If he threatened with words, Xu Feng would have no choice but to accept it no matter how unwilling he was, but he just said such words, which set Xu Feng's heart on fire, and he could neither advance nor retreat.
Xu Feng was still hesitating, but He Tingzhou laughed first and said, "Then it's settled."
He finally let go of Xu Feng's hand and said, "Remember to apply the medicine these few days."
Xu Feng felt that he had suffered a great loss, and it was not worthwhile no matter how he thought about it, he thought about it secretly, and said, "Since I won't see my brother before the Mid-Autumn Festival, can I ask someone to bring him some mooncakes?"
He Tingzhou lowered his eyes slightly and said, "Okay."
Xu Feng asked again: "Is that place far away? Can it be delivered in one day?"
Of course He Tingzhou would not let him know, and said ambiguously: "No matter how far away it is, if you send it there quickly, it will be there in one day."
Xu Feng knew in his heart that the place where his brother was under house arrest would never be too far away, maybe it was in Lin'an City. It's just that since he left Murong Mansion, he has been trapped in this small courtyard for several months, even if he knew where his brother was locked up, he couldn't escape to save others.
Now I can only hope that everything is true, and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, He Tingzhou will really let their brothers meet again.
If it's fake again...
Xu Feng could hardly think about it.
The closer he got to the Mid-Autumn Festival, the more he worried about gains and losses, and he didn't sleep well for several nights. On August 14th, Xu Feng got up early in the morning, picked some sweet-scented osmanthus with Jin Shu, and then kneaded dough, made fillings, and rolled out the dough. After working all morning, they finally made a batch of mooncakes.
Fresh sweet-scented osmanthus was added to the mooncake stuffing, and the aroma was so tangy that Jin Shu swallowed beside him. Xu Feng let him eat two, picked some for his brother, and put the rest in a food box and sent it to Dr. Xu. Xu Feng's right hand can be cured, thanks to the dedicated treatment of Dr. Xu, he is not like He Tingzhou who can spread money all over the sky, so he can only send some moon cakes to show his heart.
Doctor Xu has a soft mouth, tasted the moon cakes made by Xu Feng, and even spoke more kindly, and took the initiative to check his pulse and told him to take good care of his body.
Xu Feng kept saying yes. He chatted with Miracle Doctor Xu for a while, and then he got back to the topic and asked about the pair of Gu worms.
Mentioning the pair of Gu worms, Master Xu’s heart ached again: "Back then, I heard that there was such a pair of green-headed Gu in the extreme south, so I traveled thousands of miles away. The south is full of miasma, and the locals Knowing how to use Gu and poison, I got this pair of Gu worms after a narrow escape, I never expected..."
As soon as Master Xu started nagging, Xu Feng listened patiently for a long time, and finally found an opportunity to ask him: "You said that the poison of male Gu is very overbearing, if it stays in the body, will it hurt people's lives?" ?”
"This is a life-saving spiritual Gu. How can it kill people? Even if it gets into the heart veins, it's nothing more than eating flesh and blood. If someone can't hold on and dies from pain, it's not the Gu insect's fault." .”
"... Will it hurt so much?"
"The female Gu stayed in your body for half a year, don't you know the taste of it?"
Xu Feng's right hand couldn't help trembling.
He still remembers the bone-chilling pain when the Gu worm attacked, and the male Gu is more poisonous, so it is naturally far better than this. If it were him, he would probably have been rolling on the bed in pain, and that person talked and laughed freely, but he didn't show his expression at all.
Xu Feng found that he could never see through him.
"I don't understand... why is he like this?"
Why are you willing to receive a sword in the chest from him? Why pretend to be Zhou Yan and meet him? Why focus on healing his hand? What he said and what he did, which ones are true and which ones are false
Seeing Xu Feng's complexion was not good, Doctor Xu said, "If you want to know the reason, why not just ask him face to face?"
"I asked before, but he wouldn't tell."
"As the saying goes, you tell the truth after drinking, and tomorrow happens to be the Mid-Autumn Festival, so you got him drunk..."
Xu Feng smiled wryly and said: "He can drink very well, I'm afraid I won't be able to get him drunk."
