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Duan Jingzhe had a cold smile, he took a step forward, and Qiu Lingfu took a step back.

He admired the vigilant expression on Qiu Lingfu's face, and let out a sigh of relief: "Didn't you want to kill me when we met last time? So now you dare not move forward with your sword?"

Qiu Lingfu observed the darkness around him from the corner of his eye, wondering if there was anyone behind this Jing Zhe.

Duan Jingzhe stepped forward step by step, and forced to ask: "Is it because Ah Po is not by your side, or is it because this silly boy is by your side?"

Qiu Xiaoshi heard what this person said about himself, feeling guilty, remorseful and angry in his heart, with mixed emotions, he got the courage out of nowhere, and shouted with a thick neck: "Don't be afraid, little master, I am not afraid of death, Xiaoshi!"

Duan Jingzhe looked at him amusedly: "Oh? You know a lot, people who are not afraid of death are really scary."

Duan Jingzhe looked at Qiu Lingfu again: "But your young master is afraid of death, he is not only afraid of his own death, but also of your death."

This cold gaze was thicker than this night, and Qiu Lingfu was driven to shudder.

Qiu Xiaoshi took a peek at Qiu Lingfu: This kid, is he really afraid of my death?

Qiu Lingfu's eyes still pretended to be calm and composed, which was the shield he held on with gritted teeth: "You want to use me against my mother?"

Duan Jingzhe said: "Half yes, half no."

"You want to know the secret that my mother holds?"

Duan Jingzhe still said: "Half want to know, half don't want to."

"Then are you human?"

Duan Jingzhe was taken aback, Qiu Lingfu was surprised to ask this question.

I saw Qiu Lingfu suddenly sneered: "Could it be half yes, half no?"

Duan Jingzhe also smiled and said, "You are half cute and half hateful."

His smile was painted on his face, half true and half false.

Duan Jingzhe suddenly said: "Why stand there, aren't you tired? Let's sit down and talk."

After hearing this, Qiu Xiaoshi became stiff all over, even he could have guessed that Jing Zhe had a trick in his heart.After all, it is not a good omen that the enemy suddenly shows favor.

Qiu Lingfu's sword was still facing him: "I won't sit."

"Then I'll sit." Duan Jingzhe didn't care whether Qiu Lingfu sat or not, he found a dead wood pile on the spot, brushed off the unmelted snow with his sleeve, then lifted his robe, and sat down gracefully.

Qiu Lingfu stood far away: "When you sit, your head is one point closer to the dirt. The closer you are to the dirt, the more you look like a dead person."

Duan Jingzhe shook his head: "Standing is too tiring, if you are dead, you will be dead."

Qiu Lingfu sneered, "If you want to die, why don't you end it yourself so that others won't worry about you."

Duan Jingzhe said: "If I kill Hua Yuye, and then kill Ah Po, Qiu Xinsu and that idiot around you, do you want to die? Will you kill yourself?"

Qiu Lingfu understood instantly: "You want revenge?"

Duan Jingzhe patted his thigh, as happy as if he had found a confidant: "Yes, I want revenge."

His appearance is neither as polite as he usually shows in front of everyone, nor is he as vicious and cold as the last time I heard him talking to Kong Ting.

It's like a drunk who has been tired all day and can finally drink freely, and can finally vomit bitterness and seek a confidant.

"Who are you looking for revenge?" Qiu Lingfu asked.

"Who are you looking for revenge?" Duan Jingzhe also asked.

"Looking for me?" Qiu Lingfu knew that the answer was not accurate, but this man had indeed plotted against him.

He let Gui Ren die in front of him, that is to let Ah Po leave him, leaving him with nowhere to rely on.

If Ah Po doesn't leave by himself, then let Granny Liu stop him and force him to leave!

"What are you looking for?" Duan Jingzhe seemed to be looking at a ridiculous fool, "Qiu Lingfu, you plotted against Xiangshui Palace when you first came out of the rivers and lakes. It's a big move, but do you know why you can't count on me?"

He said to himself: "Because you are no different from Ding She. He sees the rivers and lakes through the eyes of money. You read the rivers and lakes from wild books. You are smart enough to have a set of rules to master the rivers and lakes." approach, but it doesn't work for everyone."

"Like you?" Qiu Lingfu asked.

"You are really unlucky, because I am indeed an exception. I neither want martial arts to rule the roost, nor do I have people and things I love. These ordinary laws can be applied to anyone, except me." Duan Jingzhe smiled meaningfully Said, "Even I don't know what I want to do and what my purpose is. Including your mother, she is smarter than you."

As expected, Qiu Lingfu's expression changed. He couldn't maintain a calm mind for a while, and blurted out: "Have you seen her?"

Duan Jingzhe smiled and said, "I've seen it."

Qiu Lingfu said: "You threatened her by using the poison on my body?"

Duan Jingzhe clapped his hands and applauded: "Smart."

Qiu Lingfu's eyes turned sharp, and the hand holding the sword began to tremble. If it was before, he would have raised his sword and chopped at the man's head - but he met A Po, who forced him to learn to be patient.

What's more, he still has something he wants to hear.

