Ambush from all sides
Chapter 20
That night, Shi Lin was rushed back to Changshu overnight by Li Feifei.Dead Leaf didn't know exactly what happened, but when he came back, he heard from Yuan He that it was nothing more than trivial matters.As for love and liking, if you are tired of it, you are tired of it. It used to be cute, but now it is annoying. There is never any reason for the development of this kind of thing to end.
Pei Junrong didn't come back with them, saying that time was running out and he had to stay in Buzhuang to catch up with work. For some reason, Pei Xi clings to his father a little bit tighter today, holding Pei Junrong's hand and staring at him, saying that he also wants to stay in Buzhuang.It's good that the father and son stopped arguing, but Li Feifei didn't seem very happy. At that time, he couldn't hold back a word with a sulky face, and he shook his sleeves and left angrily.
Looking at his distraught back with cold eyes, Dead Leaf couldn't help but feel a trace of indifferent pleasure in her heart.
As for Qiu Langxing who was beaten up by him, that guy was still crying in the side hall.A little servant girl got the medicine to wipe it off for him, dipped the ointment in a veil and applied it to his face and eye sockets, and while wiping Qiu Langxing, she wailed and cried out in pain.Both Dead Ye and Yuan He didn't bother to pay attention to him, when it was time to go back, Dead Ye walked up to him with a cold face and kicked him without saying a word.Qiu Langxing lay down on the table with a wrinkled face and wailed: "Hey, you are so cruel and merciless, I just lured you here for fun, as for such a heavy hand..."
Yuan He watched outside the room, couldn't help laughing out loud, and said while laughing: "Mr. Qiu, don't pretend to cry! It's time to go back to eat!"
Qiu Langxing straightened up and wiped his face, raised his eyes pitifully at the dead leaves, and at the same time got up and limped out.He stumbled to Yuan He's side, threw his tall body on the girl's shoulders, hid behind her and said mysteriously: "I tell you, you big brother Cen... ruthless! He has killed many, many before." Human! You have to be careful when you get along with him, maybe one day if you are not happy, you will do it! You see, I was beaten terribly just now..."
Yuan Hepi stretched out two fingers to pinch the muscles and bones in his waist without smiling, and teasingly said: "Don't worry about this, sir, I'm not as cheap as you."
So Qiu Langxing was carried back by the two of them crying all the way, howling non-stop on the way, he was treated as a donkey's liver and lungs for his poor heart, and a dog biting Lu Dongbin.Yuan He couldn't help listening to it, and covered his mouth and kept laughing.
Withered Leaf asked her with a stinky face: "Is this idiot like this all day long?"
Yuan He held back a smile and waved his hands: "Fortunately, Mr. Qiu is still very serious when he does things, but he usually likes to tease people a little bit. Just ignore him, he is just like this, and he has annoyed Uncle Zhong a few times. Got spanked a few times."
"Slap the ass?...Uncle Zhong?!" Withered Ye frowned, her face full of shock and surprise.
"How is that possible!" Yuan He was dumbfounded by his thinking circuit: "Uncle Zhong has the most powerful guy named Zheng Dong, who has been in Changzhou all the time, and he was the one who beat him up twice. Brother Zheng hit hard , usually unsmiling, Mr. Chou is like a mouse seeing a cat when he sees him."
The mouse saw the cat... Well, not all mice are afraid of cats.Withered Ye pursed her lips, and looked back to see Qiu Langxing's colorful face, and her bad mood during the day eased a little.
When they returned to the exhibition house, they had already waited for dinner for quite some time.Just as Zhan Hao saw Li very stinky and rushed back, someone had already reported to him what happened in Buzhuang today.Regarding the matter between this guy and Shi Lin, Zhan Hao didn't intend to intervene, anyway, it had nothing to do with him, all he cared about was whether his little fox was very irritated by Li.
What if he is angry, what if he is not angry, Zhan Hao thought for a while, but he couldn't figure out why.He hoped that Dead Leaf would care about him a little bit, but neither of these two results seemed to explain anything. Some of the little fox's thoughts were still a little hard to guess.
Dead Leaf met Zhan Hao as soon as he entered the door.Zhan Hao sat in the front hall and waited for him, but he wanted to pretend to be discussing things with Uncle Zhong.Dead Leaf saw that he was holding a thick notebook in his hand, and Uncle Zhong was sitting next to him "crackling" abacus, his fingers dancing fast.Hearing the movement, Zhan Hao raised his head calmly, and when he saw him, he showed a somewhat complaining expression: "Why did you come back now? I haven't seen you all afternoon, where did you go?"
Yuan He was standing by the side, and at that moment he felt slanderous in his heart, don't you know the whereabouts of Big Brother Cen, why are you pretending?It's just that because of his face as a young master, Yuan He just pouted quietly, turned around and walked away silently.
Although Zhan Hao kept looking at the dead leaves, he actually noticed her expression.This girl, everyone in his Zhan family almost worshiped him as something. If you want to say that she has a good temper, one is Min Wei, and the other is Yuan He.These two are not honest masters, and they can't meet each other in normal times. When they meet, they will sing and respond to him. It's really hard to separate them for themselves.
Seeing Yuan He walking away, Dead Leaf felt a little annoyed, so she didn't say anything.As soon as Zhan Hao saw his reaction, he knew that he was definitely awkward again, and Li Feifei was really a bad guy.Just as he was thinking of calling this awkward fox boy over to comfort him, Qiu Lang ran in from behind with a "ouch".As soon as he entered the door, he staggered onto Dead Leaf's shoulder and cried, "Boss Zhan, look at how ruthless your guards are! I'm about to be broken by him!"
It's okay if you don't talk about it, but when you talk about it, Zhan Hao gets angry.He originally wanted to hang the dead leaves at home to let him reflect on his attitude towards himself, but he was abducted by this guy halfway.At this moment, seeing Qiu Langxing's two giant panda eyes covered his face, and the corner of his mouth was bruised and purple, Zhan Hao and Uncle Zhong made a movement at the same time - glanced, raised their eyebrows, gloating, "You Stupid looking for trouble" look.As soon as Qiu Langxing saw Uncle Zhong beside him, he immediately behaved himself.He straightened his clothes, stood up straight, and greeted Uncle Zhong with a low eyebrow: "Master..."
Zhong Yunde calmly put down the little abacus in his hand, with a calm smile on his face: "Ah Xing, your skin is itchy again, isn't it?"
"Apprentice knows his mistake." Qiu Langxing lowered his head so low that the dead leaves were a little dazed from that humble posture—is this guy really Qiu Langxing?
"Hmph," Zhong Yunde sneered, took a sip of the tea in hand, and then continued calmly, "We've only been in Suzhou for a few days, so you can just jump around vigorously. When you get back to Changzhou, you won't have to worry about it." No one will treat you." As he spoke, he threw the abacus in his hand, and Qiu Langxing hurriedly caught it.Uncle Zhong thumped his sore back and stood up: "Wait for you for a long time, you're starving to death...I'll go eat first, and you stay here and settle the score! If you make a wrong calculation, you will suffer in the future!"
"Yes." Qiu Langxing agreed honestly with his mouth flattened, and then he climbed onto the chair slowly, opened the account book and started to calculate the calculation.Zhan Hao stood aside and looked at him with raised eyebrows, with a half-smile on his face: "Mr. Qiu, you've been running for a long time, are you hungry?"
Qiu Langxing was helpless, but he didn't follow his advice: "Okay, okay, Zhan Hao, stop making fun of me, hurry up and eat your food with the dead leaves, I've heard his stomach growl for a long time."
As soon as he heard his words, Dead Leaf's whole body began to get angry: "Qiu Langxing, you still want to be beaten, don't you?"
"Oh, I'm so scared!" Qiu Langxing exaggeratedly showed a terrified expression, and in the blink of an eye he returned to the normal state of laughing: "Just admit it when you're hungry, it's not something to be ashamed of. Look at you! I have to save face, isn't it uncomfortable?"
