Chapter 17 Seventeenth round of all-or-nothing

The sword is drawn, the short sword. A sword is like a poisonous snake, the shorter it is, the more dangerous it is. The old man touched the edge of the sword lightly, the edge of the sword was cold, but his heart seemed to be warming up gradually. He has not touched the edge of the sword for many years.In recent years he has killed without a sword. He had hoped that he would never use a sword again in this life. "A sword is a sharp weapon for young people, but it is only suitable as a crutch for old people!" If the old man does not understand this, the sword is often his death knell.

Of course the old man understands this.But now it was time for him to use the sword. Now, it has been a year since Han Tang's death.This year, he did almost nothing, and almost became deaf and blind. Almost all the people in the rivers and lakes who are related to the old man have been murdered by the Twelve Feipeng Gang. But the old man could neither hear nor see. Almost all the businesses in Jianghu that are related to the old man have been taken over by the Twelve Feipeng Gang. In the past, if someone asked about the old man, the person who was asked would immediately puff up his chest and answer: "The old man is my friend!"

But now even people who are really friends of the old man will shake their heads. "Old man? Who is old man? What is old man?" Some have even given him another name: "Nobo." "Nao" means a coward, that is, no seed! But the old man can't hear you, even if you point at his nose and curse, he can't hear you either.King Wanpeng has sent someone to send a letter of war, asking the old man to fight to the death. Twelve letters of war, one for each month, each written more embarrassingly and viciously than the other.Almost all the insulting words in the world can be found in these gauntlets.

But the old man couldn't see it. There is only one thing missing from Wanpeng Wang! He hasn't directly broken into the old man's "garden", because after all, he still can't figure out the reality in this "garden", and no one knows how many ambushes there are. What's more, since he has completely gained the upper hand, why should he take this risk again. Everyone knew that the old man had been beaten by King Wanpeng so much that he couldn't fight back and couldn't raise his head. So, what's the point of letting such a bad old man hide in his den and wait to die?

Anyway, this person is no longer in danger and has no effect. This is exactly what the old man wants King Wanpeng to think of him. Over the past year, the old man has only done one thing - he has developed the arrogance of King Wanpeng. "With pride comes negligence, and any negligence, no matter how small, can be fatal." Now is the time for the old man to fight back. The sword scabbard, the old man took out two large maps from the secret interlayer of the table. The first map included twelve provinces, each of which was circled with a Chinese ink brush. That's where the Twelve Helmsmen of the Twelve Feipeng Gang are located.

The second one is the whole picture of King Wanpeng's "Fei Peng Fort", which draws the inside and outside of Fei Peng Fort, every entrance and exit in detail. Even if the old man closes his eyes, he can redraw this picture. But now he looked at it carefully again. This battle is already his last battle, regardless of success or failure, it is his last battle. He didn't want any more negligence. He has been planning this battle for several years, he can only succeed, never fail! He folded up the map and held it down with the dagger, and then pulled the bell rope in the corner.

He was going to ask Ritsu Kagawa to come in. Ritsu Kagawa has not changed much in the past year, but he is deeper, calmer, and speaks less. He looked just as young, but he knew he was much older. It is indeed most likely to make people old when they bear the burden of humiliation. Of course he knew that the old man must have a terrible plan secretly, but he never asked. There is also a secret room in the old man's secret room. Although he knows it, he has never stepped into it. Except for the old man, no one else has ever entered that place. Now that the old man suddenly called him in, he knew that the plan must be mature, and it was time to act. This action must be more terrifying than all previous actions.

So even he couldn't help but feel a little nervous. He walked into the old man's secret room excitedly, and he could even hear his own heartbeat. Everything has come to the last juncture, and he has already sworn in his heart that this last move is only allowed to succeed, never to fail! The old man picked up a letter and said: "This is the letter of war sent by King Wanpeng a few days ago, and it is also his last warning." He looked at Ritsu Xiangchuan with an unexpectedly calm expression, and said lightly, "What do you think he wants me to do?" Ritsu Kagawa shook his head.

