Chapter 15 Fourteenth Orchid Legend

How does a legend come about?How is a hero made?How much hardship?How much blood and tears?How much to bear?How much homemade? ——Although bloody battles may be understood by everyone, patience and self-control may be more difficult to understand. Now we come back to the most important point. Why should Mr. Orchid appear with a noteworthy aroma? With his character, his conduct, and what he was going to do, he should try to avoid being noticed. "This is his weakness." The boy said, "It is also our clue." ——It must appear only when the moon is full. This has narrowed the scope of searching for him for others, and the aroma of orchids is a very special and obvious target.

That's why the boy was so sure. ——This is his weakness, which is our clue. Because this principle is as simple as one plus one equals two, and it should be as correct as one plus one equals two. But is one plus one absolutely equal to two? The elder suddenly smiled. "Sometimes a person's weakness is often his strength, an obvious clue, and sometimes it can lead you astray." He told the teenager: "It seems that there is no 'absolute' thing in this world, absolutely right and absolute. Errors are unlikely." The elder said: "Whether something is correct or not depends only on the angle you look at it from."

These words seemed to contain deep philosophical principles. Although the young man refused to accept it, he did not dare to argue back. Of course the elder could see what he was thinking, so he said first: "You must think these two points are obvious clues, but I don't seem to agree." He asked the young man: "Do you find it strange?" "Yes!" said the young man, "I really can't figure out the reason behind it." "This reason is actually very simple." The elder said, "I don't think these two points are clues, just because this clue is too obvious."

He told the boy. "Clues that are too obvious are often a trap." The boy still didn't quite understand: "Why?" He asked. The elder spoke with a very serious attitude: "Because a master like Mr. Lanhua would never put such an obvious clue in front of you. Unless he wants to lure you astray, or he is already crazy. " Mr. Orchid is certainly not crazy. "So both Midnight and the Orchid can be a kind of smokescreen that gives you the illusion to lead you astray and fall into a trap." The elder explained to the boy again. "For example, do you think he only appears at midnight when the moon is full, what is he doing on other nights? Is it planting flowers, playing chess, playing the piano? Is it washing dishes, sweeping the floor, picking manure?"

The boy was stunned. He had never thought of this question, but now he thought of it. ——On those other nights, what this Mr. Orchid did may be more abominable and terrible than what he did on the night of the full moon. There was deep thought in the elder's eyes. "He deliberately made you think that he would only appear on a full moon night, and deliberately made you think that he would commit crimes and kills only at this specific time, and you would not pay attention when he commits crimes and murders at other times." He asked the teenager: "Can you say this is his weakness?"

The teenager admitted: "I was wrong." The elder asked again: "What kind of clue can the aroma of orchids be?" He said: "The aroma of orchids is not fixed to a certain person, and there is no rule that only a certain person can carry it. The scent of orchids." The teenager admitted. No matter who you sprinkle the aroma essence extracted from orchids on, that person will have the aroma of orchids, and even if you sprinkle it on a pig, that pig will also have the aroma of orchids. ——If the person with the scent of orchids is Mr. Orchid, then a pig may also be Mr. Orchid.

The boy smiled wryly. It had never occurred to him, and now he obviously thought of it, he just felt that he was often as stupid as a pig. "If even these two points can't be regarded as clues, then after the moth operation fails and Mr. Lanhua disappears, who else can find him?" "At least one more." "Chu Liuxiang?" "Of course it's him." The old man smiled: "Of course it is him. Anyone can imagine that if there is anyone in this world who can find this mysterious Mr. Lanhua, it must be Chu Liuxiang." "It must be." The boy admitted.

"But Chu Liuxiang is just a person. In a situation where there are no clues at all, how can you find someone who almost doesn't exist at all?" Such a mysterious question, who can answer it? The young man looked at the elder, and suddenly smiled: "This question is exactly what I wanted to ask you, why did you ask it instead?" The old man laughed too, but his laughter ended very quickly, and he immediately said in a very serious voice. "It's a mentality issue." "Mentality?" "The meaning of mentality is a person's thoughts and opinions on a matter when he is dealing with it."

The elder explained. "The same thing, if it is handled by different people, the results are usually different," said the elder, "Because there are all kinds of different people in this world, even in the same situation, the results are different." The same thing, the method used is different.” "Is it because their mentality is different?" "yes." ——A pampered rich man and a hard-working self-made man, when they deal with the same thing in the same situation, how different are the methods they use? ——How different is the difference between a fool and a wise man when they are dealing with the same thing?

