Chapter 18 Chapter Seventeen

The dinner dish is dried fish fried with chili. There is only one dish, and the other bowl of soup made of meat and bones is for the sick.The patient had already woken up, lying motionless on the bed, staring at the roof. Ma Rulong could only sit blankly on a broken wicker chair beside the bed.He suddenly remembered a lot of things, and remembered the things he had done before that he thought he was great. Are those things really all the right thing to do?Is it really that amazing? ——Why is there such a large distance between people?Why do some people live so lowly?Why are some people so proud?

He suddenly discovered that if he could shorten the distance between people, he would be truly proud.If he had been living the life he had been in, he would never have thought of that. ——If a person can experience some unexpected setbacks and sufferings, is it good for him? ——Is it also for this reason that Da Wan used this method to deal with Xie Yubao? Thinking of this, Ma Rulong felt a little better.He believed that Xie Yubao must have been a very proud person before, and he felt that he had reasons to be proud. I don't know when it started, Xie Yubao was also looking at him for a long time, then suddenly said: "Say it again."

"Say what?" "Who are you? Who am I?" "I am Zhang Rongfa, and you are Wang Guizhi." "We are husband and wife?" "Eighteen years as a married couple. We've lived here the whole time, we own this grocery store, and everyone in the neighborhood knows us." Ma Rulong sighed, and said: "Maybe you think our life is too poor and you don't want to live it anymore, so you have to forget all the past." He was comforting her: "Actually, this kind of life There is nothing wrong, at least, we have been living with peace of mind."

Xie Yubao stared at him again for a long time. "Listen," she said word by word, "I don't know who you are, and I don't know what's going on, but I know that someone else must have bribed you to harm me." "Who wants to kill you! Why do you want to kill you?" "You really don't know who I am?" Ma Rulong really didn't know much, so he couldn't help asking: "Who do you think you are?" Xie Yubao sneered: "If you knew who I am, you might be horrified to death." Her voice was suddenly full of pride: "I am the daughter of God. No woman in the world can compare to me. I can let you down at any time. If you get rich, you can kill you at any time, so you'd better send me back as soon as possible, otherwise, sooner or later, I will cut you into pieces and feed them to the dogs."

She was indeed a very, very proud woman. Not only did she never take others seriously, but she also paid no attention to other people's lives, because no one's life was worth anything except her own.It would definitely do her good to suffer a little for such a person. Ma Rulong sighed again: "You're sick again, you'd better go to bed early." When he said this, he thought of a question!There is only one bed in the room, where does he sleep? Undoubtedly, Xie Yubao also thought of this question, and suddenly said sharply: "If you dare to sleep in and touch me, I will... I will..."

She didn't go on.She couldn't do anything to him at all, she couldn't even stand up, and she couldn't resist whatever he wanted to do to her.Ma Rulong didn't do anything to her. Ma Rulong is a man, sound and healthy, and he has seen her true face and knows what a beautiful woman she is.In that dark hut, under that snow-white sheet... that scene, he has not forgotten, nor will he forget.But he didn't do anything to her.Although his thinking has changed and he already feels that he is not as proud as he imagined before, there are still some things he won't do, even if you kill him, he won't do it.Perhaps this is something he should be proud of.

The days passed like this, and Xie Yubao gradually calmed down.When a person encounters something helpless, no matter who he is, he can only accept it patiently.Because it is useless for him to be impatient, to go crazy, to roll all over the floor, and to hit his head to death is useless. What about Ma Rulong?This kind of life is not only completely different from his previous life, but also completely cut off from his previous world.People who he thought were ordinary, vulgar and humble before, now, he can already see their kind and lovely side.Sometimes, although he also felt very irritable, he wanted to go out to inquire about the news in Jiang Hu, and wanted to find Da Wan and Yu Wu.

But sometimes he wants to give up everything and just live a peaceful and ordinary life like this.It's a pity that even if he really thought so, no one else would let him do it.After all, he is not Zhang Rongfa, but Ma Rulong. In the past few days, a strange customer suddenly appeared in the grocery store. Every day after dusk, they would come to buy twenty eggs, two knives of straw paper, two catties of coarse salt, and one catty of rice wine.It's a bit strange for a family to eat twenty eggs a day and use two knives of toilet paper.No one has ever heard of a family that uses two catties of coarse salt every day.

Although this incident was strange, the things this man bought were not strange. Eggs, straw paper, salt, and wine were all very common things.The people who came to buy things also looked ordinary, tall and thin, just like other men here, always seemed a little worried and a little tired. It wasn't until one day that the little daughter-in-law with a taller belly saw him that Ma Rulong began to pay attention.Because the little daughter-in-law is actually asking: "Who is this person? Why have I never seen him?" She has met and recognized everyone who lives here.She was sure. "This man definitely does not live here, and he has never been here before."

