"I caught it!" The young man with his trouser legs rolled up high, revealing a piece of white skin, stood in the ditch in disregard of his image, clutching the struggling fish tightly with both hands, and smiled crookedly.
"Young Master, here!" Ming'an hurriedly passed the fish basket.
Standing on the ridge, Shen Yanbei said to the master and servant. "Enough, come up soon!" The young man had to set off back to Qinghe the day after tomorrow so he had to go back to the county tomorrow morning, that was why he played a lot in these two days.
He had been having a lot of trouble these days. When he and his wife went to the bamboo forest last night, they found a lot of cicadas there. Then they caught it, and after arriving home, they soaked it in water, washed, and dried it. After that, fried them in hot oil until they were golden and crispy. Adding some salt and pepper, the taste was so delicious. After that, a few people stayed up all night just to run to the woods to catch some cicadas so Shen Yanbei could fry it again. Anyway making it again didn't need much effort.
After knowing that there were bears in the mountain, the villagers had been more cautious about going up the mountains, and only a few people dared to go to the mountain to gather firewood. But since the autumn was approaching, many wild fruits on the mountain had been ripe, and the pheasants and hares there were also very fat. So it made many people go up the mountain more often. And for them, these kids really wanted to go to the mountain to play again. So this time, they prepared a lot for safety before going to the mountain. In the mountain, they caught a few pheasants, cooked them in many ways. Everyone was really happy!
It was time to catch fish and ducks, Su Qingze also wanted to help. It could also make him practice. The fish's tail kept swaying, splashing the water on Su Qingze's face, but the boy just smiled.
"Shen Dàgē, let's make pickled cabbage with fish later!"
"Okay." Shen Yanbei smiled and turned to look at Gu Changfeng, only to see his wife pursing her lips, and his eyes a little complicated.
"What's the matter? Why have you shown this kind of expression recently?" Shen Yanbei asked in a low voice, looking directly at Gu Changfeng with his pitch-black eyes. There was no blame or question in the eyes of the young man, but there was still doubt and concern.
Gu Changfeng's eyes flickered, and he carefully observed around. They were in the rice field, as far as the eyes could see, these were only young and tender seedlings that had just been planted. At a glance, no shelter could hide people except for a nearby tree, but that tree was not luxuriant nor could hide people...
Gu Changfeng hesitated a little, and whispered Shen Yanbei's ears, "I feel...someone is watching us."
Shen Yanbei was taken aback, a little unbelievable. "Watch us?"
Gu Changfeng nodded solemnly. When they had a barbecue that day, he thought it was just an illusion, but then this weird feeling appeared from time to time. Especially when they caught cicadas last night, he clearly felt that someone watched nearby!
Frowning his brows tightly, Shen Yanbei's expression became very ugly. He gritted his teeth and said, "Did he also watch our bedroom?"
Gu Changfeng choked, his face surged with enthusiasm. "No...it didn't..."
Shen Yanbei breathed a sigh of relief, but his face slightly sullen. He twisted his eyebrows and asked, "Does the other party have malicious intentions?"
Gu Changfeng blushed and shook his head. This was exactly why he found it strange. The other party might have been watching them, but it didn't give the intention to kill.
Shen Yanbei wondered, "What is worth monitoring lowly people like us?" Shen Yanbei immediately reacted hard right after he had finished speaking. The two of them had nothing to watch, but Su Qingze was different! The value of Xiǎo Gōngzǐ of Qinghe Su's Family was not light!
"Are you sure that the other party is monitoring us?" Shen Yanbei raised his eyebrows, and emphasized the words "us".
Gu Changfeng thought about it carefully, and he finally realized. In fact, the opponent was not there every day. Only when Su Qingze was there, he would feel someone watching them...
The two exchanged a few words in a low voice to find the reason. Shen Yanbei pondered for a while, and said, "The other party might not come to monitor him but to protect him?"
In some of the film and television works he had watched in modern times, there was an extremely mysterious and cool organization-- the dark guard. One of the functions of these dark guards was to protect. The other party was not malicious but stared from nearby silently, especially Gu Changfeng felt it right after they were in danger in the mountain back then...
Gu Changfeng was silent. All of these were just guesses.
Shen Yanbei whispered in his ear. "Probably it is right? Try it and you will know."
"How to try?"
Shen Yanbei leaned over to his ear, looking to a distance as if he was kissing the side of his face. Su Qingze and Ming'an laughed teasingly at the two of them, which made the color on Gu Changfeng's face deepened.
