The moon is at the zenith…
After Gong Yaozheng came out of the pharmacy, he returned to his seat in the courtyard. He looked around, but he didn't see Gong Shangjiao.
He pulled Gong Yuanzheng, who had just returned from setting off the fireworks, and asked, "Where is your brother?"
Gong Yuanzheng frowned slightly: "My brother is not back. Isn't he with his sister?"
"No, Miss Murong was slightly injured. I took her to take care of it. When I came back, I didn't see your brother." Gong Yaozheng thought to himself, could he still be where he was just now?
"Murong Ling was injured? Are they fighting among themselves without front?" Gong Yuanzheng was slightly surprised, with a sarcastic smile on his lips.
Gong Yaozheng tapped his head: "What are you thinking? She didn't know what she said to her second brother, which angered him and almost strangled him to death."
"She definitely deserves it!" Gong Yuanzheng pouted and said disdainfully.
For someone like his brother who kept his emotions to himself, Murong Ling was the first person in all these years, besides his sister, who could make his brother's emotions break through.
"I may know where your brother is. I leave this place to you. Don't conflict with Gong Ziyu. I will give you the gloves and goggles tonight, and you can replace the ones you had before." Gong Yaozheng stroked his hands. He touched his brother's braid and said softly.
Gong Yuanzheng nodded, his eyes full of smiles: "Okay!"
Gong Yaozheng turned around and walked to the backyard, grabbing a handful of peanuts on the table.
Gong Yuanzheng watched his sister leave, then turned to answer Elder Yue's question...
Gong Yaozheng returned to the previous pavilion, and sure enough, Gong Shangjiao was sitting there alone, drinking wine alone...
Seeing her coming, he raised his head with bright eyes, then took a sip of wine and looked away: "Why are you back?"
Gong Yaozheng sat next to him, handed him the peanuts in his hand, and said with a smile: "If you drink without eating peanuts, you will get drunk!"
Gong Shangjiao turned to look at her, his eyes fell on the peanuts in her hand, and his thoughts drifted back to five years ago...
That day was the anniversary of his mother's death and also the death anniversary of Brother Lang. He was sitting alone by a pool in the courtyard of the Corner Palace, with several empty wine bottles at his feet...
A pair of pink embroidered shoes appeared in front of his eyes. The girl, who had just grown hair, took out a handful of peanuts from her purse and handed them to him: "If you drink without eating peanuts, you will get drunk."
"I want to get drunk, but I can't get drunk..." Gong Shangjiao shook his head and didn't answer.
The girl picked up his hand and put the peanut in his hand: "That's just because you are too sober. You are not even willing to deceive yourself, so how can you get drunk?"
"The dead are gone, and the living should not live in self-blame all the time. You tell Yuanzheng this all the time, why can't you see through it yourself?"
Gong Shangjiao peeled the peanuts in his hand and gave them back to her, with a slight smile on his lips: "You little girl, where do you get so much sense?"
Gong Yaozheng did not hesitate, threw the peanuts into his mouth, and said while chewing: "You are talking like a seventy-year-old man. Everyone can tell the truth, but how many of them can actually do it?"
Gong Shangjiao pulled the girl to sit next to him, put the wine bottle aside, and peeled peanuts in his hand. He peeled one and the girl ate one.
"I always wonder, if I could have been one step earlier, even just one step, my mother and brother Lang would not have died." Gong Shangjiao handed the peanuts in his hand to the girl with a sad expression.
"Won't!"
Gong Yaozheng's decisive words made him slightly startled...
Turning his eyes to meet the girl's shining eyes...
"If you had arrived earlier, you might not be able to talk to me here now." The childish voice said something that no one could refute.
"So, you should be lucky that you can help them see all the scenery they have never seen in this world! There are still people in this world who miss them, so they are still alive."
Gong Shangjiao lowered his eyes and looked at the peanuts in his hand. The three peanuts were tightly connected together...
A pair of snow-white little hands took the peeled peanut: "Exactly three, you, me, and my brother Yuanzheng..."
Gong Shangjiao looked at the three peanuts in the girl's hand. Yes, exactly three. They had never changed...
"Ayao, thank you!"
"Thank you for what? Peel these off for me!" Gong Yaozheng took off the purse and put it in Gong Shangjiao's hand.
Gong Shangjiao took it, peeled the peanuts inside one by one, and handed them to the girl.
The sound of peeling peanuts brought Gong Shangjiao back from his thoughts. Gong Yaozheng peeled the peanuts in his hand, picked up his hand, and put the peanuts in his palm.
"I peel it for you and eat some."
"You know, I won't get drunk." Gong Shangjiao said, but still put the peanut into his mouth.
Gong Yaozheng saw that he had eaten peanuts and continued to peel them: "I won't get drunk and my stomach will feel uncomfortable. Here."
Gong Shangjiao took it and continued to put it in his mouth.
After a while, the handful of peanuts were peeled off, and the last one was eaten by Gong Yaozheng.
"Since you ate my peanuts, don't be angry. I shouldn't have said that to you today."
How could Gong Shangjiao have no heart? If he had no heart, he wouldn't be brooding over the death of his mother and brother Lang, and he has never come out of it for so many years.
"I'm not angry!" Gong Shangjiao turned to look at Gong Yaozheng with a complicated expression.
"I'm just wondering, what kind of person am I in Ayao's heart all these years?" Gong Shangjiao pursed his lips slightly and withdrew his gaze.
Cold-blooded, ruthless, heartless...
