It is said that when girls run in the wind with a smile on their faces, they attract the spirits of nature because it is a unique scenery.

On the ridges of the paddy fields full of rice, Hui Yukiko, who was wearing a kimono, and Heno, who had not had time to change clothes, galloped by.

"He Nai, today is your birthday, I wish you a happy day!"

"Thank you, Granny Mi, you are coming to our house for dinner in the evening!"

"Okay, slow down!"

Granny Mi lives in a sloping roof tile house on the edge of the paddy field, and she is very happy to watch He Nai and Hui Xuezi fly away for a while.

"Eun, mother-in-law, see you in the evening!"

He Nai waved at her, the bandage tied with the bow fluttering in the wind. They quickly ran over the paddy fields and stopped outside the school in Arbor City.

"Sister, I'm running faster than you!"

Hui Yukiko jumped around happily.

He Nai is like a white cherry blossom, and when it is still a little cool in April, she has bloomed the most beautiful flowers. He Nai habitually went to get the pocket watch, but it turned out to be empty.

"You're looking for a watch, aren't you?"

Hui Yukiko took out her appearance from her arms.

"Ten minutes to go. ”

"Then let's wait a minute!"

He Nai sorted out Hui Xuezi's crooked double ponytails, and the unyielding girl who was still wielding a sword before now combed her sister's hair with a smile, no longer as fierce as before. Hui Xuezi grabbed He Nai's black hakama behind her hands, and her voice was soft, like an obedient kitten begging for food from her owner.

"Sister, I want to eat something delicious. ”

"I didn't bring any money!"

"I brought it! I brought it!"

Hui Yukiko's eyes began to light up, outside the renamed Sakura Academy, there were many small vendors who bought snacks, but He Nai didn't want her to eat snacks.

He Nai folded his black hakama and squatted in front of Hui Xuezi.

"Look at you! I still think about eating, the snacks outside are unhygienic, ordinary eight-year-old children are 1.3 meters tall, and you are only 1.25 meters. Besides, there are so many delicious foods at night, isn't it enough for you to eat?"

"Slightly!"

Sticking out her tongue, Hui Xuezi grabbed He Nai's palm and jumped up.

"In the future, I will be taller than my sister! ”

While she was bouncing, Xing Zeyuan was still in class. The last one is a history lesson!

Children in this world must undergo eight years of school education, and as long as they pass the exam and officially graduate from the school, they can get a diploma. Then they can choose to go to a higher institution to receive a higher education, after all, they are only sixteen years old in the year of graduation. The Faculty of Arts admits students regardless of age, while the Faculty of Martial Arts only accepts adults.

Of course, after graduating from the university, they can also work as farmers and traders, or become a "teacher" who specializes in the art industry. But what he wants to do in the future, Xing Zeyuan hasn't thought about it yet.

Xing Zeyuan went to school for five years and completed all the things to be learned in eight years, he is sixteen years old this year, and he has the height and physique that a boy should have. The height of 1.7 meters is not particularly tall, nor is it short.

Xing Zeyuan's grades are very good, but he doesn't like to listen to lectures very much, as long as he reads the book a few times, he will remember all the content recorded in the big and small fonts. The teacher said that he was smart, but not everyone was smart, so he asked everyone to work harder, but only Xing Zeyuan himself knew that he was actually not smart, he just liked to think about questions, and asked questions if he couldn't figure it out.

Now he has all the knowledge in the book, so it feels a little boring. Looking out the window, watching the carriages coming and going on the side roads of the city, watching the migratory birds in the sky flying around in this warmer April, and the old man hanging up the freshly made knives and hoes in the boutique blacksmith shop not far from the school.

"Therefore, the gap between the Eastern Realm and the Western Realm was opened in the Wuji Era, that is, three hundred years ago, after 1716. Over the years......"

History teacher Ashley is a professional female teacher wearing a one-step skirt, and she is also very beautiful, everyone looks at her intently, only Xing Zeyuan is alone and keeps looking out of the window. Every time he talked about history, Xing Zeyuan would feel a kind of desolation, as if someone behind him had blown a cool breath on the back of his neck.

This year is Xing Zeyuan's last year in school, and he is about to graduate, and Mr. Ashley, who usually calls him to listen to classes, no longer calls him, but just lets him look out the window.

