19. False naivety
Ji Cheng beckoned to Brother Hong, "Come on, we have to climb over the wall to get to the Guogong Mansion." ”
There was a tree on the side where Brother Hong'er was, about the same height as the wall, and he climbed the tree to move to the wall, "Where are we going to the Guogong Mansion?" Brother Hong asked excitedly.
Ji Cheng made a silent gesture to Brother Hong, "There will be a mother-in-law who patrols the night, and there will be a nursery, if you don't want to be discovered, just listen to me obediently." ”
Brother Hong immediately shut up and followed Ji Cheng to climb on the wall.
Ji Cheng's eyes are sharp, his skills are flexible, and he took Brother Hong like this, and he actually turned to Qiyuan without danger. She was able to do this now thanks to the life of those wild pony women she lived before she was ten years old.
At that time, the Ji family was not as rich as it is now, and the family was not so exquisite, the girl's family was as extensive as the boy, and she was naughty with her second brother and the childhood sweetheart.
Later, the Ji family gradually had a family background, and Ji Cheng grew up, her father and mother couldn't control her, so they could only let her be naughty, until the incident of Zhu Jiaqiang's marriage happened, Ji Cheng suddenly had a huge change, and he became quiet.
"Sister, where are we going?" Brother Hong is a child after all, and he can't hold it back.
Ji Cheng pointed to the heavy eaves hexagonal pavilion standing on the crane hill - Deyue Pavilion.
"Are we going to the pavilion?" Brother Hong felt really disappointed, he hadn't been to the Moon Pavilion before, so why did he bother this old cow to go at night.
"No, let's go to the top of the pavilion." Ji Cheng lowered his head and pinched Brother Hong'er's nose.
Brother Hong immediately became excited, "On the top of the pavilion? Oh my God, so high, how do we go up? ”
"Don't worry, I have my own way." The roofs of the Ji family were all stepped on by Ji Cheng, and going out to play over the wall was a common thing for Ji Cheng back then.
One big and one small cautiously arrived at the foot of the Deyue Pavilion, fortunately, this is a remote place in the Chime Garden, even if it is a night patrol, it will take a while to wait for the shift to come here.
Brother Hong was under the tree next to the Deyue Pavilion, watching Ji Cheng stuff his clothes on the belts on both sides, and "Woo Woo" jumped to the treetops like a monkey, and then jumped lightly and landed on the first top of the Deyue Pavilion.
This vigorous skill was simply stunned and admired.
Ji Cheng tied the pre-prepared rope to a flying eaves corner of the Deyue Pavilion, "Brother Hong'er grab the rope, and I'll pull you up." ”
At the same time as the rope was lowered an iron hook, "You hook the iron hook to your belt and fasten it." "This is just in case, I'm afraid that Brother Hong'er will not have enough strength and won't be able to grasp the rope tightly.
However, Brother Hong is worthy of being the son of the eldest son of the Shen family, and his strength is greater than that of ordinary children at a young age, and he will be a fierce general in the future. He hung on a rope and was pulled up by Ji Cheng.
Brother Hong looked at Ji Cheng with bright eyes, "Sister, I really didn't expect that I would be able to come to the pavilion to play." Brother Hong was both excited and curious.
Next, Ji Cheng carried Brother Hong on his back, and easily climbed to the top of the pavilion along the rope tied to the eaves of the double roof, the two of them sat down breathlessly, and Ji Cheng took out two dates from his pocket and handed them to Brother Hong.
Eating dates on such a high roof, not to mention how enjoyable it is. Especially at night when the moon is particularly round.
"How do you know my name is Brother Hong, sister?" When the breath of the two people calmed down, Brother Hong suddenly asked.
Who says children are easy to deceive?
Ji Cheng was rarely speechless.
"Do you know that I am Brother Hong, so you coax me like this?" Shen Hong suddenly said to Ji Cheng in an adult tone: "I know that you girls want to marry my father and be my stepmother. ”
Ji Cheng held his forehead, and the little fart kid in front of him was inevitably too sharp.
"But I'll have a stepmother anyway, and I don't mind you being my stepmother." Brother Hong pinched Ji Cheng's palm.
