Gu Chao, the reborn little brother

Gu Chao grabbed the letter paper and silently wiped away his tears.Gu Chao felt that he seemed to be more fragile than before. When things happen, his emotions are often stronger than his rationality. He wants to be strong. This is a happy event, so he should laugh, but tears can't be restrained from overflowing from his eyes.

When Chu Ming came in, he was shocked to see Gu Chao crying silently with red eyes, he wanted to reach out to hug Gu Chao, but he just came back from the field, his body was covered with mud and he dared not reach out Afraid of dirtying Gu Chao.

He could only pace anxiously on the side, asking, "What's wrong? What happened?"

"No...it's okay," Gu Chao raised his head, with tears in his eyes, but the corners of his mouth were raised high, and said, "Weiwei... Weiwei has been found."

"Found it? Who found it, who?" Chu Ming was also full of astonishment at the sudden news.

"Here." Gu Chaoyang raised the letter in his hand, "It's a letter from Gu Yong. He said he was in the south of the Yangtze River, and he found Weiwei."

It turned out to be like this... Chu Ming turned the matter around in his heart and breathed a sigh of relief.

"It should be that after Song Wei escaped from Qinzhuang, he came to the south of the Yangtze River for some reason. I didn't expect to be met by Gu Yong." Gu Chao wiped away his tears, and read the letter while talking, "Gu Yong is probably worthy of my concern. Weiwei's matter, so I didn't have time to go into details, so I invited someone to make sure it's safe. Weiwei is fine, that's great."

"Well, that's great."

This matter that was stuck in the hearts of the two of them was finally resolved.

They are waiting for Gu Yong's next letter. When the time comes, Gu Yong will definitely write the matter clearly in the letter, and will also tell them about Song Wei's recent situation.

After Chu Ming came back, Gu Chao also realized that he missed the time to make dinner, and he was afraid that Chu Ming and Gu Huai would be too hungry, so the dinner that day was very simple, steamed buns and bacon.

Chu Ming is a hunter, and the most important thing in the family is meat. The weather is not too hot now, and making raw meat into bacon is the easiest way to preserve and eat daily, so bacon has become a regular ingredient in their home. The steamed bun is cut in the middle, and a slice of bacon is sandwiched on top of a fried egg. The taste is also marked after this bite of medicine.

Gu Chao hurriedly finished dinner, let Chu Ming and Gu Huai eat first, and he packed another portion in a bamboo basket, which was given to the person they rescued.

Gu Huai had long heard that Gu Chao and Chu Ming had saved a person, and he went to see the person once before he woke up, but this time when the person woke up, he also wanted to go there again.

So in the end it was Gu Chao and Gu Huai who delivered the dinner.

When we arrived at the previous house, before entering the house, Gu Chao knocked on the door, but no one said a word, did that person leave?

Gu Chao opened the door suspiciously, but fortunately he saw that the man was still the same as before, lying on the bed, and when he saw him coming in, he looked back at him.

After Gu Chao entered the door, he took another look at the top of the table. The lunch set at noon had been eaten and it was very clean. Gu Chao smiled in his heart, but didn't show it on his face.

Gu Chao was thinking about how to speak, but Gu Huai walked towards that person faster than him.

Gu Huai was no longer the little doll who was hiding behind Gu Chao when he saw a stranger. He walked to the bed, looked the man up and down with his dark green eyes, and asked, "What's your name?" name? "

The man seemed to be taken aback, he didn't expect this little child to ask such a direct question, and because he was a child, his tense nerves relaxed a little, and he said, "My name is Li Jin."

"Which Li, which Jin? I know a lot of characters now, tell me, let me think about how to write these two characters." This is a game that Gu Chaozai and Gu Huai often play before going to bed at night.

"Muzi Li, today is today."

"Oh~ Those two words, it's not difficult, I know it." After speaking, Gu Huai showed a bright smile towards Li Jin.

"Are you hungry? My brother and I brought you dinner. Today is steamed bun with sliced ​​meat and eggs. It tastes good."

Perhaps because of Gu Huai, Gu Chao felt that the aura emanating from the man named Li Jin was not as vigilant as before. Following Gu Huai's words, he put the things in the basket on the side of the bed and returned them to him. He poured a glass of water.

Li Jin glanced at Gu Chao again, hesitated, and finally picked it up and took the first bite. After the first bite, the second bite was logical.

