When Dugu Xiaoying hadn't left home yet, her eldest brother Dugu Mingyue brought back a girl from outside.

She seemed to be mute, and no one had heard her speak since she came to Dugu Mansion for several months, but the first time Dugu Xiaoying saw the girl, she could see that this girl was not unable to speak, but that she was no longer interested.

Dugu Mingyue told Xiaoying that this was the girl he picked up by the mass grave, when the girl's unclothed body was pressed against three wild men from the countryside, and she didn't have any resistance, letting the hands of those men wander around her body, she just looked at the sky with a blank gaze, as if she had lost her soul as an empty shell.

An empty shell? Dugu Xiaoying looked at the girl sitting alone in the corner away from the crowd, the girl sat here when she went to practice in the early morning, and now she is still sitting here at sunset, Xiaoying went to the kitchen and brought a leftover meal and a pot of water and put it in front of the girl, and asked, "You have been sitting here for almost a whole day, don't you feel hungry?" ”

The girl looked at the leftovers in front of her, reached out and grabbed a steamed bun and gnawed it in a big bite, she ate very quickly, and after a while it was clean, and then raised her head to look at the sky, her eyes still did not have any brilliance.

This is not the first time Xiaoying has accosted her, and Xiaoying also failed to let her speak.

The next morning, Dugu Xiaoying opened the door, it rained all night last night, the fragrance of flowers in the courtyard mixed with the aroma of wet earth made her feel very happy, picked up the pear blossom and walked out of the door to prepare to practice the sword, when passing by the compound, Xiaoying stopped, stared at the girl sitting in the corner with wide eyes.

This girl stayed here all night?

Dugu Xiaoying quickly ran to the girl's side, touched the girl's clothes and was really soaked, Xiaoying scolded anxiously: "Are you a fool?" Don't know where to go back when it's raining? ”

The girl looked at Xiaoying, still with empty eyes, Xiaoying didn't talk nonsense, and directly picked her up and ran to her room, threw her on the bed, took off the girl's clothes, took the futon and covered the girl tightly, and hurriedly boiled a few buckets of hot water, when Xiaoying ran back to the room with the bucket sweating profusely, the girl stood naked in front of the window, quietly looking at the clouds in the sky.

Xiaoying was shocked, picked up the girl and threw it into the bathtub with an arrow step, poured warm hot water on the girl, the girl shivered and snorted comfortably, Xiaoying first let her soak herself and hurriedly slipped to the kitchen to get some snacks, and couldn't help but pinch the girl's mouth and stuff it in, while scolding: "Are you a fool?" No matter what you've been through, you shouldn't torture yourself like this. ”

"Why did you do this to me?"

The girl's voice was as light as a cicada's wings, and Xiaoying, who was wiping her body for her, thought that her ears were hallucinating, and asked in surprise, "You were talking just now?" What are you talking about? ”

"Why are you doing this to me?" The girl looked at Dugu Xiaoying and asked softly, her eyes lit up slightly.

Dugu Xiaoying was a little pleased, wiped the girl's long hair with a towel, and said, "There is no reason, since you are here, it means that you are a guest of Dugu's family and a friend of every Dugu child." ”

"Friends?"

"Yes, friend." Dugu Xiaoying wiped the water droplets on the girl's body clean, took out her new clothes to change into, and said with a smile: "No matter what kind of suffering you have suffered, those will only become the past, no one will bully you here, you can do what you want and live a new life." ”

"A new life......" The girl kept repeating this sentence, and suddenly reached out and touched Xiaoying's face, although Xiaoying was a little puzzled, she didn't dodge, and let the girl in front of her caress her face.

Her eyes gradually brightened, and tears flowed from her eyes.

Since then, the girl has stayed with Xiaoying, and the two have eaten and lived together, but if Xiaoying doesn't speak, the girl won't speak, but will only raise her head and look at the sky, until one day, Xiaoying showed the girl her own sword, which is a beautiful pear blossom.

"I want to practice martial arts."

Dugu Xiaoying grabbed the girl's hand, pinched the girl a little darkly, and then showed a painful look, let go of her hand and said: "Your foundation is too poor, and it will be very difficult to learn martial arts." ”

"I must learn."

"Why do you have to learn?"

"I have people I want to protect."

The girl's gaze was very determined. Dugu Xiaoying couldn't understand that this weak girl would have the idea of protecting others, she couldn't bear to refuse, lowered her head and thought for a while, patted the girl's head and smiled: "Protecting others doesn't have to be good at martial arts, I'll take you to meet someone, and she will teach you." ”

The Dugu family is based on swordsmanship, but not all orphan girls have to learn swords, and the person Dugu Xiaoying took her to see was her sixth sister Dugu Wenruo.

"What's your name?"

"Yan Qing."

"Xiao Yanqing, you have to listen well, my sister has a cold temper and a quiet personality, don't talk too much." Dugu Xiaoying pulled Yan Qing to a courtyard, Xiaoying gave a few words outside the door, and then patted her head and scolded with a smile: "What I said seems to be superfluous, you are not easy to talk about." ”

Xiaoying knocked on the door, and a squeamish female voice came from the room: "Come in." ”

Xiao Ying pushed the door, this room was very big but extremely empty, there was only a table, a bed and a woman in green in a wheelchair, Xiao Ying said softly: "Sixth sister, I brought a younger sister over and wanted her to study with you." ”

Dugu Wenruo looked at Yan Qing beside Xiaoying for a while before asking Dugu Xiaoying, "What do you want me to teach her?" ”

"You can teach her, teach her."

