It is a good thing for people to have the vision and wisdom to make decisions, but in addition, you have to consider whether you have a strong enough heart to support you. Once, that's about it.
This proves that you are not actually that material. After hearing the old man's last frank words, Xu Tingsheng's first emotion was: "I'm not that material."
It means that if he is asked to do something, he will definitely not be able to make such a determination, no matter how forced the situation is.
Now that I think about it, the old man must have struggled before he pulled the trigger with his index finger in front of the five sons of his old comrades who turned their heads and ran down the mountain. In the end, he resolutely chose to pull the trigger, which was a decision.
The outcome of a war, the bloody struggle of tens of thousands of people, can those five lives stop it
Xu Tingsheng thought to himself, if it was the three sons of the Fang family who abandoned their comrades and ran back with their heads in their arms at that moment, the old man should still be the same, and would even be much more determined to pull the trigger.
Now it is the Fang family who is in a precarious situation. If it is said that the Fang family is a sailing ship in the sea right now, and there are huge waves rushing head-on, the old man at the helm has already made another decision. How difficult is this break? He won't show it.
But for such a big Fang family, his house is nine out of ten. Together with parents and children, they all went to the sea to beat the waves. Life and death, wealth and honor, each lives in peace.
Xu Tingsheng couldn't guess exactly how many considerations and how many joints there were, but there was one thing he was sure of - the second generation of the Fang family probably had a dirty foundation. Therefore, the old man's giving up was a cruel and calm consideration, and it was even more helpless that he had to give up.
The Fang family can no longer protect them with this little strength left, so... just don't waste your strength.
In the end, even he himself was actually an abandoned child. Xu Tingsheng told Fang Yuqing earlier that one of the things mentioned was to ensure the burial of the old man. Now it seems that the old man himself has thrown himself into the wind and waves.
"Just now I told you these three, if I have to give up in the end, they will be arranged according to the order I said." The old man seemed to be cruel to the end this day, treating everyone as a pawn. Although these people are actually people in his flesh and blood.
The order in which the old man just spoke? Xu Tingsheng recalled, the cousin who raised Zheng, Fang Cheng who raised monsters, and Fang Yuqing who raised wild animals.
Unexpectedly, the most important thing in the old man's heart was Fang Yuqing, whom everyone thought the Fang family had almost given up on.
It's a pity that Xu Tingsheng couldn't tell Fang Yu Qing about this matter, and if he said it now, it wouldn't be any good news. As for the reason why Fang Cheng's ranking was lower than Fang Yuqing's, Xu Tingsheng secretly speculated for a while, but he couldn't decide whether it had something to do with her being a daughter.
Xu Tingsheng couldn't figure out how an old man who was used to watching life and death and once held a high position should think about problems.
"Cousin Yu Qing is in the criminal police team, do you know about this?" The old man suddenly asked in a homely tone.
"Yes, I've had contact with him. I've even been taken care of by him." Xu Tingsheng also replied in a normal tone.
"So... him, you don't have to think about it for the time being." The old man coughed, as if there was phlegm in his throat. Xu Tingsheng got up to call the nurse, but was stopped by the old man's hand. "He was in the team two days ago, and suddenly received It was an urgent mission. He said it was not a big deal, so he took two people with him. As a result, he was shot when he arrived at the scene."
"Ah?! Ambush?"
"Fortunately, he was alert, and the bullet only hit his shoulder in the end. Knowing that it was aimed at him, he was not reckless. He returned the clip and retreated while shooting. His life was safe. Later, he went to the hospital to get the bullet. We The family asked, but the other side even said that the warhead went somewhere... "
The words have been tacitly reached here.
"He didn't stay in Yanzhou, he is already in the First Hospital of Jiannan City."
"Um."
"I heard that your family is in Jiannan, your family, your father..."
"My family is not involved in this."
