Chapter 15: Blossoming
Sun Chai Xiu stared at Li Bingru with a strange expression.
Li Bingru couldn't tell what kind of look it was, it felt like a thorn stuck in her throat, and she was uncomfortable, but she couldn't tell what was uncomfortable.
"Mother, please drink tea!"
Li Bingru called again.
Sun Chai Xiu pursed his lips and stretched out his hand.
"Bang-" There was a crisp sound, and the teacup fell freely between the two hands.
"You-" Sun Chai Xiu glared at Li Bingru angrily.
"What are you doing?" Nangong Yifeng pushed Li Bingru away, and nervously checked Sun Chai Xiu's hand, "Did it hurt?" β
"No, I'm glad I didn't touch the cup."
Li Bingru was stunned, she didn't know how the cup fell, she only felt that when Sun Chai Xiu reached out to take the cup, her wrist seemed to have been bitten by something, and the sting hurt for a while, and then the cup fell.
But the cup did fall out of her hand. It can't be blamed that Nangong Yifeng glared at her with that cold and resentful gaze at this moment.
"I did it on purpose." Li Bingru is ready to make a desperate bet, there must be an explanation for this matter.
"What?" Sun Chai Xiu looked at Li Bingru in shock, as if he couldn't understand.
"Why are you doing that?" Nangong Yifeng pointed to the overturned tea cup on the ground and asked sharply.
"Yes, Xiangxue, you have to have a reason, right?" In contrast, Nangong Honglin's attitude was much kinder.
"Yes...... My mom made me do it. Li Bingru replied timidly, since Nangong Yifeng injured her with a knife, she had an inexplicable fear of him in her heart, especially when he was angry, this fear became more and more intense.
"Mom? ......" everyone was surprised when they said in unison.
Wen Yurou's face turned a little pale.
"Oh, that's what Mother meant!" Li Bingru hurriedly explained her noun.
"What's your name again?" Nangong Yifeng tightened his eyebrows, "Where do you call your mother 'Mom'?" β
"Uh-huh!!" Li Bingru nodded again and again.
"What is this name, how did I never know?" Sun Chai Xiu looked very angry.
Nangong Yifeng looked at his mother, and said to Li Bingru: "Do you know that only the women of the Qinglou here will call mother!" β
"Huh?!" Li Bingru was dumbfounded, no wonder Nangong Yifeng's mother was so angry.
"I don't care what you call it. I just want to know what my mother-in-law means, and let my daughter-in-law deliberately knock over the tea for my mother-in-law, is it looking down on me Tianlong Castle? β
"I don't know...... Mom just said, it's called ...... Landing flowers. Li Bingru's voice was no, she couldn't remember which movie she saw the word.
"My mother-in-law is really well-intentioned!" Sun Chai Xiu stared at Li Bingru sharply, and said word by word: "However, if you want to bloom in Tianlong Castle, it depends on whether you can take root firmly!" β
"Blossoming on the ground? What a meaning, what a sign! Why should Madame be angry? Nangong Honglin touched the beard on his lips and laughed, "Xiangxue, then the future of Tianlong Fort will be handed over to you?" β
Nangong Yifeng's handsome face suddenly turned red.
Li Bingru glanced at Nangong Yifeng puzzled, she seems to have developed a habit now, but she always wants to ask Nangong Yifeng for the first time if she doesn't understand something, but seeing Nangong Yifeng turning her face and not looking at her, her heart is slightly empty, and she gradually nods with a smile in Nangong Honglin's expectation, "Okay, I will work hard." β
"Flutter!" Nangong Yiqing couldn't help but laugh, "My brother and sister are really cute." β
Wen Yurou also covered her lips with her sleeves, smiled shallowly, and a touch of pain crossed her eyes.
"I'm not in good health, so I'll rely on my brother and sister Xiangxue more in the future."
Li Bingru opened her eyes and nodded as if she didn't understand.
Nangong Yifeng blushed and glared at the little woman angrily, why was he not ashamed at all?
"Helan, I want to walk around the garden."
Li Bingru stroked her stomach, she hadn't eaten so much delicious food for a long time, and she accidentally ate it.
"Well, it's a good day for a walk around the garden." Helan said approvingly, "The second young lady will walk in the garden first, and the slave will send these trivial things to the kitchen to accompany the second young lady, okay?" β
"Good!"
At this time, the sun is a little hot, and the breeze that passes by from time to time carries a quiet and intoxicating fragrance of flowers.
Li Bingru took a deep breath of enjoyment, and exhaled slowly, she saw that the delicate flowers not far away had faded the crystal of the morning dew, and under the illumination of the sun, they emitted a dazzling light, adding more charm and fragrance to the spring color of the garden.
Occasionally, a breeze stroked, and those delicate flowers beckoned frequently, like a group of laughing and dancing girls. Unenticed, she walked towards them.
It was warm in the sun.
Li Bingru remembered Shao Haihui saying: Where there is sunshine, there is warmth.
"Sisterβ"
Nangong Xuanming's voice suddenly appeared.
Li Bingru turned around, Nangong Xuanming was standing behind her, with his hands behind his back, a few strands of hair flying lightly in his ears, and a water-blue cardigan was tied up at the waist, looking handsome and elegant, graceful, and looking at her curiously with wide eyes at the moment.
