Li Qishen certainly didn't know what Xie Wangzhi was thinking. No matter how smart he was, he wouldn't deliberately guess. He just grabbed the newly roasted pheasant slices and gave them to Xie Wangzhi first, then ate them himself. The pheasant was not big, and we took a bite each. It didn't take long for them to be divided up. The good meat of the breast, abdomen and wing roots all went into Xie Wangzhi's stomach, and Li Qishen only ate some scraps.
But he didn't care, he quickly put out the fire, removed the dead branches, buried the remaining skeleton together, and went to the river to fetch water for washing. Although Li Qishen didn't care, Xie Wangzhi couldn't just sit there and let him serve him, so he just followed and washed together.
The last thing to be cleaned was the short dagger that served as tableware. After wiping it clean, Li Qishen held it in one hand and touched the shiny surface with his other hand. He pressed the shallow blood groove in the middle with his fingertips and stroked it downwards. This was purely a habit of the soldiers. With their lives on the grassland, they had to sleep with their weapons at night. They had an inexplicable feeling for their weapons.
This feeling was quite subtle to Li Qishen. He lowered his eyes slightly, and his thick eyelashes could not cover the light in his pupils. The light of the dagger was reflected in his eyes. He watched his fingers move down little by little. His eyebrows and eyes were calm, but he inexplicably revealed an almost weird obsession, which made people suspect that he would suddenly kiss the blade.
Xie Wangzhi was watching him from the side, his heartbeat was disturbed by this groundless speculation, and he pursed his lips: "... Are you done?"
"Yes." Li Qishen put away the dagger, stood up, and patted his wrinkled cuffs. "I'll take you home?"
His attitude was very natural, no different from every time they met before, with an open and frank look. In this way, even though Xie Wangzhi was thinking about what he said before, she was still a little reserved like a girl, and could not ask actively, so she could only nod gently: "Okay."
Li Qishen responded, gestured, and walked back first. Xie Wangzhi adjusted her skirt and followed him.
No matter how close the Lishan Hunting Ground is to the Huaqing Palace, no subject would have the nerve to live there. Therefore, apart from the royal family, the people who came with them lived in a temporarily requisitioned villa, which was also from aristocratic and powerful families. It was a bit funny that the wool came from the sheep.
After walking for a while in silence, they could vaguely see the shadow of the roof of the other courtyard. Xie Wangzhi quickly stopped and said, "Let's stop here. If we go any closer, there will be a lot of people coming and going, and it will be bad if people see us."
“Oh,” Li Qishen stopped obediently, but he tried to tease Xie Wangzhi, “I’m such a disgrace, can’t I just send you back?”
"Of course not!" Xie Wangzhi said anxiously, "I..."
"It doesn't matter. I can't see it in public." Li Qishen didn't care at all. He lazily handed the thing in his hand to Xie Wangzhi, "This thing can at least be seen."
It was a few branches of flowers, probably picked from some shrub, cut to the right length, with the soft stems twisted into a crisscross pattern. The flowers were small and not eye-catching, and the color was also a light purple. After Li Qishen folded them, they looked like a delicate hairpin, with a natural and unadorned elegance.
"Thank you." Xie Wangzhi didn't take the flowers, unsure of how to arrange them with this length, "Although there are vases in my temporary residence, they have long necks, so I'm afraid they won't fit in."
"Who told you to put it in the vase? These are wild flowers, how can you pick them and admire them?" Li Qishen sighed. Sometimes he didn't know whether he was thinking too much or Xie Wangzhi was too unromantic.
But since she was the one he had chosen, what else could he do? He raised his hand and gently pinned the intertwined flowers into Xie Wangzhi's hair. Xie Wangzhi usually dressed plainly, with long black and smooth hair that was enviable, but he didn't like to wear many hair accessories. At this moment, he only wore two symmetrical flower hairpins. This small bunch of lavender flowers pinned into his hair did not look vulgar, but complemented the flower hairpins, like a complete set of accessories.
Li Qishen took a look, adjusted his position, and gently pressed his fingertips on the branch that was leaning to one side. His white fingertips brushed across the light purple. "Why not be extravagant for once and use it as a hair accessory for a day."
Xie Wangzhi was stunned. He was about to say that these were wild flowers, but then he thought that he was right. Wild flowers are alive. Letting Li Qishen pick them and put them in her hair would be like using the lives of these wild flowers as decorations. It was extremely luxurious.
"Don't pick the flowers randomly next time." But she felt really good in her heart, and couldn't help but raise her hand to touch it. When she looked up at Li Qishen, her eyes sparkled, "Does it look good?"
"It looks great." Li Qishen nodded, "It's unparalleled in the world."
Xie Wangzhi blushed and coughed lightly. With a girl's pride, her wandering eyes revealed that she was indeed happy: "It's not that exaggerated... Don't say such things."
"Then don't say it." Li Qishen followed suit, "Let me ask you, do you like it?"
"Like." Xie Wangzhi thought about it and replied with a word, "I have a special liking for it."
After she finished speaking, she suppressed her shyness, her dense eyelashes trembled slightly, the filtered sunlight flowed into her clear pupils, and in an instant she had a kind of charming look. Xie Wangzhi was good-looking, and at this moment, she looked at the man in front of her with a slightly cunning smile on her face. Her face was like a fairy, but her demeanor was like a goblin.
