The bone-chilling cold water poured down on his head, and Liushi coughed violently.
The sleepiness just now was swept away, and while his whole body was constantly shivering from the cold, he also quickly regained his sobriety. The price is the constant buzzing noise like a broken radio in your head.
The pain also gradually became clearer.
After all the water in the bucket was emptied, Liushi panted heavily.
"I haven't seen you for three years, Liushi. Three years ago, I sent you away from this mansion with my own hands; today, three years later, I personally welcomed you back. Are you awake now? If not, There are other methods. For example, using iron needles to pierce through your nails, or using a vise to pull out your teeth one by one... There are many ways."
Liu Shi didn't answer, he was staring intently at the man standing next to Xiuzi, carrying an empty bucket.
The man was still wearing old clothes and an outdated top hat. After seeing him, she didn't show any expression, just lowered her eyelids, and didn't say a word.
The two people who went to Windy City together, one was a prisoner, and the other seemed as if nothing happened.
Xiu Zi laughed, he knew what Liu Shi was thinking, but as the son of the Jipingtian family, he had no obligation to explain these things to Liu Shi. So he deliberately pretended not to see it, put on a look of emotion, stepped forward and patted Liu Shi on the shoulder, and said:
"Do you know why I'm here talking to you?"
Liu Shi shook his head and nodded again.
He raised his head and said expressionlessly:
"Public revenge? Because you are Carissa's childhood sweetheart..."
Before he finished speaking, Xiuzi slammed Liu Shi's face with a right uppercut, causing blood to flow from his nostrils and staring eyes. It can be seen that Xiuzi has obviously undergone good training, and this punch is accurate and ruthless. After the fight, he said to the butler Naru who was standing aside:
"Go get another bucket of water."
It was a bone-chilling feeling again, extinguishing the burning pain on his face.
Xiuzi wiped the blood on his fist and said calmly:
"Don't mention that name. At least in front of me, you are not allowed to mention her name with that mouth."
Liu Shi laughed at himself, noncommittal, and his eyes returned to the despair of a dying person.
On the contrary, Xiuzi resumed the calm smile just now, and said in a tone of conversation with an old friend:
"Do you know? Liushi, from the day you entered this mansion, I have checked your past. Your father was a soldier sent by King Huai to fight against alien races in the North, and died in battle. .Your mother ended her life by hanging herself one night. You were raised by relatives and friends in rotation, but they were all poor families, and no one was willing to be a burden. You went to the famous blacksmith Brodaus As an apprentice, he was kicked out like a dog."
He changed the subject and said coldly:
"Even if you have some talent, you are nothing but a mud leg. I don't understand why Sasha likes an inferior person like you."
After finishing speaking, Xiuzi fixed his eyes on Liushi.
Many people are willing to tell him about the process of the break between Liushi and Broduosi. That day Liushi had the courage to say those words in front of the powerful Broduosi, which made Xiuzi think that he would try to silence himself now. Unfortunately, Liu Shi didn't seem to have any intention of arguing, but just replied:
"Yeah... I don't know either."
This sentence really made Suzi choke.
Not for any reason, just because the current Liushi makes him feel very boring.
If you don't argue, you won't get angry naturally. What he wants to see is not Liu Shi's expression, what he wants to see is his appearance of anger, remorse, and pain. For three years, every time he saw Amo, he would think of Carissa, and then Liushi in exile. For this reunion, he had been looking forward to it for too long, but what he was waiting for was an impenetrable rock, which inevitably made him feel disappointed.
Fortunately, this place is Yufeng City after all, the land where Liushi lived for a long time.
I don't know if it's because I just watched half my life's revolving door, when I returned to this deep house compound, Liu Shi also said a few more words in a rare way:
"I am twenty-seven years old this year. Many ambitions and ambitions in my youth, and the touch of a few years ago, have almost been wiped out by the displacement of the past three years. But I still remember that when I was young, I wanted to make the world's most Powerful weapons that arm humans to the teeth, so that they will not be defenseless when facing alien races."
Once the chatterbox was opened, Liu Shi began to ramble again:
"But when I entered the forging industry, I found that the industry was full of smog. The master didn't teach the apprentices, and there were many apprentices who were fooling around, so I left."
"Being regarded as a different kind, I can't even afford to eat. With a reputation of [disrespecting the teacher], no one will value the things I forge, and I can only live in this world in rags and nonstop. I'm not a genius, I'm just a waste that can't even support myself. If it wasn't for her, I would have starved to death in an unknown corner long ago. No one will care about fighting for it.”
