The moment Liu Mingzhi walked out of the house, his eyes were fixed on the man in a bamboo hat a few steps away.
Stopping where he was, staring motionlessly at the visitor wearing a gauze hat, Young Master Liu's eyes showed a sense of nostalgia, mixed with a touch of uncertainty.
After quietly staring at the man in the bamboo hat for a short moment, Liu Mingzhi let out a heavy sigh.
"If you don't stay in the East China Sea and live your own leisurely life of leisurely clouds and wild cranes, why did you come to the capital?"
When the man in the bamboo hat heard Liu Mingzhi's question, he bowed in an elegant manner.
"Some things require a trip to Beijing."
There was some suspicion in the eyes of the third princess staring closely at the man in the hat. After hearing the man in the hat's voice, her delicate body trembled suddenly, and her eyes suddenly became excited.
The excited eyes of the third princess were mixed with a strong sense of disbelief, as if she had seen something incredible.
"Ye...Ye'er! Are you Ye'er?"
Liu Mingzhi heard the uncontrollable words of surprise from the three princesses beside him, coughed twice, and took the lead to walk towards the street outside the mansion.
"It's not convenient to talk here, you two come with me."
The man in the bamboo hat nodded silently, turned around and followed.
After the third princess recovered from her shock, she hurriedly opened her oil-paper umbrella and chased after Young Master Liu and the others.
After quickly catching up with her husband, the third princess turned her eyes frequently to look at the man in a bamboo hat next to her. Her watery phoenix eyes exuded an expression of expectation and nervousness.
Although the gauze under the bamboo hat prevented me from seeing the person's appearance clearly, the figure of the person was very familiar to me.
Although this familiar figure has grown a lot taller than he did many years ago, the third princess can be very sure that he is the person in her memory.
He——is really still in this world, and he really doesn’t have a husband...no...
The third princess slowly withdrew her gaze from the man in the bamboo hat, and a faint mist appeared in her phoenix eyes uncontrollably.
Realizing that her reaction seemed a little too excited, the third princess hurriedly blinked her eyes secretly several times to suppress the mist in her eyes.
Taking a gentle breath, the third princess raised her eyes to look at her husband who was walking silently in the drizzle. She quickened her pace again and walked to Young Master Liu's side, walking side by side with him.
The third princess glanced sideways at Young Master Liu, gently grasped her husband's generous palm with her left hand, and raised the oil-paper umbrella with her right hand to cover the two of them.
Liu Mingzhi felt the beauty's trembling wrist, looked up at the oil-paper umbrella above his head, and took the oil-paper umbrella from the third princess's hand with a faint smile.
"Si Yan'er, you should support your husband."
The third princess nodded softly with her phoenix eyes: "Husband, him?"
Liu Mingzhi nodded imperceptibly and replied softly to the beauty.
"As you think."
The beauty's graceful and exquisite body trembled involuntarily again, and her slender fingers tightened Liu Mingzhi's palm to adjust her excited mood.
After half a stick of incense, the three figures strolling under the hazy drizzle appeared in Penglai Restaurant.
Xue Bizhu saw Liu Dashao and the other two people walking into the restaurant. He tapped a mark on the account book with a pen and walked out of the counter with a smile.
"Husband, sister Yan'er, why did you come out when it's still raining outside? Who is this?"
Liu Mingzhi gently glanced at the bustling first floor where guests were gathered, and silently approached Xue Bizhu.
"Bizhu, this is an old friend of my husband's that I haven't seen for a long time. Later, you will ask Lingyi to cook a few dishes and send them to the Tianzihao private room."
"Hey, I understand, husband, please go up first."
Liu Mingzhi nodded with a slight smile and walked directly towards the stairs of the restaurant. After a while, the three of them had entered the Tianzihao private room of Penglai Restaurant.
As soon as Liu Mingzhi sat down, the third princess, who closed her oil-paper umbrella, moved emotionally towards the man in a bamboo hat next to her.
The third princess pursed her lips tightly and hesitated for a while, looking nervously at the familiar figure in front of her who was already a head taller than herself.
"Ye...Ye'er, is it really you?"
The man in the bamboo hat stood motionless in silence for a long time, then slowly raised his right hand and took off the gauze bamboo hat on his head.
After the bamboo hat fell, Li Ye's appearance became mature and handsome, yet exuded an elegant temperament.
The moment Li Ye took off his gauze bamboo hat, the third princess who saw Li Ye's true face in Lushan finally couldn't help but burst into tears.
Two lines of clear tears quietly slipped down the third princess's jade cheeks. The crying pear blossom stared at her nephew Li Ye standing in front of her with rain in her eyes.
"Six years, six years. My aunt finally saw you again.
My child, my aunt finally sees you again. "
Li Ye watched quietly as his third aunt, who was both inexplicably happy and in tears after seeing him, knelt down silently.
"My child, Li Ye, is unfilial and has made you worried about me all these years."
The third princess quickly wiped the tears on her cheeks with her sleeves, and helped Li Ye, who was kneeling in front of her, up.
"Good boy, get up quickly, get up quickly.
I am satisfied to see you again today, aunt. "
After helping Li Ye up, the third princess looked at Li Ye carefully again, wiping the tears she saw while crying and laughing.
"Compared to many years ago, Ye'er, you have not only grown taller, but also matured."
"Aunt, don't cry. You should be happy that our aunt and nephew are reunited after a long separation.
The third princess hurriedly nodded the phoenix head and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes again.
"Yes, yes, Ye'er, you are right, my aunt should be very happy now.
My aunt immediately wiped away her tears and stopped crying. My aunt stopped crying. "
Li Ye looked at the third aunt's joyful smile that showed true affection, and raised his hand to help the third princess walk to the chair a few steps away.
"Aunt, you sit down first."
"Hey, kid, you should sit down too."
Li Ye helped the third princess sit on the chair, turned around and gave a big salute to Young Master Liu who was sitting in the first place.
"My son, Li Ye, pays homage to his uncle. He is well."
Liu Mingzhi looked indifferently at Li Ye, who was bowing to him, and silently took out the jade fan from his sleeves and shook it gently, without saying anything to exempt Li Ye from the ceremony.
In just a few breaths, the atmosphere in the private room suddenly became a little strange because of Liu Mingzhi's silence.
Seeing this, the third princess's smile gradually turned a bit uneasy, and she furrowed her eyebrows and glanced at her husband sitting in the first place.
Seeing her husband's neither sad nor happy expression, the third princess pursed her lips a few times, almost wanted to speak but finally fell silent.
Time passed quietly, and the silence in the private room was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
In this depressing atmosphere, I don't know how much time passed before Liu Mingzhi finally spoke.
"Ye'er, you shouldn't have come back."
When the third princess heard her husband's calm and indifferent words, she suddenly stood up from the chair and looked at her husband with fearful and anxious eyes.
"Husband!"
Liu Mingzhi ignored the panicked gaze of the third princess and stared dimly at Li Ye, who was still bowing and saluting in front of him.
"Ye'er, have you forgotten the agreement my uncle made with you back then?"
"Uncle, I...I..."
"You have violated the agreement between the two of us. In this case, what do you want my uncle to do?"
"My kid knows I'm wrong, but I hope you, uncle, can give me a chance to defend myself."
