Chapter 043 Jin丨Exclusively published by Jiang Wenxue (5000 nutrient solution extra)

Gong Jiu was enveloped by such a chilling murderous intent, and his pale face flushed a little.

Pei Rui could not see his changes, but he obviously felt something was wrong. Xue Chen, who was walking in front, looked back and could not help but be speechless.

System: [There should be nothing wrong with Xiao Mian's action, right?]

Xue Chen: [It is reasonable to suspect that my brother and I have the same aesthetics, and he likes those who look like they can fight well.]

System: [……] Dare not say a word.

When Xue Chen looked over, Gong Jiu began to slowly practice his Qi, suppressing his body's reaction, and said innocently: "I didn't do anything, I just looked at him, and he was about to draw his sword."

Taiping Wang: "Okay, it's not a big deal, Rui'er come to my place, I'll show you the way."

Pei Rui walked to Taiping Wang indifferently.

Gong Jiu looked at his brother worriedly, and saw that he didn't react and didn't seem to notice that he was wrong just now, so he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Lunch was eaten with the new family members.

Xue Chen was a little excited: [I finally know what I'm eating! ]

System: [You didn't know before? ]

Xue Chen: [I know, but there is always a feeling of opening a blind box. You can only feel the difference from your expectations when you put it in your mouth. It's really inconvenient without vision. 】

Xiao Mian, who had gained vision in disguise, began to eat voraciously.

He was very strong, had a very high combat power, and his digestive system was much better than his original body. Unlike his original body, he would feel full after eating a little, and even if he had a good appetite, he would still be powerless.

After Xue Chen finished eating, he began to pick up food for Pei Rui. If there was anything he wanted to eat, he would pick it up for Pei Rui, and then he would eat non-stop.

System: [Don't break Xiao Mian.]

Xue Chen: [It's really nice to

have an external stomach.] King Taiping was very satisfied with this situation of brotherly friendship and respect. Seeing his second son staring at the two of them with an unclear expression, he thought that he felt ignored, so he also picked up some food for Gong Jiu and chatted with him.

Xue Chen stopped picking up the food when Pei Rui couldn't eat any more. The two didn't say a word. It was clearly the first time they met, but they seemed to have a tacit understanding.

King Taiping said with relief: "I knew you would get along well."

Xue Chen: [...I'm really impressed.]

System: [Are you going to rebel?]

Xue Chen: [Whether you want to rebel or not, wait until after dinner. But my father really doesn't care about me at all. No matter whether it's snacks or special dishes from outside, he never thought of bringing any of them back for me to try.]

System: [What are you going to do?]

Xue Chen turned his gaze to Gong Jiu and found that his younger brother was also looking at him, so he pretended to be a twin telepath and smiled at him.

Gong Jiu had a cold face and did not respond to him.

-After

Prince Taiping returned home, Xue Chen was free to deal with some of the social interactions.

He asked Prince Taiping and learned that his father was going to let Pei Rui attend the palace banquet as a close bodyguard, and to recommend him for merit, and then introduce this adopted son to the ministers in the court to prepare for his future entry into the court.

Xue Chen also customized a few sets of clothes for Pei Rui. Although they were still in the style of bodyguards, they were made of exquisite materials and fine workmanship. They were matched with waist ornaments such as jade pendants, and the cuffs were closed with fine black leather wrist guards. He looked heroic and could stand out from the crowd at a glance.

After the clothes were made, they were sent directly to Xue Chen.

Pei Rui had just arrived and his eyes were not very useful, so Xue Chen did not use his body to move around. He came to the elegant Wutong Garden with his clothes and matching black boots.

After the two of them got close, Xue Chen's sight was shared with Pei Rui, and in a trance it seemed as if the blind boy also had perfect vision.

Xue Chen had no hobby of talking to himself, and was very silent when he was alone with Pei Rui.

He sat on the imperial concubine couch and watched Pei Rui stand up, take off his black robe, pick up the newly made official uniform and walk over to put it on the boy, and touch his abdominal muscles by the way.

System: [How does it feel?]

Xue Chen: [It feels good, but it feels weird. After all, I was the one being touched. Although we are used to the sense of touch of the three bodies being separate, when the sense of touch overlaps, there is an illusion that our two bodies are the same, but in reality they are separate. 】

System: [I understand, your CPU is about to burn out. 】

Xue Chen: [With my brain power, it runs smoothly. 】

After dressing Pei Rui, Xue Chen took the belt beside him and tied up the wide robe.