The difference is almost unimaginable. "The most important difference may not be their different thoughts and opinions on this matter, but the difference in the impact of this matter in their own hearts." This is another very difficult sentence, but the young man understands it. "Some people stand up when they are in danger and die calmly, but some people escape faster than a horse." The boy said: "Some people will sing and drink wildly when they are frustrated, some will fight again, and some people don't care at all. Some people go head-on and die." "why?"

"Because they have different feelings in their hearts." The young man asked the elder, "Is this just mentality?" "Yes." The elder clapped his palms together: "That's how it is." He said: "Although Operation Moth has invested so much manpower and material resources, if it fails completely, others will be panicked, fearful and angry, and will even be willing to make the last desperate move." "Most people will be like this." The boy said: "In this world, most people will become trapped animals when they fail completely." "Are there any exceptions?" "Yes, of course there are, and there are two types." The young man said: "One is a wise man, and the other is a hero." He said: "The wise man is indifferent, the hero is calm, the wise man has no desire, and the hero is ruthless. They all have a sense of proportion between gains and losses." "You are wrong." The elder said: "There are not two types of exceptions, but three types." "What kind of person is there?" "It's a fool." The boy understood immediately after thinking about it. "Yes, they are fools." The boy said, "Because they have never been proud before, so how could they be frustrated?" Mr. Lanhua is certainly not a fool. "Even if a hero like him loses, he won't be so defeated." The elder said, "Because no matter what they do, they will always have a way out." He added: "When it is necessary, they will make a decisive decision, completely cut off the relationship between themselves and the failed thing, go to the other road reserved by him, do another thing, and even go to the other way. become someone else." "At that time, there was no more midnight, no more orchids, and he disappeared from then on." "yes." "That's what it means when a strong man breaks his wrist." "Yes." The elder said, "The wrist is already rotten, but they are still clinging to it. They will never do such a thing." "So you believe that as soon as Operation Moth fails, this Mr. Orchid will disappear without a trace?" "good." "Operation Moth is sure to fail, how can Xiangshuai find him?" - This is the crux of the problem. The elder smiled: "I told you just now that this is a matter of mentality." ——The question returned to the original place, and the boy still didn't understand. The elder will explain again. "For all heroes, if they lose, they must lose cleanly and without procrastination, because they know that they will have a chance to make a comeback." "Of course such people have confidence in themselves." The boy said, "This is probably their mentality." "Yes." The elder said, "It's just that this kind of person wins more often." "Of course, how can a person who is often defeated be called a hero?" The elder suddenly asked the young man: "What if they win? What kind of mentality will they have when they win?" The boy was stunned. He never thought of this point, and now he suddenly discovered that this point is the real key to the problem. The elder said to the boy again: "You think that Operation Moth will definitely fail, because Chu Liuxiang has already grasped all the opportunities in that operation." The elder asked, "But have you ever thought that if Xiang Shuai didn't want to win at all, that operation would be a failure?" What will be the result?" This question also does not need to be answered. Don't even have to ask.Both sides are fighting for victory, and one side is unwilling to win at all, and of course the other side will win. What should be asked is: "This action is a life-and-death struggle. The winner lives and the loser dies, so we can't win. Why doesn't Xiangshuai want to win?" The elder denied the question again, telling the boy: "The question shouldn't be asked like this, because the answer already exists." The elder said: "You should also imagine that if Xiangshuai completely destroyed that operation and completely defeated Mr. Lanhua, he still didn't know that the person he defeated Who is Mr. Orchid, so what is the significance of his victory?" The teenager agrees with this. "If Xiangshuai can't find out who this Mr. Lanhua is all his life, I think he might not even be able to sleep." "So in this operation, he is only allowed to lose, not to win." The elder said: "He must be defeated." "why?" "Because he must find this Mr. Orchid." The elder said, "He must fight this Mr. Orchid face to face." The boy sighed: "Then Chu Liuxiang was wrong this time." "Oh?" "He should know that there is a kind of person who can no longer compete with anyone." "What kind of people? Dead people?" "Yes," said the boy, "he should know that in that operation, to win is to die." The elder laughed: "In this regard, your thinking is different from Xiang Shuai." "Does he think that even if he wins in that situation, he can still not die?" The young man asked, "Does he