Gu Ruo was choked again.

She bit her lip and softened her tone, "Mr. Tan, I came tonight not to ask you for payment. ”

"Oh?" Tan Qing looked at her leisurely, waiting for her wonderful next.

Gu Ruo knew that his gesture was mostly looking at her jokes, or despising her.

But she can't help it, even if she knows this, she can't turn around and leave with great self-esteem, because now only Tan Qing can save her.

She rolled up her sleeves, revealing the bruises or purple scars on her arms, "These are all done by Chi Xu, if Chi Xu is a normal person, I will marry him." But not only is he not a normal person, he is also a scumbag. He was violent to me and was still messing around outside, Mr. Tan, even if I was too greedy to offend you, I knew that I was wrong, can you please revoke my marriage with Chi Xu? ”

The wounds on her body looked so shocking, but Tan Qing only glanced at them lightly, and her voice was unwavering, "I don't like to interfere in the family affairs of my subordinates." ”

Gu Ruo frowned, "Mr. Tan, isn't this going to help me?"

Tan Qing smiled, "I, Tan, always do things, it's always a transaction, Miss Gu Ruo, is there anything else you can convince me? Or in disguise, I helped you, what benefits can you give me? I'm not a good person, I'm keen to help others solve trouble." ”

Gu Ruo was almost angry with him, but he could only speak patiently, "But this marriage was decided by you three months ago, and it was you who threw me to like Chi Xu." Now even if I beg you, please let me live. ”

Before Tan Qing could speak, there was another commotion at the door.

Gu Ruo turned around and saw Chi Xu walking towards this side with a gloomy face, he was so frightened that he shuddered, and hurriedly walked a few steps to the side.

"Mr. Tan, I beg you......"

At this time, a strong desire to survive struggled in her heart, where could she care about any dignity or undignified problem, knelt on the ground with a plop of her knees, and kept kowtowing to Tan Qing, "Mr. Tan, I beg you, I beg you." Help me, help me. ”

However, Tan Qing just picked up the red wine glass on the table, put his fingers against the bottom of the glass, and gently shook the glass, with an expression of not caring about it.

Chi Xu had already walked in, staring at Gu Ruo with a gloomy face.

Gu Ruo was a spirit, and said to Tan Qing: "Mr. Tan, I know...... I know you like Gu Zixi, as long as you let me live and dissolve my marriage with Chi Xu, I will help you find a way to let Gu Zixi follow you. ”

As soon as the words fell, Tan Qing's cold gaze shot straight in.

Gu Ruo shook violently, this look ...... Could it be that she guessed wrong? Tan Qing didn't have a cold heart for Gu Zi at all?

But it's not right, if he really doesn't have a cold to Gu Zixi, it should be an expression that doesn't matter to him, not such a scary expression that is indifferent to the bones like now......

Before she could figure it out, Tan Qing slowly opened her mouth, "You know, I still hate a kind of person. ”

"What...... What?" Gu Ruo's brain didn't know how to think anymore, and asking this question was completely subconscious.

Tan Qing gently hooked the corners of his mouth, "It's someone who is trying to speculate on my intentions and threaten me!"

With that, he leaned back on the sofa leisurely.

This posture shows that he really doesn't care.

"Gu Ruo!" In his ears, Chi Xu's angry shouting came from his ears.

Gu Ruo trembled, and as soon as he turned his face, he received a slap on the face.

Syllable!

The crisp and powerful slap sounded and the force directly slapped her to the ground.

Before Gu Ruo could react, Chi Xu pounced as if he was crazy, and his fists fell like raindrops, all of which smashed on her body. Gu Ruo curled up on the ground and let out a scream.

"You stinky bitch, how dare you come here? Who do you think can save you?" Chi continued to start a fire, it was really terrifying.

The fists were all on Gu Ruo, completely forgetting that she was just a woman or her wife.

His face was flushed, apparently drunk.

Tan Qing finally couldn't listen anymore, raised his hand, and asked his subordinates to coax the two of them out.

The roots of the ears are finally clean.

Tan Qing picked up the red wine glass again, shook the wine glass gently, watching the red liquid swaying in the glass, but a delicate face appeared in his mind.

