After that day, there was a little more subtle feeling between Yu Qiuping and the girl.

Not only because of the subtle estrangement brought about by identity, but also because of the girl's three words "the person in mind", it seems to pierce the window paper between the two, making Yu Qiuping and the girl more ambiguous.

Yu Qiuping's training in the past few days has been extremely serious. He worked harder than usual, training hard during the day, and at noon he would read some military books by himself and ask questions from the seniors around him. In the afternoon, I practiced martial arts with the girl. He wants to become stronger, he wants to make achievements, he wants to reach a position worthy of a girl.

The girl watched Yu Qiuping practice sweating profusely, and she didn't feel a little distressed. It was his identity that made him have to work so hard. She stepped forward, handed over a towel, and said in a gentle voice: "Pingjun, rest for a while, don't be too tired." The body matters. ”

"I heard from the maid passing by the fourth floor that the light in Pingjun's room would be on until the early hours of the morning every night." The girl looked at Yu Qiuping's dark circles distressedly, "Don't work too hard." ”

She didn't know that Yu Qiuping was staying up late to fold red leaves for her.

"Nope." Yu Qiuping took the towel, wiped the sweat with his hand, and handed it to the girl again, "There is not much time left." ”

Yu Qiuping glanced at the maple forest, where there were almost no leaves left on the branches.

"The maple leaves are almost finished."

"Anyway, it's going to be over, and I won't be here then."

The girl was suddenly stunned. Did his unintentional words in the early days bring him so much trouble?

"Pingjun, actually..."The girl hesitated how to explain, but she was always very proud and was not so willing to bow her head and admit that she was angry.

"It's fine." Although Yu Qiuping didn't know what the girl wanted to say, she still subconsciously shook her head and interrupted the girl's words. In the past few days, he has successively transported the folded autumn leaves into Sunfu Castle one by one, and now they are stored in the Asahina family's mansion. He was thinking about when he would hang all these red leaves to surprise the girl. By the way, again.

Express yourself.

Yesterday there was a strong wind, and there were not a few autumn leaves left, and now there are not many left.

Otherwise, tomorrow.

In the early morning of September 1, the gate of the north gate of Sunfu Castle had just opened, and Asahina Taihyung, who had been waiting for a long time, with some attendants and Yu Qiuhei and his own two hundred subordinates, gathered around the dozens of folded red leaves hidden under the tarpaulin, and quickly headed towards the back mountain. Originally, I only thought that Yuqiuping, which could be hung with a small mountain stream, relied on the help of thousands of people, and now has the confidence to hang the entire maple forest.

After they parked the cart at the foot of the mountain, everyone picked up a bag of red leaves, walked up the hill quickly, crossed the big rock, and then each of them found a maple tree, untied the bag, and began to hang the leaves on the branches. There is no way to do it if the branches are too tall, so the ashigaru people have to hang as much as possible on the shorter strips of paper. After the maple forest has basically completed the first processing, the ashigaru will work in pairs, one will climb the tree, the other will hand the autumn leaves at the bottom, and then hang a higher note.

The workload was beyond Yu Qiuping's imagination, and the latter was leaning against the stone alone, repeatedly reviewing what he was going to say when he confessed in the afternoon. He had practiced in front of the bronze mirror several times since last night, using up all his emotional intelligence to come up with touching words.

It was tossed until noon, and the red leaves were finally hung up. Although the autumn leaves on the dozens of cars were all exhausted, they did not reach the magnificence of the maple forest, but they could ensure that there were a lot of leaves hanging on basically every maple tree.

"It's not satisfactory." Yu Qiuping sighed.

"Your Excellency doesn't have to worry," the guard said with relief, "If you can do this to this extent, I think that young lady will be very impressed." ”

"Yes." Yu Qiuping muttered to himself.

When noon arrived, the ashigaru and the attendants drove the cart around the city from the east and west gates to avoid being seen by the maiden. Yu Qiuping couldn't eat a bite of the bento he brought, he didn't feel hungry at all, and he was so nervous that his heart was about to jump out of his throat.

The girl's shadow kept coming to mind, and I couldn't stop fantasizing about the girl's reaction when she confessed. Yu Qiuping repeatedly sorted out his samurai bun and bangs in front of the bronze mirror, but he always felt that there was something dissatisfied.

Before he knew it, the sun had already crossed to the west, and Yu Qiuping estimated that it was almost time, so he hurriedly hid in the middle of the forest, and took a deep breath to calm his emotions under the maple tree when the two first met. But the more time it came to confess, the more I couldn't remember the words I had practiced before.

At the foot of the mountain, after the girl got down from the ox cart and started to go up the mountain, she has been thinking about how to apologize to Yu Qiuping.

She didn't know that her unintentional sentence "I won't come then" made Yu Qiuping so sad. She is so strong in her life, and she has never been humble to others. Every time she did something wrong when she was a child, her mother punished her, and in the end, she was coquettish. But this time, she really planned to apologize.

She had been thinking about it for almost a day, and she had apologized for what to say, but when it came time to say it, she couldn't think about it at all.

She didn't want to see Yu Qiuping's tired and haggard look and sad eyes, she still preferred the young man who was radiant in the sun.

