Chapter 55: Pure Heart is Like Water
The morning sun is warm, the weather is fine, and the bamboo house is quiet, only the sound of cups, plates, dishes and chopsticks hitting each other can be heard. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ ο½ο½ο½ο½
Li Qingshi sat at the square table, gulping rice into his mouth. Sitting opposite him was his father Li Haichao, and on the left and right were his sisters Li Qingxue and Lin Dui.
Li Qingxue has been silently bowing her head to eat, occasionally raising her head quickly, putting a spoonful of vegetables into the bowl, and taking the opportunity to look at Lin Dui opposite, there is worry in her eyes, and there is also a bit of indescribability.
Lin Du was stunned and held a pair of bamboo chopsticks, but he refused to put down the chopsticks, staring at Li Haichao with a depressed face, and occasionally glanced at Li Qingxue as if asking for help.
Li Haichao held a small white porcelain wine jug in his hand, poured himself a glass of wine leisurely, tilted his neck and poured it into his stomach, and then stretched out his chopsticks to take a bite of green and tender bamboo shoots, and said without looking at Lin Dui, and said: "Don't look at me like that, it's useless to see me, it's not that I won't let you go, it's the old man who spoke, and I can't take you out." You little guy just didn't have a good fate, and you just happened to bump into him. β
"But I can't stay here. Uncle, help me think of a way, you must have a way!" Lin Du was thinking about leaving the valley, and he already had the meaning of asking for a soft word, and he reluctantly brought the title in order to get close.
Li Qingshi was eating so hard that he didn't hear what the two were talking about at all. This uncle fell into Li Qingxue's ears, and the little girl couldn't help but be stunned, peeking at Lin Du and then at Li Haichao, not understanding where this title started.
Li Haichao was startled, glared at Lin Dui, and said in a low voice: "You kid don't want to die, do you want others to know who you are? Don't call me uncle in the future, call me uncle, no, call dad!"
Li Qingshi finished the rice in the bowl, puffed out his cheeks and picked up the empty bowl and was about to add rice, but he heard Li Haichao's words clearly, and his eyes were wide for a while, so he only heard Li Haichao continue: "The old man has already determined this marriage, and he can't hide it, so it is justified for you to stay in the valley, and with security, no one can do anything to you." Don't be unhappy, it's like I owe you 800 yuan, Xiaoxue is my sweetheart, I promised her to you, but I suffered a big loss, if it weren't for ......"
"Poof......!"
Li Qingshi was getting up, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but spray a mouthful of rice on Li Haichao's face, squirting his father all over his face. He was really shocked by these words, Lin Du had just come to the house last night, how could he become his brother-in-law overnight? He suddenly felt that he must have missed something.
Li Haichao's face was covered with white rice, and he blinked his eyes under the stunned gaze of the three children, and continued as if he was fine: "...... If it weren't for your protection, would I have made such a sacrifice? If you continue to want to get out, I can't guarantee your safety!"
At this time, Li Qingxue had already blushed, and when she saw her brother's eyes that were about to pop out, she wanted to put down her chopsticks and leave, but she couldn't sit back and ignore her father's filthy face, so she quickly stood up and took out a handkerchief to wipe her father's face.
Li Qingshi stuck out his tongue, turned around and went to add food by himself, but Li Haichao, who was still breezy just now, finished his words to Lin Dui, and suddenly there was a thunderous roar: "Little brute, come back and lick the rice clean for Lao Tzu!"
Li Qingshi hugged his head in fright, squeaked into the flower room, slammed the door shut, and shouted a sad plea behind the door: "Sister, help! Stop Dad, otherwise you will collect my brother's body!"
Li Qingxue hurriedly stretched out her hands and stopped Li Haichao, who got up to chase her younger brother. Li Haichao said angrily: "Don't stop me, I'll kill this bastard boy! I won't even let Lao Tzu eat a good meal!"
Lin Du watched the family of three tossing over there, and there was a little warmth in his heart. This is the feeling of a family, laughing and scolding, all without restraint, much more interesting than the polite but cold big family in the Lin Mansion. Do you really want to live in such a family?
His mind was in turmoil, his mind was in turmoil. The way home from the valley was suddenly cut off, and for some reason there was suddenly a little fiancΓ©e, what was going on? He was still young, he didn't know much about marriage, and he didn't understand feelings, if he was a pair of good friends with Li Qingxue, he would be happy, but when he thought of being a husband and wife, he had a strange feeling. You can have a lot of friends, but your wife can only have one, oh yes, if you are like Hou Ye, you can have a lot, but you don't want so much, one is enough.
