Early the next morning, Ruojun slowly woke up to the chirping of birds outside the window, rubbed his eyes, and found that there was a small hand on his stomach, Ruojun turned his head to look, a pair of big black eyes were blinking at him, some panic in his eyes, some doubts, like a panicked deer.

"Morning, little beauty!" Ruojun squinted and smiled at her, reached out and touched her forehead, thank God, it was always a fever, the little girl didn't speak, just blinked her eyes and looked at herself, Ruojun sneered, patted her head, and said, "Look at me, I haven't introduced myself well, of course you don't know me." ”

Stroked her hair twice, Ruojun thought for a while, smiled and introduced herself: "My name is Mei Ruojun, you can call me sister, from now on, you don't have to live on the street anymore, because ...... I'll take care of you. As she spoke, she tapped her finger on the tip of her nose, and saw that Xunmei still had no expression, Ruojun wondered how to make this little girl believe in herself, get close to herself, and speak?

She turned to her side, propped her head, rolled her eyes, and asked her in an extremely gentle voice, "What's your name?" ”

Meng ...... Xunmei" Her voice was so small and immature, but it was so beautiful, Ruojun was very excited in her heart, and hurriedly asked: "Ah, by the way, are you hungry?" ”

Meng Xunmei nodded slightly, Ruojun suddenly felt that her whole body was full of strength, sat up and got dressed, put Xunmei's little hand into the quilt, covered it tightly, turned over herself, and said, "I'll go make you some gruel." You lie down well. ”

Cuiliu knocked on the door and came in, followed by a little boy, Shu Zhi, ran to Ruojun and bowed, and said loudly: "Good morning, I came to see my sister." ”

Ruojun saw that he was wearing Ruikang's long shirt when he was a child, his hair was neatly combed, refreshed, and very cute, and said with a smile: "Your sister has a fever, I'll make breakfast for you, you go and accompany your sister." ”

After washing, Ruojun happily walked to the kitchen, washed rice, boiled porridge, and thought that he didn't know what Shu Zhi liked to eat, so he made some noodles and made some flower rolls and pancakes.

Seeing Shu Zhi eating with relish, Ruojun felt that it was even more fragrant than eating herself, she held a small bowl, sat on the edge of the bed, and fed Xunmei gruel spoonful by spoonful.

After Shu Zhi finished eating, he said to Ruojun very respectfully, "Thank you." Standing up and cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, his every move made Ruojun feel incredible, "Shu Zhi, you can put it away, Cuiliu will come to clean it up later." ”

"No, I'll do it myself." Without raising his head, he put the dishes and chopsticks into the tray and took them out himself.

Ruojun shook his head in confusion and asked Xun Mei, "Has your brother always been like this?" ”

Xun Mei shook her head, raised her slender eyelashes, looked at Ruojun and said, "Daddy, my mother is gone, my brother said that he is an adult." She said very calmly, and there was no trace of sadness on her face, which made Ruojun feel very bitter, sighed lightly, nodded, picked up a handkerchief and wiped the corners of Xunmei's mouth, and smiled: "You eat more, and when you get better, you can go to the garden to play." The garden here is a lot of fun, and there is a lotus pond in the back garden with a lot of fish. ”

Xiao Xunmei's eyes flickered, revealing a sweet smile, opening her mouth wide, Ruojun smiled and fed her a spoonful of gruel, thinking, after all, it is a child, as long as there is delicious food and fun, she can always forget her troubles.

"Sister, you and that brother from yesterday are both good people." Xiao Xunmei is no longer afraid of Ruojun.

Ruojun smiled slightly, only to see Cuiliu walking into the house while looking back, as if there was something interesting behind her, muttering something in her mouth.

"What are you muttering about?" Ruojun asked her.