"I didn't want to be your stepmother." Ji Cheng looked at Brother Hong'er's eyes and said. She really never thought that firstly, the identity disparity was too far, and secondly, Shen Yu was a person who was used to controlling at a glance, and in Ji Cheng's expectations for his own family affairs, Xianggong's temperament was definitely not Shen Yu's. Such a person, marrying him, I am afraid that she is still a dispensable person, and when she encounters a choice, she must be the first person to be sacrificed.
Brother Hong looked at Ji Cheng's eyes and felt that her eyes were so good-looking, like a star falling in a lake, "Then why are you so good to me and bring me here to see my mother?" My second uncle said that no one will be nice to someone for no reason. ”
Ji Cheng thought to himself, your second uncle is really good at teaching. She pondered for a few breaths, hovering between coaxing and telling the truth, and finally raised her hand and touched the back of Brother Hong'er's head, "It's true that no one will be nice to another person for no reason. I brought you here to see the moon because I also miss my mother, and of course it cannot be denied that there is also a desire to please you. When you grow up in the future, you will be the pillar of the second room of the Shen family, and I will lay a good foundation in advance. ”
After Ji Cheng finished speaking, he leaned back, clasped his hands behind his head, and looked at the moon in the sky, Shen Hong blinked his eyes, and he didn't know if he understood.
"Your mother has also gone to heaven?" Brother Hong looked at Ji Cheng sympathetically.
"Nope." Ji Cheng quickly denied it. She was just thinking about the mother in her heart, although she knew that her son was much more important than her daughter, and her mother-in-law Yun Niang's choice at that time was not wrong and very reasonable, but Ji Cheng's heart was still inevitably like being stabbed by a knife, and the knife was still stuck in her heart, bleeding constantly.
Brother Hong had a feeling of being deceived, but Ji Cheng couldn't explain such a difficult and complicated issue to him, and even she didn't understand the complexity herself.
"Hmph, then you're hypocritically currying favor with me." Brother Hong got angry, and he also learned from Ji Cheng and lay down on his back.
"I'm not disingenuous to please you, I'm sincerely trying to please you." Ji Cheng said.
"But you're not sincere!" Brother Hong is very clear.
The world of children is black and white, and it is not white or black, Ji Cheng doesn't want to break this simplicity, but he feels that he shouldn't fool Brother Hong.
"Your identity is here, your father and grandfather, and even the ancestors of several lifetimes have created the current conditions for you, and in the future there will be many, many people who will be attached to you and live on you, they may not be sincere enough, but they will be loyal. And their flattery only stems from not wanting to be left behind by you, or asking for you, but at least they won't harm you. Sometimes they can't tell whether it's true or not. As for you, you shouldn't be their sincerity, because you already have too many other things, and if you are too greedy, sometimes it will be bad. Ji Cheng said.
"But what if I just want to be sincere?" Brother Hong turned his head sideways and asked innocently.
"Then you have to learn how to distinguish between what others mean to you and what they mean about you." Ji Cheng said again.
Brother Hong was silent for a moment, and finally said with some sadness: "Actually, you want to say that because I am the eldest grandson of the second room, no matter whether others are sincere to me or not, they have to come to please me, right?" ”
Ji Cheng nodded, "Actually, not everyone wants to please you, the people who please you are the ones who need you now or in the future." However, if you choose to accept his favor, it is a tacit acquiescence that you will repay him in the future, and this is the tacit understanding between people. ”
After all, Brother Hong is still too young to figure out the complexity here, "But I still want my sister to be sincere to me." ”
Ji Cheng was silent.
Brother Hong turned his head to look at the moon in the sky with some disappointment, "Which palace in the sky do you say my mother lives in?" ”
"I don't know." Ji Cheng said honestly.
"I'd like to go up there and have a look." Brother Hong got up and wanted to go to the treasure top of the heavy eaves.
Ji Cheng was afraid that he would fall, so he could only stand up and take Brother Hong'er's hand, "I'll take you up." ”
Brother Hong was still a little angry, and he didn't want Ji Cheng to pull it angrily, just when he was about to climb to the top of the treasure, he slipped under his feet and was about to roll down, Ji Cheng didn't have time to react, and suddenly a figure flashed over, grabbed Brother Hong'er's belt, and lifted him up.
"Second uncle!" When Brother Hong stood firm again, he called out in surprise.
And Ji Cheng also saw the appearance of the person who came clearly at this time.
