After that day, there were more subtle feelings between Yu Qiuping and the girl.
There is not only the subtle barrier brought about by identity, but also because the girl's word "love" seems to have pierced the window paper between the two, making the relationship between Yu Qiuping and the girl more ambiguous.
Yu Qiuping's training these days has been extremely serious. He works harder than usual. He trains hard during the day. At noon, he reads some military books by himself and asks questions from the seniors around him. In the afternoon, he practices martial arts with girls. He wants to become more
He wants to be strong, he wants to make great achievements, and he wants to reach a status worthy of a girl.
The girl saw that Yu Qiuping was sweating profusely from practicing, and she felt a little distressed. It was her identity that forced him to work so hard. She Yingying stepped forward, handed over a towel, and said in a gentle voice: "Jun Ping, take a rest for a while.
Come on, don't be too tired. Your health is important."
"I heard from the maid passing by on the fourth floor that the lights in Mr. Ping's room stay on until early every night." The girl looked at Yu Qiuping's dark circles with distress, "Don't work too hard."
She didn't know that Yu Qiuping was staying up late to fold red leaves for her.
"No." Yu Qiuping took the towel, wiped his sweat casually, and handed it to the girl again, "We don't have much time."
Yu Qiuping glanced at the maple forest where there were almost no leaves left on the branches.
"The maple leaves are almost finished falling."
"Anyway, it's going to be over soon, and I won't come then."
The girl was suddenly startled. Did her unintentional words in the early morning cause him so much trouble?
"Ping-kun, actually..." The girl hesitated how to explain, but she was always very proud and was not willing to bow her head and admit her mistake, admitting that what she said was angry.
"It's okay." Although Yu Qiuping didn't know what the girl wanted to say, he still shook his head subconsciously and interrupted the girl's words. In the past few days, he has been loading the folded red leaves into carts one after another.
It was transported into Sunfu Castle and is now stored in the Asahina family's mansion. He is planning on what day he should hang all these red leaves to surprise the girl. By the way, again.
Express your feelings.
There was a strong wind yesterday, and there were not many red leaves left, and now there are even fewer left.
Otherwise, let's do it tomorrow.
In the early morning of September 1st, the north gate of Sunfu Castle had just opened. Asahina Taehyung, who had been waiting for a long time, took some attendants, Yu Qiuping and his own two hundred subordinates, surrounded the dozens of folded cars and hid them.
The red leaves under the tarpaulin are moving quickly towards the back mountain. Yu Qiuping, who originally only thought of covering a small mountain stream, now has the confidence to cover the entire maple forest with the help of thousands of people.
After they parked the cart at the foot of the mountain, each of them picked up a bag of red leaves, walked quickly up the mountain, and crossed the big rock. Then everyone found a maple tree, opened the bag, and began to put the red leaves on the branches.
Hanging them up. There was nothing they could do about the branches that were too high, so the Ashigaru had to hang as many shorter paper strips as possible first. After the maple forest had basically completed the first pass of processing, the Ashigaru people worked in pairs.
One climbed up the tree, the other handed up red leaves from the bottom, and then hung a higher note.
The workload was beyond Yu Qiuping's imagination. The latter was leaning on a stone alone, reviewing over and over again what he was going to say when he confessed his love in the afternoon. He had practiced it several times in front of the bronze mirror since last night.
He used all his emotional intelligence to come up with touching words.
After struggling until noon, the red leaves were finally almost finished. Although all the red leaves on the dozens of cars were used up, they still could not achieve the grandeur of the maple forest before. They could only ensure that almost every maple tree was hung.
Many leaves.
"It's not satisfactory." Yu Qiuping sighed.
"Sir, there is no need to worry," Chibei said with relief, "Sir, if you can do this to this extent, I think that young lady will also be very touched."
"Really?" Yu Qiuping murmured to himself.
After noon arrived, the ashigaru and their attendants drove their carts around and returned to the city from the east gate and west gate to prevent the girls from seeing them. Yu Qiuping couldn't eat a bite of the bento he brought.
I couldn't feel any hunger at all, and I was so nervous that my heart almost jumped out of my throat.
The beautiful image of the girl kept reappearing in his mind, and he couldn't help but fantasize about the girl's reaction when she confessed her love. Yu Qiuping repeatedly arranged his warrior bun and bangs in front of the bronze mirror, but he always felt that there was something else he was not satisfied with.
Unknowingly, the sun had already set to the west. Yu Qiuping guessed that the time was almost up, so he hurriedly hid in the middle of the forest, under the maple tree where the two first met, and took deep breaths to calm down. But it was getting closer and closer.
When I was confessing my love, the words I had practiced before became increasingly difficult to recall.
At the foot of the mountain, the girl got off the bullock cart and started going up the mountain. She had been thinking about how to apologize to Yu Qiuping.
She didn't know that her unintentional words "I won't come then" made Yu Qiuping so sad. She was so strong in her life that she had never been humble to others. Every time she did something wrong when she was a child, her mother would punish her.
In the end, she got through it by acting coquettishly. But this time, she really planned to apologize properly.
She had been thinking about what to say to apologize for almost a day, but when it came time to say it, she couldn't think of it at all.
