When it was time to go back, Yun Zhen got on his horse and took the first step.

Leaving Dong Tianyi alone with Gao Ran on his back, he walked down the mountain.

Along the way, no one spoke......

Gao Ran liked the warm and quiet feeling that Dong Tianyi gave her.

I can't say why, but there was a strange feeling: it seemed like they had known each other a long, long time ago! It seemed like they had known each other before...... It seems that the relationship between them is actually very deep......

"Hmm...... Heaven doesn't do anything for no reason, just as I would have traveled here for no apparent reason...... As I always feel, I am actually the same person as the original 'Gao Ran'...... It's just like this, I will meet Dong Tianyi like now......"

Thinking like this, Gao Ran unconsciously put his face on Dong Tianyi's back, and through his clothes, he could faintly feel his somewhat hot body temperature......

Xu felt warm, Xu felt relieved, maybe he was really tired, Gao Ran unconsciously fell asleep on Dong Tianyi's back.

"Ran'er ......"

In the haze, Gao Ran seemed to hear someone calling him.

"Huh?"

She rubbed her sleepy eyes, and then realized that they had unconsciously returned to the small bamboo house where she and Dong Tianyi first met.

Look up again at the sky......

"Oh my God! It's already dark! How long have you been carrying me on your back?!"

Gao Ran hurriedly jumped off Dong Tianyi's back.

Dong Tianyi moved his shoulders, which had been numb by Gao Ran, and relieved him good-naturedly, "It won't be long......"

"Who believes it?!" Gao Ran thought in his heart, and gave him a blank look with some displeasure.

Although she knew that he was comforting herself, she hoped that he would be honest than telling her such a lie that could not deceive people at all!

Seeing that Gao Ran was obviously unhappy, knowing that she was unhappy and deliberately perfunctory her, Dong Tian obediently confessed, "Okay, don't be angry." Actually, it's okay, it's just been two hours......"

"Two hours?!"

Although I know that compared to horsepower, people's foot power will definitely go much slower.

But I didn't think that it would take more than half an hour to walk slowly on horseback, and two hours to walk on foot!

Moreover, Dong Tianyi still carried her on his back for two hours!

Thinking of this, Gao Ran couldn't help but feel a little guilty.

"I'm sorry for letting you carry me for so long...... You must be tired, right?!"

Gao Ran looked at Dong Tianyi guiltily, thinking about how to thank him?

For her, this is a matter of principle!

If she has received a favor from someone else, she must repay it in due course! Otherwise, her heart will be disturbed, and she will always feel as if she owes someone something......

She doesn't like this feeling, it will make her feel that she will be inexplicably half short in front of others, and she doesn't even have the confidence to speak......

"Otherwise, I'll treat you to dinner!"

After thinking about it for a while, she found that in addition to cooking herself, she really couldn't think of anything else she could give back to him with the comprehensive strength of her current body?!

"Eat?!"

Dong Tianyi was a little stunned by Gao Ran's sudden mention.

He felt that he seemed to be unable to keep up with the rhythm of Gao Ran's thinking...... Why did you feel a little guilty about him one second, and the next second, you immediately invited him to dinner like a nobody?!

However, when he looked up at the sky, he didn't say anything more.

He didn't feel anything, but it was time for dinner......

And, in this way, he just had a reason to stay with her a little longer!

"Well, yes, let's not go to the cafeteria to eat! Let's eat by ourselves! Just the two of us!" I ......" Rao has always been straight-hearted, but at this moment he can't say his little bit of caution directly.

It was Gao Ran who was unexpectedly reminded by Dong Tianyi's mention!

"That's right, if you go to the cafeteria, won't you see that annoying 'fox' again?!"

Thinking like this, Gao Ran immediately changed his mind temporarily, "Okay, then let's open a small stove! Anyway, I just wanted to borrow the kitchen behind the cafeteria and stir-fry a few dishes for you...... It's the same anywhere anyway!, but the kitchen still has to be borrowed there...... After all, there is only one kitchen in the entire academy......"

"What?!Xiaozao?!What's that...... Also, you...... You cook it yourself?!...... Okay?!"

Dong Tianyi looked at Gao Ran's small body in disbelief, how could he not believe that a little girl who was only five years old could cook by herself......

Gao Ran didn't bother to talk to him, anyway, facts speak louder than words! No matter how much she said, it would not be as convincing as she would show him in person!

"What are you doing stupidly?!Take me to the kitchen! I don't know the way! And you're going to have to give me a hand!"

