Chapter 477 Night Owl and Phoenix
"..."
Shang Ruyi's lips moved slightly, and after several hesitations, he still did not say the words that had been lingering in his mind for several days.
After all, she is not only Yu Wenye’s wife, but also Sheng Guogong’s daughter-in-law.
She can have unbearable suspicions in her heart, or she can tell Yu Wenye what she has discovered, but she cannot say those things clearly. After all, they both come from well-known families, and they also know that they have to be cautious in everything they say and do. What she said just now is already very dangerous. If she goes further, she will be suspected of inciting brothers.
Seeing that she was hesitant to speak and finally didn't speak again, Yu Wenye's eyes became a little darker.
He said solemnly: "You don't have to say it, I understand."
Shang Ruyi breathed a sigh of relief in his heart and looked at him again, only to see Yu Wenye look at the hand in her hand again Two sachets, and without saying a word, he drank the bowl of bitter soup that was already a little cold.
The face does not change.
Obviously, for him, the suffering of life is more than that.
Shang Ruyi didn't say anything, just silently took the empty bowl and put it aside, then poured a cup of hot tea for him to rinse his mouth. Yu Wenye took a sip, looked at the slightly swaying tea, and asked: "By the way, how many days will my elder brother stay here?"
"It's only four or five days in total."
"Then he stays for this period of time , what did you do?"
"...Nothing."
Yu Wenye raised his eyebrows slightly, looking from the light of the tea to Shang Ruyi's calm eyes: "He has nothing. Do?”
Shang Ruyi nodded, and smiled bitterly: "I originally thought that my eldest brother, who came as the Minister of War, would definitely participate in the Fufeng war, so I always--but he didn't do anything."
“…”
“Just yesterday, he left When he opened it, he reminded me. "
"Remind you of what?"
"He reminded me that we will eventually have a life-or-death battle with Xue Xian, but he knows that you will. He won, so he returned to Daxing City early to ask for credit for you.”
"..."
Yu Wenye's eyes deepened.
He was obviously more perceptive than Shang Ruyi about this matter. During his coma, Yu Wensu did not participate in any Fufeng wars, and when he was about to recover and wake up, Yu Wensu left Fufeng.
So this battle, regardless of merit or demerit, has nothing to do with him.
Then did he really come here just as the minister of the Ministry of War to hold Ma Xu accountable, or did he have a deeper purpose that they didn't see through?
Yu Wenye thought for a while, but naturally couldn't think of a reason. After all, he had hardly seen through this brother since he was a child, so he could only give up temporarily.
And when he looked up, he saw Shang Ruyi standing aside with a solemn expression, as if he was also thinking about something.
Yu Wenye said: "What are you thinking about?"
"..."
Shang Ruyi raised his eyes and looked at him and said: "I just suddenly thought of my childhood. A story I heard.”
"Story? What story?"
"It is said that a night owl was hungry for several days, and finally caught a dead mouse to fill its stomach. Just when it was about to eat the mouse, the top of its head A phoenix flew over."
< br>"...Phoenix?"
"Night Owl was worried that the phoenix would come to snatch the mouse in his mouth, so he screamed at the phoenix monster, trying to scare it away."
"..."
"But the phoenix flew away without even looking at it."
This story was told to her by Shen Wuzheng when she was a child. After telling it, he smiled and said to her: "The phoenix is not hungry." Pecking at the millet, but the night owl thought that the phoenix was trying to snatch the mouse from his mouth. How ridiculous."
Recalling this, Shang Ruyi felt a fever on his face.
Thinking about these days, she was cautious, fearing that Yu Wenye would really be transferred away from Fufeng, and even more afraid that Yuwen Ye would do something during the Fufeng War and take away the results obtained by Yu Wenye and others in the bloody battle. For his own benefit, he tried his best to guard against him.
But in the end, Yuwen Zui left on his own.
His behavior seemed to tell her how ridiculous her persistence and caution were.
Shang Ruyi smiled bitterly and laughed at himself: "Sometimes, I feel like that night owl."
After saying that, she sighed and shook her head, taking it from Yu Wenye's hand He walked over to the half-empty tea cup to add some water, and then walked back. When he was about to hand it to Yu Wenye, he lowered his head and saw him looking up and glaring at her.
Shang Ruyi was stunned: "What's wrong?"
Yu Wenye said: "Do you also think that night owl is ridiculous?"
"...?"
Shang Ruyi looked at him with some surprise: "Isn't it?"
Yu Wenye sneered and said: "There is nothing funny?"
"..."
"Everyone has something they want to cherish and protect. Just because others are dismissive does not mean that it is worthless to cherish and protect."
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"..."
"I think that in the face of a powerful enemy and a situation that must be lost, the night owl still resists, and that night owl also has great merits."
"...!" Shang Ruyi looked at him with wide eyes.
She did not expect that Yu Wenye would view this story this way.
