Hearing the beauty's answer, Young Master Liu couldn't help but have an unconcealable smile on his face.
The regret that had been lingering in my heart disappeared in an instant.
Young Master Liu turned over the bench in the corridor, gently shook the jade fan in his hand, and walked straight towards the pavilion where Sakai Hoshino and his daughter were.
Hua Qiyingzhi immediately gave him a blessing before Young Master Liu entered the pavilion.
"Mr. Sakuraori."
"No gifts."
"Thank you, sir."
Young Master Liu entered the pavilion, smiled lightly and patted Ying Zhi's hair.
"Xiaoying Zhi, I haven't seen you for so long, do you miss your husband?"
The little girl nodded with a smile, then looked up at her mother.
"I thought about it, but."
"But what?"
"Sir, Yingzhi's mother misses you more. You don't know, sir, that she calls your name even in her dreams!"
When Sakai Hoshino heard his daughter's reply to Mr. Liu's words, his pretty face turned rosy, and then he quickly glared at his daughter.
"Smelly girl, what are you talking about?"
"Mother, Yingzhi is not talking nonsense, you are..."
Sakai Hoshino glared at his daughter again and tapped her on the top of her head with his finger.
"You also said, hurry up and pour tea for Mr."
The little girl rubbed the top of her head and nodded with an aggrieved face.
"Oh, Sakurazhi knows."
Hua Qi Yingzhi walked to the stone table, poured a cup of herbal tea from the pot, turned around and handed it to Young Master Liu.
"Sir, please have some tea."
"Okay, so good."
Young Master Liu took the tea and took a sip, looking teasingly at the blushing beauty in front of him.
"Hoshino, what Sakurazhi said just now, is it true?"
Sakai Hoshino gave Young Master Liu an angry look and quickly looked away.
"Not at all. If a child talks nonsense, how can you take it seriously?"
"Really?"
Sakai Hoshino did not dare to meet Young Master Liu's gaze, and his eyes flickered erratically while twirling his slender fingers.
"Of course it's true."
"Oh, then I have to ask Ying Zhi again."
Sakai Hoshino's pretty face panicked, and he immediately stretched out his arms to wrap his arms around Young Master Liu.
"Can't."
As soon as he finished speaking, Sakai Hoshino immediately turned around and looked at his daughter behind him.
"Sakuraori."
"Hey, mother?"
"Mom, I have something to tell my husband. You go and play with your sisters Yunxin and Lianniang first."
"Really? Can Sakurazhi go play?"
"Go, go quickly."
"Thank you, mother."
"Sir, Yingzhi went to find Sister Lianniang first."
Hua Qi Yingzhi shouted and ran towards the outside of the pavilion.
Young Master Liu watched the little girl's back gradually go away, then he smiled and touched the beauty's slender waist with his elbow.
"Hoshino, there are only two of us left now. To be honest, do you miss me?"
Sakai Hoshino looked around shyly with his beautiful eyes, looked at Young Master Liu with a blushing face, and nodded in a voice as quiet as a mosquito.
"Think...think about it."
"What? I didn't hear that."
"Oh, Liu Jun, you are so annoying.
If you deliberately tease me again, I will ignore you. "
Young Master Liu waved his hands cheerfully, nodded, took a sip of tea, and placed the tea cup on the stone table.
"I was wrong. I won't say it anymore. I won't say it anymore."
"Mr. Liu, Yaoyao and Cheng Qian came back long ago after they retired from the court. Why are you not back until now?"
Young Master Liu shook off his folding fan and pointed to the garden outside the pavilion, then walked down the steps.
"Hoshino, let's go for a walk in the garden."
"Okay, Hoshino listens to you."
Sakai Hoshino walked side by side with Young Master Liu, and asked softly again: "Mr. Liu, why are you back so late? Did something happen again?"
Upon hearing the beauty's curious question, Mr. Liu turned to look at the beauty and rolled his eyes angrily.
"You still have the nerve to ask, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have come back until now?"
"Huh? Because, because of me?"
Young Master Liu gently fanned himself in the cool breeze and sighed with a sad expression.
"Huh, during the meeting today, the old man Wang Hezheng wrote to me and told me that your Japanese delegation had already left Beijing yesterday.
When I heard the words of this old guy Wang Hezheng, my heart suddenly became cold.
I thought you had left yesterday!
I kept thinking again and again, why didn't you come and say goodbye to me before you left?
Even if you don't have time to say goodbye due to time constraints, at least send someone to inform me!
At that moment, you don't know how chaotic this young master's heart was. "
Sakai Hoshino paused, his pretty face showing embarrassment.
"and after?"
"Later, I couldn't wait to rush to Honglu Temple to see if you had really left.
But, in the end I didn't do that.
There are many government affairs in the imperial court, and most of them are related to the people's livelihood, official administration, and important matters for the people of the world.
No matter how impatient I was at that time, I couldn't delay a major world event that affected the great dragon's land and country because of my children's affair. "
As Young Master Liu spoke, he looked at the beautiful lady's face with tenderness in his eyes, and reached out to hold her delicate hand.
