"I want to kiss," Gong Wei said earnestly and tried his best to pronounce the words clearly.
Xu Shuangce's face was actually a little dark, but because his expression was not obvious, Gong Wei's ignorant mind couldn't detect it, so he just asked, "Who did you learn from?"
Gong Wei looked at him blankly, not knowing why.
There is no way to trace the origin of the word, because Gong Wei is too quick at parroting, any new thing that appears in his line of sight is likely to be randomly remembered, and then one day suddenly say it out loud, startling. Everyone jumps.
Xu Shuangce calmly slowed down: "Do you understand what it means?"
Without any hesitation, Gong Wei immediately nodded.
"Why kiss?"
Gong Wei laughed and kept sticking to Xu Shuangce's face.
But he was still a little short at this time, and before he could put his lips together, Xu Shuangce pressed his two fingers together against his eyebrows, and said, "I can't kiss. Write well."
Gong Wei put the pen back in his hand again, but he still refused to continue copying the sword collection, struggling to turn his head and asked, "Why?"
Xu Shuangce did not answer.
"Why... why not... can't kiss?"
It is rare for Gong Wei to hold back a whole sentence at this time, which shows that he is really not giving up. But Xu Shuangce was unmoved. From Gong Wei's point of view, he could only see the lower half of his face. The clear jawbone was hidden in the shadows. When he spoke, his warm voice brushed over his hair.
"Because you have to wait until you grow up," he said.
Gong Wei definitely couldn't grow up in one day, so he was angry. That day, when Xu Shuangce left and returned to the Cangyang Sect, the Ying Alliance Lord, who had been busy for a day, came out to send him off. Gong Wei ran over from the end of the promenade and rushed forward in front of Xu Shuangce, "Hey!" Right at Ying Kai There was a loud sip on his face.
"..." Alliance Leader Ying was stunned, his reaction was the same as Xu Shuangce: "Who did you learn from?!"
Gong Weiyi turned his head and grinned at Xu Shuangce.
But what he didn't expect was that Xu Shuangce neither made a sound nor had an expression. He just stood there quietly and stared at Gong Wei, his eyes were distant, and then he turned and left.
Gong Wei was stunned, and a trace of fear suddenly rose from nowhere. Before he could figure out what to do, he had already chased after him in a panic, grabbing Xu Shuangce's arm and not letting him go, he stood on tiptoe and wanted to kiss him, but Xu Shuangce mercilessly pushed him away: "Let go. ."
Gong Wei panicked, grabbed his sleeve and pressed it forward, Xu Shuangce reprimanded: "Let go!"
Ying Kai stood in the distance in confusion, not realizing what happened.
Gong Wei stumbled and almost tripped. He had never been reprimanded so harshly by anyone before, and his whole body was enveloped in unprecedented fear, but no matter what, he could not stop Xu Shuangce from leaving. My own, trembling eyelashes blinked, and his right pupil became blood red!
Xu Shuangce's pupils tightened.
Everything in the world seems to stand still at this moment.
Gong Wei hurriedly put his lips together on tiptoe, but when he was only close to touching, an even more majestic and terrifying spiritual power burst out from Xu Shuangce's primordial spirit, pulling him out before his consciousness fell into the illusion. It came out, and the torrent-like impact pushed Gong Wei out several steps!
With a plop, Gong Wei's back slammed against the railing, and was supported by Ying Kai, who came quickly, and said in shock, "What's going on?"
Xu Shuangce said sternly, "You use this inhuman technique against me?"
Ying Kai's expression also changed, he suddenly turned to look at Gong Wei who was shrinking, but saw that his right eye had returned to normal: "Yes... I'm sorry..."
"Miyagi!"
The spiritual power in Xu Shuangce's voice shook the air, Gong Wei even crawled over to grab his belt, but was once again shocked and staggered away!
Ying Kai quickly separated the two of them and said angrily, "What are you doing!"
The surrounding air was extremely tense, and Xu Shuangce stood there with his eyes closed for a few breaths, and finally let out a long breath.
He opened his eyes and said indifferently, "I'll go first."
Ying Kai wanted to teach his younger brother a lesson, but Gong Wei's eyes were bursting with tears; Xu Shuangce wanted to persuade his friend, but Xu Shuangce summoned him to no avail, and left Yu Jian without turning his head, and quickly disappeared.
