Chapter 39 The Roar of Bones

Chapter 39 The Roar of Bones

"Do you like children?" After Lu Ji asked, he turned his head to the side and coughed a few times. It was difficult for him to imagine Shang Nan holding two children, because Shang Nan was only a child himself, and the word "starting a family and starting a career" seemed to be too early.It was far away from Shangnan, but Shangnan was right. When they were sixteen years old, many of them had already had children in their arms.

However, the times were different now, and late marriage and late childbearing had become the norm. Looking back at Shannan, he felt that it would be good to start a family after the age of thirty.

Upon hearing Lu Ji's question, Shannan shook his head directly, "I don't like it."

Worried that Lu Ji thought he was too unloving and that the darkening level that had finally dropped had risen again, Shannan added his true thoughts, "I don't think I can bear the responsibility of raising a life." He is an orphan in this body., in his memory, he was left at the door of the orphanage in winter. If there was no director, he would definitely freeze to death that night. Not all parents are competent, such as Shang Nan's parents, such as Lu Ji's father.

When he said this, there was a maturity on Shan Nan's face that did not match his age. Lu Ji's eyes slowly and carefully passed over his face, and finally fell on those somewhat dim eyes. After a long moment of silence, Lu JiHe raised his hand and put his palm on the back of Shang Nan's head, touching it gently, "Xiao Nan, do you want to find your family?"

"I can help you if you want."

Shang Nan quickly shook his head, "I don't want to." After a while, he looked at Lu Ji and said firmly: "Aren't you my family?"

Lu Ji looked at Shannan for a long time, and finally smiled, "Yes."

After eating the cake, the two left the main house and returned to their own place.

Lu Ji drank the wine, and the alcohol content of the white wine was not low. On the way back, the wind blew from the side of Lu Ji and blew through Shang Nan's nose. Shang Nan didn't know how to drink, but he could smell the clear and elegant scent of oak and wood.The scent of white roses.

Probably because of drinking, Lu Ji's face actually looked good and he seemed to be in a good mood.

The task has made progress, and Shang Nan is in a good mood.

Although the reasons for happiness are different, the results are the same. At this moment, they are on the same frequency.

Before going back to the room, Lu Ji said "Happy Birthday" to Shang Nan, who went upstairs happily. Mrs. Xiang walked to Lu Ji from the dim corridor and looked towards the corridor with a somewhat surprised expression.Did you give Xiaonan the jade my wife gave you?"

Jade was not purchased with random money. Lu Shen's mother gave it to Lu Shen on the day when Lu Shen turned 20 and became the first head of the family.It has never been kept by Lu Shen personally, but placed in the secret room of the study.

Lu Shen was burned by the fire until his death. Mrs. Lu did not find Lu Shen's remains in the burned house. Later, she accidentally learned the cause of Lu Shen's death. That night, Mrs. Lu committed suicide by hanging herself from the beam in the room.

This is the last thing Mrs. Lu left to the young master.

"On the day of the crowning ceremony, my mother wished me peace. Although today is not Xiaonan's crowning ceremony, it is the first birthday I have celebrated for him. I also wish him peace." Lu Ji leaned on the sofa and rubbed his forehead.

Mrs. Xiang looked at him, thought for a moment, and asked, "Do you need me to light up the fireplace? The weather forecast says it will snow in a few days."

"Burn it up."

Mrs. Xiang was busy inside and outside the house, and she didn't forget to keep looking for something to talk to Lu Ji.

"There will be an opera performance in the town at the foot of the mountain next month. I have sent invitations to many rich people. I heard that a very famous performing group is touring the country. The mayor also spent his own money to buy beer for everyone. I must haveIt will be lively, will you go?" Mrs. Xiang opened the damper of the fireplace and put a pile of firewood in.

"I won't go. Xiaonan is young and I think he will like such an occasion. You can take him for a walk." Lu Ji looked out the window. The cold wind was blowing the leaves of several century-old trees not far away.They were all flying around, looking lonely and deserted. "It would be too boring to stay here all day."

"Shall I take him?"

"Take him there." Lu Ji said.

Mrs. Xiang said "Hey", she had wanted to go.

After a while, the fire in the furnace started burning, and half of the living room was lit up. The fire flickered, and the room went out with such frequency.

After Mrs. Xiang squatted in front of her for a while, making sure that it would not go out, she realized that the sound of breathing behind her had disappeared. She stood up slowly, looked at the "person" sitting on the sofa, lowered her head and calledHe said "Master".

