Li Qinghuan

Chapter 53

Liu Zijian trotted over, put his arms around Song Li's shoulders with a smile, turned his head and said to his father, "Father, go back and rest, I'll just talk to Ah Li."

Liu Yan nodded, turned and went back to the house.

Liu Zijian watched his father enter the house, and then said: "Tell me, what do you think? Don't keep such a big benefit for your confidant, Mr. Ji, but for me. Your conscience has discovered it?"

Song Libai glanced at him: "Then what if you don't want it?"

Liu Zijian: "Why don't you, it's rare to take advantage of you once, tell me honestly, did you do something to offend me?"

Song Li said disgustedly: "Can you stop spitting blood? Ji Qing is now an official in the court. If I leave this credit to him, I will harm him."

Liu Zijian said in surprise, "He became an official in the court? When did it happen? He stopped doing good business and went to become an official?"

Song Li: "At the beginning of this year, he went to take the scientific examination."

Liu Zijian nodded: "It was quite sudden."

Song Li echoed, "It's quite unexpected."

Liu Zijian: "Since you are an official in the court, your brother will be afraid of you if you have too much financial resources. Are you trying to hide this matter? Can you hide it?"

Song Li said: "It doesn't matter, since he has been admitted to the imperial examination, my brother will not be too suspicious. After all, the examination during the imperial examination does not check the financial resources. It is only a short time if he can hide it for a while. By the way, I will ask you for some benefits."

Liu Zijian nodded: "All right, you have a conscience."

Song Li came back to his senses and asked, "Come back to business, what kind of official position do you want?"

Liu Zijian said: "There is no official that I want to be. Let me join the Ministry of Industry. For official positions, just let them see the arrangements."

Song Li nodded: "Okay, then I'm leaving?"

Liu Zijian's eyes widened: "Are you leaving? How long has it been since we saw each other, and you've only been here for a while and you're leaving?"

Song Li: "It's getting dark today, it's getting late, I didn't ride a horse, I plan to walk back."

Liu Zijian: "Alright, I'll accompany you, let's have a good chat."

Song Li thought for a while: "Okay."

It was getting late, and the heat was slowly dissipating.The two of them walked slowly without hurrying.

Liu Zijian complained: "A Li, you don't know, I'm almost bored during your absence."

Song Li: "Where's Zhuxuan? Why don't you play with him?"

Liu Zijian: "Speaking of this matter, I have to blame you."

Song Li asked suspiciously, "Blame me?"

Liu Zijian nodded solemnly: "Yes, it's your fault! You don't know that you will be famous in history after the refugees from Yongzhou settle down this time. Didn't you work with Li Zhuxuan's father this time? His father saw what you did After what you did, I couldn’t admire you enough, and I didn’t like Zhuxuan. He wanted Zhuxuan to be a useful person, so he went home and forced him to study and take the scientific examination next year.”

Song Li laughed loudly: "How can you blame me?"

Liu Zijian complained quietly: "I don't blame you, who do you blame? His father?"

Song Li had no choice but to say: "Okay, okay, it's my fault, but without Zhuxuan, you can go to your Liuyue girl."

Speaking of this, Liu Zijian sighed helplessly: "What are you looking for? If you look for it again, I will be beaten to death. I went to Yinchunlou to look for Liuyue a few days ago, and my father caught me. I told my father that I wanted My father beat me up when I married her, and my father threatened me that if I dared to go to Liuyue or redeem her, he would kill Liuyue and sink into the river to feed the fish. How dare I go."

Song Li patted him on the shoulder: "Forget it, let's not talk about this. By the way, why do you want to enter the Ministry of Industry? There is really no future there."

Liu Zijian lowered his head and kicked the stones on the ground, and replied: "I don't care about the future, I just like to tinker with those things, making weapons, repairing city walls and so on, and by the way, it also makes my father feel at ease. He is also doing it for my own good. I'm not good at studying, I have no hope of taking the imperial examination, and I don't know anything about business, and I'm old, so it's not a problem to keep messing around like this."

