Anthology of Gu Long: End of the World, Bright Moon, Knife

Chapter 27
Fu Hongxue said, "Where is he?"

Hu Kun narrowed his eyes and said, "He is working hard."

Fu Hongxue said, "Desperate?"

Hu Kun said: "Gambling desperately, drinking desperately, I only hope that he hasn't lost everything, and hasn't died of drunkenness."

Not only did Du Shiqi win, but he was also sober.

When a person wins, he is always sober, only when he loses.

He is shuffling.

He seems to be able to manipulate each of the 32 Pai Gows made of ebony, even the dice obey his orders.

He didn't play tricks or make tricks. When he bet on luck alone, he didn't have to fake it at all.

Just now he took a pair of "Long Threes" and won them all. Now he has won almost [-] yuan, and he must have won more.

It's a pity that the number of bettors has gradually decreased, because everyone's pockets are almost empty.

He was hoping for a new force or two, when he saw a pale stranger enter.

Fu Hongxue was watching him shuffling the cards, his hands were huge and powerful.

Du Shiqi pushed the banker again, four hands, two hands all won, but only won more than 300 taels.

Most of the bettors have looked lifeless.

In a casino, money is blood. How can a person without blood be angry?

——I don’t know if this pale stranger is full of blood?
Du Shiqi suddenly raised his head and smiled at him, saying, "Does my friend want to play a couple of games too?"

Fu Hongxue looked at him coldly, and said, "Just play for a while."

Du Shiqi said: "Just play one game? Win or lose in one game?"

Fu Hongxue said, "Yes!"

Du Shiqi smiled: "Okay, this is the only way to be happy."

He straightened up, and the joints all over his body immediately "clucked", and muscles flowed continuously under the clothes.

This is the result of 18 years of hard training!

He is eight feet two inches tall, with broad shoulders and a thin waist. It is said that he can strangle a bull's head with one hand.Those who looked at him couldn't help showing awe in their eyes, just like courtiers looking at their emperor.

Eighty banknotes have been taken out, brand new banknotes, pale hands.

Du Shiqi said, "How much do you have?"

Fu Hongxue said: "8 taels."

Du Shiqi whistled lightly, his eyes lit up as if two lamps were lit, and asked, "8 taels for a gamble?"

Fu Hongxue said: "It doesn't matter whether you win or lose, just gamble."

Du Shiqi said, "It's a pity I don't have that many."

Fu Hongxue said, "It's okay."

Du Shiqi said: "It doesn't matter, that means it doesn't matter?"

Fu Hongxue nodded.

Du Shiqi smiled: "Could it be that the money was stolen? So you don't care?"

Fu Hongxue said, "It wasn't stolen, it was paid for!"

Du Shiqi said, "Whose life will you buy?"

Fu Hongxue said, "Your!"

The smile on Du Shiqi's face was stiff, and the people beside him had already clenched their fists, and some clenched their knives.

Fu Hongxue didn't even look at it, and said, "I lose, and I'll give you the 8 taels. If you lose, come out with me."

Du Shiqi said, "Why do you want me to go out?"

Fu Hongxue said, "Because I don't want to kill you here."

Du Shiqi laughed again, but the smile was a bit forced: "You lost, or are you going to kill me?"

Fu Hongxue said: "Whether you win or lose, I will definitely kill you."

Du Shiqi said: "You mean, either you kill me or I kill you, no matter who wins or loses, we have to fight for our lives anyway, but there are too many people here, and they are all My people, so you don't want to make a move here."

Fu Hongxue said coldly, "I don't want to kill more people."

Du Shiqi smiled and said, "You seem to be very sure that you can kill me."

Fu Hongxue said, "I'm not sure, how could I come here?"

Du Shiqi laughed.

Fu Hongxue said: "8 taels of silver can already do a lot of things. After you die, your friends and brothers will still need it!"

Suddenly, a knife slashed from behind, cutting straight at the back of his neck.

Fu Hongxue didn't move, but Du Shiqi had already grabbed the hand holding the knife.

With a sound of "ding", the sharp knife fell, and with another sound of "click", the tip of the knife was broken.

