"Miss Xia, aren't you going back?" Qiao You couldn't help but ask, this Xia Ziyan has followed her all the way.

Hearing this, Xia Ziyan was stunned, looked at Qiao You with blinked eyes, stirred the handkerchief in her hand, and seemed a little embarrassed, "I, I, actually, ran away from home." ”

Qiao was clear and directly said what Xia Ziyan was thinking, "So you want to live in my house?" ”

As soon as she heard this, Xia Ziyan immediately smiled, grabbed Qiao You's hand, and said with a smile, "Miss Qiao You, you see that you are so beautiful and kind-hearted, you can take me in for one night, just one night, okay?" ”

She really has nowhere to go, if she lives in an inn in the city, she will be found by the people of the Yuan family within half an hour.

She didn't want to go back at all, especially when she saw Xia Zishu's hypocritical and disgusting face.

Qiao You was about to refuse, but after thinking about it, it was getting late, and it was not safe for her to go back alone.

Let's just be a good person with a good heart.

She sighed, opened the door, and said to the people behind her, "Come in." ”

As soon as Xia Ziyan heard this, the pitiful look on her face disappeared in an instant, and she went directly into the courtyard and walked around inside, "Thank you, Miss Qiaoyou!" ”

Qiao Ying, who was in the house, heard the sound outside and ran out directly, only to see her sister come back with a beautiful girl.

"Sister." The little girl rushed over and hugged Qiao You, and pointed at Xia Ziyan next to her, "Who is this person?" "It's so good-looking. Qiao Ying said in her heart.

Xia Ziyan waved at the little girl.

"Sister's friend, Daddy." Holding Qiao Ying's hand, she took Xia Ziyan into the house.

"By the way, Daddy told me that he has to go back to the village to pack some things today, and he is in a hurry that day, and he still has a lot of things that he hasn't brought, and it seems that he won't be back until tomorrow." Qiao Ying told Qiao You what Qiao Youfu confessed when he left.

Qiao You nodded.

"I didn't expect this yard to be big, but it's pretty nice inside." Xia Ziyan walked around the room and sat directly on the newly bought stool that Qiao You had bought two days ago.

Qiao You didn't speak, and went directly to the kitchen to cook, but Qiao Ying was a little curious about this person who suddenly arrived.

Glancing at her secretly, Xia Ziyan smiled and pulled the little girl to sit next to her, "What's your name?" ”

The little girl in front of me looked about ten years old, and her cheeks were pink and tender, which was really cute.

"My name is Qiao Ying." The little girl replied, and then her eyes were attracted by Xia Ziyan's gorgeous clothes.

A big family like the Xia family is also a wealthy person in the Jiangnan region, where silk and tea are abundant, and the clothes on their bodies are naturally not something ordinary people can buy.

It's like the clothes on Xia Ziyan's body, which is a new material this year, and there is a sparkling feeling under the sun.

Although Qiao You had just received last month's money, he had purchased some furniture, and there was not much money left over to buy the satin made by these rich and noble people.

Besides, the satin on Xia Ziyan's clothes was also ten taels of silver to get a meter of new satin, and there was no peddling here.

"My sister's clothes are so beautiful, just like that mausoleum in the east of the city." The little girl touched Xia Ziyan's clothes, and then opened her hand to look at it, for fear that something dirty on her hands would stain other people's clothes.

Looking at the little girl's movements, a smile flashed on Xia Ziyan's face, and she thanked the little girl in her heart, she was too cute, "Do you like my sister's clothes?" ”

Qiao Ying was stunned, then nodded.

Xia Ziyan naturally didn't want to take off her clothes for the little girl, so she took out her handkerchief, the embroidered thing on it was just out of Jiangnan last month, and the material of this handkerchief was also the best.

"Then will I give you this handkerchief?" She shoved the handkerchief into the little girl's hand.

The soft handkerchief fell on the palm of her hand, and Qiao Ying only felt as if a bird's feather had crossed the palm of her hand, and it was a little itchy.

However, after reacting, the little girl immediately returned the veil, and she naturally saw that the friend her sister brought back was the child of a rich family.

I'm afraid that such a handkerchief will cost a lot of silver, how can she take such a valuable thing from others for no reason.

Even if this is not precious to the sister in front of her.

"Xiaoying can't ask for it, my sister said, we can't take other people's things for nothing, we can buy them with our own money."

At the mention of her sister, the little girl's eyes lit up a little.

Hearing her say this, Xia Ziyan couldn't cry or laugh a little, this child is only ten years old, how can he be so cute and sensible.

Other people's sisters are so well-behaved, compared to her own sister who wants to kill herself, it makes her disgusting, if she can, she would rather have a sister like the little girl in front of her.

She wanted to give the veil to the little girl, but the little girl insisted on not accepting it, so she had to give up.