"We're going home for dinner too. You have a good rest. I'll come see you tomorrow."

Putting the bowls and chopsticks on the table into the bamboo basket, Gu Chao left with Gu Huai.

And Li Jin, who was biting the steamed bun, never took his eyes off them. Too many things flashed in his eyes quickly.

***

Jiangnan Shen Mansion.

The previous head of the Shen family, Shen Hao, was bohemian by nature. After marrying his husband, he also married nine other younger brothers to be his children. Only in this way did he feel that life was perfect.Shen Hao has a total of nine sons and eight daughters, which can be described as a group of children.It's a pity that Shen Hao died when he was 38 years old.A person who was fine the day before was found dead in his own bed the next day, and the cause of death was so bizarre that even the doctor couldn't tell.

The servants whispered in private, saying that Shen Hao died young because of kidney deficiency.

In the huge mansion of the Shen family, everyone who is regarded as the master of the family has his own small courtyard. Since Shen Hao's death, they have almost acted independently. If they have a good relationship, they will walk around with each other. If they have a bad relationship, even the servants are not allowed. They communicated in private, but today, they all gathered in the hall of the Shen family's main house.

In the hall, the air was tense and condensed.

Among Shen Hao's husbands, some left after his death and some died early. Now there are five of them left. Including the big house, there are six of them in total. But the appearance of these six people vaguely still has the appearance of Qingjun back then, and behind them stood tall children.

They were all silent, no one spoke first, but their eyeballs rolled around, secretly looking at the person sitting in the main seat.

Sitting at the front and in the middle of the hall was a young man who didn't look very old. He was sitting on a big pear wood chair with a silk quilt under his body and a mink fur coat on his body. His face was pale and sick, only his lips were bright red, as if he had just sucked human blood.

He is the current head of the Shen family, Shen Hao's sixth son, Shen Xi.

Standing beside the sickly Shen Xi was Lu Jiuzhi who had met Gu Chao before.

"Xiao Xi, your older brothers and younger brothers are here, you can talk about what's going on." The eldest brother spoke first.

"Big Ah Mu, don't you know what I'm going to say?" Shen Xi stood up and said coldly. She glanced at everyone in the hall one by one with sharp eyes. Some lowered their heads while others avoided it. Eyes, no one dared to look directly at him.

Shen Xi sneered and said: "My biological mother died when I was three years old. Dad wanted to put me under the name of eldest sister, but eldest sister didn't want me. Dad had to take me with him. When my father left, I was only eight years old. None of you would have thought that my father would leave a will with the magistrate and hand over all the property of the Shen family to me. When my father was alive, he loved me and loved me. He also gave me what he thought was the best, but Dad would never have thought that what he left for me would actually kill me!"

The word "death" in Shen Xi's mouth made some people tremble uneasily.

"Since I became the head of the Shen family, no matter if I am an eight-year-old child or a 17-year-old adult, you people have only one purpose, and that is to want me to die!"

"Shen Xi, this is a spout of blood!" A certain young man standing behind the big room couldn't help but choked with Shen Xi.

"Brother, did I spitting blood? You know best in your heart. Aren't you the one who attacked me first? Where did your previous valet go? You don't know, but I do! That man is still alive, alive Okay, you need me to find him, shall we have a good confrontation?"

That year, Shen Xi was eight years old, and he experienced the cruelty of his family for the first time. His elder brother let his valet poison his meal. Although his life was saved, Shen Xi's body, since that time It started off badly.

If Lu Jiuzhi hadn't sent his people into Shen's residence to protect Shen Xi, Shen Xi wouldn't be alive now.

"Over the years, your petty tricks have been constant. Whether it is poisoning me, taking money from my family, or trying to defraud part of the property from me, I have endured you. The monthly expenses of your yards, I have Have you ever restricted you? I don't know what you want, don't you just want to take back from me the property of the Shen family that you think belongs to you. "

Shen Xi took a break and said, "But do you know how much the Shen family's property is? Do you know how much the Shen family's shop can earn? And you... the elder brother takes money from the scumbag, and the elder brother gambles." Third brother is better, he does not gamble or whore, but he likes to buy antique calligraphy and paintings..."

Shen Xi looked at the crowd, and rolled their names one by one, "After all these years, you have lived a life of rich clothes and good food, and you just think that the Shen family has gold and silver mountains, and you can let you squander them. Now, I will Let me show you the property of the Shen family that all of you are spying on."

