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Chapter 1168: Prisoner's Dilemma (Part 1168) [Seeking monthly votes]

"Is this the reason why he refused to go back for so many years?"

Gu Chi thought of Kang Shi, who was always alone during festivals, and couldn't help but sigh, as if he had recognized another Kang Shi. He didn't expect that Kang Jishou, who usually cheated his master without blinking an eye and seemed heartless, also had an unspeakable painful past.

He also completely understood what Kang Shi had just said.

Kang Shi thought that he had killed his father and brother when he was young, and now he was going to kill Yu Zi, so the psychological trauma was naturally immeasurable. Obviously, over the years, it was only the lord who had a rough life, and the people around him occasionally had bad luck but they were not life-threatening. He might have thought that he could be like a normal person. But the reality gave Kang Shi a fatal blow.

He really seems to be the reincarnation of the plague god.

  This time it’s Yu Zi, who will it be next time?

Whoever he gets close to will bring bad luck to that person.

Kangnian said: "That's what Jishou thought."

He thought so too back then.

The doctor said that the knife that stabbed my second brother should have missed the target. If the wound had been stopped in time, he could have been saved. However, when I heard that my father had died, my second brother's wound burst open. Despite several attempts to save him, he still died. Kangnian doesn't even remember how he spent those days. Now when he thinks back, he only remembers the chaos around him, the crying and screaming, and the whole family was in a mess...

The source of all this was Kang Shi, his fourth brother.

If Ji Shou had not been unlucky with his wife, his father would not have been injured in anger, his second brother would not have died, and there would not have been two consecutive funerals in the mansion.

Kangnian not only thought so, he also said it out loud.

When Kang Shi was furious and wanted to lead people to massacre the other party's entire family, Kang Nian's mind suddenly exploded, his emotions lost control, he raised his hand to slap Kang Shi, and blurted out a question. After that, every time he thought about it, Kang Nian wished he could go back to the past and chop off his right hand.

His original intention was clearly not to blame Kang Shi.

He was just worried that Kang Shi would also be involved, and that if he didn't handle it properly, Xiao Zong and other local families would join forces to divide his family up. He just wanted Kang Shi to calm down, and the three brothers to support each other through this difficult time, but he couldn't control himself.

Kang Shi lost his father and brother, but he also lost his father and twin brother. Is Kang Jishou the only one who has the right to vent his nonsense? Kang Nian regretted the slap, but he just forced himself not to apologize. He ordered people to keep an eye on Kang Shi and not allow him to go out and cause trouble during the funeral. Not long after, Kang Shi ran away from home.

Gu Chi couldn't help but feel sorry for Kang Shi.

"But this is too unreasonable. The first marriage was arranged when the girl was a child. She was born with a weak heart. The fact that she lived to the age of seven was considered good care by her family. Her death was also expected. The second and third marriages sounded unreasonable. How could the elderly in the family not have headaches and fevers? Can this be considered as a bad luck for his wife? Not to mention that the fourth marriage eloped, the fifth marriage was even set up by someone..."

No matter how you look at it, Kang Shi is the one who was taken advantage of.

People are slandering his reputation by following the crowd.

Gu Chi is a man who holds grudges very hard.

"The fifth woman's father and brother are the culprits. Didn't their family pay the price? Is Kang Jishou so kind?"

If this hatred were placed on me, I would definitely wipe out the entire family of the other party.

Kang Nian said: "Before Ji Shou ran away from home, he found an opportunity to kill the head of this family and the eldest son of the playboy."

It’s not too difficult to kill this father and son.

The eldest son of the dandy family often hangs out in brothels and brothels. In order not to affect his pleasure, he often only brings two or three servants with him, and all the guards are sent away. Kang Shi went there in advance to wait for the man and strangled him to death with a rope. He used the help of his friends to lure the man out and waited for an opportunity to kill him. That family also experienced the chaos of the Kang family, but Kang Nian showed no mercy.

Gu Chi felt that Kang Shi was still kind.

"Only killed the father and son?"

Kangnian said: "Ji Shou doesn't know how to cut the grass and root it out."

It’s okay if he doesn’t understand, as long as you understand it.

Gu Chi, who heard this clearly, said: "..."

Well, the seemingly unassuming Kang clan leader is also a ruthless person. If he is not a ruthless person, he would not have adopted his daughter to Qi Yuanliang. He is indeed cold-blooded and cruel. Gu Chi concealed his surprise very well: "So, is Brother Bo Sui here this time?"

Kangnian said: "I received a letter from Jishou."

He paused, his eyes misty.

I couldn't bear to continue.

He showed up here to prepare for the worst, to collect the body of his brother. If anything happened to him, he could take the coffin back so that Kang Shi could return to his hometown and rest beside his father and brother's grave.

Gu Chi sighed: "Good people will be blessed by heaven."

After saying this, he found that this consolation was a bit ridiculous.

Kang Shi’s terrible luck has nothing to do with being a lucky person.

