[Comprehensive] Those years when I memorized the Analects of Confucius

How to make kindness?Beautiful jade decorated with Luo Ying.

But a second later, he saw the junior Hufflepuff nodded readily, and replied naturally, "Okay."

Of course it is.

Who would turn down an invitation from someone they already like?What's more, it is such a rare opportunity for two people to get along.

Draco thought casually, and when the other party turned his head and said to him with a smile, he nodded nonchalantly: "See you tomorrow."

The little badger who was beside the two also learned a lot: "See you tomorrow, Mr. Malfoy."

After saying goodbye briefly, Kong Yun turned around quickly and walked towards his prefect.The junior Slytherin squinted his eyes, and before the figures of the three Hufflepuffs slowly disappeared from the stairs, he turned around first, and walked in the completely opposite direction, which belonged to the Slytherin bedroom.

No one—maybe even I didn't notice that, at the same time when the two turned and ran in opposite directions one after another, the original looseness and carelessness faded from the eyes of the junior Slytherin, replaced by , is consistent indifference and meaninglessness.

Seeing that the entrance to the Slytherin lounge was getting closer, Draco stood still in front of the entrance. Before he could read the password to the lounge, there was a burst of footsteps and a familiar voice suddenly sounded behind him ——

"Draco, wait a minute!"

A voice that shouldn't be here anyway.

When he turned his head, he just saw the chasing boy stop in front of him. It seemed that he was too hasty when he was chasing back. Laughed: "Huh... Fortunately, I caught up with it—almost forgot about this."

Draco lowered his head to look at the small box held in his palm like a boy offering a treasure.

It's hard to say exactly why, but it's undeniable that when the figure he thought had left appeared in his field of vision with a smile again, there was indeed a lake in his heart that was calm like deep water. Among those deeply hidden emotions, I found a mood similar to "happy".

"what is this?"

"It's a gift in return. Didn't you give me a hairband last time? I thought about it and prepared this as a gift in return—" Kong Yun stuffed the beautifully wrapped small box into the arms of the junior Slytherin. Stretching out his hand, he took off the jade pendant on his body: "In terms of style, it is similar to the one on me. It has the effect of calming the mind and calming the mind. Generally speaking, it can be worn around the waist."

Draco is no stranger to accessories like "jade pendants" because he has specially learned about some of China's culture and customs. He opened the small box in his palm, and inside lay a piece of cyan jade that was very similar to Kong Yun's hand. The difference is that a colored ribbon is tied on this equally small and delicate piece of jade.

"And what is it?" he asked.

His eyes fell on the jade in the center of the box, and the junior Hufflepuff was also obviously stunned. He paused for a while, then suddenly stretched out his hand to the jade in the box——

Then of course it went blank.

The junior Slytherin conveniently put the box back into his arms. He raised his eyebrows and said bluntly, "Didn't anyone tell you that there is no reason to take back the gift you gave?"

Kong Yun rubbed his forehead with a helpless expression: "...a small mistake occurred."

"What mistake?" Draco asked, but his gaze precisely fell on the ribbon beside the jade: "Is there something wrong with this ribbon?"

"In China, there is a saying: 'Why do you form a relationship? Beautiful jade with Luoying.'" Kong Yun said.

Considering the difficulty of expressing classical Chinese in English, Kong Yun’s last short poem was written in Chinese. To his surprise, it is said that the junior Slytherins who started learning Chinese during the summer vacation did not seem to be ignorant of this: " ...So, is it your way of expressing gratitude to tie the jade pendant with a ribbon as a gift?”

"no."

Facing his friend's puzzled look, Kong Yun coughed lightly, and said a little uncomfortably: "The 'bond' here does not mean expressing gratitude."

Draco frowned, he thought about it for a while, but he couldn't come up with any results after all, which made him shrug helplessly: "Well, I have to admit, the Chinese language is indeed better than I imagined. Broad and profound... Then, what does this 'graciousness' mean?"

"'Luoying' refers to this kind of colored ribbon. In our place, in the past, women would tie Luoying on the jade of the person they like, which means that this person has a meaning of belonging-here's 'bonding' , In fact, it means marrying relatives."

Draco froze slightly.

"Now you know where the problem is?" Kong Yun couldn't help but smile wryly at this point.No wonder when the second brother gave him the jade pendant, he gave him two. At that time, he looked at the ribbon and didn't think about it for a moment. It was just a decoration. When Draco pointed it out, he suddenly remembered the The custom of jade pendant.

It was really embarrassing.

