Chapter 11 Bells
Feng Wuqing entered the room and immediately saw the mahogany box placed on the incense table next to the incense burner. He guessed what was inside.
He was still holding the Soul-Returning Plum given to him by Yu Chi in his hand. Jiang Suo also saw the box. He stood up and walked to Feng Wuqing's side without making a sound.
"You can't say that, Wuqing. Don't you and Wuyou know what kind of person I am? How could I harm Wuyou?"
Feng Wuqing raised his hand to stop Jiang Suo's steps.
"Who knows? You can know a person's face, but not his heart."
Feng Wuqing's face was serious, and his eyes met Jiang Suo sharply, which frightened Jiang Suo and gave him the illusion that Feng Wuqing saw through him.
He secretly clenched his hands under his sleeves, his nails digging into the flesh.
"According to what you said, your brother can't even trust you. After all, this huge Feng family will fall into your brother's hands in the future, and you have worked hard for many years. Are you willing to do that? If you are not willing, you can only attack your brother, right..."
"You are talking nonsense again."
Feng Wuqing didn't want to listen to his words to provoke himself and his brother, so he clenched his fist and rushed towards Jiang Suo's face, but Jiang Suo dodged.
Jiang Suo stood by the incense table again and put his hand on the mahogany box.
"Wuqing, why are you so anxious? Didn't you say that you can only know a person's face, but not his heart?"
"I didn't realize it before, but you really deserve a beating."
Feng Wuqing gritted his teeth and said this. Jiang Suo just smiled and looked at Feng Wuqing gently, stroking the mahogany box with his fingers.
"It's nothing."
Feng Wuqing said "tsk" lightly, raised his hand to grab the mahogany box in Jiang Suo's hand, but was led away by Jiang Suo.
Feng Wuqing chased, and Jiang Suo hid. When he turned around, Feng Wuqing met Jiang Suo's eyes, which were different from the usual gentleness. They were full of cruelty, cold and murderous.
He was shocked and missed the chance to hold the Soul-Returning Plum that Yu Chi had given him. Jiang Suo knocked it down. When he leaned over to catch it, he raised his foot and kicked Jiang Suo. The Soul-Returning Plum fell into Feng Wuqing's hand.
Jiang Suo was kicked and hit the pillar next to him. The noise was quite loud. Feng Wuyou stood up, frowned, and looked at the two of them with worry on his face.
Jiang Suo held the mahogany box in one hand and covered his stomach with the other hand, but he could still laugh out loud.
"Wuqing, what's wrong? You're still a child after
just one word. " Feng Wuqing was standing by the incense table at the moment, looking at the wisps of smoke rising from the incense burner, and the rich and sultry fragrance of plum blossoms. He got angry and grabbed the incense burner and threw it towards Jiang Suo.
"Get out of here!"
Because he was angry and couldn't control himself, he didn't throw it at Jiang Suo, but deviated from the direction and threw it out of the door, almost hitting Yu Chi and Gu Jue who had just come over.
So there was the scene just now.
After Jiang Suo went out, Feng Wuyou came to Feng Wuqing and patted Feng Wuqing's back gently.
Yu Chi came, and Feng Wuqing asked someone to send a new incense burner, which he had obtained not long ago, a jade dragon circling incense burner. As soon as he got it, he felt that it was very suitable for Feng Wuyou.
It happened to be delivered to Feng Wuyou today.
While Yu Chi was being treated, Feng Wuqing and Gu Jue were already waiting outside, looking up at the sky and down at the ground.
Feng Wuqing felt bored and started the conversation first, asking Gu Jue how he and Yu Chi knew each other.
Gu Jue recalled the first time he saw Yu Chi.
"It was at a wedding banquet, and he came to kidnap the bride."
Feng Wuqing was shocked. "Kidnap the bride"! ? "
My doctor Yu Chi, he looks gentle, calm and noble, but he is actually a man who does great things silently.
But kidnapping a bride...
"Hiss, may I ask, who is being kidnapped, the groom or the bride?"
Gu Jue tilted his head and pointed at himself, "Do you think I am the bridegroom or the bride?"
It is not appropriate to say the groom, after all, he is the one who got on the sedan chair for his sister.
But it is not right to say the bride, he is a man.
People outside were still discussing whether Gu Jue was the bridegroom or the bride. Yu Chi took the newly delivered incense burner and lit the Soul-Returning Plum again.
"Young Master, have you eaten? "
Feng Wuyou nodded in response. He seemed to be in a better condition, at least more energetic than when he first met him.
Yu Chi sat opposite Feng Wuyou, motioned Feng Wuyou to stretch out his hand, and began to feel Feng Wuyou's pulse again.
