pick a peach essence

"Hurry up, little Taozi, let's have a picnic."

With a pink straw in his mouth, Jiang Jinchen suddenly remembered something, and patted himself on the head vigorously.

……

"Tao Tao stared at the pink straw in his mouth with a disgusted look on her face just now."

Hopeless.

However, before Tao Tao could answer, Jiang Jinchen took the drink in one hand and Tao Tao in the other, and rushed towards the shop not far away.

"Can I say no?"

Tao Tao was pulled by him, feeling the speed of the wind.

"No."

Jiang Jinchen galloped with long legs, Tao Tao felt the blowing autumn wind, and for a moment almost thought that she was no longer in this world.

After a while, Jiang Jinchen and Tao Tao came out of the store with their hands full.

"Jiang Jinchen, do you have friends coming?"

Tao Tao suddenly said a word from his mouth.

"Ok?"

Jiang Jinchen was stunned for a moment, then looked at the expressionless Tao Tao suspiciously, and then he answered the question seriously.

"No."

Ok.

Tao Tao rolled her eyes, and then recalled the way the shop owner looked at the two of them just now.

She lowered her head and looked at all kinds of things in her arms.

Well, those who didn't know thought there was a tour group coming.

The two found a place at random, spread out blankets, and tidied up the food.

Jiang Jinchen looked at the food all over the floor and thought for a while.

"Miss Peach, have we bought too much?"

Jiang Jinchen, a man of high spirits, was aware of this serious issue.

"No, I didn't buy much."

Tao Tao glared at him, then patted her buttocks and sat down, glanced at the food that had completely surrounded the two of them, then stretched out her hand to touch her stomach.

Thanks a lot.

Tao Tao sighed.

"Ahem, it's okay, if we can't finish eating, we'll take it away."

Jiang Jinchen cleared his throat in embarrassment, and then sat down.

Ok?
Tao Tao seemed to be very surprised by what he said just now.

A rich person like Jiang Jinchen still packs food to take home?

"Did you just say take it away?"

Tao Tao looked at Jiang Jinchen's serious expression, and then asked a question uncertainly.

"Huh? That's right, if we can't finish eating, we'll take it away."

After Jiang Jinchen finished speaking, he noticed Tao Tao's suspicious gaze.

"Hahaha, do you think that a person like me would never do such a thing?"

Jiang Jinchen looked at Tao Tao and asked with a smile.

"……Correct."

Tao Tao admitted.

"Actually, when I was young, for a few years, the poor couldn't even afford food."

Jiang Jinchen smiled nonchalantly, then picked up a sandwich with a particularly nice packaging.

"You know, at that time, I was standing on the side of the road looking at the beautifully packaged food in the shop window, and for a moment, I just wanted to smash the window and snatch it all."

"However, I didn't do that because I couldn't...lose my principles and dignity as a human being."

Tao Tao listened to Jiang Jinchen's words in shock.

She never imagined that Jiang Jinchen, who is now so distinguished, would have experienced such a thing when he was a child.

Tao Tao looked distressedly at Jiang Jinchen who lowered his head and pretended to smile, and then lowered his gaze.

"But then, a girl appeared beside me."

Suddenly, Jiang Jinchen raised his head, looked at Tao Tao and said.

"She appeared when I was very desperate. At that time, I was still young. I just remember that she bought me a bag of delicious buns and put them by my side."

Jiang Jinchen looked at Tao Tao who suddenly looked up with a face full of shock, and then smiled softly.

"The smell of that bun, I will never forget it for the rest of my life."

Tao Tao seemed to see the mysterious past that happened to Jiang Jinchen through his eyes.

"you……"

Looking at his smiling face, Tao Tao felt her heart skip a beat.

She suddenly found that the space around her shook violently, and then there were extremely deep cracks, followed by an instant collapse.

The smell of buns...

Tao Tao always felt that she should also remember that smell.

So she fell into darkness.

She stood in the dark listening to her violent heartbeat, and then suddenly felt a light appear in front of her eyes.

This familiar scene.

