There was silence in the shop, and no one spoke.

There were only some crying.

The cry is the old man's, and the silence is Gu Ming's.

Gu Meng asked, "Why are you talking to me so much?" ”

He knew that even if he had been suppressed for a long time, even if he had a thousand words to say, the old man should not just find someone to say so much, because many words, once they are said and leaked out, it does not mean that he is the only one who suffers, and often this will involve many people.

Especially under the premise that Nanchu is gone, the fate of these people will be very bad.

"Before you left Yingdu, you came to eat fish tartley many times. ”

The old man spoke slowly, his voice was not loud, and he was extremely confident, as if he didn't need any identification, he knew that the person who had eaten fish belly over the years was Gu Ming.

Gu Meng didn't speak, he remembered a lot of things, at that time Nanchu had not been destroyed, the capital of Yingcheng was still the capital of Nanchu, Gu Meng was still very young at that time, his mother died at that time, his father took him here to eat fish trevel once, and then he remembered the taste here, and then he went to many stores to eat fish trev, but he felt that it was not as delicious as this one, so the best fish trays in his memory were the taste here.

Later, his father also died, and many people were crying that day, including his brother, but in the mourning hall, he saw his brother's happiness hidden under the sadness, and he felt very cold at that time, and it was snowing heavily that day, and it was very cold in Yingdu City.

Gu Meng felt that his hands and feet were frozen.

So he escaped from the mourning hall and came here to eat fish and tart.

His father died that day, and he was so sad that he cried while eating the fish and even took out all the money he had on him as he went.

He was still a child at that time, and the old man was not so old, so he sat here, and looked at the child beside him crying while eating the fish, and then comforted him a few words, and sighed knowing that the child's father was dead.

There are poor people everywhere in the world, and it is so pitiful that such a young child has no father.

After Gu Meng ate the fish tart, he went home, and in the days that followed, he watched his brothers being killed by his eldest brother one by one, in order to protect himself, in the following days, he lived carefully, and only ran out to eat the fish troll once when it was safest.

Later, however, he wore a black cloak every time to prevent others from seeing his face.

He was born so good-looking that if someone saw him, he might soon have the news reach his eldest brother's ears, and then he would probably be killed by his eldest brother in some way.

To live, everything is to live.

"I only remembered later that when you first came, the one who brought you here was your father, right?"

The old man said, "Your father knows by looking at him that he is a great man. ”

Gu Meng nodded and said, "My mother died that day. ”

The old man was silent for a while, and said with some sadness: "There was a person in Yingdu City who was very worthy of respect that day, and he also left. ”

Gu Meng said: "It's really a sad thing. ”

"What happened later, I couldn't even see your face when you came back. The old man asked very casually, as if he was an elder, and there was no deliberate feeling.

"After my father died, the eldest brother was in charge of the family, my eldest brother had a very bad temper, and inherited such a large family business, it is inevitable that there will be some suspicions, many of my brothers are dead, and I am also afraid of death, so I am very careful later. ”

"But how do you know it's mine?"

Gu Meng held the fish tarther and didn't rush to put it in his mouth.

"I started to have some problems with my eyes a long time ago, so in the following years, my ears were better than my eyes, and I don't know why, my brain is okay, and I can naturally remember. ”

Gu Meng said: "I don't know about this, but what do you remember about me?"

There was some brightness in the old man's cloudy eyes, "At first, it was because of your father, your father was the most extraordinary person I have ever seen in my life, I thought about how his son should be a very powerful person, you have come a few more times, I think it is difficult to remember." ”

Gu Meng shook his head and said, "You are wrong, I am just an ordinary person, I will be afraid, I want to change something, but there is nothing I can do." ”

The old man said, "Do you mean now?"

Hearing this, Gu Meng was a little distracted, he knew that there was a deep meaning in this sentence, but he didn't know how to answer, so he could only look at the other party silently and didn't say anything.

Silence is sometimes a form of expression, and that is acquiescence.

The old man was very satisfied, he nodded and smiled: "Time is sometimes a good medicine, it can help people forget many things, but for some people, time is actually poison, and what cannot be forgotten will only be tormented for the rest of the time." ”

This sentence is very Zen, if it is heard by the monk Liuming, I am afraid that he will also have great respect for this old man.

Gu Meng didn't say anything, he just thought that if he couldn't do that thing in his life, time was poison, and if he could do that thing in this life, then for him, even poison would be fine.