When Qiao You finished the meal and brought it to the table, I saw that the two girls, one older and one younger, were about five or six years old, and the two of them were chatting very happily.

"It's time to eat." She knocked on the table.

It's all some home-cooked food, and as for Xia Ziyan's habit of eating or not, it has nothing to do with her.

However, just when Qiao You thought that the eldest lady was not used to eating this common meal, most of the two dishes on the table were eaten by Xia Ziyan.

After half a cup of tea, she wiped the oil stains on the corner of her mouth, sighed with satisfaction, and sat down on the chair next to her, "Miss Qiao You, your skills are too good, I want to worship you as a teacher." ”

Qiao You: "......"

This sentence again, and she didn't know how many times she had heard her say it on the way back.

When the dining table was cleaned up, Qiao You hugged a quilt for Xia Ziyan and asked her to sleep in another room.

Her courtyard is not big or small, there are exactly four rooms, one is her father Qiao Youfu, and she and Qiao Ying have one room, and the rest happens to be used as guest rooms.

As the night deepened, Qiao You had just blown out the candles in the house when there was a knock on the door outside.

"Miss Qiaoyou, are you asleep?"

It's Xia Ziyan's voice!

In the middle of the night, what is she doing when she doesn't sleep?

She was a little annoyed in her heart, and she covered the quilt as if she didn't hear it, but the knock on the door became louder and louder, and finally Xia Ziyan directly and vigorously knocked on the door.

Even if Qiao You fell asleep, he was afraid that he would be woken up by her so much force.

The sound outside was getting louder and louder, Qiao You couldn't pretend to be asleep while covering the quilt, so he directly ripped off the quilt and shouted outside, "Is there anything you can't say tomorrow at night?" ”

Otherwise, this Xia Ziyan was frail and sickly, and she always had a pale face on weekdays, and she really wanted to open her mouth and the two of them drove away.

As soon as she heard Qiao You answer herself, Xia Ziyan was overjoyed, and she didn't speak, she directly opened the door and walked in with the quilt, "Miss Qiao You, can I sleep with you." ”

She held the cotton quilt with some difficulty and carefully closed the door.

The originally dim room lit up in an instant, and Qiao You sat on the bed, holding the fire fold that had just been used to light the fire, and looked at her with a gloomy face.

Xia Ziyan was taken aback, took two steps back and saw the person clearly, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

Facing Qiao You's sharp gaze, she said with a little weakness, "I, I don't dare to sleep alone." ”

Before, whether at home or outside, there was a personal maid waiting by the bedside, especially in the middle of the night, she never dared to stay alone in the house.

Qiao You glanced at her up and down, and couldn't help frowning, "How old is one?" ”

"It's exactly sixteen this year." She was born in the same year as Xia Zishu, but Xia Zishu was a few months younger than her.

"You're such an adult and you're afraid of the dark?" When she was so old as Xia Ziyan, let alone sleeping alone, she spent the night in the cemetery.

Although she is only fourteen years old now.

Xia Ziyan hugged the quilt tightly, her face was a little pale, she just looked at her directly, no matter what Qiao You said, she couldn't leave.

In the end, Qiao You had no choice but to let Xia Ziyan sleep in the bed.

Lying on the bed, Xia Ziyan sighed heavily, she grew up so big, in addition to sleeping in the same bed with her mother, it was the first time she slept in the same bed with other people.

Although it was a little crowded.

Qiao You blew the lamp and was about to fall asleep, but found that the people next to him were always tossing and turning, and there was no time for a stick of incense, and he didn't know how many times he sighed and how many times he turned around.

"Miss, if you can't get used to sleeping on the beds of our ordinary people, you go back, I have to get up early tomorrow." Even if the pilgrims are not very busy in the past two days, it is also her habit to get up early.

"I didn't sleep and I wasn't used to it." Xia Ziyan quickly explained. She doesn't know why, she is so pampered on weekdays, but now she feels weak in front of Qiao You.

Qiao You didn't speak, just closed his eyes.

After a long time, Xia Ziyan whispered again, "Miss Qiao You, I'm sorry for the previous incident." ”

"What?"

"It's the one that Xia Zishu framed you." She knew who was behind the scenes, and she also knew that Xia Zishu planted Qiao You in order to clear up her relationship.

At the mention of Xia Zishu, Qiao You's tone was a little disgusted, "No, she didn't succeed." ”

Xia Ziyan naturally understood, "Actually, I had a good relationship with her when I was a child, but I don't know when she started to target me everywhere, dealing with me openly and secretly, and even wanting me to die." ”

Her frail body is also due to her, when she was just ten years old, she was playing by the lake again, and was pushed down by Xia Zishu herself.

After being rescued, the high fever did not go away, and when he was cured, he still fell to the root of the disease.