Chapter 127: Feelings
"Huh?" Li Rusong suddenly turned around, "Why are you so quiet?"
Su Luo looked away in panic, her face flushed with heat, "I... I'm afraid of wasting my saliva."
Li Rusong tilted his head and looked at her for a long while. Su Luo nervously pulled at her clothes, "What, what's wrong?"
Li Rusong shook his head, "I'm not used to you not talking."
Doesn't that mean she was very noisy in the past? Su Luo pursed her lips and decided to let him play. She should be a little loving to someone who doesn't have much time left.
"Where are we going?" Su Luo took a deep breath. She didn't know if it was an illusion, but under Li Rusong's gaze, she felt even hotter.
Li Rusong shrugged and said, "Go home."
Hearing the word "home", Su Luo's face turned even redder. She said timidly, contrary to her usual behavior: "No, if they see..." She raised her hand and pointed to the red string on her hand, "What can I do?"
Li Rusong didn't take it seriously. "There were so many eyes watching us from the audience, including Wu Yong. Who else could I hide this from?"
"I'm just worried that they might misunderstand..." Su Luo's head was almost lowered to his chest.
"What are you doing?" Li Rusong bent over to look at Su Luo's face. Su Luo lowered her head even lower. Li Rusong tracked Su Luo's face like a radar and finally burst into laughter, "Are you blushing?"
Su Luo's face flushed red, avoiding his gaze, "I, I, I'm just a little hot."
Li Rusong couldn't help but nodded with a smile, "That's right, with your personality, no man would want to get in touch with you. I'm going to suffer a little loss today and let you take this opportunity to feel the aura of the opposite sex." As he said this, he pouted and looked at the red line on his wrist, as if he had suffered a great injustice.
"You... I didn't..." Su Luo already felt that her condition was abnormal. Why was she blushing for no reason? She was very sensitive. After hearing what he said, she felt a little embarrassed. She stamped her feet anxiously and reached out to untie the red string.
"Hey!" Li Rusong grabbed Su Luo's hand and realized that his behavior was inappropriate. He let go of her hand with a little embarrassment. His eyes wandered for a long time before he said, "Haven't you heard that the consequences of untying the red string before the time is up are serious? I don't care if you die alone. I still want to get married."
Su Luo's heart had already been beating a little faster because of his sudden contact, but when she heard the second half of his words, it was like a bucket of cold water was poured down her throat. It was really like a dog cannot spit out ivory! Su Luo rolled her eyes at him, and her previous unspeakable mood was swept away. She didn't expect this guy to be so superstitious. Marry a wife? You have to be prepared to be a widow after you marry into the family. Whoever marries him will be unlucky!
Although she thought so, Su Luo still had some humanity and didn't say it out loud, lest Li Rusong's young heart be hurt again. Su Luo adjusted her breathing and thought more about his pitiful side, so that she wouldn't think he was so hateful.
"Hey! Have you decided where to go?" Su Luo patted the back of Rusong's hand with the hand tied with red string, and keenly noticed that Li Rusong's hand shrank slightly. Su Luo was stunned, and looked at Li Rusong, only to find that he was extremely uncomfortable, his eyes were erratic, and he stretched out his arms as if to keep a distance from him. After a closer look, Su Luo suddenly opened his eyes wide, and with a wicked smile, he grabbed Li Rusong's hand, watching him shake his hand repeatedly as if he had been electrocuted , and finally couldn't help laughing out loud, "Are you kidding me, you can actually blush?"
Li Rusong turned his head away as if to avoid it, "Let go!"
"I won't let go." Su Luo shook her shoulders proudly, forcing her to hold Li Rusong's fingers tightly, trying to ignore the tingling current from her fingertips, and kept teasing, "It's rare to see you look so embarrassed, why are you so nervous? Have you never held a woman's hand before?"
"Who said no?" Li Rusong turned around and replied, but that was all he said, nothing more.
Su Luo snickered, "Of course, who are you? You are a general, and the women who want to pursue you can line up from Nanjing to Beijing. Holding hands is not a piece of cake, right?"
Li Rusong looked at Su Luo's mouth opening and closing, with a few strange emotions in his eyes. He didn't hear what she said at all. He turned his head away in embarrassment and pulled his arm back hard, trying to get rid of Su Luo. Unexpectedly, when he pulled his hand back, he heard Su Luo's "Ouch". He lowered his head and found that Su Luo's wrist was tied by the tight red line, leaving a red mark. Li Rusong quickly lowered his arm, "You..."
