Xie Wangzhi: “…”
She felt that Li Qishen was indeed a talented person. She was still overwhelmed with emotions and couldn't calm down. What he cared about was inexplicable. A word of his came at her head and all her thoughts were shattered.
"No, we are all human beings, and we don't have any special smell." She answered dryly, "It's the perfume used after bathing. When it was made, it was probably the peach blossoms that were steamed, so it smells like peach blossoms."
"So that's how it is." Li Qishen found it quite magical.
Xie Wangzhi didn't want to pay attention to him, he just lowered his head and didn't even say "um" to him.
She was sitting sideways and was shorter than Li Qishen. When she lowered her head, Li Qishen only needed to lower his eyelids slightly to take her entire body into his sight.
When discussing beauties in the court, the favorites were usually those with a plump figure, who could support the red and green skirts and could also hold up the colorful ornaments. But Xie Wangzhi was not like that. She was thin and frail. The skirt she wore looked luxurious and the color was plain. She had not put on any makeup yet, except for a hint of red on her lips.
Li Qishen had seen many beauties since he was a child. Li Shutan and Princess Changning were bright and beautiful, while Xie Wangzhi was beautiful and had her own flavor. Liang Zhenlian was also quiet and peaceful, but if you put the two of them together, Li Qishen thought it was wonderful to hug Xie Wangzhi in his arms, but he would probably get goose bumps if he hugged Liang Zhenlian.
He quickly put Liang Zhenlian out of his mind and focused on looking at the girl in front of him, sketching her beautiful eyebrows, delicate nose, and pointed chin bit by bit. The more he looked, the more he felt that she was beautiful everywhere, her long eyelashes and the strand of hair beside her ear.
Especially the lip color, a light red with just the right amount of thickness, when applied on thin lips, it makes people want to try and touch it.
Li Qishen's heart moved slightly, his Adam's apple slid unnaturally, and he pulled the reins: "Let's go."
Xie Wangzhi had no idea that in such a short moment, something inappropriate had popped up in her young man's mind. Just as she was about to answer, Li Qishen had already urged his horse to run away. The Dayuan horse ran very fast, and she was not able to sit firmly for a while. She swayed twice before grabbing the saddle, and forgot about Li Qishen's previous subtle reaction.
It was forbidden to run horses in Chang'an City. Li Qishen himself didn't care, but with Xie Wangzhi in his arms, he didn't dare to run, and only controlled Zhaoye to trot. Poor Zhaoye, a carefully trained warhorse, couldn't even let go of his hooves, and was frustrated all the way to the East Market.
When dismounting, Li Qishen got off first, patted the warhorse, and fed it a piece of candy, so that he didn't get snorted in the face. He smiled and reached out to help Xie Wang dismount: "Be careful."
Xie Wangzhi gathered the scarf, lifted the hem of her skirt slightly, and got off the horse with some strength: "Where are you going?"
"Let's take a walk first." Li Qishen hadn't been back to Chang'an City for five years, and he didn't know what was in the East Market. He recalled the interesting stalls in the corner and said, "No hurry."
"Okay." Xie Wangzhi smiled, "I'll listen to you."
Neither of them knew where to go, and Zhao Yegeng didn't know either, so he let his master lead the horse and walked forward. It was a war horse with Dayuan blood, and was particularly agile and tall, attracting attention on the street. The man leading the horse was a handsome man, and the woman walking beside him was a beautiful woman.
Many people looked over here intentionally or unintentionally. Xie Wangzhi felt a little uncomfortable. He coughed lightly and found a topic: "Did you raise this horse?"
"I guess so." Li Qishen thought about what to say, "Give it to me. I can only use it normally. I have to feed and groom the horses as well."
Xie Wangzhi thought about Li Qishen's miserable look in brushing the horse, and couldn't help but smiled, and deliberately said: "You have never fed or washed the coal briquettes yourself."
Li Qishen just remembered that there was a coal ball: "Le Yan wrote to you saying that you took the coal ball home, why didn't I see it?"
"It doesn't come back very often. It only comes to eat or take a nap occasionally." Xie Wangzhi said truthfully, "It seems to have taken a fancy to a cat outside these days and hasn't come back."
Li Qishen was too lazy to care about it. Just when he wanted to change the subject, he saw Xie Wangzhi stop and asked casually, "What's wrong?"
"Look, coal briquettes."
Li Qishen was startled and looked over. The place Xie Wangzhi pointed to was the mask stall across the street. There were many masks hanging on a bamboo pole, from Kunlun slaves to noble ladies. Xie Wangzhi was probably referring to the black cat mask, with a big round face and hollowed out cat eyes. When worn, one could just see through the two holes.
"Is Coal Ball's face so big?" Li Qishen laughed.
"No," Xie Wangzhi said seriously, "It's not fat, it's just furry."
The two were just arguing and teasing each other, but they were both stunned after they finished. They had said this before, and after five years, standing opposite the mask stall, they unexpectedly met each other unconsciously, as if they were meeting their past selves again.
Instantly, his emotions surged up, and Xie Wangzhi smoothed his sleeves to conceal it: "Let's go, I like masks and want to buy one."
Li Qishen agreed, holding Zhaoye with one hand and holding Xie Wangzhi loosely with the other hand, and crossed the street with her. Xie Wangzhi really took the black cat, and without saying much, he paid the bill directly, pulled Li Qishen's sleeve, and continued to walk forward.
