I was silent for a moment and said, "Is it Princess Lechang and Xu Deyan?"

When Li'er heard this, her eyes lit up: "Yes, it's Princess Lechang," she smiled and looked up at me: "Mom, you are so amazing. Have you heard this story?"

I smiled faintly: "It's just a little story."

"Yeah?"

"Yes."

Li'er looked at me for a while, then nodded in a vague way.

Then, she and I were silent for a while. I had no mood to speak for a while. I just leaned quietly on the couch and felt Li'er lying in my arms. The feeling of even breathing could slightly calm my breathing that was hesitant just now.

After a while, Li'er said again: "But, mom, that person is so wasteful."

"What?"

"He brought so many people out with me, but during the meal, he and I were the only one sitting, and everyone else could only stand."

“…”

"I asked them to sit down and eat, but they refused."

“…”

"Also, it's obvious that the two of us are only having dinner, but that table, such a big table, is all filled with the dishes on the store's water sign."

“…”

"But he doesn't eat many dishes, and some dishes only take one bite."

I smiled faintly, and didn't intend to explain anything, but just smiled faintly, "Maybe, those dishes are not to his taste."

"Why, why do he ask others to eat a bite for me every time I eat something? It's so strange."

“…He is someone who helps you taste the salty and light.”

Li'er pouted: "Why not that trouble? I'll just taste it myself? Moreover, when I was about to drink the soup, he took the bowl himself and blew it cooled down before giving it to me, and even fed it to me."

“…Then, did you drink it?”

"No." Li'er shook his head and said seriously: "Mom, you have taught me a long time ago that you have to do your own things. I am nine years old and can eat by myself, so I don't need anyone to feed you."

"So what did he say?"

Li'er shook his head again and said, "He didn't say anything, but - I don't know why, it seems like he is in a bad mood. He didn't speak any more during the meal."

“…”

I looked at Li'er's shining eyes and didn't know what I could say for a moment.

At this moment, the sorrow in his heart surged up. I thought, maybe his sorrow at that time was the same as mine.

We have all missed too many moments in Li Er's life, her toddler, her first smile, her first grievance, her first cry, every part of her, the memory that should have been unforgettable, is blank in our lives, and an irreparable regret.

And what he missed was much more than what I missed.

Thinking of this, I lowered my head, looked at Li'er's round eyes, which were clearly black and white, and her slender eyelashes that flashed like butterflies, and then gently kissed her smooth forehead.

At this time, Li'er raised her head and looked at me. Her big round eyes blinked, reflecting the candlelight swaying in the room, which became clear and brighter. She said seriously: "Mom, I really listened to you. Those things were not what I asked him for, and I didn't ask him for anything. After we had dinner and went shopping, he started to buy things for me. I clearly said I didn't want them, but he still asked the people to buy some things. I just looked at them curiously, and he asked them to buy them."

“…”

"I didn't really ask him for those things."

I don’t know whether it was looking at Li’er’s anxious but spotless eyes, or because I realized that at that moment, as a father’s depressed and anxious mood, my eyes couldn’t help but turn red.

I can still understand him.

The kind of thing that wants to make up for, and in this moment, to make up for all the debts, all the lack of care and pampering over the years, to fill the fatherly and motherly love that has been missing over the years, and even wishes to give everything for her in that moment.

But, how is that possible?

Until now, there are still childhood memories between Li'er, Han Ruoshi and Han Zitong that I don't know, belonging to her and the two sisters. He even missed longer than me. Maybe this is because he couldn't recognize her calmly after meeting Li'er for a day, and told her that she was her father?

I couldn't help but choked up and my eyes gradually turned red.

Li'er leaned in my arms, and was quiet all the time, as if listening to my heartbeat. But after a long silence, she raised her head gently, looked at me for a while, and said, "Mom, what's wrong with you?"

"……Um?"

"Are you sad?"

“…”

"Are you unhappy?"

“…”

I didn't adjust my mood for a while, and I didn't know how to calm myself down and answer her question. In this moment, Li'er seemed to have thought a lot and said, "Mom, will you and my dad agree to go to Yangzhou again tomorrow?"

“…”

I slowly supported myself, looked down at my daughter in my arms, and asked, "Do you want to go?"

