Seventy-One: Humiliation and Endurance (II)

"It's been ten days, is there any news from the sea of snow?"

Chu Tao just shook his head: "Three days ago, someone saw Konoha go to the dock alone, flashing through the crowd, and there was no news. But no one saw the sea of snow. ”

"Wouldn't it? for so many days...... Then you're still sitting here drinking with me?" I don't understand why, as soon as I talk about the whereabouts of the snow sea, my heart tightens solidly, and I worry unconsciously.

Chu Tao glanced at him fiercely and sneered: "Aren't you bent on begging for death?"

"This ......," Xie Junhe knew that he had picked the last thing he should say. Does it need to be said that Chu Tao came to see him in the middle of the night to drink? Who let this drunkard cause such a big disaster, and he has not said a word until now? He could feel that Chu Tao was trying his best to suppress his anger. was sold by the most trusted person, and he had to tolerate that person's sprinkling, Xie Junhe knew that if it wasn't Chu Tao standing opposite, he would have died a long time ago. "I don't drink other people's wine for nothing, say, how do I do it?"

"If you don't want to do it, break up. Xie Junhe thought that Chu Tao was joking again, but when he caught a glimpse of Chu Tao's serious expression, all the scoundrels on his body immediately retracted without a trace. Big things, Chu Tao won't joke - this time it's serious.

He understood: Chu Tao just endured the fire in his heart and didn't attack. Under the moon, the elixir flows through the coarse porcelain bowl, shining with a beating clear light. Such as amber.

"Ten years ago, I don't dare let you know. Xie Junhe let out a long sigh with the strength of the wine, "You still don't know—I'm the killer of the Qin family, and Qin Ye saved my life." He put the word "life" very seriously, and seemed to hate such a fate. "However, then I turned against him, for the sake of a woman - I don't understand how Konoha could know that relying on that woman was enough to lure me away......"

"The same is true. Chu Tao was not surprised.

This really surprised Xie Junhe: "What?"

"Qin Shi's letter is half-true and half-false - don't think I'm really stupid, I can't see the slightest clue. ”

"Aren't you afraid that I will kill you with a backhand sword one day?"

"Maybe I was worried before. Chu Tao still smiled, "A swordsman who looks like a beggar who dares to provoke me on the street will not be a fuel-efficient lamp." But Junhe, ten years of friendship...... Even if you're a North Shore killer, even if you really intended to take my life, so what?"

Xie Junhe was really stunned. I almost forgot that Chu Tao's palm was holding the entire South Bank of the rivers and lakes, because he was used to being arrogant on weekdays, so he never thought that Chu Tao had already seen everything thoroughly.

"Uncle Wang has been nagging in my ear these days, persuading me not to be emotional. I gave myself ten days to make a decision, and I gave those who hated you ten days to dispel their hatred, and for you, these ten days are just right to calm down and sober up. - I know that the Qi family is talking about me indecisively again. That's because they don't know at all—it's not your life or death that I'm going to decide—Junhe, if I really don't believe you, after what happened that day, outside the Ning Xiang Pavilion, I would personally kill you with a knife. ”

Xie Junhe buried his head deeply, suddenly raised his head over the wine jar, raised his head and poured a big sip into his mouth. The crisp wine dripped down his messy beard and flowed all over the ground, like teardrops: "What good will it do you to believe in a drunkard who doesn't know the details for ten years?"

"Nothing good. I don't want to know the story of a drunken maniac. You don't want to say it, and I'm not interested in forcing you to speak. However, I just don't want to see you get drunk all the time—what kind of wine has made you drunk for ten years!" Chu Tao sighed rarely.

Xie Junhe really never thought that there would be people in this world who felt sorry for him. made his past a mess, holding a wine jar all day long, ignoring the surroundings, offending whoever he wanted, thinking that everyone in the world owed him. Such a person will also be pitied?! A habitual ruffian smile flashed between his eyebrows: "Hey, you said the gang just now, is it really fake?"