"You..." The dead leaf was getting a little hairy, and she was gnashing her teeth and wanted to hit him twice, but Zhan Hao silently came over from the side and grabbed his arm and pulled it out: "Okay, leave him alone and go eat." Dead Leaf was still suffocating in her heart, she was annoyed when she saw him, and wanted to break free immediately: "I'm not hungry! I won't eat!"
As soon as the voice fell, his stomach made a loud "grunt" sound.Withered Ye was instantly overwhelmed with embarrassment, her cheeks flushed and her body became stiff.Qiu Langxing laughed secretly at the side, and Zhan Hao also helped his forehead helplessly, and after a while stretched out his hand to support his shoulder and coaxed in a low voice: "Okay, okay, let's go eat first, and you can tell me later if you are angry." .”
After speaking, he reluctantly dragged the person away.Qiu Langxing sighed pretendingly in the chair, thinking of the sound of the dead leaf's stomach growling just now, he wanted to laugh again, but before the corners of his mouth were opened much, the wound started to throb and hurt.He couldn't help but cover the corner of his mouth and take a "hissing" breath, cursing this cruel dead leaf in his heart, one day you will be deflated too, just wait!
Just after cursing, Qiu Langxing's stomach grunted loudly, and his complacent face collapsed instantly.I was so hungry, but my hands were stuffed with work again... Woohoo, Qiu Langxing groaned, pulled the abacus over, and continued to settle accounts crying.
Dead Leaf was not happy.He hasn't been in a good mood since Zhan Hao ordered him to evict him in his room last night. To be precise, he has never been in a good mood since he followed Zhan Hao and entered Zhan's house as a guard.
He never seemed to be happy, either as a child or as an adult.People in the clan, master, or Zhao Cong later said that he was born with a coffin face, as if someone owed him.
In fact, he is not unhappy, he just doesn't know how to be happy.
Most of the time he is not angry, but because of his aura, it makes people feel that he is inaccessible.Ji Tang and Zhong Lan have experienced it. Although Big Brother Cen is often expressionless, if you ask him to help with anything, he will come to help.Dead Leaf felt that she was actually very seldom angry. He wasn't angry when Bai Yutang beat him to death, he was just not convinced.I am not as good as others, so there is nothing to be angry about.
But since following Zhan Hao, Dead Leaf has deeply noticed that she is getting angry.Often, often, every now and then, Zhan Hao will make his orifices smoke.In fact, those words that Zhan Hao teased him were harmless, and it could even be said to be innocuous, without any real lethality, but they could just make him very angry.
This made Dead Leaf very annoyed.
And not only did Zhan Hao make him angry, but the people around Zhan Hao also made him angry.Let's put Qiu Langxing aside, the nasty Li Fei made him very displeased.When that guy yelled at him today, Dead Leaf couldn't even figure out what was so good about him?Yes, it's true that I am a martial artist, so I can't help Zhan Hao in business, but he doesn't seem to treat you much?Don't you just want to say that you are more useful than me? Then why doesn't Zhan Hao bring you by his side?You scold me as a running dog, but looking at it like this, you seem to want to be a running dog very much, don't you?
Angrily twisting and twisting, the dead leaves clenched the chopsticks in their hands and smashed the vegetables in the rice bowl.Uncle Zhong raised his eyes and saw the mess in his bowl, and turned his face to look at Zhanhao with some malice.Zhan Hao secretly sighed in his heart, thinking that he had to appease this awkward guy again later.One is Li Fei, the other is Qiu Langxing, you two are really good at picking things up.
At this time, there was a sudden "clang" from the side, and the dead leaf kicked the stool away and stood up with a dark face.Zhan Hao and Uncle Zhong raised their faces to look at him, and saw him standing for a while with his back teeth gritted, then turned and walked out without saying a word.Zhan Hao was stunned and didn't move, he was kicked under the table by Uncle Zhong: "Why are you so stupid, chase after him."
Zhan Hao sat still, with a relaxed and helpless expression: "No hurry, let him calm down first, I'll think about how to coax him first."
"Hehe, do you still want to talk?" Zhong Yunde teased him with a smile, his eyes full of unkind gloating: "I thought you are omnipotent, young master, and you can come up with all kinds of sweet words at your fingertips."
Zhan Hao looked at him helplessly, and said, "Uncle, sometimes I really miss your kind and serious appearance."
For his words, Zhong Yunde's reaction was to give him a big white eye, and then he turned his face away in embarrassment and continued to eat his meal.
As soon as she walked into the room angrily, Dead Leaf saw the black linen summer clothes on the table.It was the one that Zhan Hao dug out before, and now it has been dyed the black that he always prefers.
Withered Leaf reluctantly stretched out his hand to touch the clothes, it felt light and cool, and one could imagine how comfortable it was to wear.He stared at the dress for a long while, hesitantly, and wanted to try it a little bit, but he was still stunned, so he just stared and didn't move.
Zhan Hao followed him quietly and stood at the door without making a sound.Dead Leaf didn't feel his breath at all, and stared at the clothes in front of her without realizing it, with a bitter and hatred expression on her face.Thinking that the clothes seemed to be worn by Zhan Hao, the feeling of repulsion in his heart became heavier and heavier.Finally, when he thought of what Li Fei said during the day... he was just Zhan Hao's lackey, he became completely irritable.
So, Zhan Hao saw him angrily reaching out and grabbing his clothes from behind.At that moment, he thought that the dead leaf wanted to try on the clothes, and he was still a little happy, but in the blink of an eye, the dead leaf turned around with a "huh", raised the arm holding the clothes high, and wanted to The clothes are thrown away!It's a pity that when he turned around and saw him, the furious fox boy was stunned.
Zhan Hao stood where he was, and smiled at him helplessly: "You don't like this dress?"
Withered Ye's eyes widened, the distance between the two of them was a little close, Zhan Hao could even see his pupils dilated due to astonishment.
Zhan Hao smiled wryly, and stretched out his hand to touch his face, but Dead Leaf quickly came back to his senses, and punched him viciously.Zhan Hao unhurriedly stretched out his hand to block it, slid his arm out along his hand, turned his wrist to grab his hand.The dead leaf was restrained by his twisting arm, and he felt a little angry for a while, then he threw off his clothes with the other hand, and his five fingers formed claws to break through the air. At the same time, he twisted his body outward, breaking free from his shackles.Seeing that he could grab the bastard's shoulder immediately, Zhan Hao's body seemed to be falling apart, and he dodged in an extremely strange posture.
Seeing this, Dead Leaf couldn't help being stunned for a moment, but didn't want to be caught by Zhan Hao in this gap - he pulled Dead Leaf's hands like a ghost, and turned around behind him and strangled Dead Leaf's hands hard. The cross-shaped pincers are behind him.
"Zhan Hao! Let me go!" The dead leaf was held tightly by him, unable to move, he couldn't help shouting angrily.Zhan Hao sighed faintly behind him, put his lips close to his ear and whispered: "Bie Cen, you should know that you can't beat me."
Hearing this, Dead Leaf became even more annoyed, almost to the point of extreme anger.But when he thought about what Li Fei said during the day, his mood suddenly calmed down.He sneered with the corners of his mouth pulled, turned his face to look sideways at Zhan Hao, and said, "Yes, since this is the case, why do you still ask me to be your bodyguard? Raising someone for nothing, is there nowhere to spend more money?!"
Looking at his angry and indifferent eyes, Zhan Hao couldn't help but sigh, loosened his grip, and the dead leaf immediately jumped a foot away.He rubbed the center of his brows, and sat down on the stool by the table a little tiredly. The dead leaf on the opposite side kept frowning and staring at him, eyes full of distrust.