The old man said: "He wants me to replace Fang Gang and be the altar master of his Yinpeng altar." Ritsu Kagawa's complexion changed, and an angry look appeared on his face. It was an insult to the old man, and there was hardly a greater insult. The old man smiled, and said: "He also promised me a lot of generous conditions, promised not to pursue my past affairs, kept my garden, and even promised to let you be my deputy." Ritsu Kagawa clenched his fists and said with a sneer, "He's dreaming." The old man said calmly: "He is not dreaming, because he is sure that I have nowhere to go. If I want to live, I have to listen to him. From his point of view, this is not only an insult to me, but also very generous."

Ritsu Kagawa took a long breath and said, "Is he still waiting for our reply?" The old man said: "He restricted me to give him an answer before Chongyang, otherwise my place would be flattened. He said he was going to use all the power of the Twelve Flying Pengs to attack." Ritsu Kagawa said: "I hope he will come!" The old man said: "I don't want to, so I want you to write back and answer him." Lu Xiangchuan asked, "How do you write a reply letter?" The old man said: "Promise him!" Lu Xiangchuan was taken aback, and said, "Promise him? Promise to be his subordinate?"

The old man nodded and said: "And he also asked him when he would let me visit the chief gang leader." Lu Xiangchuan's lips were already pale, and he said, "Are you really planning to go?" The old man said: "Of course I said I will go." He suddenly smiled again, and continued leisurely: "But I didn't go on the day he asked me to go. I went as soon as he received this letter." Ritsu Xiangchuan suddenly understood what the old man meant, and his eyes lit up immediately. The old man is ready to attack. When the old man attacks, he must be caught off guard. King Wanpeng never expected that the old man would dare to attack his Feipeng Fort—a Feipeng Fort with iron walls and impenetrable birds. The old man just wanted him to be unexpected. Lu Xiangchuan's pale face turned red, he coughed twice, and said, "When are we going?" The old man said: "If you don't go, you stay here." Ritsu Kagawa changed color and said, "But I..." The old man interrupted him and said: "Some people are good at attacking and some are good at defending. If Sun Jian was still around, I might ask him to go for me, but it's a pity..." His voice suddenly became a little hoarse, and he coughed twice, before continuing: "You are different from Sun Jian, you are much calmer than him, so after I left, I feel relieved to leave everything here to you." Lu Xiangchuan gritted his teeth and said, "I have never disobeyed your old man's words, but this time - this is our last battle, I don't want to hide here and watch others fight their lives, I am willing to die for you!" The old man sighed and said, "I understand your feelings, but you forgot one thing." He continued in a deep voice: "I am here to win, not to lose, so I must keep the foundation and save it for future development. This is where my foundation is. If you are not here to defend, how can I attack with confidence? !" Ritsu Kagawa lowered his head, remained silent for a long time, and finally couldn't help but said: "But what else do we have to defend?" The old man said leisurely: "If you think we don't have many things left behind, you are wrong." He smiled and continued: "King Wanpeng also thought that nine out of ten of my foundation had been taken away. He was also wrong. What he took away was at most a few sesame seeds, and the whole biscuit was still there." in my hand." Ritsu Kagawa raised his head, with admiration in his eyes. The old man patted the table and said: "This is my biscuit, I will give it to you now, I hope you will take good care of it!" He smiled again, and continued: "Remember, this biscuit is enough for us to eat for several lifetimes." Lu Xiangchuan muttered, "This responsibility is too great, I..." The old man said: "You don't need to refuse, and you don't need to be afraid. If I don't trust you completely, I won't give it to you." Lu Xiangchuan said: "But I..." The old man lowered his face, and said: "There is no need to say any more, I have already decided on this matter." Ritsu Kagawa stopped talking. No one can change what the old man has decided. The old man's expression gradually softened, and he said: "There are three hundred and seventy-six files in this table, and each file represents a piece of wealth. I was the only one who managed it, because they only accepted me. One man's orders." Ritsu Kagawa was listening. The old man said: "But no matter who, as long