His face was expressionless, and he began to chat like a friend.
"You changed Nong Xiang yesterday. How do you feel now?"
"Much better. I feel a little more sober."
"Then how much does the eldest master remember about Mingze now?"
Feng Wuyou thought for a moment, and looked at the plum tree outside the window.
"I still remember that he came to see me every year, spoke to me gently, and accompanied me, but he seemed to be very busy, and only came a few times a year. The last time I saw him last year, he gave me a bell. "
It was May, the eve of Feng Wuyou's birthday. Mingze came at night, walking in the moonlight, and gently knocked on the window of Feng Wuyou's bedroom.
Feng Wuyou forgot why he was so sure it was Mingze. His subconscious told him that it was Mingze and no one else.
As soon as he opened the window, he saw Mingze bathing in the moonlight and covered in silver moonlight.
His eyes were as gentle as water. He smiled when he saw Feng Wuyou, and then handed Feng Wuyou an exquisite agarwood box.
"Little Wuyou, this is your birthday present this year."
Feng Wuyou took the box, and the joy in his heart was beyond words.
"Can I see it now?"
"Of course, it's yours after I give it to you. You can see it whenever you want. "
The agarwood box had a faint woody fragrance. Feng Wuyou opened it in front of Mingze. Inside was a golden bell. It was tied
with a red rope and engraved with dragon patterns. The red rope was also decorated with small gold and jade ornaments. It was a very beautiful bell.
Feng Wuyou remembered that he liked it very much. Mingze said that it should be tied around the ankle.
That night, Feng Wuyou sat on the window and stretched out his feet. Mingze put the bell on him personally.
After putting it on, Feng Wuyou got off the ground and walked through the plum garden of Jiaoyue Pavilion. The bell on his ankle rang with his steps. The
bell rang under the moonlight in the plum garden, and Mingze was just a few steps behind him, where he could see him when he turned around.
He called him.
"Mingze."
"Yeah, I'm..."
...
But that was also the last time Feng Wuyou saw Mingze. Mingze used to come every time the first snow fell and the white plum blossoms bloomed.
But he didn't come last winter, and this spring, Mingze didn't come even after the snow melted. On his birthday, Mingze still didn't come.
"Jiang Suo said that Mingze is not human."
When Feng Wuyou said this, Yu Chi's eyes moved slightly and looked at Feng Wuyou's eyes. Except for a little dullness in those eyes, the rest was calm.
Feng Wuyou's emotions were not affected by the statement that Mingze was not human.
He said, "Because this is something I have known for a long time. I forgot how I knew it and I can't remember it for the time being, but I just know it."
"I don't know why before, my memory was confused. It was clearly close to me, but I couldn't catch it when I reached out my hand. My heart was empty. When I woke up this morning, it was much clearer."
He turned his head and met Yu Chi's eyes.
"Doctor Yu Chi, there is something wrong with Jiang Suo's incense, right?"
The tone of voice was different from yesterday's question. Yesterday it was a question, but now it was a confirmation.
Maybe in the eyes of others he is a cheerful and bright young man, but he is not a simple-minded, kind and simple fool.
The Feng family is rich and powerful. If he was really that stupid, he would have been gnawed to the bone.
"Then I will ask yesterday's question again, Master Wuyou, how did you become like this now?"
The tea on the table was already cold. Since Feng Wuyou locked himself in the room and never left the house, Jiang Suo almost controlled the entire Jiaoyue Pavilion. Almost all the servants and maids were driven out. When Feng Wuqing asked, he only gave the reason that Feng Wuyou needed to rest.
He said he would take care of Feng Wuyou.
The young master, who had been rich and noble since childhood, had all his food, clothing and daily expenses passed through Jiang Suo's hands.
No one came to change the tea when it got cold.
He picked up the cold tea and took a sip without any emotion. He knew very well that the bright and charming young man with a bit of coquettishness could never come back.
After this year, Feng Wuyou could no longer be as wanton and ostentatious as before.
"Doctor Yu Chi, this is a bit far-fetched. Maybe it should start from the time I met Jiang Suo, but I can't remember many things now."
He put down the cup, and his thin fingers crossed the edge of the cup. His current appearance was reflected in the tea.
He raised a sarcastic smile. It was true that he was neither human nor ghost.
Yu Chi stood up, placed the Soul-Returning Plum on the small table on the couch, and pushed it to Feng Wuyou.
"It would be great if you could react on your own. From now on, please be more careful."
"Of course."
Feng Wuyou took the box of Soul-Returning Plum, opened the cabinet next to it, and hid it in a small compartment.
After hiding it, he looked at Yu Chi and said, "Please ask Doctor Yu Chi as well. Thank you for your concern."