"What do you call raising you for nothing? Didn't you help me raise a cat?" Zhan Hao said with lowered eyes, his tone not very sure.Withered Ye sneered, remembering that the two of them seemed to have had a similar conversation a few days ago, so she blocked back exactly what he said that day: "The little mandarin duck is not your cat."
After hearing this, Zhan Hao had no choice but to help his forehead, his whole body was a little weak.He lowered his eyes and sighed, shook his head as if disappointed, and said after a while: "Bie Cen, do you think I'm giving you alms?"
Withered Ye looked at him coldly from the opposite side, his eyes were stubborn and vigilant, but there was also a hint of unwillingness and awkwardness.Zhan Hao raised his eyes heavily, his expression was vague, he didn't know whether it was sad or indifferent.He looked deeply at the dead leaves, with a serious expression, for a moment, the dead leaves even felt that his eyeballs seemed to emit a bewitching light.
"Bie Cen, I know you followed me."
He suddenly spoke, his tone was unhurried, with an unquestionable certainty in his tone: "I am in front of you now, and I don't have any secrets. If I have, it's just some business matters, and you are not interested. You are following me In those few days, you should have seen that my life is very boring. I also told you that I am not much better than you. "
"Yes, I asked you to do things by my side. Maybe there is no valid reason, but many things have no motive. You saw Xiao Hei fell into the pond and fished him up. Do you have any motive? To be honest, it was just a matter of chance That's all, don't waste anything on you."
"Similarly, I brought you back and gave you a leisurely job to do, so you won't be idle all day—it's just a matter of convenience. You know, I'm boring."
Saying that, Zhan Hao narrowed his eyes, and the eyelids drooped again.
"You and I still have some relationship. Our previous friendship... It may be a bit reluctant to say that we are friends, but at least for now, I think it is passable. Indeed, I like you more than Li Wei and Qiu Langxing, So it is better for you than them. As for why, I can't explain it, maybe I fell in love with you, there is no motive to pursue."
Hearing what he said, the cold look on Dead Leaf's face softened a little, at least she didn't stare at him anymore.Hearing that he didn't answer, Zhan Hao raised his eyes pretending to be unintentional in the silence, and as expected - he saw the fox's awkward and tangled expression.
Hey, his little fox is still easy to coax, it doesn't take much trouble at all, and he can be shaken in a few words.
Dead Leaf also noticed his eyes, turned away his face uncomfortably under awkwardness, and said with a stiff mouth: "What's so good about me, I'm a martial artist, and I won't help you do business."
Seeing his dead duck appearance, Zhan Hao's heart itch tightly, he really wanted to pry his mouth open, use some shameful method to force him to only tell the truth, and save him the trouble of guessing about this guy every day.It's a pity that the time hasn't come yet, maybe there has been some development compared to before, but it still doesn't work, and we have to go further.The little fox has to agree with him a little more, and like him a little more...
He must have the dead leaves be with him willingly, maybe he can't say it out of his mouth, but at least he can't escape in his heart.
Looking at the withered leaves that were still frowned, Zhan Hao couldn't help showing a trace of gentle doting in his eyes.He lowered his eyes and smiled to cover up, and said slowly: "It is precisely because I have seen a lot of businessmen, and finally met a guy who does not covet my money, so I think it is more precious."
Now the dead leaves had nothing to say, and most of the anger that had been pent up in their hearts was gone.Zhan Hao saw that his emotions were about to loosen up, so he took advantage of the victory to pursue him unhurriedly: "Okay, don't be angry. Li Feifei is against you in his heart, wishing you could quarrel with me. You really fell for it. You haven’t eaten enough yet, right? Let him know, maybe he’ll be proud of it.”
"Hmph," Dead Leaf rolled her eyes, twisted her body and hummed disdainfully, "That guy, I'll beat him up one day."
"Yes, yes," Zhan Hao agreed with a smile, his eyes narrowed with a slight smile, "Did you enjoy playing Qiu Langxing today?"
Withered Leaf glared at him, her expression still stinky: "Hmph."
This time Zhan Hao really laughed, and turned his face away to cover up.Withered Leaf turned around and stared at him unhappily, growling in embarrassment: "What are you laughing at!"
"I didn't laugh, I didn't laugh..." Zhan Hao stretched out his hand and shook it to show his innocence, and got up after a while, the corners of his mouth were tightly pursed, but he still couldn't hide the upward curve: "Are you still hungry? I'll go to the kitchen to make sesame paste for you." As he spoke, he stood up contentedly, turned around and was about to go out, but was stopped by Dead Leaf unwillingly: "...Hello."
"Huh?" Zhan Hao turned around with a smile, and the dead leaves looked away uncomfortably, and said, "I heard that you are going to that banquet the day after tomorrow, if you have anything to do, you can go straight Say. I'm always idle, and it's annoying."
Zhan Hao raised his eyebrows in his spare time, with a clear smile on his face, teasingly said: "Okay, okay, I'll check some things tomorrow, you can go with me, Mr. Guard who can't be idle." After speaking, he walked out slowly.Withered Ye glared gloomily at his swaying back, and after a long while, he breathed out angrily.
The black linen summer coat that Zhan Hao gave him before was still lying pitifully on the ground.The dead leaf stared at it for a while, and finally picked it up reluctantly.Take it in your hand, pat the dust, and draw it along your body... Well, it seems to fit quite well.
Hmph, that bastard Zhan Hao.
In the early morning of the next day, Zhan Hao woke up leisurely in bed, his eyes darkened.He never slept for a long time. Although after the withered leaves came, his sleep was a little deeper than before, but correspondingly... the time was much shorter. He often woke up after only sleeping for an hour or two, and he couldn't even squint.
Putting on his clothes, he got out of bed and opened the window—the room with dead leaves opposite was dark, and his fox was in a deep sleep.
Looking at the closed door, Zhan Hao smiled slightly.Thinking of the bowl of sesame paste I made for him before going to bed, I put a lot of sugar by mistake. I thought the dead leaves would make me tired, but I didn't expect that there was nothing left, and I ate it all.
An awkward fox who loves sweets.
With a smile on his face, Zhan Hao watched quietly for a while, then turned around and lit the candle on the table, sat down and began to grind ink.
When no one is around at night, he will do some things, such as personally clearing some old accounts, or sorting out what has been done and what has not been done recently.He has maintained this habit for many years, many years... from the time he left the island where his people lived, until now.
In today's relatively leisurely and ordinary day, Zhan Hao began to slowly dislike the memories left to him by his predecessors.There are some life experiences that he doesn't like, but he sadly keeps those past that don't belong to him.Sometimes Zhan Hao would think, what is the evidence to identify a person?Not blood, not appearance, maybe just those illusory memories.
It is precisely because of those messy memories that he was slandered as a devil by others, and he doubted his true identity and the era he lived in when the sun and the moon alternated, half asleep and half awake.
Sometimes I wake up in the morning, wash my face in the mirror, raise my head, look at my own eyebrows and eyes, and think... how are those people who looked exactly like me before, how are they now.After completing the task of passing on and paving the way, where does he go after the next generation has grown up.
Zhan Hao didn't know, because he didn't have any memory after that.He only remembered that the man who should be his grandfather was about 33 years old when he gave birth to his father, and his father should be 30 years old when he was born.So grandpa must have passed away, but father, if nothing happened, he should still be lingering in this world.
But surely time is numbered.
Miss him?
... I don't know what to say.
Maybe it is thought, but it is not based on feelings, but only based on nostalgia.Although blood relationship is a bit mysterious, sometimes Zhan Hao can really feel its power.Occasionally, he would think about his father's affairs and the relationship between his father and mother who didn't know where to go.
Love is indeed a wonderful thing that allows itself to be bound without complaint and even longing for more.Many of the things he is facing now have nothing to do with himself.But in order to take care of the feelings of his sweetheart, he did it willingly.But speaking of it, he also has that leisurely mood, it's always good to have something to do.
