Chapter 152 Unconsciously, I had too many memories

The moment I entered the door, I saw them, and they saw me. Everyone had a smile on their face… Chengqing brother waved the wine flask in his hand at me and gave me a thumbs up. I heard that since the last time I offered a sacrifice to Uncle Li at his grave, Chengqing brother has fallen in love with drinking, and he drinks a little bit every day.

His heart seemed to be heavy… but he didn’t want to talk about it, and everyone kept silent.

He looked at me and smiled, and I smiled back… before the smile had faded, a figure had already rushed towards me, affectionately holding my arm. It was still the familiar voice: “Third Brother…” I didn’t need to turn around to know who it was, and I affectionately touched her hair and said with a smile, “Ru Yue, have you seen your sister?”

Ru Yue obviously did not expect me to say such a thing. She looked at me with a smile that froze on her face, and called out to me hesitantly.

Obviously, she was afraid that I had a problem. After all, the relationship between me and Ru Xue was not well known to everyone except for Lu Shan and Tao Bai. Everyone knew about it…

“It’s okay, silly girl… I’m fine with your sister, it’s as beautiful as a dream.” When I said these words, my mouth was smiling, but my whole body was slightly sluggish, because I unconsciously remembered the reunion with Ru Xue last night…

“Third brother, are you really okay?” Yue looked at me with some concern. Perhaps in her eyes, I was a little ‘crazy’ in this state.

At this time, a man pulled me over and said to Yueyue, “Don’t worry about him. Since he can talk about it on his own, it means that there’s nothing too serious. If there really was something, he wouldn’t talk about it on his own. It’s like a wound. It’s bloody. Who would tear it open just for fun?”

I looked up and saw that it was Brother Chengxin who had pulled me over. Although his words were tinged with a hint of sadness, his face still had that trademark spring-like smile… In fact, I knew that he had deliberately brought me away from the topic, not wanting to make the atmosphere tonight become sad.

Then, Xiao Da Shao walked over and took me from Cheng Xin Ge’s hands again, holding me in the middle of the crowd and saying, “Tonight, we agreed that we would not return until we were drunk… After tonight, we will each work hard, and a big battle awaits us… Watch how Xiao Cheng Qian rises in the big battle.”

I was sitting in the middle of the crowd when Qiangzi handed me a jug of wine with a smile, and then sat next to me tightly… I don’t know why, but after these days passed, I found that Qiangzi’s hostility had decreased a lot, and I could vaguely feel the shadow of the previous honest young man on his body.

“Rising in the war? Xiao Daxiao… you’re getting more arrogant.” Xiao Chengqian’s heroic words attracted Chengzhen’s joke. Chengzhen was originally a strong personality. When he met the arrogant Xiao Daxiao, there were a lot of “sparks” between the two of them, and it was even more noisy than between Chengxin and Xiao Daxiao.

“Okay.” In the midst of the commotion, Brother Chengqing suddenly stood up… holding the wine flask high in his hand, he said loudly, “Tonight is the last time we will gather before the war. The first is to celebrate Chengyi’s successful emergence from the underground cave and becoming the head of the Xueshan lineage. The second is to continue our friendship that has survived death and life. Let’s drink a toast. Tonight, we won’t go home until we’re drunk…”

As he spoke, Cheng Qingji raised the wine pot and took a big drink, the wine flowing down his chin and onto his chest… He was usually cold and reserved, but rarely showed such a hearty side. Our emotions were instantly infected by Cheng Qingji, and we all shouted a toast together. Regardless of gender, everyone raised their wine pots and drank.

There are several types of wine produced in the Xueshan area, the most outstanding of which is the white wine called Lengquan… It is made from the snow that has never melted on the top of the Xueshan Mountain… Although it is also a barley wine, some precious Tibetan medicine is added to it. When you drink it, you can feel the coldness of the snow, but it explodes a hot fire in your stomach.

We drank this cold spring water, and the coldness in our mouths turned into the heat in our hearts… After a few rounds of drinking, we exploded completely, and the atmosphere began to heat up completely… We started talking about everything we had experienced over the years, the feelings between life and death… and we also started talking about the future.

We said that when we get old… we will stay together, living in seclusion in the mountains and waters, and when we get bored… we will roam the world at will… As for that great war, we deliberately forgot about it, just like many times before, we will always find a way between life and death, and everyone will be fine.