He took a sip of red wine, the aroma of which flowed between his lips and teeth, his thin lips opened and closed slightly, and he faintly spat out a name.

"Gu, Zi, Cherish ......"

………………

The room was dark, and Zixi leaned against the windowsill, breathing heavily.

In my dream, it is the season of falling flowers.

When I was still in high school, a cherry blossom tree was planted in the northeast corner of the old campus, and when the flowers bloomed, the sky was pink, and the ground was also pink.

Therefore, many tourists come here to play and take pictures. There were so many people who came that the cherry blossoms were picked so much that some people even climbed the tree and broke the branches of the cherry blossom tree.

In the evening, when the people gradually dispersed, Zixi took out a cloth bag from his pocket with his schoolbag on his back, bent down to pick up all the cherry blossoms on the ground, and put them in the cloth bag. She wants to pick up these better cherry blossoms and make them into pollen, and then make them into sachets. It's not in vain to waste the life of these flowers.

She looked up and saw the broken branches, frowned, took out the strips of cloth that had been prepared long ago from her school bag, climbed up the tree, and carefully wrapped the broken branches.

A teenager passed under the tree, and he looked about twenty years old, a few years older than her high school student.

He also carried a schoolbag on his shoulder, and was obviously also a student, but probably a college student. He is very handsome, with deep eyebrows and eyes, but his eyebrows are always wrinkled, and he doesn't look very good-tempered. He was carrying a black coat in his hand, and when he passed under the tree, he looked up at the girl sitting on the branch, and saw the girl's action of bandaging the branch with a strip of cloth, and the corners of his mouth hooked up a mocking smile, "It's all broken, and it's still bandaged? Do you think that the roots of the tree are the same, the bones are broken, and they can grow back in one moment? Stupid!"

After some commenting, he put his coat on his shoulders and raised his feet to leave.

It's just that she was angry with Zixi on the tree, and she pointed at the young man, "Hey, you stop!

But the boy turned back and grimaced at her, and turned and walked on.

"You ......" Zi is angry, this young man's arrogant appearance inexplicably makes her feel very unhappy.

Seeing that he refused to stop, she jumped directly from the tree in a hurry.

Bang!

"Ah!" the girl's cry made the young man in front of him finally stop and look back at her.

Zixi rubbed her terrible ankle, probably twisted, and her ankle was quickly red and swollen. But she can't care so much now, she just wants to step forward, drag the young man, and make it clear to him!

It hurt so much in her ankle that she didn't dare reach out to touch it anymore, so she stood up and jumped up to him with one foot.

When Zi Xi looked at the tree, she didn't think that this young man was very tall, but now it seems that this young man is a head taller than her.

She could only tilt her head slightly and stare at him, but suddenly felt that this young man lowered his head slightly to look at people's expression, and he was so handsome in his debauchery.

She was speechless and opened her mouth, but she almost forgot what she was going to say.

"Cut~" The young man pulled the corners of his mouth and showed a disdainful smile, "Childish!"

After he finished speaking, he turned to leave.

"Wait a minute!" Zi Xi subconsciously reached out and grabbed the coat he was putting on his shoulder, and pulled the boy back again, "Let me tell you, although the big tree is a plant, it is also a living life. Do you think that people only feel pain when they break their bones? A big tree will hurt when it breaks its branches. I am neither stupid nor naïve in doing this, maybe I can't connect its branches, but I do it so that I don't let its branches hang in the air all the time, at least to make it more comfortable. ”

At that time, Gu Zixi was also very childish, and he would feel angry when he was misunderstood, and wanted to reason back with that person.

So, when she said these words, she asked again, "You, do you understand?"

The boy stared at her for a few seconds, then glanced back at the cherry blossom tree, "If you really want to protect it, notify the tourist office and ask them to protect it." That way, no one will come and break its branches. Otherwise, how much do you think you can protect it in this way of making amends?"

Zixi looked back at the cherry blossom tree and wondered, "Tourism Bureau?"

The young man glanced at her, "That tree is a national first-class protected plant." You report to the tourist office, maybe there will be a reward. ”

"Really?" Zi Xi glanced back at the tree, a little suspicious.

As soon as he wanted to turn around and ask him, how did he know that it was a national first-class protected plant, he saw that the boy had already walked away.

