Compared with the optimistic sister, Shen Ling has her own careful thoughts.

For example, about love, about the future, compared to her sister who seemed to be ignorant, Shen Ling had a general idea in her heart very early, from beginning to end, she knew what she wanted.

She had seen her father's lonely back at the grave of her dead mother, and she had also seen her father secretly wipe the blood from the corners of his mouth by the smelter.

My father had been ill for a while, but he had never told his sister about it, let alone seen a doctor.

Although the life of Songxue Village is a little more difficult than that of the people in the county town, their family has a field, a blacksmith shop, and their father can hunt, and they are relatively wealthy in the village, and they still have money for medical treatment.

But why didn't my father go to the doctor?

There is only one answer, that is, he knows that his illness cannot be cured.

Shen Ling knew that even if the strange things in Songxue Village did not happen, even if his sister and himself were not designated as virgins to be given to the mountain god, once their father fell, the two sisters would be rootless duckweed, and those neighboring men and women in the village, their father was alive, and they could still be sent as sacrifices for one reason or another, if their father was gone one day, there would be no bones left for the sisters to be swallowed.

When they met on weekdays, Ah Bing Ah Ling shouted intimacy, but because of his father's identity as a blacksmith, when they were always useful, those hypocritical kindnesses could not be counted at all.

A mother's compatriot, God gave all the light to his sister, but the darkness was left to himself.

Compared with her sister, who is simple and kind in her heart and can always see the good side of others, Shen Ling can see through the indifference and greed hidden under the smiling face and kind face at a glance.

He knew that before his father fell, he had to find a path for the two sisters to survive in peace.

Now, the way, she has found.

Which girl is not pregnant with spring, which girl with spring will not like a man's vigorous and fresh masculine body?

She likes it too.

Li Ting has read hundreds of volumes, is gentle and elegant, and has a good personality, which is indeed not annoying, but his weak body, pale face, and lifeless eyes really make Shen Ling not like it.

However, Shen Ling is a smart person, she clearly knows that if she wants to live in this family for a long time and live well, she must like Li Ting, the sick second son, from the bottom of her heart and wholeheartedly.

Is it difficult? It's hard, it's not hard.

If there is anyone in this world who can be deceived best, it is of course himself.

Lie to yourself, and no one will ever expose it.

She will use her heart to find the advantages of Li Ting, his advantages are hidden in that lifeless body on weekdays, which is not obvious or leaky, but there are many surprises.

For example, although his face is a little pale, if you look closely, in fact, he looks extraordinarily attractive, and it is not a weak and delicate handsomeness, but the perseverance and beauty that attracts women the most.

Maybe he didn't even realize it.

For example, his handwriting is very beautiful, and he is also very patient when teaching himself to read and write.

He doesn't have the arrogance and gateway of many young masters of high-ranking families, when he looks at himself, he only has himself in his eyes, not the mountain girl in which county or village, not his plaything, nor his slave, she is only herself in his eyes.

I thought that when I first arrived, there would be some discomfort in all aspects, but he made careful arrangements, and after coming to the Li family for a long time, except for missing his sister and father, he didn't feel the slightest discomfort in other aspects.

On weekdays, as long as he can walk, he will never sit on a wooden wheelchair and be pushed.

When the weather is good, Li Ting always likes to stand or sit quietly under the spruce tree in his yard that is half dead and half green, and quietly looks up at the canopy that is neither alive nor dead, half dead and half glorious, as if he is looking at another self.

When Shen Ling came to live, she forced herself to follow him to watch, at first she was a little impatient, but after watching it for a long time and focusing on it, she felt more and more that there was an indescribable charm on the spruce tree.

The spruce tree was the opposite of the green, and the contrast was a rich black, and looking at the charred black appearance, you don't have to think about it to know that the trunk of this tree was struck by lightning a long time ago, and only half of it was burned by luck, and the other half was saved for some reason.

