Chapter 47 The Innocent Fool

After returning from the Rose Nebula, Lin Xiaodong's life suddenly became hectic.

He began to live broadcast for one to two hours a day according to the arrangement of the military, to appease those who were caught in an emotional whirlpool after being parasitized by brain worms. He also recorded many online songs.

Although in addition to being nice, these online songs are basically the same in terms of treatment as no...

Time just passed by day by day.

The situation in the central star gradually stabilized. The imperial meeting, which was originally respected by the royal family, gradually transitioned into the federal parliament. The words of king and nobles gradually disappeared from the public's mouth, and replaced by keywords such as "marshal", "speaker" and so on. replace it.

Not long ago, Gu Xi had officially taken over as the marshal of the Federation.

By the way, the current speaker is Xu Feng's wife Lulu.

When she was still the eldest princess of the empire, Lulu's reputation has always been very good. When she was expelled from the royal family, many people spontaneously took to the streets to petition for her.

But now she has completely separated from her noble status. After marrying Xu Feng, Lulu can be said to have completely abandoned the past.

She had just given birth to a pair of twins, and she had not yet given birth to confinement, so she directly contacted her former contacts to establish a post-war reconstruction foundation, and adopted thousands of orphans who were homeless due to brain worms. Central Star is famous.

Because she is usually too busy with work, she has no time to take care of the children. She has also done the stubborn act of rushing to Gu Xi's office to take a table and asking Xu Feng to take annual leave and go home to nurse the child. For this, the military has to admire this man The wife's iron wrist--

You know, besides Lin Xiaodong, she is the first person who can persuade Gu Xi to change her mind!

Seeing this, Gu Xi simply pushed the boat and helped her spread the word. After going back and forth like this, naturally the name of the first speaker also fell on her head.

"I can be considered a shining lintel," Xu Feng sighed and said with a smile, "I married such a powerful wife and came home, and she said two days ago that she would give me the opportunity to resign from the army with you, and concentrate on returning home to be a full-time nurse. Dad."

Gu Xi hooked his lips: "Then what do you think?"

"Actually, it's not too much rejection. After all, Lulu is indeed a lot busier than me. There must be more sacrifices between husband and wife." Xu Feng thought for a while and said, "But I always feel...a little unimaginable."

"Can't imagine what?"

"It's the life of staying at home with children every day." Xu Feng laughed dryly, "I've seen the world with you anyway."

Gu Xi did recognize this. If it wasn't for Xu Feng's lack of ambition, and he didn't bother to talk to the old guys in the military, he should have gone out on his own by now, and his rank is at least a lieutenant general.

"By the way," Xu Feng suddenly asked, "Why haven't you seen Xiaodong recently?"

Gu Xi paused for a second and replied, "He's been sick these two days, so I'll let him recuperate at home."

"Is that so..."

Xu Feng was still thinking about whether to visit Lin Xiaodong with Lulu another day, but he didn't notice that when Gu Xi next to him was talking, his expression became unnatural for a moment.

After parting with Xu Feng, Gu Xi looked down at the table below.

There are still forty minutes before the end of get off work.

Upon seeing this, he simply ordered the orderly to prepare the aircraft and planned to leave work early.

When I got home, as expected, the living room and kitchen were silent and dim.

Gu Xi turned on the light in silence, put on his slippers, walked to the bedroom door, and glanced inside.

no one.

So he turned around and went to the bathroom, the light was on.

The little mermaid leaned quietly in the bathtub filled with water, and closed her eyes as if she was asleep, but the calm water did not make any waves.

Gu Xi's breathing took a wrong beat for some unknown reason.

He pursed his lips tightly, stepped up to Lin Xiaodong's side, and gently touched the little mermaid's cheek, the warm feeling suddenly relieved him: "Why don't you go to bed?"

"Well......?"

Hearing the voice, Lin Xiaodong lifted his eyelids with some difficulty and looked up at him in a daze.

"You're back." He yawned a lot and stretched out his hands to Gu Xi naturally, "Hold."

Gu Xi looked at him helplessly, and finally gave in.

