This gold master is poisonous

"Well, that's it." The aunt nodded, looking at Shen Xun with complicated eyes: "Wait a minute."

Shen Xun watched her turn and go back to the room, and came out again after a while, still holding an envelope in her hand.

The aunt put the envelope into Shen Xun's hand: "Take it. Your brother paid you more than 30 yuan in one go. It's such a large sum of money. I don't know if he will have any opinions on you. Don't put on shoes for you in private... I shouldn't have received that much money, but you also know that after your uncle bought this house, the mortgage payment is tight..."

The thickness of the envelope is not thin, and there should be 5000 yuan in it.Of course, Shen Xun couldn't pick it up, what he cared more about was: "Did Brother Hang come over to give you money?"

"It's the cost of our raising you these years." The aunt shook her head: "Your mother's family gave us a lot. In fact, at the beginning, your uncle and I said that half of the money is enough, after all, you still have half of the money. The flesh and blood of the Shen family, your uncle can't afford to let you have a meal, but your cousin is very persistent..."

"Okay, I see." Shen Xun nodded: "Well, okay, I should go now."

The eldest aunt did not keep Shen Xun for dinner.She just insisted on stuffing the money to Shen Xun, muttering "take it", "you have always been sensible", "we haven't given you any New Year's greetings for so many years" and so on.

Shen Xun finally refused, but took the envelope.

Zhuang Zhuang ran to the door to see Shen Xun off, he raised his face to look at his cousin, and whispered: "Brother, why don't you spend Chinese New Year with us this year?"

Chinese New Year... Shen Xun's thoughts wandered away for a moment.Of course Gu Hang wouldn't mind letting himself settle down, but during the Chinese New Year, rich people like him should all go back to their hometown or something?

New Years Eve alone...

However, children who grow up in modern well-off families don't have much obsession with celebrating the New Year.Shen Xun's strangeness only existed for a moment, and he smiled and replied Zhuang Zhuang: "Yes, I probably won't be back."

The eldest aunt did not speak, she just looked at the boy who was already a little strange.Shen Xun is taller and fairer than he remembered, and his pointed chin seems to be rounded.His demeanor is not as silent as before and gloomy with rejection, but a lot brighter and more confident.The corners of his mouth are no longer tightly pursed, and he often smiles a little when he doesn't realize it...

It is indeed different.

After a few more words with Zhuang Zhuang, Shen Xun left completely.The moment the door closed behind him, he turned around and looked at the dusty anti-theft door for a long time without saying a word.

Next time you come back, you should carry a box of milk and some fruit drinks, it's considered a visit to relatives.

This place, which made him troubled to define whether he is a family, finally gave a thorough answer from an external force.

It was as if some thread that had been hanging on the corner of his clothes was crushed in the crack of the door behind him.

Shen Xun put the envelope containing the money into his schoolbag, thinking of his dull uncle and his eldest aunt who had a shrill voice.After living together for so many years, when he ran out of the house with a secret hatred in his heart, when he was annoyed by the soprano and wanted to smash the wall, and when he wanted to knock open Zhuang Zhuang's skull to see if it contained a pig's brain when……

But now when he looked back, this was just a family of indifferent petty citizens with a bit of smoke and fire.

It's no different from the rest of the hustle and bustle in the city.

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Shen Xun felt a little sad in his heart, and stayed outside for a long time.As a result, this delay turned out to be bad luck: the bus waited for a long time, and finally got on one, but the bus turned off halfway.

This road is not very frequented by traffic, and it is not the peak season now. When driving to these stations, there are not many passengers on the bus, only a few sparse ones.Shen Xun waited with the driver for more than half an hour, and finally asked the master to open the car door - he could walk back by himself with this time.

The house leak happens to rain all night, and when bad luck comes, it really can't stop it.Shen Xun had just walked for about ten minutes, when the sky turned upside down when it said it would, and the dark clouds spread like a black ink box that had been overturned.Beneath the somber vault, there was an unnatural red glow in the clouds.

Shen Xun: "..." It's as if someone has chosen this feng shui treasure and used it to cross the catastrophe.

Crossing Jie Yunyun is of course just a joke.However, judging from the weather, it is estimated that there will be heavy snow and strong wind.Shen Xun tightened his clothes and quickened his pace.