Li Qishen did not force anyone to pay for it. He smiled and said, "Can you understand that I am poor?"
"You are a prince and you have military pay, so how can you be poor? If anyone is poor, it's me." Xie Wangzhi turned around slightly and casually put the mask on Li Qishen's head.
The rope behind the mask was loose, and Li Qishen happened to have not taken off his hair crown, so the rope got stuck on the hair crown, and the cypress wood sank down, just covering the cold and beautiful face. The black cat mask covered his face, and his eyes were exposed in the hollowed-out eyes, which were light amber, with gold fragments in the depths of his pupils.
Xie Wangzhi raised his hands, held the two sides of the mask, put the black cat on Li Qishen's face, and stared at the beautiful eyes through the mask.
"There's something I forgot to tell you." She smiled slightly, "Changsheng, I'm glad you're back."
She used small characters, no longer the teasing "Prince" before. Li Qishen's heart trembled, and an inexplicable warmth surged up, making him gurgle and bubble. He also smiled: "Yes, I'm back."
"I know who you are." Xie Wangzhi paused and continued, "You are wearing a mask, you are a coal ball, or some other black cat, but behind the mask is you, someone I know."
She spoke very seriously, her eyes were clear, reflecting the man in front of her, her words were incoherent, but her expression was pious, as if she was making a wish to a statue of God. Li Qishen listened to her in silence, and after a while he spoke again, his tone was relaxed.
"Yes, it's me." He held the lower jaw of the mask with one hand, and while Xie Wangzhi was about to withdraw his hand, he moved his hand and took the mask off, revealing his cold and beautiful face again. He hooked the string with his fingertips, "Give it to Meiqiu later, so that it will look the same inside and out."
Xie Wangzhi was amused and patted him lightly on the shoulder.
This was just a joke, Li Qishen didn't care at all, instead he opened his arms: "We haven't seen each other for years, do you want a hug?"
"Were you not hugging me on the horse just now?" The atmosphere in the dynasty was open-minded, and they had known each other since childhood, so Xie Wangzhi had no intention of avoiding this suspicion, but he did not extend his hand either, deliberately choking Li Qishen.
"That's not called hugging, that's forced by the situation."
"Oh?" Xie Wangzhi glanced at Li Qishen, deliberately raised her chin slightly, and pretended to be a proud young lady. "Then please tell me, Your Highness, what is hugging?"
As soon as she finished speaking, her body suddenly tightened and she fell into a warm embrace.
The man who held her was half a head taller than her, with long arms and legs, so this hug was particularly firm, almost embedding her whole body in his arms. Through Chunli's clothes, the two hugged each other, and they could feel each other's breathing. There was no lust in this hug, just a reunion of old friends, and the moment seemed like a thousand years, and both of them had white hair.
"Don't you know?" Li Qishen whispered softly into Xie Wangzhi's ear, "It's all about love."
Xie Wangzhi's face suddenly turned red.
Blushing is something that cannot be felt. Li Qishen was holding Xie Wangzhi in his arms and could not see anything. He did not care and hugged her again. When he lowered his head, he smelled a faint scent of peach blossoms on the girl's collar.
Li Qishen smiled slightly and let go of Xie Wangzhi.
There were many people on Dongshi Street, and the place where they stood was not too far away. As soon as he let go, someone bumped into him from behind. Li Qishen quickly pulled him away and took Xie Wangzhi to the side.
Xie Wangzhi was pulled aside, but was not hit. However, his steps were messed up for a moment, and he accidentally stepped on Li Qishen's boots. It was an unintentional mistake, and the kick was not too heavy, but Li Qishen's face changed slightly.
Xie Wangzhi was stunned, thinking that he was angry and wanted to apologize, but Li Qishen didn't look at her. He just reached out to the side and grabbed a boy about ten years old.
"What are you doing?!" The boy couldn't let him pick on him. He wiped his nose, and anger was obvious on his dirty little face. "Let go, let go!"
"How old are you? How can you talk like that?" Li Qishen raised his hand and slapped the boy on the face, quite crisply.
The boy was stunned by the slap, not caring about the pain on his head: "What do you care what I say? Let go, are you going to let go?"
He was ready to hit someone if he didn't let go, but the thing only reached a little above Li Qishen's waist and abdomen, so Li Qishen held it like that, which made him look very powerless, just like a cat being grabbed by the neck by its owner. Li Qishen didn't get angry, and patted him on the forehead again: "Take out what you just took, or we'll meet in Jingzhao Prefecture."
Xie Wangzhi felt something was wrong: "What's wrong?"
"What are you talking about?" The boy was startled, and immediately raised his legs to kick Li Qishen, using his hands and feet, and even opened his mouth to bite his hand, "Let go! Let go!"
After all, he had fought in the Tiande Army, so how could Li Qishen let him bite him? He restrained the boy in two or three moves. He had no mercy, and controlled the boy with one hand, and with the other hand he pulled out the short sword hidden in his sleeve, and put the scabbard on the boy's neck.
"Take it out." If it wasn't in front of Xie Wangzhi, he would have broken the boy's hands and feet long ago, and the blade he used should have been sharp. Li Qishen felt that he was kind in these few moves, so he was patient, "Otherwise I would have dragged you to Jingzhao Prefecture."
He was not joking. The boy stared at him for a while, his mouth pursed, and suddenly he burst into tears.
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