heart: "It's better to think that it's me, a bad old man, who is talking to himself and complaining." ”
"......" Luo Qingyun was silent.
Now, Luo Qingyun didn't want to say it, but what exactly did she want to say? If she said something to apologize, it didn't seem appropriate, if she said something comforting, it seemed to be a bit of fake compassion; in the end, she had to transfer her anger to Chen Fan and glared at him fiercely.
In this way, the four people in the room were silent for a while, and the old man spoke first: "Okay, you really don't have to care, it's enough to have this heart, and tonight I can only give in and let you sleep in the lobby." ”
Chen Fan replied with a smile: "It doesn't matter, it's already good to have a place to stay." ”
After a while, the old man came out of the room with three broken mats, spread them on the ground, and said with a smile: "Let's sleep with these mats!"
In the middle of the night, Luo Qingyun kept tossing and turning on the mat, unable to sleep, and her mind kept recalling the request that the old man said, and the grief-stricken look when she said that request.
"Chen Fan, I know you're not asleep!" Luo Qingyun turned over and sat up, his eyes looked at the patched dilapidated ceiling, and said softly.
Hearing Luo Qingyun's words, Chen Fan opened his eyes slightly, but he didn't say anything.
"I really hope that I can help the old man, I can understand the old man's feelings!" Luo Qingyun looked at him with blazing eyes: "That feeling of longing for true love." ”
"I know what to do!" In the dark, Chen Fan's lazy voice came.
Luo Qingyun was shocked, pointed his finger at Chen Fan, and said with a happy face: "Chen Fan, you ......"
The streets were silent late at night, and tonight it was dark clouds, and the unlit streets looked very scary, as if they had entered a dead city, but you could still dimly see the shadow of the tall building in the middle of the city.
Chen Fan and Yue Wuya cleared their direction and rushed towards the building.
After half an hour's journey, Chen Fan and the others finally came to the door of this building, because it was too dark, Chen Fan couldn't see the shape of the building in front of him clearly, and it was estimated that there should be a height of ten floors from the height!
Listening to Luo Qingyun, that guy named Zhang Kefu lived on the highest floor of the building. Climbing the wall is nothing to Chen Fan, not to mention this height, how difficult it is to get Chen Fan, the latter turned into it with a small skill.
Maybe tomorrow is a monthly day for pirates to buy slaves, so now the slave trading market is very heavily guarded, Chen Fan is on the fence, and he waited until the patrol is gone, and then he turned over and jumped on the ground.
Chen Fan leaned down and looked around: the infiltration was successful, and now he had to find the door to enter the building!
Not far away, he was surprised to see a door, Chen Fan observed the surroundings, there was no one, so he sneaked over.
It may be to facilitate the inspection, so the door was not locked, Chen Fan pushed it lightly, and the door opened, and the latter couldn't help but secretly exclaim: "How can my luck be so good today?"
After opening the door, Chen Fan saw a big man dozing off in the house, he didn't say a word, he immediately took out the dagger prepared in advance, put it on the big man's neck, and said, "Don't move! Tell me, where is Zhang Kefu's room?"
Dahan was shocked, he glanced back, and saw that it was actually a hairy boy who held him hostage, and immediately became angry, and angrily reprimanded: "Stinky boy, where did you come from? ”
Chen Fan pointed a dagger at the big man's throat and roared angrily: "Do you say it or not?"
Chen Fan whispered in the ear of the big man: "I don't want to kill people, but the premise is that you have to cooperate with me, so I advise you to tell me some things in order to save your life, this is the choice of smart people." ”
"I said the lord of the castle would kill me!"
"If you don't say I'll kill you right now!"
Dahan subconsciously glanced at Chen Fan's murderous eyes, and said tremblingly: "The city lord's residence is on the tenth floor!"
After listening to Dahan's words, the corners of Chen Fan's mouth picked upward, and he stunned Dahan with a punch, and then, he made a secret signal, and Yue Wuya, who had been following Chen Fan, also came here to join him.
Chen Fan and Yue Wuya found the entrance to the roof according to Dahan's statement, and first, they passed through a long corridor. This corridor is not generally complicated, it is like a labyrinth, if you don't know the destination in advance, you can follow the door number to find it, and I believe that you can't save people at dawn.
The two of them turned a few corners and soon came to their destination, Chen Fan looked at the door number and said, "It says Mary, it should be here." ”
Yue Wuya didn't say a word, used internal force to melt the door lock, and then pushed the door in.
"Who?" a woman's voice came from the plush wooden bed in the room.
Yue Wuya walked over quickly, pointed his long sword at the woman on the bed, and said coldly, "If you dare to say another word, I will kill you." ”
Chen Fan also walked over after Yue Wuya, the word "wow" burst out from the bottom of Chen Fan's heart, although Chen Fan didn't call this out of his throat, but just by looking at his expression, he knew what word he was patient.
Chen Fan saw a woman about twenty years old, now lying naked on her back on the bed, with the light of Yue Wuya's long sword, Chen Fan could see every inch of skin on this beautiful woman's body.
Chen Fan grew so big, and when he saw a naked woman for the first time, he thought: His figure is much better looking than Luo Qingyun, he is really lucky today!
Chen Fan cleared his throat and said, "Miss, we are not bad people, you put on your clothes first, and I will explain to you slowly." Although Chen Fan said this, he couldn't take his eyes off it anymore.
According to Chen Fan's words, the woman put on her clothes and asked, "Who are you?"
Chen Fan replied with a little disappointment: "You should be Miss Mary, right?
