Chapter 24 The twenty-fourth chapter of cause and effect

April nineteenth, before dawn. If there is no light and no fire, the coldest and darkest time is always before dawn, and if there is light and fire, then this time is no different from any other time of day. Some people are like the lights before dawn, a matter that no one can see the clue at first, with such a person appearing, all the problems will suddenly become clear.There is also such a person in this matter. This person has come now. Zheng Nanyuan walked in slowly. I don't know if his two legs really have rheumatism, or have they been injured before?So he usually always sits on that wheeled chair, because he never wants others to see how he walks, he always thinks the way he walks is ridiculous.

Now, absolutely no one thinks he is ridiculous, even if he climbed in, no one would think he is ridiculous. ——This person is by no means an ordinary person, nor is he the kind of person who works as a shopkeeper. He does this business just to conceal his true identity. ——There must be some kind of ulterior relationship between him and Sun Jicheng. Neither his true identity nor his martial arts can be imagined by others. These things were originally his secrets, but now these secrets are no longer secrets. Seeing him coming in, Yuan Bao was the happiest. "I knew you would show up sooner or later," Yuan Bao said, "You really came."

Although Frog Boy was also very surprised, he still couldn't help asking: "It's cold in the middle of the night, and the shopkeeper's legs are not very convenient. What are you working so hard to do here?" Zheng Nanyuan rubbed his legs and sighed: "I really don't want to come, but it's a pity that I have to." "why?" Zheng Nanyuan asked back: "If Yuan Bao says he can prove that this person is Guo Mie, do you believe it or not?" "I do not believe." "What if Hall Master Xiao says so?" "I don't believe it either," said Frog Boy. "When Guo Daxia disappeared, one of them hadn't been born yet, and the other was still running. What can they prove?"

"Fortunately, my nose was no longer runny by then, and I had learned to bleed!" "You have to learn to bleed?" "Of course you have to learn," Zheng Nanyuan said, "When should you bleed? Why should you bleed? What should you do to minimize the bleeding? It's not easy to learn these things, and it takes at least 20 or 30 years to learn." "So you were not young at that time." "At that time, I was already in my early thirties," Zheng Nanyuan said, "So I have to come today." "To prove that he is really Guo Mie?"

"Yes," Zheng Nanyuan said, "Among these people, I am probably the only one who is most qualified to prove this point." "why?" "Because I was there that day." This sentence is really nonsense, of course Frog Boy doesn't understand: "What day is it? Where is it?" Zheng Nanyuan didn't answer first, but turned to look at Guo Mie. The two stared at each other with an indescribable emotion in their eyes. After a long time, Guo Mie nodded slowly, and Zheng Nanyuan replied: "That day was also April 15th, but it was already April 15th seventeen years ago."

April 15th was the day Sun Jicheng disappeared from this world, and it was also the day Guo Mie and General Li disappeared from this world seventeen years ago. Zheng Nanyuan said: "That day when General Li and Guo Mie met, Mrs. Gao rushed away, and the three of them had an argument. Later, Mrs. Gao was injured and broke her arm. She was extremely angry and left angrily. But Guo Mie and General Li were also affected. Injury, General Li was hit by Mrs. Gao's palm, and the injury was even more serious." He didn't go into too much detail, because he didn't want to expose this private relationship that wasn't meant to be understood by outsiders.

But he said a major key that Yuan Bao and Xiao Jun have not been able to understand until now. "This matter has been going on for many years, and I didn't want to mention it at first," Zheng Nanyuan said, "But there is one key point in it, and now I have to say it." He knew that everyone would listen to him, so he opened the door first. After drinking a jar of wine, he continued: "When they met that day, they didn't bring any subordinates, because the three of them thought it was a very secret matter, and it would never be known to outsiders. Zheng Nanyuan said: "But they didn't expect that we had been planning for this matter for many years. When they clashed, we had already surrounded Shuiyue Temple."

Shuiyue Temple is undoubtedly their gathering place, but Yuan Bao couldn't help asking: "You?" He asked Zheng Nanyuan: "Who are you?" "There are only eight of us." Zheng Nanyuan said, "Because we all know that Tian Jue Di Mie and General Li are the top masters in the arena, so we didn't bring any subordinates for fear of alarming them." "Which eight people?" "Tie Changchun, the head of the first-class bodyguards in Ouchi, the former head of the Beggars' Gang, Mr. Wu Xueyan, the head of Dian Cang, Master Fahua of the Southern Shaolin Sect, and the head of the Thirty-Six Villages in the Yangtze River. Boss Yu, the top expert outside the customs, Director Feng of the Guandong Prince's Mansion, and Wang Zhongping, the chief escort of the joint escort agency of the 63 provinces in the south and north, Wang Zhongping." Zheng Nanyuan said the names of seven people in one breath.