"Oh, grandmother, that little boy is really strange, wandering around the yard with dishes, seeing me and asking me how to get to the kitchen, I want to help him take it, who knows that he still doesn't appreciate it, so he has to take it himself." Cuiliu tilted her head, pursed the corners of her mouth, and shook her head, showing her puzzlement. Ruojun smiled: "It's a very individual child." Let him be. ”

Cuiliu also didn't pursue it anymore, nodded, walked up, took out a letter from her arms, handed it to Ruojun, and said, "Your letter." ”

"Oh?" Ruojun took the letter, handed the bowl in his hand to Cuiliu, looked down and saw that it was a letter written by Ruoli, his heart sank, and he quickly opened it to see, and sure enough, as she expected, as she expected, as the content of the previous letters, she greeted her two sentences and began to ask for news from Ruikang.

Ruojun took the letter and slowly walked out of the house, read it in the yard, after reading it, Ruojun couldn't help but look up at the sky, and sighed long, Ruoli kept asking why Ruojun no longer invited her to live in Zhou's house, and reminded herself in the letter that she had promised to help her match her marriage with Ruikang, but now that the two Zhou Cheng families have decided to marry, Ruojun doesn't know how to match, she was about to write a letter to tell her sister about this in the past two days, but Ruikang strongly refused to marry, so she didn't mention the pen, I didn't expect Ruoli's letter to arrive first, This made Ruojun feel very embarrassed.

She walked out of the chrysanthemum garden slowly, followed the path, and looked at the door of the "Yongmei Garden" from a distance, the two of them were so close, only twenty or thirty steps away, but as far away as the sky.

"What are you looking at?"

Ruojun woke up like a dream, his body trembled, he looked down and saw that it was Xiao Shuzhi, he was looking at himself suspiciously, his hands were crossed in front of his chest, one foot was split and he was standing, his face was full of research and thinking, he looked like a little adult, a little funny but very cute, Ruojun couldn't help laughing and said, "I didn't see anything." ”

At this time, Ruikang walked out of the Yongmei Garden wearing an elegant gray robe and holding a few books in his hand, Ruojun couldn't help but beat faster when he saw him, and he hurriedly turned around and hid, who knew that Shu Zhi saw Ruikang, waved his hand without thinking, and shouted loudly: "Big brother!" ”

Ruikang came to look for prestige, he saw Ruojun turning around to avoid him, hesitated slightly, but still walked over, squatted down, touched Shu Zhi's head, and asked, "Did you sleep well?" Have you eaten enough? ”

"Hmm" Shu Zhi nodded, "The breakfast made by the eldest sister is delicious." ”

"I know." He said, his gaze swept towards her face, her head bowed, her hands clasped in front of her, he saw her injured scar, and couldn't help but ask, "How is the injury on your hand?" ”

She raised her eyelashes, gave him a quick look, and said with a smile that wasn't a smile on the corner of her mouth: "It's okay, but the scar hasn't completely faded, and it's a little ugly." She hid her hands behind her skirt as she spoke.

He wanted to see what her scars healed, but after thinking about it, it was the closest distance he could keep from her, and if he did a little more, or get a little closer, she would run away, and that was the case that day by the rockery, and he would rather stay with her a little longer than let her be frightened and run away.

He shifted his attention to Shu Zhi again, and said kindly: "Brother is going to school now, when I come back, will I play with you?" ”

"Good!" Shu Zhi replied simply, his eyes were still the perseverance of that little man, Ruikang pinched his face, and said to Ruojun: "It's really hard for you, I brought the person back, but I want you to take care of it." ”

"I'm happy, I feel very fulfilled and happy to have them with me." Ruojun still couldn't help but look up at him, his brows were lightly locked, his eyes were tired, his lips were closed, he looked unhappy, and there was a very irritable mood that enveloped him.

"Well," he muffled, taking a breath and saying, "Then I'll go first." As soon as he turned around, Ruojun looked at Ruoli's letter in his hand, and thought, since Ruikang does not agree to the Cheng family's marriage, then help his sister again, and create another opportunity for them, if he is not successful, he is finally worthy of his sister's entrustment, and hurriedly shouted to him: "Ruikang!" ”

He was a little surprised that she would stop herself, since she married into the Zhou family, she was always very careful, kept a distance from herself very well, and could even be said to be hiding like a demon and a monster, how could she suddenly stop herself today.

