Chapter 344 Are You Afraid?
Looking at the peanut shells in the bowl, Lu Zhiang blushed in embarrassment and quickly apologized:
"Sorry, Shu Ning, I was a little distracted just now, thinking about other things." As he said this, Lu Zhiang quickly picked up the peanut shells and squatted down to look for the peanuts that were thrown on the ground.
Zheng Shuning always had a gentle and calm smile on her face when facing anyone. She shook her head and said:
"Everyone gets distracted at some point, there's nothing to be sorry about."
This reminded Zheng Shuning of a time when she was distracted and did something similar and was nearly beaten half to death.
His face couldn't help but become a little disappointed for a moment.
The experience of growing up is still vivid in my mind. Although I have completely separated myself from the past, certain scenes still reappear from time to time, like a drizzle that permeates every pore.
As soon as Lu Zhiang raised his head, he saw the lonely look on Miss 께's face and was stunned.
It seems that I didn't expect that someone as calm as Zheng Shuning would be so lonely.
But Zheng Shuning didn't like others to see her dark side, so she quickly smiled again and said to Lu Zhiang in a carefree manner:
"I'm almost done peeling it. You must be tired during the day, so go to bed first."
"I'm fine. I still have to wait for my senior brother to come back and ask him some questions." Lu Zhiang thought that he was going to ask Zheng Yunsheng, so he might as well ask Zheng Shuning first:
"By the way, Shu Ning, who was that man who just came to our house? Do you know him?"
"I don't know him." Zheng Shuning answered. Of course she didn't know him. She had been in Yanjing for a short time and didn't know as many people as Lu Zhiang.
However, she still told Lu Zhiang the known information:
"When I came in, I heard my brother called him Shou, so I guessed that he should be Ye Shou. When I was chatting with my aunt, she mentioned this person and said he was my sister-in-law's benefactor."
What Zheng Shuning didn't say was that the reason Xie Jinxiang mentioned Ye Shouxiao to her was because Xie Jinxiang wanted to matchmake someone. Since Zheng Shuning came to Yanjing, she wanted to introduce someone to Miss Xiao every day.
After Gu Xiaojiao knew about it, she warned Xie Jinxiang that Zheng Shuning was still young and couldn't date yet, and that Zheng Yunsheng would get angry if she continued to talk nonsense about him. Only then did Xie Jinxiang calm down.
Although Zheng Shuning only provided a name, it stirred up a storm in Lu Zhiang's heart. He was too sensitive to this surname because someone with the surname Ye killed his entire family.
Thinking of Ye Shouxiao's expression, eyes, and Zheng Yunsheng's attitude, Lu Zhiang had to guess in his heart what the relationship between Ye Shouxiao and Ye Detang might be.
And Zheng Shuning also said that Ye Shou was very kind to Gu Xiaojiao, which made Lu Zhiang feel upset.
Lu Zhiang did not doubt Zheng Yunsheng's intentions because of this. After all, he had experienced too many ups and downs in human relationships and thought he could still distinguish between what was sincere and what was hypocritical.
In order to avoid unnecessary estrangement, Lu Zhiang didn't want to go to bed anymore, and decided to wait for Zheng Yunsheng to come back and find out.
So after peeling the peanuts and Zheng Shuning sweeping away the peanut shells, Lu Zhiang was still sitting in the yard and didn't go to sleep.
Zheng Shuning asked: "Aren't you going to sleep?"
"I'm waiting for my senior brother." Lu Zhiang said again.
Only then did Zheng Shuning realize that Lu Zhiang was really waiting for her brother and was not just saying it out of politeness to help her peel peanuts.
It was winter now and the yard was quite cold. Zheng Shuning had burned a pile of peanuts in the yard before. When she was almost done shelling the peanuts, she thought about going to bed and didn't want to waste firewood, so she didn't add any more.
At the moment, Lu Zhiang was still sitting next to the firewood. She thought about it, then took some firewood to make the fire burn more vigorously. The high flames made Lu Zhiang's heart tremble. He leaned sideways, staring at the shadow cast by the fire on the wall in a daze.
Zheng Shuning saw Lu Zhiang's expression from the side and asked subconsciously:
"Brother Zhiang, are you afraid?"
No one had ever told Zheng Shuning that Lu Zhiang was afraid of the light. She guessed it based on the way Lu Zhiang faced the light many times, wanting to escape, but also trying hard to face it.
How should I describe that expression? It was just like when Zheng Shuning was once afraid of Zheng Weihong. It was an instinctive response.
When Lu Zhiang heard Zheng Shuning ask this, he mistakenly thought that Zheng Yunsheng had told Zheng Shuning about 놛, so 놛 responded truthfully:
"Yes, I am afraid."
"I said, every time I burn firewood, I feel that you are quite unnatural. Then I will put out the fire and get some charcoal from burning firewood in the house. Then I won't be afraid of no fire."
As he spoke, Zheng Shuning stood up.
She quickly brought a bag of charcoal. This kind of charcoal was free. Every time a thicker piece of firewood was burned, large red lumps would be produced. They would be stored in sealed cans. When the wood was extinguished, only charcoal would be left. It could be stored and used for roasting in the house without producing any smoke.
Zheng Shuning took out all the firewood and poured the charcoal on top. She puffed up her cheeks and blew on it for a while. When the charcoal was lit, she called Lu Zhiang:
"Turn around and take a look. Without the flowers, it wouldn't be so scary."
It was difficult to refuse, so Lu Zhiang could only turn his head and look at the red charcoal in the iron basin on the ground, which was glowing red in the night.
No seedlings, no smoke.
I stared at it for a long time before I was sure that this kind of thing was not that scary. It seemed like the first time I felt that it was warm and full of power.
Lu Zhiang thought about what Zheng Shuning had just said and couldn't help but ask her:
"Just now you said that you saw my reactions and found out that I was afraid, so your brother didn't tell you about me. Did you guess it yourself?"
"I can't say I guessed. To be more precise, I observed. I always like to pay attention to other people's expressions. I observed this based on your expression."
This was the first time that someone discovered that he was afraid without Lu Zhiang saying anything, so he couldn't help but say:
"Besides being afraid, what else did you observe?"
Suddenly, Lu Zhiang became curious.
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