Chapter 20 Chapter Eighteen

A luscious and warm soup flowed down the throat, and the cramped and constricted stomach immediately relaxed and stretched, as if the barren land had been nourished and hydrated. Fu Hongxue opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was a very small white hand.A very white and small hand held a very white and small spoon, and fed a bowl of thick, hot, fragrant and sweet soup into his mouth spoon by spoon. Seeing him waking up, she immediately showed a happy smile on her face: "This is the chicken soup I specially asked the old woman next door to do the laundry. It is silky chicken. I heard that eating it is the most nourishing. It seems to have some effect."

Fu Hongxue wanted to keep his mouth shut, but a spoonful of thick chicken soup came to his mouth again, and he really couldn't refuse. She was still laughing: "Are you surprised? I have never taken care of others in my life, and no one has ever taken care of me." There is a small window in the hut, and the sun is still shining outside the window. Her eyes had moved away from Fu Hongxue's face, and she was staring at the sunlight outside the window. Although the sun was shining brightly, her eyes were dim.Did she think of those days long, long ago when no one took care of her?

Those days were clearly not spent in the sun.She had probably never spent a day in the sun in her life. After a long time, she slowly continued: "I now know that no matter being taken care of or taking care of others, it turns out that it is such... such a good thing." She is not a girl who knows a lot, she thought for a long time before she came up with the word "good" to describe her feeling. Fu Hongxue understood how she felt, it was definitely not a good word to describe, it also included satisfaction, security and happiness, because she felt that she was no longer lonely.

She does not expect others to take care of her.As long as she can take care of others, she is satisfied. Fu Hongxue suddenly asked: "What's your name? Your real name." She laughed again.She likes being asked her name, which at least shows that he has her as a person. A real human being, an independent human being, is neither someone else's tool nor someone else's plaything. She smiled and said, "My surname is Zhou, and my name is Zhou Ting. People used to call me Xiaoting." For the first time, Fu Hongxue realized that she was smiling so innocently, because she had washed off the thick layer of makeup on her face, revealing her original face.

She knew he was looking at her: "Do I look like an old woman when I'm not dressed up?" Fu Hongxue said, "You don't look like that." Xiao Ting smiled even more happily: "You are such a strange person, I never thought you would come to me again." She frowned and said, "You looked so scary when you came here. I thought you were going to die, and you didn't know anything I asked you, but as soon as I touched your knife, you would beat someone up. " She looked at the dark knife in his hand. Fu Hongxue was silent. She didn't ask again.She has long been used to being rejected by others.She didn't have high hopes for anything.For this ruthless world, she has almost no extravagant expectations and demands, and she doesn't even ask his name, because...

"I know you are a good person. Although you hit me lightly, you didn't insult me ​​like others. You gave me so much money for no reason." These things were already great favors to her, enough for her eternal gratitude. "The money you gave me is useless to me at all. Even if I buy chicken every day, it will be enough for a long time, so you must stay here and wait until your illness is cured before leaving." She took his hand: "If you leave now, I will definitely feel very sad." In the eyes of others, she is a humble and lowly woman who betrayed herself for five renminbi.

But she didn't ask for anything from him, as long as he could let her take care of her, she was satisfied.Compared with those women who call themselves "noble", who is noble?Who is lowly? She betrayed herself simply because she wanted to live.Who doesn't want to live? Fu Hongxue closed his eyes, and suddenly asked, "Do you have any wine here?" Xiao Ting said: "Not here, but I can buy it." Fu Hongxue said: "Okay, you go and buy it, I won't leave." —The patient should not have been drinking. —Why is he drinking?Is it because you have unresolvable troubles and pains in your heart?

—but drinking doesn't solve anything, what good does it do him to be drunk? She didn't think about it. She had always thought little and asked little; as long as he was willing to stay, it didn't matter what she was asked to do. "People should work hard and work soberly when they are alive, and they must not give up on themselves and give up on themselves." She didn't understand any of these words.She has lived in the mud for too long, and no one has ever given her a chance to get her up. For her, life is not as complicated and noble as others imagine. Life has not given her any benefits, so how can she ask too much of her.

