Chapter 49 The Roar of Bones

Chapter 49 The Roar of Bones

The embarrassment of acting without the other party knowing is completely less than the embarrassment of pretending to act after the other party knows.

When Lu Ji called out "young master", Shannan almost wanted to pack his luggage and leave this world immediately.

In the living room, Lu Ji made a cup of strong green tea for Shang Nan. The tea leaves were soaked in hot water and all the tea leaves dispersed. There was only one third of the water in the cup, and the remaining two thirds were all tea leaves.

Shang Nan was not very keen on green tea at first. He would not drink this kind of strong tea, no matter what kind of expensive tea leaves it was brewed with.

"You used to love drinking tea like this the most." Lu Ji sat down opposite Shang Nan. He smiled, as gentle as before.

He did it on purpose.

Shannan thought.

Lu Ji did not question Shan Nan, he just waited for Shan Nan to react.

Shang Nan was so embarrassed that he wished he could hit the ground.

Just in time, Mrs. Xiang walked over from the kitchen while wearing an apron. She didn't feel the strange atmosphere between Shonan and Lu Ji, but asked Shonan directly, "How about making oysters and mussels for tempura?"There are shrimps, okay?”

Shang Nan responded calmly, "Okay."

Mrs. Xiang: "One portion?"

Shan Nan subconsciously wanted to raise his scissor hands, but fortunately he reacted quickly. He put down the hand that was about to be raised, straightened his clothes, and said, "Okay."

After Mrs. Xiang returned to the kitchen, the living room returned to silence.

Shang Nan couldn't resist Lu Ji's look, which was completely different from his previous gentle look. He pondered for a while and cleared his throat, "Just kidding, can't you afford it?"

Lu Ji: "..."

There are some things that, once done, will be as difficult to turn back as climbing to heaven. This is about admiring the south.

It has been two days since Shang Nan woke up, and today is the third day. Lu Ji's complexion looks better than before. After all, he is older than Shang Nan. No matter how good a child's acting skills are, they are just acting., Lu Ji has seen so many actors in the big theater of the Lu family. If it were not the child he liked, he would expose the other person when Shan Nan asked the first question "Who are you?"

But he thought that Shannan might be afraid, but he still had to ask what exactly he was afraid of.

Lu Ji stood up, changed the strong tea to lighter tea, took a macaron, "Eat it."

Like feeding a cat,

Shang Nan's eyes slowly moved from the green tea to Lu Ji's face, "Are you angry?"

"No," Lu Ji said with a smile, "How could I be angry? Your injury was originally caused by the Lu family. If it weren't for Lu Xiao, you should have had a good sleep that night."

There is a scar on the back of Shang Nan's hand. Although it is very shallow, you can't tell it without looking carefully.But Lu Ji held the injured area and looked at it countless times. The new skin that grew after the burn was different from the original one. The doctor had tried his best to avoid leaving too obvious scars on the affected area, but there was still a circle around the affected area., there is still a dividing line with the original skin.

Lu Ji looked out the window, "You have been sleeping for four months, and winter has come."

Shang Nan bit into the sweet macaron and nodded, "Yes."

Several hounds outside ran to the lawn not far away. The lawn was being mowed and piles of grass clippings were piled up. They ran over and scattered the grass clippings in all directions.

"Your eighteenth birthday has passed, do you know?" Lu Ji turned around.

Shan Nan counted the days and said, "I know."

Lu Ji still looked at Shan Nan for a moment.

Shang Nan is not a smart person when it comes to relationships. He needs someone to guide and expose him, so when Lu Ji looked at him without saying a word, he was curious as to why the other person looked at him like that.

It wasn't until 14 found out the "chat records" between him and Lu Ji last year - Lu Ji proposed that they would start a relationship in the near future, and Shan Nan's answer at that time was: Yes... yes.

There was a "bah" sound from the kitchen, and it didn't stop after that. The area of the room here was not as large as that of the main house. The main house was as gorgeous and broad as a castle, while the Luji side was just a small bungalow.

