Several people sat in a circle around the table around the newly replaced candles, staring at each other. Duan Yuesheng looked at this person and then that person inexplicably, feeling very anxious.
"Everyone, I'm not telling you what time it is now. Go back to sleep..."
However, no one paid any attention to him.
Dai Luan and Ji Yuejun ran around for a day and came back very tired, so they had already rested in the house. The small animals left by Lord Jiyue also nested with her. Several other people scratched their heads and thought about solutions all day long, but they didn't come to any conclusion.
What happened in the morning left them unable to recover.
Ji Yuejun couldn't see, but he could clearly see the letters stacked in Dai Luan's medicine box. Rather, what he saw was the content on it - he said that in his eyes, there was something emitting dim light in front of him, floating in the air like that. Now I think it was Xue Moli's spiritual power that allowed him to "see" it.
"What's written on it?!"
When it was confirmed that it was the letter, Mu Wan almost screamed. Dai Luan was also very excited and urged him to read it out.
"Well, this is not a word." He raised his chin, "It looks like a painting... It's not a painting. It's better to say it's like a symbol... It doesn't look like it either. How should I put it..."
"It's not a word?" Shan Hai was a little surprised.
"Or can you draw it?" Shi Wuqi asked him.
Lord Jiyue shook his empty sleeves and shook his head helplessly.
"This... I'm sorry, I forgot."
No matter how hard he tried, Lord Jiyue couldn't tell them what was on it, because he admitted that he really couldn't understand it. In the end, Ye Yuejun remembered that he was on a mission and had to take the first step. Dai Luan also came back alone in the evening. She said that they took her to the door of the store and wouldn't come up if she had something else to do.
Mu Wan held the dry paper, and his eyes could see two holes in it.
It would be great if you could figure out what's up there without going back. But the problem is that Mr. Jiyue said that what was written on it was not words at all, but the same thing as a drawing, which made it difficult. Duan Yuesheng heard a general idea but didn't understand. He sat on the edge of the bed and yawned repeatedly.
"Sister, why didn't you write me a letter..."
"You actually care about this?" Duan Yuesheng yawned again, "It's both invisible ink and drawings. It must be something very important that cannot be known to others - such as a treasure map or something."
The three people at the table suddenly became energetic and turned to look at him.
"Uh, what did I say wrong?"
"Treasure map...could it be a map?"
Shi Wuqi took the letter out of Mu Wan's hand and looked at both sides.
"Map? Where can it go...and I don't think Senior Sister Yan has any treasures to hide."
Shanhai looked at the bright firelight on the table, feeling a little dazed. Shi Wuqi touched him with his elbow and he came back to his senses.
"Why are you in a daze?"
"Ah, I was just thinking... No, it's nothing. I'm a little sleepy too. Why don't we disturb Duan Shaoxia for now and let's talk about anything tomorrow morning."
Shi Wuqi thought it was strange for Shanhai to say such words, but he vaguely understood what he meant. He probably had something he wanted to say, but it was inconvenient to say it in front of outsiders, so he decided to go back. So Wu Qi nodded and stood up with him. When passing by Mu Wan, he patted her on the shoulder and told her to go to bed early.
She just sighed uncontrollably and sat there without saying a word.
"Miss Liangqiu, you see they have all rested. You should go back to the house quickly. Although I don't mind a night in the company of a beautiful woman, but look at you, your eyes are swollen like goldfish. You are not going to rest... "
Mu Wan reached out and rubbed his eyes, and replied nonchalantly: "I don't look good anyway."
"Hey, you can't say that." Duan Yuesheng was a little anxious, "I think you are better-looking than... than, than your senior sister."
"You compare me to a dead person."
"That's not what I meant!"
Seeing Duan Yuesheng anxiously trying to explain, Mu Wan was not that angry. She felt that she had made great progress now that she could admit the fact that her senior sister was dead.
"I'm not angry," she said, "I just... I just didn't expect that she would leave like this. I never thought about it."
"Then don't think about it."
He reached out and wanted to pat her shoulder to comfort her, but he was afraid that she would be even more unhappy, so he quietly retracted.
"Hey, don't think that I am the stupidest person. In fact, I am very smart. It's just that I don't know how to speak when I see a beautiful girl. Look, I can't say a good word now to prove that you are beautiful. . I don’t want you to think, I want me to feel. Listen to me, I have the final say!”
"...You are poor."
Having said that, she did feel a little better. Duan Yuesheng saw that her brows relaxed a little and he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Whatever you say! However, I have always been curious about a question - don't hit me if I tell you."
"Depends on the question."
