In the center of the pear orchard is an artificially opened canal, and a layer of pebbles embedded in the green lawn is paved on both sides, all of which are crystal clear and round in color. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Countless pear trees are neatly combed along the cobblestone path. At this moment, the pear blossoms are blooming, like the pear blossoms of thick white snow will press the branches together to bend to the river, bloom brilliantly and quietly gracefully, clusters of pear blossoms turn and fall in the water, there is a layer of milky white pear petals floating in the blue water, slightly glowing with blue light in the soft sunlight of the first rise, flashing with pleasant colors.

She was fascinated by this pure world of snow and white, occasionally the phoenix butterfly stumbled gracefully, she danced to the rhythm of the butterfly's flapping wings, she stretched out her hand to let the butterfly stop forever in her hands, she loved and longed for all the good, but the butterfly was like a shy girl gently raised her yellow wings like a dance skirt, and rose from her hands.

She watched as the butterfly floated freely in the air, and her whole heart seemed to rise with it. Perched on the branch of a pear tree nearest to her, the butterfly rested peacefully in the center of the flower to suck the pollen, and her wings gradually stopped, like the beautiful hairpin headdress of the maids.

She played with her heart, rolled up her sleeves, and climbed the thick and vigorous branches of the pear tree with her hands and feet, she has been practicing martial arts under the guidance of Bai Biao for two or three years, climbing the branches and trees is just a piece of cake for her, she is like a stubborn monkey lightly shuttling in the branches, a thick pear blossom dispute is right on the top of her head, with her movements pouring down, she lies on the branch, slowly moving towards the butterfly, the butterfly is frightened and flies, and it hovers above her head for a while. She giggled and tried to catch it, but she couldn't catch anything, and finally grabbed only a handful of petals.

She sat on a tree branch, her feet dangling in the air, and kept swaying from side to side. She blew into her palm, and the petals were scattered by the surging air current, like a gushing waterfall fountain, and she swayed happily from side to side, pulling at the small branches of the tree to smell the flowers, and then folding a few branches and pinning them in the belt in front of her.

She giggled and laughed, and a clear and kind reminder suddenly sounded under the tree: "Little sister, you climb so high, beware of falling down the tree." ”

Although Chu Yunxi was innocent and lively in front of her parents, but in the end, she was a deep boudoir who had never been out, as soon as she heard the voice of a stranger, she immediately became restrained and shy, she stood up with a branch, slowly moved to the back of the tree, and secretly poked her head out to glance down, only to see that the silver-gray clothes were revealed in the gaps under the dense branches and flowers. When she looked closer, she saw a young man standing under the tree.

She tilted her head sideways, trying to use her gaze to depict the figure of the young man, who was tall and well-proportioned, with delicate and picturesque eyebrows, both elegant and gentle and heroic.

Wearing a silver-gray brocade gown, and a pebble-sized jade pendant hanging around her waist, she should be a few years older than her.

The young man also looked at her silently, and the sun at this moment tilted a lot to the east, and the sunlight just passed through the flower layer, hitting half of her face, reflecting her snow-white and tender skin and reddish cheeks, and her head was slanted into a loose bun, and a few pear petals were appropriately embellished on it. Although there is still childishness between her eyebrows and eyes, she has gradually shown a few touching demeanors.

The two of them looked at each other condescendingly, one looking up at each other, but when Chu Yunxi touched his soft gaze, he couldn't help blushing and leaned behind the tree.

The young man beckoned with concern and said to her, "Come down quickly." ”

She hugged the trunk of the tree tightly, crouched on the tree and did not dare to move, and asked in a trembling voice, "Who are you?" ”

The young man smiled, and his tone became softer and softer, for fear of frightening her: "I am a guest at the banquet with my father, and I accidentally got lost here, and I couldn't find anyone to ask for directions all the way, little sister, do you know the way to the main hall?" ”

Chu Yunxi's guard gradually receded, and he whispered timidly: "Get out of this forest, go east and turn north." ”

The boy thanked him gratefully and walked away.

Chu Yunxi breathed a sigh of relief, slowly descended from the tree, and when he stepped on the last branch, his feet slipped and fell. A pair of hands wrapped around her shoulders, but instead of stopping her from tumbling, the boy himself fell down the slope, leaving her in mud and a mess. But fortunately, he used his own arms to block the bump of the stone for her.

Chu Yunxi almost cried, but as soon as she felt that she was in a strange embrace, she was timid and held back her crying with tears in her eyes, looking extremely cute.

Her sad sobs reminded him of the days when he had just left home and lived with his father at the border, when he had cried at night because he was far away from his mother, but his father told him that one day he would become a man, and he would protect his mother and the thousands of people who were as loving and kind as his mother. Today, he finally knew that his arms had already been sharpened like steel by the wind and sand at the border, and he could protect and rescue such a delicate little girl like a young shoot, and he also tasted the satisfaction brought by protection for the first time.