Kang Nian's lips moved twice, and he bowed and said goodbye. Gu Chi did not stop him this time. Seeing Kang Nian heading straight to Kang Shi's tent, Gu Chi also consulted with someone. Little did he know that the Kang brothers had quarreled again. The noise was so loud that Qi Miao, who came over after hearing the news, was also startled. Two familiar male voices were arguing, full of gunpowder.

Actually, there was no quarrel at the beginning.

Kangnian felt distressed when he saw his distraught brother.

Kang Shi wrote vaguely in his letter home, not saying why he did that. When Kang Nian learned the whole story from him, he immediately became furious and grabbed Kang Shi's wrist with such force that his bones were almost crushed: "Kang Jishou, do you still have a heart?"

Kang Shi frowned in pain: "Brother, what are you talking about?"

"If you really wanted to, how could you bear to see Sanlang and I lose another sibling? You are not seriously ill, nor have you committed a heinous crime!" The indifference and determination on Kangnian's face were frightening. He shook off Kang Shi's wrist and spoke as fast as a summer rainstorm, so fast that it was almost inaudible. "You don't want to live anymore! But you can obviously live! And you can go further!"

Yu Zi's way of being a scholar is to [hate purple and seize red].

During her consummation ceremony, Yu Zi herself was the passive defensive [Zhu], and Kang Jishou was the [evil Zi].

Yu Zi must die!

The way of scholars in Kang's time was to "lose every time you gamble."

  During his perfect ceremony, Yu Zi was the gambler sitting opposite him at the gambling table. Kang Shi was bound to lose and die!

Only one of the two can survive.

Not only can you survive, but your path as a scholar can also be fulfilled.

  The results of it?

Kang Jishou actually asked me to come and collect his body!

  There was a way to survive, but he chose to die!

Kang Shi suddenly opened his eyes wide, as if he couldn't believe that these words came out of his brother's mouth. He didn't even notice that his voice was trembling, and there was disappointment in the trembling: "It was me who implicated Wei Heng! If it weren't for me, she wouldn't have completed the ceremony like this, and she wouldn't have died! How could I let her..."

Kang Nian said decisively: "Then let her die!"

Kang Shi's face turned pale and he gritted his teeth: "Brother!"

Kang Nian avoided the silent questioning in Kang Shi's eyes and hardened his heart: "Kang Jishou, remember, you are a descendant of the Kang family, you are my brother, and you belong to the Kang family! You actually want to take the initiative to give up your life, give up the Kang family, and give up your blood relatives... How can you be so cruel? Even if you are wrong, so what? Your life is more important to me than that of an outsider, much more important! If you really want to die, how are you going to explain to your father and second brother how you died?"

Kang Shi was disappointed: "Brother, you are not that kind of person!"

  This shouldn't be the kind of person!

Kang Nian said coldly, "You are wrong. I have always been like this! The head of the Kang family cannot understand your so-called passionate choice. I only know that you don't have to die! I only know that 'there is only me and no one else'. Does the truth disappoint you?"

Kang Shi's fist clenched and unclenched, loosened and clenched again.

"Brother, maybe it was a mistake to let you come here!"

Kang Nian sneered, "Kang Jishou, don't force me to do it! No matter what, other people's life and death has nothing to do with you!"

Kang Shi was so angry that his mind was not clear. He was about to say "People with different beliefs cannot work together", but unexpectedly, an old and powerful voice mocked him from outside the tent: "Haha, what a good saying, 'other people's life and death is none of your business'! Indeed, the life and death of his Kang family has nothing to do with us, the Yu family."

Kangnian shouted, "Who's outside?"

Kang Shi had already recognized the identity of the owner of the voice.

I suddenly felt a strong sense of embarrassment and shame.

"I am the great-uncle of the 'other person' you mentioned!" He lifted the tent curtain with one hand and pushed away Qi Miao who wanted to persuade him with the other hand, with a layer of frost on his face. Judging from his appearance, he was middle-aged at most, and looked a bit like Yu Zi.

He took the initiative to introduce his home address, and Kangnian was shocked.

Kang Shi stepped forward and saluted the middle-aged scholar.

The other party dodged and sneered, "I can't accept it, I can't accept it. I am a lowly official, how can I accept your great gift as the Minister of Justice? Your conversation between the two brothers has reminded me. You keep mentioning your Kang family. Your family is still prosperous, and one more death will not hurt the vitality. Let them die, but I can't do that. I have no wife, no children, and only Weiheng, the descendant of my brother, and the only bloodline of the twin brothers. In terms of preciousness, she is much more precious than your fourth child Kang Jishou."

If anyone has to die, it should be Kang Jishou.

The middle-aged scholar squinted at Kangnian, and seeing that he was handsome, he said, "We can't let the Yu family lose its incense."

After that, he turned to Kang Shi and said, "You've lost most of your life anyway, so it doesn't matter if you lose again during the completion ceremony, right? Hmm?"

