"But if the adoptive father doesn't know, he will be embarrassed too." Shi Xiaonian reminded Gong Ou not to do this.
"knew."
Gong Ou is still very obedient. Who makes him feel particularly good today? He feels physically and mentally comfortable and his fatigue is gone.
Shi Xiaonian smiled helplessly and was hugged by him as she walked forward. She turned and went downstairs. She was held down when she was about to go downstairs.
She looked at Gong Ou with some confusion, followed his line of sight and saw two familiar figures sitting on the bottom step of the stairs.
It's Su Yaoyao and Feng De.
Foster father
Shi Xiaonian was stunned for a moment, and then saw the tray next to Feng De, with tea and fruit snacks on it, and immediately understood that this was the steward's responsibility that Gong Ou said, knowing where they were but not disturbing them, and still waiting here. With.
The adoptive father was too tired to be like this, and he had long told him not to treat him as a servant.
When Xiaonian was about to go down, Su Yaoyao said, "Let's go. Your foot is injured. Don't wait here. Sister Xiaonian won't blame you."
The adoptive father's foot is injured
Shi Xiaonian was stunned, he must be looking for them.
She frowned, only to hear Feng De smile lowly, push her hand away, his voice was a little old, "It's okay, it's just a minor injury, you'd better hide. I'll tell you I didn't find him after a while, and let you win too."
Su Yaoyao looked at her hand that was pushed away for a moment, then turned to look at Feng De and asked, "Are you always so considerate of others? Yes, they are your masters, but they are young, and they are just here Playing games is very relaxing, you don’t need to prepare so many snacks and wait here even if you are injured.”
Her tone was somewhat resentful.
I don’t know if I blame Feng De or them.
Shi Xiaonian originally wanted to go on, but now she felt a little embarrassed and couldn't go on.
Feng De bent down and pressed his feet. He seemed to be speaking a little slowly because of the pain. "Neither the young master nor Xiao Nian asked me to do this. I'm used to it after so many years."
"It's my habit to serve them wholeheartedly. Back then, my sister and her mother..."
Young Su Yaoyao asked unconvincedly. Halfway through the question, she felt a little unbearable and stopped talking.
“…”
Shi Xiaonian opened her eyes wide in shock and covered her mouth with her hand.
Sister and mother
So Feng De already knows that Su Yaoyao is not his daughter
"I was too presumptuous and self-righteous back then, so I regret it to this day." Feng De said.
His full head of silver hair made his back look particularly old.
"So you don't want to feel sorry for anyone now. When we were at Lancaster Manor, I told you that I was not your biological daughter, but you still rescued me without hesitation and almost lost your life for me." Su Yaoyao said almost angrily. He said, "I have never seen an old man like you. When you were young, you risked everything for your freedom. You lost the person you loved most and the daughter you never met. When you got older, you died for an irrelevant person like me." "
“…”
It turned out that the secret was solved at that time.
She said that everyone seemed to have changed in some way after returning from Lancaster Manor. Gong Yu and Luo Lie became more understanding, and the children became more sensible, but they kept silent to her about what happened. It turns out that this is the story of my adoptive father.
Shi Xiaonian lowered her eyes, feeling unspeakably sad.
It was a white lie she had hoped would last forever, but it was revealed anyway.
On the deck that day, the adoptive father also said how many people watched her and Gong Ou experience the meaning of happiness. Among the many people here... he must have been included.
He had too many regrets and pains, but he never let anyone share them.
"Why are you irrelevant?" Feng De understood that Su Yaoyao cared about him and smiled at her lovingly, "You are my daughter's sister. When I see you, I feel like I see her."
"What about Sister Xiaonian?"
Su Yaoyao asked.
“…”
Feng De looked at her.
"Do you have to take care of Sister Xiaonian's feelings in this way? Although sister is gone, I know you want to visit the place where she lived." Su Yaoyao said, "But you are afraid that Sister Xiaonian will know that you already know the truth. If I’m sad, I’d rather not say anything.”
Hearing this, Feng De smiled, his voice sounding a little bitter, "Yao Yao, you are still young, there are some things you don't understand."
"What don't you understand?"
"Sometimes lies require everyone to pretend to cooperate in order to be more beautiful." Feng De said, "After experiencing so many things, everyone has said goodbye to the past on this cruise ship. Everyone is so happy, so why let them do it for me again? Worry."
"But… "
"If Xiao Nian knows about it, she will think that her adoptive father has no relatives in this world. He is just a lonely old man with gray hair and a forced smile every day. He must be hopeless. Then What should she do?" Feng De said with a smile all the time, and his smile was very bitter.
Shi Xiaonian stood on it and listened, her nose sore.
Gong Ou hugged her tightly.
"Yao Yao, Xiao Nian and I have been living together for four years." Feng De said, "You don't understand how scared she is of losing her loved ones. She will be afraid of nightmares every night. She has lost too many people. I don't want her to stop every day. Thinking about whether one day she will lose me, an old man with half of my body already buried in the ground, this is a kind of lingering torture for her."
