Courtesy

"Think about it carefully." Gu Huan was not in a hurry to let him express his opinion immediately, but slowly stood up and walked to the knife rest on the side, took off the sword on it, and threw it in front of Gu Fang, "Back then, I He killed Lu Zheng with this sword."

Gu Fang picked it up with trembling hands. It was not a good sword. When he pulled it away, there were already mottled rust spots on the sword body, and there were bloodstains that had dried up to the point of turning black.

"You have read the queen mother's letter, so you should understand what I mean." Gu Huan endured the grief in his heart, and continued, "If you want to continue to entangle with him, then I will clean you up without hesitation, even if you are me. son."

Compared with Da Yue, his son is just a tiny speck of dust.

Gu Fang looked at Lu Zheng's blood in a daze, he knew that his father was a man of his word.

"I believe that you are not afraid of death just like Lu Zheng, but you also have to think about Jun Ruohan." Gu Huan said, "When Emperor Jing was lingering in the sick bed for half a year, he almost died several times, and as far as I know, Jun Ruohan probably Compared with Emperor Jing, his personality is tougher and more arrogant, so if you die, you have to think carefully about what he will become."

Gu Fang didn't speak, and then heard the "squeak" sound of closing the door.

He just knelt in front of Lu Zheng's spiritual tablet in a daze. What he heard today made him unable to digest for a while.

At the same time, it overturned everything they had imagined. Their path turned out to be not that simple.

Gu stayed in the small ancestral hall for a whole day, and when he opened the door, it was already pitch black outside.

But today was different from before, he didn't feel hungry or sleepy at all.

The night wind that had just entered autumn still felt a little cool on his body, and he didn't know if it was because the fever had not completely faded away, so he unconsciously tightened his outer shirt.

Mrs. Gu had been waiting under the tree in the yard, seeing that he finally opened the door, she finally let go of her hanging heart.

When she came to meet him, she stretched out her hand to touch his forehead before saying, "Are you hungry?"

Gu Fang wanted to say that he was not hungry, but after thinking about it, he nodded.

"The meal is ready for you."

This was the first time Gu Fang ate at the residence of the second elder, and the meal just after waking up was not counted.

Although so many years have passed, his mother still remembers his favorite dish.

Mrs. Gu had never seen him so quiet before. She didn't say a word until after eating, and she didn't even make any sound when eating and drinking soup.

Fortunately, seeing that he ate two full bowls of rice and drank a big bowl of soup, Mrs. Gu's worries were suppressed.

"Mother..." Gu Fang finished his last sip of soup before opening his mouth.

"Ok?"

"Is there anything sweet?" Gu Fang asked, seeing his mother looked at him with worried and strange eyes, and then added, "The soup is a bit salty, I want something sweet."

"There are candied fruit, you wait, mother will get it for you."

After Mrs. Gu left, Gu Fang finally couldn't bear it and ran to the yard and retched. He ate a lot, but he could only spit out sour water, with burning pain from his throat to his stomach.

The acid in the mouth may have infected the eyes, and the eyes were also sore and swollen. Gu Fang couldn't hold on any longer and squatted on the ground, buried his face in his arms and cried out.

He cried very quietly, he couldn't hear any sound, and he didn't dare to disturb anyone.

If you didn't see his twitching shoulders, you would think he was just squatting there to rest.

Mrs. Gu stood on the porch with the candied fruit and watched from a distance, but finally she just quietly entered the door with tears in her eyes.

When Gu Fang came in again, both of them had sorted out their emotions.

Madam Gu looked into his red eyes and didn't say anything, she just pushed the plate of candied fruit in front of him: "Eat, eat and see."

Gu Fang took two pills and stuffed them into his mouth together: "Sweet and sour is delicious."

"It's delicious but you can't eat too much. It's so late and you have a toothache in the middle of the night." Mrs. Gu said with a smile.

"Yeah." Gu Fang nodded.

These words are really familiar, he didn't know how many times he told Jun Ruohan since he was a child, but that guy never listened to him.

"The room has been tidied up for you. It's definitely not as comfortable as in the General's Mansion, but it's very clean." Mrs. Gu got up and patted him on the shoulder.

Since he left the small ancestral hall until now, his mother never asked him what decision he had made, but she was certain that he would not return to the General's Mansion for the time being.

"Thank you mother." Gu Fang said.

"Tell Mother what to say, thank you!" Mrs. Gu scolded, "The room is next door, I'll go to rest first."

"it is good."

After Mrs. Gu left, Gu Fang sat alone at the table and slowly ate with candied fruit.

Occasionally eat these sweet things, and if you eat them in moderation, you will feel good. He is not as enthusiastic as Jun Ruohan, but this time he sat there very patiently and slowly finished the whole plate before giving up. .

I didn't expect this sweet and greasy feeling to be surprisingly good.

Jun Ruohan went to the general's mansion for several days and failed to meet Gu Fang as he wished. He was very anxious, anxious and scared. He was afraid that when he appeared in front of him again, he would tell him calmly, we will go here!

Ever since Old General Gu took people away, he had a bad premonition.