It didn't feel very good to hold the little mermaid with half of its body wet in his arms, but he was patient, and carefully wiped off the silver-white tail that had been getting darker for some reason recently with a bath towel, and then put it on. Lin Xiaodong hugged him to the bed in the bedroom.

Before he put it down, the little mermaid lay on his shoulder and fell asleep again.

Gu Xi stared at the lotus-white arm dangling in the air, and frowned involuntarily.

Of course he knew that Lin Xiaodong was in such a sleepy state. He had seen many experts and doctors before, but the mermaid's body was a completely unfamiliar field to them, and Lin Xiaodong had no signs of it before, just Such an inexplicable weakening day by day... Gu Xi's mood has become more and more dull recently, and it is also because of this reason.

When it was almost nine o'clock in the evening, Lin Xiaodong finally woke up.

System: "Congratulations, you set a new record again."

Lin Xiaodong rubbed his swollen eyes that were about to fall asleep, and asked absentmindedly, "What record?"

"A record of no more than five hours of wakefulness throughout the day," the system said.

Lin Xiaodong: "..."

He decided to interpret the statement as the system being jealous of how well he ate and slept well.

"But seriously," he said sternly, "Is this state of mine related to the mermaid star that was blown up before?"

The system said: "There is an 80% chance, yes."

"Sure enough," Lin Xiaodong muttered to himself, "but Gu Xi, he hasn't told me the truth yet, is he really going to keep hiding it like this?"

But this is obviously impossible.

He walked out of the bedroom and saw that the man was sitting on the sofa in the living room, concentratingly flipping through a tome that seemed to be obscure. Lin Xiaodong took a quick glance and found that there were basically legends and records about mermaids.

"What are you looking for?" he couldn't help asking.

Gu Xi's movements stopped, and he quickly turned his head: "Are you awake?"

"Well," Lin Xiaodong came over and asked again, staring at the table full of books, "what are you looking for?"

"It's nothing, I'm just flipping through it occasionally." Gu Xi smiled and closed the book in his hand casually, "I'll give you a note, I haven't eaten for a day."

Ignoring the little mermaid staring at him, he got up and left the living room.

But the smile on the man's face disappeared without a trace the moment he turned his back to Lin Xiaodong.

Impossible to find, he thought.

Gu Xi's mood became uncontrollable and anxious. He had been studying Lin Xiaodong's situation for nearly half a month, and he had set up a special research group for this purpose, but there was no relevant record in any material. It's all myths and myths.

Humans' understanding of the merman race is ridiculously shallow

Feeling that the female worm that had been stagnant for many days in her body seemed to be making a comeback, Gu Xi, who was standing in front of the stove cutting tomatoes, took a deep breath, calmed down, and forgot the dazzling bright red on the battlefield in her memory, lowered her head and continued silently. Started the action of the hand.

If it really doesn't work...

Then he can only find that person.

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"I knew you would come to me again."

In the bright closed room, Lu Xing "looked" at the man standing in front of him with a smile, and said lightly.

"Since you know what I'm here for, let's be straightforward," Gu Xi said lightly. "About the mermaid, tell me everything you know."

"Are you ordering me?" Lu Xing sat upright on the chair and tilted his head, "but look at me now, I have nothing left, the barefooted are not afraid of wearing shoes, so what is there to worry about? What about?"

Gu Xi's eyes sank.

"what do you want?"

"I want... um, let me think about it," Lu Xing lowered his head and took a sip of the hot tea in his hand, the smile on his face deepened, "Wealth? I don't care. Power? I already have it. Freedom? Sounds tempting, but it doesn't seem that important to me."

He lowered his eyes and pretended to ponder for a moment, then raised his head and said to Gu Xi with a smile: "Sure enough, I still want to see him again, alone."

"Impossible." Gu Xi refused, with a cold voice, "Don't even think about it."

"Then we have nothing to talk about." Lu Xing raised his eyebrows and said, "Walk slowly and not send off."

Gu Xi stood on the spot, his eyes were as cold as a layer of frost.

Lu Xing and him looked at each other, the natural suppression of the brain worm by the female worm made the young man's originally pale face even paler, and a thin layer of cold sweat could not help oozing out of his forehead.

