Faraway Wanderers

As soon as she said this, several people were stunned for a moment. Zhou Zishu sat up slightly, but didn't press the question. Waiting for Gao Xiaolian to release his emotions, he frowned as if thinking about something.

Wen Kexing glanced at him, and very naturally put a steamed dumpling into the bowl in front of him. Gu Xiang caught sight of it out of the corner of his eye, and quickly lowered his head pretending to look no evil. After a while, he raised his head furtively again. Come on, my eyes turned around between the two, after thinking about it, I felt that it was unbalanced, so I also sandwiched one for Cao Weining, and Cao Weining was immediately flattered.

But only Zhang Chengling felt that Gao Xiaolian was in the same situation, and he couldn't bear to watch her cry. He was clumsy and didn't know what to say, so he had to be careful to accompany her when he was sad. After a while, he couldn't say a word. , Said: "Gao...Miss Gao, don't be sad, my father is dead too..."

Zhang Chengling bit his lip and scolded himself in his heart. He felt that what he said was completely unreasonable. If your own father died, should everyone else's father die?He was a little at a loss.Gao Xiaolian didn't take it seriously, knowing that he was kind, so she forced a smile on him, which was regarded as gratitude.

Only then did Cao Weining say from the side: "I heard that some time ago, Gao Daxia personally escorted Shen Daxia's body back to Sichuan. After that... what happened?"

Gao Xiaolian reached out to wipe away the tears, lowered her eyes, her face calmed down - when they saw this girl for the first time, although she was sensible, she was a pampered lady after all, even if she went out, she was protected by her senior brother, With a little unworldly childishness.However, in just a few months, she has experienced too much, as if she suddenly became another person. Her voice was still trembling, but her emotions were under control.

He said softly: "At that time, Dad said that he would send Uncle Shen off with all the heroes. He originally agreed to take Senior Brother Deng and me there, but the day before he left, he suddenly changed his mind and left me behind. I ...I even backtracked on him and quarreled with him at the time, but my father was determined not to take me there, and even said...and said a lot of bad things, like the situation is tense right now, maybe halfway There will be many situations, the people in Guigu are still hanging around outside, I will delay their schedule and so on..."

A tear rolled down her cheek, and Zhou Zishu said softly, "I guess your father thought of something, and it's inconvenient to say it, so he kept you in consideration of your safety."

Gao Xiaolian nodded: "But I..."

Zhou Zishu said: "You are safe and sound, even if you leave his blood in the world, you will not disappoint your father's painstaking efforts."

Gao Xiaolian bit her lip, and after a long while, she continued: "I'm not angry, I thought about waiting for them to leave, and then secretly followed, who knows that daddy... Dad actually sent someone to watch me, and took me with him The senior brother left. I gambled for more than half a month, watching my senior brother release me, saying that it was also arranged by my father, who wanted to send me to a place to meet them. At that time... I felt something was wrong .”

A few people couldn't care less about eating, and were listening, only Wen Kexing's expression was fairly flat, and he didn't interrupt, but ate slowly and in a rare manner, occasionally holding Zhou Zishu's chopsticks.

Gao Xiaolian said: "I took advantage of their inattention and ran away secretly, wanting to go to Shuzhong to find my father, who knows... who knew that I met Senior Brother Deng on the way, he was seriously injured, and someone was chasing and killing him."

Cao Weining asked: "It's from Guigu..."

Zhou Zishu suddenly interrupted him, and asked, "Do you know the person who chased him? Is he from the Dongting Heroes Association?"

Cao Weining stared at him dumbfounded, swallowed, and said calmly: "Zhou...Brother Zhou, it's better not to talk nonsense?"

Zhou Zishu leaned back in the chair, and said softly: "Listen to what Miss Gao said, Daxia Gao took people from various sects, if he was really from Guigu, how could he chase after them when they were so crowded? Killing Deng Kuan? Whose fate is that against?"

Gao Xiaolian trembled all over: "That's right...you're right, he's a decent person, they said my father was the murderer who killed Uncle Shen, the chief culprit who killed the Zhang family and the head of Taishan, and the evil The ghosts colluded to... want to get Liulijia, and also said that Rongxuan and others tossed about the matter of stealing martial arts secret books of various sects. My father was involved. He concealed this part for his own reputation. You have to kill people to silence them, swallow them alone..."

Zhang Chengling's eyes widened, and he stood up abruptly: "What? He..."

Zhou Zishu looked up at him, and said coldly, "Little devil, sit down for me."

Zhang Chengling looked at him: "Master, she said...she said..."

Gao Xiaolian's voice suddenly rose, and said sharply: "It's not true, they are talking nonsense, they wronged my father, my father is not that kind of person!"

Zhou Zishu just said lightly: "That's right, Daxia Gao is indeed not that kind of person, Miss Gao, go ahead."

His voice was deep and deep, as if there was a special comforting power, Gao Xiaolian glanced at him, and felt that he had overreacted, a little embarrassed, lowered his eyes slightly, and then said: "Brother Deng told me to run... ...I was terrified, so I had no choice but to panic, and I was afraid that others would catch up with me, so I avoided the crowd along the way. Senior brother was seriously injured at the time. I don't know if he...is he still..."

