Li Qishen was caught off guard by the black cat's claws. Before he could react, Coal Ball's other front paw came over and slapped him on the other side of his face. Coal Ball rolled over from nowhere, and its paw pads were extremely dirty. Li Qishen's skin was white, so after these two slaps, he had two plum blossom marks on his face, one on the left and one on the right, which were symmetrical.
Xie Wangzhi couldn't help but burst out laughing, but then he thought it was not good and coughed lightly: "My face is dirty. There is a towel beside the couch, wipe it first."
"… How did this cat sneak in?" Li Qishen ignored the marks on his face, grabbed the back of Meiqiu's neck, lifted the cat up, and walked directly to the window. Normally, he didn't mind Meiqiu's mischief, otherwise, based on the two blows just now, someone else would kick Meiqiu against the wall on the spot, but after all, tonight was their wedding night, and no matter how careless he was, he didn't want a living thing squatting next to him.
The window was not closed tightly, and it opened with a slight push. Li Qishen opened the window with one hand, and with the other hand, he held the coal briquettes and swung them twice, finding the right strength, threw the black cat out, and then closed the window and fastened the latch. After finishing the job, he ignored the angry cat's cry outside, turned around and went back to the couch to find a basin, but caught a glimpse of Xie Wangzhi's face.
He was slightly stunned: "How did you take it down by yourself?"
"… I don't think it's interesting." Xie Wangzhi put the round fan beside the couch. "Maybe the coal ball suddenly jumped out to ask me not to embarrass you. You've already been hit twice. If I force you to write a poem again, wouldn't that be too mean?"
It was just a poem about rejecting the fan. With Li Qishen's ability, it was not difficult. But since Xie Wangzhi said no, he was happy to be free and not to trouble himself. He took out the handkerchief and wrung it in the basin to make sure the water temperature was just right: "Wash your face first."
Xie Wangzhi was stunned for a while before she realized that Li Qishen meant for her to wash off her makeup, so she quickly refused: "It won't look good if you wash off your makeup."
"You can fool others with these words, but it's pointless to fool me. It's not like I haven't seen you without makeup before, you look very beautiful." Li Qishen was sincere and didn't really care whether the bride had makeup on her face or not. "Wash it off, you can't sleep with makeup on. I don't understand this, but I've seen women in the palace wearing makeup before, with bottles and jars of rouge and powder, it's boring just to think about it."
Xie Wangzhi's makeup was not heavy, but she had carefully applied a lot of powder, creating a delicate face like a lotus. It wasn't uncomfortable, but it was indeed stuffy. She hesitated for a moment, thinking that Li Qishen didn't see the effect of makeup at all, so she might as well wash it off.
She took the handkerchief from him and was about to wipe it on her face when she suddenly remembered, "No, there is only one basin of water in the room. If I wash my makeup, the water will be dirty. What will you do?"
"Let's talk about it later." There were two cat paw prints on his face, one on the left and the other on the right, but Li Qishen was not panicked at all. He didn't even wipe them off, and even had the mind to tease Xie Wangzhi, "Besides, the rouge water left over from the beauty's makeup, I can use it to wash my face, so I'll consider it a good deal."
“… Did you learn it from Pingkangfang again?” Xie Wangzhi frowned, trying to pretend to be angry to scare him, but he failed after a while. He suppressed his smile and wiped the cat paw prints off his face with a handkerchief.
Li Qishen bent over and let her wipe it obediently. The two claw marks looked funny, but they were just dust, which disappeared with a light brush. When Xie Wangzhi withdrew his hand, he deliberately leaned over and placed a light kiss on the fingertips that were about to be withdrawn.
When his fingertips brushed against her soft lips, Xie Wangzhi's heart trembled, and he froze for a moment before retracting the handkerchief. He hurriedly dipped the handkerchief back into the basin and began to wash his face. The water in the basin was a little hot, and Xie Wangzhi's makeup was thin. He rolled the wet handkerchief on his skin, then wrung it in the water, and the makeup on his face turned into a flower fragrance floating on the water in the basin.
After washing off her makeup, Xie Wangzhi's childishness was exposed. She sat upright again, with her hands placed on her knees in a proper manner. She was clearly dressed like a newlywed, but she looked like a little girl who had stolen her elder sister's clothes. She knew it herself, and she didn't dare to look at Li Qishen. Her face blushed: "It's better to put on makeup, right?"
"No, it looks better this way." Li Qishen couldn't respond and quickly changed the subject, "Are you hungry?"
"I'm not hungry. I had some dried fruit and a bowl of sticky rice."
"That's good. I was worried that the group of people wouldn't know how to adapt and would keep you from eating." Li Qishen breathed a sigh of relief and took the gourd that had been cut in half on the table. "Drink it. It's just for good luck. It's a little bitter, but just drink it down like medicine."
This is the Heqiu wine, which will taste bitter if it is put in the gourd, which means sharing the joys and sorrows. Xie Wangzhi certainly would not refuse, he took the gourd from Li Qishen, glanced at him, and drank it all in one gulp.
Bitter, really bitter, the moment it entered my mouth it was like chewing raw coptis root, the bitter taste mixed with the spiciness of the wine, flowing all the way across my throat into my stomach. Xie Wangzhi resisted the urge to spit, frowned, and turned to look at Li Qishen.
Li Qishen was fine, he just frowned slightly, but nothing could be seen on his face, and he even had the leisure to ask her, "Would you like some candy?"