The old man looked at the little fish troll left on Gu Ming's plate, and sighed: "Although the taste has changed, it is still Yingdu's fish tart, eat it, nothing will not change, but things are still good like those things." ”

Gu Meng nodded, picked up the fish tart, put it in his mouth, and chewed it slowly.

At this time, it was getting late, and it was a little dark outside, Gu Meng looked up and saw that a group of four people walked in from outside.

Among the four, the one in the lead was tall and strong, and the one walking behind him was dressed as a scholar, but he had a steel knife pinned to his waist.

The third person was a woman, with an ordinary appearance and a melancholy look between her eyebrows.

The last person was a teenager, who looked about the same age as Gu Ming, and even if there were some deviations, it was not much different.

After the four people walked in, the sturdy man originally wanted to speak, but when he saw Gu Meng sitting inside, he forcibly held back what he wanted to say.

A group of four people stood at the door, some of them not knowing what to do.

The old man spoke at the right time, "It's a child who has been away from home for a long time, no problem." ”

The man's face was a little pale, and after sitting down at the table outside, he squeezed out a smiling face and said, "Old shopkeeper, Yu Xuan." ”

The old man stood up, didn't say much, and walked towards the back kitchen, where only Gu Meng and the four people were left.

He didn't speak, and seemed silent.

Gu Meng ate the last piece of fish belly, thoughtful.

Soon, the old man came back from the back kitchen, carrying four plates, which were four portions of fish tart.

Fish is the favorite thing of all Yingdu and even all Southern Chu people, and in a certain way, it is not just a fish chest, but also a spiritual sustenance of the people of Southern Chu.

Before leaving home, I ate a meal of fish trays from my hometown, went to a new place, and tried the fish trays from a new place, each with its own meaning, but it was very interesting.

The old man did not leave immediately after putting down the plate, he stood at the table, knowing that these people had something to say.

"Old shopkeeper, I have eaten your fish belly for many years, and the taste has been a little different in recent years, but in my heart, it has become not fish belly, but something else, today may be the last time I ate it, and I am a little reluctant. It was the young man dressed as a scholar who spoke, he wiped his face, took out a heavy money bag from his arms, and said a little sadly: "If you can't come back, it will be regarded as fish money, if you can come back, please return it to the old shopkeeper, I can't earn a few copper plates in a day of study." ”

His voice was very low, obviously not wanting Gu Meng to hear it.

The old man frowned and said, "What nonsense!"

The sturdy man also took out the money bag on his body and put it on the table, and whispered: "Old shopkeeper, I am a rough man, I can't talk too much, so be it." ”

Then there was the young man, who had no money, but after eating a piece of fish belly, he said, "The fish is so delicious." ”

The woman with an ordinary face was eating fish and shed tears as she ate it, "I haven't been married yet, and I feel sad when I think about it." ”

This didn't sound sad, but a little naughty, but the other three didn't speak, and they looked very sad.

The old man knew what was going on, so he didn't say anything, but reached out and touched the woman's head.

Then he listened to the sturdy man and said: "Our Majesty is dead, if this incident does not happen, the new Majesty will definitely govern Nanchu well, isn't our life getting better and better?"

"Yes, our days are definitely getting better and better. ”

The young man dressed as a scholar replied, "It's all in the past, what do you say?"

As these words were spoken, there was a long silence.

The next thing is just the sound of eating fish jelly.

The old man walked over and sat down beside Gu Meng again, but Gu Meng did not speak.

"Do you want to know what's going on?"

Gu Meng said: "If you want to speak, I will listen." ”

So the old man began to tell the story, it turned out that the story was a very cliché story, that is, an official sent by Daqi forcibly defiled the woman's sister because he took a fancy to her, and then the woman committed suicide by throwing herself into the river, this kind of thing is not an uncommon thing.

Not to mention the Great Qi Dynasty, even in the Daning Dynasty many years ago, it would exist.

It's just that the difference is that the woman who was defiled was the people of Nanchu, and the one who did it was the official of Daqi, so it could easily become a matter between Daqi and Nanchu.

Nanchu is gone, and the poor Emperor is still in Xian Mall.

The Daqi officials here will not worry about anything.

I don't care about anything.

But the relatives and friends of the dead woman were very concerned.

So they decided to go somewhere tonight and kill that official, and this kind of thing is not something that can be done by touching the upper lip to the lower lip.

What's more, they are not cultivators, the burly man is just a blacksmith, the scholar is a teacher, and the woman with an ordinary face is a flower seller on weekdays.

As for the boy, it was the woman's younger brother.

