"Meichuan Xu Zhuchen? Your name is so nice. Is it the bamboo from Green Bamboo or the Chen from Lingchen?" Xiao Mei walked to the big tree and while talking to Xu Zhuchen, he pulled out her sword with all his strength. Seeing her nodding, he smiled and said, "Look at Biqiao, the green bamboo Yiyi. There are gangsters and gentlemen, who are as good as discussing and studying. It's such a good name. By the way, do you have the words?"
Xu Zhuchen shook his head: "My mother said that you can't pick up a character until you are sixteen years old and have hairpins."
Xiao Mei raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "What's this? I'll pick it up for you now. When you are sixteen, won't it save trouble?"
Seeing her high spirits, little Xu Zhuchen couldn't help but laugh.
"Really, Xiao Mei?" She watched Xiao Mei pick up the sword, perform two moves, and then smiled with a missing tooth, "You give me the word, then I...I Get it for you too!”
Xiao Mei threw the sword in his hand to Xu Zhuchen, and pulled out an old and black wooden sword from a corner of the backyard. He pretended to compete with Xu Zhuchen and said, "Really? What name do you want to give me? Not yet." Someone gave me a name."
Xu Zhuchen controlled his strength, carefully pushed away Xiao Mei's wooden sword with his iron sword, and said distressedly: "Well... I haven't thought about it yet..."
Xiao Mei smiled and said: "Then you have to think about it carefully. When you come up with it, I will exchange it with you."
As she spoke, she jumped two steps forward and almost bumped into Xu Zhuchen. The wooden sword in his hand was also as fast as lightning, and it quickly pointed towards Xu Zhuchen's shoulder.
Xu Zhuchen knew that she didn't mean to tease him, so he became a little more serious. He raised his sword with one hand to catch Xiao Mei's wooden sword, and with the other hand, he carefully twisted a ray of internal force and shot it out, forcing Xiao Mei to the ground.
Xiao Mei landed lightly, and when he raised his head, he saw Xu Zhuchen's slightly wrinkled snow-white eyebrows. Not only her eyebrows, but also her snow-white hair that swayed slightly with her movements, her eyelashes that were as light and beautiful as transparent cicada wings, and her eyes that were like a pool of deep red ink under her eyelashes, all made her like her from the bottom of her heart.
Xiao Mei couldn't help but swing his sword sideways, and in a few leaps he drew the sword in front of Xu Zhuchen. Xu Zhuchen didn't expect her Qinggong to be so fast. Knowing that he had lost the game, he drew his sword and let Xiao Mei stand in front of her, but he didn't know what she was going to do.
But Xiao Mei also put away his sword, stretched out his left hand, and carefully placed his fingertips on Xu Zhuchen's long hair.
Fingertips are warm and white hair is smooth. Xiao Mei was fascinated by the touch, but Xu Zhuchen gently raised the sword and patted her hand down. She looked at Xu Zhuchen and saw her smiling and raising her sword with a firm look on her face.
Xiao Mei understood the idea, pulled out the wooden sword, and stabbed it out without any explanation.
Xu Zhuchen's red eyes had been fixed on Xiao Mei's hands. When he saw her sword taking a wrong turn, he quickly retreated and swung his sword, instantly deflecting Xiao Mei's sword. Xiao Mei took a few steps quickly, turned around and swept away, but Xu Zhuchen, as if he had expected it, raised the bright silver sword in his hand and suddenly collided with Xiao Mei's wooden sword.
When gold and wood collide, naturally they cannot confront each other head-on. Xiao Mei resisted Xu Zhuchen's sword, raised his foot, turned over, and jumped into the air, rolling around in the air. Xu Zhuchen had never seen such a variety of footwork, and he immediately braced himself to prevent Xiao Mei's unexpected attack.
The two of them were going back and forth, swords facing each other, and they naturally knew that this was a test of real skills. Therefore, although Xiao Mei occasionally laughed once or twice because of their mistakes, their heartstrings tightened tightly.
One move after another, one advance and one retreat, the two fought equally, and their evaluation of each other gradually increased over time.
There are such geniuses in this world.
