Xiaoqi's smile suddenly froze, her dimples disappeared quickly, her lips drooped, and her originally bright and sparkling eyes were covered with mist.
Her little hands, which had been pulling on her ears, fell down and twisted together anxiously.
The rich mint scent is mixed with a fragrance that is different from the delicate aroma of magnolia flowers; instead, it carries the scent of the rose of Sharon, which symbolizes sadness and parting.
The rose of Sharon, a flower of sorrow, is the last flower to bloom in spring. Once the rose of Sharon has faded, there is no turning back, and it can no longer bloom beautifully.
The blooming of the rose of Sharon signifies the passing of a woman's youth.
In Buddhist scriptures, it is described as a flower that blooms in heaven, white and soft, and that encountering this flower will remove evil thoughts. However, such auspicious omens are not necessarily a good thing for people in the mortal world.
A single, glistening tear silently rolled down Xiaoqi's exquisitely beautiful face. The sadness mingled with the fragrance, affecting everyone around her through both sight and smell.
Xiao Liu suddenly cried out and burst into tears: "Grandpa, don't make things difficult for my sister! She doesn't want to remove her birthmark, so don't force her. Just let her keep it! Waaaaah... Sister, don't be sad. Seeing you cry breaks my heart, waaaaah..."
Han Fei's lips twitched. This brat not only didn't help to persuade them, but he was also causing trouble.
Xiao Qi, who was just silently shedding tears, was stunned when she heard her brother's loud crying. The tears in her big eyes seemed to freeze instantly, making her look adorably dazed.
She tilted her head to look at her brother, tears streaming down her crooked eyelids. She opened her little mouth and burst into tears along with her brother, wailing, "Aww!"
Han Fei: "..."
Suddenly I felt like I had two heads!
Han Fei was already heartbroken to see Xiao Qi so thin, and now the little girl's face was red from crying, which made him feel even more sorry for her, so his heart softened.
Perhaps there are other ways. Since she likes the birthmark, let's leave it for now...
Han Fei sighed heavily: "Little crybaby, don't cry. If you don't want to go, you don't have to. Keep it if you like."
However, there might be some trouble in the future. I need to consider opening a perfume company and also implement the custom perfume that Xiao Liu mentioned.
Each time Xiaoqi cries, the scent of her tears is different, perhaps changing according to her mood at the time. But the pungent mint smell is still there, so it seems that the pre-note of her crying is mint.
Upon hearing this, the little girl immediately smiled, her dimples sinking in. Her voice, slightly hoarse from crying, rang out in her childish voice, "Yay, little flower, Xiaoqi won't be separated from you!"
The little girl smiled through her teary eyes, perfectly illustrating what it means to cry one minute and laugh the next, with her eyes practically shooting out cannons!
Han Fei looked at Xiao Qi, whose little face was swollen from crying and who was even more adorable than before, and sighed again, his gaze falling on the red birthmark on Xiao Qi's forehead.
It is about the size of a thumb and its shape resembles a small red five-petaled flower.
At this moment, the red seemed to become even more alluring.
"You don't have to remove the birthmark, but you have to promise Grandpa that we'll go to the barbershop and get bangs to cover it up."
Xiao Qi pouted, wanting to try the same trick again. Han Fei took out a pair of scissors from the car door storage compartment: "You can keep crying. Either Grandpa will cut your hair, or if you stop crying, Grandpa will find the best barber to give you the cutest bangs."
Xiaoqi swallowed the sob that was about to escape her lips. Her large, misty eyes stared intently at the scissors in Han Fei's hand, as if afraid they would touch her hair. She instinctively grabbed her braid and leaned back, distancing herself from Han Fei.
Han Fei chuckled, started the car, and drove straight to the barbershop.
To avoid the girl having second thoughts later, let's just get it over with quickly!
If other children have a birthmark, they would be eager to get rid of it as soon as possible, or cover it up completely.
His daughter, Harper Seven, was different. Not only was she not ashamed, but she was proud of it. She would show off the birthmark on her forehead to everyone she met, claiming it was a beautiful flower.
To cheer up her younger sister, Xiao Liu would embellish the story: "When my mom was pregnant with Xiao Qi, she dreamed of a sea of flowers. Guanyin (the Goddess of Mercy) picked one of the flowers and gave it to her, and sure enough, a little girl was born. This birthmark is almost exactly the same as that flower in her dream. Our Xiao Qi is a flower fairy!"
This version of the story has been explained to Henry at the time, and later to Grandpa Yu and even Grandpa Gu by Xiao Liu.
After hearing such comments so often, not only would outsiders not look down on Xiaoqi because of her birthmark, but Xiaoqi herself would also become proud and consider herself a beautiful flower fairy.
The car stopped in front of the city's best barbershop. Han Fei opened the back door and said, "Xiao Qi, get out of the car."
Just as they reached the door, Xiaoqi suddenly wanted to change her mind. The little girl lay on the back seat, covered her face with her little hands, kicked her little feet, and said in a childish voice, "Grandpa, Xiaoqi is asleep, Xiaoqi is really asleep!"
Han Fei was both amused and exasperated: "She can still talk to her grandfather while she's asleep?"
"Grandpa, I don't want to cover up the flowers. The flowers are pretty, and Xiaoqi likes them!"
"Things you like should be kept hidden away."
"Why?" Xiao Qi peeked out from between her fingers covering her face, her beautiful, bright pupils filled with doubt as she stared intently at Han Fei.
"Because it's beautiful, maybe other people will like it. Some people will do anything to get what they like. If Xiaoqi doesn't hide what she likes well, bad people will take it away."
"Will they skin Xiaoqi alive?"
A shadow of gloom flashed across Han Fei's face.
Xiaoqi had been secretly observing him. When she saw that her grandfather looked unwell, she was startled, thinking that she had made a fool of herself and angered her grandfather.
The little girl's eyes were brimming with tears, and she looked extremely aggrieved: "Grandpa, don't be angry, Xiaoqi... I'll just get a haircut!"
Han Fei realized that he had unintentionally frightened the little girl. He reached out and stroked Xiao Qi's hair, which she had messed up herself, and comforted her, "Did Grandpa scare Xiao Qi just now? Grandpa wasn't going to scold you. I just thought of some bad things."
"What bad thing happened?"
Han Fei closed his eyes and pursed his lips.
He recalled that in the original story, Xiao Qi died a gruesome death, her flesh mangled and bloody. Xiao Liu couldn't believe it was Xiao Qi at all, and it was only after a DNA test that he confirmed she was his sister. At that moment, he completely broke down.
Although Han Fei did not describe Xiao Qi's miserable condition in detail, he had a guess at this point.
Xiaoqi's "popularity" is probably due to her unique fragrance. Some people tried to unravel the secret of the fragrance or experiment on her, which led to Xiaoqi's tragic end.
Perhaps, as Xiao Qi said, it's not impossible that she was skinned alive. Otherwise, the original work wouldn't have emphasized that she was covered in blood and gore.
Perhaps due to certain limitations, the original work failed to clearly describe that bloody scene, but now, thinking of Xiao Qi's miserable state at that time, Han Fei felt unbearable heartache.
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