Painting Tang

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"Brother? Why did you come back so late today?"

When Yu Tang opened the door and entered the room, Yu Mian was looking at the book Zou Weiyi gave them by a dim tungsten lamp. The red and black cover made the night even more eerie.

"I ran for a friend. Are you running out of medicine? I'll catch it tomorrow."

"What legs are you running?"

Yu Mian closed the book, and lightly pulled Yu Tang's little finger, "Why did you run my brother so sluggishly, did someone bully you?"

"Who can bully me."

Yu Tang smiled, but the blood between him and Yu Mian brothers is thicker than water, and the almost transparent emotions hidden in his eyes are very clear to Yu Mian,

"My brother is becoming more and more reluctant to speak his mind to me. You obviously have this expression because you have been wronged,"

Yu Mian lowered her eyes slightly, exactly like Yu Tang, her eyelashes like butterfly wings cast a withered shadow on the yellowed wall,

"Didn't that friend of my brother help my brother fight the injustice?"

"Which one are you talking about?"

Yu Tang blinked, and calmly avoided Yu Mian's temptation, erasing Mu Jingchen's uniqueness in his mind.

"It's the young master who gave me cake to eat,"

Yu Mian pretended to pat her stomach as she spoke, showing her two small canine teeth, and smiled sweetly, "Although I vomited it all out in the end, it is indeed a delicious snack."

"The friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, what obligation does he have to take care of me all the time?"

Yu Tang was originally exhausted by Zhou Yuhui's nonsense, and just wanted to sleep with her head depressed, but Yu Mian repeatedly mentioned Mu Jingchen intentionally or unintentionally tonight, as if she had found the right time to stab him in the dark Needle,

"Xiao Mian,"

Yu Tang sat up straight, her tone was the same as usual, but Yu Mian could sense that he had something serious to say,

"The weekend before..."

"Boom, boom, boom—"

A short knock on the door drowned Yu Tang's words into the night. Except for drunk men or homeless people, almost no one visited their house throughout the year. Who would knock on the door at night?

"Open the door first."

Yu Mian smiled, "Whatever brother wants to ask, it's not too late to say it before going to bed."

"Go back to your room first."

Yu Tang asked him to hide in the house, but Yu Mian obviously didn't want to let his brother face the visitors at night alone,

"What if it's the group of people from the Bilin Society? Lin Yue and the others don't matter. I'm afraid that my brother will suffer."

"I have already paid off this month's bill, and they have no reason to make trouble."

"A group of vulgar people have been pestering us for a long time. Brother, you know that if they want to make trouble, they can always find a reason."

"So you should go into the house and wait. It's windy at night. What if you have a fever again?"

Yu Tang insisted on pushing Yu Mian into the back room, after thinking for a while, he picked up the broom in the corner, walked carefully to the gate, and asked tentatively:

"who are you looking for?"

The howling wind shattered the moonlight and fell from the window. Yu Tang, who didn't get a response, slipped her Adam's apple and could only grit her teeth and push open the fragile door.

The moonlight like snowflakes flooded the room, illuminating the dim small courtyard brightly. The person standing in front of Yu Tang with the moonlight was not Lin Yue, but Mu Jingchen.

"I'm looking for Xiao Haitang."

Mu Jingchen smiled sincerely, with a look in his eyes that Yu Tang hadn't seen for a long time.

"Mr...Mr?"

"You ran too fast today, and I didn't even have time to give it to you."

As Mu Jingchen said, he took Yutang's hand and put a string of agates that were still cool with water vapor into his palm.

Only now did Yu Tang see clearly that Young Master Mu was not wearing a coat, and his trouser legs were pulled high, deep and shallow water stains could be seen on his waist, and there were still stains of mud on his ankles.

He went down to the lake to pick up the bracelet with his own hands...?

"Your sister said that this bracelet is expensive, and it's not suitable for me to accept it..."

Yu Tang wanted to refuse, but Mu Jingchen directly helped him put the agate on his wrist,

"What's inappropriate, except for you, it's a waste to wear this Tanghua agate on anyone's hand. And don't take Zhou Yuhui's nonsense to heart. I have already punished her to squat in the yard. Her mouth I don’t know who I learned so badly from.”

"Girls are also punished to squat?"

"It's what happens when mistakes are made in our family, men and women, young and old."

Mu Jingchen said with a smile, "My father is often kicked out by my mother to stand when he is old."

It was rare for Yu Tang to be amused by him, and he gently stroked the ruby ​​and emerald that had returned to his wrist after more than ten years, his eyes were filled with a glint of joy or slyness.

No one knew whether he was moved by Mu Jingchen's favoritism, or whether it was more convenient for him to get close to the Mu family who killed his whole family than Zhou Yuhui and Mu Jingchen.

"If you think the punishment is not enough, I'll let people watch her copy the Tao Te Ching that my mother often recites a few times."

Mu Jingchen saw that Yu Tang didn't seem to be very interested, so he raised his hand and brushed his hair, "I guess you must be in a bad mood, so I brought you a handful of candies."

After a while of rustling, the fruit-scented candy was stuffed into Yu Tang's palm, and another one was peeled off and handed to his lips.