But he still clenched his back molars without making any sound, instead he raised the corners of his lips provocatively towards the man in front of him, as if he was silently mocking Gu Xi's helplessness.

"Marshal, please don't..."

The caretaker next to him walked over in trepidation and said.

Although Lu Xing was rescued by them and recuperated for a period of time, the identity of the young man is after all the former prince of the empire. A little carelessness will cause public misfortune, so he can neither be allowed to die, nor can he be allowed to live as wantonly as before. , There are guards who take care of them when they come and go. On the surface, they are caring and compassionate, but in reality they are monitoring. This is also something that is tacitly approved by the military.

Win or lose, that's all.

After being stopped by the nurse, Gu Xi retracted his gaze.

He glanced at Lu Xing with an emotionless gaze, turned and left without saying anything.

After the man left, Lu Xing's tense body relaxed.

The young man slowly exhaled a suffocating breath.

Until now, his hand on the table was still shaking slightly.

Although he was defeated in the confrontation, Lu Xing still firmly believed that Gu Xi would agree to his conditions.

Because he has no choice.

However, even though Lu Xing was mentally prepared, when he heard Lin Xiaodong's voice ringing in his ears again, he couldn't help but feel a complex emotion in his heart.

You could probably call it... "rejoice".

"Long time no see," said the little mermaid. "What's wrong with your eyes? Can't you see?"

"Well." Lu Xing replied gently, "But it doesn't matter, there are some things that you can't see."

He sighed and said with some regret: "It's just a pity, I can't see you smiling anymore."

Lin Xiaodong thought to himself that this guy was so restless even when he was blind, and his sweet words were one after another.

He didn't intend to come, but Lu Xing still has a fragment of a good person card here. In order to complete the task, Lin Xiaodong can only bear the humiliation and bear the burden.

"You've lost a lot of weight," he said with a hint of concern in his voice. "Didn't they let you eat well?"

Lu Xing suddenly laughed.

"That's not true, Gu Xi won't abuse/treat the captive," he joked, "but you know, I'm blind now, even if I'm hungry, I can't find anything to eat, so I can only wait until mealtime. Fill the stomach."

After he finished speaking, Lin Xiaodong suddenly fell silent.

Lu Xing was a little puzzled. He heard a rustling sound coming from the front. Before he could ask what was wrong, the little mermaid suddenly grabbed his hand and put a small object in his palm.

Lu Xing touched it, it seemed to be a lollipop?

"This is my favorite flavor, and I have never been willing to eat it." In the dark, the soft voice said to him, "If you are really hungry, take this cushion."

The young man was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head and slowly clenched the candy in his hand.

"The things I did to you before," he whispered, "do you really...don't hate me at all?"

Lin Xiaodong shook his head at first, then quickly remembered that Lu Xing couldn't see, and said again: "I don't hate it."

"......why?"

Lu Xing really couldn't understand the thinking of the mermaid.

If he suffered such a betrayal, he would definitely take revenge at all costs to go back and let that person have a taste of what it means to be let down, deceived, and trampled on his sincerity.

But why Lin Xiaodong has never been disappointed in this world except for being sad from beginning to end?

"The queen has told me about your past." The little mermaid whispered, "Although you are a liar, and those nobles are also bad people, you have been punished. Besides, the one who really should hate you is not I."

"He has never forgiven you. I think this is probably retribution."

Lu Xing's throat rolled up and down.

"You're right," he replied in a hoarse voice after a long time. "This is indeed retribution. My retribution."

"Ding, good person card +1."

Lin Xiaodong smiled with satisfaction.

It seems that he felt that his words were a little heavy, and the little mermaid apologized to him very embarrassedly, but his tone was a little more casual than before: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that. Make you sad, right? "

Lu Xing shook his head silently.

He fumbled and slowly opened the candy wrapper of the lollipop in his hand and put it in his mouth.

Seeing the young man's suddenly distorted expression, the system couldn't help but ask, "What kind of taste did you give him?"

"Cucumber and durian flavor," Lin Xiaodong snorted softly, and said as a matter of course, "Dogs won't eat it."

system:"............"

Ruthless or you are ruthless.

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Cucumber with durian is like a living fairy.