From the location of Xing Zeyuan, you can only see a little pink cherry blossom in the mountain. The cherry blossom forest was like a colorful cloud falling in the mountains, and the dreamy color continued to magnify in Xing Zeyuan's eyes, until the pink lost its original color in his mind that had been magnified many times. That color made Xing Zeyuan involuntarily think of what happened five years ago.

Five years ago, in May of 2011, he had memories of being in this world for the first time.

I still remember that day, the sky was cloudy with light rain, and it was nothing to have rain in May, but on that day, the fish belly on the horizon was still white, and the sky was quickly covered with dark clouds. That day was like a coffin in time and space, bringing a heavier and heavier rain that did not belong to their time and space.

Raindrops fell, muddy the ground, people hid in their houses, and all the paving was hastily put away. The women let out a few screams and pulled their children back from the rain. The men were scolding, complaining about the weather. Suddenly, there was an uproar, and when people were idle, there was more to talk about.

The starry sky with hundreds of millions of stars can get a moment of peace, perhaps, only the hustle and bustle of the world is endless.

The rain was so heavy that the raindrops were getting bigger and bigger, and they hit people with a sense of pain.

In the rain, a helpless boy curled up in an alley full of filth, his weak body in the rain, felt a terrible pain that frightened him and made him roll around on the ground. The stains on the pitch-black alleys around him, like a demon with teeth and claws, seemed to threaten him, as if the boy was about to be torn apart when he walked out of the alley.

That boy was Xing Zeyuan, he only knew his name, and the surname that no one let him mention.

In the black alley, a thirteen-year-old girl came over in a soaked close-fitting training suit, and she stretched out her little hand towards Xing Zeyuan. That second may be a moment that Xing Zeyuan will never forget in his life, Xing Zeyuan was already eleven years old at that time, but he was not as weak as a child of seven or eight years old. The girl put on his coat, and the girl in the vest pulled him to run in the rain, until he ran to the shop by the alley and asked for an umbrella, and then insisted on taking the boy home.

At that time, the girl didn't know why she was so persistent, and by the time she got home, the umbrella was broken.

After five years in the blink of an eye, Xing Zeyuan felt lucky all the time, he didn't know who he was, and he didn't care. For him, it is enough to have Hena!

Perhaps, as the old men in Arbor City said, maybe it was the person who passed by who left him behind, because he was so thin and mistreated at first sight. In the end, Xing Zeyuan really regarded himself as a child that no one wanted.

But it is such an abandoned child, who has been very lucky all these years, lucky that he can have his own small house here, lucky that he has met the Huaxi family, and lucky that he has the most intimate friends.

"Class is over, Xing Zeyuan, aren't you leaving?"

It's been five minutes since the bell rang, all the students are gone, and the classroom is empty, like after graduation. The students were gone, and Teacher Ashley stood alone on the podium and asked Xing Zeyuan why he didn't leave.

"Oh, sorry, teacher!"

Xing Zeyuan put all his books in his cloth bag, and then walked past the podium, ready to go home.

"Xing Zeyuan, what are you going to do in the future?"

Teacher Ashley's voice is very good, she once asked Xing Zeyuan if he didn't listen to the class because he didn't like her, if Xing Zeyuan didn't listen to the class because he didn't like a teacher, she could choose to apply for a different teacher. Xing Zeyuan was frightened, Teacher Ashley was very good, and everyone liked him very much, including himself.

Later, he listened to many history lessons, in fact, Xing Zeyuan is not the kind of introverted person, he just likes to be silent and contemplative. He seems to be learning all the time, and when he is silent, he observes how others speak and how they behave. In this way, he learned a lot.

Xing Zeyuan hesitated, not knowing how to answer Teacher Ashley's question, the noble, shy but friendly teacher asked him at once, so that he didn't know how to answer.

"Teacher, I haven't thought about this yet. ”

Adding an honorific address to the other person before speaking will make him appear polite, which is also what he has learned from others.

"Then you go home first! You're about to graduate, so you must think about your future direction. The teacher used to want to be a teacher, so after graduating from the school, he went to study in the state, and finally went to study in the place organized by the world government, you are the first students I taught, and the smartest students I have ever met. After the teacher has finished teaching your students, they will complete their internship and will return to the headquarters of the world government. So I want to tell you, Xing Zeyuan, whether you go to farming in the future, or continue your studies, or even to comprehend the star god, I support you, I hope you can understand that you must choose one thing you like to do, and make yourself worthwhile, okay? ”

"Hmm!"

