After breakfast, the four of them did not want to gather together, so they dispersed.
Xuanji wanted to go to the north side of the hill to see the scenery, but there were always four tails sticking behind her, so he had to walk back with a sullen face. Across the bridge is a forest of almond blossoms. She remembers the last time she and Sifeng heard Lady Dongfang sing there, but it’s a pity that it’s only been two or three days and things have changed.
As she was watching, she was surprised to see a few people coming from the other side. The moment Xuanji saw him, her eyes lit up and she hurriedly waved. When she saw that behind him were the disciples of the Fuyu Island who were responsible for guarding the island, her face fell again.
“Fool.” Yu Sifeng smilingly walked over to her and gave her a tap on the head. “There’s nothing to do anyway, why don’t you go see the apricot blossoms?”
Xuanji nodded absentmindedly but when she turned back to see the disciples of Fuyu Island behind her she became uninterested.
Yu Sifeng turned back and said, “I want to go to the apricot blossom forest with Miss Chu and enjoy the flowers. No need for brother to accompany us.”
Immediately someone objected: “This …… is not good, the apricot forest has many forks, in case you get lost ……”
However. most of them knew about the intimate relationship between Yu Sifeng and Xuanji, and thought that the couple probably wanted to find a quiet place to talk about their love, and it would be no fun for them to follow. Another person said. “Please we will wait outside.”
As soon as Xuanji heard that they were not going to follow them, she immediately burst into laughter and grabbed Yu Sifeng’s hand and turned her face away and went into the flowery apricot forest. Looking back while walking she laughed and asked, “Sifeng, you are so good. Why did they stop following after just one sentence?”
Yu Sifeng did not say anything but smiled and raised his hand to give her nose a gentle twist and said in a low voice: “Not everyone is as slow as you are.”
Is she really slow? Xuanji asked him with his eyes. Yu Sifeng hooked his lips and shook his head. The Yuzan flower behind her ear was showing signs of drying up. He looked around and smiled back at her, saying, “Just wait.”
He grasped a branch and lightly jumped upwards, the most beautiful pink apricot blossoms were picked from the top by him.
Xuanji watched in awe as he approached her, raised his hand and plucked the Yuzan flower from behind his ear and placed the thin blossom in her hair, saying softly, “This colour suits you.”
She blinked her eyes and hung her head and whispered: “Don’t throw that flower away. …… I’ll keep it as a bookmark.”
The two of them walked slowly in the forest of apricot blossoms. The pink apricot blossoms were in full bloom as far as the eye could see, and the branches were strewn with clouds of colour that seemed to spread to the sky, making the sky a boundless cloud. They are walking in the clouds, their bodies and hearts are light and drunk. In fact, there is nothing to say, but the words in the mouth just can not stop, casually find something trivial and can talk for half a day.
Is it true that all teenagers have gone through this foolish stage? Sometimes they feel silly themselves, so they stop talking and just look at each other and smile, as if looking at each other with their eyes is also a kind of enjoyment.
In the end they leaned against a tree to rest. “Let’s sneak away while we’re here, no one will know.”
Yu Sifeng shook his head, “What about Minyan and the others? Besider, there are so many wrong turns in the Apricot Grove, if we make a mistake then all the progress will be lost.”
Xuanji had to give up this idea. She looked up at him and felt that he seemed to have grown taller again, Sifeng was already very good-looking, with starry eyebrows and a cold look on his face, plus his pale skim, which made him look hard to get close to. But she knew that he smiled very gently and no matter how she fooled around, he would not blame her, let alone be angry.
The silence of the moment gave her a feeling of not being able to breathe, so she had to laugh dryly and say: “The …… weather is really nice ……”
He saw Xuanji’s eyelashes were trembilng slightly and her face was flushed, knowing that she had nothing to say, so he was shocked and couldn’t help but raise his hand to her face, and suddenly heard a voice behind him.
“He’s on the island now, why don’t you go talk to him?”
The voice was bright and soft, very familiar, but he couldn’t remember who it was for a while.
Xuanji and Sifeng looked at each other, both squatted down and poked their heads out to see, only to see two people standing not far away. The dense apricot blossoms covered most of their figures, but one was red and the other white, as red as fire and as white as new snow. At a glance they can be recognised as Pianpian and Yu Ning.