Fu Hongxue was drunk for an unknown number of days. When a person is drunk, she will always do some inexplicable and unreasonable things, but she has no complaints. When he asked for wine, she went to buy wine, bought again and again, and sometimes knocked on the door of the wine shop in the middle of the night.Not only did she never reject him, she never looked unhappy. It's just that sometimes she goes too long, and the place where the wine is sold is not too far away. Of course Fu Hongxue would occasionally be sober, but he never asked her why she had been away for so long. What he gave her that day was just some scattered silver, because he only had some scattered silver on him.He was always poor, as he was always lonely.

But he never asked her where the money for the wine came from.He couldn't ask, and he didn't dare to ask. She never asked him anything, but said something that he will never forget.It was said one night when she was a little bit drunk. "Although I don't understand anything, I know you must be in pain." pain?How can his feeling be described as pain? One day she was very happy, because it was her birthday, she bought some extra things, and even bought an old hen that was hard to eat recently, but when she came back, he had left and left nothing behind. The next sentence is gone.

The wine bottle fell to the floor and shattered.She stood in front of the bed obsessively, from day to night, without even moving. His hair was still on the pillow.She picked it up, wrapped it up, and hid it in her bosom, then went out to buy wine again. Today is her birthday, how many birthdays can a person have in a lifetime? Why can't she be drunk? Fu Hongxue was not drunk.For the past two days, he has not been drunk.He has been walking on and on, without purpose or direction.He just wanted to leave her as far away as possible. Maybe they were already sinking, but he still couldn't bear to drag her down. Although separation is always painful, she is still young, and no matter how deep the pain is, she will soon forget it.Young people always have a stronger tolerance for pain, and if they drag on, they may never be able to extricate themselves. When he was tired from walking, he just found a place to lie down, and then started walking again.He didn't eat a grain of rice, only drank a little water.His beard has grown like a hedgehog, and the stench of his body can be smelled from a distance. He was torturing himself, torturing himself desperately.He hardly thought about her anymore, until he suddenly found a small handkerchief bag on his body. An embroidered pure silk handkerchief, one of her few extravagant possessions.Wrapped in the handkerchief were a few silver bills of not small amount and a few ingots of gold coins, which were also found from the dying "Index Finger" that day, and he put them in his bosom, forgetting that it was him. During his seizures, he kept convulsing and twisting, these things fell out, and when she saw them, she wrapped them up for him with her most cherished handkerchief.She could sell herself for five denarii, maybe even for a bottle of wine.But she didn't even move these things.She would rather betray herself than touch anything from him. Fu Hongxue's heart was throbbing, she suddenly stood up and ran towards her hut. She is no longer there. The front of the hut was crowded with people of all kinds, including a policeman wearing a red tasseled cap. "How is this going?" He asked others, but no one paid any attention to him. Fortunately, a drunken beggar regarded him as his kind. "There was a bitch who lived in this hut, but she ran away the night before, so the master catcher came to catch her." "Why did you catch her? Why did she run away?" "Because she killed someone." --kill?How could that kind and poor girl kill someone? "Who did she kill?" "Kill the owner of the small wine shop on the street." The beggar waved his fist, "That fat pig deserves to die." "Why did you kill him?" "She used to go to that wine shop to buy wine. It was originally for money, but she drank too much and didn't even do business. When her alcohol addiction broke out, she had to go on credit, and the fat pig actually gave her credit. .” The beggar was laughing: "Because that fat pig didn't know what she was doing, and wanted to get her ideas. The night before yesterday, she didn't know why, but she went to the wine shop alone to drink and got drunk, that fat pig Of course, the pig was overjoyed, thinking that this was a great opportunity, and when she was drunk, he would beat her up. Who knew that although she was joking, she refused to let the fat pig touch her, and picked up took the pork-cutting knife on the cabinet, and chopped the fat pig's head in half with one knife." He wanted to continue talking, but the listener suddenly disappeared. The beggar could only smile bitterly and mutter to himself: "There are a lot of weird things these days. A bitch would kill someone for refusing to take off his pants. Do you think it's funny?" Of course he thought this kind of thing was funny, but if he knew the truth about it, he might fall on the ground and