Revenge is a thing that doesn't matter what you do, it just depends on whether you can take revenge.

Gu Meng listened to the whole story quietly, of course, the story is not over, but it has been developed and is known to him.

He looked at the table and saw that the men were gone.

The old man said: "This kind of thing has happened many times in Yingdu City. ”

Gu Meng said: "This kind of thing shouldn't have happened. ”

"But that can't be helped. ”

The old man said: "After all, the land we are stepping on now is no longer Nanchu, but Daqi. ”

Hearing this, Gu Meng felt a deep sense of powerlessness, he looked at the old man and wanted to say something, but in the end he closed his lips tightly and didn't say anything.

Then he got up to get out of here.

The old man said, "It doesn't make sense, if this thing doesn't happen, the next thing will happen, you cut the weeds, but you don't get rid of the roots, then there will be weeds again in the next spring." ”

Gu Meng turned a deaf ear, he just walked outside without saying a word.

"When you left Yingdu that night, I was here watching you and watching you leave, which is a lucky thing, because only I saw it. ”

Gu Meng stopped suddenly, his body trembled a little, and an extremely uncomfortable expression appeared on his face, although he was still the same good-looking, but everyone knew that he was in pain at this time, and it seemed that the pain was extreme.

The old man didn't see Gu Ming's face, he could only look at the trembling body opposite, so his eyes were full of emotion, which was relief and sadness, but also helplessness and joy, "It's okay, we will wait for you to return." ”

Gu Meng didn't know if he heard it or not, he just stepped into the night.

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The city of Yingdu is not big, or it is very small.

Especially after seeing the salty mall.

Although this city was the capital of the Southern Chu State before, Daqi didn't seem to pay much attention to it, and after stepping here, he just changed Yingdu to Yingdu County, and treated it like the most ordinary county town of Daqi.

If the people in this city are willing, it seems that they can directly kill all the officials of Daqi, but this will not end up except for ushering in the most brutal suppression of Daqi.

So no one would think of doing these things, and it would be easy to maintain rule.

That's because people who grew up in this land are too willing to think about others.

Gu Meng walked in the long street at night, according to his realm, it was easy to find those people, he knew that several of them went into the distance, crossed four or five streets, and then turned into a green building.

The layout of Yingdu has not changed much.

It doesn't matter if the green building is not the previous one, it doesn't matter if the dust women in the green building are the ones from a few years ago.

Gu Meng came to the front of the Qinglou, the lanterns here were still on, and the yawning turtle was guarding the door, Gu Meng naturally had a way to make him not see himself.

He walked into the green building and came to a small courtyard.

This is Yayuan, and it is generally people of great status who are likely to come here and do something they are willing to do.

Gu Meng jumped and stood still on the roof, and then he waved, and a wisp of sword qi punched a small hole in the window of the room.

He stood on the roof opposite and looked through the hole.

There was a bed inside, and on the bed crawled a middle-aged man with a fat match, his flesh was very white, but it looked disgusting, and it looked like a maggot.

Another disheveled woman leaned against the screen, and the sturdy man, Mr. Teacher, and the sister and brother who sold flowers stood in front of the bed, looking very angry.

Then he didn't know what the man had said, so he lifted the knife in his hand and slashed it down.

Blood spilled out, all over the bed and on the floor, and then the woman with the ordinary face and the boy hugged each other and wept, and the teacher wiped the sweat from his face.

Gu Meng didn't know what he was thinking, he just looked at it, as if his mood had improved, and at this time, the turtle man he saw at the door of the Qinglou before pushed open the door with a basin of hot water.

Seeing this scene, the hot water in the turtle man's hand rolled to the ground, making a ping-pong sound, and the turtle man was shocked: "Do you know who he is, he dares to kill him." ”

The voice was not loud, and it was obviously trying to restrain itself.

The white smoke rising from the hot water blocked Gu Ming's vision, and he only listened to the man say, "You don't know how many evil things he has done?"

The turtle man said in a trembling voice: "No matter how evil you do, you can't kill him, he is dead, what will happen to the people in this city? Not to mention the people in the whole city, have you thought about the girls in the building? Maybe tomorrow they will be pushed out and beheaded." ”

The man said, "I'll pay for my life." ”

The turtle man looked at these people, and after a while, he suddenly gritted his teeth and said, "Don't leave yet, are you really waiting to be caught?"

The man was stunned, and before he could speak, the turtle man walked in, pulled up his shirt, and pushed him outside.

