When Xu Zhuchen was twelve years old, he ran excitedly into the backyard of Zhennan Mansion for the last time, but was stunned by the chopped tree.
She was too young at that time and didn't know what sadness was. Before she realized the unresolved feelings, most of her feelings were washed away by time, leaving only a small part that clung to half of the tree root in the torrent, refusing to let go or disappear.
After he was twelve years old, Xu Zhuchen only had one person, a river, and a tree with fallen flowers left in Zhennan.
She looked at the carved wooden window on a warm afternoon, letting the light and shadow cut the ground under her feet into pieces of broken flower and bird patterns. Xu Zhuchen stood in front of the window, not knowing that her shadow was stretched very long. She raised a hand, and the sunlight shone through her fingertips, so she realized that she would never be able to get out of "Xiao Mei" in this life. ".
Twenty-two-year-old Xu Zhuchen sat beside Xiao Mei's bed, holding her slightly trembling fingers as if holding a piece of dead wood in spring.
If she were willing to look carefully, she would find that she was holding on to a period of time when she was young.
A kind of lovesickness, a bitter love between two places, which I can't finish talking about for half my life.
In the abyss of time, looking at the bright moon in the distance, I imagine you are melancholy.
Seeing that Xiao Mei was more awake, Li Fenglong rushed to the bed and pushed Xu Zhuchen away: "Little Lotus, have you drank all the medicine? Are you feeling better?"
Xiao Mei, who was on the hospital bed, didn't say anything. When he heard Li Fenglong's voice, he just nodded slightly, looking weak. Only her hand exposed outside the quilt tightly grasped Xu Zhuchen's sleeve and refused to let go.
Li Fenglong looked at it and felt that she could not bear to show off her strength in front of him. Secondly, when he saw her holding on to Xu Zhuchen in a hazy state, he felt a little funny and said:
"In that case, let Zhu Chen be in front of you and serve you as a roughneck. I'm going to leave first. I won't be here to see you getting bored."
As she spoke, she really took Li Tian's hand and walked out of the door.
Xu Zhuchen felt a little embarrassed to be in the same room with her. She had never seen Xiao Mei so fragile. In her impression, she was as passionate as a bright and hot flame.
She let Xiao Mei catch her for a long time, and after listening to her cough a few times, she realized that Xiao Mei needed to be taken care of now.
Asking her to take care of him was not a punishment, but it was a sign of justice and debt. After all, Xiao Mei's new injuries are inseparable from her.
Thinking of Xiao Mei's old injury, Xu Zhuchen's anger rose again. She stood up and forced herself to take good care of herself and forget about it. Just as he took a step forward, he wanted to bring Xiao Mei a glass of water.
Before she completely left the bed, she felt the strength on her sleeves loosen, and heard a whimpering sound: "Zhu Chen..."
Xu Zhuchen immediately threw away those trivial and shy things to Java Kingdom, stepped back to the bed and sat down, then gently picked up Xiao Mei's hand and put it on his lap.
"Isn't it a bit cold?" She was talking nonsense. She was about to fall asleep, and she was here to care about whether Xiao Mei was cold or not.
Xiao Mei was even more confused than she was. She nodded randomly and refused to open her eyes. She just held Xu Zhuchen's hand tightly, but refused to let Xu Zhuchen stuff her hand back into the quilt.
Xu Zhuchen couldn't help it. She was the daughter of a businessman and was quite talkative, but she couldn't say anything interesting at the moment. After holding it in for a long time, he just said: "This summer is quite unusual. The cicadas don't chirp very much."
As soon as she finished speaking, the cicadas outside the window began to scream at the top of their lungs.
The noisy cicada forest is more than quiet, and the bird singing mountain is even more secluded. It was this noisy cicada that made Xiao Mei smile softly on the bed.
"Zhu Chen," Xiao Mei supported the bed with one hand and turned around with difficulty, "I remember you are Zhu Chen, so do you remember who I am?"
Xu Zhuchen was stunned for a moment: "You are Ah Mei, Xiao Mei from Zhennan Mansion, my best friend. Ah Mei, what's wrong with you?"
Xiao Mei's eyes were slightly open, and her eyelashes were drooping, like the gentlest rice. She nodded and asked, "Is there anything else?"
Xu Zhuchen thought of Guan Shan's words and added: "Well, a friend of mine said that you probably have some relationship with the Xiao family in Desert West."
The word "Moxi" was like a curse, and Xiao Mei immediately opened his eyes wide. If he hadn't known that she had lost her eyesight now, Xu Zhuchen might have thought that Xiao Mei was preparing to kill the air in front of him with his sight.
"Moxi, Moxi..." She lowered her head, looking a little exhausted, "Moxi..."
She tried her best to search for clues about "Moxi" from her memory, but deep in her mind, there seemed to be some voice warning her, pulling her, asking her not to explore anything about Moxi.
The more I ask, the more I explore, the deeper I go, the louder the voices in my head get.
Xiao Mei was dizzy due to the bursts of noise. She gently held Xu Zhuchen's hand and put her head on her lap.
"Zhu Chen, I can't seem to remember anything. The past, my affairs... many things, I can only recall a few fragments and a cloud of fog."
Her voice was extremely calm, not like she was expressing something strange about herself, like she was mentioning that her hair had grown an inch longer and her skin was tanned. Xu Zhuchen felt uncomfortable in his heart after hearing this.
