The window was propped, and the rainwater trickled down the window forming a small waterfall. Fang Jie sat on a chair and looked at the gray sky outside, puffing out smoke like a monster absorbing the essence of heaven and earth. His eyes were squinted, as if trying to see through the rain.
Dozens of warriors in iron armor stood outside the wooden house, and the raindrops made a tick-tock sound on the iron armor and the saber. These soldiers stood outside like nails, letting the rain wash away their armor. But no matter how heavy the rain was, it couldn't wash away their bloody smell.
Fang Xie didn't need to observe carefully to see that each of these dozens of soldiers had at least ten lives in their hands.
Otherwise, there would be no such momentum.
Although the wooden house is simple but not small, there are tables, chairs, beds and even bookshelves. It's just that there is no book on the bookshelf, but a pot of wild flowers. The bright yellow flowers bloom proudly, although small and not fragrant, they are the most eye-catching colors in this room.
In fact, this is not an ornamental flower at all, it is just a dandelion.
After the little yellow flowers wither, the fluffy ball will gradually emerge. Perhaps on a windy day, the seeds will float from the house and land in unknown places. When the spring is warm next year, several emerald green seedlings will emerge tenaciously from the soil.
Spring is born and autumn is flying, and it goes round and round. Just like human ambition, it dies and regenerates again.
The door squeaked and was pushed open from the outside, and the wind swept the rain into the room, and the already chilly temperature dropped a lot in an instant.
Those who came in closed the door, then took off their coir raincoats and hung them at the door.
Fang Jie raised his head and glanced at the man, but his gaze didn't linger too much. He seemed to have guessed that this person would come, so he was not surprised at all.
"I don't understand something, so I want to ask you."
The person who came in was Luo Xiaotu, known as the little butcher.
"I can't say what you asked."
"You know what I'm going to ask?"
"I don't know, but I didn't intend to say what you asked."
Fang Jie's answer was very irritating, but Luo Xiaotu was not a person with feelings. If he had no feelings, he would not be angry. In his life, it seems that there is only a straight line of life, never beating around the bush.
"I don't really like talking to people."
Luo Xiaotu looked at Fang Jie and said seriously, "Because I know another way to get news."
Fang Jie glanced at him, and the corner of his mouth twitched: "I would say this a few years ago when I was a fourteen or fifteen-year-old kid. I would kill horse thieves in Fangu City, and I would always catch a question first. I understand where the horse thief is hiding. When the other party refuses to tell, I will be the same as you now, and if I say such a pretentious sentence, the other party will usually be discouraged."
Luo Xiaotu hummed, and then stopped talking.
The two sat there in silence, not even seeing each other.
"I'll have someone deliver the food in a while."
After a long time, Luo Xiaotu stood up and went to the door to put on his coir raincoat: "Many people have said that you are a rare smart person. I don't know where to divide smartness and stupidity, but since everyone else said that, it doesn't make sense. It will be wrong, so you should understand that I will not talk to you a second time."
Fang Jie made a gesture of invitation: "The wine needs to be hot, no food, let's have a big plate of dumplings."
Luo Xiaotu was slightly taken aback, then walked out.
Looking at his back, Fang Jie couldn't help but shook his head and smiled, and murmured, Little Rentu, Little Rentu, you might as well just be a villain if you are so tired.
The conversation between him and Luo Xiaotu was extremely simple, but he was not disappointed at all. He knew that Luo Xiaotu would definitely come, he also knew what Luo Xiaotu was going to do, and he knew that Luo Xiaotu was waiting for him to beg him, but Fang Xie knew what he should do, and he would never follow what others set. come and go.
Half an hour later, we were pushed away from the outside again. The person who came in was still Luo Xiaotu, Fang Jie was still not surprised. Luo Xiaotu held a large tray in his hand, which contained a jug of wine, a plate of cooked beef, and a large plate of dumplings, which were still steaming.