"Why does your name have four characters? I have been working as a bodyguard for so long, and I rarely see people with four characters. Even though it is a compound surname, most people also have a single-character name."
...I think even if I use three words, your opening sentence would still be "Miss Liang". Mu Wan didn't say this.
"My mother's name contains the word Yao, which is related to jade. My father loved my mother very much, so he gave me my current name. I also have a brother named Siyan. Yao and Yan are a pair. Adding the words in front of it means that he is thinking about my mother and thinking about my mother."
"Oh... I'm quite educated." Duan Yuesheng shrugged, "I'm the only one in my family who has studied for a while. It's a coincidence that my parents are the same, but it's much simpler - my father's surname is Duan, and I My mother’s surname was Yue. She gave birth to me and she called her that. I also had a younger sister, but she died before I had time to give her a name.”
"Is this...it's okay, the intention is always good. But you actually studied?"
"What do you mean? I'm angry. Don't I look like a scholar?"
"Looks like it, but talks like a rough guy."
"Hey, I probably traveled too much as a escort and dealt with bandits and bandits. It was useless to deal with so many things. And I didn't study for long. I stopped studying after two years in the school. That year our village caught up Famine, many people starved to death, and reading could not be used as food.”
"Then...you said before that your parents..."
"Eh? When did I say that? Oh... that time. Hey, you remember this. Famine, they starved to death. I remember that I was just - so tall, right?" He stretched out his hand and gestured lowly After a while, "One day, a few friends and I carried baskets and went to the mountains to dig wild vegetables. In fact, when we saw them at that time, we had to grab them. If we couldn't grab them, we would fight. I was better than them at that time because I was older and bigger. I grabbed a lot. I was so lucky that day. I remember that the bottom of the basket was covered with wild vegetables. I happily ran home with the basket in my arms and told them that we had something to eat. My dad looked at the basket. , didn’t say anything, just squatted at the door and leaned on the cigarette pole to smoke the last bit of cigarettes. My mother was very happy. She wiped her hands, touched my head, took the basket, and went to get food. You know, It was such a sumptuous meal. I have never eaten more than a few mouthfuls of meat in my entire life. My mother said it was my birthday, so she borrowed money to buy some meat to make soup. I felt at the time that I was really the happiest child in the world."
"Huh? In the famine years, was it possible to buy meat? Or was it just a matter of taxation and prices..."
"You're right, you can't buy it. There were no birds at that time, and anyone who caught a worm would tear off a leg. Where could you buy meat from?"
"That……"
"Didn't you notice that there was someone missing from the story?"
"Where are you, your sister?"
"Not long after she was born, my mother couldn't eat enough and couldn't produce milk. She was given cold water for a few days and she died."
"So the broth is..."
"They never told me that it was me who later found the small skull in the courtyard. But I couldn't blame them for being cruel. I knew she wouldn't last so many days. Did she starve to death or did they strangle her to death? Yes, this is no longer important. The famine came so quickly. When my mother was pregnant with her, she never worried that the food would be eaten by passing locusts in a few days and not a single grain would be left. I don’t know if they could not overcome their conscience. Despite the hurdles, I still really wanted to be full by myself, but I didn’t even touch a mouthful of soup. I felt strange at the time, but I was so hungry that I didn’t even have the brains to think about it.”
"...I'm sorry for reminding you of these things."
"It's okay. Look, I'm not living well now." He patted his arms from left to right to prove that he was still strong. "Back then, many people got sick from hunger, but my bones were really hard. My parents also starved to death. After that, I made a big mat, rolled the three of them together, tied a rope, pulled them to the wilderness, and buried them deeper, otherwise wolves and dogs would come into the yard. On the way, I met a rider. The governor and others on horseback came to see the disaster. The governor stopped and asked me, and I told the truth. He was a good man and asked me to go back to his house and be a strong man. He arranged the funeral for my family, so I went . He stopped working within a few years. I think he was angry at being exploited at all levels with relief... He gave some money and dismissed the servants. I went to find my current job. They Hearing that I had done things for officials, they felt comfortable accepting me."
"That's pretty good."
"Yes. My only regret is that my sister never drank even a sip of breast milk. I really miss her and am willing to watch her grow up... Otherwise, I will suffer a loss and accept you as my sister. Yes. Isn’t it a good deal?”
"..."
Seeing that he was really miserable, Mu Wan swallowed the word "gun". But she did admire him for trying hard to live even with such a fate, trying to let go of the past, or picking up everything and moving forward firmly. This alone is something you should learn.
"Rest early, good night."
"Hey, Miss Liangqiu, think about it and don't leave? You have something to say, hello-"
