"Come with me, I know where the gift is."
She stood up and walked forward, but after taking a few steps, someone hugged her from behind.
Gong Ou hugged her from behind and hugged her tightly.
Shi Xiaonian stood there without moving, quietly letting him hold her. Gong Ou kept hugging her tightly and would not let go, lowering his head to rest on her shoulder.
"Okay, let's go."
Shi Xiaonian patted his arm and tried to struggle away, but Gong Ou hugged her tighter and whispered, "Hold her for a while longer."
"Aren't you looking for a gift? It will be dark if you don't look for it."
Shi Xiaonian said.
"Hug me for a while longer."
Gong Ou's tone was low and domineering.
"All right."
Shi Xiaonian compromised and let him hold her, the wind blew over little by little, and the rays of light from the sky fell on them, coating them with a faint layer of velvet light.
Gong Ou hugged her for a long time, and he didn't let go until Shi Xiaonian said that his legs were a little numb. Shi Xiaonian took his hand and left.
Under the setting sun, Shi Xiaonian took Gong Ou to the roadside where they walked, pointed at the old pile of wood on the ground and said, "I told you, there used to be a canteen here, and I liked it after saving money. Come here to buy candy and collect candy wrappers.”
Gong Ou kicked away a piece of wood with a look of disgust, and looked at her in disbelief, "You still have to save money to buy candy?"
He didn't understand Shi Xiaonian's past life.
"How old was I at that time? Of course I need to save money to buy candy. Do you think it's all wealthy people like you?" Shi Xiaonian said.
"I'm not rustic."
Gong Ou gestured back, and a bodyguard immediately rushed forward. He said coldly, "Go buy glass candy wrappers, buy them in boxes."
"I don't like collecting that kind of stuff anymore." Shi Xiaonian muttered, "And you don't understand, the candy wrappers you worked so hard to get are so rare, and suddenly you can get a bunch of them casually. Then what else do you care about?"
It doesn’t matter whether it’s candy wrappers or anime cards.
Gong Ou stared at her and blurted out, "Isn't it too easy for you to get me?"
It was entirely his own motivation to stick to it.
“…”
The bodyguard stood nearby and tried to hold back his laughter.
Shi Xiaonian looked at Gong Ou speechlessly, then turned to look around and said, "Qianchu hinted that the gift is next to the glass candy wrapper, it should be here. You had already searched the old house when you were making Bird's Nest crafts, and didn't look at it. If you find extra iron boxes, it means they are not among the pile of knick-knacks I collected."
Gong Ou raised his eyebrows, "You still have a bit of reasoning mind."
"Many compliments." Shi Xiaonian said, and then got into trouble, "But where are the gifts in this place? The canteen is gone."
"Dig three feet into the ground to find it."
Gong Ou glanced at the bodyguard on the side.
"Yes, Mr. Gong."
A group of bodyguards have become accustomed to looking for gifts. After hearing the order, they rolled up their sleeves and started digging. Shi Xiaonian stood aside and looked at the pile of old wood.
Soon, a piece of land was dug into something disgraceful.
Just like the memories of her childhood, they had already changed and turned moldy and white with the passage of time. She couldn't even bear to think of those past, because when she thought of them, she could think of the unpleasant things that happened later.
The colors of the sunset faded little by little.
The bodyguards hung lights under the trees.
Shi Xiaonian was pulled to the side by Gong Ou. Looking at the dust, a bodyguard pushed aside the rotten wood and said, "Mr. Gong, is it possible that it was not buried underground, but was just stored in the canteen? Now that the canteen is gone, the things are gone." It’s gone.”
It's not impossible.
Shi Xiaonian thought to herself, but heard Gong Ou say firmly, "It's impossible."
"Why?"
Shi Xiaonian asked immediately.
Gong Ou glanced down at her, "Why, you don't know?"
"What should I know?"
"Mu Qianchu's gifts are all arranged in places where he can hide them without notifying others. This shows that he is not good at sociability, and he will not tell anyone about hiding gifts."
Gong Ou said in a low voice, and Shi Xiaonian suddenly understood, yes, this was indeed Mu Qianchu's original character. He was blind, dull and dull, and rarely interacted with others.
She almost forgot that she didn't know Mu Qianchu before Gong Ou came.
Shi Xiaonian stood next to Gong Ou, looking at the pile of wood. After looking at it for a long time, he vaguely seemed to see the canteen reappearing in front of him.
At that time, she would often take Mu Qianchu with her to buy candies. After buying them, she would give the candies to him, then pick up the candy wrappers and cover her eyes to watch the sun.
Mu Qianchu would stand in front of her, blocking her sunlight, and would say, "Xiao Nian, what are you looking at?"
She said mischievously, "Qianchu, there is a river behind you. If you don't move, you will fall."
Then she watched Mu Qianchu jump away hastily, with a hint of panic on his face, and she smiled and continued to look at the sun with the glass candy wrapper.
The light on the side of the glass candy paper is really beautiful and colorful.