The boy had a very thin waist, and he didn't look so strong after putting on the clothes.

Xue Chen walked forward and looked at the pair of gray eyes closely.

When choosing the time node, Pei Rui either lowered his head or closed his eyes, and never showed these eyes that were obviously different from ordinary people. Xue Chen only now knew what these eyes looked like.

He reached out and touched his eyelashes, the boy blinked slowly, his expression seemed to reveal confusion.

Xue Chen: [I'm not acting now, why am I still like this. Relying on these eyes really adds points when pretending to be innocent, and it really drags you down when you are dragging your feet.]

System: [It can't be all advantages.]

Xue Chen pondered for a moment and decided to cover it with an eye mask.

Pei Rui's aura is very strong, and his eyes are his most obvious weakness. If he is despised because of his eyes, he will face many troubles and traps.

He can't enter the officialdom as a weak person.

Pei Rui's eye mask, although it is called an eye mask, is actually a headband for tying hair. It's just that it can't be too narrow, and the pattern should be placed at the end to avoid embroidery rubbing against the skin.

Xue Chen selected a few strips of color that matched his clothes and placed them on the dressing table so Pei Rui could use them. He took one and covered his eyes.

After tidying himself up, Xue Chen walked out of the room. Just as he was about to leave, he looked up and saw Gong Jiu.

Xue Chen: "Lian'er, are you here to visit Rui'er too?"

Gong Jiu: "I came to see you."

Xue Chen said helplessly: "Why are you still like a kid, getting anxious when you don't see me for a while."

Gong Jiu hesitated to speak, wanting to explain that he was not so clingy when he was a child, but he had just witnessed the death of his mother, and he had a strange feeling about this family in his heart. He could only feel better in front of his brother.

But he couldn't say these words to his brother.

Xue Chen: "Let's go, go back."

The eldest brother didn't even let him go in to say hello to the new brother. It seemed that he didn't value this younger brother as much as he seemed. Maybe everything was a performance for his father.

Gong Jiu asked: "What are you doing here?"

Xue Chen: "Send clothes to him. When he goes to the palace banquet, he can't wear this ordinary black cotton dress anymore. He has to look presentable."

Gong Jiu agreed: "Brother is right."

Xue Chen: "Is there anything else you need?"

Gong Jiu shook his head.

In the past, these things were all taken care of by his mother. I don't know when it started, but it became the elder brother who was doing the work.

These things in the inner house are actually very challenging to do, but no matter how well he does, it is just his job, and no one will see his talent

. Gong Jiu always felt that his elder brother suffered a lot of injustice for doing these things, but his father could not be relied on at all, and his elder brother did too well, so there was no room for him to intervene. He could only send boxes of jewelry or other daily necessities home in the name of sending gifts.

He has a lot of gadgets and he doesn't lack anything. He can solve it himself without his brother worrying about him.

-Late

at night.

Xue Chen lay on the bed and turned over irritably.

The younger brother next door was wailing, begging Xiao He to whip him.

Wutong Garden is actually far away from here, but the night is too quiet. Pei Rui has top-notch hearing. Even after he became blind, his hearing system still compensates for his hearing, which is better than ordinary top-notch hearing.

He can hear faint sounds, which are mixed with what Xue Chen hears. He can't tell where they are from and can't sleep at all.

Xue Chen: [I've had enough!]

Pei Rui got up from the bed, put on his outer robe, picked up the knife under the pillow, and started to put on his boots.

The system was shocked: [You want to duel with Gong Jiu?]

Xue Chen: [A duel is only when the two are evenly matched. If the strength difference is too great, it is called a one-sided beating.]

System: [But he is a pervert! What he wants most is to be beaten! Don't fall into his trap!]

Xue Chen said nothing more.

Pei Rui put on his shoes, and set out in a dishevelled state, passing through the front yard, coming to the east yard, and following the sound to Gong Jiu's room.

The sound of the whip was very obvious, mixed with his heavy breathing, and it was not difficult to imagine what the scene was like.

Pei Rui stood at the door, hesitated for a moment, and pushed the door open amid Gong Jiu's low pleas.

When desire broke out, Gong Jiu's reason had collapsed, and he had completely lost his vigilance. He was unaware of Pei Rui's arrival, and eagerly waited for the whip to fall on his body.

Pei Rui smelled the obvious smell of blood, mixed with a slightly fishy smell of decay.

Xiao He was startled when she saw him: "Third Young Master...what are you doing..."

