Chapter 148: Unable to Speak of the Bitterness

Long Xiaoyun was being fed and housed by the Great Joy Female Bodhisattva, and there were women to accompany him to sleep. This life could be considered quite flavorful.

"Xiao Yun will be more glorious than you in the future!"

Gu Qing said to Long Xiaoyun.

After Long Xiaoyun captured Li Xunhuan, he didn't kill him, but instead went to swear brotherhood with Shangguan Jin Hong, wanting to regain face and reputation in Jiang Hu. And if the news that Long Xiaoyun was with the Great Joy Female Bodhisattva spread, it would definitely make him famous in Jiang Hu.

Hearing this, Li Xunhuan and Long Xiaoyun both nodded.

Gu Qing looked at the two and said, "The people you care about are the same, so where does the conflict come from?"

Li Xunhuan and Long Xiaoyun had just synchronized for a moment, and immediately closed their mouths together.

It was precisely because the people they cared about were the same that such a conflict existed.

Long Xiaoyun supported his broken arm with one hand, feeling the heart-piercing pain, and pressed his own acupoints to stop the bleeding.

"You should hurry and save Li Tanhua."

Lin Lingling pulled Gu Qing's clothes and reminded him.

Li Xunhuan was still in a restrained state.

As soon as these words were spoken, the madman Hu and the Central Plains Eight Righteous moved together, immediately wanting to stop this matter.

"I can save him."

Gu Qing looked at Li Xunhuan and said, "It's just that I don't know if this counts as saving a life."

Li Xunhuan knew Gu Qing was bringing up the past again, and smiled bitterly, "Hero Gu, please don't bully a miserable person like me."

Li Xunhuan didn't want to argue anymore.

"You actually call yourself a miserable person?"

Gu Qing was greatly surprised and asked, "With a brother like Long Xiaoyun who saved your life, where are you miserable?"

Li Xunhuan was unable to speak of his bitterness.

"Long Xiaoyun, you say!"

Gu Qing shifted the topic to Long Xiaoyun.

"Bitter?"

Long Xiaoyun's tiger eyes filled with tears, and he said with a trembling voice, "Who isn't bitter?"

Long Xiaoyun knew in his heart that everything he had was a gift from Li Xunhuan, and Lin Shiyin's heart had always been hung up on Li Xunhuan. When people in Jiang Hu saw Long Xiaoyun, everyone would mention Li Xunhuan. Long Xiaoyun sometimes felt that he was superfluous.

"Then are you more bitter now, or were you more bitter when you saw Lin Shiyin and immediately became sallow and thin, with lovesickness deep in your bones?"

Gu Qing asked about Long Xiaoyun's pain grading.

When Long Xiaoyun swore brotherhood with Shangguan Jin Hong, he said he was fifty-one years old this year. Pushing back twelve or thirteen years, he was about thirty-six or thirty-seven. That year, Long Xiaoyun saw Lin Shiyin, then fell into lust, became sallow and thin, and was in unbearable pain.

Long Xiaoyun couldn't speak; he felt that talking to Gu Qing was the most painful thing.

"Central Plains Eight Righteous!"

Long Xiaoyun called out, "Gu Qing is babbling here; in the final analysis, he is here to save Li Xunhuan. If you sit by and watch, and Gu Qing saves Li Xunhuan, Tie Chuanjia won't come!"

When Li Xunhuan entered the pass, he brought a friend, Tie Chuanjia, and the Central Plains Eight Righteous were now attacking Li Xunhuan, also for the sake of Tie Chuanjia.

Hearing that it concerned Tie Chuanjia, Li Xunhuan immediately felt anxious for him.

"Gu Qing, do you want to save Li Xunhuan or not?"

Yi Minghu, the blind man of the Central Plains Eight Righteous, took the initiative to ask.

The Central Plains Eight Righteous also knew of Gu Qing's ability to "use his own way to treat his own body," but they were not afraid at all. They must find Tie Chuanjia to take revenge!

At this moment, Gu Qing looked at the Central Plains Eight Righteous and said, "If I save Li Xunhuan, you will definitely stop me, right?"

"Of course!"

The blind man Yi Minghu called out.

"We also know we have wronged Li Xunhuan."

