Chapter 7: Picking the Stars
Looking at the strange girl with blood on her shoulders in front of her, Ji Qingyuan didn't understand why he suddenly remembered that night.
Maybe it was because when he first saw the woman, she was the same age as the girl in front of him now?
Ji Qingyuan exhaled slightly, but he couldn't control his thoughts.
The night they first met, he was eight and she was fourteen.
Ji Qingyuan always knew that he had an existence like a "sister". Because since he was a child, no one in the family told him secretly that his mother abandoned him and his sister because of the "sister" who was not related to them.
It was clear that they were their mother's biological children, but that strange girl took everything from them and her mother, and even made his mother a sinner who betrayed Nan Chu.
That girl is unforgivable, and she is very ...... In short, in those bedtime stories told to him by the old servant, he was like a monster.
I guess I want him to hate her.
It's a pity that Ji Qingyuan has heard people around him say that the girl is not normal since he was a child, but in the end he feels that he himself is not normal.
Otherwise, with the mind of a young child, he was instilled so imperceptibly every day, even if he was his own brother, he could turn his back.
But I don't know if I've heard too much, Ji Qingyuan doesn't feel anything, and he doesn't treat that sister as a "demon girl" as those people want. ”
If that sister is a witch, what is the mother who protects her?
Also a demon girl?
So what about him and his sister?
The son of a witch? There are many people in Nanchu who think so. Then why did he believe the words of these people who laughed at him so much, but doubted his own mother?
Those people with broken mouths, do they think he is a three-year-old child?
From the evil words of those people like spitting poison, no one knew that Ji Qingyuan was not feeling the strangeness of his "sister", but what he felt more was the fear of those people for her.
It was at that time that Ji Qingyuan discovered that his thoughts were different from those of the teenagers around him.
Maybe he was born to be an abnormal person too.
Therefore, when he first found a gift next to the pillow, although no one told him, Ji Qingyuan secretly felt that it might come from his "sister." ”
The birthday gift next to the pillow has a cold aroma, like a forest and a lake. Obviously, he had never seen it with his own eyes, and he had only seen a few words from the book, but Ji Qingyuan felt so at the time.
And when he really caught that person after planning for a long time, he didn't see demons and monsters.
In the moonlight, he saw real forests and lakes.
Although it was dark inside, she was standing right in front of the window. It seems that this man is the window of walking.
It's really a girl, a few years older than him, but Ji Qingyuan has never doubted his guess before, as if everything is already doomed.
He had prepared a lot to say to her, and he had a lot to ask her about his mother.
But the moment he saw her, the boy who had never seen a few people since he was a child lost his words in an instant.
Under the moonlight, the girl's eyes were like frozen ice, with a slight morning mist-like coldness, but they were the most crystal clear ice that Ji Qingyuan had ever seen.
Crystal clear, with hidden streamers.
And those clear eyes were watching him at this time.
"You ......" The little boy prepared for a long time, but when he opened his mouth, he could not say a word under that gaze, and only felt that he was simply stupid.
In the quiet moonlight, he just looked at her intently, and after some time, he saw the girl look at him stunned, and then smiled helplessly, looking at his clenched hand.
"Why don't you sleep well?"
The girl's voice was as clear as her eyes, "Hold me what I'm going to do." ”
Looking at the man's calm eyes, Ji Qingyuan remembered that he was annoyed for some reason.
He was obedient in the National Teacher's Mansion and never lost his temper, but at that time, he wanted to be willful for the first time in his life.
"Who are you?" He grabbed the clay puppet next to the bed, bent down and dragged out a large box from under the bed, and slammed his other hand to hold on to her, "You gave these to me?" Why never show up? ”
Ji Qingyuan looked at the girl and was stunned, the strength of the cultivator was not small, her wrist had already been clenched red by him, but she didn't say a word, looking at the box, "You are all left." ”
"Of course." Ji Qingyuan looked at the pile of things, and his voice suddenly lowered, "That's all I have." ”
His sister, who is four years younger than him, will have the gift he has given.
And he, only a stranger he has never met, will give him a birthday gift.
"It's not just me," he heard the girl whisper, "and there are a lot of masters...... That is, your mother did it with me. ”
Ji Qingyuan watched the girl stretch out her hand to him, but the hand stopped on his head and did not fall in the end.
The girl withdrew her hand and looked at him and said, "My name is Lin Baoyue, and I am your mother's apprentice. ”
"Ji Qingyuan."
He listened as she called his name for the first time, but before he could react, the girl looked at her wrist, "You shouldn't have grabbed me, and we shouldn't have met." ”
"Why?" Ji Qingyuan asked, but saw the girl in front of him looking at him with some surprise.
"I thought someone around you had warned you," the girl named Lin Baoyue blinked, then looked at him, "Why do you want to catch me?" ”
Did she think he hated her?
Ji Qingyuan didn't know what he was thinking at the time, he was just evil to the guts, stretched out his other hand and grabbed her, and said aggrievedly, "Today is my birthday." ”
Eight-year-olds have far more courage than twenty-year-olds.
Seeing that girl looking at him unexpectedly, Ji Qingyuan gritted his teeth and said, "Isn't there a saying that the birthday star is the biggest?" ”
He learned it from elsewhere, but he didn't have the confidence.
He never had the qualifications to be wayward.
He was never the heart and soul of his parents, but an abandoned mustard on the side of the road.
Not to mention a person who is not related to him by blood.
Ji Qingyuan never thought that he could be regarded as the biggest by others, looking at the girl who was slightly stunned, he immediately regretted that he got carried away and regretted taking himself too seriously, but the next moment he saw the girl in front of him laughing softly.
"You're right, then little birthday boy, what more do you want?"
Ji Qingyuan was stunned for a moment, almost didn't believe his ears, looking at the girl's serious gaze, he didn't know what he was thinking, he just grabbed her and said in a daze.
"Stars."
God knows if he got water in his head when he was a child.
Ji Qingyuan's eyes darkened, although he was stupid when he was a child, he knew why he said that at that time.
At the age of eight, he may have just felt that if he made such an unattainable request, the girl might have stayed with him, at least a little longer.
Of course, when he finished speaking and saw the woman in front of him slightly stunned, he regretted it again.
"I'm playing ......"
However, before he could finish speaking, the girl in the moonlight looked at him and smiled, and opened her lips lightly.
"Okay."
Ay? Ji Qingyuan couldn't believe his ears, and the next moment he didn't wait for him to react, his eyes darkened, his body was light, and the next moment he only heard the girl's voice ringing in his ears, "Open your eyes." ”
When the boy opened his eyes, he saw a sky full of stars.
He was already sitting on the roof.
"If you want the stars, maybe your mother can take them off, but I can't yet."
The young girl sat on the roof with him in her arms and chuckled softly.
"But I can show you."