Pei Rui raised his hand and swung the knife, and the scabbard hit Gong Jiu's neck accurately. His strength was very precise. Gong Jiu, who was breathing heavily and kneeling on the ground to welcome the pain just now, fell silent in an instant, lay on the ground and fainted.

Pei Rui turned around and left neatly.

Xue Chen: [Comfortable...]

System: [This is a good idea, your sleep is saved!]

Xue Chen: [Not to mention that Xiao Mian may not live in the mansion for a long time. Even if he really lives here, he can't knock my brother out every time. If he breaks at the critical moment, it will be easy to get impotent.]

System: [I didn't expect you to care about him so much.]

[After all, he is my brother. 】Xue Chen paused and turned to ponder, [If he is really impotent, does that mean he doesn't have this need anymore? 】

System: [……]

Xue Chen: [Forget it, people with physical defects have a high chance of becoming abnormal. My brother is already like this, if he becomes impotent again, the consequences will probably be even more frightening. 】

System: [……]

You are really his brother.

After a peaceful and solid night's sleep, Xue Chen woke up feeling refreshed, while his brother, who was always energetic, was very sleepy and listless.

Xue Chen asked with concern: "What's wrong with you?"

Gong Jiu: "Maybe I didn't sleep well last night."

Xue Chen reached out and touched his forehead, and asked with a smile: "Is it because of Rui'er's arrival?"

Gong Jiu sneered: "Ha."

Xiao He, as a spy who had already surrendered to Xue Chen, reported what happened last night when she helped Xue Chen get up in the morning.

Xue Chen estimated that his brother might not remember the specific situation, so he specifically told Xiao He that there was no need to hide it from him, just tell him the truth.

Gong Jiu is a smart man.

All along, every time he had an attack, he could solve it smoothly. An accident happened on the first night Pei Rui arrived. The boy's martial arts are extremely strong, even better than Gong Jiu. Gong Jiu's recovery ability is particularly strong. If you want to kill him, you must kill him with one blow, otherwise any wound can recover quickly.

The person who can knock him out silently must have higher martial arts than him. There is no one else except Pei Rui.

So Xue Chen did not let Xiao He hide it. There was no need to expose her identity because of these trivial matters.

Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival. In order to prepare for the banquet in the evening, breakfast and lunch are eaten very lightly to avoid problems and embarrassment at the banquet.

Xue Chen asked the kitchen to prepare some snacks and quietly handed them to Pei Rui.

Pei Rui put away the things naturally and hid them in the purse at his waist, ready to eat when he was hungry.

Gong Jiu watched from a distance

with a very gloomy look. Prince Taiping sighed: "Chen'er has such a gentle and honest character, I am a little worried about letting him enter the officialdom."

Gong Jiu: "Brother is just feeling sorry for him."

Pei Rui tilted his head slightly and looked at Gong Jiu with blind eyes, indicating with his actions that he had heard his bad words.

Prince Taiping had anticipated the current situation. He patted Gong Jiu on the shoulder and said with a smile: "When can you feel sorry for your younger brother?"

Gong Jiu sneered: "Unless he has no internal strength at all and his hands and feet are disabled, otherwise it is impossible."

King Taiping nodded: "Rui'er's internal strength is indeed deep, even I am not his opponent. He is agile and even if he can't see, he is still better than most people. It's good that you can see his advantages."

Gong Jiu looked at him silently, turned around and left.

When entering the palace, Pei Rui, as a personal guard, rode in a carriage with King Taiping, and Xue Chen and Gong Jiu rode in another carriage, following behind their father's carriage.

Gong Jiu looked grim and looked no different from usual, but Xue Chen could feel that he was very unhappy now.

Xue Chen asked concernedly, "Do you want to lie down and sleep for a while?"

Gong Jiu: "No."

Xue Chen took out a bottle of menthol oil from the drawer below, poured it into his palm, rubbed it, and applied it to Gong Jiu's temples: "Are you feeling better?"

The whole car was filled with the cool smell of mint.

Gong Jiu nodded: "Is this what you use every day? Has your headache not healed yet?"

Xue Chen put the medicine bottle away: "It has been a long time since I had a headache."

But it is estimated that it will continue to hurt soon.

Pei Rui's vest synchronization rate has been almost brushed, and there is no more money to be squeezed out of him. If he wants to stabilize his soul and prolong his life, he can only continue to open a new vest.

Xue Chen plans to wait until this period of time has passed and the work of the main body and Pei Rui has stabilized before drawing.

