late at night.
The cool night breeze quietly pushed the coolness of autumn to the edge of winter. Now that October is about to bottom out, even Fengri City is slowly feeling the heat disappear.
Those who work the clock understand this best. They have put on a layer of blouses, otherwise they would have felt cold in the middle of the night.
In Fengri City late at night, every house was quiet. Even the door of the flower building had been closed at this time. The guests who should leave had already left, and those who didn't left had already stayed in the wing to rest.
There are clouds tonight and the moon is completely covered. The only thing that can be used as illumination on the street is the lanterns that are always lit in front of the houses of wealthy families.
Looking from a distance, it's like eyes in the dark night, looking at the boundless darkness.
"Dong dong dong... dong dong dong..."
The sound of the last watch beat rhythmically from far to near and then slowly disappeared. The third watch has passed, and now it is ugly time.
While most people were sleeping soundly, some people were listening to the sound of the clock and looking at the light of lanterns on the street, their expressions dull and not sleepy at all.
"Gulu..." Shen Hao drank a big gulp of wine and sat on the roof of the main house. He was only wearing underwear, with his chest open. His hair was a little messy. I don't know if it was blown by the night wind.
At this time, Shen Hao still had the evil aura on his body, and his face was as determined as ever, but his eyes rarely became very deep and complicated, as if he was pondering something profound and fell into self-doubt.
Even the person next to me has never seen Shen Hao like this before.
Very contradictory. I feel very conflicted.
I want to laugh, but I can't. Even thinking about it makes me feel a sense of frustration that becomes stronger and stronger in my heart.
"Huh..." He breathed out a long breath of alcohol. Wuliangye, which was usually fine to drink, didn't seem so smooth at this time. There are too many things pressing in my heart, but today I was stimulated during the day and somehow seemed to be surging in my heart. At least tonight, Shen Hao had no intention of practicing and could not sleep.
The reason was the incident that Bai Changqing came to find today. At the beginning, Shen Hao thought about it and found it funny. He was so old that he still played the trick of being angry for a beauty, and even uttered wild words about preparing to "deadly fight".
As soon as the sense of humor arose, it suddenly fell back inexplicably.
Because even if Shen Hao doesn't want to admit it, the facts are the facts, and true emotions cannot be ridiculed, because they are indeed what a person should have. Even though this kind of thing often becomes a weakness, it needs to be carefully hidden.
It's like a person has been staying in a dark forest for a long time, holding a bow and crossbow and walking carefully in the dim light every day. Suddenly, a bright light shines over. Although it is only a small beam, it is not dazzling, but it is particularly dazzling in the dim surrounding environment. Even the warmth shining on your body is like "scalding", making you subconsciously feel faster. Avoid.
"In the past, I was considered a sweetheart!" Shen Hao muttered to himself in a low voice, and then took another sip of wine.
Shen Hao has not thought about the past events in another world for a long time. At first, I forced myself not to think about it, but as time went by, it became buried deeper and I seemed to have forgotten about it.
But today I suddenly discovered, oh! It turned out that I had not forgotten it, but it was hidden at the bottom of the box after sorting it out.
Is Bai Changqing a temperamental person? At least it seems that he is when it comes to the Xu sisters. Is Shen Hao a sweetheart? What he just said to himself actually already has an answer.
"I can be regarded as a man of temperament" but add "before" in front. how long ago? Before coming to this world.
In the past, Shen Hao was not someone who walked in the dark forest, nor was he someone who was always ready to fight with people or animals with a crossbow. At that time, the surroundings were full of sunshine, both inside and out, and there was little gloom in my heart, let alone any calculations.
If I have to tell Xiao Jiujiu in my heart, she is also planning when she can be promoted, when she can meet the right person, when she can let her parents enjoy happiness at home...
What stimulated Bai Changqing to Shen Hao today was not his love and attachment to the Xu sisters, but the "realness" of that love.
True emotional expression is really too rare for Shen Hao now. He didn't even dare to open his heart completely in front of Chu Linxiang and Yu Qiao, let alone others? This is a last resort choice made by Shen Hao under the weight of the secrets on his body, and it is also the reason why he has lived in a cesspool like Xuanqingwei since he came to this world.
The bottle of wine was quickly finished. Shen Hao did not take any more. Instead, he leaned forward and sat on the roof. He looked away from the sparse lights on the street and turned to the sky.
The doctor who followed Bai Changqing to rescue people came back and reported that Bai Changqing's family hugged each other and cried. Although the two ladies were detoxified, they were still weak, with tears running down their cheeks. The two children were also watching. The people beside the bed were crying. This time they were frightened by their mother. Bai Changqing put his arms around his wife and children, burst into tears, and muttered, "It's okay, it's okay."
To be more serious, the matter between Bai Changqing and the Xu sisters was the first major failure since the establishment of Blackwater. The best way is to seal all the holes and deal with them together with Bai Changqing and the Xu sisters. Don't underestimate the current Black Water Impermanence Department, they are fully capable of getting rid of Bai Changqing's family, including the young and old.
But if you really do this, you will definitely be in trouble, and you will need Pang Ban's cooperation, and you will have to hide it from the emperor. Otherwise, this would be a grave crime of beheading the three Yi tribes. The stakes are too high, and it would be foolish to use one problem to mask another.
Of course, being in such a stalemate with Bai Changqing's family is not a good thing. There are too many variables. For example, one day Bai Changqing goes crazy, or threatens to die together, and in turn asks the Black Flag Camp to do whatever he wants.
These can happen. Everything cannot be based on one person's "keeping one's word".
It is precisely because of this dual contradiction between reason and emotion that Shen Hao sits on the roof drinking alcohol tonight.
If Nie Yun were here, he would tell Shen Hao directly that he was in trouble.
Why do heart knots occur? Because Shen Hao remembered his past self from Bai Changqing's previous actions, and recalled that he was not as vicious and calculating as he is now.
The kindness in his cognition made Shen Hao think that he could give Bai Changqing's family a good ending. As a token of appreciation for the same emotions that I once had.
Reasonable but alert Shen Hao, the stalemate is only temporary. If he doesn't find a way to solve it, there may be more trouble.
Then the knot came out. If the knots in your mind are allowed to exist, they may turn into obsessions in the future, and they may even turn into mental calamities when you reach a great level.
This requires Shen Hao to sort out the entanglements in his heart and find a way to balance his emotions and reason.
