Forever, beauty bone

Chapter 15 Eighteen Sons Rosary (1)
There are always many stories in the library.

She didn't know how many people she had been with and how many affairs she had hidden.But this is Jiangnan, and the building in my memory is far away in the northwest.Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

Zhou Wenxing took out the old long copper key from his body and opened the lock.

Perhaps because she was afraid that Shi Yi loved to be clean, she opened the door and told her that there would be regular people to clean it every day, so there would be no dust: "By the way, are you allergic to dust, flowers and plants?"

Shi Yi shook his head.

"My elder brother is allergic to dust and flowers." Zhou Wenxing smiled softly.

Shi Yi nodded: "Remember, from now on, the house must be spotless, and no flowers or plants can be planted."

Zhou Wenxing laughed: "His allergies are not serious." She suddenly lowered her voice, as if she was biased towards Shi Yi, "So when you quarreled with him, let him smell the flowers, and he will have small red bumps on his body. Not much, but very interesting."

Shi Yi really suspected that the girl in front of her was a medical student.Even she knows that allergies are things that cannot be ignored. Although most of them are not serious, when they become serious, it is still very scary.

The interior is really spotless.

Shiyi went from the first floor to the third floor, as if appreciating an antique, from the furnishings in every corner to the wood carvings that you can see when you look up, you find it interesting.Zhou Wenxing didn't seem to have any interest in ancient literature, and he couldn't explain why, so he let her go to the top of the building.Because it is an ancient building, the building is ten feet high.

On the east and south sides of the third floor, there are hanging windows, and books of various colors are placed on dozens of rows of bookshelves.There are scrolls and books, but fortunately there are no bamboo slips, otherwise she would really doubt the age she is in.

Zhou Wenxing answered the phone and hurried downstairs because of poor signal.

She stood by the bookshelf, picked up a book, and heard footsteps.

Soon, Zhou Shengchen appeared at the stairs. He put his hand on the carved wooden handrail at the end of the stairs, and saw her through the gap of a row of three-meter-high bookshelves: "Is there any book you like?"

"I just arrived not long ago," she put down her book, "Didn't you say that there are things to deal with at home?"

"It's over," he smiled slightly, "I shouldn't need to intervene in the remaining matters between the sisters-in-law."

His expression was calm, but there was still some discomfort in his voice.

After all, they were all family conflicts, and he really didn't need to be in charge.

So he left in a hurry, even walking a little fast, just to see how Shi Yi would react when he saw such a gift.But when she saw it at this time, she found that her attitude was not important.

With her back facing the setting sun outside the window, her calm and classical temperament is very much like the legendary woman who looks all over the city.

"Why don't you go to the window to have a look?" He walked over unhurriedly.

Shi Yi was stunned for a moment, glanced at the half-open window, and actually paced back and forth.There was a deep sense of fear, which made her fingers tremble and her breathing was difficult.She is not afraid of heights, ten feet is only the height of a ten-story building, but why is she so afraid.She took a deep breath lightly, afraid that he would see her abnormality.

But he had already walked to the window first, opened the window completely, and hung the supporting hooks.

In this way, the field of vision is wider.

There was a wind blowing in, and on the bookshelf near the window, several pages of books were brushed over.

He leaned against the window and turned to look at her: "Come, take a look here."

Shi Yi didn't dare to move, she felt some pain all over her body, the pain oozing from the cracks in her bones made her clenched her fists tightly.

He looked out of the window and never noticed her strangeness: "Standing here, you can see the whole panorama of the old house, as well as the sunset."

The voice is faint, so familiar in the cool evening breeze.

Shi Yi restrained the fear in his heart, walked over slowly and step by step, and handed him his hand.Until it was gently held by him and brought to the window.The moment she supported the window lattice, there was only blood in front of her eyes, and his voice was clearly so close, but it seemed to be separated by a layer of mist, so she couldn't hear it clearly.

"Not feeling well?" Zhou Shengchen put one hand on her side, looked down at her face turned slightly pale, "Shi Yi?"

He called her name, his breath was in his ear, and his body temperature.

All the touches of reality gradually pulled her back from the nightmare until her eyes became clear again.

The blood light dissipated.

Just the afterglow of the setting sun.

The continuous white walls and black tiles, as well as the rich green, are all elongated by the afterglow.It is really an old house with no boundaries at a glance, and those wind and fire walls that seem to be the boundaries are hidden in the twilight.

so gorgeous.

She thought that he wanted to see the beautiful scenery for himself.

There was some sweat on her forehead, and it was only in the light that was about to disperse that he saw it clearly: "I'm sweating so much all of a sudden, is it really uncomfortable?" She shook her head, and before she could speak, Zhou Wenxing had already walked upstairs Come.

Zhou Shengchen wanted to wipe the sweat off her forehead, but he stretched out half of his hand just now, so he withdrew it halfway and inserted it into the pocket of his trousers.It seems that he is always reserved in front of the third person, reserved like a monk who is not close to women.

Shi Yi was amused by his action.

