The little nurse said awkwardly, “This, I can’t tell you, it involves the patient’s privacy. Ask your own questions. He’s not seriously injured, he’s mostly sick.”
My heart stuttered, what was Han Kun’s illness?
The little nurse gave to a gla*s of water, “Just rest easy and recuperate from your injuries. The other five people were poisoned and can now speak. They are all fine, do you want to see the family now?”
“No, I need to sleep for a while.”
“Okay, I’ll go out then.”
The little nurse thoughtfully managed the door for me, and when I heard her footsteps moving away, I immediately lifted the covers and got off the floor.
I barely missed a heel fall when my feet first touched the ground; I couldn’t use any of my strength.
It took me a while to get my legs back on the ground, holding onto the wall.
I felt my way to Han Kun’s ward, where he was already awake and sitting in a daze on his hospital bed.
I was sure that everything he had said to DaZhuzi about the birth certificate was a lie.
But what was the truth?
Who cares what it is, I have to know today! Whether it was the birth certificate or something else, it had something to do with my mother, and it didn’t make sense for him not to tell me, his own son.
I pushed the door in and locked it behind me, lest he try to run away later or have this conversation interrupted by someone barging in from outside.
Han Kun was not surprised to see me, but had a feeling of “what comes around comes around”.
“Uncle Han, are you feeling better?”
Han Kun smiled and said, “I’m not dead.”
I pulled a stool and sat down next to his bed. Han Kun looked very poorly, his face was white, I had never seen him like this before, he was always in high spirits.
I was going to make small talk, but I really didn’t know how to cut to the chase, so I gave up and said, “What’s going on, can you tell me now?”
“I thought you boys would come over and care about caring about my condition, you really are a heartless boy.”
“How is your health? I asked the nurse and she wouldn’t tell me.”
Han Kun nudged towards the bed, a medical record book, I picked it up and flipped it open with suspicion, the words stomach cancer stung my eyes.
“How did this happen?”
“It’s worse than I thought, but it doesn’t matter, anyway, everything that needs to be done is done, and there’s still some unfinished ones that can’t hurt.”
My chest clogged up and for a moment I didn’t know what to make of it, Han Kun was like a father to me, but he ……
I rubbed the tears from my eyes and said, “Don’t you try to fool around with the medical records, you have to tell me exactly what happened.”
Han Kun cursed an expletive in chagrin, “Can’t you stop asking questions? There are things I don’t tell you because I can’t tell you.”
I sobered up a little, I knew Han Kun too well and if I didn’t ask him about it today, I might be fooled again.
“No, I won’t leave if you don’t tell me today, you said it yourself, tell me all about it when you get back.”
He turned his head to the side and refused to say anything. After a while, seeing that I was still looking at him steadfastly, Han Kun was helpless and let out a long sigh.
“Okay, I can tell you, but after I tell you the truth today, you also have to promise me one thing.”
“I’ll promise you anything as long as you don’t make me join forces with Jiang Ming.”
Han Kun shook his head, “I am asking you to promise me that you will not get involved in anything related to the Jianghu in the future, and that you will be a wealthy and idle person from now on. If you can promise me, I will tell you, if not forget it.”
What kind of request was this? If he had lied to me, wouldn’t I not even have a chance to verify it.
Besides, how else could I be completely divorced from the jianghu now that I was in it? Liu Rong and Jiang Ming, these two wouldn’t let me go even if I didn’t mess with them.
Then there’s Yue Zhengjun, I’m still holding his son, and he’d hate to pick my skin.
I can promise not to mess with them, but will they leave me alone?
Besides, Baldy and Yue Man Gong are my friends, and I can’t just cut them off from now on.
Han Kun making this request was no different from saying outright that he didn’t want to tell me, and I simply couldn’t agree to him.
But then I thought, Han Kun had lied to me so many times, what could I do if I lied to him once?
I nodded, “Okay, I promise you.”
Han Kun said helplessly, “Xiaochao, you never used to lie in front of me, but now you’ve started to learn how to lie. It’s just that I’m a fool to talk about it. You are originally the descendant of the children of the jianghu, how can you be completely detached from the jianghu, it’s just that I don’t know how to tell you this story. It has to be told from 17 years ago, no, it has to be told from the time I was seven.”
Han Kun told me about the past of the jianghu decades ago.
A few decades ago, the country was still in the midst of a hundred years of ruin, all walks of life were underdeveloped, and even the centuries-old families of the jianghu were poor as hell.
“This story is very earthy and not like in martial arts novels. People weren’t fighting for the martial arts alliance or for martial arts secrets, for something very simple, money.” Han Kun said.
“I know about the Yin family, I heard about it from He Zhitian.”
Han Kun nodded in realization, “He Zhitian was the son of the Yin family’s oldest three, a member of his own family, but he changed his name later. When He Zhitian was in trouble, he begged your mother for help. Your mother then gave him Mount Wuxia.”
The story Han Kun told was similar to He Zhitian’s. When the eight great families besieged the Yin family and the Yin family exterminated only, the Ji family felt guilty and saved the youngest son of the Yin family.
But instead of evoking the goodwill of the Jianghu, this act was interpreted by everyone as an attempt to monopolise the Yin family’s fortune.
“When the seven great clans besieged the Ji family, your grandfather relocated the whole family to the deep mountains of Yucheng for the safety of the family, isolated from the world. These are all things you know, but what you don’t know is that the Seven Great Clans didn’t give up hunting the Ji Family because of this.”
“But my grandfather has gone into seclusion, so how can he still be found? I heard that it was Jiang Yunqing who personally escorted him back then.”
“As long as one is willing to look, one can always find it. Although the Ji family is weak because of the siege, it doesn’t let anyone bully it. So the foreign pursuers could not take advantage of anything. Until one day ……,” Han Kun took a deep breath, “Yin Lan was almost poisoned to death.”
“The Ji family poisoned him?” I said in shock.
Han Kun nodded, “That’s right, it wasn’t the family, it was an aunt from a side branch who cooked. She followed the Ji family and moved to Yucheng. She put dichlorvos in Yin Lan’s dishes, but fortunately your mother found it in time. At that time, the family head interrogated this aunt and asked her why she had done that. She said something that sent shivers down the spine of the Ji family, she said it was for money.”
I wasn’t surprised, it’s human nature, people don’t do it for themselves.
Han Kun continued, “The family head realised that it was useless for us to hide. As long as someone knew that Yin Lan was in our hands, the Ji family would never be at peace and Yin Lan’s life would always be in danger. So the family head at the time tried to hide Yin Lan.”
I laughed out loud, “Where could you hide? You all hid in the mountains, but those people still came looking for you?”
I didn’t mean to mock the Ji family for being naive, but it was impossible to hide someone.
But Han Kun shook his head, “Only everything was done to hide Yin Lan well, and we did hide him well.”
“Where did you hide him?” I asked with great interest.
Han Kun said, “I don’t know myself. Where is the safest place to hide a tree? In the forest, of course. He has turned into an ordinary person, and if you ask me to look for him now, I won’t be able to find him.”
