"Grandpa, when are my parents coming to see me?"

Four or five-year-old Qiao Jinxin is innocent, blinking his big clear eyes, without any impurities.

Grandpa sat on the ridge of the field wearing a big straw hat, and his big rough hands were dexterous and fast, weaving garlands of various colors of wild flowers and grasses that he had just collected at his feet.

"Mom and Dad, you have to take care of your little brother," Grandpa finished quickly, and with a satisfied smile, he buckled Qiao Jinxin's little hairy head.

Bian whispered and explained to Qiao Jinxin.

"When the artichoke flowers in the field bloom to the third crop, Mom and Dad will come to pick us up."

So the little Qiao Jinxin, from that day on, has been guarding this endless land every day, or squatting or sitting, supporting his head with both hands, looking forward to the turned over ground, sprouting, pulling vines, and blooming small white flowers.

Come rain come shine.

The wind and clouds in the sky will change, and one moment it will be a cow barking, and another will be a dog barking.

Unknown birds also came to join in the fun, deliberately landing on her shoulder, trying to peck a peck, this motionless is not a lifelike sculpture.

"It's time to eat!"

"It's time to eat!"

She slowly dragged her steps back. The only thing that can give her a little sense of time is the moment when her grandfather is in front of the door, shouting at her throat to go back to dinner.

Spring goes to autumn, and the seasons change. The artichoke blossoms bloomed a few times, each time it was bigger and brighter than the previous one, and her height also came out a lot.

She had saved up a lot of things for her parents to see: for example, she had already finished the calligraphy and sketching in the red book, and she had done the correct addition and subtraction calculations within twenty on each page.

She also drew family portraits of all members of the family. There is her, there is a grandfather, there is rhubarb, there is a father and mother who have no face, and a younger brother.

It wasn't until she had learned addition and subtraction within a hundred, and was able to memorize all the Tang poems in that booklet, that her grandfather brought in a man and a woman from outside the house.

She stopped looking at the little white potato for a long time, because her grandfather told her that as long as she finished the stack of red books in front of her, her parents would come to pick her up.

"Heart!"

The woman screamed, then hugged her, strangled her in pain, and then burst into tears, crying and howling.

The man stood aside, unable to see his emotions, full of exhaustion and haggardness.

"Xinxin, call Mom!"

Seeing that Qiao Jinxin didn't react, grandpa hurriedly reminded him.

"Mom, Mom?" Qiao Jinxin hadn't called this title for a long time, she was a little unfamiliar, she was stunned for a while, and then she responded by slapping the woman's back hard, greedily sniffing the smell on her body.

This is how many late nights she woke up in the middle of the night with tears wet and cried, the embrace she longed for for a long time.

Grandpa stood silently for a long time on the side, then turned around and waved his hand.

"Take it away! It's time for the kids to go to elementary school in the city, too! ”

"Then let's go."

The man was not polite, and once the goal had been achieved, he pulled it up, and the mother and daughter, who were still crying on the ground, went out of the house without looking back.

A tall woman, next to a man who was more than half a head shorter than her, all dressed as bright as the people of the city.

Such a picture, passing through the villages and fields, inevitably makes it inevitable that some people will be interested and stop to look at it for a while.

Such a family that has taken root in the county still follows the old traditional concept: there must be a boy.

Qiao Jinxin was happily hugged by her mother all the way, she understood that this was the way home, she became cheerful, and happily asked a bunch of questions.

Dad said displeased, "Shut up." Only then did she silence her well-behaved.

She thought it was the beginning of happiness, but it was actually the beginning of a nightmare.

It's like a swing in a neighborhood where no one is active late at night. When you swing up, you think you're at the top and you can get a bird's-eye view of the world. When I came down, I woke up like a dream, and I was just a poor worm who couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, because of the cruel reality.

Regarding the appearance of Xiao Tangerine, Gu Weijun was unimpressed at first.

It's just that she spent her own money to buy a maid, so it's good to be happy.

He was busy until late at night, and by the time he was in the courtyard, the lights had already been turned off, and everyone had fallen asleep. Gently opened the curtain of the tent, drove straight in, got into the quilt, and circled the soft fragrant red jade in front of him from behind. He moved forward, leaned back again, and rested his chin on the other's shoulder in satisfaction. The tip of her nose can still linger on her body with a nice smell of jasmine.

Before he could sleep steadily, he was shocked to realize that his outstretched arm was caught by a cold little hand.

He was so frozen that he opened his eyes.

It was too late to get up and withdraw his arm.

A heart-piercing tingle.

He hurriedly shook it off in pain, brought the bite closer, and identified it by the faint light in the room.

The fruit is a row of evenly fine, neat and deep tooth marks.

He looked around and immediately spotted the perpetrator.

In the night, her eyes glowed with a faint green light, and she was still grinning at herself, being a dangerous little girl.

Gu Weijun's face changed.

"What's wrong?"

There was such a big commotion, and Qiao Jinxin also woke up from his sleep. The first thing to do when you sit up is to completely protect the little girl in your arms.

Touching her little head to soothe her.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, be good."