Su Luo lowered his eyes and pursed his lips, "It hurts."
"Who told you to be dishonest?" After saying this, Li Rusong almost slapped himself in the face. Is this what a man should say? But in the end, he still let Su Luo hold his hand and didn't struggle anymore. But he still looked a little uncomfortable. He looked here and there, but didn't look at Su Luo, so he missed the smirk on the corner of Su Luo's mouth.
This boy... is unexpectedly innocent!
The two of them walked slowly forward hand in hand. The atmosphere was awkward and weird, but they didn't let go of each other's hands. They walked for a long time, completely aimlessly. They had no idea where their thoughts were going and they had no time to think about where they were going.
Su Luo felt her heart beat faster and faster. The palms she held with Li Rusong were slightly wet. She couldn't tell whether it was her sweat or his. Perhaps it was because water can conduct electricity. The numbness that was not very obvious just now actually broke through the center line of the human body and spread to the other half of the body. She didn't know if it was a sign of a stroke. Su Luo kept breathing in and out, and kept peeking at Li Rusong's profile. She seemed to understand why she was so abnormal, but she didn't understand - she and him? Is it possible?
"Let me tell you a story." Su Luo suddenly spoke, looking at Li Rusong's nervous and stunned expression with satisfaction, surprisingly without teasing, "Well... let me tell you a story about 'dripping water wears away a stone' first."
Li Rusong listened to the story in a daze. Then there were the stories of "grinding a needle with an iron pestle", "sleeping on firewood and tasting gall", "drilling a hole in the wall to steal light", and "Sima Guang smashing the jar"...
Su Luo told all the inspirational stories in the elementary school Chinese textbook one by one. Just as she was about to go to , Li Rusong asked, "Why are you telling these stories?"
Su Luo thought for a long time and chose his words carefully, "As long as you work hard, as long as you have confidence and determination, nothing is impossible."
Li Rusong narrowed his eyes slightly, "What do you mean?"
"Well..." Su Luo pursed her lips, "Take me for example, don't think I'm heartless all day long, in fact, it's because I have no confidence and low self-esteem. I don't want others to think I'm pitiful and have nothing, so I act like a shrew every day. But no matter how lively and cheerful you pretend to be, it's just an act. Some things will still be there if you don't solve the problem from the root. Whether it's for yourself or for your family, you must work hard to solve the problem instead of letting the problem reach an irreversible situation. Do you know? Your family may not care about you on the surface, but they care about you in their hearts. If you let yourself go on and think that your life is like this and it is irreversible, then you are destined to hurt everyone, even if you pretend to be indifferent. In fact, the more you do this, the more it shows that you care in your heart."
Li Rusong listened to Su Luo's words quietly, his expression did not change at all. After Su Luo finished speaking, he swallowed his saliva and said, "Did you understand? Did I explain it too profoundly? Let me think about how to put it more simply."
"No thanks." Li Rusong lowered his head. "Except for being a little long-winded, everything else is good."
"Then... did you understand?"
Li Rusong shrugged. "Are these stories so difficult to understand?"
Su Luo was anxious, "No, I mean you..."
"Me?" Li Rusong raised his eyebrows. "Aren't you talking about yourself?"
"Yes... Hey!" Su Luo was scratching her head anxiously. She couldn't just tell him to stop worrying about his life span. As long as she thought of a way, nothing was unsolvable. At worst, they could just break up. So what if ten years? It was better to live a wonderful life every day than to live a life in a daze. Besides, who said history couldn't be reversed? Her coming here was a deviation in history, and she wasn't the only one!
Li Rusong looked at her anxious look, and finally chuckled. He relaxed a little, moved his palms, and adjusted a relatively comfortable way of holding hands. "You are usually sharp-tongued, but at the critical moment you are full of nonsense. Your way of persuading people is really bad."
Su Luo was embarrassed... She was really embarrassed. She didn't know where this shy feeling came from, but she just smiled foolishly. There were only a few pedestrians on the street. The sound of the night watchman came from afar. Su Luo looked at the red line on her wrist and whispered, "It's midnight so soon..."
"Really?" Li Rusong pulled Su Luo and turned around. "You're stupid and your ears are defective. Why didn't I hear anything?"
Su Luo giggled and followed him as they trotted away from the night watchman's range. She felt like she had a little rabbit in her heart. Had she found it this time?
