chapter 5

Bang bang bang~

The patrolling night watchman banged his wooden clapper rhythmically and The sound traveled to the high Pillar houses.

Fang Zheng opened his dry eyelids. Even after sleeping, he still could feel sleepy and exhausted.

Last night, when he saw the "new fang yuan" and his cold eyes, he was scared , he was scared of those cold eyes.

He didn't know why, but he could sense an invincible pressure on him, almost something like intict.

Yes, this was his intict to fear from those eyes. Like an animal's instinct for survival, he wanted to simply escape ; his instincts were screaming at him to do that.

He rubbed his eyes with his fingers, thinking about the sounds outside.

He "threw away" the thin blanket and got up, kind of sloppy, but... At least He could got up.

Actually He didn't get much sleep after what happened with Fang Yuan Last night . He couldn't stop thinking about what he saw , Those emotions , those eyes, his heart was racing rapidly and didn't let him sleep , so He was lost in his thoughts and couldn't sleep till about half an hour ago. But now this sudden sounds arrived and woke him up.

He then opened the window, seeing that the rain had stopped. Immediately, a mix of fragrance of dirt, trees, and wild flowers, bumped into his face. In the next moment , his head became clearer, and the sleepiness practically vanished. After this, he looked outside with more eager eyes than before.

The sun was still not in the sky, clearly yet to rise. Looking around, the surrounding bamboo buildings and the wood , contrasted with the mountain, it was like a sea of pale green color, showing a wonderful side of nature.

Knock knock~

"Young Master Fang Zheng, are you awake?I will go and prepare warm water for you to wash up."

As Fang Zheng was admiring the beautiful raw nature that could not be easily seen in the modern world, an old voice came from behind the door.

Behind the door was an old woman, the same old woman who assisted Fang Zheng take a bath last time, she was his personal servant, that uncle and aunt, provided to him.

Fang Zheng opened the door and went to wash up with the "guidness" of this old servant.

soon The elderly woman was quite shocked by this process, because she hadn't expect Fang Zheng to behave like that , it was like it wasn't the same fang Zheng, So sloppy, she actually needed to assist him to wash up and do other things, like an old mother helping her little son.

But she didn't dare to ask, she just simply did her job... Helping his master.

Actually, you can't blame Fang Zheng for this situation; after all this was another world, not the modern world that he lived in, and things in this world were a little too old. He couldn't even use this world version of "Toothbrush" properly.

But after a lot of try, and with the help of this old servant, he could eventually do everything.

After that, he went to change his clothes, with the help of the old servant, of course.

but the robe that he wore this time wasn't one of the clothes that he saw in his "closet," but a new one that the old servant brought for him. 

"So they actually think about their reputation too"

After seeing the new set of clothes, Fang Zheng realized it was only an matter of maintaining one's reputation.

After all, today is the day of the awakening ceremony, and the two brothers, Fang Yuan and Fang Zheng, will go to awaken their apretur.

There are many people there, but what if between two siblings, Fang Zheng and Fang Yuan , the Big brother had new clothes, while the little brother wore old ones ? What people say about this? Certainly not any good thing And then rumors begin to spread.

In this tiny gu yue village, a lot of people knows that their parents are dead, and uncle and aunt are upbringing and raising them.

However, if a scene like that be seen in public, people may start to talk about how ruthless and abusive uncle and aunt are, for treating the little brother like this , because he don't have talent like his older brother.

This is bullying, and if this happens in a clan that cares about relationships and family, what will happen?

It definitely would have quite a huge impact on uncle and aunt, specially on uncle's reputation

Because people love to talk about the rumours

Of course, what happened now could be a coincidence, and fang Zheng is just thinking too much about it , but only ignorant people like the original Fang Zheng, would think like that.

Coincidence ? In this specific time, location, and situation?

No, maybe the original fang Zheng believes this, but the new fang Zheng does not.

After dressing up, he walked into the hallway.

He continued to walk downstairs and approached the doorway, with the old servant , following behind him.

And Soon he saw Fang Yuan again.

Fang Yuan was standing there , and a little girl was smoothing creases on his chest.

Upon seeing this scene, Fang Zheng's eyes were filled with anger, but this anger wasn't towards Fang Yuan, but towards uncle and aunt.

If his current thoughts are correct, he now may have a better understanding of why the original Fang Zheng was the way he was in the original story.

Despite the fact that it hadn't been a long time, Fang Zheng could still see how original Fang Zheng's life was and how he lived.

For the original Fang Zheng, Fang Yuan's life must have been like heaven, but what about his? Hehe, not much good.

for a young child, he couldn't comprehend a lot of things, and as a spectator, he couldn't see what exactly was going on in Fang Yuan's situation and must have thought how good it is to be in Fang Yuan's place.

In fact, Fang Yuan's life was also very hard, but the original fang Zheng couldn't understand this fact , and because of fang yuan expressionless face, which didn't show his true feelings, and under uncle and aunt influence, A little kid like Fang Zheng was bound to feel jealously and start develop the inferiority complex that he had in the original story.

"Hmph, if all of original Fang Zheng's life was like what I saw these days, this would really explain why he was a piece of shit in the original story, I mean his clothes were like that, his room was even smaller than Fang Yuan's, his servants was worse than Fang Yuan's, he even got less food than Fang Yuan, and he had to always suffer these humiliations and always hear how people praised Fang Yuan.... Yeah, it is very messed up; after all, he was only a little kid."

After thinking about this matter more and more, the anger in his eyes became even more.

Of course, All of that could not be concealed from fang yuan's experienced eyes, but in fang yuan's eyes, this anger was toward himself; after all, he could only see the anger in his little brother's eyes when his little brother saw Shen Cui.

This was quite natural for Fang Yuan to think like that; after all, with just this tiny observation, he couldn't understand that this Fang Zheng isn't the younger brother that he knew, but someone like himself in his previous life , a transmigrated person.

"Alright, don't need to tidy up"

Fang yuan impatiently brushed away shen cui's soft hands, his clothing had long been tidy , he could say that , this was just shen cui's act to seduce him

"You can leave"

Fang yuan didn't even look at shen cui as he tidied up his own sleeve cuffs.

Shen cui was quite puzzled, feeling that fang yuan today is a little weird , but she could just say "yes" and retreat obediently

"Are you ready ?"

Fang Yuan asked Fang Zheng.

This sudden call led Fang Zheng to halt his thoughts; cold sweats appeared on his forehead, but he tried to be as "normal" as he could.

"Yes, big brother" His head lowered, looking at his toes, he responded, as "normal" as he could, and tried not make any eye contact with Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan nodded. He was clear at what fang Zheng was thinking now and could understand...at least that was what he thought, but in reality he couldn't and quite misunderstood, it wasn't really fang yuan's fault, because fang Zheng now wasn't the fang Zheng of his previous life, thus he, someone who regressed from 500 years later not long ago and relied on his memories of his previous life, for at least now, couldn't understand fang Zheng correctly, because the one that he understand very well was the original fang Zheng

"Let's go." Fang Yuan said: Then the two brothers exited the house, with Fang Zheng following Fang Yuan behind.