Chapter 115 He is my good brother
The two young men in front of them who were laughing so happily made Jiang Xue feel emotional.
For the first time, she truly felt that Lu Qiongshuang should be a thriving tree growing in the rivers and lakes, rather than a flower planted in the deep courtyards of a wealthy family.
The royal family may be good in the eyes of many people, but to Lu Qiongshuang, it is nothing but endless bondage and restraint.
She should laugh so passionately every day, drink strong liquor, ride a horse and sing loudly.
Jiang Xue secretly made a decision. She felt that she had to stop Lu Qiongshuang's marriage no matter what.
"Then wait for me to come back and pick you up, and we will go back to Donghai together." Zheng Run looked at Lu Qiongshuang seriously and said loudly.
"Yes, wait for me to take you to travel the world together!" Lu Qiongshuang raised her eyebrows and raised her chin high.
Jiang Xue saw different emotions in the young man's eyes, but her mind suddenly flashed back to the expression on Jiang Qibin's face when he asked her about Lu Qiongshuang in an unnatural and awkward manner.
Jiang Xue sighed silently for him in her heart, Xiao Jiang, it seems you are one step too late after all.
The two turned around and were about to leave. Lu Qiongshuang looked at the road ahead and seemed to have a headache. He turned back to look at Zheng Run, blinked aggrievedly and said, "Xiao Runzi, can you do me a favor--"
Seeing her expression, Zheng Run couldn't help but think of the time when she begged him to take the blame after getting into trouble in Donghai. He stepped back cautiously and asked, "What are you going to do?"
Seeing him like this, Jiang Xue suddenly felt that Jiang Qibin's thoughts were not impossible for the time being.
Lu Qiongshuang rolled his eyes and said, "My cousin has not been around as long as I have. I can walk dozens of miles of mountain roads in a day, but my cousin can't do that. You are good at Qinggong, can you carry my cousin for a while?"
Zheng Run looked at Jiang Xue, then at Lu Qiongshuang, and said in amazement: "I have no problem carrying you, but carrying Fairy Sister——"
"Why," Lu Qiongshuang said unhappily, "my cousin is so thin and frail, can't you carry her?"
"It's not that I can't carry her," Zheng Run said, wanting to cry but unable to, "Sister Fairy is a woman, and I'm a man. Don't you know that men and women shouldn't touch each other? What's more, she's a princess."
"Am I not a woman?" Lu Qiongshuang widened her eyes.
"How can it be the same?" Zheng Run scratched his head and said, "You are my brother, a brother who has shared life and death with me."
Jiang Xue felt that Jiang Qibin had a little more hope.
"Fuck you--" Lu Qiongshuang took a few steps forward and was about to punch him, but Zheng Run dodged and flew onto a tree.
"Calm down, there are ways!" Zheng Run screamed, "Promise not to hit me, and I'll get some horses!"
"There are horses?" Lu Qiongshuang was overjoyed and said, "Why don't you go quickly!"
"Then you have to promise not to hit me again!" Zheng Run clung to the tree trunk tightly and refused to let go.
"I know, I know!" Lu Qiongshuang shouted, "I promise you! Why don't you go now!"
Zheng Run then let go of his hand that was holding the tree trunk and said, "Wait here for a moment, don't go too far!"
Then he flew away.
Jiang Xue found it funny to see the two of them pecking at each other like chicks.
After making sure Zheng Run was far away, she pulled Lu Qiongshuang aside and looked at her expression for a moment before raising her eyebrows and asking, "Tell me honestly, what is your relationship with Zheng Run?"
Lu Qiongshuang was already feeling uneasy because of her stare, and was even more confused by this question. He said, "He is my brother. Didn't I tell you that before?"
"Really?" Jiang Xue suddenly smiled and whispered, "Why do I feel that he treats you differently?"
"What's unusual?" Lu Qiongshuang asked with a frown. It took her a while to realize what Jiang Xue meant. She stared at Jiang Xue in amazement and said, "Cousin, what are you thinking about?!"
"Why am I just imagining things? You two are so intimate with each other, without any regard for gender differences." Jiang Xue looked at her with an inquiring look, "Besides, he also said that he would take you back to the East China Sea."
