The first volume of pearl curtains rolls up the western mountain rain at dusk Chapter 86: Karma and Reincarnation
Gucheng County.
Li Diudiu found the Confucius Temple, but he couldn't find the silver note at the location Wang Heita mentioned. It was inconvenient to look for things at night, and he didn't dare to look for it with a torch for a long time. He decided to delay for a day and look for it carefully during the day. Anyway, not many people came to this place.
But after searching for a whole day and turning over every place I could, I found nothing.
When Li Diudiu was so tired that he could hardly stand up straight and sat on the ground gasping for breath, he felt that this world was really absurd.
There must not be many people who knew that Wang Heita hid the money here, so when the money was gone, it could only have been taken away by people close to Wang Heita.
On one hand, hundreds of brothers were dying together, and on the other hand, someone stole his money.
It's so absurd that it makes people feel that this world is unreal.
Li Diudiu stood up by holding on to a half-collapsed wall, took a look at the sun that was about to set, and finally gave up.
Fortunately, he still had more than a thousand taels of silver notes given to him by Wang Heita. He comforted himself by saying that it was okay and he just regarded it as a wasted trip to Gucheng County.
Just as he was about to leave and return to the inn, a long knife suddenly stabbed at him from behind the broken wall. Li Diudiu didn't notice it at first because he was so tired and hungry. If it weren't for the light of the setting sun reflected on the knife, Li Diudiu might have been injured.
He dodged the moment the long sword appeared, crouched down like a cheetah, and exerted force with all four limbs at the same time, and suddenly rushed forward.
The long sword did not chase after him, which showed that the person who attacked Li Diudiu was not very good at martial arts, at least his martial arts skills were not very good, or maybe he did not have any killing intention.
After Li Diudiu flew away for a distance and turned around, he saw a middle-aged man with an extremely ugly face looking at him with a pair of eyes full of hatred.
But Li Diudiu didn't know this person at all and had no impression of him at all. However, the hatred in that person's eyes made Li Diudiu wonder if he had made some big mistake before.
"You were sent by that bastard Wang Heita, right?"
The middle-aged man climbed over from behind the low wall with a knife in hand. Li Diudiu could see that his movements were a little clumsy and his martial arts skills were indeed mediocre.
The actual power of that knife strike just now was not as great as the power that scared Li Diudiu.
Li Diudiu did not answer but asked in return: "Who are you?"
The man did not answer. He looked Li Diudiu up and down and said with a sneer, "It seems that Wang Heita has not been very good at being a dog for those so-called big shots since he entered Jizhou City. His subordinates are actually half-grown children like you."
He raised his long knife and pointed it at Li Diudiu, saying, "This is a matter between Wang Heita and me. It has nothing to do with you. I don't want to kill anyone anymore... Go back and tell Wang Heita that I took all the money. He owes me this. If he wants it back, he can do it himself."
After a pause, he added, "I will wait for him here for a while. There has to be a conclusion between him and me. Tell him exactly what I said. Go away!"
Li Diudiu looked at the middle-aged man with a ferocious face and suddenly came to his senses. He guessed who this man was.
"I also want to convey your words to Wang Heita verbatim, but I can't do it."
Li Diudiu said: "He is dead."
The middle-aged man, who had a ferocious look on his face, suddenly stiffened after hearing these three words, and his expression soon changed. He strode forward, but for some unknown reason he suddenly stopped and raised his long knife again to point at Li Diudiu, but the knife was not stable at all and was shaking like an old man on his last legs.
"What did you say?"
The bloodshot in the middle-aged man's eyes seemed to appear in an instant. He pointed the knife at Li Diudiu and roared, "How could he die? You must be lying to me. How could that bastard die after he surrendered to an official!"
Li Diudiu was silent for a moment before answering, "I am not Brother Wang's man. He anticipated that something bad would happen to him and asked me to come here to get the banknotes and deliver them to his family. I left Jizhou after I knew he was dead... He, he died in an internal struggle among the government officials."
The middle-aged man stood there in a daze. After a moment, he began to laugh crazily, laughing so hard that he fell backwards . The long knife in his hand fell to the ground with a bang. It was the first time that Li Diudiu saw a person laughing so heartbreakingly.
After laughing for a long time, the man squatted on the ground, holding his head and crying, crying heart-wrenchingly.
After a long time, the man stopped crying and said two words to himself.
"retribution."
Li Diudiu looked at him, not knowing what to say.
At that moment he guessed who this person was. This person could only be Song Feng, Wang Heita's sworn brother. They had gathered together to revolt after they became sworn brothers. They had experienced many life and death experiences, but they parted ways because of silver.
"He deserved to die."
Song Feng coughed a few times and said, "This kind of treacherous villain runs to work as a dog for the government officials. This is the end. There is nothing to feel sorry for."
Li Diudiu said: "But you are feeling distressed. "
"I don't!"
Song Feng shouted loudly, and his face instantly turned back to its original ferocious look.
He wanted to bend down to pick up the knife, but after bending down, he fell to the ground as if he couldn't control himself. The man lying on the ground at that moment was like a child who had just learned to walk. He fell to the ground and couldn't get up, with helplessness in his eyes.
Li Diudiu went over to help him up. Song Feng looked up at Li Diudiu fiercely: "You still dare to come over? Aren't you afraid that I will kill you?"
Li Diudiu shook his head: "You can't kill me, you don't have that ability."
