Chapter 1231
When Huo Siji woke up again, it was already the next morning.
In the early morning in the mountains, after everything had returned to calm, when the brilliant sunlight shone into the forest, the clear chirping of birds rang out again, singing happily, and the unknown wild flowers emitted an enticing fragrance in the morning dew, the picture was as if the catastrophe yesterday was all an illusion.
Huo Siji was also in a bit of a trance.
He opened his eyes and looked at the beams still built of wood above his head, and for a long time, he did not slow down.
“You’re finally awake?”
Until, there were footsteps coming in.
Upon seeing him awake, a thick man’s voice rang out, and immediately, the man came sprinting to his bed.
Huo Sijiu’s eyes turned sideways, and only then did he see a familiar face.
“…… Shen Yu?”
“Hm.”
Shenyu nodded and reached out, then helped him up from the bed.
It was still sore all over his body.
The moment he sat up, Huo Sijiu still felt the uncomfortable pain in his body, especially in his chest, as if there was a huge scar that had never healed.
He closed his eyes and his lips turned slightly white.
Seeing this, Shen Yu hurriedly brought another bowl of warm water and made him drink it.
The treatment of this man last night had actually taken a long time to toss and turn before he could be smoothed out, because, all this time, he had been subjected to inhuman torture in the mental hospital.
No matter how much Chen Jinghe was covering for him.
However, there were some surfaces that still had to be made, and those injections and medications, which could not be avoided, still had to be administered.
So, before he came out, his physique was already very poor, and with the blow yesterday, it made him even more so.
Shen Yu watched as he looked a little more relaxed after drinking the water, and was relieved.
“Sir, you don’t have to worry, I have arranged for people to find them, they are all elites from the special forces.
There is also Zhu Chengwen’s place, a wanted notice has also been issued, the whole country is now hunting for this person, I believe it won’t take long to find him out.”
He rea*sured him.
Huo Sijiu then listened, for a long time, before seeing him nod his head.
“Got it, where are the others? Are they all okay?”
“…… Hmm?”
Shen Yu faintly froze, probably not expecting that he would care about the others when he was well awake?
Who were the others?
Their grandfather, God Zong Yu?
The corners of God Yu’s mouth raised a smile, “All are fine, and those military – officers who were previously delegated from the military department, have all been recalled, as well as, grandfather’s case, which is being reopened.”
“New evidence?”
He did ask immediately.
Shen Yu nodded: “While we were doing battle with Lan Yuan, those military – officers who were delegated, organized themselves to go to that place where the accident happened back then, then after their in-depth investigation, they actually found the opposing general who fought that battle with grandpa back then, he said very clearly that back then, there was indeed an agreement with grandpa, but the purpose of both sides, was to end that battle – war earlier and reduce casualties on both sides.”
“And that vanguard back then, it wasn’t even Grandpa who he killed and silenced, it was a sudden avalanche that made them die.”
Shen Yu elaborated on all this.
It was indeed a very unexpected surprise.
No one had expected that just when their God Family brothers were fighting in blood for this country despite the danger to their lives, those old men who had followed their God Family leaders in the army for many years.
They were also doing their best to find evidence to clear the name of their God Family.
Such sentiment, if they didn’t truly believe in their God Family and treat God Zong Yu as the only military god in their hearts, how would they have made it this far?
Huo Sijiu also revealed a look of satisfaction.
The two of them sat for a few more moments, until a flash of grey monk’s clothing floated up outside the meditation room, and only then did Shen Yu stand up.
“I’ll go out first then, there’s still your medicine decocting over there in the pharmacy, I’ll go over and check.”
“Hm.”
Huo Sijiu nodded his head.
Not long after Shen Yu left, an old monk wearing a Buddhist bead around his neck and also still wearing that grey monk’s clothes, walked in carrying a pot of tea that was still steaming hot.
“Master is awake? Would you like some tea? This is high mountain tea picked just a year ago.”
This old monk was surprisingly the same as before, and after he came to Huo Siji with that pot of tea, he smiled and asked as usual.
Huo Siji: “……”
For a moment, a fire sprang up in his chest.
He really couldn’t understand how a person could be heartless to this extent? For decades, had he really never wondered how those who thought he was dead had survived?
Huo Sijiu’s fingers squeezed until they creaked.
But in the end, he chose to put the fire down and lifted the covers off himself instead.
A few minutes later, on the same familiar tea table, he was sitting cross-legged on a futon, looking at the old monk sitting in the same position, carrying the small teapot and pouring him a cup of fragrant tea.
“Drink it, this tea is good for your health.”
The old monk pointed.