Seventeen years ago, anyone who had been in the rivers and lakes for a day would turn pale when they heard the names of these people. The same until seventeen years later.Even Yuan Bao has heard their names. "You said there were only eight people, but that seems too small." Yuan Bao smiled wryly, "Each of these eight people is better than eight hundred." Zheng Nanyuan did not deny it. "General Li has committed too many crimes, he is too courageous, he dares to touch anyone," he said, "The method of extermination is too hot and ruthless, so these eight people will take action."

"But you only named seven people." Yuan Bao asked Zheng Nanyuan, "Who is the other person?" "And there's another who's nothing more than a catcher." "Just being a catcher is nothing special." Yuan Bao said, "There are hundreds of thousands of catchers in the world, and there is only one great catcher at most!" "Oh?" "I've only heard people say that this great catcher seems to have the surname Zheng as well." "Seems." "Have you heard of this person?" Yuan Bao asked Zheng Nanyuan again: "Is his name Zheng Po, and does he have another nickname, Zheng?"

"Seems." "Zheng didn't mean nothing, of course it doesn't mean that there is nothing." Yuan Bao said: "It's just that no matter what kind of case, as long as it falls into his hands, there is nothing that cannot be solved." He stared at Zheng Nanyuan: "You must be Zheng Wu." There was no doubt about this, but Zheng Nanyuan shook his head. "I'm not." He smiled and said, "You genius child finally guessed wrong once." "Aren't you Zheng?" Yuan Bao was surprised: "Then who are you?" "Zheng Nanyuan and Sun Jicheng are both fake names by us. My surname is not Zheng at all." "What was your original name?" "The surname is Tie." Yuan Bao was taken aback: "Are you one of the four great swordsmen in the Jianghu at that time, the number one master in the imperial palace, Tie Changchun, 'One Sword Suppresses Eight Desolations'?" "Yes," said Zheng Nanyuan, "I am Tie Changchun." Yuan Bao was stunned, and it took a long time before he let out a long sigh. "Tie Changchun, 'One Sword Suppresses Eight Desolations' Tie Changchun, even my third brother-in-law, who always has eyes on the top of his head, admires your swordsmanship very much." Yuan Bao smiled wryly, "If I told him that you have been He is working as a shopkeeper of a restaurant, even if he is beaten to death, he wouldn’t believe it.” "What about you?" Tie Changchun asked Yuan Bao, "Do you believe it?" "I believe it," Yuan Bao said, "but I don't understand." "don't know?" "You already knew that Sun Jicheng was Guo Mie, and you knew his relationship with General Li. Why did you stay with him here for more than ten years? And you drink with him every day?" Yuan Bao asked, "Wu Xueyan, Master Fahua, Wang Zhongping and others Why don't you bother?" "Because we have an appointment." "An appointment?" Yuan Bao asked again, "What appointment?" Tie Changchun sighed: "This matter has to start from the beginning again." "You speak, I listen." "In Shuiyue Nunnery that day, although General Li was seriously injured, Guo Mie was also killed, and he was surrounded by eight of us." Tie Changchun said: "No one in the world can escape if they are surrounded by us." Yes, of course they understand that." "I understand that too," Yuan Bao said. "But they didn't show any fear or retreat at all. Both of them made up their minds that if they die, they will die together. No matter what, they will fight us to the death." Yuan Bao raised his thumb and said loudly, "Good! What a great General Li, what a great Guo Mie." "It's a pity that this battle is absolutely unstoppable." "why?" Yuan Bao asked: "Could it be that you eight masters are afraid of the two of them?" Tie Changchun smiled wryly: "It's not that I'm afraid, but we can't let them die there." "why?" "Because the treasures in the imperial palace are still in their hands." Tie Changchun said: "Although Wu Xueyan, Old Gang Leader Ren, and Master Fahua don't care about this, Director Feng, Chief Escort Wang, Butcher Zheng, and I do. Very well, Boss Yu and Wang Zhongping are uncle Lang's relatives, so we can't let his only sister be a widow." Tie Changchun said: "Of course we also know that if we use power to force each other, it will be of no use to General Li and Guo Mie, so we have to negotiate a deal with them." "What kind of deal?" "Each of us pushes one person to decide the outcome." Tie Changchun said: "If they lose, they will hand over the treasure." "What if you lose?" "Then they still have to hand over Ouchi's treasures, but we have to accept their two conditions." Tie Changchun said: "This transaction can be negotiated because the two conditions they put forward are not only fair and reasonable, but also It also allowed us to take into account the morality of the world, so even someone as upright as Master Fahua did not object." "What conditions are they proposing?" "The first condition is to ensure the safety of General Li, neither to damage her hair, nor to arrest her." Tie Changchun said: "Master Fahua and Wu Xueyan were not willing to accept this condition." "and after?" "It wasn't until Guo Mie said something that Master Fahua changed his mind." "What's up?" "He said that although General Li has committed countless