He whispered a few words of comfort and pulled her out of the pit. She sobbed slightly, until a voice called out to her outside the forest, and her face changed, and she looked at the yellow mud on her torn cuffs and dress, and her cheeks, which were about the same as those of a young man, and thought that even if her mother's temper was kind, she would inevitably be stunned. She fled in shock, but as soon as she took a step, she felt a tightness around her waist, and when she looked back, she saw a handful of red silk threads twisted together on her belt, which turned out to be the tassel of the jade pendant on the young man's waist. She tugged hard, and the jade pendant hung in the air.

As the shouts got closer and closer, Chu Yunxi became more and more panicked, she desperately tried her best to untie the red spike on her waist, but the red spike was wrapped like a mess of threads and couldn't be torn off, the more she panicked, the more busy she became, the more chaotic she became, and her anxious little face turned red.

The boy could only watch and did not dare to come forward to help. Although he is young, he has been very strict since he was a child, especially for men and women, and he does not dare to cross the rules, and the woman's waist is untouchable, he has known it since he was a child, so he can only stand awkwardly.

Chu Yunxi stomped his feet anxiously, tears splashing. The boy couldn't bear to embarrass her, so he untied the jade pendant from his belt and threw it into her arms.

She ran away with Yu Pei in her arms, ignoring the young man's cries. The boy chased out a few steps, and he swept away a lost object in the shallow pit, and he stopped to squat on the edge of the pit to take a closer look, but it was a small long wooden box.

He jumped into the pit, picked up the wooden box, and chased after it again.

Chu Yunxi ran like a south, and at the same time took the jade pendant into his arms indiscriminately. To the south is the residence of the second wife, Jiang Mulan. Jiang Mulan is weak and cowardly, different from the solemn and stern of the Lu family, but she is the most amiable person, and she is like a sister to Bai Qiao. If she had her protection, my mother would have to be angry.

However, she didn't know that five days ago, Jiang Mulan sent her daughter back to Yangzhou to recuperate, her second sister Chu Yunyi was born prematurely from a young age, and then contracted the epidemic at the same time as her younger brother Chu Yunchao, Chu Yunchao died early, but she only had half a life left, Jiang Mulan lost her son and regarded the only surviving daughter as the only sustenance of life.

Nanyuan has always been deserted, like a residual lotus in late autumn, Jiang Mulan is just a rootless leaf just seeking a place to live.

The two lazy janitors at the door were chirping and chatting happily, and they didn't notice that Chu Yunxi and the young man were like two nimble cats rushing into the inner hall one after the other.

When the maid was drying the mattress, the house was not locked, and she leaned into the house to her disappointment, and the house was as quiet as a deep pool, and there was no one. She hung her head in frustration and stayed for a while, but no one came.

Then at last there was a human voice, and she was immediately frightened after a moment of joy, and outside the door there were one flurry of panicked footsteps, screams of fear, and the chaotic sound of falling objects. In the midst of the chaos, she discerned a terrifying word: "There are assassins in the house." ”

She remembered that her mother had told the story of the "Assassins" in the "Historical Records", so she knew that the assassins were even more afraid, so she hurriedly opened the closet and hid in, but before she could find a comfortable corner in the closet to sit down, the door suddenly opened, and another person came in, she was so frightened that she wanted to scream, and the young man hurriedly covered her mouth.

She looked at her with a pair of panicked eyes, and the young man whispered, "Be quiet, beware of being heard." ”

He slowly let go of his hand, and Chu Yunxi turned his back like a frightened yellow finch holding the clothes in the cabinet, shrunk into a ball, and shivered.

The young man calmly said, "With me, don't be afraid." ”

Chu Yunxi leaned his head against the cabinet, his eyes glanced at the sides vigilantly, and whispered, "Are you here to ask for a jade pendant?" ”

The young man smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'll pick it up another day." He thought for a moment and swallowed the words back into his mouth, and replaced them with another sentence, "Dare to ask who you are in this mansion?" I don't know what to call it. ”

She vaguely felt that it was inappropriate to tell the truth to strangers, but she was trained by her parents not to lie, and after telling the truth, the young man was a little unexpectedly surprised: "It turns out that you are the young lady of the Chu family." He laughed, "I didn't expect a lady like you to climb a tree." “

"My mother won't let me climb trees." She muttered, "Daddy just let me ride on his back to pick flowers, but Uncle is different." She puffed up her chest and said proudly, "My uncle taught me to climb trees, and also taught me to practice boxing, he said that what a man's family can do, a daughter's family can also do it, and the most important thing for a daughter's family is not to learn to read and write, knitting women's red, but to practice boxing and feet, so that you don't need to be protected by others, and you don't have to be taken advantage of by people with ulterior motives." ”

The young man sitting cross-legged across from her blushed, he hid with her in the same cabinet, and indeed meant to protect her, and this remark actually insinuated him.