Since someone is trying to plot against him, then he will push the boat along the way, have a good time, and also please the little fox by the way, why not do it?
Ticking off the last bill that Qiu Langxing settled yesterday, Zhan Hao stared at the rice paper for a while, and then put the little wolf hair in his hand aside.The night is still dark, and on a clear night, the Milky Way can be clearly seen in the dark blue sky.The bright light band traversed the entire night sky, showing a unique ethereal.
If he was in Changzhou at this time, there would probably be a black cat quietly jumping into the window, squatting on his table and lazily licking its paws.
Zhan Hao stared at the sky for a while, then carefully rolled up the bill and put it in the wooden box.After getting up and working to this extent, it is impossible to go back to catch up on sleep, and he can't fall asleep either.After thinking for a while, Zhan Hao decided to wash up and go to the lobby.He walked to the bed, took off the belt hanging on the hanger, and just pulled it around his waist for a gesture, when there was a burst of undisguised footsteps outside the yard.
Hey……?
Who will it be at this time?I have never heard such a "thumb tom" footsteps before.
Zhan Hao quickly put on his clothes, walked to the door with a slight frown and opened it, and then saw a tall figure rushing in from the courtyard door, hissing in a low voice while running: "Boss Zhan, Boss Zhan, is one of our own!"
Why does this voice sound like Pei Junrong?
When the man ran close, the unshaven face was really Pei Junrong.Zhan Hao watched him rushing towards him with some amusement, and asked unhurriedly, "What's the matter, did something happen to Buzhuang?"
Pei Junrong arched his body and panted for a while, and then said in a hoarse voice: "Just now, the trap I set up in the workshop stopped four men in black, all of them were injured, and then ran away. I guess I wanted something bad. But Don't worry, the gold thread is fine, the cloth is fine, I just suddenly remembered an important question!"
"Tell me." Zhan Hao took his time to let him into the room, and poured him a glass of cold water.Pei Junrong raised his neck and drank it up, took a few breaths, his bright eyes widened, and said: "The Yan family wanted to take over the cloth business that the Di family paid tribute to the palace, but they didn't attract me, would you... go Looking for my master?!"
Zhan Hao sat and looked at him, his eyes blinking, his expression calm and unhurried: "You said your master, as early as when you and Li Chao set off from Xinghua, I wrote a letter asking my brother to send He invited him to Kaifeng Mansion as a guest. There are so many capable people in Kaifeng Mansion, protecting an old man should not be a problem."
"Huh? Your brother? Zhan Zhao?" Pei Junrong was startled, and couldn't help smacking his tongue and screaming.
Smiling, Zhan Hao stretched out his hand and made a downward movement, approached him calmly and said in a low voice, "Qin Jinshan is getting old, and his body is not as good as before. I told Zhaozhao that he is an old man living alone in the mountains. In Yinshan, I saw that the fourth son likes Xiaosi very much, and I can talk to Mr. Bao. Why don't you take him to Kaifeng Mansion for a while to relax. He is well-informed and should be helpful in handling the case, and then Zhao Zhao will I agreed with one bite."
"Huh?!" Pei Junrong stared at the bull's eyes in shock and annoyance: "Who is the fourth son? Why does my master like him!"
Zhan Hao glanced at him wordlessly, thinking that this guy's focus is a bit off, right?Didn't it mean his master? Why did the fourth son get involved?
"The fourth son is the son of the Ninth Prince Zhao Pu and Mr. Gongsun. Today, the young prince lives in Kaifeng Mansion."
"Oh..." Hearing that it was the young prince, Pei Junrong resentfully put away his annoyed expression, and a look of resentment and unwillingness appeared in his eyes, "Hmph, that damn old man only likes children who are just a little bit older. I won't love you anymore when I grow up... Wait! You mean, you've already thought about today's matter?"
"Ah, yes." Zhan Hao leaned back in the chair in a stately manner, drank a glass of cold water with his eyes downcast, his expression calm and calm.Pei Junrong stared at him blankly, and then exploded again: "Damn! You didn't tell me sooner! I made a fuss to come and inform you that my son was still asleep and I caught him! Wait a minute I will blame you if I wake up and cry!"
Zhan Hao calmly turned his face away and suppressed a smile, tapped his fingers on the table calmly, and said, "How are you and Pei Xi doing now? I heard that Li Feifei blackmailed himself yesterday, which just made you look taller." A mighty, hard-to-express father image?"
Pei Junrong turned his head away with a look of disdain: "I still need him to set off my tall and mighty image! Huh? Wait, what happened to the adjective you followed?"
"Isn't this the truth?" Zhan Hao shrugged his shoulders with a teacup in his innocent eyes, "I can see that you like little Pei Xi, so tell him if you like him, the child just wants to coax you, you are serious It's no use trying to reason with him."
Pei Junrong rolled his eyes at him angrily, and muttered angrily: "You think it's that simple? That little bastard still thinks that I caused his mother to be kicked out by her husband's house, and wants to bite me to death every day. Don't you See if you're good now, when you wake up later, you still have to pinch what should be pinched."
Zhan Hao looked at him with raised eyebrows, but didn't speak, his fingers stained circles with water on the table.He doesn't know much about Pei Junrong's housework. Although he knows that this person is very nasty and likes married young women, in fact, this person has a good personality and can be regarded as a responsible man.Zhan Hao has never cared about hiring workers, and he can't care. He can just say a few words without any pain. As for the ins and outs, he really doesn't have much interest in delving into it.
In the silence, the only sound in the room was the sound of Pei Junrong gulping down water.Zhan Hao lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking. After a while, he seemed to hear something, raised his eyebrows, moved his ears, straightened his body on the chair, and tilted towards the door.Pei Junrong saw him smiling faintly at the door, his eyes were focused and soft, and his face looked like no one else was there, and he wondered if he woke up the awkward killer kid opposite again, right?When I came in, I kept my voice down.
If Dead Leaf knew what Pei Junrong was thinking right now, he would definitely spit in his heart, and then cast a blank stare at this heartless guy: You suck!The footsteps were so heavy and I didn't know how to soften them, and then I yelled so many times in surprise, you are a big man, you can't stop!Crazy, not stable at all!
Of course, Dead Leaf would only scold these words in his heart. He always likes to hold back things, and doesn't talk too much, and doesn't do too many things.So now he just stood at the door with a resentful expression on his face, glaring viciously at this side with very resentful eyes.Zhan Hao was overjoyed when he saw him like this, with a mean smile on his face, followed by Pei Junrong and poked his head out.Withered Ye covered her left face with her hand, and opened a slit in the place of her left eye with her fingers. The two eyes stared at him gloomyly, with black air all over her body.
Pei Junrong was so stared at him that he shuddered, and he couldn't help turning his head and said to Zhan Hao: "How dare you bring such a dangerous person with you? Are you afraid that one day he will be unhappy and kill you?"
Zhan Hao glanced at him indifferently, his eyes still fell on the palms of the withered leaves, his expression was leisurely.The little fox wouldn't cut me, I coaxed him well, if you weren't here, I would have gone to smooth the fur.
On the other side, Pei Junrong was really uncomfortable being stared at. He straightened his back and shook his body, hurriedly said "I'm going to accompany my son" and ran away, leaving Zhan Hao to continue to look at the dead leaves.
Zhan Hao smiled and pointed to the direction where Pei Junrong left, and said, "Hey, he's gone, you can go to sleep."
Dead Leaf still stared at him without speaking, but put down her hands covering her face.
Zhan Hao helplessly stretched out his hand and made an apologetic gesture, begging for mercy: "Alright, I'll tell him in the future, don't bother me in the middle of the night, okay?"
Dead Leaf rolled her eyes on the opposite side, her brows were still furrowed, she turned around and went into the room with a dark face.The door panel closed with a "bang", as usual, in an angry posture.Zhan Hao sat at the table and rubbed his forehead, thinking to himself why is this guy so rare?Seeing him roll his eyes makes him feel cute, he is really hopeless...
