Lin Wanyu wanted to open her mouth to refute, but Luo Ye sat silently by the fire. The hunting knife in his hand was carelessly flicking the flames, and the fire made a crackling sound of burning pine resin.
Lin Wanyu breathed in the moist and stagnant air in the mountain forest, and the situation described by Luo Ye flashed before her eyes.
"His name is just...Sha?" Lin Wanyu asked tentatively.
"Well, Sha." Luo Ye was still fiddling with the flames, as if the flames more than a foot high were still unable to drive away the cold. After a long pause, he then said: "I have never mentioned his name to anyone, and neither have you.
The only person who heard this story."
"But..." Lin Wanyu looked at Luo Ye in shock, and mustered up the courage to ask: "Why, why are you only telling me?"
Luo Ye smiled softly and shrugged, "I don't know either. Maybe it's because you're not an insider and won't associate this story with my identity, or maybe it's because you're stupid and I want to see you listen.
The hair-raising expression at the end of the story.”
Lin Wanyu said with a serious face: "Or maybe you have too many secrets buried too deep, and you want to talk to me, a stupid and stupid outsider?"
Luo Ye stopped moving his hands and looked quite shocked, but the expression on his face did not change at all. He slowly turned his head and looked at Lin Wanyu, his eyes smiling, but he did not speak for a long time.
A vague sense of uneasiness gradually surged into Lin Wanyu's heart. She held her breath, and her bright eyes went straight into the depths of Luo Ye's heart, as if she wanted to read him like a book.
However, Luo Ye is not a book, and no woman can really read it.
He is more like an onion, covered with mud on the outside. Only when you peel off the first layer do you realize that he is actually clean and suffocating. But an onion never has only one layer. If you want to see Luo Ye's heart, you need to layer it one by one.
Peeling off the layers, in the process of peeling, I will continue to shed tears. At the end of the peeling, I finally discovered that the onion has no heart...
Lin Wanyu cried silently. She had never been so heartbroken before. The more she got to know Luo Ye, the more heartbroken she felt. She didn't think it was anything when she saw his naughty smile before, but now when she looks at his smile, her tears can't stop falling.
.
After enduring so much suffering, he can still smile so freely. How strong is this man?
Luo Ye stretched out his hand and wiped away Lin Wanyu's tears. "The story is too heavy. I either got beaten or starved. Do you want to change it to a lighter story? For example, the first time I slept with a woman -"
Lin Wanyu burst into tears, shook her head desperately and said, "No! I don't want to hear that, I don't want to hear it!"
"You just want to hear stories about cannibalism?" Luo Ye shook his finger, "You also said I'm cruel. It's cruel for you to listen to me while you're crying."
Lin Wanyu hurriedly put away her tears, "I'm fine, you can continue talking."
"Okay." Luo Ye thought for a while, "Where did I go?"
"brake."
"…Hmm."
This name caused another rather long silence.
Lin Wanyu bit her lip and cautiously asked, "Why don't you first tell me about the black man who kicked you away? Did you take revenge on him later?"
"Retaliation?" Luo Ye's tone was full of confusion. "Retaliation for what?"
Lin Wanyu explained: "You stole half a piece of potato, and he punched and kicked you, but you didn't fight back?"
Luo Ye shook his head, "No. I met that black man several times later, but I didn't retaliate against him. Why, are you disappointed?"
Lin Wanyu nodded slightly, "A little bit." She hoped that everyone who had bullied Luo Ye would be punished, and even cutting off the black man's fingers like Luo Ye punished the bald gangster before was not an exaggeration.
Luo Ye shifted his gaze back to the dancing flames, as if he was speaking to the air in front of him. "As a story, I know you expect a happy ending of revenge, but the real situation is that I was too young at the time and didn't even think about it.
But he.”….
"But what if you cooperate with Sha?"
The expression on Luo Ye's face suddenly became unnatural. "It was purely a fluke that Cha and I cooperated to kill the two soldiers. They were drunk, and they didn't expect that the two sallow-looking children had been trained in combat.
Warrior - we don't have such good luck every day. You have to understand, what if we join forces to kill the black man who beat me before? We will still be hungry. Our goal is not revenge,
It's about survival. The world is like this, and no matter how many people you kill, it won't change it. In the face of the belief in living, nothing matters.
Moreover, the entire slum is a living hell on earth. No one will look at two Chinese children wrapped in blankets. People beat and scold us everywhere. I can't be full of thoughts about how to kill them in the future?
What's more, I stole that black man's potatoes first and stole food in the slums. I'm as unforgivable as an adulterer's wife and daughter. He could have broken my legs and made me unable to walk, or he could have broken my neck directly.
He threw my body into the stinky ditch, but he didn't do that. He just made me suffer a little bit, and warned me not to try to steal his food again. I was grateful for it before it was too late. Why should I take revenge on him?
Woolen cloth?"