Gu Weijun had a calm face and asked coldly, "Why is she in bed?" ”

"Xiao Tang is scared to sleep alone at night, and he can't sleep without me, it's pitiful."

"How can there be a reason for a maid to sleep with her master? Let her hurry down! ”

As soon as Gu Weijun finished speaking, Xiao Tang, whose emotions had been calmed down, stood up like chicken blood, and his mouth was chirping.

Gu Weijun touched the extremely deep wound that he had been bitten just now and almost bleed, and he was still a little scared.

"This girl, how can she bite a beast when she sees a person?"

Qiao Jinxin covered Xiao Tang's side face, continued to comfort, and stroked the technique of "smoothing hair" on his back.

"Maybe I'm stimulated, this world, hey...... If I save her, I will naturally be responsible for taking care of her. ”

Qiao Jinxin sighed and swore an oath.

"No! It's too dangerous, in case she is like a brute one day, and she starts a madness and hurts you......"

Gu Weijun was anxious to persuade.

"You're really worried," Qiao Jinxin just smiled indifferently.

"She's just a little girl with no two flesh and no two flesh."

"Besides, you sent so many people to watch, didn't you control what I was doing? What could have happened? ”

"Are you blaming me?"

Gu Weijun could hear the yin and yang weirdness in Qiao Jinxin's tone.

"No, you are now the head of the family, you have the right to decide all the affairs of the Gu family, and others only have the share of obedience."

These words sound harsh and sad.

"You are not an outsider, you are the wife that my Gu Weijun is marrying, and you are the mistress of this Gu family!"

Gu Weijun was anxious to show his intentions, but Qiao Jinxin hugged Xiao Tangerine and couldn't spare his hand to let him hold empathy.

"I know, you go out first, you're here, everyone can't sleep well."

"Ah Yu, I ......"

"You sleep in the side room first, and I'll ask Xiuyun to send you another pot of charcoal fire."

"Don't bother, I'll let Chang Gui arrange it."

In the end, he hung his head and stopped pressing.

Between the three words, Gu Weijun already felt an obvious sense of alienation.

And that's just the beginning.

In the days that followed, Qiao Jinxin was always polite to him, not only did he not lose his temper, but he also did not say a word "no".

A smile is just a tool to show goodwill, not real joy.

She was in front of him, so close and yet so far away.

"Wow!"

The scene of blood plum blossoms in the snow.

Xiao Tang dangled his legs and sat on the eaves, in danger of falling at any time.

"Little orange, come down quickly!"

Xiuyun jumped to his feet in a hurry below, this little ancestor, one didn't pay attention to the roof of the house, this young lady didn't have to die in a hurry when she saw it for a while.

People under the eaves have begun to bring ladders.

Everyone held the ladder, and a few small people slowly went up little by little, approaching cautiously.

"Uh-huh!"

As soon as she was able to reach her swaying legs, Xiao Tang suddenly became excited, and everyone gasped in exclamation.

Laughing and playing, he jumped down, a beautiful leap acceleration, and crossed a graceful arc.

The thin layer of snow on the ground allowed her to slide a little, but she still held on to the ground and landed in front of Qiao Jinxin, who came from Shanshan.

"It's all gone."

Qiao Jin was not surprised, led Xiao Tang into the house, and took out a small wooden stick with feathers tied at the top every day to attract Xiao Tangerine's attention.

As soon as the toy was taken out, it completely caught the eye of Xiao Tang, and she couldn't wait to reach for the feather piece, and she couldn't get tired of it.

Qiao Jinxin shook his head.

"Xiao Tang, don't climb so high in the future, my sister will play with you in the future, okay?"

"yes, okay."

"You, can you talk?"

The crisp and delicate voice echoed in the room.

Qiao Jinxin looked around in horror, only to be sure that the voice was really coming from the mouth of the girl in front of him.

"Uh-huh."

She blinked her eyes, although she tried her best to restrain herself, she could see that she was still very inattentive, and all her thoughts were on Qiao Jinxin's self-made "cat teasing stick".

"You, are you the little orange cat I fed?"

Although Qiao Jinxin herself felt ridiculous when she asked this question, the coincidence of the habits of these cats couldn't help but make her think about it too much.

"Tachibana! Little orange! ”

At the mention of this, the girl's face was full of vitality, and she felt that the whole world lit up.

"Uh-huh, um-tachibana."

Qiao Jinxin was a little deflated, this girl could speak, she was just a parrot who learned to speak, repeating what she said every day.

She sat down a little lonely and disappointed, and the feather piece fell completely into Xiao Tangerine's hands.

Qiao Jinxin thought that she would keep fiddling with it, but she didn't know that the effort was not big, this little girl threw a feather piece on the ground, came over and squatted in front of her, looked up at her with a serious face.

"I'm fine. Little orange. ”

Qiao Jinxin got up and pulled her up, but she was caught off guard by something stuffed by Xiao Tangerine in her hand.

"What?"

Qiao Jinxin raised his palm and spread it out.

It's a note.

It was actually a modern simplified Chinese character that she was familiar with.

Qiao Jinxin, long time no see.