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Gong Wei did not kiss Xu Shuangce in the end.
Because he was taught a lesson after that day, Ying Kai could not understand why he wanted to kiss Xu Shuangce no matter what, and he was even more afraid that from now on he would kiss people without understanding, so he had to cut across the board and make his mouth apart from talking from now on. and do nothing but eat.
Gong Wei was very unconvinced in his heart, but there was nothing he could do. He didn't know why Xu Shuangce was angry, but he could only draw a simple conclusion from the other party's reaction, that is, before a person grows up, the act of "kissing" is strictly forbidden, and it can only be done when he grows up.
- But when I grow up, Xu Shuangce is going to die. What should I do if I don't have time to kiss him
Gong Wei really wanted to ask someone to ask, but such a long sentence was beyond his language ability at the time, so he had to give up.
No one noticed that since that day, Gong Wei's growth rate seemed to be a little bit faster.
When he was first brought back to the Xianmeng, he could not even stand on both feet. After observing Ying Kai for several days, he learned to walk, stand and sit upright; Sent to Punishment Palace for rearing, Gong Wei and this new friend hit it off at first sight and smelt like each other, and quickly learned to run wild, fight when they disagree, and join forces to tear down the house when they are full and have nothing to do.
Before Yuchi Rui came, Xu Shuangce had been teaching him for half a year, but he couldn't get Gong Wei to learn to write the Sword Washing Collection by dictation. After Yuchi Rui came, one day Gong Wei found out that Yu Chi Rui could recite the entire collection of swords and was immediately surprised.
So soon he will, and no one knows how he did it all of a sudden.
This young man of unknown origin seems to have been curiously observing the world around him, using everyone he can contact as a measure, constantly adjusting and calibrating his behavior and performance.
At this rate, he may soon be able to reach the standard of "growing up" in his cognition.
But he didn't expect that contradictions evolve faster than they grow up, and cracks appear before he learns to hide them.
The reason is because the old Juzong Yuhuaxian has gone.
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Ascension is actually just a nice saying in Xianmeng etiquette, in fact, he died because he failed to ascend. Lao Juzong was born in the eldest grandson family of the six great masters of the Immortal League. He left behind two sons. The eldest son, the eldest grandson Chengfeng, was only twenty years old. The famous dispatchers came to the door to offer condolences. Ying Kai is very polite, thinking that Gong Wei seems to have grown up a lot recently, and no longer looks like a child with ignorant mind, so he decided to take him to the eldest grandson's house to worship, and told him not to run around and keep Quiet, especially not allowed to play suona, and temporarily taught him a few words to deal with it before he was relieved.
Unexpectedly, Ying Kai lost sight of Baimi, and after the funeral in the mourning hall, the mourning family invited the distinguished guests to the front hall for tea, and he slipped away without seeing Gong Wei. A few moments later, the children of the eldest grandson came to report in a hurry, and said with a weeping voice: "I beg the lord of the alliance to be fair! Young Master Gong is blaspheming the remains of Lord Juzong!"
Ying Kai accidentally dropped the lid of the cup on the spot.
Xu Shuangce suddenly stood up, frowned, and strode out of the front hall.
Ying Kai quickly followed, and before the group entered the mourning hall, they saw that the heavy coffin lid had been opened from a distance. Gong Wei sat alone on the ground, the body of the old Juzong sat opposite him, and there was a chessboard between the two. Gong Wei was using his spiritual power to manipulate it to play chess with himself.
Xu Shuangce's complexion changed suddenly, Ying Kai rushed forward, stretched out his hand and dragged Gong Wei out of the mourning hall: "How can you be so rude, stand up for me!"
Gong Wei was startled and looked at them back and forth suspiciously.
Ying Kai scolded: "Life and death should be taken seriously. Besides, the relatives and friends of the deceased are full of mourning, but see you in a playful state, how do you deal with yourself?"
"… "
Gong Wei pursed his lips a few times and was speechless, so he could only turn his eyes to Xu Shuangce for help.
Xu Shuangce said coldly, "Go to the corner over there, and stand on the spot." Then, corresponding to Kai, he motioned to the eldest Sun Chengfeng with a complicated face not far away, and said, "I'll go talk with you."