huge cases and stolen hundreds of millions of jewels and money, she has not moved a penny. When she is not out to do crimes, she is still in a dilapidated wooden house with her youngest son. Here, I lived a life of poverty, and made a living by mending embroidery for others." Tie Changchun sighed, "General Li's proficiency is really admirable." People in the Jianghu have never been able to find General Li's whereabouts, perhaps because no one would have imagined that General Li, who ruled the world, would lead such a life. She did this not to avoid people's eyes and ears, but to preserve the innocence of her mother and child. , wanting her son to be an upright person. Although Xiao Jun seemed to be completely numb, there were tears in his eyes. ——A dilapidated hut, a dilapidated wooden bed, and a woman who coughs all day long. What a sad time, what a painful life, but how respectable. Yuan Bao's eyes seemed to be a little red, and suddenly he said loudly: "General Li, I admire you. If you are still alive, I will definitely kneel down and kowtow to you 3,600 times." Tie Changchun sighed: "So I made up my mind at that time, even if I won that battle, I would never touch General Li." However, who in the world would not believe what Guo Mie said!" Yuan Bao puffed up his chest again, and said loudly: "He is a good man, and he is my friend." Yuan Bao said: "He is willing to treat me, a little devil, as a friend. I will feel very honored in my life." "So even though I still walked like a clown in that battle until now, I don't feel disgraceful." Tie Changchun said: "Being able to fight against such a hero is really the fastest time in my life. thing." "What's his second condition?" "Although the lost treasures of Ouchi must be returned, most of what General Li stole was ill-gotten wealth." Tie Changchun said: "General Li insisted on using this wealth to do some meaningful things, and did not let us Take it back to those who are unkind and unrighteous." "good idea." "The stolen goods can't be recovered. Although Zheng Po can't do business, he doesn't object." Tie Changchun said: "So the next day he quit the six gates and went to the countryside to farm." Yuan Bao yelled again: "Okay, it turns out that Zheng Mo is also a good man, if I can find him, I will kowtow to him too." "But the amount of this wealth is too large, and it cannot be given away indiscriminately." "So you both appointed a person to take charge of the money." Yuan Bao said, "But you can't let others know how the money came from, so you can only do business to avoid people's eyes and ears. Use the money secretly to do good things.” "Actually, this is also General Li's idea." "But since he himself didn't want to show up, and he didn't want to show up, he handed over the burden to Brother Guo." Yuan Bao said: "At that time, your legs were already inconvenient, and you couldn't go back to the palace to work, so Only you can accompany him to carry this burden." Tie Changchun sighed: "You are really a genius, now even I admire you." "Jinan is a big commercial port where thousands of merchants gather, so you chose this place," Yuan Bao said. "In this kind of place, as long as a person has money, no one will ask too much about his origin." Yuan Bao also said: "What's more, the head of your beggar gang, the head of the two schools of Shaolin, the head of the Changjiang River, the head of the joint escort agency, and the head of the palace outside the pass have all covered you, so for more than ten years. , and no one has discovered your true identity." "But in the past ten years, we have also done a lot of things," Tie Changchun said: "We have secretly sent out 38,925,643 taels of silver." He said: " Although this sum is quite a lot, it has also saved many people, I can assure you that every tael of silver we spend is what should be spent, it is definitely used properly, and we have a clear conscience." "I believe it," Yuan Bao said, "The bastard doesn't believe it." Tie Changchun sighed again: "The only regret is that General Li has lost sight of these things." He said sadly, "She died too early." There was a sudden silence in the cabin, everyone lowered their heads, even the girls carrying the wine and lanterns lowered their heads, even Frog Boy lowered their heads.Everyone knew in their hearts that after confessing those things, General Li would never live again. The wrong thing has been done wrong, and the indelible scars and endless regrets have been left in her heart. What should be done has been done, and the wish of her life has been confessed. Heavy, she can't survive. Yuan Bao asked himself in his heart: "Is she a hero of the Zongheng generation, or a poor woman!" But Guo Mie must live on. In order to fulfill General Li’s wish, for those who need his help, and for the sake of the overall situation, he must not only live, but also live like a real billionaire—when will he live? So far? Live until Gao Tianjue appears. He knew that Gao Tianjue would find him sooner or later, and he also knew how deep the pain and hatred in her heart were, so he had no choice but to leave. Yuan Bao asked himself again: "Is what he did right? Or wrong? If he is wrong, what should be done is right!" Who can answer these questions?Who dares to say that his answer is completely correct?