Xing Zeyuan hadn't come to his senses yet, Teacher Ashley had already left, and Xing Zeyuan felt a little uncomfortable. I don't know if it's because I'm confused and have no goal, or because of what Mr. Ashley said. In short, he secretly had confidence in his heart that he must make himself a productive person.

There are more than 1,000 people in the school, divided into different grades. Whenever school is over, Hui Xuezi and He Nai will stand in the school passage of the senior students and wait for Xing Zeyuan to come out, but today everyone is gone, and Xing Zeyuan slowly comes out. Usually, he is the fastest one.

"What's wrong? Not happy?"

"Henai?"

Although He Nai is older than Xing Zeyuan, she has never let Xing Zeyuan call her sister, because she feels that she is so old. Well...... Girls!

"What, surprised?"

He Nai was wearing a white kendo dress and a black hakama as clean as snow, and her kendo ponytail was combed very high, making her proud like a phoenix with her head held high. If you want to conquer her, you must hold her blade.

"It's your adult birthday, I didn't expect you to come to me. ”

"Of course I'm coming to you, it's six o'clock! There's still an hour before dinner, so let's go straight to our house?"

"Good!"

Hui Xuezi held Xing Zeyuan with her left hand and He Nai with her right hand, and from time to time, Xing Zeyuan and He Nai, who were equally tall, lifted her up, causing the little girl to giggle.

"Henai, I have prepared a gift for you. ”

"What gift?"

"Sister, you're so stupid, how can you ask what a gift is, it must be a birthday gift!"

He Nai puffed out his fair cheeks, and whenever this time, the average-looking Xing Zeyuan didn't dare to look at He Nai, because he would blush, and he felt that He Nai was too cute.

"Hui Xuezi, you will start school in August this year, I will definitely tell your etiquette teacher to teach you how to talk to your sister. ”

"Brother, look, my sister is so stupid!

He Nai crossed his hands on his hips and exhaled.

"Forget it, I don't care about you. ”

"Slightly!"

Spit out her little pink tongue, Hui Yukiko happily walked in front, even if she was wearing a kimono from her hometown.

"Is the wound alright?"

Pointing to the bandage, Xing Zeyuan asked her.

"Don't worry, it's just two small wounds!"

As he spoke, He Naiber bit a section of the bandage and gently pulled the loose bandage. The beautiful moment made Xing Zeyuan's heart beat faster. He had to admit that he liked this proud girl who looked like a sharp knife.

"I bet, you'll win!"

"That's! Even if I were a daughter, I could defeat him. I can already feel two large star clusters, and my dad says I'll be able to summon the star gods soon!"

"Yummy!"

Xing Zeyuan praised sincerely.

When the stars were all over the sky, He Nai's birthday party began, this banquet was very lively, everyone sang for her, and He Nai in a long dress was very beautiful. Xing Zeyuan sat on the side, watching He Nai speak to the elders, and suddenly became obsessed, as if he had soaked in rice wine.

The beautiful He Nai danced and turned her sleeves, and Xing Zeyuan felt that she was the most perfect girl in the world.

Xing Zeyuan helped Hua Xi's family clean up the dishes here after the dinner. When Xing Zeyuan was about to leave, he took out the gift that had been handed over to Aunt Meijing in advance for safekeeping and gave it to He Nai.

After He Nai accepted the gift, Xing Zeyuan said "good night" and ran away quickly.

In the gift box, there is a very beautiful short Japanese knife, this handle and knife are only twenty-five centimeters, but very delicate, the knife pattern and blade on it are almost perfectly calculated, the short style and the knife are very light in the hand, He Nai waved the short knife, the tearing sound of the air proves its sharpness.

This knife was built by Xing Zeyuan for a year and the master in the boutique blacksmith shop, during which he failed many times, he consulted Uncle Ichiro, and also consulted all the masters in the blacksmith shop in Arbor City, and finally made such a sword.

In the position of the blade of the sword, four characters are inscribed: Huaxi Henai.

His liking for He Nai is the most determined thing for him and not confused!