Song Feng seemed to be furious. He struggled and was about to fight with Li Diudiu. Li Diudiu pulled and tripped him casually, and Song Feng fell heavily to the ground again.
Compared with Wang Heita, Song Feng's martial arts are really not worth mentioning in front of Li Diudiu.
"Let's chat for a while."
Li Diudiu looked at Song Feng who was lying there in despair and said, "I was entrusted by someone and I have to be loyal to him. Brother Wang asked me to bring the money to his family. If you took the money, please return it to me. I have something to do."
Song Feng sat up, leaning his back against the low wall, looking at Li Diudiu as if he were a monster and said, "How could you be willing to take the risk of working for such a treacherous and heartless person?!"
Li Diudiu replied, "I have met Brother Wang's men. None of them were willing to leave Brother Wang to survive. In the most dangerous moment, they all chose to stay until they died. Hundreds of people died together... If Brother Wang is really as treacherous and heartless as you said, why would hundreds of brothers die with him?"
Song Feng opened his mouth, but no words came out.
"I don't care what your feud is or how good your relationship used to be."
Li Diudiu said seriously: "But since I promised Brother Wang, I will not give up halfway. Let me ask you again, did you take the money?"
"yes!"
Song Feng gritted his teeth and answered with one word.
Li Diudiu stretched out his hand: "Then please give it to me."
Song Feng didn't give it to him. After a long silence, he suddenly asked, "Did he... die miserably?"
Li Diudiu replied: "He was stabbed more than 20 times. I didn't see it, but I heard about it."
"More than twenty knives..."
Song Feng laughed miserably and said to himself, "He has blocked the knife for me three times before..."
He looked at Li Diudiu, hesitated for a moment, and then gestured, "Can you sit down and talk to me for a while? I want to know how he is doing in Jizhou City."
Li Diudiu sat down next to Song Feng and said, "Let's not talk about how he is doing in Jizhou City. You must have had a hard time since you separated from him."
Song Feng nodded and said, "After he left, I angrily ordered my men to chase him to Jizhou City and kill him, but no one was willing. At that moment, I realized that my men obeyed him far more than me."
He paused and continued, "But at that time I hadn't realized how wrong I was. I hacked one of my disobedient subordinates to death. Those brothers looked at me as if I were an enemy. They left one by one, saying that I had changed..."
Song Feng raised his hands and rubbed his face vigorously. Because he rubbed too hard, his face looked deformed.
"The team was disbanded, and I became a lonely man... But I calmed down. I thought that those who went to the government would not end well. Are the people in the government of Da Chu human? No, they are all wolves in human skins."
"So I just wanted to wait and see how miserable his death would be. I also wanted to take revenge on him. When he and I discussed hiding a sum of money, it was me who said we should hide the money here. He took my money, so I took his."
Song Feng let out a long breath, and when he looked at Li Diudiu, his eyes were full of sadness.
"Brother, what happened... I took his money but I'm not happy. I didn't leave. I just thought that if he couldn't make it, he would come here to get the money. Then I could take revenge and laugh at him. I saw you when you came here yesterday. You didn't come here by yourself. In fact, I probably, probably... guessed that he was no longer alive."
Song Feng let out another long breath and looked at Li Diudiu: "I know that someone like me is no longer worthy of others' trust, but I still want to ask you to tell me where his family lives. We swore at the beginning that if I died, he would take care of my family, and if he died, I would take care of his family."
Li Diudiu shook his head.
Song Feng smiled bitterly. He stood up and walked behind the low wall. He came back with a cloth bag and handed it to Li Diudiu: "This is the banknote he hid here, and all the money I have left. You can take it all away."
Li Diudiu asked: "What about you and your family?"
"I... don't have any family anymore."
Song Feng's tears flowed again, this time there was no hysterical crying, the tears flowed silently, but the sadness made people feel deeper than the heartbreak.
There is no real pain, no such tears.
"The team was disbanded, and the people were gone. Only my family stayed with me. But a few days later, we encountered the rebels attacking Tang County. When we took a break on the way, I went to the river to get some water for the children. When I came back... they were all dead."
At that moment, Li Diudiu saw death in Song Feng's eyes.
"They are all dead."
Song Feng trembled and said, "I wanted to take revenge, but halfway through, I suddenly remembered that what those people did was what I have been doing for the past two years. My wife and children were killed, and how many other people's wives and children have I killed? It's all retribution."
He looked at Li Diudiu and pleaded, "If...if Heita's wife asks about me and Heita, don't tell her that we had a falling out. Just say that he and I died together. A living person can't have no good thoughts in his heart."
After he finished speaking, he bowed to Li Diudiu and said, "Thank you."
Li Diudiu was silent for a long time, then asked: "Actually, you knew where his wife and children lived, but you didn't dare to go there, right? Since it was you who suggested hiding the silver here, and Brother Wang trusted you so much at that time, it was impossible for him not to tell you where his wife and children went."
Song Feng's shoulders trembled violently.
"Yes... I know. It was me who helped him figure out where to hide his family in Laihu County. You're right... I just don't dare to go. When I asked you just now, I just wanted to hear you say that you would go with me. If that happens, I might have some courage to face them..."
Song Feng shook his head: "But I don't deserve it."
Li Diudiu asked: "You were speaking vaguely and I didn't hear you clearly. What did you say you wanted to hear just now?"
Song Feng said: "I want to hear you say that we can go together... I can't..."
Li Diudiu said: "Well, let's go together."
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