The puppets' stage play

Chapter 169 Waiting, everyone 4

"Is this so..."

Gong Shouze couldn't help but close his eyes, stopping his uncontrollable anger.

"That's it!" There was no shame on Li Zhi's face. He looked around at everyone for a moment and his eyes were focused. "You can just stay here for a while. This is the only thank you I can give to Brother Gong... "

Li Zhi ignored everyone, walked to the door of the sealed room, and knocked lightly.

"Wait..." Lin Sheng looked eager to call out to the other party, but Li Zhi did not look back, and his figure gradually faded away.

"Li Zhi..." Lin Sheng murmured the other person's name, with a blank look on his face, as if he had lost his precious existence.

"..." The other three were silent for a moment.

"It's indeed Li Zhi," Zhang Ke suddenly said, with a slight emotion in his tone.

"Yes, the drama we put on was not in vain. The traitor was finally found around us, but... it turned out to be..." Gong Shouze opened his eyes and shook his head slowly.

"There is no way. We can't easily doubt someone. We can only put us in trouble first, and then wait for him to jump out on his own. Li Zhi, huh, he is a vulgar person after all." Liu Gou pushed up his glasses, showing a rare expression in recent days. See the sanity.

"You, you..." Lin Sheng looked blankly at the people who had sadness in their eyes, but faint conviction in their words.

"Lin..." Liu Ju stopped Gong Shouze who wanted to comfort Lin Sheng. His cold eyes under the lenses scanned the confused and ignorant opponent, and he couldn't help snorting.

He took a few steps forward and shrouded the short Lin Sheng in his shadow.

"Lin Sheng, as I said, I have suspected the existence of traitors a long time ago. Because of this, I secretly reached an agreement with Shouze and pretended to be at odds with each other. Why do you think this is?"

"..." Lin Sheng looked up at Liu Ju stubbornly and said nothing.

Liu Ju didn't expect the other party's answer. After all, the other party had the best relationship with Li Zhi among everyone, and was also the most emotional.

"We are testing your attitudes to determine everyone's suspicions. At first, there were only me and Shouze in this secret alliance. Later, Zhang Ke passed the test and we were convinced that he was not a traitor, so the three of us formed a strategic alliance."

"So...the only remaining suspects are you and Li Zhi, let's go on..."

"You are using the reverse method of acquitting yourself. What do you think of your friends?!" Lin Sheng's eyes were about to burst into anger, and he asked Liu Ju loudly.

However, Liu Ju sneered and dismissed it.

"Oh, who is your partner? Li Zhi is wrong about everything, but he is right about one thing. We are just 'strangers'. I am only willing to talk to you reluctantly because of Gong Shoucheng's wishes, partner? It's really ridiculous Speak!”

"..." The anger in Lin Sheng's eyes was instantly cooled down. He stared blankly at Liu Ju with disdain on his face, feeling that his soul was about to be dragged into eternal darkness.

Zhang Ke looked at this scene indifferently, without any fluctuation in his eyes.

"That's it! Liu Ju, your words are too much!" Gong Shouze interrupted the conflict between the two, put his hands on Lin Sheng's shoulders, and used his eyes to dissuade Liu Ju from leaving.

Liu Ju snorted, walked to a corner and leaned against the wall, squatting down in a daze.

Gong Shouze smiled helplessly, turned his head and looked seriously into the other person's sad eyes.

"Listen up, Lin Sheng, please be careful. This is the real relationship between us. We are not close. The gap between us in the past was only covered up in front of my eldest brother Gong Shoucheng."

"We pretend to be partners, laugh and play, and our essence is to follow his wishes, so once he is gone, we will fall apart, but I think this is not a bad idea."

"We are no longer wrapped in the sun. At least we can still keep warm. Let us put aside those false relationships in the past and start over. From today on, let's be friends again."

"First of all, I want to introduce myself. My name is Gong Shouze..."

Lin Sheng stared blankly at the smiling Gong Shouze, the sadness on his face gradually disappeared, and he couldn't help laughing, until tears overflowed from the corners of his eyes.

"What about starting over? Let me introduce myself. My name is..."

Liu Ju was in a daze, ignoring the two people who were introducing themselves, but a shadow suddenly appeared in front of his eyes. He looked up and saw an expressionless Zhang Ke standing in front of him, and then stretched out his hand to him.

"We shouldn't stand still, otherwise we will be looked down upon by him."

Liu Ju naturally understood who the other party was talking about. He looked at the two people over there who began to talk about his interests in silence, with a faint trance in his eyes.

In the long silence, Zhang Ke's posture remained unchanged. He looked at the other party calmly, with determination in his eyes.

"...It's been such a long time," Liu Ju said with emotion, with a relieved smile on his face. He grabbed the opposite hand and stood up.

"That's right, you can't be underestimated by that guy." His words with laughter were vaguely nostalgic.

"Let's also 'introduce ourselves'"

Liu Ju took Zhang Ke's hand, and the two walked side by side among the two people who looked surprised.

"My name is....."

"My name is....."

In this way, the four of them became 'friend reserves' again.

After talking for a while, Lin Sheng suddenly remembered something. He looked at Gong Shouze with questions in his eyes.