"Greed." Dugu Wenruo smiled, got up and walked to Yan Qing's side, stretched out his hand and pinched Yan Qing's little face and asked softly: "Medical skills, charms, poisons, hidden weapons, mechanisms, which one do you want to learn?" ”

Yan Qing didn't speak, just stared blankly at the beautiful woman in front of her, she was obviously not lame, but why did she sit in a wheelchair? Dugu Xiaoying interjected on the side: "This sister is more afraid of life and doesn't like to talk......"

"I'm asking her."

Dugu Xiaoying hurriedly closed her mouth, she didn't want to displease this sister, Dugu Wen saw that Yan Qing always refused to speak, pinched Yan Qing's hand and turned it dexterously, as if out of thin air a red pill was stuffed into Yan Qing's mouth like lightning, and the index finger was slightly on her neck, and the pill was swallowed by Yan Qing.

Her actions were so fast that even Dugu Xiaoying couldn't stop her, and Xiaoying's shocked voice unconsciously became a little heavier: "What did the sixth sister give her?" ”

"Go out and wait."

Xiaoying wanted to ask again, but Dugu Wenruo turned his head to look at her and squinted his eyes and smiled: "Go out and wait." ”

Xiaoying didn't dare to speak again, turned around and walked out of the room and didn't forget to close the door, she sat on the stone bench in front of the door and felt a little uneasy in her heart, but she didn't dare to disobey this sister's words, so she just waited here, and waited until noon before the door was pushed open, and it was Dugu Wenruo who came out.

Dugu Xiaoying got up and was about to ask, but Dugu Wenruo preemptively said: "I accept the person, you can go." ”

Dugu Xiaoying turned her head to look at the room, Yan Qing was lying quietly on the big bed, and couldn't help asking, "Is she asleep?" ”

"She's dead."

"What?!" Dugu Xiaoying was shocked, and jumped into the house, Yan Qing on the bed was really pale and couldn't breathe, Xiaoying shouted anxiously: "Sixth sister, what are you doing!" ”

"She will come back to life after half a burnt incense."

Dugu Wenruo always smiled, but this smile was particularly infiltrating in Xiaoying's eyes, and Xiaoying had already begun to regret bringing Yan Qing here.

"You can go."

Since then, Yan Qing has lived with Dugu Wenruo, Dugu Xiaoying often goes to Yan Qing with delicious food, and Yan Qing is not as wooden as when she first came, she can sit with her and chat with her, just during this time, Xiaoying noticed that Yan Qing's people are becoming more and more pale, but her hands are faintly purple.

"Sixth Sister is teaching you to use poison?" Dugu Xiaoying touched Yan Qing's hand and asked.

Yan Qing nodded, looked up at the sky again, Dugu Xiaoying also looked at the sky, there was nothing else except the clouds, she asked curiously, "Why do you like to look at the sky so much?" ”

"He would tell me every day when he went out that I would look up at the sky when I thought of him, and that he would come back before dark." Yan Qing said calmly.

"Is he back?"

"Every time he came back, only the last time he left me and never came back."

"Everything you're doing now is for him?"

"Yes, I want to go to him and tell him in person that I miss him."

Xiaoying hugged Yan Qing distressedly and said, "You will definitely find him, and he will definitely return to you." ”

Yan Qing was still looking at the sky, tears flushing her eyes.

This happened eight years ago, in the following years Dugu Xiaoying experienced a lot, three years ago she left home to explore the rivers and lakes, and then voluntarily came to this Qinglou incognito to do the lowest maid ring due to some changes, when she left home Yan Qing was in retreat with Dugu Wenruo, and the two did not say goodbye.

It wasn't until today, when Yan Ting said his name, that this dusty past was re-revealed.

After listening to Dugu Xiaoying's story, Yan Ting couldn't hold back the turbulent waves in his heart, and now he just wanted to run to Dugu's mansion immediately to recognize his sister, and Dugu Xiaoying's next words poured a basin of cold water on him: "Is it a good thing or a bad thing for her to meet her now?" ”

Yan Ting calmed down instantly, what Xiaoying said was right, now he is in the whirlpool of the storm, and if he goes to find Yan Qing at this time, he will definitely be implicated by him, as long as his enemy does not die for a day, he will never be able to meet Yan Qing.

The pain of a longing person who cannot meet him is beyond the reach of any man.

Yan Ting picked up the wine jug and poured a few sips, slammed the wine to the side, the countless emotions in his mind made him feel suffocated, stretched out his remaining right hand and slapped himself hard, Dugu Xiaoying hurriedly held Yan Ting's hand and said: "It's useless how you punish yourself now, you should do what you have to do as soon as possible, and when everything settles, I will take you to see her." ”

Xiaoying's face was still painted with ugly makeup, but it made Yan Ting look particularly excited at this time, and at the same time, he also secretly decided that he couldn't die no matter what, and he must live for the people he cared about.