Ying Kai's anger did not subside, but he had to lift his foot and go back to apologize and clean up the stall. However, as soon as the two of them turned around, they heard a jerky but clear young voice behind them:
"—You can be happy in life, and you can be happy in death, naturally reincarnated into heaven and earth, and immortalized with all things in the world, why should you be sad?"
The two turned back at the same time, and Ying Kai said in amazement, "What did you say?"
Gong Wei said: "Everyone who dies in this world is like a mayfly in the heaven and earth, and it's trivial. Why are you hanging on your teeth? Why do you need to cry?"
Although the pronunciation was awkward and stumbling, he had never said such a long sentence, and Ying Kai was stunned: "What the hell are you talking about Gong Zhengyu? You and I are both mortals on earth, how can you say this?"
He had never been so fierce before, Gong Wei instinctively shrugged, but still couldn't help arguing: "I..."
Ying Kai said angrily, "Go there and stand for me!"
"... How unreasonable!" "Why is the leader and junior brother Ying like this?" "No education, no education!"...
There were more and more whispered accusations around, and it became more and more uncontrollable. Gong Wei trembled slightly amid the hostility from all sides, took a half step back, and cast his eyes for help at Xu Shuangce for the last time, but the other party's expression was like a bucket of cold water pouring down on him.
Xu Shuangce looked down at him, narrowing his eyes imperceptibly, as if there was some kind of scrutiny hidden in his sight.
Gong Wei's teeth trembled, and he suddenly stammered: "Life and death have fate, and when prosperity and decline come, this is the natural way of Taoism. If mortals have to cry when they die, why would no one be sad about the coming of spring and winter? Flowers and leaves are withered and saddened?"
He raised his voice. "What's the difference between the two?"
The whispering sound buzzed loudly, everyone's eyes were shocked as if they saw a monster, Ying Kai was furious and pulled Gong Wei up: "You go back with me!"
Gong Wei struggled desperately: "I don't want it, I'm right! I..."
Suddenly Xu Shuangce's icy voice sounded from above his head: "Are you really human?"
Gong Wei suddenly froze and looked up timidly.
The different expressions of everyone in the distance turned into a blurred background in his eyes, only Xu Shuangce stared at him with his cold and heavy pupils, as if he was looking at something unfamiliar: "—Your inhuman thoughts Where did it come from?"
"What the hell are you, Gong Zhengyu?"
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That was the first time Xu Shuangce asked this sentence out.
Although Gong Wei was very accustomed to this sentence later, when he heard it for the first time, his heart suddenly curled up tightly, as if he had been pierced by something sharp.
Later, Gong Wei thought, that should be the beginning of all the cracks.
How did he leave the eldest grandson's family that day, Gong Wei has since forgotten. He only remembered that he was locked in a side hall by himself after returning to the Punishment Palace and reflected on it. He was full of fear and fear, and at some point he fell asleep slowly with his sore nasal cavity.
When he woke up from hunger, it was already late, and most of the side hall was shrouded in darkness. Only the candlelight on the desk reflected Xu Shuangce's calm face. He was sitting upright reading a book, with a full silver porcelain plate.
"Awake?" As if nothing had happened, he closed the book and said, "Eat."
It turned out to be a plate of chicken puff pastry.
Gong Wei's mind was still small after all, so he opened his eyes and rolled over and sat up, carefully looking at the dim sum and then at Xu Shuangce, when he was still hesitating whether to reach for it, Xu Shuangce had already twisted a meringue roll with his fingertips and delivered it to him With his mouth, he used his eyes to signal that he could eat.
"… "
Gong Wei hesitantly took a bite from his hand, and the familiar sweetness of the food filled his mouth.
Xu Shuangce often wears an ivory-colored robe with dark embroidery inlaid with gold patterns, black body armor, and a very straight shoulder and back. The warm orange candlelight neutralizes the overly aggressive details of his facial features, leaving only the handsome and upright, especially the side view. The lines from the bridge of the nose to the lips and chin are sculpturally clear.
Gong Wei sat cross-legged on the couch, eating with his hands and looking at him, unable to move his eyes. Outside the hall, the night wind whistled, and the small space reflected by the candlelight was private and warm; the last trace of resentment left in the daytime was unknowingly forgotten, and the instinct of wanting to be close once again prevailed, and he couldn't help but couldn't help it. Moving closer again, I heard Xu Shuangce ask, "Do you still want it?"