"The spruce in the northland, if no one cuts it down, it can live for about four thousand years, this one, guess how long it will live?" Shen Ling supported Li Ting, where she was standing, she could only see his pale and emaciated side face.

"Hmm," the girl looked up at the tall spruce that seemed to be dying soon, pointed her left index finger to her lips, and said with some uncertainty, "More than three thousand years?"

"No, the moment I saw it in the cedar forest, it was more than 8,000 years old. ”

Shen Ling took a deep breath.

Li Ting turned his head, his calm eyes revealed a trace of soft warmth, and said with a gentle smile: "This one is the first time I went to the ice field, when I passed through the cedar forest, I found it by chance, and I felt that it was very similar to me, so I ordered someone to transplant it back carefully, every time I looked at it, it was like looking at myself, it turned out that there were creatures in this world like me, panicked, uneasy, but struggling to the death, unwilling to disappear." ”

Li Ting looked at Shen Ling's eyes, a bright color flashed in her dull eyes, reached out for her to brush the falling hair back behind her ears, and laughed softly: "With it in the courtyard, I will feel very relieved, as if if it lives for one day, I can live one more day in this world." ”

In Shen Ling's eyes, there were already tears at this moment, and he gently surrounded Li Ting's body that he once couldn't like from behind.

The girl's side face was gently pressed against the man's vest, and she couldn't help but blurt out: "This spruce will live for a long, long time, believe me." ”

You'll live a long time, too, very

The girl meditated silently in her heart.

Shen Ling's body trembled, and he suddenly shook his spirit.

Before she knew it, she seemed to really fall in love with him!

Shen Ling quietly hugged Li Ting, behind his invisible, her eyes were a little happy, a little relieved, and more confused.

She is glad that she has finally fallen in love with him, which means that she has a bright future, and she can free up her hands to take care of her sister and sick father.

What relieved her was that she could see that Li Ting liked her sister more at the beginning, but it was because of her hard performance and her sister's intentional or unintentional estrangement that the current relationship between the two was promoted, when she was with Shen Bing, she always felt that she had robbed her sister of something, and when she was with Li Ting, she couldn't help but think that this man's favorite was not herself.

But now, she knows that in Li Ting's heart, there is probably only herself and no one else.

Only the last confusion, inexplicable, unclear, the most confusing!

At this moment, she no longer knew if she was really in love with the man in her arms, or if it was just a sign of the success of her deception.

Li Ting turned his back, hugged the girl's soft body with his backhand, rested his chin on Shen Ling's shoulder, closed his eyes, moved his nose slightly, and gently sniffed the faint body fragrance on her body, as if he wanted to record this moment in his heart forever.

"It's good to have you!" the man's gentle voice came from his ears with a slight heat.

The girl's heart moved, tears welled up in her eyes, and then she snatched her eyes.

What does it matter if she cheats or not? She's already in love.

The girl who embraced the darkness, at this moment, finally found her own light.

On the inside of the corridor across a wall, a pair of eyes that looked slightly hollow, through the window flowers on the wall, were facing the location of Li Ting and Shen Ling, but the sight of the two was blocked by spruce, and the distance was also far away, but they couldn't find that the partition wall had eyes.

In fact, they can't be blamed for being careless.

Outside the Li family's mansion, there are people guarding the door in four shifts, and there are even more good kung fu people patrolling the house from time to time, that is, those masters of the rivers and lakes, it is very difficult to get in without being discovered, the Li family has friends all over the world, but there are few enemies, and this kind of thing has never happened to be broken into.

Moreover, the pupils of the person peeping at them were dilated, and his gaze was not focused, he was probably just paying attention to the movements on their side with the corner of his eye, so that even a martial arts master with profound internal strength could not necessarily detect it.

The man in the corridor looked at it for a moment, the expression on his face was complicated and changed, and finally he just sighed softly, then turned around and disappeared into the courtyard of the high gate.

(End of chapter)