Even if it was just a skeleton, Mrs. Xiang felt that the person sitting in front of her was Lu Shen, not a skeleton, but the eldest son of the Lu family who held an umbrella for her and handed her a handkerchief on that rainy day.

The snow-white skeleton is folded on the sofa, with its back against the cushions and the joints of its fingers resting on its knees. When it moves, the bending and twisting of the joints are clearly visible.

Orange-red firelight fell on its face. The firelight directly penetrated the gaps in the skull and shone on the sofa and wall behind it - the wall behind reflected its shadow.

"Sorry, I was in a good mood and drank some wine." When Lu Ji spoke, his upper and lower jaw joints opened and closed slightly.

Mrs. Xiang hesitated, "Do you want to rest now?"

"time?"

"Almost ten o'clock."

Lu Ji paused, then he turned his head. When his skull turned, a small cervical vertebrae twisted a little. He looked in the direction of the corridor, then turned back and said, "Call Xiaonan down and have a cup of tea with me."

Mrs. Xiang was shocked when she heard this, "What?"

"Lu Xiang, he accidentally bumped into my real appearance on the first day he came to the house. He is a good boy, don't be nervous." Lu Ji's clothes are still on his body, and his pale vertebrae extend from the collar, supporting aHe has a beautifully shaped skull and his fingers sticking out of his sleeves. Even with this image, he still looks like an elegant gentleman.

Mrs. Xiang was not nervous that Shang Nan would tell the truth, as those who revealed the secret would not have a good end. She was just surprised that Shang Nan could calmly treat Lu Ji as an ordinary human being after knowing Lu Ji's original image.Get along with it.

If Lu Ji hadn't told her, she wouldn't have been able to tell at all!

This kid is so courageous!!!

Shannan had already finished washing and was lying on the bed. He actually couldn't sleep too early because he was a young man.

But he didn't have a mobile phone in this world, and Lu Ji didn't offer to buy it for him.In the first two nights when he first came here, Shannan could only stare out the window in a daze, until 14 opened his mouth and said that it not only had the function of reporting mission progress and searching for detailed plots, but it could also search for movies and play them in his head for Shannan to watch.

Shangnan provides keywords, and 14 provides search results based on keywords. Every night is spent like this. Sometimes 14 will give spoilers to Shangnan in order to have a sense of participation, but he will be scolded.It has been doing tasks for so long, so it is not that it has never been scolded by its host, but in total, it is not scolded as much as when it was revealed to Shannan.

When the movie was about to start playing again, the door to the room was knocked, and 14 returned to the task panel in a second.

Shang Nan ran over and opened the door. It was Mrs. Xiang.

Mrs. Xiang smiled and said: "The young master said it is still early, please go down and have a cup of tea with him."

Seeing that Shonan was stunned, Mrs. Xiang stretched out her hand and touched Shonan's belly. "I just ate so much cake. It's not good for your health to go to bed right away. Why don't you go down and sit for a while? I'll make sweet soup for you again?"

Shannan thought: If I eat it again... that would be even worse for the body~

But Shannan couldn't refuse the sweet soup made by Mrs. Xiang herself. Mrs. Xiang's craftsmanship is beyond the comparison of ordinary chefs. It is purely handmade, sweet but not greasy, and has a fragrant fragrance.

Shannan's soul can refuse, because he is no longer a teenager, but his body cannot refuse. It is the time when his body is growing. Even if you give him a bite of food in the middle of sleep, he will close his eyes and feel numb.Swallow it.

Mrs. Kexiang actually rarely cooks. She only cooks delicious food when she is in the mood.

Why is it so weird today?Because you want to coax yourself to go down for tea?

"Wait a minute." Shonan went to get a thick sweater, put it on his head, and walked to the door. When he walked in front of Mrs. Xiang, Mrs. Xiang helped him smooth out his messed up hair.

When they went downstairs, Mrs. Xiang told Shang Nan, "I will take you to the town to watch an opera performance next month. Do you want to go?"

Shan Nan's eyes brightened slightly, "Go."

"Brother, are you going?" Shonan asked again.

Mrs. Xiang: "Master, if you don't want to go, let me take you for a walk."

"Okay." Without Lu Ji here, it would be completely time to admire the south, which would be like an intermission on the way to completing the task.

Lu Ji was still sitting on the sofa with two cups of hot tea in front of him. Shannan strode over and was about to sit down on the single sofa beside him. When he raised his eyes, he saw a white skeleton looking at him seriously..

For a second, Shan Nan felt suffocated. After all, he hadn't seen a skeleton for a long, long time.

