Chapter Seven
"I don't know if Brother Chen has slept, so I'd better come back tomorrow..."
It was night, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse. During the day, the fat little fat man Xie Tuo, who was full of energy in the conference hall, was hesitant and stood outside Xie Chen's room. He reached out to knock on the door several times, but finally fell down and sighed softly.
"Is it Xie Tuo? Come in." Suddenly, Xie Chen's faint voice came from the room, but it scared Xie Tuo at the door.
"Hehe, Brother Chen, you are not asleep yet." As the door opened and closed, a embarrassed smile appeared on Xie Tuoyuan's rolling face.
There was no light in the room, and the bright moonlight shone through the window paper in the room. You could vaguely see Xie Chen lying halfway on the pile of quilts, his eyes staring at Xie Tuo like the cold stars in the night sky.
"I knew you would come, and I've been waiting for you." After a while, Xie Chen finally withdrew his gaze and pointed to the chair beside the bed, "Sit down, you are so patient, you're just here to find me now."
"Yeah." Xie Tuo nodded silently and limped to the bed and sat down. The two brothers were on the bed and under the bed, and were relatively speechless in this room full of moonlight.
After a while, Xie Tuo finally broke the silence, "Brother Chen, didn't Uncle San come?"
"Here, but I happened to be asleep at that time." Xie Chen nodded slightly. He naturally knew what his father was going to do. But before he could figure out how to explain to his father, he could only pretend to sleep well first.
After being silent again, it was obvious that both of them were thinking about their own thoughts.
"Hu——!" After a long time, Xie Tuo suddenly let out a long sigh and raised his head, "Brother Chen, you are in the conference hall during the day. Why don't you let me tell me about the back mountain? Instead, you asked me to propose a competition with Brother Hao? You also know that Brother Hao is the most suspected in that wildfire, right?"
"Yes, it's just suspicion, but do you have evidence?" Xie Chen smiled. As expected, his cousin also had the same suspicion as him.
"Evidence?" Xie Tuo was stunned and shook his head dejectedly, "Brother Hao is so smart, how could he leave evidence? However, yesterday, there was no fourth person going up the mountain except the three of us. It wasn't him, was it really Tianhuo?!"
"You are right. I'm sure there are definitely many people in the family who have such doubts about this."
"But why is the third uncle..." Xie Tuo was anxious when he heard this.
"The same sentence, there is no evidence." Xie Chen interrupted Xie Tuo's question and directly said the answer, "If there is no evidence, then everything is just a guess. Xie Hao is the only son of the Great Elder, and you don't know the position of the Great Elder in the family. If you identify the suspect without any evidence, it may immediately cause internal strife in the family. In severe cases, it may even lead to the family's division."
Xie Tuo was silent. He thought he had thought enough. However, he didn't expect that this cousin who was weak and sick and had always needed his own care could think so far.
"Since he dares to do this, he must have made careful arrangements, so we can hardly find any favorable evidence. Even if you continue to cheat during the day, you may not end up with the punishment he deserves."
Xie Chen looked at the little fat man sitting by the bed thinking, and in his memory, he had never seen Xie Tuo's expression so solemn. I think that being killed this time also made Xie Tuo grow a lot.
"What should we do then? Let him continue to be free?!" The little fat man Xie Tuo suddenly ejaculated in his eyes, "On weekdays, he pretends to be like and bullies me, I can tolerate it. But this time, he almost killed you, Brother Chen. Originally, I thought that no matter what, we are all brothers, and we should have some feelings since we were young. However, I didn't expect that he was really so cruel!"
"Friendship is not fake, but people's hearts will change." Xie Chen smiled indifferently. After all, Xie Tuo was young. Although his parents died early, he was more mature than children of the same age. However, compared with Xie Chen, a person who had been urinating among horse thieves since childhood, there was still a big gap.
"He doesn't care about brotherhood, so we don't have to worry about it either. This is why I asked you to propose a competition with him. What? Don't you want to fight him?"
"Don't want it?" Xie Tuo raised his curved eyebrows and sneered, "I'd dreamt of it! If my innate qualifications were a little higher, I would have beaten him up so much that he wouldn't even recognize him!"
"Since I want to, isn't it very appropriate for me to give you this opportunity? You can beat him up in front of all the tribesmen and tear off his hypocrite's mask."
"If this can be done, of course it's good. The problem is..." Xie Tuo's face collapsed and he said reluctantly: "The problem is that I can't beat him!"
Xie Hao is recognized as the "No. 1 student of his generation" in the family. Although his innate qualifications are not considered a genius, looking at the entire Wushi Town, no one of his generation can surpass him. It is precisely because of this that after Xie Tuo proposed the competition today, the elder nodded without any hesitation at all.
"What if I say, can I let you defeat Xie Hao in three days?"
"You?!" Xie Tuo was stunned, looked at Xie Chen in surprise, and then smiled bitterly, "Come on, Brother Chen, you have no intention of sleeping for a long night. Are you deliberately using me for fun? You and Uncle San are the only people in the entire family who are truly good to me. Although I can't beat him, I can still disgust him and let you vent your anger."