There were two rare times when he seemed drunk, but it was just the man pretending to coax him.
Doctor Xu smiled and said, "What's so difficult about it?"
He stood up, rummaged through boxes and cabinets in the room for a while, finally found a porcelain bottle and handed it to Xu Feng, saying: "This is my idle and boring... No, it is my carefully developed 'One Cup Pour', after drinking it, it is like a drink." Alcoholic wine, a glass is worth a jar, no matter how good he is, he will be drunk."
Xu Feng opened the porcelain bottle and saw a pill the size of a fingernail inside, which smelled like wine.
Doctor Xu said: "When you dissolve this medicine in water, it tastes like ordinary fine wine. Drinking too much will not hurt your body."
Xu Feng knew that Miracle Doctor Xu always liked to delve into weird things, and he thought it would be effective, so he accepted it gratefully. He has been delayed at Miracle Doctor Xu for a long time, and it's time to say goodbye, but before he left, he couldn't help but ask one more question: "That Gu worm has entered into the heart vein, is it true that it can't be taken out again?"
"Originally there are other ways." Master Xu said with a bitter face, "But I heard that the man was adopted by the Palace of Bliss since he was a child, and he has no parents, so there is no way."
"No relatives? But I remember he said..."
When Xu Feng said this, his eyelids twitched, and he panicked for no reason. He raised his hand and pressed his forehead, but didn't say any more.
Doctor Xu asked, "What did he say?"
"It's nothing," Xu Feng shook his head, and said almost to himself, "It's his fake identity, so naturally everything is fake..."
Xu Feng left Miracle Doctor Xu's residence and walked all the way to the small courtyard where he lived, his eyelids kept twitching.
He remembered that when he met Zhou Yan for the first time, the man said that he was out looking for his younger brother, and he also mentioned many times that he had a brother who had been lost for many years. Later his identity was exposed, Xu Feng only thought everything was false, and he didn't even want to think about the lies he made up.
But... what if it's true
If that person really has a younger brother...
Xu Feng felt a splitting headache. He clearly knew that something was wrong, but his heart was so empty that he didn't dare to think about it any more.
The place where he lives is not far away, and he will arrive there after a short walk. Jin Shu had been waiting in the yard, and when he saw him come back, he rushed up and said, "Master, why have you been away for so long? It's almost dark today, what do you want to eat tonight?"
"I won't eat," Xu Feng waved his hands, "I have a headache, go in and lie down."
"Young master is fine in the morning, why did you suddenly have a headache? Did you catch a cold from the wind? I said earlier that it's been cold these days, so you should add more clothes." Jin Shu followed up and muttered a few words, saying, "Yes Yes, someone has come to take away the mooncakes, but it's a pity I didn't leave two for the Palace Master..."
After hearing this, Xu Feng couldn't help but stop, and slowly turned around.
Jin Shu felt that his expression was a little scary, so he hurriedly asked, "My lord, what's the matter with you?"
"I don't understand one thing. If there is a person who treats you like nothing, but one day, he suddenly treats you better, and even sacrifices his life for you. Why do you say that?"
Jin Shu had served Xu Feng for a long time, so he somehow guessed some clues, and said: "That man must really like the young master."
"If it's not because you like me?"
"I-I can't guess this."
Xu Feng replied by himself: "Maybe it's because..."
He paused, and there was a faint guess in his heart, but he didn't dare to say any more. Even just thinking about it is scary.
"Forget it," Xu Feng touched the porcelain bottle hidden in his sleeve, and whispered to himself, "Anyway, tomorrow, we will know the truth."
After he finished speaking, he turned and went into the house, changed his clothes and lay down to sleep. He slept very deeply this time, and he didn't wake up when Jin Shu asked him to eat at night. When he woke up the next day, the sun had already shone in through the window.
Another fine cloudless day.
Xu Feng remembered last year's Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather was so good, and the moonlight that night was particularly moving. Unexpectedly, after going around for a year, he fell back into the same situation again.
Knowing this earlier, why did he try his best to escape from the Palace of Bliss? It's better to be a male favorite in an peaceful manner than it is now.