For a moment, Lu Qiongshuang felt helpless and speechless.
"If you say so, I still think Jing Ye treats you differently!" Lu Qiongshuang retorted, "You even rode in the same carriage with him! Just the two of you! No one else was inside!"
Jiang Xue choked. Fortunately, Lu Qiongshuang didn't know about her several contacts with Jing Ye, otherwise it would be even harder to explain.
"I'm talking about you," Jiang Xue said, "Why are you teasing me? Don't forget that I, your cousin, am a married woman now."
Jiang Xue stretched out her finger and poked her forehead.
Lu Qiongshuang sighed helplessly, walked to the side, wiped the tree stumps beside the road clean, pulled Jiang Xue to sit down, and began to tell the story.
"Little Runzi was found by my master and my uncle in his early years—he is now practicing in Xishan. Let's call him the old Taoist priest," Lu Qiongshuang said. "They found him when they were traveling around the world. At that time, he was still a baby in swaddling clothes, without a father or a mother. The old Taoist priest took pity on him and took him in and raised him."
"The people from your sect..." Jiang Xue's mouth twitched, "Are they all picked up?"
"That's not the case. My eldest sister is not like that. Oh, these are not important. The old Taoist priest has never been married and has never raised children, so he has always let Xiao Runzi go free. In the early years, the old Taoist priest wanted to go into seclusion, so he entrusted him to a farmer to raise for a few years. So he has been growing up between the market and the Xishan Taoist Temple."
"He doesn't have any other hobbies, but he has an unusual interest in wealthy families and unique buildings. Maybe it's because the family he was fostered in was poor when he was a child. So he knew my identity and begged me to take him with me after knowing that I was going back to Jijing. During the time he was in Jijing, he was wandering around the houses."
"Fortunately, he learned the Qinggong well, otherwise he would have been caught and had his legs broken."
"No wonder he begged me to take him around the palace. So this is the reason," Jiang Xue said thoughtfully, "Then what's going on between you two?"
"I am not talented," Lu Qiongshuang said with a smile, "Although he has the title of senior brother, he is really not ambitious. Apart from his great achievements in Qinggong, his other skills are just mediocre. That's why after only a few months of following Master, I was able to beat him up."
"I'm not talking about who will beat whom." Jiang Xue said helplessly.
"Oh, I know what my cousin is worried about." Lu Qiongshuang said, "But I assure you, it's impossible."
"There are not many people in our sect. My master is better. He has three disciples, my eldest sister, Jingye and me. We are all geniuses." She laughed, "But my uncle only has Xiao Runzi, and he doesn't take good care of him. Most of the time, he follows my master. So after I joined the sect, I learned from him."
"Xiao Runzi and I have similar personalities. We both like to do good deeds and ride horses to sing songs—"
"I think they are cockfighting errands, doing whatever they want." Jiang Xue said.
Lu Qiongshuang said "uh" awkwardly, and said: "Not entirely... Anyway, we can always play together, and over time, we have become as close as brothers."
"He said you did him a favor. What was that favor?" Jiang Xue asked.
"That's too many," Lu Qiongshuang shook his head and said, "He was detained for gambling, and I redeemed him; he was punished by the old Taoist priest to copy scriptures, and I helped him copy; he often broke into the houses of rich people at night, and the master found out and put him in solitary confinement, and I quietly let him go; he was not good at internal skills and practiced blindly and almost went astray, and I stole the master's thousand-year-old snow lotus to save him--"
"He was kidnapped before. I don't know why. He refused to tell me. I went to rescue him without telling my master."
Jiang Xue was amazed and said, "He must have been lucky to live this long."
"So when my cousin said she needed help that day, I thought he happened to be in Jijing, so I dared to ask him to help."
"Xiao Runzi is a very good person. He knows how to repay kindness. He has always tried to help me with any difficulties I have encountered in the past two years. That's why I dare to recommend him to my cousin."
"But the love between a man and a woman..." Lu Qiongshuang rolled his eyes and said, "That's really not the case. We are so close in the East China Sea that we can wear the same pair of pants. Which good family has such love between a man and a woman?"
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