In Ji Cheng's mind, Shen Che, the second son of the Shen family, should look like that - his eyes are blank, there are red marks under his eyes that have been fighting all night, his body is fat after overindulgence, and his feet are empty and weak.
But no matter what Ji Cheng imagined Shen Ergongzi to look like, she thought that Shen Che should never be what he was looking like in front of him.
Shen Che was born extremely well, and all the Lingxiu in the Shen Mansion probably came to him.
His good-looking is a kind of good-looking that makes people out of amazement and shock, and there is absolutely no room in your mind to think about other things when you see him for the first time.
Shen Che is more cold, just like the handful of cold snow shrouded in the sun at the top of the sacred mountain, which makes people worship it, but they want to grab it and chew it in their mouths to suppress the heat that arises in their hearts.
Such an alienated and cold person, looking at his appearance, I really can't imagine that he will be a gentleman.
However, at this moment, Ji Cheng couldn't care about admiring Shen Che's handsome face, she was cold, her palms were sweaty, and a large piece of her back was soaked with sweat.
People are unlucky, they really stuff their teeth when they drink cold water, in such an impossible place, they will actually be bumped into by the second son of the Shen family, Ji Cheng only feels that the future is covered with a layer of ashes.
But Ji Cheng still forced himself to be calm, and even forced himself to look at Shen Che's eyes.
Shen Che's eyes are slightly narrow Danfeng eyes, even if they are ruthless, they are naturally a little seductive, making you inexplicably have the illusion that he will pity you.
"Miss Ji go back first, I'll send Brother Hong'er back." Shen Che said.
This person's voice has a sense of distance, like a sound from the sky above you, Ji Cheng can't describe it well, as if it is from her master's voice.
However, where does Ji Cheng have any master, she only understood after she calmed down that it was a sense of control.
In such a tone, Ji Cheng didn't say a word, only bowed his head and answered, and left quickly, wishing that his armpits had wings, and his feet on Hot Wheels disappeared immediately.
Ji Cheng first untied the rope tied to the double cornice, jumped to the first layer easily, and hung down the rope, but this weight was about a foot high from the ground, Ji Cheng raised his hand below and pulled the rope one by one, trying to slide the rope sleeve out of the cornice, but the difficulty was relatively high, and she was inevitably panicked in her heart, and she didn't get it out for a long time.
In the end, it was Shen Che who took Brother Hong over to take it out for her, and then Ji Cheng watched Shen Che hold Brother Hong under his arm, and stood firmly on the ground with a slight jump, Ji Cheng didn't expect Shen Che's light body kung fu to be so good.
Ji Cheng was stupid, when she was a child, when she listened to the story of stepping on the snow without a trace and crossing the river with a reed, she was very envious and yearning for those legendary heroes, and asked her father to find her a master, which was naturally a joke, but now she didn't expect to see someone who could fly the eaves and walk the wall, it was incredible.
Probably because Ji Cheng was too stupid, so Shen Che glanced at her coldly, she quickly lowered her head and packed up the rope silently,
Ji Cheng remembered what he saw just now, there was a wine jug on the tile surface, and a plate of peanuts that were only a few grains left, Shen Che had obviously been on the top of the pavilion for a while, Ji Cheng thought about what he had said to Brother Hong, and at this moment he couldn't dig his own grave and jump in, so he hesitated to say a few good words in front of the second son to explain.
And Shen Che had just pointed out her identity in one bite, so Ji Cheng had to muster up the courage to defend himself and strive for leniency, so he said: "Second son, I ......" As for the second cousin or something, Ji Cheng didn't have the cheekiness to shout out.
"Next time, don't take Brother Hong to such a high place." Shen Che said.
"Yes." Ji Cheng nodded hurriedly, in fact, she had already regretted it, when Brother Hong'er slipped just now, if it wasn't for Shen Che's timely appearance, Ji Cheng estimated that he would only have to die to thank the Shen family. In the past few years, she has rarely been willful, but she didn't expect this kind of ending, which shows that people really can't act just by will. "Never, I promise."
Shen Che was silent.
Ji Cheng almost nodded to Shen Che, "Then I'll go first." Ji Cheng turned around like a frightened deer, and quickly disappeared from Hegang and disappeared into the pine forest below the mountain.