When Lin Nu asked this sentence, Han Xi suddenly had Shu Xingmi's appearance when he said "the white head never leaves" in the teahouse, he remembered this sentence firmly and tattooed it on the apex of his heart.

That was the first time he wanted to leave the rivers and lakes completely, to get out of this precarious killing field.

He doesn't know what life will be like after retiring, maybe it's the smoke rising from the kitchen in the evening, maybe the dim oil lamps lit by every household at night, maybe it's a simple meal, but as long as he thinks of Shu Xing With Mi by his side, he seemed to have a home.

A small boat that has drifted for too long in the wind, frost, rain and snow finally found the shore.

Is he so important to you?

Han Xi silently nodded.

"Then you didn't think about what happened to me..." Lin Nu just wanted to complain when he saw Shu Xingmi jogging over, so he had no choice but to shut up.

"No." Han Xi comforted Lin Nu: "By the way, the others have been detained by the grandfather, how does the hall master plan to rescue them?"

Lin Nu closed his eyes and shook his head, feeling a little cold again.

Now that I want money but have no money, no one I want, and only Han Xi is a confidant by my side, how can I make a comeback?

He can only count on Han Xi to sneak into the Picking Spring Pavilion secretly, either to bring down his grandfather, or to rescue all the brothers, but how easy is it?If the cold breath fails, I really have no hope at all.

"Have you ordered?" Shu Xingmi went to the table and chairs and sat down.

"Not yet, Xiaoer—" Han Xi beckoned.

"Hey, what do you guys want to eat?" The shop waiter lowered his head slightly, and with a smile on his face, he handed over the menu, his eyes sweeping back and forth on the faces of the three of them.

Han Xi took a look at the menu and said, "Fried tofu and stewed cabbage."

He ordered the cheapest two dishes on the whole menu.

Lin Nu showed displeasure, Han Xi asked with his eyes, Lin Nu cleared his throat: "You belong to the rabbit? Why do you eat so vegetarian?"

"Save the money..."

We don't have much money to spend, so we have to save some money, otherwise we will starve to death if we don't reach Quanzhou.When Shu Xingmi said this, he didn't want to go on. After all, the big guy in front of him was just cheated by his grandfather for 3000 taels. At this time, he was the most sensitive to money. Ten egg yolks had no water to drink, so I choked.

"I want to eat meat." Lin Nu said weakly.

"Then... have chestnut chicken. The staple food is rice."

Han Xi gritted his teeth, the hall master wanted to eat meat, he had to be satisfied, and he should be able to handle it by tightening his belt in the next few days.

"Okay!" The shop waiter raised his voice to report the name of the dish to the back kitchen.

Not long after, the three dishes were served. Shu Xingmi was so hungry that his chest stuck to his back, but he still took out three poison-testing silver needles from his waist and tried the dishes and rice one by one. rest assured.

A few people were halfway through eating, and the waiter came over with a big plate of delicious food: "Guest officer, your steamed carp, eat it slowly."

Shu Xingmi frowned, thinking strangely, we didn't order any fish.

Han Xi said to Xiao Er: "The delivery is wrong, maybe it was ordered by the next table, and our dishes are all ready."

"It's not a mistake, it's not a mistake. A customer specially sent this dish to several guest officers to taste, and the payment has been made." The waiter in the shop smiled.

Lin Nu looked at the fat and long carp, and thought of the 3000 taels of silver that he was cheated out of. Does anyone have to think about who gave this carp?It must be his brother.

It turned out that the grandfather had already sent someone to ambush on the other side to track Lin Nu's whereabouts. When he knew they had arrived at this inn, he came to deliver food.

The muscles on Lin Nu's face began to twitch. At first he was so angry that his eyebrows stood on end, but then he burst out laughing inexplicably, until tears came out of his eyes. All the diners in the inn turned their heads to look at him.

"Master...what's the matter with you?" Han Xi grabbed Lin Nu's wrist nervously, Lin Nu's face was swollen from laughing, and he was out of breath.

"People are knives, I'm fish!" After Lin Nu dropped this sentence, he poked his eyes upwards and let go of his anger.

At this time, Shu Xingmi also realized the meaning of his grandfather's gift of this dish. He was reminding Lin Nu that Lin Nu had already reached the point where he was slaughtered by others.

"Hall Master!" Han Xi hurriedly grabbed Lin Nu's hands, almost bleeding, and there was no sign of waking up.

Don't underestimate this plate of fish, it may be the last straw that breaks the camel's back. After Lin Nu experienced being cheated, besieged, and narrowly escaped death, he thought he was safe, but he didn't expect that it was still within his brother's plan ... Lin Nu couldn't hold on anymore.

After Shu Xingmi and Han Xi settled the bill, they hurriedly carried Lin Nu back to the clinic. The doctor performed acupuncture, and Lin Nu slowly regained consciousness. The moment he opened his eyes, they were dim, as if he had aged several times in an instant. ten years old.

"Master, are you feeling better?" Han Xi's eye circles were red, and it was the first time he saw Lin Nu look so embarrassed, like a candle in the wind.

"...Get out of here." Lin Nu looked at Han Xi, and raised his hand to touch his head with great effort, his fingertips were full of love, tears were in his eyes, he wanted to say something, but he couldn't make a sound .

He wanted to remind Han Xi one last time, there are people from Grandfather here, so it is not safe here.

