A piece of Japanese incense

Chapter 204 Hatred

"Oh! Crunchy! It's delicious, but a little dry!"

Feng Jinqi looked up in surprise, only to see Zhi Yihe smiling like a picture: "His grandmother is really skillful. She actually thought of using sweet potato leaves to steam cakes. It's really ingenious!"

"That's right! I will tell him tomorrow that you and I both love to eat the steamed buns made by his grandmother. From now on, I am willing to exchange my meals with him every day."

"That won't do! You can't eat this every day! He won't agree. Well... it's better to teach a man how to fish than to give him a fish. Why don't we help his grandmother make steamed cakes and let his family sell them at a stall? In this way, they can also make a living! We can buy some every day to support their business~"

"Yes, that makes sense. The extra bread can be distributed to beggars or refugees outside the city. It's another good deed!"

"Brother Nian is so ~smart!"

Zhi Yihe covered Yu Nian's eyes. Yu Nian leaned forward and squatted suddenly. Zhi Yihe screamed and grabbed his shoulders tightly. The two of them walked into the mansion with laughter.

She didn't see herself -

Feng Jinqi felt a little lost. Yes, she didn't even know that there was such a person as him. He leaned against a tree with his head in his hands. Perhaps, he was redundant in this world.

"Here! My girl gave it to you, eat it and leave. This is just outside our mansion. If it were any other mansion, you would have been beaten up long ago."

Feng Jinqi looked up and saw a man dressed as a servant standing in front of him, looking down at him.

"Take it!" the servant said, stuffing the food box into his arms, and then said: "My daughter said that judging from your clothes, you must have been the son of a wealthy family. You must have encountered some difficulties, otherwise you would not have fallen into this situation. You can exchange this food box for some silver, which may help you get through the difficulties. I hope you can cheer up, shake off the dust on your body, and make it a road under your feet."

Feng Jinqi hugged the food box tightly and squeezed out a hoarse word from his throat: "Is your daughter's name Zhi Yihe?"

"Hey! How do you know? Could it be a distant relative of ours?"

Feng Jinqi didn't answer him. He stood up with the help of the tree trunk, and left the alley where Yun Mansion was located with the food box in his arms.

He went to a clothing shop and bought a silk shirt with smoke-shadow gauze, and then strolled around the night market for a long time. Finally, he found a hairpin in a headwear store. The hairpin had a lifelike white camellia carved on it, which he thought matched her jet-black hair very well.

Although this hairpin cost him all his money, and he even had to pawn the white jade pendant he had worn since childhood, he was willing to do it. He could not help but feel happy when he thought of her dressing in front of the mirror while wearing the hairpin he gave her.

On the second day, he hired people to ambush Yu Nian on the road he had to take to go to school, and then he stepped forward and successfully followed Yu Nian into the Yun Mansion as he wished.

He knew that Zhi Yihe had a photographic memory, so he concluded that she could recognize him. So he cleverly gave her the hairpin under the pretext of thanking her for the meal. As a result, a bond was formed between him and her.

But what he didn't expect was that Zhi Yihe did not go out to greet Yu Nian as usual that day because she had a rash and a high fever that wouldn't go away.

Before he could see her again, the people sent by his father had found him.

He was captured, tied to a tree, and whipped dozens of times by his father. He was then exposed to the scorching sun for two days. When he thought his life was hanging by a thread, he thought of the hairpin he had not yet given away, and the date cake and pea yellow she had given him, which he had not yet been willing to eat, so he managed to hold on.

The time when Feng Jinqi put on the human skin mask and became classmates with Yu Nian as Jinqi was one of the few relatively comfortable and happy times in his life.

Although his father's men were still monitoring him, he was somewhat freed from the constraints and enjoyed an ordinary life that his peers deserved.

Zhi Yian assigned Yu Nian a heavy workload, which often resulted in Yu Nian being unable to return to the Yun Mansion for ten days or even a month. However, he would receive letters, food, clothes, and all kinds of things from the Yun Mansion every day. The dormitory where the two of them lived together was filled to the brim with almost all of Yu Nian's things.

