Red dust kills beauty

Chapter Chariot VI

The first month when Fu Baixue disappeared.

Zhaoyao finished the homework assigned to him by Ling, and found a place by herself to do physical training.

The conditions in Shuilongpo are not good. Unlike the Self-Defense Force, which has an independent training ground, if the people here want to train themselves, they have to find a place for themselves.

In fact, Zhaoyao has a secret base in Shuilongpo—probably this is the romantic fantasy of boys, in the shade of the slums.He often released Fenrir there, until today, on the way to his secret base, he met a witch merchant who was secretly training behind their backs.

It is also a very hidden place. When choosing her own little kingdom, Zhaoyao hesitated between two places and chose the former, but she did not expect that the latter was favored by the witch merchant.

I saw the witch merchant with his back facing him, doing the most basic push-ups.The other party took off his exquisite shirt and vest, and he didn't wear zero clothes to show around. He just wore a black vest, which faded away from his usual indifference and looked very focused.

Zhaoyao: "..."

He could barely contain his damn expression.

Because the witch merchant was at home, in front of him and Ling, he had always presented himself as a god of learning.What is "I can do these things with my eyes closed", what is "I don't know how to explain this question to you, because you can do it at a glance", what is "Aren't abdominal muscles something you can just take a walk", what is "Dodge ? I don’t know, it’s probably because the natural reflexes are more developed.”

God knows that he really believed it, and because of this incident, he felt extremely inferior, and felt that he was a stupid boy who didn't understand!

In the end, I saw this scene-how did this witch merchant do this.

Zhaoyao couldn't understand it, it took him so much effort to not shout out on the spot, and as soon as he got home, the little accuser told Ling about it.

Zero doesn't know why, but recently he has not been busy at all, unlike before when he was often away from home for weeks and weeks.He is free almost all day now, shopping for vegetables, cooking and cleaning up the house. He has the taste of a virtuous and virtuous family cook.

When he told Zero about this, the other party was cooking in the kitchen.

Two days ago, the man pulled a wire on the first floor, and the kitchen and hall finally had electricity, but the hall was still not bright, and it was faint like a little drunk.

Zero gathered in the dim light, wearing an apron, standing in front of the stove and tasting the fish soup with a spoon.His slightly long black hair was tied behind his head, with a strand leaking out, which he conveniently tucked behind his ear.

"..." Zhaoyao looked at this scene, the rest of the words stuck in her throat, suddenly forgot what she wanted to say.

"And then?" Zero turned back with a smile, and put the spoon near his lips, "Taste it, I feel like it's salty."

The tone of the other party is familiar and friendly, which is indeed the fact that they have done countless things.As the young one, Zhaoyao, no matter whether the head chef is a witch merchant or Ling, he has to be a garlic peeling girl, and occasionally has to work part-time as a vegetable washer.And from time to time, the one holding the spoon next to him would suddenly throw a spoonful of soup in front of him, letting him taste it.

But Zhaoyao remembered that the other party's moist and beautiful lips had also licked the spoon just now, the tip of the red tongue and the white teeth, perhaps gently biting the edge of a certain spoon, he felt a little strange all of a sudden.

It's not disgusting, but, I can't tell, it feels a little itchy somewhere, which makes him want to reach out and scratch it, but he doesn't know where it is numb.

Zhaoyao couldn't explain the strangeness in his heart. He imagined the situation where the witch merchant asked him to try the dishes, but all he could think of was the other party's faint "I spit in it" after he finished eating, and his furious anger. Finally, the other party said "I lied to you, idiot" unhurriedly.

... I don't know what happened, but the inexplicable throbbing in my heart suddenly disappeared - it's all the fault of the witch merchant! ! !

Zhaoyao tasted the taste in doubt and frustration, and described the witch merchant's behavior in an emphatic way with anger.

"Pfft." Ling burst out laughing, his smiling eyes curved, and he asked in a low voice, "Azhao, do you know what Xiaoshang's behavior is called?"

Zhaoyao scratched her head, of course he didn't know.

"It's a student whore." He hummed a tune that he didn't know where, and he seemed to be in a good mood. "It's someone like him who pretends to be a student god on the surface, but actually works harder than anyone else in private."

They hid in the kitchen and secretly talked about witch merchants. From the other party's eccentric tone to the other party's desperation for face and suffering, Zhaoyao was refreshed.Finally, Zhaoyao suddenly remembered something, and asked: "What is the second child doing like this, what is he doing, reading and training with me, I won't laugh at him."

Zero paused for a while, and smiled helplessly: "Probably because he didn't want to show timidity in front of me, and tried his best to prove to me that he is worth relying on."

The young boy under thirteen raised his face to look at his elder brother, was silent for a while, and said honestly: "I don't understand you."

Zhaoyao has never quite understood the relationship between his eldest brother and his second brother.

Don't think that children are idiots. Although Zhaoyao is ignorant of many things, when the two of them are together, their aura is always indescribably weird and sticky. He is still aware of this.

