Ma Qingyi looked in the direction she pointed, and saw the apricot tree she had planted.
Ma Qingyi walked to the side and looked at the leaves that had turned yellow and the apricots that had grown on the branches.
Ma Qingyi's slender fingers stroked the branches of the tree, which were rough but strong. It had existed for ten years. Its apricot leaves were used to make apricot wine, and its fruits were used to satisfy people's appetites. Every year, people took what they needed from it, but it still bloomed, withered, bloomed again, and withered again, repeating the cycle over and over again.
"After you leave, I will ask the servants to look after it every day!" Ma Xiong said while standing behind him.
"Didn't you say before... that the apricot tree wouldn't live that long if planted here! And you've always been against me planting it. Why do you still care about it?" Ma Qingyi didn't turn around, her eyes still lingering on the tree.
"But you asked me to take good care of it!... Looking at it is like seeing you!" Ma Xiong walked forward and put his hands on Ma Qingyi's shoulders, smiling.
“…Thank you, Dad!”
"Silly child, what are you thanking me for?"
“…”
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Prince's Mansion
"What time is it now?" Mo Yufeng asked Xiang Hongyi with a cold face while sitting in the study.
"To reply to Your Majesty, it is now... the hour of the Rooster!"
"Where is the princess?" Mo Yufeng asked with a cold face.
"The princess... returned to the Ma residence! She left early in the morning and has been here ever since!"
"Back off!"
"yes!"
Mo Yufeng looked at the sunset outside the window that had already painted half the sky red, then lowered his eyes to look at the wilted red spider lilies, his expression solemn.
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