Shen Zhi walked out of the bamboo forest, and at a glance saw a person standing not far from the courtyard, and subconsciously held his breath and looked at it intently.

The sky was dark and he couldn't see the other party's appearance clearly, but he vaguely seemed to be a woman, and he was carrying a dim and inconspicuous lantern, Shen Zhi waited for a while, and the other party was still standing there motionless

。

Could it be that this is the Xu family sent to lead the way?

Such a thought rose in Shen Zhi's heart.

When she settled down and calmly walked in front of the other party, the other party really breathed a sigh of relief, and said softly: "Second Miss, come with the slave maid, Madame is already waiting in the house."

Finish. ”

Shen Zhi followed the other party all the way into Zhuxuan, the light in the courtyard was much brighter than the lantern in the other party's hand, Shen Zhi looked at it with the light, and found that the other party was white

In the day, the Xu family took the maid of Luotong Temple.

It seems that the Xu family really values her.

A thought crossed her mind.

On the other side, the maid walked up the steps with light steps, knocked on the door, and then opened the door, and then quietly took a few steps back, obviously not intending to follow.

Shen Zhi paused for a moment, then raised his feet and entered the house.

As soon as she entered the room, she had a surprised look on her face.

The Xu family has the impression of everyone in the mansion that they are silent and do not leave the house, and they will not be assigned any good things in the yard on weekdays, and the Xu family rarely appears

The few times in front of the people, they were all plain clothes and never wore any jewelry, so the people in the Shen Mansion subconsciously thought that the Xu family was living a poor and humble life.

Before coming here, Shen Zhi felt more or less the same.

However, when she walked into the house and saw the furnishings of the house, she instantly overturned those ideas.

The room was lit with a light incense that had never smelled before, with a soothing effect, and the room looked small, but every utensil was good, that is, the dresser, the table

The chair and cabinet seem to be ordinary at first glance, and there is nothing outstanding, but if you look closely, they are very delicate and elegant, and they are not ordinary.

A tall stand was placed at the entrance of the inner room, on which was placed a very fine vase, on which gold thread depicted a blooming peony flower, reflected in the candlelight

Shine and sparkle under the light.

After Shen Zhi looked carefully, he suddenly realized that it was not drawn with pen and ink, but carved with real gold thread.

This kind of dress and arrangement is not as poor and simple as Xu's external appearance.

Just as Shen Zhi was looking around, a soft and pleasant voice sounded: "The concubine thought that the second lady was not going to come." ”

Shen Zhi followed the sound and saw Xu Shi turn out of the inner room, looking at her with a smile.

Without waiting for her to speak, she moved lightly to the table and said, "Second Miss, please take a seat, it's not too late to sit down if you have anything to say." ”

Shen Zhi smiled and sat down according to his words: "Why don't you come, it seems to be very interesting after all." ”

Hearing this, Xu paused, raised his eyes and smiled without speaking, his outstanding and beautiful face was half bright and half extinguished under the reflection of the candle flame, and his soft eyebrows and eyes were inexplicably a little more enchanting

Gorgeous, shaking people lose their minds.

Shen Zhi frowned unconsciously: "You ......"

Xu Shi seemed to notice her gaze, and tilted his head slightly: "What's wrong?" ”

With this action, the gorgeous feeling that made Shen Zhi feel strange and disobedient suddenly disappeared, leaving only the usual gentleness and gentleness.

"Nothing." Shen Zhi smiled and lowered his eyes to look at the table.

Two cups of tea were already placed on the table, still steaming, obviously just poured, Shen Zhi reached out and took a cup, but he didn't mean to drink it in his hand.

Xu said: "This is the first time that the second lady has come to the courtyard of the concubine, the tea is simple, don't dislike it." ”

"The third lady is polite," Shen Zhi didn't mean to greet her again, and went straight to the point: "Since I've come here, I don't know if the third lady can explain the piece of paper."

What does it mean? ”

There was a moment of silence in the room.

Xu Shi slowly took a sip of tea and said, "Second Miss seems to be a little anxious. ”

Shen Zhi raised his eyebrows slightly, as if smiling: "I can't talk about it in a hurry, I just go straight to the point, and I don't think the third lady just wants to have a cup of tea with Shen Zhi, so it's big."

Fei Zhouzhang asked Shen Zhi to come here in the middle of the night. ”

Xu chuckled lightly and said, "Okay, since the second lady has said so, the concubine naturally can't talk about anything else." ”

As she spoke, she lowered her eyes as if she groaned, her thin white hands subconsciously rubbed the cup in her hand, and when she laughed again, there was a little ethereal and distant memory in her eyes

"I'll tell you a story and tell Miss Two." ”

She is talking about "me", not the "concubine" she has always called herself.

Shen Zhi immediately realized that what the other party was going to say was obviously more than just a simple "story", and his attention instantly focused.

The candle flame flickered, the dark fragrance filled the room, Xu's voice was soft and gentle, and a story that had been sealed for a long time was slowly presented in front of Shen Zhi with the telling.

In a village far away from the capital, there are two little girls who grew up together, the older one is called Chi, and the younger one is called Yun.

The two of them have known each other since they were very young, and their relationship is better than that of sisters, but their identities are completely different.

Yun is the daughter of the patriarch, she already has superb skills at a young age, and in the minds of the people in the village, she is a well-deserved next patriarch, and people like her and respect her

and call her the stars of the sky.