think that Mr. Lanhua will spare his life under that situation?" "yes." "Why would he think that?" "Just because of one thing." The elder said, "Just because he understands Mr. Lanhua's mentality very well." The elder asked the boy. "Have you ever watched a cunning cat catch a mouse? Have you ever watched a spider catch a bug?" The boy saw it. He also knows that after the cat catches the mouse, it will never eat the mouse quickly, because eating a mouse only satisfies its appetite, and for it, this satisfaction is not enough. Same goes for spiders. After a spider catches a worm in its web, it must first tease the worm, and then slowly eat it bit by bit. Because they think it is a kind of enjoyment.They will never give up this enjoyment. ——In the realm of insects and mice, cats and spiders are undoubtedly heroes. The boy understood this, so he asked the elder. "Does Xiangshuai think that Mr. Lanhua is the same as cats and spiders, after subduing him, he will never kill him first?" "Yes." The elder said, "He believes that Mr. Lanhua will definitely enjoy him before he dies." "Because he believes that Mr. Lanhua's mentality must be like this." "yes." "He is sure of that?" "He didn't," said the elder, "but he must take a gamble, and must take this risk once." The boy didn't understand: "I really don't understand why Xiangshuai would do this?" "Because he believes that if Mr. Lanhua wins this operation, he will definitely not kill him." "why?" The elder explained: "Killing must be done. Just like cats eat mice, they must eat them. If they don't eat or kill them, of course there are reasons for them." "what reason?" —The answer is also a certain answer. "Because Mr. Lanhua is like a cat and a spider, in a certain situation, he also has a special mentality." "and then?" "Not then, but the ending." "What I want to ask is the ending." The elders laughed, laughed for a long time, and laughed endlessly. Because the ending of this incident is not funny at all. The ending is never funny.will never. No matter how happy, happy and ridiculous things are, when the ending comes, they will not be happy or ridiculous. ——Life is happy, how rich and lively, even if some people don't have that kind of rich joy in their lives, there will still be a little bit of comfort and joy. But what is the end of life? is dead. No matter what kind of person, the end of his life is death. What is death? ——If you have thought about this question carefully, you will understand what a tragedy life is. If you understand this, you may take a lot of things lightly. Taking it lightly is not negativity, nor is it giving up, but an attitude that makes you more open-minded. Of course, in this world, there are many stories that end in success and happiness. Those who work hard will surely succeed, and lovers will eventually get married. It's a pity that this ending is not an ending, but a symbol of pause.In the end, it's still the same. So when the young man asked the elder about the outcome of the matter, the elder laughed because he only laughed. —How stupid is that question?How ridiculous? "If a person wants to do something, it is best not to ask about its ending." The elder said, "Because all endings are the same when they really end." He said: "So when we are going to do something, we should only ask about it, whether it should be done, whether it is worth doing, whether we can make others happy and inspire ourselves when we do it. ?Because life is nothing but a process." The teenager understands. "If a person can understand this, his life will be happy, and his life can be regarded as not in vain." He said: "I believe that Chu Liuxiang must be the person who understands this best, so no matter what he does, he always goes all out." ——So his life is always more meaningful than anyone else's. But no matter what happens in this world, there must be an end. Once there is a beginning, there must be an end. No matter what, there is no exception. Because where there is life, there is already a beginning—and where there is a beginning, there must be an end. What if it doesn't start? Without a beginning, there is nothing, no life, no joys and sorrows, no people, and no ending. ——Isn’t it happier to have no ending? no. No ending is an ending in itself! —Perhaps this is the saddest point. No matter what, this world has finally been formed, with life, beginning, people, joys and sorrows. "So everything should have an ending, and Operation Moth shouldn't be an exception." "Yes." The elder said, "Most people in this world are without exception." "Then why does this matter seem to have no end?" "It has an ending, but you don't know it." The elder said, "I'm afraid only a very few people in this world know what the ending of this matter is." "why?" "Because it's a very well-kept secret." "What secret?" "I don't know." The elder said, "Except for the limited few involved, no one in Jianghu seems to know about it." He added: "Everyone in the rivers and lakes knows about this incident, this operation, but no one knows its outcome." "That's why it was listed as one of the four most mysterious cases in martial arts in the past century." "yes." "I remember you told me that this incident can almost be compared with Shen Lang's mysterious case." "yes." ——The mysterious case of Shen Lang has been circulated in