"There's no sugar on the table." Xie Wangzhi thought he didn't know, "Everything is kept simple. The table is filled with dried fruits for good luck, no maltose."
"Who told you to take it from the table?"
Xie Wang was stunned: "Where can I get it from?"
Li Qishen smiled, fumbled in the sleeves of his dress, and pulled out a small oil-paper bag, which he handed to Xie Wangzhi like a treasure. This oil-paper bag was obviously packaged later, and the opening was not tied tightly, and a faint sweet fragrance leaked out.
"Where did it come from?" Xie Wangzhi was stunned.
"I took it from the banquet. It's the snack after the banquet, but there weren't many on each table." Li Qishen didn't think there was anything wrong with him at all. "When I went over, Le Yan was eating candy. He likes sweet things. I thought I had to bring some candy, otherwise his mouth would be full of the bitter taste of wine. I quickly told him not to eat it. In the end, I still snatched it from him."
"… "
Xie Wangzhi was convinced and didn't know what to say. He took the oil paper bag from Li Qishen and opened it casually. There were only a few pieces of candy inside. I guess Li Qishen was embarrassed to grab too much. He kept it close to his body for too long, and the candy was so broken that he couldn't even pick it up. The maltose was slightly melted, and a few pieces stuck together.
It seems that the quality of this candy is not very good, and the appearance is very bad. When Xie Wangzhi was still in the Shangshi Bureau, even the newly entered palace maids disdained to eat it. Now the remaining gold, silk, money and grain in the treasury have been sent to various places. The Daming Palace is so poor that they have to be stingy even when buying candy. This inferior candy is like a treasure to the emperor, and it was snatched from the hands of a long-time friend.
“… It’s so shabby.” Xie Wangzhi thought about how embarrassed Li Qishen must have been when he asked Cui Shi for it. He suppressed the bitterness in his heart and dipped his fingertips in some sugar sand and put it in his mouth.
The sugar was not bought well, so the sugar sand was coarse and turned into sugar water in the mouth, which could suppress the previous bitter taste, but it felt choking when swallowed. Xie Wangzhi quickly swallowed a few more mouthfuls of saliva and smiled at Li Qishen: "Too sweet."
"Really?" Li Qishen had no doubts. He didn't like sweet things. He casually put the oil paper bag on the small table beside the couch, paused, and suddenly said, "Then let me try it."
Xie Wangzhi felt a little reluctant to eat the candy. If Li Qishen ate it, he would probably spit it out because it was so sweet. She hurriedly tried to stop him, but before she could say anything to dissuade him, Li Qishen loosely held her hand.
The man beside the couch lowered his head slightly, and gently placed his lips on her fingertips dipped in sugar sand. He first rubbed the fingertips slightly, then moved upward along the fingertips, kissed the knuckles and the back of the hand, and finally kissed the slightly raised wrist bone. Xie Wangzhi was originally slender, and she was frightened in the city before, so she lost a lot of weight. Her wrist was so thin that it could be grasped with one hand, and that small bone was particularly prominent. Li Qishen lowered his eyes to look at her wrist, his long eyelashes drooping, without any hint of men and women, and his eyebrows seemed to be full of worries.
He suddenly leaned over and bit it gently and lovingly.
“You…” Xie Wangzhi felt a pain on his wrist and instinctively wanted to withdraw his hand.
Li Qishen would never let her escape. He held her wrist tightly with one hand, moved closer, and supported her side with his other hand, locking the girl between himself and the couch, leaving her no where to escape.
"Why are you running? You were on the couch in Penglai Palace." Li Qishen stroked Xie Wangzhi's wrist, lowered his voice, and deliberately spoke half close to her ear, "You've already drunk the wedding wine, and you still don't know what to do?"
She got married in a hurry, and she was not close to Wang, so no one taught her what was going on. But Xie Wangzhi was not stupid, and she had a vague understanding of it. At this moment, she was forced to the corner of the couch by Li Qishen, with lotus under her and a mandarin duck tent beside her. The whole place was bright red, and the red candle on the table burned out the same bright red candle tears.
She took a breath and smelled the fragrance of her wedding dress, mixed with the scent of Li Qishen's incense on her collar. The two kinds of incense entangled together, enveloping her completely.
Xie Wangzhi suddenly had an indescribable feeling, her shoulders and back tensed, her heartbeat faster and faster, she wanted to escape, but she also had a vague expectation, waiting for Li Qishen to tell her something she had never known. She swallowed, with a little confusion and fear: "I don't understand this... What should I do?"
"No need to do anything. Why are you so eager to learn now?" The girl in front of him looked innocent, and Li Qishen was a little embarrassed to start, as if if he took another step, he would have a note on his forehead saying "worse than an animal". But the girl he liked was in her wedding dress, and she was forced to lie on the couch and couldn't move, so he had to continue no matter what.
Li Qishen released Xie Wangzhi's wrist and lifted her chin. His fingertips stroked the girl's lips, which felt like newly opened flowers. He couldn't help but lower his head and pressed lightly on her lips.
This was not the first time they had met, and Li Qishen's expression did not change much, but Xie Wangzhi always felt that this time was different. There was something else hidden in the man's eyes, making him look more like a man than a boy.
She was startled and didn't know what to do, so she called him stupidly: "Changsheng..."
Li Qishen suddenly smiled, and pushed Xie Wangzhi onto the couch. He leaned close to her ear and said with a smile, "Call me like that later."
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