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Zhou Jincheng had just eaten, and he wasn't hungry at first, but he sat down on the edge of the bed, and slowly shared the cold meal with Ruan Tang.

"It's full of oil when it cools." He was very disgusted, "Don't leave this kind of thing to me next time."

Ruan Tang gnawed on the chicken leg that Zhou Jincheng refused to eat after one bite, and stuffed the crumbs of crispy sugar into his mouth. Hearing this, he nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, but said in his mouth, "Keep it, keep it."

He ate faster than Zhou Jincheng, and when he was done, he ran to fetch water and twisted a towel to wipe Zhou Jincheng's hands.

After serving Zhou Jincheng to wash his face, he remembered Yinger's instructions, so he rushed to bring in a bucket of water.He was a small one, squatting next to the barrel, with the sleeves of his jacket rolled up high, reaching into the barrel to wash Zhou Jincheng's feet, while washing, he raised his head and asked, "Brother, is the water hot?"

Zhou Jincheng said, "Not hot."

A smile appeared on his face, and he lowered his head again.

How did Ruan Tang serve others like this when he was at home? Zhou Jincheng has grown up in the past two years, the Zhou mansion has strict rules, and there are not many maids in the house. He himself doesn't like it, and he has never been served like this.

However, Ruan Tang squatted there holding his feet to wash, and looked at the blue blood vessels on the back of his feet very curiously, and touched them with his fingers.It doesn't look like someone is serving someone, but it looks like a child playing around.

After a while, Zhou Jincheng said, "Okay, get up."

Ruan Tang was done with this, he jumped up and didn't even give him a foot cloth, so he ran out to wash his hands.Like a gust of wind, blowing back to bed and back to lie down.Stretching his hands and feet out of the bed, he called Zhou Jincheng, "Brother, come and sleep."

Zhou Jincheng closed the window with wet feet, blew out the candle, and then lay down on the outside of the bed.

Ruan Tang didn't sleep well, and rolled over in the middle of the night when he fell asleep, squeezing Zhou Jincheng until he couldn't get close enough to the edge of the bed, and then grabbed the quilt and stuck it up.

The young master felt less patient when he was sleepy, he hugged the person with one hand and supported the bed with the other, moved in, moved to the middle of the bed, and fell asleep just like that in the hugging position.

Waking up early the next morning, Ruan Tang opened his eyes first, pushed Zhou Jincheng's shoulders and called him, and when he opened his eyes a little, he asked, "Why are you holding me, brother?"

Zhou Jincheng remembered the hustle and bustle last night, and he was still sleepy, so he raised his hand and squeezed Ruan Tang's face, which deformed the little face, "Trouble."

Ruan Tang only knew to hide desperately, whimpered twice like a kitten in his throat, and then rolled out a series of laughs, pretending that Zhou Jincheng was playing with him, "Brother...Brother..."

Zhou Jincheng opened his eyes, turned over and pressed on him, his two faces were very close, staring at Ruan Tang with slightly narrow eyes, and said softly: "Next time if you dare to move around at night, I will throw you in the yard to sleep with the dog .”

Ruan Tang was frightened, and nodded without knowing what to say: "Okay...okay, don't sleep with dogs, don't sleep with dogs."

Zhou Jincheng was in a better mood to scare Wanren, so he got up and went to dress and wash.The little book boy also hurriedly followed, and asked Zhou Jincheng once at the breakfast table: "Brother, will I still sleep with you at night?"

Zhou Jincheng raised his eyelids: "Where do you want to go?"

"No..." Ruan Tang shook his head preoccupied, "I don't want to sleep with a dog..."

Zhou Jincheng didn't know whether he snorted or hummed very lightly. Ruan Tang didn't even eat the pancake mixed with sugar and lard, and threw it on the plate. Afraid of dogs, dogs are not good. They are fierce, always bite people, and even grab food."

After finishing speaking, Ruan Tang flinched, as if there was a real dog in front of him, leaned over and hid his face in Zhou Jincheng's neck, and said sullenly: "Brother, the dog is not good, the dog is not good."

Zhou Jincheng recalled that he had only said a few words on the way here, but he could probably guess how hard it was.

