Chapter 8 Before the sixth duel

Fu Hongxue. Age: about thirty-six or seven. Features: The right foot is slightly lame, and the knife can't leave the hand. Martial arts: no sect from a teacher, self-contained, with a knife, very fast, the world is recognized as the fastest knife in the world. Life background: His family background is unknown, he was adopted by Princess Baifeng of the demon sect after birth, so he is proficient in various methods of poisoning and assassination; he is still celibate. Unmarried, her home is all over the world, and she wanders the world. Personality: withdrawn and cold, lonely. Du Lei slowly pushed a piece of paper with these materials in front of "Thumb", without any expression on his face.

Thumb said: "Have you seen it?" Du Lei said, "Yes." Thumb sighed, and said: "I also know that you will never be satisfied, but this is already all the information we can get. No one will know more about Fu Hongxue!" Du Lei said, "Very good." Thumb blinked and asked tentatively, "Is this information useful to you?" Du Lei said, "No." Thumb said: "It's useless at all?" Du Lei nodded slowly, stood up, walked around, then sat down again, and said coldly: "You missed two points in your information, and they are the two most important points!"

Thumb said: "Oh?" Du Lei said: "He was cheated by a woman before, and he was cheated badly." Thumb said: "Who is this woman?" Du Lei said, "It's a bitch named Cui Nong." Thumb sighed again, and said, "I always wonder why the smarter a man is, the more likely he is to be fooled by a bitch?" Peacock interrupted suddenly and sneered, "Because smart men only like smart women, but smart women are usually whores." Thumb smiled, shook his head and said with a smile, "I know you hate women, but I never thought you hated them so much."

Du Lei said coldly: "It seems that he must have been fooled by a woman before." Peacock's face changed, and he actually smiled, and asked, "What's your second point?" Du Lei said, "He's sick." Thumb said: "What disease?" Du Lei said: "Goat epilepsy is crazy." Thumb's eyes lit up, and he said, "During his illness, is he like others, foaming at the mouth and rolling on the ground?" Du Lei said: "There is only one type of epilepsy!" Thumb sighed: "A cripple with epilepsy can practice a sharp knife that is unparalleled in the world."

Du Lei said: "He has worked hard. It is said that he spends at least four hours a day practicing swords. Since he was four or five years old, he has drawn his swords at least twelve thousand times a day." Thumb smiled wryly and said, "Unexpectedly, you know more about him than we do." Du Lei said indifferently: "I know everyone on the Jianghu Celebrity List very clearly, because I have spent five full months collecting their information, and another five months of research." Thumb said: "You must have spent more effort on Fu Hongxue than on other people."

Dooley admitted. Thumb said: "What have you researched?" Du Lei said: "He never leaves the knife, just because he has been using this knife for at least twenty years. Now this knife has almost become a part of his body, he uses this knife, Almost more dexterous than others using their own fingers." Thumb said: "But I know that the knife he used is not very good." Du Lei said: "A knife that can kill is a good knife!" ——To Fu Hongxue, that knife was more than just a knife. There was already a feeling between him and the knife that others could not understand.

Although Du Lei didn't say these words, his thumb already understood what he meant. Peacock had been thinking for a while, and suddenly said: "If we can get his knife..." Du Lei said: "No one can get his knife." Peacock smiled and said, "Everything has exceptions." Du Lei said: "There is no exception to this matter." Peacock didn't argue any more, but asked again: "When does his illness usually start?" Du Lei said: "Whenever his anger and sorrow become unbearable, his illness will attack." Peacock said: "If you can take action when he is ill..."

Du Lei lowered his face and sneered, "Who do you think I am?" Peacock smiled again, and said: "I also know that you don't want to do this kind of thing, but we might as well ask someone else to do it. If we can find someone to anger him first, let him..." Du Lei suddenly stood up, and said coldly: "I just want you to understand one thing." The peacock is listening, and so is Thumb! Du Lei said: "This is a duel between me and him. No matter who wins, it has nothing to do with others." Thumb suddenly asked: "It has nothing to do with the young master?"