What he has to do now is to see him as soon as possible, but he dare not go to the old General Gu's residence, he is afraid that if he goes, he will put Gu in a more dangerous situation.

One day, two days, three days and five days, he went to the general's mansion on time every night to wait for him.

Finally on the tenth day, he got the person he wanted to meet.

When he arrived at the general's mansion that day, he thought that the first words that Uncle Fu would say when he saw him would be "Young master has not come back", but he didn't expect it to change today.

"Young master is in the study!"

Jun Ruohan was afraid that he had heard it wrong, so he asked again: "What, what?"

"Young master is in the study." Uncle Fu repeated.

As soon as the words were finished, Jun Ruohan had disappeared. He hurried to the study and almost hit his head when he opened the door.

When Gu Fang heard the voice, he turned his head. Before he could see who it was, his body tightened, and he was firmly pulled into a familiar embrace.

Ambergris lingered at the end of his nose, he closed his eyes but didn't make any movement, just stood there blankly and let him hug him.

"I'm thinner." Jun Ruohan tightened his arms and said after a long time.

"If you're sick and don't have a good appetite, you'll naturally lose weight." Compared to Jun Ruohan, Gu Fang seemed much calmer.

Hearing that he was ill, Jun Ruohan hurriedly let go of him, and looked him up and down nervously: "Is the illness cured? Does the injury on the head still hurt?"

Gu Fang smiled and shook his head: "It's all good."

Their eyes were intertwined, and the two greedily looked at everything about each other.

Gu Fang noticed that the underside of Jun Ruohan's eyes was gray and gray, his cheeks were much thinner, and the brows were full of fatigue.

He couldn't imagine how Jun Ruohan got here these days, and he probably didn't feel much better than himself.

"Are you sick too? No matter how you look at it, you have lost a lot of weight." Gu Fang didn't want to blink, and looked at him steadily.

Jun Ruohan pinched his chin and said with a smile: "No, I just deliberately lost weight to cooperate with you."

Gu Fang couldn't help laughing, he smiled and suddenly lowered his eyes and took a breath, before saying, "I have something to tell you."

"I also have something to tell you." Jun Ruohan obviously felt that he was a little abnormal today.

"Let me talk first." Gu Fang said forcefully.

Jun Ruohan was silent for a moment, he felt that he would say something he didn't want to hear, and he wanted him not to say it.

"Then I said..."

Seeing that he didn't speak, Gu Fang regarded him as agreeing.

"Do you still remember the blank file we saw in the Zhangjian Division?" Gu Fang asked.

"remember."

"My father told me a story, do you want to hear it?" Gu Fang asked again.

"it is good."

Gu Fang told Jun Ruohan the story of Lu Zheng and Emperor Jing. Jun Ruohan was a little unbelievable, with turbulent waves rolling up in his heart, but the calmness on the surface was abnormal. After watching Gu Fang for a long time, he finally opened his lips: "So, I I want to know what your plan is?"

"I'm afraid of death." He said, "I still have parents, friends, and even a lovely son. I don't want to end up like Uncle Lu, and..."

Gu Fang paused, then raised his head to meet his gaze: "It's not that I don't like women."

If Jun Ruohan can accept the previous reasons, then the last sentence is Gu Fang stabbing him in the heart with his own hands.

"You're not Lu Zheng, and I'm not Father, we won't be like them." Jun Ruohan gritted his teeth.

"Maybe, but I'm afraid, I'm afraid that if I make a mistake, I will lose my life." Gu Fang shrugged indifferently.

Then he put his hand on Jun Ruohan's shoulder and squeezed it vigorously, and comforted him: "Actually, it's nothing, we kissed and touched when we were together, it's just that you little man wrote it in the book. It's the last step, if you want...you can do it tonight. Two men have done what they should and shouldn't do together, maybe we will find that two men are still not as comfortable as living with a woman after all. "

"I don't believe it." Jun Ruohan's voice was a little choked up, he just didn't believe that his senior brother would leave him halfway.

"Don't be childish, you'll be banned in a while, actually I had a good chat with Ms. Lin that night." Gu Fang took a step back and looked at him seriously, "We... just Come here! We are brothers after all, so don't make too much embarrassment."

"I don't agree." Jun Ruohan shouted with red eyes, "I don't agree, do you hear that?"

Gu Fang gritted his teeth, picked up the wooden box next to him, and opened it. Inside was the lantern blessed by the river god, with their names written on it.

Jun Ruohan's handwriting is beautiful, and the strokes are full of tenderness and tenderness.

Gu Fang picked up the lantern, walked to the lamp stand, uncovered the lampshade, and placed the lantern on top of the flame.

Jun Ruohan just watched helplessly as their names were engulfed by the flames and turned into ashes, leaving nothing.

"Senior brother..." He whispered in a daze, as if he had returned to many years ago, when he was still the little boy who needed the protection of his senior brother.

"Let's go, don't hurt me again." Gu Fang turned around and threw the burning lantern into the copper basin on the side. He gritted his teeth and endured it, so as not to cry in front of him.

And the truth is, he really did.