Seeing his red ear, Shen Yanbei chuckled. "Get straight to the point." If the other party was really a dark guard sent to protect Su Qingze, then Su Qingze's position in the heart of the dark guard's master could be imagined. The other side sent a dark guard over obviously because they didn't want Su Qingze to know, but they were Su Qingze's friends most likely to tell Su Qingze about this. If they really told Su Qingze, the dark guard's mission could not be successfully completed.
Concerned about this matter, the dark guard would definitely show up.
Gu Changfeng. "If not?"
Shen Yanbei's eyes darkened, "Then get rid of the grass and startle the snake. The county magistrate will deal with it later, we can't get involved." The other party was in the dark, while they were in the light, and Su Qingze would leave tomorrow. So the time was too hasty to think of a better way...
Gu Changfeng nodded. When Su Qingze came ashore to wash his hands and feet, the two went home to cook.
The osmanthus trees in the village began to grow tender yellow flower bones, which were hidden under the green leaves and swayed in the wind. When the golden autumn came in August, the whole village would be enveloped in the sweet fragrance of osmanthus, then they could pick osmanthus to make crystal osmanthus cakes and osmanthus wine!
Standing by the fence with the fragrant food, Shen Yanbei shouted to the tall laurel tree outside, "Xiōngdì on the tree has worked hard. Come down to have a meal!"
Standing at the door of the house, Gu Changfeng locked the laurel tree with his Qi. His hands clenched into fists, as soon as Shen Yanbei found something wrong, he would immediately rush out.
After Shen Yanbei shouted, there was no movement in the tree. He was not worried, but kept standing there with a smile on his face.
"Gu Dàgē, Shen Dàgē !" Su Qingze shouted from the house, "Can we start to have dinner?"
Shen Yanbei replied, "You can. Let's feed a rabbit later!"
The laurel tree in front of him still did not have any movement. Shen Yanbei waited patiently for a while, and said, "If it is not convenient to meet each other, then I will put the food here, you can do it yourself." Then he turned and put the food on the wooden table under the tree. After that, he walked towards the door of the house without hesitation.
A thin black figure floated down from the laurel tree. The man was dressed in a black costume, covered his face with a black kerchief, showing only heroic eyebrows and a pair of indifferent eyes, and his whole body was cold and solemn.
Gu Changfeng's deep gaze crossed Shen Yanbei and met the indifferent gaze of the man in black.
The gazes of the two men collided in an instant, as if they were fighting dozens of times silently.
Perceiving that Gu Changfeng's eyes suddenly became sharp as a knife, Shen Yanbei frowned, walked over, and held his hand. "Okay, let's go eat. I've made your favorite braised pork."
Gu Changfeng retracted his gaze and followed Shen Yanbei's footsteps into the house obediently.
The man in black looked at the figures of the two, glanced at the food on the table that made the saliva drooling, took the food hesitantly, then jumped back to the tree.
After eating, the satisfied Su Qingze yelled while rubbing his chubby belly, "So full!"
Gu Changfeng cleaned the table, and Shen Yanbei brought out the boiled hawthorn water. "All come to have a drink, otherwise the stomach might be uncomfortable."
The three teenagers drank a big bowl hurriedly, Shen Yanbei shook his head and laughed, and went to the courtyard to take a look. The food was all eaten, and only empty plates were left on the table. Shen Yanbei cleaned up and took it to the kitchen to wash the dishes with Gu Changfeng.
"He ate it?" Gu Changfeng looked at the clean dishes, a little surprised. He thought the other party wouldn't eat it. After all, the other party had violated the rules and being exposed, he still dared to eat something from a stranger? What if there was poison in the food?
"He ate it just to make us feel at ease." His wife's thoughts were indeed correct, but in order to dispel their worries, the other party had to say something. So this was his bail. Besides that, the other party also understood what he meant.
Shen Yanbei's eyes were a bit playful. It seemed that the master behind the other party really valued Su Qingze!
Early the next morning, the carriage came to pick up Su Qingze back to the county. Su Qingze looked at everyone reluctantly, his eyes a little red. Gu Changfeng patted him on the shoulder to comfort, and Shen Yanbei instructed Li Zhiyuan's servant to give his gift to Su Qingze's parents. It was not a precious thing, it was only salted duck eggs, capers, sour and spicy radishes, etc., and he also prepared some snacks for Su Qingze to eat on the road.
"Gu Dàgē, Shen Dàgē, and Zhou Yu, I'm leaving." Su Qingze said.
