Brother, this showman

July is hot, and the weather is not as hot as before.The breeze is going around in the mountains and forests, bringing coolness and sleepiness.

Fang Yi squatted by the door and slept for an unknown amount of time. When he opened his eyes, it was already late at night, and the dim candlelight was emitting from the dilapidated lantern under the eaves, which at least could still illuminate the night road.

Fang Yi shook his drowsy head, stood up tremblingly with his hands on the ground, his eyes were dark, and he almost fell to the ground, but he was supported by a strong arm.

"It's too early to celebrate the New Year, so don't worry about paying New Year's greetings."

A cold voice came from the ear, Fang Yi's pupils froze slightly, and he raised his head in surprise: "Didn't you leave?"

"Then would you like to go with me?" He Huaqiushou asked while withdrawing his hand.

"You want to send me to the government?" Fang Yi asked.

He Huaqiu was silent.

Fang Yi straightened up and said in a calm tone, "Don't think about it."

After finishing speaking, he walked around him.

"The water is boiling in the kitchen, go take a bath." He Huaqiu called to stop him, "Change your clothes."

Fang Yi paused and walked towards the kitchen instead.

The already cramped kitchen was in a mess. The firewood by the stove was half wet and half dry. There were even sparks mixed in the dry grass, and white smoke was rising, preparing to plan a more magnificent grand plan.

Fang Yi hurried up to kill the flame in the cradle, then leaned against the stove to pant, once again wondering what else He Huaqiu would do besides talking about it?

Fang Yi turned around, lifted the lid of the pot without hope, the hot air rushed towards his face, and the dense water vapor hit his face, which made him wet all at once.

There is also a set of clean underwear on the small bench on the right.

There were waves in Fang Yi's eyes, as if there were stars twinkling, the corners of his mouth couldn't help grinning, his heartstrings that had been tense were healed in an instant, slowly loosened, and his breathing became much easier.

Fang Yi came out after taking a shower, and when he looked up, he saw He Huaqiu sitting on a precarious three-legged chair, who could fall if he was not careful.

He lost it several times, but He Huaqiu picked it up in the end. It was a waste of energy to throw it away, so he simply ignored it.

He Huaqiu stretched his legs and stretched his neck to look at the star-studded sky in a trance. After hearing the movement, he turned his head, with a faint smile on his lips, his expression was the same as usual, and the atmosphere was no longer as tense as in the daytime.

"I went down the mountain and saw the notice posted that 45 members of the Yao family died overnight, and a reward of 3000 taels was offered for the capture of the murderer." He Huaqiu put his hands on the back of the chair, his tone calm, "Fang Yi, can you tell me why? "

Fang Yi was silent for a moment, went back to the room, took out a bench, brought a pot of tea with him, and sat down next to He Huaqiu.Instead of answering him directly, he shook his somewhat lame left foot and said, "Do you know why my foot is lame?"

"It was Yao Ping'an who had people use a stone mill to run over my feet again and again, ten times in total. Until now, I can still clearly tell when and where the bones were broken. I At first I thought I was going to die, but it was Gu Ren who left behind my back."

"He took me to the doctor. The doctor thought we had no money and refused to treat me. He just knelt down and kowtowed nearly a hundred times to the doctor, begging the doctor to heal me, until my forehead was rotten and blood flowed all over my face. Finally The doctor is willing to agree."

Fang Yi paused, looked at He Huaqiu with complicated eyes, and said in a hoarse voice, "My feet hurt so much when it's wet and cold, and I can't sleep all night. For three or nine days, he gave me all the quilts , I hid by the kitchen stove and went to sleep. I have known Gu Ren for many years, and he is more important to me than my family. So I don’t want others to say that he is not good, and neither are you. "

"I'm sorry." He Huaqiu lowered his head in shame, his eyes fell on his left foot wrapped in a layer of cotton cloth, his eyebrows were sullen, his fingers on his knees curled up slightly, and he pursed his lips, " Yao Ping'an...why did you do this to you?"

"Why else? Of course it's money." Fang Yi sneered.

He Huaqiu frowned puzzled, Fang Yi didn't look rich.

"Picture my identity." Fang Yi saw He Huaqiu's doubts and continued.

"I have been in Yao's mansion since I was five years old, but I can't remember anything before I was five years old. Yao Ping'an said that he picked me up from outside, and he adopted me as a foster son when he saw that I was pitiful. Indeed, my life was pretty good. It wasn’t a luxury, but at least I wouldn’t go hungry or cold. Until I was 15 years old, I told him that I wanted to visit Jiande City. As a result, he immediately turned his face , saying that if I go to Jiande City, my legs will be broken."

"At the age of 15, he was very arrogant, and wanted to do what he didn't want to do. Yao Ping'an was afraid that I would run away, so he asked someone to watch me day and night. But one night, it was Gu Ren who watched me. We played together since we were young. Big, with deep feelings. Gu Ren knew what I was thinking, so he let me out secretly. Unfortunately, I was discovered, and I was tied up and sent to Yao Ping'an."

"Yao Ping'an was furious. He beat and scolded me for a long time, and finally found a stone mill, saying that he was going to crush my legs. I just said the following things. It is impossible for Yao's mansion to go back, and I can't swallow it anymore. With this tone, I went here with Gu Ren."

He Huaqiu stared at Fang Yi for a while, and there was still a pink scar on his face that had not subsided from the swelling, extending from the corner of his mouth to the roots of his ears, like a dormant centipede, which forcibly wiped off some of the color on the boy's face.

It's only been less than a month, but the young man's youthful face is not as bright as when he first saw it, there is always a shallow line between his brows, the pearl is still covered in dust after all.