Perhaps, the night owl is ridiculous or even sad in the eyes of the world, but if you think about it carefully, without God's blessing and shining colorful feathers, it still strives to survive seriously, and is not even afraid of the high-altitude phoenix. This is not Is that also the shining part of it?
Shang Ruyi suddenly felt a sense of relief in his chest and smiled: "That's right."
Yu Wenye then took the cup of tea from her hand.
After taking a sip, he said coldly and somewhat annoyed: "Besides, who is the Phoenix? I am the Phoenix!"
"...?"
Shang Ruyi was stunned again, and then came back to his senses.
Yes, he is the Phoenix.
When she first arrived in Luoyang, when she and his friends were attending a gathering in Helou, everyone mentioned their nicknames. At that time, he told himself that his nickname was Phoenix. .
Shang Ruyi smiled and said: "Okay, I remember."
While talking, he heard a light knock on the door again. Shang Ruyi went out to take a look, but It's Tushe'er, she's holding a stack of With neatly dressed clothes, he said softly: "Miss, I have put away all the clothes I washed earlier. Now that my uncle is awake, will he have to take a bath soon? I will bring the clothes here so that I won't find them when I need them."
Shang Ruyi nodded: "Give it to me, I will take care of it myself."
"Ah... yes."
In normal times, Tusheer would never let his young lady work out, but At this moment, she also knew that Shang Ruyi didn't want anyone to disturb Yu Wenye's rest in the room, and she herself didn't want to disturb the rare time the two of them spent together, so without saying anything, she gave the clothes to Shang Ruyi and turned around to leave.
Shang Ruyi took the clothes and walked to the corner of the room, then opened the box and prepared to put them in.
Yu Wenye suddenly said: "What is that?"
"Huh?"
Shang Ruyi looked back at him, then looked down again, only to find that the top of the pile of clothes was the cotton mask with two tethers.
Shang Ruyi said: "This is what my eldest brother gave me."
"..."
Yu Wenye's eyebrows frowned slightly: "Why did he give it to you? ”
Shang Ruyi said: "When an ordinary doctor encounters a disease like the plague, when treating a patient, he will bring cotton gauze soaked in medicine to prevent himself from contracting it. In the days when you were sick, Wuxue and I, And that old doctor He Wenzhu, we all wear that kind of veil.”
"What does this have to do with it?"
"After my elder brother came, he gave me this, saying that it has the same effect as those veils."
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“I took it with me for a few days, and it’s really like that.”
"..."
Yu Wenye was silent for a moment and said, "Bring it to me and have a look."
Shang Ruyi didn't know why he suddenly became interested in this little cotton yarn, but Or after putting down those clothes, put those clothes on The veil was taken to him, and Yu Wenye took it with a calm expression and looked at it - he had no medical knowledge, and it was impossible to know the benefits of this thing. He looked at it over and over for a long time, not so much looking at the thing. It's more like being picky.
After a while, he said: "Only to you?"
Shang Ruyi shook his head: "He also has one."
"..."
Yu Wenye was silent for a while, his face became darker, and he said: "You can just throw this kind of thing away after use, what else do you keep it for?"
Business Ruyi was startled when he heard this, fearing that he had really lost it. He hurriedly took it back and said: "Don't throw this away. This thing is more convenient than the usual veil and is not easy to fall off."
"..."
"I want to keep it. Get up, it might be useful in the future.”
At this point, she paused.
Actually, she didn’t know why she thought this thing was useful, but after Yu Wenye’s illness, her heart seemed to be shrouded in a shadow, making her uneasy, but she couldn’t figure it out. Where does the shadow come from?
In short, this thing doesn’t take up much space and won’t be in the way.
So, he walked back to the box, put the veil in, and saw Yu Wenye's clothes underneath. He thought that he had been lying still these days, and it was all because of them. The person who was wiping his body probably felt a little uncomfortable, so he planned to ask him if he wanted to take a shower.
But when I turned around, my heart skipped a beat.
I saw Yu Wenye sitting solemnly by the bed, probably because he had just exhausted some energy and was exhausted, so he put his hands on his knees; but even though his face was pale and his breath was uneven, his whole body was full of energy. His posture, and the resoluteness and depth in his body, were like a dormant black panther, which made people feel shocked.
What happened to him?
Why did he suddenly show such an expression, as if he had deep hostility towards someone or something.
When he looked at him again, he was staring at the veil placed on top of the box.
Just when Shang Ruyi was a little puzzled, Yu Wenye had already murmured thoughtfully: "Phoenix is indeed not interested in that dead mouse... What he really saw, perhaps, is That night owl!”
"...Huh?"
Shang Ruyi didn't hear clearly, so she walked over and looked at him, and whispered: "What did you say?"
Yu Wenye raised his head again and glared at her.
Then he turned his face to one side and said coldly: "Nothing."
(End of this chapter)