There are many wild dogs in the wilderness in the outskirts, and there are also some wild dogs cannibalizing people in the villages where the locust plague occurred. He didn't know what Ruan Tang had seen.

This idiot couldn't tell, but seeing that he usually looks like the young master is not afraid of the master, but he is afraid of wild dogs, he thinks he has suffered a lot.

I just said something unintentionally in the morning, but now I still feel guilty, Zhou Jincheng had to calm down and comfort Ruan Tang: "I know, I won't let you sleep with the dog."

"I'm also afraid of the dog in the yard." Ruan Tang uttered the words he had held back for so long, picking at his fingers, his appearance was very obedient, and it didn't make people feel that he was pushing his limits at all, "It always looks at me, I'm afraid .”

Zhou Jincheng didn't know that he had never been so easy to talk to. Right now, he just wanted to comfort the frightened little fool. Hearing this, he told Ying'er at the side: "Take it to the second courtyard later, and talk to Jin Keep the heavy ones together."

Ying'er responded and wrote it down.At noon, while Zhou Jincheng was taking a break, she and Yan'er took Ruan Tang to play together, laughing at him for being good at "breathing the wind around the pillow".

"I don't know how to blow hair." Ruan Tang said seriously.

How can you blow your own hair?Wind, frost, rain and snow are all given by God, and bugs are also given by God.People on the earth have to accept what God gives.

That's what his mother said.

Ruan Tang thought of his mother, if Zhou Jincheng was here, his eyes would turn red again.But when Zhou Jincheng was not there, Ruan Tang felt strangely less sad, and after hearing Yinger say something else, he forgot about it.

When Zhou Jin came back in the afternoon, Ruan Tang was sitting at the door of the study.

The weather is cooler, and there is usually no one coming from their side, so it is very quiet, only the sound of the wind blowing through the leaves and the chirping of birds.

Ruan Tang held two agate beads in his hand, Zhou Jincheng gave him to play with, he lowered his head and waited for Zhou Jinzhong to walk in front of him before he heard the movement.

He just looked up, not wanting to call someone, Zhou Jin couldn't stand it anymore, and asked him, "Where's my elder brother?"

"Who is your eldest brother?"

Zhou Jinzhong held a stack of slightly yellowed paper in his hand, frowned and remained silent.The servant behind him opened his mouth: "You little book boy, dare to tease the second young master, I..."

"Hey, shut up." Zhou Jin called to stop him, and said to Ruan Tang, "It's the young master."

"Oh." Ruan Tang nodded, with a serious face: "My brother is making a fuss, no one is allowed to enter."

As he spoke, he straightened his back, and blocked Zhou Jincheng's study door squarely, obviously blocking it.

The servant was about to get angry, but Zhou Jin gave him a heavy look, "You go back first, I'll wait here, and we'll go to my wife's room together later, I don't need you to wait on me."

The servant faltered a few times, but in the end he still had to listen to the second young master, and walked away while looking back at Ruan Tang.

Ruan Tangyuan started playing with his agate beads again.He sat on the bluestone slab of the highest step, with his legs spread apart, placed the beads on the next step, and flicked his fingers to make one hit another.

Simple game, but never tired of it.

Zhou Jin squatted aside and looked at it for a while, then said, "It's not fun to have so few beads, it's fun to have more."

Ruan Tang turned to look at him and said, "There are only two."

"I have." Zhou Jinzhong said that he was about to reach for the agate beads on the ground, but he was not annoyed when Ruan Tang stopped his hand. Yuan took it back and put it on his stomach, looked up at Ruan Tang and said, "There is a wooden box in my house." , there are a lot of beads in it, of all colors, a lot of them are scattered on the ground, and it's fun to play."

Ruan Tang thought about the appearance of a large handful of beads, then nodded: "Yes."

There was a smile on Zhou Jinzhong's face, he looked good, one was cold and the other was cute, but he still had an indescribable resemblance to Zhou Jincheng, "Then let's play together next time?"

Ruan Tang frowned, "But I'm here, and I want to watch the door for my brother. If I don't watch the door, how can my brother make a fuss? I can't go to your room to play."

