"Senior, please tell me."

Shi Xiaofei said respectfully.

"If you go out and die unfortunately, how can you repay my life-saving kindness to you in the future? Don't tell me that you have no choice but to repay this kind of kindness to be a cow or a horse in the next life. I don't believe this!"

Xia Fan suddenly put on a stinky face and said to Shi Xiaofei with a bad expression.

"..." Shi Xiaofei was stunned. Perhaps he was puzzled by Xia Fan's inexplicable changes in his face. He couldn't help but say nervously. "I wonder how seniors want me to repay you?"

"Look, since you don't want to owe me kindness, I have no intention of stopping you from dying." Xia Fan said casually, "So we can figure it out clearly, and from now on, life and death will not be owed to each other. What do you think?"

"...But based on what my senior said!" Shi Xiaofei was silent for a moment, and looked at Xia Fandao with complicated eyes.

"Don't worry, after all, I'm not a bad person." Xia Fan said with a meaningful smile. "As long as you throw something that interests me, I will regard you as repaying this life-saving grace. How about it? It's very cost-effective!"

"...Senior, are you also interested in the "The Legend of the Sky" I have?" A sad look suddenly appeared on Shi Xiaofei's face.

"Bah! What does it mean to be fond of you? Look at your heartbreaking expression that you have asked for inhumanity, which makes me look like a heartless man." Xia Fan retorted with a dark face. "Besides, how can you be fond of what you are a senior? Is this mean to be fond of you? If I really want the treasures hidden in your arms, I have taken them away long ago, so why bother you with false thoughts!"

"Sir, you are..."

Shi Xiaofei was caught and squirted by Xia Fan, and was stunned in an instant. Could it be that he had misunderstood his senior?

"I don't care. Anyway, you can leave, but you must repay the kindness you owe me first." Xia Fan turned his face and hummed angrily.

"This...sen, you can take away as long as you have something you are interested in. However, the things you put in your bag and "The Legend of the Sky" cannot be given to you." Shi Xiaofei gritted his teeth.

"Haha, apart from these two things, do you think you have something that I am interested in?" Xia Fan said with a disgust. "Besides, you are not a girl, may you still want to agree with your body? Hiss... let me go."

"Senior, I understand." Unexpectedly, Shi Xiaofei suddenly turned a right face and couldn't help but sigh. "It turns out that you made things difficult for me for no reason, but in order to prevent me from leaving and dying in disguise, right?"

"Haha, how could I be such a boring person?" Xia Fan said with disdainful tone with his back to Shi Xiaofei.

"Senior, I appreciate the kindness of my seniority." Shi Xiaofei said solemnly. "But no matter what, I have decided not to cause any trouble to my senior again."

"Okay, then you will repay the kindness you owe me first." Xia Fan shrugged.

"Senior, you said before that as long as I can take out something that interests you, you will let me go, right?" Shi Xiaofei said without changing his expression.

"That's right." Xia Fan said.

"The younger generation has a story that I want to tell you. If you are interested, can you let me go?" Shi Xiaofei said.

"Your little brain is spinning quite fast." Xia Fan praised Shi Xiaofei. "If your story really interests me, it is natural to let you go. Of course, the premise is that you don't make a story about the miserable talent show for me."

Shi Xiaofei didn't care whether he understood the strange words in Xia Fan's words or not, but sat on the steps in front of the door. He untied the tie of the bag on his chest, and then carefully placed the bag on his knees and thighs and slowly opened it, and a square wooden box gradually appeared inside.

He reached out and stroked the wooden box gently, and a strong nostalgic expression appeared on his face.

"Senior, do you know what this box contains?"

"Another box?"

"It contains my adopted father's ashes."

“…”

"In the third year of Jianxing in the Great Jin Dynasty, there was a severe drought in many places in the north. At that time, my parents were forced to leave their hometowns in order to survive. They took my young sister and I all the way to Yunzhou in the south, but in the end I was only eight years old who lived to Yunzhou."

"But how can an eight-year-old child without his parents and family survive? At the most desperate moment in my life, my adoptive father appeared. He taught me how to learn literature and calligraphy, teach me martial arts, teach me how to steal. Yes, my adoptive father is a thief, and I am also a little thief raised by thieves..."

"Although my adoptive father and I are both thieves that everyone despises, we also have our own principles of stealing, and at least we never extend our hand to good people. Until a few months ago, news of the emergence of "The Thieves of Heaven" was heard in Jiangzhou. The adoptive father, who had been drunk and dreaming in the past, suddenly changed his normal state and solemnly asked me to find out the whereabouts of "The Thieves of Heaven" with him, and told him about the secrets of his life experience that he had been hiding."

"It turns out that my adoptive father was a disciple of Zhaixing Tower, a hidden sect in the world. However, when he was young, his adoptive father committed a fool and was expelled from the sect. How could his adoptive father, who grew up in the sect since childhood, forget about the sect? Although he lived in a daze in the years and months, he always fantasized about returning to the sect again. The news of the emergence of "The Thieves of Heaven" undoubtedly gave his adoptive father a chance. As long as he could present "The Thieves of Heaven" to the sect, perhaps the sect could re-introduce him."

"In the end, my adoptive father and I achieved "The Legend of the Sky" through life and death. We thought we could leave smoothly, but the news was leaked on the way. In order to allow me to escape from the sky, our adoptive father deliberately used himself as bait to lure the pursuers away. Before we parted with me, we told me that even if he died, he would bury his ashes in the back mountain of Zhaixing Tower."

"So... in order to achieve the wish of his adoptive father, the younger generation will try their best to escort "The Thieves of Heaven" to Zhaixing Tower. Because without "The Thieves of Heaven", the people in Zhaixing Tower will never allow their adoptive father's ashes to be buried back to Zhaixing Tower."

Shi Xiaofei is not a good storyteller. His stories are plain, simple, and even boring.

But his tone was filled with strong emotions, making a simple story unconsciously immersed in it.

The story is over.

Xia Fan remained silent for a long time.

What attracted him was not the story, but the man Shi Xiaofei.

Although Shi Xiaofei is a thief with a tainted identity, it is undeniable that he is a thief with affection and righteousness.

What the "Stolen Sky" means is self-evident.

But facing the giant treasure that everyone in the world dreams of, Shi Xiaofei not only did not embezzle and escape, but instead tried his best to fulfill his adoptive father's last wish.

Isn’t such a rare and precious character worthy of Xia Fan’s respect?

So he was confused.

Should he take a hand in Shi Xiaofei?

Because he knew very well that once he took action, it meant that he would completely bid farewell to the peaceful and secluded life of seclusion.
Chapter completed!