Du Shiqi lowered his face and said sharply, "This matter has nothing to do with you, you just have to watch and don't move."

No one dared to move.

Du Shiqi laughed again: "You are all good brothers of mine, let's see if I win him the 8 taels of silver."

He tore open the front of his shirt, revealing his copper-iron chest, and said, "How do we bet?"

Fu Hongxue said, "Say it!"

Du Shiqi said: "Betting on small pai gow, turning it over and staring at it, is the most enjoyable."

Fu Hongxue said, "Okay."

Du Shiqi said, "Still using this deck?"

Fu Hongxue nodded.

Du Shiqi blinked and said, "Do you know how many times I have won with this deck of cards?"

Fu Hongxue shook his head.

Du Shiqi said: "I've won sixteen hands in a row. I'm very lucky to bet with this deck of cards."

Fu Hongxue said: "No matter how lucky you are, there will be times when it turns bad."

Du Shiqi stared at him and said, "You're sure about killing people, and you're also sure about gambling money?"

Fu Hongxue said lightly, "If you're not sure, how could you bet?"

Du Shiqi laughed loudly: "You are wrong this time. Even a god may not be sure about gambling. I have seen many people who are as sure as you before, and now they have all lost to hang themselves."

The 32 cards are arranged in four rows of eight.

Du Shiqi launched a party, saying: "We two are betting against each other, the upper and lower two are empty doors."

Fu Hongxue said, "I understand."

Du Shiqi said: "So we might as well bet four cards."

Fu Hongxue said, "Okay."

Du Shiqi pushed out four cards with two fingers: "The dice throw is odd, you take the first pair."

Fu Hongxue said, "You shuffled the cards, and I will roll the dice."

Du Shiqi said, "Okay."

Fu Hongxue picked up the dice and threw it casually.

Seven o'clock, single.

Du Shiqi said, "I'll take the second pair."

The two ebony Pai Gows "slapped" together, and then slowly pushed away.

Du Shiqi's eyes lighted up and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. His brother also heaved a sigh of relief.

Everyone could see that he was holding a good card.

Fu Hongxue said coldly, "You lost."

Du Shiqi said: "How do you know I lost? Do you know what cards I have?"

Fu Hongxue said: "It's a sky card, a man card, a sky bar."

Du Shiqi looked at him in surprise, and said, "Have you seen the cards in your hand?"

Fu Hongxue shook his head, and said, "I don't need to look at it, my card is a pair of fives."

Du Shiqi couldn't help but flipped over his cards, it turned out to be Miscellaneous Five.

Miscellaneous five pairs happen to win the sky bar.

Du Shiqi was stunned, and everyone was stunned.

Then there was a commotion: "This kid has a ghost, this kid knows the cards."

Fu Hongxue sneered, "Whose card is it?"

Du Shiqi said, "Mine."

Fu Hongxue said, "Did I play any cards?"

Du Shiqi said: "No."

Fu Hongxue said: "Then why do I have ghosts?"

Du Shiqi sighed, and said with a wry smile, "You have no ghosts, I'll go with you."

There was another commotion.

The one who holds the knife wants to move the knife, and the one who clenches the fist wants to move.

Du Shiqi sternly said, "Although I lost the money bet, I still haven't lost the life bet. What are you arguing about?"

The commotion immediately quieted down, and no one dared to speak.

Du Shiqi laughed again, still smiling happily: "Actually, you all should know that I will never lose if I gamble with my life."

Fu Hongxue said, "Are you sure?"

Du Shiqi smiled and said, "Even if I'm not sure, I have nine lives, but you only have one."

No stars, no moon, no lights.

The dark alley, the long deserted night.

Du Shiqi sighed suddenly and said, "Actually, I don't have nine lives, I don't even have one life at all."

Fu Hongxue said, "Oh?"

Du Shiqi said, "My life already belongs to Yan Nanfei."

Fu Hongxue said, "Do you know who I am?"

Du Shiqi nodded and said, "I owe him one life, and he owes you one, and I can pay it back to you for him."

He stopped, with a smile on his face: "I just hope you can make me understand one thing."

