The first time I met Feng Yan, I met you even earlier. When she first appeared in front of my eyes, I noticed that there were not a few high-ranking families who would come to Daizong Mountain every year to escape the summer, and those sons and sisters always traveled in groups, hugging each other, and they were always surrounded by a bunch of chattering maids and servants, and they were very lively.

Only this girl is always alone, and the elders of her family let her do so. She was always alone on the edge of a steep cliff, not knowing what she was looking at.

Every time at this time, I was terrified, afraid that she would not slip down. She came to Daizong Mountain year after year to escape the summer, and it was not until the summer of the thirteenth year of Fu that she had one more friend by her side.

I've seen that young man before, and he's just like you, working at the Sitai. Several early mornings, I saw the two of them carrying the piano on their backs, and they went to sit together in the Wurao Stone Pavilion in the mountains, and he seemed to be teaching Feng Yan to play the piano, and sometimes the two of them sang together.

After that, Feng Yan rarely went to the edge of the cliff alone, and even if she did, she would not climb to a dangerous place like a hanging rock.

When the boy didn't come to her, she sat in her room and practiced the piano, and she was reluctant to practice day and night, forgetting to sleep or eat.

I thought it was strange at the time, if I always stayed in the house, what was the difference between Daizong Mountain and Chang'an, she only had to go up the mountain in a hurry in the summer, and among the mountains of more than 100 miles, there were so many scenery that she hadn't seen, why suddenly she didn't like to go out.

I didn't understand it at the time, but I thought it was good. I wish I could see you often, but I know that there are many people in the courtyard, and if I am always with you, I will always be discovered by you, or by others.

So I floated into Feng Yan's yard, because this girl is not annoying, and I can see you here often.

But I didn't expect to be discovered by her the second time I floated into her yard. She took her father over to look at me and asked, "What kind of bud is this?" and her father circled around me several times, but never recognized me, which was normal, because I had been in the mountains for so long and had never seen a flower or plant like me.

No one knows what I am or where I come from, not even myself. Listening to the big banyan tree that grew near me, I originally grew up on a mountain road specially opened for the construction of the altar, so my seed may have been carried up with the wood, and I may have come from a far away.

I thought at the time, when I came out of Daizong Mountain and met my kind somewhere in the earth, maybe I would know the answer.

But I didn't expect that Feng Bo would be so persistent in this question raised by his daughter. He probably went through countless books without sleep, and copied me down to ask about it, and finally gave an answer.

I am the Great Thorny Dragon Tongue, also known as the Eight Desolation Palace. My hometown is far west, in a place called Mona, which is farther away than the Western Regions, and is rarely set foot in.

This is the first time I've heard where I'm coming from. I like the name "big thorn" dragon tongue, the word "big thorn" doesn't sound as delicate as other flowers, and the dragon tongue is more imposing.

The father and daughter transplanted me to the middle of the garden as if they had found a treasure, each expecting me to bloom, but it might be a disappointment for them.

Although I am a flower demon, from my birth to the present, even I have never seen me bloom.

"How can you be a flower demon?" the Great Banyan had asked me before, "You should be a dryad, or a grass demon," I didn't know how to answer.

Later, one night, the young man from the stage also came to Feng Yan's courtyard as a guest, Feng Yan took him to see me, and when he heard the name of "Big Thorny Dragon Tongue", he was stunned, he had read me in books before.

Feng Yan asked him, "When does the dragon tongue usually bloom?" the young man shook his head, "The dragon tongue only blooms once in a lifetime, and after the flower blooms, the mother plant will wither, leaving new seeds.

Because it grows in a very poor place, and when it is in full bloom, the flower depletes all its nutrients.

Both young people were a little sad, but I was happy. It turns out that I am a flower that only blooms once in my life, and once it blooms, it exhausts my life's mental strength, which is very much in line with my heart.

When I went down the mountain that year, Feng Yan didn't leave me on Daizong Mountain, but directly moved me to her backyard.

I was a little apprehensive at first, I had never been to a place like Chang'an, there were too many people, the air was dirty in a crowded place, and the water was not as good as in the mountains, and I was worried that I would not be used to it.

But I thought about it a lot, Feng Yan's yard was as clean as her backyard on the mountain. Although she has many siblings, no one comes to the yard on weekdays, except for the child of "Paddle Goro".

She planted a lot of flowers and plants in her backyard. Although Feng Yan doesn't like to see people, she is very patient with flowers and plants, which is probably inherited from her father, because there are usually insects and diseases in the yard, and when Feng Yan solves the problem, she will go to Feng Bo to discuss the solution.

Feng Bo is a good hand in this regard, and the garden layout in the Feng family's mansion has basically been renovated in his hands.

All in all I had a great stay here. When I was in the mountains, I didn't think I had to be too greedy, and it would be enough to see you often in the summer.

But after coming to Feng Yan's courtyard, I was able to see you more often, you often came alone, wearing the official uniform of the director, sitting alone on the rattan trellis in the courtyard and listening to Feng Yan play the qin in the house.

I was always thinking about it, every time you looked at Feng Yan's shadow cast on the window and didn't say a word, what would you think She obviously didn't recognize you yet, just like you didn't recognize me.

Whenever the time came to the twilight of spring, Feng Yan began to count the days, during that time she was full of energy, and her steps were lighter than usual when she was tending to flowers and plants.

I knew what she was expecting, and for her, the mountains and rivers on Daizong Mountain might be no different from the rockery ponds in this courtyard, they were just a place to live and raise flowers.

The real difference should be the boy from the stage. After coming down the mountain, I haven't seen the appearance of that young man for a long time, but watching Feng Yan grow up day after day, watching her seem to have changed in five years from the age of twelve to seventeen, I think that the same is probably true of that young man.

People grow old fast, and time is accelerating in their bodies.