Because of being woken up in the middle of the night, the second
Pei Junrong didn't come back with them, saying that time was running out and he had to stay in Buzhuang to catch up with work. For some reason, Pei Xi clings to his father a little bit tighter today, holding Pei Junrong's hand and staring at him, saying that he also wants to stay in Buzhuang.It's good that the father and son stopped arguing, but Li Feifei didn't seem very happy. At that time, he couldn't hold back a word with a sulky face, and he shook his sleeves and left angrily.
Looking at his distraught back with cold eyes, Dead Leaf couldn't help but feel a trace of indifferent pleasure in her heart.
As for Qiu Langxing who was beaten up by him, that guy was still crying in the side hall.A little servant girl got the medicine to wipe it off for him, dipped the ointment in a veil and applied it to his face and eye sockets, and while wiping Qiu Langxing, she wailed and cried out in pain.Both Dead Ye and Yuan He didn't bother to pay attention to him, when it was time to go back, Dead Ye walked up to him with a cold face and kicked him without saying a word.Qiu Langxing lay down on the table with a wrinkled face and wailed: "Hey, you are so cruel and merciless, I just lured you here for fun, as for such a heavy hand..."
Yuan He watched outside the room, couldn't help laughing out loud, and said while laughing: "Mr. Qiu, don't pretend to cry! It's time to go back to eat!"
Qiu Langxing straightened up and wiped his face, raised his eyes pitifully at the dead leaves, and at the same time got up and limped out.He stumbled to Yuan He's side, threw his tall body on the girl's shoulders, hid behind her and said mysteriously: "I tell you, you big brother Cen... ruthless! He has killed many, many before." Human! You have to be careful when you get along with him, maybe one day if you are not happy, you will do it! You see, I was beaten terribly just now..."
Yuan Hepi stretched out two fingers to pinch the muscles and bones in his waist without smiling, and teasingly said: "Don't worry about this, sir, I'm not as cheap as you."
So Qiu Langxing was carried back by the two of them crying all the way, howling non-stop on the way, he was treated as a donkey's liver and lungs for his poor heart, and a dog biting Lu Dongbin.Yuan He couldn't help listening to it, and covered his mouth and kept laughing.
Withered Leaf asked her with a stinky face: "Is this idiot like this all day long?"
Yuan He held back a smile and waved his hands: "Fortunately, Mr. Qiu is still very serious when he does things, but he usually likes to tease people a little bit. Just ignore him, he is just like this, and he has annoyed Uncle Zhong a few times. Got spanked a few times."
"Slap the ass?...Uncle Zhong?!" Withered Ye frowned, her face full of shock and surprise.
"How is that possible!" Yuan He was dumbfounded by his thinking circuit: "Uncle Zhong has the most powerful guy named Zheng Dong, who has been in Changzhou all the time, and he was the one who beat him up twice. Brother Zheng hit hard , usually unsmiling, Mr. Chou is like a mouse seeing a cat when he sees him."
The mouse saw the cat... Well, not all mice are afraid of cats.Withered Ye pursed her lips, and looked back to see Qiu Langxing's colorful face, and her bad mood during the day eased a little.
When they returned to the exhibition house, they had already waited for dinner for quite some time.Just as Zhan Hao saw Li very stinky and rushed back, someone had already reported to him what happened in Buzhuang today.Regarding the matter between this guy and Shi Lin, Zhan Hao didn't intend to intervene, anyway, it had nothing to do with him, all he cared about was whether his little fox was very irritated by Li.
What if he is angry, what if he is not angry, Zhan Hao thought for a while, but he couldn't figure out why.He hoped that Dead Leaf would care about him a little bit, but neither of these two results seemed to explain anything. Some of the little fox's thoughts were still a little hard to guess.
Dead Leaf met Zhan Hao as soon as he entered the door.Zhan Hao sat in the front hall and waited for him, but he wanted to pretend to be discussing things with Uncle Zhong.Dead Leaf saw that he was holding a thick notebook in his hand, and Uncle Zhong was sitting next to him "crackling" abacus, his fingers dancing fast.Hearing the movement, Zhan Hao raised his head calmly, and when he saw him, he showed a somewhat complaining expression: "Why did you come back now? I haven't seen you all afternoon, where did you go?"
Yuan He was standing by the side, and at that moment he felt slanderous in his heart, don't you know the whereabouts of Big Brother Cen, why are you pretending?It's just that because of his face as a young master, Yuan He just pouted quietly, turned around and walked away silently.
Although Zhan Hao kept looking at the dead leaves, he actually noticed her expression.This girl, everyone in his Zhan family almost worshiped him as something. If you want to say that she has a good temper, one is Min Wei, and the other is Yuan He.These two are not honest masters, and they can't meet each other in normal times. When they meet, they will sing and respond to him. It's really hard to separate them for themselves.
Seeing Yuan He walking away, Dead Leaf felt a little annoyed, so she didn't say anything.As soon as Zhan Hao saw his reaction, he knew that he was definitely awkward again, and Li Feifei was really a bad guy.Just as he was thinking of calling this awkward fox boy over to comfort him, Qiu Lang ran in from behind with a "ouch".As soon as he entered the door, he staggered onto Dead Leaf's shoulder and cried, "Boss Zhan, look at how ruthless your guards are! I'm about to be broken by him!"
It's okay if you don't talk about it, but when you talk about it, Zhan Hao gets angry.He originally wanted to hang the dead leaves at home to let him reflect on his attitude towards himself, but he was abducted by this guy halfway.At this moment, seeing Qiu Langxing's two giant panda eyes covered his face, and the corner of his mouth was bruised and purple, Zhan Hao and Uncle Zhong made a movement at the same time - glanced, raised their eyebrows, gloating, "You Stupid looking for trouble" look.As soon as Qiu Langxing saw Uncle Zhong beside him, he immediately behaved himself.He straightened his clothes, stood up straight, and greeted Uncle Zhong with a low eyebrow: "Master..."
Zhong Yunde calmly put down the little abacus in his hand, with a calm smile on his face: "Ah Xing, your skin is itchy again, isn't it?"
"Apprentice knows his mistake." Qiu Langxing lowered his head so low that the dead leaves were a little dazed from that humble posture—is this guy really Qiu Langxing?
"Hmph," Zhong Yunde sneered, took a sip of the tea in hand, and then continued calmly, "We've only been in Suzhou for a few days, so you can just jump around vigorously. When you get back to Changzhou, you won't have to worry about it." No one will treat you." As he spoke, he threw the abacus in his hand, and Qiu Langxing hurriedly caught it.Uncle Zhong thumped his sore back and stood up: "Wait for you for a long time, you're starving to death...I'll go eat first, and you stay here and settle the score! If you make a wrong calculation, you will suffer in the future!"
"Yes." Qiu Langxing agreed honestly with his mouth flattened, and then he climbed onto the chair slowly, opened the account book and started to calculate the calculation.Zhan Hao stood aside and looked at him with raised eyebrows, with a half-smile on his face: "Mr. Qiu, you've been running for a long time, are you hungry?"
Qiu Langxing was helpless, but he didn't follow his advice: "Okay, okay, Zhan Hao, stop making fun of me, hurry up and eat your food with the dead leaves, I've heard his stomach growl for a long time."
As soon as he heard his words, Dead Leaf's whole body began to get angry: "Qiu Langxing, you still want to be beaten, don't you?"
"Oh, I'm so scared!" Qiu Langxing exaggeratedly showed a terrified expression, and in the blink of an eye he returned to the normal state of laughing: "Just admit it when you're hungry, it's not something to be ashamed of. Look at you! I have to save face, isn't it uncomfortable?"