The two of them also came here to talk about love? The two people looked at each other again and read the words “talk about love” in each other’s eyes, and each was a bit confused, not understanding why they used “also”.
Yu Ning was stunned for a long time and suddenly said coldly: “Why do you always mention him in front of me? If you love him, why don’t you say it yourself!”
This is very much a diversion, at the opposite side Pianpian immediately burst out laughing. She said urgently, “What are you laughing at? What’s so funny?”
Pianpian leisurely said, “I’m laughing at a fool who has been worrying about someone for years, but never dares to say a word to him.”
Yu Ning blushed and said sharply: “What does it have to do with you ……!”
Pianpian suddenly looked straight at her and said in a serious manner, “The year you accidently injured Duanzheng, there was remorse in your heart, think I do not know? You dare not go to see him, but secretly left the wound medicine at the door of his room, and when facing him, you deliberately make a proud appearance, so that people say you are arrogant, so that he hates you to the bone, and what is the point?”
Yu Ning was almost unable to stand because of his words, and raised her hand to push him hard, but he grabbed her wrist and she could not move.
“The second time you competed with him, you deliberately lost against him to make his good name come true and make him proud.”
Yu Ning struggled for a long time only to give up and then said, “What I’m going to do …… is my business, it has nothing to do with you! You …… should take care of your own business! Don’t bother me!”
Pianpian said: “Wrong! You and I grew up together, practicing the two swords together, but you always make up your own mind like this, where do you put me? Do you think that I should obey you in everything?”
Yu Ning has nothing to say, the heart suddenly felt infinitely aggrieved, can not help but cry: “I did not take into account your ideas …… it is my fault. In the future …… I, I will never force you again. If you feel unhappy, if you want to hit or scold, do whatever you want!”
To fight or scold …… he narrowed his eyes, the woman in white in front of him is always arrogant and stubborn, even when crying with her head down she will not admit defeat. The fact that she is like this often makes him feel the urge to see how far she has to be tortured before she will admit defeat and come to her senses a little.
“If you want me to scold you, you should have some sincerity.” He smiled, “Close your eyes, I’m going to do it.”
Yu Ning stared at him with hatred and closed her eyes and waited for him to slap or punch, and get it over with.
Pianpian saw her eyelashed tremble and suddenly raised his hands and held her in his arms and kissed her on the lips without any resistance.
“You’re so shameless.” with his lips against hers, Pianpian murmured, “Why do you always forget about me?”
He released her sharply, turned around and walked away.
Yu Ning’s eyes were stunned to see his fiery back disappeared in the cloudy apricot forest, her knees suddenly went soft and she sat down, unable to make a sound for a long time.
Xuanji could see her wrists trembling slightly, she couldn’t look at it anymore and turned around to leave but Yu Sifeng tugged on her sleeve, telling her not to make a sound.
Yu Ning stayed dazed for a long time, but finally got up slowly and walked out of the almond blossom forest.
The two of them don’t know what coincidence led them to actually se such a drama, their hearts are jumping and when they looked at each other, both seem to laugh. After a long time Yu Sifeng cleared his throat and pretended to say in a normal tone, “I can imagine that the relationship … is quite complicated.”
Xuanji touched her face, only to feel her hot palms and stayed that way for a long time before whispering, “So what Linglong said at the time was rigt, Yuning really liked Senior Duanzheng … but Pianpian … “
She thought of the scene where he lowered his head to kiss Yu Ning, and suddenly could not continue.
The two of them sat on the ground for a long time, both feeling embarrassed, and simply got up and walked back. Yu Sifeng saw Xuanji’s thoughtful appearance, her eyebrows furrowed as if she was thinking about some difficult problem, so he wondered, “What are you thinking about?”
Xuanji suddenly looked up at him and whispered, “Sifeng, you … are you … “
What is it? She couldn’t say it, he couldn’t ask. So many signs, so many unintentional touched, so many, yet she didn’t notice anything. This is a wonderful and painful ambiguity.
Yu Sifeng looked at her white face like fresh snow, it seems that she is facing some difficult problem, biting her lips and thinking hard. His heart suddenly felt some pain, as if there is something in the chest something slowly falling down.
He lifted his hand, twirled a petal from her hair, and said softly, “I like you, Xuanji. I like you more than everyone and everything.”
The young man’s black jade-like eyes were crystal clear, and for a moment she felt that her breathing was going to stop, the whole world stopped, and she could not hear anything.
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