She reached out to cover her with a quilt, but accidentally touched her wound. Xiao Mei's bandaged right arm shrank, his eyes closed tightly, and he let out a small cry of pain. Xu Zhuchen was so frightened that he immediately withdrew his hand and became stiff. When he lowered his head, he saw Xiao Mei burst into laughter.
"Oh, you, don't be too nervous." Xiao Mei raised his left hand and patted Xu Zhuchen's shoulder gently, "You are so beautiful, you can't keep a sad face."
Xu Zhuchen couldn't help but laugh too - the last time she heard this sentence was on the embankment of Lichuan River.
"We came out secretly to play, we can't keep a sad face." Xiao Mei rolled up his trouser legs, held Xu Zhuchen with one hand, and tested the water temperature with the other, "Well, okay, get ready to jump!"
The two children plopped into the water, looking at each other and swimming forward desperately, regardless of their clothes and hair being wet by the current.
As early as Xu Zhuchen entered the backyard, Xiao Mei showed her "treasure" with a smile: a crystal cup in the shape of a snow mirror flower. Seeing that Xu Zhuchen liked it, she proposed a competition between the two. The winner can possess this exquisite cup.
"As for the way of the competition...well, when the weather gets hot, let's go swimming! Whoever lasts longer will get the cup."
The two of them were exhausted from swimming in the water that day, their soaked clothes stuck to their skin, and their wet hair crawled wildly onto their foreheads. But for the sake of the crystal cup, neither one of them was willing to give up first.
Who does that crystal cup belong to? Xu Zhuchen has no memory. She only remembered that after returning to Zhennan Mansion, her second aunt and her mother gave her a good scolding.
Countless times, she thought those beautiful past were just a dream, a dream in which she created a close friend in her loneliness.
Now, Xiao Mei was right in front of her, her warm body rising and falling in her arms, and her cold fingers intertwined with hers, one by one, clasping the softest feelings in her heart.
Xu Zhuchen used his free hand to slowly comb her hair: "Well. Ah, I'm sorry... Does the wound on your body still hurt? Let me blow it for you."
Xiao Mei gently rubbed Xu Zhuchen's hand. Knowing that she was talking about the place where his right arm was penetrated by ice crystals, he smiled and said, "No. If you see it, you will have a grimace all day long."
She buried half of her face in the folds of Xu Zhuchen's clothes and said sternly: "Zhuchen, you don't need to mind so much. If your and my positions were reversed, I would definitely try to control you with minimal trauma. After saying that, she closed her eyes and took a deep breath, "Besides, this little injury will heal with a few more days. It doesn't hurt anymore!"
Xu Zhuchen thought for a moment, and his brows relaxed a lot. She nodded: "Okay! Then I will ask Li Fenglong to boil ginseng, shark's fin, and Ganoderma lucidum bird's nest for you every day to heal your injuries, and then feed you until you are white and fat, so that you cannot use your Qing Gong."
Xiao Mei chuckled and shook Xu Zhuchen's hand. She pinched Xu Zhuchen's fingers and said angrily:
"But you, your heart is damaged, your internal strength is lost, your life is hanging by a thread, and you still want to come out to see me..."
Xu Zhuchen couldn't help laughing when he heard her say this. She knew that Xiao Mei had been holding it in for a long time, and now that the two of them were really honest with each other, they were willing to speak out what was on their mind.
"Azadirachta is right. Let me think about it, let Li Fenglong prepare two copies, and the two of us will work hard to make Li Fenglong go bankrupt in one loss!"
Xiao Mei laughed loudly and reopened his eyes that had lost focus. His gray eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of fog: "Don't bully Boss Li like this. She is a good person. If Boss Li hadn't brought me out, she would have given me food." Stay, and I won’t be able to see you.”
Xu Zhuchen's heart twitched hard, and he couldn't keep up the calm expression on his face: "Does Li Fenglong know about your injuries?"
Xiao Fu looked at the empty space in front of him with gray eyes: "Maybe I don't know. I...I forgot a lot of things. I only remember that I was running on the eaves, and suddenly I was grabbed by Boss Li and brought back to the weapons shop. .”
Xu Zhuchen nodded: "Okay." She paused and then asked: "What did you do in Zhiyang City before meeting Li Fenglong?"
Xiao Mei felt that the strength in his hand was a little tight, so he gently shook Xu Zhuchen's hand: "Zhuchen, relax, I am not the prisoner you want to interrogate."
She said and thought about it carefully: "I was probably copying books in a very small academy... Later, I received orders every day and then executed them... It sounds like the preface and the follower are really inconsistent, hahahaha .”
Xu Zhuchen shook his head, knowing that she couldn't see, grabbed her left hand and shook it gently: "It's okay, you have provided a lot of clues. You are responsible for taking good care of yourself. I can't handle these things, and Li Fenglong."
She carried Xiao Mei back to the bed and lay down. Just as she was about to get up, Xiao Mei fumbled and held her hand:
"No. You also need to take good care of your health. No matter what you want to do, you must first take good care of your health."
Her voice was soft but firm. Xu Zhuchen turned around and stared into her eyes seriously——
"Okay," she hooked Xiao Mei's little finger with her little finger and said seriously, "I will obey Ah Mei's order."