He was too important, Zhou Jincheng couldn't study without this small courtyard.

"When are you resting?"

"Take a break with my brother, too."

Zhou Jin pursed his lips again and said, "Can I come to you? Like now, let's play here. I'll bring a wooden box. It's not very big and can be hugged."

Ruan Tang nodded: "That's fine."

After a few words, he was willing to let Zhou Jin touch the beads again, but he was still very careful: "My brother said not to put it on the soil, otherwise it won't shine after grinding."

"Okay." Zhou Jinzhong nodded obediently, and put the two red beads in the palm of his hand to read.Just because it was given by his elder brother, it is a thousand times or ten thousand times better than others.

"Do you want to change it? Can I exchange it with you for ten?"

Ruan Tang suddenly became unhappy, and said: "No change. My brother gave it to me to play, not to change it."

Zhou Jin was a little ashamed by what he said, and hurriedly said: "Then I won't change it, let's play together next time."

The two of them were chattering at the door, but in a very low voice, they both spoke in breathless voices, and Zhou Jincheng didn't hear a word.

It was he who got up to drink tea and asked Ruan Tang to come in for a sip, only then did he know that Zhou Jin had returned.

Zhou Jincheng opened the door, and when he saw Ruan Tang strictly guarding the door at the door, he laughed a little, and called both of them into the room.

After pouring two cups of tea, Ruan Tang used his, and Zhou Jin reused Ruan Tang's.

"Brother." After drinking tea, Zhou Jinzhong immediately took out his handwriting and asked Zhou Jincheng to read it, "It's these few words that my master always says is not well written."

He is not in good health, and has been carefully raised in the mansion.He was only enlightened when he was seven years old, but he kept learning for a while, and he still hasn't finished reciting the three hundred poems, and the questions he asks are only about how to write the strokes correctly.

Zhou Jincheng spread out the calligraphy practice paper on the table, and asked Zhou Jin to take the pen again and write a few more words to see his faults.The two brothers gesticulated at the desk for more than half an hour before Zhou Jinzhong finished asking the questions.

Those questions may not have been mentioned by Mr. Zhou Jincheng, but Zhou Jincheng didn't care so much, he just said it when he came to ask, and Zhou Linfu, who didn't need to be provoked by trivial matters, got angry.

Master Zhou was bedridden for half a month during the Dragon Boat Festival, and now he is unwilling to confront him in everything.After all, he will go out in the future, his wife is gone, and it has been nearly ten years, no one can give justice to anyone, Zhou Jincheng thinks so.

When Zhou Jin went back, he was reluctant to part with him. He tidied up his few pages very slowly, and finally left the study.

Ruan Tang went out with him, and sat down again to play with his two beads, but Zhou Jin grabbed his sleeve again and said, "I'll come to play with you tomorrow, okay?"

Ruan Tang nodded, "Okay."

"I'm leaving."

"Goodbye." Ruan Tang was very polite.

After falling asleep at night, Ruan Tang didn't speak for a while.It's not like before, telling Zhou Jincheng what he did and what others said to him when he was not in front of Zhou Jincheng that day.

On the climax of the moon, Zhou Jincheng was lying flat, with his hands outside the quilt and on his lower abdomen, thinking that he could survive the night, the little fool murmured and said, "Brother..."

"Say."

"...Why didn't you tell me to shut up?"

"..."

Zhou Jincheng said, "Shut up."

"Just say one thing." Ruan Tang hurriedly asked, "Is writing fun?"

Zhou Jincheng said, "It's not fun."

"It's fun, otherwise, otherwise why does he always have to write, and he will come to ask my brother tomorrow."

Zhou Jincheng didn't answer.

Ruan Tang seems to be talking to himself, "He is younger than me and can write. My brother is older than me and can also write. Can I also write?"

"But writing requires paper. I don't have it, and I don't have a pen either... My brother has it. My brother has a lot of paper and a pen..."

"Shut up and sleep."

The next morning, Zhou Jin came to the study again to write and asked Zhou Jincheng to help him see what was wrong.

It turned out that a small table of the same height was added behind the book case with limited space, and there were pens, ink, paper and inkstones on it.