Miyagi shook his head.
Xu Shuangce took out a food pill, and Gong Wei lowered his head and ate it in his palm again.
His skin still had a subtle sense of translucency, but it wasn't clear under the candlelight, and there was an ignorant, carefully restrained curiosity between his eyebrows and eyes. As long as the strange right pupil doesn't appear, he doesn't look much different from the younger disciples of the same age as Xianmen. Xu Shuangce stared at him quietly, with a hint of unspeakable emotion surging in his eyes. After a while, he said in a low voice, "Don't take what I said during the day to heart."
Gong Wei raised his head blankly.
"I won't say that to you again."
The two looked at each other at close range, and Xu Yu Gongwei blinked and approached intimately.
Xu Shuangce's throat slid up and down, and his fingers curled slightly toward his palm, as if trying to control something. But at that moment, the unique breath of the young man's robes came to his face, and he seemed to be bewitched by something, and his fingertips gently pressed down to the corner of the young man's lips that were close at hand.
At this moment, the hall door was pushed open with a creak, and Ying Kai probed his head and asked in a low voice, "Is he awake?"
Xu Shuangce's arms stiffened slightly.
If you look closely, Sect Master Xu's expression at this time can almost be said to be unnatural, but the change is too subtle and rapid. The next moment he leaned back and sat upright, lowered his eyes and took a sip of tea.
Gong Weiyi, who had no idea what was going on, looked over and looked over Xu Shuangce's shoulder to the door of the hall: "Senior brother!"
Ying Kai coughed and pushed open the door, even holding a plate of dim sum in his hand, but when he walked closer, he asked, "Have you eaten?" Then he quickly put the porcelain plate behind him: "That's not allowed. If you eat it again, you will have to go fast in the future, otherwise, will you rely on eating Huashi Dan for the rest of your life?”
Gong Wei laughed and called out again, "Senior brother!"
Ying Kai sat on the edge of the couch, raised his face and asked, "Do you know what's wrong?"
Gong Weiyi dared to slap any kind of flattery when he was cowardly, and dared to say anything sweet when he was happy, and immediately said without hesitation: "You know it's wrong!"
Ying Kai asked, "Where did you go wrong?"
Gong Wei said: "People who are human beings should obey the crowd. Everyone is crying, and I should cry too. I shouldn't play chess with Lord Juzong."
Ying Kai didn't know whether to laugh or cry when he heard the words: "That's not the case. You not only don't cry, but you also make a fool of yourself. You just..."
Gong Wei immediately agreed: "I will cry next time."
"..." Ying Kai asked, "What should I do if I can't cry?"
"Pretend to cry!"
It's logically self-consistent and flawless, but it's also very reasonable - no one knows better than Ying Kai what the situation of the younger generations of other families who came to pay their respects when the major families were mourning. Many young children are forced to help each other to cast spells and pretend to cry because of etiquette. Otherwise, how can there be so many sincere tears to cry for the deceased that they have never seen in their life
Ying Kai couldn't, so he had to teach an angry and funny lesson: "Don't do it again next time."
Gong Weizheng nodded his head: "Yeah!"
Xu Shuangce suddenly asked, "Are you still eating?"
He had clearly asked this question just now. But Gong Wei's attention was immediately drawn back, he shook his head to signal not to eat, and then looked at him with a smile, as if the harmonious atmosphere sitting around the couch in front of him made him very relaxed, and there were candlelight shining in his eyes. Shimmer.
Xu Shuangce asked in a low voice, "What are you laughing at?"
Gong Wei's heart was full and his eyes were filled with comfort, and he whispered, "Xu Bai."
Ying Kai stretched out his hand to fight: "Why is it called Sect Master Xu?"
But Gong Wei tilted his head and ducked away, still raising his face and looking up at Xu Shuangce, flatteringly said, "I will really cry when you die."
Xu Shuangce suddenly froze.
The air seemed to freeze in an instant, Ying Kai opened his mouth several times before squeezing out his voice: "...What did you say?"
Half of Gong Wei's face was lit by candlelight, while the other half was hidden in the shadows. He happily moved closer to Xu Shuangce and said clearly, word by word:
"I will cry when you die."