Apart from him, Ning Chengxu, Si Nian and Aunt Yu were all watching Sheng Ge, waiting for her choice.
Shengge took care of the pea pods in her hands, lowered her eyes, and did not answer immediately.
Aunt Yu smiled and said, "Both young men are so handsome, it's really hard to choose. If it were me, I would want both."
She wanted to lighten the atmosphere, but except for herself, none of the three men laughed.
It was obviously a joke, but they seemed to take this issue very seriously.
Aunt Yu suppressed her smile in embarrassment and stopped talking.
Facing the gazes of several people, Shengge showed no special expression and pursed her lips in dissatisfaction, "I don't choose. I don't even know him, so why should I choose him to be my husband."
His heart felt as if a string was broken, and he was in unbearable pain. Ji Yuting's Adam's apple was soft, and he tasted a sharp bitter taste in his mouth.
It's too bitter, too bitter.
The tip of his nose was sore in pain, his eyes drooped, and he suppressed his emotions for a while.
Si Nian's expression was not very good either. He just stayed by his royal master's side, feeling sorry for his sudden pale face.
In addition, Ning Chengxu's expression was no better than the other two men.
He guessed correctly, Shengge would not choose Ji Yuting now.
But he couldn't be happy, because through these days of attentiveness, Shengge had become familiar with him and was willing to trust her. Even so, she still didn't choose him compared to Ji Yuting, who she didn't know.
The three men stood in the yard with their backs stiffened, like three giant Buddhas.
Aunt Yu couldn't hold back and brought out some benches for them to sit on.
Then he asked Ning Chengxu: "Do you and your guests want to stay here for dinner today? It's very late, and it gets dark quickly in the mountains. I'm afraid I have to stay overnight tonight, but..."
Aunt Yu was a bit confused, "There are only two beds and a wooden sofa at home, so I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep on them."
Ning Chengxu thought of the group of National Bureau of Investigation police officers still waiting at the top of the mountain, and immediately replied: "No, Aunt Yu, they don't..."
Before he finished speaking, Ji Yuting took over his words in a hoarse voice, "It doesn't matter. Si Nian and I can make a bed on the floor, as long as we have two quilts. It's really hard to go out after dark, so I'll bother Aunt Yu."
Although he tried his best to endure it, his pale face could not be seen clearly in the dim light, and his hoarse voice was still choked.
Shengge stopped peeling the pea pods and couldn't help but look sideways and glanced at him a few more times.
Aunt Yu was the only one among the few who didn't notice that Ji Yuting had any emotional problems. She just took a closer look at Ji Yuting and Xi Nian's clothes.
Military uniform, at first glance, you can tell that you have a good background, that you have an extraordinary bearing, that you are either rich or noble.
"It's not troublesome. I'm just afraid of wronging the two gentlemen."
Si Nian answered with a smile on behalf of his father: "You are not aggrieved, Aunt Yu's place has good air and beautiful scenery. It is our honor to stay here for one night."
Making a bed on the ground was nothing. He remembered that he and Ji Yuting went to the border to perform a mission and slept in the rain and mud, unable to move, for twelve hours.
Aunt Yu also laughed, and the atmosphere finally relaxed a little.
But people's joys and sorrows are not the same. Ji Yuting's eyes have never moved away since he saw Shengge.
Seeing how uncomfortable he was, Shengge seemed to have no reaction at all.
Does she really...don't remember him?
how so?
He lowered his gaze from Shengge's face to her delicate white fingertips which were peeling pea pods.
On the ring finger of his left hand, he still wore the familiar ruby ring.
With a spark of fire suddenly rising in his eyes, Ji Yuting took two steps forward, squatted unwillingly in front of Shengge's low stool, and asked in a hoarse voice with a slight trembling: