Chapter 132
Paradise said, “Yes.”
He originally wanted to explain himself, but he felt that it was unnecessary. If he said too much, it might even have the opposite effect. Not only would it make Wu Rizhao even angrier, but it would also make others and himself suffer more. It was really unnecessary, so he decided not to say anything more.
Leyuan lowered his head. At this moment, Wu Rizhao inexplicably felt that he was really a little angry. He laughed angrily, put one hand on the table, looked at Leyuan and said, "Okay, okay."
Wu Rizhao looked around the park leisurely: "I don't know if you are in good health now, but I am old and cannot stand being beaten. I will not beat you, nor will I look at you. If you are willing to be beaten, I cannot stop you. Since you are willing, that's good. If I continue to talk, I will seem unkind. Very well! I will let someone whip you!
If you repent later, maybe you will see that I am in a better mood, and it is not too late. If you refuse to confess, you can't blame me."
Paradise said, "I plead guilty."
Wu Rizhao sneered, "Do you think I don't know? You won't cry until you see the coffin. If I want to kill you, you can't resist me. No matter you beg for mercy or admit your mistakes, you will do it. I know what kind of person you are. You probably didn't expect this. Although I don't see you often, don't live near you, and am not responsible for teaching you, I am not blind.
You better wake up. What's the benefit of doing it for others? Do you think they will follow you wholeheartedly? No. They will just think you are a fool. "
He spoke angrily, and no one could interrupt him. He stood up suddenly without making a loud noise, walked to the front of the paradise, looked at it and asked: "Don't you know that everything you do is the source of suffering? Don't you know that every word you say now is wrong? From the moment you appeared, everything was wrong, but you didn't change.
In fact, it would be fine if you didn't change, but you just kept causing trouble. Tell me, what can I do to you? What can I do?"
Leyuan lowered his head, glanced at the dark figure sitting next to him, blinked, rolled his eyes, looked away, and did not answer.
Wu Rizhao walked back, sat down, looked at the amusement park and asked, "Speak up! What's the matter? You suddenly became mute during the night? People who don't know you would think you are so great. You went out without telling me, went to look for someone, almost died, and even caused someone else's leg to be broken. Do you think this is your fault or mine? It's terrible! What did you do before?"
Leyuan said: "If there is a mistake, I should be punished. I have no opinion on it."
Wu Rizhao gritted his teeth and said angrily, "Okay, come! Beat him!"
Leyuan was invited to a dark room with no light. The person who came in had scars on his eyes, as if he was blind later in life. He walked in without saying a word, as if he was still deaf-mute. In his hand was a bright red whip, from which dripped bright red and slightly yellowish oil, with a strong sesame aroma and a layer of white particles on the surface.
Those white particles are the salt wrapped in the outermost layer. They look very salty and have a slight pink color, which is the smell of blood. The pink color is what happens when blood is diluted with water.
I couldn't see anything more in the park, so I simply closed my eyes and thought about nothing, just waiting for the game to be over so I could get out.
The whip just fell down like that, not in front of him, but on his back. I couldn't tell what the sound was, I just felt a lot of pain, as if my bones were dug out and then stuffed back in. I felt dizzy and powerless, and I was sweating all over, as if I had just been pulled out of the water. I was soaked, and my clothes were too, there was no sign of dryness at all.
As soon as the rope was untied, he fell down, his whole body limp, as if he was about to fall asleep on the ground. If the blood was not still oozing from his back at this time, he would have just looked a little pale.
The people who were packing up had already left. When he opened the door, a ray of light came in from outside. Leyuan squinted his eyes and didn't know who he was for a moment. A confused expression appeared on his face. The dark shadow squatted beside him and whispered, "We are going out. Do you want me to help you? You know I can't help much, so you have to do things by yourself. Don't let others see you, or they will laugh at you."
Leyuan whispered back, "What a joke! It's as if they wouldn't laugh at me if I didn't do anything. They just wanted to laugh at me. They are full of malice and think they are noble. I can only say that they are extremely disgusting. What's there to say? It's just a bunch of garbage."
You care about me more than you care about them.
If you want me to die so badly, you can ask me to break my neck while I am asleep. As far as I know, a person with a broken neck cannot survive. "
The shadow nodded and said, "I know, but how are you going to get out if no one comes to help? You can't straighten your back! It seems to be in a lot of pain."
