Chapter 601 Between Secrets and Past Events
The night was getting darker, and in order to dispel the sense of silence and coldness that followed in the manor, the street lights were turned on one by one.
Su Chengyi and Chu Qingmian each added a gray woolen coat and walked on the stone road. The sound of their footsteps echoed around them.
Chu Qingmian temporarily asked Butler Han to turn on the street lights. On weekdays, no one comes here at night. The huge lawn is regularly trimmed and taken care of. It looks beautiful and smooth under the light.
"Fu Rui may have fallen asleep at this point. You can try calling his name later! I heard from Wu's mother that she ran around a lot in the morning, and her back was sore from chasing him. She was afraid that he would die. Mengzi plunged into his favorite swimming pool, and there was no water in it in this weather.”
Chu Qingmian looked down at the overlapping shadows of the two people, muttering to herself all the way.
After the dinner, Su Chengyi wanted to see Furui, carefully calculating that it had been a long time since he had seen him.
Then the two of them came out of the villa and went to the dog house on the other side.
You can see the dog house belonging to Master Puppy in the distance. It is decorated in a European style under the command of Chu Qingmian.
In her words, she found out that Fury’s hometown is Switzerland, so it needs to be decorated in such a style so that he can awaken his bloodline and transform into a super dog in the future.
At that time, Su Chengyi replied ruthlessly:
"The Bernese Mountain Dog is not a shepherd dog. It has no talents that can be awakened. If you must say it, its ancestors were for buying goods - if you need this kind of If you have talent."
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Chu Qingmian silently called the decorator and canceled all the Swiss dog furniture she had originally prepared.
So, although the dog house looks very fashionable on the outside, it is actually filled with pink furniture full of Miss Chu’s personal bad taste.
Su Chengyi put his hands in the pockets of his coat and looked at Chu Qingmian walking beside him from the corner of his eye.
As the two of them walked along, she was smiling and murmuring. There was nothing unusual about her tone, but as long as you were more careful, you could find that her expression was actually a little sad.
After discovering this, the pretensely relaxed words she said with a smile were actually all to liven up the atmosphere at this moment.
Because Su Chengyi seemed to be more taciturn than usual, Chu Qingmian had no choice but to say more words to neutralize it. Otherwise, the atmosphere between the two of them would be a little strange along the way.
When she was still some distance away from the dog house, Chu Qingmian finally felt a little tired from talking. Her forehead hair was messy and scattered by the night wind, which made her eyes hurt.
Su Chengyi simply stopped, stretched out his hand to push her hair away, and flicked her brain.
“It hurts.”
Chu Qingmian covered her forehead and glared at him softly.
With such a close distance, Su Chengyi could see more clearly the burn mark on her hand.
Actually, it was quite serious. Although it had been a while, the skin from the back of the hand to the fingers was red and slightly swollen.
Fortunately, there was no blistering, otherwise there would be a risk of infection in the wound.
But if it reaches this level, it must still be very painful. The pain of burns is different from other types of pain. It is so burning that it is unbearable.
Su Chengyi lowered his eyes, feeling a little complicated.
The pitiful squad leader, who usually feels like facing a formidable enemy after getting an injection or taking medicine, was silent when he was burned just now. When he played the piano, he didn't show any flaws. .
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After noticing Su Chengyi's unusual silence, Chu Qingmian realized that he must have noticed it. When he wanted to retract his hand in a panic, it was too late and someone grabbed his wrist.
"Don't move."
Su Chengyi warned aloud, and glanced at her with a salty look, making the eldest lady who was already a little guilty even more guilty, and sipped He pursed his lips and did not dare to move any more.
Su Chengyi grabbed Chu Qingmian's wrist with her left hand, reached into her coat pocket with her right hand, and took out a tube of burn ointment and a medical cotton swab.
This is what he went around to ask for from Butler Han just before he came out.
After hearing about his purpose, the other party was naturally shocked and almost fainted from nervousness, as if he wanted to call 120 or call the young lady's personal doctor who rushed over to give her a set of full-body examinations.
"I've checked the wound. There's no blistering. Apply some burn ointment and it will be fine."
In the end, Su Chengyi had to comfort him before he worriedly scratched his head and took it from the medical cabinet. The medicine came out.
