Lu Yu deliberately stood where Gu Liuying's afterglow could be seen, he was leaning against the wall, one foot against the corner of the wall, holding his arms, looking at her motionlessly. After a long time, she only glanced up at him, and then lowered her head and went on with her own business.

"Turn a blind eye?" Lu Yu muttered, "Then I can only take the initiative." ”

He walked along the wall to the flower stand, and then turned from the flower stand to the old banyan tree, and he crouched down in front of her, but she ignored him. She doesn't seem to take the initiative to talk to strangers, Lu Yu thought, so he showed his first smile when he arrived at Guiye Courtyard, and said in a low voice: "Xiao Liuying, you still said goodbye to me when I flew over your head yesterday, why didn't you know me when we met today?"

She looked up and looked at him with a confused look in her eyes. Sure enough, it worked, Lu Yu thought to himself, so he continued: "I am the gray butterfly from yesterday, in order to find you, I flew from a very distant place for a few days and nights to get here, I will be very sad if you ignore me, maybe I will not come again in the future." ”

"Really... It's a butterfly... You?" she spoke, though still staccato and staccato, but her meaning was clear and intelligible.

"Hmm. Lu Yu nodded.

"There are no wings. She pointed to his arm and shook her head.

Lu Yu's feet were numb after squatting for a while, so he simply sat down beside her, and she didn't refuse, which made Lu Yu's heart extremely happy. He thought for a moment and prepared to copy the story of the mermaid, so he said: "In order to talk to you, I went to ask the witch to turn me into a man, and when the butterfly transforms into a human form, its wings naturally become arms like a human. ”

Lu Yu admired himself from the bottom of his heart, he really hadn't done such a serious nonsense thing, I don't know if she would believe it? Just when his heart was going up and down, she looked at him and showed a very sweet smile, "Thank you for coming", this smile and this sentence hit Lu Yu's heart like a thousand pounds, she actually ...... Believe it? Such a flawed lie, she actually believed it without hesitation?

Lu Yu also smiled at her, but he smiled a little reluctantly, his childhood was depressed and distorted, and everything she had seemed to be the kind of innocence he lost, which made him also have childlike fun: "You...... I see you playing here every time I fly over your head, is there anything special about this?"

"It's afraid of being lonely, and I'm going to be with it. She pointed to the old banyan tree behind her, and said it in a tone as if she were talking about her old friend for many years.

Although Lu Yu is only twelve years old, but because of his family reasons, his heart is relatively precocious, and his thoughts have long surpassed his peers, and he has always laughed at such unrealistic words, but at this time he felt inexplicably very interesting, he asked: "Do you know what it means to be lonely?"

This question seemed to bother her a lot, and after a long time she shook her head and said, "I don't know." ”

"Then how do you know it's lonely?"

This time she almost blurted out, "It told me." ”

"What did it tell you?" Lu Yu felt that he was simply crazy, and the moment he asked this sentence, he really felt that this old banyan tree would talk to her.

"It says it's afraid of loneliness, it's afraid of the dark, it's afraid of ants tickling it. She answered his question with great seriousness.

"That's why you're with it all day?"

She nodded and didn't speak again, as if suddenly there was a cloud over her head, and she looked sad, and then lowered her head and didn't know what she was thinking. After a while, she began to pile up her own stones again. Lu Yu remembered that show again, as if it had been said that this kind of children's visual and spatial perception abilities are unusual, and they have an unimaginable level. He thought for a moment and said, "Hotaru Xiaoliu, let's play a game." I'll give you a word, and then you can use these stones of yours to express what I'm saying, okay?"

She didn't answer, but she didn't object, as if she acquiesced, and Lu Yu continued to say to her: "This word is, home." Do you know what a home is?"

Lu Yu patted his head as soon as he asked, he felt that he was a little stupid, didn't he ask knowingly? She is an orphan, how can she know what kind of home. She shook her head and said, "What's that?"

Lu Yu didn't know how to explain for a while, so he could only tell her from a macro perspective: "That's it...... A house where you and your mom and dad live, and you talk together, eat together, and do many, many things together every day. He didn't know if his explanation was clear enough, because that's all he could explain about the concept of home. When he was a child, his father was very busy, and he could only eat with his mother every day, so he always wanted to have his father's shadow on their dinner table, and in his heart, home should be like that.