As it spoke, it stretched out a finger and gently touched Leyuan's back. The scar was blood red with some white salt grains on the surface. It tasted salty, and the blood tasted slightly sweet.
It said, and smiled.
Rakuen pulled his cheeks and said, "That's great."
He said this with a weak, almost inaudible laugh.
I rested in the park for a while. I didn't plan to wait for others to come over. I thought others couldn't come over either. So I walked out step by step, holding on to the wall. When I reached the door, I had almost adapted to the pain. I slowly pushed the door open.
When he could see again, Leyuan looked outside and saw someone standing outside. He walked out, holding the door in his hand, and straightened up a little, lowered his head and said, "Brother, why are you here?"
Wu Rizhao was standing nearby. He turned around and said, "I came to see you to see if you have repented."
Leyuan smiled and said, "I have no intention of repenting yet. If you want to ask me this, you should ask me another day. I am afraid I can't say anything else today."
Wu Rizhao listened to his voice, and for a moment he looked confused. He sighed and turned around and said, "Well, since you are so persistent, it is not good for me to hold you back. Since you know what is going on, it is useless for me to interfere. Come with me. The two over there have not been dealt with yet. I don't think you will ignore them. It is better to listen to me now.
Now that you know it, you won't have to worry about it later."
Leyuan smiled and said, "Brother, you are very thoughtful."
Wu Rizhao glanced at him, then quickly turned his gaze away as if he was burned, and whispered, "Forget it. If I were considerate, would I let you go out? I don't know which person you are talking about, I don't recognize him."
Leyuan said: "Who else can I blame? I only have such a good brother."
Wu Rizhao stopped talking.
He walked all the way to the place he had been to before. When Leyuan walked here before, he just felt nervous, but now it seemed far away, so far that it seemed like it would take a day and a night to walk here. He didn't see anyone when he finished walking. He felt a little sleepy, squinted his eyes, and gradually lowered his head. almost bumped into someone, so he quickly stopped.
However, he was trying hard to ignore the pain in his back, but he lost his balance because of that. He reached out to grab something nearby to control himself, and when his body moved, the wound hurt even more. His face instantly turned twice as pale as before, and his hands trembled for a moment before he could steady himself.
Wu Rizhao turned around slowly, as if he had known about this for a long time, and looked around the park and asked, "Is everything ok?"
Leyuan shook his head and said, "It's okay."
He was indeed relieved in his heart. It was a good thing that he didn't fall.
Wu Rizhao nodded: "Then follow me in."
As he spoke, he turned around, stepped over the threshold, entered the house, and sat down again.
Paradise followed him and slowly entered it. The room suddenly became much darker, darker than outside and darker than before he left.
Leyuan found a place to kneel down. Wu Rizhao said, "No, you can stand up and sit next to me. You have already admitted your mistakes and accepted the punishment. You don't have to kneel with them. I told you before that you can escape the death penalty but you can't escape the living crime. You can't say anything anymore."
Leyuan got up a little bit and sat down at the position Wu Rizhao pointed out. It was next to Wu Rizhao's chair. There was a small tea table between the two chairs. Leyuan sat in the chair. For a moment, he wanted to bend his back and lie on the ground to relieve the pain. His vision went dark.
Leyuan asked: "What did you just ask me?"
Wu Rizhao turned around and said with a smile: "Let me ask you, how do you want to punish them?"
Leyuan said, "I don't know, but I'll leave it to my brother to tell me."
Wu Rizhao asked: "You won't bother me this time? You won't plead for them?"
Le Yuan opened his mouth but said nothing. Wu Rizhao glanced at him and saw that even his lips were pale. Without waiting for his answer, he smiled and said, "If it were up to me, this servant would go to row the boat. Fortunately, I have a man who specializes in ferrying people along the river. Let him go. If he performs well after a year, he can come back. This personal attendant cannot help but cause trouble. He should be beaten.
I think, if you insist on going out to find him, and if you drive him out later, you will have to go out too, so it is better for you to stay here, and let him pay for all your expenses. If he doesn't have money, let him borrow from me. He can't go anywhere before he pays off the debt. Let him do all your things, and if he doesn't do a good job, you can still deduct money from him.
