Chapter 8 The seventh round of Lion Hall in Tongtuoxiang

【one】 The sixth day of February. Luoyang. Luoyang was the capital of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Northern Wei Dynasty, Western Jin Dynasty, Wei Dynasty, Sui Dynasty and Later Tang Dynasty. The Jiamaying where Song Taizu was born, the Dongda Temple built in the later Tang Dynasty, the Mi concubine Ci in Cao Zhi's Luoshen Fu, the former residence of Lao Tzu in Tongtuo Lane, the White Horse Temple where the white horse came from the West Heaven Camel, and the "Yangchun Water under the Tianjin Bridge". The ancient bridge is still here today. But Gao Jianfei's ambition is not here.

Xiao Gao didn't come here for these places of interest, what he was looking for was only one place and one person.What he was looking for was the Lion Hall, Zhu Meng's Lion Hall. He found it. The main rudder of the Lion Hall is in Tongtuo Lane, near the legendary former residence of Lao Tzu.It occupies almost an entire alley. Xiao Gao found it soon. In his imagination, the Hall of Lions must be an ancient and sturdy huge building, although it will not be very majestic and gorgeous, but it must be very spacious and imposing, just like Zhu Meng's people. His idea was not wrong, the Hall of the Lions was indeed like this, but there was one thing he didn't expect, this old, strong, spacious and open manor was almost completely burned to rubble.

Except for a few rooms in the back, the Lion Hall, which had occupied Luoyang for many years, was completely destroyed in the fire. Gao Jianfei's heart sank. The cold wind is like a knife, and occasionally some debris will be blown up among the rubble piles by the cold wind. I don't know if they are burnt beams?Still charred human bones. In the past, there was no sign of a single person in the Xiongshi Hall, which was filled with guests and disciples like Xue Xue. This Copper Camel Lane, full of ancient legends from the past and the heroes of today, is now left with nothing but desolation and desolation.

The vicissitudes of life, although the changes in personnel and affairs are impermanent, but this kind of change is too fast and terrible. — When did this happen?How did it happen? ——Where are the high-spirited and invincible Zhu Meng and those seasoned fighters under him? Xiao Gao suddenly thinks of Zhuo Donglai, thinks of his way of doing things, thinks of his insidiousness and composure. Everything that happened in the safflower that day in the wind and snow is now showing up in Xiao Gao's mind one after another. He suddenly understood why Zhuo Donglai wanted to let Zhu Meng go.

Since Zhu Meng is in Chang'an, the defensive strength of Luoyang's main helm will definitely be weakened. It is undoubtedly the best opportunity to send someone to make a surprise attack. Zhuo Donglai must have been waiting for such an opportunity for a long time. When he toasted Zhu Meng with a toast, the raiders must have been on their way. This must have been the result of that raid. Just when Zhu Meng felt that he was completely victorious, he was already defeated. This time he really failed miserably. Xiao Gao's hands and feet were cold. He couldn't imagine how Zhu Meng could bear such a big blow, but he believed that Zhu Meng would not be knocked down.

As long as Zhu Meng is still alive, he will definitely not be knocked down by anyone. The only thing Xiao Gao can think of now is that Zhu Meng is anxious to take revenge.Because Zhuo Donglai must have set up a net in Chang'an by now, waiting for him to go. If Zhu Meng has arrived in Chang'an now, the chances of him coming back alive are slim. No matter who has experienced such a big blow, his thoughts and actions will inevitably be negligent due to impatience and anger. As long as there is a little negligence, it may cause fatal mistakes. Zhuo Donglai's plan will never be negligent, thinking of this, Xiao Gao's heart is so cold.At this moment, he had made up his mind.

He also wanted to rush back to Chang'an, regardless of whether Zhu Meng was dead or alive, he had to rush back. If Zhu Meng is not dead, he may still be able to do his part for his friend. He still has a pair of hands, a sword and a life. If Zhu Meng had already died in Zhuo Donglai's hands, he would rush back to collect the corpse, fight for his life, and take revenge for his friend. No matter what, until now Zhu Meng is the only one who regards him as a friend. He has only one friend like Zhu Meng. Although he could not fully understand the meaning of the word "friend", because he had never made friends before.

