Da'an Temple is built on the mountain. It is a small and large-scale temple. The bell tower in front of the door is majestic and has the architectural style of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Two heavy wooden doors are covered with copper nails. Opposite the door in the yard is a huge ancient pine. Its tall and vigorous tree tells people about the vicissitudes of time. He Kunzhen wore a layman's clothes and stood at the stone table under the tree. Li Muye climbed up the stairs and turned a corner. The trees and mountains suddenly disappeared before his eyes, and he saw him standing under the tree, seemingly waiting for him for a long time.
"I've kept you waiting for a long time." Li Muye walked over, looked back at the way he came, and said, "Why did you choose this place to meet?"
"Young people have really good physical strength." He Kunzhen said: "You arrived at the foot of the mountain at eight o'clock, and you walked here in less than an hour. I come here to stay for a few days every winter. Every time I go up the mountain, it's a huge... I couldn't pass the test for most of the day." After sighing about the age difference, he asked Li Muye to sit down and said, "The tea is pine needle tea produced in the mountains. You can taste it slowly. The reason why we chose to meet here is actually because I will stay here until the Spring Festival."
"Let's be direct." Li Muye said, "What do you, or you, want from me?"
"It should be what exactly do you want from us?" He Kunzhen said calmly.
Li Muye smiled and said, "Let's be honest with each other. I have plans, but I don't necessarily want them for you. But you are determined to get me."
He Kunzhen's face was slightly red, and after thinking for a while, he said: "Miss Bai introduced you to me. At first, I just regarded this matter as a task that must be completed, but later through contact, I found that I can cooperate with you. In fact, it is a very good business. After that, you took those children out to sea, and when you came back, you became famous, and Lao Shen came to me to find out your details."
"You didn't say anything, so he came to ask on his own," Li Muye said.
"Yes." He Kunzhen said: "Actually, I have already guessed that he will definitely go to you. Lao Shen is a very great businessman. His biggest problem is that he is too arrogant. He looks humble and kind on the outside, but on the inside he is a arrogant man who relies on his talent. , not many people can catch his eye."
"You sent your daughter to stay with me temporarily because you thought that Shen Peijun would test me, so you deliberately gave me a chance to find you?"
"You can understand it this way. The most important reason why Xiaoqi went to your place is that she wants to go." He Kunzhen said: "I actually hope that Xiaoqi can have a normal orientation, but a man she can like." It's not easy to find. I've been looking for someone like this since she was eighteen years old, and I've only met you in the past three years, so I encouraged her to get close to you against her will." He sighed after saying this, and then continued Said: "I know you won't do anything to her, and I have always arranged for someone to protect her secretly."
Li Muye: "Do you think if I really want to do something, the person you arranged can be effective?"
He Kunzhen: "Didn't you do nothing?"
Li Muye: "To be honest, you made me a little impressed."
He Kunzhen: "To be honest, you make me look at you in a different light."
Li Muye: "If we continue to flatter each other, I won't be able to eat."
He Kunxuan: "Then say something useful."
Li Muye: "He Xiaoqi thought you sent her to me as an undercover agent."
He Kunzhen "She always wants to prove her talents in front of me."
Li Muye: "You know very well how capable she is."
"Many times I can't even be my own master, so how can I protect her for the rest of my life? She will have to rely on herself in the future. Of course, the sooner she matures, the better." He Kunzhong looked at Li Muye and said, "First of all, I hope that she will stay with her for the rest of her life. If you can’t, you should at least find a good teacher.”
"People like you shouldn't be at the mercy of others." Li Muye looked at him and said.
"How can people be as good as they want in the world." He Kunzhen said with a bitter smile: "That crazy woman is not as friendly to everyone as she is to you."
"I thought you would take the opportunity of returning the ship to offer cooperation and meet Bai Xue's request for you." Li Muye said: "But I didn't expect that you would send He Xiaoqi to my side."
"Cooperation is a matter of time. What I care more about is Xiaoqi's future." He Kunzhen said: "You should know better than me. For people like you and me, the faster our careers develop, the closer we will be to that day. Don't Seeing that I am very prosperous now, I am actually not as good as that idiot Zhang Haichao. It is a luxury to hope that I can escape unscathed in this life."
Li Muye remembered the story of Shen Wansan that Li Qizhi once told him, and Hu Xueyan in later generations. Said: "You are a sensible person."
He Kunzhen sighed and said, "The company has developed too fast in the past few years."
Li Muye said: "People are afraid of being famous, and pigs are afraid of being strong. Your reputation is too famous."
He Kunzhen looked at Li Muye and said: "Your career has developed faster than mine, but your reputation is not as good as mine. Especially when you were about to make a big name in Russia, you were able to retreat bravely. This is even better than I am much stronger."
Li Muye said: "You think about your money bag, and I think about people's hearts. Everything in this era is stable, and it is destined not to belong to you."
He Kunzhen sighed and said: "I will be a hero in life and a hero in death. I can't do as much as Zhang Haichao and get married."
"No one can live forever. No matter how long you live, it is meaningless if you are unhappy in your heart. The reason why Zhang Haichao is so violent is that his life at home will not be too happy." Li Muye said: "Compared with him, Your cultivation is much deeper."