So when Zhou Wenxing came up, what he saw was that Shi Yi was smiling amusingly, but his brother looked at Shi Yi seriously, with no smile on his face, but a slight pleasure in his eyes.

Zhou Wenxing became more and more fond of his future sister-in-law.

You know, this brother scientist has never been interested in women.

In the evening, Zhou Shengchen took her to see her grandmother.

What surprised her was that his grandmother was so old that she didn't live in the old house.

The car drove out of the mountainous area, turned into a nearby town that was not too prosperous, and saw an old man living alone in a two-story small building.Nearly a hundred years old, his old eyes are dim, but his thinking is clear.

While she was sitting by the rocking chair and talking with her grandmother, Zhou Shengchen was patiently checking the appliances and equipment.Even the shower head has to be checked personally for any clogged pores.

"No matter how patient a person is, he will lose his patience when facing old people who are not related to him all the year round. No matter how many people are arranged here, there will always be times when they are not dedicated. It is better to check yourself." He walked over, When watching yourself working, you should explain softly.

Shi Yi nodded: "Escorts are not biological children, there will always be negligence."

He smiled: "Empathy?"

She explained: "In the past, my mother and several uncles took turns taking care of my grandma, because I found that the escort did not talk to my grandma, and she did not get enough sunlight for the elderly. These are small things, but children will take care of them."

She looked at him and couldn't help wondering if he was also so patient in the laboratory.

After Zhou Shengchen checked the bathroom, he turned on the faucet and washed his hands.

She looked so carefully, and found that there seemed to be scars on the palm of his hand: "Your hand, was it injured?"

He hummed: "This is normal."

What he said is normal, naturally, in the laboratory, there are always these and other small dangers.Shi Yi pursed his lips, feeling a little distressed, but also felt that this was his job, so there was nothing much to say.

Seeing that he was almost done checking, she left the bathroom and continued to talk to grandma.

Zhou Shengchen lowered his head and continued to wash his hands, meticulously, but he couldn't help smiling and shook his head.

When Shi Yi returned to the old man's side, he was groped and put on a string of emerald beads.

Grandma held her hand and patted it gently.Before she could look carefully, she heard grandma talking.

"I gave birth to a daughter, and I will be sorry to Zhou Sheng's family for the rest of my life." Grandma's articulateness was no longer clear, and she reluctantly bent over to listen. You shouldn't have married her."

Shi Yi was confused by what he heard, and guessed that the young master grandma was talking about was not Zhou Shengchen, but his father.

Grandma sighed heavily.

Then holding a string of one hundred and eight jadeite bracelets, he silently recited scriptures.

Zhou Shengchen came out just in time, and when he saw the 28-child emerald bracelet on her wrist, surprise flashed from his eyes.On the way back, he told the origin of the eighteen-zi bracelet: "The circumference is [-] centimeters, eighteen emerald beads." His fingers slid down the rope under the coral beads, "Pink carved tourmaline, and There are coral beads and pearls."

She raised her wrist: "very delicate."

"This is something from the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties."

Shi Yi suddenly realized, and couldn't help laughing: "Zhou Shengchen, can you give me a safe? I want to lock them properly."

"This is a rosary, a bracelet that has been used for many generations to chant sutras and mantras, wear it," he smiled, "The Buddha will bless you."

"I know this," she fiddled with the beads one by one with her index finger, "this one is the smallest, and there are 27, 54, and [-] beads, all of which are bracelets for chanting sutras."

The car was driving in the mountains and forests, the winding mountain road was very quiet, and the air seemed even better.

There was a breeze blowing in from the half-open car window, blowing the broken hair around her cheeks, such a smiling expression, and the pride of showing off her knowledge in a small way, making Shi Yi look... a little cute.

He looked at her for a while without speaking.

Instead, he looked at her a little embarrassed, smiled, and said nothing more.

His car, and the four cars that followed, kept a certain distance and headed towards the old house one after another.

But when he was about to arrive, he saw from a distance that there were many police cars listening outside the gate.

Those police cars were quiet, but they all had their headlights on. The pale lights of four or five cars interlaced, clearly illuminating the road and stone sculptures at the entrance of the old house.Uncle Lin quickly put on the earphones, and whispered to the car behind to choose a path and not to follow.

Shi Yi didn't understand why, he hurriedly turned his head and glanced at Zhou Shengchen.

He wasn't surprised.

He just put down his rolled-up cuffs and fastened the cuff buttons alone: ​​"Uncle Lin, give me Miss Shi Yi's passport." Uncle Lin held the steering wheel with his left hand and continued to drive steadily towards the entrance of the old house, while his right hand was from the car. In the storage compartment inside, he took out four passports and handed them over.

"Shi Yi, remember," Zhou Shengchen took her purse and put the four passports in, "You now have the nationality of four countries, and I have diplomatic immunity here, you are my wife in name, so , you are also entitled to immunity."

What he said was very flat, Shi Yi was a little hard to understand.

"To put it simply," he told her calmly, "no matter what happens, you can ignore it."

The car stopped slowly.

