the knife of love

Chapter 61 New Year's Eve, Where Is He?

"Ninth Brother, Ninth Brother..." In a childish voice, Tang Jingcheng turned to the stairs just in time to see Guan Lue rubbing a boy and throwing him onto the sofa.

The boy couldn't stop giggling.

Guan slightly suppressed him, and took a crayon to draw something on the boy's face.

"How childish!" Tang Jingcheng snorted.

Unexpectedly, the little boy on the sofa could fight back. He stretched out his hand to scratch Guan Lue's creaking nest. Guan Lue seemed to be ticklish, and immediately rolled from the sofa to the ground. Learn tortoise.

"Okay, young master, come down quickly, don't be unruly!" The servant next to him seemed to be a little bit reproachful.

Guan Lue didn't take it seriously, hugged the little boy and started to make trouble again.

The laughter of the little boy and Guan Lue echoed throughout the hall.

Tang Jingcheng stood not far away and watched for a long time. From the time she knew Guan Lue to now, she saw him smile countless times, sneer, light smile, wry smile, bewitching smile, every time she felt that his smile was covered with a layer of Love, as if he has been showing people a false appearance.

Only now, with his bright and unrestrained smile, Junye's facial features are no longer so compelling, but become real and warm.

Tang Jingcheng suddenly realized that he seemed to have never really known this man. This man has too many faces, and he looks different to different people.

Stern to his subordinates, warm to the child in front of him, gentle to Lou Qingxiao, but to himself, he is always as far away as close.

"Ninth brother... there is... someone..." Axi was the first to discover Tang Jingcheng.

He was so frightened that he rolled off the sofa all of a sudden, trying to crawl on his hands and feet, but his hands and feet were obviously uncoordinated, so Guan Lue immediately picked him up from the ground.

"Don't be afraid, Axi, this is the aunt brought by brother Jiu, and she will live here for a while."

"A... Aunt..." It seems that these two words are a little strange to him, so the simple two syllables are vague, but a pair of eyes are full of curiosity about Tang Jingcheng, and they are fixed on her.

Tang Jingcheng looked at him a little unnaturally, and when he got closer, he found that the child looked a little weird, with a thin body, a big head, a little distance between the eyes, a long mouth, saliva on the chin, and a scarf around the neck. a bib.

It was impossible to tell the age of this child, but Tang Jingcheng could at least see that this child was different from ordinary children.

Axi was even more frightened by Tang Jingcheng, and couldn't help but staggered to retreat behind Guan Lue.

Guan Lue made a face to the servant next to him, and someone came to hold Ah Xi: "Young master, let's go, let's go outside to play."

Axi followed the servant and left, leaving only the two of them in the hall.

The bright smile on Guan Lue's face just now disappeared without a trace, and he threw the crayon in his hand onto the table.

"he…"

"Axi, my younger brother." Guan Lue answered quickly.

Tang Jingcheng was stunned again.

"You have a younger brother?"

"Is it strange that I have a younger brother?"

"I've never heard you mention it to me." Tang Jingcheng regretted it after saying this. What is her identity?At this point, hasn't she realized that she has never understood the man in front of her?

"But that's right, I don't know anything except your name." Tang Jingcheng sat down on the sofa angrily.

Guan Lue didn't bother to explain. He glanced at her and saw that she had already changed her clothes. The skirt fit her well, but her hair was disheveled, and the red made her face even paler.

He couldn't help but feel rough again. He still remembered when she was wearing the Lisu costume, the red dress and white skirt, standing in the sunshine of the old street, she was very moving, and that day when she was in the jade carving exhibition, she put on light makeup and had a delicate waist The red dress also looked extraordinarily exquisite and bright on her body.

Guan Lue blindly thought that she would look particularly good in red, a bit glamorous and a bit enchanting, but now Tang Jingcheng standing in front of him was pale, his skin was too pale due to long-term bed rest, and his whole body was like a flower that was about to wither after losing moisture. flower.

Guan Lue took another breath.

"Axi is the son of my adoptive father. He suffered from cerebral palsy when he was born. Sometimes it might be noisy. Please bear with me if you live here. Also, he doesn't like strangers. You'd better leave him." Stay away from him, don't bully him."

It seems that Tang Jingcheng is a bad witch who specializes in bullying children.

Tang Jingcheng was too lazy to answer, the atmosphere in the hall was a little stiff.

Ning Bo just walked in: "Master Ninth, Miss Tang, lunch is ready."

"I still have something to do, so I won't stay for dinner." Guan Lue took his coat and was about to leave, but Tang Jingcheng sat on the sofa without moving.

Ning Bo sent him to the entrance of the hall, but he turned around suddenly: "Change out all the red clothes in her closet, it doesn't look good."

"..." Ning Bo was a little strange. He was the one who told me to buy more red, so why did he want to change it now?

However, Ning Bo has been a housekeeper in the closed house for decades, and he knows the truth of not asking about his master's private affairs.

"Okay, I'll ask the driver to take it to the store for replacement in the afternoon."

Tang Jingcheng sat on the sofa without moving. She didn't come back to herself until the sound of the car's engine sounded outside the door.

Ning Bo walked in and saw Tang Jingcheng's silhouette sitting alone on the sofa was too deserted, so he went over and said, "Ninth Young Master is usually very busy, and he rarely comes to the house. Miss Tang, you are a distinguished guest invited by the Young Master." , don’t feel unaccustomed to living here, if you have any requirements, just ask me directly.”