"You..." The dead leaf was getting a little hairy, and she was gnashing her teeth and wanted to hit him twice, but Zhan Hao silently came over from the side and grabbed his arm and pulled it out: "Okay, leave him alone and go eat." Dead Leaf was still suffocating in her heart, she was annoyed when she saw him, and wanted to break free immediately: "I'm not hungry! I won't eat!"
As soon as the voice fell, his stomach made a loud "grunt" sound.Withered Ye was instantly overwhelmed with embarrassment, her cheeks flushed and her body became stiff.Qiu Langxing laughed secretly at the side, and Zhan Hao also helped his forehead helplessly, and after a while stretched out his hand to support his shoulder and coaxed in a low voice: "Okay, okay, let's go eat first, and you can tell me later if you are angry." .”
After speaking, he reluctantly dragged the person away.Qiu Langxing sighed pretendingly in the chair, thinking of the sound of the dead leaf's stomach growling just now, he wanted to laugh again, but before the corners of his mouth were opened much, the wound started to throb and hurt.He couldn't help but cover the corner of his mouth and take a "hissing" breath, cursing this cruel dead leaf in his heart, one day you will be deflated too, just wait!
Just after cursing, Qiu Langxing's stomach grunted loudly, and his complacent face collapsed instantly.I was so hungry, but my hands were stuffed with work again... Woohoo, Qiu Langxing groaned, pulled the abacus over, and continued to settle accounts crying.
Dead Leaf was not happy.He hasn't been in a good mood since Zhan Hao ordered him to evict him in his room last night. To be precise, he has never been in a good mood since he followed Zhan Hao and entered Zhan's house as a guard.
He never seemed to be happy, either as a child or as an adult.People in the clan, master, or Zhao Cong later said that he was born with a coffin face, as if someone owed him.
In fact, he is not unhappy, he just doesn't know how to be happy.
Most of the time he is not angry, but because of his aura, it makes people feel that he is inaccessible.Ji Tang and Zhong Lan have experienced it. Although Big Brother Cen is often expressionless, if you ask him to help with anything, he will come to help.Dead Leaf felt that she was actually very seldom angry. He wasn't angry when Bai Yutang beat him to death, he was just not convinced.I am not as good as others, so there is nothing to be angry about.
But since following Zhan Hao, Dead Leaf has deeply noticed that she is getting angry.Often, often, every now and then, Zhan Hao will make his orifices smoke.In fact, those words that Zhan Hao teased him were harmless, and it could even be said to be innocuous, without any real lethality, but they could just make him very angry.
This made Dead Leaf very annoyed.
And not only did Zhan Hao make him angry, but the people around Zhan Hao also made him angry.Let's put Qiu Langxing aside, the nasty Li Fei made him very displeased.When that guy yelled at him today, Dead Leaf couldn't even figure out what was so good about him?Yes, it's true that I am a martial artist, so I can't help Zhan Hao in business, but he doesn't seem to treat you much?Don't you just want to say that you are more useful than me? Then why doesn't Zhan Hao bring you by his side?You scold me as a running dog, but looking at it like this, you seem to want to be a running dog very much, don't you?
Angrily twisting and twisting, the dead leaves clenched the chopsticks in their hands and smashed the vegetables in the rice bowl.Uncle Zhong raised his eyes and saw the mess in his bowl, and turned his face to look at Zhanhao with some malice.Zhan Hao secretly sighed in his heart, thinking that he had to appease this awkward guy again later.One is Li Fei, the other is Qiu Langxing, you two are really good at picking things up.
At this time, there was a sudden "clang" from the side, and the dead leaf kicked the stool away and stood up with a dark face.Zhan Hao and Uncle Zhong raised their faces to look at him, and saw him standing for a while with his back teeth gritted, then turned and walked out without saying a word.Zhan Hao was stunned and didn't move, he was kicked under the table by Uncle Zhong: "Why are you so stupid, chase after him."
Zhan Hao sat still, with a relaxed and helpless expression: "No hurry, let him calm down first, I'll think about how to coax him first."
"Hehe, do you still want to talk?" Zhong Yunde teased him with a smile, his eyes full of unkind gloating: "I thought you are omnipotent, young master, and you can come up with all kinds of sweet words at your fingertips."
Zhan Hao looked at him helplessly, and said, "Uncle, sometimes I really miss your kind and serious appearance."
For his words, Zhong Yunde's reaction was to give him a big white eye, and then he turned his face away in embarrassment and continued to eat his meal.
As soon as she walked into the room angrily, Dead Leaf saw the black linen summer clothes on the table.It was the one that Zhan Hao dug out before, and now it has been dyed the black that he always prefers.
Withered Leaf reluctantly stretched out his hand to touch the clothes, it felt light and cool, and one could imagine how comfortable it was to wear.He stared at the dress for a long while, hesitantly, and wanted to try it a little bit, but he was still stunned, so he just stared and didn't move.
Zhan Hao followed him quietly and stood at the door without making a sound.Dead Leaf didn't feel his breath at all, and stared at the clothes in front of her without realizing it, with a bitter and hatred expression on her face.Thinking that the clothes seemed to be worn by Zhan Hao, the feeling of repulsion in his heart became heavier and heavier.Finally, when he thought of what Li Fei said during the day... he was just Zhan Hao's lackey, he became completely irritable.
So, Zhan Hao saw him angrily reaching out and grabbing his clothes from behind.At that moment, he thought that the dead leaf wanted to try on the clothes, and he was still a little happy, but in the blink of an eye, the dead leaf turned around with a "huh", raised the arm holding the clothes high, and wanted to The clothes are thrown away!It's a pity that when he turned around and saw him, the furious fox boy was stunned.
Zhan Hao stood where he was, and smiled at him helplessly: "You don't like this dress?"
Withered Ye's eyes widened, the distance between the two of them was a little close, Zhan Hao could even see his pupils dilated due to astonishment.
Zhan Hao smiled wryly, and stretched out his hand to touch his face, but Dead Leaf quickly came back to his senses, and punched him viciously.Zhan Hao unhurriedly stretched out his hand to block it, slid his arm out along his hand, turned his wrist to grab his hand.The dead leaf was restrained by his twisting arm, and he felt a little angry for a while, then he threw off his clothes with the other hand, and his five fingers formed claws to break through the air. At the same time, he twisted his body outward, breaking free from his shackles.Seeing that he could grab the bastard's shoulder immediately, Zhan Hao's body seemed to be falling apart, and he dodged in an extremely strange posture.
Seeing this, Dead Leaf couldn't help being stunned for a moment, but didn't want to be caught by Zhan Hao in this gap - he pulled Dead Leaf's hands like a ghost, and turned around behind him and strangled Dead Leaf's hands hard. The cross-shaped pincers are behind him.
"Zhan Hao! Let me go!" The dead leaf was held tightly by him, unable to move, he couldn't help shouting angrily.Zhan Hao sighed faintly behind him, put his lips close to his ear and whispered: "Bie Cen, you should know that you can't beat me."
Hearing this, Dead Leaf became even more annoyed, almost to the point of extreme anger.But when he thought about what Li Fei said during the day, his mood suddenly calmed down.He sneered with the corners of his mouth pulled, turned his face to look sideways at Zhan Hao, and said, "Yes, since this is the case, why do you still ask me to be your bodyguard? Raising someone for nothing, is there nowhere to spend more money?!"
Looking at his angry and indifferent eyes, Zhan Hao couldn't help but sigh, loosened his grip, and the dead leaf immediately jumped a foot away.He rubbed the center of his brows, and sat down on the stool by the table a little tiredly. The dead leaf on the opposite side kept frowning and staring at him, eyes full of distrust.
"What do you call raising you for nothing? Didn't you help me raise a cat?" Zhan Hao said with lowered eyes, his tone not very sure.Withered Ye sneered, remembering that the two of them seemed to have had a similar conversation a few days ago, so she blocked back exactly what he said that day: "The little mandarin duck is not your cat."