So if there is too much noise in any room, people in other rooms can hear a little bit.

Because of the noise made by Mrs. Xiang, Shang Nan became less nervous. He swallowed and looked directly at Lu Ji, "What do you want to say?"

At first, Shang Nan only regarded Lu Ji as a beloved elder or brother. After all, it was difficult for Shang Nan to treat Lu Ji as a peer for someone who lived more than 600 years ago.

But no matter what Lu Ji is in essence, he looks... he looks no different from a human being.

Shannan didn't even see the weakness and collapse of faith on the other person's face. He only saw it in the clip provided by 14. Lu Shen was surrounded by fire and his hands hidden under the table were shaking slightly. At that time, Lu Shen was still human., can be afraid, can feel pain, and have all the emotions that humans can have.

This is what he thinks. Anyway, he and the monster are bound, and he has no objection to them being lovers or father and son.

Shang Nan's frankness made Lu Ji's smile fade a little. He took out a tissue and handed it to Shang Nan to wipe his hands, "Xiao Nan, I am twenty-seven years old this year. I am a bit old. You have just grown up. Even in Meize City,I haven’t even walked out... What’s more important is that I’m not human.”

"But I have the most basic emotions and desires," Lu Ji returned to his previous relaxed expression, but he lowered his eyes. He might as well be more open-minded than Shannan, "So, are you willing to stay with me as a partner??" Shannan has grown up and is no longer a child who needs help from others to make decisions in everything. Lu Ji respects his decision in everything.

Lu Ji rarely talked about adult topics with Shang Nan. Shang Nan knew that this was something he had discussed with Lu Ji from the beginning, but now Lu Ji asked him formally again.Shannan thought, Lu Ji might have felt that he was still young at that time, sixteen or seventeen years old, and what he said might be forgotten by him. Besides, last time it was more like coaxing.

It would be more appropriate to say this kind of thing more formally.

Shang Nan was speechless. He felt that the air around him began to heat up, bubble, and finally boil. Compared to this moment, the previous ones were more like temporary jokes, even though Shang Nan knew very well that according to LuWith his character, he would never joke about such a thing.

He made a long "hmm" at the end. It wasn't agreement, it was just a breathy sound that he didn't know how to answer. Lu Ji could also hear it.

"Let's go eat first. Think carefully and think about it before you talk." Lu Ji could really see that Shannan was extremely nervous, which was better than before.The way he acted before made Lu Ji feel that Shan Nan didn't care about him at all, so he said with an indifferent expression, "It's not a hurry."

Lu Ji suddenly stood up.

Shannan was startled. The sweetness in his mouth melted on his tongue before he could swallow it.He turned around suddenly after Lu Shen passed him to the study on the first floor - Lu Ji's hand was hanging by his side next to the seam of his trousers, trembling in a very subtle but visible way.

If Lu Shen's trembling when the fire was approaching was fear and disbelief, then his current performance should be that of nervousness and would have no other meaning.

"Ah, it seems that the memory loss is only temporary."

Mrs. Xiang said this after lunch.

Shang Nan was a little embarrassed, "Human beings are amazing."

But Mrs. Xiang's focus is not on this. She only needs to enjoy Nan Jian's health. It doesn't matter what she remembers or not. After experiencing several lives and deaths, Mrs. Xiang feels that living well is more important than everything else, including love.

She glanced in the direction of the study on the first floor and said, "What's wrong with the young master? You haven't even eaten lunch."

Shang Nan was bending down to take out his books one by one from the cabinet and stack them on the table. He had recovered from his illness and was about to start class again.

"He asked me to think carefully about whether to be with him." Shannan is a modern person, more modern than Lu Ji and the Lu family here. People in the Lu family must abide by family rules, and Lu Ji can't even be said to be a modern person.People nowadays have a lot of rules and principles, whether for themselves or for others.

In fact, he was ready to nod just after admiring Nan. He didn't mind whether Lu Ji was a human or how old he was.He likes Lu Ji, especially when the other person shows human characteristics, it will make Shan Nan feel that the other person is more real.

