Chapter 254 "if line" Childhood sweethearts

In the dead of winter in Kyoto, there was heavy snow.

The magnificent winter snow scene in Qi Garden heralds a good harvest. The red walls and green tiles are covered with rustling white snow, and the winter plum blossoms stand proudly among the broken jade.

The ice on the park's kinki pond was just cleared this morning.

Amidst the flying snowflakes, Qi Yuzhi, dressed like a New Year picture doll, buried her pretty little chin in her white velvet collar, sitting by the pond, trying to catch the priceless fish.

Qi Jiashu stood by to help her keep watch.

Qi Jiashu, who was six years old, still had short legs. He stood on the rockery, holding a telescope and looking in the direction of the main courtyard where the parents were brewing tea around the stove, and from time to time he looked back at his sister.

He acted furtively, and was very curious: "Ah-yu, did you catch anything? It seems like my parents are about to leave!"

"No hurry, no hurry." Qi Yuzhi rubbed his cheek lazily.

She squatted by the pool, holding a mini fishing rod in one hand, and looked back with a coquettish wink: "Fishing requires patience."

Qi Jiashu: “…”

I can't be patient at all.

The fish in that pond were brought by my father from abroad. The price of a koi carp was more valuable than his life.

If it were discovered, Dad wouldn’t blame my sister!

Maybe someone would even pull a koi out of the pond and give it to her as a pet.

But it will definitely be his legs that are broken!

Qi Jiashu felt his legs getting cold as he squatted on the rockery. With tears in his eyes, he continued to watch diligently.

And at this moment.

There was a hurried sound of clattering footsteps.

He was only paying attention to Qi Jiashu in the distance, and seemed not to notice a short-legged child running towards him from under the rockery.

It can be said to be a zero-frame start.

Sheng Jinan waved and ran over, shouting, "Qi Yuzhi! Zhizhizhizhizhizhizhi help me!"

The koi almost took the bait.

Sheng Jinan's voice sounded unexpectedly, frightening Jinli so much that he turned around and ran away immediately.

Qi Yuzhi, who had failed in her koi fishing, threw away her fishing rod. She was so angry that her cheeks puffed up and she turned around with wide eyes: "Sheng Jinan! Are you a little mouse? What do you mean by zhizhizhizhizhi!"

She was so angry that she stamped her feet and said in a fierce voice: "You've affected my koi fishing!"

Qi Jiashu took off his telescope and turned his head to look.

He immediately followed up, "That's right! Who told you to squeak? You're affecting my sister's koi fishing!"

Sheng Jinan ran breathlessly.

He had no time to care about Qi Yuzhi's brocade carp, so he rushed over and panted, saying, "Don't worry about that damn fish! Come over here quickly and help me take care of Brother Jing!"

Lou Yanjing?

Qi Yuzhi tilted her head and blinked: "What's wrong with him?"

Sheng Jinan complained directly to Qi Yuzhi: "He used a match to set Brother Ji's butt on fire again!"

The relationship between the Qi Lou, Pei Sheng and other four families is very good.

It snowed nicely today, so the parents of the four families made an appointment to come to Qi Garden for tea and brought their children along.

Qi Yuzhi hosted a banquet in Beijing, and Pei Ji and Sheng Jin'an were of similar age.

Among them, Lou Yanjing is already four years old.

But because he was born on Christmas, which was later than September, he was a year late and happened to go to kindergarten with the other three.

The four of them were childhood sweethearts.

Qi Yuzhi and Lou Yanjing are the closest.

Ever since Lou Yanjing peed on his big boss father when he was born, he was destined to be a rebellious kid. When he was young, he was extremely arrogant among other kids.

Lou Xiao can't control it, and Su Sang can't control it.

But everyone knows that

Qi Yuzhi, the little daughter of the Qi family, can control him.

Sheng Jinan ran to her for help.

Qi Yuzhi's face wrinkled slightly, and she immediately became serious. She put her hands on her waist and said, "Tell him to come find me."

Sheng Jinan nodded awkwardly and was about to go.

Qi Jiashu raised his hand again: "Hey, hey, wait a moment!"

Sheng Jinan immediately braked and turned to look at him.

Qi Jiashu frowned in disdain: "Tell Pei Ji to put on his pants before showing off in front of my sister."

Don't let his sister see anything dirty.

Sheng Jinan nodded again, as if he had received an imperial decree, and immediately ran to the next yard to fetch someone.

Lou Yanjing was brought over quickly.

Four-year-old Lou Yanjing was wearing a mini black blazer. He pulled the zipper to the top to cover his chin, bit a dogtail grass, and stood in front of Qi Yuzhi.

Qi Yuzhi pretended to be angry: "Tell me, why did you light a match on Pei Ji's butt?"

Lou Yanjing frowned, his face full of displeasure.

He glanced at Pei Ji, who was covering his buttocks, with disdain: "He asked me to take off my pants and compete with him in peeing. Whoever pees farther will have to roll the roast duck for the other."

"Boring, childish." Lou Yanjing said arrogantly, "I don't want to compete, this is something only three-year-olds would do!"

