Daomu Biji

Chapter 18 The Qilin Carrying Everything (1)

The solemn look on the old lady's face, as well as the heaviness and determination with which she knelt down, could not be more true.

She is an old lady who can call the shots in the city of Beijing. She is the all-powerful Nine Men in the world. She is an elder in her twilight years. She is the head of a family with a huge fortune. No matter who she is, she can easily overwhelm us. Death, however, she knelt down, kneeling so naturally and so decisively. It seems that only this kind of behavior can reflect her piety.

I was no less surprised than the others. Within a few seconds of the old lady kneeling down, it seemed like a hand suddenly pressed down on my shoulder, making my knees tremble. With great difficulty, I resisted the urge to kneel down. I don't know if this is because of my servility or because the atmosphere is so weird.

At that moment, I suddenly had a feeling that Menyouping and I might be different, and I might never understand his world.

Fortunately, this feeling was fleeting under the agitation of the fat man. He was also startled and was stunned for a few seconds before he said this sentence: "No, this old lady is just a rice dumpling!" "

After saying that, he realized it was impossible. He looked at me and raised his eyebrows. I recovered from the shock and immediately said, "Mother-in-law, what are you doing?" He rushed over and tried to help the old lady up. But the old lady looked solemn and didn't want to get up. Huo Xiuxiu beside her was completely dumbfounded. She might have never seen her grandma like this. She didn't know what to do for a while, so she had to continue kneeling with her.

The strange thing is that Menyou Ping didn't make any move, looking at her like a statue.

This was unseemly, and I had no experience in dealing with this kind of situation. I didn’t know what to do, so I winked at the fat man. The fat man was also covered, but he reacted faster than me. He immediately went up with me and forcibly helped the old woman up. .

The old lady's eyes never left the oil bottle, and she helped her sit down. The fat man said: "Old lady, have you never seen such majestic fingers and your legs are so frightened that you are weak? It's the 21st century. We can't do the old etiquette." No? If you play like this, you are not afraid of hurting your knees, but we are also afraid of shortening our lives."

The old lady ignored him, only looked at the oil bottle, and asked, "Do you still remember me?"

Menyouping shook his head. The fat man said: "Don't talk about you, even his fat father forgot about you some time ago."

The old woman bit her lower lip: "That's right, you must not remember anything. If you still remember, you may not come to see me."

I asked: "Mother-in-law, do you know her?"

She was quiet and then said: "More than just knowing him, as soon as I heard you talking about him, I understood what happened to my daughter."

The fat man and I looked at each other and saw that the old woman seemed extremely tired. She sat down and immediately shed tears: "It seems that it was grandma who harmed you. Retribution, old dog Wu reconciled and the nine nephews killed each other, our The disappearance of children one after another is retribution. In our line of work, we cannot escape the cycle of nature."

I was extremely curious and felt that things were getting smoother. I wanted to ask more questions, but I didn’t know what to ask. Xiuxiu comforted me from the side: "Grandma, the old nine families have been passed down for so many years, and many of them have prosperous descendants." , I don’t think it’s like retribution, some coincidences should be accidents, you don’t have to be too fateful.”

The old lady shook her head, "Actually, there is no such thing as the Old Nine Sect. After liberation, we still had illusions, and then things happened one after another. At the beginning, we wanted to hold each other together. Later, it was good to be able to keep ourselves. In those few years , those who follow us, those who eat our food, we guarantee that they are our own family members, how many of them have been harmed by us, and how many of them have turned around and harmed us? In the old society, there were still moral principles, and there were still rivers and lakes, The black-backed old six could protect a street with a knife. In those few years, there was nothing. We never thought that people could be that bad." She said, "When even people like us start to If you harm people, I know that the old Jiu Clan is exhausted."

I don't quite understand what she means, but I can probably tell what period of time she's talking about.

He asked, "What on earth is going on?"

She looked at Menyou Ping and suddenly fell silent.

This silence was very embarrassing for me. I knew she might be thinking, so I didn't dare to interrupt for fear that she would become annoyed and rebellious, so I refrained from urging her.

After being silent for a long time, she slowly spoke: "Boy, you are very honest to me, but you are a descendant of Wu Laogou. We swore back then that this matter would rot in our stomachs. Of course, now This oath is not that important anymore, but I don’t want to talk about it either. I won’t say it unless he wants to know,” she said.

I thumped and cursed in my mind, why is it like this again. Every time like this, the third uncle is like this, grandpa was like this back then, and the old woman is like this now. It seems that there is a big block in their hearts, stuck in their hearts, and they just don’t want to mention the secret inside the block. What is this mess of theirs? what's the situation?

I looked at Menyou Ping to see how he would react. The old lady also looked at Men You Ping, with very complicated emotions in her eyes: "Do you want to know?"

Menyouping looked at her but didn't answer. I glanced at Menyoupin and told him to ask quickly. Don’t miss this good opportunity. But he looked at me and shook his head.

Everyone was a little surprised. "You don't want to know?" the old woman asked.

Menyou Ping's eyes were as calm as water: "I don't believe you."

The old lady looked at him, and her expression began to change. Oh, "Why?"

Menyouping didn't answer her. Instead, he turned to me and said, "Take me home." After saying that, he walked out without looking back.

I was caught off guard and had to follow him out and walked all the way to the center of the yard. The fat man followed him out immediately, and I could imagine the old woman's stunned expression. The fat man was also confused. He probably thought why the little brother suddenly had such a personality again.

After walking a few steps, we heard someone shouting: "Stay!" Looking back, we saw Huo Xiuxiu chasing after us, stopping in front of us and saying, "Wait, wait."

I looked back at the old lady. She had already gone back to the inner room. Huo Xiuxiu looked at Menyouping with a strange look and said, "There are people from Crescent Hotel and Liuli Sun outside now. If you go out of here, , there will definitely be no peace, my grandma said, we are old friends, she will help you find a safe place, you can go there for a while to avoid the limelight, and we will keep in touch. She still has many things to ask you. "

"Is your grandma also interested in my stolen goods?" The fat man raised the jade seal. "My little brother said we don't believe you."

Huo Xiuxiu said: "My grandma has always said the same thing, so just follow it. It will be good for everyone, and where can you go now?" He paused for a moment, asked us, blinked his eyes, and pointed at Menyou. Bottle, "Actually, I think I might know a little bit about him."