15. Transactions
Late at night, in an abandoned farmhouse near Jiaxing, Gao Jin suddenly opened his eyes. He was soaked in cold sweat and gasped in big mouthfuls, as if he had the most terrible nightmare. Seeing Xiaoyu lying beside him, Gao Jin reached out to touch her hair. The panic and horror on his face gradually calmed down. He looked at the bandaged wound on his left leg. His eyes quietly fell on the figure smoking in front of the window. It took him a long time to speak, "Thank you for saving me."
After throwing away the cigarette butt in his hand, Guo Wen stepped on it hard and looked at Gao Jin who was thanking him, with an ugly smile on his face, "This is my second time smoking, the first time was eight years ago, when my father died."
"Is that true!" Gao Jin returned the same ugly smile, then looked at Guo Wen's hand and pointed, "Can you give me one?"
"Uh, of course." In the darkness, Guo Wen walked to Gao Jin, pulled out a cigarette and handed it to Gao Jin. After lit it for him, he lit another one for himself.
"Cough-cough-cough!" Gao Jin, who could not smoke, coughed violently by the spicy smell of smoke. However, he did not stop and continued to smoke the cigarette lit in his hand. For a moment, the two men were silent, smoking without saying a word.
"Why save me?" After a long time, Gao Jin spoke again, "We have only known each other for a few days. You shouldn't be involved in my affairs. This will ruin your life."
"Life?" Guo Wen smiled self-deprecatingly, "My life is not much better than you." As he spoke, a light flashed past Gao Jin's eyes. The alloy scalpel in Guo Wen's hand looked like a layer of flowing mist under the moonlight shining through the broken window, making it look so beautiful.
"When my father died, he was surrounded by nearly a thousand armed police and army, and he was finally beaten into a hornet's nest." Guo Wen recalled the past, his voice trembling, "My mother was admitted to a mental hospital because of this, and then died less than a week."
"Your father must be a powerful person." Looking at Guo Wen, Gao Jin took a long time to say something.
"He killed people, three high-ranking officials." Guo Wen suddenly laughed. He leaned against the wall beside him and sat down, looking at Gao Jin, "I think I should be proud of him. Few people dare to do that. Of course, his fate is not very good!" At this point, he paused, "I was following you, but I just wanted to know something, but I didn't expect it to become that way. I'm sorry."
"It has nothing to do with you." Gao Jin replied, but he didn't say anything again. His parents' death hit him a big blow. He thought it was all his fault. If he could be stronger, he wouldn't have let this happen.
"Although those people are not considered good people, they will not do such inhumane things." Guo Wen looked at Gao Jin, rummaged over and over again, and finally expressed his thoughts.
"I know, something was wrong when they came in, and I should have noticed it long ago." Gao Jin thought of the scenes that happened in the private room, hugged his head, looking in pain, and he felt that he had killed his parents.
Looking at Gao Jin, Guo Wen didn't say anything else. He just stood up silently and walked out of the room. He thought Gao Jin needed someone to calm down, and he should go and say hello to another person.
In the abandoned warehouse behind the farmhouse, the fat middle-aged man tied up was awakened by the headlights. In a dazzling feeling, he turned his head. Guo Wen slowly walked to him, took out the cloth strips stuffed in his mouth, moved a worn-out chair, and sat in front of him. The alloy scalpel in his hand moved up against his face.
"Okay, there is no need to call him. I just have a few questions to ask you. You just need to answer honestly." Guo Wen looked at the fat middle-aged man whose pupils were adapted to the strong light and spoke.
"What do you want to know?" Feeling the cold air from the cold blade of the alloy scalpel, the fat middle-aged man tried hard to calm himself down and asked Guo Wen.
"First of all, I need to know, were the three bastards who died in the hotel box done that after being hinted by you?"
"Yes." The fat middle-aged man admitted directly without hesitation.
"Very good." Guo Wen's wrist shook, and the alloy scalpel made a bloody mouth on the fat middle-aged man's face. "Because you, a disgusting fat pig, two innocent old men died."
"Next, who told you to do this?" Guo Wen took a white handkerchief and wiped the blood stains on the alloy scalpel, and slowly asked the second question.