No one felt more sorry for Shi Xiaonian during those four years than him.
“…”
Gong Ou hugged Shi Xiaonian even more tightly. Shi Xiaonian closed her eyes and tears fell silently.
For her, Feng De concealed that he knew the truth and never even showed the pain of losing his daughter in front of her.
My adoptive father is really kind, especially kind...
Kind to the point of being stupid.
"I hated you very much before, but now... I can't hate you at all." Su Yaoyao said, her voice a little choked, "How are your feet? Do they still hurt? When you get older, you can get seriously injured from a fall. Why don't you ask Dr. Luo to take a look?"
After hearing this, Gong Ou wanted to go down.
This time, it was Shi Xiaonian who stopped him.
Since beautiful lies require everyone’s cooperation, let’s cooperate together.
…
Returning to the music room silently, Shi Xiaonian lay down on the piano without saying a word, looking ahead with red eyes, and her heart hurt as if it was being scratched with a knife.
"Is it hard?"
Gong Ou sat down next to her and stared at her deeply.
"Did you already know this?"
Shi Xiaonian spoke dullly.
Gong Ou looked at her with a low voice, "Do you think he will tell me?"
Also, Feng De has been with Gong Ou for so many years, and he is also afraid that Gong Ou will worry. This old man is like this. Even if he is in pain, he will only smile in front of them, waiting to give him orders...
Shi Xiaonian lay on the piano and blinked her red eyes, "Gong Ou, now that my adoptive father knows about it, I want him to go back and see where his biological daughter lived."
"give it to me.".
Gong Ou agreed almost without thinking.
"But, this lie must continue, so that the adoptive father doesn't have to worry about us." Shi Xiaonian looked at him and said.
"Do you know what the other name of this cruise ship is?" Gong Ou suddenly changed the topic.
“…”
Shi Xiaonian lay there and shook his head.
"Dream." Gong Ou lowered his head and approached her face, his dark eyes were as deep as the sea, and his voice was extremely sexy, "As long as you want it, I, Gong Ou, will do it for you and make this trip a dream come true for you. journey of!"
Shi Xiaonian was frightened by his affectionate gaze.
In Gong Ou's world, she doesn't have to worry about anything, everything is waiting for him to do.
"It's a very nice name." Shi Xiaonian straightened up and leaned into his arms, "Why didn't I know that the cruise ship had this name before?"
"I just picked it up!"
“…”
Shi Xiaonian nestled in his arms, her eyes were very red, but the corners of her lips could not help but raise a slight arc.
"We'll go out in a while."
"good."
Shi Xiaonian didn't want to go out and bump into Feng De now. She wouldn't be able to bear it. She hoped that her adoptive father would not have to think about everything for them and just do whatever he wanted...
In the huge music room, two people were sitting in front of the piano. Gong Ou held her in his arms with one hand, and his other hand landed on the keys one after another. The sound of the music disturbed Shi Xiaonian's heart.
An hour later, Shi Xiaonian washed her face and put on some light makeup to make her eyes less red before going out.
Feng De was waiting outside with tea and fruit snacks.
Seeing them coming out, Feng De lowered his head respectfully and said, "Congratulations, young master, you won. I thought of looking here, but it's a pity that the time is up."
“…”
When Shi Xiaonian looked at Feng De who seemed like nothing happened, he felt even more uncomfortable.
"I'm too old to do it." Gong Ou snorted coldly and said, "I'm willing to admit defeat and go down to accept the punishment."
"Yes, Master."
Feng De responded without any objection.
Shi Xiaonian looked at Gong Ou. This man was still pretending to be good. For a while, she couldn't talk to Feng De as usual.
A group of people returned to the rest area, and several of them had fallen asleep.
Seeing Gong Ou and Shi Xiaonian coming over, Su Yaoyao yawned and sat up and stretched, "Sister Xiaonian, the game has ended long ago. You have been hiding for more than four hours."
What an exaggeration.
"Honestly, what have you been doing these four hours?"
Gong Yu lay lazily on a sofa and looked questioningly at the two people who had arrived late.
"Want to know?" Gong Ou glanced at him and pulled Shi Xiaonian to sit down beside him. The corners of his lips curled up evilly, "Let's forget it. It's easy to hold back one breath when you're single at your age."
Very poisonous tongue.
“…”
Gong Yu was choked and lay there staring at Gong Ou for a long time without realizing it.
Xia Yu next to her was also waiting and yawning, "Xiao Nian, you guys can play hide and seek for a year. Let's end the game. I decided it would be more interesting to go back to the room and sleep."
They were all found together, and they ended up waiting here for several hours for Xiao Nian and Gong Ou.
"It's because I'm looking slowly and I can't find the young master." Feng De said humbly, "Since everyone is tired, let's ask the young master to end the game."
He can accept any punishment anyway.
"Do you accept the adventure?"
Gong Ou asked, his raised eyebrows showing his arrogance.
"oh?"
Let a humble and polite old butler take a big risk? Seems interesting. (To be continued)