as they have my secret orders and tokens, they can order them directly, and now I will give them all to you!" He added: "I gave these three hundred and seventy-six people different secret orders and tokens. If they make a mistake, those who go will be killed immediately." Ritsu Kagawa has been listening quietly. He already thought that the old man was a great person, but now this concept is even deeper. Until now, he didn't know that the old man's property was so huge and astonishing, even if he used the four words "wealth is incomparable to a country", it would not be too much! It is no longer easy to acquire these properties, and it is even more difficult to keep them. Besides the old man, he couldn't think of anyone else who could keep such a long, such a good, such a good secret. Now the old man has handed over all this astonishingly huge property to him!But there was no joy on his face, instead he felt panicked and sad. The old man seemed to have seen through his intentions, and said with a smile: "You don't have to feel bad, I'm not doing this to entrust the funeral, but just in case. Although this battle is dangerous, if you don't have a 70% chance , I will never act rashly." Of course Ritsu Kagawa knew that the old man never did anything he was not sure about. He took a long breath, and couldn't help asking: "How many people are you going to take?" The old man took out a small book like a passbook and said, "This is their list. Within seven days, you will be responsible for finding them all here." Lu Xiangchuan said: "Yes!" He took the list, flipped through it, and couldn't help frowning: "There are only seventy people?" The old man said: "These seventy people are no different from an elite army. Don't forget that some people can be as good as a hundred!" Lu Xiangchuan pondered and said: "If there is a traitor among them..." The old man said: "No way, I have investigated carefully, and each of them is absolutely loyal." Ritsu Kagawa nodded. Since Lu Mantian's death, no traitor has appeared in this place. "However, seventy people are still not enough. Even if there is an elite army, it will be difficult to break through the 'Fei Peng Fort'. What's more, none of the seventy people is a real master, at least not one person can beat ten thousand people. The Twelve Flying Pengs under King Peng." Although he didn't dare to say these words directly, the expression on his face was already obvious. The old man seemed to see through his intentions again, and said with a smile: "Although these seventy people are not enough, but if you add some luck, it will be enough. My luck has always been very good." Ritsu Kagawa knew that the old man was definitely not a person who believed in luck, he seemed to have something else in mind. But since the old man wanted to say that, Ritsu Kagawa had no choice but to believe it. The old man suddenly sighed, and said: "But luck is not always reliable, so... If I go out this time, if I can't come back, there is still something for you to do." Lu Xiangchuan said: "Yes!" The old man said: "In case something happens to me, you have to distribute these properties. Some people have been with me for many years. I can't let them starve for the rest of their lives." Lu Xiangchuan said: "Yes!" The old man said: "Of course I have something for you!" Lu Xiangchuan lowered his head and said sadly: "Don't leave it to me..." The old man lowered his face and said sharply, "Do you want to die!" Ritsukagawa lowered her head even lower. The old man said: "You must not die, because you still have to wait for the opportunity, not only to avenge me, but also to revive my career. I don't have a son, you are my son!" Lu Xiangchuan said: "Yes!" The old man showed his face and said: "So you can freely dispose of most of my property, and only a few of my properties are exceptions." His expression suddenly became very strange, and he continued slowly: "I left those properties to Xiaodie." Lu Xiangchuan was silent for a long time before he sighed and said, "I understand, I will definitely find her and give it to her." The old man said: "Do you still remember that young man named 'Qin Zhongting'?" Lu Xiangchuan said: "How can I forget such a person!" The old man said: "He is a very useful person. If you can ask him to be your friend, it must be of great help to you." Lu Xiangchuan said: "This person seems very mysterious. Since that day, he has disappeared suddenly. I have also inquired about him in secret, but it seems that such a person has never appeared in the rivers and lakes." The old man smiled and said: "Yes, as long as you find Xiaodie, you will find him." Ritsu