But he has a breath. A chivalry, a blood, a righteousness. ——Just because there are still some people in this world who have such a spirit, justice can defeat evil, and human beings can exist forever. It's a pity that now it's very difficult for Gao Jianfei to go wherever he wants to go. 【two】 In the originally quiet alley, a person suddenly appeared. A man in brown clothes was only four feet tall, but he had a one-foot-long horse face. His two thick eyebrows were connected together like two brooms, and a thick rope was tied between the eyebrows. He will never be too old, but he looks very old-fashioned, with a pair of narrow eyes shining under thick eyebrows, when he sees Xiao Gao, his eyes are nailed to Xiao Gao's body like nails.

Xiao Gao has seen this person before. Such a person is not easy to forget no matter who has seen it once. Xiao Gao remembered that he seemed to be selling cakes on the street outside the alley, using a long and narrow thin knife to cut pieces of sweet cakes made of dates. The knife is now in his waist. If you want to use this knife to cut a person into pieces, it probably won't be too difficult. As soon as this person appeared, the alley suddenly became lively.All the people who were originally on the street suddenly poured into this alley, all the people on the street seemed to have come, like a tide, submerged Xiao Gao at once.

Xiao Gao just felt as if he suddenly broke into a very lively temple fair, crowded with people in all directions, all kinds of people, so crowded that he couldn't even move. He really didn't know how to deal with this situation, because he had never encountered such a thing before. The cake seller seemed to have been squeezed in front of him just now, but now he couldn't see it. This person is too short, and it is really difficult to find such a person in the crowd, but if he wants to use his cake-cutter knife to stab someone in the waist and eye in the crowd, then I'm afraid Easier than cutting cake.

