Anthology of Gu Long: The Prodigal Son of Border Town

Chapter 32
A knife three inches long and seven minutes long.

Flying knife!

When Li Mahu saw the knife, his face suddenly twisted.

Then, his men also fell, as if struck down by a noiseless bolt of lightning.

As he fell, it seemed as if something had fallen from his hand on the table.

Fu Hongxue suddenly turned around and saw Ye Kai.

Ye Kai walked in with a smile.

He did not carry a knife.

Fu Hongxue looked at him, then at Li Mahu who was lying on the ground, and said sharply, "What are you doing?"

Ye laughed.

He always likes to answer things with a smile that he doesn't have to answer at all.

Fu Hongxue never had to ask again.

He has also seen three needles on the table.

Pale blue needles.

The needle fell from Li Mahu's hand.

If it wasn't for that knife, Fu Hongxue would probably be lying down like Le Leshan now.

Could it be that this sloppy grocery store owner is actually the ruthless Granny Du?
Fu Hongxue clenched his hands tightly, and after a long time, he raised his head.

Ye Kai was also looking at him and smiling.

Fu Hongxue suddenly said coldly: "How do you know that I can't dodge his move?"

Ye Kai said: "I don't know."

Fu Hongxue said, "Why do you always come to save me?"

Ye Kai laughed again, and said, "Who said I came to save you?"

Fu Hongxue said, "What are you doing here?"

Ye Kai said lightly: "I just came here to hit this man with a knife. The hand is his and the knife is mine. It has nothing to do with you."

Fu Hongxue was speechless.

Ye Kaishi walked over, sat down, took a deep breath, and said with a smile: "The fried rice seems to be pretty good, very fragrant."

Fu Hongxue said, "Hmph."

Ye Kai said: "The wine seems to be good, but it's a pity that it's gone."

Just as Fu Hongxue was about to speak, Ye Kai suddenly smiled and said, "Is my knife enough for a dime of wine?"

The person who fell on the ground did not move or speak.

Ye Kai said: "If it's not enough, you should return my knife."

Still no one spoke.

Ye Kai sighed, bent down, patted the man's shoulder, and said, "Grandma Du, since I've recognized you, why bother..."

His voice suddenly stopped, and there was a look of surprise on his face.

Those who fell could never get up again.

The man's face was twisted and stiff, and his hands and feet were cold.

The knife was still pinned to the back of his hand.

Fu Hongxue looked at this face, then at the knife, and said, "Is there poison on your knife?"

Ye Kai said: "No."

Fu Hongxue said: "How could this person who is not poisonous?"

Ye Kai pondered and said: "She seems to be much older, even old people can't bear to be frightened."

Fu Hongxue said: "You said she was horrified to death?"

Ye Kai said: "The back of the hand is not the key point, and there is absolutely no poison on the knife."

Fu Hongxue said, "You say she is Granny Du, the 'heartbroken needle'?"

Ye Kai sighed and said, "Since the boneless snake can be an old woman, why can't Granny Du be a man?"

Fu Hongxue said slowly, "Yes, I know what kind of person Granny Du is."

Ye Kai said: "You should know."

Fu Hongxue suddenly sneered and said, "Could it be that a person like her will be scared to death by a small knife?"

Ye Kai said: "But she is indeed dead."

Fu Hongxue said, "What kind of knife is this?"

Ye laughed.

He also likes to answer with a smile what he doesn't want to answer.

He drew the knife.

The blade is thin and sharp, with a light blue light flashing.

When he looked at the knife, his eyes also shone.

After a long time, he said slowly: "No matter what, you have to admit that this is also a knife."

Fu Hongxue was also silent for a long time before slowly saying, "I never thought you could use a knife."

Ye Kai smiled again.

Fu Hongxue said, "I've never seen you with a knife."

Ye Kai said lightly: "Knives are not meant for people to see."

Fu Hongxue could only admit it.

Ye Kai said: "Perhaps only the invisible knife is the scariest knife!"

Fu Hongxue said: "There is no invisible knife in the world!"

Ye Kai stared at the knife in his hand, and said slowly: "Maybe you can see it, but by the time you see it, it's often too late..."

Knives that can scare people to death are usually invisible knives.

Because by the time you see it, it will be too late.

