Looking at the bright moon

Wen Mingyu didn't recover before going to Huqing, and after returning to Yannan, she fell ill for several days.When he finally recovered, Pei Ling walked out of the room and talked to her brother.

When Pei Ling stepped into the living room, Wen Mingyu was wearing a coat, sitting on the sofa taking medicine.He was originally thin, but he had been ill again, and he was more like a bamboo with its branches and leaves shaken, and even the outline of the bones on his wrist could be clearly seen.Peiling had been frightened before, so seeing him was unavoidable. Wen Mingyu didn't make a sound, and she didn't even dare to sit down. She just stood beside her brother and said softly, "Third brother, you can be angry with me." Whether you are worried about Shenghuan, health is always the most important thing."

"Of course my health is important." Wen Mingyu chuckled, put two white pills in his mouth, and swallowed them: "If something happens to me, who else can you rely on?"

Upon receiving this seemingly false question, Pei Ling immediately lowered her head and closed her eyes deeply.She squeezed the thumb of the other hand tightly, and summoned up the courage to say, "Even if there is no Sheng Jingyuan, I would still want to take Sheng Huan away."

She bent her knees and simply knelt beside her brother: "Shenghuan will have accidents, and the responsibility is indeed entirely on me. I did something wrong, even if you hate me because of it, you want to drive me out of this family , I also... have absolutely nothing to say."

Wen Mingyu glanced at her sideways, and said, "I'm not a father, and I like to kneel at every turn, sit down."

The more casual his attitude, the more uneasy Pei Ling became.Wen Mingyu cared so much about Sheng Huan that when he heard the news of Sheng Huan's disappearance in the hospital that day, he guessed that she was the number one suspect with just a few words.Pei Ling was called to Jin'an by her brother's phone call. After asking about the cause and effect, Wen Mingyu disregarded the doctor's dissuasion and forcibly left the hospital for Huqing, wanting to stop Sheng Jingyuan first.

It's just that no one expected that Sheng Huan disappeared as if out of thin air, and was not by Sheng Jingyuan's side.Peiling has just been betrayed by her sweetheart, and she has not recovered from the sadness, and she is about to face her brother's prosecution.She was really disheartened, thinking that even if she lost her brother's protection, it wouldn't matter if she broke away from the previous social circle where everyone flattered and dealt with men.But to this day, she still hasn't received any news about Shenghuan, which is really not an optimistic omen.If something happened to Sheng Huan because of this, Wen Mingyu's treatment would never be as simple as being kicked out of the house.

Peiling sat down cautiously, and offered to ask: "Third Brother, I am willing to help you find that child until Sheng Huan returns home."

When Shenghuan was mentioned, Wen Mingyu paused for the hand holding the teacup.After a moment of silence, he said: "Finding someone is the responsibility of a father, and you don't need to intervene."

His fingertips tapped the armrest slowly a few times, and his jade-like nails rarely showed a faint pink color due to the force.Wen Mingyu said again: "Peiling. You don't have to ask about Shenghuan's affairs in the future. I don't want to hear it. Shenghuan may not want your control."

It was rare for Pei Ling to be stubborn in front of her elder brother, and said anxiously: "But, he is still young—"

"17 years old, not too young." Wen Mingyu interrupted his sister softly. After saying this, he lazily supported his head with his hands, and the following words were as light as a breeze: "He Know what you want."

Pei Ling still wanted to argue, but before she opened her mouth, Wen Mingyu raised her eyelashes and looked at her quietly.His eyes are like a cold and rainy autumn night, so cold that they even have a chilly look.Pei Ling's words were all frozen in her throat, and she no longer had the courage to speak again.

She could only be a sensible person, stood up, and bowed her head to her elder brother: "I have been in Longyuan for many days, and I also miss some of my friends in Yungang, so I won't bother third brother anymore."

Wen Mingyu responded, and only asked: "Which day do you plan to go back?"

Pei Ling said: "Tomorrow I will send someone to buy a boat ticket."

After she bid farewell to Wen Mingyu, she was turning around to leave when Wen Mingyu suddenly stopped her: "Wait a minute."

He took out his own gun and threw it on the case with a snap: "As a brother, I have nothing else to give you, but you can accept this kind of thing." He looked at Peiling and smiled slightly: "My sister, you don't want to be teased for nothing, do you?"

Pei Ling stood there in a daze. After a long time, she hurried forward and grabbed the pistol.Without saying a word, she just bowed curtly to Wen Mingyu, then raised her hand to wipe the corner of her eyes, and strode away.