Whenever they saw him writing, they would joke, "Hey! Yu Nian, you're writing back to your sister Bao Geda again!"

Yu Nian would smile and nod every time, then continue writing with concentration.

As his relationship with Yu Nian improved, Feng Jinqi was able to peek into Zhi Yihe's letters. The handwriting was illegible, and he had never even seen some of the words.

Yu Nian was never shy about it, and sometimes she would explain to him the strange symbols in the letter: "This '拴Q' is an expression of gratitude, but here it means there is nothing to say. She is very dissatisfied with Aunt He for asking her to learn the piano." Feng Jinqi couldn't help laughing. Where did she get these weird ideas?

On February 15th of the 24th year of Zhaoding, he saw her again after five years.

That day, he buried his mother in Lingshan Temple with his own hands. Just when he was feeling sad, the spy hiding beside Zhi Yian suddenly showed up and revealed a piece of news to him: Zhi Yian had been secretly communicating with Concubine Xin's people, and gave the brocade box he received to his daughter as a birthday gift.

Before they finished speaking, he heard footsteps approaching. The temple was shrouded in fog. When the person came closer, he could see clearly that it was Zhi Yihe.

She was wearing a bright red jacket and was walking towards him step by step like a burning flame. There was a delicate peach blossom painted on her white forehead, which was bright in color yet dignified, as if it was a living flower growing from deep in her skin, adding a touch of agility to her face.

He just stood there blankly, his eyes fixed on her, and he was in a trance, so much so that he didn't even hear what she said to him.

It was not until her gaze penetrated the void and cast towards him that he came back to his senses as if awakened from a dream. The confusion in his heart made him at a loss. He hurriedly sat on the stone bench and responded calmly. He watched her leave intimately with Yu Nian before he slowly withdrew his gaze.

Later, on his father's orders, he ventured into the palace and met Li Xuying, who had been lurking in the palace for many years.

If this matter was not serious, he would not have personally entered the palace to meet him, but when he entered Wenyuan Pavilion, he saw Zhi Yihe slipping out from the back door. He hid in the dark, feeling uneasy, not sure if he had been discovered by her.

However, the news of Zhi Yihe's trespassing into Wenyuan Pavilion eventually reached her father's ears. In order to avoid future troubles, her father decided to have her killed.

When he learned about this, his father's men had already taken action. Fortunately, she responded quickly and escaped.

She was extremely reluctant to enter the palace as a study companion, and after entering the palace she suffered a lot of neglect and exclusion. He wanted to help her very much and couldn't wait to be by her side.

So on the day of Qingming Festival, he finally gave her the hairpin that he had not given her for many years. He watched her put it in her hair with a smile on her face, and they chatted and laughed happily, and they got along very well.

Even though, as my cousin.

After winning Zhi Yian's trust, his father confided to him an old story that had been buried for a long time.

For many years, they have been secretly monitoring the Yun Mansion. In addition to the special identities of Zhi Yian and Lin Zhensu, they are also involved because of their deep hatred with Yun Jingmo.

Although it was Feng Weichu who started a raging fire and burned the Eastern Palace into ruins, resulting in no one escaping from the entire Eastern Palace except his father, the culprit of all this was Yun Jingmo.

He brought back to Dongli a kind of green poisonous insect called "Green Zombie Ant" from Xiqi. People bitten by it would be unable to move. In order to save my father, my grandmother burned herself to death to kill all the Green Zombie Ants.

Although my father survived the disaster, he had to watch helplessly as all his relatives were burned to death in the sea of ​​fire. From then on, he lived in pain every day. Even though his wounds had healed over the years, he was still haunted by nightmares every night and lived in darkness all day long.

He felt extremely heavy-hearted. Yun Jingmo was her grandfather, but between them lay an insurmountable blood feud.

He didn't know how to face it, but when he arrived in Xianshi County and saw her lying on the grass, he secretly decided to bury this hatred deep...