Xiao Gao didn't want to be stabbed like this. He must find this person first, and he has seen that this person is the leader of a group of people. "I want to buy sliced ​​cakes." Xiao Gao suddenly said loudly, "Where did the people selling sliced ​​cakes go?" "I'm not going anywhere." A man said in a low, hoarse voice, "I'm here." The voice came from behind Xiao Gao, Xiao Gao turned his head, but he couldn't see this person. But he heard this man's voice again, so he quickly understood that he hadn't seen this man all this time, just because he hadn't lowered his head to look. Such a short person is squeezed in the crowd, if you don't look down, you will definitely not see it. "You can't see me, and I can't see you, how do we do business?" He asked Xiao Gao. "This problem is easy to solve." Xiao Gao suddenly squatted down in the crowd, although other people's faces could not be seen, but a long and big horse's face was already in front of his eyes. "Can we do business now?" The man grinned widely, the corners of his mouth almost reaching the ears, "Do you really want to buy sliced ​​cakes?" "Aside from buying sliced ​​cakes, do we have any other deals to discuss? Are there any other deals to do?" "there is none left." "Then I'll buy sliced ​​cakes." "How much do you want to buy?" "How much do you want to sell me?" "As long as you can afford the price, I'll sell as much as you want." "What's the price of your sliced ​​cake?" "That's up to you." "Look at what?" "Look at people." "Look at people?" Xiao Gao didn't understand, "Selling cut cakes also depends on people?" "Of course it depends on the person. What kind of person buys the sliced ​​cakes, and what price I want." Watching people bid is one of the secrets of doing business. "Some people come to buy my sliced ​​cakes, and I only want two cents a catty, and some people come to buy them, and I won't sell them even if they offer me five hundred gold bars." The man said, "Because I don't like him." "What about me?" Xiao Gao asked, "Do you think I'm pleasing to the eye?" The man stared at him up and down for a long time, the cold light in the narrow eyes under the thick eyebrows shot like a sharp knife, and suddenly asked Xiao Gao: "Are you from Chang'an?" "yes." "What is in this bag in your hand, is it a sword?" "yes." "You came here from Chang'an, did you come here for Master Zhu of the 'Lion Hall'?" "yes." The man suddenly grinned again, revealing his white teeth: "Then our business cannot be negotiated." "why?" "Because dead people don't eat cut cakes, and I don't sell my cut cakes to dead people." Xiao Gao's palms were already sweating, cold sweat. If the crowds from all around rushed over at once, they would crush him to death, how could he stop it. He could hear the breathing of these people had thickened with excitement, and anyone would get excited before killing someone. The crowd has already begun to squeeze forward, and the cake seller has already held the cutter on his waist with his right hand. Xiao Gao suddenly discovered something - the most terrifying thing in this world is human beings. If human power can be concentrated and united, it is far more terrifying than any force in the world. But Gao Jianfei could still hold his breath.Because he had seen that these people were all from Xiongshitang, and they were all on Zhu Meng's side just like him, so he said, "I'm from Chang'an, and I do have a murderous weapon in my baggage." A sharp sword, but the person I want to kill is not Zhu Meng." "Who are you going to kill?" "The person I want to kill is also the person you want to kill," Xiao Gao said, "because I am also like you, and I am also Zhu Meng's friend." "Oh?" "My surname is Gao, and my name is Gao Jianfei." "Is it the Gao Jianfei who is gradually going to fly high?" "Yes." Xiao Gao said, "You might as well go back and ask Zhu Meng if you have a friend like me." "I don't have to ask." "why?" A sly smile suddenly appeared in the narrow eyes of the cake seller, and he suddenly smiled at Xiao Gao. "You think I don't know that you are Zhu Meng's friend?" "you know?" "Because I know, I want to kill you." Xiao Gao's back was suddenly drenched, drenched in cold sweat. Although the crowd was pushing forward again, and the cake-cutting knife was sharp, at this moment, he still had a chance to crush the hand holding the knife, break the bridge of the nose on the horse's face, and dig out the The sly and malicious meaning in the narrow eyes. But he can't act rashly. He could kill this person, but he couldn't and couldn't kill the crowd like the tide. If he took advantage of this fleeting moment to kill this person, he himself would probably be chopped into minced meat by other people's knives. The cake seller laughed again, and said with a sinister smile, "You haven't died yet, why didn't you make a move?" Before he could finish his sentence, Xiao Gao, who was squatting in front of him, suddenly stood up. As soon as he stood up, his body was straightened up, as if there was an invisible big hand lifting his body. collar, pulled him up like an onion. This is a rare lightness skill in the world, and it is also a unique skill for survival in the face of death. It's a pity that he is neither a bird nor has wings. His body was only pulled up with a breath of true energy, and this energy will be exhausted at any time, his body will still fall, and when he falls, he will still fall into the crowd. He himself understood this. He knew that the people below must have drawn their weapons, ready to kill, and waiting for him to fall from exhaustion.At that time, even if