Tao Tao was stunned for a moment, she thought of the dream she often had a while ago.

The scene in the dream is exactly the same as this one.

Tao Tao ran forward chasing the light, getting closer and closer.

In the previous dream, Tao Tao ran desperately every time, but every time she missed it by a little bit, she was able to run into that beam of light.

This time, Tao Tao is still working hard to get close to that ray of light.

It wasn't until she finally passed through the light that she stopped, breathing violently with her hands on her knees.

Ok?
Did I really wear it?
After Tao Tao got used to the surrounding light, she suddenly found herself in a very dark alley.

She touched her chest, then walked deep into the alley holding her breath.

At this moment, she smelled a very fragrant smell.

Tao Tao was stunned, and then she searched for the smell and ran quickly until she rounded the corner.

After rounding the corner, she stopped abruptly.

Tao Tao looked at the scene in front of her in shock.

In front of him, a little boy appeared, leaning against the wall covered in blood, his whole body was pale, as if he would disappear in an instant.

And beside him, there was a little girl in a white skirt squatting, with her back to her, Tao Tao could only see the little girl's glossy and smooth black hair.

as well as……

And the blood-colored red lotuses blooming on the side of the little girl's white skirt.

Tao Tao looked at the steaming steamed stuffed bun beside them, and fell into a coma.

"Tao Tao, Tao Tao!!!"

Finally, Tao Tao was awakened by these calls.

Jiang Jinchen frowned and looked at Tao Tao who was sweating profusely in front of him, then stretched out his hand worriedly to touch her sweat-drenched forehead.

"What's the matter, you just fainted suddenly, it scared me to death."

Jiang Jinchen looked at Tao Tao whose face was gradually returning to ruddy, and breathed a sigh of relief.

"I……"

Tao Tao was supported by Jiang Jinchen to sit up, and then patted her head.

Hiss, it hurts.

Tao Tao took a deep breath, and then adjusted her state.

She didn't want Jiang Jinchen to worry.

"I'm fine. Maybe it's because I've been too tired these days and haven't had a good rest."

Tao Tao raised her head and smiled, then looked at Jiang Jinchen and said.

Jiang Jinchen still frowned worriedly after hearing this.

"No, I'll take you to the hospital."

After Jiang Jinchen finished speaking, he made a gesture to hug Tao Tao.

"Hey don't don't!"

Tao Tao suddenly grabbed his hand tightly.

"No really, I'm fine."

Tao Tao seemed to want to prove that she was really fine, so she stood up abruptly.

"Look, I'm fine now."

Tao Tao walked around twice with a smile on her face, and then pulled Jiang Jinchen to sit back.

"you……"

Jiang Jinchen still stared at her worriedly.

Tao Tao blinked her watery eyes and looked at Jiang Jinchen, pouted her little mouth and acted coquettishly.

Who knew Jiang Jinchen blushed suddenly.

……

Tao Tao looked at the blushing man in front of her in bewilderment.

What's the situation?
Jiang Jinchen was pierced by someone else's soul?
Tao Tao swallowed, and then, ignoring her still aching head, quietly picked up the bag beside her, as if to run away.

"Cough cough."

Just when Tao Tao was about to run away, Jiang Jinchen who was opposite suddenly coughed.

"Forget it, since you're fine, go ahead."

Tao Tao was shocked by what he said suddenly.

"Huh? Continue with what?"

She froze for a moment.

Jiang Jinchen looked at the bag tightly held by Tao Tao, then raised his eyebrows.

"Ok?"

Tao Tao saw his gaze fall on her hand holding the bag.

amount……

"Are you going?"

Jiang Jinchen looked away, then looked at Tao Tao and smiled maliciously.

"I……"

Tao Tao wants to cry but has no tears.

"I, where can I go?"

Tao Tao weakly put down the bag in her hand, then sat down dignifiedly and gracefully, looking at Jiang Jinchen obediently.

Jiang Jinchen nodded in satisfaction, and then said.

"Well, that's good."

Jiang Jinchen hesitated to speak, then glanced at Tao Tao who was smiling.

