Sitting on a stone chair in the courtyard, the three-year-old girl An An, wearing a clean white skirt, holding her pale and thin face, looked at the golden sunshine outside the courtyard wall.
Only at this time of day can the location of the stone house see sunlight for most of the rest of the day. Although this area is not completely dark, it is difficult to get sunlight.
"It's so beautiful."
The little girl looked at the sunshine and sighed.
She sat quietly, watching the golden sunshine, like sweet honey, moving bit by bit, and before she knew it, she was about to disappear at the entrance of the alley in the distance.
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His big black eyes were full of envy and longing.
Although she is only three years old, she has become accustomed to staying at home every day. When her mother goes to work, little An'an rarely even goes to the yard.
Because my mother said it's not safe outside.
Only when she could see the sun while sitting in the yard every day, would she come out of the hut, hold her chin in her hands, and look at the alley in the distance through the courtyard wall.
The sunshine there was the second color in her young life, lighting up her years.
The first color is, of course, her favorite mother.
Every day, I wait until the sun's rays completely disappear at the entrance of the alley, and after one stick of incense, my mother comes back from get off work.
In Xiao Anan's memory, there is only one exception.
Just five days ago.
When my mother came back that day, she was a whole hour later than usual.
Xiao An cried anxiously.
But he always stayed in the yard and waited.
Because my mother once said that if she comes back late one day, just wait in the yard and never go out of the yard to look for her.
Fortunately, my mother came back safely in the end.
It's just that my mother seemed different that night.
Little Anan felt that her mother had become so beautiful that day.
That night, my mother sometimes laughed happily, sometimes sighed slightly...
Little An'an didn't know what happened.
But I vaguely felt that my mother seemed to be in a good mood.
In the past few days, my mother seems to be in a good mood.
Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Xiao Anan's face involuntarily.
As long as mom is happy, An An will be happy too.
"Mom should be back on time today."
Little An'an held her chin with her hands and looked at the entrance of the alley, with eyes wide open.
The golden sunlight disappeared.
She continued to wait.
After burning the incense, my mother's tall figure appeared at the entrance of the alley in the distance.
Little Anan jumped up happily.
"Mommy mommy……"
She stood at the door of the yard and shouted loudly.
However, because the courtyard is covered by the divine pattern formation, the sound cannot be transmitted out. Xiao Anan can see and hear everything outside, but Qing Lei walking outside cannot hear or see.
moment.
Qing Lei came outside the gate and activated the formation.
Squeak.
The door opens.
"Mom, mom is back."
Xiao Anan immediately rushed over and rushed into Qing Lei's arms. She kissed Qing Lei several times on her oval face.
Qing Lei's face also showed a smile from the bottom of her heart.
"Are An'an very good today?"
She put her daughter in her arms, kissed her, turned around, closed the door, and came to the yard.
"An'an is very well-behaved."
Little An'an hugged her mother's neck and said, "I have watered the flowers and vegetables, fed the little parrots, cut the vegetables, and boiled hot water...Mom, please praise An'an."
For a three-year-old child to be able to do so many things, this is really commendable.
Qing Lei was mentally exhausted, but there was unconcealable happiness in her eyes.
Seeing her daughter in a stable condition is her greatest happiness every day.
"Mom, we have someone coming to our house today."
Little Anan remembered something, jumped onto the stone bench and said.
Qing Lei's heart trembled and she asked: "Who is it?"
"I don't know An An."
An An's face showed a hint of reminiscence, and she raised her face and said, "They are three uncles. One of them is very beautiful, with long eyebrows like two swords. He is holding a golden sword in his hand.
There is also a gold ingot-like mark on his forehead...Mom, is that beautiful uncle also suffering from the same disease as An An, so that's why there are flowers on his forehead."
A pale pink flower also grew between An An's eyebrows.
Now it has six petals.
This is the concrete external symptom of [Flower Mark] Jueji.
When the number of flowers between the eyebrows blooms to seven, it means that the disease has developed to the end of the first stage, and a second flower will grow in the center of the heart.
By that time, the disease will begin to devour the human body's vitality.
Xiao Anan has been taking the miracle drug [Linglongjie] for these years, which has always suppressed the course of the disease in the first stage. Therefore, except for a pink flower between the eyebrows and long-term yin and yang imbalance, Xiao Anan has no particularly obvious symptoms.
After hearing Xiao Anan's description, Qinglei's expression changed instantly.
It's him.
It must be him.
The man who had been sentenced to death in his heart actually came back?
What did he do when he came back?
Qing Lei's heart suddenly rose with infinite vigilance.
She is no longer the young and ignorant girl she was before. She has clearly understood the true face of this man. She knows that this devil in human skin will never come to find her and her daughter out of conscience.
"Did An An talk to them?"
Qing Lei sat down, held her daughter's hand, and asked softly.
She carefully controlled her expression and voice to avoid scaring her daughter.
"Of course not."
Little An'an said proudly: "Mom said that when you are at home alone, don't talk to anyone, even if you know someone you know."
Qing Lei felt a little relieved after hearing this.
When An An's monthly medication expenses were astronomical, she did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to rent this house. The biggest reason was that this courtyard had a good divine pattern formation.
The safety level in the middle second district is much better than that in the lower third district.
But it's only relative.
Malignant events occasionally occur.
As for the divine pattern formation in this courtyard, as long as it is turned on, the outside world cannot detect the movement in the courtyard and cannot see the scene inside.
As long as An An doesn't take the initiative to turn on the formation's sound transmission system, others won't know if there is anyone inside.
Moreover, for the safety of her daughter, only Qing Lei herself can open this formation. Even An An cannot open the courtyard door from inside. At most, she can only speak and communicate with people outside.
"An'an, you have to remember that if the man with the golden sword comes again in the future, you must hide it, don't talk, and don't let him know that you are in the yard. Do you understand?"
Qing Lei warned with a serious expression.
Little An'an nodded obediently, hesitated, and asked, "Mom, is that uncle a bad person?"
Qing Lei hesitated for a moment and nodded.
"When I grow up, I will definitely fight off that bad guy."
Xiao Anan showed his fist.
Qing Lei reached out and touched her daughter's hair.
As long as you grow up healthily and happily, what does it matter if your mother suffers a little and is tired?
Qing Lei smiled, but her face suddenly froze slowly.
Because she suddenly saw that the seventh petal was slowly emerging from the pink flower between her daughter's eyebrows...