"So, I had to force myself to calm down and suppress the disappointment in my heart when I learned that you had left.
It wasn't until all the government affairs were dealt with that I could take some time off to calm down and think about the fact that you, Hoshino, have left the capital.
After leaving the palace, I rushed directly to Honglu Temple with a hesitant mind. "
Sakai Hoshino's pretty face was stunned, and he asked in a sweet voice: "What, Mr. Liu, did you go to Honglu Temple?"
Seeing the surprise on the beauty's pretty face, he stretched out his hands and took her into his arms.
"Yes, after a slight delay after leaving the palace, I rushed directly to Honglu Temple to find you.
Without seeing with my own eyes that you are no longer in the quiet courtyard of the Honglu Temple Yamen Office, of course I will not be reconciled! "
Sakai Hoshino snuggled into Liu Dashao's arms as usual and hugged his waist tightly with his backhand.
"What a fool, your trip was wasted."
"When I saw the empty courtyard where you and Ying Zhi were no longer visible, and the door of the room where you lived had been locked with a copper lock.
At that moment, my heart completely cooled down.
At that time, I really thought that Hoshino, you had really left without saying goodbye.
I sat alone on the steps in the yard for a long time until I recalled the time we spent together.
Then, he returned home full of regrets.
However, I never thought of it.
You, who I originally thought had left without saying goodbye, ended up showing up at my home. "
Young Master Liu looked intently at the beauty in his arms, his eyes filled with joy of having been lost and found.
He gently sniffed the fragrance of Sakai Hoshino's body, wrapped his hands around the beauty's waist, and pressed a little harder again.
I wish I could integrate him into my body and never separate him again.
“Xingye, God has treated me well.
Let me never miss you again after nineteen years.
That's great of you to stay!
How nice of you to stay! "
Hearing Young Master Liu's delighted words, the beauty's delicate body trembled slightly, and her eyes instinctively avoided Young Master Liu's gaze.
"Liu...Mr. Liu."
"Well, what's wrong?"
"No, I'm sorry."
Young Master Liu's heart trembled, and he seemed to have noticed something, but he pretended not to understand Sakai Hoshino's words, and put his chin on her bun and gently rubbed it a few times.
"Silly Hoshino, you are my Liu Mingzhi's woman.
Between the two of us, if there is anything to be sorry for, just saying these words will make it clear. "
Listening to Young Master Liu's pretending to be calm, the beauty remained silent for a long time with a complex look on her face, and mist could not help but condense in her beautiful eyes.
She blinked her eyes hard several times, turned her head and pressed her face closely against Young Master Liu's chest.
"Liu Jun, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry.
Hoshino, Hoshino can only wait for you to come back.
But I can't stay with you forever. "
"Why?"
"Mr. Liu, Hoshino is really worried about his brother's safety.
I must follow the mission back to Japan and see with my own eyes that my brother is safe and sound, so that I can completely feel at ease. "
Young Master Liu closed his eyes forcefully, frowning and fell silent.
After a long time, Young Master Liu let go of his arms around the beautiful lady's slender waist, raised his hands to support the beautiful lady's shoulders, and looked at the beautiful lady quietly with struggling eyes.
"Must, do I have to go back to Japan?"
Sakai Hoshino looks at his sweetheart
With a nervous expression on his face, tears had been rolling in his eyes for a long time, and finally couldn't help but drip down his cheeks.
"Mr. Liu, forgive Xingye for not being able to promise you to stay by your side."
When Liu Dashan saw the beautiful lady shedding tears and crying like a delicate girl with raindrops, he felt a severe pain in his heart.
However, it doesn't feel right in my heart.
I still want to fight for it again.
After spending so much time together day and night, I really couldn't bear to let Hoshino Sakai leave me again.
If her hometown is Dalong, she will go back.
Whenever I miss her, I can send someone to bring her to the capital at any time, or I can go find her myself. It's not a problem.
However, her home is not in Dalong, but in the Japanese country, thousands of miles away from the vast ocean with blue waves in the sky.
This time, if I let her leave me again.
At her current age, she had to make the difficult journey to get to Dalong.
This separation may last a lifetime!
"Hoshino, are you really going to stop thinking about it?"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Hoshino really can't stay with you."
"What if, what if I force you to stay?"
Sakai Hoshino's pretty face panicked, and she looked at Young Master Liu tenderly and helplessly. She bit her red lips lightly and shook her head a few times.
"Mr. Liu, please Hoshino, don't do this to me.
You forced Hoshino to stay because Hoshino was concerned about his brother's safety every day.
Even if I stay by your side, I won't be happy. "
Young Master Liu's body trembled, and a self-deprecating smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"You won't be happy if I force you to stay."
Sakai Hoshino clenched his hands hard and nodded with a painful expression.
"Liu Jun, I really can't worry about my brother."
"Okay, I understand."
Sakai Hoshino looked at Young Master Liu's downcast expression with tearful eyes, his beautiful eyes filled with guilt.