Zhou Zishu and Wen Kexing looked at each other, thinking that from this point of view, Deng Kuan might be in danger.

Cao Weining said: "Later, you panicked and didn't choose your way. You accidentally met the black gu mother-in-law and the others. You didn't pay attention to revealing your identity, so they got evil intentions and caught you, right?"

Gao Xiaolian nodded: "It's not that I accidentally exposed it, someone caught up with me, Granny Heigu and the others stepped in and took me away... They all thought that Liulijia was in my father's hands, so now He's dead, those ghost things must be in my hands..."

It was simply another Zhang Chengling.

Gu Xiang interjected: "Well, that's right, after we parted in Dongting last time, Big Brother Cao and I ran into Qi Ye and the others. Qi Ye said he was going to find a way to save Zhou Xu, so he followed us to find you for a while. It's just that I don't know where you guys went to get married..."

Cao Weining heard that her words were getting more and more out of order, so she hurriedly interrupted her with a dry cough.

Wen Kexing paused, ignored Gu Xiang's nonsense, and asked, "Qi Ye said there is a way?"

Gu Xiangdao: "The great witch said that he thought of something, let us contact them after we find Zhou Xu—the group of women in black are said to be the remnants of the black witches in southern Xinjiang. They were killed by the great witch in the early years. Where did I trick a bunch of silly girls into becoming believers with them, lingering for many years, this time it was a mess, and the big witch said that they just happened to catch them all. Brother Cao and I were fine, so we went to keep an eye on them. Accumulate virtue and do good deeds, who knows that I met Miss Gao, this time the accumulation of virtues will be great!"

Wen Kexing looked at her in surprise, frowned slightly, but didn't say anything. Instead, he turned around and asked Zhou Zishu, "What do you think?"

Zhou Zishu was silent for a while, then sighed, and said, "Everyone who knew about it is almost dead, and there is only one left. Win or lose has already been decided. Why do you ask me this kind of question?"

At the same time, Qiye and Dawu who were being discussed were also in an inn. Qiye was having a great time playing with a chopstick, trying to put a chopstick upside down on the table rather childishly. superior.

It's a pity that the chopsticks were not flat, but slightly curved. He tried hard for a long time but still failed, but he was still fiddling with it relentlessly, so engrossed that he didn't even bother to eat.

The big witch looked at him for a long while, finally sighed, and said softly like coaxing a child: "Beiyuan, stop playing, eat well."

Qi Ye responded, but his eyes still did not leave the chopstick.The big witch had no choice but to feed him one bite at a time. The big witch in southern Xinjiang looked cold and didn't speak much, but he seemed to have endless patience with Qi Ye.

Qi Ye got used to it, he fed and ate, the big witch couldn't help asking: "What are you doing?"

Qi Ye said: "I want to stand up this chopstick."

The big witch frowned, not understanding what he meant, so he took the unlucky chopstick out of his hand, and poked it lightly on the table, the surface of the table looked like tofu, and he insisted on poking it A hole came out, and the chopsticks stood firmly inside.

Qi Ye glared at him: "You are brute force, you can't do this."

The big witch smiled connivingly, and didn't say anything, just watched him fiddling silently while feeding him.

Qi Ye said to himself: "One can't stand, you need to find another one."

As he spoke, he picked up the other chopstick. After a long time, the two chopsticks were dangerously causing him to stand upside down on the table, supporting each other. Qi Ye carefully pulled his hands away. , opened his mouth very softly, as if he was afraid that his breath would blow down the chopsticks that had managed to stand up.

I just heard him say: "Balance—it's not easy."

The big witch was a little puzzled, and asked, "What did you say?"

Qi Ye smiled and said: "If a game wants to have a long-term and stable result, it must be balanced. Combination is a balance, and division is a balance. The way to balance is..."

The big witch pinched the bridge of his nose, and interrupted him: "Beiyuan, don't talk nonsense."

Qi Ye was not angry, as if he was used to being interrupted, he continued: "There are many conditions to achieve a balance, and it is extremely difficult to achieve. First of all, both sides must be evenly matched. There cannot be strong and weak, otherwise the strong side will The weaker side must be devoured, evenly matched is not enough, evenly matched may also fight to the death, there must be some natural or man-made barriers, insurmountable, both sides are wary, both sides have concerns, and are unwilling to start this... Generally speaking, to have such a perfect and beautiful balanced result, it is composed of various chances and coincidences, that is, it is made by God. If it is man-made, you need to be careful step by step, carefully plan, and if you make a wrong calculation, you will lose everything. But destroying It’s very easy to lose this game.”

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pulled out one of the chopsticks, and the other one fell down in response, hitting a plate of pastries, causing some small cracks.

Qi Ye smiled and said: "Just take away one of the boards like this, and the balance will be broken immediately. It's just... why did you take this board away?"

The big witch wondered: "What did you see again?"

Qi Ye picked up the tea bowl, lowered his head and took a sip, shook his head and said with a smile, "Don't say it, don't say it."