"I can." Xie Chen looked at Xie Tuo with a smile, but his eyes were full of seriousness and unquestionable.
"Can you?!..." Feeling Xie Chen's gaze, Xie Tuo suddenly felt an inexplicable throbbing in his heart. After more than ten years of time and night, he had never seen Xie Chen have such a sure tone or such a trustworthy gaze.
"Take this." Xie Chen didn't say nonsense, and took out a few pieces of tissue paper from under the quilt and handed it to Xie Tuo.
"This is..." With the moonlight, Xie Tuo could vaguely see that these sheets of paper were densely filled with crooked small characters, and some characters and even ink marks had not dried up yet, obviously they had just been written.
"Hunyuan Gong, a method of spiritual power cultivation. Your roots are basically good. If you practice according to the above techniques, you will achieve a small success in three days. If nothing unexpected happens, you should be able to feel your own natal spirit."
"Sense, what do you feel?" Xie Chen's tone was plain, but it was even more shocking than thunder in Xie Tuo's ears! Feeling the natal spirit?! I heard it right? That's a special ability that only geniuses with innate spiritual power qualifications can reach level eight or above! Can these waste paper that is not much better than toilet paper? Brother Chen's head will not be really burned out by a fire, right?
"I just wrote it, and the appearance is a bit bad, but the above technique is real... Don't look at me with that look. I'm not sick. I once had a little adventure. I accidentally got this technique. I'm sorry to you... I'm sorry! What are you doing! Hold it away!"
With a "bang!", Xie Chen slapped a fat hand that reached to his forehead directly.
The little fat man only felt a pain in the back of his hand and was about to protest. Unexpectedly, his body shook violently and he looked at Xie Chen in disbelief.
"Brother Chen, your hand..."
Under the moonlight, Xie Chen's palm, which had been burned beyond recognition and was wrapped in a bandage, is now exposed. The bandage wrapped around his palms has long disappeared. With the moonlight, Xie Tuo clearly saw that Xie Chen's palms were as white as jade, with slender fingers, and there were still some traces of burns?!
"You, this, this..." The round head suddenly turned into an oval. Seeing this scene, Xie Tuo had long forgotten what he wanted to say. He opened his mouth wide in surprise and couldn't say a word for a long time.
"Oh, you said this." Xie Chen looked at his palm and smiled faintly, "When writing, I felt the bandage was troublesome, so I just removed it. It's good that you saw it. This time, you should believe that I have an adventure, right?"
"Believe, believe!" Xie Tuo nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.
Just kidding, Xie Chen's injuries were seen with his own eyes. Even if he recovered, he would probably leave indelible scars. And there was no trace on Xie Chen's hands? If Xie Chen had no strange adventures now, even Xie Tuo would never believe it.
"Hey? Brother Chen, we are always together. When did you have an adventure? Why don't I know?" Suddenly, the fat man thought of an extremely critical question.
"That...Damn! Why are you asking so much?! Are you still with me all day long? I shit, why didn't you see you when I was sleeping? I'll give you this technique and I'll just be able to become a quick genius. Production from Brother Chen, quality assurance, it's no problem to beat Xie Hao in three days! Take it back and practice well. Don't bother me if you don't understand anything, there is no after-sales service!" Xie Chen felt a sense of silence when asked, and hurriedly changed the topic, pushed the little fat man, and issued an order to expel the customer. The adventure was completely fabricated by Xie Chen, but he didn't think about the details. He simply refused to answer directly and asked the kid to think about it himself.
"Oh..." Xie Tuo was fooled by Xie Chen so much that the monk was confused. He didn't know why Brother Chen suddenly got so angry when he was still good. He had no choice but to stand up in a daze, scratch his head and walk outside.
I'm sorry, it seems that I have to think of a more reliable adventure in the future. It's really troublesome and I have to make up my mind... After Xie Tuo limped out of the room, Xie Chen then breathed a sigh of relief and secretly whispered in the cold sweat.
"Brother Chen...that..." At this moment, the door suddenly opened and Xie Tuoyuan's rolling head appeared at the door again.
"What else is there for a fat man?! Don't disturb my sleep!" Xie Chen asked angrily.
"That...what do you want to pronounce this word?" The fat man stood at the door with aggrieved expression on his face, pointing at a word on the paper that was terrible torn apart, and asked in a stuttering manner.
"Hello, you are a 'wank'! Hey? Didn't I say there is no after-sales service? Why do you still ask? If you don't know, go look up the dictionary!" Xie Chen glanced at the fragmented word and said impatiently.
"Oh, it turns out it's the word "mun". I thought it was "three-day comparison".... This word is written... Alas, I was so excited..."
"Damn! This kid! What is the whole mind thinking?! He is still behaved when he gets a cheaper one... What's wrong with my writing? I think it's pretty good..." Xie Chen was full of black lines.
"laugh!"
Chapter completed!