Author: Feng Si Niang

Everyone had a delicious fresh mushroom soup for dinner, and when they were all ready to take a good night's sleep to recuperate, Xue Feibai discovered that Du Heng was missing.

After searching for a long time, I saw the figure sitting alone by the river.

"Tomorrow, it's time to set off."

"Yeah." Du Heng replied with only one word, blowing the river breeze.

"Don't catch the cold..." Xue Feibai wanted to bite off his tongue as soon as he said it. Yunnan is hot and humid all year round, so it would be difficult to catch a cold!

"What exactly do you want to say?" Du Heng asked with raised eyebrows.

No matter how ups and downs the Yunnan trip was, and the bloody storms, they could not defeat the ghosts in the capital; she was about to embark on a more thrilling journey again. That place was her battlefield, and she could not lose.

"Ahem, I want to say that although we both have impure intentions, aren't our goals the same? I can help you!" Du Heng looked at Xue Feibai, noncommittal.

It comes again and again, she only believes in herself! She relies on her own intelligence and does not take others seriously. Is there such an arrogant partner?

"Okay." Another short word.

"Du Heng, let me tell you... Huh? Really, hahaha, I knew it was my wife who has a sharp eye for pearls! Don't worry! I will never let you down, young master..." After saying that, he was still full of lofty ideals.

He patted his chest.

Du Heng smiled lightly: "Noisy." Then Xue Feibai accompanied her to blow the river breeze. After a while, Xue Feibai poked her again: "Hey, it's for you..."

Du Heng lowered his eyes and looked at the small box handed over by Xue Feibai: "What is this? A seal or a jade seal?"

Xue Feibai curled his lips: "See for yourself."

Du Heng took it and opened it: "Ring?!" His tone was surprised and suspicious.

"OK."

Du Heng took it out and looked at it carefully: "Your ring is a bit interesting..."

The body of the ring is a strange ring, like a long and narrow piece of paper wound half a circle and connected end to end. Inlaid on the ring is a pink pearl.

She did know the pearl, but she couldn't quite understand the ring.

This pink pearl does not grow inside the clam, but is nurtured in the body of a species called the Queen Phoenix Snail. Although the name is a bit crude, it is indeed called that.

This is the best pearl known on the water surface in the south. On average, one pearl can be dug out of every 50,000 Queen Phoenix snails. Out of every ten such pearls, only about two to three can be made into jewelry;

As for such a naturally large pearl, it is no exaggeration to say that only one has been produced in recent years.

Du Heng frowned, "Why does this ring have to go around half a circle? If it goes around half a circle, it's still a circle. Doesn't it symbolize perfection?"

Xue Feibai rolled his eyes at Du Heng in a rare move: "You are really smart if you say you are smart, but you are not willing to give in if you are stupid.

Let me ask you, as long as it is a circle, whether it is a ring, a bracelet, an earring, or a wheel, does it have two sides? So the difference of this ring is reflected, it has only one side."

"May you keep playing forever, and the cycle has no end?"

"Yes, there is only one side, like endless reincarnations of life after life. If love can be used as a metaphor, this is probably the most perfect way!" Xue Feibai carefully stared at Du Heng's side face and said.

"Love..." Du Heng frowned, "You love me?"

Xue Feibai wanted to strangle Du Heng to death: "You only noticed that I acted so obviously? Together with the young master, I have been ogling the blind man all the way..."

The surging river covered up Xue Feibai's complaints. For the first time, a man as sharp-tongued as Du Heng didn't know how to answer.

She could sense Xue Feibai's affection for her, but she only thought that it was more of his admiration for her intelligence and ability. The two of them each took what they needed, which was no different from Zhou Xian's love for her.

But she didn't expect that love? Is it so important? And can love really be expressed easily? She thought of Xue Feiqing, the love she couldn't get, and she was the deepest and most profound love she had ever seen.

But she didn't want to discuss such a disgusting topic, so she asked: "This ring, after you found someone to wear it, you kept it on your body? When did it happen?"

"Tch, do I still want to tell you that I gave the woman I love a piece of jewelry?"

Du's beloved woman Heng said she didn't want to talk anymore.

"Hey Du Heng... do you wear this ring or not?" Xue Feibai couldn't help but ask, his head twitching.

"I have accepted the gift, whether to wear it or not is another matter." Du Heng moved his stiff limbs and planned to get up and leave.

"Hey you guy-"

"Wait a minute." Du Heng walked up to Xue Feibai who was sitting and cast a small shadow in front of him, bringing an invisible sense of oppression——

"Didn't you say that you didn't prepare the birthday gift for me that day? Why is it here today? The ring is not easy to come by. You must have prepared it with you, but this pearl..."

Du Heng squinted his eyes, thinking of the gangsters he had "received" in the past two days.

"Oh, women belong to mother-in-law and mother-in-law... don't give them back to me!" Xue Feibai hurriedly ran out of Du Heng's shadow, almost as if he was running away.

"Take it!" Du Heng held up the ring in his hand and smiled.

"It would have been over if it had been like this..."

***

After the group arrived in Chuncheng, it was time to say goodbye. Wu Youdong warmly invited Du Heng and Xue Feibai to stay in Chuncheng for a while before setting off, but they said that they had indeed been delayed for too long.

Wu Youdong came forward to pay for a private room in the best restaurant in Spring City, and said goodbye to them the next day. He was so kind that they could not refuse, so they had no choice but to agree.

After they finished washing up and had a good night's sleep, when they came down for dinner, they met an unexpected person——

Xue Feibai sat at the dining table, ordering dishes with great interest and appetite: "Steam pot chicken, Yiliang roast duck, Laokan pot, braised chicken fir, mutton soup pot... Let's start with these! Oh, by the way, the store,

Cross-bridge rice noodles are a must-have!"

Du Heng was watching the waiter enthusiastically making nine courses of tea to welcome guests. When he reached the sixth step of mixing the tea, the aroma of Pu'er tea hit her face. She couldn't help but feel that Xue Feibai was really noisy.

Du Heng frowned and poked Xue Feibai: "There are only two of us and it's night. Can you survive after eating so much?"

Before Xue Feibai could say, "No matter how much I can eat," a male voice full of surprise and uncertainty sounded: "Brother Heng?!"

Du Heng and Xue Feibai turned their heads at the same time, and said "It's you!" twice at the same time.

However, the emotions in the words are completely different: Du Heng is delighted to be living next to him from the end of the world, while Xue Feibai is deeply disgusted and wants to eat his flesh alive.

Think of the ring as a Möbius strip

Queen clam distribution area: Southeast Florida, West Indies, USA.
Chapter completed!