Chu Tao said solemnly: "I was beaten, I was persuaded, my anger was gone, and I drank wine." Before dawn, the choice is yours. ”

"How to choose?"

Chu Tao didn't answer, but sneered silently: "If you choose the wrong one, you will break up, and I can do it if I can say it." ”

"You say, I'll do it!"

Shake your head and get up. Chu Tao shook the grass clippings and wood ashes on his body, and went straight to the door: "Don't go the wrong way again, Junhe." ”

Chu Tao went out, but the door of the firewood room was open, and the mouth of a blood basin like a black hole showed off his fangs to him. Chu Tao asked him to choose, but he didn't tell him how to choose. What do you mean? This stinks halfway! Xie Junhe muttered secretly, and poured a large sip of wine into his mouth.

In the wine, the past when Chu Tao was too lazy to listen to him resurfaced: Chu Chu's poor Susu, the domineering Qin Ye, and the old pianist who once held his hands tightly and entrusted his daughter to ......

Back then, he only said that the Qin family was a martial artist, his fists and feet were still tough, and he had a little strength, and he just wanted to earn some money to support himself, and he didn't have to grab food with those beggars, and he didn't have to be beaten half to death anymore, so that Su Su sympathized. He once thanked Qin Xiao for his kindness: he had the first full meal in his life at the Qin family, with meat and wine. It was the Qin family who taught him how to use his fists and feet, how to use his sword, so that he no longer had to be bullied by those scoundrels. It was the Qin family who gave him a decent set of clothes, at least, he didn't have to endure the biting cold of the winter. But who knew that Qin Xiao raised him just to make him kill people?

I don't remember who he killed. I only remember that when I took this broken sword from the hands of some once-powerful general, the warmth that flowed from his pierced chest splashed my face. There was no edge in those dying eyes, only a kind of sadness that was not revealed. "It's a good sword...... Other...... Humiliated it...... "These were the last words of the general in this world." He didn't understand, but he never thought much about it—isn't the sword just a tool for slaughter?

And he has long been tired of such slaughter. After earning enough money, Su Su doesn't have to sing. One day, when he earned enough money, no one dared to underestimate him anymore. But when is the day when he earns enough money? He never thought about the question of Qin Xiao's letting him leave, and thought that it was only right to use people's money to eliminate disasters for others.

Until the moment I suddenly woke up, I saw that on the towering cliff, the figure of a woman in Tsing Yi was like a withered petal, slowly falling down......

Why? He asked why for 10 years. Now, I understand a little.

For no reason, Jianghu is a cruel place. If you don't do your best to protect your side, then you can only blame your own anger for bringing them misfortune. Su Su is like this, and so is the snow sea.

In two sips, he continued to drink the remaining wine in the jar and wiped his mouth. There were no guards outside the door for a long time, and his remnant sword was placed at the bottom of the stairs at some point. Chu Tao's decision was to let him go? No, it was far from that simple. In fact, it is not difficult to calm down and speculate. Chu Tao didn't say it explicitly, but every sentence pointed to one place: whether to continue to attract hatred with a dead face, or to do something decent.

The door remained open, casting a faint light on the horizon. "Scatter the gang, stop dreaming!" Xie Junhe smiled bitterly, yes, why did he break up? After ten years of working for the Zhuyu Sword Sect, he left without paying his salary, wouldn't it be a big loss? "Stingy!" He straightened his clothes, scolded at the increasingly white sky, and picked up his sword.

Suddenly, I felt that the sword in my hand felt very steady. His black cloth boots were finally able to step on the ground steadily. Stomping on the stone slab ground, rejuvenating his muscles and bones, and also learning from Chu Tao to shake the dust on his robe - although the "boom" raised the smoke and dust on the ground.

It's time to wake up, yes. He wanted to tell Chu Tao that he would never be wrong again.

Chu Tao gave him ten days of calm, and he knew that there were some things that he had to let go.