Xiahou Muqing just shook his head slightly, and still said in a gentle voice: "Don't you even believe what mother said? Mother has seen countless people in her life, so how can she miss anyone, let alone the children who lived with us when they were young?
.Mom said he is not a bad boy, so he will never be bad."
"Just listen to your conscience, don't worry about such a trivial matter, and make peace with him as before!"
Du Zhiqing rubbed the corners of his sleeves and refused to give in: "I don't, I fell into the water, and it wasn't because of him."
"Okay, okay, don't lose your temper." Xiahou's mother fondly stroked her daughter's hair and said warmly: "You are so determined about one thing that you won't listen to anyone."
"If Mom doesn't tell you anything else, just think about it for yourself. Brother Chen was so considerate and caring for you when you were young. No matter how bad he is, how bad can he be? It's just that when he was a teenager, he had some temperament.
It’s just rebellion, you’ll understand when you look at it.”
She looked at the sky and saw that the dusk was already sinking, "Okay, okay, I won't say anything else. There's no need to be so worried about such a trivial matter that you won't even eat. You haven't eaten all day."
Something, I will send my servant to make some pastries for you later, you can eat some more!"
"It's getting late, so I'll go back and rest first."
As soon as Xiahou Mu Qing left, he heard another knock on the door.
Du Zhiqing thought it was Xiahou Muqing who turned back and said, "Mom, my daughter will eat well. You should go back and rest quickly!"
Unexpectedly, what came from outside the door was the voice of junior brother He Lingfeng: "Senior sister, it's me, I'm Lingfeng, I'm here to see you."
"Ling Feng?" Hearing this voice, Du Zhiqing stepped forward and opened the door, "Why are you here now?"
He Lingfeng presented the lunch box and said, "Senior sister, I saw that you didn't eat this day, so I brought some things over to see you."
Du Zhiqing had just gotten over his suffocation and had not eaten for a day. When he smelled the fragrant pastries coming out of the lunch box, he suddenly felt hungry and couldn't hold back his appetite.
He hurriedly pulled He Lingfeng into his room and sat down, "I just happened to be hungry. Come on, come on, sit down, let's eat together!"
She breathed a long sigh of relief again, "Oh, tell me, on this day, I didn't buy the peach blossom cake, and I didn't finish the family banquet. But thanks to your cake, I'm not hungry anymore."
Mentioning this matter, He Lingfeng couldn't help but have questions in his heart, "Senior sister, when I mention this matter, I still want to ask you. What happened to you today? Why are you so abnormal?"
"This morning you said you were going to Lemin Street to buy peach blossom cakes. After arriving at Luanxiang Pavilion, I didn't see you coming back from buying peach blossom cakes. Moreover, you have been depressed all day and didn't even eat. What's going on?
Already?"
Mentioning this matter, Du Zhiqing threw the high point back to the plate and frowned: "It's not because of that Mo Jianchen. If you meet him, nothing good will happen. Isn't it all thanks to him?
"
"What's wrong?" Hearing this, He Lingfeng couldn't help but feel nervous: "Senior sister, when we were in the main hall, I saw that you and Senior Brother Mo were not dealing with each other. What did Senior Brother Mo do to you?"
Du Zhiqing blinked, as if aggrieved, "You don't know how extreme he is."
After that, she told He Lingfeng everything that happened from beginning to end.
"What, how is that unreasonable?" He Lingfeng couldn't help but frowned and said angrily: "How dare he do such a thing to senior sister? It's so rude and frivolous."
"He is so bold to dare to bully Senior Sister like this. Senior Sister, if you are still angry, I will teach him a lesson for you now!"
"Oh, okay, okay, Ling Feng, what are you in a hurry for? Sit down quickly." Du Zhiqing did not listen to him and pulled him to sit down.
All she said was: "This is a personal grudge between me and him and has nothing to do with you. No matter how much I hate him, I have to teach him a lesson myself and I can't involve you."
But He Lingfeng was still unwilling to give in. Whenever something touched his senior sister, it was like touching his Achilles heel.
"But that Mo Jianchen went too far. He was so blatantly rude to Senior Sister. Should Senior Sister just let him go like this?"
Du Zhiqing patted him gently. Now his anger had subsided and he was no longer as angry as before.
She just curled her lips and said, "I've thought about it too. It's really not worth getting angry for such a rogue. Why do you have to do it because he doesn't even eat? He doesn't deserve it at all."
"Anyway, I don't even want to take another look at a person like him. If he doesn't come to provoke me in the future, I will treat him as if he doesn't exist. If he dares to provoke me again, I will never let him go easily.
Get over him!"
"Yes, senior sister, you are right." He Lingfeng nodded and agreed: "It's not worth it for someone like that. If he dares to bully you again, I will twist his neck off!"
