Transmigrated into Substitute Bride ‘Fu Lang’

 

Chapter 35.2: 識字

Literacy

In just a moment, the originally ‘not a crow or sparrow is heard aka—silent or all is quiet’ school hall immediately became lively again, a few students close to Fu An even smiled and came over, grabbed his neck and said: “Little fat Fu, the one that you take is what kind of delicious food? For it, you even dared to defy the teacher.”

 

His food is being taken, Fu An’s face is now only left with a look of hopelessness (nothing left to live for), hearing the banter of his fellow classmates can not help but cry out, “Fu Zi is too cruel, I waited for it for such a long time but in the end, not a single bite was left for me! I didn’t even taste it yet ah!”

 

Looking at Fu An who was crying miserably, the other people looked at each other face to face for a while, they all put away the flirtatious look on their faces and said in disbelief: “It’s just food, isn’t it? No big deal, I’ll just buy another one.”

 

Waiting until that person finished speaking, Fu An’s cries became even louder, causing the others to look at the person who spoke with condemnation, as if he had done something wrong.

 

Fu An was sad for a while, under the persuasion of other people, he calmed down, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and began to calculate whether he should take advantage of Fu Zi’s inattention to go to his room and steal the box, so that he could secretly taste that food.

 

Chen Xing, who was completely unaware that Fu Gongzi had such a wonderful day, went back to the Gu Mansion after selling all the food, bathing, eating, taking a lunch break, and learning how to read from Gu Lang as usual.

 

The sunlight shines through the windows, creating mottled light and shadows inside the house. Occasionally, he can hear cicadas chirping from outside, strung together into a somewhat annoying melody.

 

In front of the desk, Chen Xing was holding a brush and writing on the paper with a serious expression, the small halos of light were spreading on the side of his handsome face, showing that his skin was getting fairer and clearer.

 

The young man in front of the table seemed to be very satisfied with his own writing, and after finishing the last stroke, a proud smile appeared on his face. He put the pen down and held up the paper to look at his masterpiece, and then immediately wanted to pick up the paper and pass it to the person next to him.

 

With a smile full of confidence on his face, Chen Xing turned his head to look at Gu Lang next to him, and saw the man sitting with a straight back, with a gentle brow and an upright pen. The cuffs of his sleeves were rolled up halfway for fear of staining the ink, revealing half of his pale, smooth arms. His hands were as white as white jade with clear joints, and the black pen in his hand was in sharp contrast or clear difference between the black and white color.

 

Chen Xing stared blankly at the scene in front of him, and suddenly understood the meaning of the phrase ‘the beauty in the high places is like a jade, while the handsome young man is peerless in the world’.

 

[陌上人如玉，公子世無雙 mo shàng//rén rú yù,gongzi shì wushuang : The beauty in the high places is like a jade, while the handsome young man is unmatched in the world .The first phrase refers to a woman with a beautiful face and the next one means that elegant young master is peerless in the world. Putting the two sentences together should mean that the two of them are talented and beautiful, a perfect match made in heaven.]

 

Seems to be aware of Chen Xing’s line of sight, the man who was originally writing seriously, gently finished sketching the last stroke, turned his head to look at Chen Xing beside him. The moment he saw Chen Xing staring blankly at himself, he gently hooked the corner of his mouth and softly said, “What’s wrong?”

 

This call woke Chen Xing up in a flash, he hastily averted his eyes, a few moments of annoyance appeared on his face, feeling that his facecon problem was getting worse.

 

After adjusting his expression, Chen Xing then looked at Gu Lang again and handed over the paper in his hand with ‘taking credit for someone else’s achievements’ expression, “Look, these are the words that I wrote today.”

 

Looking at the small proudness on Chen Xing’s face, Gu Lang’s eyes showed somewhat smiling expression, he reached out, took the paper he handed over, looking at the words on it and said as what he wished, “Very good, in such a short period of time, to be able to write like this is already considered as a genius.”

 

Hearing Gu Lang’s praise, Chen Xing immediately showed a bright smile on his face. He still wanted to show off some more, but in the end, as soon as he lowered his head, he saw the words that Gu Lang had just written, and the expression on his face immediately froze.

 

Gu Lang is very sensitive to Chen Xing’s emotions, looking at the person who was so happy just now, all of a sudden became a bit dumbfounded, therefore he subconsciously asked, “What’s wrong?”

 

Hearing Gu Lang’s words, Chen Xing looked at the words he wrote in his hand, and then looked down at the stuff Gu Lang had just written on the table, his face immediately reddened a few points. He was somewhat awkward as he said, “My writings are so much worse than yours.”

 

If Gu Lang’s writings can be comparable to an expert or great master, then his writings are only a little better than a young child’s so when put together, one can even see the gap or difference between their writings.

