Di Xinchen, who listened to the story, led the two maids along the path in the backyard all the way through the flowery back garden, and when he stepped on the corridor connected to the pavilion, a gorgeously dressed middle-aged beautiful woman was already waiting on the pavilion near the main house, and when she saw Di Xinchen returning, she smiled lovingly and trotted up to greet her: "Chen'er, hurry up, the food is cold, today there are your favorite apricot fish and tender bamboo shoots and sprouts!"

"Mother!" Di Xinchen stepped forward to support his mother, who was a little out of breath after running a few steps, and the two walked to the dining room hand in hand, talking and laughing together. Every time he called "Niang", Di Xinchen felt a faint pain in his heart, not because his mother was not good to him, but every time at this time, he would think of another mother, the mother who gave birth to him and raised him to the age of five but abandoned him on the street after the rain.

This pain of abandonment did not gradually disappear with Di Xinchen's age, but made him more profound as he gradually became sensible, but he knew how to disguise at a young age, especially in front of his adoptive father and adoptive mother, and never revealed his heart.

Di Xinchen's father, Di Fanghai, has counted three generations from him, and he is far away from the Di family's lineage, and it is very appropriate to use the side branch to describe the relationship between Di Fanghai and the Di family's clan, but Di Fanghai can do business, and there is a big tree of the emperor Di Fanglin on it, and he saved a big family business in his early forties, and his Yanxing money houses are all over the north and south of the Li River, and he has also entered the inner circle of the Di family clan from the new with strong financial resources.

The fly in the ointment is that Di Fanghai's wife Qin has not given birth to a boy and a half girl, although it is very common for a man from a rich family to take three wives and four concubines, but Di Fanghai has a deep relationship between husband and wife, not to mention taking concubines to beg for a small amount, that is, he is going to run business and socialize outside, and even the Qinglou Jiyuan is rarely patronized.

In this society of "unfilial piety has three, and no queen is great", the Qin family was secretly poked and cursed by people in the backbone, and she also persuaded Di Fanghai to ask for a few concubines, but Di Fanghai prevaricated for various reasons. Until March 3, more than four years ago, when Qin returned from Guiyuan Temple, he saw a four- or five-year-old child wandering alone on both sides of her gate, looking beautiful and full of tears but never crying, so he led him into the house.

At this point, as soon as Qin and her husband Di Fanghai were combined, they simply adopted him, followed Di Fanghai's surname Di, named Xinchen, and always regarded him as his own. Di Fanghai was even more active in the Di family clan, scattering a lot of gold and silver to put Di Xinchen's name on the clan genealogy, the purpose was to allow him to inherit the huge family business in the future, and at the same time continue Di Fanghai's incense.

Sitting at the dining table made of pure precious mahogany in the spacious dining room, Qin looked at the gobbling child while serving Di Xinchen, and said distressed with a happy smile on his face: "Eat slowly, eat more." ”

"Mmmmmm..."Di Xinchen answered twice with a mouth full of food, he understood his mother's words in his heart like this, eat quickly to eat more! So he stripped off a bowl of rice like a whirlwind, and shouted "I'm full" Looking up, his mother was holding a piece of fish meat that had been carefully cleaned of fish bones, and he was embarrassed that he didn't know whether to put it in Di Xinchen's bowl or retract it. Di Xinchen directly stretched his neck and took the fish meat on his mother's chopsticks into his mouth, and the smooth and tender fish meat went down his throat and made a grimace at his mother, "I'm going to study, mother, eat slowly." ”

Qin looked at Di Xinchen who was walking towards the study, the smile on his face was relieved with a hint of melancholy, Di Xinchen was smart and clever, and was intimate and well-behaved in front of her husband and wife, but, as the saying goes, knowing the son is Mo Ruo's mother, although Di Xinchen was not born to the Qin family, but he also raised him for four or five years, how can he not know that this silent and withdrawn child in front of outsiders has a scar in his heart that she can't erase with her mother's love.

The Di family's study is full of all kinds of books, in addition to the regular books such as Shujing, Boyi, Qinqi, and Solving Doubts, there are many wild history miscellaneous books, and even the Yellow Book [***] There are a lot. Di Fanghai has been running around all the year round, his eyes are open and he only knows abacus beads and contracts, and the Qin family can't read a few big words, but for Di Xinchen, who locks himself in the study alone and reads quietly, it is a response, as long as the husband and wife see new books for sale on the street, no matter what type, they will all buy them and pile them up in the study and give them to their son. It can be said that this study room was specially opened for Di Xinchen.

Jingyi is too obscure and difficult to understand, otherwise he would not sleep in the school, and Di Xinchen is not interested in qin, chess, calligraphy and painting, but is very interested in those wild history essays compiled in popular words, or those yellow books that cannot be put on the table[***], which is probably the main reason why he is psychologically precocious than children of the same age.

Unconsciously, when the time was approaching, Di Xinchen put down the book before his mother came to urge, washed his feet and went to bed under the service of the maid, and before closing his eyes, he remembered the one-eyed blind fortune teller again, and remembered that for more than four years, the fortune teller had never put the surname "Di" in front of his honorific title of "young master".

Yes, he is not surnamed Di, his mind unconsciously returned to more than four years ago, on the street after the rain, his biological mother put him at the gate of the Di family and admonished: "Good girl, don't say anything if anyone asks you, wait here for your mother for a while, and your mother will come back immediately." And at that time, he nodded innocently.