the Jianghu for a long time. The famous hero Shen Lang of the past, lived on the bonuses he got from arresting famous criminals and thieves since he was young. He has gone through hundreds of battles and is invincible. He met Zhu Qiqi in Zhengyizhuang, and encountered a passion he had never had in his life. He met Wang Lianhua in Baiyun Villa, and encountered strangeness that he had never had in his life. Unprecedented and dangerous murder. He survived. ——Intense love is sometimes more lethal than murder, but he survived. Then he became famous. His emotionally unstable lover, Zhu Qiqi, has stabilized and can follow him wholeheartedly. Even his enemies have become his friends because he has completely forgiven them. At this time, he was only in his thirties, which was the time when he could do a lot. But he suddenly disappeared. His lover, his brother, and his friend disappeared with him. No one in the rivers and lakes knows their whereabouts. At this time, he was already invincible in the world, he didn't even have any enemies, and he didn't need to avoid the pursuit of his enemies anymore. Of course he is not in debt to anyone else. He also has no complexes or worries. A person like this should have lived happily in this world. But he suddenly disappeared completely from this world.Does anyone know where he is going?No one knows what it is for? —Is it because he is too happy? Shen Lang did this, and everyone can still think why he did it. ——For his fame, for the people Zhu Qiqi had offended in the arena, and for the past crimes of Wang Lianhua, who later became his friend, he had reasons to retire. But what about Chu Liuxiang? Why did Chu Liuxiang bury the ending of this story forever? No one can think of his reason. The young man was silent and contemplative for a long time, then suddenly jumped up. "I figured it out." He said loudly, "I figured it out." "What did you come up with?" "I figured out why Xiangshuai didn't want to make the outcome of this matter public." The elder looked at him in surprise, as if he still couldn't believe that this young man could expose this secret. The boy's face was flushed with excitement. "This incident has already been known all over the world, and it has not damaged Xiangshuai's reputation in the slightest. Why did he hide it?" The boy asks his own questions and answers them himself. "There's only one reason for that," he said. "If he told the ending, it wouldn't hurt himself, but it would hurt someone else." He said: "This person, of course, is a person he would not want to harm under any circumstances." The elder was also silent and contemplative, and it took a long time before he asked the young man, "Do you mean that this person is Mr. Lanhua?" "yes." "Chu Liuxiang refused to reveal the outcome of that incident because he refused to reveal the true identity of Mr. Lan Hua?" "yes." The boy hesitated, and immediately said: "It's not that he doesn't want to reveal the identity of Mr. Lanhua, but he doesn't want the world to know that this person is Mr. Lanhua." These two statements sound like the same, but there is a little difference between them. The elder understands this, but the young man still wants to explain: "So I think this Mr. Lan Hua must also be someone who has a very close and unusual relationship with Xiang Shuai." "Really?" The elder asked: "In this incident, who else has such a relationship with him?" The boy wanted to speak, but suddenly closed his mouth again, because he couldn't bear to say this person's name. —how wise, how gentle, how beautiful a man?How respectable and cute? In the minds of the Jianghu people, this person has almost become the embodiment of beauty, who has the heart to destroy it? A boy can only say to an elder: "No matter what, this person must be the one who knows Chu Xiangshuai best in the world, so he was able to trick Xiangshuai to her in the end." He also explained. "Xiang Shuai thought that he used a bit of trickery in the last move to find out the truth about this 'Mr. Orchid'. How did he know that this was not what she expected?" Could it be that this "Mr. Orchid" is not a gentleman? Did she already know Chu Liuxiang's adventurous nature, knew that he would definitely make this last risky move, knew that he would definitely appear in front of her? She named the operation "Operation Moth." Is it because she had calculated that Chu Liuxiang would throw herself into her beautiful flame like a moth? "So no matter what happens, the ending is always the same?" The boy came to a conclusion: "What kind of ending do you think that is?" "A beautiful ending." "What about those who died in this operation?" "The ones who died were all damned people." The boy said, "This is also the most interesting part of this plan." The elder admitted: "Of course that Mr. Lanhua will not let anyone hurt Chu Liuxiang, and that Princess Langes will of course only return in disappointment in the end!" He smiled: "No matter how long the princess's legs are, she can't beat Mr. Lanhua's. She can only walk faster." "Where's Mr. Iron?" "That person is actually not a human being, but just a puppet, a puppet made of iron. Although it is a little harder than other puppets, a puppet is a puppet, no matter what it is made of." "yes." "The most interesting thing is still the kid who cut his head."