he could still draw a sword to kill, he himself would surely die among other people's blood and corpses. He didn't want to do this kind of thing, and he didn't want to see that kind of bloody scene. But he didn't die either. At this moment, he suddenly saw a long rope flying towards him from a distance. He did not see where the long rope came from, nor in whose hand it was. Fortunately, he saw the long rope and was able to grab it in time. The long rope was being pulled forward forcefully, and his body was also pulled up by the force of the rope. It was pulled up like a kite, higher and higher. The person pulling the rope was also pulling forward like a kite. Xiao Gao still didn't see this person, but heard a very familiar voice. The sound of spikes running on the snow. There was a warm feeling in Xiao Gao's heart immediately. He seemed to see another person, wearing a pair of spikes, pulling a horse's tail, which was also hung on the horse's tail like a kite. He seemed to see the man on the horse again, and saw the majesty and arrogance of that man again. He had known for a long time that Zhu Meng would never be knocked down by anyone. 【three】 "Master Gao, I didn't expect you to really come." As soon as the spiked shoes stopped running, he fell down on the snow, "The hall master said that Young Master Gao would definitely come to see him, but he did not expect Young Master Gao to really come." Xiao Gao used a lot of force to pull this loyal friend up from the snow. "I should kneel," he said to Spike, "you saved my life." The spiked shoes wiped away the hot tears that were almost welling up in his eyes, and his expression became indignant again. "The villain has already determined that Cai Chong will never let off any of the hall master's friends," Ding Xie said, "almost all of the hall master's friends have been murdered by him, even those who came from far away. One." "Cai Chong is the monster who sells sliced ​​cakes?" "it's him." "Of course he didn't sell sliced ​​cakes," Xiao Gao said. "Who is he?" "He is the same as the kid surnamed Yang, he was originally the hall master's confidant." "He, like Yang Jian, betrayed your hall master?" "He is worse than Yang Jian," Ding Xie said bitterly, "When he betrayed the hall master, it was the time when the hall master felt the most uncomfortable and needed him the most." Xiao Gao understood what he meant. "When you came back from Chang'an, not only the Lions Hall had been destroyed, but Cai Chong had also turned his back." Xiao Gao sighed, "You must have had a hard time in those two days." "Yes." Spike said, "It's very difficult." "But no matter how sad the days are, they will pass." "Yes." Spike repeated Xiao Gao's words like a puppet, "it will pass." Suddenly there was an indescribable pain and sorrow in his eyes, as if a person was watching himself sinking, sinking into the eternal quicksand. Xiao Gao's heart suddenly sank. ——Cai Chong betrayed Zhu Meng when he was in the most difficult time, but Zhu Meng still allows him to live happily in this world with swagger. This is by no means Zhu Meng's usual style. Xiao Gao stared into Ding Xie's eyes, and asked word by word: "Aren't you afraid to tell me?" Ding Xie also became nervous: "What is it that I dare not tell you?" Xiao Gao suddenly grabbed his shoulder with force: "Has your hall master been murdered?" "No." "Really do not have?" "Really not." Ding Xie seemed to be trying his best to put on a happy expression, "The villain can take Mr. Gao to see him now." 【Four】 Snow-covered dry forests, hideous rocks. There was a fire burning in front of the rock, and there was a man perched on the rock. A man who has lost his shape is like a vulture who has not seen a dead body for a long time. The flames flickered, and the flickering light fell on his face. A big face full of loneliness, despair and sadness, the thick eyebrows are full of sorrow, a pair of tired and lifeless eyes have been sunken deep in the cheekbones, staring at the flickering fire in front of them motionlessly, as if they are Expect miracles in the flames. This is not Zhu Meng. "Lion" Zhu Meng will never become like this. "Lion" Zhu Meng has always been a hero, a hero that no one can knock down. But the spikes had already bowed down in front of the rock: "Report to the hall master, the person the hall master most wants to see has come." Xiao Gao didn't cry. Although his tears were about to burst out of his eyes, they didn't flow down. He has not shed tears for many years. Zhu Meng has already raised his head, looking at him blankly, as if he no longer recognizes the person standing in front of him. Xiao Gao lowered his head. Now he understands why there is such a desperate expression in the spiked shoes' eyes, but he still doesn't understand how the hero who rode his horse and swung a knife to kill people in the blink of an eye that day outside the Red Flower Collection was so easily knocked down. "Xiao Gao, Gao Jianfei." Zhu Meng suddenly roared wildly, jumped off the rock, rushed over and hugged Xiao Gao. At this moment, he seemed to be angry again, and said loudly: "I knew you would definitely come, and you really came." He hugged Xiao Gao tightly, and pressed his face against Xiao Gao's. He was laughing, laughing out loud, just like the day when he beheaded someone with a knife outside the Red Flower Collection. But Xiao Gao suddenly found that his face was already wet. —Is someone crying?Who is crying? "The prodigal son sings three times, not the dirge. There are too many sad things in the world of mortals. The prodigal son sings a song for the king, and