storyteller

Qiu Lingfu shook his head and said, "I don't know."

He didn't change his face, just opened a pair of clear eyes, and looked at Mr. Wu confidently.

Mr. Wu only looked at him with raised eyelids: "If you don't know him, you will ask me who he is, instead of just saying that you don't know him."

Qiu Lingfu smiled and said, "If you only know the name, but don't know the origin and purpose, it's not called acquaintance. Am I waiting for the old man to tell me about him?"

Mr. Wu pondered: "Back then, Yu'er founded Hua Yuye and took in a group of orphan girls as disciples. Orphan girls usually had no family members, or were abandoned by their families. They were carefree prodigal sons. But there were also a few Exceptions, such as Hua Yuye's Ruyi mother-in-law. Back then, she was very clever and strategized, and she won a place for Hua Yuye in the sweaty arena of men. But at the same time, she also made many enemies in the arena. 20 years ago , one of her enemies discovered her home and hired killers from the Blood Bat Sect to assassinate her to vent her hatred."

Mr. Wu's tone of speech was always drawn out, as if he was walking on the ground in long and wide shoes, slowly and laboriously.If it is interesting, it will make people anxious, but if it is less interesting, it will make people drowsy.

Qiu Lingfu looked at him without blinking, obviously finding it interesting.

"Although Ruyi was sold by her family in the early years, she had cut off contact with her family long ago, but after hearing the news, she worried about the safety of her elder brother and younger siblings, so she secretly sent Qiu Xinsu to visit. But for some reason, although the killer He didn't kill his family, but killed another family by mistake."

Qiu Lingfu was very interested: "This family's surname is Xiao?"

Mr. Wu was sitting by the torch, with his eyes closed, as if he was meditating, and he continued to tell the story: "Almost all Xiao's family was murdered, except for one child who was playing in another house. In fact, Taiping Town has never been In Taiping, gangsters, big and small, built villages nearby, and they committed all sorts of crimes, including thieves and thieves like the plague. But even so, there has never been a case where more than ten members of the family were brutally killed."

Mr. Wu opened his eyes and looked at Qiu Lingfu who was in the firelight over there: "At that time, Taiping Town just came to the Lord of Xin County. When the Lord of that County first came, everyone was just a frail boy with no power to restrain a chicken, but When he first took office, he immediately rectified the county yamen's posts, found out the officials who were secretly colluding with the thieves, dismissed them one by one, and caught a group of thieves and punished them severely. on this thing."

Qiu Lingfu knew who this young and upright magistrate was.There was a surge of heat in his heart, as if he could feel the blood burning in his heart.

"Boping punished a group of thieves at that time, which touched the bottom line of the surrounding villages, but he was smart enough to take advantage of the discord in these villages to restrain each other, and let them treat him, a weak little county magistrate, with nothing. method. But when something like this happened at that time, the problem before him was too great. It was good that he didn't catch the murderer, but he did catch him. What he had to face was the The blood bat sect of the famous underworld sect."

Qiu Lingfu asked: "Isn't he not good at martial arts? Then how did he catch him?"

He asked this question because he knew it must be related to Qiu Xinsu.

Mr. Wu also knew why he asked this: "At that time when the incident happened, the officials were less courageous than mice. If they dared to catch the murderer, they just stood at a distance. Boping had expected this, so he I went to Xiao's house in person, and ordered to kill Qiu Xinsu and the killer of the Blood Bat Sect on the spot."

Qiu Lingfu wondered: "How could he catch my mother?"

Mr. Wu also said: "He can't catch your mother, but he can catch her."

"any solution?"

"The killer of the Blood Bat Sect has been subdued by your mother, and it is easy to catch. But your mother is not easy to catch. She escaped a few times, and was caught by your father several times. Don't think Boping can't fight, he Ideas to deal with the Jianghu people emerge in endlessly, using poison and tricks, and forcing the surrounding village owners to serve him. Some of the methods are quite offensive, and your mother wants to kill him several times."

Qiu Lingfu laughed.What are these methods, he can think of a few now, as if the method was originally thought of by himself.

"But my mother didn't kill him, she gave birth to me with him."

Mr. Wu said: "People in the Jianghu use military force to violate the law, but there are very few county magistrates who intervene in the affairs of the Jianghu, especially those related to the Dapai. This is the first time your mother has met such a persistent county magistrate." She knew that this man was upright and kind, and wanted to kill him, but she couldn't bear to kill him, so she asked him to catch him again and again. After Boping found out who the murderer was, she thought about what she did to your mother , I felt so ashamed, I spent a little time trying to apologize, but your mother has disappeared."

Qiu Lingfu laughed loudly: "For ordinary people, the people of Jianghu come and go without a trace, appearing and disappearing like ghosts."

Mr. Wu also had a smile on his lips: "Maybe it's really a ghost, or why your father was so out of his mind at that time, and even suffered a serious illness."