"You, from now on, don't act cute in front of others."

Eh?
Tao Tao froze for a moment, then stared blankly at Jiang Jinchen who seemed to be blushing again with her small mouth open.

"why?"

Then she asked this extremely mentally handicapped question.

Jiang Jinchen didn't seem to expect that Tao Tao would not follow the routine.

"..."

He choked.

"Forget it, it's okay."

Jiang Jinchen took a deep look at Tao Tao, then cruelly tore open the sandwich with a particularly nice packaging, and took a big bite.

Tao Tao was terrified.

tsk...

Then she also silently opened a box of small cakes, picked up a spoon and dug up.

Under the warm sunshine, the two of them quietly ate the food that seemed to be piled up into mountains.

But as he was eating, Tao Tao suddenly remembered the pictures he saw after he fainted just now.

What do you mean?
What exactly does that mean……

Now Tao Tao's mind is full of the little boy covered in blood and the corner of the skirt stained red with blood.

"You just..."

Just when Tao Tao was about to sink into her own world, she suddenly heard Jiang Jinchen who was opposite said a word.

"Eh? What?"

Tao Tao had been thinking about something just now, so she didn't hear clearly.

"Did you see anything just now?"

Jiang Jinchen put down the sandwich in his hand, then stared at Tao Tao seriously.

……

Tao Tao panicked for a moment.

She recognized that what Jiang Jinchen said just now was obviously a question sentence, but he said it in an affirmative tone.

How did he know he must have seen something.

Tao Tao stared blankly at Jiang Jinchen, then hesitated whether to speak out.

She didn't really want to talk.

I don't know why, although Tao Tao really wants to find the part of her lost memory, but...

She is afraid.

Yes, she was afraid, she was very afraid that the content of the part of her memory that she finally found would run counter to what she hoped.

Tao Tao suddenly doesn't want to look for it now, if in the end, what she sees are those illusions hidden deep in her memory, she will definitely collapse.

Thinking of this, Tao Tao lowered her head sadly.

She felt that she was so inferior that she didn't even have the courage to find the truth.

She really couldn't figure out what she was afraid of, even if what she got in the end was an illusion, so what.

Suddenly, she looked up at Jiang Jinchen who was looking at her affectionately.

Tao Tao suddenly understood what she was afraid of.

Perhaps what she was really afraid of was that there was no shadow of the man in front of her in her lost memory.

Tao Tao looked at Jiang Jinchen, and unconsciously breathed lightly.

She is afraid of losing him.

Tao Tao thought, what if both of them remember wrongly.

Maybe...she wasn't the girl Jiang Jinchen was looking for who changed his life.

When Tao Tao thought of this, her heart suddenly throbbed in pain.

"I did not see anything."

So Tao Tao heard herself say this.

She panicked for a moment, and then tightly grasped the corner of her clothes.

Jiang Jinchen looked at Tao Tao who had been struggling just now, and then suddenly smiled very happily, and breathed a sigh of relief visibly.

She really can't lie.

Jiang Jinchen thought about it.

"Haha, okay, okay, I'm just asking casually. Come on, let's continue eating."

Jiang Jinchen looked at the nervous Tao Tao in front of him, then smiled and picked up a plate of ice point and handed it to her.

"Eat quickly, it will be cold in a while."

Tao Tao looked at him quietly, then reached out to take it.

Eh, wait?

The corner of Tao Tao's mouth twitched, then she looked up at Jiang Jinchen who was happily stuffing French fries into her mouth.

"Is the freezing point in your house still hot just out of the pan?"

Tao Tao looked at Jiang Jinchen speechlessly, then held up a plate and sent the steaming hot ice point in front of him.

"Here, here you go, eat while it's hot."

Jiang Jinchen froze for a moment, then took it with a dazed expression.

It took a long time for him to react, and then Tao Tao saw his stiff expression.

Tsk tsk tsk, it turned out that he was also stupid sometimes.

Tao Tao curled up the corners of her mouth and laughed.

