The Twelve Years: Song of the Unsung Friends

During the days and nights that Shen Xi spent with him, he had never seen this side of Fu Dongwen. She lowered her head and looked at the cards on the poker table. The lights were dim and the figures were dull. Before dawn, when people and ghosts are not divided, this is the big ghost going to beat the little ghost.

Fu Dongwen was really drunk, unconscious, dizzy, and his eyes heavy.

Waited for half a minute... Still nothing.

The staff officer didn’t know what he was thinking in his heart. In a moment of silence, he judged the situation, and first came up with a set of rhetoric, and wanted to preemptively: "San Ye understands in his heart, and the sons here also understand that the most taboo of the emperor right now is Cai Songpo’s people. I didn’t say anything tonight. I waited for your masters to come up and arrest people when they were exhausted and scattered, just to preserve your face and reputation. Besides—" He paused and said, "My people are upstairs. Next, I’m now waiting to take people back. After waiting for a long time, people who come and go will see it. Even if I want to hide it, I can’t stop the crowd. Everyone has a background at home, so why bother with a muddy leg Body fishy?"

After speaking, salute again: "I hope the third master will be considerate."

Although he was polite, he was threatening. Everyone here has backgrounds at home, and they are all government officials. They will never embarrass a small rebel because it is not good for everyone to spread it out. According to the staff officer's opinion, after waiting for most of the night, they arrested people vigorously and without any nonsense. These people would do everything right without disturbing their fun. It's not worth the tit-for-tat.

Fu Dongwen listened to these words with a stick and a stick, pushed aside the chair, emptied his footsteps, and walked to the staff officer.

In the room, everyone knew that the third master was about to speak, and stopped speaking, even the little servant who was holding the needle and picking the cigarette was quiet.

Back then, in Fu Dongwen's study, he didn't communicate a word with this person, all for the sake of protecting his second brother, listening to them talk. After many years, he stood in front of this "old man" again, and said for a moment in silence: "You are alive, and you are not alone in living alone. What you do and what you say, you have to think about being kind to others. .is not it?"

"San Ye said, I mean—"

He interrupted the staff officer: "It doesn't matter if that person is a rebel. But there are people with good looks in this box. You do this without mercy, and threaten us with words. What do you want?"

"How dare I threaten everyone," he argued eagerly, "San Ye, you have to be reasonable, you are a scholar."

Fu Dongwen laughed.

He laughed, and everyone laughed.

"Do you think you can have peace of mind if you just talk to me? The people here are not from the Fu family. I'll leave it alone, forget it, don't care, they will forget it?" Fu Dongwen asked jokingly , "For example, tomorrow, a grandfather can't swallow this breath and instructs you to privately accept bribes and construct loyalty. What are you going to do?"

Young Master Xu immediately pointed to a young son: "You go tomorrow and expose him for stealing my heirloom. Fourth brother will keep you safe."

"Yes, fourth brother." The man replied with a grin.

The staff officer was surprised: "One yard goes to one yard. I catch the rebels for the emperor. Even if I offend you all, I will not frame me..."

The sons joked that it was a bit real and a bit fake.

In this laughter, the staff officer and his adjutant thought carefully, as if standing on the edge of the abyss, their toes were already hanging in the air. Offended these people, there is no hope of official career, but also day and night, always beware of retaliation.

"For another example," Fu Dongwen turned around to look at the poker table, "I'm in a good mood today. We will lift you up and let you accompany Douque. This will be another road that will force you to go to Liangshan."

There is real money in the game, and the winning or losing is in the control of these people. If you really put him on the table, I am afraid that the IOU has been written for him. A bargaining chip of hundreds of thousands of dollars is what he can earn only after decades of serving as a soldier. If he loses here, he will not be able to do anything for these people.

"The third brother told him this to really praise him," the man on the Luohan bed didn't have the tolerance of Fu Dongwen, and said straightforwardly, "This game is not something you can mix. Right now, you make everyone feel unhappy. Someone will get it back a thousand times."

The downstairs yelled, as if talking.

The young man ran to the window, firmly caught the white cloth bag wrapped in handkerchiefs, opened it, and distributed the hot handkerchiefs to everyone.

Young Master Xu picked up a piece, smiled and handed it to the staff officer: "What years are you still loyal, and singing?"

The towel was steaming white, not only a towel, but also his future.

The staff officer hesitated, with scruples in his heart.

Seeing that he was not answering, Master Xu personally shook his handkerchief, and suddenly covered the staff officer's face.

The staff officer was suddenly lost in front of his eyes and shuddered, and four guns immediately reached the back of his head. He recognizes both the diameter of the muzzle and the touch. Is this going to kill? Do these people dare to vent their anger and kill people in Guanghe Building?