With that, Gao Ran pulled Dong Tianyi back into the bamboo forest - but walked back towards the route she had come here during the day.

She thought that she had to walk back to the place where she had entered the bamboo forest during the day. There, it's really in the academy. Once there, she asked him to lead the way.

"Wait!" Dong Tian immediately grabbed her as soon as he came back to his senses.

"Hmm?!What's wrong?...... I'm not mistaken! It's the way back to the academy!"

"No! You're not mistaken! It's just that I know the quicker way to the kitchen without having to take a big detour through the academy. Moreover, if we really had to go around the academy to get to the kitchen, we would definitely meet a lot of people who knew me along the way...... That...... If we want to eat alone, I'm afraid we won't be able to do it......"

"Well, you're right! Then listen to you! Take me down the path!"

"Hmm!"

Dong Tianyi happily responded, then held Gao Ran's hand tightly and led her towards a path that seemed to be less traveled on weekdays that could be vaguely seen on the other side of the bamboo forest......

Through the moonlight, I saw the "road" that came and went under my feet, and then looked back at the road behind me that had gradually drifted away......

Gao Ran couldn't help but think of what Mr. Lu Xun once said, "There is no road in the world, and when there are more people walking, it becomes a road." ”

"This 'road' is not walked by many people on weekdays, and if you don't look closely, you really can't see that it is also a road......

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Gao Ran followed Dong Tianyi for a while, and then came to the back door of the kitchen.

At this time, most of the people in the academy were eating dinner in the cafeteria, and there was no one in the kitchen.

The two sneaked into the kitchen very tacitly.

"Hehe, Brother Tianyi, you tell me honestly, do you often sneak into the kitchen like this?!"

Dong Tianyi's face blushed slightly unconsciously, "How can there be! I was just a little naughty when I was a child...... At that time, it was really common to sneak into the kitchen and steal food...... Actually, it's not that I can't eat enough, I just like the feeling of 'stealing food'......"

Speaking of this, Dong Tianyi immediately shut up.

He looked at Gao Ran with great annoyance and asked, "I...... I won't now!you...... Will you not like me because of this?"

"Huh?!"

Gao Ran was obviously surprised by Dong Tianyi's sudden inquiry.

Dare, he was worried that he would have a bad impression of him because of what happened when he was a child......

"Hehe, what a straightforward and simple-minded 'child'......"

There's no way, who makes the other party look at it, it's only fourteen or fifteen years old, such a boy is not a "child" for Gao Ran, who has a twenty-nine-year-old soul, what is it?!

"Oh, no, who doesn't have a 'child'......"

When she said this, Gao Ran had completely forgotten about it, and now she is, in the eyes of others, a child who is only five years old!

"By the way, Brother Tianyi, how old are you?" Gao Ran wanted to ask this question from the first time he saw him, but he always missed the opportunity to ask.

Now that I happened to remember it again, I quickly asked.

"I'm fifteen. Ten years older than you......"

Speaking of this, Dong Tianyi's face flushed inexplicably.

Just when Gao Ran felt a little inexplicable when he saw it, he said the reason himself......

"By the time Ran'er is an adult and can talk about marriage, I will be twenty-five...... But that's okay! Masao has always been much older than his wife...... Besides, the best age for a man to marry is between 20 and 28 years old, so at that time, I was still in my best age! My age and Ran Er's age are actually just the right match!"

"Uh......" Gao Ran felt that this Dong Tianyi was really speechless, and he was endless!

Why didn't he say a few words, and he got to this "marriage"?!

Moreover, did she promise him anything?!

Why did he think so much about wishful thinking?!

Still...... Returning the husband......

Dare to love, he is sure that his identity is enough to be worthy of her husband's position?!

"Hmm? wait......" Thinking about it, Gao Ran unexpectedly realized that he seemed to have found some important information......

"Could it be that he is the son of the Dong family?!"

thought of her identity as a concubine of the Gao family...... Therefore, only the prince of the royal family who can be qualified for the position of her husband is the prince of the royal family, or the son of the son of the four great families - whether it is a son-in-law or a concubine, in short, it must be a descendant.

And Dong Tianyi is the son of the Dong family, one of the four great families...... He himself was so confident that his identity was worthy of her husband's position......

There is only one possibility-Dong Tianyi must be the son of the Dong family!

Although Dong Tianyi didn't know whether Gao Ran was the eldest lady of the Gao family, with his incomparably determined confidence, it was not difficult for Gao Ran to guess that his identity must be that he was definitely a descendant!

