The Twelve Years: Song of the Unsung Friends

The tears on his face rushed down, running down the chin, and all flowed into the collar.

She didn't know how she stumbled to the bed and snuggled into his arms.

"Third brother," she couldn't breathe out of tears, saying back and forth, "Third brother..."

This cry lasted for an hour, at first it was a big cry, then it became a childish sob. She was crying too hard, her body was cold and hot, her throat became hoarse, and the tears stopped crying, she was still gasping and panting, lying on his lap.

Holding his waist silently, tears flowed again.

Fu Tongwen's hot arms put his arms around her, trying to pick her up. Shen Xi's eyes were swollen and painful, for fear that he would see such swollen eyes, holding his waist stubbornly.

He had no choice but to hold her, so he touched her face with his fingers and wiped her tears: "It's cold on the ground."

Seeing that she was disobedient, he asked: "Will you go to bed?"

Like a fire, roasting her. Shen Xi was awakened by this body temperature, he was feverish——

She flung away his arms indiscriminately, and pressed her palms to his forehead: "Are you having a fever?"

"Maybe something." He laughed.

How can it matter? Her shoulders and arms were cold and wet.

Shen Xi hurriedly left him, unbuttoned, threw his coat on the ground, and then took off his leather shoes.

The moment the stocking fell to the ground, she finally realized that his eyes were still on her. A girl in front of a person lifted up her long skirt and took off her stockings, revealing her bare calves——

She only realized what she was doing when he was a patient, not aware of anything, and realized that he was a man.

"I took three trains...there was a ferry coming, rain and snow again," Shen Xi whispered, still with a strong nasal sound, "you hold me unclean, and the cold is so cold...so just take it off. clothes."

She was bare-legged, her white knees were blue with cold, and her feet were on her coat: "The road is too dirty, at least wipe it."

He waited for her to finish, and called out: "Jin Rong."

Behind the curtain, a small servant appeared out of thin air: "San Ye?"

"Go and prepare hot water, Miss Shen wants to take a shower." Fu Tongwen burned for a few days in a vague way. He was prostration, and he was unstable when he said such brief words.

The young man responded and immediately prepared.

"He has always been here? He was there just now?" Why didn't he notice?

"Always." He replied.

For people like Fu's family, the maidservants were all close to wait on them.

In other yards, there are still maids sleeping directly at the foot of the bed. Fu Tongwen is already the most casual person in the family. I don't like this. Although he doesn't have a hotbed for maidservants to warm his feet, he has long been accustomed to staying in the suite with his little servant and taking care of him at any time.

"Then we just... didn't he hear everything?"

She was awkward, but guessed it was the rule, and it was not easy to say clearly.

Fu Tongwen saw her embarrassment: "If you are not used to it, I will let him move outside."

"That's not good either." On the first day, what should people think? "This is your house... I have nothing unaccustomed to."

The girl's mouth was not heart-warming, and it fell in his ears, instead she looked like a baby.

He looked at her, waiting for her to justify herself.

"Anyway, I don't sleep with you. You can arrange it as it is, as it is."

"If you don't sleep here, where are you going?" He asked instead.

"Such a big yard, there is always a place to sleep," she turned around, pointing to the east, "just came in, I saw a house in the east."

There are so many people in the yard who have followed him for many years. This was the first time I came here, so everyone watched her sleeping directly in his room, and didn't know how everyone was going to speculate. You have to avoid taboos, you have to pretend for two days, right?

Fu Dongwen looked at her small expression and couldn't help but smile: "You look carefully."

"Hmm..." There is no need to look at such a big room.

The two were interrupted by the young man. With hot water ready, he came to invite Shen Xi to take a bath.

Shen Xi had an excuse and left hastily.

When she returned to the hall again, Fu Dongwen on the bed had taken the medicine and was asleep.

The snow outside the window was rushing, and it was as if it was going to night before four o'clock.

The curtains were closed early, leaving only a light in the room for her.

"The third master ordered. The girl doesn't need to be restrained, she has to sleep and have a bed, she needs to read a book, and she can find it by herself." The young man is not at ease. "The youngest is outside the door. I'm so sweaty that I need to change clean clothes. The clothes are at the foot of the bed. I'm bothering the girl."

"Thank you." She was polite.

Xiao Si smiled, put down the thick curtain for her, and left.

Shen Xi has something to say, but he is not in a hurry today. She used the light to watch between her jackets and jackets before coming in. She wanted to see him. Everything was dark and deep, but now she looked at it, but it was very different.

After a while, sleepiness surged.

She couldn't hold it, so she took off her shoes lightly and went to bed.

He also said "to have a bed". There is a bed and a quilt here, but to trick her into sharing the bed with him... She secretly slandered herself and got into the quilt quietly. The temperature in this quilt was as high as his body temperature, and it was appallingly high. Shen Xi touched his pajamas with his hands. He hadn't sweated yet, and the clothes were dry. She glanced at the cloisonne clock on the cabinet.

Sleep for two hours, see if he sweats, and then change to pajamas.

Thinking like this, she pressed her palms on his back and fell into a dream with peace of mind.

...

At six o'clock, her palm was wet with his sweat.

Without opening his eyes, the man had touched the end of the bed in a daze and took his pajamas.

She did not dare to open the quilt for fear of attracting wind, so she put down the bed net and returned to the quilt with the pajama drill.