A genius on par with me.
Seeing that the two people's physical strength was gradually exhausted, any small flaw would determine the outcome. The two of them were even more concentrated, almost to the point of forgetting both things and me. In front of him, there was only that one person and two swords.
Suddenly, a clear voice came from the mansion: "Zhu Chen——!"
The two of them stopped involuntarily and retracted their swords. In the mansion, the woman's voice rang again: "Zhu Chen - come out, get ready for dinner -"
Xu Zhuchen turned around and glanced at Xiao Mei sheepishly, only to see her shrugging with an indifferent smile and jokingly said, "Is this your mother? You two have a really good relationship."
Xu Zhuchen blushed and scratched his head: "Azadirachta - ah, I think you are very nice, just like calling you like this - you, aren't you going to eat?"
Xiao Mei turned his back and walked step by step to the big tree, stroking the trunk with one hand without looking back.
"I'm not going." She was dressed in red, her black hair was blown up, and she looked a little thin and desolate in the spring. "There is no place for me there."
Xu Zhuchen was stunned on the spot and was about to ask again when he saw Xiao Mei turning his head towards her under the tree. A flickering light appeared in his hand at some point. On his fair and delicate face, the smile was as bright as a rising star. Fireworks are so beautiful that people feel like they can’t hold them back any longer.
"Zhuchen, look." She raised her hand, and the light flew out from her palm, flickering on and off, landed on Xu Zhuchen's palm, jumped a few times and then went out.
"I'm giving this to you as a meeting gift," Xiao Mei's smiling voice came from high up. Only then did Xu Zhuchen realize that she had climbed up the tree again, "Don't tell anyone I'm here."
Xu Zhuchen looked over infatuatedly and saw little by little flames lighting up on a huge flower tree. Those flames did not ignite any petals, but just sank and floated in the air, like thousands of bright lights on the Forgotten River.
She was stunned and couldn't help shouting: "Azadirachta!"
Xiao Mei did not answer her, but laughed softly. Those fireworks flickered bit by bit with her laughter, and were written into Xu Zhuchen's heart stroke by stroke.
"Zhu Chen!" Xiao Mei's voice was like the spring breeze passing through the flowers, "I have thought about it - your name - it is - Jiaqi!"
“I told you first—tomorrow—you have to tell me!”
Xu Zhuchen laughed softly and shouted angrily: "Definitely!"
"I will definitely come back to see you tomorrow, Azadirachta!"
"Ah!"
"Ah?"
"Ah! Ah!!!!"
Xu Zhuchen coughed out a mouthful of black blood and trembled all over his body. She suppressed the pain in her body and tried hard to stand up.
There was a noise around him, and not long after, Xu Zhuchen heard a familiar voice:
"...That dead girl."
Is it Sister Feng...? Am I not in Zhennan? Why is Sister Feng here?
What about Azadirachta? Where is Azadirachta?
Xu Zhuchen struggled to open his eyes, but was stung by the sunlight outside the window and shed a few tears.
A girl's voice came to her ears, sounding a little anxious: "Sister Feng, she is crying, please stop talking."
Li Fenglong snorted disdainfully: "Why, she, Xu Zhuchen, has done so many bastard things, and I can't say anything about it?"
Xu Zhuchen couldn't help but want to laugh. Just as she was about to speak, there was a fishy sweetness in her throat, and another mouthful of dark blood.
After spitting out the blood, she wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and finally opened her eyes.
Turning towards the direction of the sound, she saw Li Fenglong's eyes almost in front of her.
"Xu Zhuchen," Li Fenglong pulled her collar and asked word by word, "Who am I?"
Xu Zhuchen glanced at her vaguely, but he was not sure: "Are you...Sister Feng?"
Li Fenglong smiled and nodded: "Not bad, you still remember who I am."
As soon as she finished speaking, a big slap hit Xu Zhuchen on the face.
"I'll beat you to death, you stinky girl who doesn't listen to what others say!"
Xu Zhuchen desperately suppressed the instinct to fight back, raised his head and explained: "No, Sister Feng, I..."