"Brother Ze, since you have known about the existence of...traitors for a long time, why didn't you solve them in time? What do you plan to do in the future?" Lin Sheng looked at the surrounding environment with a depressed expression, "Especially here... "

“We are now just prisoners of others, how can we resist?”

Facing Lin Sheng's question, Gong Shouze and Liu Ju looked at each other, and both of them couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"It's easier said than done. Now the general trend is in Kang Tainian's direction. Even if we are outside, those opportunities that seem to have room for maneuver are actually just things for others to enjoy when they are bored."

"If the other party is dissatisfied, we will be caught in an instant, and then it will not be as easy as now."

"To be precise, as long as we still live in this world, we will inevitably be unable to escape each other's sight. We might as well use our tricks to catch them all in one fell swoop, making them lose their vigilance towards us, and then slowly start to take advantage of us."

Lin Sheng heard the other party's words, and his expression first showed fear, and then his expression changed, and a surprised smile appeared on his face.

"Brother Ze, so we still have... backup options?" Lin Sheng looked around for a moment and asked in a low voice.

Gong Shouze smiled mysteriously, his expression a little leisurely.

"Without him, we just need to keep waiting."

Lin Sheng was shocked at first, and then looked at the other party with dissatisfaction. Everyone laughed, and Lin Sheng couldn't help but laugh.

Just like when the young man was still there, everyone was in a harmonious atmosphere.

In a single dormitory in Qingjing College.

The Song brothers looked at the visitor solemnly, their expressions a bit nervous.

Someone knocked on the door earlier. They opened the door with the idea that there could be no danger in the academy, but found that the two people outside the door had their faces covered and were dressed in black. They didn't look like good people at first glance.

The two of them were about to call out to the guards who were standing nearby when the thinner one stepped forward and took off his veil, causing the two brothers' pupils to tremble.

"Lindao, what are you doing here? Don't you know that the college issued a wanted order for you this morning? Why are you here with my two brothers now?"

With a look from the fair-faced Song Ying, the tall, bear-like Song Xiong stepped forward and questioned Lin Dao.

Lindao's expression was stunned, he curled his lips and looked at the person next to him.

"...Song Ying, Song Xiong, long time no see." The man's eyes were a little nostalgic. He took off his veil, revealing a face that made the two of them unbelievable.

"Master Zhou!" The two of them shouted in unison. The weaker Song Ying quickly ran to Zhou Zhuqing's side, while Song Xiong looked at Lin Dao with a determined expression, and vaguely protected the two people behind him.

Lin Dao's eyes were a little helpless. Didn't these two people see that the other party was not under duress? He and Zhou Zhuqing clearly came here together.

"Song Ying, Song Xiong must not be rude, Lin Dao is an honored guest of the Zhou family, so must not be neglected!" Zhou Zhuqing's expression was solemn and his tone was serious.

"..." The two of them were silent for a while, standing aside with respectful expressions.

Lin Dao stood on the sidelines and marveled. These two people had never had such an attitude towards him.

The two brothers ignored Lin Dao's appraising gaze and just stood aside calmly, waiting for Zhou Zhuqing's order.

"It's a long story..." When Zhou Zhuqing saw Lin Dao's eyes, he knew that he was thinking about some irrelevant issues again.

"Don't rush, don't rush, I'll listen slowly"

Lin Dao found a chair in the living room, sat down on his own, and looked here with a smile.

Zhou Zhuqing's face twitched, and his eyes were helpless. Although the other party was extremely reliable in business matters, he also cared very much about other people's stories and often wandered around the outside world to find stories he didn't know yet.

According to his nonsensical explanation, every time he reads a story, it is like receiving an enlightenment in the soul, which is also one of his Tao.

"It started when I was a child. The Zhou family has always been one of the big families, but the main line is not here. It is in Chongzhou City, and even Qingjing College originated there, so it has long been the center of the college. "

"Only a family like the Zhou family can develop close to the academy. Zhou, Yu, Kang, and Chen are known locally as one of the four major families. Later, Li, Sun, and Wang, the three smaller families controlled Chongzhou. Inside and outside the city”

Zhou Zhuqing's expression was dull and his eyes were a little indifferent.

Lin Dao listened quietly, thoughts flashing in his eyes.

"Now in Chongzhou City, someone from the Li family serves as the mayor. Of course, he is just a dog in the college. Everyone knows that among the four families, only the Kang family is more restrained, and the other families raise children everywhere. , as a servant”

"Of course, we are not called servants to the outside world, but are called branches, all over the country."

"The richer the family background, the more they value the purity of blood. Therefore, the four families generally do not marry outsiders and only choose among the four families of the same status. Even the three small families are not in their eyes."

"In fact, the relationship between the several families was already very close in the old days, but during the natural disaster, the constant cooperation made the young people of the several families admire each other, and the relationship between the families became more harmonious."

"As a result, the relationship between each other has been entangled for several generations. They are not a family, but more than a family. They often advance and retreat simultaneously on important issues, but each of them has their own calculations."

"It's a pity that the close relationship between the four families was broken by someone..." The face of Zhou Zhuqing was not regretful, but full of joy.

"...Who is that person?" Lin Dao's expression could not help but be solemn, and he suddenly thought of a person.

"Yes, just as you thought, that person is none other than the current Dean Kang - Kang Tainian!" Zhou Zhuqing smiled with longing in his eyes.