The staff officer suddenly realized that it was too easy for them to put him to death.

All thoughts disappeared in a flash, he took a breath-

Young Master Xu just wanted to frighten him, waved his guns down, and personally wiped the staff officer's face: "This handkerchief in the box of Guanghe Building is a piece of the ocean. Can it be used?" , Na Na responded: "It's good..."

The handkerchief was tucked into his hand, and the staff officer's ten fingers were sore and stiff, and the joints were also painful, as if they had been splinted. This was just pinched by himself. After walking through the ghost gate, there are no doubts.

Seeing Young Master Xu still smiling at himself, he hurriedly took up the towel and wiped his face.

"You have your means, you don't need me to teach it," said Young Master Xu, "I don't want to ask how to try and how to close the case. Once we ask, I will say that we are bullying. It's just that the cards here will not and should not have rebels. People, are you right?"

The staff officer smiled hard: "I understand."

The man who collapsed was no longer aggressive, and asked the little actor to give the staff officer tea to accompany him. The staff officer and adjutant sat in a dreadful manner, and accompany the group of people to listen to them and leave. It is the day that will break and the ghost will return to the nest.

Young Master Xu called his friends and accompany him and went to Shaanxi Alley to continue the next round of Mandarin Duck Double Flight.

Mr. Shen took advantage of the situation and followed Young Master Xu away. Tonight this pass is over. No accident, Mr. Shen will disappear in the gentle town of Shaanxi Alley, and the money will be sent to Sichuan smoothly.

When the ghosts and gods were gone, Wan An asked Fu Dongwen when to leave so that he could arrange for a car to pick him up.

Fu Dongwen was too lazy to move, so he had people come to clean up the box, and he wanted to sleep here for a while, and then go back in the morning. Shen Xi thought he was joking, and when the guys really laid the bedding on the Luohan bed according to Fu Tongwen's intention, she understood that Fu Dongwen must often take a drunk nap in Guanghe Building, and everyone has become accustomed to it. No matter if you sleep, you may be able to escape Tan Qingxiang's rants and censure when you wake up.

Shen Xi pressed the quilt on his shoulder.

"Miss Gu is here, and sit with me for a while." He said.

...No wonder.

If there is a "heart and soul", tonight is one of them. She felt uncomfortable when she saw that the second officer’s windows were all closed...

She couldn't conceive the picture of two people together. How do women of old thinking accept three wives and four concubines? Is it because there is no emotion? Just like when she was in New York, it was difficult to understand what her English and French classmates said when she was chatting with her classmates in France and England. The feeling outside of marriage is love. It is even more difficult to understand that no matter how much black and white love each other, intermarriage will be prevented by the laws of many states... The explanations are different. Wherever, there is no need for love.

Fu Tongwen touched her hand and said, "Please ask, I will give you an explanation."

She shook her head.

He once said that he didn't know how to solve this game, so he could only walk around.

Now that the wedding is approaching, in other words, he has not taken this path. Gu Youwei's coming today must be for the result of the three. Shen Xi lay between their unmarried couples, insisting, wanting to accompany him for a while. Today, she and he have done their best.

There are a lot of things to face, and the emperor can not escape.

Shen Xi was in the shadow of the lamp, buried his face in his arms, Fu Tongwen stroked her hair and asked gently: "Tired?"

"I will leave before you get married," she muttered. "We said a breakup seriously, it's a beginning and an end."

His hand stopped.

She hurriedly said: "On the road to Laiguanghelou, I thought, as long as you are healthy and well-raised, it is better than anything. Looking at the leopard today, I have seen the hardships and dangers of your revolution on the road. It’s...you’re so reluctant to feel sick. You want to explain it to me and you have to be worthy of Miss Gu. You have been very hard in these two months. Brother, I can understand everything that is difficult to do. I have told you. , I don’t just want a marriage in this life, and I don’t want to go to marriage if I want to be in love. It’s the best result to get here."

Fu Dongwen is a person who is good at arguing, but he doesn't say a word at this moment.

She looked up, and finally said: "We are all foreigners. Falling in love and breaking up are common things, right?"

With sweat all over his body, he slowly lifted half of the quilt, revealing the upper half of his body.

The matter between him and Gu Youwei in the second official just now was quite different from what Shen Xi thought.

In the card game tonight, Fu Dongwen laid three layers: on the surface it was taking bribes; secretly he wanted to send money to the Dian army; third, he wanted to force Gu Youwei to talk to herself about the last step.