He looked back at her, waiting for her command, Ruojun found that he had called his name again, covered his lips slightly, and hurriedly changed his mouth and shouted softly: "Second uncle" She paused hesitantly for a while, and asked with some embarrassment: "...... If you are free, can you go and see how my family is going for me, especially my father, I am very worried. ”

Her "second uncle" was very harsh, but he couldn't refuse her request, if he could help her in the slightest, he was also willing, but he didn't feel good, "Hmm" He nodded, didn't say a word more, and walked towards the front yard.

Watching his tall and slender figure slowly leave his sight, Ruojun was very conflicted in his heart, was it right to do this? She knows that Ruoli's personality is proud and conceited, even if she knows that Ruikang is married, she will not let go, selfishly, compared to Cheng Jiaqi, she still hopes that Ruoli can be with Ruikang as she wishes, but she knows that Ruikang has no intention of Ruoli, her own efforts are just to fulfill a deep sisterhood, she suddenly found that she was cruel to Ruikang, what did she want to do? Treat him like a thing? Do you want to give it as a gift? Shouldn't he choose what his heart loves? But what his heart loved...... Cough...... Knot! …… The questions surrounding Ruikang are always dead, she doesn't know what else to do except avoid him, avoid him, and push him to other women?

Her hand was tugged, "Big sister! Ruojun's thoughts were interrupted, only to find that he was holding the branch of the old elm tree next to him with one hand, looking at the direction of the front yard, standing there in a daze for a long time, he actually forgot about Shu Zhi on the side, hurriedly collected his thoughts, squatted down and put on a gentle and loving smile, "I'm sorry, Shu Zhi." Let's go see Xunmei together, can my sister tell you a story? ”

Shu Zhi nodded and shook his head. "Huh? You don't like it? Ruojun looked at his little face curiously.

Shu Zhi raised his head, pouted and said, "The stories are all told to children, and I want to read books." ”

"Oh?" Ruojun looked at his immature little face and thought, this little adult really thinks he is an adult, it's really interesting. smiled and said, "Okay, good, my sister has a few poetry books there." ”

"Three hundred Tang poems? I'll have memorized those a long time ago. Xiao Shuzhi raised his chin a little proudly.

Ruojun looked at him in surprise, a little unconvinced, took his little hand, slowly walked towards the chrysanthemum garden, and said, "Then I have to test you, huh...... "Spring Dawn" you look back. "Ruojun chose a simple one. Shu Zhi's eyes showed an unshaven look, he shook his head, and said very quickly in his mouth: "I don't know when I sleep in spring, I hear birds crying everywhere, the sound of wind and rain at night, and how many flowers fall." After reciting the scriptures like a monk, he said with some complaints: "This is too simple, this poem is written by Meng Haoran, surnamed Meng, named Hao, the word Haoran, a native of Xiangyang, arrived in the capital in his forties, but because of a sentence of 'not only the master is abandoned, but the people are sparse due to illness' was demoted by Tang Xuanzong Li Longji." You're going to test me. ”

Ruojun was very surprised, and was thinking about the more difficult ones to test him, who knew that Shu Zhi couldn't wait for her to come out with the exam questions, and read aloud: "The three cities of Xishan and Baixue, the Nanpu Qingjiang Wanli Bridge, the wind and dust in the sea are separated by brothers, and the end of the world is far away with tears." Only the twilight will be offered to many diseases, and there will be no Juan Ai to answer the holy pilgrimage. When he crossed the horse and went out to the suburbs, he was extremely eye-catching, and he was unbearable and depressed. Du Fu's ...... "Listening to his little mouth, he produced seven or eight relatively unpopular poems in one breath, Ruojun was surprised, but also admired from the bottom of his heart that his parents could teach him so carefully. Just thinking that they were born in this troubled era, their tragic life experience is straightforward. However, at this time, Ruojun did not know how much this troubled world would affect and change her own fate.