Huo Rongdong had a long, long dream, in which she went back to when she was ten years old.

Xiaocao Village has suffered a plague that has been rare for decades, and many families are young and strong and cannot afford to be sick, and the family has lost its pillars.

After the death of the Huo family's own ancestors, it has gradually declined, and it has only relied on a few acres of thin fields to maintain until now. Both parents were infected with the plague, and after they died, Huo Honeysuckle, who was only ten years old, became an orphan.

The little person who struggles to even carry water and chop wood, she is not even as high as the fence. In order not to starve to death, Huo Rongdong endured the severe cold to dig wild vegetables, dig birds' eggs, touch fish and shrimp, often fell all over the body for a bite to eat, his fingers were full of frostbite, and he limped back to the thatched house.

Seeing her pitiful, there are also kind-hearted villagers who occasionally give a mouthful of food to eat, but in that disaster year when every family is not full, this is rare.

Xiao Huo endured hunger and hunger in winter, so he struggled to survive, and even the people in the village were amazed.

The gossip of the seven aunts and eight aunts has not stopped: "The adults in the family are dying, such a small girl can survive, what is she eating?" I can't even get enough to eat! ”

"This girl is hard-working, and she killed her parents. My family originally wanted to ask her to be a child daughter-in-law, but now they don't dare. ”

"Tut-tut......"

Xiao Huo Honeysuckle turned a deaf ear to these words, she squatted by the stream in a white-washed tattered linen dress, taking advantage of the wet soil after the rain, touching the loaches and snails that jumped on the stream, although she couldn't eat enough, but she could also eat a meal or two.

There were still some wild vegetable rhizomes dug up in the basket behind her, and if nothing else, these things were enough for her to eat today.

Huo Rendong's expression was firm, and he didn't notice the mud stain on his face at all.

"Whoa—"

The stream was clear and flowing, and in the direction of the upstream, the sound of someone's footsteps came, and the sound of treading water broke the silence, and Xiao Huo Honeysuckle looked back.

A tall man in black, with a long sword behind his back and a hat on his head, was looking at her lazily.

At that time, Huo Rongdong was only eleven years old, she grew up in the village since she was a child, and she had never seen such a beautiful man, so she was stunned.

Although the man has a handsome face and straight facial features, he has long snow-white hair, which makes people know that it is extraordinary at a glance.

Qi Ci looked down at the female doll that only reached her waist expressionlessly: "Where did the child come from?" ”

Huo Rendong grabbed the snail with his two small hands, looked up at him, his eyes were wet, and his big eyes were full of fear. The ragged linen clothes on her body were wet, the corners were still tattered due to long-term wear and tear, and the straw sandals on her feet showed her toes, which looked very pitiful.

Qi Ci originally wanted to take a detour, but when he saw this, he suddenly felt a little unbearable, he grabbed two handfuls of hair casually, squatted down and looked at the little girl helplessly and beckoned.

"Come here, why are you here alone, be careful of falling into the water. Where's your mom and dad? ”

Huo Rendong didn't think much about it, she just felt that the brother in front of her was so good-looking, and he would never be a bad person: "My father and mother are dying of the epidemic, I am hungry, and I came to find something to eat." ”

The little girl in front of her was not like words, and she was pitiful, Qi Ci looked at her for a while, and knew that she must be an orphan, so she sighed, looked for it from the storage bag, and found a fairy fruit peach.

He reached out again, touched her tender cheeks with his soft fingertips, and wiped the mud marks from her face for her.

"Thank you, brother......"

Xiao Huo Nindong glanced up at him, stood a little cramped in place with his head down, and was reluctant to eat the peach in his hand.

Qi Ci's gaze circled back and forth on her little pink face, feeling a little familiar, and suddenly pinched her fingers and counted a few times, and said in surprise: "You are Huo Xiucai's descendant?" ”

Huo Rongdong didn't understand, and nodded for a long time: "My surname is Huo, my father's surname is Huo, and my ancestor is also surnamed Huo." ”

Qi Ci saw that she was a little clumsy, and smiled: "Do you know that your ancestors are kind to me, which shows that you and I are destined." ”

He thought for a while, then stood up and hugged the little girl, letting her sit on his arm: "What's your name?" ”

“…… Huo Honeysuckle. ”

"What two words?"

Huo Rendong tilted his head and thought about it seriously, and finally said in distress that he couldn't write.

Qi Ci sighed, picked up her back basket, turned around and left: "Take me to your house to see." ”

The little girl nodded. She didn't doubt his intentions at all, and because the thatched house in her house was empty, the walls of the house were indeed not bothered by thieves.

Qi Ci's footsteps were fast, and he soon found the particularly shabby and dilapidated thatched hut in the village.

The bedding in the bedroom is moldy, and the thin one doesn't keep warm at all. The little girl was too short to reach the clothesline, but her clothes were washed cleanly and hung in front of the window with hemp rope.