When he said this, Liu Shi's voice was a little choked up.
He didn't look at Xiuzi's expression, and fell into the memories of the past again.
"But at that time, it was her, and she was the only one willing to talk to me. She silently watched me forging weapons, and sat in front of the fire for the whole afternoon. Her face was flushed by the heat, but when I finished forging He ran over immediately, held my hand, looked at me with those shining eyes, and said something—”
"[What you do is amazing]!"
As if to atone for sin, Liu Shi talked about these things with people for the first time.
Perhaps only this man named Xiuzi would mention these things, because Liushi felt that he was sorry for him in his bones.
"Over the years, I have lived in this family with great care and forged every weapon according to your requirements. I changed the surname my parents gave me, and added the three characters of Ji Hirata after Liushi to commemorate As a son-in-law, I live in the ridicule of the world. But what I am really worried about is not these, but that she does not know when she will leave me again, as if she appeared unexpectedly and pulled me out of the quagmire Same. She comes to me like the wind in the Windy City. I belong to her, but she doesn't belong to me. I can please her, but she may not be happy. This is her unilateral contribution , I will feel bored when the enthusiasm fades away, and I have long since realized that this love will be wiped out."
Suz laughed.
He said softly:
"So you're jealous of me. Jealous of every man she gets close to."
Liu Shi's chest was bound by iron chains, and he couldn't take a deep breath, so when he talked about the excitement, he had to stop to take a breath.
His voice was deep and full of self-blame:
"Yes. I'm jealous of them, because they are not like me, they are useless except forging. Especially when my talent is exhausted and the day when she is away from me is getting closer and closer. I used to be unscrupulous I want to delve into the way of forging all the time, just to find a way out for all the cold soldiers like my father in the world. But after meeting her, I found that I want her to be happy more, and she likes me to give full play to my talent in forging , like to see me crazy like a lunatic, like to see me desperately pursuing my own path, then I will do it for her, it's that simple. Stayed in this house for six full years, at the beginning, I never had any Jealousy thoughts, because I know only I can give her these things."
Showz obviously enjoyed hearing him say these things, repeating over and over again:
"Yes... yes! So when you really lose the momentum of forging, that kind of fear will inevitably wipe out all the bones and dregs of your backlash! What kind of talent, in the final analysis, is not something that people envy at all!!"
Liu Shi clenched his fist tightly, but he didn't argue with Xiu Zi, he just said to himself:
"Yeah, when she came into contact with those blacksmiths again, I realized the panic. I didn't show any emotion on the surface, because I knew that being jealous would only make her think less of me. Since I It has already made her lose interest, and licking it like a mangy dog will not change her mind at all, but will make everything disappear faster. I suppressed all emotions and remained indifferent as usual, but this is actually a situation that cannot The cycle of escape. The more she plays in the world like this, the more flustered my heart becomes, the deeper the fear, the more restless I feel, the more difficult things are in the forging, and it accelerates the pace of her departure. I know very well All of this, but there is no way to change it. In the end, I still lack people’s hearts... Obviously at the beginning, I just wanted to live. As long as I live, I can go step by step in the field I am good at. It doesn’t matter whether there are people with me. The result In the end, I still can't avoid panic, suspicion, unwillingness, jealousy, and like the kind of person I despise the most, because I don't have favoritism, I have the idea of destroying everything... "
Speaking of this, Liushi's eyes were already red.
Carissa has been dead for three years.
He has been in exile for three years.
Therefore, when he really returned to this family, he was much more relaxed.
People who are about to die have good words. In the past three years, he had thought of this result countless times, so when Romey urged him to leave, he did not leave. Betrayed by his own daughter and humiliated by his wife's childhood sweetheart, he accepted it frankly.
Because in his heart, he had already decided that this was his own bad retribution.
Xiuzi waited for him to lower his head, the cruel smile on his face became more intense.
He knelt down, looked into Liushi's eyes, and said maliciously:
"You just said that she is as ethereal and hard to find as the wind in the Windy City. To outsiders, it is like this. Her intimate attitude has given many people the extravagant hope of climbing high, and made countless young people yearn for it." Twilight. But Liu Shi, have you ever thought about it? You said that for you who live in a dark world, she is like a ray of light shining into the darkness. The same is true for her. The six months since I met you For 20 years, her body and mind belonged to you alone, and she has never changed. Including the feelings she had for me... all became worthless in an instant."