Song Li nodded: "Yes."

Liu Zijian said again: "I don't think there will be a war in a long time. Then I will follow the army to the north."

Song Li: "Okay! If you die in the north, I will burn paper for you."

Liu Zijian punched him: "You can't hope for me, can you? Hey - where are we going?"

He was busy talking along the way, and Liu Zijian followed Song Li without noticing anything wrong. Now that he came back to his senses, he realized that the road was not right?

Liu Zijian: "This road doesn't look like the way back to the palace? Are you stupid because you haven't been in Yudu for too long?"

Song Li scolded: "You are stupid, I didn't say I want to go back to the palace."

Liu Zijian: "Then where are you going?"

Song Li lifted his chin: "Here, that's right there."

Liu Zijian looked in his direction, and there was a mansion standing in front of him not far away, with two large characters written on the plaque: "Ji Mansion."

Liu Zijian was completely dumbfounded, and he said after a while, "What are you doing here?"

Song Li remained silent, lowered his head and touched the tip of his nose.

Liu Zijian said suspiciously: "A Li, you...you, you..."

Song Li still didn't speak.

Liu Zijian spoke incoherently: "You and him, you two...you, are you together?"

The use of the word "together" is really strange and subtle.

Liu Zijian was his good friend, since he guessed that way, Song Li didn't have to hide it, so he nodded.

Liu Zijian yelled: "A Li, are you crazy? He's a man!"

Song Li said calmly, "I know."

Liu Zijian suspected that there was something wrong with his ears: "You know? You know you still...you wait for me to think about it, and we can have a good chat."

Song Li was afraid that he would start a long speech about reasoning again, so he interrupted quickly: "Oh, it's all right, let's not talk anymore, I'm going back."

As soon as he finished speaking, he ran away, leaving Liu Zijian alone to doubt himself.

When Song Li ran to the door and glanced back, Liu Zijian was still standing there in a daze, so he shouted from a distance: "You go back quickly! Don't stand there stupidly!"

Liu Zijian didn't know what to say, he waved his hands from a distance and walked back.

Song Li watched him leave, turned around and bumped into someone: "Sorry."

Ji Qing's voice reached his ears: "It's nothing."

Song Li raised his head and looked at him, feeling a little embarrassed.

Ji Qing smiled at him, took his hand and walked into the mansion: "Why don't you climb over the wall today?"

Song Li was a little embarrassed: "I always stepped on the tree by the wall, and several branches were broken."

Ji Qing smiled: "It doesn't matter if the branch is broken, I'm even more afraid that no one will turn over the wall to find me."

Song Li raised his eyebrows and said, "It means I can only climb over the wall to get in."

Ji Qing: "Of course not, if you want to come to me, you can come in from anywhere."

Song Li smiled, and suddenly remembered the business, took out an imperial decree from his arms and handed it to Ji Qing: "My brother asked me to bring it to you, there are no outsiders around, so I won't do so many formalities, just read it .”

Ji Qing held Song Li with one hand, took the imperial decree with the other and stuffed it into his arms.

Song Li looked sideways: "Don't you see?"

Ji Qing: "What's interesting, it's nothing more than nonsense about rewards and appointments, I've agreed with him before."

Song Li smiled and said, "That's a good guess."

Ji Qing replied: "That's not true."

The two of them just walked and chatted one after another, the servants of the Ji Mansion came and went, and whoever passed by would glance at the tightly clasped hands of the two of them, but none of them felt embarrassed, No one wants to let go of each other.

After a long while of silence, Song Li suddenly raised Ji Qing's hand and shook it, asking, "Why are your hands so cold?"

Ji Qing: "Insufficient energy and blood."

Song Li nodded, remembering the scar on his wrist, and didn't ask any more questions, but secretly reminded himself to pay attention in the future.

