In the whirlpool of dark nights, when a pair of cold hands are gently grasped by the other, even if it is just as cold, you may feel the warmth from all over the world. But a person's heart is also gently clutched, and even if it is warm enough, all he can feel may be the chill from all over the world.

Yuan Zhen stood motionless in the rain, the ticking sound of the raindrops hitting the umbrella was like a drum, and every time he struck, it was like a giant fist falling unreasonably. He felt his heart being gently caressed, and the slight tremor seemed to be caring for a ripe peach.

"This is what you call the way of the world, are you convinced?"

Arrogant.

Someday I'm going to kill her. Won-jeong knew that this arrogant but very beautiful woman was sitting in the ebony chair he used to sit in, perhaps carelessly combing her long, slender sideburns that hung down.

Raindrops rolled down from the end of the umbrella like beads with broken threads, shattered on the bluestone slab, wetting his black cloth boots, and the copper cup he had just brought from the old man at the grocery store moaned deformed under Yuanzhen's fingers. Yuan Zhen felt that the umbrella was getting heavier and heavier, and the surface of the umbrella seemed to be unable to cover the heavy rain outside the umbrella, and some fine mist floated in through the gaps, staining the top of his head and eyebrows, like a layer of fine hoarfrost.

Wrath.

Yuan Zhen shook her eyebrows, tightened her hand holding the handle of the umbrella, and the raindrops that were falling around her suddenly all stood still, just hanging there quietly. When Yuan Zhen raised his feet and walked under the eaves, suddenly, those still raindrops shrank one by one, and finally turned into crystal clear dragon-shaped white lines moving with Yuan Zhen.

In one step, the rainwater deposited on the ground splashed around the shoes, like a delicate lotus flower blooming on the bluestone.

Two steps, the rain under the feet was squeezed away instantly, and the rain that did not have time to escape was compressed into a piece of crystal, and the soles of the shoes made a soft sound of "bang" on the bluestone, and there was a faint sound of crystal breaking and rubbing.

In three steps, the rainwater flowing on the ground around you is adsorbed to the soles of your feet. Yuan Zhen put the hand holding the copper bottle tightly behind him, raised his foot and kicked into the house, only to flash, and the sole of his shoe was in front of the woman in the house. The rain was compressed on the soles of her feet like a flawless mirror, and her movements were as gentle as if a close friend in her boudoir had thoughtfully delivered to her, reflecting her beautiful face and a slight hint of panic in her eyes.

A white figure turned lightly, avoiding the soles of his shoes that were close at hand. Yuan Zhen stomped on the ground, and with a bang, the household objects in the house jumped violently, and the ebony chair had disappeared without a trace. Behind Yuan Zhen was like a big river rushing and roaring, the air was mixed with dampness and cold, and he squeezed into the big hole that was knocked open with difficulty, and before he hit his back, he scattered as if he had met a natural enemy, blowing the white-clothed hunting sound in front of him.

Frightened.

The woman patted her chest, "Brother-in-law, people are just joking with you, you won't bully me like this when my sister is here!"

Yuan Zhen shook his robe, dispelled the white mist tangled like a dragon beside him, put away the umbrella expressionlessly, and pointed to the hole in the wall. The white-robed woman stomped her feet angrily, "You dismantled it yourself, why do you want someone to fix it?" Having said that, she still started to clean up the broken wood in the house, but only moved her fingers and began to scream.

"Ouch, these bricks and tiles have broken people's fingers! It's really useless, if it weren't for you, where would I be so angry?" Yuan Zhen sat on the chair and picked up a cup of tea and blew it gently, taking a slow sip, and didn't look at the figure who came out of the corner of the wall trembling and swaying.

"Brother-in-law, the tea I made is still delicious, right? You drink slowly, and I'll go find you a plank to repair the house." Don't drink too fast. Hey. ”

"I'm not your brother-in-law, and she's not your sister. ”

All that was answered was a string of silver bells of laughter and the crisp sound of footsteps walking away in puddles.

Silent.

The silence seemed to be a chain made of solidified black iron, and it made him feel suffocated when it was wrapped around Wu Shu's neck. His trembling was half fear, half anger. The fear was because he didn't expect that Yuan Zhen was not only a businessman, but also a master, and if he was killed, it would be like mowing grass. And anger is because there is no way back. The woman who sacrificed her dignity as a man and did not hesitate to kowtow and kneel to beg for her thought that she would be able to get justice back, and even if she couldn't get the jewel back, she would at least receive reasonable compensation, but she couldn't imagine that this woman actually had an old relationship with Yuan Zhen, which is really damned! This world shouldn't be like this, why should people like myself be oppressed? Why should disasters happen to me? My family was slaughtered, my property was divided, and everyone betrayed and left! The jewel of the day, the most precious and the last possession, now it seems that there is no room for justice.