advises the king not to shed tears. If there is any injustice in the world, he will drink and chop off people's heads with a knife. " 【Fives】 An iron gun, a copper pot, and a pot of dirty wine. a fire. Dingxie used an iron gun to hang a copper pot to boil wine over the fire. There was a cold wind whizzing through the pine branches, but the wine was still not hot. But Xiao Gao's blood was already hot. "Zhuo Donglai, this bastard is really a fucking character." Zhu Meng had already drank three pots of wine, "Even though he messed with my nest, I still have to accept him." After drinking dirty wine, his pride gradually grew: "I will obey, but sooner or later, I will still cut off his head and use it as a chamber pot." Xiao Gao looked at him for a long time, and suddenly asked, "Why haven't you gone yet?" Zhu Meng stood up abruptly, then sat down slowly, with that desperate and sad look on his face suddenly. "I can't go now." Zhu Meng said sadly, "If I go, she will die." "Who is she? Is she a woman?" Zhu Meng shook his head, shut up, and drank. "You didn't kill Cai Chong because of her?" Xiao Gao asked again. Zhu Meng shook his head again, and after a long time asked Xiao Gao in a hoarse and broken voice: "Do you know how many people that little son of a bitch took away from me?" "How much did he take?" "all." "All?" Xiao Gao was surprised, "Could it be that all the disciples of the Lion Hall followed him?" "Everyone has been bribed by him except the spiked shoes." Zhu Meng said, "He has been managing money for me all these years. All the money in and out of the Lion Hall has to go through his hands, and I have never cared about it." Pass." "So you think it's useless even if you go to him, because he has many more people than you." Zhu Meng actually admitted it, and the arrogance aroused by the strong wine just now disappeared suddenly. He held his wine bowl in his big hands with protruding knuckles, and drank the scalding hot wine in big gulps. Apart from this bowl of wine, it seemed that there was nothing else in this world worthy of his concern. Xiao Gao's heart hurts. He suddenly found that not only the appearance of Zhu Meng had changed, but even the inside had begun to rot. The previous Zhu Meng was definitely not like this. In the past, if he knew that the person who betrayed him was still waiting to assassinate his friend on the street, even if there were thousands of troops protecting that person, he would have charged in with a knife and beheaded him before the horseshoes. ——Perhaps this was the main reason why his disciples betrayed him. Among those who are in the rivers and lakes, who is willing to follow a leader who has lost his courage? Xiao Gao really didn't understand why a strong man with strong bones would become like this?Why did it become so fast? He didn't ask Zhu Meng. Zhu Meng was already drunk.Get drunk much faster than ever. There was only a thin layer of skin left on his huge skeleton, but after he was drunk, he looked like the dead bones of a lion. Xiao Gao couldn't bear to look at him anymore. The fire was still flickering, the spiked shoes were still boiling the wine, and he didn't look at him, but the hopeless pain and sadness appeared in his eyes. Xiao Gao stood up, walked over, and silently handed him a bowl of wine in his hand. Ding Xie hesitated for a while, and finally drank it in one gulp. Xiao Gao took his iron gun, poured out a bowl of wine from the copper pot and drank it in one gulp, and then replied with a sigh: "Sure enough, I saw you right, you are indeed his good friend." "The villain is not the hall master's friend," Ding Xie said with a serious expression, "The villain is not worthy." "You are wrong, maybe only you are his true friend in this world, and only you are worthy of being his friend!" "A villain is not worthy," Ding Xie still said, "a villain would not dare to think like that." "But now you are the only one with him." "That's just because the villain's life belongs to the hall master." Ding Xie said, "The villain has been following him for the rest of his life." "But he has become like this." "No matter what the hall master becomes, he is still my hall master." Ding Xie said decisively, "This will never change." "Don't you feel uncomfortable seeing him change so much?" Spikes stopped talking. Xiao Gao poured another bowl of wine, watched him drink it, and then sighed: "I know, you must feel as sad as I do, and you must also hope that he can cheer up." Spikes are silent. Xiao Gao stared at him: "Unfortunately, I can't think of any way to cheer him up." Ding Xie drank another bowl of wine, this time he poured it himself. Xiao Gao also drank a bowl of wine and said loudly: "You can't think of it, but I can." Ding Xie immediately raised his head and stared at Xiao Gao. "But you must tell me first, how did he become like this?" Xiao Gao also stared at the spike shoes, "Is it because of a woman?" "Young Master Gao," Spike's voice seemed to be crying, "Why do you have to ask about this?" "Of course I want to ask." Xiao Gao said, "If you want to cure a disease, you must first find out the root cause of his disease." Ding Xie seemed to be ready to say something, but suddenly shook his head vigorously: "The villain can't say it, and he dare not say it." "why?" Ding Xie simply sat down, hugged his head with both hands, and ignored Xiao Gao. ——How did Zhu Meng change?Really for a woman? —Who is that woman?Where did you go?Why didn't Spike dare to speak out? The night was darker and colder.The fire has weakened. Ding Xie struggled to stand up, and murmured, "The villain