 

Seeing Chen Xing face depressed look, Gu Lang reached out and touched his head, warmly consoled: “I learnt to read and write since childhood. I wrote for so many years and even relied on this to make a living, naturally my writing is a few points better than the others. You’ve only been learning for a short time, so it’s considered already not bad for you to be able to write like this.”

 

Every time Gu Lang touched his head, Chen Xing felt that Gu Lang was treating him like a cat to smooth his fur. He didn’t hate it, but he always felt somehow uncomfortable.

 

Therefore, Chen Xing pulled down lightly his hand on his head and said in a somewhat awkward manner, “I’ve told you not to rub my head like this all the time.”

 

Gu Lang, as usual and before, responded to him in a kind manner: “Fine.”

 

Chen Xing somehow wanted to get angry but he felt that even though Gu Lang always answered him nicely every time and he would continue to do like that also the next time, yet once he met Gu Lang’s good-looking and always gentle face, he couldn’t get angry at all.

 

Chen Xing secretly spat on himself, in order not to let himself appear too lewd, he quickly changed the topic, “Did you learn the word since you were very young? But I heard that your family always does business ah.”

 

After saying that, Chen Xing suddenly realized that this doesn’t seem to be a very good thing, a few points of annoyance appeared on his face, and the expression on his face when he looked at Gu Lang was also a little bit awkward, “That, actually I don’t want to ask about this.”

 

Gu Lang looked at the embarrassment on Chen Xing’s face, the gentle expression on his face did not change at all, and even appeared a little bit of pampering, “My family used to do business.”

 

Gu Lang, in Chen Xing’s somewhat worried gaze, slowly said, “From the time I remember, my family has been very rich, and there is no shortage of anything. I grew up in this mansion since I was a child, and lived a life where I didn’t have to stretch out my hands to feed myself, and I didn’t even need to do anything, there were countless subordinates to serve me with a single command.”

 

Chen Xing noticed that when Gu Lang said this, his eyes kept looking at the sky outside the window, as if he was caught up in some kind of long ago memories, perhaps those days were really beautiful, so much so that when Gu Lang said this, he always had a shallow smile on his face.

 

“Moreover, I was the only male in my grandchildren’s generation, so naturally I was especially pampered. After discovering my talent for reading and writing, my parents went to great lengths to hire master teachers from all over the world, and even the things they gave me to study were all the best. All of this was in the hope that I would grow up to be able to achieve something and to bring honor to my family, but unfortunately later ……”

 

Gu Lang said here, his voice slowly weakened yet he did not continue his words, after all, the latter we all know. But it is a pity that his family has not waited for him, this immature child to grow up and his family ended up bankrupt and died, leaving him all alone.

 

Chen Xing looked at Gu Lang’s side silent face, hesitated for a few moments, his hand loosened and then tightened. In the end, he put his hand on Gu Lang’s hand which was on the handrail.

 

The sudden rise of warmth in his hand pulled Gu Lang back from his past memories, he turned his head to look at the person squatting beside him, under his worried gaze, he showed him a gentle smile that was different from his usual smile and said softly: “Don’t worry, I’m fine. I just suddenly remembered what happened at that time and felt a little emotional, the past has already passed, it’s useless to be sad anymore.”

 

Chen Xing raised his eyes and looked at Gu Lang for a while, and after confirming that he was no longer sad, he then let out a little sigh of relief, but Gu Lang’s mood was still very low.

 

Chen Xing was a bit confused and finally, under Gu Lang’s puzzled gaze, he pulled his other hand and put it on his forehead, and said in awkward tone, “I’ll allow you to rub my head now.”

 

Gu Lang was first stunned by Chen Xing’s approach, then looking at Chen Xing’s cheeks that were flushed with embarrassment, he suddenly laughed at once, reached out and vigorously rubbed his head, and under Chen Xing’s grudging expression, his eyes were gentle, and he said in a warm tone, “Okay ah, thank you.”

 

Chen Xing blushed at Gu Lang’s tone, which seemed to carry a hook, and hurriedly lowered his head. He stumbled and said, “No, no need to be polite.”

 

The expression in Gu Lang’s eyes grew deeper and deeper as he looked at Chen Xing, flashing with a dark light that no one could see.

 

Ever since that day when he inadvertently brought up Gu Lang’s sad past, Chen Xing has been trying to find ways to make Gu Lang happy. The most common way was to cook something that Gu Lang liked to eat. As a result, the Gu Mansion’s already rich cuisine has risen several notches since that day. Qiu Jiu even secretly suspected that he himself had gained weight.

 

On this day, the moment Chen Xing went out to open the stall, he was thinking about what kind of food he should cook today when he went back home later. The result was that he then heard a grievous voice from a distance, “Little boss!”