readsfreenovel Chapter 165 Confrontation
Chapter 165 Confrontation
Fang Jinning's gaze darkened slightly, revealing a sharp edge. He didn't seem like a young man, but rather like a shrewd and calculating official.
"what do you want?"
Chen An slowly sat down half a meter away from Fang's father: "Since you think I have ulterior motives, why did you accept my things?"
"You've followed me silently for so long, you must have some cultivation, and quite a bit at that. If you really want to do something, what can I do about it?"
Fang Jinning pursed her thin lips, her words filled with helplessness, but showing no sign of compromise.
Chen An nodded, leaned back against the wall, and looked at the reddened night sky in the distance, which resembled autumn maple leaves, both withered and beautiful.
"That's all, that's all, please pay attention to me."
His thoughts were interrupted by Shuo Ye's tearful voice. He clenched his fists and wiped away the tears that kept falling with each hand, murmuring softly with a wronged expression.
"You mean, my formation has malfunctioned?" Chen An sat up, grabbed Shuo Ye's shoulders with both hands, and asked with a frown.
Shuoye nodded, stopped crying, and kept sobbing.
She's back. Sure enough, during the time Qingyue was missing, she must have been preparing a counterattack.
If that woman is indeed Shuoyue, Shuoye's elder brother, then her power has reached a point where it cannot be easily eradicated.
Chen An patted Shuo Ye's head and promised, "I'll think of a way."
He then glanced at Fang Jinning and limped out of the temple.
With tears in her eyes, Shuo Ye held Chen An's hand, glanced back at Fang Jinning, and nodded affirmatively.
"Jinning, don't go." Fang's father held Fang Jinning's hand and shook his head vigorously, his tone seemingly pleading.
Fang Jinning gazed at the temple gate, most of its red paint peeling off, her eyes growing increasingly resolute and clear.
He turned his head and laboriously pulled his hand out, took two steps back, and knelt down on both knees.
That resolute figure grew smaller and smaller in Fang's father's eyes, slowly merging with Fang Jinning, who was one year old and still crawling on the ground.
At that time, he was still a baby who needed to be taken care of.
Time flies, and life is unpredictable.
Mr. Fang bit his lower lip and turned his head away.
This was the last thing he could do for his child.
Fang Jinning didn't dare to look up.
If Chen An is really that Chen An, even if he doesn't go, he will hardly survive.
After everyone left, Fang's father opened his eyes blankly. The empty space still held Fang Jinning's scent. He felt as if he had been submerged in a water tank, struggling to breathe, his eyes wide open, filled with tears.
The mad Taoist priest in the temple rushed out with a wooden sword, chanting: "Father bids farewell to son, father bids farewell to son, son leaves without regret, father, do not harbor hatred."
Tears streamed down Fang's father's face, dripping onto his patched chest. He slowly opened his eyes, picked up the roast chicken beside his leg, and stuffed it into his mouth in large bites.
Despite it being the first taste of meat I'd ever had in ages, tears welled up in my eyes as I ate the golden-brown roast chicken.
Chen An led Shuo Ye by the hand and walked slowly, with Fang Jin Ning following quietly behind, their footsteps very light.
The moonlight was blocked by clouds, like a red veil shrouding the white candlelight, turning into sharp thorns that pierced Fang Jinning's heart.
He thought of the despair in his mother's eyes after she was brutally murdered, and the tenderness she showed for her child.
Thinking of his father, dragging his frail body, yet unwilling to bear his suffering, and his resolute desire to drive him away.
If he dies, at the hands of a witch, how long can my father live?
Maintaining her pace, Fang Jinning bent down, took out the dagger from her leg, and hid it in her sleeve.
Chen An stopped, slowly turned around, glanced at Fang Jinning, and leaned down to Shuo Ye, saying, "We found out, the person has already left."
Shuoye looked up, tears welling up in her eyes again: "It's okay, maybe I just made a mistake again."
As usual, Chen An patted his head, stood up, and asked Fang Jinning, "What do you know about them?"
Fang Jinning pushed the dagger handle with her fingers, pushing it further in, and replied calmly, "Are you talking about the monster that killed my mother and the families of those people in the dilapidated temple?"
"Believe it or not, they are the city lord's men."
It was almost exactly as Chen An had guessed.
"Besides that, where are they? What else do you know?"
"Will you join them or help us get revenge?" Fang Jinning's expression was indifferent, her pale lips slightly clenched. "After we get our revenge, what will you do? Rule this place?"
Chen An replied, "Leave."
……
"Leave?" Fang Jinning gave a slightly mocking smile, but then nodded seriously.
Whether he was lying or not doesn't matter; at least the revenge for the massacre of his family can be taken.
"follow me."
To everyone's surprise, the child actually knew where the thugs were hiding.
Following the alley, which is less than a meter wide, and turning more than a dozen corners, a vacant lot of about ten square meters appeared in front of me.
There was a cellar covered with wooden planks in the open space, with a small opening and a large interior.
Fang Jinning glanced at Chen An and jumped down. Immediately afterward, Chen An and Shuo Ye also jumped down.
The cellar was used for storage by hundreds of households in the vicinity, and there were piles of goods of all sizes everywhere.
Fang Jinning drove westward, stopping at the end of the road. She opened a potato sack that was half her height, pointed to a triangular indentation, and turned to say, "They always leave from here after each operation."
He added, "I don't have the key."
"Thanks, you can go now." Chen An tossed a pill into Fang Jinning's hand. "I am the witch you mentioned, that's true. As for whether I'm really that bad, you can re-evaluate."
Fang Jinning's hand holding the pill tightened involuntarily, a hint of hesitation flickering in her eyes, but she ultimately remained silent.
Shuo Ye transformed into beast form, jumped into Chen An's arms, rubbed his head against Chen An's hand that was resting on his head, and disappeared with Chen An.
Fang Jinning turned and left, moving much faster than when she came.
Upon arriving at the dilapidated temple, Fang's father sat there with a somber expression, while many people around him were already itching to make a move.
Those yearning eyes seemed to be hoping that Fang Jinning would never return and that Fang's father would pass away.
They wanted to divide up the wealth under Fang's father's legs.
He knocked on the temple door, and a few more pieces of paint peeled off and fell in front of him.
Amidst the disappointed or resentful gazes of the crowd, Fang Jinning stepped on the red paint, shattering it, and walked to her father.
An unprecedented joy shone through his eyes, which were like withered trees in autumn.
Fang Jinning had only seen that look in her eyes a few times when her mother was still alive.
He was somewhat relieved that he hadn't said, "Take me with you, I want to take revenge myself."
He took the valuables from under his father's legs, tied them to his belt, and then took his father's arm and carried him on his back.
The cotton quilt under Fang's father had many holes and faded edges with many wrinkles. Compared to the others, it was the newest and cleanest quilt in the temple.
Fang Jinning looked around, left the tattered quilt behind, and walked out, exiting the city gate of Kang Le City and stepping into the boundless wilderness.
After Chen An cast an invisibility spell, he and Shuo Ye crouched down in place.
For five days, apart from the villagers who went down into the cellar to get vegetables, there was no one else around.
Many of the spiritual herbs in the storage ring became Shuo Ye's snacks.
It wasn't until Shuoye swallowed a Fire Element Fruit and coughed from choking that there was a disturbance at the end of the cellar.