cry a lot. Fu Hongxue didn't cry or shed tears. A funeral was going on in the liquor shop on the street; he rushed in, took a jug of wine, smashed the liquor shop to pieces, and then he drank the whole jar of wine in one gulp, and poured it by the ditch in a back alley. ——For some reason, she didn't even do business. ——I don't know why, she actually ran to get drunk by herself, but refused to let that fat pig touch her. What is she for?who knows? Fu Hongxue suddenly shouted loudly: "I know...I know." So what if we know? Knowing it will only make it more painful! She has escaped, but where can she escape to?At most, the only way to escape from this quagmire is to escape into another quagmire.Another stinkier mud! Fu Hongxue wanted to drink again, he wasn't drunk yet, because he could still think about these things. ——Who did Ming Yuexin and Yan Nanfei die for? ——For whom did Xiao Ting run away? He struggled to get up and rushed out of the back alley, where a galloping horse was galloping by.The horse hissed in alarm, the knight shouted angrily, and a whip was drawn down like a poisonous snake. Fu Hongxue grabbed the whip with one backhand.He was madly drunk, so drunk that he had already tortured himself beyond human form, but he was still Fu Hongxue after all. The knight on the horse snatched the whip vigorously.No one could snatch anything from Fu Hongxue's hands, and with a "poof", the whip broke. Fu Hongxue was still standing, but the rider on the horse almost fell from the saddle on his back.But his reaction was not slow either. He swung his pedals off the saddle, turned over in the air, and galloped forward, but this man was already standing firmly on the ground, looking at Fu Hongxue in surprise. Fu Hongxue didn't look at him, not even a glance.The only thing he wants to see now is a jar of wine, a jar of strong wine that can make him forget all the pain. He just walked past this person.The way he walked was clumsy and strange, and a strange expression suddenly appeared in the eyes of this man, as if he saw a ghost suddenly. He immediately yelled, "Wait a minute." Fu Hongxue ignored him. The man asked again: "Are you Fu Hongxue?" Fu Hongxue still ignored him. The man suddenly drew his sword backhand, and stabbed at Fu Hongxue's weak side.His moves are light and fast, and he is obviously also a fast sword in the martial arts.But when his sword was still seven inches away from Fu Hongxue's waist, Fu Hongxue's saber was already out of its sheath. With a flash of the knife, blood splattered, and a good head was cut in half. The man fell, the knife sheathed.Fu Hongxue didn't even stop walking, and didn't even look at this person. It's very late at night, but there are still many people in this small wine shop, because no matter who it is, once they enter, they are not allowed to leave. Because Fu Hongxue said: "I treat guests, you drink with me, no one is allowed to leave." His body was stench and bloody, and he was carrying fistfuls of silver bills and gold lockets.His stench is disgusting, his blood is terrifying, but his handful of gold and silver is respectable, so no one dares to leave. He takes a drink and everyone has to raise a glass with him.Two more people came in from outside.He didn't see what kind of people they were at all, but they were staring at him, and one of them suddenly walked up to him and sat down. "Done." He raised his glass and drank it down, but he still didn't look at this person, not even a glance. The man suddenly smiled and said, "Good drinker." Fu Hongxue said, "Well, I'm a good drinker." The man said: "You can drink well, and your sword skills are also good." Fu Hongxue said: "Good saber technique." The man said: "You seem to have said that a sword technique that can kill is a good sword technique." Fu Hongxue said, "I said so?" The man nodded, and suddenly asked again: "Do you know who the person you killed just now is?" Fu Hongxue said, "Did I kill someone just now? Who did I kill?" The man looked at him with a smile in his eyes, a smile that could wake people up in the middle of the night: "You killed your brother-in-law." Fu Hongxue frowned, as if desperately thinking about how he had a brother-in-law. The man immediately reminded him: "Did you forget that you are married now? Your wife's elder brother is your brother-in-law." Fu Hongxue thought for a long time, nodded, and shook his head, as if he understood, but also as if he didn't understand. The man suddenly pointed to the person who came in with him, and said, "Do you know who she is?" The one who came with him was a woman who was standing far away by the counter, looking at Fu Hongxue coldly. She was young and beautiful, with dark hair and bright eyes, just the kind of daughter every parent wanted, the kind of sister every man wanted, the kind of lover every teenager wanted.But when she looked at Fu Hongxue, her eyes were full of hatred and resentment. Fu Hongxue finally raised his head to look at her, as if he recognized her, but also didn't seem to recognize her. The man smiled and said, "She is your sister-in-law." Afraid that Fu Hongxue wouldn't understand, he