Du Lei's hand on the handle of the knife was suddenly clenched. Thumb said: "If you haven't forgotten Young Master, you should at least do one thing." Du Lei couldn't help asking, "What's the matter?" Thumb said: "Let him wait, wait a little longer, and you will go when he is upset." He smiled and said again: "Whether you win or lose this battle, whether you live or die, we don't care, but we don't want to collect your body for you either." At noon, the Ni family abandoned the garden. The sun is shining on the spire of the hexagonal pavilion.There is a person outside the booth with a knife!

Dark knife! Fu Hongxue walked slowly along the trail that had been covered by weeds, holding his knife tightly in his hand. Although the vermilion lacquer on the railings has peeled off, the terraces between the flowers and trees have not yet collapsed, and they still look brilliant in the sun. Of course, this place also has its glorious past, why is it so bleak now? A pair of swallows flew from afar and stopped on the poplar tree outside the Liujiao Pavilion, as if they were still looking for old dreams of the past. It's a pity that Baiyang is still there, but the scenery is completely different.

Swallows fly here and there, how many times have they come?How many times have you been there? Bai Yang didn't ask. Bai Yang was speechless! Poplar is ruthless. Fu Hongxue suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart. He has already learned Bai Yang's silence, but he doesn't know when he will be able to learn Bai Yang's ruthlessness! The swallow flew away, where did the swallow come from?The garden is deserted, whose garden is it? Fu Hongxue stood there bewildered, as if he had forgotten where he was and where he came from. He didn't think about it, because he suddenly heard someone laughing. The laughter is as clear and sweet as a warbler. It is late spring, the grass has grown, but the warbler has not flown. The warbler's voice is in the long grass. Suddenly a girl stood up in the long grass, looked at Fu Hongxue and giggled. She smiled beautifully, and she was even more beautiful, with long black hair as soft as satin. She didn't comb her hair, and just let her silky black hair fall down on her shoulders. She didn't dress up either, but she wore a long robe lightly, which didn't look like silk or satin, but it just looked like her hair. She looked at Fu Hongxue with a smile in her eyes, and suddenly said, "Don't you ask me why I'm smiling?" Fu Hongxue didn't ask. "I'm laughing at you." She smiled sweeter, "You look like an idiot standing there." Fu Hongxue was speechless. "You don't ask me who I am?" "Who are you?" Fu Hongxue asked, what he wanted to ask! Unexpectedly, as soon as he asked, the girl with long hair jumped up and cried out. "I was just waiting for you to ask me this." When she jumped up, she was as fierce as an annoyed kitten, "Do you know whose land you are standing on now? land? Why do you walk around on this land swaggeringly?" Fu Hongxue looked at her coldly, waiting for her to continue. "This place belongs to the Ni family." She pointed to her nose with a finger, "I am the second young lady of the Ni family. As long as I am happy, I can drive you out at any time." Fu Hongxue could only keep his mouth shut. A person wandering around in someone else's house, suddenly met the owner, what else is there to say. Second Miss Ni stared at him fiercely with her big eyes, then suddenly smiled again, the smile was still so sweet. "But of course I won't drive you out, because..." She blinked: "Because I like you." Fu Hongxue could only listen! ——You can dislike others, but there is no way to prevent others from liking you. But this Second Miss Ni has changed her mind: "I said I like you, but it's actually a lie." Fu Hongxue couldn't help asking again: "You know me?" "of course I know!" "Know what?" "Not only do I know your martial arts, I even know your surname and name!" With her hands behind her back, she triumphantly walked out of the long grass, squinting her eyes, and looked up and down at Fu Hongxue. "Others say you are a monster, but I think you are not only not weird, but also pretty good-looking." Fu Hongxue turned around slowly, walked towards the corner pavilion under the sun, and suddenly asked, "You are the only one left in this place?" "So what if I'm alone?" Her eyes rolled, "Don't you dare to bully me?" "Are you not here usually?" "Why