The knife was out of sight again.

Suddenly, the knife had disappeared from Ye Kai's hand, like some kind of magical miracle.

Fu Hongxue lowered his head and looked at the knife in his hand, with a strange expression in his eyes.

He finally understood what Ye Kai meant.

Gongsun Duan had never seen his saber before.

All Gongsun Duan could see was the handle and scabbard.

Ye Kai said lightly: "A knife that is easy to be seen by others is hard to kill."

Fu Hongxue was listening.

Ye Kai continued slowly: "So a person who knows how to use a knife must also know how to store his knife."

Fu Hongxue sighed softly, and murmured: "Unfortunately, this matter is not easy."

Ye Kai said: "It's really not easy."

Fu Hongxue said: "That is far more difficult than using it."

Ye Kai smiled and said: "It seems that you have understood."

Fu Hongxue said, "I understand."

He raised his head and looked at Ye Kai.Ye Kai's smile is warm and kind.

Fu Hongxue suddenly lowered his face again, and said coldly: "So I hope you understand one thing."

Ye Kai said: "What's the matter?"

Fu Hongxue said: "Never come to save me again in the future. You go your way and I go mine. We have nothing to do with each other. Even if you die in front of me, I will never save you."

Ye Kai said: "Aren't we friends?"

Fu Hongxue said, "No!"

Ye Kai also sighed softly, and said with a wry smile: "I understand."

Fu Hongxue gritted her teeth and said, "Then you can go your own way now."

Ye Kai said: "What about you, aren't you going out?"

Fu Hongxue said, "Why should I go out?"

Ye Kai said: "There are people waiting for you outside."

Fu Hongxue said, "Who?"

Ye Kai said: "An old woman who is not an old woman."

Fu Hongxue frowned and said, "What is he waiting for me for?"

Ye Kai said: "Wait until you ask him why he plotted against you."

Fu Hongxue's eyes suddenly lit up, and he strode out immediately.

In fact, he didn't have to rush out at all.

Because that person outside, no matter how long he waits, he won't be in a hurry.

Dead people are never in a hurry.

Ximen Chun was not a very tall person, but now he seems to have shrunk into a ball.

He was lying in the corner behind the counter, his eyes bulging, as if he still carried the anger and fear of dying.

Who killed him?

He himself obviously did not expect that this person would come to kill him.

A steel awl was inserted into his heart, and the blood flowing out from the wound is still not completely dry.

No one was around.

It was time for dinner, and few people remained on the street.

Standing there, Fu Hongxue's hands and feet were already stiff. He didn't ask until he heard Ye Kai's footsteps, "You said this person is 'Boneless Snake' Ximenchun?"

After a long time, Ye Kai exhaled and said, "Yes."

Fu Hongxue said, "I also know what kind of person he is."

Ye Kai said: "You should know."

Fu Hongxue said: "He neither resisted nor shouted, and he was killed."

Ye Kai said: "This is a fatal blow."

Fu Hongxue said: "There are not many people who can kill him like this."

Ye Kai said: "A lot."

Fu Hongxue frowned and said, "A lot?"

Ye Kai sighed suddenly, and said: "Anyone can kill him, because he has no power to resist."

Fu Hongxue said, "Why?"

Ye Kai smiled wryly: "I was afraid that he would not wait for you, so I tapped his acupuncture points first."

He suddenly continued: "It's just that although there are many people who can kill him, there are not many people who want to kill him, maybe there is only one."

Fu Hongxue said, "Who?"

Ye Kai said: "A person who is afraid that you will ask him out in secret."

Fu Hongxue was silent for a long time, and said, "Why did he want to kill me? Who asked him to kill me?...This is his secret?"

Ye Kai said: "Not bad."

Fu Hongxue suddenly sneered, then turned around and walked out.

Ye Kai said: "Where are you going?"

Fu Hongxue said: "I go my way, why don't you go your own way?"

Without looking back, he walked slowly up the long street.

The long street is silent, and the lantern on the narrow gate opposite has been lit.

A gust of wind blew by, blowing the lit red paper for rent at the entrance of the narrow alley into the air.

The wind is very cold, the night is approaching, is autumn coming soon?

There is already autumn in the evening wind, but the house is still as warm as spring.

To the men it seemed as if it were always spring in this place.