Duan Jingzhe didn't move at all, he didn't seem to be able to feel Qiu Lingfu holding back his anger: "Don't you ask her how she reacted?"

Qiu Lingfu said: "Wouldn't it be more realistic to ask you to hand over the poison with a sword!"

Duan Jingzhe smiled and said: "You can't kill me tonight, and I can't kill you either. Because your martial arts are too similar to mine, it's hard to distinguish between a hundred moves. I have important things tonight, and I don't have the energy to fight with you. There is an obstacle around you, you must be thinking how to solve me without doing anything."

The two faced each other only once, but during this period of Jing Zhe, they have already figured out each other's skills secretly, this mind is indeed sharp enough.

Seeing that Qiu Lingfu was still cold, he looked bored with this appearance, and said lazily, "Even if there is a fool by your side, I can't kill you, because this is a fool who can be sent to death at any time."

Qiu Lingfu is not so easy to deceive: "Where is Kong Ting?"

Duan Jingzhe was a little surprised: "Do you know he is Kong Ting?"

"Is not it?"

Duan Jingzhe only smiled and said: "Compared to killing you, he has more important people to kill tonight."

"Who?" When Qiu Lingfu asked, his voice trembled, and several faces flashed in his mind.

Duan Jingzhe smiled and said: "Lie Yunxia, ​​because he was engaged to my brother when he was a child."

Qiu Lingfu heard an unexpected name: "Lie Yunxia?"

Duan Jingzhe asked back: "Ah Po is engaged to someone else, do you want to kill that person?"

Qiu Lingfu was startled slightly, unable to believe it.

Duan Jingzhe said: "You are really similar to me. You want to kill, and you want to tear your body into pieces. I am too."

Qiu Lingfu suddenly laughed and said, "You and your brother really are..."

He didn't finish his sentence, because he thought it was too ridiculous, so he looked at Duan Jingzhe and began to joke.

Duan Jingzhe was not annoyed: "It's okay, Young Master Qiu guessed as boldly as possible."

He stretched out his hand and shook the surrounding darkness, as if introducing some magnificent beauty, with an unprecedentedly relaxed expression: "This forest is so hell-like, so I like it here very much. As I said, we can't kill each other, I'm just here to chat and talk about what we know each other, why don't you sit down, Young Master Qiu?"

His relaxed expression was enough to confuse people's hearts, Qiu Lingfu asked: "Are you willing to say anything?"

No matter whether Duan Jingzhe answered yes or no, Qiu Lingfu had no hope, nor would he believe it.He doesn't have to listen to Duan Jingzhe's truth, because lies are not useless.

Duan Jingzhe said: "I can't ask anything with a knife around my neck, but now, I can say half of it."

"I don't like listening to half of a story."

Qiu Lingfu said so, but sat down, Qiu Xiaoshi's hand was still clutching his clothes, Qiu Lingfu saw that his face was pale, so he also pulled him to sit down.

The two parties were sitting opposite each other with a distance of three feet.

Duan Jingzhe finally smiled and said: "Young Master Qiu really has the sincerity to listen to books."

Qiu Lingfu said: "Did the Second Sect Leader have the ability to tell stories?"

Duan Jingzhe only said: "I can't compare to one person in telling stories, and that person can't even compare to the old man who eats and drinks."

The fake smile on Qiu Lingfu's face gradually collapsed, and he could vaguely guess who it was.

Duan Jingzhe really said: "No one in the world remembers Master Xu Yuxu's name, but what he did has affected the world to this day. Young Master Qiu, do you know the difference between Kongquebin and other sects?"

"Like to collude with the government?" Although Qiu Lingfu hardly ever travels to Huai'an, he has a rich enough collection of information about various sects in Jianghu.

"That's one, but you're only half right about that one."

"half?"

"The other half is in the half of the story that I don't want to tell. Young Master Qiu will know about it later. What I want to tell Young Master Qiu is the second." Duan Jingzhe dragged his voice and said, "The so-called elite secret guards of the Kong family, In fact, they are the pillars of the entire Kongquebin. Without them, Kongquebin will only have generals and no soldiers."

He easily revealed the secrets of his sect, as if telling a ridiculous joke: "I don't know how the rumors on the rivers and lakes have been modified, but in fact the Kong family is not the elite secret guard of Kongquebin. The Peacocks and Birds, the Sparrows are masters of strategy and lead the entire sect, but only the Kongs can allow us to gain a foothold in the rivers and lakes. With the Kongs, we are birds in cages, and without the Kongs, we cannot survive outside the cage."

Qiu Xiaoshi was silently speechless.

Qiu Lingfu was a little surprised when he heard it, but he smiled and said, "It sounds like an imperial court institution."

"That's why we get along with the government." Duan Jingzhe also laughed.

"Later Kongbu was destroyed by my father?"

Duan Jingzhe nodded: "It's ruined."

How it was destroyed, no one knows.But what Qiu Lingfu knew was that his father didn't know martial arts.

"Why can't the sparrows gain a foothold in the Jianghu?"

Duan Jingzhe said: "Martial arts practice depends on talent, some people are not naturally suitable for martial arts, but they are suitable for using their brains."