explained again: "My sister-in-law is your wife's younger sister, that is, your brother-in-law's younger sister." Fu Hongxue started drinking again, as if he was confused by what he said, he must have a glass of wine to sober up. The man asked again: "Do you know what she wants to do now?" Fu Hongxue shook his head. The man said, "She wants to kill you." Fu Hongxue suddenly sighed, and murmured, "Why does everyone want to kill me?" The man laughed again: "You are right at all. There are thirteen people sitting in this room, at least seven of them are here to kill you. They all want to wait until you are drunk before doing anything." Fu Hongxue said: "Wait till I get drunk? How could I get drunk? I won't get drunk for another three days and three nights." The man smiled and said, "Since it's useless to wait another three days and three nights, it seems that they will do it now." At this moment, only a "ding" sound was heard, and a wine glass fell to the ground and shattered.The person holding the wine glass was already holding a machete with a thick back and thin blade.When he rushed towards Fu Hongxue, he took off a training spear, a wild goose feather knife, a bamboo whip, and a funeral sword at the same time. The eyes of a young man who wielded the sword were bloodshot, and he was still roaring: "The black hand takes revenge, friends on the road don't meddle in their own business." After saying this, he was stunned, and his four companions were also stunned. The five of them stood motionless like stone statues, because the weapons in their hands were gone?All five weapons were in the hands of the man sitting opposite Fu Hongxue. As soon as they started to move, he also moved, his left hand slapped his shoulder, and the right hand had already snatched the weapon away, the five of them only felt a blur in front of their eyes, as the figures flashed, the weapon in their hands was gone. The man had already sat back to his original place, gently placed the five weapons on the table, and then said with a smile: "I'm not a friend on the road, I can meddle in my own business." The young man who wielded the sword shouted angrily, "Who are you?" The man said: "My name has never been told to the dead." The young man asked, "Who is the dead man?" The man said: "You!" They were all standing there at first, when the word was spoken, the faces of the five people suddenly turned pale, and the flesh and blood in their bodies seemed to be drained at once, and the five vigorous and strong men suddenly became dry and haggard , All of a sudden they all fell down. Fu Hongxue still didn't seem to see it. The man sighed and said: "I killed these people for you, even if you don't appreciate me, you should at least praise me." Fu Hongxue said, "What do you praise?" The man said, "Can't you see what kung fu I'm using?" Fu Hongxue said, "I can't see it." The man said: "This is one of the only two kinds of kung fu that have been handed down to the world in the 'Great Compassion Fu on the Interaction between Heaven and Earth'." Fu Hongxue said, "Oh?" The man said: "This is the Great Soul Searcher." Fu Hongxue said, "Oh?" The man said: "There is another one, which is the Heaven Shifting Earth Shifting Great Shifting Acupuncture method that you have learned." He smiled, and said again: "If you can move the acupoints by an inch, at least you have practiced this kind of kung fu to 90%." Fu Hongxue said, "What about you? Who are you?" The man said: "I am the affectionate son of Western Xingxiu Sea, even more affectionate than you." Fu Hongxue finally raised his head and looked at him, as if he didn't know that the person sitting opposite him was a person until now. This man smiled very softly, his eyebrows were very delicate, and he really looked like a lover. "Passionate lovers also kill?" "When the love is strong, the love turns thin. It is because my love is too much and too strong, so now it is thinner than paper." Duoqingzi smiled and said: "It's just that I never kill people for no reason." Fu Hongxue said, "Oh?" Duanqingzi said: "I killed these people just because I don't want you to die by their hands." Fu Hongxue said, "Why?" Duanqingzi said: "Because I want you to die by my hands." Fu Hongxue said, "You really want to?" Passionate son said: "I really want to die." The girl standing far away from the counter suddenly said: "Because if he kills you, I will marry him." The sentimental son said: "Look, I'm already thirty-five years old. I haven't married a wife yet, and of course I don't have any sons. There are three kinds of unfilial piety. Having no offspring is the biggest. You can't call me an unfilial person." The girl hurriedly said: "He won't." Passionate son said: "How do you know?" The girl said: "I've seen him shoot three times, and there really seems to be a ghost on his knife." Passionate said, "What about now?" The girl said: "Now the ghost on his sword has gone into his own heart." Duoqingzi deliberately asked: "How did you go?" The girl said: "For two things." Passionate said: "Wine and women?" The girl nodded and said, "Because of these two things, he almost