Sweet as candy

After the coldest few days passed, the weather began to return to spring, and finally saw some sunshine, so Aunt Zhang ordered the little disciples to help carry out the quilts in everyone's room and spread them out to dry in the sun.

The bamboo poles in the yard are stacked horizontally and vertically like a chessboard, and the white bedding hangs down, blocking the road in front of you firmly.The moment Xiao Lang walked out, he thought someone had set up a maze.

Recently, he was busy with official duties, and he had a rare few days of free time. Seeing the fine weather, he invited Aunt Zhang to go with him to put paper kites on the grass outside the city.

Since he sent Amu to live, the attitude of the other party has obviously eased a lot. Most of the time when talking to him, he listened quietly, and he was no longer as conflicted as before.

At this moment, Mu Yunyi was standing behind a few people with folded arms and watching them laughing, Xiao Lang adjusted the reel for Aunt Zhang, turned his head and handed him one: "Come?"

Mu Yunyi looked down at the gadget handed over by the other party. It was carefully crafted to look like a swallow and was very popular among the people.

He pushed the paper kite away with one hand: "It's a kid's thing."

Xiao Lang also thought that he disliked this shape as too naive, took the other one from the side and said: "There is also this ordinary shape, do you want it?"

Mu Yunyi looked down at the simple paper kite in confusion for a while, then took it anyway.

The two were lowering their heads and adjusting the gadgets in their hands, when Xue Shiji and Song Shuyan said something and started arguing.

It's not so much a dispute as Song Shuyan's unilateral questioning.Her face was flushed red, and during the quarrel, she couldn't care less about the paper kite flying in the sky. Without paying attention, the paper kite tripped over a willow tree in the distance, struggled feebly in the air for a while, and then spun off and fell down. .

Song Shuyan stared blankly at the paper kite that fell to the ground for a while, then turned around and walked away angrily, holding up the hem of her skirt.

Xiao Lang walked over, Xue Shiji silently picked up the paper kite that had fallen to the ground, and wiped the dust off the paper kite with a listless look.

Aunt Zhang was at a loss when she saw this, Xiao Lang patted her hand reassuringly, then turned his head and asked Xue Shiji in a low voice: "What's wrong with you?"

Xue Shiji drooped his face and said nothing.Xiao Lang and Mu Yunyi looked at each other, and deliberately provoked him: "You must have done something to be sorry for Shuyan, right? When I came here, I made a promise to the leader that if someone bullies Shuyan, I have to replace him." He'll teach him a lesson."

"What are you talking about, Brother Xiao?" Xue Shiji blushed, and said, "How dare I bully her..."

"Could it be that she bullied you?" Xiao Lang said with a smile: "Don't worry, if that's the case, I will also make the decision for you. But you have to tell me first, what happened?"

Xue Shiji opened his mouth, and was dumbfounded for a while, but in the end he still didn't answer, and went back dejectedly with his shoulders down.

"He still has to face Shuyan when he goes back, why don't you tell me about it." Xiao Lang sighed, turned to Mu Yunyi and said, "Young people's feelings are really hard to figure out, it seems that I can't intervene gone."

Mu Yunyi raised his eyebrows and said, "Aren't you only three years older than him?"

Xiao Lang smiled: "Let them solve it themselves, it's rare to come out, I don't want to go back so early."

A few people spent half a day outside the city before returning. In the end, Aunt Zhang was still worried about the conflicting two people, but the courtyard was unusually quiet. When Xiao Lang asked, he found out that Xue Shiji had locked himself in the room since he came back. Among them, Song Shuyan is even missing.

Aunt Zhang was frightened when she heard the words, she was afraid that something would happen to the little girl.Xiao Lang coaxed her back to the room before knocking on Xue Shiji's door.

"The book smoke is gone, did you know that?"

Xue Shiji was surprised when he heard the words: "Didn't she come back?"

Xiao Lang said: "You left after her, didn't you ask the guard at the door first?"

Xue Shiji's heart sank, he hesitated and couldn't speak, Xiao Lang sighed: "Shi Ji, no matter what happened between you, Shuyan is a girl, what should I do if she encounters danger outside? ?”

"I'm going out to find her."