On the table in the corner, several people were already drinking, the twilight was not yet strong, but their alcoholism was already strong.

Just as Ye Kai sat down, Xiao Bieli pushed the wine glass over and said with a smile, "Don't forget that you promised to buy me a drink."

The wine glass is filled.

Ye Kai smiled and said: "Don't forget that you promised to pay the bill."

Xiao Bieli said with a smile: "No matter who has promised you, it will be very difficult to forget."

Ye Kai said: "It's really difficult."

Xiao Bieli said: "So you can drink with peace of mind."

Ye Kai laughed loudly, raised his glass and drank it down, looked around, and said: "The guests here really came early."

Xiao Bieli nodded and said, "As soon as the lantern is lit, someone will come immediately."

Ye Kai said: "So I always wonder if they are guarding the lantern outside all day."

Xiao Bieli smiled again, and said: "This kind of place is indeed very strange. People who come here once or twice will soon become addicted. If they don't come here for a while, it seems that they can't even fall asleep."

Ye Kai said: "Now I'm addicted, I've been here three times today."

Xiao Bieli smiled and said, "That's why I like you."

Ye Kai said: "That's why you are willing to let me pay the bill."

Xiao Bie broke out laughing.

Those people in the corner all turned their heads to look at him, with surprise in their eyes.

They have been to this place at least hundreds of times, but they have never seen the lonely master laugh so much.

But he quickly stopped laughing and said, "Is Li Mahu really Granny Du?"

Ye Kai nodded.

Xiao Bieli said: "I still can't figure it out, how did you figure it out?"

Ye Kai said: "I didn't see it... I can't see anything at all."

Xiao Bieli said: "But you guessed it."

Ye Kaidao: "I just feel a little strange, why Ximenchun asked Fu Hongxue to go to him to get the burden."

Xiao Bieli said, "Only this?"

Ye Kaidao: "When I went there, I realized that he actually invited Fu Hongxue inside for dinner."

Xiao Bieli said: "This is not surprising."

Ye Kai said: "It's very strange."

He went on to say: "Now everyone in this place already knows that Fu Hongxue is Wanmatang's enemy. How can a smooth person like him be willing to offend Wanmatang?"

Xiao Bieli said: "That's right, he shouldn't even accept that burden."

Ye Kai said: "But he accepted it."

Xiao Bieli said: "So he must have another purpose."

Ye Kai said: "That's why I guess she is Granny Du."

Xiao Bieli said, "You guessed right."

Ye Kai suddenly sighed and said, "Fortunately, I guessed correctly."

Xiao Bieli said, "Why?"

Ye Kai said: "Because she was scared to death by me."

Xiao Bieli was startled.

Ye Kai said: "You can't think of it?"

Xiao Bieli sighed, "Where's Ximen Chun?"

Ye Kai said: "He's dead too."

Xiao Bieli picked up the wine in front of him, drank it slowly, and said coldly: "It seems that your heart is not soft."

Ye Kai stared at him, and said lightly: "Now do you regret letting me pay the bill?"

Xiao Bieli sighed again, and said, "I just wonder why people like them come to this kind of place, and they don't leave after they come."

Ye Kaidao: "Maybe they are taking refuge, maybe their enemy is Fu Hongxue."

Xiao Bieli said, "But when they came, Fu Hongxue was just a child."

Ye Kai said, "Then why did they kill Fu Hongxue?"

Xiao Bieli said lightly: "You shouldn't have killed them, because only they can answer you."

Ye Kai sighed: "They did die too early and too fast, but..."

Xiao Bieli said, "How about it?"

Ye Kai suddenly smiled again, and said leisurely: "Don't forget that dead people can talk sometimes."

Xiao Bieli said, "What did they say?"

Ye Kai said: "I haven't said it yet, because I haven't asked yet."

Xiao Bieli said, "Why don't you ask?"

Ye Kai said: "I am not in a hurry, and of course they are not in a hurry."

Xiao Bieli laughed again, stared at Ye Kai, and said with a smile: "You are really a strange person."

Ye Kaidao: "It's as strange as the third boss..."

Xiao Bieli said: "Weirder than him..."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sudden sound of gongs outside, and someone shouted:
"Fire, put out the fire..."

The fire was intense.