died once before." Passionate son said: "But he is not dead." The girl said: "Because he has a good friend!" Passionate said: "Ye Kai?" The girl sighed and said, "It's a pity that Ye Kai has gone now." Passionate son said: "Then isn't he very dangerous now?" The girl said: "It's very dangerous." Duanqingzi said: "Do you think I can catch his knife?" The girl smiled and said: "Your big soul searching hand can even catch real ghosts, let alone a knife that has no ghosts?" Duanqingzi said: "Even if I can grab his knife, wouldn't my hand be broken?" The girl said: "No." Passionate son said: "Why not?" The girl said: "Because your grasping method is very clever, your hand can't touch the blade at all, and your other hand has searched his soul." Passionate son said: "So, isn't he finished?" The girl said: "He still has a little hope." Passionate son said: "What hope?" The girl said: "As long as he tells us two things, we won't even touch him." Passionate son said: "What are the two things?" The girl said: "Where is the peacock feather? Where is the Yin-Yang Great Compassion Fu?" Duanqingzi said: "If he has peacock feathers, if he has practiced the Great Compassion Fu, then we are finished." The girl said: "Maybe his hands are not stable enough to use peacock feathers; maybe even though he has mastered the method of moving acupoints, he has no way to practice other kung fu." Duoqingzi smiled: "Looking at him like this, it really seems that he can't practice other kung fu anymore." The girl also smiled: "Now the only kung fu he can practice is drinking." Duoqingzi smiled and said, "He seems to have practiced this kind of kung fu very well." The girl said: "It's a pity that the only use of this kind of kung fu is to make him a drunkard, a dead drunkard." Every word they said was like a needle, and they wanted to pierce all the needles into his heart, make him suffer, make him weak, and make him collapse.It's a pity that all these needles seemed to have pierced a rock, because Fu Hongxue didn't even react at all, he was completely numb. Numbness is not far from collapse, not far from death. Duoqingzi sighed, and said: "It seems that he has decided not to speak?" The girl sighed and said, "Maybe he must wait until he is about to die before he will say anything." Passionate son said: "It's not time yet?" The girl said: "You will arrive as soon as you make a move." Passionate son has shot.His hands were white and thin, like a woman's.His gestures are gentle and graceful, as if picking a flower, a very delicate and fragile flower. No matter how strong and strong a person is, under his hands, they will become as delicate and fragile as a flower. He didn't seem to move quickly, but in fact it was like a very soft light, and when you saw it, it had already arrived. But this time, before his hand arrived, the knife was out of its sheath. With a flash of light from the knife, his hand suddenly opened like a flower petal, and he actually grabbed the knife.Would his other hand immediately search for Fu Hongxue's soul?It was as if he had drained the flesh and blood of those people just now! Petal-like hands, soul-searching hands. The knife that no one can hold has been caught by this hand, but it's a pity that no matter how terrible the hand is, it will become as delicate and fragile as a petal when it is touched by this knife. The knife flashed and blood spattered. The hands have been cut in half, and the head has been cut in half. The girl's eyes widened, but her pupils shrank. She didn't see the knife at all.The knife is sheathed, like lightning that has sunk into the dark sky, and no one can still see it.She could only see Fu Hongxue's pale face. Fu Hongxue had already stood up and walked over, still walking clumsily, frighteningly clumsily. He walked unsteadily, and he was drunk, terribly drunk. From her point of view, every part of his body, every movement, became indescribably terrifying.She was so frightened that her blood was almost congealed, but she suddenly smiled: "Don't you recognize me? I am the second lady of the Ni family, Ni Hui, we are friends." Fu Hongxue ignored her. She watched him walk past her, eyes still full of fear.She must not let this man live.If he lived, she had to die, at his hands. This judgment may not be correct.She was a very intelligent person, but fear made her lose her mind.But she didn't forget her Tiannvhua.Apart from her, there seemed to be no one else in Jianghu who could use such a vicious hidden weapon. When the hidden weapon is shot, not only the petals can fly and hurt people, but there are also deadly poisonous needles hidden in the petals. There are only thirteen celestial maiden flowers on her body, because she doesn't need to wear too many. She has used this kind of hidden weapon three times, and only used one each time.One flower is enough to kill a person. Now she actually shot out all thirteen flowers, and then her body flew back immediately.Even if this blow misses, she can at least retreat completely.She has always been very confident in her lightness kung fu. It's a pity that the knife was out of its sheath at this time!