"Eh, Sister Zhiqing." Thinking of the scene where he and He Lingfeng were together just now, Mo Jianchen asked her again, "What were you talking about with Senior Brother He just now?" ”

Du Zhiqing blinked, and just said casually: "It's nothing, it's just some messy trivial things." ”

I saw Mo Jianchen's eyes roll slightly, with a bit of inquiry: "You...... Has the relationship with Senior Brother He always been good? ”

"yes." Du Zhiqing nodded and replied truthfully: "Ling Feng is an apprentice adopted by my father and my mother, although he is my junior brother, he is a few years older than me, and he is usually like an elder brother to me, and he has always been very good. ”

I saw Mo Jianchen's eyes twitch slightly, as if thoughtful, and asked Du Zhiqing again: "Then when did he worship under the door of Uncle Cong's father-in-law and Aunt Aqing?" ”

Du Zhiqing thought for a moment and said, "It was the year you left Muzhou City and we left Luanxiang Pavilion. At that time, Ling Feng's parents had already passed away, and his father and mother saw that he was young and homeless, so they adopted him into Baohuaxuan, and it has been ten years now. ”

Hearing this, I saw a complicated look flash in Mo Jianchen's eyes, but I didn't know what he was thinking, I saw him pretend to be aggrieved and curl the corners of his mouth, and pretend to speak: "It turns out that in the ten years that I have been away, you have always had someone by your side to accompany you, no wonder you almost forgot me." ”

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Du Zhiqing gently knocked on Mo Jianchen's shoulder and raised his eyebrows, "If I really forgot you, would I still go back to Luanxiang Pavilion to wait for you, and I would say that I haven't seen you for a few days, so I miss you like this?" ”

Hearing what he said, Mo Jianchen finally put away his aggrieved look, nodded with satisfaction, and smiled evilly: "Look at you, finally admit that you have been thinking about me for the past few days, right?" ”

"You ......" Du Zhiqing knew that she had been fooled, and stretched out her hand, wanting to knock it on Mo Jianchen's head, but as soon as her hand was stretched out, she took it back.

She just glanced at it, pursed her mouth, and said helplessly: "You are a person, you know that you are flamboyant, I really can't do anything about you." ”

"There's no way, what can you do, you don't have to be my sister Zhiqing obediently." Mo Jianchen looked at her sideways, rolled his eyes proudly and smiled.

As he spoke, his eyes fell on the painting in front of Du Zhiqing again, and he found that the painting was covered with a handkerchief, so he asked curiously: "What were you doing here just now, you are painting again, why do you want to block the painting you painted, come, let me see what you have painted today?" ”

"Hey, you can't look at it." Hearing this, Du Zhiqing was taken aback, hurriedly blocked the scroll, and said precautionarily: "You can't see this." ”

"Oh, why can't I watch it?" Mo Jianchen narrowed his narrow eyes and looked at Du Zhiqing with a bit of inquiry: "Isn't it that you painted some of your little secrets, and you don't want me to know?" ”

Du Zhiqing's face flushed, he lowered his head, and his voice was a few degrees lower, and he said, "Just ...... No, I just don't want you to see it. ”

"If you don't let me see it, I'll watch it."

The more Du Zhiqing didn't let him see it, the more curious he became. He didn't settle for Du Zhiqing's obstruction, took advantage of his unpreparedness, tore off the handkerchief, took the scroll directly from the flower board, and held the scroll with both hands, and rushed to the sky: "Let me see, what little secret are you drawing?" ”

"Oh, you ......" Du Zhiqing was shocked, and just wanted to stop him, but it was too late, the painting had already fallen into his hands.

Spreading out the scroll, Mo Jianchen saw a poplar tree painted on the scroll, and under the tree stood a young man holding a long sword.

He looked at the delicate and elegant danqing color, nodded, and exclaimed: "Well, this painting is good, it is indeed vivid." This slim poplar tree seems to be the real thing, and the person under this tree is also well drawn. ”

"Eh, wait a minute?" When his eyes fell on the young man in the painting, his eyebrows suddenly moved, he pinched his chin with one hand, carefully studied the painting, and said thoughtfully: "Why is this person you painted so familiar, why do I feel as if I have seen it often?" ”

"This dress, this figure, it seems to be me......"

"Oh, I see." His eyes lit up suddenly, and he hurriedly turned his head and said to Du Zhiqing with a bit of chic: "I said why don't you want me to see it, it turns out that you are secretly painting me, are you impressed by the handsomeness and chic of this son?" ”

Seeing that he saw it, Du Zhiqing's face became more and more red, she stretched out her hand, wanting to snatch the painting in Mo Jianchen's hand, and denied it: "You don't pretend to be affectionate, it's not you who I painted, you quickly return it to me!" ”

"Hahaha, I won't, I won't pay it back!" Mo Jianchen avoided Du Zhiqing, didn't let her grab the scroll, and said with a smile: "You are just painting me, if you don't admit it, I won't give it to you!" ”

"Mo Jianchen, give it back to me quickly, don't keep robbing other people's things......" Du Zhiqing still chased after her relentlessly, snatching the painting in his hand.