Gu Changfeng was also a little bit sad. "Be careful on the road!"
Shen Yanbei warned, "Remember to maintain good living habits, not overeating, and not sitting for a long time."
Su Qingze nodded. "I'll keep it in my mind!"
"Okay, don't forget to write a letter for us." Shen Yanbei waved his hand.
Seeing the carriage exiting the village, Shen Yanbei asked Gu Changfeng in a low voice. Gu Changfeng looked at it and pointed to the woods next to it. Shen Yanbei walked into the woods, and when he saw no one, he shouted: "xiōngdì on the tree, be careful too on the road while taking care of Su Qingze! There is some dry food here, if you don't dislike it, you can take it with you on the road!"
A dark shadow flashed past him quickly, and at the same time, an unfamiliar and cold voice sounded in his ear. "Dark Eleven. Thanks."
As soon as his clothes were raised, the dry food in his hand was gone!
The corner of Shen Yanbei's mouth twitched, thinking that this dark guard was quite cold!
The dark shadow disappeared in the woods in the blink of an eye. Shen Yanbei asked Gu Changfeng curiously, "Wife, if you fight against each other, can you win over him?"
Gu Changfeng said earnestly, "The dark guards are all elites, and their moves are deadly. I don't have much actual combat experience. If I try my best, it is still unknown."
Shen Yanbei immediately regretted asking such an idiot question, he hugged him. "What fight! Our good days are still waiting for us!"
"Let's walk around for a while! Then go home! Let's have a big meal!"
Gu Changfeng said "Yes", not knowing whether he agreed with his last sentence or his next sentence.
Su Qingze in the carriage sighed and couldn't help feeling that the happy days would be gone forever. Ming'an, who was sitting on the side, didn't say a word, but he agreed with it in his heart.
Although lǎoyé and fūrén were very fond of the young master. But everyone was watching on young master, so he couldn't do anything superfluous!
Suddenly the coachman yelled from outside the window, and then the carriage gradually stopped.
Ming'an opened the curtain and poked his head out. "Why you..." He suddenly stopped speaking, and his face changed suddenly. "What are you doing by stopping our carriage?"
"Is Su gōngzǐ going to the county? It happens to be the same way, how about we go together?" Li Yi ignored Ming'an and said with a gentle smile, his eyes clinging to the window that was blocked by the gauze.
Ming'an's face turned dark, he angrily said, "The road is so wide, you can go as long as you like. Don't bother us!" He urged the coachman to move the carriage with his eyes, but Li Yi's carriage blocked the way domineeringly in front of them, so the coachman couldn't go forward.
"Get out of the way!" Ming'an was furious.
Li Yi still kept smiling, looking at the car door for a while.
A lovely hand with a soft white fingernail and a lovely hand opened the curtain of the window, revealing Su Qingze's delicate facial features. He looked at Li Yi mockingly, and calmly uttered a few words, "good dogs don't get underfoot."
Li Yi's face instantly seemed to be splashed with the dye vat: red, white, yellow, and green one by one appeared to blend, and finally turned into a gloomy black.
Su Qingze raised his chin slightly and said, "Those who dare to block the běn gōngzǐ's way have become dead dogs!"
Li Yi dared to be angry but didn't dare to speak, his fist under the sleeve was clenched tightly.
Su Qingze "hum" and told the coachman to rush over. Hearing that, the book boy who drove the carriage for Li Yi gave his horse a whip to move the carriage away.
Putting down the curtain, Su Qingze's arrogance faded away, and Ming'an's face was happy. "Shen gōngzǐ is right, this kind of people like to bullying the weak but afraid of the strong!" Before Li Yi ignored the words from a servant like him, but he looked like being hit on the head by his young master's words!
Su Qingze agreed. Shen Yanbei said that people like Li Yi loved his face the most. If he came to cling to him again, it was better to directly attack him by using the power that he couldn't reach to trample on his self-esteem, so much that he couldn't pass the hurdle in his heart. So he would never come again. This trick really worked! Thinking of Li Yi's soy sauce-like face, Su Qingze felt refreshed! Not to mention that he had already been proposed. Even if no one wanted him, he would not look at someone like Li Yi, who not only looked ordinary but also had poor character!
Thinking of this, Su Qingze felt a little worried. Although he had admitted his fate, it did not mean that he could accept the other! After returning home, he had to ask his parents carefully, what kind of person was that even Su's Family dared not provoke!
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