"Come to me?" said Mary, with a look of surprise on her face.
"That's right, your father asked us to get you back. ”
"My father entrusted you?"
"That's right, Miss Mary, you can finally return to your father, and you won't have to be at the mercy of Zhang Kefu anymore. ”
There was a hint of joy on Mary's face: "Is this real?"
Chen Fan nodded: "Really!"
"Hmph, hurry up!" Yue Wuya said coldly, "If you don't hurry up, you will be revealed." ”
"Wait, wait!" said Mary, "it's impossible, we can't escape......"
Yue Wuya asked, "Why? Don't you want to leave?"
"No!" Mary said with a wry smile, "this is Zhang Kefu's hometown, and there are guards patrolling everywhere, so we can't escape." ”
Chen Fan smiled faintly and said, "Then you can rest assured, those guards at the door will be handed over to us to deal with!"
The three of them walked in the gorgeous corridor, led by Mary, Chen Fan walked in the middle, and the moon was boundless behind the palace.
Chen Fan couldn't help but ask, "Wait a minute, Mary, where are you taking us?"
"Don't worry, I've lived here for two years, and I can't get to know every room anymore. Mary smiled at Chen Fan and said, "I'm now looking for a way to escape as quickly as possible without being seen, you just follow me!"
"Is that so? Then we will be much more relaxed!" Chen Fan smiled happily: "It's great that the old man's wish can also come true." ”
Yue Wuya followed without saying a word.
Mary took Chen Fan and Yue Wuya through a few corners, and after about half an hour, they came to the front of a doorway. Mary smiled and said, "As soon as you go out here, there is a rooftop, and then you can go up the safety staircase to the ground, and this passage is only known to some high-level personnel, so there are no guards!"
"Oh! that's so convenient. Chen Fan smiled gratefully.
With that, Mary pushed open the door and led the two people in: "Okay, let's go!"
As soon as Chen Fan entered the door, his eyes were wide and cheerful, and they really came to a relatively wide rooftop, from which they could overlook the entire city. However, not wanting Mary's "not a single guard" here, the rooftop was full of people, and judging from the costumes, it should have been divided into two factions, each of about twenty people.
The costumes of one of them are very gorgeous, with gold and silver hooks, and gorgeous pictures and texts painted on the clothes made of silk materials, although tonight the clouds are thick, and the stars and the moon are dull, but the clothes are shining with different colors, and it is obvious that they are precious stones.
The other group was rude in comparison, each of them was very tall and muscular, wearing only a pair of shorts on the lower body and some sporadic armor on the upper body, which was almost as if they were wearing nothing, and the thick muscles on their bodies were exposed.
Some of the big men gave them fierce glances, and as they walked towards them, they said, "Where are you from?"
Chen Fan looked at Mary in confusion and asked, "Mary, what the hell is going on?"
"The answer is simple!" Mary smiled slightly, walked up to a fat man, hugged him and said, "Because I am Zhang Kefu's woman." ”
"Zhang Kefu's woman?" Chen Fan felt very annoyed: "Aren't you the old man's daughter?"
"Of course not!" said Mary, without thinking.
"Isn't it? Where the hell is the real Mary?"
"The real Mary?" said Mary with a look of disdain, "It seems that you still don't understand me!"
Chen Fan was puzzled.
"I am the real Mary, the 'rubbish', the only child. ”
"Waste, things?" Chen Fan immediately thought of the old man's smile, the sad look on his face when he begged them to bring Mary back, and his only daughter scolded his father for being a waste? "Why, why, don't you go back?" Uncle He has been waiting for you to go back, has been waiting for you to go back! Why don't you go to see him? Aren't you his only daughter?"
"Don't say stupid things, okay?" Mary looked at Chen Fan with cold eyes, and her words were mixed with anger: "I don't miss that waste at all, do you know how miserable my life was in the past?
"What?"
"Since I was ten years old, I have been helping in the shipyard every day, and my hands are full of oil, because my mother died early, so I have to do everything from cooking, washing clothes and even taking care of employees, because of this, so my hands are always covered with scars, and when it is winter, even just shaking hands makes me cry in pain, and the result of my hard work is only the bankruptcy of the factory, and I am arrested to pay off my debts. ”
Mary paused, then continued, "But, since I've come here, I've come to understand one thing, why do I need to be so patient?
Mary casually took out a ring embedded with large bricks and stones from her coat pocket and showed off to Chen Fan: "Look at this ring, do you know how much it costs? ”
She smiled again: "Here, I am constantly changing high-end clothes, there are many delicacies from the mountains and seas, many colorful gems, and five servants at my disposal, I live a life surrounded by money every day, and my skin has gradually become smoother." ”
The more Mary spoke, the more intoxicated she became: "Haha...... Do you know this disparity? You know that I, who wears filthy clothes every day, can actually go to the most exclusive restaurant in the city to eat, which side do you think is better than when I was around that kind of waste?
"You're mistaken, you're definitely mistaken!" Chen Fan said with tears in his eyes: "In order to see you, the old man not only took his sick body, but even took out the only change on his body and knelt down in front of us to beg for ......."
"Can you stop saying it again?" Mary's angry rebuke interrupted Chen Fan's words: "I hate this kind of poor and pitiful story the most!"
"Miss Mary!"
"But yes, I'm going to thank him a little," said Mary, "and it's all thanks to the closure of the waste factory that I have the life I have now." ”
Mary smiled contemptuously and said, "If he dies soon, I'll be even more grateful!"