Fireflies, moonlight, and the sound of running water in the distance blend with the quiet sound of crickets and gnats in early summer. Zhang Qining is a bird, Zhan Sui jade nephrite is in his arms, the two of them sit on the ground, talking and laughing, Ji Ran consciously sat farther away, but he still felt that he was redundant.

He silently looked at the location of the dark room that Zhang Qining pointed out to him, and he didn't know when Tao Xueqi would come out.

After waiting all night, there was still no movement. Zhang Qining sent a letter to Lin Su, and the dark whistle's day and night actions had no effect, and he quickly sent her a thin blanket and food.

Zhan Suiyu couldn't help but say when she saw the exquisite food in the food box: "You are so squeamish, how did you run away from home before?" "Thinking that she lived such a delicate life, the secret whistle of the Zhang family not only had to bear Zhang Shihua's anger during this period, but also looked for her tiredly, and I was afraid that life would be difficult.

"Lin Su, it's really hard for you."

"Zhan Gongzi... It's a joke. ”

Lin Su sent the things to turn around and left, without saying much.

That night, Zhan Suiyu leaned on the side, Zhang Qining sat in his arms, and the two of them slept together wrapped in the thin blanket brought by Lin Su, and Zhan Suiyu himself seemed to be quite satisfied with this. Only Ji Ran was left sitting there alone, not sleepy.

He waited all night, and the sun rose and the moon set as if it were today.

"Tao Xueqi..."

When coincidences coincide with their own thoughts, people often have a sense of "fate".

As he was thinking this, he saw a faint glow appear there, and then the entrance to the underground tunnel gradually appeared.

The morning glow appeared, quickly dyeing the clouds behind the green mountains. From the dark passage, a head was first revealed, and then a delicate face that had been deeply imprinted in his mind these days was displayed in front of him. The man noticed someone staring at her and turned his head to look.

Ji Ran stood up, and the thin blanket slipped from his lap all the way to the ground. His sword rested on the side, and he slowly walked towards her, but stopped not far away.

Tao Xueqi glanced at him, and finally his eyes fell on his face and looked at him quietly, and said in his heart: "Thin." ”

I've been staying in a dimly lit place below, and I'm not used to coming up suddenly. Raising his hand to block it in front of him, the morning sun passed through her fingertips and fell on her dark eyes, as if shining into a deep forest.

"Long time no see." The corners of her lips lifted slightly, and she said softly. With a soft tone, his gaze slowly fell on Ji Ran.

Ji Ran stood in place, her eyes drooping, and she was staggered from her gaze.

Seeing him like this, although it was expected, he still felt a slight stab in the heart, and he couldn't help but feel a little lost. didn't show it on his face, he kept a faint smile, and was just about to say something, but this time Ji Ran opened his mouth first.

"I'm late."

Tao Xue Qi was slightly stunned, her eyes widened a little incredible, and when she looked at him again, she showed an expression that even Ji Ran could read—a look of "What did he just say?" Did I hear me right? Expression.

Seeing her reaction, Ji Ran thought of his friends and brothers in the past who said that if he retired in the future, he could find a village with beautiful mountains and rivers and be a teacher for the children. Now that I think about it, I am afraid that if I really do that, I will mislead people's children and teach students to become stubborn and corrupt.

"You, aren't you disappointed?" Tao Xue Qi said, she killed someone in front of him by a method that he didn't know how, he didn't think she was a demon?

"I'm late, are you disappointed?"

Tao Xueqi looked at Ji Ran, shook her head, and slowly walked towards him, and Ji Ran also walked towards her.

How could she be disappointed, she is not Zhang Qining, she knows that Zhan Suiyu will always come.

From the moment she turned around, there was only nostalgia left. I thought that there would be no waves in the ancient well, and there would be no waves, but now that I saw him, a rain fell in his heart, and there was no place on the water surface that was calm. After the rain, can they be like that?

"There is nothing special about ordinary people, but those who claim to be extraordinary are easily disturbed." Tao Xueqi thought so in her heart.

Zhan Suiyu woke up when he noticed the movement, but he didn't move, pretending to sleep. Quietly opened his eyes and took a look, and the person in his arms was sleeping on his chest.

Zhang Qining was originally a light sleeper, and she would not sleep very peacefully if she moved a little, but at this moment, she nestled in Zhan Suiyu's arms with her hands in front of her and half held them, her crow-like eyelashes hung quietly, wrapped in the same blanket as Zhan Suiyu, and she looked very well-behaved and soft.

Zhan Suiyu gently pulled down the blanket and wrapped her warmer.

“… You're awake. Zhang Qining's eyes didn't open, and he muttered softly.

Zhan Suiyu didn't stop the movements of her hands, and hugged her and coaxed her after the quilt was tucked. Tao Xueqi came out and was talking to Ji Ran. Sleep a little longer. ”

Zhang Qining squinted sleepily for a while when he heard this, and sat up lightly in less than a sentence.

"What's wrong?"

