Taking advantage of Qingruo's efforts to turn his head and pretend to look at the scenery, Xiao Ling wiped away the tears in his eyes and continued to ask: "Then, why didn't you come to me after so many years?" I don't even know you're still there, why is that? Why do I think that I am an outcast orphan? ”

At the mention of this, Qingruo's eyes became dry, and she said slowly: "I want you to grow up strong more than letting you feel the warmth of your mother." ”

Xiao Ling looked at Qingruo's expression and said affirmatively, "You want me to take revenge." ”

"No," Qingruo denied, "hatred, in my heart, has long ceased to matter. It's just that for a long time, even I didn't know what kind of environment I should let you live in. So you've been here since you were born, completely unaware of where the capital is, what happened in the past, how your father died? Or will you stay in the capital, like an ordinary girl struggling to survive, feel this real world, and find your own piece of heaven in it? ”

Qingruo said as she looked into the distance, as if there was an invisible person there, accepting Qingruo's gaze, Xiao Ling even doubted that she could see that Ling Chen was there.

"Later, I decided to leave everything as it was and nothing to interfere with. Let you grow up in a natural way, without pampering, without doting, is the kind of way I can imagine, the most ordinary, even a little pitiful, to grow up, and become an ordinary but tough talented girl," Qingruo turned her head and looked at Xiao Ling's eyes that looked like Ling Chen, her whole face was carved out of the same mold as Qingruo, and there were only those eyes, "I was not mistaken, you have indeed become a girl as good as I thought." No, it's better than I thought. ”

Xiao Ling listened to these words, felt the caress of Qingruo's warm fingers on his cheeks, and thought about how he had come to this day in the past twenty-six or seven years. Han Yuechuan is her first love, and it is also the origin of her hatred and all the thoughts of changing a woman's fate; If it weren't for Xiao Ziya, she might have drowned in the water. Yes, all the turning points are because of meeting those men, Xiao Ziya, Principal Cui, Admiral Ling, and even Ah Cheng...

Xiao Ling didn't dare to think about it, she looked at Qingruo: "I'm so tired, I can also live in this place, just like this, anyway, the people in the capital think I'm dead." ”

The expression on her face was sad, and Qingruo just smiled faintly: "This courtyard is where I and Ling Chen lived, and it is natural that you live here." Don't think about anything else, give birth to the child first. ”

With that, Qingruo got up and walked towards the gate of the courtyard.

Xiao Ling was behind her and asked puzzledly, "You don't live here?" ”

Qingruo waved his hand: "It's not just me, there are other people who live here." ”

Half an hour later, Xiao Ling, who saw Ah Cheng standing in front of him, was a little confused.

"What is the relationship between you guys?" She asked Ah Cheng. In fact, given Ah Cheng and Zhang Wanyu's previous relationship, it's hard for her not to tie things together. Qing Ruo didn't say anything about Xiao Ling's strange question, but said lightly: "He is an orphan, and his parents entrusted him to me to grow up," Qing Ruo paused, and then said, "His parents died in a battle launched by Admiral Ling, and he was only a few years old at that time. That battle was Xiao Ziya's famous battle, when he was still a pioneer officer. ”

Hearing Xiao Ziya's name coldly, Xiao Ling "chuckled" in his heart.

"Ah Cheng has hated Xiao Ziya since he was a child, and he hated the capital, not only because of Zhang Wanyu, but also because of his childhood."

Xiao Ling nodded dryly, she thought that Ah Cheng's love for Zhang Wanyu might also have an element of anger.

"Don't speculate on other people's feelings, especially those that have passed."

As soon as this thought came out, Qingruo immediately said this. Xiao Ling blushed and secretly introspected, he shouldn't let his guard down at any time.

Qing Ruoshen left mysteriously, and during the time he left, Xiao Ling visited the two-story building inside and out. It is a hollow all-wooden house, with a central hall made of bamboo, and a rectangular circle for bedrooms and living rooms. Xiao Ling thought, this should not be the hut where Ling Chen and Qingruo lived back then, maybe it was renovated, or maybe Qingruo built it himself later, so as to comfort him. In the quiet of the year, the two of them decided not to bother to build such a large room and a large area. Xiao Ling felt that in this whole courtyard, her favorite place was the gazebo outside the house. Brewing a pot of Lu'an tea, holding a small pot of melon seeds, sitting in the gazebo, I suddenly felt the passage of time. It's a sense of relaxation and lightness that I have never felt in the capital, and it's a feeling that is completely unfamiliar.