His silence made Chu Yunxi's nervous heart gradually relax, and she turned her head silently, and the dim space only showed the vague outline of the young man. She cautiously asked the figure, "And who are you?" ”

The young man was stunned for a moment and hurriedly said: "My surname is Shi Jiaheng, my father is Shi Lie, and when the Holy Lord was not yet enthroned, he and your General Bochu were the same guards as the Holy Lord. ”

Chu Yunxi was also stunned, and her impression of the uncle was only the tablet secretly hidden in her mother's room.

"As the daughter of the Chu clan, why don't you accompany Lord Chu to welcome the holy chakra?" Shi Jiaheng asked curiously.

"They won't let me and my mother go to the banquet." She said sadly, "I heard my mother say that because I am a concubine, she is a concubine. She moved forward and asked angrily, "Is it so important?" ”

"That's just the prejudice of the world." Shi Jiaheng sneered, "Our family has never paid attention to the distinction between concubines and concubines, although my brother is a concubine, but my mother loves him more than me." At that time, my father was in the army, and my brother always protected me and my mother. ”

"Your brother is so nice." Chu Yunxi said enviously, "My sister doesn't like me, and she beat me some time ago." In fact, I want to take her to the yard to see the flowers, she is not always at home, the second sister is not in good health, she is bedridden all day, and the sisters around my mother are much older than me, they don't want to take me to play, and Luo Chun can't speak. I can find a lot of interesting things in the yard every day, but I can only tell my mother, my father is so busy, my uncle only came once in a long time, and I am almost suffocated. ”

She kept complaining about trivial matters, and Shi Jiaheng listened with a smile.

She suddenly said again: "Does your brother play with you on weekdays?" ”

Shi Jiaheng shook his head with a smile and said: "We have to practice martial arts and guns during the day, and we have to read and practice calligraphy at night. ”

"It turns out that being a boy is harder." She said in a low mood.

Although Shi Jiaheng is only two years older than her, she is a young man, and she can't help but chuckle when she listens to her innocent and childish words: "There is no one in this world who is not hard." “

She yawned tiredly and said, "But I'm really tired, I just want to have a beautiful plum garden and live with my father and mother forever." When she finished speaking, she put her hands together under her head, and fell asleep in a pile of brocade and embroidered shirts.

In the end, I don't know what worries I have. She has not yet been bound by rituals and religions like a clay puppet, what will she become in the future? Shi Jiaheng gently moved to her side, listening to her steady breathing, thinking silently, and at the same time smiling confidently, they will always have a chance to meet again.

Chu Yunxi didn't know in his sweet sleep that there had already been earth-shattering changes in the Chu Mansion, an assassin disguised as a subordinate who had infiltrated the mansion stabbed Chu Yilian who was changing clothes in the study, his right hand was cut by a knife, and his thigh was also stabbed. For Bai Qiao, this midnight is simply a purgatory-like sea of fire and sword mountain. Her husband was injured and her daughter was missing, and she almost went crazy but still managed to leave her husband's bedside and search for her daughter with her subordinates. And during this time, Shi Jiaheng has been staying by Chu Yunxi's side, until someone broke into the door and called out to Miss Four, he realized that the person who was looking for her outside the forest was her, he answered, and the people saw that a teenager actually jumped out of the closet and almost tied him up with a rope, he hurriedly explained that he was taken by Miss Four to hide in the closet to escape the assassin's guests, and the people took him suspiciously to find Shi Lie, who was also looking for his son, and his son was lost Shi Lie was as frightened as Bai Qiao, But the first thing the battle-hardened general said when he saw his son was a reprimand, but Shi Jiaheng did not feel resentful, because he heard anxiety and joy in his father's trembling voice. Shi Lie never let his sons have the slightest arrogance because of his love, he treated his sons deeply and modestly, but the love and delicacy did not lose to his wife, and their family was able to get along harmoniously and beautifully.

Fortunately, when the assassin made his move, the holy driver had not yet left the palace, and although he stabbed Chu Yilian, he did not kill him after all. Bai Qiao never told her daughter about her husband's injury, and she forbade anyone to say more. She could only guess from her mother's gloomy look and the occasional bump into her wiping away tears that something heartbreaking had happened at home. And what made her even more sad was that she actually lost the jade plum hairpin, and the taste of losing her beloved things made her understand some empty words in the Buddhist scriptures that her mother often recited, just like the spring light that can't be kept, the pear petals that can't be saved, the deceased can't be chased, and it's useless to force it to stay.

This spring, she was left with no memories worth keeping except for the bright pear forest.