Chapter 94: The Wooden Horse
Nuonuo tilted his little face up. Hearing his brother’s words, he still seemed a little dazed.
Looking at the huge rainbow lollipop in Fei Jing’s hand, Nuonuo still clenched his little fists and said a little anxiously, “Brother, brother! The candy is going to melt!”
Fei Jing’s slender fingers gently turned the lollipop stick, and the rainbow-colored candy also transformed into a colorful shadow, so beautiful that Nuonuo was reluctant to blink.
“How could it melt? Did you sneak a bite?”
Fei Jing lowered his head and tapped Nuonuo’s little forehead, still speaking in a low voice.
Nuonuo quickly shook his head. “No, ya. It wasn’t me. I didn’t eat it!”
Fei Jing let out a feigned “oh” of understanding. “So you wanted to sneak a bite but didn’t get to?”
Nuonuo immediately fell for the trick and nodded foolishly. “That’s right!”
Fei Jing was so amused his eyebrows even raised slightly. He poked Nuonuo’s soft cheek, his voice tinged with a bit of a laugh. “You even say ‘that’s right.’ Aren’t you silly?”
Nuonuo’s little eyes were glued to the lollipop, reluctant to look away. He didn’t understand his brother’s words at all and even said very seriously, “I’m not silly, ya. Teacher Xiao Ran said I’m… super smart!”
Fei Jing let out a light laugh. Looking at the little one toddling behind him with his short little legs, not even as tall as his own leg, he felt as if he would step on him in the next second.
Reaching out, Fei Jing picked up Nuonuo with one arm and even bounced him lightly a couple of times.
“Heavier. It must be that you’ve gotten fat from eating candy.”
Nuonuo pouted unhappily and whimpered a couple of times before saying, “No, ya. Papa said I’ve grown taller!”
Fei Jing let out a couple of “tsk”s and stuffed the candy into Nuonuo’s hand. “Father was just tricking you.”
Nuonuo wanted to say that his papa would never trick him, and that he was still very thin.
But looking at the candy in his hand, which was bigger than his own face, Nuonuo’s little eyes couldn’t help but become torn.
His little teeth bit his lip. Nuonuo tried his best to think, but his mind was blank. After a while, he finally lay on Fei Jing’s shoulder and looked at his third brother. “Brother, will I get fat from eating candy?”
Hearing his little brother’s words, Fei Luo’s usually vacant little head finally came back to its senses. Looking at his little brother’s extremely conflicted little face, he shook his head firmly and said, “You won’t get fat. And little brother isn’t fat either.”
Hearing this, Nuonuo immediately broke into a small smile and quickly turned his head to look at Zhuang Jie. “Zhuang Jie-jie…”
Hearing Nuonuo call him this name, Zhuang Jie’s head throbbed. He quickly interrupted him and said, “Not fat. You’ll still grow taller in the future.”
Now Nuonuo was completely at ease. He snuggled back into his second brother’s arms, held up the lollipop, and happily stuck out his little tongue to lick it.
“Is it delicious?”
Fei Jing looked at Nuonuo’s squinted little eyes of enjoyment and thought to himself that he was too easy to satisfy.
“It’s delicious. Brother, you eat too!”
Nuonuo, completely forgetting his grudge, held the candy up to his brother for him to eat.
Fei Jing frowned with a bit of disdain, pinched Nuonuo’s little nose, and said, “You eat it yourself. The candy is covered in your saliva.”
Only then did Nuonuo hug the lollipop and happily continue to lick it in small bites.
And Zhuang Jie, behind them, looked at Fei Jing’s disgusted on the surface but gentle in his eyes, and while feeling it was incredible, his mood also couldn’t help but become complicated.
Although his relationship with Fei Jing, Fei Han, and Fei Luo in his previous life was quite bad, seeing his younger self being so close to them, in a daze, he actually felt that this was also quite nice.
After all, Zhuang Jie, more than anyone else, hoped that Nuonuo could always be happy and joyful.
He was willing to be a bystander, witnessing Nuonuo being tightly enveloped in this pure love, living a carefree life.
His own lonely and unrequited previous life had to become a complete past.
As Zhuang Jie thought this, the ferocity in his chest that could never be dispelled, at this moment, was also like sand blown by the wind, scattering bit by bit.
Just by melting away that little bit, Zhuang Jie felt as if he had become much lighter. His eyes were no longer a world of eternal monochrome, and he suddenly felt the warmth of the autumn wind.
Hearing Nuonuo’s always cheerful and energetic laughter in his ears, Zhuang Jie’s lips also couldn’t help but curl up.
The first attraction they came to was the carousel, which many children liked.
The white wooden horses were on a huge turntable, rotating up and down with either soothing or cheerful music. The children sitting on them all had happy smiles on their faces.
Nuonuo was held by Fei Jing and sat on the carousel, his little hands still tightly clutching the lollipop, his little face flushed red, both excited and scared, not even knowing where to put his little feet.
“I’m going to ride the little wooden horse!”
Nuonuo was held in Fei Jing’s arms, his little face tilted up, his voice a little trembling.
Fei Jing tapped Nuonuo’s little face. Knowing that the little one was scared, he didn’t tease him but tightened his arms. “Don’t worry. Even if brother falls, I won’t let you fall.”
Nuonuo nodded his little head heavily and, pursing his lips, said, “Brother won’t fall, and Third Brother won’t fall either!”
And Fei Luo on the wooden horse next to him, his eyes were a little vacant and without much spirit, as if he were not sitting on a wooden horse, but on some thorny stool.