This is Di Xinchen's last memory of his biological mother, he even forgot what his mother looked like.

"How long do you mean for a while? Five years or ten years? Why don't you just say that I was abandoned by you..."

Di Xinchen closed his eyes with tears.

The next morning, there was a light rain.

Di Xinjing once asked Di Xinchen, "Brother Xinchen, what day is your birth?"

Di Xinchen simply spit out two words, "After the rain!"

So, whenever it rains, Di Xinjing has to come to Di Xinchen to celebrate his life. Later, Di Xinjing obviously felt that something was wrong, why did she only have one life a year, but Di Xinchen could live a lot of life? Di Xinjing went back and asked her mother, "What was the weather when I was born?" Jing'er replied in unison: "It was hailing that day." ”

Di Xinjing is no matter how naïve and ignorant she is, and she also knows that Ruzhou, which is in the hinterland of Dali Kingdom, if you want to hail, it is a rare occurrence in a hundred years, and she secretly regrets Di Xinjing when her parents gave birth to her wrong, and she still thinks in her heart, how good it would be if she was born on a sunny day... In this way, you can recover the gift money you gave out with interest...

Despite this, whenever it rains, Di Xinjing will still give Di Xinchen gifts with a sad face like a funeral, and Di Xinchen is also used to having such a stupid girl after the rain, shouting that he is despicable while reluctantly handing him the more and more worthless gifts in his hand.

For Di Xinchen, this is the only little warmth he can get when he lives in Ruzhou. Yes, this is the warmth that even his adoptive father and adoptive mother can't give him, because whenever he faces them, he always subconsciously thinks of abandoning his mother, which is a pain that is pierced all the time.

But today, standing in front of the gate after the rain, Di Xinchen didn't wait for the warmth sent by a sturdy girl.

Although he was a little disappointed, Di Xinchen didn't mind, after all, this kind of behavior that seemed boring to others would make anyone tired of it one day. Di Xinchen didn't wait, and walked to the Zhiyan Hall with two maids and four guards.

In the early morning, the door of Zhiyan Hall was closed because it was not yet time for school to start. Hundreds of students between the ages of five and fifteen gathered in front of the Zhiyan Hall, chattering and whispering something. A child of the Di family who listened to the story with Di Xinchen hurriedly pulled him after seeing Di Xinchen come and asked, "Xinchen, why hasn't Jing'er come yet?"

Di Xinchen already felt it, because at this time of the day, Di Xinjing would definitely make a loud noise and run up and kick the door.

"I think this girl must have overslept sometime, so I'll wait for the board later. "It's Di Xinliang who speaks, two years older than Di Xinchen, and he's square, but don't be deceived by his slightly honest appearance, his name is similar to Di Xinjing, basically the surname is the opposite of the name, relying on his maternal uncle is the lord of Ruzhou, he has always bullied the weak, and he is used to sneering at the children of the Di family in the side branch, just because Di Xinjing is always arrogant and biased towards Di Xinchen, so he has always been very disagreeable to the two of them, and he will not let go of any opportunity to hit them.

"No, Jing'er has to practice martial arts with the martial artists in the nursing home every morning, and she will never forget the time to go to school. Di Xinchen retorted.

"That's a trouble on the road, this girl is like a tigress, who will dare to marry her in the future, haha..." Di Xinliang laughed gloatingly.

Although it was obviously a mocking remark, Di Xinchen thought it was true, although Di Xinjing was a little evil, but if anyone provoked her, it would also be the master who would not forgive or suffer, there are many gate valve families living in Ruzhou, and not everyone will give the Di family face.

"I'll take a look!" Di Xinchen said and hurried back along the route of Jing'er's school, and at the T-shaped downtown intersection by a small bridge, a large group of people were surrounded in the distance, and there was a slight wailing sound in the noise.

Di Xinchen hurriedly squeezed in to take a look, okay, the overturned goldfish cricket noodle stall rolled to the ground, several people dressed as guards were lying on the ground covering their wounds and crying dad and calling mother, the blood that flowed out dyed the rain bucket under him red, Di Xinjing, who was covered in muddy water, clenched his fists, and under the pull of the two maids crying, he stared at the two girls dressed in palace clothes opposite with anger on his face, holding a blood-dripping sword.

The two girls were dressed in a uniform white palace dress, their hair was pulled up high, and there were no accessories on their bodies, one was about eleven or twelve years old, the other was fifteen or sixteen years old, and they looked handsome and quite flowery, if it weren't for the blood stains on the long sword in their hands and the evil aura between their eyebrows, they would be as beautiful as the white lotus blooming after the rain, but now, like two thorny roses.

"Monk?" this was Di Xinchen's first thought, he still remembered that when his mother abandoned him in front of the gate of the Di family and left, he carried a long sword behind his back that he had never seen before.

"Brother Xinchen, they bullied me. As soon as Di Xinjing saw Di Xinchen coming, she immediately shouted as if she had seen a savior, in fact, every time she got into trouble outside, before the family arrived, Di Xinchen had already taken money to clean up the mess for her.

But this time, it was obviously not possible to take the money, because she saw blood, because Jing'er, who pretended to be tough, had a pair of trembling eyes, and she was scared.

"Beat them!" Di Xinchen stopped in front of Di Xinjing, and shouted indifferently with a wave of his little hand, and an irrepressible anger rose in his heart for the first time.

At the same time, on the periphery of the crowd, a blind one-eyed fortune teller was quietly leaving.