Fortunately, it is snowing without an umbrella.he thought so.

After 5 minutes, Shen Xun wanted to slap himself: You don’t need an umbrella when it’s snowing, and it’s true that it’s not raining—it’s snow with hail!The hailstones, the size of a child's fingernail, were crackling downwards, and they seemed to be getting bigger and denser.

This is really grandpa yelling halfway and can't walk - he has recited it home!

Just when Shen Xun had already started to sprint at a speed of [-] meters, a passing car backed up and stopped beside Shen Xun.The car door popped open, and the man in the driver's seat said gently, "Do you need help?"

"Thank you." Shen Xun thanked repeatedly, shaking the snow and hail on his body before sitting in.The man saw that his feet were still stuck on the ground outside and couldn't help but smile: "Student, you don't have to be so careful. I will send the car to be washed tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."

"Ah."

After closing the car door, until then, Shen Xun turned his head and took a formal look at the kind car owner.

The owner of the car has fair skin, a baby face, and a gentle and clean temperament. At first glance, he seems to be a young man studying.Only the voice is very mellow, which can show his identity as an adult long ago.

"I'm sorry to trouble you." Shen Xun said with a smile: "I really didn't expect that there would be hail today."

"I just heard about the radio forecast." The man reached out and turned down the voice of the hostess on the radio, "Everyone who is still driving on the road, please pay attention..." "This day is really not suitable for driving. If you listen to the weather forecast earlier , I’m probably still sitting at home right now.”

The man turned his head with a smile and spoke very kindly: "Could it be convenient for you, classmate, to tell me the address you are going to. If it is not convenient, I will park the car here first, and you will get out of the car after you escape the hailstorm."

His smile is quite polite, until the moment when his eyes rest on Shen Xun's face, he is a gentleman enough.But the moment he saw Shen Xun's appearance clearly, not only did his voice weaken, but even the corners of his raised lips froze.

Shen Xun was taking off his schoolbag and hugging it into his arms, so that the snow on the schoolbag would not stain the seat cover, so he failed to notice the strangeness of the man.He said again and again: "It's not convenient or inconvenient, it's just too much trouble for you...Sorry, I'll answer the phone."

"Hello, Brother Hang?"

When he heard the word "Brother Hang", the man frowned.

"Yes, the weather outside is not very good. It's okay, I'm not on the road, but can you let Brother Zheng pick me up? Oh, he's in the company, so don't use it for now. Yes. Yes. I don't care. Okay, Brother Hang, you Don't worry, I'm almost home."

Shen Xun held the phone in his hand, and put it away after watching the other party hang up: "Sir, I wonder if I can trouble you..."

"You're taking the liberty." The man smiled and interrupted Shen Xun's words: "Let me ask, is the person you talked to just now named Gu?"

Shen Xun hesitated and said, "Yes."

"Then I understand." The look in the man's eyes darkened, and he opened his mouth to report an address: "Student, you are going back here, right?"

"Yes." Shen Xun nodded, and quickly turned all kinds of information in his mind: the temperament is very gentle, he knows Gu Hang, and he looks familiar... When the car stopped just now, he glanced at it, the model of this car What is it?

With a flash of inspiration in his mind, Shen Xun looked at the man and quickly said a series of license plate numbers.

When he and Tuke met on the road, Tuke specially asked him to write down the license plate number so that he would stay away when he saw it.

As soon as the man's expression changed, Shen Xun understood everything when he saw it: "So it's you. Mr. Liang is your surname?"

"Yes. My name is Liang Mu. If you don't mind, you can call me Brother Liang. What about you? What's your name?"

"Shen Xun."

"...Shen Xun." Liang Mu grinded these two words between his lips and teeth, and then let out a long breath as if he was sighing: "Gu Hang mentioned me in front of you?"

"Speaking of a little bit. He said that you are a gentleman, and it is very comfortable to get along with you. Now it seems that it is really good."

Liang Mu smiled, started the car engine, and a mischievous look appeared on his face: "What else? Gu Hang really didn't tell me anything else, did he?"

"..." It's better not to describe the face-like expression.Shen Xun hesitated for a moment: "I said that you would come back every fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Qingming Festival, Zhongyuan, and Hanyi."

