Bai Huang and I stood on the street, looking like a young couple breaking up, which attracted passers-by to stop and watch. The main reason is that Baihuang's exposure is quite high. He patrols the city with his guards every day, and basically everyone knows him. The exposure of my words is lower, but I am also the city lord of Yuxi City, and most people can still think of my face when they think about it.
Then this is not an ordinary young couple quarreling, but a celebrity divorce posture. The streets and alleys are directly surrounded by three floors inside and three floors outside.
"My lord, Miss Baihuang is a good girl, please coax her."
"That is to say, who doesn't make mistakes, doesn't he? Life has to go on."
"Miss Baihuang, you should also be more considerate of the city lord. It's not easy for a man. If you have something to say, it's fine."
A few daring civilians shouted in the crowd, and then Bai Huang and I were surrounded by a rush of voices. In this situation, no matter how thick-skinned Bai Huang was, he couldn't handle it. He grabbed my wrist with his backhand, dragged me, and walked out of the crowd:
"Give way, let everyone!"
After finally squeezing out the crowd who were watching the excitement, Bai Huang kept panting while supporting his knees, while I leaned against the wall to rest. At this moment, a pair of small white hands held a bright red wild fruit and handed it to Bai Huang. Bai Huang raised his head, and I raised my head too, and found a little girl standing there with a cloth bag on her shoulders, with a smile on her face. Shy smile.
After seeing me, she was slightly taken aback, and asked tentatively:
"My lord...?"
I blinked and remembered.
When I first came to Yuxi City, I had a few encounters with this little girl. Her older brother, Yama, is Felita's personal apprentice, a little magician in Yuxi City. The girl's name is Yaqian, she always follows her brother, and hides behind her brother when talking to strangers.
I patted her head and asked:
"Is that Yaqian? Are you not with your brother today?"
Yaqian shook her head and said:
"No."
After finishing speaking, she handed the fruit in her hand to Bai Huang vigorously, and said:
"I just saw Sister Baihuang here, and she looks very tired. I just went to pick fruit today, and I want to give Sister Baihuang a taste of the biggest and sweetest ones."
Bai Huang restrained all her anger in front of the little girl, smiled happily, took the fruit from Yaqian, and praised her for being gentle and virtuous, and she would definitely be a good wife in the future. Yaqian's face was blushing, she lowered her head, twisted her clothes with both hands, too shy to speak.
I suddenly remembered something and asked:
"I remember the last time I saw you and your brother Yama, you told me that the conditions at home are much better, as long as you help the family with things, you don't have to work hard to pick the fruit anymore. Did something happen?"
Bai Huang also frowned and asked:
"If someone bullies you, you must tell me."
Yaqian hurriedly waved her hands and replied:
"No, no. It's just... my brother's birthday is coming soon."
Bai Huang and I looked at each other, but couldn't understand for a while.
With a sweet smile on Yaqian's face, she said softly:
"When I celebrated my birthday, neither the Lord City Master nor Sister Baihuang came to Yuxi City. The family was very poor, but my brother still ran out, climbed the tallest tree outside the city, and took great risks to dig out bird eggs. , That night, there were two small poached eggs on top of the noodles. But when my brother came down from the tree, he was bruised all over his body by the birds that chased him back, and his foot slipped and fell off, causing his left arm to be broken. He had to rest for a long time I just recovered. This time my brother celebrates his birthday, so I also want to buy some presents for him.”
Bai Huang was greatly moved when he heard this, touched Yaqian's head, and asked:
"Is that why you went to pick wild berries?"
As she spoke, she pulled Yaqian's arm and found that there were also many scabbed wounds on Yaqian's hands, which seemed to be scratched. Bai Huang looked distressed, rummaged through his pockets to get his wallet, and said:
"I bought it, how much?"
Yaqian shook her head and said softly:
"I hope to rely on my own efforts to buy gifts for my brother. If I sell them to sister Baihuang or the city owner, I will be taken care of by you again. My mother said that our family's life is getting better gradually without your efforts. He also said that one should know how to be grateful and not always cause trouble for others. So there is really no need, thank you.”
As she spoke, Yaqian ran away with a small package on her back.
"Should I do something for my brother too..."
Bai Huang read softly, and suddenly remembered that I was still here, turned around with a tangled face, not knowing whether to continue to make an angry expression, thought for a long time, and finally said to me without a sullen face:
"Why are you still here?"
I smiled and said:
"I also want to eat a fruit, but unfortunately no one will give it to me."
Bai Huang lifted up the half-eaten fruit in his hand and said:
"See, this is the gap. Everyone should like me more."
Then, he took a last bite of the pulp, threw the core to me, and continued:
"Come on, let me treat you to eat."
I looked at the fruit core in my hand and said deliberately:
"I figured it was indirect..."
Immediately, Bai Huang lost his composure, ran over and held my arm, blushed and said angrily:
"How dare you! Throw it away."
I smiled, threw the fruit core in my hand to the roof, and said:
"Let's feed it to the birds in the sky."
Bai Huang looked up, and after this look, he never looked back, and kept looking at the sky in ecstasy. I stood beside her, and after a while, I heard Bai Huang say softly:
"When I was very young, my second brother was not the current Yunhai Baifeng. He was not as full-fledged as he is now, but whether it was him before or now, he was very kind to his younger siblings and each of us. Good. He will mediate our conflicts and give us a lot of reasons. When we get into trouble outside, he will help us carry it alone. When I was a child, I secretly poured broth into my father’s goldfish pond. I wanted to feed the goldfish, but a lot of them turned over. At that time, my father got very angry and called us together, asking who did it. I was terrified and kept crying. At that time, my second My brother stood up silently and helped me take the blame, and was imprisoned in a small black room by my father for three days. Guess what my father said to him at that time?"
Bai Huang forced a smile and said:
"'I know you didn't do it, but I hope you understand a truth. If you want to protect other people, you have to pay the price. As my son, you must understand that there are no good things in this world for nothing. There is going to be a loss.'”
Bai Huang lowered his head and said softly:
"I grew up so big, and we in Yunhai have never had a single case of brotherhood, not once. There will be many conflicts, but they will all end peacefully in the end. Because my second brother is there, even if the second brother can't do it, The eldest brother will also come forward to settle the situation, even if the sky falls, they will have a solution. So I always thought that no matter how many other brothers and sisters turned against each other, our Yunhai family would live in harmony until the end. But I did not expect that the first incident The example of brother fighting against the wall is actually my two older brothers... "
Bai Huang looked at me, her eyes were red:
"Lead, what can you do?"