So Ma Rulong gradually began to pay attention to this man.He is not a person who is good at observing others. Young masters who come from a wealthy family like his are usually not good at observing others.However, he still saw several abnormal phenomena. Although this man is very thin, his hands and feet are very thick. When reaching for things and paying for money, he always hides and moves very quickly, as if he doesn't want others to see his hands.Every day he would wait until after dusk, when everyone had gone home for dinner, and the alley was at least crowded at this time.Although he is tall and has big feet, he walks very lightly, and he can hardly hear the sound of his footsteps. Sometimes it rains and the alley is full of mud, and his feet are less muddy than others.

Although the new year is over and it is already spring, the weather is still very cold, and the clothes he wears are thinner than others, but he doesn't even seem to be afraid of the cold at all.Although Ma Rulong is not an old man, based on these points, he must have practiced martial arts, and he has practiced very well. He probably has kung fu like iron sand palms in his hands. What is an expert in martial arts doing here every day to buy egg papyrus?If he hid here to avoid revenge, he didn't have to come to buy these things every day.If he was Yu Wu's subordinate, sent here to protect Ma Rulong, he wouldn't have to do these attention-grabbing things. Could it be that Qiu Fengcheng, Master Jue and the others had already discovered that this grocery store was suspicious, so they sent someone to investigate and monitor.If this is the case, he doesn't have to buy twenty eggs and two catties of salt every day to go back.Ma Rulong couldn't figure out these points. It's best not to think about things you can't figure out, but Ma Rulong's curiosity has already been aroused.Everyone inevitably has curiosity, Ma Rulong is certainly no exception, and Xie Yubao is no exception.She also knew that such a person came, and one day she finally couldn't help asking: "Is this person you are talking about really a man?" "Of course it's a man." "Could he be a woman disguised as a man?" "Never will." Although Ma Rulong has experienced the wonder of the "disguise technique", he believes that this man will never be a woman.Xie Yubao was obviously disappointed. Ma Rulong had long felt that her question was very strange, so he couldn't help but ask her. "Why do you ask this? Do you wish he was a woman?" Xie Yubao was silent for a long time before he sighed and said, "If he was a woman, he might have come to save me." ——Why are only women coming to save her?Ma Rulong didn't ask, but said flatly: "You have been married to me for eighteen years, and I have always been good to you. Why did others come to save you?" Xie Yubao stared at him bitterly, as soon as this matter was mentioned, her eyes would reveal an indescribable pain and hatred.As long as she becomes like this, Ma Rulong will sneak out quickly, he really dare not look into such eyes.He can't bear it either. One night, not long after the mysterious man had just returned home from shopping, the young daughter-in-law surnamed Yu suddenly came in with a big belly, looking nervous and excited. "I know, I know." She gasped, "I know where that man lives." Zhang Laoshi, who has always been quiet and quiet, couldn't help but ask this time: "Where does he live?" "I live at Tao Baoyi's house," said the young daughter-in-law, "I saw him go in with my own eyes." Tao Baoyi is the dibao here, and he heard that he also practiced martial arts before, but he never mentioned it himself, and no one saw him practice martial arts.The place where he lives is the largest house in the vicinity, which is built with red bricks.Di Bao had a wide range of contacts, so it was not surprising that some friends came to live in his house. But there are only two people in his family, the husband and wife, plus this friend, even if he can eat twenty eggs a day, if he eats two catties of salt, the three of them will die of salt. The little daughter-in-law said again: "Just now I purposely went to visit Mrs. Baoyi's house. I couldn't see that person back and forth, but I clearly saw that person went to his house. I secretly asked Mrs. Baoyi. What are you doing when you buy two catties of salt? Brother Baoyi suddenly used an excuse to quarrel with Mrs. Baoyi, so I had to run away quickly." Zhang Laoshi had been listening all the time, and suddenly asked her: "Do you want to buy brown sugar today?" "Not buying today." "Should I buy pickles?" "Not buying either." Zhang Laoshi actually put on a straight face: "Then why don't you go back to sleep?" The little daughter-in-law blinked and looked at him for a long time before leaving.Zhang Laoshi was already preparing to close up, and he murmured: "It's the worst thing to meddle in other people's business. I hate people who like to meddle in other people's business." Ma Rulong looked at him, and suddenly found that there was something strange about this honest man.This was the first time he felt that Zhang Laoshi was strange.