When the three of them came to the table, the servants had already prepared a sumptuous meal, and the two siblings looked at the delicacies they had never seen before at the table.

"That...... Brother Ling Xiao, we don't have to spend so much, let's just eat a little bit......"

"It's not a waste of money," he said, pulling back the chair at the table and making a "please" gesture to her, "This is our usual home-cooked food, and I'm worried that it won't match your appetite, so try it first, and I'll let them cook whatever they want to eat." ”

"Ah, no, no, no, I can't eat these. Xia Yuqian sat down embarrassedly.

"Xiaoqian, when did you see each other like this?" Han Lingxiao looked at her red little face and felt a little funny, "I am your brother, I was, I am, and I will always be." ”

Xia Yuqian also looked at him with some surprise, more precisely, a little moved, Han Lingxiao picked up the chopsticks and put a white and tender meatball into her bowl, and then picked up another and stuffed it into his mouth.

"That...... Brother Ling Xiao, can I ask you for something?"

Xia Yuqian suddenly stood up solemnly, startling Han Lingxiao. She pushed the mountain to him and said, "Brother Ling Xiao, my younger brother Shanzhu has been admitted to the Jingcheng Martial Arts Academy this year. ”

She saw Han Lingxiao looking at them stunned, and hurriedly said, "Very powerful, isn't it?" Yamasuke is only nine years old this year, but the dean said that he has a great talent for martial arts, and he is a martial arts wizard who is rare in a century, so he must be accepted into the martial arts academy to study!"

Xia Yuqian's eyes lit up when she spoke, and she smiled with two rows of white teeth, as if she was the one who was admitted.

"Well, that's a good thing, congratulations, little brother!" Han Lingxiao said as he chewed the balls and grunted, raising a hand and patting Sansuke's shoulder vigorously to show encouragement.

"But our family can't afford to pay the tuition......"

Han Lingxiao's hand holding chopsticks paused in mid-air, and then he took another piece of pork belly and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Well, I know, you don't have to worry about the tuition fee, just let Sansuke just go to school. ”

"Brother Ling Xiao, I didn't mean that......" Xia Yuqian hesitated, "You and Young Master Shaokun have really helped our village a lot over the years...... Although I know that the Han Mansion is rich and powerful, I will always feel embarrassed to ask you for money, I know that you are all well-wishers, but I want to make money to support my family. ”

"Young Master Shaokun treats me very well, and he pays me a lot of wages, but it's still not enough to pay the tuition. Now that I'm older, I really don't want to trouble him anymore, so I want to do another job myself, but I haven't seen him in a long time......"

Han Lingxiao listened to her and unconsciously stopped the chopsticks in his hand.

Xia Yuqian bit her lip tightly, and suddenly said with some embarrassment: "Brother Ling Xiao, you know my identity, I can't work for others casually, only if the young master agrees...... But you're his younger brother, so I guess if you agree it's okay, so...... Would you like to help me this time?"

He looked up at Xia Yuqian, her eyes were always bright and sincere, and people couldn't bear to refuse.

"In this way, I can help you set up a note first, you take it to the Red Fang in Tianhuang City to find someone, the salary will not be low to work there, and the owner of the workshop is also an acquaintance of our Han Mansion, so even if the eldest brother asks you in the future, it will be easy to explain." ”

"Really, that's great, thank you, Brother Lingxiao!"

"Thank you, thank you! Don't see you like that in the future! You two sit down to eat, have a good rest after eating, and my brother will take you out to have a good time in the past two days!"

"Let's not bother this time...... Because Yamasuke is about to start school, I also want to go back to work early to earn money," Xia Yuqian said with some regret, "But I heard that you have also been admitted to the Jingcheng Martial Academy, and if I work in Tianhuang City in the future, it will be very close to you, and besides, Yamasuke is still studying there, so maybe we will meet often in the future!"

"Yes," Han Lingxiao felt very reasonable after hearing this, "but at least sleep well today and leave tomorrow morning, Xiaoqian, don't work too hard in the future, be kind to yourself." ”

Xia Yuqian felt warm in her heart after hearing this, and she nodded solemnly.

After sending them to the guest room to rest, Han Lingxiao stretched out in the courtyard boredly.