Hearing this, Huo Sijiu’s eyes glanced at him coldly for a moment, picked up the cup of tea and poured a mouthful down his own throat.
Chapter 1232
The old monk lifted the teapot again ……
“Aren’t you going to explain that to me?”
“……”
With that, the old monk’s lifted arm paused in mid-air for a moment before the clear-colored liquid poured out of the tiny teapot in his hand again.
“What do you want to hear?”
“All of it!”
Huo Siji held back, one word grinding out from between his teeth.
It couldn’t be blamed on him, when he had gotten that medal and he had learned that he was still alive, he had indeed been happy, he had held that medal and hadn’t put it down all night.
But what happened after the joy?
He saw that he was actually in collusion with the old thing, ten medals, smuggling goods, developing a huge power in the shadows and manipulating the White House for decades.
Every single one of them, every single one of them, could not be separated from his shadow.
Why is this so?
Isn’t it good to be a hero who sacrifices his life for his country?
Why did it make him happy to have to be a stinker in the gutter, to be in cahoots with a b*****d?
There was almost no way for Huo Siji to enlighten himself, for the only time in his life.
The old monk looked at his expression, and finally, there he sighed.
“Well, I’ll tell you all about it, then, and when should I start? Probably, from the day I woke up again after I thought I was dead.
”
The old monk was caught up in his memories.
And this memory was the first time in these thirty years that he had mentioned it to another person besides Lan Yuan.
“I woke up and saw Lan Yuan, who hadn’t had his legs amputated at that time, standing by my bedside with a man who was very happy to see me awake and said that he was closer to his emperor’s great work.
”
“The great work of the emperor?”
Huo Siji asked with an iron face.
The old monk nodded, “Yes, and later I realised that, apart from me, he had many such people in his hands who had been picked up like me, or rather, the fish he had caught.
”
Suddenly, he had such a metaphor.
The cup of tea that Huo Siji was holding did not move as he stared at him, as if he had smelled a hint of an abnormal message.
A fish?
He actually compared himself to a fish?
Then he’s dead ……?
“No, I was an accident, the God family at that time he still didn’t dare to move because your grandfather God Zong Yu was at the time when he was holding a lot of power, moreover, I would also be quite famous in the military department at that time, he didn’t have that guts to make a move on me yet, he let Pei Shao save me by pure chance.
”
“Pei Shao?”
Huo Sijiu flashed a hint of shock again.
Because, if he remembered correctly, this man Pei Shao, he had heard Shen Zong Yu mention it before, when Pei Qingyun was escaping, he had said that it was a chivalrous man, one of the few people he admired.
But now, he said he was the one who saved him?
“Yes, it’s Pei Shao from Xixiang, besides their martial arts, their Pei family also has a remarkable medical skill, Lan Yuan’s legs, he was the one who later amputated them and then fitted them with prosthetic limbs, turning them back to normal.
”
“……”
Already did not know what to say.
Because, he remembered that fierce woman, the weapon in her hand was indeed a scalpel.
And this scalpel, even Lengxu had lost in his hands.
“Then according to you, he picked you up as an accident, and the rest, he made this Pei Shao save a lot of people and then became his fish?”
“To be precise, he single-handedly planned to make others into fish, then he caught him, for example, that Cheng Lou, he was originally the equal of your grandfather back then, but then, he designed him to save him from a court-martial after he was defeated when he retreated from the enemy in the south, then he became his fish.
”
The old monk explained in detail what this “fish” meant.
This was indeed the case, because the arsenal, the ten medals, it was just a few people with pencils, how would they know about that?
Therefore, he needs the power of the military, and through this kind of fishing, to make those who have a certain status of the military become his pawns, is a very good choice.
Huo Siji finally understood, and at once, the hand he was squeezing the cup with another creak.
The same twins, so that the older brother could use his deep scheming to bring light to those in the darkness at the time, while the younger brother, would only use it to satisfy his own selfish desires?
Huo Siji did not speak for a long time.
Until, when the tea in the teapot was cold and a young monk brought boiling water over, this old monk opened this teapot and added more water to it.
Only then did he look at the curling mist of water rising again and ask, “What about you? If you were not even his target, why did you become his fish in the end?”
“……”
The old monk laughed.
The moment he lowered his head and picked up the teapot, he could ignore the pain still vaguely coming from his right chest.
Why did it end up being his fish?
It was actually quite simple, although he was not his target to begin with, but a hunter, if in his net, he suddenly found a prey of higher value.
How could he possibly let it go?
You know, at that time, his fame was not in the least bit smaller than this little b*****d in front of him.