Morning Star

Chapter 171 Why is she so cute?

She raised her hands to catch the fluorescent balls floating in the air, as happy as a child.

At this moment, the girl's bell-like voice rang out: "So beautiful!"

She turned to look at him and said happily: "This is the first time I have seen such a beautiful scene."

"..." He stared at her blankly, opened his mouth but didn't utter a word.

It was also the first time he saw her like this, the first time he saw her so beautiful.

How could there be such a beautiful girl in the world?

How he wished that such a beautiful girl belonged only to him. How he wanted to find a place to hide her, so that no one else could see her beauty except him.

Just as I was thinking about it, I heard the girl's expectant voice: "Is it good-looking? Is it beautiful?"

As she spoke, she smiled at him, her almond-shaped eyes curved like a moon.

He paused, then smiled and said softly, "Beautiful."

After a pause, he continued softly, "Jiu'er is the most beautiful."

The voice was extremely gentle, like a breeze caressing her ears. But it was not as cool as the breeze, but warm.

Chujiu, who was still excited and happy, was stunned when he heard this.

It took him a while to react, and his little face was already red.

In panic, she raised her eyes and glanced at Mo Xinglan in front of her, and found that he was still looking at her as before, so she immediately turned her eyes away from him.

She hurriedly hid behind him, moving in sync with his steps, to prevent him from looking at her.

When she left, she did not forget to brag: "Of course I know that I am beautiful."

But she didn't ask him whether she was pretty or not.

Why is this person answering a question that is not related to the question?

"..."

Mo Xinglan's eyes never left her. Wherever she went, his eyes followed.

He raised an eyebrow and saw her coming behind him and hiding her little face.

"Don't look." Chujiu said to him viciously with a commanding tone with a red face.

He was amused by her appearance, and put his fingers to his lips and chuckled.

But he was obedient and didn't look at her.

"Don't laugh!" When she heard him laugh, her face turned even redder and even her voice became much louder.

"Well, okay." Although he answered like this, the corners of his mouth were still curled.

"You... humph!" Seeing that he was still laughing, Chujiu snorted at him angrily.

"..." Although he couldn't see her expression at the moment, he roughly knew how cute she was at this moment.

Why is she so cute?

She wouldn't let him look at her, so he had to stare at the scene in front of him.

Countless fluorescent balls were flying in the air, and when the breeze blew they also danced with the wind, like elves dancing at night.

A ball flew past his eyes, bringing his thoughts back to an autumn night in the past.

That night, there was a cool breeze just like tonight. He was only five years old at that time, and he was full of curiosity when he saw the fluorescent balls flying in the sky.

"Mom, what is this?" He pointed at the fluorescent balls and asked his mother who was walking towards him.

Mother was normal that night. She squatted beside him and stroked his face, very gently. Even the movement of her tidying up the hair that brushed against his face was gentle.

"This is Ying Spark."

"Is this a flower? Why does the flower look like this? And it can fly."

She didn't seem surprised by his question, and rubbed his head with a smile: "The Yinghuo flower is a very special flower. Before its flowers bloom, they grow on its original receptacle. Its receptacle is almost attached to the center of several leaves, and a Yinghuo flower has only one flower, and it is a small one, so it does not attract much attention."

As she spoke, she looked at the Yinghuo flowers flying in the air and murmured to herself: "Flowers and leaves grow together, flowers bloom and leave, leaves wither and flowers fall. This is the life of Yinghuo flowers. When the flowers mature, they leave the flowers and leaves. They leave the leaves and use their small petals to illuminate themselves and others. Although it is only a few short hours, they can show their most beautiful moments to the world in these few short hours. Prove that they once existed in this world."

He didn't understand what she said at that time, but he could tell that his mother liked Ying Huohua.

Because these pots of sparkling flowers in the yard were brought back by his mother herself from somewhere when she came back from her last visit.

Then she planted them in these flower pots. These seeds grew very fast and bloomed in just three months.

"Does mother like Ying Huohua?"

"Yes. Mother likes it the most to bloom to its fullest and show its most beautiful scene to people at the last moment of its life. Let people remember it forever."

He clearly remembered that there was a look of longing on his mother's face when she said this.

Ying Huohua ended her short life at the most beautiful moment.

Perhaps she also hopes to end her life at her most beautiful moment like Ying Huohua.

But in the end, I didn’t get what I wanted…

But he didn't like Ying Huo Spark. No matter how beautiful it was, he didn't like it.

The sky above Piaomiao Domain is filled with rich spiritual energy. The stars cannot be seen at night, and even a bright moon like the fifteenth can only be seen as a vague silver-white outline.

Fortunately, many people released Kongming lanterns tonight. Lanterns flew in the sky, and the ones that flew high became bright yellow dots. This was also a close-up view of the stars.

The breeze blew and the sparks danced.

Chujiu quietly poked her head out from behind Mo Xinglan, and when she found that he was not looking at her, she walked out from behind him and stood beside him.

When she looked up, she was stunned.

His usually sharp eyebrows were now drooping, and even his eyes, which were usually slightly upturned and charming, were completely different. His eyes were filled with sadness under his long eyelashes.

This reminded her of one night when they had just arrived in Piaomiao Domain not long ago. He was sitting there with his long hair loose, and she saw from his profile that his eyes were full of sadness.

Although the scene was different this time, the emotion was the same. The feeling it gave her was the same.

I always feel that he is so unreal at this moment, as if he would disappear if I touch him.

Disappeared?!

A fear that he might just disappear surged into her mind, and without thinking, she reached out and tightly grasped his left hand, which was closest to her.

Mo Xinglan felt his hand being suddenly tightly grasped, and he pulled his thoughts back. The sadness in his eyes disappeared instantly.

He looked at her suspiciously, "What's wrong?"

"You..." She hesitated whether to ask him why he was sad, but when she thought of his reaction when she asked the same question before, she immediately gave up asking. She pointed at the fluorescent balls flying in the air and said, "Do you know what these glowing balls are?"

After listening to her, Mo Xinglan looked at her steadily. He was silent for a long time before he turned his head to look in the direction of her finger and patiently explained: "...This is a fire flower. When the flower is immature, it is wrapped by its leaves and does not emit light. After it matures, the leaves bloom in all directions, and the fire flowers inside fly away from the stems and leaves with the wind."

He paused and looked at her. "The Yinghuo flower only blooms at night, and falls to the ground and loses its luster after two or three hours. Its life span is only three short months. Flowers and leaves grow together, flowers bloom and leave, leaves wither and flowers fall, this is what it means."