But Chi is the opposite, she is the most lowly and humble existence in the village. Her father was a homeless outside, and her mother was a prostitute in the Qinglou, and she was abused and beaten to the fullest

After six years, finally one day she was beaten up and her greedy mother wanted to sell her to the Qinglou, she dragged her scars all over her body and escaped, and then met Yun, who stole her

I smuggled her back, treated her wounds, gave her good food and a place to live, and laughed like the sun shone into her broken and dark heart, pulling her out of the mire

Saved.

However, the fact that Yun was secretly hiding Chi was soon discovered, and the people of the village wanted to drive Chi out, an extremely lowly person with filthy blood and could not stay in the village

Zili defiled the village, and he couldn't stay by Yun's side, Yun resolutely disagreed, and argued with the people in the village.

Chi didn't want to embarrass Yun, Yun was the only person who gave her warmth in her life for so many years, she liked Yun and didn't want Yun to fall into a difficult situation because of her, so quietly

Quietly left, but Yun found her and asked her sadly if she didn't want to stay by her side and accompany her.

In the end, Yun withstood great pressure and managed to keep Chi with great difficulty, but the condition of the people in the village was that Chi could only stay in the village as Yun's slave, and he wanted

Forever loyal to the clouds, Chi agreed.

During the day, they are sisters with a very good relationship, even if Chi's status is low, Yun never minds, and always treats her as before.

And at night, when the clouds were out of sight, Chi was taken away by the elders of the village, and day after day he underwent the most brutal training, soaking in the juice of hundreds of poisonous insects

The body, with the body to raise the Gu, let the Gu worms reproduce and cultivate in the body, endure the pain of piercing the intestines and piercing the heart, and at the same time train the skills of killing, cold-blooded and ruthlessly harvesting various tasks

The life of an elephant.

People who know that Chi is such an existence call her a rancid mud root.

There is a difference between the stars in the sky and the rancid mud roots, like a moat between them, and no one thinks they can have any depth

However, amazingly, their feelings are getting deeper and deeper.

Ten years have passed in the blink of an eye, and the relationship between the two is as good as ever, but one day, Chi found that the clouds changed.

She no longer comes to look for herself every day, but her whereabouts are mysterious, and she always disappears for a while, and such days go on for a while, and Chiya sees the clouds on her face uncomfortably

The happiness and joy that Jue revealed—that was the intense emotion that had never been revealed when I was with her.

A few days later, the cloud brought the person to the red and happily introduced, this is white, the person I like.

Chi only knew that Yun inadvertently saved Bai who fainted in the forest, and after taking care of the other party for a while, Bai is a very good chatter, gentle and funny, not long, Shan

Pure Cloud was captured by the other party and fell in love.

However, Chi can see it clearly, no matter how handsome and extraordinary Bai is, he can't hide the greasy and naked desire in his eyes, which makes people sick.

Someone in the village soon noticed the abnormality of the clouds, and the elders knocked on the side and asked what the clouds were doing during the day, and the red, who had never been selfish, lied, everytime

They all insisted that the cloud was with themselves.

Yun was pregnant, and when she came to talk to Chi sweetly and uneasily, Chi only felt that her heart had fallen into an ice hole, but looking at the other party's smile like a flower, she didn't persuade her

I can't even say anything.

However, she never expected that it didn't take long for the man named Bai to find her and propose to have a spring snack with her, just because Yun was afraid of hurting the child in her belly

, and rejected his pleas.

Red has always been able to detect the greed and lust in the eyes of the other party when he looks at him. Look, the sight of a snake wandering over her exposed skin, making her sick.

However, Yun liked him very much.

So she could only hold back her murderous intentions, but she didn't expect the other party to be so arrogant, and she was completely playing with Yun's feelings.

She beat him up that night, and when she thought of Yun, she hesitated for a moment and didn't hurt the killer.

However, what happened next was out of control.

The man ran to the village and shouted that the news of Yun's pregnancy spread throughout the village in an instant, and Chi didn't follow the elders after the incident because he didn't protect Yun

They reported that she was punished with the harshest and most cruel capital punishment, and she was fed with drugs and sent to the Ten Thousand Snakes Cave, where there were the most poisonous snakes raised in the village.

Matching period.

For two whole months, life is worse than death. After Chi dragged his broken body out of the Ten Thousand Snake Cave, he learned that that night, the people in the village forced Yun to kill the child

In order to protect the child, Yun stumbled and fell into a mountain stream when he escaped, and the people in the village searched for several days and nights, but they couldn't find Yun.

In order to find the cloud, Chi slept all the way, inquired about the news of the cloud, and then followed the clues to the capital, in order to get the news she wanted faster, she entered the Qinglou-

— a place where she would rather die than set foot when she was young.

It wasn't until a few years later that she finally heard the news of Yun, who married the man who saved her in order to give birth to a child, and successfully gave birth to a daughter, and she for

can guard the side of the cloud, and also find a way to follow into the house where the cloud is.

……

Speaking of this, Xu Shi paused, looked at Shen Zhi, and said with a strange smile: "Speaking of which, when I saw you for the first time, I felt that you were not like her. ”

Shen Zhi's heart was shocked, his mind was chaotic, and he only felt absurd and shocked.

She asked in disbelief and in a trance, "What are you talking about...... Is it my mother? ”