"A defeated general cannot be said to be brave." He Kunzhen waved his hand and said: "My talents are actually very limited, that is, I am more courageous. If I hadn't met a smart man, I wouldn't be where I am today."
"I have long heard that there is an expert behind you. I always thought it was Chen Miao, but it seems there is someone else?"
He Kunzhen looked back at the mountain gate.
Li Muye couldn't help but be very curious: "Is this expert here?"
Tall people are not tall. Even if we don't distinguish between men and women and take the average height of all Chinese people as the standard, the four-eyed boy in front of us is still in the ranking of holding back. Moreover, this expert was a bit young, seemingly no more than ten years older than Li Muye, and he was extremely wretched. The head is extremely large, with squinted eyes, a big nose, a thunderous mouth, and a face full of pimples. The clothes on his body were sloppy and dirty, exuding a stinking smell. The most incredible thing was that this guy was actually locked in a cage.
He Kunzhen pointed his hand and said: "You also saw it, he is mentally ill."
How could mental illness become the master who changed the fate of He Kunzhen? Li Muye was surprised and went to the cage to look at this person curiously.
"Be careful if he spits on your face." He Kunzhen warned.
"It's okay." Li Muye waved his hand and asked the master in the cage, "Can I ask you what your name is?"
"I won't tell you." The four-eyed boy giggled, showing his yellow teeth, laughing and wagging his fingers at He Kunzhong, and said: "Come here, I will tell you a secret."
He Kunzhen was a little surprised why he didn't spit at Li Muye. He took a few steps forward and asked, "Yuan Chengde, what do you want to tell me?"
"Come closer and I'll tell you quietly." Madman Yuan Chengde said.
He Kunzhen spread his hands and smiled bitterly, and took the initiative to move his body outside the cage.
"Bah!" A mouthful of green-yellow phlegm spat on his face. Yuan Chengde in the cage clapped his hands and laughed loudly: "A fool cheats a fool, you are a fool than I am."
He Kunzhen had obviously experienced similar things. He calmly took out toilet paper and wiped away the thick phlegm. He smiled bitterly at Li Muye and said, "It's like this most of the time."
Li Muye nodded and said, "It looks like he is seriously ill."
He Kunzhen said: "Don't think it's a big mistake, but when you understand it, you are a very remarkable person."
"Speak slowly, I'm listening." Li Muye said while looking at Yuan Chengde in the cage.
"Speaking of which, he is also a poor man. In the early 1990s, the country launched a super genius project... "
Yuan Chengde is from Xiangxi. His parents are ordinary workers. This kid has been smart since he was a child and has the gift of photographic memory. He went to school at the age of five and skipped to middle school at the age of nine. At the age of fifteen, he was selected into the super genius training class of the University of Science and Technology. , it can be said that he is a young man with great ambition and a bright future.
Once upon a time, he was one of the few successful people that the entire society envied.
When He Kunzhong introduced Yuan Chengde's past, he sighed with emotion and said: When he was seventeen years old, this boy fell in love with a senior school girl. He tried hard to pursue it but was humiliated because of his appearance. In a rage, he killed the girl. His nose was bitten off and after a lawsuit, the school thought he was too emotionally unstable and expelled him from school. Because his parents were so disappointed, they decided to give up on him and focus on raising his younger brother. That year, their house suddenly caught fire, and his parents and younger brother were all burned to death. Only he was safe and sound.
After that incident, the leader of his parents' workplace took pity on him and arranged a job for him as a librarian. This kid was reading in the library every day. One day, he suddenly ran out of the library and chased a little girl and acted like a hooligan in broad daylight. After being taken to the police station by everyone, he became a madman.
"How did you know him?" Li Muye was more concerned about where this person was.
He Kunzhen said: "Because he was a lunatic, he was released without being sentenced. After the factory fired him, this kid began to live a wandering life, begging for food and came to Shanghai. Then he was taken in by Master Chengkong in this temple. I was copying scriptures for a living. I was still running a boat at that time. I heard about Master Chengkong's reputation for solving people's doubts, so I came to the temple to ask Master Chengkong for advice. I told the master that I wanted to wash my hands in a golden basin and turn around, but before the master could say anything, I made a living by copying scriptures. , he suddenly put down his brush and said, the other shore is ahead, it is better to go ashore than to turn back."
"What do you mean?" Li Muye couldn't understand at first.
Yuan Chengde suddenly said: "It means that he has gone too far in the sea of suffering and has no chance to look back. He can only hope that the other side is ahead."
This seems normal again
He Kunzhen glanced at him, nodded, and said: "The master also meant the same thing at that time, so I decided not to go back and continue doing maritime business. Later, Chen Miao came to ask me to help pick up the goods and smuggle a batch of equipment from Nanyang. Then After the matter was completed, I got a chance to go ashore and clear my name.”
"A pig is raised to be big and fat. You can eat meat and consume fuel right now, but you want to turn around? Will the pig farmers and butchers agree? At that time, the only value you have is the sea route that others dare not take. , going on is your fate, the only way to survive." Yuan Chengde said loudly.
"Then tell me, where is my way of survival now?" He Kunzhen's eyes lit up and he asked excitedly. (End of chapter)