Li Zhi walked slowly faster and faster, and finally almost ran down the mountain. But when he approached the foot of the mountain, he slowed down again, trying his best to pretend that he came casually instead of having a premeditated plan.
He did not leave the barrier, but looked around near the foot of the mountain.
A figure bent over and looking for something slowly moved towards her eyes. She was so focused that she didn't notice the figure that had been paying attention to her silently for a long time, until a familiar voice came vaguely through the barrier.
"What are you doing?"
Jin Yunlan was startled and looked in the direction of the speaker with trepidation. Seeing the appearance of the visitor, she calmed down and smiled faintly at him: "Azhi, it's you. Why are you down here?"
Li Zhi coughed slightly and said with a bit of resentment: "I'm taking a walk. But you were sneaking around here and didn't come up."
Jin Yunlan replied: "I'm looking for something."
"Is this it?" Li Zhi took out a longevity lock with three bells from his cuff and showed it in front of her eyes.
Seeing the surprise, Jin Yunlan nodded quickly, acknowledging the lost object. She subconsciously reached out to pick it up, but forgot about the existence of the barrier, and her fingers hurt from the hard barrier. She screamed in pain and kept shaking her hands.
"Fool." Li Zhi laughed at her across the barrier.
Jin Yunlan covered her numb fingers and stared at him because of his gloating.
Li Zhi stopped smiling and said, "Extend your hand and let me take a look."
Jin Yunlan spread her fingers cooperatively and pressed them against the barrier.
After Li Zhifang finished taunting her, he felt stupid himself and subconsciously stretched out his fingers to rub her red fingertips. Only after hitting a wall did he realize his stupid behavior.
Even though there was a barrier that was neither thin nor thick, Jin Yunlan still felt the gentle touch from Li Zhi. The pain in her fingertips quickly disappeared, and most of the depression in her heart disappeared the moment she saw him.
She looked at him quietly and smiled peacefully.
Li Zhi looked at her strangely, and reminded her: "Long Life Lock, do you still want to take it back?"
She nodded, "I'll come in right now."
"Forget it, I'll come out to find you." Li Zhiru said.
Jin Yunlan nodded hesitantly. At the same time, Li Zhi walked quickly along the foot of the mountain towards the secret passage. She did not wait and also ran along the periphery.
The two of them arrived at the inner and outer entrances of the tunnel one after another. She helped remove the obstruction at the exit and stretched out her hand into the passage.
With a "pop" sound, the two hands successfully connected at the tunnel exit.
Jin Yunlan smiled slightly and pulled him into a rock ravine shaded by trees to sit down.
The two of them were squeezed into a small and cramped place, quietly exchanging items, like rebellious children who had sneaked out and didn't want to go home, frightened but obsessed with this kind of excitement.
Li Zhi asked her about the origin of the gold lock. She originally wanted to keep the story short, but she didn't want to start the conversation, so she couldn't hold it back. Regardless of whether it was embarrassing or not, she spilled it all.
During this period, Li Zhi's expression changed according to her experience, showing many rare expressions. After listening to her narration, he immediately asked: "Have you apologized to your sister?"
She bowed her head dejectedly, "She refuses to see me. Because of Jin Yunchong's words, I don't know how to face my mother."
Li Zhi disagreed: "The words came from your brother after all. Your stepmother's thoughts may not be what your brother said. You should ask her directly instead of blindly listening to what others say."
She hesitated: "But they are mother and son after all."
Li Zhi replied: "So what? People are separated from each other, and your brother is hostile to you, and it is unknown if he intends to provoke you. As for the fact that your friend is about to get married, I don't understand what makes you distressed. Could it be her?
Is your blind date your sweetheart?"
She exclaimed when she heard this and immediately proved herself, "How is it possible? What I like is..."
Her words stopped abruptly, she bit her lip in embarrassment, lowered her head with a red face, and unconsciously pulled up the weeds in front of her.
Li Zhi's reaction was not very calm either. He turned his face to the other side, trying his best to hide the fluctuation in his eyes.
The two were silent for a long time, and Jin Yunlan's feet soon became bare.
Li Zhi took out a stuffed doll from his sleeve and held it delicately in his palm. He still didn't look at her and just said, "Here's this for you."
Jin Yunlan took it and observed the stuffed doll in the moonlight. It was more like a cotton doll than a stuffed animal. Its shape did not look like common tigers or rabbits, but rather a naive iron-eating beast. Its unique pair of black
The eye circles are really eye-catching.
"This can't be this, A Zhi, you did it, right?" She asked him tentatively, her eyes shining.
Li Zhi nodded implicitly and said "hmm" in a dull voice.
She looked up and down at the lifelike doll, sitting innocently. It was round and furry, with a grinning mouth and squinted eyes. It held an emerald green bead in its left palm, which seemed to be wrapped with green cotton thread.
, and the rest of it feels like it’s made of real hair.
She was full of praise: "Azhi, your hands are so skillful. If I had half your skills, the female celebrity wouldn't be laughed at by the crowd. But, do you really want to give it to me?"
"No, give it to your sister." He paused, "I hope she can forgive you."
Jin Yunlan's heart felt warm, her brows and eyes glowed with softness, and even the stuffed doll in her hand felt warm in her palms. She gently curled up her five fingers, put it into the center of her fist, and carefully put it into her cuffs.
.She turned to him and made a request, "I want one too."
Li Zhi glanced at her secretly: "Let's wait until the next time Tietie loses her hair."
Hearing him recall this nickname so familiarly, Jin Yunlan secretly enjoyed herself. She looked up at the moonlight, then stood on tiptoe and looked into the distance. The originally brilliant lights dimmed down the long street one after another, leaving only a few dim spots. She
After thinking for a while, he turned around and said goodbye to Li Zhi.
