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"Kiss, kiss...?"

The beautiful snake was so frightened that she waggled her tail and fanned the breeze:

"It was a clear day and the sun was out, and we weren't in bed, so how could we kiss?!"

"Isn't that something only lovers can do? You can't stop me just because I'm a snake!"

Did I ask about kissing?

What I'm actually asking about is the relationship between the two of them!

Seeing that the other party didn't understand what I was implying at all, I thought about it, rolled my eyes, changed the question method and continued to ask:

"Do you think Mr. Li and Mr. Tao are brothers?"

"Brother means... the same brotherly relationship as my two friends just now."

"Hooked, shoulder to shoulder. No, just the kind that makes you want to be with the other person all the time."

"You repeatedly mentioned that they 'caught' each other, but in what way?"

For a while, I didn’t know how to talk about emotional issues with a snake, so I had to talk a little bit.

But when the beautiful snake heard me talking about Ah Shi, the expression on her face instantly changed from doubt to affirmation:

"Yes, the two of them are definitely good brothers!"

"Your friends just now also like to catch each other like this, yes, their heads are close to each other, and their shoulders are also very close!"

Brothers?

I opened my mouth, not knowing what to say for a while. The beautiful snake kept staring at me. Seeing that I was at a loss, she was also a little surprised:

"What's wrong with you?"

I didn't know how to explain it. It took me a while to recover and then I said:

"The one who survived that year was not Mr. Li, but Ah Si's father, Mr. Tao."

"The method of making leather has always been in Mr. Tao's hands."

"No wonder Miss Sisi said before that Ah Si is more like her father's daughter than she is. It turns out that of the two young ladies in the Li family, one is Mr. Tao's designated heir, and the other is the daughter of a 'good brother'."

After listening to the whole thing, the truth is ready to come out, so I simply no longer hide my secrets, but tell everything:

"Actually, you misjudged the relationship between the two."

"The person who came out of the house was not Mr. Li at all, so there is no such thing as Mr. Li killing your father."

"Compared to Mr. Li being a genius who can master skills passed down by others for hundreds or thousands of years in a few months, I prefer that from beginning to end, it was your father who knew how to make leather."

"Mr. Li wanted to use Mr. Tao's leather-making skills to please foreigners in exchange for a lot of money, but Mr. Tao was willing to take the last step that leathermakers have regarded as the bottom line for thousands of years."

"The two had a big quarrel in the study, perhaps because of a mistake, and then one of them fell into a deep sleep."

"Wha, what?"

When the beautiful snake heard this, her eyes shook violently, her body shook, and she almost fell down:

"what are you saying?"

"Why can I understand every word you say, but I can't understand them all together?"

I had mixed feelings for a moment and ignored the beautiful snake’s repeated inquiries:

"It's fake to fall on the threshold, but it's real if you want to disfigure your face so that no one can recognize it."

"It should be a simple matter to use the skills of a leatherworker to take off the opponent's face, or directly do some small tricks on your own face."       "And the reason for doing this is also very simple——

The Tao family only has Mr. Tao, and Ah Si, an adopted orphan girl without a wife, but Mr. Li's mother, wife and unborn child are still waiting for him to return home. "

"In those days, and you said that Mr. Li's original conditions were not good, and his clothes could only be regarded as ordinary, if the other family knew that Mr. Li was dead, that family would break up immediately."

"Perhaps out of righteousness, perhaps out of guilt for his former lover, he chose to abandon his previous life and pretend to be the other person."

When I said this, I paused slightly. Somehow, I thought of a sentence I read when I was reading a letter in the study -

‘I’m not a gentleman, but what if I can pretend to be a gentleman for the rest of my life? ’

Support Mr. Li’s mother and take care of his wife and daughter.

Mr. Tao was unwilling to associate with Mr. Li who wanted to use human skin to make leather, so he accidentally killed Mr. Li, and then pretended to be Mr. Li all his life. Is he considered a gentleman?

I murmured:

"No wonder I didn't hear about 'adopting Ah Si' later. In his heart, the daughter of his former lover was actually more important than the daughter he adopted."

If not, how could Mr. Tao sell most of his family's belongings before his death and leave them to Li Sisi, and then let his adopted daughter marry in Li Sisi's place, just to preserve Li Sisi's future?

The ring placed in the safe with the ancestral leather-making secret method is not a ring that symbolizes inheritance at all.

Maybe it was the ring that Mr. Tao got from Mr. Li, and he thought he was Mr. Li.

Or, even more difficult to express the possibility, he is secretly missing the person from decades ago in this way.

As for the two children in the Li family, their experiences are simply replicas of theirs.

Mr. Tao adopted Si, who was adopted since childhood, with a restrained and quiet personality. The other, like his biological father, was advocating, pursuing new culture and wanting to see a broader sky.

When the two of them got together as teenagers, they saw the brightness in each other's eyes and were attracted to each other.

It is better to say that it is love that grows over time, but it is better to say that it is the desperate will to self-destruct when the meteor streaks across the sky.

Miss Sisi boarded the cruise ship, wanting to inquire about her true feelings and seek answers, but she was found dead at the bottom of the sea.

Ah Si cherished expectations, waiting for the person who would not come home, and finally committed suicide on the day he learned of the other person's death.

If Mr. Tao had not found a son-in-law for his child, if he had found a low-key son-in-law, if Miss Sisi had not set foot on the cruise ship, if the cruise ship had not capsized, if Ah Si had been kept in the dark forever.

The outcome might have been very different.

But this world is like a huge circle, and there are not so many ifs.

As I understood a long time ago -

Loss and possession are never personal.

I sighed, raised my eyes and looked in the direction of the beautiful snake again. I was about to analyze it from beginning to end for the beautiful snake, but I saw that the beautiful snake was farther away from me at some point.

Not only was it further away, but the beautiful snake seemed to be frightened and nestled its entire huge body in a corner of the basement, making a huge space for me.

I looked confused:

"Miss Snake, what are you doing?"

"Come here and I'll talk to you about what happened back then."

When Miss Snake saw me looking at her, her tail shook violently, and she looked like she only regretted that she had no hands and couldn't cover her ears:

"No, no, no, I won't listen!"

"I knew my feeling was right. Sure enough, every time I hear you talk, I start to have a headache!"

"It's strange, why is this happening?"

"Obviously you seem weak, but whenever you speak, you give me the feeling that you are powerful but I am stupid." (End of Chapter)