If his wife is the closest and most tacit friend, he hopes it will be Yue'er. Reason?There's no reason.,Maybe it's just a little longer and a deeper relationship?It's not impossible to say this.γ Is it really okay? Is it okay? Will Yue'er be angry when she finds out? But why should Yue'er be angry? It seems that it is her mother who should be angry, and her mother likes Yue'er. But my mother has never seen Qingxue, how do I know if she likes Qingxue or not?
Lin Du felt that he was thinking too much, because he was going to stay in the valley all the time, maybe the day when he never went out again, what could Yue'er know, and what could his mother know?
Lin Dui was so worried that he didn't eat anything, so he went back to his bedroom unhappy, lay on the bed and stared at the ceiling for a while, and fell asleep with a wave of fatigue. He's been in the wild these days, and he hasn't had a good night's sleep, and he didn't rest all night last night, and he's really sleepy.
Li Haichao went out after breakfast. He had to explain Lin Dui's matter to the fourth grandfather again, and by the way, confirm the old man's opinion of Lin Dui. To be honest, he still didn't want Lin Dui to stay, no matter how much Lin Dui believed his words and how afraid he was of being killed by the clan elders, but after all, he was a child, and it was difficult to guarantee that he would not leak out after a long time, and he didn't have time to guard his life every day. As for marrying his daughter, if Lin Dui really wants to stay, he can only marry his daughter, so that the family will not be able to destroy his father-in-law even if he learns the truth in the future.
But what he didn't know was that his daughter actually didn't approve of this so-called marriage. At that time, the default marriage was just to save Lin Dui, who knew that the mistake would come true, and the little girl was restless for a while. It's not that she hates Lin Dui, and she is even a little happy to be able to keep the other party, but she doesn't want to force someone who always wants to go home in the valley. She knew he would be sad and would always want to leave.
In the flower room on the first floor, Li Qingshi curiously asked his sister about the ins and outs of the matter, Li Qingxue knew that her younger brother was born with a big mouth and it was difficult to keep secrets, so she only said that the fourth grandfather saw Lin Du in the morning, thinking that Lin Du could be a child son-in-law, so it was more convenient to live in the valley. When Li Qingshi heard this, he shouted: "Sister, then you agreed, you marry me first so that my father can get me a daughter-in-law back." β
Li Qingxue was ashamed and annoyed, and said in sign language: "We are still young, not the time to think about this. β
"It's not small, I'm nine years old!" Li Qingshi straightened up his small body and pretended to be a little man: "Just find a daughter-in-law to play with me, what's this! If you don't accompany me, you won't allow your daughter-in-law to accompany me?"
Li Qingxue shook her head and gestured seriously: "My daughter-in-law is not playing with you. β
"I know, it's to give birth. But you can't just have children, what's wrong with playing with me first?Sister, you're so dead-eyed!" Li Qingshi said helplessly, "You quickly agreed, I'll find another daughter-in-law, and the two of us will become four, that's the fun!"
Li Qingxue glanced at her younger brother obliquely, and continued to use sign language for a long time: "Lin Dui, he doesn't want to stay, he will leave sooner or later." β
"Let's go, let's go, let's change it when we go, anyway, it's playing, who isn't the same?" Li Qingshi didn't care about the authentic road.
Li Qingxue felt that this younger brother was really full of mud and couldn't say anything. The people in Liuli Valley think that Liuli Valley is good, and the people outside think that the outside is good, and she can understand. Lin Du just wanted to go out of the valley and go back to find his mother, and it would be very sad to stay. She didn't want to see him sad, not to mention that her father said that he was the one the clan elders wanted to kill, and if he stayed and revealed his identity, he would definitely encounter danger. So he had to go.
Li Qingxue decided to go to the fourth grandfather in the afternoon to make it clear, and said that she didn't like him, although it was a bit against her will and hurtful, but this seemed to be the only feasible way.
The girl made up her mind, turned around and walked to the flower stand, ready to move the flowers to the yard to bask in the sun, her eyes casually glanced at the pot of star roses on the windowsill, and couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. The flower that she sentenced to death did not die, although most of the leaves had died and fallen off in the pot, but the remaining stems and leaves were green, and there was not a single shadow of disease?
Li Qingshi opened his mouth and was about to continue to persuade his sister, but he also followed his sister's gaze to see the pot of resurrected flowers, and when he was stunned, he immediately ran over, hugged the flowers in his arms and looked left and right, and said happily: "My star flower is not dead! My ass is saved! Sister, did you help me save it? I know you have a way!"