Not long after she left, Xu Hancheng walked in with a sigh, and saw Wen Mingyu sitting silently with a thin piece of letter paper in his hand.When he took a closer look, the piece of paper was indeed a letter from Sheng Huan.He has been following Wen Mingyu since he was a boy, until today, he has never seen his master like this.When Wen Mingyu read the letter, he still had a very faint smile on his face.But that smile has nothing to do with joy and joy. Seeing his expression, Xu Hancheng couldn't bear it any more, and couldn't help but said: "Master, what are you laughing at?"

When Wen Mingyu heard his voice, she moved a little bit, slowly folded up the letter paper, and put it in a book next to her hand.The book is a little old, but it is still well preserved. There are three characters vertically on the title page, which is called "Changqing Ji".Xu Hancheng knew that although Wen Mingyu grew up in the new era, his style was old-fashioned, and most of his favorite characters were old characters, so he didn't pay much attention.Wen Mingyu put away the letter, sat quietly for a while, and said, "I'm laughing at myself."

He didn't continue with these few words, and asked himself first: "Is there still no news about the young master?"

Xu Hancheng was obviously a tall man of eight feet. When asked this question, he hooked his head deeply and replied in a low voice: "No. I sent all the people I could send out. I searched everywhere, but there was no clue."

Wen Mingyu frowned, and took a light breath.Xu Hancheng immediately looked over nervously and asked, "Third Master, is your head hurting again?"

Wen Mingyu didn't answer this question, but said: "Let them continue to search. Even if this sea is turned over, I still want to know where he is."

His tone sounded cold and unreasonable, but there was a lack of cruelty in it, which was more helpless than threatening.Xu Hancheng couldn't help but think of the days when Yongtang was kidnapped. Although Wen Mingyu was worried during that time, she was always calm and confident.However, when Sheng Huan disappeared this time, Wen Mingyu seemed to remain calm, but this was a deep-rooted temperament that he had cultivated day by day since childhood.No matter how calmly he behaved, Xu Hancheng could tell that Wen Mingyu was not sure about this matter.

Xu Hancheng felt a pain in his heart. After all, his master still has to be tortured by the four words of human nature.

He finished reporting on the affairs of the past few days, and was about to leave when he suddenly remembered something and hurriedly said: "Third Master, the young master heard that you were sick, so he called several times and wanted to go back to Yancheng to see you. Waiting for a call back from you now."

Wen Mingyu was unwell a few days ago, and all calls were answered by the housekeeper and Xu Hancheng.Hearing Yongtang's name, he frowned again, and replied: "At his age, he only needs to focus on his studies. You let him study at ease, and I don't need him to worry about my affairs."

Xu Hancheng responded, but before he moved, he heard Wen Mingyu say again: "Forget it, I'll make the call, you can go out."

After the other person withdrew, there was no sound in the hall, only an elm tree in the courtyard was blown by the wind, and the slight rustling sound came in through the window from time to time.Wen Mingyu is physically weak. When he was very young, he liked to be alone more than socialize with his peers. Once there were more human voices, he felt noisy.For decades, he thought that he was used to this kind of quietness, and most of his leisure time passed by without a wave, without even a single storm rising.

For him, Sheng Huan's intrusion was an unexpected surprise and also an unprecedented disaster.Wen Mingyu's only barrier was broken, and she was exposed to the light and wind and rain from then on.He had lost his protection, and now even the lightest wind, the gentlest sunlight, were like sharp knives to him.

He wasn't used to the silence even now.

The journey from Yannan to Huqing is separated by a piece of Jinghai, and there is also a pass through Yiling.Yiling is adjacent to Huqing, although it is not as lively as Yannan and Huqing, but there are several waterfronts, and ships from all over the world flock in an endless stream from morning to night, but it is just as prosperous.

The moonlight was desolate, illuminating a small fishing boat on the sea, and an orange lamp hung under the awning.The light was weak, and the faint light could only illuminate one person underneath.The man seemed to be young, wearing clothes that didn't fit well, with his legs crossed, his hands on his knees, and he was staring at the moon's shadow in the water.His clothes seemed to be very old, they had been washed gray, and there was a patch of a different color at the elbow, like a sack with long sleeves, making the wearer thinner.

The dark blue curtain was lifted up, and another person came out from the cabin, and said to the young man, "Son, come and sit inside, it's late at night, and the wind is cool."

Hearing this rough and old voice, the person sitting in the bow looked back, and immediately replied: "I want to blow some air, you don't need to worry about me."