Li Qishen was startled by the feeling at that moment and looked back blankly.
After staring at each other for a while, he reacted and couldn't help but smiled. He wanted to touch Xie Wangzhi's head, but it was covered with wild flowers, so it was difficult to touch her. He had to change his position and pinch her face instead.
"Then I'll assume that you said it to me." Li Qishen twisted it lightly and quickly withdrew his hand. "Okay, I'm so embarrassed that I won't show it. Let's go back."
"You are not considerate of others, but this flower is." Xie Wangzhi knew he was joking, so he did not try to argue with him. He just said it back, waved his hand, and turned away.
She was in a good mood and walked briskly, lifting her skirt slightly and following the path she had cleared, she slipped back in a short while.
Li Qishen watched the maid waiting over there to greet Xie Wangzhi, then he turned around and went back to where he was originally going.
Today, they hunted deer. Deer jerky is eaten in one way, and fresh deer meat is also eaten in another way. As usual, they held a small banquet. On the surface, it was a family banquet, and all the guests were members of the royal family. Li Qishen was naturally no exception. He didn't care. Before the banquet, he specially hunted a pheasant to fill his stomach. After sitting down, he didn't plan to eat the cold dishes on the table. He just picked up a handful of dried fruits and chewed them one by one.
After chewing for a while, a child suddenly came in front of him. He was about three years old, wearing gorgeous clothes, with his short hair neatly tied up. Judging from his dress, he was of high social status, but his face looked a little timid and reserved.
Li Qishen took a quick glance and recognized that this was Li Taoqi's eldest son, the child born from the Crown Princess' belly. This child was what everyone expected, the Crown Prince's eldest son, or at most the little grandson of the Emperor, the future heir to the empire. It was worth it for the Crown Princess to rack her brains to preserve the pregnancy, but after giving birth to this child, she would never be able to have another child in this life.
His name is also very solemn, which is Cangbi. "The Book of Zhou" says "Use Cangbi to worship the sky", which shows the expectations for him, which is just short of stamping his forehead.
Unfortunately, this child, like her elder sister, was born weak. She has been taking medicine until now and has been kept under the care of the Crown Princess, which has made her look kind and timid. She dodged when she looked at Li Qishen: "Is this... a fruit?"
"It's dried fruit. The fruits are picked from trees and vines and dried in the sun, or hung in a ventilated place to be dried by the wind, and they become like this." No matter how much Li Qishen hated the Crown Princess, he had no problem with Li Cangbi. He was not the kind of person who would deliberately try to please children, but when his tone softened, he really did sound a bit gentle.
He opened his palm and showed Li Cangbi the shrunken dried fruit in his palm. "Look, this is what it looks like after it's dried. It tastes drier and harder than when it's fresh."
Li Cangbi has always only eaten fresh seasonal fruits, and has never eaten this. He wanted to eat it, but was afraid that the Crown Princess would find out. After holding it in for a long time, he still didn't dare to reach out and swallowed: "Since it will become dry and hard... why do we need to dry it in the sun?"
"Because it's sweeter." Li Qishen said casually, "If you don't believe me, why don't you try it?"
Li Cangbi's first reaction was to turn around and see if the Crown Princess was there. Seeing that A Niang was not there, he looked at Li Qishen carefully: "But this is my uncle's stuff... Can I really eat it?"
"Sure." After all, they were children, so Li Qishen just smiled and said, "Don't take what I have, take what's on the plate over there. If it's not enough, ask them to add more."
He was not lying. Li Cangbi could sense it and immediately became happy, reaching out for the dried fruits on the plate.
Before he could touch her, a loud shout suddenly came from behind: "Bi'er!"
Li Cangbi was startled and quickly withdrew his hand. When he turned back, his face turned pale: "Mother..."
"Come here, mother!" Seeing her son standing in front of Li Qishen, the Crown Princess was so scared that the blood rushed to her head. She couldn't wait for Li Cangbi to come over, so she quickly stepped forward and hugged her son tightly.
She has not had a good life in the past few years. The status of those concubines and ladies in the Eastern Palace are not lower than hers. They know how to flatter and please Li Zhuoqi more than her. In addition, there is the previous incident that has caused the couple to become estranged. Her only hope is Li Cangbi.
The Crown Princess naturally did not think she was wrong in that incident. At most, she felt that she was too anxious and made a mistake. When Li Qishen was expelled to Fengzhou, she was secretly happy. However, he came back, more charming and with a lot of military merits, which made many noble ladies in Chang'an eager to try and use their family background as a dowry.
Now that her only son was completely defenseless in front of Li Qishen, the Crown Princess was terrified. Just looking at her nervous look, those who didn't know her would probably think that Li Qishen was a monster who specialized in eating children's hearts and livers.
This little bit of fear supported her, and she actually had a little more courage to face Li Qishen, "This child is still young, what does the prince want to do?!"
"Mother..." Li Cangbi wanted to speak, but was glared at by the Crown Princess. He had to swallow back his words of explanation and could only glance at Li Qishen secretly.
"I just gave my nephew some dried fruit. The dried fruit was brought to me by the maid. Could it be that the Crown Princess is worried that I might poison him?" Li Qishen didn't like this timid look, but since he was not his son, he didn't care. He looked at the Crown Princess with a half-smile, "Are you worried that I might kidnap your son but don't know the way?"
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