The old man smiled resentfully, "I'm just talking. I have had many disciples and subordinates in my life, but I didn't help them much, and most of them don't stand in line now. There is only one of them, who could have been entrusted with a promising future. , You are from Jiannan. He went to the Ministry of Defense a few years ago, but in the end, he said a wrong sentence and cut off his future. Now he is also in Jiannan, and that child is entrusted to him for the time being."
"Wrong word?"
"To the outside world, I said a word too hard. He said this sentence some years ago, it's okay, and it may not be a problem in a few years later. So I always think in my heart that he is not too old, and he may not be able to turn around in the future... Just wait, the hawks take over. Then remember him as a person."
When the old man said this, he looked at Xu Tingsheng with tentative eyes, Xu Tingsheng could only pretend to be stupid and asked in surprise, "Could it be that there are hawks and doves in China?"
The old man smiled: "No, I'm just kidding with you."
"Oh. That person, what's his name?" Xu Tingsheng asked casually, listening carefully.
"..." the old man said a name.
Xu Tingsheng was stunned on the spot. Others may not know this name, but Xu Ting knew it ten years later, but there is no way not to know it. He will be the biggest talking point for Jiannan people in the future. This one, why don't you turn around and start again
Big tree, big tree! Lean on, have to lean on.
"What's wrong?" the old man asked curiously.
Xu Tingsheng collected himself, "It's okay, I just wanted to go back and visit my cousin. I don't know if that uncle over there has something to say for you?"
"No. I asked someone to send the child to Jiannan, and his car was waiting at the gate of the hospital... This is the conversation. "
"Okay, you guys are great, you have a tacit understanding, you don't need to talk too much..." Xu Tingsheng was a little bit disappointed while muttering to himself.
"I suddenly remembered that when I was fighting monkeys in Vietnam, he followed me and carried the water bottle for me. Later, that water bottle blocked a bullet for him." At home, I originally kept it as a thought, but now I don’t need it anymore. I’ll ask someone to fetch it later, and you can bring it to him for me.”
"Okay." Xu Tingsheng tried not to let himself laugh too much. Looking at the relationship between the old man and that person, this is now, if it is a few years later, the Fang family's current affairs may not be considered a big deal.
"Now, tell me what you think." If we were talking about strategy just now, the old man finally started talking about tactics.
"Didn't I follow your orders?" Xu Tingsheng asked back.
The truth is this, how to put it, it should be the wily old man designing tactics and giving advice on how to play. But in fact, he may have been thinking about it for three years, thinking about a hundred ways to play, and found that none of them are feasible. That's why he said to Yu Qing's father: He never made a mistake, I want him to take a step for the Fang family... a dead horse, a living horse doctor.
The old man didn't answer, but looked at Xu Tingsheng, his meaning couldn't be clearer.
"Then... I've figured out my card counting very clearly. Let me tell you." Xu Tingsheng didn't hide much, and including Chen Jianxing, the "dead man", everything he could and was willing to show, I counted them all for the old man. The rest he was reluctant to take, he also said frankly.
Then he said, "I want to see your cards."
The old man nodded and said, "I have two cards at the end. One is that I am still alive. Don't look at me dying, but I can actually last for a while. Even if I am really dead, when you need me to live, you will I have to live. Remember, it’s okay to be suffocated and rotten. Another picture, I’m dead. Let’s see if there is a funeral and who will come.”
"Who's coming?"
"We'll find out when we do it. No, it's us who do it. Maybe you will know then. I almost forgot. I was dead at that time. I was buried."
When it came to doing it, Xu Tingsheng took out the piece of paper he used to sort out last night. Said very frankly: "I don't know what to do. Where to stab the knife, how to fight back, how to untangle... I can't find that line, that point."
The old man glanced at the densely drawn paper in his hand.
"I can't teach you this. You are the one to fight this round. But I listen to you. I follow you on the battlefield and shoot at people. I don't know where the people are and where to aim. Does that mean the same thing?"
"almost."
"Shoot first, aim later."