"The punishment is too heavy and your sister will only hate me even more,"

In the blink of an eye, Yu Tang seemed to have made some kind of decision in his heart. He gently swallowed the candy that Mu Jingchen handed over to him, and after looking at each other with Mu Jingchen, he quietly moved his eyes away.

Mu Jingchen, who was sweeter than the dozen or so candies in his hand, was too fiery and dazzling.

"Are you... cold?"

Yu Tang looked away, Mu Jingchen, who got his concern, almost couldn't help peeling some candy for him to eat again, regardless of the goosebumps on his legs being blown by the cold wind, he smiled like a child in March. a sweet wind,

"It's not cold. Especially after seeing you laughing, it's not cold at all."

"But you're still barefoot..."

"You don't want to wear the boots you cleaned for me into the lake."

"You're sure to catch a cold."

As Yu Tang spoke, he also helped Mu Jingchen button two shirt buttons. He was used to taking care of Yu Mian, so he never saw Mu Jingchen tossing so desperately.

Presumably, Mu Jingchen jumped into the lake to pick up the bracelet and ran to him before he even had time to change his clothes and shoes.

"If I caught a cold because of this, I would have died on the mountain."

Mu Jingchen paused, then said,

"If you are willing to call me Mu Jingchen instead of Mr. Mu, I will definitely feel warmer."

"It's just a title, you..."

"Brother--!"

Zhen Hui's rough voice echoed crazily in the alley, causing several households to kick open their windows and curse.

"Brother! Why are you running so fast! At least put on your shoes! Oh, sister-in-law, are you not angry with your brother?"

Zhen Hui stood at attention and stopped in front of the two of them, with a bit of dignity in the humor, and a bit of casualness in the dignity.

"I'm not your sister-in-law."

Compared with his loudspeaker, Yu Tang's resisting voice seemed extremely thin.

"It's just a title."

Mu Jingchen poked Yu Tang's elbow with a smile, "Don't worry so much."

"..."

Yu Tang sometimes really suspects that Mu Jingchen's gentleness and kindness are all fakes. Maybe this long-haired big white dog wagging its tail is actually a big bad wolf with dark eyes after the disguise is removed.

After Zhen Hui greeted Mu Jingchen to put on shoes and a coat, he stepped back ten steps in a very sensible way, and looked at Yu Tang with a loving smile on his face.

"Have you run out of candy?"

Mu Jingchen naturally ignored Zhen Hui, and even took two steps forward to block Zhen Hui's view of Yu Tang.

"Just chewed,"

Yu Tang froze for a moment, not knowing whether to swallow it or not, until he saw Mu Jingchen happily peeling off another one.

"It's cool at night, why don't Mr. Mu go home early?"

He deliberately bit the word "Mr. Mu" very hard, but Mu Jingchen still listened comfortably. At least this "Mr." has a bit of coquettish stubbornness in it, which is better than the previous politeness and alienation. how many times.

"Stand with you for a while."

Mu Jingchen had no intention of leaving, and spent three or four days in the barracks in a row with those rough men. Finally, he was able to stay alone with Xiao Haitang for a while, so he was reluctant to go home like this.

"It's not that I can't see you anymore. If you continue to waste like this, you really have to go to the hospital tomorrow."

"At least until you finish eating this candy."

"...Crack, click."

Enduring the discomfort of her teeth, Yu Tang quickly chewed and swallowed the candy. Mu Jingchen was visibly stunned for a moment, and when he was about to brazenly feed Yu Tang another one, there was a coughing sound in the room .

"Brother, cough cough, who is outside? Are you okay?"

Yu Mian's voice was hoarse, and his cough sounded extremely fragile, as if he was about to cough out his lungs at any time.

"That's right, too much sugar is bad for your teeth."

Mu Jingchen withdrew his hand knowingly, knowing that Yu Mian was driving him away, of course he didn't have to leave, and he could even take Yu Tang home directly, but his young master Mu still has face .

"My brother can't stand the wind,"

Yu Tang looked at Mu Jingchen's deflated look and bent his lips again, "I wonder if I can eat candy with Mr. Mu in the studio tomorrow?"

"of course."

Only then was Mu Jingchen willing to leave, and before he left, he told Yutang to wear the bracelet properly, and don't take it if there is nothing to do.

Originally, Zhen Hui thought that Mu Jingchen was going to hang around for a while, so he found a corner and just lit a cigarette, but his young master told him to leave, so he had to curse and put out the cigarette butt and ran to drive.

After sending the two of them away, Yu Tang pulled up her sleeves, covered the bracelet on her wrist with the sleeves, and then opened the bedroom door to see Yu Mian, who was coughing hard.

"elder brother,"

Yu Mian nestled under the quilt obediently, "I want to sleep with my brother tonight."

"Take the quilt with me, and then suffer a night of freezing, and then get seriously ill?"

Yu Tang tapped his forehead, but Yu Mian suddenly grabbed his wrist, almost pulling him down on the bed,

"I took it upon myself to hide the ticket for others to invite you to the art exhibition on the weekend."

Yu Tang didn't expect that he would take the initiative to admit it. Before he could finish the conversation, Yu Mian said slowly in a soft voice,

"I saw the license plate number of the person who delivered the ticket. It's the car of the Mu family. It's the Mu family who killed his parents and sister."