Fu Hongxue said, "What's the matter?"

Du Shiqi said, "How did you recognize those cards?"

Fu Hongxue didn't answer, but instead asked, "Do you know that everyone has fingerprints on their fingers?"

Du Shiqi said: "I know, some people have skips in their hands, and some people have baskets in their hands."

Fu Hongxue said: "Do you know that no two people in this world have the exact same fingerprints?"

Du Shiqi didn't know.

No one knew about this at the time.

He smiled bitterly: "I rarely look at other people's hands, especially men's hands."

Fu Hongxue said: "Even if you look at it often, you still can't see it. The difference is very small."

Du Shiqi said: "Can you see that?"

Fu Hongxue said: "Even if the cakes are baked in the same mold, I can tell the difference at a glance."

Du Shiqi sighed, "This must be a genius."

Fu Hongxue said lightly, "That's right, he's a genius, but this kind of genius was cultivated in a secret room with no light at all."

Du Shiqi said, "How long have you practiced?"

Fu Hongxue said: "I have only practiced for 17 years, and only practiced for three to five hours a day."

Du Shiqi said: "Is this how you draw your sword?"

Fu Hongxue said: "When you practice your eyesight, you must keep drawing your saber, otherwise you will fall asleep."

Du Shiqi smiled wryly, "Now I finally understand what 'genius' means."

Genius means hard work, hard work.

Fu Hongxue said: "That deck of Pai Gow is made of wood, and there are wood grains on the wood. The wood grains on each card are different. I have seen you shuffle the deck twice, and I have not recognized any of the 32 cards. .”

Du Shiqi said: "If the dice in that hand rolls double, don't you still lose?"

Fu Hongxue said: "The dice in that hand will never roll double."

Du Shiqi said, "Why?"

Fu Hongxue said lightly, "Because I'm also a genius at rolling dice."

The long alley had come to an end, and the road outside was even darker.

It's very dark now.

Fu Hongxue suddenly skimmed up to the ridge of the roof, the highest ridge, and every dark corner nearby was under his eyes.

He didn't kill people to watch, and this time he couldn't let anyone see him.

Du Shiqi finally followed up: "What do you want me to do?"

Fu Hongxue said, "I want you to die!"

Du Shiqi said, "Do you really want me to die?"

Fu Hongxue said: "Now you are already a dead person."

Du Shiqi didn't understand.

Fu Hongxue said: "From now on, you will die for at least one year."

Du Shiqi thought for a while, and seemed to understand a little bit, but he still didn't quite understand.

Fu Hongxue said: "I even prepared the coffin for you, it's on the mass grave outside the city."

Du Shiqi blinked and said, "Is there something else in the coffin?"

Fu Hongxue said, "There are three more."

Du Shiqi said: "A living person?"

Fu Hongxue said: "But there are many people who don't want them to live."

Du Shiqi said, "Do you have to let them live?"

Fu Hongxue nodded, and said, "So we must find a safe and secret place for them, and we must never let anyone find them."

Du Shiqi's eyes gradually brightened: "Then I will carry the coffin back and hold a funeral for myself."

Fu Hongxue said: "You must die, because no one would think of finding a dead person to track down their whereabouts."

Du Shiqi said: "What's more, I died at your hands. Others will definitely think that this is an exchange with Hu Kun. You kill me for him, and he hides those three people for you."

Now he finally understood that this was a very simple matter, but what Fu Hongxue did was very complicated.

Fu Hongxue said: "I have to be very careful, their methods are too vicious."

Du Shiqi said, "Who are they?"

Fu Hongxue said: "Yang Wuji, Xiao Siwu, Gongsun Tu, and a Heavenly King Slaying Ghost Knife."

He didn't say Gong Ziyu's name, he didn't want to surprise Du Shiqi too much.

But the names of these four people are enough to surprise a person with eight guts.

Du Shiqi stared at him and said, "They want to deal with you, so of course you won't let them go."

Fu Hongxue didn't deny it either.

Du Shiqi sighed suddenly, and said, "I'm not afraid of them, because I'm already a dead person, and a dead person doesn't need to be afraid of anyone anymore, but you..."