It is the kind of color that cannot be painted with a paintbrush. It was a rare and affordable spiritual enjoyment for her at that time.
Shi Xiaonian's eyes suddenly moved and she looked down at the river. The lingering halo of the setting sun was flowing freely on the river. Could it be that...
She walked down the slightly sloping slope and was caught by Gong Ou. He stared at her nervously, "What are you doing?"
"The gift might be over there."
Shi Xiaonian said and continued walking down.
This time Gong Ou didn't stop her, but still held her hand tightly and let her go down little by little. When she walked close to the river, Shi Xiaonian recalled the place she remembered and stepped on it twice with her shoes. .
Before he could say anything, Gong Ou raised his voice and said, "Come here, dig here."
“…”
Shi Xiaonian looked at Gong Ou, he knew her too well.
The digging was neither deep nor shallow. After digging around her footprints for more than ten times, the bodyguard found the iron box. The bodyguard patted the dust on it and handed it to Gong Ou.
Shi Xiaonian looked over and saw that the tin box was obviously much more upscale than the first box. Even the advertising design on it had changed. She was stunned, "I remember this chocolate box was revised very later. It wasn't like this at the beginning. ."
Gong Ou glanced at her with black eyes and said in a deep voice, "That only shows one thing. The gift given to you by Mu was not completed in one period of time, but was divided over several years."
"several years?"
Shi Xiaonian was stunned. Have you spent several years giving her gifts? Then why not let her find it? She doesn't even know.
"I should tell you after all the gifts for the twelve houses are ready. There is a series of gifts waiting for the second house." Miyao said sourly, reaching out to open the box.
The old tin box was difficult to open.
"So that's it."
Shi Xiaonian understood, but Mu Qianchu never told her from beginning to end that there was more than one gift, as well as the second house and the third house... Does this mean that he had not prepared all the gifts for the twelfth house.
It's meant to be.
I don't know why, Shi Xiaonian thought of these four words.
The iron box was opened, and there was a comic book inside. Miyao turned to the title page and saw a few large Japanese characters on it.
“…”
Shi Xiaonian was stunned, her hand involuntarily covering her upper lip, her eyelashes trembling slightly.
Gong Ou looked at her, his dark eyes darkening, "The autograph of your favorite cartoonist?"
He guessed it by looking at her like this.
Shi Xiaonian nodded. She liked this cartoonist very much. She once vowed to become like him. This cartoonist was famous all over the world. Even comic books were difficult to buy. Mu Qianchu actually helped her get the cartoonist's autograph. sign.
"Are you moved?" Gong Ou glanced at her and said in a cold voice, "If you are moved, just stand aside and stop looking, because I'm going to get burned next."
“…”
Shi Xiaonian looked at him speechless.
Gong Ou handed the tin box to the bodyguard next to him, picked up the letter inside and opened it.
Shi Xiaonian stood aside and watched. At this time, Mu Qianchu no longer had to write a single word on a piece of paper. He could write several words clearly. His handwriting was not as sloppy as before, but he could see between the lines that he wrote clearly. Very hard.
Xiao Nian, I finally got Miyamoto's autograph and asked him to write your name in Japanese. There are only three gifts left. I have to think carefully about what to prepare for you. I must prepare the one that touches Xiao Nian the most. .
Just because he wanted to prepare a gift from the Zodiac for her, Mu Qianchu had been preparing for several years and worked hard, but she really never knew...
Then, even he forgot about it.
"Stand back, I'm going to burn."
Gong Ou's cold and ruthless voice poured into Shi Xiaonian's ears, sending a chill down her back.
She said nothing, still silently retreating indulgently, watching helplessly as Gong Ou burned the gift Mu Qianchu prepared for her, and burned the autographed book of her favorite cartoonist.
Night fell.
Gong Ou stood in the night, his face reddened by the firelight. He stared coldly at the burning book in his hand, and his thin lips raised an evil arc, like a devil and a mischievous child.
This time, she personally found Mu Qianchu's gift and gave it to Gong Ouyaki.
She thought, she was the devil.
Shi Xiaonian looked at his evil side face and the burning comic book, slowly lowered his eyes, turned around and walked out, leaving step by step.
"Where to go?"
Gong Ou's cold voice came.
Doesn’t she want to read any more? The more she knew about this gift, the more she recalled how much Mu Qianchu had cared about her back then. It was really uncomfortable to think that they were really happy at that time.
She wanted to escape.
"Don't you know the information about the next gift? I'll look for it. I'll find it all tonight."
Shi Xiaonian said lightly, walking forward, leaving the pile of burning fire and the pile of burning memories.
“…”
Gong Ou stood there, throwing the burning comic book into the box, and turned to look at Shi Xiaonian's figure. His eyes became darker and darker. He did not chase after him, but asked the person next to him, "Take a photo of it." No?"
"It's all been filmed."
The bodyguard said holding his cell phone.
"I'll continue to look for gifts. You can send them to the mailbox named Mu." Gong Ou said coldly, raised his legs and walked up, catching up with Shi Xiaonian. (To be continued)