"Ah, yes." Liang Mu nodded: "Because my family's ancestral grave is in this city. The family is relatively traditional, and these festivals come back to burn paper and burn incense."

Liang Mu answered Shen Xun's question without reservation, and then asked casually: "I think Gu Hang called you just now, is he at the company now, or at home?"

"Brother Hang is in the company."

"That's it." Liang Mu nodded thoughtfully: "I see that you are wearing school uniform pants and carrying a schoolbag. You should still be studying. How old are you?"

"High school senior."

Liang Mu frowned slightly, but his tone was still very gentle: "Is there no class in the third year of high school, and school is over so early?"

"Isn't there three days off on New Year's Day, and school ends at noon."

"So it is."

Liang Mu had already driven to the gate of the community.Vehicles entering and exiting this villa area must be specially registered.Just as Shen Xun was about to open his mouth to remind, the guards in the community let Liang Mu go.

"Brother Liang, do you live here too?"

"Yes." Liang Mu smiled softly at Shen Xun: "I will stay here for a few more days. You can come and find me when you are free during the holidays."

After explaining this sentence, Liang Mu opened the drawer, took out a box and handed it to Shen Xun: "Gu Hang is not at home today, so I will not visit rashly. Please give this to him for me, he understands my the meaning of."

"it is good."

Liang Mu's car made another turn, and then parked steadily at the gate of Gu's house, and said appropriately: "Remember to take a hot bath when you go back, so you don't get sick."

Until Shen Xun went upstairs, the light gray car was parked downstairs in Gu Zhai, and it took a while before it drove away again.

Shen Xun shook the satin box Liang Mu handed him.The box is not big, and there seems to be something hard inside.

On the Versatility of Hawthorn

When Gu Hang came back at night, he was blocked by Shen Xun who had been waiting for him for a long time.

New Year's Day is a holiday, so Gu Hang doesn't have to work overtime, but it's just inevitable that there will be entertainment.He drank with a group of drinking buddies who were old enough to be his uncle until the dinner was over in the early hours of the morning.

Except for two or three people at a table, they are basically from the top level, and they are all grown out of the wine table culture.Although the younger ones of them were called "good nephews" one by one, the cheap nephews were not taken seriously.Even if Gu Hang could drink, he couldn't stand being poured like this, and when he came back, facing the night wind, his head hurt like a knife.

The world in front of him was shaking, Gu Hang collected himself and confirmed it three or four times before he believed that the person sitting on the sofa was Shen Xun... When he saw Shen Xun, his head hurt even more.

"It's two or three o'clock, why haven't you slept yet?" Gu Hang sat on the sofa crookedly.The driver who helped him back was already very experienced in this kind of thing, and after greeting Shen Xun politely, he went straight to the tea room to make strong tea.

"Waiting for you." Gu Hang's coat still carried the cold air outside, and he only took off half of it and nestled under his body, making him feel uncomfortable just looking at it.Shen Xun went up to help him take off his coat, and dragged him onto the sofa to lie down: "I don't think so..."

In fact, by one or two o'clock, Shen Xun probably knew that what he wanted to say would not be able to be said: not to mention that Gu Hang probably came back drunk and drunk, and it was really unreasonable to just force people to talk about problems in the middle of the night.He waited later purely to see how late Gu Hang could stay up.

Before Gu Hang came back, Shen Xun had already decided that if he couldn't wait another half an hour, he would go back to sleep—the programs on TV were all tasteless, not to mention that many stations directly hung up the "free battle card".Shen Xun even suspected that Gu Hang was going to spend the night outside.

Knowing that Gu Hang is drunk now and doesn't have much brains to use, Shen Xun couldn't help asking: "Do you always have to fight until so late?"

"Huh?" Gu Hang looked at Shen Xun in confusion, as if he was digesting and understanding the meaning of this sentence.There was a layer of red blood in his eyes, and his expression was blank, which was rare to see, and Shen Xun couldn't bear it just by looking at it.

"Why am I bothering you..." Shen Xun laughed at himself, "Take a break."