"Is it pretty?" Li Bingru raised a bright smile and casually dropped a blooming purple kite into the water.
The beautiful purple kite ripples in a circle on the clear water, and floats down with the gentle flowing river.
"Well, it's good-looking! But why did you pluck all those flowers and put them in the water? β
"Flowers have dreams of flowers, and if you pick them when they are at their brightest, they will always be beautiful."
"Do flowers have dreams?"
"Of course, not only flowers, but every creature between heaven and earth has their own unique spirituality. If there is spirituality, there will be faith, but it is not known to us. β
Nangong Xuanming looked at Li Bingru, smiling obsessively, I don't know if it was for the beautiful stories she told, or for the clear and easy storyteller.
"Have you ever heard: Falling flowers intentionally follow the flowing water, and flowing water has no intention of falling in love with falling flowers? Flowers love flowing water, and are willing to bloom on the edge of the clear stream, but the flowing water only cares about their own pursuit, leaving a wave of rippling projection of flowers.
I pluck the flowers that are blooming in full bloom, throw them into the river, and let them chase their dreams. Xuanming, you see, are those flowers drifting away with the flowing water more delicate, charming, and dazzling than those flowers on the shore? β
"Yes, those flowers are so beautiful, the sun shines on them, and they will shine!"
Nangong Xuanming had a smile as bright as the sun on his face, he squatted beside Li Bingru, picked up a pink flower, and asked curiously, "Sister, how do you know so much?" β
"Because I'm a flower elf!" Li Bingru raised her lips and smiled back.
Nangong Xuanming blushed slightly in the face of that brilliant smile.
"Young Master Sun, are you there? The young lady is looking for you everywhere? A grass-blue figure on the other side of the corridor shouted as he walked.
When Nangong Xuanming heard the voice, he quickly stood up and patted the grass clippings on his body.
"Mother called me, I have to go back!"
"Go, go, go." Li Bingru waved her hand casually.
"Sister, I don't like to call you second aunt, but I still like to call you sister!" Nangong Xuanming ran a long way, and suddenly turned around and shouted.
Li Bingru smiled dumbly, don't like to call the second aunt? I'm not your second aunt either, and besides, it feels good to be a sister.
"The falling flowers intentionally follow the flowing water, and the flowing water has no intention of falling in love with the falling flowers? What a strange sentence! β
Li Bingru was just about to get up, when the sudden sound made her chest jump suddenly.
Looking back, I saw that next to the Qingliu rockery, a cloud-white figure appeared in the green grass and flowers, a hosta was wrapped into the bun on the top of the head, two strands of hair next to the ears and temples fell on the shoulders at will, the handsome facial features were a little haggard and pale, there was a shallow smile on the corner of the mouth, but the eyes were shining, and a cold sword was still in his hand.
"You, you, you......" Li Bingru lost her voice in surprise.
Who is the man in front of him, wrapped in white, handsome, beautiful as a crown of jade, with a sinister aura in his eyes, who is not the white-clothed young man who is still hanging on the tree in the morning?
"We meet again." The tall figure of the young man in white took a step towards Li Bingru.
Li Bingru was intimidated by the silent aura of the young man in white for no reason, and retreated uncontrollably, "You...... You...... Are you stalking me? β
"You're afraid of me?!!" The young man in white raised his eyebrows, and the corners of his lips were hooked evilly, playful and mocking.
"Not really!" Li Bingru roared back with courage.
The young man in white sneered, and turned to look at the delicate flowers that were fading away in the stream.
"Don't you know that these spiritual flowers are 'rather hugging the branches and withering and dying than scattering the branches'?"
"You're not one of those flowers, how do you know what they want?"
The young man in white turned around, Li Bingru immediately felt that he was resurrected with full blood, annoyed that he was intimidated by the momentum of the young man in white, and pursed her mouth dissatisfied, the person's ridicule and sarcasm made her feel extremely uncomfortable.
"You're not me, how do you know I don't know what those flowers are going to do?" The young man in white asked rhetorically.
Li Bingru, who has always been sharp-toothed, couldn't answer, she vaguely felt that the words of the young man in white were somewhat familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had heard them.
"As you just said, everything in heaven and earth has its own unique spirituality and its own way of living, so why should you create the lives of others with your own strength? You also said that their beliefs are not known to us, so why should we think of others as our own? β
Li Bingru looked at the young man in white in a daze, speechless, she suddenly didn't know where all her original thoughts came from and where they went.
Watching the young man in white approach step by step, a cold sword with black copper inlaid with different patterns across his chest, and the evil smile on the corner of his mouth, Li Bingru slammed a spirit, and the eyes of the young man in white in front of him showed a message every moment: she was the prey he had been looking for for a long time.
Li Bingru couldn't help but take a step back and asked sharply, "What do you want to do?" β
"What do you think I'm going to do?" The young man in white didn't answer the rhetorical question, and even smiled at the corner of his eye.
"I ...... Ah......h
Li Bingru's feet slipped, and her body fell backwards uncontrollably, and she only then realized that there was a river behind her.
The houses, the sky, and the white clouds all receded rapidly, and she could even see the willow branches fluttering across the river behind her.