Not only that, but also came with detailed instructions prepared by him personally.
"According to your statement, Miss should have suffered a first-degree burn, which only damaged the epidermis and did not form blisters. It is a first-degree burn. The healing time is usually about 1 week and no special treatment is required."
"This product is for external use and is not allowed to be taken internally. When using this drug, you should pay attention to your general condition. If you have symptoms such as aversion to cold and fever, you should go to the hospital for treatment. Patients with mild burns whose symptoms do not improve after one to two days of taking the drug or if there is pus in the area should Go to the hospital for treatment. Those who develop local allergies such as rashes after taking the medicine should stop using it."
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Su Chengyi took the ointment and cotton swab from his hand expressionlessly and turned around. Just leave.
The two of them sat down face to face on the lawn next to them. Chu Qingmian stretched out her hand, blinked her eyes and said cautiously:
"Actually, it doesn't hurt anymore, I don't feel anything at all. You need to apply medicine.”
"Really?"
Su Chengyi wrapped a cotton swab in burn ointment and pretended to poke her wound hard.
Chu Qingmian was startled. She wanted to retract her hand, but he grabbed her wrist again. For a while, she had no choice but to beg for mercy.
"Ah ah ah, I was wrong, I was wrong! Su Chengyi! It will hurt so much, don't do this!"
"How dare you do this trick if you know it will hurt?"
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Of course, Su Chengyi would not really do such an immoral thing as "sprinkling salt in the wound". What he did just now was just to scare the young lady.
In fact, the way he applied medicine to the wound was as gentle as handling something fragile.
Chu Qingmian closed her eyes at first and did not dare to look, but now she opened her eyes in a daze.
Su Chengyi lowered his head and evenly applied the white ointment to the wound with a soft cotton swab.
With his actions like this, not only did the wound not hurt, but after the night wind blew by, it also brought a refreshing coolness, driving away the faint burning pain from the back of the hand that had been there since the burn.
Chu Qingmian sniffed and smelled the slightly pungent mint smell of the ointment, as well as the faint scent of sandalwood coming from Su Chengyi's body.
This is not his smell, probably because he changed his clothes at home.
Chu Qingmian looked into his serious eyes and suddenly felt a little lost.
“I’m sorry.”
After a long while, she said this in a confused manner.
Su Chengyi said "Huh?", spread the last bit of ointment evenly, and then raised his head to look at her. "You must feel very bored and tired tonight."
Chu Qingmian looked at him and sighed softly.
Su Chengyi thought for a while, but did not answer her directly. Instead, he asked:
"Did the family banquets you attended in the past usually go like this?"
"Yeah, it's almost the same."
Chu Qingmian recalled it for a moment, and then she felt uneasy and shivered all over.
Strange, after so many years, she still can’t seem to get used to it.
At this time, she is like a taut string, forcing herself to run perfectly until the end of the banquet, and then she will collapse in an instant.
Usually, after every family dinner, she would cover herself up and sleep for more than ten hours. When she woke up, her mind would be empty and she couldn't even tell the difference between night and day.
Especially when she was a child, every family dinner was no different from the end of the world to her, because for a child, trying to satisfy the demands of so many elders at the same time is no less than a fantasy.
Either there was a mistake in dining etiquette, or I accidentally played a wrong note when performing a talent, or I did not recognize an important guest, which made the scene awkward for a long time.
Even if you are very lucky and barely pass these tests, you will definitely not be able to pass the following levels.
Even if Miss Chu has been very good since she was a child and has almost never failed in any large-scale competitions, it is still impossible to win every battle, and they will always be caught by them to their dissatisfaction.
"Think about it, why do we care about your brothers and sisters without caring about them? You have been different from them since you were born. How old do you have to be to understand this?"
"Skills come from hard work rather than play, success comes from thinking and failure comes from following. Didn't you just memorize "Jinxue Jie" and forget it? Come here, memorize it again and check."
"We don't All your efforts will be negated because of a small competition, but this result can also illustrate a problem, that is, your recent thoughts have not been focused on improving yourself. It is natural for children to be playful, but this nature is in other people's homes. It’s understandable, but it’s absolutely unacceptable in our family.”