The place where the fire broke out was Li Mahu's grocery store.

Flames came out of the wooden house behind and burned the whole grocery store in one fell swoop, very quickly.

Even if someone wants to watch the fire from the other side, it is impossible, because most of the houses on this street are made of wood.

In a short while, the whole street was in chaos, and all kinds of things that could hold water appeared all at once.

The light of the fire shone on Xiao Bieli's face, and his pale face was already flushed, he said in a deep voice, "It seems that the fire started from the kitchen behind the grocery store."

Ye Kai nodded.

Xiao Bieli said, "Did you forget to turn off the lights when you left?"

Ye Kai said: "The lights haven't been lit yet."

Xiao Bieli said: "But there must still be fire in the stove."

Ye Kai said: "Every family has a fire in their stove."

Xiao Bieli said, "Do you think someone set fire to it?"

Ye Kai smiled and said, "I should have thought that someone would set fire to it."

Xiao Bieli said, "Why?"

Ye Kai laughed strangely, and said lightly: "Because a dead person will never be able to speak after being burnt."

He suddenly snatched the bucket from a man and rushed to put out the fire as well.

Xiao Bieli soon lost sight of him, but his eyes were still full of thought.

Suddenly a person came quietly beside him and asked quietly, "What are you thinking?"

Xiao Bieli didn't turn his head to look, and said slowly: "I just learned a lesson."

The man asked, "What lesson?"

Xiao Bieli said: "If you want a person not to speak, you have to kill him and then burn him into coke."

Although there are many people fighting the fire, there is not enough water.

Fortunately, it rained during the day and the house was not dry, so although the fire was not extinguished, it did not spread too fast.

Ye Kai huddled among the firefighters, looking around like an eagle.

The person who sets the fire usually also mixes with those who fight the fire, maybe because he doesn't want to be suspected by others, maybe because he appreciates the pain of others fighting the fire, and appreciates the fire he set.

This is of course a cruel and perverted mentality, but isn't it a cruel and perverted person who sets the fire?
It's a pity that such a person's appearance is usually not easy to see.

Ye Kai was feeling disappointed when he suddenly noticed someone pulling his skirt from behind.

He turned his head, and found that someone turned around quickly and squeezed out of the crowd.

It was a man in Tsing Yi wearing a felt hat.

Of course, Ye Kai also quickly squeezed out.

After he squeezed out, he could only see the back of the man in Tsing Yi.

Ye Kai often likes to study people's backs. He found that everyone's backs have some characteristics to some extent, so it is not difficult to recognize a person from his back.

The back of the man in Tsing Yi seemed completely unfamiliar.

He was not tall, but he moved very quickly, and he walked out of the street very quickly.

Suddenly, no one else could be seen around.

The sky is full of stars, and the field is silent.

Ye Kai chased after him with big strides, and whispered: "Does the friend in front have any advice? Please stay and talk."

The footsteps of the man in Tsing Yi not only didn't stop, but even accelerated, and after walking for a while, he suddenly swept up, and what he performed was the superior lightness kung fu of "repelling cicadas with eight steps".

This person's lightness kung fu is not only very good, but also his body skills are very beautiful.Ye Kai saw his wide clothes fluttering in the wind, and suddenly felt that his posture was very familiar, but he still couldn't think of where he had seen such a person.

The farther you go, the darker the night becomes.

Ye Kai was not in a hurry to catch up.

If the man in Tsing Yi really didn't want to see him, why did he pull his clothes just now?
If this person wanted to see someone, why did he rush after him?

The wind blows the grassland, and there is a small path among the long grass.

This person was obviously very familiar with the terrain in the grassland. He turned east and west among the grass, and suddenly disappeared.

Ye Kai was not in a hurry at all, so he stopped and waited.

After a while, there were indeed whispers in the grass. "Do you know who I am?"

Ye Kai smiled, and murmured leisurely: "The Emperor of Heaven, the Emperor of Earth, people are like jade, jade produces fragrance, Sanniang Shen in Wanma Hall."

Someone in the grass laughed, soft and sweet.

One person said with a smile: "Good eyesight is rewarded."

Ye Kai smiled and said, "What reward?"

Shen Sanniang said: "I appreciate you coming in for a glass of wine."

(End of this chapter)