She didn't want to see Yu Qiuping's tired and haggard expression and sad eyes. She still preferred that handsome young man who was full of energy in the sun.
The maple leaves are about to fall.
She sighed, and saw the familiar big stone again. When she walked around the stone, she could see the maple leaves falling, and the beautiful maple trees were all bare.
However, when she walked around the stone this time.
I saw that the mountains were red and the forests were dyed. The maple leaves that had fallen all returned to the maple trees overnight. This scene was very much like the first time I saw it.
What's going on? These red leaves? Where did they come from?
The girl was stunned for a long time and ran into the maple forest in confusion. Every tree was covered with red leaves again. She didn't stop until she ran to the maple tree where she and Yu Qiuping first met.
Taking a closer look, she saw countless pieces of folded paper red leaves hung on thin threads on the branches of the maple tree. She looked around again and saw that the mountain was covered with paper red leaves.
"Then...why do you have so many hand-folded red leaves?" The girl's big eyes suddenly looked at Yu Qiuping suspiciously, and her crystal clear eyes seemed to pierce Yu Qiuping's heart at once.
"Uh..." Yu Qiuping suddenly blushed.
The girl suddenly understood, and tears filled her eyes. She looked at the maple tree again.
Behind the maple tree, her lover slowly walked out.
Yu Qiuping saw the girl, who was wearing the same snow-white dress with very light blue when they first met. The breathtaking beauty made Yu Qiuping's mind empty of all the words he had prepared.
I can't remember any of it anymore.
"Are these...did you prepare for me?" The girl looked at Yu Qiuping and asked softly.
"I..." As soon as Yu Qiuping opened his mouth, he stuttered nervously, and his cheeks immediately turned red.
"I..." He was so embarrassed that he didn't know what to say.
"Whatever Pingjun wants to say, just say it." The girl smiled.
"When I... saw Miss for the first time..." Yu Qiuping struggled to squeeze out a few words, "I just... fell in love with Miss." As soon as the words came out, the girl suddenly realized what Yu Qiuping wanted to do.
, her fair cheeks suddenly looked like ripe apples.
"Because...because the lady is very beautiful, the most beautiful girl I have ever seen." Yu Qiuping said, although there were still some illogical words, but they became coherent, "And the lady is also very cute, very beautiful."
It's temperamental, very...in short, I just like it so much." The girl lowered her head shyly after listening to Yu Qiuping's words.
"Then, there is another thing," Yu Qiuping nervously twirled the corner of his clothes, "Miss... also likes red leaves very much, just like me, my parents, and my parents. We have all been injured because of red leaves,
We all like red leaves, so I feel very close to you."
"But..." Yu Qiuping said intermittently, "What the red leaves leave to the lady is not sweet memories, but painful ones. Although the lady will be very happy when seeing the red leaves, she will always recall painful things in her heart.
.When I saw the young lady crying because of the red leaves, I felt really sad and wanted to protect her so that she wouldn’t cry again.”
Hearing this, the girl suddenly raised her head curiously and looked into Yu Qiuping's eyes with tearful eyes.
"But red leaves are such a beautiful thing... I don't want Miss to recall sad things because of them. I want Miss to have happy and sweet memories of red leaves in the future." Yu Qiuping said awkwardly.
, but it made the girl chuckle, and tears flowed down with her smile.
"Miss said... I will come here before the red leaves fall, and I can stay here with you." Yu Qiuping swallowed and continued, "Although I am stupid and not very powerful, I think... I can let
If the lady is happy, you can make the lady laugh." He suddenly smiled infatuatedly, "The lady looks really beautiful when she smiles."
"So I want the lady to keep laughing, so I want to stay with the lady all the time." Yu Qiuping nodded solemnly, "The red leaves will eventually fall, so I folded these paper red leaves. They will never fall away."
"My feelings, like these paper red leaves, will never change. I want these red leaves to never fall, so that I can always be by my lady's side." Yu Qiuping raised his head and looked at the mountain of red leaves.
"I will protect you all my life." He murmured, "From now on, whenever you see the red leaves, you will think of me and my unchanging thoughts. When you see the red leaves, you will not cry, but will only
Smile sweetly."
"Let the everlasting red leaves all over the mountain bear witness," Yu Qiuping lowered his head, looked at the girl, and said in an extremely solemn tone that he had never experienced in his life, "Miss, I love you, no matter what the status difference is, please let me
I will protect you."
"The heart is like the red leaves staining the pavilion, and the autumn colors of Changpan are in harmony with the king's heart." Yu Qiuping said softly, looking at the tears that kept pouring out of the girl. "My heart is as permanent as the red leaves on the mountain, dyeing the soul red.
The sacred pavilion of refuge is always accompanied by the autumn colors and protects the young lady’s heart.”
The girl looked at Yu Qiuping's cheek, holding the hot red leaf pendant tightly with both hands, letting her tears fall, but she felt no sadness, just full of happiness.
She was silent for a moment and suddenly said: "This oath does not count!"
Yu Qiuping was stunned and asked in confusion: "Why?"
A figure rushed forward and hugged Yu Qiuping. The heat of his breath was heard in his ears, as well as the girl's whisper: "Because I am not called Miss. Pingjun, my name is Feng."