should I stay in such a ghost place alone?" Fu Hongxue suddenly turned back and stared at her: "Why don't you leave now?" Second Miss Ni shouted again: "This is my home. I come when I want to come and leave when I want to. Why do I have to be ordered by others?" Fu Hongxue had no choice but to shut up again. Second Miss Ni stared at him fiercely, as if she was very fierce, but she suddenly smiled: "Actually, I shouldn't have quarreled with you. We started quarreling now, what will happen in the future?" future? Did you know that some people have no future? Fu Hongxue walked up the stone steps slowly, looking into the distance.Although the sun was shining on his face, his face was still terribly pale. He just hoped that Du Lei would come soon. But she still teased him: "I know your name is Fu Hongxue, you should at least ask my name." He didn't ask, so she had no choice but to say: "My name is Ni Hui, the wisdom of wisdom, that is, the wisdom of beauty." She suddenly jumped over the railing and stood in front of Fu Hongxue, "My father chose this name for me because I was young. That's very wise." Fu Hongxue ignored her. "You don't believe me?" She put her hands on her hips, and the top of her head almost touched Fu Hongxue's nose, "Not only do I know what you are here for, but I can also guess who you are waiting for." "Oh?" "You must have come here to wait to fight with others. I can tell by your expression." "Oh?" "You have murderous intent!" This young girl also knows what murderous intent is? "I also know that the person you are waiting for must be Du Lei." Ni Hui said very confidently, "Because within hundreds of miles nearby, the only person who is qualified to fight Fu Hongxue is Du Lei." This girl does know a lot. Fu Hongxue looked at her flexible eyes, and said coldly, "Since you know, you should leave quickly!" Although his voice was cold, his eyes were not as cold as usual, and even the outlines of his eyes seemed to be softer. Ni Hui smiled again, and said softly, "Have you started caring about me?" Fu Hongxue immediately lowered his face and said, "I want you to go only because I don't kill people for people to see!" Ni Hui curled her lips and said, "Even if you want me to leave, don't be in a hurry, Du Lei won't come so early anyway." Fu Hongxue raised his head, the sun was in the middle of the sky. Ni Hui said: "He will definitely let you wait, and come back when you are upset. The more upset you are, the more opportunities he has." She smiled, and continued: "This is also a strategy. People like you should have thought of it long ago." She shook her head again suddenly: "You wouldn't think of it, because you are a gentleman, but I am not, so I can teach you a way to deal with a villain like him." what way? Fu Hongxue didn't ask, nor did he refuse to listen. Ni Hui said: "He asked you to wait, but you can also ask him to wait." A tooth for a tooth, a person's way, and a person's body! This is a very old method, and very old methods usually work well. Ni Hui said: "We can take a stroll before we come back, we can even go to play two games of chess, drink two glasses of wine, and let him wait for you here until he dies of anxiety." Fu Hongxue didn't respond. Ni Hui said: "I'll take you to the cellar where our wine is stored first. If we're lucky, maybe we can find a jar or two of my aunt's daughter's wine left when she got married." She was in high spirits, and before he could respond, she reached for his hand—his hand holding the knife. No one can touch this hand. As soon as her delicate and beautiful fingers touched his hand, she suddenly felt a strange and powerful shock. This shocking force actually ejected her whole body. She wanted to stop, but she couldn't stand still, and finally fell to the ground, falling very hard! She didn't call out this time because her eyes were red and her voice was choked: "I just want to make friends with you and do something for you. Why do you treat me like this?" She rubbed her nose as if she might cry at any moment. She looked like a tiny little girl, pitiful and cute. Fu Hongxue didn't look at her, never looked at her, didn't even look at her, but said coldly: "Get up, there are snakes in the grass." Ni Hui was even more aggrieved: "My bones are about to fall apart, how can you tell me to stand up?" She rubbed her eyes again with the hand that rubbed her nose: "I might as well just be bitten to death by a