Chapter 8 God of Gamblers Chapter 22 Unexpected Visitors
This year is in full bloom. It is almost March, and a heavy snowfall that has not even fallen in winter has fallen.
The man seemed to have been walking in the snow for a long time, wrapped in a ball of snowflakes, and walked into the bar door with a cold wind. The chill and the intrusion of strangers made everyone in the bar look at the door.
He was wearing a thick cotton coat, which seemed to be afraid of the cold and old-fashioned. The hood of the cotton coat wrapped around his head. In addition, he wrapped a large wool scarf, covering most of his face, making people unable to see clearly, and only a pair of bright eyes were exposed outside.
Somehow, Ruan Zhan suddenly felt that the person in front of him was very familiar, as if he was the one he saw in the hallucination given to him by his father, the person who had a bloody talisman engraved on his chest and gave his father the crystal knife, the person who his father deliberately did not let him know!
"Xiao Xia, come here." Ruan Zhan reacted the fastest, walked forward a few steps, and protected Xiao Xia, who was stunned to look at the door, behind him.
"Who are you?"
Ruan Zhan asked rudely, with a little hostility, but before the man could answer, Bao Datong's surprised voice sounded from behind: "Dad!"
Could it be Uncle Bao?
Ruan Zhan was stunned. Wanli closed the document in a flash, while Bao Datong walked forward with three points of joy and seven points of reluctance: "Why are you here? Are you not going to travel around the cloud?"
"It's indeed my son, you can recognize him in such a dress." Uncle Bao answered the question irrelevantly.
"I can recognize you even if you make rice dumplings." Bao Datong helped his father take off his scarf, take off his cotton coat, and even used the sneakers on his feet to replace the soaked shoes on his father's feet. Ruan Zhan and Wanli recognized that the old man in front of him was Uncle Bao.
"You haven't answered me yet, why are you here for?"
"Is this girl Azhan's wife? She is protected like a baby, so she doesn't let me see her." Uncle Bao slowly walked to the center of the bar, ignored his son's question for the second time, looked up and down at Xiaoxia who greeted him with a smile, "Well, her eyebrows are all kinds of, and her eyes are clear, and she must be a gentle, kind, generous and reasonable child. Azhan has vision."
"Dad, what are you doing?" The barefoot Bao Datong followed Uncle Bao unwillingly and continued to ask.
"I am traveling around, can't I swim here?" Uncle Bao didn't look back and was busy accepting Wanli's greetings. He took out a string of strings from his arms and strung out with hemp ropes. He handed them to Xiaoxia. "Uncle is a country bumpkin, and there is nothing good. I made this little thing myself. You can wear it and play with it."
Xiao Xia took it respectfully and put it on her neck solemnly. She felt that every bone bead on the chain was a strange word. She looked left and right and couldn't let go of it. Uncle Bao was also very happy to see that she liked it.
"Azhan, would you please not ask?"
"Are you him?" Ruan Zhan asked in a daze, but he believed that Uncle Bao understood what he was talking about.
"This kind of thing should be done by my Datong family, how could it be you?" Uncle Bao said more inconspicuously than Ruan Zhan.
Bao Datong was anxious, "I said, don't you play the puzzle, okay? There are many people here now, at least you have to worry about the impact."
"I mean-" Uncle Bao looked at Ruan Zhan, but explained to his son: "You are the way to do things so recklessly and impatiently and ask questions to others. Azhan has always been a steady and quiet child. He always plans and then acts when encountering things. He is a rare wise general and should not be so straightforward."
"Are you?" Ruan Zhan asked again.
"What if I were a bad person? Isn't it a pity that your bottom line?"
"Oh, I'm going crazy!" Bao Datong shouted and fell on the chair, "What are you talking about? What is it? What exactly happened?"
"How could Uncle Bao be a bad guy?" Wanli interrupted.
"You kids have all regressed." Uncle Bao sighed, "What a smart and clever child you used to be, but now you are doing the work of studying people's hearts. Why are you going back as you grow longer?" He pointed at Wanli, "Everyone in this world may be a good person or a bad person. Good and evil are not clearly divided. Sometimes what you see with your own eyes is completely different from the actual facts."