Because only if you are from the lineage, you won't worry that you may not be worthy of her......

Therefore, by analogy, Gao Ran feels that this Dong Tianyi is likely to be the son of the Dong family!

"Uh...... Brother Tianyi, did you misunderstand something......? I didn't seem to have said I wanted to marry you?!"

When Dong Tian heard this, his face turned white.

When Gao Ran saw it, he immediately panicked.

She knew that the truth she had just told must have hit him! Moreover, she had hurt him a lot......

She hurriedly explained, "Brother Tianyi, don't get me wrong...... I don't mean to dislike you...... I...... Yes! I do see you as my confidant now! I also know that you have long regarded me as your confidant! But this is a kind of friendship between gentlemen, not love! You know?!"

Speaking of this, Gao Ran deliberately turned his head away from him, "Friendship and love are not the same...... Although I don't know what true love should look like...... But, at least I know that for the time being, I only have friendship and no love for you! I want to be a lifelong confidant and friend with you than the kind of husband and wife who grow old together and know each other......! Do you understand?"

"Besides......" Speaking of this, Gao Ran's originally sad eyes instantly became confused again, she turned her head to look at him again, and asked, "How do you know that you like me?

Even though Gao Ran said before, Dong Tianyi didn't know how to answer, but he knew the answer in his heart very well to the question she asked at the end.

He replied in a firm tone, "Ran'er, I know! I like you! Actually, I have liked you since you heard the sound of my piano! What I like is not your appearance, but your soul! Even though you are only five years old now...... But I know, I just know, that your soul must be more than five years old!"

At this point, he was suddenly taken aback by what he thought was a little ridiculous.

"Hehe, scared you...... I was just...... I do think so, although, I know, it's impossible...... No matter how precocious your soul is, it can't be what I think it is......"

Gao Ran knew that what he wanted to express was that her soul in his eyes should be at least as old as him......

"I don't even want to believe my own thoughts, but I still don't want to deceive myself?" Gao Ran looked at Dong Tianyi and thought silently in his heart.

Such Dong Tianyi, how could she not be moved?!

A person who is so honest with himself, even though he is still a "child", Gao Ran still has to admit that she was moved by him - it has nothing to do with age, but by his simple, clean soul!

"Ahh

Actually, she should have wanted to open it a long time ago.

With her current situation, she is destined to get married in the future!

And her husbands are destined to be much younger than her real age!

She is destined to "eat tender grass from old cows"!

Even though I still feel a little like I'm sinning...... But, that's the reality!

This is not something that she can change on her own!

She understands that even if it is not Dong Tianyi, there will be others who will occupy the position of this "husband" in the future.

She can't hide!

"Let's try it!"

Thinking like this, Gao Ran took the initiative to take Dong Tianyi's hand, tightly tugged his slender fingers with his small hand, and said to him very solemnly, "Let's try it! Let's try to have a relationship first...... If...... I mean, if ...... If, ten years from now, when I am an adult, you still like me as much as you do today, then we will get married! If, in ten years, you find that you don't like me as much as you think...... Or maybe you've fallen in love with someone else during the past 10 years...... Then we'll be friends again!"

Speaking of this, she held his hand tightly with both hands, and emphasized again, "In short, you are my cherished confidant! You know, in this world, it is easy to get money, but it is difficult to find a confidant! So, no matter what kind of relationship we have in the end, you are a very cherished confidant in my heart!"

Dong Tianyi was very moved after listening to Gao Ran's straightforward words.

Even though he tried his best to keep himself from crying, his eyes were still faintly red......

"Okay! Let's try!"

Although it was the first time he had heard the word "communication", even though he was extremely sure in his heart that he would only fall in love with Gao Ran alone, he had already accepted all the meanings that Gao Ran wanted to convey to him just now!

So, he didn't say anything more.

He knew that she would think that and say that because of some uncertainty in her heart......

Not to him, but to herself......

Although she never mentioned from beginning to end whether she would like him as much as he liked her in the future, she repeatedly emphasized that no matter what, he was her confidant!

What does this mean?

Dong Tianyi will not understand.

It's just that, even so, he still wants to try!

Try it and see if you can take root in her heart and make her really like him......

How do you know if you can't do it if you don't try?!

Dong Tianyi stretched out his arms and hugged Gao Ran tightly into his arms.

There was no word on his lips, but his heart was powerfully "sù" to her, "Ran'er, I will cherish you well! So, please also, be sure to like me little by little! I am willing to wait, waiting for the day when you finally fall in love with me!"