At sunset, his figure fell to the ground, and the elder was pulled.

"Hey......" Zixi tried to call him, but found that he didn't know his name at all, looking at his figure as he walked farther and farther, a question blurted out, "What's your name?"

The young man waved his hand without replying, "My name is **, don't thank me." ”

Later, it was Shen Xiao who found Zi Xi sitting under the tree.

At that time, she had been sitting on the stone under the tree for more than half an hour.

She called the tourist office and took a picture of them, and they were very happy, saying that it was probably a national first-class protected plant, and they were grateful for her call. They asked her to leave her name, and Zixi wanted to say her name, but she thought of the boy.

This is also due to the young man, if he hadn't told her, she wouldn't have remembered at all and had to call the tourist office.

She wanted to keep the boy's name, but she didn't know his real name.

Thinking of the name he said before leaving, Zixi pursed his lips and left the name of Uncle **. Then hung up.

Under the pink cherry blossom trees in the sky, Zixi touched the trunk of the big tree and muttered, "Big tree, big tree, someone will come to protect you from tomorrow." In the future, you won't need me to protect you. ”

"Zi Xi ......"

Shen Xiao trotted over and squatted down in front of her, "Are you okay?"

Zixi raised his head and looked at Shen Xiao, "It seems that my ankle hurts so much." ”

Shen Xiao looked at her ankle and frowned, "What's the matter?"

"It hurts. Zixi nodded, her cheeks flushed with pink cherry blossoms.

Shen Xiao pressed her ankle, and Zi Xi exhaled directly, "Ah, it hurts, it hurts." ”

"It looks like it's broken. Shen Xiao turned his back, hung his schoolbag in front of him, and turned his back to Zixi with a thin back, "Come up." ”

Zi Xi was a little surprised, "Me?"

"Isn't it who you are? I'll carry you back. Shen Xiao turned his head, patted her on the back, and motioned for her to come up.

Zi Xi was bubbling with happiness, answered, and obediently lay on Shen Xiao's back. Hands gently landlord his neck.

It was the first time Shen Xiao carried her, but it became the best memory in her memory.

There were pink cherry blossoms falling from the top of his head, and Zixi pressed his face against his back, as if he could smell the faint fragrance of cherry blossoms between his nose......

When her consciousness was blurred, she seemed to be picked up by someone in the air.

The warm embrace came, and she subconsciously drilled into his arms, muttering with tears, "Shen Xiao...... Shen Xiao ......"

Zhan Tingyu's figure was stunned for a moment, he looked down at the woman in his arms, through the moonlight outside the window, he saw the crystal in the corners of her eyes, saw her frowning brows, and the feeling of heartache hit like a tide again......

The next morning, Zixi woke up in a groggy state.

She was lying on the bed with a soft quilt over her.

She sat up suddenly, the quilt slid off her, her clothes intact, and she was the only one in the room.

She looked at the windowsill in a daze, why was she in bed? She obviously fell asleep on the windowsill last night......

Her head hurts, and she vaguely remembers a dream last night, but she doesn't remember what it was.

She lifted the quilt and stepped out of bed barefoot, taking two steps but standing still.

She opened her eyes and looked at her hands and feet, the chains that had been bound to them were gone, leaving only two thin calluses.

If it weren't for those two calluses, she would have doubted that she hadn't worn those heavy, cold chains at all these days.

Just when Zixi was stunned, the door was pushed open from the outside, and Arnold walked in.

"Madame, you're awake. Arnold walked over with some food in his hand and smiled, "Today is the first day of the new year, and Mr. said he would take you out for a walk." ”

Zixi frowned, turned around and walked to the windowsill and sat down.

That's how she spent these three months, sitting in this position every day and leaning on it at night.

Seeing her like this, Arnold pursed his lips and put down the food beside her, "These are all made by Mr. himself, can you taste them?"

There are a few delicate pastries on the plate, so delicate that every line is so beautiful.

Zixi didn't even glance at it, her eyes fell on the window, and she didn't know what she was looking at.

Arnold also glanced out the window, and after a moment of silence, he rediscovered the topic, "On the first day of the new year this year, the streets are lively." There's a lantern festival in the city center, ma'am, can you go out for a walk?"