Kagawa was surprised, but smiled immediately: "As long as I find him, I can ask him to be my friend, because we are friends from the beginning." The old man smiled and said: "Very well, I know your vision, it has always been good..." His smile disappeared suddenly, and he said with a gloomy face, "Besides that, I want you to do one more thing!" Anger shot out of his eyes, and he said: "I want you to find out who the father of Xiaodie's child is for me, and kill him immediately after finding out!" Lu Xiangchuan said: "Yes, I must have found a way to find out." The old man said: "Very good, very good..." He let out a long breath, his face gradually calmed down, and he smiled and said: "I said these words to you just in case, I will still come back, and bring back the head of King Wanpeng." Lu Xiangchuan also smiled and said, "That day I will definitely re-open the drinking ring and use his head as a flagon." The old man said, "Since when did you stop drinking?" Lu Xiangchuan sighed and said, "From the day I got the news of Wu Laodao's death." He lowered his head, and continued slowly: "If I hadn't been very drunk that day, I might have guessed Wanpeng King's plot, and Wu Laodao and his son might not have died, so I have been drinking all the time since that day. No, because I've found that anyone who drinks is liable to do wrong." The old man nodded, and suddenly asked, "Where are the women? Ever since Lin Xiu left, have you ever had another woman?" Ritsu Xiangchuan felt very surprised, as if he didn't expect the old man to ask him about this matter, because this was his private matter, and the old man seldom asked about other people's private matters. But the old man asked. So all he had to say was, he shook his head. The old man said: "Why? You are always in good health, don't you want women?" Lu Xiangchuan smiled wryly and said, "Of course I think about it sometimes, but finding a woman requires not only time, but also patience. I don't have both." The old man smiled and said, "You are wrong. When I was young, I had little time and even less patience, but there were always many women, and all of them were very good women." He stared at Ritsu Xiangchuan, and then said: "In the past two years, you should have been very rich. As long as you have money, you should find the best woman. Don't you understand this truth?" Lu Xiangchuan said: "I understand, but I don't like women bought with money." The old man said: "You are wrong again, women are women, no matter what method you use to get them, it doesn't matter, what matters is whether you can really get them!" Ritsu Kagawa sighed, "That's not easy." The old man said: "Who says it's not easy? A woman is a wild horse. As long as you can tame her, she will always be yours. As long as you can ride her, you should have a way to tame her." He smiled, his eyes seemed to suddenly become younger. Ritsu Kagawa couldn't help laughing either. Few people knew that the old man had as much experience with women as he had with anything else. Ritsu Kagawa couldn't help laughing and said, "You must have been a good jockey when you were young." The old man said, "Don't you think I'm not anymore?" He smiled and continued: "Riding a horse is like enjoying it. Once you learn it, you will never forget it. No matter how many years you have not ridden, you will never forget it." Ritsu Kagawa said: "Even if you won't forget it, you will always be unfamiliar anyway." The old man deliberately put on an angry look, and said, "You think I'm unfamiliar now? Would you like me to try it for you?" Ritsu Kagawa smiled and said nothing. The old man said: "Do you know where there are the best women?" Ritsu Kagawa said: "I've heard of a place, but I've never been there." The old man blinked and said, "The place you mentioned is Happy Forest." Ritsu Xiangchuan looked surprised again, and said, "You also know Happy Forest?" The old man smiled mysteriously, and said leisurely: "Do you know who owns the land in Happy Forest?" Lu Xiangchuan said: "I heard that the owner of that place is named Gao, and everyone calls her Boss Gao, but she is a woman. It is not easy for a woman to be called 'Boss'." The old man said: "Yes, she is indeed a very capable woman. She chose a very good place, built a house on it, and made a lot of business, but that piece of land is not hers. She rented it!" Lu Xiangchuan said: "Why didn't she buy that piece of land?" The old man said: "Because the owner of that land is not willing, no matter how high the price she pays." He smiled not only mysteriously, but also very proudly. Ritsu Kagawa tentatively asked, "Do you know who the owner of that