Seeing He Lingfeng's angry look, Du Zhiqing couldn't help but laugh: "Lingfeng, Lingfeng, look at what you are like now. If others didn't know, they would think you have some deep grudge against him."
"It's indeed getting late. We've all been tired for the whole day. Let's go to bed early tonight. I'll go practice with you tomorrow morning."
"Well, okay." He Lingfeng also agreed, "Then I will go back to the room first. Senior sister, you should also go to bed early. See you in the morning."
"meet tomorrow!"
The warm sun was rising, the wind was gentle, and a ray of warm golden sun fell in the courtyard of Luanxiang Pavilion, adding a touch of warmth to this renewed spring day.
"Wandai, which one do you want?" Du Zhiqing sat on the rocking chair in the courtyard and asked his cousin Xiahou Wandai.
Twelve-year-old Xiahou Wandai pointed to the brightest red plum on the plum tree planted in the courtyard, "Cousin, I want that one."
Du Zhiqing stood up from the rocking chair, took two steps forward, and his eyes fell on the plum pointed by Xiahou Wandai: "This is it, my cousin will knock it down for you right away!"
After that, Du Zhiqing picked up a stone from the ground and put the rubber band on the slingshot in her hand. She was holding the slingshot tightly with one hand and pulling the rubber band hard with the other hand.
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She aimed at the plum, let go slightly, and the stone bounced off the rubber band, landing squarely on the brightest red plum.
The plum immediately fell down. Du Zhiqing took two steps forward, picked it up, dusted off the dust on it, and handed it to Xiahou Wandai: "Hey, here you go!"
"Wow, cousin, you are so awesome!" Faced with Du Zhiqing's precise shooting, the little Xiahou Wandai couldn't help but admire her for a moment. She took the plum and said: "Cousin, cousin, you can shoot a few more
?"
"What can't you do?" Du Zhiqing raised his head, showed a proud and slightly playful smile, and said cheerfully like Xiahou Wandai: "You tell me which one you want, and I will cum for you."
Xiahou Wandai stretched out her hand, pointed at the plums on the tree, and said to Du Zhiqing: "I want that cousin, and that one, that one, and that one!"
"Okay!" Du Zhiqing agreed. After that, he lowered his head to pick up a few stones and fired them towards the plum tree. With just a few clicks, the plums pointed by Xiahou Wandai were all smashed.
After the fight, every shot hit the target without exception.
"Oh my God, cousin, you are so amazing, you really hit the target with every shot." Xiahou Wandai said excitedly, and bent down to pick up the plums that were hit.
After picking up the plums, she raised her head again with admiration in her eyes, "Cousin, how did you do it? Your shooting skills are really amazing!"
"Of course!" Du Zhiqing said with a proud smile: "Who am I, your cousin, Du Zhiqing? As long as it is me who launches it, there is no time to be inaccurate."
"Cousin, cousin." Xiahou Wandai pulled Du Zhiqing's sleeve and shouted happily: "Then let's shoot down some more and take them back to my parents later. Can they eat them?"
"Okay, it just so happens that most of the plums on this plum tree are ripe, and I'm thinking of popping a few more for them to taste." Du Zhiqing nodded and said cheerfully.
Xiahou Wandai glanced at the plum tree, seemed to have thought of something, and said to Du Zhiqing: "I'll go back and get a basket first. You beat the plums here first. When I come back later, can we pack them together?"
"Well, okay." Du Zhiqing nodded and agreed, "Then you go and come back quickly!"
"Okay, I'll go back and get it right away. Cousin, just wait for me." Xiahou Wandai said and hurriedly ran away from the compound.
Du Zhiqing continued to pick up the pebbles, aimed his slingshot, and fired towards the plum tree. As soon as the pebbles touched the plums, the plums immediately fell down. Every time, he hit the target with perfect accuracy.
"These bright red plums are really beautiful and mouth-watering. I wonder if I, Mo, will be lucky enough to taste them."
Hearing this voice, Du Zhiqing felt his whole body tremble, and immediately stood up. When he turned around and saw Mo Jianchen's face, the wantonness on his face immediately subsided, and his beautiful eyebrows were frowned like a distant mountain.
He took two steps back and said with some caution, "Why is it you? What are you doing here?"
"Sister Zhiqing, you don't have to be so guarded against me." Mo Jianchen said with a bit of humility on his face, "I didn't mean any harm this time. I sincerely apologize to you."
He gently took two steps forward and held up the hairpin in his hand: "Sister Zhiqing, what happened last time was really my fault. I shouldn't have treated you like that in the market."
"It was also my fault that I broke your hairpin, so I made a special trip to buy you a hairpin and gave it to you as a gift of apology. I hope you, Sister Zhiqing, can forgive me for those ridiculous things and let us put things aside.
Let’s keep our past feud as good as we did when we were kids, okay?”