Buttons are untied.

Shen Xi first took off the sleeves of his arms and wanted to pull out the pajamas pressed on his back from under him. People would inevitably stick to him and put his shirt on him in a strange way. When he unbuttoned his clothes, Fu Dongwen 'S fingers have slipped into her long hair--

"Are you awake?" she asked him in the dark.

He put his fingers around her hair lightly, not against her.

"The clothes are soaked, I'll change them for you."

He smiled and didn't speak.

Shen Xi fastened all the buttons, and then murmured, "You come closer, you need to change your pants."

Shen Xi abandoned the evil thoughts and touched his waistband.

...

"Okay," he whispered, "I'll do it myself."

The string on the waistband of his trousers was untied, and he smiled and asked, "What are you staring at me for?"

Shen Xi turned his back in a hurry with his face flushed with laughter. It felt like the people behind took off their trousers and replaced them with new ones.

Fu Dongwen fastened the silk rope on the waistband. Looking down from him, although there is no light, you can still vaguely see where are the calves, ankles and bare feet under her skirt.

"Why not wait for me in Shanghai?" He put his chin on her back shoulder.

The two had seen each other for hours before they were serious.

Shen Xi told Fu Dongwen the ins and outs. He was not surprised by Duan Menghe's life experience when he heard the telegram. I guessed that this person had a good background. He wanted to let people investigate secretly after disembarking, but because of family constraints, he didn't have time to do it.

After Shen Xi talked about it, he became more silent.

She was thin-skinned and deliberately concealed the absurd saying "has a child".

After all the explanations, Fu Tongwen didn't have any extra words, and after arranging what she had said, he always felt strange.

Both of them were silent for a while. Each thought.

One is worrying because of fear of flaws, and the other is worrying about concealing the truth.

Someone knocked on the door.

Shen Xi got out of bed and opened the door. It was the maid who said that she heard voices inside, thinking that San Ye hadn't entered anything since lunch, and asked if she wanted something to eat. Fu Tong Wenhan also broke out, the fever subsided, and he had an appetite.

At first, Shen Xi wondered why it was a maid this time, but when he looked at the Chinese pajamas he was wearing, and the sweaty clothes thrown under the bed, he probably guessed that Fu Dongwen had confessed in advance. I was afraid that she was too cautious when she lived here for the first time, so she changed her maid to wait on her.

Fu Dongwen washed up and finished his meal. It was ten o'clock.

The people in this yard maintained a tacit understanding, believing that Shen Xi was going to live in the same room and bed with Fu Tongwen, and did not say to prepare a room for Shen Xi. After waiting for Fu Dongwen, the maid put the new clothes on the foot of the bed and quit again.

Fu Dongwen hadn't been to the ground for a few days, and rarely took two more steps in the house, dressed in clothes, sitting on the armchair.

"What you said just now is very strange," he asked. "Did you miss something? Think about it, everything you say to my father is very important."

There is no concealment about this, and if they meet in the future, if there is a flaw, it will cause trouble.

But after all, it's a girl, and it's hard to make her say.

Shen Xi said for a while: "I said...had a child with you. When your father heard me say this, he may have moved in sympathy and let me in."

Have children? Fu Dongwen was very surprised.

"It's to cooperate with your second brother." She added hastily.

No wonder.

The child is something he has been unwilling to compromise, and it is also his father's heart disease.

Fu Dongwen pondered for a long while, leaned forward without saying a word, pulled her over, and hugged her on his lap. In the shadow under the lamp, hugged her.

"When did I leave a child with you?" he asked.

Shen Xizhi muttered, "It's not true."

"If you want to deceive others, you must first deceive yourself. This matter must be discussed again." He said with a smile.

What's the point? Shen Xi was about to get up in embarrassment.

It's a pity that his patient is so strong that she won't let her escape. Even if she didn't have the strength, she didn't dare to break free for fear of hurting him.

"What else did you say?" he asked again, as if it was really important.

"Also...it's not in New York," she whispered back, "just said that, nothing else."

"I've been in New York for less than half a year, and I was in a hurry." He pointed out the flaw.

"Six months is enough..." You don't need a medical student to understand this.

"When was it raised again?"

"Who would get to the bottom, asking about this?"

He smiled quietly: "Be careful, it won't hurt."

"Jesus Christmas," she hesitated, "Or, New Year. The New Year is full of atmosphere, suitable for these unconventional silly things... After that, one wants to return to the country to serve the country, and the other tries to threaten to stay with the child. It is inevitable that there will be quarrels and quarrels. Feeling frustrated..." It was gone.

The fish bit the hook, and she was still counting the days, but she didn't expect it to be a trick.

"We are on the ship in March, so we can match the date."

Fu Dongwen was smiling all the time, his eyes were black and shiny after a high fever, and he looked at her as if dipped in water.

Shen Xi thought and said, suddenly his face flushed a little, and no one said anything. It was as sticky as it was in Guangzhou, and it wasn't like this... Or maybe it was like this back then, she didn't pay attention. But now, she clearly knew that the man holding her had a physical reaction.

In the middle of the night, the two cuddled up on an imperial chair in their pajamas.

Not going down, not sitting down. It's not talking, it's not playing dumb.

He knew that she was aware, and in a low voice, he pressed her ears and said: "I don't have the strength at the moment, and I can't do anything. You can hold it for a while."