Li Fenglong slapped him again with his backhand: "You stinky girl! How many times have I told you that a strong dragon cannot defeat a local coward? Why are you still making trouble with me! Make trouble! Make trouble! Why didn't you kill both of you!"
Jiang Litian rushed forward, held Li Fenglong's hand, and begged for mercy: "Sister Feng! Sister Feng! Sister Zhuchen knows she was wrong. Look at her crying. She will definitely change!"
Xu Zhuchen listened and raised his hand to touch his cheek. There was indeed something wet and cool on his hot face, which was flowing down uncontrollably. She suddenly thought of her dream and Li Fenglong's words. Regardless of her illness, she forced herself to get out of bed: "Where is she? Where is Xiao Mei?"
Li Fenglong's face was full of hatred, and he almost gave her a third slap. But Xu Zhuchen gritted his teeth and stumbled up to Li Fenglong: "Sister Feng, you're right to teach me a lesson. I'm too ignorant. I'll definitely make up for it before it's too late."
She raised her bright red eyes, and the longing inside them was like a pool of dark blood: "But, Sister Feng, where is she? Is she, is she okay?"
Li Fenglong glanced at Jiang Litian, who quickly helped Xu Zhuchen back to the bed. Xu Zhuchen didn't have the strength to confront them head-on. He was feeling a little discouraged when he heard Li Fenglong say:
"If I don't take you to see her, will you have to run to find her by yourself tonight?"
After she finished speaking, she sighed heavily: "What evil have I done? I raised you two losers."
The hope in Xu Zhuchen's eyes was rekindled, and she burst into tears and smiled: "Sister Feng, your great kindness..."
Li Fenglong pushed her shoulder, and helplessly lifted her up with Jiang Litian and walked out of the ward.
"You, you!" she said as she walked away, "who in his right mind wouldn't ask me what I did when he wakes up? You are the only one who only wants to find someone else."
Xu Zhuchen smiled weakly and said, "I don't know what you think, but I know that my Sister Feng will definitely not harm me."
Li Fenglong couldn't stand her clear eyes, so he turned back and quickened his pace.
The three of them stumbled into a room at the end of the corridor. Li Fenglong threw Xu Zhuchen to Litian, took out the key, and unlocked the door.
Just as she was about to push the door open, she suddenly paused and turned back and said, "Zhu Chen... let me tell you something first. Her eyes are invisible."
Xu Zhuchen was stunned for a while before he realized what was going on. She couldn't help but ask: "But, when we were competing, I didn't-"
Li Fenglong shook his head: "It's none of your business. I gave her the medicine in advance, so I was afraid she wouldn't survive until the end. However, I didn't expect you to be so decisive and push her to the edge."
After she finished speaking, she opened the door a crack and allowed Xu Zhuchen and others to enter the room first.
The house had just been moved out, so it looked a little too clean. Xu Zhuchen entered the room and saw a person lying on the couch. Half of his face was covered with a moist white cloth. The mouth outside the white cloth was so pale that it was almost bloodless.
Xu Zhuchen struggled to take a few steps forward, tears flowing out uncontrollably. She called out softly: "Azadirachta." She walked towards her step by step.
"Ah," Xu Zhuchen moved to her bed, held her cold hand with one hand, and whispered, "Ah, do you remember? We used to play in Lichuan, and you could fly there with just one jump. Jiang Xin..."
"Ah, I can do it now, and my Qinggong can catch up with you."
"Azadirachta, did we agree to plant thirty flower trees in your backyard? I checked a lot of books, but I don't know what kind of trees they are..."
"Azadirachta, when you wake up, can you take me to buy saplings?"
She rambled on for a long time, until Li Fenglong couldn't bear it anymore: "Okay, Zhuchen, don't keep chattering like this, she won't be able to recover from her illness."
After hearing this, Xu Zhuchen stopped talking and just held Xiao Mei's hand. Tears fell silently on the back of her hand, and then flowed down, forming a dark pool.
She looked at her quietly, like a person sinking into a pool, but was afraid that her struggle would disturb the water.
Until a gentle voice sounded in her ears:
"Zhu Chen..."