This young man, who was not yet weak, was watered with blood and grew up overnight.

"That's why you wanted to kill?" He Huaqiu withdrew his gaze, his Adam's apple rolled slightly, and sighed, "A total of 45 lives..."

Fang Yi smiled, picked up the teapot at hand and poured a sip of water into his mouth, the coolness flowed into his lungs along his throat, calming down the restlessness in his blood, and he licked the corners of his moist lips: "I won't be annihilated because of this." Human nature, after all, he has raised me for so many years. At the beginning, he just wanted to make him lose money and eliminate the disaster, and he thought it would be good to just rob him of all his money."

"Then you..." He Huaqiu was puzzled and had some doubts, "Could it be..."

"No, I did kill people." Fang Yi shook his head, interrupted He Huaqiu's unrealistic guess, met his gaze, and said in a deep voice, "Because he killed my parents, his Wealth was taken from my parents."

"What?!" He Huaqiu was shocked, his eyes widened in astonishment, his feet were unsteady, the chair tilted to one side, and the person fell to the side.

Fortunately, Fang Yi gave him a hand in time, which prevented him from getting close to the ground.

The three-legged chair went on strike completely, and one of the hind legs entangled in the hemp rope snapped off, lying on the ground miserable, as if complaining about He Huaqiu's ruthlessness.

"If you lose it this time, you are not allowed to pick it up again." Fang Yi kicked it far away, and then threw the chair in the corner, "Forget it, I'd better dismantle it tomorrow and burn it as firewood. To save you I want to put it back."

He Huaqiu turned his head away in embarrassment, he really thought so.

"Okay, let's sit down." Fang Yi leaned back, stretched out his hand to grab a small bench from the corridor, and put it at He Huaqiu's feet.

He Huaqiu sat down silently, the bench was smaller than he thought.When he sat down, he was half shorter than Fang Yi, and he had to hold his head up when he spoke, making him feel like a child for no reason.

Fang Yi didn't think much about it. He lazily sipped his tea and said, "My father is the lord of Jiande City. He saved Yao Ping'an's life, but it was a farmer and a snake. There is a treasure house in Jiande City. There are rare treasures hidden in it, which are saved by every city lord. Because Jiande City often encounters natural disasters, it is used to save the people in the future. Yao Pingan does not know where he heard it. Jiande City is also because of this."

"He pretended to help my father, but my father refused, and sent someone to send him out of the city. Yao Ping'an was not dead, and bribed his father's servants to poison his father's food, and stole the key."

"However, Yao Ping'an didn't expect that the door of the treasure house can't be opened without a key."

A flash of light flashed through He Huaqiu's mind, and he looked at him in amazement: "Could it be..."

"That's right, it's the Linglong Gate." Fang Yi nodded, "He needs me. The outer door of the Linglong Gate can be done with a key, but the inner gate needs the blood of the city lord."

Fang Yi sneered: "Fortunately, I died slowly. He gave me the antidote and brought me back to life, and finally took me to the treasure house. There are too many things in the treasure house, and I can't transport them all at once, so I became a He used the key to go in and out frequently. But because of that poison, I actually forgot who I was, and recognized the thief as my father, which is really ridiculous."

"The city lord died, so no one found out?" He Huaqiu asked doubtfully.

"Do you need an explanation once the fire is burned?" Fang Yi asked rhetorically.

He Huaqiu's eyelashes trembled slightly, his hands on his knees were tightly clenched into fists, the veins on the back of his hands were bulging, and he even uttered obscenities: "Desperate mad dog!"

"I went to Yao's mansion last night, and I happened to hear Yao Ping'an arguing with his sons, and I heard it clearly. So I changed my mind, stopped stealing money, and changed to killing people." Fang Yi breathed out quietly, With a calm face, "Now that things have happened, do you still think I'm wrong?"

"Yao Ping'an did it all by himself. Even if you tear him apart and turn him into ashes, it's not wrong. But why did you kill other people? How innocent are his children and servants?" He Huaqiu hesitated for a moment, She looked up at him with puzzlement and condemnation in her eyes.

Fang Yi let out a burst of laughter, watched He Huaqiu open his mouth, and finally laughed again, at some point the starlight from the sky reached his eyes, bright but cold.

"He Daochang, why are you so funny?" Fang Yi stopped laughing, raised his hand to wipe the end of his eyes, his fingertips were a little wet and hot, his eyes gradually became sharper, like a leopard with its thick fangs, ready to go, " Isn’t it justified to kill people for their lives? My parents are not innocent? Are they guilty and deserve to die? Yao Pingan has squandered money with peace of mind for so many years, which one in his house has not been protected by him? Why! I Parents are dead, what qualifications do they have to live! I exchanged his whole family for my whole family, what's wrong!"

"He Huaqiu, what you haven't experienced, of course, is easy to say, the pain is not on you. But what qualifications do you have to say that they are innocent!"

Fang Yi stood up abruptly, and kicked the stool by his feet viciously.The wooden stool endured the anger of the owner, hit the corner with a slap, and finally fell to the ground with a miserable creaking sound.

"Fang Yi, come with me, I will take you to Jianghai Yusheng, to find my master." He Huaqiu secretly tightened his hands in his sleeves, looked at him expectantly, and pleaded in his words.

"Following you, am I still alive?" Fang Yi sneered, "In the eyes of you self-proclaimed nobles, can you tolerate me? Don't waste your words, just go."

He Huaqiu opened his mouth, his eyes were complicated, but he didn't know what to say, and watched Fang Yi go back to the room angrily.