poisonous snake." Fu Hongxue's pale face was still completely expressionless, but his feet had already walked this way. He knew the power he had just sent out— That didn't quite come from his hands.He held the knife in his hand, and there was also power from the knife. With the knife in his hand, it seemed to have life itself. Where there is life, there is strength. potential for life. The strength of this kind of power is almost as terrifying as the indestructible "sword energy". He really shouldn't use this kind of power against her! Ni Hui curled up on the grass and simply covered her face with her hands. Her hands are white and small. Fu Hongxue couldn't help stretching out his hand to pull her—of course it was the hand that wasn't holding the knife. She didn't resist, nor dodge. Her hands are soft and warm. Fu Hongxue hadn't touched a girl's hand for a long, long time. He restrained his desires more thoroughly than almost all the ascetics in the world. But he was a man, and not too old. She stood up obediently, moaning softly.He was trying to help her stand still, but he didn't expect her whole body to fall into his arms. Her body was warmer and softer. He could even feel his heart beating, and of course she could feel it too. Strangely, at the same moment, he suddenly had a very strange feeling again. He suddenly felt murderous. Just then, she had drawn a knife. A seven-inch long knife stabbed at the vital point of his armpit. Her face still looked like a tiny little girl, but her hand was as vicious as a cobra. It's a pity that her knife still missed. Fu Hongxue's body suddenly shrank, the blade that should have pierced his flesh and blood, but just brushed against his skin! At the same instant, she realized that her stab had missed, and her body jumped up!Like the kind of poisonous snake that can suddenly spring up from the ground at any time, as soon as she jumped up, she turned over in the air! After turning over and over again, her toes were already hanging on the cornice of the Hexagonal Pavilion. There is a strong point on the foot, and the body turns out again, and it has reached the top of the tree five feet away. She originally wanted to run away further, but Fu Hongxue didn't chase after her, so she stopped running and stood on a very soft branch with one foot, and she was able to curse at people. Her lightness kung fu is really high, and her ability to swear is even higher. "It's only now that I know why the woman you used to abandon you, because you are not a man at all. Not only do you have problems with your legs, but you also have problems with your heart." She didn't scold harshly, but every word was like a needle, piercing into Fu Hongxue's heart. A strange blush suddenly appeared on Fu Hongxue's pale face, and he clenched his hands tightly. He could hardly bear to draw his knife. But he didn't move, because he suddenly found that the pain in his heart was not as strong as he imagined. His pain was originally like a fire mark branded on cattle and sheep, it was always vivid! Every smile, every tear, every bit of truth, and every lie of hers has been deeply branded in his heart. He has been well hidden. Until the moment he saw Ming Yuexin—all the pain hidden in his memory reappeared vividly before his eyes. No one can imagine the blow he suffered at that moment. What was even more unexpected to him was that since that blow, his pain has subsided, and the pain that he didn't even dare to think about before has become bearable now. ——The pain in the human heart is sometimes like a rotten wound. The more you don’t touch it, the deeper it rots. If you give it a hard knife to make it bleed, it may stop. When Fu Hongxue raised his head, he had completely recovered his composure. Ni Hui was still on the branch, looking at him in surprise.He didn't draw the knife, but said lightly: "You go." This time Ni Hui was really obedient, she walked really fast. The sun is setting towards the west, and the shadow of the Liujiao Pavilion has already appeared. Fu Hongxue didn't move, not even his posture. The shadow grows, longer. Fu Hongxue still didn't move. People didn't move, and neither did their hearts. If a person has been used to loneliness and loneliness for a long time, then for him, waiting is no longer a pain. In order to wait for the first time to draw the sword, he waited for seventeen years, but that time drawing the sword was meaningless