went to find some firewood to fuel the fire." Before he walked away, Zhu Meng suddenly let out a loud roar in his drunken dream. "Die Wu, you can't go." He hissed and growled, "You are mine, no one can take you away." This loud roar was like a whip, whipping heavily on the spiked shoes. Ding Xie's body suddenly began to tremble. Zhu Meng turned over and fell asleep again, Xiao Gao blocked the way of the spiked shoes again, and held his shoulders firmly. "It's Die Wu, it must be Die Wu." Xiao Gao said, "Zhu Meng must have changed for her." Spikes lowered its head and finally acquiesced. "Is she still in Luoyang now?" Xiao Gao asked. "Not here." Ding Xie said, "On the first night when the villain and the hall master came back from Chang'an, someone attacked the Lion Hall at night. It was easy to get it, not only burned our Lion Hall, but also killed more than forty of our brothers before we left." "I believe those people must have been sent by Zhuo Donglai." "It must be," Spike said. "Not only are they good players, but they are also very familiar with our internal situation." "There must be someone Zhuo Donglai sent as an undercover agent in the Hall of Lions." Xiao Gao said. "That's why some people suspected that Cai Chong had intended to betray the hall master long ago, and some people thought that he simply rebelled because he knew that he was negligent in his duties and was afraid that the hall master would use the family law to rule him." "Did Wu Die rebel with him?" Ding Xie shook his head: "Miss Die always looked down on that brat, why did she follow him?" "Could it be that she was kidnapped by Zhuo Donglai's people? Want to use her as a hostage to threaten Zhu Meng?" Ding Xie sighed: "It's because of this reason that the hall master didn't go to Chang'an to find Sima to settle the score." "Even if Cai Chong doesn't turn against him, he won't go?" "Probably not." Ding Xie said sadly, "If the Hall Master arrives in Chang'an, those bastards in the Escort Bureau will probably immediately use Miss Die for surgery." His voice sounded like he was about to cry again: "The hall master once told the villain that as long as Miss Die can live well, it doesn't matter if the hall master suffers a little bit." "It's because of Miss Die that your hall master becomes depressed and doesn't want to do anything. That's why Cai Chong can still roam the streets swaggeringly until now." "The villain would never have imagined that the hall master would be so infatuated with a woman." Ding Xie said, "The villain can't even dream of it." He originally thought that Xiao Gao would definitely think this was a very ridiculous thing, pitiful and ridiculous. But he was wrong. He found that Xiao Gao's eyes suddenly became full of sadness, and he was staring at the darkness in the distance in a daze. ——A woman who doesn't even know her name, a love affair that will never be forgotten. Of course Ding Xie didn't know these things. After a long time, he heard Xiao Gao's gentle and sad voice. "Your hall master hasn't changed, he's still a man." Xiao Gao said, "Only a real man cares about others. If he didn't care about other people's lives at all, you probably wouldn't follow him either." "yes." The spiked shoes froze, and it took a long time before he mustered up the courage to say: "Young Master Gao, there is a saying that villains don't know whether to say or not." "you say." "Everyone should care about others, but it's wrong to torture yourself for others." Ding Xie said, "That will make the people he cares about sad and disappointed." Xiao Gao forced a smile and changed the subject. "I saw a shelter from the wind over there, I'm going to sleep." He said to Spike, "You should sleep too." The sky and the earth were completely silent again, only the "cracking" sound of the dead branches being burned in the flames remained. Spike spread a thick felt on the rock, hugged Zhu Meng to sleep on it, and covered it with two more felts, and then he himself fell asleep next to him, sleeping on the cold rock, curled up like a shrimp group. When he woke up from the cold before dawn, he found that Xiao Gao had also woken up. In the faint morning light, he saw that Xiao Gao was washing his face with ice and snow, and he seemed to have untied the bundle in his hand. Spike didn't see whether there was a sword in the bag, let alone the shape of the sword. He didn't dare to look carefully. He pretended not to see anything. But his heart kept beating, beating so fast and so fast. 【six】 When Zhu Meng woke up, it was already daylight, Ding Xie had already got up, and was lighting a fire to boil water. But Xiao Gao is gone. Zhu jumped up, and looked around with his big bloodshot eyes, but he couldn't find it. A beast-like growl came out of his throat. "He left too?" Zhu Meng asked Ding Xie, "When did he leave and where did he go? Will he come back?" "Report to the hall master, when Master Gao left, he didn't say anything, and the villain didn't know where he went?" Ding Xie said, "But the hall master should want it, because Gao Dashao is the hall master's friend." Zhu Meng's people had shrunk even more due to sadness and disappointment, but when they heard the words of spike shoes, they suddenly cheered up, and there was light in their bloodshot eyes, and they suddenly jumped up. "That's right, I should know where he went." Zhu Meng said loudly, "Ding Xie, let's go too." "Yes." Spike's spirit seemed to be cheered up, but there were tears in his eyes: "The villain has been ready for a long time, the villain is always ready, the villain has been waiting for this day."