Taking advantage of his brother's posture of applying medicine to him, Gong Jiu moved a little closer to him, and their arms were touching.

Xue Chen glanced at him: "What's wrong with you?"

Gong Jiu: "I thought you were the same as me."

Xue Chen: "What?"

Gong Jiu: "Don't we only have each other?"

Xue Chen was stunned, raised his palm and covered his hand: "This sentence sounds too lonely, you have seen the vast world outside, made a name for yourself, and possessed powerful martial arts, why is your vision so narrow?"

Gong Jiu looked at him, his eyes full of him, almost obsessed: "Because you are the only one who is worth my attention."

Xue Chen: "Then are you willing to give up everything else you have for me?"

At this moment, Gong Jiu's back was cold, he almost thought that his elder brother already knew everything he did on the nameless island.

That was his real foundation.

Gong Jiu's obsessive emotions were quickly beaten back to their original state. He didn't dare to look his brother in the eye again, and retreated into his hard shell again, as if he could avoid all dangers in this way.

Xue Chen: "Everyone has people they care about, and things they care about. The more energy you put in, the more you care about the other person. When you only have one treasure, your heart will be filled with it, but when you have many treasures, that one will not seem so important."

Gong Jiu: "No one can replace my brother."

Xue Chen: "Everyone is irreplaceable and has his own place."

Gong Jiu: "What about Pei Rui?"

Xue Chen: "He is my father's savior, your and my righteousness. "Brother, your future ally in the court must be someone you can trust."

Gong Jiu: "Is that all?"

Xue Chen smiled and said, "Do you think he is a bit like you?"

Gong Jiu: "No."

Xue Chen: "Some of your expressions are sometimes similar. He is young and new to the palace. He doesn't have anyone he knows in the palace, so I naturally have to take care of him more."

Gong Jiu: "Why did you give him snacks alone?"

Xue Chen: [I thought he didn't like snacks. I've never seen him eat them normally.]

System: [This is my brother! You two are really exactly the same. You would bear a grudge for a snack for most of the day! 】

Xue Chen: [……]

Xue Chen: "It's his first time in the palace and he has a big appetite. I'm afraid he won't be full at the palace banquet, so I reminded him to behave as a good host."

Gong Jiu was satisfied. He sat back in his original seat and said to Xue Chen: "Brother, next time if you prepare something for him, remember to give me a portion. Otherwise, I will just snatch his things away, and that should belong to me."

Xue Chen laughed softly.

Gong Jiu: "What are you laughing at?"

Xue Chen: "I'm laughing at you for still being a child. I thought you had grown up and were willing to leave home and avoid me for so many years, but I didn't expect you to never change."

Gong Jiu: "I didn't avoid you."

Xue Chen: "Yeah."

After a long silence, Gong Jiu said: "I have hidden a lot of things from you, and now I can't say it. When all the things are resolved, I will tell you the truth in person."

Xue Chen: "Okay."

Xue Chen: [Great progress! Congratulations, he finally has the idea of ​​stepping out of the snail shell.]

System: [It feels like it will take a long time...]

Xue Chen: [Why are you in such a hurry? I'm not going to die tomorrow.]

System: [...] But you have already started to become abnormal!

The car entered the imperial city from the gate, drove forward all the way, and stopped at the palace gate.

Xue Chen got out of the car with the help of his brother, and he and Gong Jiu adjusted the wrinkles on each other's clothes.

Many ministers had already arrived, and when they saw two men with outstanding looks and the same appearance, they couldn't help but look at them a few more times.

Someone familiar came over to salute King Taiping, praising his two sons for being very outstanding.

King Taiping didn't think that the other party was complimenting him at all, and accepted the compliment to his son without any humility, and took the young man next to him and introduced him to everyone: "This is my new adopted son, named Pei Rui, and he is also an extraordinary child. He has practiced swordsmanship to the extreme at a young age, and has saved me from danger many times."

Xue Chen: [Suddenly I think Xiao Mian is the real Lu.]

System: [...He is not that harmful to the master. Xue Chen looked around .

He had seen most of the princes and nobles here before, but only a few were completely unfamiliar.

A middle-aged man stood in the distance. He was very handsome and had a carefree demeanor, but his clothes were a bit plain, which made him look out of place among the high-ranking officials.

Xue Chen approached his brother and asked in a low voice, "Who is that?"

Gong Jiu looked over there and said, "It seems to be the father of the Marquis of Shentong, Fang Juxia."

Xue Chen said, "So it's him."