The living room was a little hot, and Shannan couldn't tell whether the stickiness on his back was cold sweat or sweat from the heat. After he sat down on the sofa, Lu Ji bent down and tapped the carpet with his fingers.

Shannan immediately understood what the other party meant, and the old man refused to allow himself to be on an equal footing with him.

He stood up resignedly, walked to the floor and sat down next to his legs. The floor was covered with a thick wool carpet. He could not feel the hardness of the floor at all. He just had to cross his legs, which would make his legs sore after a long time.

Looking at the hot mist rising slowly from the tea cup, Shang Nan asked, "Mrs. Xiang said you asked me to come down and drink tea with you."

"Well, it's a bit boring."

Shang Nan: "..."

It was said to be drinking tea, but in fact the skeleton did not have this need. The only people who had this need were Lu Shen and Lu Ji. Lu Ji had always been in the same posture, without touching the tea cup.

On the contrary, I admired Nan because I had eaten something sweet before and needed the bitter tea to suppress it, so I drank several sips in succession.

"Are you still Lu Ji now?" Shang Nan held the cup. He looked down at the rising and falling tea leaves and raised his face to ask it.

"I am also Mr. Lu."

"Who is Lu Shen?" Shannan pretended not to know.

Lu Ji raised his hand and pressed his cold finger bones on the top of Shang Nan's hair. The hair came out from between the fingers of his finger bones, "That's me."

He was the person who first made the Lu family famous across the country. He was the first head of the Lu family and the youngest head in the past few hundred years.

It was Lu Shen who had been dead for more than six hundred years, and even though the multiple family heads knew the cause of Lu Shen's death, they still held anniversary ceremonies for him every year because of the glory he could bring to the lintel of the Lu family.

Shang Nan is the first child around Lu Shen who is not afraid of him—bright, warm, and energetic...but these qualities can be found in almost all different people. After living for so long, Lu Shen has never seen a unique child.people.Because they must have some similar characteristics, and they may even overlap in many places.

Although some of Shang Nan's characteristics can be seen in other people, it is difficult for others to completely copy Shang Nan's characteristics. He is gentle and stubborn, proud but not arrogant. He has mature ideas that are not suitable for his age. He is obviously young, but he isIt doesn't feel boring or boring.But these are just superficial things that Lu Shen saw.

Things on the surface are easily overlapped and copied.

But he still feels that Shangnan is special, unique and unique.

This is his child, so he feels that the other person is good no matter what, and is the most precious thing in the world.Therefore, it is not a bad idea to live a few more years to appreciate the south.

See how Shang Nan struggled in this world full of hatred and death, and finally became a little adventurer.

"Lu Shen..." Shannan crossed his legs and murmured the name.

"Well," Lu Ji responded to him, "It's the Lu family from long ago."

Shang Nan: "Is this the ancestor?"

"It can be understood that way." The bones on the skull's face were gradually covered by Lu Ji's face, the beautiful eyebrows and bridge of the nose, and the protruding Adam's apple, but his hands were still bone-white.

Lu Ji leaned over and picked up the tea cup, "But this statement is not entirely accurate, because I also have parents above me."

Shang Nan organized his words in his mind. After a few seconds, he asked tentatively, "Then you became like this because of a fire? Then how did you become Lu Ji?""

Lu Ji lowered his eyes and smiled softly, "Why are you asking for such details?"

"I'm curious." Shannan had already found an excuse for himself. People's curiosity is very strong anyway.

"You don't need to know this." Lu Ji said.

"oh……"

When Mrs. Xiang brought the sweet soup, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Lu Ji was no longer the same as before. It wasn't that she was afraid of Lu Shen or Lu Ji, it was just that the restored Lu Shen would be a little... how should I put it, sheActually, I can’t explain it clearly. If I must say it, it’s—it’s not a human feeling.

It’s Lu Shen, but it’s not Lu Shen. It’s Lu Ji, but it’s not Lu Ji.

Lu Shen was already a monster, and Lu Xiang knew that, so the feeling he gave her was a mixture of intimacy and terror, with the latter accounting for the greater proportion.Even she is no longer human, she is not even a monster.

Shang Nan finished most of the bowl of sweet soup, and his stomach was already too full. He stood up from the carpet, walked around for a few steps, and said, "I'm going to bed, how about you?"

Lu Ji didn't answer when he was going to rest, he just smiled and said, "Good night Xiaonan."

Shang Nan ate so much that he fell asleep not long after lying on the bed. The wind started blowing in the middle of the night, and the winter wind sounded like ghosts and wolves howling, which was enough to show the bad weather here.