Spit on the headless corpse, the turtle man said to the woman who was already so frightened that there was no blood: "Nuan girl, you quickly find a place to hide, you can't come back here." ”

The disheveled woman's face was ugly, her hands and feet were cold, and before she could speak, the turtle suddenly said: "If you kill this dog official, you will definitely implicate the warm girl, take the warm girl away, and you will take care of it for the rest of your life!"

When he spoke, his eyes were full of determination, as if the other party did not obey his arrangement, and he would burst out and kill people.

The man nodded and asked, "What about you?"

Gui Gong frowned and said, "Don't fucking ask, run quickly, go out of the city as soon as dawn, don't stay in Yingdu City." ”

The man clenched his fist at the turtle man, and immediately made a decision, and then ran out of the door, and the pair of sisters and brothers kowtowed a few times.

They took the warm girl and left, and soon disappeared without a trace.

Then Gu Meng saw that the turtle man found a pot of wine in the house, sat on the threshold and began to drink alone.

Gu Meng thought about it and walked towards him.

Gu Gong didn't know that someone was coming, and after he drank a few sips of wine, his heartbeat stopped beating so fast, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Looks like you want to carry it alone. Gu Luo didn't know when he came to his side, looked at him and said.

The turtle man was startled, and his face turned pale instantly, but he quickly calmed down.

Gu Meng said: "I've seen it all, but I don't know why you have to carry it down." ”

Hearing this, Gu Ping calmed down, because he heard that Gu Meng was speaking the purest Southern Chu official dialect, which also meant that no matter who the other party was, as long as it was a Southern Chu person, it would be enough.

Since the South Chu is gone, all the people of the South Chu have been trustworthy.

"I don't know, maybe it's some admiration for them, or maybe it's something else, anyway, I just think they don't deserve to die. ”

Gui Gong took a deep breath and said seriously: "We have been suppressed for a long time. ”

Gu Meng asked, "Then do you think you should die?" Or do you think that if you stand up, the people here will be fine?"

Gui Gong said bitterly: "Although those dogs of Daqi have never really regarded us as ordinary people, they can't do much on the surface, but they are going to run away, and they can't find the murderer, so they may drag down the entire Qinglou, I stand up, things will be simpler." ”

Gu Meng said: "This kind of thing happens often, will you resent His Majesty the Emperor for not guarding Nanchu?"

Gui Gong frowned and said: "How can you say this? Nan Chu failed to stop Da Qi's soldiers, it shouldn't be His Majesty the Emperor's problem, Da Qi was already much, much older than Nan Chu, besides, even if he wants to blame, he can only blame His Majesty the Emperor before, and he can't blame His Majesty later." ”

Gu Meng said: "But he didn't do anything. ”

"That majesty is also very bitter, only to be the emperor for a day, was taken away, in fact, we prefer him to run away, we have more hope. ”

Gu Meng snorted.

The turtle man suddenly turned his head and glanced at Gu Ming.

Then he praised, "You are so good-looking." ”

Gu Meng didn't speak.

"Our Majesty is also a very good-looking young man. ”

Gu Meng said: "He is not as good-looking as me. ”

Gui Gong wanted to refute, looking at Gu Ming's appearance, but he couldn't say anything.

Gu Meng said, "I'm leaving." ”

He patted Gu Gong on the shoulder, and did not say anything that could save him, and the other party did not ask Gu Meng to save him, because both of them knew that no matter how powerful Gu Meng was, it would be impossible for him to save the people of this city, and Gu Meng also knew that if he was saved, there would be innocent people who would die.

Since the other party is already willing to die for those people, there is nothing they can do.

Unless he is the Great Qi Emperor at this time, then it is possible to save them, he suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness, it turns out that cultivators, when they are not strong enough, they really can't do anything.

Thinking of these things, Gu Meng was a little tired.

Halfway out, Gu Meng turned his head to look at him, thought for a while, and then said, "My name is Gu Ming." ”

Gu Gong was stunned for a moment, and before he could come back to his senses, the young man in front of him had disappeared.

He waved his hand at the night, even if it was goodbye to the boy and the world.

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Gu Meng walked out of the Qinglou and returned to the long street, suddenly smelling a smell of blood, he frowned, swept forward, and saw five corpses on the long street.

It happened to be the five people who had just left the green building.

And standing next to these corpses was an armored general with an indifferent face.

At this time, he was collecting his sword.

The armor made a rattle as it moved.

It was a normal sound, but Gu Meng felt a little harsh.

Gu Meng felt very uncomfortable and disgusted, because at this time, he was very angry.