Fu Hongxue did not deny it.

Du Shiqi said: "You have arranged the affairs here, are you going to find them?"

He looked at Fu Hongxue, then at the pitch-black knife, suddenly smiled again, and said, "Perhaps it's not you who should be worried, but them. They might all be dead after a year."

Fu Hongxue's gaze was in the distance, and the person seemed to be in the distance.

It was dark in the distance.

He gripped his knife tightly.

After a long time, I slowly said: "Sometimes I also wish I could have nine lives. To deal with them, one life is really too little."

Desolate valley, barren land.

There are only a dozen families in the mountain village, and a hut at the foot of the mountain has bamboo fences and firewood doors, and a few clumps of yellow flowers.

Du Shiqi looked at the yellow flowers under the bamboo fence from a distance, his eyes seemed to be full of tenderness.

When he got here, he seemed to have suddenly turned into a simple countryman.

Fu Hongxue seemed to have a lot of emotion in his heart.

He just came out of the hut, Zhuo Yuzhen and the child were already asleep when he came out.

——You can stay here with peace of mind, no one will find you here.

--And you?you want to go?
——If I don’t leave, I also want to stay here for a few days.

He has rarely lied, but this time he told a lie.

He couldn't help but lie, because he couldn't help but leave, since he was leaving, why bother to leave more sorrow?
Fu Hongxue sighed softly, and said, "This is a good place, and you must be a lucky person to be able to spend your entire life here peacefully."

Du Shiqi forced a smile and said, "I grew up here, so I could have been a lucky person."

Fu Hongxue said: "Then, why did you leave?"

Du Shiqi was silent, and after a long time, he suddenly asked, "Did you see the little yellow flower under the bamboo fence over there?"

Fu Hongxue nodded.

Du Shiqi said: "It was planted by a little girl, a little girl with big eyes and long braids."

Fu Hongxue said, "Where are her people now?"

Du Shiqi didn't answer, and there was no need to answer, the tears in his eyes explained everything for him.

——The yellow flower is still there, but the person who planted it is no longer there.

After a long time, he said slowly: "Actually, I should have come here to accompany her a long time ago. She must have been very lonely in the past few years."

——Does a person also feel lonely after death?

Fu Hongxue took out the stack of silver bills and handed them to Du Shiqi: "This is what Hu Kun wants to use to buy your life. You don't have to feel sorry for spending it however you like."

Du Shiqi said: "Why don't you give it to her yourself? Are you going to leave now?"

Fu Hongxue nodded.

Du Shiqi said: "Don't you say goodbye to her?"

Fu Hongxue said lightly, "Since we are leaving, why bother to say goodbye?"

Du Shiqi said: "You have done so many things for her, of course she must be someone close to you, you should at least..."

Fu Hongxue interrupted him: "You have done so many things for me, you are not my relatives."

Du Shiqi said: "But we are friends."

Fu Hongxue said coldly, "I have neither relatives nor friends."

When the sun goes down, it's time for the sun to go down.

Fu Hongxue walked under the setting sun, but he still didn't stop, but he walked more slowly, as if a heavy burden was already on his shoulders.

——Does he really have no relatives?no friend?
Seeing his lonely back going away, Du Shiqi suddenly said loudly: "I forgot to tell you one thing. Hu Kun is dead. He was hanged on the railing of Dengxian Tower with a rope."

Fu Hongxue didn't look back: "Who killed him?"

Du Shiqi said: "I don't know, no one knows, I only know that the person who killed him left a few words before leaving."

Those two sentences were left in blood—the first and last time I killed for free.

The setting sun was even darker, but suddenly there was light in Fu Hongxue's eyes.

Tu Qing finally put down his knife, butcher knife.

Once such a person has made up his mind, he will never change it.

—but what about me?Could it be that what I hold in my hand is also a butcher's knife, when can I put it down?

Fu Hongxue held his knife tightly, and the light in his eyes dimmed again.

He couldn't put down the knife yet.As long as there are people like Gongsuntu alive in this world, he can't put down this knife!

Absolutely not!
(End of this chapter)