After hearing this, Zhan Hao had no choice but to help his forehead, his whole body was a little weak.He lowered his eyes and sighed, shook his head as if disappointed, and said after a while: "Bie Cen, do you think I'm giving you alms?"
Withered Ye looked at him coldly from the opposite side, his eyes were stubborn and vigilant, but there was also a hint of unwillingness and awkwardness.Zhan Hao raised his eyes heavily, his expression was vague, he didn't know whether it was sad or indifferent.He looked deeply at the dead leaves, with a serious expression, for a moment, the dead leaves even felt that his eyeballs seemed to emit a bewitching light.
"Bie Cen, I know you followed me."
He suddenly spoke, his tone was unhurried, with an unquestionable certainty in his tone: "I am in front of you now, and I don't have any secrets. If I have, it's just some business matters, and you are not interested. You are following me In those few days, you should have seen that my life is very boring. I also told you that I am not much better than you. "
"Yes, I asked you to do things by my side. Maybe there is no valid reason, but many things have no motive. You saw Xiao Hei fell into the pond and fished him up. Do you have any motive? To be honest, it was just a matter of chance That's all, don't waste anything on you."
"Similarly, I brought you back and gave you a leisurely job to do, so you won't be idle all day—it's just a matter of convenience. You know, I'm boring."
Saying that, Zhan Hao narrowed his eyes, and the eyelids drooped again.
"You and I still have some relationship. Our previous friendship... It may be a bit reluctant to say that we are friends, but at least for now, I think it is passable. Indeed, I like you more than Li Wei and Qiu Langxing, So it is better for you than them. As for why, I can't explain it, maybe I fell in love with you, there is no motive to pursue."
Hearing what he said, the cold look on Dead Leaf's face softened a little, at least she didn't stare at him anymore.Hearing that he didn't answer, Zhan Hao raised his eyes pretending to be unintentional in the silence, and as expected - he saw the fox's awkward and tangled expression.
Hey, his little fox is still easy to coax, it doesn't take much trouble at all, and he can be shaken in a few words.
Dead Leaf also noticed his eyes, turned away his face uncomfortably under awkwardness, and said with a stiff mouth: "What's so good about me, I'm a martial artist, and I won't help you do business."
Seeing his dead duck appearance, Zhan Hao's heart itch tightly, he really wanted to pry his mouth open, use some shameful method to force him to only tell the truth, and save him the trouble of guessing about this guy every day.It's a pity that the time hasn't come yet, maybe there has been some development compared to before, but it still doesn't work, and we have to go further.The little fox has to agree with him a little more, and like him a little more...
He must have the dead leaves be with him willingly, maybe he can't say it out of his mouth, but at least he can't escape in his heart.
Looking at the withered leaves that were still frowned, Zhan Hao couldn't help showing a trace of gentle doting in his eyes.He lowered his eyes and smiled to cover up, and said slowly: "It is precisely because I have seen a lot of businessmen, and finally met a guy who does not covet my money, so I think it is more precious."
Now the dead leaves had nothing to say, and most of the anger that had been pent up in their hearts was gone.Zhan Hao saw that his emotions were about to loosen up, so he took advantage of the victory to pursue him unhurriedly: "Okay, don't be angry. Li Feifei is against you in his heart, wishing you could quarrel with me. You really fell for it. You haven’t eaten enough yet, right? Let him know, maybe he’ll be proud of it.”
"Hmph," Dead Leaf rolled her eyes, twisted her body and hummed disdainfully, "That guy, I'll beat him up one day."
"Yes, yes," Zhan Hao agreed with a smile, his eyes narrowed with a slight smile, "Did you enjoy playing Qiu Langxing today?"
Withered Leaf glared at him, her expression still stinky: "Hmph."
This time Zhan Hao really laughed, and turned his face away to cover up.Withered Leaf turned around and stared at him unhappily, growling in embarrassment: "What are you laughing at!"
"I didn't laugh, I didn't laugh..." Zhan Hao stretched out his hand and shook it to show his innocence, and got up after a while, the corners of his mouth were tightly pursed, but he still couldn't hide the upward curve: "Are you still hungry? I'll go to the kitchen to make sesame paste for you." As he spoke, he stood up contentedly, turned around and was about to go out, but was stopped by Dead Leaf unwillingly: "...Hello."
"Huh?" Zhan Hao turned around with a smile, and the dead leaves looked away uncomfortably, and said, "I heard that you are going to that banquet the day after tomorrow, if you have anything to do, you can go straight Say. I'm always idle, and it's annoying."
Zhan Hao raised his eyebrows in his spare time, with a clear smile on his face, teasingly said: "Okay, okay, I'll check some things tomorrow, you can go with me, Mr. Guard who can't be idle." After speaking, he walked out slowly.Withered Ye glared gloomily at his swaying back, and after a long while, he breathed out angrily.
The black linen summer coat that Zhan Hao gave him before was still lying pitifully on the ground.The dead leaf stared at it for a while, and finally picked it up reluctantly.Take it in your hand, pat the dust, and draw it along your body... Well, it seems to fit quite well.
Hmph, that bastard Zhan Hao.
In the early morning of the next day, Zhan Hao woke up leisurely in bed, his eyes darkened.He never slept for a long time. Although after the withered leaves came, his sleep was a little deeper than before, but correspondingly... the time was much shorter. He often woke up after only sleeping for an hour or two, and he couldn't even squint.
Putting on his clothes, he got out of bed and opened the window—the room with dead leaves opposite was dark, and his fox was in a deep sleep.
Looking at the closed door, Zhan Hao smiled slightly.Thinking of the bowl of sesame paste I made for him before going to bed, I put a lot of sugar by mistake. I thought the dead leaves would make me tired, but I didn't expect that there was nothing left, and I ate it all.
An awkward fox who loves sweets.
With a smile on his face, Zhan Hao watched quietly for a while, then turned around and lit the candle on the table, sat down and began to grind ink.
When no one is around at night, he will do some things, such as personally clearing some old accounts, or sorting out what has been done and what has not been done recently.He has maintained this habit for many years, many years... from the time he left the island where his people lived, until now.
In today's relatively leisurely and ordinary day, Zhan Hao began to slowly dislike the memories left to him by his predecessors.There are some life experiences that he doesn't like, but he sadly keeps those past that don't belong to him.Sometimes Zhan Hao would think, what is the evidence to identify a person?Not blood, not appearance, maybe just those illusory memories.
It is precisely because of those messy memories that he was slandered as a devil by others, and he doubted his true identity and the era he lived in when the sun and the moon alternated, half asleep and half awake.
Sometimes I wake up in the morning, wash my face in the mirror, raise my head, look at my own eyebrows and eyes, and think... how are those people who looked exactly like me before, how are they now.After completing the task of passing on and paving the way, where does he go after the next generation has grown up.
Zhan Hao didn't know, because he didn't have any memory after that.He only remembered that the man who should be his grandfather was about 33 years old when he gave birth to his father, and his father should be 30 years old when he was born.So grandpa must have passed away, but father, if nothing happened, he should still be lingering in this world.
But surely time is numbered.
Miss him?
... I don't know what to say.
Maybe it is thought, but it is not based on feelings, but only based on nostalgia.Although blood relationship is a bit mysterious, sometimes Zhan Hao can really feel its power.Occasionally, he would think about his father's affairs and the relationship between his father and mother who didn't know where to go.
Love is indeed a wonderful thing that allows itself to be bound without complaint and even longing for more.Many of the things he is facing now have nothing to do with himself.But in order to take care of the feelings of his sweetheart, he did it willingly.But speaking of it, he also has that leisurely mood, it's always good to have something to do.
Since someone is trying to plot against him, then he will push the boat along the way, have a good time, and also please the little fox by the way, why not do it?
