“…So you can do it?!”
Xie Wangzhi glared at Li Qishen, and ignoring the hand that was still being held, he pushed it on his shoulder, raised his other hand, and placed the back of his hand on his lips that had just been tortured, covering the lower half of his face. With this cover, his eyes were particularly obvious, and the pupils reflected the cold and beautiful man, who was covered with a thin mist, but his thick and long eyelashes trembled, and a bit of the charm of wanting to say something but not being able to, and the slightly curled ends tickled people's hearts.
Li Qishen was not careful for a moment and was pushed back a few steps: "... Not really."
Xie Wangzhi was ready to say something to him, but he said this, blocking all the words in his throat. She couldn't do anything, she could only stare at Li Qishen, hoping that he would have some shame.
Unfortunately, Li Qishen was not born with this thing, so he was completely unaware of it. He stared back with a blank face, looking a bit pitiful, as if he was the one who was pressed against the wall and taken advantage of.
The two stared at each other for a while. Facing Li Qishen's face, Xie Wangzhi really couldn't say anything. She couldn't point at his nose and yell, "You took advantage of me, you have no shame." She had to hold back her shame and anger, glared at him again, turned her head away suddenly, and said in a muffled voice: "I want to go home, otherwise I'm afraid my brother will be worried."
"Okay." Li Qishen climbed up the pole, "I'll go with you."
He insisted on following, and Xie Wangzhi couldn't hit him, so he turned around and walked out of the narrow alley, twisting his sleeves as he walked, until his knuckles turned slightly white. If someone pressed him against the wall like this and flirted with him without knowing what he meant, he would be stupid, but Li Qishen didn't speak first, and she at least had some noble lady's reserve and girl's timidity, so she really couldn't ask him actively.
Li Qishen was completely unaware of the girl's shyness, and thought Xie Wangzhi understood, so he did not force her. Although he was a reckless person, he still had to be careful with Xie Wangzhi. He was just impulsive, and that was the worst. Since Xie Wangzhi did not respond for the time being, he did not ask any more questions, but silently prepared to be slapped a few times.
The two men, each with their own thoughts, walked out of the narrow alley without saying a word. Across the street they saw Xie's carriage.
"… We're here. You don't have to accompany me across the street." Xie Wangzhi didn't hit Li Qishen, but just raised his hand to touch his still hot cheek, lowered his head, and said, "Let's stop here."
"Okay." Li Qishen nodded, "Be careful when you cross the street."
Xie Wangzhi didn't know whether she was relieved or a little disappointed because she didn't hear what she wanted to hear. She couldn't tell what she felt towards Li Qishen. She had never thought about where the surging emotions and restlessness came from before. She just thought it was normal when meeting an old friend after a long separation. But after Li Qishen flirted with her just now, she seemed to suddenly understand something buried deep in her heart.
It was the kind of interaction that could only happen between lovers, passionate and deep, and vaguely containing something that Xie Wangzhi had never touched.
But she wasn't... annoying.
Xie Wangzhi hesitated for a moment, just said "hmm" softly, and continued walking forward.
Just as he took a step forward, Li Qishen's voice suddenly came from behind him. His tone was calm and inexplicably solemn, as if he was about to say something important: "Wait."
"… What?" Xie Wangzhi's heart tightened, and she felt that Li Qishen was about to break the window paper. Her heartbeat was disordered for a moment, and she forced herself to calm down, "Do you, do you have anything else to say?"
"have."
"Then... go ahead." Xie Wangzhi pressed his chest, turned around slowly, and didn't dare to look up at Li Qishen, "I'm listening."
Li Qishen looked at her, at that pretty face, and traced it with his eyes, from the elegant eyebrows to the graceful jaw. Logically, he should try to reach out his hand, anyway, touching her cheek with his hand is fair and square, and it doesn't count as below the neck anyway, but some people have dirty hearts and see everything as dirty, so he had to give up and took two steps back.
"I didn't taste anything just now, it's not sweet." His expression and eyes were gentle, but his words were extremely unromantic. He was still really confused, "Girls' lip balm, doesn't it have any taste?"
Xie Wangzhi: “…”
"... I didn't put on any lip balm today." She endured it for a while, but couldn't bear it anymore, so she pushed Li Qishen away, took off the jade bracelet on her wrist, and threw it directly at the man in front of her.
She was extremely embarrassed and annoyed, and for the first time in her life she shouted, "Li Keheng, if you want to eat something sweet, there are so many candy stalls in the East Market!"
After shouting, Xie Wangzhi was still annoyed. He turned around and ran away without even looking at Li Qishen.
She really didn't have much strength in her hands, even though she was so angry, a bracelet hitting her didn't hurt at all, it didn't seem like she was angry, but rather she was looking for an excuse to lose her temper and wait for someone to comfort her. Li Qishen took the bracelet casually, was slightly startled, and didn't chase after him. Seeing Xie Wangzhi got on the carriage of Xie's house, he really couldn't chase after him.
He could only lower his head and stare at the bracelet in his hand, which was still warm, with a puzzled look on his face. After looking at it for a while, Li Qishen suddenly picked up the bracelet, put it close to his nose, and sniffed it very lightly.
**
No one spoke during the whole journey in the carriage, nor did they speak on the way back to Xie's house. Xie Wangzhi was a man of few words, and even if his emotions were surging, no one would notice anything unusual. Moon worship was the job of the women, and at night, Xie Wangzhi followed Wang and performed the ceremony in front of the moon worship platform, and then there was the Mid-Autumn Festival family dinner.