No matter what others say about Yu Zi's personality, to him, no matter what, his Wei Heng is one of the best in the world!

  Kang Jishou?

Who is this plague god?

After saying this, the middle-aged scholar turned away.

Before leaving, he sneered and left a warning: "I'm going to say this here. Even if Wei Heng dies and Kang Jishou lives, I have a way to make him live a life worse than death. If you don't believe me, you brothers can go ask Chu Wuhui and ask him if my way of being a scholar is vegetarian!"

For a moment, the whole hall was silent.

Qi Miao watched the middle-aged scholar leave.

When the other party disappeared, Qi Miao exhaled.

She suppressed her thoughts and stepped forward to greet the two elders. She called Kangnian "uncle" and Kangshi "uncle". Kangnian had long been accustomed to this title, but when he thought of the current situation, he felt indescribable in his heart - as Qi Miao's most respected biological father, he was actually seen by the other party to have such an unbearable and heartless side. This made Kangnian's headache even worse.

Kang Shi forced a smile.

"Why is Miao'er here?"

Qi Miao looked towards the screen.

He stammered, "My nephew came to see Wei Heng."

Kang Nian's body suddenly stiffened. He hadn't noticed that there was a fourth person in the tent, and that he was one of the parties involved.

This time, the atmosphere was so tense that it was hard to breathe.

Qi Miao carried the medical box, bowed slightly and went to the back.

Kang Shi coughed and sighed: "Brother... Master Kang, please let me decide on this matter. I am indeed a member of the Kang family. I have not married yet and have not separated from my brother, so I cannot make the decision. But..."

He said in a firm voice: "I am also Kang Shi."

No one else can prevent you from staying or leaving.

His life should not be controlled by others.

Kang Nian's face was as gloomy as water, and he waved his sleeves and said, "It's up to you!"

He did not mention that when he received the letter from home, his mind was blank as if struck by a bolt from the blue, and after the blank was endless grief and despair. He also knew that it was useless to mention it. The wrong slap in the face back then and the wrong words now had created an unhealable rift between the brothers: "I have brought your coffin, you can be buried wherever you want."

He only thought of Sanlang as his only younger brother.

Looking at Kang Nian's embarrassed back, Kang Shi felt mixed emotions, and his mind was complicated and unclear. Yu Zi's hoarse voice came from behind the screen: "That's just human nature."

  We are all ordinary people with flaws, why should we measure them by the standards of saints?

Yu Zi deeply agreed with Kang Nian's words.

"Kang Jishou, did you say those things to your brother on purpose for me to hear?" Yu Zi's hoarse voice carried a bit of an unfriendly smile, a kind of hurt that was as subtle as a needle, but it really hurt when it pierced, "Are you trying to trick me into being soft-hearted?"

The next moment, Qi Miao behind the screen took a deep breath.

She was anxious and worried at the moment.

"Fourth Uncle is not that kind of person..."

Yu Zi replied calmly: "Oh."

Kang Shi knew that Kang Nian's words had indeed irritated Yu Zi, so it was normal for her to be angry, and he did not have the energy to refute anything. After a while, he left a sentence: "Wei Heng, you should have a good rest."

Her future will be bright.

Yu Zi said: "Actually there is another way."

Kang Shi stopped suddenly.

Yu Zi sneered and said, "It's OK if one person is useless, but that person will definitely not be me. I can't give up the ability to continue to climb up for the sake of 'others' who don't even love themselves..."

“This method is not feasible.”

Yu Zi said: "Then there is nothing we can do."

Gu Chi couldn't find a solution from his colleagues and returned empty-handed.

Shen Tang looked at Gu Chi who had returned, and thought that he had just finished eating his peaches and was here to rub against hers: "I don't have any peaches here."

Gu Chi choked and said, "I'm not in the mood to eat peaches right now."

"Tsk, Tao doesn't like it anymore. It looks like something big has happened to her. Come on, tell me about it, so I can have some fun too."

Gu Chi: "..."

It is his blessing to have such a master.

He took a few deep breaths before asking.

"How does the Lord intend to deal with Ji Shou and the other two?"

Shen Tang paused while reviewing the memorials.

Gu Chi said in a deep voice: "It would be a huge loss if either of them died. If you can save them, try to save both of them! If you really can't, you should save one of them, otherwise..."

“There is no option to keep just one.”

Shen Tang lowered his head again to review memorials.

"Does Wangchao know about the prisoner's dilemma? You should know. Smart people can also get into trouble because of their smartness. The probability of betrayal is much higher than loyalty to each other. What's more, it concerns life. As the old saying goes, a friend dies rather than a poor Taoist. The consummation ceremony of the two of them is not only a test for each other, but also a test for themselves. Either both survive, or both die. Seeing your own heart clearly and controlling your own humanity, this is considered the perfection of the Tao heart, right? It's not okay for outsiders to give advice, and you and I can't help."

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