Chapter 14 She looks so handsome dancing with a spear
Lin Manru rarely had a good sleep.
After washing up, she went to Jiang Yan's room on the fourth floor, but there was no answer after calling for a long time.
Feeling uneasy, Lin Manru went to the third floor again.
As a result, Jiang Li's room was also empty.
Lin Manru hurriedly took the elevator downstairs, caught Aunt Zhang who was cleaning the front hall, and asked:
"Where's Jiang Yan and Jiang Li? Why didn't you see them two?"
Could it be that he ran away from home last night again?
After all, this isn’t just once or twice.
Aunt Zhang sighed, "Madam, I have indeed not seen the young master since last night. You also know that it is normal for him to disappear every three days."
"As for the eldest lady..." Aunt Zhang's expression suddenly became strange, "The eldest lady got up at about six o'clock, and then went directly into the warehouse."
Lin Manru’s face was full of disbelief.
Jiang Li got up after six o'clock?
How is that possible?!
In the past, when she was at home, she would always sleep until midnight.
Now that it's holiday again, she has no reason to get up early.
Even if you suddenly change your temper, you don’t have to be so diligent, right?
The more she thought about it, the more puzzled she became. Lin Manru didn't even bother to have breakfast. She hurriedly gathered her clothes and walked to the warehouse.
As soon as she walked into the backyard, she heard the sound of a sword cutting through the air, which scared her and she immediately froze in place.
Through the gaps between the lush trees, Lin Manru vaguely caught a black figure.
On the open grass, the girl was wearing a simple sports suit, with her black hair tied into a high ponytail, swaying in the wind with her strong figure.
Her face, not covered by broken hair, is clean and bright, showing an unparalleled beauty, and her exposed neck is also slender and white, as if it were made of jade.
However, what is more eye-catching than the girl’s appearance is the red-tasseled gun in her hand.
The blade at the end of the handle has turned into a silver dragon, torn together with the invisible air, and the collision made a chilling sharp sound.
The girl holding the gun walks like a dragon, her body is light and her moves are strong and sharp.
If it weren't for the fact that the girl in her field of vision was the flesh and blood of Lin Manru's ten-month pregnancy, she would have almost suspected that she had accidentally walked into a martial arts studio.
"Oh, Li Li, how can you play with such a dangerous thing!"
In desperation, Lin Manru hurriedly shouted and ran forward.
Jiang Li paused when he heard the noise, retracted his long arm, and carried the red tassel gun behind his back.
"Mother." She whispered as a greeting.
Lin Manru snatched the gun from her hand, but dropped it to the ground without holding it.
This time, she couldn't help showing a shocked expression again.
Is this gun so heavy? Then why did Li Li look so relaxed when he just danced with it?
Lin Manru immediately checked her physical condition with a worried look on her face.
"You're not hurt, right Li Li? Why would a little girl touch such a dangerous thing? What if she gets hurt somewhere?"
Jiang Li smiled and said, "It's okay, mother, I won't get hurt."
She practiced this almost every day when she was in Daqi.
Before her grandfather, Marquis Dingyuan, was named the general who protected the country, he relied on a set of ancestral marksmanship to become invincible on the battlefield.
Although in ancient times it was only men who went into battle to kill enemies, her enlightened grandfather did not restrict her involvement because of this. Instead, he personally passed on this set of marksmanship to her.
Even when she was born, she was given a red-tasseled gun made by a famous master.
When she was in Daqi, she was already used to getting up at midnight every day to practice with her brothers.
Although we have returned to modern society now, the habits we have developed have long been engraved in our bones.
But obviously Lin Manru couldn't accept that her originally delicate daughter suddenly turned into a "heroine" who got up at six in the morning and danced with guns.
"Li Li, don't scare mom. Tell the truth, are you being bullied outside?"
Jiang Li knew that he would not be able to explain for a while, so he could only hold Lin Manru's arm and said:
"No, I joined a club at school that promoted Shaolin Kung Fu. The teacher there taught us some marksmanship, saying that it can strengthen our body."
"Really or not, there is such a club in your school?"
"Well, really, it is said to be used to promote intangible cultural heritage." Jiang Li made a very serious expression, and then changed the subject and said, "Mom, I have been practicing for more than an hour and I am already hungry. Let's go eat.
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Sure enough, when Lin Manru heard that her daughter was hungry, she quickly put aside her doubts and took her hand out of the backyard.
The moment he left, Jiang Li turned back and glanced in the direction of the fifth floor intentionally or unintentionally.
And in the corner room on the fifth floor, a thin figure was hiding behind the curtains and gesticulating at his frail shadow.
However, after just waving his arms a few times, he collapsed on the bed exhausted.
In addition to confusion, the young man's eyes also revealed a trace of undetectable admiration.
The way she dances with a gun in the sun...
A bit handsome.
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In the restaurant, the servants have already laid out breakfast.
After yesterday's trick of "killing the chicken to scare the monkey", the atmosphere in the Jiang family is obviously much higher today.
The servants no longer worked in a daze, and after seeing Jiang Li getting up before dawn, they quickly followed suit and started cleaning.
No one is lazy or playful. Even after finishing the work at hand, they are still looking for other things to do.
Lin Manru took Jiang Li and sat down, and put piece after piece of sea cucumber into her bowl.
"Li Li, are you exhausted from getting up so early? Try the sea cucumber stew made by auntie."
Jiang Li ate a piece and then looked up at the empty seats around him.
"Where are the others?"
Lin Manru let out a long sigh and said, "Your brother ran away again last night. He probably won't be back for another ten or eight days. Ignore him and eat your fill first."
"No mother, I mean, where are the rest of the family?"
If she remembered correctly, besides Jiang Yan, there should be someone else in this house.
Mrs. Jiang has three sons and one daughter. Except for her father who passed away for some reason early in life, the others are still alive and have lived together from the beginning and have never separated.
But it’s only on the surface that we don’t separate.
In her impression, none of her uncles and aunts lived together. Either one went out, or the other refused to go home. The whole family had long been at odds with each other.
So much so that she now has almost no impression of other people.
Lin Manru sighed again while holding the dishes for her.
"It's not like you don't know the tempers of your second uncle and third uncle. It would be nice to come back once a year."
"This time your grandfather went back to the countryside to worship his ancestors, and your third aunt also went with him. We are the only family left at home."
"Oh, yes, I'm at home at the time, but you also know the child's condition——"
Mentioning this name, Jiang Li's long-lost memories were somewhat restored.
Jiang Shixu, the child of her second uncle's family.
Because of the disharmonious family relationship, this child has not been very talkative since he was a child.
It got even worse after entering adolescence. I locked myself in my room almost every day, sleeping around the clock and going out at night without seeing anyone.
Later she learned that he had suffered from severe depression and autism from the beginning.
There are even fewer records about him in the novel, and at the end, his ending is hastily explained in one sentence——
"One late night when it was snowing heavily, the boy jumped from his room.
The young and vivid life was buried in this vast whiteness along with the Jiang family."