land is?" The old man said: "Of course I know, there is absolutely no one in the world who knows better than me." He smiled and said, "Because the real owner of that land is me." Lu Xiangchuan also laughed, and said: "If she knew about this, she might not have chosen this land." The old man said: "Of course she doesn't know. No one knows. Others think that the business of a person like me must be restaurants, casinos, and brothels. It is absolutely unexpected that most of my property is land." He continued with a sneer: "King Wanpeng would never have imagined that he could destroy my casino and my brothel. Even if he destroyed them all, he still wouldn't be able to touch my roots." Ritsu Kagawa let out a long breath and said, "Because he can't hit your place no matter what?" The old man said: "Yes, no one can destroy the land. When I am of my age, I know that only the land is the most reliable in the world, and only the land is the root of everything." Of course he was right, but he still forgot one thing. No matter how much land you have, even if all the land in the world is yours, after you die, you will still be the same as others, and you will not be able to occupy one foot more than others. Maybe he didn't really think of it, but he just didn't want to say it. Maybe this is the sorrow of an old man. Why do people always have to deceive themselves and hide themselves? Is it because only by using this method can I live a happier life? The old man suddenly let out a long sigh, and said: "I have always regarded you as my son. After Sun Jian died, you will be my only son. I hope you will not imitate him, and do not disappoint me." Ritsu Kagawa said: "He did not disappoint you. No one can do better than him in what he does." The old man said: "But he doesn't have a son, he should at least give birth to a son for me." The old man continued: "You'd better go find it quickly, I hope to see your son alive!" With an indescribable loneliness and sadness in his eyes, he continued slowly: "You will gradually realize that if a person has no offspring when he is old, that kind of loneliness cannot be compensated by anything. " Ritsu Xiangchuan pondered and said: "But you already have descendants, and Xiaodie's son can also be regarded as your descendants." The old man's sorrow suddenly turned into anger, and he said sharply: "I don't want that kind of offspring, even if I have no son or grandson, I don't want that kind of bastard!" He clenched his fists tightly, and continued: "So you must find out the father of the child. No matter who he is, you must never let him live. Do you understand what I mean?" Ritsu Kagawa sighed and said, "I understand." Ritsu Kagawa did understand. The old man hated that man, because that man not only bullied his daughter, but also hurt his dignity. It seemed to him an intolerable insult. Lu Xiangchuan asked again: "Have you heard from them recently?" "They" are of course Xiaodie and Meng Xinghun! The old man shook his head and said, "They must have traveled a long way, and they must hope to go as far as possible." Lu Xiangchuan said: "Where will they go?" The old man said: "I don't know, and I don't want to know." Lu Xiangchuan said slowly: "Actually, you should know, because they may have children now." The old man's face suddenly changed again, becoming very strange.Ritsu Kagawa stared at him and said, "If I can find them now, maybe I can bring that child back!" The old man stared into the distance, and murmured: "When Xiaodie was very young, she often clamored for me to take her to see the sea. I never had the chance to take her there. Now she has the chance..." There was a strange light in his eyes, and he continued slowly: "I heard that children born by the sea are always very strong..." Ritsu Kagawa's eyes lit up, and he murmured: "Yes, go to the seaside. If I were them, I would go to the seaside too...Why didn't I think of it before?" "Let's go to the sea." "Have you ever seen the sea?" "No, I only saw it in my dreams, and I don't know how many times I've seen it." "What does the sea look like in your dream?" "The sky is blue, the clouds are white, and the turquoise sea is shining under the blue sky and white clouds." "The real sea may be more beautiful than the dream. The sea water is bluer than the sky, and the rolling sea waves are whiter than the clouds. When the sun rises, the sea seems to be covered with broken silver. Pieces of silver come together to form a rainbow. If you really look at the sea, there is no place in the world that changes so quickly and is so colorful." "Then what are we waiting for, why don't we go now?" "Okay, let's go now."