A one-eyed woman called out sharply, "But our revenge must be taken!"

"Then what if I tell you news about Tie Chuanjia?"

Gu Qing asked again.

At this, the Central Plains Eight Righteous were each surprised and suspicious, their gazes all focused on Gu Qing. They said, "If you tell us the news of Tie Chuanjia, you will be our benefactor!"

Hearing the news of Tie Chuanjia, Li Xunhuan felt anxious in his heart. He knew Tie Chuanjia's character well and believed that Tie Chuanjia wouldn't do anything to hurt others, but the Central Plains Eight Righteous kept pestering him, and Tie Chuanjia wouldn't speak. If the two sides met, Tie Chuanjia would surely lose his life.

"Actually, there is no unsolvable grievance between you."

Gu Qing said indifferently, "Just talk it out."

The leader of the Central Plains Eight Righteous was named Weng Tianjie. He was righteous, liked to make friends, and liked face, so he did some robbery and murder behind the scenes. Tie Chuanjia was friends with people in the government office and, entrusted by a friend, went to Weng Tianjie's place to go undercover. After clarifying the case, Weng Tianjie was killed.

Weng Tianjie's wife didn't die and brought the Central Plains Eight Righteous to find Tie Chuanjia for revenge. Tie Chuanjia felt that Weng Tianjie had treated him well and didn't want to reveal Weng Tianjie's robbery, fearing Weng Tianjie's reputation would be damaged, so he could only hide back and forth.

The Central Plains Eight Righteous pursued this relentlessly.

"You're farting!"

The female butcher, Mother Weng, called out, "How could Weng Tianjie be a great bandit?"

"That is the fact."

Gu Qing said indifferently, "Think about it yourself; with Weng Tianjie's ability to earn money, could he throw money around like dirt to make friends everywhere?"

"But my big brother was upright! Everyone he killed deserved to die; he never killed a good person!"

Jin Fengbai, one of the Central Plains Eight Righteous, hurriedly spoke up.

At this, the others in the Central Plains Eight Righteous turned their heads together and looked at Jin Fengbai.

"You knew about this?"

The female butcher, Mother Weng, asked sharply.

For more than ten years, the Central Plains Eight Righteous had been covered in dust and wind. For this hatred, they had paid a huge price. But suddenly, there was another hidden story, making everyone's heart hang in the air.

Jin Fengbai didn't dare to look directly into their eyes. He lowered his head in shame and said, "I knew, I always knew... Big Brother Weng was as kind to me as a mountain, so I couldn't say it. Besides, even Tie Chuanjia didn't say it, how, how could I say it?"

"I know this wasn't the right thing to do... but what other way did I have?"

A straight line became a two-headed block; Tie Chuanjia was framed.

Jin Fengbai was also framed.

The female butcher, Mother Weng, was in tears. For more than ten years, she had learned how to hate people and had also implicated the Central Plains Eight Righteous in wasting their great lives, following them across the country to find Tie Chuanjia to take revenge, but in the end, this was the result.

Mother Weng suddenly knelt on the ground, kowtowing to the Central Plains Eight Righteous, kowtowing to Gu Qing, and kowtowing to everyone around, kowtowing until her head was broken and bleeding, and she cried out miserably, "It's my fault; I've made the Central Plains Eight Righteous lose face."

Yi Minghu, who had eyes but no pupils, and several others beside him sighed long and hard at this time.

In this matter, the Central Plains Eight Righteous were not righteous and had lost face.

Gu Qing sat on the side, watching the Central Plains Eight Righteous making a scene here, silently receiving merit.

Jin Fengbai hit his head against a stone on the side, wanting to commit suicide to apologize.

Gu Qing raised his hand, his internal energy rolling, and sucked back Jin Fengbai, who wanted to commit suicide, and he fell to the ground. Yi Minghu and the others held Jin Fengbai down again and then thanked Gu Qing for saving him.

Although Jin Fengbai made a mistake, he was still their good brother.

Gu Qing harvested a second wave of merit.

"You see, many things just need to be talked out."

Gu Qing looked at Li Xunhuan and Long Xiaoyun and said, "Let's continue talking about business... Long Xiaoyun, you say, what are you bitter about?"

Now no one was disturbing them.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 149 =====