If he can't pay off the debt within a year, he will be a slave for the rest of his life and won't be able to leave."
Leyuan said, "Thank you, brother, for your kindness."
Wu Rizhao rolled his eyes with a half-smile, looked at him and asked, "Do you really think so?"
Leyuan was almost speechless, but without wasting a second, he replied, "Absolutely true!"
Wu Rizhao smiled, but it was hard to tell what he meant. He turned around and said, "That's all for today. Remember to go to class tomorrow. If you keep dragging it on, no matter how wealthy I am, it won't be enough for you to squander."
As he spoke, he stood up and said to Le Yuan, "Remember this, this matter will not just pass. Even if the outside world does not hold you accountable, I will still hold you accountable. If you commit another crime in the future, this matter will definitely be brought up, and you will be guilty of an even greater crime. I will severely sentence you. If you do not repent, don't blame me for being ruthless to you."
Paradise said, “Yes.”
Wu Rizhao snorted, and whispered before leaving: "Have a good rest."
Leyuan didn't know if he had heard it wrong. He stared at Wu Rizhao with confused eyes. Wu Rizhao didn't look back and walked out as if the matter had been dealt with.
Leyuan sat on the chair for a long time. The servant had been taken away. Bing Ajia hesitated, came over carefully, and asked in a low voice: "Master, is there anything you want to do?"
Le Yuan looked at him, stood up and said, "Go back and rest."
As he spoke, his eyes went dark and he fell down.
The sick Ajia was still healthy and was right in front of Leyuan, so he quickly supported the man and found that the man was unconscious. He shook him around and did not see Leyuan wake up. After hesitating for a moment, he took the man back to his residence.
When something touched his back, Leyuan frowned and looked like he was about to wake up. Bing Ajia felt a little bit of anticipation, but also a little bit of unspeakable secret fear. Leyuan didn't wake up, so Bing Ajia breathed a sigh of relief and found himself funny. He laughed at himself, turned Leyuan over, and gently covered the area without wounds with a thin quilt.
Sick Aga withdrew his hand, washed up, and changed into a new set of clothes and pants before he dared to come over. He gently undressed Leyuan's clothes on the back, frowned and looked at the wound, turned around and went out, took a basin of water and a wet towel, wiped the blood from the edge of the wound bit by bit, then washed the towel, went out to wash the basin, and changed to a basin of clean water to wash his hands.
While he was considering what to do next, someone came over, knocked on the door, and handed him something: "This is what the master asked us to send to you. It is a special ointment for external injuries. Don't use it with other things, otherwise it will become poisonous."
Bing Ajia nodded and took the things. The people left. Bing Ajia closed the door and turned back to treat Leyuan's wound. Leyuan suddenly stood up, cried out, and fell back. Bing Ajia asked, "What happened?"
He looked around quickly, but didn't see any mosquitoes or flies around. When he lowered his head to look at Paradise again, it seemed like Paradise was almost asleep.
Sick Aga was a little amused and said nothing, continuing to treat Leyuan's wound.
While treating the wound, Bing Ajia thought about the past. It seemed that the same thing happened in Paradise. When he was unconscious, he would do things that he probably would not do when he was sober. The difference between this time and the last time was probably that last time he felt that he could die there, but this time he still had a life, and he even felt that he would not die for a while. It was really strange.
It is not surprising for a servant to die at the hands of his master, it is not surprising for a master to kill a servant, and it is not surprising for a master to look for a lost servant. However, it is surprising that a master would go to such great lengths for such a small matter, not to mention that it is not just a matter of walking a few steps or saying a few words.
The more Bing Ajia thought about it, the more complicated his emotions became. He shook his head and simply stopped thinking about it. He murmured, "Let's talk about it tomorrow. Just think of me as having fainted today."
He didn't know how to explain it, and if no one asked, he would just not explain it.
At night, Leyuan woke up, lay on the bed with his eyes open, and the wound on his back was pressed against the bed. A smell of blood came out, and Sick Aga was suddenly awakened. He was so scared that he thought someone was dead outside. He looked around, but didn't see anyone else. He went to the door and saw no one outside. He always suspected that someone died nearby while passing by, and he went to the bushes to look, but there was no one outside.