Hearing this, Qiu Xiaoshi's face turned red, he was neither suitable for practicing martial arts nor using his brain.

Qiu Lingfu said, "But your martial arts are good."

"That's not bad. When Kongbu was destroyed, my elder brother and I were still young, and my father was seriously ill. People who are seriously ill but still have ambitions, so they can only place their hopes on the next generation. At that time, I was 11 years old. I am 12 years old and my elder brother is [-] years old. After being strictly trained by the elders in the school, we still have no progress. Because we brothers have a good relationship and take care of each other every day. The elder Zhang Chun is soft-hearted. We always have a way to make the training less so. strict."

"Your father found out later?" Qiu Lingfu guessed.

"That's right, he found out." Duan Jingzhe nodded, the corners of his mouth curled up inadvertently, with a very cold smile.

"and after?"

"And then my brother died."

"died?"

Qiu Lingfu was shocked. The well-known head of Duan Jinglan, Duan Jinglan, turned out to be a dead person?Could it be that for so many years, it was Duan Jingzhe who played the two roles alone, deceiving the eyes of the world?

When Duan Jingzhe talked about his brother's death, his tone was very flat: "Some people are very good at torturing their enemies, but they are even better at torturing their family members. Throughout the ages, anyone who wants to train people's bloody fighting spirit will think about how to drive them to a desperate situation , how to make people learn to compete.”

But after a few words, Qiu Lingfu didn't know why, but he was terrified when he heard it. He only asked, "You killed your brother and survived as a strong man?"

Duan Jingzhe shook his head lightly, and smiled lightly again.

His smile this time finally got into his eyes, and he was even a little gentle: "No, it is the weak who survive, because the strong dare to die."

In just a few words, Qiu Lingfu could already imagine the tragedy of this story.But he doesn't sympathize with the person in front of him, because he never loves people, especially those who hurt him.

He asked: "So you want to seek revenge from my mother."

"Your mother?" Duan Jingzhe thought it was funny, "I'm not someone who doesn't know right and wrong, I want revenge, and I want revenge from my father."

It is ridiculous for a person who has harmed countless people to say that he is ignorant of right and wrong.

But at this moment Qiu Lingfu couldn't laugh: "Your father?"

"He killed my brother, can't I seek revenge from him?" Duan Jingzhe laughed at himself, "Could it be that you still think that I'm going to find out the secret from Qiu Xinsu's mouth and lead Kongquebin to dominate the martial arts world? It's boring."

It's really boring, how interesting it is to cling to love and hatred.Qiu Lingfu felt the same way.

But he could tell that for Duan Jingzhe, revenge was also very boring, but revenge could make him excited, at least like a living person.

"But isn't he dead?"

Duan Zhongsi died, many years ago, everyone in the world knows this.But since that Duan Jinglan is a dead person, maybe this Zhongsi is a living person.

"Isn't it possible to take revenge on the dead?" Duan Jingzhe seemed to be listening to a joke, "I told Ah Po last time that we were together, but he just didn't believe it."

This person is really unreasonable, revenge on the dead, why torture other living people?

Speaking of Ah Po, Qiu Lingfu suddenly said in a hard tone: "I don't even want to hear about your past."

Duan Jingzhe smiled and said, "Because I can't say what you want to hear."

His smile is different from the one just now, this smile is sweet and vicious, as if the conspiracy has finally succeeded.

Qiu Lingfu watched with vigilance: "Could it be that you came here tonight to tell me your story, so that I can tell you about your sad past and make people sympathize with you?"

Duan Jingzhe shook his head lightly: "Of course not, I just want you to sit down."

"sit down?"

Duan Jingzhe smiled coldly: "Because you are too vigilant, I want you to relax a little. Although sitting is closer to the loess, it is comfortable."

thump.

Qiu Lingfu's heart was shocked, and when he looked sideways, Qiu Xiaoshi, who was sitting beside him, was already limp on the ground, unconscious.

Duan Jingzhe also stood up, and he said with a smile: "Not all poisons need to be smeared on the sword flamboyantly. Some poisons are more gentle. Listening to the storytelling stories that I want to hear most in my heart, I sip it slowly and enjoy it very much. "

Qiu Lingfu was sweating profusely, and the soft sword in his hand was gradually becoming unsteady: "You can find me because you know that I dare not go straight. You stopped here because only the area under my feet was drugged. "

Duan Jingzhe nodded, and it could be seen that he really admired Qiu Lingfu in some respects.

"It's not easy to administer medicine in this open place. But if you have the secret in your mother's hands, you don't need to spend so much thought on poisoning. Those strange poisons are only one pair. If they are used well, it will be much easier to manipulate the martial arts. "

He said that he didn't want martial arts to rule the roost, so why did he want to manipulate martial arts? Could it be that manipulating martial arts is the way to avenge a dead man?

As Qiu Lingfu listened, his vision gradually blurred, but he still gritted his teeth and held the sword in his hand tightly.

The last thing he saw was Duan Jingzhe slowly approaching him.

"You are the only one who wastes them on bad things."