I took a deep breath and pulled open the drawer, and sure enough, the mountain of thoughtlessness lay quietly inside.
In the middle of the room was a large frame, nearly two metres high and two metres wide, in which the Mountain of No Thought could be placed.
I put the painting away, sat down on the chair opposite and looked at it quietly.
I don’t know anything about oil painting, and I have no knowledge of art, so I couldn’t really tell whether the painting was good or not.
But at a glance I could see a woman with a delicate and gentle figure, holding a child and looking at the landscape, in the cherry blossom forest on the mountain of No Thought.
This woman looked very much like my mother, and the little boy was no other than me.
I remembered that when I was very young, my parents had taken me away on a business trip for a while. At that time, there was a mountain near where we lived and my mother would take me out in the evening.
The carefree me in this painting could never have imagined that one day my parents would leave me in a car accident and I would become an orphan, and Mount Thoughtless would become my tombstone to pay tribute to them.
He Zhitian cried out injustice, Liu Ruyi also cried out injustice, I really don’t know who is more injustice than me.
I was orphaned for the sake of the illusory position of League Master, and I was abused from the age of seven until I was seventeen, a whole decade, all of which was an undeserved disaster.
“Old Mo, you must have experienced what happened forty years ago yourself.”
“It looks like someone has already told you all about that. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, the past is the past, right?”
“What happened forty years ago has nothing to do with me, I just want to avenge my parents. I’m not going to beat around the bush with you either, I already know the truth about my parents’ car accident very well. There are people in the jianghu who don’t want the family designated by Ge Lao to be the alliance leader, and the thoughtless mountain is kept in a safe in New York by He Zhitian, who himself is far away in hiding overseas. Those wolfish things could only force my mother to threaten her by causing a car accident if they wanted her to falsely pa*s on Elder Ge’s suicide note. But the car accident got out of hand …… the revenge of killing my father and mother was not shared, and I had no way to forget it. This painting I also do not want, you tell who else but Jiang Ming who planned that car accident in the first place, I will give you this painting as a deal we made.”
Old Mo didn’t say a word and fell into deep thought.
It was only after a long time that he said, “Young man, I have warned you that what you hear with your ears may not be true, and what you see with your eyes may not be true. We should leave it at that.”
“How can I let it go? Someone killed your parents, can you forget it?”
Old Mo sat there calmly, seemingly looking at me through his sungla*ses.
I felt uncomfortable with a big stone in my heart, why should all my sufferings be forgotten, while all the wrongs committed by the murderer can be covered up lightly? Is there any justice in this world?
“Uncle Mo, I believe you must have known my parents, you are a senior in the jianghu world, speak with your conscience, are my parents wronged? Even if I don’t take revenge, should I give them justice?” My throat choked up as I said this, “It wasn’t just my family they destroyed, it was my aunt’s family too. My aunt used to be so good with my dad’s siblings before, but because of that car accident that killed my aunt’s father, my aunt tore up all the pictures of my dad and was calling my mum an animal even when she was sleeping. Do you know what those people have ruined for their own selfish interests!!!”
Old Mo let out a long sigh, “Well, I can tell you. But only if you answer me a question first, as long as you can answer, I don’t want this thoughtless mountain and can tell you everything I know.”
Old Mo paused, stood up and walked towards the thoughtless mountain, the huge picture frame stood abruptly in the middle of the room, looking like a huge screen.
Old Mo walked around the thoughtless mountain several times, then suddenly stopped in front of the canvas and asked me, “Look, where is Elder Ge’s suicide note?”
I wondered what he meant, so I looked at the painting inch by inch.
After looking at it I was dumbfounded: “There’s really nothing there.”
It was a very ordinary painting, there was no suicide note.
Old Mo laughed, “Jianghu people are greedy, when they are greedy they are easily fooled, your mother is known for her trickery, but how could anyone write a suicide note on a canvas.”
“Why would they not.”
I looked up at the canvas, which was taller than me, with the cherry tree and my mother looking down at me.
But there was nothing on this canvas, either front or back, that could be called a suicide note.
“Why didn’t anyone else notice?”
I couldn’t believe that with all the heroes and heroines in the jungle, with all the eyes, no one had noticed that the painting didn’t even have the suicide note they wanted.
How could He Zhitian explain it? It would be fine if others hadn’t seen the painting, but there was no way He Zhitian hadn’t seen it, but he also said the suicide note was in the painting.
I thought the suicide note was on the back of the painting, but the back was white and there was nothing.
I was dumbfounded, what was this game?
Old Mo said, “You didn’t find it, or you didn’t want to find it?”
“Are you saying that everyone is lying? Maintaining such a ridiculous lie?!”
Old Mo said, “Those who haven’t found out can’t tell, and those who have found out won’t tell, that’s the truth of the jianghu.”
I was completely dumbfounded by the situation, after half a day of tossing and turning, there was nothing on this canvas.
He Zhitian was definitely in the know, he indeed could not tell the truth that there was no suicide note on this painting, once there was no suicide note on the painting, then no one would protect his life, this painting was his talisman, he could only choose to lie from the very beginning.
I laughed bitterly, “So this painting is the emperor’s new clothes? My parents got killed by such a scam?”
“You’re too pessimistic, it was the whole jianghu that was tricked by your mother, and your mother would be so happy in heaven that she wouldn’t know what to do.”
Old Mo actually laughed in triumph.
Old Mo touched the painting and said, “What do you think of this painting? I think it’s a masterpiece for the ages, and your mother and I both think it’s a masterpiece for the ages and worth a lot of money.”
I really didn’t know what to say and left the wood-fired ravioli shop in an extremely low mood.
I asked Old Mo to keep the painting for me, and it was safest to leave it with him for the time being.
The painting could not be destroyed, and it had to be revealed from time to time so that the people of the jianghu knew of its existence. No one would dare to openly oppose Elder Ge’s legacy in this martial arts world where everyone has their own agendas.
Even though this testament does not exist.
I must not come to Lao Mo’s place again, and I must not let the Jianghu people know that Lao Mo and I knew each other.
Thinking about it, I asked Qingqing to pick me up at the nearby Wanda Plaza. I hadn’t bothered to renew my driving licence and a taxi would be too flashy.
Because of the cruise, I was now a celebrity in Tong, and the driver who had just taken a taxi recognized me.
I’m too busy these days to do a lot of things, and I’m no longer comfortable showing up around, so I might need an a*sistant.
Qingqing received me in the car park and started flirting with me, “Oh my Mr. Zhang, you are now a people’s hero, a glorious citizen, you can sign my autograph later.”
“Cut the crap, it’s more like I’ll sign your resignation report, drive to Junran.”
“So angry, who has recruited you?”
Qing Qing spat out her tongue and glanced at me in the rear view mirror, not daring to say anything else as she started the car and headed for Surran Group by the sea.
I couldn’t be bothered with the affairs of the jianghu, the immediate priority now was the gun smuggling case.
Before Cai Xiaobing returned with his men to do the job for good, I had to do the preliminary work of removing Xu’s deputy bureau, and must not alert the snake and let Shi Sheng and the others notice anything.