Tang Jingcheng could only force a smile: "Thank you Ning Bo."

"Miss Tang is polite, so you go to eat now?"

……

Tang Jingcheng didn't sleep well on the first night in the closed house. After all, it was an unfamiliar environment. If she hadn't taken the medicine, she might have suffered from insomnia.

The next day I went to bed quite late, and it was already lunch time when I woke up. There was no one in the building, so she went to the restaurant by herself, and there was a meal reserved for her on the table. While it was warming, she casually drank half a bowl to pass the meal.

After dinner, I walked around the building, the huge house was terribly deserted, Tang Jingcheng finally rolled back to the room and continued to sleep.

But not long after she fell asleep, she was woken up by the crying of the children downstairs. She was very upset, and went to the balcony barefoot. Her eyes were raised high, and she could have a panoramic view of the path covered by ginkgo trees in front of the building.

I don’t know where this path leads, but there are no other houses on either side. It should be a special passage for the Guan family’s old house. At this time, there are some people standing in twos and threes on the path, wearing the uniform uniforms issued by the house, holding a ladder. Hang things on the ginkgo tree.

Hanging red lanterns.

Tang Jingcheng could see that it was indeed a lantern, which had been hung halfway down the road, with a string of festive red dotted among the golden leaves, which was really beautiful.

Tang Jingcheng couldn't help smiling, only then realized that today is New Year's Eve.

The end of the year, the day of reunion.

Tang Jingcheng took out his mobile phone and called Tang Ji, wished him a new year, and told him that he would stay with his friend for a while, but Tang Ji didn't ask much.

This surprised Tang Jingcheng.

Wherever he used to go, his father had to ask again and again. He always said that no matter how old his daughter was, he was still an ignorant child in his heart. He was willing to let go only after he formally dated Qiu Qiguan. To put it bluntly, Tang Ji trusted Qiu Qiguan more and felt that he It is a person who can be entrusted.

But since Qiu Qiguan passed away, Tang Ji didn't care much about Tang Jingcheng. Even when she lived in Guanlue for the Chinese New Year, Tang Ji didn't ask any more questions, and only asked her to take care of herself.

Tang Jingcheng couldn't help feeling a little bit lost, this feeling of loss has been with her since Qiu Qiguan left, and now that New Year's Eve is approaching, she is alone in this quiet and spacious old villa in the suburbs, her heart is almost suffocated.

Tang Jingcheng put on his coat and went downstairs, just in time to see Ning Bo coming in from the outside, followed by a servant, hugging the crying Axi, the little thing scrambled, his face was covered with tears and saliva, his mouth Yiyi Yaya ghosts kept screaming, and they didn't know what they were calling.

The scene looked very exciting, but the servant who hugged him was expressionless, as if they were indifferent to Axi's trouble, and soon the child was carried to the back hall by the servant, and the crying was a little farther away.

Only then did Ning Bo come over: "Miss Tang, did you wake up?"

Tang Jingcheng shook his head: "No, it's just what happened to that kid?"

"You mean the young master? He is clamoring to find the third wife and the ninth young master."

"Third wife?"

"It's the third wife that the master married before he was alive, and she gave birth to the young master."

"That's Axi's mother?" Tang Jingcheng glanced at the back hall and could hear the child's shouts, so she didn't understand, "Today is New Year's Eve, it's normal for him to want to find his mother, his mother Woolen cloth?"

"Hey... the third wife packed up her things and left as soon as the master left. The young master has been brought up by the servants in the house for the past few years."

Tang Jingcheng couldn't help feeling sour in his heart: "Then he will live here alone all the time?"

"Occasionally the Ninth Young Master will come to see him, but there is no one else." Ning Bo said with a feeling of desolation in his heart, "Miss Tang, please take care of me, the Young Master is born with deficiencies, and he is more troublesome when he gets into trouble."

"I'm fine." How could she care about a child with cerebral palsy.

"Then I'll get busy first, the kitchen is preparing dinner."

"Dinner so early?"

"That's right, it's New Year's Eve tonight, and the local servants have to go home early to have a reunion dinner with their families after they've finished." Ning Bo left after finishing speaking. Tang Jingcheng stood in the empty hall, still listening I could hear Axi's cry.

She chased after a few steps: "Ning Bo, wait a minute."

"Miss Tang, is there anything else?"

"Well... will your Ninth Young Master come over tonight?"

Uncle Ning's face turned, Tang Jingcheng was afraid that he might misunderstand, so he immediately changed his words: "I mean Ah Xi is crying like this, and today is New Year's Eve, does he want to come and see him?"

"No, the young master is always so noisy, it is impossible for the ninth master to come over to coax him all the time, and it is even more impossible for the ninth master to come over because it is New Year's Eve today."

"why?"

"He has to accompany Miss Lou."

"You mean Lou Qingxiao?"

"That's right, every New Year's Eve and other festivals, Young Master Ninth basically spends them with Miss Lou." Ning Bo left after speaking.

A few servants who finished hanging the lanterns outside the door walked in talking and laughing, bringing in a gust of cold wind.

Tang Jingcheng couldn't help shivering, she could foresee that this New Year's Eve would be very cold.

(End of this chapter)