The maple leaves are about to fall.

She sighed, and she saw the familiar big stone again. If you go around the stones, you will see the maple leaves floating and the beautiful maple trees are bare.

However, when she went around the stone this time.

I saw that the mountains were red all over, and the forests were dyed. The maple leaves that had already fallen were all returned to the maple trees overnight. This scene is very similar to the appearance of the first meeting.

What's going on? These autumn leaves? Where did it come from?

The girl was stunned for a long time, and ran into the maple forest in confusion, and every tree was covered with red leaves again. It wasn't until she ran under the maple tree that she and Yu Qiuping first met that she stopped. If you look closely, the branches of the maple tree are hung with countless folded paper red leaves with thin threads. She looked around again, and the mountains were full of paper and red leaves.

"That's... Why do you have so many hand-folded autumn leaves? The girl's big eyes suddenly looked at Yu Qiuping suspiciously, and her crystal clear eyes seemed to penetrate Yu Qiuping's heart at once.

"Uh..." Yu Qiuping blushed suddenly.

The girl suddenly realized, and tears filled her eyes. Look at the maple tree again.

Behind the maple tree, slowly walked out, the person she wanted.

Yu Qiuping saw the girl, who was wearing, the snow-white dress that the two had when they first met, adorned with a very light blue. The breathtaking beauty made Yu Qiuping's mind empty, and he couldn't remember all the words he had prepared.

"These are... Do you have one for me? The girl looked at Yu Qiuping and asked softly.

"I..." As soon as Yu Qiuping spoke, he stammered nervously, and his cheeks immediately flushed.

"I—" He was embarrassed and didn't know what to say.

"Whatever Pingjun wants to say, just say it." The girl smiled.

"I... When I first met Miss..."Yu Qiuping struggled to squeeze out a few words, "just... I fell in love with Miss. As soon as the words came out, the girl suddenly realized what Yu Qiuping wanted to do, and her white cheeks were like ripe apples.

"Because... Because the young lady is very beautiful, she is the most beautiful girl I have ever seen. Yu Qiuping said and spoke, although there was still a sentence without a sentence without logic, but it was coherent, "And the young lady is also very cute, very temperamental, very... Anyway, I just like it. The girl listened to Yu Qiuping's words and lowered her head shyly.

"Then, there is," Yu Qiuping nervously twisted the corners of his clothes, "Miss... I also like Momiji, just like me, like my mom and dad, and just like Miss's mom and dad. We've all been hurt by the autumn leaves, but we all like the autumn leaves, so we will feel very close to you. ”

"But," Yu Qiuping said intermittently, "what Momiji left for the young lady was not sweet memories, but painful. When she sees the autumn leaves, she is very happy, but she always remembers painful things in her heart. When I saw Miss crying because of the autumn leaves, I was really distressed, and I really wanted to protect Miss and prevent her from crying anymore. ”

When the girl heard this, she suddenly raised her head with some curiosity, and looked into Yu Qiuping's eyes with teary eyes.

"But autumn leaves are such a beautiful thing... I don't want Miss to recall sad things because of it. I want the young lady's memories of the autumn leaves in the future to be happy and sweet. Yu Qiuping said awkwardly, but the girl chuckled, and tears flowed down with the smile.

"Miss said... Before the autumn leaves fall, they will come here, and I can accompany the young lady here. Yu Qiuping swallowed his saliva and continued, "Although I'm stupid and not very powerful, I think... I can make Miss happy, I can make Miss laugh," he suddenly smiled innoyantly, "The way Miss laughs is really beautiful." ”

"So I want Miss to be able to laugh all the time, so I'm going to stay by Miss all the time." Yu Qiuping nodded solemnly, "The red leaves will always fall, so I folded these paper red leaves." They will never drift away. ”

"My mind, like these paper leaves, will never change. I want the leaves to never fall, so that I can always be by my side. Yu Qiuping raised his head and looked at the red leaves on the mountain.

"I will spend my life protecting Miss." He muttered, "From now on, whenever Miss Jean sees the autumn leaves, she will think of me and my unchanging heart." When you see the autumn leaves, you don't cry, you just smile sweetly. ”

"Let the eternal autumn leaves of this mountain bear witness," Yu Qiuping lowered his head, looked at the girl, and said in an extremely solemn tone that he had never had in his life, "Miss, I love you, no matter what the difference in status, please let me protect you." ”

"The heart is like a red leaf dyeing the gods, and the heart of the king is often in autumn." Yu Qiuping said softly, looking at the girl's continuous welling up of tears. "My mind, as eternal as the red leaves of this mountain, dyes the god of soul refuge. Always accompanied by autumn colors, guarding the heart of the young lady. ”

The girl looked at Yu Qiuping's cheeks, holding the hot red leaf pendant tightly with both hands, letting the tears slip down, but she didn't feel sadness, just full of happiness.

She was silent for a moment, and suddenly said, "This oath doesn't count!" ”

Yu Qiuping was stunned for a moment, and asked puzzledly, "Why?" ”

A figure pounced on him and hugged Yu Qiuping, the heat of breathing came from his ears, and the girl's whisper: "Because I'm not called Miss." Ping-kun, my name is Kaede. ”