“Your mother was like this when she was a child, but she knew it and never let us worry about it. Your child is different.”< br>
“Go to the meditation room for two hours today and think about where you went wrong.
I will ask you again before dinner. If you are not willing to answer well, don’t eat dinner. Don’t worry, our whole family will stay with you.”
"From now on, the Chu family will all rely on you. If we don't be stricter on you, how can we rest assured in the future? Do you want to make your grandparents die in peace?"
"There are some things that we don't mention because we feel that Everyone is sad when I mention it. If your brother was still here, both your parents and us would be much more at ease."
Chu Qingmian has grown up listening to these words. So when she heard that her cousins were being scolded, although she wanted to go up and try to persuade them and try to make things clear for them, she still couldn't.
Like the shadow of her childhood, it was difficult for her to stand up on her own initiative, let alone help others.
“Sometimes, in fact, most of the words my grandparents taught my cousins were told to me. It’s a bit like killing a chicken to scare the monkey. Oh, this may not be a good thing to say.”
Chu Qingmian looked at the red marks on the back of her hands and said with a smile:
"It's strange. I have grown up now, and I still feel a little scared when I hear those words."
She The tone of the words was very soft, Su Chengyi listened quietly and did not answer.
"I wish I were braver. There are obviously so many things that I want to protect."
As Chu Qingmian spoke, she seemed to feel a little tired, so she turned back Lie on your back and go.
The lawn was clean and soft. Su Chengyi did not stop her movement, but just reached out and rubbed her head.
The street lights were so bright that Chu Qingmian narrowed his eyes slightly and sighed.
"Su Chengyi, do you know? During the 100-day swearing-in ceremony for the college entrance examination, I was not so nervous that I couldn't speak because the manuscript paper was replaced and I forgot the words."
Unexpectedly, she would suddenly mention this thing that happened a long time ago, and Su Chengyi was slightly startled.
He has always been a little strange about this issue.
Because based on Chu Qingmian's personal ability, even if the manuscript paper was temporarily replaced, she should be able to react quickly and start to express herself freely and give an unscripted speech.
This shouldn’t be a difficult task for the squad leader, not to mention that it is a universal speech topic like the College Entrance Examination Hundred Days Oath-taking Ceremony.
Even a sociophobic person like Su Chengyi himself can spout off a speech about the "Golden Age" after running on stage. The Chinese language class representative's brain must have stored many more famous quotes than he does.
So this matter was unreasonable no matter how you thought about it, but Su Chengyi didn't think much about it, and simply attributed it to "I was nervous for a while, so my mind went blank."
If you think about it carefully, this reason can barely be explained.
But at this time, Chu Qingmian admitted personally that there were other reasons.
“Have you seen the manuscript paper at that time? Do you still remember what was written on it?”
Chu Qingmian blocked the light of the street lamp with her hand, and her pupils looked like shadows under the shadow of her palm. Glowing like a black gemstone.
Su Chengyi thought for a while and nodded slightly hesitantly.
“Remember something.”
Most of them were obscene swear words, painted with bright red crayons, which were particularly dazzling, like scenes that often appear in horror movies.
"There is a sentence in it that says, you, a vampire who steals other people's lives, a murderer."
Chu Qingmian's tone was light.
Of course Su Chengyi remembers this sentence, because compared to other dirty and despicable words, it is relatively mild.
Unexpectedly, this was the most confusing thing for Chu Qingmian.
Thinking of this, Su Chengyi's eyes darkened, and he almost immediately wondered if there might be some hidden truth behind this matter.
But if you think about it carefully, it’s still wrong.
Because he has indeed caught the culprit of the manuscript incident. She was just an ordinary and inconspicuous female classmate who did such a thing out of dark jealousy.
With her status, it was impossible for her to know the secret of the Chu family, that is, that Chu Qingmian had a younger brother who died in infancy.
So, it’s just a coincidence.
However, for Chu Qingmian who was standing on the stage at that time, the offensiveness brought by these words was much sharper than any other words.
Because of this, at that time, after Su Chengyi reached out and snatched away the manuscript paper, she said to him in such a fragile and uneasy tone:
"Don't read it."
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