Gu Youwei said that she could stand the old-style marriage of wives and concubines. It is one thing to imagine, but it is different to really accept it. In the past two months, he directly told her to retreat from Shen Xi, which has defeated Gu Youwei’s self-esteem. Tonight, he brought Shen Xi to Guanghe Tower with great fanfare, and invited her friends to accompany her to fight the birds in the most lively theater in Beijing. At the same time, he took Shen Xi around and petted him.

But I didn't expect that Gu Youwei's lady was even more temperamental than in the past, and she did not wait for dawn to arrive at night.

No one of Master Fu's evasive, except when they saw Gu Youwei, they would leave room for the two to talk about love as the master ordered.

So, the two just had a showdown.

Gu Youwei cried again. After crying, she wiped away her tears, combed her short hair hastily, and sat in front of him and said, "You forced me here, you won."

Fu Tongwen told her earlier that he loved Shen Xi just like Gu Youwei loved him in the past. There is a double meaning here, one is that he treats Shen Xi, and the other is that Gu Youwei is no longer innocent.

"Youwei, you don’t love me as much as you think. You can’t ask for it, so you think you’ve got your heart out," he said frankly when she saw her calm down, "it’s easy for you to force me to marry today, and I will force you to divorce in the future. easy."

Gu Youwei asked him: "You insist on calling yourself an unrighteous person. Do you care about my divorce in France?"

No affection, what does a divorce case have to do with him.

"I don't mind," he said, "but you also have to think about your future. You have a Gu family background and you have a good relationship with ministers of various countries, I can give you another fame, the ex-fiancee who Fu Sanqiu couldn't. Go. Find a man who loves you sleeplessly at night, find a man who you can help him to the top. Youwei, you are not stupid, you help me this way, I will also show you a good path. Admire you in the vanity fair There are not a lot of people, you can pick it slowly, I will be patient."

"You described my feelings for you like this..." Gu Youwei was unwilling. Even if it is calculated by three points, there are seven points of sincerity.

"I am dedicated to revolution, and I never concealed it from you," he was hitting her seven inches. "Are you willing to leave the Gu family and your own wealth, life, and beautiful prospects in my hands?"

This is what Gu Youwei cannot compromise most. She was unwilling to love Fu Dongwen when she was young, and even less reconciled now. Fu Tongwen talked about this level, and the discussion is no longer related to feelings, it is all about trading.

This old relationship finally ended in Guanghe Building tonight.

It is rare for Fu Tongwen to have the same woman bothering to rap. First, he wanted to repay the unfinished friendship when he was a teenager; second, he wanted to reach a tacit understanding with Gu Youwei, and the play had to go on. He had to be able to deal with his father, and Gu Youwei could also choose slowly Her new marriage.

He sent Gu Youwei away, feeling happy, drinking and drinking in the box.

When I heard the peach blossom fan in a place where Fengya was indecent, Young Master Xu's little servant happened to come in and said that the card game was going to disperse, and Miss Shen was looking for San Ye. So the wine glass was put down, and he put on his clothes to see her.

...

Shen Xi had said everything. Seeing his eyes floating and sinking, he guessed that he had come up with alcohol, poured water back, and fed it to his mouth. From beginning to end, he didn't speak, his eyes finally stopped on her face when the tea cup was away from his lips.

Shen Xi thought he wanted to talk.

Fu Tongwen was silent for a while, took the tea cup in her hand, and drank the rest of the tea.

He said: "People are not very comfortable, so I will talk later, okay?"

"Ok."

He handed the tea cup back to her, turned around, lay down with his back to her, rested his head in his arms, and fell asleep with his eyes closed. She was scared when she saw him lying in this posture, alert, went to the door and waited for Wan An to protect her heart. Wan An was anxious and asked in confusion: "I also said that San Ye is a rare one today, and I am in a good mood. Why do you get sick again when you ask for a drink?"

Shen Xi shook his head and entered the box again.

Just now in the second official, Wan An has stayed with Fu Dongwen, watching Gu Youwei's life-threatening to calm self-restraint, but here, without the instructions of the third master, he can only stand outside the door. It is not necessary for the third master to explain clearly, everyone knows who is an outsider and who is his family. But he was not at ease when he entered from Shen Xi. He squatted and stood for a while outside the door, but finally couldn't get through his thoughts and pushed open the open door.

Shen Xi was beckoned out by him. He closed the door and whispered: "San Ye is sometimes a young master. Miss Shen should not take him seriously, as it is for the patient. Miss Shen is a doctor. The doctor should be a little patient with the patient. ,right?"

Shen Xi was always worried that his words would make Fu Tongwen uncomfortable, but when he said that, his eyes were red.

"Today's wine, San Ye only drank it when he was happy. Miss Shen opened his eyes and closed it. It's good in the past," Wan An hesitated and sighed and said, "I won't say any more. If you talk too much, you must be scolded."

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