Xu Feng got up in his cloak, stood in front of the window, ate something casually with Jin Shu at noon, did nothing in the afternoon, and the day was almost over. As soon as the sky darkened, He Tingzhou sent someone to pick him up.
Jin Shu had been waiting for this moment for a long time, and happily found Xu Fengya's suit of clothes at the bottom of the suitcase, and wanted to wait for him to change: "Although he is not in the Palace of Bliss, the Lord of the Mid-Autumn Festival chose the young master to accompany him. It's down."
Xu Feng thought it was funny and thought, how can it be compared
He didn't change his clothes, he just replaced a wooden hairpin on his head with a jasper one, and then walked out the door in the twilight.
He Tingzhou's injury was not yet healed, so the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet was not held outside, but a table was set up in his room. Xu Feng went in and took a look, and saw several home-cooked dishes on the table. Although the dishes were ordinary, they were all his favorites on weekdays.
He Tingzhou was very casual, he had already started to eat with his chopsticks, when he saw him coming in, he raised his eyes to look him up and said, "Sit down."
He also said: "Today's dishes are well done, but not as good as yours."
Xu Feng's heart moved, and he asked, "Are the mooncakes delicious?"
He Tingzhou stopped holding the chopsticks for a moment.
Xu Feng sweated a little from the palm of his hand, and said, "Didn't you cut some of the mooncakes that were sent to my brother yesterday?"
He Tingzhou stared at him, smiled suddenly, and said, "Why bother, isn't there also the doctor Xu?"
Xu Feng gave him a general, and his heart beat suddenly. He still had the medicine given by Dr. Xu in his sleeve, but He Tingzhou probably already knew everything, so of course he had no chance to do anything else.
He Tingzhou said again: "Sit."
Xu Fengcai sat down opposite him.
He Tingzhou poured a glass of wine for both of them, raised his glass and said, "Mr. Xu said that I can't drink alcohol. It seems that I can only drink this glass today."
Xu Feng didn't clink glasses with him, just looked at him and asked: "Last year's Mid-Autumn Festival, were you really drunk or fake drunk?"
He Tingzhou's hand holding the wine glass turned around in mid-air, and finally put it back to his mouth, saying: "If you think it is true, it is true, if you think it is false... then it is false."
As he spoke, he was about to raise his head to drink, but Xu Feng reached out and snatched his cup, and drank it all in one gulp. He didn't drink well, and he became a little drunk after one drink. He looked directly at He Tingzhou through the strength of the wine, and said: "You haven't drunk a drop, you should be very sober, right? I just want you to tell the truth."
He Tingzhou had one hand free, but it seemed that there was no place to put it, so he could only fold it on the other hand and said, "What do you want to ask?"
"So far... there must be a reason for everything you have done, right?"
He Tingzhou looked at Xu Feng with his head tilted, he obviously didn't drink alcohol, but he seemed a little drunk, and said: "If I tell you, will you believe me?"
"Only tonight, only this time."
He Tingzhou nodded: "Anyway, if you don't talk about it today, you will talk about it tomorrow."
He stood up and opened a window in the room.
At this time, the moonlight is like a practice, reflecting a sparse osmanthus tree outside the window, and you can faintly smell the intoxicating fragrance.
He Tingzhou leaned against the window and watched the moon for a while, then turned around, his gaze was like the moonlight, as if full of affection, and said: "It's rare to meet today, let's talk after this meal."
Regardless of Xu Feng's answer or not, he sat down and picked up his chopsticks again, and put a lot of dishes into Xu Feng's bowl.
Xu Feng had things in his heart, so it was tasteless to eat.
He Tingzhou ate very slowly, he tasted every dish carefully, then put down his chopsticks and said: "These are my mother's specialty dishes, I loved them very much when I was young."
He changed the topic, and then said: "I have tasted that moon cake, and it tastes really good."
Xu Feng froze for a moment.
But He Tingzhou has already stretched out his hand and embraced him.
Xu Feng's heart beat faster, and just about to struggle, He Tingzhou pressed him tightly and said, "Don't move, I won't do anything, just hug you like this for a while."
His hand slowly stroked Xu Feng's hair, and there seemed to be a slight tremor.
