Su Jinxiu felt even more bored when she heard him say this, but fortunately, there was another point that surprised her, "You even have to use a wheelchair to take care of flowers and plants, so why can you still be helped by a child to walk in the mountains when you went on a spring outing before?" ”

She stared at his legs, and then continued to ask, "And you're not lame, what are you pretending to be besides tuberculosis?" ”

Cheng Ying also glanced down at his legs, and replied lightly: "I pretend that my knees can't be stressed for too long, otherwise they won't be able to support me to stand up, so you see that the kitchen has to stew all kinds of bone broth for me every day, just to make my knees grow back." ”

After listening to his explanation, Su Jinxiu had a black line on her face, "What, this is okay?" How can they not see it, and why do they believe you so easily? ”

Cheng Ying shook his head, "It's enough for you to know how the truth is, and the rest don't have to break the casserole to ask to the end, it's meaningless." ”

The two of them were silent for a while, and Su Jinxiu thought silently in her heart, Cheng Ying's leg disease was too much, how could the people of the Cheng family believe him?

Since someone harmed him, he must have tried to test the truth of his leg disease, how did he avoid it? He has been pretending to be sick and weak in front of everyone since he was a teenager, and he has not overturned so far, and his acting skills are really invincible, right?

Cheng Ying caught Su Jinxiu's eyes looking at her, and directly met her puzzled gaze and asked her, "If there is anything else you want to ask, just ask, don't look at me with this kind of look, I don't like to be looked at by others with this kind of look." ”

"Cut." Su Jinxiu snorted lightly to express her disdain, but she still opened her mouth and continued to ask, "I'm afraid it's difficult for you to fool so many people alone, I guess someone must be secretly helping you, but it's inconvenient for you to say that I won't ask more." I'm curious about one thing right now. ”

"What?" Cheng Ying couldn't help but be a little curious, and tilted her head slightly.

"This is the pot." Su Jinxiu pointed to the flower pot around the corner, very puzzled, and asked the question she had a few days ago, "I watched you pour dozens of bowls of medicinal soup into this pot of flowers, but this flower has not died or been flooded, what did you do on it?" ”

Su Jinxiu also explored the mystery by herself when she was idle, but she couldn't find any clues, at first she tried to put a bead in the flower pot, and the next day to see if the bead was still there, or deliberately did tricks on the flowers and leaves, in order to confirm whether the flower pot was secretly replaced, but the result was the same every time.

Cheng Ying looked at Su Jinxiu's meditative appearance, and secretly felt funny in her heart, but on the surface, she pretended to be mysterious, "This matter is a long story, and it has to start from one night when I was fifteen years old......

I thought he would tell a thrilling story, but Su Jinxiu listened attentively, but heard him say: "During that time, I pretended to be sick during the day and couldn't get out of bed, I often lay down with a sore back, I slept too much during the day, and I couldn't sleep at night, so one night I walked around the house and saw this pot of flowers in the corner. ”

Cheng Ying said and walked over directly and held the pot of flowers in his hand and looked at it, "I counted the leaves and branches of this pot of begonias twenty times, and counted three hundred and twenty-six leaves and fifty-nine branches, guess what happened later?" ”

"What's wrong?" Su Jinxiu waited earnestly for him to tell him the secret of this flower pot.

saw a fleeting smile appear on Cheng Ying's pale face, and then he put down the flower pot and sat back in his seat, Su Jinxiu's gaze still followed his face.

He shook the folding fan and fanned the wind leisurely, and said lightly: "Later, I developed the habit of counting the leaves and branches every night, and I also counted the flowers with me during the flowering season, so if someone picks a flower, I can naturally know that every time I put on a new pot, I will leave an exact trace, how about it, deceived you, right?" ”

When Cheng Ying asked Su Jinxiu the last sentence, the smug smile in his eyes made Su Jinxiu feel angry after realizing that he had been fooled, and he was so angry that he threw the melon seeds in his hand directly into his face, but the guy deftly unfolded the fan to block it, and took the fan and smiled at her defiantly.

"What if you don't joke, do you feel a sense of accomplishment when I am teased by you?"

Cheng Ying looked at Su Jinxiu, who was so angry that his little face bulged like a small bun, and he quickly returned to his seriousness while being amused, and said to Su Jinxiu: "It's just that I want to make you laugh because of the dull atmosphere, but it's true to count flowers and leaves, and it's also true to change flower pots." ”

Seeing that he restrained his smile, Su Jinxiu was not so annoyed, "Then why did you deny it when I asked you if this flower pot was changed every day, I even knew that you were pretending to be sick, would it be possible to leak out the matter of a flower pot?" ”

Cheng Ying replied to her: "Although this flower pot has been changed, it is not changed every day, but every three days." ”

"What is the truth of this, not to mention that the medicinal soup was poured in and hurt the flower roots, and the smell of medicine is not good, why did I never find out after changing it every three days?"

Cheng Ying pointed to the copper crane incense burner in another corner, "The incense is smoked every day in the house, and there are other mysteries in the flower pots, so ordinary people naturally can't find out, these are all the methods I figured out myself, but it's okay?" ”

Hearing him say that there is another mystery in the flower pot, Su Jinxiu questioned again, "Can you tell me what is the mystery in this flower pot?" ”

She had knocked it before, and the pot was not empty.

She asked about the mystery in the flower pot, Cheng Ying's face was a little more proud, and her tone was not as calm as before, "This flower pot seems to be one, but in fact, it is divided into two layers, one is flower roots and soil, and one layer is charcoal." ”

Su Jinxiu suddenly realized, "I see, I didn't expect you ancients to ......"

"We ancients?" Cheng Ying was inexplicably said by Su Jinxiu's words, when did he become an ancient?

Su Jinxiu hurriedly changed his words, "I mean, you also know how to use charcoal to absorb the smell of herbs, no wonder this medicinal soup has no smell when poured into it, your method is really good." ”

It was rare to be praised by Su Jinxiu, Cheng Ying was a little at a loss, just shook his head and said helplessly: "I was also forced out, in the past, I was always taught a lesson by the eldest lady when I fell in the flower bed and spittoon, so I had to find another way." ”

Su Jinxiu looked at Cheng Ying and lowered her head as if she was stuck in a memory, and she didn't know what to say for some reason, and there was an awkward silence.

She looked at Cheng Ying's side face in the shadow, and found that his eyelashes were very long, slightly hanging down to cover the brilliance in his eyes, and the angular outline looked extremely lonely, especially the corners of his mouth that were slightly curved when his lips were tightened, which reminded her that although this man looked old and cunning, he was only twenty-one years old after all.

She was a few years older than him before she came, but now she was six years younger than him, and she couldn't help but feel a little sympathy for him when she saw his situation.

It's just that he is pretending to be sick and not really sick, and he is so cunning, and now that he cooperates with her, he will jump out of this pit sooner or later, and she doesn't have to sympathize with him at all.