It was almost midnight, and Jian Qiao's body, which had not yet fully recovered, had stretched to the limit.He was sleepy, but the drowsiness of the nightmare forced him to drive away, which made his face paler than usual.

Lei Zhe, who was paying attention to him all the time, soon noticed something strange, and immediately said: "Andre and the others may have to play until the middle of the night, why don't you go back first, and I'll see you off."

"Then I'll go first." Jian Qiao stood up immediately.

In front of Lei Zhe, he doesn't need to maintain perfect aristocratic etiquette, nor does he need to be considerate of everyone.Uncomfortable is uncomfortable, wanting to leave is just wanting to leave, there is nothing to hide.

"You wait at the door first, I'll bring you a cloak here." Lei Zhe took Jian Qiao to the side hall, gave some instructions in a low voice, and then walked towards his bedroom.

The servant had just told him that it was raining outside, and he knew how cold a drizzling night in early spring could get.At this time, even the elusive owl will fly into the cabin, regardless of danger, to share a warm fire with the hunter.

Lei Zhe had noticed before that Mr. Earl only wore a cashmere coat, which was obviously not enough to keep warm.

"Your physical condition, you should know best. When someone else wears a coat, you have to add a cape. When someone else wears a cape, you have to add a vest stuffed with duck down. You always have to wear one more piece than others, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that." Lei Zhe muttered as he walked.

Jian Qiao nodded obediently: "Okay, I understand, I will definitely pay attention in the future."

His meekness made Lei Zhe smile with satisfaction, and then he strode upstairs, his voice full of vitality: "Just wait, I'll be right there."

The sound of thumping footsteps went away. Jian Qiao stood there for a while, then walked slowly with her hands behind her back.

Suddenly, an old voice came from the corridor outside: "Sir, are you lost?"

Jian Qiao looked back, and then immediately stepped forward to salute: "Your Highness, hello. I am not lost, I am waiting for Lei Zhe here, and he will be here in a while. I am Jane Qiao, the son of Ronces Joe , it's an honor to meet you."

"Ah, so it's the son of Ronces. You've grown up so much, how time flies!" The Duke of Grande showed an expression of enlightenment, with a faint light shining from his cloudy eyes.

He seemed to be recalling the glorious years of the past.

Jian Qiao looked at him rather surprised.

In just a few days, this hale and hearty old man has become so haggard.The hair on his sideburns had been bleached a little by the wind and frost, and a few new wrinkles had quietly crept up on his forehead.The great changes in his family made him no longer have the all-powerful and powerful aura of the past.

The power in his hands dissipated like a cloud of smoke, leaving him with nothing in the end.That's why he never showed up at the banquet.As Lei Zhe said, his time is over.

"Lei Zhe told you to wait here? Are you his friend?" Duke Grande asked.

"Yes, we are good friends." Jian Qiao was very sure of this friendship.

The eyes of the Duke of Grande lit up slightly, and his attitude immediately became kind and enthusiastic, "Then can I show you this old castle? It is more than 200 years old, and its high walls and fortifications have been eroded by a long time." , but also gave it many priceless treasures, I think you should be interested in these things. We can talk while walking."

He wants to get close to and know his only son, but sadly, as a father, he can only resort to this roundabout way.

"Of course, it's my honor." Jian Qiao would not refuse an invitation from an old man.

He informed the servants in the side hall of his whereabouts, and then followed the old duke away.

"Let me take you to see Lei Zhe's favorite place first, it is full of his trophies." The old duke said enthusiastically.

The two went further and further apart.

After a while, Lei Zhe ran down the stairs with a velvet cloak in his arms. He didn't see Jian Qiao, and his face sank.

The servant standing aside immediately said: "The Duke took him to visit."

"Where to visit?" Lei Zhe felt relieved.

Although the old man was eccentric and confused, he was very gentle and polite to the guests.He shouldn't make it difficult for Jane Qiao.

"I think they went to your gallery." The servant guessed.

Lei Zhe: "!!!"

"shit!"

This time, Lei Zhe really swears.He didn't know why he was in such a hurry, but he just didn't want Jian Qiao to go to that corridor and see his "great achievements".How would Jian Qiao feel about the more than 100 pictures of beauties hanging on two walls?

Lei Zhe used to be proud of his record.He would often bring the guests there, pointing to one painting after another, introducing them triumphantly.Whether those beauties are hot or gentle, warm and lovely or cold, how they shed painful tears when they broke up, and how they hugged him and begged to stay, all seemed to happen yesterday.

Speaking of them, Lei Zhe can always talk about them like a treasure.He believes that "rich love history" and "war scars" have the same existence value, and they are both men's medals.

However, when these medals were placed in front of Jian Qiao, he felt extremely awkward, and even faintly ashamed.

He didn't know why he became so strange, but what was certain was that he didn't want Jane Qiao to come into contact with these things.

Jian Qiao has never dated a lover so far, and Lei Zhe does not want to arouse the other party's desire to find a lover at all.He ran at full speed in the corridor like a cheetah, knocked over several servants on the way, shattered glasses and plates all over the floor, and made people fall apart.