The driver came out of the tea room after brewing strong tea, but was stopped by Shen Xun: "Forget it, drinking such strong tea will cause you to be so nervous that you can't fall asleep. I think Brother Hang is terribly tired."

"Master," the driver said with a bit of a puzzled expression, "Sir, if you don't drink something to sober up before going to bed, you'll have a headache tomorrow morning."

"Then I'll go make some hangover soup." Shen Xun put the pot of tea on the cabinet in the pantry casually: "Brother Zheng, I'm sorry to trouble you tonight. It's midnight, so go back to sleep."

The driver was indeed too sleepy, he hesitated for a while and agreed, but he still told Shen Xun repeatedly: "After the hangover soup is finished, you must wake up the husband, otherwise the husband will have a bad temper the next day. .”

"Yes, I understand." Shen Xun naturally agreed: "Of course I have to wake him up, how can I let him sleep on the sofa overnight?"

Casually flipping through the ingredients in the kitchen, Shen Xun quickly decided to make an orange-flavored hangover soup—it's convenient, fast, and it's the sweet and sour taste that Gu Hang likes.

Canned oranges and canned lotus seeds are all ready-made, and green plums and hawthorns can be washed and pitted.Adding a handful of rock sugar to the pot, Shen Xun waited patiently until the bright color became a bit sticky.

After chilling the hangover soup in crushed ice and adjusting it to a temperature that can be eaten, Shen Xun turned back to the living room and woke up Gu Hang: "Brother Hang? Brother Hang?"

Awakened by Shen Xun's hand clapping harder, Gu Hang reluctantly opened his eyelids: "Xiao Xun?"

"Drink some hangover soup and go upstairs before going to bed."

Gu Hang took the porcelain bowl in a daze, and Shen Xun sat opposite him and looked at him with his chin resting.Gu Hang, who drank the fragments, didn't make a scene as some people do when they're drunk.Gu Hang just made one instruction and one movement, with a dazed and slow expression, which made him look very... well-behaved.

Shen Xun covered his face to stop himself from having this terrible adjective fantasy.

Maybe Gu Hang should hire him a Chinese teacher, of course, anyone except Han Shenglin would be fine.

Gu Hang had already drunk to the bottom of the bowl, and ate a few pieces of oranges with a spoon.Shen Xun just made a wrong eye, Gu Hang frowned, and vomited something into the trash can.

"What's wrong?" Shen Xun was taken aback.

Gu Hang shook his head: "Don't eat hawthorn."

Shen Xun: "..." Yes, he forgot, Gu Hang is still picky eaters.

Where is this good?He must have been blind just now.

Taking the bowl out of Gu Hang's hand and putting it on the coffee table, Shen Xun half-armed and half-pulled Gu Hang to get up, sent him to the bedroom with words and actions, and finally finished cooking.

After he packed up and lay down on the bed, he raised his wrist and glanced at the electronic watch, even though he expected it, he couldn't help sighing: "My 'yesterday' was really long."

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Both of them went to bed late, and the breakfast time of the next day was naturally postponed.

Gu Hang looked in good spirits at the dinner table.Episodes like last night's may happen every now and then, and he has already gotten used to it.In contrast, Shen Xun was listless.

"Drink some porridge and go back to sleep for a while." Gu Hang said with concern: "Next time, don't wait for me to arrive so late. If you want to say anything, call me and send me a WeChat message."

"I'm having a nightmare." Shen Xun said in a low voice, "It doesn't matter if you go to bed late."

He is a young man of eighteen or nineteen years old who is full of firepower. It doesn't matter if he plays games all night in theory, and it doesn't matter if he spins papers for two or three days.

Gu Hang casually asked him: "What did you dream about?"

Shen Xun shook his head, with an unspeakable expression on his face.

His attitude made Gu Hang a little curious, so he asked a few more questions.Shen Xun seemed unable to hold back, and half-covered his face in pain, "My wife had an unexpected pregnancy and went to the first aid. The doctor asked me to take care of my elder and younger."

Gu Hang: "..."

After a while, he joked with admiration: "Our Xiao Xun really has great ambitions, manages a lot of things every day, and has an endless heart."

Shen Xun blushed, "Stop talking."

"Don't worry." Gu Hang comforted him meaningfully: "You may not have this opportunity."