Li Qingxue shook her head a little dazedly. She didn't know why the flower didn't die, the blight was very rapid, it was obviously hopeless, why did it come back from the dead? Then she suddenly remembered that Lin Dusk had come directly to the flower room after getting up in the early morning, and when he was leaving, he glanced at the flowers on the windowsill. She didn't pay attention to it at the time, but now that she thinks about it, there is no doubt that what he is looking at is this pot of star roses. He must have done something to revive this pot of flowers!
Li Qingxue was shocked. Last night, she had already felt that Lin Dui's knowledge of flowers and plants was very rich, and she could see the condition of flowers at a glance, which an inexperienced flower farmer couldn't do, but he was just a little boy younger than herself. If that's all it is, he can still save this pot of terminally ill flowers, which I'm afraid the fourth grandfather can't do. What's going on here?
He will never have more experience in raising flowers than the fourth grandfather. Could it be that he has some special talent?
By the way, could this have something to do with his unique talent for variable stars? A flash of inspiration flashed in the girl's mind, and she remembered that the fourth grandfather had said that Lin Du was born to change stars. Could it be that his mutated star power has the effect of rescuing flowers and plants? Not only did he save the star flower, but he was also able to enter and leave the Suoyuan Flower Forest freely, and he would not be attacked by Suoyuan Hua. This shows that he has things that can have a special relationship with flowers and plants, most of them are star changing talents, or some star weapon spirit treasure.
The girl's mind was like electricity, and she quickly estimated the matter. She doesn't understand anything else, but she has an almost obsessive love for flowers and plants. Since she was a child, she has lived surrounded by exotic flowers and plants, and has received the tireless teachings of the fourth grandfather, an old flower fan, and she has an unusual passion for planting flowers, raising flowers, and preparing flower essences. She knew very well how valuable Lin Dui's abilities were to the flowers and plants, and how much the people in the valley needed such a person for their ancestors to study and rely on the flower essence! Her enthusiasm for the flower essence shouted to her vigorously: Let him stay!
Can I do this?
No!
So I'm not going to do anything, okay? If I don't do anything, he'll stay.
But then he would be sad and dangerous. I should help him leave!
But I still ...... Like him, right? What's wrong with letting him stay?
No!...... Do I really like him? What does it mean to like him? Do I like to keep someone around?...... It seems to be, and it doesn't seem to be. But what does it matter if I like it or not? He doesn't like it, he only likes the outside world, and he doesn't like the people in the valley, he only likes his mom and his friends outside.
The girl felt a little sad when she thought about it, and felt that her world was suddenly in chaos, but she had picked up a big problem from the flower forest! She ignored her brother who was holding the flower pot and screaming, and turned around and walked out of the flower room and went straight to the third floor. She stopped outside Lin Du's bedroom on the third floor, and saw the boy lying on his side on the bed sleeping soundly through the window, and she stood quietly for a while before going downstairs again.
The girl went out of her yard and down the street to the south. On the street, two or three four or five-year-old children were playing in the mud, and when they saw her, they called "sister" unevenly. As usual, she smiled softly and silently at them.
The sixth aunt baked flower cakes at home, and the rich aroma filled the whole street, and it was estimated that it would not be long before the sixth aunt would carry a stack of cakes to deliver them door to door.
The third grandfather's yard is still ringing with the sound of tinkling, I don't know who is making farm tools for someone, if the younger brother hears it, he will definitely run over and ask the third grandfather to teach him to make iron, and he will definitely be blasted out as usual. The third grandfather would snort sullenly: "I can't lift the hammer, learn what to strike iron, and come back when the hair grows!"
The girl walked, listened, looked, thought, and felt that this little world was so good. But this is her own world, the world of her clan, no matter how good it is, it doesn't belong to Lin Dui. And Lin Dui must also have such a world, she can't enter Lin Dui's world, which makes her little heart suddenly surge with a faint emotion, an indescribable sadness.
The house of the fourth grandfather is just south of the third grandfather's house, and the brocade flowers stretch their smiling faces in the sun, and the colors are dotted among the patches of greenery. The girl pushed open the fence gate and walked into the yard, and saw the fourth grandfather standing in the middle of the yard with her father talking about something. She settled down, plucked up the courage to walk over, and when the two of them turned their faces to look at her, she took out the notebook she had prepared and spread it out to them, on which was a sentence written in a neat and orderly manner with a brush:
"I don't like Lin Dui, let him go out of the valley, okay?"
The old man and Li Haichao were stunned. They never seemed to think that the parties would also disagree to the marriage contract, and in fact, Qingxue never showed any dislike for Lin Dui. Li Haichao's face sank slightly, but the old man suddenly narrowed his eyes and smiled, nodded and said:
"If you don't like that kid, then don't force you. I see that Qingshuang's girl is a good match for him, Haichao, you accompany me to the sixth child's house. β