"I didn't know you were so kind-"
"Kind?" Luo Ye smiled, "You didn't think so when I cut off the bald gangster's fingers. I'm not kind, but I can't help myself."
"I know you are right," Lin Wanyu sighed angrily, "but did you really have no resentment at all at that time?"
"Of course," Luo Ye said with a smile: "I was just a child at the time. Of course I hated anyone who hit me. But later I gradually understood that most enemies in life do not attack you with fists.
When you are in a difficult situation, the first thing you think about will definitely not be to take revenge on those who bullied you, but how to struggle out of the situation. But often when you get out of the situation and look back, the resentment in your heart has long been eliminated, and all that is left in your heart is your gratitude to those who can.
Gratitude and awe for surviving - at least that's how I feel. Because no matter how fast the knife in your hand is, people will always face difficulties. Even if you kill everyone in the world, the difficulties will still exist. Respect it and adapt to it.
It’s natural to get rid of it.”
"Then..." Lin Wanyu asked, "What exactly happened between you and Shi Lai?"
Luo Ye added a few pieces of dry wood to the fire and continued: "That night, we killed two soldiers of the local warlord. This is a very serious problem. You know, the warlords control powerful armed forces. Once
If they find out that we did it, we will definitely die.
At that time, I watched the soldier's body collapse little by little, and I also saw him smiling at me.
I was very angry. If it weren't for him, I could have spent the next ten days safely. I found my hiding place with great difficulty, but now I had to give up. I wanted to rush up and beat him.
At least let him stay away from me, but I was dizzy at the time and had not yet completely shaken off the nightmare I was being tossed around.
Sha walked up to me and stuffed something into my mouth. I immediately started chewing, and with the oil and aroma, I realized that it was the fattest part of the roast chicken. I almost ran away like a wild dog.
He got up, grabbed most of the roast chicken in his hand, and stuffed it into his mouth desperately. He was startled, but did not grab it back. Instead, he silently walked to the body and began to search for the loot.
I heard the sound of him swallowing, and I knew he was also very hungry and wanted to eat, but I still guarded the food tightly, not giving him even a chance.
——Looking back now, I was really stupid at that time. He had a bright military spur and a pistol at hand. It was easy for him to kill me at that time...
But I didn't think much about it at that time. I quickly gnawed all the roast chicken, not even the hardest bones, until there was nothing left, and I was still reluctant to let go, mixed with blood and black mud.
fingers.
When I was eating, Cha always kept his distance from me. After I finished eating, he stretched out his hand to wave me over.
I hesitated for a moment, thinking that I should quickly pack up my things and run away before the warlord discovered me, but my closed heart had gradually built up trust in Sha. I trusted him cautiously, and he also cautiously trusted me.
We started to loot the bodies of the two soldiers. You know, the soldiers were full of treasures, just like the dragon's treasures - it felt like the online games we play now, where we kill the monsters and then pick up the loot and
The difference with equipment is that these are real trophies and equipment, things that can greatly improve our chances of survival.
We need thick clothes to withstand the cold rainy season, but the problem is that military uniforms are too eye-catching. Wearing such clothes is as stupid as smoking at a gas station. I struggled with the issue of clothes for a long time, and finally decided
Don't take risks.
We want to take away their pistols. We do need weapons for self-defense, but pistols are obviously not enough, because the most important thing to warlords is weapons. Soldiers can be recruited when they die, but it is difficult to buy guns if they are lost. If we take away the guns, the slums will
We will face a large-scale raid, and we will be the unlucky ones in the end. Besides, guns are useless, with only a dozen bullets, there is no way to reverse the adversity.
He was so obedient to me that he even threw away his pistol without listening to my reasons.
In the end, we only took away a zippo lighter, two sharp military spurs, five thousand-yuan notes and a few steel coins, as well as a gun holster, a belt and leather boots, and two shirts that could be used as quilts.
.
Of course the coins were printed by the local warlords themselves. Five thousand yuan can actually buy a roast chicken and a bottle of beer. But I don't plan to go to a restaurant in the town to buy roast chicken. Money is a dangerous thing.
Because children like us will definitely be suspected if we buy roast chicken. The smartest way is to spend a little money, buy pots, bowls, oil and salt from different stores, then get together, light a fire with a lighter, and
The gun holster, belt and leather boots were cooked and eaten - so that the two of us could live for another ten days.
After getting the things, I climbed up to the roof, took away the things I had hidden before, and officially started my wandering life together.
I thought that Sha and I would get through the predicament safely. Even if we were not stable, with our fighting skills and the spurs in our hands, it would not be a big problem to grab something to stay alive. But that night I discovered that I was wrong.
.
Shi suddenly started to have a high fever and was talking nonsense. I took off his blanket and saw black pus and blood dripping down his arms, and the stench was like a rotting corpse.
Only then did I remember that he was bitten by a dog when he was fighting with a wild dog..."