"I wasn't plotting anything bad, I... I just wanted to atone for my sins with my death."
"What does it mean to apologize? If you die, you'll be done with it all, but what contribution will that make?"
"I..." Xia Gui was speechless after being asked by Jiang Gui.
"Alright, don't think about dying. If you want to atone for your sins, spend the rest of your life as a volunteer. Anyway, making a contribution to the Dragon Kingdom is more worthwhile than dying for nothing now."
Xia Gui pursed her lips, but remained kneeling on the ground, refusing to get up.
Jiang Gui had no choice but to turn to Han Fei and his grandson Han Chengsi for help.
Han Fei smiled faintly: "Death is a way for cowards to escape."
Han Chengsi nodded: "Grandpa is right."
Xia Gui lowered her head deeply in shame.
Han Chengsi stepped forward, patted Xia Gui on the shoulder, and continued to brainwash her: "Your parents died searching for you. They loved you so much that they couldn't bear to let you go down to join them."
"Fourth Young Master, what should I do..." Xia Gui raised his head, his eyes filled with sorrow and pain. He pounded his chest forcefully: "I am a sinner, you don't know... my hands are covered in blood!"
He looked down at his hands and said in a hoarse voice, "I was able to become the leader of the ninjas because I completed many missions assigned by my superiors, including... the mission to kill the special forces of the Dragon Kingdom. I killed them... I deserve to die, I deserve to die—" He bent down and slammed his forehead against the ground.
Jiang Gui wanted to say something, but his mouth felt bitter, and he didn't know how to offer any advice. At this moment, he was perfectly clear that he was an unofficial member of the ninja organization. He was physically useless, but he was good at making money, so he was assigned to earn money and gather intelligence in places like KTVs, making him an intelligence operative.
Han Chengsi looked at Han Fei, hesitated, and asked, "How should I persuade him?"
"Persuade me however you wish."
"I'm afraid... I might say something outrageous." Han Chengsi pushed up his glasses without lenses. "After all, I'm cunning."
Another layer of meaning is to tell Han Fei that his system is a cunning system with no conscience, and when it comes to speaking, it doesn't care about anything else but its purpose.
Han Fei nodded: "Do whatever you want."
With his grandfather's permission, Han Chengsi walked up to Xia Gui and whispered in his ear, "Isn't it the Dragon Kingdom's fault for not protecting you?"
Xia Gui froze, staring blankly at Han Chengsi, her voice hoarse: "Fourth Young Master, you... you can't say that..."
Han Chengsi nodded: "I know, that's why I whispered it in your ear, so that only you and I know it."
Jiang Gui, his ears perked up, pursed his lips. The Fourth Young Master's voice wasn't quiet; he'd heard it. He glanced cautiously at the composed Han Fei beside him, thinking: Master must have heard it too, right? Master actually…didn't stop him.
Han Chengsi lowered her voice and whispered a few more words, which could be described as... revealing many unpleasant past events.
At the end, he added, "You should be glad you're a man."
Xia Gui fell silent.
Jiang Gui looked on incredulously. What? Sharing wives in the mountains? Giving birth in a cowshed? Being locked in a cave dwelling without clothes? This is terrifying!
Jiang Gui sighed from the bottom of his heart: "Thank goodness, I'm a man."
Han Fei lowered his eyes.
Being born into this world is always more difficult for women than for men. If they are born into good times, that's fine, but if they are born into chaotic times... how unfortunate!
He waved to Han Chengsi: "Xiao Si, let's go back."
"Good!" Han Chengsi patted Xia Gui on the shoulder: "Live well. If you want to atone for your sins, maybe you can do something for those poor people. They are not as lucky as you to have learned a skill. You can't let that skill go to waste."
"Thank you, Fourth Young Master. I think... I've found a reason to live and a goal for the future."
As Han Fei and Han Chengsi walked further and further away, Jiang Gui stepped forward and asked, "What are your goals for the future?"
“Old Jiang, it’s a blessing that we are healthy and alive. I want to help those who have been abducted. Some of them have had their hands and feet broken and are begging, while others are still in the clutches of evil. Fourth Young Master is right. I can’t waste my skills. I want to use them to rescue those people and stop those evil people from causing any more tragedies.”
"I'll help you too. I hate human traffickers. I'm going to find them all and make sure there are no more human traffickers in China!"
"Good brother, let's do it together!"
“Call on the others. They are actually in just as much pain and guilt as you. Perhaps this is a relief for them. Catching a kidnapper, stopping a human trafficking case, and rescuing a poor person is also a kind of redemption for us.”
"Jiang Gui, you're right! I'll gather everyone. We're going to go from being ninjas to becoming the nightmare of kidnappers!"
...
On the way back, Han Chengsi looked up at her grandfather and asked in confusion, "Grandpa, why didn't you stop me from saying those things?"
"It's true, so why can't we say it?"
"But... that's not a very good thing to say."
"You feel it's bad to criticize simply because you are in the present. But if you, as a modern person, were to criticize the policies of an emperor from a certain dynasty in history, would you think it's bad?"
"This... I can't explain it."
"Live in the moment, and it's good to be a little oblivious." Han Fei shook his head with a smile: "Let's go, Xiao Si, what do you want to eat? On the way back, we'll go to the market to buy some vegetables."
"I want to eat Kung Pao Chicken."
"OK."
"Grandpa, am I considered to be speaking without thinking now?"
"Huh? You're a minor, so you can be considered one."
“Grandpa, I think every dynasty should have different voices. We can’t bury all the voices, otherwise we can’t make progress.”
"Um."
"I want to be a person who tells the truth."
"Didn't you want to be a prosecutor?"
Is there a conflict between being a prosecutor and telling the truth?
Han Fei laughed and said, "I don't know about that, since I've never been a prosecutor."
"So what kind of people can tell the truth? Journalists?"
Han Fei shook his head.
"Can't journalists tell the truth?"
What you think is the truth may not be the truth at all.
"It's too profound, I don't quite understand it."
"You're still young. Maybe you'll understand later."
The truth can only be spoken by people of the future; how can we discern truth from falsehood in the present?
...
Xiao Rizi means he's been discharged from the hospital. He had a minor stroke, and it's fortunate that he can still move around freely. The doctor advised him to take care of his health, as overexertion or intense emotional fluctuations could lead to a second stroke, which could result in paralysis.
He didn't take the doctor's words to heart, and immediately sent people to arrest Shan Xia after being discharged from the hospital!
He arrived at the ninja headquarters, where a small number of people had not yet left.
"Everyone else has left?"
"Weren't they out on a mission?" the leader of this small group asked.
"Go on a mission? Foolish!"
The person, feeling too lazy to waste words with him, turned and left angrily.
He had seen the list. The small group that remained were all native-born people with the blood of the locals, while those with the blood of the Dragon Kingdom were all gone. They had run away completely!
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