He looked at her, and she began to stack large and small stones on the interlaced roots, and it was this moment that deeply touched Lu Yu, and he felt that there seemed to be a kind of magic emanating around her, and this magic made him have many incredible but wonderful ideas, making him feel that he also had an incomparable world. She was thinking of her parents, right? But why didn't he feel the slightest hatred? They abandoned her, Lu Yu thought about himself again, and thought about his innocent moaning towards his father, was it a little too crazy?

"Do you want to get out of this courtyard and see the colorful world outside?" Lu Yu asked, looking at her and suddenly having a thought that shocked him.

She nodded, he remembered the person named Shen Youxia and continued, "You must remember what I said next, it is very important...... If you have the opportunity to leave here in the near future, you must not hesitate to leave, because the outside world is where you should be. Children outside will go to school and learn a lot of knowledge in order to realize their life value. Elementary school, junior high school, high school, university, layer by layer, like me, now that I am about to graduate from elementary school, what awaits me will be junior high school learning. If there is such an opportunity, please do not let it down, because you are really talented, and not everyone can pile up stones as skillfully and like modeling as you. You have to remember that in college, there is a major called architecture, and this is where you should be, and believe me, you will definitely become a great architect. ”

She looked at him, as if she didn't understand what he was saying, but she nodded firmly.

In the next few days, Lu Yu would sit with her under the old banyan tree for a long time, and would tell her about the world outside the courtyard, and he would hide every time he found someone, and he didn't want others to know the fact that he was not deaf and dumb. He heard from the people in the courtyard that the person named Shen Youxia went to transplant his brother's kidney, so when he came back, she should follow him away. What about himself?

"Are you someone I imagined?" she asked him one day.

"Why do you say that?"

"Because Brother Stone asked me if I would be bored alone. Her innocent expression made Lu Yu really irresistible.

"So, it's a little secret between the two of us, can't we tell anyone else?"

"Will you leave me, then?" she asked, tilting her head again.

He rubbed her hair and said with a smile, "Hotaru Korutaru, the witch's magic has a time limit, although I don't know how long this time is, but when the magic fails, I will return to my original place..."

"But I don't want you to leave. ”

"We'll meet again in the outside world. Lu Yu didn't say this when he said this, he had already planned these days, he didn't want to talk to his father anymore, if he couldn't find him, then he would go back by himself, he couldn't draw the ground in place as a prison, because he also wanted to pursue his own paradise, and he no longer seemed to reject architecture, maybe it was not a bad thing to learn from the world architect Lu Guqing, maybe one day in the future he could really meet her again.

"Really?" she asked.

"Hmm. Lu Yu nodded and said, "As long as you remember what I told you and go your own way, then we will definitely meet again." ”

"Good. ”

This conversation finally became the last conversation between Lu Yu fifteen years ago and Gu Liuying fifteen years ago. His father still found him after all, and he didn't disappoint Lu Yu, he still had a place in his father's heart.

"Dad, I think about it, I want to learn architecture from you. This was the first thing Lu Yu said when he saw Lu Guqing, he didn't feel any grievances, he didn't give up at all, but said it very calmly.

Lu Guqing's heart seemed to be even more apologetic, but he still didn't change his face, "Since you have thought about it, then don't give up halfway." You're talented, but you're also self-disciplined, and you have to hold yourself to the highest standards as my student, you know?"

Lu Yu nodded, no longer spoke, he didn't think to inform him of Ke Qiao's behavior from his father, and he didn't know how Ke Qiao explained to his father, all this seemed to become irrelevant, and his heart seemed to become a lot more open.

When he left, he met Shen Youxia who came back from outside, his face was pale and he didn't look good, Lu Yu walked over and greeted him, "Shen Youxia, my name is Lu Youxia, if there is a chance, I really hope we can become friends, because we seem to have become the same kind of people." ”

Shen Youxia only said lightly, "I don't need friends," and then went straight to the courtyard on the right side of the main building.

"I'll just say we're the same kind of people. "A kind of person who is addicted to her world.