"Liu Jun, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry."
Young Master Liu breathed a sigh of relief, took out his handkerchief and gently wiped the tears on the beauty's cheeks.
“Hoshino, there’s no need to say sorry.
Whether you stay or not, there is no need to say such words between the two of us.
I still said what I just said, which is too foreign for the two of us. "
Sakai Hoshino raised his hand and held Liu Dashao's palm, sobbing and choking, and nodded.
"Yeah, Hoshino knows, and Hoshino will never say anything again."
Young Master Liu looked at the tearful beauty and seemed to have thought of something, and his face suddenly became happy.
"Hoshino."
Sakai Hoshino saw that Young Master Liu suddenly became happy, and a trace of doubt appeared on his pretty face.
"Liu Jun, what's wrong with you?"
Young Master Liu took a few deep breaths, stretched out his hand and took out the tobacco bag from his waist, and filled it with shredded tobacco skillfully.
"Hoshino, the reason why you have to leave Dalong and return to your Japanese country is because you are worried about the safety of your brother Sakai Kazuko, right?"
Although Sakai Hoshino didn't know why Young Master Liu wanted to ask himself again the question he had just said.
But he still nodded his head obediently a few times.
"Yes, the reason why Hoshino had to go back was because he was too worried about his brother's safety.
It has been several months since Hoshino followed the mission to Dalong.
You must know that on the eve of our sailing as an envoy to Dalong, my brother was in a critical situation under the joint offensive of the royal army and the Goguryeo army.
Now that so much time has passed, how can I not worry about his safety?
Therefore, I have to go back and see with my own eyes that he is safe and sound, so that I can stop worrying. "
Young Master Liu turned his head and blew out the smoke from his mouth, raised his hand and put it on the beauty's shoulder.
"Hoshino, what if I tell you now that your brother is fine at all?
Will you promise me to stay in Dalong? "
Hearing Young Master Liu's inquiry, Sakai Hoshino couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
"What?"
Young Master Liu took a long puff of dry cigarette and looked at the cloudless sky with a faint look.
"I mean, there's nothing wrong with your brother right now.
Not only is there nothing wrong with your brother, but also your entire Sakai family and the Sakai family alliance.
They are all safe and sound now. "
Sakai Hoshino frowned slightly and shook his head subconsciously.
"How can this be?"
"Hoshino, nothing in this world is impossible."
Sakai Hoshino took a few deep breaths, walked lightly in front of Young Master Liu and stopped in front of him. He raised his eyes to look at Young Master Liu with a deep sense of confusion in his eyes.
“Mr. Liu, it’s not that Hoshino doesn’t want to believe what you say.
But, Hoshino really doesn’t know how to believe your words.
In the past few months, like Hoshino, you have never left Dalong.
He has never been to our country of Japan.
If that's the case, why are you so sure that Hoshino's brother is fine now?
It's not that Hoshino can't believe you.
But, you have to at least give Hoshino a reason to believe in you, right? "
Young Master Liu waved his hand to fan the smoke in front of him. Looking at Sakai Hoshino's curious and confused expression, there was a hint of hesitation on his face.
Just as I thought before.
Kazuko Sakai is indeed not a good person.
However, he is a good brother.
I didn't tell Sakai Hoshino about his brother before, and the truth behind Sakai Kazuko's use of her to obtain military equipment, just because I didn't want to damage Sakai Kazuko's image of a good brother in Sakai Hoshino's eyes.
The main reason is that he doesn't want Sakai Hoshino to be sad after knowing the truth of the matter.
If I tell her the cause and effect of the matter now, it means...
Young Master Liu took a puff of dry cigarette hesitantly and scratched his head.
well.
I don’t know if Hoshino can accept it after knowing the truth.
Looking at Young Master Liu's hesitant expression, he frowned for a while and sighed for a while.
Sakai Hoshino didn't understand why, but he didn't understand why.
She really didn't know what Young Master Liu was struggling with.
"Liu Jun, what's wrong with you?
Is this reason difficult to express? "
Sakai Hoshino couldn't bear it anymore and directly asked the doubts in his heart.
Young Master Liu blew out the light smoke from his mouth, raised his hand and patted the beautiful lady's shoulder, and took the lead to walk towards the depths of the garden.
"Hoshino, let's talk while walking."
"good."
Sakai Hoshino responded softly, and followed with a light step.
Young Master Liu casually knocked out the ashes from the smoke pot on the branches of the bush, gritted his teeth secretly, and looked sideways at the beautiful woman walking side by side with him.
That’s all, long-term pain is worse than short-term pain.
As long as Hoshino can stay and be sad for a while, he will be sad for a while.
With him accompanying her, sooner or later she will be able to get out of her heart.
"Hoshino."
"Hey, Mr. Liu, tell me."
"Before I give you a reason to convince you, how about you answer me a question?"
Sakai Hoshino was silent for a moment as if thinking, and nodded slightly.
"Okay, Mr. Liu, feel free to ask."
"If what I tell you is true.
Can you promise me to stay in Dalong? "
