It fits, of course it fits.
The girl was so close to him, the hair she had left by her ears was covered with moonlight, slowly falling down, almost brushing against Li Qishen. It was clearly a dream, and one shouldn't smell anything in a dream, but his breathing suddenly became heavy, as if he was immersed in the fragrance of peach blossoms. Looking at the girl so close to him, his mind was suddenly in a mess, and he couldn't speak.
"… I'm asking you." Xie Wangzhi asked, raising his hand to stroke the side of his face, tenderly and lovingly, but his eyes were clear, "Does it match?"
Li Qishen suddenly turned over and sat up. The window was not closed tightly. He lowered his head and saw a crescent of moonlight on the quilt. It was cold and silvery, as if mocking what he had done in his dream.
At this age, he was not unaware of the changes in himself. Li Qishen moved his legs, threw off the quilt and went to fetch water barefoot without even taking off his shoes. It was too late, the posthouse was not as good as the inn outside, and hot water was not always available. He didn't care and used cold water directly.
After all, it was only March, and the night was cold. After taking a cold bath, Li Qishen's skin turned red from the cold. When the wind blew, the exposed parts felt a little painful, like the winter in the desert, with wind and snow cutting his face, making people suspect that it would bleed. He was silent for a moment, raised his hand and pressed it on his chest, and his fingertips unconsciously retracted, as if he wanted to dig out something inside.
"...Shameless." He said softly, and his thick eyelashes drooped instantly, covering the gold in his pupils.
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"… Hey, what's wrong with you? Why are you still lying on the couch at this hour?" After getting permission, Cui Shi pushed the door open and walked in. He calmly sat down at the table, obviously not treating himself as an outsider. He picked up a dried fruit and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing it with a vague sound, "I remember that you didn't like studying before, but you didn't sleep until this hour?"
"Stop talking." Li Qishen was too lazy to pay attention to him. He turned his back to him and said lazily, "Zhao Ye is in the stable outside."
Cui Shi choked and dared not speak.
Zhaoye was a war horse, and was trained to be not very friendly to anyone except his master. Cui Shi didn't know why he didn't please Zhaoye. The last time they met, he tried to get close to him, but the war horse snorted at him twice and almost trampled him to death with its hooves.
If he didn't speak, Li Qishen wouldn't speak either, and the two men stayed in the room in silence. After a while, Cui Shi felt something was wrong, so he cleared his throat and tried to say, "The weather is nice today..."
Li Qishen thought he was going to say something like "going out to play", but Cui Shi changed the subject and lowered his voice, "It was pretty good the other day. Did you go meet anyone?"
"Yes." He was going to talk about serious matters, so Li Qishen didn't hesitate and immediately turned over and sat up, casually gathering his long hair, "I'm afraid I can't go back to Fengzhou."
Cui Shi was startled: "What?"
"I don't know. But I guess it's not a big deal, just a sudden thought." Li Qishen was quite confident in Li Chengjin and Li Taoqi, and they couldn't do anything wrong. "I was summoned to the palace before, and I don't know what was wrong with them. They said that I should stay in Chang'an City. I can probably decide on the future house in the next few days."
"... That's good." Cui Shi thought about it, and then felt something was wrong. "Then how about you and the crown prince?"
"Nothing." The Crown Princess's false accusation had not been cleared up yet. No matter whether Li Taoqi hated him or not, he always felt guilty in front of Li Qishen. Li Qishen was too lazy to pay attention to this soft-hearted brother. "When I entered the palace, I went with him. We went to Longshouyuan, but he had to turn back and enter through Danfeng Gate."
He found it funny every time he thought about it, and sneered, "I won't set up an ambush at Xuanwu Gate, what is he afraid of?"
Li Qishen dared to say this, but Cui Shi did not dare to answer. He picked up a dried fruit and said, "Let's not talk about this. The weather is really good today. Do you want to go hunting outside the city? Changning has been clamoring for several days, waiting for you."
After being stuck in Chang'an for several days, Li Qishen wanted to go, but then he gave up and went back, saying in a depressed voice, "No, I'm lazy."
"You're so lazy." He said that, which meant he was definitely not going. Cui Shi didn't waste time. He turned over and patted the crumbs on the skirt. "Then I'll go back and talk to Changning. You just lie down."
Li Qishen said "hmm" lazily, turned his back to Cui Shi, raised one hand and waved it twice meaningfully.
Cui Shi glanced at him, sighed, turned around and left, closing the door for him when he went out.
The room became quiet. It was noon, and Chongrenfang was bustling with people coming and going. Lunch was being prepared under the posthouse, and voices came in through the window, like steam coming in from a steamer. Li Qishen was a little annoyed, and suddenly pulled the quilt, buried his whole face in the quilt, and suffocated himself.
After being in a state of silence for a while, I couldn't hear the sounds in my ears clearly and fell into a deep sleep.
He didn't sleep well this time. When he woke up, it was almost 3 p.m. Li Qishen turned over and sat up. His stomach was empty, but his head was dizzy. He stood up, and his eyes went dark for a moment. He froze for a while before he stood still.
It was time to eat, but there was nothing in the house. Li Qishen drank a sip of herbal tea, straightened his clothes, put on his shoes, and went downstairs to find something to eat.
Just after going downstairs, there were quite a few people in the hall. He glanced around as usual and found a familiar figure in the crowd. He had appeared in his dream last night and met him today. Li Qishen was startled and instinctively took a half step back.