He is four years old anyway.

Qi Yuzhi: "So you just burn people's butts."

Lou Yanjing: "Yeah, what's the matter?"

His tone was arrogant and matter-of-fact, and he had a disdainful look on his face, as if he didn't accept any criticism at all, but he raised his eyelids and stole a glance at Qi Yuzhi.

Qi Yuzhi put her fingertips to her lips.

She tilted her head, and her furry white ball headdress swayed slightly: "You have to apologize to Pei Ji."

Lou Yanjing had a sour face and was very reluctant.

He turned his face away: "I don't know."

Qi Yuzhi was so angry that she stamped her feet: "You burned someone's butt! And you got caught! If you don't apologize for doing such a bad thing, you are not a good child!"

Lou Yanjing doesn't want to be a good child at all.

He glanced at Qi Yuzhi.

Qi Yuzhi jumped down from the pebbles beside Jinli Pond and grabbed Lou Yanjing's sleeve: "Hurry up, otherwise if Aunt Su Sang finds out, she will beat you again."

"Next time you burn his butt, remember to hide it from someone and run away. You won't be able to do it if someone finds you!"

Of course you have to apologize if you are discovered.

Pei Ji:……???

The more he listened, the more he felt something was wrong: "No, sister Zhi, you are trying to get close to brother Jing again! What do you mean by burning my butt and running away? It seems that he was right to burn my butt, but he was wrong to get caught, right?"

"What else?" Qi Yuzhi tilted her head and blinked.

She pointed between Pei Ji's legs and said, "Who told you to be so childish that you had to compete with him in peeing? What's wrong with burning your butt?"

Sheng Jinan laughed so hard that his stomach cramped.

Lou Yanjing was secretly happy.

He raised his lips secretly, and suddenly felt that he was justified in doing such a bad thing as burning someone's butt.

Pei Ji was furious: "You, you are biased!"

Qi Yuzhi pushed Lou Yanjing's arm: "Apologize quickly and tell him that you will never burn his butt in front of him again."

Lou Yanjing whispered cunningly: "I didn't do it in front of him...I was standing behind him and burned it."

He lifted his eyelids to peek at Qi Yuzhi. After meeting her fierce gaze, he immediately straightened his attitude and said, "Okay."

"I'm sorry." Lou Yanjing said perfunctorily.

He lowered his head and kicked the stone under his feet, then deliberately dragged his voice and said reluctantly: "Anyway, next time I do this, you won't find out. I will do it secretly."

Pei Ji: "...you two!!!"

He covered his buttocks, unable to cry.

Pei Ji turned his head and looked at Sheng Jinan for help.

Sheng Jinan shook his head, indicating that he was powerless: "Brother Ji, you know, only Sister Zhi can control him."

Qi Jiashu rolled his eyes: "Tsk, you lick my dog."

This guy definitely has bad intentions towards his sister!

Qi Yuzhi bent down, picked up the fishing rod, and put it into Lou Yanjing's hand: "I'll punish you for helping me catch koi."

Lou Yanjing frowned, still unwilling: "What's so good about catching this thing? You can't eat it."

Qi Yuzhi put her hands on her hips and stared at him with her head tilted.

Lou Yanjing glanced at her: "...Okay."

He sat down by the koi pond with his fishing rod in hand, picked up a piece of grass and put it in his mouth, waiting with a sullen look on his face for the fish to bite.

Qi Yuzhi successfully found a coolie.

She simply sat down leisurely beside him, swinging her short legs and humming a song, waiting for Lou Yanjing to fish for her.

Pei Ji and Sheng Jin'an were chirping behind the two of them.

Sheng Jinan: "Tsk, Brother Jing, this is not okay. He is so young but already he is being controlled by his wife..."

Pei Ji: "What? They are getting married!!!"

Sheng Jinan: "It seems so. I heard from my mother that she asked me a long time ago if I wanted to marry Zhimei when I grow up."

Pei Ji pushed him quickly: "You marry her! You can't let Brother Jing marry her! If they get married, there will be no chance for me to succeed! Let Qi Yuzhi be your wife! She will punish Brother Jing! You punish her!"

Lou Yanjing didn't know when he got up.

He kicked the stone at his feet and hit Pei Ji's butt that had just been burned by the match.

Pei Ji covered his buttocks and said, "Ah ...

Lou Yanjing sneered with an ambiguous tone, and no one knew what sentence he heard in their conversation that made him suddenly stop listening.

He still held the fishing rod in his right hand and had his left hand in his pocket.

He chuckled and said, "Are you two worthy?"

However, Qi Yuzhi and Lou Yanjing were never engaged.

Every time Su Sang came to Qi Garden for tea, he would chase after Yu Lanci, jokingly asking her to find a wife for his son.

Yu Lanci always practiced Tai Chi with Su Sang, making excuses and smiling on the surface: "For things like this... we should wait until the children grow up and see what they want."

What brat wants to marry her daughter?

He is not good at anything and is the number one fearer of birds.