She touched Zhan Suiyu's arm that had protected her all night, yawned, opened her eyes and reached out to massage him lightly. "I've been pressed all night, and I'm numb."

"It's fine. It is... There is some soreness in the shoulder. Seeing her yawn and burst into tears, he raised his hand to wipe her.

Hearing this, Zhang Qining sat up straight, pinched his shoulder, and knocked on his fist. "Hah-" She couldn't help but yawn again, and said in a nasal voice that had just woken up, "Are you better?" The book says to press it like this, ha--it's very comfortable. ”

Zhan Suiyu looked at her and yawned without saying a word, thinking that every day in the future, when she woke up, she could see her shushing and asking for warmth, and she was considerate in every way, and her heart couldn't help but feel sweet.

"Comfortable, wonderful. I'm fine, if you're sleepy, just sleep a little longer. ”

Zhang Qining shook her head, the blanket slipped off her shoulder, and she opened her eyes and sobered up.

"Didn't sleep well last night?"

Also, this position is comfortable to sleep in. But she didn't want to lie here and sleep, so she got into his arms, and he was willing.

"Sit down, I'll help you with the thrashing."

"I'm fine. Uncomfortable is uncomfortable, but it's okay. After that, she glanced back at Ji Ran and Tao Xueqi. They reckon it will be a while. Let's not wait, get up and go to the water to wash our faces and clean up, I asked Lin Su to bring breakfast in the morning, I guess we will have to wait for a while. ”

"It's fine."

Ji Ran and the others also noticed the movement here and looked over. "Lin Zhao, brother and sister, you are awake."

Siblings? Tao Xueqi felt that this title was quite fresh. It seems that the matter of these two people has been decided. Zhang Qining's speed is really fast, I haven't seen him for a long time, and he even has a name.

Zhan Sui Yu raised his hand towards him, "Qi Ning and I will go around the neighborhood, you are free." ”

Ji Ran nodded.

Zhan Sui Yu and Zhang Qining arrived at the river, squatted down, scooped up clean water, slapped it on their faces, and simply cleaned it up. Without a mirror and a comb, Zhang Qining didn't recomb his hair, but fortunately, his hair didn't fall asleep, just take care of it.

Zhan Suiyu picked two or three small flowers that matched the color of her dress on the side of the road and braided them together, and the flower stems were braided into one, which was also worn in her hair like a small hairpin.

Zhang Qining raised his hand and touched it, turned his head to the water to appreciate Sui Yu's craftsmanship, and smiled with satisfaction. He joked: "The exhibition consultant has sent flowers to people once or twice, but this flower wilted in less than two days, so I never thought of sending one that would not wither and wither?" ”

Zhan Sui Yu: "The withering of the years is the normal state of life, how can there be a flower that will never wither?" Even if a dead thing can accompany you for a lifetime, it is not as good as me, the person who wears flowers for you every day.

They say they think about things, but if it makes you sad, I won't do that.

In the future, I will specialize in hairpins for you, no matter when, what happens, as long as you see the flowers I have hairpinned for you, you will think of our quiet years together, pick a favorite flower to wear in the hair, and then calmly, delicately spend every day.

In this way, no matter who you are in the next life, who I am, and whether you still remember each other, Zhang Qining and Zhan Suiyu will live in each other's hearts. The farthest is only one life and one death, but recently it is not a breath, but between you and me. In the next life, as long as you really like it, it must be me. ”

Zhang Qining knew that this was an answer to her words yesterday. Don't be attached to the moment, don't regret the beginning. Put the past in your heart, cherish it in your present, and give hope to the future.

Touching the hand-scribbled hairpin in his hair and looking at the reflection in the water, Zhang Qining smiled and said, "This is the third time you have made a hairpin for me." said that it was for me hairpins, but I was not allowed to break my word. In the future, I will set aside a special place at home to raise flowers, and the flowers will bloom all year round, so you will not have a reason to be lazy. ”

Zhan Suiyu smiled and responded. Thinking about it again, Qi Ning said that this was the third time he had made hairpins for her? In Suzhou, he had a cherry blossom hairpin for her, and this time, a total of two times. When is this third time?

"Qi Ning, except for this time, I only remember that I made a flower for you once when I was in Suzhou. When was another time, and how did I not have this impression? ”

"That's what you forgot." Zhang Qining stood up, turned his face behind his back with his hands behind his back and smiled back at him. "The other girls would have been angry at this time, but I'm not like them. I don't blame you for having a bad memory in this kind of thing. I really can't think of it, so forget it. ”

"It's not." Zhan Suiyu caught up, "Why do I think that time is particularly important when I hear you say this?" If you can't think of it, you can just tell me, or... Give me a hint? ”

Zhan Suiyu caught up with her, and Zhang Qining tilted his head and said: "On the eighth day of the third month, the Yueyang Lantern Festival." ”

Lantern Festival? Yue Yang?

Zhan Suiyu was stunned, Qi Ning has also been to Yueyang and participated in the Lantern Festival?

"When?"

Zhang Qining laughed, "The prompt is over, please be early next time." ”

"When's the next time?"