Finally, when Jian Qiao's foot was about to step into the gallery, he arrived.

"I'm sorry I'm late! Put on the cloak quickly!" He unfolded the cloak, wrapped Jian Qiao in it, then held the other's head, and forcibly turned it in one direction.

Before Jian Qiao could look at anything, it was dark in front of her eyes.

"Your carriage is ready, let's go, I'll take you there. We'll visit the castle another day." Lei Zhe half-dragged and half-hugged Jian Qiao away.

As he stepped over the threshold, he gave the old prince a hard look and shook his fist menacingly.

This reminded the old duke suddenly of Lei Zhe learning swordsmanship when he was a child.Every time he loses to himself, he will show this resentful expression, and then wave his small fist a few times.He is a very competitive kid.

At that time, like ordinary father and son, they would fight and quarrel, and they would make up quickly when the sun rose.

He loves this kid.The kid loves him too.

But then, everything changed...

The old prince's eyes were moist.The numbness during this period finally turned into belated regret, which pierced deeply into his heart and turned into a festering wound.He followed the two of them into Drizzle Rain, opened his mouth to say something, but his tongue tasted cold.

It made him speechless.

At the same moment, Jian Qiao also opened her mouth, but she didn't know how to organize her words.

What about the hug you said earlier?

Lei Zhe put his arms around his chest and looked at him intently.

Faced with this closed posture, Jian Qiao had no choice but to board the carriage with the help of a servant.

Lei Zhe stretched out his hand at this moment, grabbed his back collar, and said with a smile in his voice, "Aren't you going to give me a parting hug?"

Without a second of hesitation, Jian Qiao turned around immediately and gave her friend a hug.When his chin lightly rested on Lei Zhe's shoulder, his floating heart seemed to drop at this moment.

After five years of confusion and hesitation, I finally found a clear exit and slowly dissipated in the warm light and shadow.He began to blend into this strange world, and let a part of this world blend into his lonely heart.

"That's great!" he sighed meaninglessly but extraordinarily contentedly.

"Where is it good?" Lei Zhe asked as usual.

"It's nice to be in your arms." Jian Qiao said without thinking.

Lei Zhe: "..."

He can guarantee that [-]% of the lovers he has dated have said similar things.However, the same love words that came out of their mouths, which had long been boring and felt vulgar, had an indescribable appeal when they came out of Mr. Earl's mouth.

Lei Zhe's heart became hot because of this.

"Promise me, don't say that to anyone," he begged.

"Okay, I should go." Jian Qiao withdrew from her friend's embrace and slowly boarded the carriage.

Lei Zhe hurriedly stepped forward to help, but his heart was empty.This hug was too short.

However, in the next second, his heart was filled again by Mr. Earl's sweet words.

Jian Qiao stuck her head out of the car window and said softly, "I can only say this to you, because you have been the only one who has hugged me since I was a child. Thank you, the warmth at this moment is very important to me."

From this moment on, he was finally sure that he was real in this world.It was also from this moment that he realized that he was no longer alone.

Father, mother, grandpa, grandma...Everyone who appeared in his life, no one has ever given him a hug that was as short as a second.Because he was an illegitimate child, his birth was original sin.

But here, he is not guilty.

In his previous life, he spent more than 20 years figuring out the problem, but he figured it out in that hug just now, and then let go of it.

"I really hate to leave you." He leaned against the car window, looking at Lei Zhe's eyes filled with water.

Lei Zhe helped his forehead and almost groaned.

The little leopard he brought back from the forest was not as coquettish as Mr. Earl.This wet look is too lethal.

Lei Zhe was about to say, "Then you stay here", when he saw Andre and his group of friends galloping past on horseback from a distance, and their servants were taking out boxes of opium from the base of the carriage. Get ready for a crazy night of rhythm.

Lei Zhe cursed secretly, then waved his hands helplessly: "I don't want you too, but I don't want you to be tired even more. If you stay, you will be tossed by them all night. Let's meet again next time. Go back, I wish you Hello dream."

The carriage moved slowly.

Jian Qiao poked her head out and said sincerely, "I hope to see you in my dream. Only such a dream can be regarded as a good dream."

Lei Zhe lowered his head and supported his forehead, and finally let out an unbearable moan: Mr. Earl's mouth...

Jian Qiao quickly asked, "You don't touch opium, do you?"

At the last banquet, everyone was smoking opium, but Lei Zhe was indifferent, so Jian Qiao guessed that he should not smoke such things.

"No, never." Lei Zhe shook his head immediately, and then said in a deep voice, "Promise me never to try it, it's not a good thing!"

"Okay, I promise you, I will never touch it." Jian Qiao was completely relieved.

One of them leaned on the car window and looked back reluctantly, while the other stood at the gate of the castle and stared intently, until both of them disappeared in the drizzle and thick fog, they respectively retracted their gazes, and then sighed in unison.

As for sighing, they don't know.

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