Shen Xi waved his hand, and the servants behind him immediately took the ledgers that had been prepared a long time ago and sent them to each room.

Some people can't read at all, so they can only wait for the big room to speak first. The big room quickly flipped through the last page of the account book, and his expression became worse and worse, "This account book is not real. When the master was still alive, Mingming told me that there are more than 100 shops in the Shen family, and each of them is profitable. How...how could it be possible to make ends meet and need to sell the shop, and there is not even one left! Shen Xi, please explain clearly , where did you get these shops?"

As soon as Da Fang's words came out, everyone's expressions changed. The shop that the Shen family relied on for their livelihood was gone. What would they do with their future lives?

"Heh, where did you go? Isn't it on everyone?" Shen Xi laughed and said, "No matter how many shops there are in the Shen family, they can't stand the trouble of twenty or thirty of you! Today's ledger is here, and the shopkeepers of each shop, I I’ve invited them all, I can buy one shopkeeper, did I buy the same hundred shopkeepers? After selling the shop, where did the money go, did I pay the eldest brother for the restaurant or the second brother’s gambling debts? The shopkeepers all know that if you have any questions, you can ask them directly."

"Actually, you have got what you want, but you don't know it. Now the Shen family, the rest is this big house. I won't sell this house. You can live in it if you want. If you don’t want to live here, you can move out, but from today onwards, you will have to pay for the expenses of the various courtyards in the house, including food and servants’ salaries, and the Shen family has no more money for this.” After finishing the last sentence, he held on Seeing Shen Xi's energy, he immediately dissipated, and he collapsed all of a sudden, coughing non-stop.

He murmured softly: "Jiuzhi, let's go back."

"En..." Lu Jiu hugged Shen Xi and the sable fur coat covering his lap together, took a step with his long legs, and walked quickly inside, passing through the winding and winding corridors, under his feet Without any hesitation, he has walked this road thousands of times.

Shen Xi leaned against Lu Jiuzhi's arms, covering his mouth and coughing non-stop.

"Xiao Xi, it's okay, everything is over, I'll take you back to your yard, let's have a good rest, sleep well at night, and wake up tomorrow will be fine." Lu Jiuzhi said as he walked, speaking quickly, like It's like a person talking to himself, these words are for Shen Xi and himself.

Xiao Xi, you'll be fine.

This is Lu Jiuzhi's deepest expectation.

Shen Xi didn't answer, just put her face on Lu Jiuzhi's chest, feeling the temperature of his body and the ups and downs of his chest. He has lived for 17 years, and he is the best to him. The person who loves him the most has always been Lu Jiuzhi, but he is the most The one who is sorry is also Lu Jiuzhi.

After returning to his small courtyard, Shen Xi became very obedient. When Lu Jiuzhi told him to lie down and didn't want to read, he didn't read. When Lu Jiuzhi asked him to drink medicine, he took medicine without crying again.

After drinking the medicine, he took another sip, and stuffed a plum into his mouth. Finally, Lu Jiuzhi sat down quietly beside Shen Xi's bed, not busy with anything else.

"Jiuzhi, before you said that if I recover, you will always be with me no matter what I want to do, does that still count?" Shen Xi asked weakly.

"Forget it, of course it counts. What I promised to Xiao Xi, which one has not been done."

"Jiuzhi, I'm afraid my health won't get better." Shen Xi lay on the bed, staring at Lu Jiuzhi faintly.

When Lu Jiuzhi heard his words, panic flashed across Lu Jiuzhi's face.

"What nonsense are you talking about? The doctor just came yesterday and said that you will recover after resting for half a year." Lu Jiuzhi rolled his eyes, not daring to look directly into Shen Xi's eyes.

"Jiuzhi, my body is mine. I know my condition better than anyone else. Even if you and the doctor keep it from me, but you have become a doctor after a long illness, I have read a lot of medical books over the years, and I still know how much I have. Time."

When Lu Jiuzhi heard this, he didn't refute anything, but his body, which had always been upright, seemed to be bent by something.

"If I can't get better, is Jiuzhi still willing to accompany me to do what I want to do?" Shen Xi looked straight at Lu Jiuzhi, her eyes sparkled, and finally there was some expression on her pale face.

"Willing...as long as you want to do, I will accompany you to do it."

"Let's go and see the person you mentioned."