Li Zhi couldn't help but grabbed a corner of her sleeve and asked implicitly: "I have memorized "Guan Ju" by heart. When will the next lecture be? Of course, I am asking for the children, who have been clamoring.
." He forcefully excused himself, but his acting skills were not superb enough and he concealed himself in a poor way.
He didn't understand why this simple sentence made her freeze in place. Likewise, her silence also made him feel embarrassed.
She suddenly smiled, with tears glistening in her eyes. She lowered her head slightly and murmured to herself: "Sure enough, my persistence is not wrong." She breathed out a sigh of relief, looked at him with blazing eyes, and said with a smile:
"Soon! Next time we will learn "Jianjia". Jianjia is green, and white dew is like frost..."
The so-called beauty is on the side of the water.
The next time we meet will definitely come soon. Until then, please be patient.
Early the next morning, Jin Yunlan went to Jialan Courtyard. At that time, Xiu Xiu was practicing calligraphy in her room. She sneaked into her room quietly, crept up behind her, covered her eyes, and spoke to her in a strange voice.
In the ear: "Guess who I am?"
Xiu Xiu was in a good mood and guessed the names of several maids one after another, but was rejected one by one. She was a little annoyed and pulled away her hands to play tricks. When she opened her eyes and saw the light again, a delicate and small doll attracted all her attention.
Sight.
"Hello, Miss Xiuxiu." Jinyunlan shook the doll's body and greeted her.
Xiu Xiu took it in surprise, held it in her palm and watched it carefully. It was obvious that this rare but honest doll image captured her heart, and she temporarily forgot to see who it was.
"Do you like it? If Xiu Xiu likes it, then sister will give it to you."
Hearing this, Xiu Xiu followed the sound. When she saw Jin Yunlan's true face, her first reaction was happiness, but she was soon dominated by her pride and hid her smile.
She held the cute doll tightly in her hands, and she couldn't put it down because she couldn't freely complain about her sister's mistake three days ago.
Jin Yunlan's sincere apology did not make the younger sister's dilemma last long. Seeing her sincere admission of her mistake, Xiu Xiu's face was filled with deep guilt, and she could no longer maintain her arrogance, and was finally doused with a basin of cold water.
Extinguished the anger.
"Okay, I'll forgive you this time. But I won't do it next time, or I will really ignore you again." She frowned, pursed her lips, and "threatened" her in a childlike voice.
Jin Yunlan quickly gave her face and bowed politely, "Yes, Miss Xiuxiu."
Xiu Xiu held the stuffed doll in her hands and smiled as brightly as a flower.
Jin Yunlan smiled and said nothing. She quietly hung the longevity lock around her neck, wrote with her for a while, and finally left Jialan Courtyard with Xiuxiu's reluctant eyes.
After her sister left, Xiu Xiu held the doll in one hand and stroked the pattern of the longevity lock with the other, mesmerized.
The patriarch's wife came in at this time, saw her smiling face, and asked her what happened. Xiuxiu ran towards her, hugged her mother coquettishly, told her what had just happened, and showed her the gift from her sister in a lively manner.
A gift for her.
When the lady saw that the two sisters had settled their differences, she couldn't help but sigh, "Let me tell you, my sister naturally has you in her heart. Look how caring she is, finding such a rare doll for you, and this gold locking piece, it's so exquisite.
.Don’t get angry with your sister carelessly in the future.”
Xiu Xiu was in high spirits and was extremely obedient. She nodded to her mother's instructions and said, "Actually, I don't blame my sister for being absent. It's just that my brother always said that my sister didn't miss me and didn't care about me. That's why I gave birth to her."
She is so angry. In fact, I have stopped being angry with her a long time ago."
The lady sighed secretly. She picked up Xiu Xiu and let her sit on her lap.
Xiu Xiu started chatting, and the topic all revolved around Jin Yunlan. She pulled her mother's sleeves and said seriously: "Those days when my sister was in the rain to direct the flood control, we went to the scene to deliver meals to my sister and the others. Although the rain soaked her
I was embarrassed, but I thought she was so powerful. She commanded loudly and sonorously, and she was no worse than the men. At that time, I made up my mind to be a brave woman like my sister in the future."
The patriarch's wife laughed when she heard this, and scraped her little nose affectionately, "We Xiuxiu have such ambition, we don't have to worry about whether we can accomplish anything."
"But my brother said that my sister was wild, unruly, and not a serious girl. He also said that my mother always flattered her, which made him very annoyed." Xiu Xiu spat out the truth in one breath.
There was a crack in the lady's gentle face, and an indescribable pain emerged in the faint wrinkles at the corners of her eyes.
"The first time I saw Lan'er, she was lying in a cradle with her diaper on and crying. At that time, I was just a girl who had just left the house, and I didn't understand what she was crying about or what she needed. I clumsily carried her into the cradle.
In my arms, she soon stopped crying. Only then did I realize that she was missing her mother. Xiuxiu, you have a father, a mother, a sister, and a brother. But your sister lost her mother as soon as she was born. How pitiful.
.So I secretly decided to be kinder and tolerant to her. Even if I do thousands of things, as long as she can feel a little bit, that's good."
At this point, her eyes were filled with tears, and her trembling cry prevented her from uttering a complete sentence coherently, "But I didn't want Chong'er to hate me and have such extreme thoughts. Maybe I did something wrong.
Already."
Xiu Xiu didn't know why, but seeing her mother sobbing, she took out her handkerchief and kept wiping away her tears. This chapter has been completed!