"Second brother is like a bee in my heart!"
"bee?"
"I run out every day, but when I come back, I bring the best honey to my brother Yuanzheng and me. The handle of my knife is worn out, and I don't even know how to replace it." Gong Yuanzheng looked at Gong Shangjiao's waist. The sword, now the handle is very gorgeous, she made it.
Gong Shangjiao:......
Although I know I am praising him, why is it so wrong?
"Why bees?"
"Because no matter how far a bee travels, as long as its wings can still vibrate, it will return to its hive, build its own little world, and aim its bee blade at the intruders who invade their home."
Gong Shangjiao was startled for a moment, then said: "So what you said before..."
"I thought you were going to kill Murong Ling..." Gong Yaozheng lowered his eyes. She had indeed misunderstood him. She said that just to make him let her go!
It's only a moment to be frightened...
"I really want to kill her!" Gong Shangjiao looked slightly cold and spoke lightly.
"You don't know how. Although you appear to be stern on the surface, I know that you attach great importance to family ties. Can't you prove it to the expedition and to me?"
"Just because I can't, doesn't mean I don't want to!"
Gong Yaozheng suddenly choked: "You have to have a reason to kill someone. She is your cousin, and her bloodline is always cut. She is younger than me. You really hit hard today."
"She is different from you, stay away from her from now on!" Gong Shangjiao frowned slightly and said seriously.
"Second brother, it's possible that he underestimated me. Murong Ling is not enough to influence me. If you are worried that she will lead me as a bad person, you might as well worry about whether I will lead her as a bad person!"
Gong Yaozheng had a cunning look in his eyes. She couldn't see through Murong Ling's tricks, so let her do it!
"She has plans for you!"
Although Gong Shangjiao didn't know why Murong Ling got close to Gong Yaozheng, she definitely had a purpose in doing things.
"What you want is nothing more than my protection, just give it to her. As long as she doesn't do anything to harm the palace gate, what's the point of protecting her?"
Gong Yaozheng felt that Gong Shangjiao was a little too nervous. As a woman, she never thought about other aspects.
"It's up to you, but don't lose your guard. By the way, how did you know that I wouldn't kill her?"
"Those handprints pointing upwards will cause suffocation, but they are not fatal. Mr. Gong Er wants to kill someone, how could he make such a mistake?"
Now that Gong Yaozheng thought of the handprint, he felt that he was a little nervous at the time. But if he took a closer look at the injury, he would not say such hurtful words in a hurry.
"Did you give her medicine?" Gong Shangjiao's focus was obviously elsewhere.
"It's on her neck, and it's not easy for her to heal herself, so of course I..."
"Which hand?"
"This one..." Gong Yaozheng raised his right hand for no apparent reason...
Gong Shangjiao took the hand and poured the wine from the jug on the side into it...
The slightly cold drink made Gong Yaozheng tremble, and he looked at Gong Shangjiao with some confusion.
Gong Shangjiao's expression did not change. He poured the wine and then wiped Gong Yaozheng's hands with a handkerchief.
A series of movements, flowing smoothly, as if he were doing business, made Gong Yaozheng stunned.
"Second brother, are you drunk?"
Who in their right mind would do such a thing? This is wine, a waste!
"You're not drunk. In the future, you can find someone to apply medicine. You don't need to do it yourself!" Gong Shangjiao let go of Gong Yaozheng's hand and couldn't help but look at Gong Yaozheng's face.
She ordered flower buds today, her eyes were full of doubts at this moment, her lips were slightly open, and she didn't know what kind of lipstick she was wearing, which had a little bit of radiance under the moonlight.
Gong Yaozheng was stunned, and it seemed that he was too!
"Second brother, is there... anything dirty on my face?" Gong Yaozheng saw Gong Shangjiao staring at him and couldn't help but touch his face, feeling a little confused.
"……have"
"Where?" Gong Yaozheng wiped it randomly a few times.
"Don't move, I'll help you..."
The slender jade-like fingers touched the skin that could be broken by a blow, and the hand moved to the corner of the mouth. When he was about to touch the lips, his eyes flashed slightly, and he suddenly retracted his hand...
Gong Shangjiao took a step forward, crossed Gong Yaozheng and left the pavilion: "Okay, let's go back!"
Gong Yaozheng turned around and looked at Gong Shangjiao's back, huh?
What's wrong?
"Wait for me!" He quickly chased after him.
Gong Shangjiao paused slightly and slowed down...
The moonlight gradually shifted, and the moonlight poured on the two of them, stretching their figures very long...
"Second brother, you didn't come back to the banquet today. The elders thought we had a quarrel."
"Didn't we quarrel?"
"Are you still angry? Then you hit me and this matter will be over... Hey, you really hit me!"
"If I don't fight, I won't be able to survive!"
"..."
"Brother Yuanzheng, your brother hit me, help me fight back!" Gong Yuanzheng quickly hid behind the oncoming Gong Yuanzheng.
"Sister, I can't beat my brother..."
Gong Shangjiao chuckled and stretched out his arm: "Let you fight back."
Gong Yuanzheng poked his head out from behind Gong Yuanzheng, stretched out his paw and touched the arm.
Then he ran away triumphantly...
"Sister, it's dark on the road, be careful where you step!" Gong Yuanzheng hurriedly caught up.
"Hurry up, there's a big bad wolf behind you..."
Big Bad Wolf/Gong Shangjiao:...
Gong Shangjiao raised his lips and smiled, "Big bad wolf?"