I almost got carried away by the atmosphere and forgot that I only had three days left to live… I was looking forward to the future, but I realized that I couldn’t touch it anymore. My eyes suddenly felt a little hot. I thought to myself, “Am I drunk?”

I leaned on Qiangzi, who was sitting next to me, and looked at everyone present…

“Mu Chengqing, the character Qing is taken from, meaning clear heart, clear eyes, and seeing through the meaning of cause and effect. Since the age of 4, he has been following…”

First, I saw Chengqing sitting in front of me… Today, his hair is almost completely white… He looks even more refined and elegant, but I feel as if I’ve returned to that day when we young people first met. He walked out so gracefully, with a handsome face… His cold appearance was like that of a refined scholar.

“Su Chengxin, the character “xin” is taken from the word “renxin,” which means “benevolent heart.” My master’s name is Ren, and my name is Xin, implying a sense of continuity. I started at the age of 7…”

Then, my eyes saw my brother Chengxin, who had his arm on my shoulder. His smile had not changed, but the bangs he had back then had been meticulously combed up… The corners of his smiling eyes had a little more vicissitudes, but I still vaguely remembered that day, when he came out with clear eyes and a spring-like smile… Looking at us, he was like a piece of jade, and I immediately admitted with a sour heart that this man was worthy of being as gentle as jade.

“Ji Chengzhen, the word “Zhen” comes from the idea of “removing the false and preserving the true,” seeing through the true meaning, starting to follow at the age of 9…”

Chengzhen had already drunk too much and was now lying on my back… She was gesturing and talking to Yue as if she were another Jenny growing up… But I still remember the youthful look of that day, the heroic look between her eyebrows, and her generous posture, only that compared to now, it was a little more green.

Facing Chengzhen’s excited narration, Ruyue smiled with curved eyes, picked up two red fruits, and bit one of them herself… Then she casually handed me one.

Today, Ru Yue has changed a lot from the past. Although she is still lively and hot, she has also gained a bit of composure… However, I knew Ru Yue even earlier than my older and younger siblings, and we met when we were still very young.

How could I forget the shock I felt when I saw her being led down from the car by Grandma Lingqing? When had there been a girl as pretty as her in the small town? How could I forget the first time I saw her, with her hair like tiles… She said, “My brother has such strange hair.”

The quirky little girl she was when she was young… her lively eyes… have become a bright spot in my life.

I took a bite of the fruit in my hand, but before I could swallow it, it was snatched away by Huigen. He smiled at me, then without hesitation, took the fruit in his hand that had been bitten and took another bite, then his handsome face suddenly lit up with a smile and he shouted, “Sweet.”

“It doesn’t bother you that there’s still some of Chengyi’s saliva on it? Are all the fruits your brother bites sweet?” Chengxin looked at it and laughed, teasing Huigen.

Hui Gen’er said, “Yes!” Everyone laughed.

Who doesn’t understand Hui Gen’er’s dependence on me… I reached out to touch his bald head again, but I realized that he was already standing very tall… His handsome face and smooth muscle lines that could not be hidden between the clothes, when he was laughing heartily in the crowd, his chest was slightly open, revealing a little bit of blood-colored tattoos, in a high mood, after drinking… his tattoos would also be visible.

He and Hui never were monks who kept the precepts, and when necessary, they did not abstain from alcohol… In short, he had grown into a real man… But how could I forget that in that terrifying and closed-off village, I woke up from my slumber to the sight of that little head resting on my nose… He said I was his brother.

He was attached to me… At that time, his eyes were big and round, and his face was round and plump… His voice was young and tender, and he liked to cling to me…

Here, Xiang Yuan has pulled Hui Gen, who was crazy and out of control in the crowd… His smile has become more gentle and virtuous… but under the smile, there is a hint of a tough temperament. Compared to that time, the whole person has matured more and more over the years.

But how could I forget… the pity I felt when I first saw her at Yuan Yi’s house, on that snowy day… the life she chose, the back of her head as she walked out of the familiar house with me?

“Brother, this is so good…” Qiangzi suddenly said in my ear… and he was laughing very happily.

Qiangzi has become strong now… But how could I forget that shy, silent teenager who couldn’t even speak Mandarin well when I first met him in the deserted village?

Lu Shan over there is also rarely seen laughing heartily… Tao Bai is still hiding behind him, shy… When I first met them, I was full of hostility… Now, after so many times of life and death, can I still give up?

It turns out that I have had too many memories without realizing it.