Qiu Lingfu had listened to so many storytelling stories, all of them were not as interesting as this one.He listened with great interest, and commented: "All literati are lovesick, and once they fall in love, they can't bear it."

"This lovesickness is not fatal, but getting into trouble with the Blood Bat Sect is fatal. Boping knew that if he didn't kill the killer as soon as possible, someone would find a way to rescue him. In this way, the Xiao family will never be able to redress their grievances. So he resorted to some tricks and allowed the killer to die in prison without authorization. Since then, the official world has been in constant trouble. Fortunately, in the official world, he is knowledgeable and knows many friends and old friends. The problems can always be solved, but people He doesn't know martial arts, but things in the Jianghu are always a bit difficult to deal with. But he is lucky, and there are always experts who help him secretly, and he has always turned danger into good luck."

Qiu Lingfu said softly, "My mother likes him."

Mr. Wu's dry voice also softened: "Afterwards, the two gradually walked together. Boping has been an official in Taiping Town these years, and he has offended many villains for the people of Taiping Town. If he had only relied on himself, he might have survived, but he would have had a hard time. But he lived happily in those years."

Qiu Lingfu asked: "Then why did he die? Mother brought him more danger than protection?"

Mr. Wu looked at him: "Very few people are willing to hear about the cause of their parents' death. It's best for people to stop hearing about the beautiful past."

Qiu Lingfu said, "The more I listen to him, the more pitiful I feel now. So my mother never said anything, so I never asked."

The beard on Mr. Wu's mouth trembled slightly, and he moved his lips unhurriedly: "Then why did you predict the cause of his death? It makes you feel that you are not pitiful."

The corners of Qiu Lingfu's mouth curled up, his eyes brightened with a smile: "That's why I told you in advance, so that you can make him even more hateful. Tell me quickly, my mother really watched him die?"

He asked lightly, as if he was talking about the old affairs of other people's family.

The torch next to Mr. Wu lit the stone room red, and Qiu Lingfu's light-colored long hair was hazy by the flames, making him look younger and innocent.

Mr. Wu will never make a person more hateful, nor will he make a thing more pitiful, he will only talk about the thing itself impartially.Therefore, his stories are usually boring, because the unpolished rivers and lakes have always been boring, and they will always go back and forth in the cycle of knights, beauties, love, hate, life and death.

Mr. Wu said: "The usual practice of people in the Jianghu is that if they can't deal with a person, they will pick his important people to attack. Qiu Xinsu's enemy wants to get some news from her, and after pursuing Qiu Xinsu to no avail, he picks him. Boping starts."

Qiu Lingfu asked: "My mother gave up on him in order to keep the news?"

Mr. Wu shook his head: "Your mother never took that secret seriously. She always knew what she wanted to do, and she didn't hesitate to save your father. On the third day after Boping disappeared, she found him. Me, I told her the prison where Boping is, but I also told her what Boping left."

Qiu Lingfu knew what consequences these words had in the end, but he didn't understand what those words were.

He wondered: "My mother would actually do something I don't want to do just because of a word?"

Mr. Wu said: "Boping asked me to tell her that he had already taken a poison."

Qiu Lingfu's heart skipped a beat, and he said in a daze, "What poison?"

"A kind of poison that makes life worse than death. Before death, all the happiness will make him heartbroken and painful. He is very smart, and the amount of poison he takes is just enough to last his life for ten days. These ten days Qiu Xinsu couldn't find an antidote, nor could he be rescued, but it just happened to make Qiu Xinsu rush to see him for the last time after being heartbroken."

This last side is naturally watched from a distance.Because he wouldn't let her fall and expose her to the enemy for a dying man.

Qiu Lingfu took a breath: "Since you are going to die, why do you have to take this kind of poison?"

"He took this poison to tell Qiu Xinsu that he knew everything. He had already noticed that your mother was entangled in this secret, and he couldn't let it go. He read the relevant files and asked the people in the Jianghu secretly. With his intelligence, he knew the matter long ago. It is very clear. Those government forces who have ties to the Jianghu secretly arrested him and tortured him for the crime of reading the secret volume. He knew that if he fell into this situation, Qiu Xinsu would do everything to save him, even at the cost of To expose the so-called secret, so he prepared the poison early."

Qiu Lingfu's heartbeat almost burst out of his chest: "What is this secret?"

Mr. Wu shook his head and said, "I don't know, but what your father thinks is inconvenient to reveal must be a harmful secret."

Hearing this, Qiu Lingfu was silent for a while, and suddenly mocked softly: "He thinks how great he is to hurt the one he loves by dying."

"That's why he told me that this poison was born for him." Mr. Wu closed his eyes again, the white beard on his brow was like a cloud of sorrow, hanging leisurely on the edge of the old bark, and couldn't let go. "He said that this poison can prevent him from thinking about people or things he shouldn't think about within ten days of his death. Because he is afraid that he still wants to live."