Compared to the noisy amusement park with his annoying second brother, Fei Luo still preferred to kick a ball with his little brother on the lawn at home.
Fei Luo, who had social phobia, had seen so many strangers in one day and was even laughed at and had his face pinched by some big sisters. He was completely withdrawn.
After this trip, it would take at least half a year for him to recover.
Fei Luo’s lips let out a small soul, and he stared blankly.
And Zhuang Jie, who was sitting on the wooden horse next to Fei Luo, saw Fei Luo’s almost suffocating appearance and couldn’t help but laugh unkindly.
In his previous life, his relationship with this third brother was neither cold nor warm. The reason was that in the later stages, Fei Luo’s withdrawal and phobia had reached their peak, and he would shut himself in his doll city all day, not seeing anyone.
The last time he saw Fei Luo before he died, Zhuang Jie even felt that Fei Luo didn’t look like a person. He was like a real doll with no expression and couldn’t move, completely imprisoned in that shell.
Although he didn’t know if Fei Luo had also been killed by Gu Ze, Zhuang Jie felt that Fei Luo had actually died before any of them.
Fei Luo’s spiritual world was already a wasteland, and his spirit had decayed even earlier.
But in this life, he seemed to be much better, Zhuang Jie thought. Although Fei Luo still had a bit of resistance, he had already started to actively contact the outside world.
Zhuang Jie had a hunch that in this life, perhaps Fei Luo would truly live as himself.
With the sound of the music, the little wooden horses also happily went up and down.
This amusement ride was the gentlest and most suitable for children, but Nuonuo had never ridden one before and was still scared, closing his little eyes and burying his head in his brother’s arms.
“What are you afraid of?” Fei Jing poked Nuonuo’s little face and said with a smile.
Nuonuo, on the other hand, shook his head and said in a muffled voice, “I’m not scared!”
Fei Jing looked at Nuonuo, who was shrinking his head like a little tortoise, and thought to himself, It would be strange if you weren’t scared.
“It seems that your whole body is soft, but your mouth is quite hard.”
Nuonuo secretly opened his little eyes and said in confusion, “My mouth is also soft. It’s the little duck’s mouth that’s hard. Brother, you remembered wrong!”
The corners of Fei Jing’s lips under his mask were already raised, and he couldn’t help but laugh out loud. “Yes, yes, I remembered wrong.”
The two girls who were playing next to them looked at Nuonuo, whispered, and giggled. They even took out the chewing gum from their pockets and asked softly, “Little brother, can you eat chewing gum?”
Nuonuo opened his eyes and was no longer scared. Being held by his brother and sitting on the little wooden horse, his eyes were wide open as he looked around curiously.
Hearing the big sister’s words, Nuonuo held up his lollipop and said, “I have candy, ya. Big sister, you eat it yourself!”
The little sister pursed her lips and giggled for a while. Seeing Fei Jing’s refusing gaze, she put the chewing gum back.
After two or three songs, the wooden horses gradually stopped.
The two girls ran off, holding hands and laughing. After walking a certain distance, they looked at the photo they had taken with their phones, where the Fei Jing brothers had accidentally appeared, and couldn’t help but say, “I think this person looks a lot like Fei Jing!”
The other girl also peeked over and, seeing the blurry little face of Nuonuo in the photo, suddenly remembered something. “Isn’t this his little brother? He appeared on a live broadcast once before!”
Instantly, the two girls held hands and shouted happily.
And Nuonuo, after riding the carousel once, had completely fallen in love with it. He held his brother’s hand and wanted to line up to ride it again.
Fei Jing looked at the thrilling rides like the log flume and the pendulum on the ticket and felt that a child couldn’t play them anyway. So he simply bought a few more tickets for the carousel and let Nuonuo ride it to his heart’s content.
And so, this time, it was Nuonuo sitting on it alone, with the other three watching from below.
The brave Nuonuo held onto the pole in front of the wooden horse with his little hands, his nervous and excited little face slightly flushed.
As the wooden horse passed by his brothers, Nuonuo even stretched out his little hand, his eyes sparkling as he waved at them, and then quickly held onto the pole again.
Fei Jing, who had taken out a camera from somewhere, was taking a flurry of photos of Nuonuo.
Although his skills were average, after all, he had filmed so many commercials, Fei Jing’s sense of the camera was still very good, and the snapshots were all very nice.
After riding three times in a row, Nuonuo still wasn’t tired of it. Just as he was about to go for another ride with his short little legs, he was pulled by the collar by Fei Jing and directly picked up.
“Let’s eat first. There’s still time in the afternoon.”
Nuonuo’s stomach was also rumbling, so he simply wrapped his arms around his brother’s neck, swung his short little legs, and happily chattered away. “Third Brother is also amazing. I’m also very amazing. We all rode the little wooden horse by ourselves…”
Walking to the restaurant entrance, Nuonuo was lying on Fei Jing’s shoulder, talking to Fei Luo, when his gaze suddenly met that of a beggar on the side.
The other’s hair was messy like a ball of yarn, his face covered in a layer of black dirt. His clothes were torn into strips, his trousers were completely tattered below the knee, and he didn’t even have shoes on his feet.
Perhaps because it was the first time he had seen such a miserable person, Nuonuo’s little mouth was unconsciously open, and he stared at the person in a daze.
The other, seeing that Nuonuo was a child, showed a smile and then lowered his head again, leaning against the outer wall of the restaurant to rest for a while.
Nuonuo, on the other hand, tugged at his brother’s clothes and pointed with his little finger. “Brother, look!”
Fei Jing lifted his eyelids, glanced at this person with a bit of indifference, and let out a non-committal “oh.”