“…”

"Would you still like to meet him again?"

“…”

This time, Li Er became quiet.

Her expression seemed to have become a little solemn, and there seemed to be many tangled emotions in her bright black and white eyes.

I looked at her quietly.

The two of them were silent for a long time. Li'er looked up at me and nodded gently but solemnly.

"I think."

"Why?"

“…”

Li'er blinked, but this time, she did not answer me. Instead, after a long silence, she gently lowered her head and lay down in my arms. Her round little arms wrapped around my waist and hugged me tightly, as if she wanted to draw a trace of silence from me and a trace of clarity that could help her solve her doubts.

｜

She and I kept hugging each other like this, almost forgot about time. When the maid knocked on the door gently and woke me up from the half-awakened chaos, it was completely dark.

When I looked down, Li'er fell asleep in my arms.

The weather is actually a bit hot. Even if it is a little cool in the evening, the two of them hugged each other like this and their body temperatures are pressed down, which is enough to make people sweat. Li'er's little face is slightly red, and there are fine sweat beads on her forehead and nose, but this did not affect her safety in her mother's arms at all.

I stroked her forehead gently, kissed her gently, and then slowly picked her up. The maids hurriedly stepped forward and carefully took her and carried it to the bed.

Li'er smashed her mouth, turned over, and fell asleep again.

I sat by the bed and looked at her satisfied sleeping face, smiled slightly, and then turned around and said to a maid, "You guys should keep your guard and don't wake her up."

"Don't worry, madam."

I nodded, and when I walked to the door, I looked back and looked at Li'er still sleeping soundly, then I closed the door and walked out.

A servant picked me up at the door with a lantern, and I followed him in an almost empty garden.

Speaking of these days, I didn't feel like this in the night. At this moment, it was pitch black around me. Only the faint red light emitted by the lantern in front illuminated the road of a small bluestone slab, and the road became a little unfamiliar. I could only follow the servant tightly. When he stopped and saw the faint candlelight from the window in front, I realized that he had taken me to the room before Pei Yuanxiu.

The attendant stopped at the door and turned around and said respectfully to me: "Madam, the young master is inside."

I nodded, then walked over and knocked on the door gently.

As soon as I knocked on it, the door opened.

Pei Yuanxiu stood at the door, looking at me calmly and gently.

"You're here."

"Um."

"Come in, come in."

"good."

He stepped aside and I stepped in.

I have seen this room before. I was here for recuperation and treatment of injuries when I arrived in Jinling. Of course, I would not notice who this room was. Now I realized that I was taken back to this mansion by him from the riverside and moved directly into his room.

When you think about it carefully, several years have passed.

And here is almost exactly the same as the first time I opened my eyes and saw it. Nothing has changed, and even the people I met here have not changed.

Perhaps, the only thing that has changed is the mood.

But it can also be seen that Han Zitong's thoughts spent here, otherwise, after so many years, how could a room that has been forgotten be arranged exactly the same as before?

I walked to the table and when I turned around, he had already closed the door. The night breeze that had just blown in made the candlelight sway and was about to go out. He walked to the candlestick, protecting the candlelight with one hand, and gently picking the candle heart with the other hand, and the flames slowly ignited.

Then he turned around and smiled at me.

He had already taken a shower and put on a snow-white stool coat. His long hair was scattered behind his head. In addition to his handsomeness, he showed a different kind of leisure and comfort. The orange candlelight shone on his body, and also exuded a warm atmosphere.

I also smiled slightly.

He came over and sat down, and while reaching out to grab the cup on the table to pour tea, he said, "Is Li'er asleep?"

"Um."

"I'm very tired of playing?"

"It seems yes."

"Have she had fun?"

“…”

I hesitated for a while, but after hesitating, I still said, "It's okay. She has never been to Yangzhou, everything is very fresh to her."

He poured a cup of tea and gently put it in front of me, poured himself another cup, and then looked up at me: "She doesn't know yet, is that she her biological father?"

I nodded: "She doesn't know yet."

Pei Yuanxiu's eyes flashed and he said, "I thought that when he saw Li'er this time, he would definitely recognize her and disclose her identity as a princess, but unexpectedly, he had no such thing as this time."
Chapter completed!