Xuanxia

Chapter 48 Past Events

At some point, the two of them sat down in an empty corner of the street.

Tang Jiao held her cheek with her hand and stared at Fu Qingzhou's lips that were touching each other.

She always heard some words that she couldn't quite understand, such as "school", "classmate", "beer" and so on, but she could still understand the general meaning.

And Fu Qingzhou...had already immersed himself in his own narration.

In his previous life, he was born into a well-off family, but he had only seen his grandparents and never his parents. It is said that they had a quarrel and fight when he was very young, and they were bleeding, and eventually left one after another and never appeared again.

His grandparents didn't like him that much either. Although he lived in a big house and went to a good school, whenever he returned home, all that was waiting for him was indifference, ridicule and complaints.

"It's hard for me to grow up to be a good boy in that kind of environment."

Fu Qingzhou smiled faintly, as if he was telling someone else's story: "I quickly became a school bully. I had to do whatever the teachers told me not to do. I smoked, drank, fought, and robbed money."

"Finally one day, I was targeted by an old criminal... um... old police chief who was in his fifties."

He raised his head and looked at the thin clouds in the sky, lost in thought: "He is very fat, but he still runs very fast. I can't do anything about it."

"He took me back to the police station. He wanted to call my parents, but he soon found that he couldn't find them... When he called my grandfather, the way he looked at me changed."

Tang Jiao didn't understand what "police office" and "telephone" meant and was completely confused.

Fu Qingzhou smiled happily: "He put down the phone, turned around and looked at me, and said... that my grandfather was very happy when he heard that I was arrested, and asked him to send me to prison immediately, and said that was where I should go."

Although Tang Jiao didn't quite understand the whole thing, she roughly understood this part and asked worriedly, "What did you do next, big brother?"

"I told that fat guy..." Fu Qingzhou said softly, "It's good to go in. I'll have food and drink. I'll also be a person who has been to the police station. It's very prestigious."

"Then he slapped me in the face and said, 'You know nothing, come have dinner with me.'"

He touched his face gently, his eyes actually somewhat moved: "That was the first time an elder hit me. My grandparents were too lazy to even hit me."

"I had dinner with him. It took a long time. He told me a lot. He said he had a son when he was almost 40 years old, but his son was in poor health and died a few years ago. If he had lived to that age, he would have been about the same age as me."

"He said he could see I was smart and clever, and he said I wasn't a bad person, I just wanted some attention."

"He said that he would often come to school to keep an eye on me, asking me to study hard and not commit crimes again..."

Fu Qingzhou said softly, "When I returned home that day, I found that the lock had been changed and I couldn't get in. After knocking on the door, my grandfather was very disappointed to find that I was not in police station. He called the fat man and asked him why he didn't lock me up..."

"Then he came and took me back to his house."

"After that, I started eating and sleeping at his house, and I called him godfather."

Fu Qingzhou lowered his head and said, "Actually, godfather is right. I just want someone to pay attention to me. I was very happy during those years. He would praise me for my good grades and sports skills. He would also slap me in the face for smoking secretly. I felt like I really had a father."

"When I was older, he said that since I was in such good health and had such keen observation skills, I could apply to the police academy...but I refused."

He rubbed his eyes and said, "At that time, I felt that being a police officer like him... Being a detective was not good. It was tiring and hard. I had to work overtime every night. I had to run around for other people's trivial matters every day, and I couldn't get any good results."

"So, I never agreed to him... Of course, my godfather didn't say anything, but he was a little disappointed."

"He retired the year before I took the college entrance exam and rode his electric bike to take me to school every day."

"But that day..."

Fu Qingzhou's voice suddenly became hoarse, and his eyes became red: "That day, there was some noise on the roadside."

"A child in primary school uniform was running, and several older children were chasing him. One of them had a knife in his hand... The godfather jumped off the battery car and rushed towards them, but he was already very old at that time."

"Later... Later in the ambulance, I asked him why? He had already retired..." When he said this, he couldn't continue and rubbed his eyes.

Tang Jiao asked softly, "Brother, then, then what did your godfather say?"

"he……"

Fu Qingzhou said in a hoarse voice: "He said, you were the same back then. I risked losing one hand to at least save you. Today I thought I could save a few more..."

He looked down at his palms and slowly clenched them: "He said that his godfather is old and can't save people anymore, so he will leave it to you from now on."

Before the ambulance arrived at the hospital, all the people in the car had bled to death.

In the heavy rain, Fu Qingzhou stood in front of the tombstone, surrounded by his godfather's colleagues and students in police uniforms.

He didn't cry, but just lit a cigarette after people dispersed, hoping someone would come and slap him.

From then on, even after traveling through time, whenever he saw someone suffering, he seemed to see his godfather standing behind them.

So he wanted to avenge his adoptive father, even if the road was long, because no matter which life he was in, he didn't have many relatives.

Every loved one is very, very important.

Every person is very important, even if you don’t know them.

Because godfather said we should save people.

"Brother, I understand."

Tang Jiao nodded vigorously: "You are different from Long Dabei, you can't be his apprentice."

Fu Qingzhou smiled at her: "Do you think my story is inexplicable? I am only about the same age as you."

"will not."

Tang Jiao shook her head as a matter of course and said, "Brother, your background must be very, very extraordinary! And no matter what it is, Jiaojiao believes that you will not lie to me. Whatever you say must be true!"

"Hum..."

At this moment, the voice of the smoker entered Fu Qingzhou's ears: "Interesting, interesting, Zhuangzi dreamed of a butterfly, both real and illusory, do you have memories of your past life, or did you have an empty dream? Is this the reason why your soul is so powerful?"

Fu Qingzhou let out a long sigh. After saying these things, he felt much more relaxed. He no longer had to carry the secret of "time travel" on his shoulders all the time.

Even now it seems that this is not a big secret. At least neither Tang Jiao nor Yan Gui took it seriously.

A know-it-all, he seemed to have suddenly figured something out.

He closed his eyes and silently sensed the surrounding situation - there was also Lingxu here. Although it was not as dense as the area around Wandu Mountain, it was still much richer than the poor and bad places like Bailu Mountain.

"Jiaojiao."

Fu Qingzhou suddenly called out in a friendly voice: "Do you want to open your martial arts skills?"

"Me?" Tang Jiao's eyes lit up: "I want to! I hope I can help big brother!"

Fu Qingzhou smiled at her and said, "Okay, then I will teach you how to open your martial arts skills."

"Are you sick? Are you here?" The smoker's sharp voice sounded again: "The spiritual power here is scarce, and her talent and physique are far inferior to yours. It will take three to five days, right?"

Fu Qingzhou smiled faintly and did not respond. He just said quietly: "Stop talking nonsense. Do you still remember those exercises you wanted to teach me? Are there any suitable ones for her? In addition, I also want you to teach me something..."

(End of this chapter)