The west courtyard is not large, with two rows of houses in the north and south.

The low houses in the south, Bai Bing, Yu Nuan, and the other three maids lived, and the more spacious houses in the back, Huo Zun, Xia Qian, and Qingyue, lived.

In the middle of the second row of houses is a rockery garden, and there is a pavilion and a small pavilion, and the rest are almost all flowers and trees.

In autumn, except for chrysanthemum and osmanthus flowers and a few landscape trees, there is nothing to see.

After more than ten days, Xia Qian could almost say that there were a few chrysanthemums, a few small trees, and a few bluestone slabs in the slate.

The plane tree was her heartache, and on the second day of climbing the tree, Huo Zun ordered to cut down a lot of branches.

She didn't want to look at it again for days, but three rows of horizontal scratches on the trunk of the tree inexplicably caught her attention.

The three rows of scratches went straight, short but deep. The width of each group of short lines is basically uniform, and it should be used to record height.

The highest group has a total of ten, with a height of about one meter nine, which should be Huo Zun's.

There are only four in a group of the other two rows, and there are no more than one meter or two. A group of fourteen, to about 1.7 meters, is gone. Both sets of scratches are gray in color and should have been from several years ago.

"These two should be his relatives or friends, they were only recorded for a while and then they were gone." Xia Qian touched the scratches and said.

She also happened to have a habit of recording her height, so she stood in front of the tree and gestured, wanting to record her height.

"It's so unfortunate that, except for these three sets of lines, the bark of the tree is cracked at a height as high as mine?"

She frowned, and shifted her gaze to the two sets of old scratches.

The one with one meter seven was slightly taller than her, and her body could only lean against the one with two or three meters.

"I didn't expect the young lady to also have the habit of recording her height?" Qingyue stood at the door and looked at her with a smile.

"Don't laugh, go get a knife, I'm going to draw my own rings on this tree, and I'll be an old tree spirit too!"

Qingyue didn't move, looked at her and continued to smile: "The young lady is really childlike, you are sixteen years old, you can still move there?" When the slave is sixteen years old, it is already not long! ”

"Who said I won't be long, I'm just slow, and I've never been in a hurry to grow tall. When I want to grow, it will grow up like bamboo after the rain! ”

She replied with a smile, pressed her body against the trunk of the tree, and after drawing the height, she gently scratched the trunk with her fingernails.

"This year, next year, next year, you can grow here, maybe ......you can grow here," she gestured intently to the tree.

A shiny dagger went over her head, carving a straight horizontal line where she had just scratched with her fingernails.

Seeing the big hand holding the dagger with distinct bones and strong strength, Xia Qian quickly turned around.

The body spun too fast, and she slammed her nose on his ribs, frowning in pain.

Xia Qian looked at him in shock, the other party's body was sturdy, almost broke the bridge of her nose, and it was tall and straight, and the top of his head had just passed his armpit.

"Standing here and not saying a word, your nose has been broken by you!" Xia Qian wiped her nose and said angrily.

He didn't make a sound, just smiled at her.

This smile, which faded away the oppression and fear brought to her by his tall body and cold face, made it easy for her to admire him very closely.

The golden sunlight sprinkled on him, like a layer of golden gold on his body, looked warm and perfect.

He looked at her, still smiling.

Xia Qian felt a wave in her heart, and the roots of her ears were a little hot, she glanced at her mouth, and met his gentle eyes with a hard scalp.

"You're laughing at my shortness, aren't you?"

"Oh!"

He snorted, as if it was certainly not quite the same.

Her palm-sized face crumpled, and she said unwillingly, "I'm shorter, just past your armpits, but next year I'll definitely grow to your chin." In the years after that, you will be able to ...... your mouth or nose."

"Huh!" He smiled and showed four snow-white teeth.

Xia Qian was stunned for a moment, it turned out that this ice slag could also laugh happily, and she also laughed when she looked at her.

For the second time in more than ten days, she saw him smile sincerely, and he also saw her smile for the second time.

Her face is not very beautiful, and her body is not graceful at all, but she has pearl-colored skin and a pair of sweet dimples.

Her eyebrows are delicate, the bottom of her eyes is clear, and when she smiles, her eyes will be narrowed into two crescents, and her beautiful eyebrows and long eyelashes are very welcoming.

He doesn't think such a face is beautiful, but no one can replace it after hiding it in his heart for six years.

This face, this smile, this scene, he felt extremely familiar.

A touch of joy rippled in his eyes, and he gently took her into his arms, hugged her thin body, and smiled and smiled, and his eyes moistened.

When we met, she was four years old and he was eight years old.

He saw her sitting quietly under the tree, very well-behaved.

He was angry with her and provoked her, and she buried her head in her knees and ignored him.

He smeared ink on her face, staining her clothes with mud, and she looked up at him and turned away.

He was stunned, there was no grievance, no anger, no sadness on that immature face, just calm and scary.

That wasn't the reaction of a four-year-old, and he suspected she was stupid.

Later, when he learned from her cousin that her mother had died, she began to cry or make any contact with anyone.

Her family was afraid that something would happen to her, so they sent her to her uncle's house and asked her cousins to accompany her.

Because he and her cousin were young, and it was difficult to tease her when they saw their siblings fighting, he volunteered to take on the task of amusing her.

In the past four years, he took her to climb trees and dig birds' nests, go down to the river to touch fish and shrimp, and even hide in the field to steal sweet potatoes.

At that time, he was not in love, but he simply wanted to make her happy.

He felt that she didn't have anything special except for her ability to never forget and be able to be auspicious, but occasionally when she played the piano and tasted tea, she would vaguely reveal another temperament.

Seeing that they stuck together all day long, some people said that they were a young couple, and he asked what is a husband and wife?

The man said that his husband and wife would be together for the rest of their lives.

He cried urgently, saying that with a girl on horseback, how could he kill the enemy on the battlefield?

When he was twelve, her father and her uncle's family had an accident. From the inside to the flesh and blood, to the outside to relatives and friends, none of them are spared.

He dug up the grave for a day, wept for a day, and finally forgot about it completely, because he had not even found the body.

A few months later, he knew that his father had orchestrated it all.

The two of them have a deep grudge, if it weren't for his father's preemptive strike, there would be no more Huo family in Qinglong City.

The grievances of the previous generation, he couldn't do anything, but all of a sudden he lost his hair, and he didn't have the heel that belonged to him, and his heart was in chaos.

His father, the one who had falsely loved her the most, was added to the rank of official when their bones were not cold, and glorified their ancestors.

In the past six years, his father has been proud of this matter, and the glory and status of the Huo family have soared to the sky and become unstoppable.

He was overwhelmed by all this, and since then, he has also closed himself off, no one believes in him, no one pays attention to him.

A few years later, he learned from his father that she might still be alive, but she had become the biggest hidden danger for the Huo family.

Do whatever it takes, find! Eradicate! Clean sweep!

For the past few years, his father has been doing this silently.

"You're straining me!" Xia Qian pushed him hard.

Huo Zun smiled and pulled her back to the house.

The doctor told him to stay in bed for five days, but there was not enough time, so he had to stay in bed.

It's just that this afternoon, he took her hand and never let go.

At night, the soft light of the Night Pearl sprinkled in the tent, and he turned sideways to hold her in his arms through the quilt.

Xia Qian felt that lying flat was conducive to his physical recovery, and he smiled without saying a word and insisted on hugging her sideways.