He looked around but couldn't find anything. Sick Ajia twitched his nose, suddenly startled, turned around, ran into the room, turned on the light, and suddenly saw Leyuan lying on the bed. He was stunned and murmured, "What are you doing?"
As he spoke, he put down the candlestick in his hand and placed it on the table. He wiped his hands, walked over to Leyuan and asked, "Are you feeling unwell? How about I go see a doctor? Or do you need help?"
Although it is said that there will be no filial son by the bed of a long-term patient, it is not an illness, nor is it a long time. Bing Ajia came here to collect money and do things. Secondly, he was saved by Leyuan once, and he was still grateful in his heart. He wished that he could be punished for Leyuan and the matter would be over. However, he had no choice. His status was not enough and others looked down on him. He was the one who started the matter. If he was punished, it would definitely be much heavier than this. He was afraid that he would die.
After death, there is nothing left. No matter whether it is grudges, love or hatred, or justice, they are of no use to him and can be said to be irrelevant. Just as Wu Rizhao had requested before, Bing Ajia now has nothing except paradise.
He also couldn't help but look forward to Paradise.
Leyuan didn't want to pay attention to him. She didn't even look at him. She just stood there in a daze, looking like she had a fever.
Thinking of the fever, Bing Ajia was startled and then he remembered to stretch out his hand to test the temperature of Leyuan's forehead. It felt very hot. He hurriedly found a wet towel to wipe his hands, and then tried it again. This time it still felt very hot. He squeezed out a new towel, wiped Leyuan's face, and whispered: "Good ancestor, please turn over. If you keep pressing like this, the wound will probably fester and grow worms!"
Leyuan didn't say anything or look at him. Bing Ajia hesitated and whispered, "I'm sorry."
He turned the paradise over, gently covered it with a blanket, and whispered, "Then I'll go out to look for someone. I don't know if this is normal. I'll be back soon."
Paradise ignored him.
He went out by himself.
Leyuan rolled his eyes and saw a dark shadow clinging to the wall, squeezed like a cookie.
The shadow said, "You are still laughing at me! Look at what you are like now, so miserable. It's not my fault. Tell me, how did we end up like this? People who don't know would think it's so miserable. But, we are obviously living a good life! We have money, people, knowledge, time, such a big house and so many people to serve us.
Hey, how did you end up like this? Have you reflected on yourself? Have you figured out what's going on with you? "
Le Yuan sneered: "Why don't I know?"
He then stopped talking.
The shadow circled around him: "I'm not injured. If you don't say anything, we can do this all night. I'm not tired anyway. What are you afraid of? Why don't you say anything? Can't you speak? But you're not mute! You're not burned. You don't have a swollen throat."
It came to the front of the paradise and asked, "Isn't it?"
Leyuan smiled and said, "That's right, I understand."
The shadow asked: "Can we play together?"
Paradise squinted in confusion and asked, "What can we play now?"
He felt a little sleepy and planned to go back to sleep soon.
The shadow said, "You can play anything you want. Let's roll the dice!"
Paradise asked: "What dice?"
He paused, then reacted: "Oh, rolling the dice, OK, it's so late, how do we play?"
The shadow said, "Let's predict the luck! If you throw a one, it means disaster is coming. If you throw a six, it means the road ahead will be long and difficult."
Leyuan frowned: "Can't you just hope that I get better? What disaster is coming? What long and difficult road ahead? What are you asking?"
The shadow laughed and said, "Don't you know? What I'm asking is, when will we encounter something we don't want to accept, and when will we be unable to endure it and collapse?"
Leyuan said, "Okay, throw one to me now."
The shadow said, "Why don't you ask something?"
Leyuan asked weakly, "What do you want to ask?"
The shadow said, "Oh, what else can you ask? Ask if I have the ability to control the points, if I can solve the problem."
Leyuan laughed and said, "I haven't even thought about solving the problem. If you have the ability to control the points, then do it. If not, you don't have to tell me. It's OK if you tell me. Isn't it all up to you?"
The shadow said, "That's right. I'll start then."
It paused. "I always feel like there's something left unfinished. What is it?"