When he was even younger, he even got sour about it and felt ostracized.For example, Zero and the Shaman always sleep together, even now that the two seem to be fighting.And he will always be alone.

It's not that he wants to sleep with his brother when he's so old, it's just that he's a little annoyed that there's a secret between them and he can't get involved.

This feeling of being concealed, when his master Bai Xue was present, would become even more intense.Zhaoyao is sensitive to the fact that whether it is Fu Baixue or the witch merchant, their good relationship has not offset the hostility between them. The occasional atmosphere when the two look at each other always makes Zhaoyao feel that they will fight in the next second.

And Zero chose to let it go.

Zhaoyao couldn't understand this at all. Once he asked Fu Baixue: "What are you guys robbing?"

Fu Baixue only smiled meaningfully at that time, then patted his head, and said softly: "You don't need to know."

"..."

Zhaoyao could vaguely feel that the witch merchant was jealous of him, and even Fu Baixue was a little sour towards him occasionally.Is it because Zero likes him the most?

But why.he thought perplexed.

He is obviously the one who is farthest away from zero and stretches the most.

These troubles piled up in the boy's heart. He had always chosen to digest them silently. This was the first time he said it to Zero.

"Well, how should I put it..." Zero took off his apron, and took the food out of the kitchen, "A child's self-esteem is a very hard and fragile thing, and Xiaoshang is the best among them."

Zhaoyao swayed after him, like a toddler duckling: "Witch merchants are not children! This metaphor is disgusting!"

"In my eyes, you are all children." The man laughed, messing up his burly board.

No matter how clever and grotesque the witch merchant is, he is just a young man in a restless period, and he has all the problems of an adolescent Alpha.

Zero will never admit that occasionally when in bed, the other party is so frustrated because he can't completely mark it, but he still has to try to save face. In fact, he thinks it's quite cute.

But he is really not the type to speak soft words, nor is he a submissive and well-behaved Omega. When the witch merchant is awkward, he will only push back with an even more awkward and cold attitude.

"So please be considerate of Xiao Shang?" the man said in a persuasive tone, "I don't know exactly how he became what he is now, but every plant that grows crookedly bends itself into a deformed and distorted plant." The posture must be for survival."

"After all, which tree doesn't want to grow straight against the sun like you, Ah Zhao?"

The other party's tone was full of sighs, but Zhaoyao was taken aback.For some reason, he felt a little heat in his eye sockets.

"..."

"What?" The man didn't hear clearly.

"It's nothing." Zhaoyao turned her eyes away and stopped looking at him - I don't know when, he also learned the awkward expression of his elder brother and second brother.

If there is no zero, Zhaoyao thought, probably he would have rotted to death in the mud of Shuilongpo, let alone growing straight.

and so--

My sunshine is you.

The second month since Fu Baixue disappeared.

Ling has been at home for two months. During this period of time, he has passed all Chinese, arithmetic, history, geography and English, which directly reflects that Zhaoyao's schoolwork has increased again.

Under the boredom of the other party, Zhaoyao finally couldn't take it anymore after re-founding Zhaoyao's kennel, changing the building materials, and rebuilding it from the inside out.

"Why is he so idle recently?" Zhaoyao couldn't bear it anymore, "Isn't he the second-in-command of the Self-Defense Force? Recently, the Self-Defense Force is recruiting everywhere, and the publicity leaflets are all over the street, and he doesn't help?"

At that time, because Ling was too bored, he didn't know where he was wandering. He was the only one at home, and the witch merchant who supervised his homework.

The witch merchant wore a shirt with cuffs cuffed up and a pair of anti-blue flat-bottomed glasses on the bridge of his nose, making him look even more refined and scumbag.He quickly compared the map and wrote something in the draft book, while sneering: "What is the second in command, your elder brother is going to be cold, don't you see it?"

He was poured into his head by Ling to treat others politely, but he learned it very badly. He was willing to pretend in front of Ling, but he refused to force it in the slightest in front of Zhaoyao.

"Ah? What's going on?" Zhaoyao's clear and black eyes widened. Probably no one in the world would have the heart to hurt a child with such eyes.

But the witch merchant is a devil, he is very willing.

"I really don't understand what Zero values ​​you, you're so stupid." Zhaoyao is used to the harsh words of the witch merchant, anyway, he is not as smart as the other party, and no matter how fierce he scolds, he will still tell himself the answer in the end, as expected ——

"Someone wants to take advantage of Mr. Fu's absence to make trouble. Zero's style of work is too rigid. Whether it is the third district, the next peninsula, or the island country on the other side, he doesn't show any affection at all. This is very hated. ——A while ago, the Seventh District and the southerners jointly did the powder business. While he and Mr. Fu were going to the mountain city, the people who hooked up with Yu Jingchun to sell the powder to Yanbei, but those people did not expect that the mountain city would be sold Luo Xiaojie, who has turned the world upside down, didn't even stop them for two days, and when Ling arrived in Yanbei that night, some people might have woken up from sleepiness, right?"