Shu Xingmi felt sad for a while, he wasn't sad for Lin Nu, but because of the cold eyes that broke his heart.

It was not a subordinate who lost his master, but a child who lost his father. He knew that the dying man in front of him was not a good person, but this was his only "relative" in the world.

Within three or two days, Lin Nu died completely.

Perhaps no one would believe that the head of the Caiqiu Hall was pissed to death by a fish. Grandfather had no intention of killing him, and did not send someone to poison his food. Steamed carp is also non-toxic. Lin Anger died because of it.

Maybe the poison is in Lin Nu's heart, Shu Xingmi thought.

Han Xi and Shu Xingmi pawned almost all valuables on their bodies before they managed to gather a shroud and coffin for Lin Nu, and prepared to take his coffin back to Wanzhou and bury him back to his hometown.

Since all the money was spent on Lin Nu's funeral and hiring a car to transport the coffin back, Han Xi and Shu Xingmi couldn't afford to stay in the inn, so they could only rest in the ruined temple at night.

In the middle of the night, Han Xi sat on the futon, looking at the tall and dusty Bodhisattva statue, wondering what he was thinking in a daze.

Shu Xingmi sat beside Han Xi, gently holding his hand: "When I get back to Wanzhou, I need to prepare some candles and paper horses. I still have some money in Shichun Pavilion, which should be enough."

"Can I go back?" Han Xi was as quiet as a tree that has been cut down.

"If grandpa knew that the hall master had passed away, he would definitely take the initiative to help him with the funeral."

"Will he?" Han Xi lowered his head and sighed silently.

Shu Xingmi opened his mouth, not knowing what to say, now it was his grandfather who indirectly killed Han Xi, who was regarded as the head of his family.

"If you want revenge, come at me. I am grandfather's apprentice. If you take revenge on me, he will be even more distressed."

Han Xi was stunned, and gently stroked Shu Xingmi's back: "I don't hate you, nor do I hate my grandfather. I know what the hall master has done. Good has good causes, and evil has evil consequences. It's impossible to blame anyone. "

"I'm sorry." Shu Xingmi lowered his eyes.

"We will have retribution, sooner or later." Han Xi smiled lightly.

Shu Xingmi's heart skipped a beat: "Didn't you say, put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha immediately? We regret it."

"Repent?" Han Xi blinked, looked at the palms of his hands and said, "With so many human lives on my hands, even if I repent, I have to make amends first."

Shu Xingmi didn't want to think about it anymore, and changed the subject: "Let's not talk about this, you haven't told me yet... How did you and the hall master know each other?"

"I was a beggar just like you when I was young." Han Xi looked at Shu Xingmi: "On the street where I was begging, there was a female beggar who treated me very well. She would share the food with me...she This is a brothel girl, in her forties, her appearance is not as good as before, so she was kicked out of the brothel and lived on the street. She and I depended on each other. We went to the street to beg for food during the day, and lived in a ruined temple at night, just like this. She is proficient in embroidery , It’s just that she has bad eyesight, otherwise she can make a living by embroidery, when we chat in free time, she will teach me how to embroider verbally, we are like siblings, and we have a very good relationship.”

"So you learned embroidery from her."

"Well, in the summer when I was seven years old, one day my sister said she was unwell, so I went out to beg alone. When I came back, I saw two men lying on top of her." Han Xi frowned, as if her heart had been torn open He said, "I was young at that time, so I didn't know what they were doing... I just tried my best to pull those two bastards away. Instead of leaving, they even punched and kicked me. I was knocked out by them."

Han Xi calmed down his emotions, and continued: "When I woke up, it was already midnight, I only remembered that my sister was bleeding a lot, I ran to the medical center and slammed the door of the pharmacy, trying to find someone to save her, but I had no money, I couldn’t hire a doctor, and I couldn’t buy medicine, and within a few days, my sister passed away. I didn’t even have the money to buy a coffin for my sister.”

Shu Xingmi couldn't imagine how a seven-year-old child endured all this.

"At that time, I wanted to find those two bastards, kill them, and then commit suicide. It's over." Han Xi looked at Mingyue outside the window: "But the crowd was so vast, I couldn't find them at all. After half a month, When I was begging outside the teahouse, I heard someone say that there is a Caiqiu hall in the rivers and lakes, which can help people avenge|revenge, so I inquired about that place, knelt in front of the gate of the Caiqiu hall, and begged them to help me find the place. Two bastards, and kill them."

Han Xi lowered his eyes: "But I have nothing, and the people in the Caiqiu Hall will not agree to my request, so I have been kneeling outside the door. I haven't had any water or rice for three days, and I am almost about to die there. Let me tell the appearance of those two gangsters, and find someone through the portraits, within three days, he brought the two gangsters to me, and then gave me a knife."

Shu Xingmi's eyes changed slightly, and his heartbeat suddenly accelerated.

"The hall master asked me to kill them with my own hands. He was testing my courage. I took a knife and cut them on the neck." Han Xi's eyes were calm: "Blood has ruined me all over me. It didn’t feel like anything at the time, it’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time.”

He looked at the bare coffin board: "Then, the hall master raised me in Caiqiu Hall and trained me to be a killer. I followed the hall master wholeheartedly because he pulled me away when I was most helpless. Give me a hand."

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