"But people also have beliefs. Beliefs are more real than anything else, and they can tell the truth and falsehood." Wanli said, "I know Uncle Bao is a good person, and I firmly believe in this."
"Well said." Uncle Bao smiled and nodded at Wanli, then pointed at Ruan Zhan, "This child has no belief, but it's not his fault, because no one has ever given him anything that will support his belief."
"Is there still a lot of things going on? I'm actually talking about the words." Bao Datong whined again, "I'm okay. If you don't talk about human language that can make me understand, if I cause any trouble in the future, I can't blame me!"
"Go upstairs and talk, Uncle Bao looks cold and hungry!" Xiao Xia didn't understand the conversation between the three people, but she couldn't speak. At this moment, she quickly took the opportunity to get in. "Bao Datong, hurry up and get Uncle Bao to go upstairs to take a hot shower. I will prepare some hot soup immediately." She pushed Bao Datong, and then said to the two guys who had been watching the show: "You two help me in the kitchen, and then closed the store. The snow is too heavy and there will be no customers. Just sleep here, and the snow melts tomorrow and then go back to school."
She unconsciously brought a little hostess style, and successfully let all six men, young and old, disperse in the bar, disperse and do what she told her to do.
She was very happy when she heard Uncle Bao praise her for being organized and suitable for her family and family." She carefully prepared hot food for the old man and brought it upstairs.
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"If you want to ask questions, exchange information first." Uncle Bao took a hot shower and looked radiant after eating, and was much more energetic than when he entered the door.
As soon as he stepped into the door of "A man returning home at night", the eyes made people feel that he was a wise elder. However, when he took off his coat and appeared in front of others, the light of his eyes would be covered by his deliberate disguise. Most people would only notice his appearance and think that the person standing in front of him was just a honest and simple old farmer. Only those who truly understand him knew how elegant his fairy-like style was, and Bao Datong was far from that.
However, his personality is very likable, serious and witty. Bao Datong is a bit of a father's style in this regard. Even the two fathers discuss issues the same way. Before telling others about major issues, they ask for information exchange first.
Ruan Zhan glanced at Xiaoxia, and after receiving her silent support, he decided to say the things he had told Xiaoxia. He didn't want to involve his friends in this matter, but Uncle Bao's sudden appearance was too strange. He has to say now. Compared with him, Xiaoxia is many times weaker in strength, which is simply a gap between heaven and earth. However, during this short time of time, he has become accustomed to getting her psychological encouragement.
He slowly told these things one by one, and his heart was completely calm, but when these words came to Wanli and Bao Datong's ears, he was particularly shocked. After hearing this, he didn't know what to do.
"Uncle Bao, if the exchange of information you mentioned refers to this, I have already said it all. Now it is your turn to answer me, are you that person?"
"You are impatient again, but it's no wonder you, after all, father and son are not in nature controlled by human power." Uncle Bao nodded, "Yes, the person who can't see the face in your father's hallucination is me, and I also gave the crystal knife back to him. He is hinting that the danger when he attacks is the importance of the crystal knife, but because he doesn't want you to come to me, I won't let me show up. At this point, you father and son are exactly the same. You want to take care of everything yourself and don't want to implicate your friends."
Ruan Zhan suddenly realized and put a big stone in his heart.
He knew that he would show up with his father sooner or later, so he cared about any clues his father had left him. The mysterious person had always made him worry, for fear that it would be an unpredictable third force. Now that he knew that the man was Uncle Bao, there was nothing to worry about.
"I guess you are the one who helped my father lay the coffin." He asked again, and he also received a positive answer. In fact, it was obvious that he once estimated that person was a person with profound magic power, and among the people he knew, who could compete with his father's power?
"But, what bad things did Uncle Ruan do to get himself into such a field and to take Azhan's life?" Bao Datong turned to look at Ruan Zhan: "Don't be upset when he said you, don't be upset. I think Uncle is really selfish. He did evil things but asked his son to take responsibility. What's scary is that he actually came up with the tools to use his own flesh and blood to make living to help him get rid of it. This is too perverted."
Ruan Zhan didn't say anything. Although he didn't like Bao Datong to say this about his father, this was a fact that made him unable to refute it. Yes, is he still a father? Why do he love him so much, but he doesn't love himself? Is it so cold?