It didn't take long.

It was bright and early in the morning, and Miwu Mountain in the distance was shrouded in thick fog. The branches of the oak forest not far away stretched out in the fog, like long twisted shadows.

A brightly washed classic car drove up from the highway in the distance. The license plate number was unclear and it finally stopped slowly in front of the big iron gate. After a while, the iron gate opened and the classic car turned a big curve and drove into the courtyard.

Shang Nan accidentally caught a glimpse of him when he got up and went to the bathroom. Since he had already seen it, he might as well look at it for a while. Standing at the cold air outlet, Shang Nan saw a young man coming out of the car. He looked like he was about the same age as Lu Ji, right?, even smaller.

The young man was carrying a canvas bag and a denim coat over his sweatshirt. He looked very casual. His sneakers were on the gravel road and Butler Meng led him into the main room.

It doesn't look like the Lu family. The Lu family are very particular on the surface. It's impossible for them to use that kind of canvas bag.

[14: It is the teacher that Butler Meng found for you. He is a very smart, talented and kind-hearted young man. He completed graduate school at the age of twenty-two, and then returned to this town, his hometown, to become a teacher in the middle school. He has little qualifications., the teaching tasks assigned to him by the school are not heavy, and he is just right to be your teacher. He is young, and it is easy for you to have common topics.]

[14: I forgot to tell you his name, his name is Su Yi.]

After Shang Nan closed the window and retreated into the quilt, he later realized that he felt cold. He shivered. Thinking of Hu Dielan, the others, and the Lu family getting up before dawn every day to go to class, it made his mouth taste bitter.

The Lu family did not indulge in laxity in education. They did not fall behind in any aspect of morality, intelligence, physical education, art and work, and were very strict.Even if you can't be the head of the family, it will be no problem to go to the branch office in the future.

One time it rained heavily, and the mud in the racecourse splashed several meters high. They wore raincoats for equestrian lessons. Lu Li, Lu Qisheng, and two others had already finished their lessons. They acted as examiners for the remaining younger siblings. The teachers and coaches next to them were only responsible for supervision., the youngest Lu Qidong is only thirteen years old, and he has to step on a stool to get on a horse.

Shang Nan was accompanying Lu Ji to watch their exam.

Mud and water splashed, riding whips rose and fell in the air, and the horses' neighing mixed with the sound of falling raindrops.The Lu family has almost no love for their descendants, and this is their training ground.

Shannan didn't want to take this kind of class.

No need.

It's not from humans.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the chef had already prepared breakfast. When Lu Ji sat down, he found that the seat for admiring the south was still empty. Just as he was about to ask, Mrs. Xiang hurriedly came from the direction of the corridor.

"Xiaonan has a fever. It looks serious." Mrs. Xiang put the thermometer into the box. "Should I ask the doctor to come and take a look?"

Lu Ji frowned slightly, thinking about the weather these days, it seems normal to get sick, "Call the doctor first, I'll go up and take a look."

Lu Ji didn't even move his breakfast and went straight upstairs.

When I went upstairs, I even forgot to take a breath. I usually had to cough a few times after walking a few steps.

Shang Nan asked 14 to help raise his body temperature. 14 was a little unskilled. In the last world, Shang Nan was covered in sweat. This time...

"Hot, hot, hot." Shonan coughed a few times and took his hand away from his forehead, "I'm going to be cooked. I didn't die in the hands of the monster, but I might die in your hands."

14 Busy start adjusting the temperature system, adjust it downwards.

When Lu Ji came in, 14 had just been adjusted. Shannan was a little dizzy from the high temperature. When Lu Ji walked in, he only saw a ball of white shadows, and the snowflakes that appeared after the black and white TV was stuck.Similar.

Until Lu Ji approached.

Lu Ji bent down and put the back of his hand on Shang Nan's forehead. It was indeed very hot.Seeing Shang Nan cover her up tightly with the quilt, Lu Ji pulled the quilt slightly open.

Shang Nan opened his eyelids in a daze. He indeed looked extremely uncomfortable, his face was pale, and his eyelids were weakly raised.

If he didn't know that Shang Nan was still alive and kicking the day before, Lu Ji would have thought that he was seriously ill.

"Brother." Shang Nan's voice was hoarse and his throat hurt like a knife. He said that he had overheated him, his throat was burning and smoking, and he was not skilled at his business at all.

"Don't talk if you feel uncomfortable," Lu Ji said softly, "Lu Xiang has already gone to see a doctor."

