Chapter 23: The Past
The three of them glanced at each other, Wu Xiao stood up, and no longer paid attention to the old man, after this trouble, the sky was already bright, and the three of them were completely sleepy.
"I'll go make something to eat," Hongyu looked at Wu Xiao
"Ah Hu, let's go pick up a few more fish," Wu Xiao said
"Okay, you have to be careful of these two people" Zhaohu was not very worried about the old man, so he instructed, picked up his tools and went out.
Soon, a big pot of fish soup was ready, and no more bowls could be found, Zhaohu simply brought the whole pot to the yard, and the red fish let the two men eat first, and he filled two bowls of thick white fish soup and slowly fed it to the little girl who was still in a coma, and after eating something, the little girl's face slowly improved.
She opened her eyes and looked at the red fish, looked around again, and found that the old man was tied to the ground, she turned over violently, jumped to the distance of the red fish, and then ran behind the old man like a female leopard, looking at Wu Xiao and the other three with nervous and hostile eyes.
"She's awake, it's okay, you eat first" Wu Xiao took the bowl of the red fish and handed it to her, and the red fish sat on the side and ate it slowly.
The old man may have not eaten for a long time, smelled the fragrance of fish soup, couldn't help himself, and kept swallowing in his throat, but he didn't open his mouth to ask for it.
"Zhaohu" Wu Xiao shouted Zhaohu, and then pointed to the pot.
Zhaohu picked up a bowl and put it in front of the old man, who tied his hands and bit the edge of the bowl with his mouth, and drank it in one gulp, and after drinking it, he looked up to the sky and let out a sigh.
Zhaohu gave him another bowl to drink, the old man was not polite, Xu stopped his hunger, regained some strength, he sat up straight and said: "Don't think that if you give a little favor, I will believe you", seeing these emotions, the girl's hostility has been reduced a lot, but she is still on guard, she looked at the three strangers in front of her curiously.
"What now?" asked Zhaohu after the red fish had finished eating
"Let's go, let them go," Wu Xiao said after looking at the old and the young for a while
Zhaohu drew his knife in response and cut the old man's rope, and the old man stood up with a puzzled face and looked at Wu Xiao carefully.
The three of them were not entangled, they got out of the courtyard gate, Zhaohu pulled the horse over, Hongyu's horse was a little high, Wu Xiao hugged Hongyu on the horse's back, Zhaohu hit the head, and the three of them went out of the deserted house and went to the road.
After walking for a short time, he only vaguely heard someone shouting behind him, Wu Xiao looked back, and saw which old man was chasing from behind, shouting "Wait a minute", and the girl was also far behind.
The three of them reined in their horses, and when the old man approached, Wu Xiao asked, "What else do you have to do?"
"Who did you learn how to lock your wrists?" asked the old man, hunching his waist, sweat running down his bark-like wrinkles.
Wu Xiao thought for a while and said, "Why are you asking this, who are you?"
"This method of locking wrists and arms is a unique technique of a mysterious organization, I happen to have something to do with this organization, if you are not an enemy, maybe from you, I can know something I want to inquire about" The old man carefully chose his words, he didn't want Wu Xiao to misjudge, but he didn't want to believe others too early.
"It was one of my elders who taught me, but he may not have taught it all," Wu Xiao said, and Wu Xiao was also very cautious.
"What's the last name of this elder of yours?" asked the old man
"What are you hiding?" Wu Xiao didn't answer his question, but asked a question
The old man thought for a moment and said, "In order to help a friend, I did something and was hunted down by this organization."
"During this period, have you been ordered to kill others?" Wu Xiao asked again
"Very early in the morning, I have actually been listed as a target for purge, so the organization will not give me any orders," the old man said in his broken voice, Zhaohu, Hongyu and the girl who caught up behind them just listened to the two of you ask me questions, and I couldn't understand what they were saying at all.
"My elder's surname is Wu," Wu Xiao said after a long time
When the old man heard this, his body was obviously stunned, and then he said with some excitement and urgency, "Who are you, Wu Feng?"
"It's my father," Wu Xiao said slowly
"What kind of dumb kid are you," the old man's hand trembled
"The child is not dumb, he just doesn't like to talk," Wu Xiao looked at the old man and said calmly
The old man seemed to have lost all his strength, knelt on the ground on his knees, and burst into tears: "God, I didn't expect that in my lifetime, I would still be able to see the son of the eagle lord."
Wu Xiao hurriedly jumped off the horse, helped the old man to stand up, sat down in the shade of the tree next to him, and the three of them also followed.
"Tell me about the past," Wu Xiao said as he looked at the old man
"You are indeed the child of the Eagle Lord, with the same talent and the same temperament as your father" The old man looked at Wu Xiao carefully, and continued: "You do look a little similar"
Wu Xiao didn't answer, and when the old man's mood calmed down, everyone listened to the old man tell the story of the year.
"There are a lot of things in that year, but there are always a few things that can make us feel that something big is going to happen, your father Wu Feng is the commander of the Divine Army, the Hawkeye Pavilion, but we all call him the Eagle Lord, the Hawkeye Pavilion is actually the highest intelligence and assassination agency of the forbidden army, responsible for collecting all kinds of intelligence information needed by the emperor and privately dealing with all kinds of criminals under the emperor's orders"
The old man paused for a moment and continued: "But this year is very strange, the emperor rarely comes to the Eagle Pavilion, what is the will of the general let the father-in-law of Qiu come to pass a word, in the end he simply did not come, and the father-in-law of the enemy has been conveying instructions, the lord of the eagle felt that something was wrong, and he entered the palace several times to ask for a meeting, but he did not see the emperor." ”
"But waited for a holy decree, the holy decree promoted the Eagle Lord to the left deputy commander of the Divine Ce Army, and arrived on the same day, the Eagle Pavilion was temporarily in charge of Scar, and the Eagle Lord accepted the holy decree, but he gathered our five brothers at night and asked them to go to several big mansions as guards, and when he left the Eagle Pavilion, he made the last batch of orders to help us hide our true whereabouts, and I lived in the house of Lord Yan Zhengwen, the Zuo Shumi Envoy, in fact, my work was the secret guard commander of Lord Yan's house as early as two years ago."