Ji Qing: "I sent someone to clean up one of the rooms in Zhanlu Garden. If A Li doesn't want to go back to the palace, he can live in Zhanlu Garden. See what's missing and I'll ask someone to make up for it."

Song Li: "Huh?"

Ji Qing: "What's wrong? Is there any problem?"

Song Li: "Why do you clean up my room? Can't I sleep with you?"

Ji Qing was stunned when he heard this, lowered his head and rubbed the tip of his nose, then laughed softly.

Song Li: "What are you laughing at?"

With a smile still on the corner of his mouth, Ji Qing cleared his throat: "It's nothing."

Song Li feigned anger, and gently pushed him: "It's nothing, why are you laughing?"

Ji Qing quickly put away his smile, and said solemnly: "Okay, I'm not smiling anymore."

Song Li withdrew his hand in satisfaction, and said, "I might have to go back to Yuncheng."

Ji Qing: "I will accompany you."

Song Li: "Why don't you ask me when I go back?"

Ji Qing: "No matter what you do when you go back, I will accompany you."

Song Li tutted his tongue and said, "You are so funny, I can't even ask you to guess."

Ji Qing said: "Then I guess, you are worried about Zhou Hongxu's work, and want to go back and have a look."

Song Li nodded: "Congratulations, you guessed it right. I left in a hurry this time, and I haven't explained many things clearly."

Ji Qing: "Oh, by the way, why are you coming back in such a hurry this time?"

Song Li glanced at him: "Catch the bastard."

Ji Qing asked suspiciously: "What bastard are you arresting?"

Song Li let go of his hand, stopped, and turned to face him: "Catch you, you bastard. Tell me, if I don't come to you, how long are you going to hide from me? From Yuncheng Hide back to Yudu, are you quite capable?"

Ji Qing's eloquent teeth lost all their usefulness at this time, and he didn't know how to speak. He couldn't hold back a complete sentence for a long time, and said anxiously: "You came here specially to find me? Then I...I..."

Song Li frowned: "What are you?"

Ji Qing: "I was wrong."

Song Li chuckled: "...Forget it, can you stop hiding in the future?"

Ji Qing: "I don't want to either, but you said you only believed what you saw. I thought you would be very disappointed in me."

Song Li was puzzled: "...When did I say such a thing?"

Ji Qing: "When your elder brother arrived in Yuncheng, the two of us had just returned to Yuncheng from Canglan County."

Song Li thought about it carefully, and said: "If I remember correctly, what I said was 'I only believe what I see and what I know'? Did you only listen to half of what you said? I saw You walked away for a long time before you realized it. Just as you were about to catch up and ask you, you were stopped. There was an accident at the shelter, and I didn't dare to delay, so I went to deal with the business first. It was already midnight when I saw you again, and I just woke up , my mind is not very clear, I wanted to have a good chat with you the next day, but I didn’t expect you to run away overnight, and you ran for more than a month. Are you a bastard? Can you hide then? "

The more Song Li spoke, the quieter he became, and the more he spoke, the more aggrieved he became.

Ji Qing couldn't hear it, and quickly coaxed: "My fault, my fault, I'm a bastard, okay?

Song Li: "It's too late to admit your mistake now, you have offended me."

Ji Qing knelt down on his knees: "Then how does His Royal Highness King Yu want to punish me?"

Song Li frowned pretendingly and thought for a while, "Have you thought about it? I won't let you go easily."

Ji Qing smiled: "I will accept whatever your Highness wants to punish me."

Song Li said seriously: "I want to punish you and stay by my side forever."

Ji Qing laughed again when he heard this, his smile was as beautiful as the breeze and bright moon on a midsummer night.

Song Li stared at him intently, and said, "What are you laughing at? Don't you want to?"

Ji Qing looked at him seriously, and said word by word: "It's a great honor to be willing."

Song Li turned his head and smiled when he heard this familiar sentence: "That's great."