The two were about to go out, but Song Shuyan came back by himself, passed in front of the two, stomped his feet lightly, and looked at them with three parts of tenderness and seven parts of anger.

Xue Shiji immediately shrank behind Xiao Lang like a mouse seeing a cat.

Now that the person came back, Xiao Lang felt relieved.Until dinner at night, neither of these two people appeared at the table. Aunt Zhang looked hesitant, Xiao Lang put down the chopsticks lightly, and said in a deep voice: "It's too outrageous, two people who live under the same roof, it is difficult for them to be together in the future. Are we going to go our separate ways?"

He and Aunt Zhang went separately to persuade him, Xue Shiji was forcibly pulled out by him, but Song Shuyan politely declined Aunt Zhang: "Thank you, Aunt Zhang, I have eaten outside."

Xue Shiji sat anxiously in his seat for a while, seeing that Song Shuyan hadn't come out, he didn't know whether he was uncomfortable or relieved.

A few people finished their meal without saying a word, Aunt Zhang cleared the table, Xue Shiji was about to leave the table, Xiao Lang stretched out his hand, and kept him.

"It's not the way to go on like this. You have to explain to me why you are arguing about it today."

Xiao Lang put on a majestic appearance, Xue Shiji looked left and right like sitting on pins and needles, Xiao Lang stared at him for a while, and then said: "You don't think that we don't know that the two of you have hit it off yet, do you? "

Xue Shiji's small movements of looking around suddenly stopped, and his whole body was still as if he had been acupunctured: "You...you?"

"Yes." Xiao Lang said, "We all know."

"In other words, everyone knows about it except you, a fool." Xiao Lang looked at his blushing face instantly: "So, you don't have to try to cover up anything anymore, there is no need for that at all."

Xue Shiji almost lowered his head under the table, and Xiao Lang sat beside him leisurely, tapping the table with his fingers regularly, waiting for him to think clearly.

Mu Yunyi stood aside and waited until he became impatient, before Xue Shiji said in a mosquito-like voice, "It's me that we quarreled."

Xiao Lang raised his eyebrows: "Continue."

"As you can see, I really... like Shuyan very much." Xue Shiji's voice became lower and lower: "She is a good girl, but we are destined not to get along. I thought that instead of delaying her, it would be better to go earlier Speak clearly, but she was very angry when she found out, and quarreled with me many times..."

"Wait." Hearing the key point, Xiao Lang interrupted in a daze: "It's destined not to get together? Where did you see this result?"

Xue Shiji sighed and looked away.Xiao Lang has known him for so long, and this is the first time he saw this kind of inferiority complex in him: "Brother Xiao, although I have been wandering around with you all this time, and I was fortunate enough to be appreciated by the lord, in the end, I am just a person A penniless poor boy. Shuyan is proficient in all kinds of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and she is also the jewel in the palm of the leader, how can I be worthy of her."

Xiao Lang stifled, and almost laughed angrily: "Just because of this? Shi Ji, do you think Shuyan and the leader would care about each other's background? Yan can find someone who is sincerely good to her and can take care of her for the rest of her life. If you really like her, you should know what she really wants."

"I know, precisely because I know." Xue Shiji said in a low voice: "Brother Xiao, you also said that the leader hopes to find someone who can spend the rest of his life with Shuyan. But we people have always lived The life of licking blood on the tip of the knife. Our lives hang on the knife, and when the knife falls, I will not be able to give her happiness."

"My father passed away first, and my mother raised me alone, and she passed away after suffering a lot. I can vividly remember how hard she was when she led me to live alone." Xue Shiji choked up as he spoke: "It is also true. In this way, it is even more impossible for me to agree to be with Shuyan. If something happens to me one day, she doesn't have to be implicated by me."

Just as he was talking about his sadness, the door behind him slammed open, and the three of them turned their heads, and Song Shuyan was standing outside the door with red eyes.

She looked straight at Xue Shiji: "So, these are your real thoughts, right?"

"What is inappropriate, what is my illusion, what you said to me are all lies to me. You are afraid that my father and I will think you are poor, and you are afraid that one day you will die and I will be a widow until old age." Song Shuyan breathed out After finishing speaking, he took a deep breath excitedly, and shouted: "Xue Shiji, you are such a fool!"