The black shadow muttered to himself, but he didn't know what it was exactly, so he didn't ask again. Instead, he produced a black dice and threw it out under the gaze of Leyuan. The dice rolled in front of his eyes and stopped after a while. Leyuan didn't see the number on the top, but according to what he saw, he calculated that the black shadow saw a dot.
Le Yuan laughed and said, "Oh, we are in big trouble."
The shadow said, "Don't be happy. This is not a good thing. If it's not accurate, that's fine. It's just for fun. If it's accurate, you'll regret it later. But it doesn't matter. I threw it this time, not you. It's my business to throw it away, and it's your business to throw it away. I won't hold you responsible. We're not from the same place, so we can't be held responsible."
Leyuan said: "We are not connected, but we are related after all. We can't say we have nothing to do with each other."
The shadow smiled and said, "Yes, yes."
It asked, "Do you want to throw one and see?"
Paradise grumbled, "Hey, didn't you just say that? If I come, it's mine. If I accidentally make a bad situation, I can play with it now, but I will feel unhappy when I think about it later, and it will be too late to regret it. Didn't you say that? I dare not. If I mess it up, I might have to pay you back."
The shadow said, "That's not necessary. What's yours is mine, and what's mine is yours. What's the difference between us? No need to buy new ones. I have other things to use. At worst, I can use a turtle shell instead. If that doesn't work, I still have poker cards, tarot cards, crystal balls, pearl necklaces, mineral bracelets, spiritual pendants..."
It nodded and glanced, as if looking in its pocket, although the park was not very visible, and smiled, "They are all good things."
The shadow nodded: "Of course it's good stuff. If it's not good stuff, I don't want it either."
Before they finished speaking, they all started laughing. They had collected quite a lot of junk.
Leyuan said, "Let me see, you have something else? How about a crystal ball? So what are you going to do with the crystal ball? I mean, what do you think we should do with the crystal ball now that we have it?"
The shadow said, "If I were here, I would smash it to pieces and see how much it would break into and what shape it would be in. I think this method is good. Throwing one away after another is very generous and fits our current status."
Leyuan said: "I don't know where the sick Ajia has gone. If he finds me some medicine, should I drink it or not?"
The shadow said, "Maybe it's edible. You have to chew it and then swallow it. It's like a rotten grass leaf. No matter how green it was before, after it's been processed, you can clearly see a reflective black color coming out from the inside, as if it was dug out from the mud.
So disgusting.
There is a foul smell that makes people want to vomit. Even if they don't vomit, a foul odor will linger around their whole body from the inside out. The extreme fragrance is the stench. After the stench is diluted, it may also be regarded as fragrance. However, most people will not do that.
I really don’t know what good those rubbish are. How many people chase after them and want them, and yet they still tell lies to disgust others.”
Leyuan narrowed his eyes and said, "Great, you're causing trouble for me again."
The shadow laughed and said, "You think there is any difference between what you say and what I say? In fact, in the hearts, mouths and hands of some people with rotten eyes, we are all rotten people who can't be rotten anymore. Do you think there is any room for turning back? Bullshit! When they pointed at my nose and scolded me, how could I not know that they were good people? When they were crazy about us, why didn't you mention it?"
Le Yuan murmured, "That's right."
The shadow asked: "Then will you still play with me?"
Leyuan glanced at him and laughed, "You're talking as if I can still go out and jump around if I don't play with you."
The shadow clapped his hands and said, "Things have come to this. You can't get up, and you can't go out. You might as well come and play with me. We can play together for a lifetime. It's great. You don't need to consider anything. Look, you have money now, people, and things. You live a good life. Is there anything you need to consider? Nothing.
As long as you live here for the rest of your life, you will be very, very happy all your life.
What's wrong with that? Why not? What would you not want?"
Le Yuan squinted his eyes and looked at it, then suddenly smiled and said, "You don't know, and I don't know either, but I definitely saw a real, touchable existence. It is a part of me, and you are also a part of me, but you are also different. You cannot be touched by others, but even others can touch it and see it. I want to be with it."
That feels more real, and you look a little too fake, and I can’t help it.”
The shadow snorted and said angrily, "You are annoying! If you are like this, I will not play with you anymore."