Thinking of this, Kong Yun straightened his expression, and joked: "So, if you don't want to be misunderstood, you'd better let me take off that ribbon—"

The words, which were clearly jokes, fell on my ears, but there was a subtle piercing feeling. Before Draco could distinguish where this faint displeasure came from, the words in his heart had already blurted out:

"Are you afraid that I will be misunderstood, or are you afraid that you will be misunderstood?"

As soon as the words were spoken, not to mention Kong Yun's surprised face, even the junior Slytherin himself was taken aback. He pursed his lips and was about to skip this topic, but when he heard Hufflepuff in front of him Confused, he asked, "What do you mean by being afraid that I will be misunderstood?"

Draco didn't really want to talk about it.

A long time ago, as the first person who discovered that the other party had a crush on Cedric Diggory, out of the maturity and consideration of an adult, when the junior Hufflepuff seriously talked about "a trouble of a friend of mine" At that time, he was very savvy and didn't point it out, so he wouldn't discuss this topic with the other party.

But this time it seems to be different.

It has nothing to do with being considerate, witty, etc., he is sure that he doesn't want to discuss this topic anymore, and the reason is just because he is unhappy.

Even he himself didn't know exactly where this unhappiness came from.

However, when his gaze met the dazed pupils of the junior Hufflepuff, a subtle vindictive psychology made him squint his eyes, and said nonchalantly: "I mean, more than Thinking of me, you who already have someone you like are the one who should be more worried about being misunderstood?"

It took Kong Yun a full ten seconds to understand the meaning of the other party's words.

Ten seconds later, the junior Hufflepuff raised his head, his eyes looked more blank than before: "...I have someone I like? Why don't I know?"

The bewilderment and confusion on the other party's face didn't look like a fake, so that Draco, who was still very confident at first, was a little uncertain at the moment: "Didn't you say that you have a friend who fell in love with someone younger than yourself?" Long senior?"

"Yeah," Kong Yun said bluntly without realizing the problem, "A year ago, Junior Brother Li wrote to me and told me that he fell in love with Mr. Yuecheng—is there any problem?"

Wait!

Draco was silent for a while, and finally realized that he might have made a mistake: Although most people were referring to themselves when they talked about the story of "I have a friend", in terms of Kong Yun's character, I'm afraid it really means "a friend of mine"? ...

During the time when he was silent, Kong Yun also felt something was wrong: "Why did you mention this again suddenly? Wait..." He paused, and finally understood the other party's thoughts vaguely. The corners of his mouth twitched, a little Unbelievable: "You don't think I like Senior Diggory, do you?"

The junior Slytherins said nothing.

But this does not affect Kong Yun from his silence to find the answer he is not willing to accept: "I...not..." The junior Hufflepuff rubbed his slightly swollen temples, a little unbelievable, but More unbearable: "I was only 12 years old at this time last year!...Draco, what the hell was going on in your mind?!"

"In the British magic world, it's not impossible to get engaged at the age of 12." Although a bit embarrassed, the junior Slytherin obviously couldn't tolerate the other party's questioning of his brain. He frowned and pointed out: "And I remember that even in China, such things are not uncommon."

"...That was many years ago, thank you." Kong Yun said angrily: "At least at this age, I don't think I have any affection for or contact with anyone beyond friendship - I can't do it. At this point, he paused, and took out the sleeping little milk cat from his pocket: "Did you see it?"

Draco: "...?"

"Do you still remember what it did to you last semester?" Kong Yun said calmly: "If I fell in love with someone at an inappropriate age, or if someone really had some deviant behavior, what did it do last year?" What you do to you, you will do to another person, understand?"

This is of course nonsense.

In fact, even if Kong Yun really liked someone, as long as there was no deviant behavior, Tuantuan would just be jealous and lose his temper. The hostility that Tuantuan had towards Draco last year would never happen again.As for why not tell Draco the truth...

Because he is happy :)

With the idea of ​​cutting through the mess with a sharp knife, he finished his explanation with half-truth and half-false, and the junior Hufflepuff turned around and waved at him lightly: "It's getting late, do you like that ribbon or not— -I am leaving."

He said it casually, and the person who heard it was thinking about it, but his expression gradually became weird. Draco frowned, and said in a puzzled way: "Speaking of which, this is what I've always wanted to ask you—why For the whole last year, every time your cat saw me, it was like seeing some enemy?"

I don't know if it was his illusion, but at the same moment when he finished speaking, not far away, the body of the junior Hufflepuff froze slightly.

Silently stuffing the little milk cat back into his pocket, Kong Yun thought calmly——

Did anyone speak just now?

No.

Probably too much wind.

Thinking so calmly, he turned around without hesitation, and went upstairs without looking back.