It is impossible for a person like Lu Ji to lie, but he is too profound to tell lies... Others can't tell, but in the end, some details reveal how nervous and anxious he is while waiting for Shannan's response.nervous.

I didn't even go out for lunch.

Although Shannan had no experience in love, he remembered that he had none.But in the original world, the classmates around me had already started secretly holding hands and hugging each other in high school. When they got to college, they completely let go of the conversation, and everyone would even help each other get out of singles.

So he doesn't object to falling in love, and he doesn't think there's anything embarrassing about it. If he has to say it, it's easier to make people feel embarrassed when facing someone he likes.

Lu Ji is completely different. Lu Ji is a complete antique in this regard.

Mrs. Xiang also agreed, "It does need to be carefully considered. After all, it is a lifelong matter."

Shang Nan stopped and asked, "For a lifetime?"

He didn't think that he and Lu Ji were just playing around. He was serious. After all, no one would fall in love with a monster for the purpose of playing with it.

"Yes," Mrs. Xiang's expression was very serious, "Marriage is a big matter... but if your parents are still here, Xiaonan, they should be very satisfied with the young master."

When Shannan heard that Mrs. Xiang had already mentioned marriage, he was stunned and said, "I didn't think about it that much."

Mrs. Xiang: "What do you mean by not thinking so much? Do you still plan to give up on this kind of thing?"

"I didn't say that."

Mrs. Xiang knew that people nowadays change partners like they change clothes, but Lu Shen is not from this era. Once he opens his mouth, he is really ready to spend his life with the other person.

He will prepare everything.

But what's more humorous is that Shang Nan has no elders. To a certain extent, Lu Ji is his elder, but if Lu Ji becomes Shang Nan's lover, the identity of the elder should cease to exist.

"It would be great if I could find your parents. They would be very happy to see you like you are now." Mrs. Xiang clasped her hands together in anticipation for a few seconds, then put them down and rolled her eyes, "Forget it.The parents who let you live in an orphanage are probably not good people."

Shannan felt that Mrs. Xiang was right, not to mention that he was thrown at the door of the orphanage in winter. He had already seen how cold and biting the winter in Meize City was.

In the early hours of the night, the winter wind howled outside the window, almost uprooting the old trees in the yard, and the fallen leaves were rolled up and fell on the open spaces in the Lu residence.

The heating in Shan Nan's house was turned on so warmly that he had a nightmare. He dreamed that he was in the middle of the fire four months ago again.

He woke up from his dream almost immediately. The wind was blowing rapidly, but the room was quiet and peaceful. It took Shannan a long time to calm down.

Just as he was about to lie down to sleep again, someone knocked on the door gently from outside. The sound of the iron ring on the door panel was crisp, but the sound was not loud, so the person who knocked on the door was only knocking tentatively.

"Xiaonan?" Lu Ji's voice.

Shan Nan hurriedly jumped out of bed and opened the door. He didn't even bother to put on his shoes. He thought Lu Ji had something important to do, but after opening the door, the other person's face looked... pretty good.

He was at a loss for a while, "Ang, do you have anything to do with me?"

"I just came up from the study downstairs and heard noises in your room." The time on the wall clock in the corridor showed 1:30 in the morning, and Shan Nan just sat up from the bed. The skeleton's hearing was too good.

"It was just a nightmare." Shang Nan's bare feet directly touched the cold wooden floor. He felt a little cold after standing for a long time. He ran back and put on his shoes before going back and asking Lu Ji, "Why are you still up so late?"

Lu Ji handed Shannan an envelope and said, "Go back to the room and take a look."

Shoonan took the envelope, looked down at it, and actually sealed it. He didn't know what Lu Ji was going to do, "Okay."

After Lu Ji returned to the room, Shan Nan closed the door. He did not turn on the main light in the room, but only turned on the desk lamp on the desk.

Shang Nan sat in front of the desk and cut the seal with a razor blade, and took out a few thin pieces of envelope paper. The text on them was vertical, and the ink was not even dry. The faint smell of ink spread in the air after the envelope was opened.open.