"If you don't give it, I won't give it, if you admit that you are painting me, I will ......give it to you" Mo Jianchen ran up in the courtyard with the painting scroll, but still didn't return the painting to him.

The boy and the girl chased and ran in this courtyard, and the square courtyard of peach and plum was filled with the laughter of this pair of teenagers and girls.

Du Zhiqing chased Mo Jianchen and ran around the yard several times, but Mo Jianchen still didn't return the scroll to her, she was tired of chasing, so she didn't continue to entangle and chase, but just returned to the stone chair and sat down.

She put her left hand on her cheeks, rested her elbows on the table, glanced at Mo Jianchen, pursed her lips, and muttered: "You are really annoying, how can you take other people's things and not return them, if you want it, you can take it, hum, I'm not rare." ”

"Oh, I'm just playing with you." Seeing that Du Zhiqing returned to the stone chair and sat down, and seeing that there was a little dissatisfaction in her eyes, Mo Jianchen was afraid that she would be angry if he joked with her like this again, so he didn't go crazy with her again.

He also returned to the stone chair and sat down, returned the scroll to Du Zhiqing, and said softly: "Sister Zhiqing, don't be angry, I just feel that these days are too boring, don't you want to joke with you, it's just active." ”

"I don't really want to rob you of something, if you don't want to, I won't do it, ah, give it back to you."

"Hmph, that's pretty much it." Du Zhiqing curled the corners of his mouth and took the scroll in his hand.

She wasn't really angry with him, he spread out the scroll, and spread the scroll in front of the two people, and said lightly: "If you ask me to admit it, then admit it, what is there to admit it, the person under the poplar tree I painted is you, so what?" ”

"Ah...... What? Mo Jianchen couldn't help but be startled, and looked at Du Zhiqing in astonishment.

I just teased her, but I never thought that the person she painted was really herself.

Looking at his surprised look, Du Zhiqing couldn't help laughing: "Why did I say you were so surprised, just now you didn't say that I painted it, why did I tell you in person that I painted you, and you are still so surprised?" ”

"No...... No, Sister Zhiqing. Mo Jianchen still blinked twice in a bit of a daze, shook his head twice and said, "I just said it casually, just joking with you, I didn't think you were painting me." ”

"I just think you are practicing your hands at will, and you can draw such a scene casually, is this young man standing under the tree you painted really me?"

"Hahaha, yes!" The more he looked at his stunned appearance, the more Du Zhiqing couldn't help laughing, "I can't hide it, what I painted is you, Brother Chen, you are standing under the poplar tree on the edge of Muzhou City, this is also a scene I have imagined countless times." ”

"Ah...... Yes? Mo Jianchen's eyes let out a gleam of joy, he looked at Du Zhiqing, and his voice was a little excited: "I was thinking about it just now, although I was just joking, but the person you painted is indeed a little similar to me, I didn't expect it to be me." ”

"Sister Zhiqing, why did you suddenly think of painting me in such a scene?"

Du Zhiqing's slender hand gently stroked the people on the scroll, thinking of those warm memories in his mind, and said with a shallow smile: "Actually, this scene is what I have been looking forward to all these years. ”

"Do you remember that when you and I were separated when you were a child, you told me that when the seedlings of the poplar tree in Muzhou City grew into a towering tree, it was when you returned to Muzhou?"

"So, I often think, Brother Chen, what will it be like when you grow up. He should have grown into a slender young man, he stood under the poplar tree, holding a long sword, full of youthful heroism, when they met again, he probably looked like this. ”

"I happened to have nothing to do today, so I painted the scene I had been thinking about all these years with Danqing. This is also the Brother Chen I have been thinking about all these years. ”

"So you've been taking that promise to heart all these years." Listening to Du Zhiqing's words, a thick warm current slipped through Mo Jianchen's heart.

He also looked at the danqing, chuckled and said, "Actually, those words I said to you back then were to comfort you, for fear that after I left, you would be sad and sad." ”

So I made that promise, if you look at the seedlings of that poplar tree, you will have a thought in your heart, so that you will not feel empty and sad. ”

"But I never thought that the promise of the year was really fulfilled, the poplar tree grew from a seedling to a towering tree, and I really returned to Muzhou this year, and I returned to you again. This time, we'll never be apart again. ”