Xie Wangzhi also saw him, hesitated for a moment, and walked over with a small food box in his arm: "Prince?"
"… Um." Li Qishen responded vaguely, "Why are you here?"
"It's a nice day today, let's go out for a walk, otherwise it's not good to stay bored at home all the time. I heard Princess Changning say that you live here, so I came to find you." Xie Wangzhi didn't notice his abnormality, "Didn't you say before that you wanted to eat the snacks I made? I brought them here, I came up with them recently, I tried them and they tasted okay, but I don't know if you like them..."
"... You don't blame me anymore?" Li Qishen interrupted her.
Xie Wang was stunned, and then she understood what he was talking about. She had figured it out a long time ago, but she felt a little embarrassed standing in front of this man. She raised her hand as if unintentionally, tucked the hair behind her ear, and then shook her head.
"There are so many things going on in Chang'an City. I know sometimes you have to do things against your will. There are so many hardships in the world and so little joy. Many people are forced to do things against their will." She smiled, "But I believe in you."
Li Qishen was slightly startled, and then he said "hmm" and smiled: "Then of course I can't let you down. Let's not talk about it. I'm really hungry. What did you bring?"
She looked really hungry, just like when she was young in Daming Palace. Xie Wangzhi couldn't help but smile again. There were tables in the lobby of the inn, so she found an empty one nearby, put down the food box in her hand, and opened the lid.
The food box looked small, but it was deep inside and had two layers. The lid of the first layer was pierced with fine hollow patterns. When it was opened, a black paw rested on the edge of the food box, and a cat's head squeezed out, with its pointed ears trembling twice.
"Coal briquettes? Why is it here too?"
Li Qishen thought it was fun, and when he saw the black cat jumping out, he naturally reached out his hand, wanting to scratch the area between Coal Ball's ears. However, Coal Ball didn't give him much face, and turned his body to the side, avoiding his hand, and when he looked up at him, his pupils were erect, and a low sound came out of his throat, as if he was ready to pounce on him and scratch him at any time.
Xie Wangzhi originally wanted to bring Coal Ball to meet Li Qishen, but he had no idea it would react like this, so he quickly stroked the black cat and said, "What's wrong..."
"It seems that I have been with you for too long and don't recognize me anymore." Li Qishen didn't care at all. He bent his knuckles and hit Meiqiu on the forehead without paying attention to the sharp claws that popped out of his paw pads.
Coal Ball was caught off guard and the cat's head trembled. Li Qishen touched between its ears and the back of its neck. He pinched the soft flesh and lifted the black cat up. He looked into its amber eyes and said, "Stupid thing, don't you recognize me?"
Being lifted up like this, Coal Ball's hair stood up and his tail stood straight. Xie Wangzhi had no doubt that if Li Qishen let go, Coal Ball would pounce on him and scratch his face.
However, after staring at Li Qishen for a while, Coal Ball's ears suddenly drooped, and he meowed twice, turned his head with difficulty, and licked the back of his hand twice.
Li Qishen showed an inexplicable expression, threw the coal ball back on the table, and rubbed it hard on the head, making the whole cat depressed. Coal Ball did not dare to fight with its owner who had been away for a long time, so it tucked its front legs, put its chin on its legs, and curled up into a cat ball, leaving only its long tail hanging under the table.
Xie Wangzhi felt that Li Qishen's attitude was too fierce, and touched Meiqiu's ear: "Maybe it's been too long since we last saw each other, but it looks like it recognized you. You're so fierce."
"It just licked me." Li Qishen said indifferently.
"Just a lick, what's wrong?"
"According to cat rules, only those with higher status lick those below them." Li Qishen pretended to flick Meiqiu's head again, but his tone was relaxed, "I've only been in Fengzhou for five years. Do you think you can climb over my head?"
"Why bother with it?" Xie Wangzhi smiled and shook his head. He took out the sealed compartment in the middle and took out the snack that he really brought to Li Qishen. "Here, this is it. You have to eat it cold. Try it."
This dessert is different from the popular flower cakes in Chang'an City. It is not the kind of fancy and exquisite. The dough mixed with sesame is rolled into a medium-sized ball, soft and elastic, and it makes people feel good just by looking at it. It just so happens that Li Qishen hates those cakes with various patterns but not very good taste. He thinks these white and plump balls are comfortable to look at, so he took one and lowered his head to take a bite.
It was indeed different. This dessert was not sweet, nor was it slightly sticky as he had imagined. Instead, it was tough and chewy. Biting through the outer layer of skin, the filling inside was salty and tasted like thin pieces of meat floss.
Li Qishen was a little surprised: "It's really salty."
"You don't like sweet food. The dough outside is also seasoned. I'm afraid you'll feel sick." Xie Wangzhi gathered the hem of her skirt and sat down at the table. "There's not much food. It's all yours. Fill your stomach first."
The author has something to say: The coal balls you want are now in business. There is more coal ball powder than Changsheng. I can't do it (sigh). Thank you to the little angels who voted for me or irrigated me with nutrient solution~
Thanks to the little angel who cast the [mine]: 1 cherry in the hen father;
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated [nutrient solution]:
Jiuxiao, Goodnight 119, Qingyuan 10 bottles; Acetylcholine is a bit salty 9 bottles; Seventeen Tea, Nine Minutes Sweet 5 bottles; Hahahaha Baba Baba, Sugar in the Ginger 3 bottles; Tilt Head Snapping Fingers, Hedonist 2 bottles; Object Fugue, Wood Yao 1 bottle;
Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!