The moonlight poured down gently, and Xu Feng heard him say in his ear: "Brother, I'm holding you."
Xu Feng was very playful when he was a child.
The big water tank in the house and the haystack outside the house were all places where he played. But no matter where he hides, someone can always find him. That person was taller than him and stronger than him, and he hugged him in a hug, and his embrace was unbelievably warm.
Once Xu Feng climbed up a tree to play, but couldn't get down after playing enough, hugging the tree pole and crying. The man stood under the tree, with his arms outstretched, waiting to pick him up. When the sun set, his eyes were filled with fragments of light.
Xu Feng jumped down with his eyes closed.
The two brothers huddled together and rolled around several times.
The ground was rocky, but Xu Feng didn't feel any pain at all. The man held him tightly and didn't hurt him at all. His own shoulder was cut open by the stone, and blood was gurgling out.
Xu Feng was so anxious that he cried again.
The man didn't complain of pain, but just stroked his hair and said, "Brother, I'm grabbing you."
Xu Feng woke up from the memories, and suddenly pushed away the person who was hugging him. He used too much strength and knocked over the jug on the table, making a "crash".
The pale moonlight reflected his pale face, like a drowning man, struggling to ask: "Where is my brother? I have finished this meal with you, when will I see him?" "
He Tingzhou sat in the semi-darkness, unable to see the expression on his face clearly, he just said calmly: "I am your brother."
Xu Feng's heart sank into the cold water completely.
He looked around blankly, unable to tell where he was for a moment. Maybe it was all fake and he just fell into another scam.
"Are you lying to me again? You didn't look for my brother at all, so you found an excuse to pretend to be him, didn't you?"
"Other things can be faked, but this one, how can I fake it? Back in the Palace of Bliss, I had already taken your blood, and asked my uncle to do a blood test. If you don't believe me, you can let me know Doctor Xu will try again."
Xu Feng stood up pale and said, "I don't believe it... Where is my brother? I'll go find him myself."
After he finished speaking, he turned around, opened the door and ran out.
There were no lights in the yard, but the moonlight was so good that it shone brightly all around.
The world is vast, and Xu Feng doesn't know where to find such a person. Find the elder brother who can hug him, coax him, tell stories in a soft voice, and fight off vicious dogs majestically.
He stumbled forward, and when he passed the osmanthus tree, he heard someone behind him calling: "Brother Feng, be careful!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he tripped over a stone on the ground and fell down involuntarily.
But he didn't feel any pain.
Someone rolled him around on the ground twice, without hurting him at all.
"How is it? Does it hurt from the fall?" He Tingzhou pulled Xu Feng into his arms and looked at his face carefully.
Xu Feng's lips trembled, but he still said: "Let go... I'm going to find my brother..."
He Tingzhou laughed back angrily: "I'm right here, where else do you look for?"
He said as he unbuttoned his shirt.
The moonlight shone on his chest, which was covered with scabbed wounds, which were the wounds he suffered when Murong Shen tortured him. And the sword wound on his chest still hasn't healed, and it's still wrapped in a thick bandage.
He Tingzhou grabbed Xu Feng's hand and put it on his shoulder, saying: "Do you remember the time when you climbed a tree to play, and I caught you when you jumped down, but there was a hole in your shoulder? At that time you Hold me and cry for a long time. Touch it yourself, is this scar real or fake?"
Xu Feng's hand flinched slightly, but He Tingzhou forced it to touch it, and touched an old uneven wound.
He Tingzhou continued: "After the two of us separated, I was adopted by the people of the Bliss Palace. I have been looking for you all these years. Until a year ago, I got the news from the spies..."
He didn't seem to be able to continue, and after a while he said: "You know what happened later, I'm afraid you won't be able to accept it for a while, so I approached you under the guise of Zhou Yan's identity, who knew that it would be self-defeating, but..."
When He Tingzhou said this, his voice suddenly stopped.
A warm liquid fell drop by drop, hitting his shoulder, scalding the old wound with scorching pain.
"is fake."
Xu Feng slowly raised his head, looked at him and said, "My biological brother died long ago, and my elder brother Zhou... was also killed by you."