After all the trouble, the Mid-Autumn Festival was over. When she returned to her yard and took a bath, it was almost the hour of Hai, so it was time to clean up and talk.
Xie Wangzhi didn't have the habit of staying up late, so she changed into her pajamas directly after taking a shower. When Luzhu was fixing her sleeves for her, she suddenly let out a small "ouch".
"What's wrong?" Xie Wangzhi was puzzled. "Is there something wrong?"
"... That's not the case." Lu Zhu thought about it. She was too anxious to help Xie Wangzhi take a bath just now, so she didn't remember much. "Madam, I remember that you were wearing a pair of bracelets before you went out. Now I remember... When you took off the bracelets earlier, it seemed that there was only one?"
Xie Wangzhi's heart tightened, and she immediately remembered who she had hit with the bracelet. After a while, she had calmed down. When she remembered it, her face turned slightly red again, and she couldn't help but coughed lightly: "I remember, I lost it in the East Market."
"Then I will make a record tomorrow?" It was just a bracelet. With the financial resources of the Xie family in Chang'an, it didn't matter. The only thing was that they were afraid that it would be picked up by someone with ulterior motives. Luzhu tried to guess Xie Wangzhi's expression and asked, "Madam, do you remember where you lost it?"
Xie Wangzhi was about to tell Luzhu not to say anything, since it must have fallen into Li Qishen's hands anyway, so there was no need to remember it. But she suddenly became a little annoyed and said angrily: "Remember, it was near Deyue Tower and was taken away by a cat."
"...Cat?" Luzhu was stunned, then she thought that there are many strange things in the world. Since Xie Wangzhi said so, she would remember it. "I understand. Is there anything else my lady wants?"
"No need, go down."
Luzhu responded, knelt down and bowed, turned around and went out. Before leaving, she turned off the two lights at the door and closed the door for Xie Wangzhi.
As soon as the light went out, the room immediately became dark, but the table was still lit, with the candlelight dancing in the lampshade, flickering, making the butterfly painted on the lampshade look like it was fluttering its wings and flying. Xie Wangzhi stared at the butterfly on the lamp for a while, sighed softly, walked a few steps, and sat down beside the couch.
After sitting for a while, she suddenly heard a sound from the window. It was not loud, but regular and did not sound like the wind.
Xie Wangzhi felt strange, and casually pulled the wide-sleeved shirt hanging beside the couch, draped it loosely over his shoulders, held it with one hand, and stood up and went to the window.
The bedroom was not too big, especially the inner room separated by a screen. After a few steps, I reached the window. The closer I got, the clearer the sound on the window became. The intervals were well-spaced, not too light or too heavy, as if someone was knocking on the window deliberately, and the person knocking on the window was well-educated.
Xie Wangzhi thought it was Xie Yunzhi. Although they were siblings from the same mother and had a good relationship, they still had to avoid suspicion. Meeting through the window was the best way. She didn't think too much and pushed the window open.
However, there was no Xie Yunzhi outside the window. Xie Wangzhi never left anyone to watch at night, and the yard was empty, without a single person. She was startled, but then she thought that there were guards at Xie's house, and outsiders could not get in. Maybe she was distracted just now and misheard the wind.
Xie Wangzhi didn't think too much about it. Just as she was about to close the window, she suddenly heard a soft "meow" and then a pitch-black cat head. The black cat shook its pointed ears, put one of its front paws on the window frame, scratched it twice, and then put the other paw up, using its chin and two front paws to hold it, staring at her with its amber eyes, quite innocent.
"Meiqiu?" Xie Wangzhi's heart softened, thinking that the black cat had run all the way here from the Prince's Mansion. He quickly reached out and hugged Meiqiu's shoulders, wanting to bring it in.
But she couldn't hold the coal ball. She was wondering if the coal ball had gained weight again or if she really didn't have enough strength in her hands. Suddenly, a figure appeared from behind the window. The man with stern eyebrows stood across the window, pinching the middle of the coal ball with both hands. No wonder Xie Wangzhi couldn't hold it just now.
"… Why are you here?!" Xie Wangzhi was startled, and his hand loosened. As expected, the first thing he thought of was Li Qishen's safety. "It's curfew, and there are guards in the mansion. How did you get in?"
"Climb over the wall. The gate isn't too high, so it's not hard to avoid the guards." Li Qishen retracted his hand and changed to holding the coal ball. He looked at Xie Wangzhi with it, feeling a little aggrieved. "I came here to ask you, do you still want your bracelet?"
Xie Wangzhi thought to herself, it’s already this late, why is he still thinking about this bracelet? She looked around and made sure that there was really no one in the yard and no one would pass by. But it was still unsafe, so she was anxious and lowered her voice, “Since you can climb over the wall, let’s go back quickly. It would be bad if someone saw us.”
"Am I so shameful?" Li Qishen continued to act pitiful, and the hand holding the coal ball pinched its back. Coal ball understood, and fumbled in its owner's arms, and took out a jade bracelet, which was the one Xie Wangzhi had used to hit Li Qishen before.
Li Qishen let the black cat in his arms hold the jade bracelet in its mouth. He stood not too far away, staring at Xie Wangzhi through a window, and said softly, "Or do you not understand what I mean?"
The author has something to say: Hot knowledge, great light skills are not allowed in the inner city of Chang'an, so Changsheng really had to climb up with Nie Yun with a coal briquette in his pocket (.) In comparison, it is easier for Wuyou to climb over the wall than Changsheng, because he can eat shadows.
Wuyou:? I don’t climb over the wall.