138. Friends are still friends
Su Xi was happy in her heart, she liked Lu Youzhen like this.
"Let's go, let's go back to dinner, I'm dying of hunger." Su Xi took Lu Youzhen's hand and walked out, his steps were brisk and excited.
As soon as the two of them came out of the house, they saw Lu Lantian and the third prince retracting their gaze to explore the night together, and Lu Youzhen was a little embarrassed to see them waiting here.
He twisted for a long time before he said to the two: "I'm tired of waiting for the prince and the third brother, and I'm fine." ”
The third prince snorted coldly, and was about to stab him twice, so that he could understand that it was a sin to make Su Xi worry, but before he could speak, the next door was already shouting, only to hear Lu Lantian shouting: "Why do you call him the third brother, and call me the prince?" Obviously, I am the brother who is connected to you by blood. ”
"Shizi, you are such a big person, can you be more stable?" Lu You was really helpless, he just called out in passing.
"No, I don't care, you have to give me a proper name." Lu Lantian held on, but why did this sound so strange?
Lu Lantian didn't care about the trouble, and even the family members who were patrolling the house at night were alarmed, and ran directly to surround them, until he saw that it was his own unsuccessful son octopus holding a man like a man, as if he had found something terrible, he lowered his head and ran away in an instant.
Lu Lantian's face was flushed, he just wanted to make a joke with him when he saw Lu Youzhen's relaxed expression, why did he become that joke?
He was angry in his heart, and he refused to let go in his hands, and rolled into a ball with Lu Youzhen, so he had to give him a soft face. Lu Youzhen had no choice but to beg for mercy, and shouted "cousin" a few times before Lu Lantian felt more comfortable and let him go.
Bidding farewell to Lu Lantian, when the three of them returned to Jiaoliu Lane, it was already the middle of the moon, and the intimate maid Xianglan kept the dinner hot in the pot, and they ate a hot meal as soon as they came back.
Just when everything was going well in Beijing, Lu Feng, who was far away in White Night City to investigate Jiang Wumeng's recent situation, did not make any progress.
After Lu Feng hurried to White Night City, he disguised himself and hid in a tavern in the market, he thought that the Jiang family was one of the largest families in White Night City, and it should be easy to inquire about something, but he asked around, except for knowing the location of the Jiang family, no one knew anything else, and there was no even any gossip, which made him very strange.
However, the lack of news is also good news, at least it proves that Jiang Wumeng did not encounter any difficulties.
Lu Feng continued to squat on the news while delivering a message to Lu Youzhen.
On this day, he was in a wine shop not far from Jiang's house, and from the west side of the second floor of the wine store, he could intuitively see the Jiang family's gate. Lu Feng ordered two side dishes, he didn't dare to drink, so he ate slowly with tea, and his eyes looked towards the gate of the Jiang family from time to time.
It's strange to say, he has been staring at it for a few days, but the Jiang family has always been so cold, except for a subordinate who yawns and swept the floor at the door for a while, he can't see anyone else.
Not only did he not see the guests coming in or out, but he didn't even show his face at the host's house. Aren't the Jiang family at home?
Lu Feng had doubts, and he invited Xiao Er to pretend to ask about the Jiang family inadvertently. Like other people who were asked, Xiao Er was also at a loss, he said: "Although the Jiang family is a big family in us, they are very low-key, and they don't interact with people much, saying that they are in the cloth business, but they don't see their shops in the city, I don't know what's going on, it's very mysterious." ”
"Little brother is interested in the Jiang family?" Xiao Er sounded with great interest.
Lu Feng smiled and said with an excuse: "I came to look for relatives, but I didn't find my relatives, and I almost used it to entangle, I don't have any other skills, but I have the strength to find a big family to do nursing home, I see that this family has little work, and the decoration is magnificent, I want to inquire if there is a way." ”
"In this way, you can go to the Huang family in the north of the city to ask, the Huang family is our famous squire, Master Huang is kind, and the salary is generous, and the people who work under him do not say that he is not good," Xiao Er enthusiastically introduced and shook his head towards the Jiang family and said: "Jiang family, I advise you to forget it." ”
"How? Is the Jiang family very fierce? Lu Feng hurriedly asked the reason.
"Hey, who knows if it's fierce or not?" Xiao Er spread his hands, "I've been working in this wine shop for seven or eight years, and I haven't seen the Jiang family master at all." Let me tell you, the Jiang family never recruits people outside, they go back and forth just a few people, and they are all eccentric, and they don't talk to others, I think that Master Jiang is not a normal person, you better go to the Huang family to try. ”
Lu Feng thanked Xiao Er for his enthusiastic introduction, and claimed that he would go to Huang's house to try his luck after dinner. When Xiao Er went to greet the other guests, Lu Feng stared at the gate of the Jiang family thoughtfully.
That night, Lu Feng changed into black clothes, and turned into the Jiang family's compound in the night, the courtyard was silent, and occasionally the guards could be seen dozing off by the door. The lights under the eaves of the porch were not lit, but the lights were lit in the master bedrooms in the courtyards everywhere.
Looking at so many courtyards with lights on, people who don't know how prosperous the Jiang family is, but in fact, Lu Feng knows that the Jiang family actually only has Jiang Wumeng and his father.
He went into those courtyards to investigate, and sure enough, the courtyards where the lights were lit were actually uninhabited, and even the main courtyard and the dream house where Jiang Wumeng lived were only lit, and there was no trace of life.
The Jiang family is definitely eccentric.
When Lu Youzhen received Lu Feng's news, he still had the letter he had just read in his hand, which Jiang Wumeng had just sent from someone, saying that he missed Lu Youzhen and wanted to come to the capital to play with him, but the trivial matters at home had not been dealt with, so he could only stay in White Night City, and complained about the boredom at home.
Su Xi was shocked when she watched from the side, she quietly glanced at Lu Youzhen, saw that his expression was calm, and sighed faintly: "Alas, I must have really failed as a man." ”
Su Xi stretched out his hand to wrap his arms around his shoulders, let him lean against his chest, and suggested, "It's better to go and ask for clarification." ”
"No need," Lu Youzhen sighed again, he patted Su Xi's hand to signal that he was fine, and then picked up Jiang Wumeng's letter, and the bond between the lines jumped on the paper.
He read it again before he turned out the fire fold and burned the thin piece of paper to ashes. He wasn't going to reply to the letter, and there was no point in pretending to be unaware of the fact that he was unaware of the fact that he continued to maintain this attic-like friendship, or writing to question.
They always had their reasons, they couldn't bear to hurt him, they couldn't bear to embarrass him, they couldn't bear to involve him...... They always make choices for him with some good reasons for him, and he never doubts their sincerity, but he does not accept the choices they give.
"I asked what happened, and they always excluded me." Lu Youzhen's voice was full of indescribable loneliness, which was the loneliness left behind by his friends.
Su Xi heard the meaning of his words and asked, "Do you know what he is doing?" ”
Lu Youzhen didn't answer, he slowly walked to the window and looked at the northwest sky in a daze.