"Was it written with a brush?" Shang Nan took off his shoes and lay down halfway in the chair. The room was warm and he didn't feel cold. He raised the letter and saw the dim light behind it through the page.

[14: Written by Lu Shen.]

This is the first time Shannan has seen Lu Ji write his name. He has actually never seen Lu Ji write with a pen, because Lu Ji spends most of his time reading. He doesn't write notes or thoughts after reading, he only browses..

However, it is indeed Lu Shen's habit to write with a brush, which requires laying out paper and sharpening ink.It's quite troublesome, and it also tests your calligraphy skills.

The word "Shang Nan" is written in the top box, with the prefix "Beloved" in front.

——Beloved Appreciation South:

What comes next is the text.

Lu Shen's subtle tenderness was clearly reflected in this letter. It's no wonder that he wrote so many pieces of paper and they were all filled up. It's just that Shan Nan, who is used to reading horizontally, was a little uncomfortable reading vertically.

He said that when he first met Shannan, he just thought there was an extra child around him who needed to be taken care of.After all, at that time, Shannan was as white as wallpaper with an unhealthy cyan tint. He was thin and small, with only one pair of eyes that could barely be called beautiful.

He said that he didn't care about people's appearance. Among the group of friends at that time, Shang Nan's appearance was not the best, at least in Lu Ji's eyes, but fate was not something that Lu Shen could live another five or six hundred years.times, it is impossible to describe it clearly.

All endings in the world, whether good or bad, or even encounters without endings, can be classified as fate.

He said that when he met Shang Nan for the first time, he had already planned a future for Shang Nan - he would be raised in Luzhai until adulthood, and then sent to an outside school to study and make some sincere friends who were not utilitarian.When it is time to talk about marriage, if Shang Nan needs it, he will find a suitable spouse for Shang Nan.

Lu Shen also mentioned Mrs. Xiang, saying that this girl Lu Xiang had a very vicious mouth and was very harsh with others, but Lu Xiang actually liked him. You know, Lu Xiang had experienced countless storms with Lu Shen.

Shang Nan sat up straight. He put the page of letter paper he had read on the table, and then looked at the second page. There was not a single typo in the whole article, not even too sloppy strokes. Shang Nan was more inclined to think that Lu Ji was too serious.The punctuation marks are all very serious.

The second page talks about Shang Nan's sixteen years old.

Lu Shen said that he had never taken care of a child. Even Lu Xiang only officially started working with him after attending school. Children at that time were relatively precocious. He said that this kind of precocity was not really precocious, but the time.They are required to mature early, and when they are ripe, they are also ripe, and when they are raw, they are also ripe.

He said that Shang Nan was like a child, but at his age, in Lu Shen's era, even if there were no children to hold the couple, they were already engaged.But he really couldn't think of any girl or boy who would match Shannan.He even went out of his way to explain later that he didn’t think other people’s children were bad, he just felt that they weren’t good enough for his own children.

Shang Nan's eyes were a little red. His consciousness was indeed his own, but the indifference imposed on him by his parents and others in this world could not be ignored.

Maybe because he was not from this world, there was even a man in his mind holding a child, sneaking up at the door of the orphanage, gently placing himself wrapped in a quilt at the door, and ran away.Never looked back.

After being taken back by the dean, he drank milk powder and ate rice cereal. Fortunately, his growth path was relatively smooth, and he never got sick very often.

Although the orphanage is under the name of the Lu family, the Lu family has done too much charity, and some of the charity is fake. In the end, the funds flowing to the orphanage are not much. It is just appropriate to raise a group of children, but if you want to popularize it,Education, changing clothes during normal seasons, etc. are all lacking.

When Mo Yuanyuan came, he grabbed everything. He only grabbed the reward from the south. The dean was too busy and couldn't take care of it.

Deep down in his heart, Shan Nan longed to be loved, so Lu Ji's thoughtfulness and care were particularly precious.

No one can be truly moved.