Ticking off the last bill that Qiu Langxing settled yesterday, Zhan Hao stared at the rice paper for a while, and then put the little wolf hair in his hand aside.The night is still dark, and on a clear night, the Milky Way can be clearly seen in the dark blue sky.The bright light band traversed the entire night sky, showing a unique ethereal.
If he was in Changzhou at this time, there would probably be a black cat quietly jumping into the window, squatting on his table and lazily licking its paws.
Zhan Hao stared at the sky for a while, then carefully rolled up the bill and put it in the wooden box.After getting up and working to this extent, it is impossible to go back to catch up on sleep, and he can't fall asleep either.After thinking for a while, Zhan Hao decided to wash up and go to the lobby.He walked to the bed, took off the belt hanging on the hanger, and just pulled it around his waist for a gesture, when there was a burst of undisguised footsteps outside the yard.
Hey……?
Who will it be at this time?I have never heard such a "thumb tom" footsteps before.
Zhan Hao quickly put on his clothes, walked to the door with a slight frown and opened it, and then saw a tall figure rushing in from the courtyard door, hissing in a low voice while running: "Boss Zhan, Boss Zhan, is one of our own!"
Why does this voice sound like Pei Junrong?
When the man ran close, the unshaven face was really Pei Junrong.Zhan Hao watched him rushing towards him with some amusement, and asked unhurriedly, "What's the matter, did something happen to Buzhuang?"
Pei Junrong arched his body and panted for a while, and then said in a hoarse voice: "Just now, the trap I set up in the workshop stopped four men in black, all of them were injured, and then ran away. I guess I wanted something bad. But Don't worry, the gold thread is fine, the cloth is fine, I just suddenly remembered an important question!"
"Tell me." Zhan Hao took his time to let him into the room, and poured him a glass of cold water.Pei Junrong raised his neck and drank it up, took a few breaths, his bright eyes widened, and said: "The Yan family wanted to take over the cloth business that the Di family paid tribute to the palace, but they didn't attract me, would you... go Looking for my master?!"
Zhan Hao sat and looked at him, his eyes blinking, his expression calm and unhurried: "You said your master, as early as when you and Li Chao set off from Xinghua, I wrote a letter asking my brother to send He invited him to Kaifeng Mansion as a guest. There are so many capable people in Kaifeng Mansion, protecting an old man should not be a problem."
"Huh? Your brother? Zhan Zhao?" Pei Junrong was startled, and couldn't help smacking his tongue and screaming.
Smiling, Zhan Hao stretched out his hand and made a downward movement, approached him calmly and said in a low voice, "Qin Jinshan is getting old, and his body is not as good as before. I told Zhaozhao that he is an old man living alone in the mountains. In Yinshan, I saw that the fourth son likes Xiaosi very much, and I can talk to Mr. Bao. Why don't you take him to Kaifeng Mansion for a while to relax. He is well-informed and should be helpful in handling the case, and then Zhao Zhao will I agreed with one bite."
"Huh?!" Pei Junrong stared at the bull's eyes in shock and annoyance: "Who is the fourth son? Why does my master like him!"
Zhan Hao glanced at him wordlessly, thinking that this guy's focus is a bit off, right?Didn't it mean his master? Why did the fourth son get involved?
"The fourth son is the son of the Ninth Prince Zhao Pu and Mr. Gongsun. Today, the young prince lives in Kaifeng Mansion."
"Oh..." Hearing that it was the young prince, Pei Junrong resentfully put away his annoyed expression, and a look of resentment and unwillingness appeared in his eyes, "Hmph, that damn old man only likes children who are just a little bit older. I won't love you anymore when I grow up... Wait! You mean, you've already thought about today's matter?"
"Ah, yes." Zhan Hao leaned back in the chair in a stately manner, drank a glass of cold water with his eyes downcast, his expression calm and calm.Pei Junrong stared at him blankly, and then exploded again: "Damn! You didn't tell me sooner! I made a fuss to come and inform you that my son was still asleep and I caught him! Wait a minute I will blame you if I wake up and cry!"
Zhan Hao calmly turned his face away and suppressed a smile, tapped his fingers on the table calmly, and said, "How are you and Pei Xi doing now? I heard that Li Feifei blackmailed himself yesterday, which just made you look taller." A mighty, hard-to-express father image?"
Pei Junrong turned his head away with a look of disdain: "I still need him to set off my tall and mighty image! Huh? Wait, what happened to the adjective you followed?"
"Isn't this the truth?" Zhan Hao shrugged his shoulders with a teacup in his innocent eyes, "I can see that you like little Pei Xi, so tell him if you like him, the child just wants to coax you, you are serious It's no use trying to reason with him."
Pei Junrong rolled his eyes at him angrily, and muttered angrily: "You think it's that simple? That little bastard still thinks that I caused his mother to be kicked out by her husband's house, and wants to bite me to death every day. Don't you See if you're good now, when you wake up later, you still have to pinch what should be pinched."
Zhan Hao looked at him with raised eyebrows, but didn't speak, his fingers stained circles with water on the table.He doesn't know much about Pei Junrong's housework. Although he knows that this person is very nasty and likes married young women, in fact, this person has a good personality and can be regarded as a responsible man.Zhan Hao has never cared about hiring workers, and he can't care. He can just say a few words without any pain. As for the ins and outs, he really doesn't have much interest in delving into it.
In the silence, the only sound in the room was the sound of Pei Junrong gulping down water.Zhan Hao lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking. After a while, he seemed to hear something, raised his eyebrows, moved his ears, straightened his body on the chair, and tilted towards the door.Pei Junrong saw him smiling faintly at the door, his eyes were focused and soft, and his face looked like no one else was there, and he wondered if he woke up the awkward killer kid opposite again, right?When I came in, I kept my voice down.
If Dead Leaf knew what Pei Junrong was thinking right now, he would definitely spit in his heart, and then cast a blank stare at this heartless guy: You suck!The footsteps were so heavy and I didn't know how to soften them, and then I yelled so many times in surprise, you are a big man, you can't stop!Crazy, not stable at all!
Of course, Dead Leaf would only scold these words in his heart. He always likes to hold back things, and doesn't talk too much, and doesn't do too many things.So now he just stood at the door with a resentful expression on his face, glaring viciously at this side with very resentful eyes.Zhan Hao was overjoyed when he saw him like this, with a mean smile on his face, followed by Pei Junrong and poked his head out.Withered Ye covered her left face with her hand, and opened a slit in the place of her left eye with her fingers. The two eyes stared at him gloomyly, with black air all over her body.
Pei Junrong was so stared at him that he shuddered, and he couldn't help turning his head and said to Zhan Hao: "How dare you bring such a dangerous person with you? Are you afraid that one day he will be unhappy and kill you?"
Zhan Hao glanced at him indifferently, his eyes still fell on the palms of the withered leaves, his expression was leisurely.The little fox wouldn't cut me, I coaxed him well, if you weren't here, I would have gone to smooth the fur.
On the other side, Pei Junrong was really uncomfortable being stared at. He straightened his back and shook his body, hurriedly said "I'm going to accompany my son" and ran away, leaving Zhan Hao to continue to look at the dead leaves.
Zhan Hao smiled and pointed to the direction where Pei Junrong left, and said, "Hey, he's gone, you can go to sleep."
Dead Leaf still stared at him without speaking, but put down her hands covering her face.
Zhan Hao helplessly stretched out his hand and made an apologetic gesture, begging for mercy: "Alright, I'll tell him in the future, don't bother me in the middle of the night, okay?"
Dead Leaf rolled her eyes on the opposite side, her brows were still furrowed, she turned around and went into the room with a dark face.The door panel closed with a "bang", as usual, in an angry posture.Zhan Hao sat at the table and rubbed his forehead, thinking to himself why is this guy so rare?Seeing him roll his eyes makes him feel cute, he is really hopeless...
Because of being woken up in the middle of the night, the second
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