Yun Shu only found out about the Ning family in the afternoon of the next day.
She was still learning to ride a horse in the pasture of the territorial mansion, holding the reins and bouncing, which made her thighs hurt.
Gu Xingze drove in, parked in the driveway beside the pasture, lowered the window and called her to stop.
She responded and continued to walk away.
Gu Xingze: "...What are you doing? The performance of the robot has been upgraded, and it will make a sound without leaving a trace?"
"The horse can't stop," she turned around and said naturally, "you should call the horse first."
Gu Xingze put his arms on the car window and couldn't stop laughing.
He opened the car door and got out, stopped the training horse, and then reached out to catch her.
"Come down."
Yun Shu slid down and fell into his arms.
"Why are you back at this time?"
He handed the reins to the person next to him, held her waist and walked out, saying, "I'll tell you something when I come back."
"Can't we talk on the phone?"
"Do you only want to see me during the light-up session at night?" He squeezed the hand on his thin waist.
She pretended that she didn't hear anything about turning on the light or not, and moved forward lightly: "So what do you want to tell me?"
"There was a fire in Ning's house, and everyone died."
Yun Shu was stunned, stopped and looked at him: "All dead?"
"Yeah. Someone locked the door of the villa and set a fire, but no one escaped. It was only a few hours after the fire was put out, and the whole building was turned into black coal."
She frowned and asked directly: "Ning Siyu is also dead?"
"Maybe," Gu Xingze carefully tucked the hair around her cheeks behind her ears, not caring much about it, "but before the fire truck arrived, Ning Zhixia got there first."
Judging from the hatred between their families for twenty or thirty years, Ning Zhixia probably would not save Ning Siyu, not to mention that the door was locked from the inside, making it difficult to get in.
But no one can say for sure.
"Just pretend that she is still alive," she said softly, "but Ning Siyu is dead."
If he is still alive, he should pretend that there is no such person as Ning Siyu. If he leaves the mud of the Ning family, the next few decades may be better.
When she walked to the villa, she lowered her head to change into slippers and asked him again: "Does Ning Siyun know about this?"
"This fire in the Ning family did not happen for no reason. If someone can do it behind the scenes, they will definitely not miss this opportunity to continue irritating Ning Siyun."
It depends on what Ning Siyun will think. Is he unwilling to commit suicide? Or will he wait patiently for revenge in fifteen years?
The latter is probably unlikely. Ning Siyun himself should know that he won't live long.
The way to vent now is probably to bite the person you think is the culprit and drag him down.
So he went out of his way to do a favor and asked people to make the news that some people deliberately sent to prison more realistic.
Telling the truth about Xiao Zhen will speed up the outcome of the Xiao family, and at the same time speed up the outcome of Ning Siyun himself, getting the best of both worlds.
"He won't be in jail for long," he said.
Yun Shu kicked off her slippers and sat down at the table, saying lightly: "It's pretty good."
After she sat down, Aunt Qiu served her a cup of Fritillaria pears.
The weather has been dry recently and she still has a bit of a cough. Aunt Qiu specially made a tonic for her to eat and asked Gu Xingze to watch her finish it.
Because she doesn't like to eat cooked fruit, she always takes two bites and then gives it to Gu Xingze.
One time I didn't even eat it, so I brought it upstairs and stuffed it into him. He said it was specially stewed for him because he coughed today.
The lies he told were so natural and his movements were so fluid, it seemed real at first glance.
Then he was caught by Aunt Qiu.
So today she was not allowed to eat in hiding, and she had to eat on the table before leaving.
She frowned because she was eating. When Aunt Qiu entered the kitchen and disappeared, she pulled Gu Xingze into a kiss with the pear meat in her mouth.
Push the object with the tip of your tongue, then release it after pushing it, lick your mouth and lower your head as if nothing happened.
Gu Xingze: "..."
He swallowed the sweet piece of snow pear and pinched the back of her neck in punishment.
"You do know how to cheat secretly."
He does bad things without blinking an eye, no one can guard against him.
Yun Shu didn't listen and continued to repeat the same set of actions.
This time I happened to be caught by Aunt Qiu who peeked out quietly.
But they kissed so ecstatically that before she could say anything after the kiss, Yun Shu raised her eyes with moist eyes, pointed at Gu Xingze and said, "He insisted on kissing me."
Aunt Qiu: "..."
Gu Xingze: "..."
Gu Xingze laughed angrily because she was taken advantage of and still had to bear the blame. He grabbed her and carried her upstairs.
"Then I have to show you."
Yun Shu was not afraid at all. This kind of thing was not fun for one person.
But eating Sydney means eating alone, so she would rather choose another option.
Aunt Qiu sighed helplessly in the living room, took away the pear cup, put it into the stew pot and continued to warm it.
…
As we enter the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month, the weather becomes colder and the atmosphere of the Spring Festival gradually becomes stronger.
But it’s limited to everyone’s conversation.
Haicheng is cold and tired under the brilliance, and there is no custom of hanging bacon and lanterns everywhere. You can only get a hint of the end of the old year from the crowd's words "It's almost the New Year."
In a nursing home in the suburbs, the person lying on the bed heard the approaching sound of high heels and reflexively lay down and closed his eyes.
The door to the ward was opened, and the person standing beside the bed made no sound.
There was no conversation with the nurse or any other movement. After waiting for a while, the person on the bed couldn't bear it anymore and opened his eyes a little to look over.
Then he met that person's gaze.
Ning Zhixia held her hands, her cold face expressionless, stared at her and said: "Get up when you wake up, don't pretend to be dead here."
Ning Siyu stopped talking and sat up on the hospital bed.
The fire did not engulf her, but the excessive smoke caused respiratory burns and other sequelae, which made her lie down for several days before she felt better.
But she still couldn't believe that Ning Zhixia would actually come to save her.
He only saved her.
So much so that she didn't think about how to face it these days, so she could only pretend to be asleep every time Ning Zhixia came.
"You..." Her voice was hoarse and the pain was unbearable, so she could only speak intermittently, "The nurse said it was you who saved me. Why are you so kind-hearted all of a sudden?"
Ning Zhixia: “It’s just a sudden act of kindness.”
"...But the door isn't..."
"How many years has your mother lived there and how many years have I lived there? When I was a child, I dug through everything in the house. There was a removable panel on that door specially made to prevent accidents. Speaking of which, it was still my mother.
That’s what you told me originally.”
Ning Siyu bit her lips and said nothing.
There was nothing to say to each other. Ning Zhixia took out another card from her bag and put it on the bedside table, saying coldly:
"The doctor said you are almost recovered and can leave in two days. Here is 100 million. Take this money and find a place to live where I can't see you."
Ning Siyu looked at the card blankly, then looked at her and opened her mouth, but still no words came out.
She added: "The Ning family's mud has been burned clean, and there is nothing left."
Resentment, disgust, and anger all dissipated into the night sky with the black smoke. It was time for the remaining people to break out of the swamp and live a more relaxed life.
"Ning Siyun should have received the news, but he won't live long. I think you have an ostrich personality and you probably don't want to face him again, so take the money and leave. I finally calmed down, and I don't want to see anyone named Ning in the future.
Man, I’ll treat this 100 million as buying you and disappear.”
After saying these words, Ning Zhixia turned around and left without caring about Ning Siyu's reaction.
Before leaving the ward, a harsh voice came from inside. Ning Siyu swallowed her throat and finally called her: "...sister."
Ning Zhixia kept walking, but her answers were enough for the people inside to hear clearly.