Help! I just woke up and was stabbed by a big kid

"So that's how it is." Gu Xu nodded.

If Gu Dashi had not made so many suspicious moves before, Gu Xu might have been a little happy, but now, he was not moved at all.

He felt a little disappointed, but quickly calmed down. After all the ups and downs he had experienced, such a small thing was not enough to make him have too many emotions.

Gu Xu said, "Well, let these brothers stay at the inn tonight, and I will stay with dad."

"Okay!" Gu Yue was happy. Even though he knew that Gu Xu was probably trying to test him, he was still happy because at least he had a chance to explain.

Gu Yue waved his hand and called the waiter. He had a close relationship with the steward, so it was easy for him to order someone around. He added two dishes according to Gu Xu's taste as written in the original book, and asked them to take the double-skin milk and cake that they had tried today. Gu Xu liked sweet food, so he asked him to try these new things.

"Is this something Dad came up with himself?" Gu Xu took a bite of the sponge cake.

No butter was added, just sugar, eggs and milk, but the taste was already very good, especially in an era when there was no yeast powder.

"Haha, not really. Someone in the casino talked about it before, and I just remembered it." Gu Yue smiled, "Do you like it? If you like it, let's come often. If you don't like it, I'll study and make it for you when I get back."

"If you go back to Liuli Town, what will you do for a living?" Gu Xu asked.

The four subordinates didn't interrupt, they just chatted about their own things or ate their food. Someone was treating us, so we had to eat more.

"I've thought about it. I'll open a shop and make fried chicken. That's easy." Gu Yue also craves fried food. "Fried chicken, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, with a burnt aroma."

"Where is the capital?" Gu Xu asked again.

"Uh... I wrote some short stories and submitted them to Hangdou Bookstore. They gave me some money, which was enough." Gu Yue was stuck for a moment.

"I don't even know when Dad learned to read." Gu Xu's expression was indifferent, which was also what he couldn't figure out. If it was a spirit possessing him, it would be easy to explain, but if it was a disguise, it would be too stupid to expose it like this.

But Gu Xu didn't quite believe in the idea of ​​monsters.

"Haha... I'll explain this to you when I get back. It's very complicated." Gu Yue couldn't think of an excuse for the moment.

They chatted casually and the meal was soon over. Gu Yue's tentative intention was quite obvious. He asked the four subordinates some questions, but they were all brushed off with prepared answers.

The meal lasted almost till the end, but because we were all engaged in witty conversations the entire time, everyone was exhausted.

The four subordinates left first, actually leaving two of them to guard the master and Gu Yue to prevent any danger.

Gu Yue still had work to do. He was busy cleaning the table, wiping the table and mopping the floor. He then counted the ingredients and today's income and roughly checked the account book. Only then did he finish his work and take Gu Xu back to his own small room.

After opening the door and lighting a candle, I could see some scattered papers on the table, with several half-written short stories on them.

Gu Xu picked it up and looked at it. Gu Yue did not stop him. He just spread the quilt aside and went out to boil water for washing feet.

When he came back with the water, Gu Xu was already sitting on the earthen kang looking at him.

Gu Yue took a stool to raise the hot water basin, then squatted down to help Gu Xu take off his shoes.

The movements were too smooth. Gu Xu was used to being served, so he didn't realize something was wrong for a moment.

"Dad..." Gu Xu wanted to ask him what he was doing.

"You must have walked for a long time. It will be nice to warm your feet." Gu Yue's face looked normal.

Gu Xu looked at him and suddenly smiled: "What do you want to say?"

"Actually, I know that you hit me on the head." Gu Yue said first.

Gu Xu's expression didn't change at all. He still looked at him. He didn't show any nervousness or anything like that of being caught doing something bad.

"Why shouldn't I bother with you? One reason is that I really owe you, and the other is that I just had a dream." Gu Yue said seriously.

"What dream?" Gu Xu watched how he was going to make it up.

"Well, I vaguely dreamed that a god said that my son Gu Xu had a noble person to help him in this life, and he would definitely be very successful in the future! Then he taught me a lesson, saying that I had done too many evil things and would definitely go to hell in the future, and asked me to reform myself." Gu Yue's face was solemn, "He asked me to ask for your forgiveness, otherwise I would die miserably."

"How miserable is it?" Gu Xu's mouth seemed to raise a little.

"... Well, slow slicing and then beheading? He's still alive when he's beheaded." Gu Yue said. He was really afraid of this.

Gu Xu stared at him closely.

Gu Yue felt a chill on his back.

"Okay, I forgive you now." Gu Xu said, "You have completed your mission, you can leave now."

Gu Yue: “?”

Gu Yue: "No, this doesn't count..."

"Aren't you trying to get my forgiveness? You paid for my admission to the martial arts gym, took care of me, and gave me pocket money. You did a great job. I forgive you." Gu Xu said.

Gu Yue felt confused at this moment.

It seemed that what Gu Xu said was right. At this point, there was really no need for Gu Xu to single him out and behead him after gaining the upper hand. In fact, his mission to survive had already been completed.

As for other things, he also did them halfway to earn some pocket money for Gu Xu. He could continue to work at the restaurant because he had connections and would not be fired halfway and have no hope for the rest of his life. He could even marry a wife and live a stable life, thus becoming an ordinary background character in the book.

but……

Gu Yue wanted to choose this way. Gu Xu looked like a boy of fifteen or sixteen, but he was actually full of tricks. Judging from the situation today, he had probably already contacted Wumen, and things would be on the right track in the future. It would not be a big deal if he just let it go.

but!

Gu Yue had a vague feeling.

It was as if there was a thread of fate tied to him. If he left Gu Xu at this point, he might not be able to become part of a wealthy family in Beiqin as he had imagined, and his final outcome would not have changed.

No reason, no reason, it's just an intuition.

Can the background passerby return to his own life if he leaves the protagonist?

I'm afraid not?

The life of the passers-by in the background is blank.

In the corners that the author did not write about, these people do not actually move, but stand by in place, waiting for the camera around the protagonist to move to them, so that they can have a short life.

Gu Yue's intuition told him that this was it.

He probably couldn't leave Gu Xu. He couldn't be a real background person, because this was the world of books, not reality.

Maybe the characters he saw were all soulless "characters"? Although everything was realistic, Gu Yue knew very well that he had not yet found a sense of belonging in this seemingly real world. He was a soul from another world, not a real character.

Maybe his priority is higher than Gu Xu?

At least Gu Xu is a male protagonist who is out of the original plot.

"You are so young, what will you do if I leave you? Why do you suddenly want to drive me away?" Gu Yue smiled easily: "We are father and son, a family, how can we be separated?"

Gu Xu said slowly: "...a family?"

"I, I was wrong before, but you can't just cut off ties with me like this... Can you just beat me up to vent your anger? My brother and sister-in-law brought you back. If I just throw you away again, how will I explain myself when I go to hell?" Gu Yue felt very uncomfortable.