The kitchen was a makeshift shed, and the firewood under the stove was all picked up dead branches, and there was no charcoal or chopped firewood, so she couldn't split it.

The rice jar must be empty, only some wild vegetables dried in the bamboo grate, and there is really no household belongings at all.

Qi Ci frowned: "You just live here alone?" How long have you been staying? ”

"One, one year......"

The dim light in the thatched hut illuminated the man's silhouette, and Huo Nindong looked at him for a moment. She saw him squinting, a pair of thin lips under the bridge of his nose, as if he had cursed something in a low voice, and her brows tightened.

His unhappy expression made Huo Rongdong feel a little uneasy, she overflowed into tears, her hands clutched her pants tightly, and her body trembled slightly.

Seeing her expression, Qi Ci knew that the little girl was thinking of something: "Don't be afraid, my brother is not angry, and he doesn't dislike you." ”

He beckoned, and lifted the sleeves of her burlap clothes, revealing the wounds on her arms, some from branches, some from falls, not to mention the various old scars on a pair of small hands.

Qi Ci took a deep breath, raised his hand and slowly brushed the wounds on her body with spiritual power, and asked, "Does it hurt?" ”

Huo Rendong listened to his gentle voice, she didn't know why she cried, she raised her hand to wipe the teardrops from the corners of her eyes, stubbornly sniffed and choked, "It doesn't hurt." ”

"Little liar, it obviously hurts." Qi Ci hesitated a little, and he himself was hesitating, but after thinking about it for a long time, he still said, "You...... Do you want to go with your brother? ”

Huo Rongdong blinked his wet eyes and looked at him cautiously, with a surprised expression on his face.

Qi Ci thinks that he is not a good person, not to mention that he is in a delicate situation now, and it is very inconvenient to bring a little girl by his side, but he can't just throw the lone seedling of the life-saving benefactor in the broken house and wait for death.

Qi Ci pinched the tip of her reddened nose again, urging: "Say, do you want to go with me?" ”

Huo Rongdong reacted and hesitated: "Will it cause trouble to my brother, I won't ...... anything"

"Little fool, what do I need you to do? Carrying water to do laundry? ”

Huo Rongdong's eyes lit up: "I can carry water, and I can also wash clothes!" I can also help my brother clean the yard! ”

Qi Ci leaned over and pressed the top of her head: "Okay, you don't need to do this rough work." My brother doesn't have a fixed home, but he can definitely feed you. You can eat as many peaches as you want like peaches like this. ”

The man is between youth and teenager, with a lazy smile on his lips, a little ruffian, but there is a charming taste of wanton and free.

Huo Rongdong looked at the peach in his hand, and then flapped his fawn eyes and stared at him. She has only seen two people who are so good-looking, but they are completely different.

The beauty of a mother is light, gentle, and warm; His beauty is icy peaks, unattainable, distant and mysterious.

So the little girl made up her mind and nodded firmly: "I want it!" ”

This time Qi Ci was surprised, although the invitation was also sent by him.

"We've only met for the first time, why do you dare to come with me?" He stared into her eyes in incomprehensible form.

The little girl thought about it, looked up at him, and her eyes were as clear as water: "Because my brother is a good person." ”

Qi Ci laughed when he heard this, and he pointed to himself: "Do you think I'm a good person?" ”

Huo Rendong nodded his head and said in a glutinous voice: "En!" ”

"Little fool, what good man have you ever seen dressed in pitch black? In the book, I'm dressed as a peerless bully! Look at my hair again, young man with a white head, don't you feel afraid? Qi Ci estimated that he would scare people, but he didn't say much, if he said that he killed more than a hundred monks by himself, it was estimated that the little girl would be stunned.

Unexpectedly, the little girl was very difficult to fool, she shook her head: "It doesn't matter what color clothes a good person wears. Bullies don't necessarily wear black, and some of the people who wear white aren't good people either. And my brother's hair is beautiful, like snow falling on the surface of a lake. ”

Facing her pure gaze, Qi Ci was exhausted. With a smile on his face, he suddenly picked her up and stood up on his arm.

Little Honeysuckle was forced to wrap his arms around his neck.

Qi Ci glanced at her and said in a deliberate deep voice: "You have to listen to me in the future, and you are not allowed to trust strangers, you know?" ”

Although the elder brother in front of him looked like he was only eighteen or nineteen years old, and he didn't know why he was always old-fashioned, he just felt very stable and reliable, at least that's what Huo Rendong, who was eleven years old at the time, felt.

She bent her eyebrows and nodded happily: "En! ”

This is the first time Qi Ci has seen her smile since the two met. When the little girl laughed, her eyes were crooked like crescent moons, revealing white and neat teeth.

Qi Ci sighed, and said in his heart, that's it, it can be regarded as repaying Huo Xiucai's life-saving grace, and he will be multiple sisters.