"It happened five months later, one evening, the iron-headed brother ran to Yan's mansion with an injury to inform me that the eagle lord's whole family was killed, and I also protected Yan's family to escape, but it was too late, as soon as he entered the door, the Shence army led people to surround Yan's mansion, and killed in, Yan's daughter who was still in swaddling clothes was stuffed to me, so that I had to keep the child out anyway, I had to hold the child and fight to the death, and the iron-headed brother died on the way."
Speaking of this, Wu Xiao glanced at which girl, and the old man also glanced at the girl and said: "Yes, she is the daughter of Lord Yan, I carried the child all the way east, and came to Lord Yan's hometown, which house you had last night, but within a few days, the Shence army chased after it, and all the old mansions of the Yan family were killed."
"I took the child in my arms and hid in the underground secret room to escape this catastrophe, and then I went out with the child for more than half a year, and finally returned here, the Shence Army is cleaning everywhere, we can't hide anywhere, it's relatively safe in this old house, they won't come to search at least a second time"
"More than ten years have passed, the house is deserted, there are a lot of people in the vicinity to move things, I didn't care, and then the child is older, we will either kill, or scared to deal with the people who come to the house again, there are rumors in the neighborhood that this house is haunted, and no one comes, you are the first batch of people to come in recent years"
Everyone was silent, an old man with a child lived in a deserted mansion for more than ten years, and the bitterness was not something ordinary people could bear.
"Did you go back to check on this matter later," Wu Xiao asked
"There have been a few times when I wanted to go back to investigate, but first, there was no one to take care of the children, and secondly, my old injuries have not healed, and I am old, but I am afraid that if I don't go back, people will die on the road," the old man sighed
Wu Xiao stood up, his eyes didn't know where to look, as if he had lost focus, and he seemed to be looking into the distance intently.
"I'll investigate this matter, I'll take revenge on this revenge, and I'll find out all the people who participated in the murder of my father," Wu Xiao looked at the old man and said calmly
"I'm old, I can't walk, I can't help you, but you're still young, help our brother get it back, I'll go down, and I can have an explanation with them" The old man stood up, he pulled the little girl next to him, this child is entrusted to you, you take it.
Wu Xiao looked at the girl, the girl's body was very thin and small, and she had been malnourished for a long time, making her body far less tall than that of children of the same age, and she was wearing clothes and pants that were so dirty that she couldn't see the color, and her hair was probably cut with a knife, like a pile of grass.
But she has bright eyes, and her whole body is as sharp as a leopard. Wu Xiao looked at the red fish, and the red fish came over and took Wu Xiao's hand and said, "Take it, she's quite pitiful."
"I have taught her everything I know, this child is smart, he can learn as soon as he learns, and his consciousness is very good, and in time, he will be a good helper, you have a common enemy," the old man added
Wu Xiao turned her head and stared at the girl's eyes, and the girl also stared at him, but after a while, she slowly retreated and hid behind the old man's back.
Wu Xiao pulled her out: "Can you do anything?"
The girl raised her head and glanced at Wu Xiao again, and then tapped twice vigorously.
"Let's help her clean up," Wu Xiao said to Redfish, who happily pulled the girl away.
The old man added some things to Wu Xiao back then, but there was not much useful information, he was just a killer at the bottom, and he didn't know much about it.
"What will you do after we leave," Wu Xiao asked the old man
"After you leave, I will also leave, and the child is my last concern. After a long time, the old man said
Until the red fish came back with the girl, the two did not say a word
The girl was wearing the clothes of the red fish, which looked a little empty, she was not used to wearing skirts, and her walking posture was very awkward. But the body was cleaned, and the original pale skin was washed out, and the appearance was actually very beautiful, but her beastly gaze obscured all the girl's features.
The old man smiled as he watched the girl approach. He pulled the girl to stand in front of Wu Xiao and said, "In the future, follow him"
The girl looked at the old man, her face was full of nervousness, she pulled the old man's sleeve and didn't let go, the old man gritted his teeth, waved his hand and slapped her in the face, and the girl sat on the ground.
"Go," the old man yelled at the girl, and the girl slowly stood up
Wu Xiao picked up the red fish on the horse, and then lifted the girl on the horse's back and put it behind the red fish.
The three rode their horses to the west, and the old man stood in the middle of the road and watched the three horses slowly walk away, he suddenly pulled out a dagger from his sleeve and shouted, "Young master, the old camel has sent you", and then cut his own throat with a knife and fell into the middle of the road.
When Wu Xiao and the four of them heard the voice and looked back, they just saw this scene, which girl saw the old man falling, and cried out, which heart-rending cry seemed to have reached the deserted house by the pond, echoing over the deserted mansion for a long time.
ps: Today's release on the plane on a business trip may not be able to update tomorrow, and the relatives who are passing by outside the number. Is it convenient to leave your paw prints under the chapter? Your words are the greatest encouragement to me