Uncle Lin took off his gloves first, folded them and put them in the driver's seat, adjusted his suit lightly, and got out of the car first.Shi Yi looked at everything that happened in front of him in astonishment.Two policemen approached, shook hands with Uncle Lin very politely, and whispered something.

Uncle Lin quickly shook his head, leaned over to look inside the car, and explained.

In the quiet picture, she couldn't hear any conversation, but she could feel the seriousness of the situation.

Still talking.

There was no sound outside the window, but she had been thinking a lot.

She had never even seen the passport in her purse, let alone knew anything about it.She thought that Zhou Shengchen was just the eldest son of the family, but she never guessed that he had the ability to completely change his nationality without even knowing it himself.

As for the four or five police cars in front of him, Uncle Lin dealt with it calmly.

It also shows that he has known this for a long time and expected it, so he put the two of them in the safest identities first.

Does he have "diplomatic immunity"?Which country's diplomatic envoy is he?
Uncle Lin had already turned back, walked to Zhou Shengchen's side, opened the door for him, and soon ran to Shi Yi's side, and opened the car door for her in the same bowing posture.

After Shi Yi got off the car, he quickly took his arm.

With so many police cars parked at the gate, it was impossible not to feel uneasy, and her hand was a little tight.

"Mr. Zhou Sheng, hello."

The leading middle-aged policeman and a prosecutor who came in person stepped forward, shook hands, and stated the purpose of the trip in a business-like manner.

Zhou Shengchen kept smiling and remained silent, while Shi Yi lowered his eyes and kept looking at the ground.When he heard about Tang Xiaofu's murder case, he couldn't help but clenched his fingers even tighter.

The middle-aged policeman said he was known to have diplomatic immunity.

But this case is not just a simple criminal case.A series of charges of illegal detention, enforced disappearance, murder, and torture all involved him to some extent, and some of the charges even came from across the country.She was terrified when she heard it, and kept holding his arm tightly to prevent herself from showing any abnormal expressions.

He still didn't say anything until finally he said goodbye very politely.

The power of silence is terrifying.

But it is not a black hole that makes people dream.

This plain-faced Chinese man is an associate professor at the Berkeley School of Chemistry, and he was already a Russian diplomat who disclosed his identity ten days ago.Such a weird change of identity, even the woman beside him, also left her nationality before filing the case and became his legal wife in Russia.All in all, in order to deal with these accusations.

"Mr. Zhou Sheng, we hope you can stop your academic exchange activities in Xi'an."

He pondered for a while: "I'm sorry, but I will definitely respect your wishes."

Out of politeness, he watched all the uninvited guests leave with the etiquette of the master.

Shi Yi wanted to move, but his legs were already numb due to tense nerves for a long time.Zhou Shengchen didn't pay attention, took two steps forward, and then realized that it was too late.Because of his movement, she couldn't keep up, and she knelt on the ground as soon as her legs softened.

It hurts, she frowned.

The stockings rubbed against the rough ground, sticking to the chafed wound.

"I'm sorry, Shi Yi." He knelt on one knee, squatted in front of her, and carefully inspected the wound.

Because she was in too much pain, she held her arm and was about to sit on the ground, but he stopped him: "Don't sit on the ground, the light here is not good, and it's not convenient for people to come out for inspection. I'll carry you in."

Before she could answer, he had already stretched out his arms and hugged her horizontally.

Soon he stepped up more than a dozen bluestone steps, and Uncle Lin quickly pushed open the door. He kept slacking all the way, and it could almost be said that he was walking like flying.On the road, people kept bowing to call the young master, and some slightly familiar faces looked at them in surprise.

Shi Yi rested her head on his shoulder, listening to his rapid heartbeat, her breathing also quickened.

Because of the pain, but also because of such a horizontal hug.

She looked at the silver-gray stockings on her knees, which were stained with blood, and there were layers of jumping threads, looking very embarrassed and ugly.There was a very secret thought that actually overshadowed the fear just now and the pain of falling down. She wanted to cover her knees, and she really didn't want him to see anything bad...

Of course Zhou Shengchen didn't know what she was thinking.

It wasn't until he walked into his own yard and saw the Chinese and Western doctors summoned by Uncle Lin that he felt relieved.

There are not only family doctors waiting in the hall.

It was really full of people.

Shi Yi knew his mother, uncle, brother Zhou Wenchuan, and sister-in-law Tong Jiaren.Those who don't know each other are naturally the elders near and far in the family, and those of the same generation don't seem to be qualified to participate in this matter.When those people saw this scene, their expressions were different. His mother and Tong Jiaren's expressions changed a little, but Zhou Wenchuan found it very interesting and lamented that his elder brother was getting more and more emotional.

"I'll be down soon." He finished briefly and carried her upstairs.

Four family doctors followed.

When he carried her to the wooden chair in the room, Zhou Shengchen finally noticed that his hand was leaning against her chest.

The moment he saw it, she saw it too.

He quickly withdrew his hand, and after instructing the doctors to deal with it quickly, he walked downstairs without looking back.

(End of this chapter)