"Who is looking for you?" Han Yifeng slapped him from behind, he had just taken a shower and changed his clothes, and his whole person looked a lot refreshed, "I heard that it was a woman, and it was recruited truthfully, which family's daughter?"

"Don't guess," Han Lingxiao pushed him aside, "it's my sister in Hongshan Village." ”

Han Yifeng was stunned for a moment, "That's it...... The daughter of that aunt who serves your mother?"

"Hmmm......"

"Oh, I heard that it's a slave, isn't it following the eldest brother?"

When she was a child, her family was too poor, and her parents were deceived by traffickers and sold their daughter by mistake...... Later, it was my mother who found her back, and before her death, she specially entrusted her to Brother Shaokun and asked him to take good care of her......"

"It's so troublesome, why don't you bring it directly to the Han Mansion?"

"People still have their own families, besides, the Han Mansion is so far away from her house, as for the eldest brother, it doesn't matter if he wanders around all day!"

"Oh, that's it, she's lucky, and luckily she's met your mother, but if she weren't a slave, her fate wouldn't have been ......."

Han Lingxiao smiled slightly after hearing this, but did not speak again.

He and his two elder brothers are actually half-brothers, the brothers' mother just died, and his father fell in love with the princess of Yuguo - that is, his mother, but this marriage was strongly opposed by the elders of both sides, and then his parents married privately, and his father settled their mother and son in Hongshan Village, which is far away from Linglan City, Han Lingxiao's entire childhood was spent in Hongshan, until his mother died two years ago, and his father sent someone to take him back to Hanfu.

At night, Xia Yuqian lay on the bed, Sansuke snuggled up to her side, and the two siblings looked up at the starry sky outside the window.

"One, two, three......"

Shan Zhu counted one by one, Xia Yuqian looked at the unattainable stars in the night sky, silently listened to the immature voice of her brother counting the stars, and had a reassuring smile on her face, she felt very happy when she thought that she could finally earn money to support her family by her own efforts in the future, and the job that Han Lingxiao helped her find was in Tianhuang City, which meant that she could often see him and Shan Zhu in the future.

Looking up at the starry sky, she suddenly felt that she was really lucky, although Hongshan Village is a notoriously poor village within a radius of 100 miles, the villagers there are very friendly, although their family's life is very difficult, but the family is very happy to live together, and there are so many kind people around to help them......

She subconsciously scratched the red cross mark on the back of her shoulder—a mark of a slave that could not be erased once branded, both as a symbol of the outcasts and as a warning to others not to come into contact with them. In the past, it was Han Lingxiao who had been protecting her and helping her hide the secret of this mark......

When she was still in Hongshan Village, she would go out to the well at the entrance of the village every day before dawn to fetch water, and every time she would see a little boy practicing on the green grassy hillside not far away. He will practice for a long time, and every evening when Xia Yuqian goes to the village entrance again, he is still practicing there, as if he is never tired.

His mother was a young woman who was waiting for her mother, Xia Yuqian came to the hillside every day to bring him food, and the two became familiar with each other, one day she told Han Lingxiao that she also wanted to practice martial arts, she was not afraid of hardship or tiredness, she just wanted to practice her skills to protect the people around her, and since then they have practiced together, and Han Lingxiao's mother will carefully guide them on the side.

It was a very happy and fulfilling part of my life. Until two years ago, his mother died, because Han Lingxiao was still an adult at that time and could not inherit the inheritance, so before dying, his mother entrusted Xia Yuqian to Han Shaokun, the eldest young master of the Han Mansion, to take care of. Han Shaokun is also a kind-hearted person, honest and strong in martial arts, and he entered the martial arts list at a young age.

But it was also at that time that Xia Yuqian knew that Han Lingxiao was the young master of a rich family, and his mother was a princess, so he still had royal blood, and he and she were not from the same world......

"Sister, don't worry, I will definitely fight!" Shansuke suddenly stopped counting the stars, turned his head to look at Xia Yuqian, and said with a firm gaze: "In the future, when I grow up, I will also participate in the ring competition of Fengyun Pavilion! I will also get ahead! I will also enter the martial arts rankings! At that time, no one will dare to bully us!"

"Okay, sister is waiting for that day. A tear flashed in Xia Yuqian's eyes, and she stretched out her hands to hug Sansuke tightly.

Under the night sky, the breeze blows, and she looks up at the starry sky, believing that life will definitely get better and better......