In the dead of winter that year, while people were brewing tea around the fire in Qi Garden, Lou Yanjing was fishing for her lady-in-law for koi. Halfway through fishing, she was frightened by a bird that suddenly flew over, and she slipped and fell into the pond.

Although it was Pei Ji's revenge.

But it is an indisputable fact that Lou Yanjing is afraid of birds.

But no matter how Yu Lanci tried to shirk the responsibility, Qi Yuzhi and Lou Yanjing, the childhood sweethearts, seemed to always be joked about in and out of the circle as being in a relationship where they would definitely get married in the future.

Qi Yuzhi frowned in distress: "Dad, what does marriage mean? Isn't it the same as being friends?"

Qi Heqing was not shy about letting his daughter develop a sense of marriage at a young age, nor did he avoid talking about it like other parents.

He closed his eyes and looked at his daughter: "Marriage is a closer relationship than friendship. You can have many friends, but in marriage, you are each other's only one, just like your mother and I, and we will have a baby that belongs to you two."

Qi Yuzhi bit her fingers, half understanding.

She tilted her head again: "Is marriage painful?"

"Hmm?" Qi Heqing seemed puzzled.

Qi Yuzhi looked up at her father and said, "I always hear my mother crying and shouting in pain at night. It feels so miserable."

Qi Heqing's forehead twitched suddenly.

He, who had never hesitated to talk to his daughter about all kinds of things, didn't know how to respond for a moment.

So he changed the subject: "Then, Yu'er, tell your dad, when you grow up, will you be willing to marry Lou Yanjing?"

"He's afraid of birds, and he likes vegetables." Qi Yuzhi said bluntly, "He doesn't look like a man at all."

Qi Heqing put his heart back into his stomach.

After all, people always say that the boy from the Lou family only obeys his daughter. He is afraid that Lou Yanjing has set his sights on her little girl and can easily abduct her away.

My daughter's attitude now...

But Qi Yuzhi's eyes lit up again the next second: "But, Dad, he really looks quite handsome."

Qi Heqing: “…”

From then on, the Lou family could no longer make an appointment for tea with the Qi family.

Qi Heqing deliberately kept a distance from the Lou family, reduced the number of times Lou Yanjing met her daughter, and took her to see other handsome men.

But the two have been in the same class since childhood.

From kindergarten to elementary school, from elementary school to junior high school, and from junior high school to high school, they are just like conjoined twins.

At home he is still in control.

But they see each other every day at school.

Qi Heqing had hoped that since the boy from the Lou family had always skipped classes since junior high school, he might be able to be separated from Zhizhi in high school, and even if they were admitted to the same school, they could not be in the same class.

Unexpectedly, even though Lou Yanjing was rebellious, it did not prevent him from getting first place in every exam.

On the contrary, Qi Yuzhi's physics performance was poor.

It’s not certain where you can get into.

Qi Heqing was quite troubled by this. After all, if he asked a teacher to teach her physics, he would help her get into the key class of Kyoto No. 1 Middle School and send her to the boy from the Lou family.

But he couldn't deliberately ruin his daughter's bright future for such a stupid boy.

But who would have thought that someone would have a better idea than him.

With only two months left before the high school entrance exam, Qi Yuzhi, who had always been fussy about her physics grades, immediately put on her schoolbag after school and prepared to sneak away to buy the new milk tea from the next door.

But she had just graduated.

I was caught off guard and bumped into a hard chest.

Qi Yuzhi rubbed his forehead, raised his eyes in annoyance, and met the boy's sharp dark eyes. Lou Yanjing was as lazy as a boneless person, leaning against the door frame of the classroom door.

He glanced at her with a half-smile: "Where are you going?"

Qi Yuzhi felt very guilty.

She pinched the strap of her schoolbag with her fingertips, quickly found an excuse, and pointed behind him: "Hey, the head teacher is looking for me."

"Really?" Lou Yanjing raised his eyebrows slightly.

The boy had sharp features. He was wearing a short-sleeved school uniform. His eyes and brows were not fully opened, revealing a clean but unbridled youthfulness. "I just came back from my homeroom teacher. Are you sure it was her who called you, and not the new product from the milk tea shop next door?"

Qi Yuzhi: “…”

She simply hated herself for not running faster.

But at this moment, Lou Yanjing suddenly stretched out his hand hidden behind his back, with a cup of milk tea hanging on his bent joint.

Qi Yuzhi's eyes lit up instantly.

She stretched out her hand to grab it: "How do you know that I..."

But Lou Yanjing immediately dodged with the milk tea in his hand.

He raised his chin lazily, and said in a lazy tone: "Go back to your seat, take out the physics test paper, and start the cram school now."

Forced by the tyranny of milk tea in Lou Yanjing's hand.

Qi Yuzhi turned back to her seat and reluctantly took out the physics test paper in which she only scored 52 points yesterday.

finally.

During the high school entrance examination, Pei Ji and Sheng Jinan were both assigned to parallel classes. Qi Yuzhi, who had originally failed in physics, was admitted to the key class of Kyoto No. 1 Middle School with just a passing score after being tutored by Lou Yanjing every day after school. The two are still classmates.