He put the umbrella aside, walked slowly to Fang Jie and put down the tray.
"what you want."
He said.
Fang Jie was not polite, sat up straight, picked up a dumpling with his chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth, the strong smell of meat immediately penetrated from his mouth, even into his mind. Take a bite, the delicious juice can spurt out, and the level of the dumplings is excellent, Fang Jie couldn't help admiring.
Drink and eat dumplings.
Fang Jie didn't lift his head.
"tasty?"
Luo Xiaotu looked at how delicious his food was, and couldn't help asking.
Fang Jie pointed at the dumplings with his chopsticks: "You don't know how to taste it yourself?"
"I just think the food you eat is very delicious. I can't eat it by myself. I haven't distinguished the taste since I can remember, so eating has never been a pleasure for me. You can Enjoy the deliciousness, I just want to fill my stomach."
Luo Xiaotu replied lightly.
Fang Jie hummed, ignoring Luo Xiaotu's words.
"You are determined that I will come again, and you are also determined that I will let you go?"
Luo Xiaotu asked.
When he asked this sentence, there was finally some emotion in his tone, some complicated, some unwillingness, some disappointment, and some disgust.
"You don't dare to kill me in the big camp, and you feel sorry for yourself if you don't kill me, so you will definitely let me go. What other options do you have?"
Fang Jie raised his head and glanced at him before asking back, it was only natural.
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"Smells good!"
Fang Jie ate up a large plate full of dumplings, without even being hypocritical. The dumplings were indeed delicious, and Fang Jie didn't seem to worry about the poison in the dumplings. This is the most comfortable meal he has eaten since these days, and it is also the most satisfying meal. Fang Jie has a habit of never being full when he eats. The fuller you eat, the more lazy you will become, and the more lazy you are, the more you will relax your vigilance.
"You say you have no taste in your mouth?"
Fang asked.
Luo Xiaotu nodded.
Fang Jie sighed and said, "That's really a pity. There are not many things that men can enjoy in this world. Delicious food, fine wine, beauties... You have already lost one-third of the enjoyment, one-third of the fun. But this also made me understand why everyone said that Luo Xiaotu is an emotionless person, it was because you couldn’t taste it.”
These two things may sound unrelated, but Fang explained it with confidence.
Luo Xiaotu actually didn't deny it.
"It's not just that I don't have a sense of taste, I don't have a sense of touch either."
Luo Xiaotu said in a flat tone: "I eat, but I can't distinguish the taste of the food on the tip of my tongue. When I hold a woman, I can't feel the fleshy feeling on my fingers. So I think this world is boring, and it can interest me. Perhaps the only thing left is the satisfaction in my heart. I am a boring person, so there is no need to keep any feelings.”
He picked up the wine jug and poured himself a glass, then drank it: "They say wine is spicy, but I can't understand what spicy tastes like."
"Understood."
Fang Jie nodded: "So your only happiness is the satisfaction in your heart."
"Unfortunately, I haven't found anything that truly satisfies me in the past twenty years."
Luo Xiaotu shook his head.
"Do you think you can hide it from Luo Yao?"
Fang asked.
Luo Xiaotu glanced at him, and then cast his eyes out of the window: "I'm not sure... I only know that you are a very important person to the general, otherwise he wouldn't even be really angry at you for killing Wen Xiaodao. I firmly believe that even if Luo Wen killed Wen Xiaodao, the general would not be so indifferent. And I just heard a rumor that someone said that Luo Wen is not the general's own flesh and blood... Knowing this, it is not difficult to deduce other things .”
"Wen Xiaodao is certainly important, but it is far less important than my own son. You won't deny me, right, because I really can't think of other possibilities. Only in this way can it be explained clearly that the general is so lenient and even conniving to you. You are the general General's son, the general didn't dispose of you because he wanted to keep you to inherit his things."
"Am I wrong?"
he asks.