Zhang Qining snorted, thought for a while, and said, "I don't know." ”

Zhan Suiyu sighed in his heart, that is, there is no next time.

Yueyang Lantern Festival... He'll have to think about it.

At the age of sixteen, he went to his cousin in Suzhou to be a consultant, and he never participated in the Lantern Festival after that, that is, before the age of sixteen.

It's impossible when she was too young, the Zhang family wouldn't let Zhang Qining out alone, I heard that she didn't leave the house before she ran away from home.

"When was the first time you ran away from home?"

A little smile gathered in Zhang Qining's eyes, "Thirteen years old." ”

Ten, thirteen?!

Zhan Suiyu glanced her up and down.

Probably not. If you haven't gone out alone, how can any girl dare to run so far away at once.

He guessed wrong, and the Zhang family didn't expect that she not only dared, but also really had the ability to run to Yueyang, and it was easy to find it at that time.

Regarding this issue, it was difficult for Zhan Suiyu for many days.

Ji Ran and Tao Xueqi didn't talk about anything here, Ji Ran was not a person who could speak well, and Tao Xueqi wouldn't say anything if he was fine. Two people who don't speak are together, so they make these problems that can be solved with one sentence, but they can't be solved.

Ji Ran: "The two of them, it's a bit slow." ”

Tao Xueqi hooked her lips and smiled: "They just go to wash their faces and clean up, as long as Zhang Qining's girl has a heart, Zhan Suiyu can't help her at all." ”

has always been hostile to her in the dark room, presumably knowing what she had done to Zhang Qining. obviously didn't want to see himself, but he could still bear it, for Zhang Qining's sake.

"They're back."

Tao Xue Qi saw Zhan Sui Yu's puzzled face, and she thought that Zhang Qining had done something again.

"Lin Su has come, put down the food box and left." Ji Ran glanced at the food box on the side.

Zhang Qining nodded and opened the food box.

"Something to talk about while eating."

As he spoke, he took a boiled egg, looked around, knocked on a clean stone, peeled it off, and took a bite. "Feel free to do so, just in case I asked him to prepare four servings."

Tao Xueqi: "I received my heart, but I have eaten enough below, and I am not hungry for the time being." Eat yourselves. ”

Zhan Sui Yu and Ji Ran took something in the food box, Zhang Qining looked at Tao Xueqi and said, "It's better to start with what you are." ”

"Ahem, ahem." Ji Ran was almost choked by her words.

No, is there such a direct question?

"Brother and sister, actually—"

"It's a great point of contact, isn't it? It's also time-saving and effort-saving, so why not just start here? Zhang Qining was halfway through the boiled egg, and glanced at Ji Randao.

Tao Xueqi looked at her, "You will choose this way, it seems that you have guessed something." ”

"Don't fight unprepared battles. Where to go, what to do, who to meet, how can you do without doing a little homework? Zhang Qining smiled, "Besides, there were doubts about the Tao family twenty years ago, and no one questioned it during this period, it was nothing more than that the businessman was unprofitable." Each one sweeps the snow in front of the door, and does not care about the frost on the tiles of others. As long as you look it up, you can still find out something. ”

Zhang Qining: "Besides, what is your nature, don't say ten points, I can still guess six or seven points." More than 160 people were burned alive, how much resentment must be accumulated here? In the face of a murderous house, I don't expect others to help me if something happens. Gotta find out, don't you? ”

"You're so powerful, why don't you guess what I am?" Tao Xue looked at her with a smile, her beautiful eyes narrowed slightly.

After Zhang Qining finished eating the eggs in his hand, Zhan Suiyu took the bamboo tube sent by Lin Su together, found the place to put the cup from the bottom layer of the food box, and poured her a cup of soy milk.

Zhang Qining took a sip and said, "I don't know what you are, but I can tell you what I found." ”

"Tell me about it." Tao Xueqi suddenly became interested, she really wanted to see what this girl could find out.

It is impossible for the Tao family's master to tell outsiders about that matter, not even his own family, and will only pass on the secret to the next master.

Zhang Qining: "In Suzhou before, have you heard about the Zang family's case?" ”

Zang family?

Ji Ran didn't know about it, but Zhan Sui Yu knew what was going on with the Zang family, and when she heard Qi Ning mention it, she couldn't help but be stunned, and even looked at Tao Xueqi's eyes a little scrutinized.

Ji Ran nodded, "I heard that it's a matter of abduction and trafficking of children." ”

Zhang Qining: "Of course, the government naturally says so to the outside world. ”

Ji Ran also noticed the change in Zhan Suiyu's eyes, and reflected that this matter was by no means simple.

Zhang Qining: "It's normal that Ji Gongzi doesn't know. The Zang family abducted children for only one thing - Tai Sui. ”

When Tao Xueqi heard the word Tai Sui, she couldn't help but be stunned when she looked at Zhang Qining, and was a little surprised in her heart.

"What?"

What Tai Sui is Ji Ran has probably heard of it, but at this time, the expression on his face couldn't help but change.