The old man in the cabin did not insist, he retreated silently, and after a while, he walked up to the young man with a cup and handed it to him.The young man took it, the cup was missing a mouth, the tentacles were warm, the inside was dark yellow tea, a few corners of thick tea leaves sank at the bottom of the cup, occasionally shaking with the boat.

The young man thanked him and said nothing more.The old man sat with him for a while. He was too old to bear the humid cold at night, so he returned to the cabin again not long after.After he drank a cup of tea, he saw that the door curtain was blown up by the wind, and the boy's back was still standing quietly in the night, without moving once.

The boy was caught by the old man from the sea. That day when he got up early to go fishing, the sky was not yet full light. The boy swam from a distance from the sea, which shocked him a lot.The other party didn't know how long he had been swimming, his face was bloodless from the cold, after talking to him a few words, he fell into a coma and didn't wake up until he landed.After questioning the old man, the boy said that he had been separated from his parents since he was a child, and that he was deceived by others when he grew up and was about to be sold to another place, so he secretly jumped into the sea while taking a boat, hoping to find another way of life.The old man had no children, and when he saw that the boy hadn't arrived yet and had no one to rely on, he couldn't help feeling sorry for the beautiful and quiet boy, so he took him home that day and let him rest for a day before talking.

Yiling is different from Yannan and Huqing. Yannan is controlled by Wen Mingyu, and Huqing is dominated by Ruan Hejiang's family, so internal fighting rarely occurs.Although there are many gangs in Yiling, they are all evenly matched and check each other. Because there are many foreigners coming and going among them, and the supervisor Zhang Xinkui is weak and inactive, so the various factions in Yiling have constant disputes and turmoil.However, these chaos have always been irrelevant to the rich and powerful, and naturally no one wants to govern.

The old man and his wife depended on each other for life, and had been bullied by a group of hooligans on the pier for a long time. Every half a month, someone would come to ask for benefits.If they gave less, they would yell and sometimes punch.The boy ran into this trouble on the first day he came to the old man's house.

The hooligans who asked for money that day were all drunk, and refused to leave after collecting the money, and then smashed in the old man's house.The old man went up to dissuade him, but was pushed back.In the end, it was this young man who resolved the turmoil. Although he was young, he was experienced in dealing with things. He knew that these local snakes were the most difficult to deal with, so he took his own money and sent them all away.

Also because of this accident, the old man retained the boy and let him stay at home for two more days.The boy often went fishing with him, and sometimes went out alone, and didn't come back until night.The old man only thought that he was looking for another way to make a living, and didn't bother to ask, not to mention that the young man seldom talked, so he might not answer if asked.

The fishing boat gradually berthed, and the young man jumped down neatly first, took the heavy object from the old man's hand spontaneously, and stood silently on the shore waiting.

The old man fixed the boat and was planning to go back with the young man.The two of them walked halfway when they suddenly heard a short and indistinct shock from a distance.

The boy paused, his expression suddenly became tense, he turned to the old man and said, "Go!"

Before he finished speaking, he saw someone running over from the other side of the long street. The man stumbled and kept clutching his shoulders.When he got close, the old man realized that half of the shoulder of the visitor was soaked in blood. He was so frightened that he screamed and pulled Sheng Huan to avoid it.

Another group of people chased from the direction the man came from, shouting: "Stop, you can't run!"

Seeing such a situation, the young man stood still, stood on the side of the street and watched for a while, then said to the old man: "Old man, you should avoid it first."

After saying that, he took the old man to find a place to hide, but he ran out, followed the fleeing man, grabbed his arm, and shouted: "Follow me!"

The man was taken aback, and in a panic, he had no other choice but followed this stranger into a narrow alley.The roads here are criss-crossed, and the young man led him along the way, turned around a few times, and gradually the pursuers behind him could not even hear their voices.The two finally came to a dilapidated house, the boy pushed the door and said to him: "There is no one inside, come in."

The injured person hesitated for tens of seconds, then gritted his teeth and followed the boy in.It was indeed a deserted courtyard. The young man looked at him and said, "No one will come here, you can rest assured."

The man became alert now, took a few steps back, and narrowed his eyes to examine him.Instead of thanking him, he asked coldly, "Who are you? Why did you help me?"

While he was sizing up the young man, the young man was also looking at him, and when their eyes met, the young man asked back, "Are you He Yihong?"

The man was startled, he saw that the young man was clearly an unfamiliar face, but he called out his name.He Yihong became suspicious, and shouted: "Who are you from?"

The young man met his gaze without fear, and replied calmly, "I have been looking for you for two days."