"Huh, Mr. Jiang?"

Just when Tao Tao was about to open her mouth to mock Jiang Jinchen again, she suddenly saw a woman in a cheongsam walking towards her.

Eh?cheongsam?

Tao Tao was stunned, she didn't expect to see a woman wearing a cheongsam in such a wild environment.

Just when Tao Tao was stunned, the woman had already walked in front of the two of them.

Jiang Jinchen frowned imperceptibly.

"What a coincidence, Mr. Jiang, you are..."

The woman had a strange smile on her face, her eyes flicked back and forth between Jiang Jinchen and Tao Tao.

Tao Tao looked at the woman's eyes and felt extremely uncomfortable.

Although she was smiling, that smile made people feel very cold.

Yes, like a snake.

Her gaze was like a poisonous snake, icy and cold, making it hard to breathe.

Tao Tao looked at the woman in front of her, and saw that she was wearing a black cheongsam with some strange patterns embroidered with gold thread.

Tao Tao frowned and watched carefully. She felt that those patterns looked like beasts with claws, but they only embroidered a part of the body, and all that could be seen were densely intertwined claws, and the head could not be seen at all. .

The woman had waist-length hair, and the broken hair on her forehead was pinned behind her ears. Although her skin was very white, it was a very abnormal white, with no trace of blood visible.

Her eyebrows are thin and curved, and her pupils are very dark. When she stares at others, she can make people shudder.

She had a very dark lipstick on her mouth, that color...

Tao Tao was shocked suddenly, and she thought of the color of blood for a moment.

That's right, the red color on the woman's mouth seemed to be covered by hot blood, and the bright color seemed to flow down at any time.

Tao Tao fell into panic.

There was a smile on the woman's mouth, and then her dark pupils were staring at Tao Tao tightly.

"What are you looking at?"

Jiang Jinchen suddenly scolded the woman, but Tao Tao was taken aback.

"Oh Mr. Jiang, I'm curious. I'm curious that there is a woman beside Mr. Jiang."

The woman snorted disdainfully when she saw Tao Tao who was shocked, and then turned her head to look at Jiang Jinchen's displeased face.

"Is there something wrong? If there's nothing wrong, go quickly."

Jiang Jinchen didn't look at the woman again, he picked up a glass of juice on the ground, and then gently handed it to Tao Tao.

Seeing this scene, the woman's expression suddenly turned cold, she took a few steps towards Jiang Jinchen, and then spoke.

"Look at what you said, Mr. Jiang, I just happened to pass by and wanted to say hello to you."

As the woman spoke, she raised her hand and stroked her hair.

Eh?
It was at this moment that Tao Tao noticed a ring on the woman's finger.

The reason why you notice it is because this ring is different from ordinary rings.

It seems so outdated.

The ring was very wide, and it looked silver-white as a whole, but it may have experienced the baptism of years, and it was somewhat blackened and rusty.

The front of the ring is a circular chassis, on which a snake-like creature is engraved. The snake is very long, coiled and overlapped.

only……

Tao Tao squinted her eyes and looked seriously again, suddenly, she gasped.

She saw that the snake's head turned out to be a blurred human face.

And it has a pair of horns standing on its head.

Tao Tao widened her eyes and looked again and again, this time she found that the creature didn't look like a snake, but a dragon...

Who is this woman?

Tao Tao instantly felt that she was surrounded by a burst of coldness, and the woman's body actually exuded a cold air.

Jiang Jinchen seemed to sense something was wrong with Tao Tao, then he stood up suddenly and walked in front of Tao Tao.

Jiang Jinchen frowned and turned to look at the woman who had been smiling slyly, then said to her coldly.

"Li Huan, don't think about her."

After Jiang Jinchen finished speaking, he quickly picked up Tao Tao's bag on the ground, then gently took Tao Tao's hand, and left without looking back.

"Hehe, that's really interesting."

After Jiang Jinchen left, the woman looked at the direction they left, gently stroked the ring on her hand, and then sneered.

The ring flickered suddenly, and the blurred face on it gradually became clearer.