Time slipped away in this ticking moment, and Xiao Ling imagined many pictures in his mind, which had something to do with this courtyard, or with the child in his belly.

If she could live in this yard all the time, watch her children grow up, hold her little girl or boy, and wait for them to grow up。。。。。。 Then, do you want them to experience the reality and cruelty of this society, or stay in this paradise and be ordinary ostriches for a lifetime?

Or is it to change the world?

Thinking of this, Xiao Ling smiled, what she couldn't do herself, how could she ask this unborn child to do it?

"You think things are very engrossed."

The sudden sound of speaking made Xiao Ling startled. When she was distracted, Ah Cheng had already sat opposite her, reaching out to pour tea and eat melon seeds, with a playful smile on his face.

Xiao Linggang wanted to open his mouth to ask him why he was here, but after thinking about it, Qingruo just talked about Ah Cheng's past with himself, and couldn't help but widen his eyes.

"You live here, too?"

Ah Cheng swallowed the melon seeds with a look of recklessness, and spit out the melon seed skins all over the ground. "I should be asking you this, you live here too?"

Xiao Ling couldn't say a word. Ah Cheng did not cut off his excessively long hair, but used a hairband to tie up the shoulder-length hair, forming a short end at the back of his head, which looked like the hairstyles of the so-called "hipster men" of the past era in a book that Xiao Ling casually flipped through in the library of the Institute of Genetic Therapy.

Qingruo, as a victim rescued by Ah Cheng's parents, adopted Ah Cheng in order to repay this kindness. They live in this courtyard, like ordinary mothers and sons, but Qingruo never allows Ah Cheng to call himself mother, and they get along more like superiors and subordinates, and they are the rulers of this group. Obviously, Qingruo wants to train Ah Cheng to be her successor and lead the clan forward.

The question is, where do they want to go?

Ah Cheng smashed his mouth, coughed up the small basket of melon seeds, shook off the crumbs on his body, and walked into the house. Xiao Ling was stunned, so he had to follow him in.

"Although you and Qingruo have exactly the same face, but you are the capital's official general, and you have represented the capital here, the clansmen are deeply impressed by you, at this time to live outside, I am afraid it is difficult to be calm. This is the residence of Qingruo and me, you live here, no one will come to disturb you. ”

Xiao Ling nodded, she was four months pregnant, and it was already a little inconvenient for her to walk. She looked even weaker after Ah Cheng, Ah Cheng took her to a guest room, and couldn't help but smile when she looked at her low eyebrows.

"People who don't know may think we're a couple when they see you and me like this."

After tossing like this for a day, Xiao Ling was already very tired. She sat on the bed with her stomach up, and didn't mean the kind of assumptions that Ah Cheng said: "Which room is Qingruo, and where do you live?" ”

Ah Cheng saw that his teasing did not achieve the effect, and he was a little disappointed: "Qingruo is in the master bedroom downstairs, opposite me and you." ”

Xiao Ling stretched his neck to look at the room opposite, and said clearly: "Qing Ruo has a lot of ideas, and he will make you and me a pair." ”

Ah Cheng didn't expect her to say it so directly, paused, and pretended to be serious: "You know, the wishes of parents are always one-sided, you and I still have to respect our own ideas... ”

"You're really so tender that you don't seem to have been in love," Xiao Ling sneered, looking at Ah Cheng's poor appearance, and then immediately returned to seriousness, "Qingruo wants you to take care of me, so he took great pains to let me live here, and he didn't hesitate to make up a story about her and Ling Chen." So, what's wrong with her? ”

Ah Cheng didn't keep up with Xiao Ling's train of thought for a while: "What do you mean?" ”

Xiao Ling was not tall in the first place, even if he was standing, he looked up at Ah Cheng, and when he sat down, he looked even weaker. But that didn't stop her from having a determined look.

"Qingruo, what's wrong? Is she not in good health? From the beginning of letting her recover her body in the water prison, to later bringing her to this secluded place, and telling him about a young and strong man who arranged for him, all this seems to indicate that Qingruo's days of being able to accompany Xiao Ling are getting shorter and shorter.

"Exactly, what happened?"

Ah Cheng pursed his lips and said nothing.