Shannan looked at Lu Ji blankly. He was completely in a daze, but in Lu Ji's eyes, there was a look of attachment and pitifulness. A certain corner of Lu Ji's heart naturally felt as if it had been soaked by rain, and then that corner became weak.Collapsed.

The quilt was chosen by Mrs. Xiang. It was fluffy and soft, with a snow-white surface. The boy's body was tightly wrapped, and his pale face made his eyes as dark as the core of a longan that had just been peeled off.

It belongs to it, Xiaonan belongs to it alone.

Slender and beautiful fingers fell on Shan Nan's cheek. The coldness of the white bones penetrated very strongly. Shan Nan shrank. He looked at Lu Ji's dark pupils and said, "I want to drink water."

At the same time as Shang Nan finished speaking, Mrs. Xiang led the doctor upstairs.

When Mrs. Xiang entered the room, Lu Ji was holding the back of Shannan's head and feeding Shannan some water.

The doctor was the one who treated Shangnan's knee bruise last time. His surname was Wang.

Dr. Wang knew how much this child was valued in the Lu family, but it was different to see it with his own eyes.

Young Master Lu can't take care of his own body, but he can still serve others with his own hands?

Dr. Wang dutifully put the water on Shang Nan, "Don't secretly adjust the liquid speed by yourself. If it is too fast, your heart will not be able to bear it. There are five bags of medicine in total, just change it."

"The temperature has dropped suddenly in the past two days, and many people in the family have caught colds. You were the first to have a fever, and your fever reached 40 degrees." Dr. Wang joked, "Are you being cool?"

Shang Nan didn't even have the strength to shake his head. His eyelids were half-drowned and his head was feeling dizzy.

If he had known that 14 could make him burn so badly, he should have warned him to hold back. This was too much fun. He just wanted to avoid going to class. If he was weak, Lu Ji would definitely not let him go to class like that.Bitter exercise classes.

He doesn't want to be the head of the family, and he doesn't want to be someone's assistant in a company. The world of work is not like his original world. Shang Nan's sense of shame is much lighter, and he is ready to eat his old age.

Shonan didn't know when the doctor left after that. He fell asleep again and slept soundly. He didn't know who changed the potion.

When I woke up again, the fluid had been transfused, and I didn’t even know when the needle had been removed.

Shangnan feels much better, but I don’t have much energy, and I am still thirsty and hungry.

[14: There is good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear first?]

Shang Nan: "Let's talk about it together."

[14: The good news is that Lu Ji has canceled the same exercise classes for you and them. The bad news is that you have an additional physical education class to enhance your physical fitness.]

"..."

[14: The result is better than before, much better than their equestrian fencing and boxing.]

Yes, Shang Nan is satisfied. If he still maintains the original arrangement, then his efforts will be in vain.

There was no one in the house, and no sound could be heard outside. The winter sun shone brightly through the glass windows, and the white curtains looked like glowing sheets of light.

Shannan went to the bedroom to take a shower, changed into thick clothes, and walked slowly downstairs to find some water.

Normally during this time, Lu Ji should be in the main room listening to their classes.

Shan Nan didn't expect that Lu Ji was still in the room. Lu Ji was wearing a loose and soft white sweater, his body was sunken into the sofa, a book was placed on his lap, and the screwdriver was sleeping next to his legs. It was a gentle and peaceful scene.

After admiring Nan, he was stunned for a moment, then turned around and walked to Lu Ji to say hello. He did not dare to forget Lu Ji's rules.

His movements were neither standard nor beautiful, he was lazy and perfunctory, and he even sighed, "Good afternoon..." His voice was a little hoarse.

After he finished speaking, he raised his head and tried to stand up. A glass of water appeared in front of him, and it was Lu Ji who poured it over to him.

Lu Ji passed the glass forward with a gentle expression, "The fever has subsided after taking my temperature before, and my face looks better than in the morning."

Shang Nan reached out to hold the water cup to drink water, but Lu Ji's fingers held the cup holder and did not take it back.

A little confused, a little uncomfortable, but forget it, he was dying of thirst.

The mouth of the cup pried open Shang Nan's lips. The water temperature was just right, neither cold nor overheated.When the first water flowed into his mouth, Shannan even tasted sweetness, and he moved forward eagerly.

At this time, Shannan was half-kneeling on the carpet, with his head raised and his neck straightened. When he drank water, his delicate Adam's apple slid up and down. He held the cup in both hands like a kitten lifting its front paws off the ground for a delicious bite..

Lu Ji held the cup holder steadily and tilted the cup according to the speed of Shang Nan swallowing water, his expression was extremely comfortable.