Lu Shen continued to say that he didn't expect children to grow up so fast. It had only been half a year since he came to Lu Zhai, and Shannan had changed his appearance. His skin was whiter, his eyes were brighter, and his hair was cut clean and delicate. Lu XiangI have said several times that he looks more like a young master than those from the Lu family.

He said that he had raised a great child and that he was lucky. Lu Shen said that he began to feel less resentful. He felt that because of admiring Nan, he could try to slowly accept the world.

He said that if it weren't for Lu Huan, he might have thought that he was just a parent protecting his children until Shannan was an adult. Lu Shen said at the end of this page that he might not be as young as the young people who understand this aspect, so late., only then did he understand his own thoughts.

The third page.

Shannan was about to cry. He didn't know this. He didn't know that Lu Shen had so many thoughts in his heart.

There are even many details that Shannan himself has not noticed.

Lu Shen said that he had lived for so many years and had seen many beautiful women and charming young men. Logically speaking, he should like one or a few of them, but in fact, he had never fallen in love with any of them.I had the idea of spending a lifetime with the other person.

He thinks Shannan is very good, but that doesn't mean he is perfect. He knows that Shannan doesn't like to study, is very petty, picky about food, and seems to have a good temper, but that's not the case...but he is happy with Shannan., and it’s not that he likes his shining points. Objectively speaking, his shining points are not enough to cover up his numerous small shortcomings.

The tears that were about to burst out of Shannan's eyes stopped when he saw this. He raised his face and tried to throw back the tears, "Why is Lu Shen like this?"

[14: Look, look, look behind, I will settle the score with him later.]

Shang Nan continued to watch.

Lu Shen also talked about himself.

He said that he was not a very good person. He was far worse than Shang Nan. He was as rotten as an old tree that had been soaked by rain for hundreds of days. He was not a human being. This alone was enough to make Shang Nan run away in panic. IfWithout Shangnan, he would have withered in his rose garden before long.

Later, he said that originally he was looking forward to Shannan coming of age and thought they would have a completely different relationship, but...

"Xiaonan, are you scared?"

He put quotation marks around this sentence. It seemed that Lu Shen really couldn't understand what his child was thinking right now.

After these words, Lu Shen expressed his thoughts.

He felt that Shang Nan should be afraid. How could he not be afraid? He would spend the remaining decades with a skeleton like this. If he refused at this time, then Shang Nan would be able to leave Lu Zhai and leave Meize City., go to college, where he will meet like-minded friends instead of staying with a monster, Lu Shen said, which may be a very boring thing.

He found a reasonable reason for Shang Nan's hesitation. For this reason, Lu Ji, who was the most polite and respectable man, put himself down personally - it was normal for humans to be afraid of monsters.

Lu Shen did not hope that Shannan would reply to him as soon as possible in the letter. He just told Shannan about his feelings over the past few years until now.

At the end, he listed the current assets of the Lu family, and also made a rough display of what could be given to Shang Nan in the future. Shang Nan counted them line by line with his fingers. Lu Ji had prepared enough for Shang Nan.Two-thirds of the current total assets of the Lu family!

And there are no preconditions. Even if Shang Nan does not agree to him in the end, these are all prepared to be delivered to Shang Nan.

He told Shang Nan the reason why he did not hand over all his assets to Shang Nan. Because there were so many people in the Lu family, they still needed to operate, and many of Lu's businesses still needed to be carried out.

"He is so generous. No wonder the Lu family is so big." Shang Nan carefully folded the letter and stuffed it back into the envelope.

[14: Money is something external to the body, but you are the person inside.]

Shannan put the envelope into the drawer properly, turned off the desk lamp, and said to 14: "Tell me, how many romantic movies have you secretly watched recently? Your level of love talk has improved a lot."

[14: Sent out of emotion.]

[14:Are you ready to agree to it?]

Shannan had already laid back on the bed. He closed his eyes and opened them again, "What time is it?"

[14: It’s exactly two o’clock in the morning.]

"Oh..." Shan Nan said, "I will get up at about nine o'clock, so I should agree to Lu Ji within seven hours."