"I'm not afraid of you!" the voice echoed through the empty room, and there was no response except the sound of the rain, which swirled alone in the darkness and then disappeared in boredom.

"Let's go. Yuan Zhen threw the deformed copper bottle at Wu Shu's feet.

"Just such a broken copper cup?" Although Wu Shu was afraid of Yuan Zhen in his heart, he was extremely resentful, but he still felt incredible when he saw the copper cup thrown by Yuan Zhen, as the successor of a big merchant family, although it was dilapidated, but he sacrificed the most precious treasure of the family, and actually exchanged for this worthless broken copper cup, that gesture was no different from throwing a bag of garbage to reward a buzzing fly, as if to say: "Come, fresh, these garbage are rewarded to you, take them and eat them slowly." ”

Wu Shu was only left with anger. He looked hideous and tried to rush forward desperately, but the next moment, he found himself falling back into the dirty muddy water in front of the door. Before it was spoken, it may have been a hoarse cry or a question, and it had to become a condiment for the sewage all over the ground, and it was swallowed back into the stomach together.

"It would have been good, but one guy soiled my clothes. ”

Wu Shu felt that it was extremely ridiculous, but Yuanzhen said it very seriously, which made him speechless for a while.

"I remembered. I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you!"

Yuan Zhen blew on the teacup and took a sip. Stand up, dust off your sleeves, and disappear behind a row of black shelves.

Wu Shu sat on the ground and took a deep look at the shop, which had only been here twice, but seemed to have gone through reincarnation, and then slowly got up and took a deep breath. The cold and hard air was like a knife in his chest, but at this moment, it seemed to scrape away the despair and helplessness that had been covering him all these days, and the whole person began to become sharper.

In the night as cold as rusty iron, Wu Shu felt that he had completely become a wandering spirit, and he didn't know where he came from or where he went. But he finally had a new purpose, one that was probably the strongest and clearest he had in twenty years.

The cold, as the torrential rain slowly soaked into the skin, grabbed the heart, and tumbled between the stomachs, and the feeling of vomiting became more and more intense. Wu Shu just endured stubbornly, and the green tendons on his neck were like sinuous poisonous snakes, but after all, he still spewed out this grievance, pain and despair. The sharpness and hardness that had just germinated seemed to be polluted and corroded by the contents of this mouthful, and in the blink of an eye, it was crisp into an intermittent whimper in the torrential rain.

On a rainy night like this, many things that seem unreasonable are easier to hide because the darkness makes them feel safer, and many things that seem reasonable are easier to grow, because the pain of the bones will take root deeper by the fear of the cold.

"Young man, come in and have a hot cup of tea. ”

Wu Shu clenched his fists, took a deep breath, and walked into the house with a warm yellow candle flame. He paid no attention to the cup of hot tea on the oak table, nor to the soft blanket on the chair. He slammed the deformed copper bottle on the table, took out the shriveled money bag hidden in his chest, threw it in front of the old man who beckoned him to come in for tea, untied his belt and carefully rolled it up and put it on the table, took off his ivory robe decorated with gold flowers and soaked in rain, threw it on the ground, and took off the underliner and kicked off his boots. stripped naked, looking at the old man without saying a word, his eyes not blinking.

"This copper bottle is a good thing. Well, this money bag can be seen to be a high-end product, but there is space inside. Ah, the belt is really a master's hand, and it is well inlaid. Well, the material of this dress is really good, but unfortunately it is dirty. These shoes are a little worse, it seems to be just the work of a mountain and wild village woman. ”

"That's all, it's all here. ”

"Which one do you think I'll pick?"

"Whatever you want. You'd better take it all!"

The old man laughed: "Do you think I am teaming up with Yuan Zhen to plot your treasure?"

"Isn't it?

"If I say yes, what do you do?"

Wu Shu felt that the old man's deep eyes directly pierced his defense line and shone into the darkest corner of his heart. At this time, his heart was as naked as his flesh. Wu Shu became even more angry, and said in a trembling voice: "If it is, I will definitely kill you too!"

"Oh, how are you going to kill an oracle?"

With a bang, Wu Shu felt that something in his head suddenly broke, and some kind of persistence supported by it began to collapse rapidly, as if a boulder was rolling down from a high place, and it made a roaring sound as if his heart was beating like this.

"Why don't you tell me?"

"Good. ”

The candle flame flickered gently in the dimly lit room, and Wu Shu sat quietly at the rough oak table and chair with a soft blanket and a cup of hot tea in his hand. The wrinkled old man's eyes on the other side were as gentle as candle flames.

"Young man, do you think the world is unfair?"

Wu Shu silently took a sip of the cloudy tea, not wanting to say anything.

"Hehe, in fact, this world is very fair. ”

"Oh?"

"The fairness of it is that it is always unfair to everyone. ”