and fruitless! He waited seventeen years just to kill someone, to avenge his parents and family. But when he drew his sword, he found that he was not a descendant of this family at all, and had nothing to do with this matter at all. This is not just irony. This satire is too bitter and vicious for anyone. But he still accepted it, because he had to accept it. He has since learned to be patient. If Du Lei could understand this, maybe he wouldn't have to wait. ——When you want me to wait for you, don’t you also wait for yourself! There are many things in the world that are like the double edge of a sword. —When you are about to hurt someone else, you tend to hurt yourself in the same way. Sometimes you hurt yourself even more than the other person! Fu Hongxue exhaled lightly, only feeling very calm. Now is the moment. This gloomy house is at the end of a long dark alley. The original owner was a sick and miserly old man. It is said that he was not discovered until his corpse stinks. Peacock rented this house, not because of stinginess. He has enough strength to live in the best inn, but he would rather live here. For him, the name "Peacock" is also a kind of irony. He is by no means like that gorgeous and noble bird that likes to show off, but he is like a bat that only sees the sun. He was lying on the cold, hard plank bed when Thumb came in. The only small window in the house has been nailed to death by wooden boards, and the light is so dark that it looks like a bat's cave. Thumbs sat down, panting.He never understood why the peacock liked to live here. Peacock didn't even look at him, and waited until his panting became a little quieter before asking, "Where's Du Lei?" Thumb said: "He's still waiting." Peacock said: "When I broke up with him, it was Weishi." Peacock said again: "How long is he going to keep Fu Hongxue waiting?" Thumb said: "I've already told him, at least we won't go until Shen Shi." A vicious smile appeared on the corner of Peacock's mouth, and said: "Standing in that ghostly place and waiting for two hours, I'm afraid that kind of crime is very uncomfortable." Thumb frowned and said, "I'm only worried about one thing." Peacock said: "What's the matter?" Thumb said: "Although Fu Hongxue is waiting, Du Lei himself is also waiting. I'm only worried that he can't bear it more than Fu Hongxue." Peacock said indifferently: "If he died under Fu Hongxue's knife, would you have lost anything?" Thumb said: "No." Peacock said: "Then what do you have to worry about?" Thumb smiled, wiped his sweat with his sleeve, and said, "I have some good news for you." The peacock is listening. Thumb said: "Yan Nanfei has really been poisoned, and the poison is very serious." Peacock asked: "Where did this news come from?" Thumb said: "It was bought with five hundred taels of silver!" Peacock's eyes lit up, and said: "The news that can be worth five hundred taels of silver is usually very reliable." Thumb said: "So we can kill him anytime." Peacock said, "We're going now." Now is the moment. It was long past noon, but the sun was getting stronger and hotter.Spring is getting old and the long summer is coming. Fu Hongxue didn't like summer. Summer belongs to the children - during the day, they roll naked in the pond, somersault on the grass, pick strawberries, and catch butterflies. At night, they sit under the melon shed and eat melons soaked in well water, listening to adults talking about foxes. Ghost, catch another bag of Liuying, put it in a gauze bag, and go to the young aunts and aunts to exchange some zongzi candies. Golden summer, golden childhood, always only joy, no sorrow. But Fu Hongxue never had a summer that was truly his own. In the summer in his memory, he was either sweating or bleeding; he was either hiding in the hot undergrowth to practice drawing his sword, or he was waiting to draw his sword in the scorching desert! Draw the knife! Over and over again, endlessly drawing knives! This simple action has become the most important part of his life. When is the next time you draw a knife? ——The knife itself symbolizes death. ——The moment to draw the sword is the moment to die. This time he pulled out his knife, who died? Fu Hongxue lowered his head, staring at his hand holding the knife.The hands are cold, the hands are pale, and the knife is black. Just then, he heard Du Lei's footsteps. At this time, it was three quarters before the end of time.