Le Yuan laughed and said, "You make it sound like you can leave me and go somewhere. Where can you go? I am just here. It is big, beautiful and relaxing here, but it is not my home. Some people live here and some people like it here, but they are different from me. They have lived here originally, but I don't. I can't stay in someone else's nest all my life."
Do you want to be a baby chewing on a pacifier for your whole life? How disgusting. If you want to hear others call you baby or something, you can go to a farther place. I think there should be many people who will not care about anything and call you baby everywhere. Anyway, such things have nothing to do with me, and I don’t want to have anything to do with them. What’s wrong with that?
You are right, it's good here, and life now is also good, but life is just like you, a little fake, even the beauty is fake. Even if there is some pain in this beauty, that's it. I am not dead, I am not missing any limbs, I am not ostracized everywhere, I am not locked up and unable to walk, and my life is not so difficult and hard that I cannot survive without any money.
Very good, everything is good, so good that I am a little resentful, can't they transform me as well? Let me become the person who was originally here, I am not much different from them, they are happy, I am happy, they live, I live, they will die, I will die, how wonderful, but it's a pity that it's not. In fact, everywhere is the same, everything is the same, I don't have much happiness, but I have a lot of pain.
If my happiness is a groove like a hair, my pain is a one-to-one real-life model of the ocean. They are totally unequal. I want to blame others, but I find that it doesn't matter who I blame, it will all fall on my head in the end. I might as well blame myself from the beginning, why I am still alive today. When I think of those hateful people who are not dead, I am so angry that I want to light a fire.
Why should I die when those rubbish didn't? I don't agree. But what if they all died? No. Those annoying people are everywhere. I really have no choice but to be like this. I don't deny that there are good people in the world. Of course there are. Otherwise, everyone in the world should be like me. But why are they not like me?
Because there are more differences between them and me than just these.”
Leyuan sighed and felt a little tired.
The shadow smiled and said, "Okay. Okay. My great scholar, you are amazing. You know a lot. I am being suppressed by you. Okay?"
Leyuan smiled and said, "Hey, are you coaxing the child?"
The shadow smiled and said, "I don't like to tell other people these things. They might think I'm weird or I'm looking for trouble. But I hate them. I hate all of them. I'm afraid that even if I say the same thing, it will be completely different for you and for them. That's not good. It's so disgusting. A good thing can turn into a bad thing because of them.
It would be better if we had nothing to do with them at all."
Paradise said: "Yes, it is very good. When there is no one, the world is the purest and most beautiful."
The shadow said, "Where were we just now? Let's continue rolling the dice!"
Paradise said, “Okay.”
The shadow gave the dice to Le Yuan, who rolled it and got a six. The shadow clapped his hands, a sound only Le Yuan could hear, and said with a smile, "Great, it's the last one. The danger won't come today or tomorrow, but will come after a long, long time. As expected, we are different. This is really great."
Paradise said, "One more, try something different."
The shadow said, "Other? Just change to a new question and it will be something else!"
It thought for a moment and said, "Why not ask about our future fortunes?"
Paradise asked: "Is this question very different from the previous one?"
The shadow said, "Of course!"
It looked strangely proud: "The last question asked about disasters, and this one asks about luck. These are two completely opposite directions."
Paradise was skeptical: "Oh, then what should we do?"
The shadow said, "This is so simple."
It chuckled and said, "Six o'clock is the best luck, one o'clock is the worst."
The shadow said, it threw the dice once and got one point. It didn't believe it, so it threw the dice again and got another point. It let out a sound of "hmm", and picked up the dice in front of it in a very strange way. It looked left and right, and held it up to the light, as if it was checking if there was anything inside that could control the points. It didn't notice anything unusual, so it smiled and said, "I'm afraid it's just bad luck."
The shadow snorted: "I don't believe it! I want to do it again!"
Leyuan smiled and said, "I'm afraid it's not just one more time, but many times."
The shadow snorted, "Even if it happens many times, so what? You and I both have time. If we don't use it to kill, what should we do? We should just play and have fun. The happier we are, the better! This is what we should do.
I don't know if you still remember that cream needs to be whipped. When whipping, air is added into it to make the cream fluffy and expand, increasing the air texture and making it taste better. Cream is an extract of milk, and it's not hard to find, but it's a little rare around here and the price is expensive. It's nothing special. If you want to eat it, just ask my brother for it."
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