Bang--
A crisp sound scared the four young people in silence, followed by Bao Datong's complaint, "Dad, why are you hitting me!" He stroked the back of his neck, inhaling in pain, and said aggrievedly: "If you still use such force, I will have a concussion!" Then he looked at the other three people with help, "Look, I live this kind of life. This old man usually treats me like this, raises me like a sheep, and attacks me at any time!"
The three of them looked at all this in shock, and none of them knew what to say.
"I hit you because you talk nonsense. Are you so sure that your Uncle Ruan is a villain?" Uncle Bao seemed really angry. His amiable appearance just now disappeared in an instant, and he became a strict elder. "Do you three think so?"
No one spoke, but the doubts widened in his heart. What does Uncle Bao mean to say this? Does Ruan’s father have his own difficulties, just like Ruan Zhan, who was forced to do what he looks like today because of a last resort, and forced himself and his son to this point?!
"You can't blame you for thinking this way, but I want me to hear it, but I can't let you stay in the dark and be confused." Uncle Bao stood up, moved a chair and sat at the door, waved his hand to form a protective barrier, and let the four juniors sit in a row on the bed, "Now I'll tell you the cause and effect of this matter. God's will originally asked me not to say it, because he was afraid that Azhan would not attack him after knowing this matter, so I endured it for more than 30 years. Today he forced himself into a desperate situation. I
I have to say it. I don’t know that he went to Tietou Mountain. Do you know how much pain you have to endure when dissipating evil spirits? There are so many things and so many evils that he should not bear alone. Besides, I have always had hope for a safe solution to this matter and have been looking for a good way. Although it has not been found yet, we cannot give up our efforts. God said that only miracles can save Azhan’s life, and I want you to understand that miracles will not come, either create miracles or there will be no miracles!”
Ruan Zhan was silent, but his body trembled slightly. According to Uncle Bao’s words, his father had great difficulties. He understood that he could not tell how uncomfortable he felt when he felt pain in his heart. He was willing to believe that his father did not treat him this on purpose, which proved that his existence was at least meaningless.
Xiao Xia held his hand tightly and said to Uncle Bao: "No matter what, it is wrong for him to let Azhan be born like this. No one can treat others as a tool, and even his father can't do this."
"Xiao Xia--" Wan Li stopped him.
"That's how I think, I won't let others say it." Xiao Xia muttered with a pout. It's about her sweetheart. Whoever hurts Ruan Zhan will blame him. Moreover, this is kept in her heart for a long time and she is unhappy when she doesn't vomit at Uncle Bao.
"Xiao Xia is right." Uncle Bao did not criticize her, "God's will deserve everyone in the world, and the only thing I'm sorry is Azhan. But Azhan is his son, and there is nothing wrong with his son helping me solve the problem. The so-called father's debts and sons pay. I know that you nowadays young people value personality independence, but these deep-rooted concepts are not completely wrong. Have you ever heard this? Azhan has no love. If a person wants to save the world and has great love in his heart, he will naturally be cruel to the people around him. This is the fact. Azhan, I hope you can forgive, and God's will not do well in this regard. He cannot be without love, he loves you very much. But he has no other way. Azhan, are you willing to forgive him and help him?"
Ruan Zhanzheng pointed, "If I don't want to help him, I won't be so embarrassed because I want to choose between him and Xiaoxia. Forgive him? I don't know if I can do it."
Uncle Bao listened to his honest expression and did not speak for a while. He nodded for a long time and said, "You are such a good child. If other people have been treated like this since childhood, even if they don't become evil people, they will not be able to stand it. It is difficult for you to be sober."
"But, is there really no other way?" Wanli asked.
Uncle Bao shook his head, his face full of frustration, "In recent years, I have walked too many places, trying to find a spiritual treasure land that can control his anger, and visited many hidden Taoist descendants to find a way to restrain themselves, but - alas, I didn't help with anything, and it was worse than himself. He at least found Tietou Mountain."
"In order to help Uncle Ruan, you often don't stay at home. Do you leave me alone?" Bao Datong asked, "Then I forgive you because you are trying to help your only friend. If it were me, I would do that."
Uncle Bao was quite pleased to hear his son say that. He also understood his debts to his son, and did not feel pain in his heart? People who have never been a father will not understand this kind of mood.
Chapter completed!