Fang Jie shook his head: "Basically, that's right."
"Um."
Luo Xiaotu hummed: "I can also think of it, and my guess should not be wrong. Luo Wen killed Zhan Yao, trying to seize power and control Yongzhou. The general has a murderous look in his eyes when he returns this time, so Luo Wen must die. .Since Luo Wen is going to die, then you are the only heir of the general."
Fang Jie said with a smile: "This is exactly the reason why you want to kill me... Who told you that you are Luo Yao's godson."
"That's why I'm not worried that I won't be able to hide it from the general... You are the general's own son."
Luo Xiaotu said in a flat tone: "You are right just now, the only thing that makes me feel that I am still a person now is the feeling of satisfaction. I just didn't expect that you and I have no intersection. You can see my thoughts so thoroughly, so I have no choice but to kill you."
"You don't need to think about it seriously."
Fang Jie said: "When Wen Xiaodao died, blind people could feel the excitement in your eyes. You wanted to kill Wen Xiaodao, but you didn't dare, because Wen Xiaodao was always by Luo Yao's side. Now that Wen Xiaodao is dead, You are satisfied, but you also start to be dissatisfied... If I die, you godson will become Luo Yao's only heir, and I can't help being tempted."
"But you don't dare to kill me in the big camp, because the ten heroes of Luomen have never been of one mind. There are countless pairs of eyes watching outside. As long as I die in the big camp, you can't hide. So you have to Let me go, and then kill me when I am fleeing. In this way, there will be no excuses in other people's hands, and after I am dead, no matter how dissatisfied Luo Yao is with you, he will not be angry because of a dead person. You kill it too, right?"
"right."
Luo Xiaotu nodded: "Exactly."
"I was right, but you were a little bit wrong."
Fang Jie said with a smile.
"Where did I go wrong?"
Luo Xiaotu asked.
Fang Jie said with a smile: "Your fault is that you don't understand me, and you don't understand Luo Yao."
Luo Xiaotu was silent, as if hesitating.
"It's still worth a try."
He said.
Fang Jie hummed: "Ten out of ten is worth it. If you win the bet, then you get everything. If you lose the bet, you may die or not, and there is a relatively high probability that you will not. For everything, bet for a while." Make it worth it."
Luo Xiaotu stood up and looked outside: "If you can kill the twenty-four soldiers outside, I will let you go. I won't chase you within ten miles. You try to escape as fast as possible. I know There are many masters around you, but it takes at least one day to run from here to Mount Mangdang.”
"Stop it."
Fang Jie looked at Luo Xiaotu and asked, "The biggest problem with arrogant people is self-righteousness... You think you can control everything, but you ignore the most important point."
"What is it?"
Luo Xiaotu asked.
Fang Jie pointed to his nose: "Why should I leave? Even Luo Yao didn't punish me for killing Wen Xiaodao, so it can be seen that my position in Luo Yao's heart is very important, so why should I leave? I'm leaving In order to face your pursuit, if I don’t leave, I will stay comfortably for a month and you will have no chance when Luo Yao comes back. In fact, you don’t have to wait a month. Ye Jinnan will come back the day after tomorrow at the latest. Ye Jinnan Jinnan is here, even if you jump over the wall and try to kill me in the camp, you have no chance."
He smiled apologetically: "I didn't think of a suitable word, so it's barely okay."
Luo Xiaotu finally frowned. He looked at Fang Jieji and said seriously: "You are right. I forgot such an important point. I just decided that you must escape based on my feeling."
"You feel right."
Fang Jie drank the last sip of wine: "I really want to go, just according to what you said, starting before dawn tomorrow, until dark is the time you can kill me. Ten miles is what you said, of course you also You can go back on it."
"I want to know your reasons for accepting."
Luo Xiaotu asked.
"Because I want to test the self-confidence of each of you proud Luomen Shijie, is that enough reason?"
Fang Jie asked with a smile.