"I said that it was the ones who asked me to do this." The fat middle-aged man endured the tingling pain on his cheek and looked at Guo Wen fiercely, his voice croaking. He swears in his heart that if he could get out of trouble, he would definitely make this young white-faced wearing glasses die ugly.
"The answer is not innovative at all. Who is above? What is the name and what position is it?" Guo Wen slapped the fat middle-aged man's face with a clean alloy scalpel, and a smile appeared on his face. "I think I should change my communication with you." As Guo Wen spoke, the alloy scalpel in his hand moved to the ears of the fat middle-aged man's face. "If you don't understand what I mean, I think I need to remove some burdens that hinder your hearing for you."
"Is that?" The fat middle-aged man suddenly looked at Guo Wen, his voice was a bit weird. As a master of mind-calculating skills, the fat middle-aged man was not a fat belly at slaughter. He was previously broken free from the "bound" by Guo Wen. It was just because he used the mind-calculating skills to hypnotize three secret work hours that had undergone anti-hypnosis training, which took a lot of effort. At the same time, he underestimated Guo Wen, so he was caught. However, it was precisely because of this that Guo Wen underestimated his mind-calculating skills and gave him a chance to turn things around.
"Although your will is much stronger than that of ordinary people, to me, it is just the difference between a child and a baby." The fat middle-aged man looked at Guo Wen with a playful smile on his face, "Now, help me break the rope."
As the alloy scalpel cut through the strong hemp rope, the fat middle-aged man regained his freedom. He relaxed his hands and feet, shook his head at Guo Wen, "Next time when I meet me, remember not to look at me, if there is another time?" Before he finished speaking, the fat middle-aged man punched Guo Wen in the face.
"You martial artists are as strong as iron blocks." Looking at Guo Wen who was lying on the ground and his eyes were dull, the fat middle-aged man covered his painful fist and squatted beside him, picking up the alloy scalpel on the ground and murmured to himself, "I think this is more suitable for me." As he spoke, he raised the alloy scalpel in his hand and was about to stab Guo Wen's chest.
Just as the alloy scalpel was about to pierce into Guo Wen's body, the fat middle-aged man stopped. His expression looked a little painful. He suddenly threw away the alloy scalpel in his hand, got up and quickly knocked open the window beside him, and disappeared into the dark night. Guo Wen shook his head and got up from the ground. Then he saw Gao Jin leaning against the door of the warehouse and gasping.
"You saved me." Picking up the alloy scalpel on the ground, Guo Wen walked to Gao Jin and supported him. If Gao Jin hadn't appeared just now, he would have been a dead man.
"It's a favor to you." Gao Jin looked at the broken window, his eyes like when his parents died, and he was as cold as a dead thing, making people shudder.
"Do you know everything?" Guo Wen asked in disbelief as he looked at the expression on Gao Jin's face.
"Absolutely." Gao Jin gave an ambiguous answer. Since he woke up, he had covered the entire farmhouse and a 100-meter range. After the tragic death of his parents, he vowed that he would never make the same mistake again.
"He can't escape." Gao Jin murmured to himself, walked out of the farmhouse, and the gloomy voice made Guo Wen's heart jump when he heard it.
Lying down against the wall, Gao Jin tightened his coat for Xiaoyu, then looked at Guo Wen and said, "I don't know why you helped me like this, but I think I can trust you. I want to leave Jiaxing tomorrow. What do you think?"
"Your parents?" Guo Wen said, and immediately closed his mouth. He looked at Gao Jin apologetically and said, "I'm sorry."
"It's okay, they are dead." Gao Jin's face turned dark, and his hoarse voice was filled with sadness, "It's dead."
"What are your plans after leaving Jiaxing?" Guo Wen hesitated for a moment and looked at Gao Jin and asked. He didn't think Gao Jin said he believed him to be true. If he was Gao Jin, he would not trust people easily, even if that person saved him.
"Revenge." Gao Jin's answer is very simple, without any substance.
"I just want to find a way to open the 'those doors' from you. I think we can make a deal." Guo Wen decided to let Gao Jin know his sincerity in his own way, "I will help you get revenge, and you have to let me follow you."
"Trade." Gao Jin agreed to Guo Wen without even thinking about it, and just added, "If you have an ulterior motive or hinder me, I will kill you."
Chapter completed!