I have always respected Han Kun as a father.
No matter what people say to me about Han Kun, I always believed that this man had given me all of my father’s shares and hadn’t kept a penny for himself, and that he had done me a godsend.
But then he admitted himself that my parents’ death was related to him.
I was only seven years old when my parents died, and my relationship with them was nowhere near as deep as with Han Kun, but now I find out that Han Kun was lying to me all along.
“Zhang Chao, now is not the time to play house with you. I’ve been waiting for seventeen years to find something like this, so let go of me!”
Han Kun shouted at me hoarsely, his face red with excitement.
“Uncle Han, what the hell is going on. What exactly did you come here to find, and do you have anything to do with my mother?”
I thought that 17 years after my parents’ death, all the previous events were behind me, but first it seemed that Han Kun had never ceased to finish what he had done back then for the past 17 years.
“Did the fact that you watched my parents die back then have anything to do with what you’re looking for now? Was it for this thing that you did the poisoning?”
The more I thought about it, the more fearful I became, the more anger I felt in my heart and the more force I put into my hands.
Han Kun couldn’t catch his breath, his legs were stirring, and I wanted to strangle him right now, for he had done right by my parents and my trust in him!
But when I think of all the kindness he gave me back then, I can’t do this …… after all, when I had nothing, it was him who gave me Junran.
I made up my mind, let go of my hand and threw him aside.
Han Kun covered his throat and coughed, and it took a while before he got up from the ground.
His eyes rushed with blood and he glared at me like a wild animal, as if it wasn’t him who was at fault, but me.
Before he could speak, I said, “I won’t let you find it until you tell me.”
“I won’t leave until I find it.” Han Kun wiped a cut from the corner of his mouth and said, “Either you leave on your own and leave me alone.”
I frowned, “I’m here to save you!”
“I’m not leaving with you until I find something. You either help or get out.” Han Kun didn’t speak to me at all politely.
At this time, Yellow Hair poked his head in through the window, “Are you guys done yet? Hurry up! Someone’s going to find out!”
“You can go by yourself.” Han Kun ignored me and turned his head to continue looking around in the cupboard, he opened all the clothes and quilts and small boxes in the cupboard, not knowing what he was looking for.
The sky was already showing the white of a fish’s belly, it wouldn’t be long before it was light, and we wouldn’t be able to leave the fortress if we didn’t leave.
I went up with a single bound and knocked down Han Kun, who shouted, “What are you doing? I won’t go with you, let go of me.”
I stomped his leg under my foot and then said in a cold voice, “It’s too dangerous today, whatever there is, you’ll have to come back another time to get it. If you refuse to go, I’ll break your legs and carry you away.”
Han Kun’s expression changed dramatically, “Are you crazy?!”
I stomped on his calf and asked, “Will you change your mind? If not, I’ll break it and it will take three or four months before you can walk on the ground.
“Stop it!” Han Kun shouted as I lifted my foot to step on it, and I stepped on it with a muffled thud against his calf.
Han Kun’s face went pale: “Okay, I’ll go with you. You’re a ruthless man, even more so than your father.”
I had only meant to scare him, I had no intention of actually breaking his leg. We could scare even vicious criminals, let alone Han Kun.
I helped Han Kun up, “If you can’t tell me what I’m looking for, just leave now, we don’t have much time.”
Han Kun looked torn and glanced reluctantly at the wardrobe.
I said, “Uncle Han, whatever you’re looking for, what you’re looking for is certainly not in that closet. If it’s something you treat as your greatest treasure, no one else would just throw it away. Also, the people here are desperate and if they had anything of value on them, they would have pawned it long ago. What you want has probably already changed hands.”
Han Kun shook his head, “That thing is not worth anything.”
I was confused, it was worth risking his life to find it if it wasn’t worth anything? Did he have nothing better to do? Who was he kidding.
Knowing that I didn’t believe him, Han Kun explained, “It’s not worth much, but it’s very important to me, and I must find it. Xiaochao, believe me, I did it all for your mother. Liu Rong was right about what happened back then, but that wasn’t the whole truth. There are things I can’t tell you yet, not to hide them from you, but to protect everyone. If I can’t get it today, Qiu Daqiang will definitely find out that I’ve searched his room as soon as he wakes up, and it will be impossible to come over and get it next time.”
He didn’t look like he was lying, but there were too many contradictions in his words.
If what Ryu Rong said wasn’t true, then why didn’t he tell me the truth. Seventeen years had pa*sed since my parents’ affair, the feud in the jungle had come to an end, so what secrets were there that couldn’t be told now?
“I just want to know what it is you’re looking for.” I said, “Whatever it is, I’m not going to steal it from you.”
Han Kun was embarra*sed, “I really can’t tell you.”
I nodded, “Okay, then tell me who you really are.”
“What?”
I said, “You and my mother were childhood friends and grew up together.”
“Yes, we were like brother and sister, we had a great bond, so you have to remember that I would never harm your mother, I would have died myself to harm her. You wait a little longer, it won’t take more than a few years, we can definitely win, and then you will know the truth ……”
Not waiting for him to finish those strange words, I interrupted him and asked, “There is not a single family near my grandfather’s house, are you a ghost, so you can be a childhood friend of my mother, who are you anyway?!”
Han Kun pushed his eyes out and swallowed what he was about to say.
I pressed, “You can always tell me that, can’t you?”
“I ……”
“Han Kun, why didn’t you tell him? You’re afraid he’ll hate you if he finds out who you really are.”
The two of us were confronting each other when a prodding voice rang out, scaring me so much that my sweat stood up backwards.
Qiu Daqiang had somehow woken up and was sitting at the foot of the bed, watching us with interest.
Just now Han Kun and I were arguing so intensely that we completely forgot about this guy, probably because the drug had worn off and this guy woke up.
My heart contracted violently, and Han Kun took a step backwards.
Qiu Daqiang was the lord of the Blackwater Walled City, big and thick looking, with a bearded face, and his whole body was so dark that he looked like a bag of coal, and I could hardly see him in the dark without looking closely.