"He is a hawk who is more iron-blooded than Mr. Fu, and coupled with his unsolvable force value, it would be strange not to engage him. You see, Mr. Fu was 'on a business trip' as expected, huh."

The more Zhaoyao listened, the more something was wrong: "Why are you so clear about these things?"

Why does he feel that Ling is not necessarily clearer than Wu Shang about these twists and turns?

The witch merchant shrugged: "I grew up watching these things."

Zhaoyao was a little anxious: "Since someone is secretly punishing elder brother, why don't you hurry up and help him!"

The witch merchant hummed an unknown tune—Zhaoyao was keenly aware that Ling liked to hum it when cooking in the kitchen—he said in a calm manner: "No hurry now. You have heard of the three brothers Bian Que story?"

Zero had told him this story before, so Zhaoyao had heard it of course.

According to legend, Bian Que was a miracle doctor in the Spring and Autumn Period. Once Wei Wenhou asked Bian Que if he was the one with the best Chinese medicine skills among the three brothers.Bian Que denied it, saying that he had the worst medical skills. His elder brother and second elder brother could detect and get rid of the patient's symptoms before they started. get well.

There was a mysterious smile on the corner of Wu Shang's lips: "That's the reason. Bian Que's elder brother's medical skills are better than Bian Que's, but because the treatment was too timely, it didn't reflect their ability, making them look like quack doctors. If I said it earlier, how can I get Zero to thank me? Maybe he still thinks I'm troublesome."

Having been with the other party for so long, Zhaoyao has also figured out a little bit about this person's veins.It is true that the witch merchant is disgusting, but when it comes to Zero, the other party will never let Zero fall into a disadvantageous situation because of such a stupid reason as "I can't show my ability".So Zhaoyao sneered after listening to the half-truth and half-false words above, and said bluntly: "You are afraid that if you make a rash move, he will blame you instead?"

"..." The smile on the witch merchant's face froze.

He couldn't help muttering in his heart, this little brat's mind and eyes are not good enough, but his ability to recognize people by intuition is getting better and better.

But on the surface, he must not be subdued.

"Go, go." The witch merchant waved his hand, and waved the young boy aside like a dog, "Go and do your homework."

He stopped talking to Zhaoyao, continued to bow his head, and went to write and draw on the map.

Two weeks later, it was the same scene again.The difference is that the fidget has changed.

If the witch merchant could wait for help from zero in the beginning, but as time dragged on, it was far worse than the young man who could hold his breath in the future and became a little anxious.

"Why hasn't he asked me yet?" The wizard said anxiously, "As long as he asks me for help, I can solve everything for him."

Zhaoyao has long been impatient with the awkward charades between the boss and the second.

He said irritably, "So—why didn't you help him directly? If I didn't care so much about you, I would have picked up my arms and done it already!"

"..." The witch merchant opened his mouth to speak, and then tightened the corners of his lips.

Zhaoyao is still waiting for his answer.

Probably because he really regards Zhaoyao as an unlovable younger brother. Although the witch merchant often finds him annoying, he is a family member after all.

After being silent for a while, the witch merchant actually spoke.

His back was tense, but his fingers were so weak that he couldn't hold the pen tightly. The young man said, "...he thinks I'm dirty."

As soon as the words were out of his mouth, he felt wronged and frightened, and his whole body was smashed to the shore like a sea wave, smashing his whole body to pieces.

He recalled the piercing despair and grief when the man asked him if his teacher taught him this ability.

Indeed, the teacher never taught him this, and even because he didn't want his blood to be stained, the teacher would rather take him to hide than kill his biological father.

Probably no one would believe it. Before listening to the teacher's instructions and finding Zero, even if he lost his teacher and wandered all the way, he never had a drop of blood on his hands.

He learned to kill in order to follow Zero and was eager to show his usefulness.

The witch merchant's eyes were cold, but the corners of his eyes were red.He gritted his teeth and smiled: "Because he thinks I'm unscrupulous and filthy. If I treat his precious companion like this without his consent, he will probably hate me for the rest of his life."

Zhaoyao froze for a moment.

Because he suddenly thought of what Ling had said to him not long ago, when the other party found him and said that he wanted to discuss something with him.

"Recently, I've always had some bad premonitions. After much deliberation, I still want to ask you one thing."

Boys of this age are always happy to take on family responsibilities.Zhaoyao was excited when she heard it, and she agreed, completely ignoring the premise of the other party's opening.

"Azhao is hard-working and sensible, and his strength is still very strong. You and I are very relieved, but I am really worried about the other one."

Zhaoyao was coaxed by this bullshit, and asked Ling what exactly he wanted to ask him to do.

"Xiao Shang is too smart and infatuated, but his concept of good and evil is very vague, so he can easily do some dangerous things."

"...Infatuation? You mean a witch merchant!?"

He vaguely remembered that his elder brother seemed to have smiled and said with a sigh, "Yeah, very infatuated."

"Okay, you say yes—so what?"

"Huiji will be hurt, and love will last forever. So we must protect your fragile second brother, and don't let him kill his heart when he doesn't even know it.