In late spring in March, the green grass is quiet and the sky is as green as green.

The little boy leaned against a thin old horse and watched the boy leave with a smile. The boy was wearing a patched cloth, his face was surprisingly handsome, and his eyes were surprisingly quiet. There was not much resentment to be bullied, but only a faint forbearance and boredom with everything in front of him.

"Maybe, I should leave here." The boy touched the old horse behind him and said to himself, as if he was discussing with his partner who had been with him behind him.

"Father... doesn't need me. Maybe, I should leave here."

He was just an illegitimate child born to his affair with his mother, and two other brothers and three sisters. His mother was unable to raise him, so she sent him to his father's house. But his father had his original wife and his own children. So he was sent by his father's wife to shepherd the sheep, and finally he had a meal to survive.

He knew that the man he wanted to call Afu wanted to protect him. But he could only remain silent in the face of his strong wife and children.

After all... he is the outsider compared to their family.

But...is that's it?

The boy looked up at the washing sky, his eyes full of confusion.

The old horse neighed softly and rubbed his face gently.

He raised his hand and gently pressed his eyebrows. The boy looked around and saw an endless grass in the distance, until the sun sets in the west.

"I heard that the Huns were all the way north. I don't know what it looked like?" said the young man.

"Brother Ah Qing!"

The girl's crisp voice sounded on the grass. The boy sat up and looked over. The girl in a light blue cloth ran towards her through the flock of sheep quietly gnawing on the tender grass. The flock was frightened by her figure running towards the wind and spread out around her.

As soon as he approached, the girl's face changed drastically, "They bully you again?! I'll settle the score with them!"

"A Luan." The young man who called A Qing stopped him, with a disagreement in his voice.

The girl frowned her shallow eyebrows, but turned around and knelt beside him and muttered unhappily, "They are so bad."

Ah Qing smiled faintly, "They are not bad, they just don't like me."

"A Qing is a good person." said the girl.

Her family lives nearby and naturally meets the teenager who grazed here every day.

She also knew A Qing's life experience. A mother said that it was not someone's fault, at least it was not A Qing's fault. She was with each other every day, looking at A Qing's silent sheep, silently watching her brother eat and drink, but he could only survive a hard life, but there was no trace of resentment or jealousy in A Qing's eyes.

She knew that Ah Qing was a good person.

Ah Qing saved her life.

"Brother Ah Qing, my mother wants me to bring you. You can eat it." Two tightly wrapped steamed buns were delivered to Ah Qing, and there was a slight heat. Ah Luan said happily: "Ah Qing said you can only eat cold dry food. It's still hot. The wild vegetable filling that Ah mother made today also added meat."

A Qing knew that A Luan’s family was not rich, and she must have secretly saved these two meat buns to him. A faint warmth flowed in her warm eyes, and she handed one of the warm buns in her hand back, "Eat together, thank Aunt Yun for me."

"Okay!" A Luan responded with a crisp voice, and a bright smile on her pink little face.

"I want to leave here." Ah Qing said while eating.

"Hmm?" A Luan blinked, and his eating movement slowed down, "Are you... going to find your mother?"

Ah Qing nodded.

"But, isn't it far away?" A Qing's mother was from the Pingyang Hou's family, but Pingyang Hou lives in the capital and only occasionally returns to her fiefdom.

A Qing thought for a while, "It's not far. I want to go back and see Ah Mother, Ah Sister and the others."

A Luan sat upright, lowered her eyebrows and thought for a long time before he focused and said, "Then go! A mother Zheng must love you more than your father."

Ah Qing didn't remind her that her mother was not surnamed Zheng, but just raised her hand to rub the top of her head, "I'm leaving, you have to be careful."

A Luan smiled and said, "I am not as stupid as Brother Aqing. I have my father, mother and brother, who dares to bully me?"

A Qing was a little sad, "Maybe when I come back, A Luan is already married."

A Luan's face turned red and she glared at him hatefully, "So you will also tease others and ignore you!" As he said that, he got up and ran away. The boy was a little annoyed. He was about to leave but still made A Luan angry. In his father's house for many years, A Luan was his only friend. He had made up his mind to leave here, but he didn't know when it would be next time.

The little girl who was in a daze and ran away so far ran back.

Ah Qing was about to apologize but was thrown into a full mind by the little girl, "Brother Ah Qing, you have to take care of yourself. If... if your mother's family is not good, come back." After that, he stopped looking at Ah Qing and turned around and ran away. After a moment, he could only see a small light blue back.

Ah Qing looked at her back as she was leaving, and was silent for a while. She looked down at the collar of her chest. The gray coarse cloth was stained with water, but it seemed to have soaked in his heart, hot.

After saying goodbye to Ah Qing, Ah Luan found a place to cry quietly. The little friend who had been playing with her for many years, although Ah Qing was not her brother, she was closer to her than Ah brother in her family.

A Qing has a gentle personality and is silent. He can tell many things that he cannot speak to his brother. A Qing doesn't care if he is bullied by his brothers at home, but if other friends bully her, he will avenge her.

After seeing Ah Qing off, she knew that she might never see you again.

Chang'an...it seems to be a very far place, as far as...it will never be reached in your lifetime.

But Ah Qing stayed in Pingyang and might have to be bullied by her half-brother for the rest of her life and graze at the Zheng family. Although Ah Qing has always been peaceful and quiet, she knew that he was not happy. There was always an indescribable confusion in his quiet eyes.

My brother is the same age as him. Although he is rough, his eyes are always full of vitality.

Maybe when you return to Chang'an, with your mother and brothers taking care of you, Ah Qing will become as happy as your brother.

As the sun sets, A Luan packs up her emotions and walks home with the wild vegetables she has picked. Although her good friend is leaving, she has her father, mother and brother. Although they are not rich and their family is much happier than A Qing.

Thinking of this, A Luan's tender pink face once again dyed a sweet smile.

"A Luan! A Luan!" The middle-aged man wearing coarse cloth clothes rushed over and shouted anxiously.

A Luan's heart trembled, and for some reason his face turned pale, "Yun...Second Uncle, what's wrong?"

The man shouted: "A Luan, go back quickly! Your father... Your father was trampled by a horse!"

The vegetable basket in his hand fell silently, and A Luan couldn't care about the basket holding back tears and ran towards Uncle Yun Er quickly.

"Second uncle...what, what's going on? My father..."

The man sighed, "It's a sin. A group of people just beat the street outside the village. Your father... your father..."

A Luan pushed the man away and stumbled towards the village.

At the end of the road, the sound of horse hooves with a crisp ringing sound gradually approaching. Uncle Yun Er rushed over and pulled A Luan to the side of the road, and several horses ran past him.

On the leading horse was sitting a handsome boy in red. The boy was handsome in his eyebrows and eyes, and the red dress was flamboyant, and the horse was angry in bright clothes, but he had a faint arrogance and a look of despicability, a kind of altitude that was completely different from ordinary people.

The moment when Yunluan passed by, the young man looked at her side and raised his eyebrows. Several horses had already swept past and galloped away, leaving only a journey of smoke and dust.

"A Luan, go quickly!"

"Yes, yes... Ah Father!" Ah Luan nodded in panic, no longer wanted to follow the people and horses who had passed by, and turned around and ran towards the village, his heart sounded like a drum.

The Yun family was at the entrance of the village. Before he could get close to his house, he heard the mournful cry of his mother from inside, "The head of the family! The head of the family..."

A Luan felt cold in her heart, as if she fell into an ice cave: Ah Father...

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