Shen Xun: "..."

No, Gu Hang, will he comfort others?Don't most people say "everything in a dream is reversed" or "surely nothing like that will happen"?Why does Gu Hang's words sound a bit wrong?

Shen Xun squinted at Gu Hang, and swallowed the rest of the dream that he didn't talk about.

Surrounded by a dozen doctors and nurses, the pregnant woman was pushed into the ICU, and Shen Xun asked nervously in her dream.However, he matched the face of the pregnant woman—why did the pregnant woman have Gu Hang's face, and he in the dream didn't feel anything wrong at all!

It wasn't over yet, the doctor came out and asked him to protect the old and the young, and then a crazy nurse came over with a bowl of hangover soup and said that the mother was dying, and she should drink hangover soup to continue her life.

Shen Xun waited outside the door with big blisters on his lips, the hospital floor was so smooth that his shoes hadn't smoothed it.Just when he was about to break in, the doctor finally came out with the baby in his arms: "Congratulations, sir, your wife gave you a bunch of hawthorns!"

Shen Xun, who woke up in the morning and recalled the dream, was heartbroken.

Seeing that there was still a teasing smile on Gu Hang's mouth, Shen Xun also slowly sneered in his heart: Hehe, hawthorn.

He said why Gu Hang picks his mouth and refuses to eat hawthorn—is cannibalism plausible!

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After breakfast, Shen Xun was finally able to talk about the topic he wanted to talk about last night: "Brother Hang, did you give my uncle's family money?"

Gu Hang joked with him for a while during breakfast, until now, sitting on the sofa holding hot tea, there is a smile on the corner of his lips.After he heard the words, he put away the smile: "Yesterday I rejected the driver's pick-up, did you go to your uncle's house?"

"Yes." Shen Xun nodded hastily: "How much did you give them? About 30. Why did you do that?"

Gu Hang frowned in distress: "I didn't want you to know so early, but it's fine if you know. I mean, from now on, you only owe them love, not money. Every three festivals For two birthdays, it would be better to be more polite."

He saw that Shen Xun still had a look of hesitation on his face, so he deliberately changed his tone to tease him: "Or do you think I paid too much, and you feel sorry for the money for me?"

"Brother Hang, I'm not joking." Shen Xun looked directly at him unhappily: "I don't need you to do this. Although I usually owe both their family and you, now I only owe you. But the total amount owed is still the same. Those, what do you do to waste this effort."

"Do you really think there is no difference between owing them and owing me?" Gu Hang asked rhetorically.He raised his eyebrows slightly: "What's more, between you and me, what is owed or not. Is it because you want to have a relationship with me?"

Shen Xun was choked by his natural tone, and finally said in a low voice: "Brother Hang, how do you want me to get along with you like this."

"Do whatever you want, what happened in the past is still the same now. Do I still want to repay you with kindness?" Gu Hang shook his head: "Xiao Xun, I just want to see you well."

"You just treat this money as a bank loan, just like the student aid agreement that you can regard as a national policy. I don't want you to pay it back. If you really feel that you can't bear it, then take the original agreement Please reconsider your future plans.”

As soon as Gu Hang mentioned the personal plan, Shen Xun froze for a moment.Of course he still remembered the conversation when Gu Hang was ill. He strongly disagreed with the idea that he had sacrificed his personal development space and hobbies in exchange for money, and he had indeed confessed that he wanted to make money because he didn’t want to lose money. I owe something to my uncle's family.

Speaking of it, the time when Gu Hang mentioned "your mother and her natal nephew came to send money" to the aunt before and after his illness seemed to be right.

He has been planning since then?When did you want to say it?

But... Once she knew that she only owed Gu Hang and not the uncle's family from now on, Shen Xun really felt obviously relieved.The desire for money is also less urgent.

It might be a little funny to think about it this way, but Gu Hang, who has only been with him for less than half a year, has made him feel more like "home".

Shen Xun sighed for a long time: "Brother Hang, if you are so hardworking, even if I can pay back the money, I can't afford to pay back your love."

His voice has softened, obviously acquiescing to the meaning of this matter.

Gu Hang only smiled lightly: "Love...in fact, it may not be repayable."

He didn't say more.