"Mother, dear aunts, please leave first."
"Be careful on the road."
"My child understands, my child resigns."
After brothers Liu Chengzhi and Liu Chengqian left together, Qi Yun put down the teacup in her hand and walked towards Young Master Liu with gentle steps.
"Husband, have you finished eating?"
Liu Mingzhi turned around and looked at Qi Yun who came to his side, and nodded happily.
"I've finished eating. What's the matter? Yun'er, what can I do for you?"
Qi Yun smiled and said softly: "Just eat."
Young Master Liu raised his eyebrows slightly, with a hint of curiosity in his eyes.
"Huh? What do you mean?"
Qi Yun did not answer Young Master Liu's question, but turned around and waved to Yu'er, the personal maid standing next to her.
"Yu'er, send the invitation over here for your husband to see."
"Yes, this slave knows."
Yu'er smiled lightly and gave a blessing. She immediately picked up the tray on the table next to her, trotted to the front of Young Master Liu, and gave another blessing.
"Uncle, please take a look."
Young Master Liu casually glanced at the two large piles of invitations on the tray in Yu'er's hand, and looked at Qi Yun with doubtful eyes.
"Yun'er, what are these invitations?"
Qi Yun picked up two books from the tray, held them in her hands and flipped through them casually, then handed them to Young Master Liu with a smile on her face.
"The invitation to the guests at the banquet, husband, please take a look to see if there are any missing guests.
If there is nothing to add to the list, I can safely send someone to deliver the invitations. "
Liu Mingzhi nodded with a clear expression, took the document from Qi Yun's hand, and walked towards the hall door.
"Yun'er, are these all the second batch of invitations?"
Qi Yun picked up an umbrella directly from behind the door, and chased after Young Master Liu with light steps.
"Yes, they are all the second batch of invitations.
The first batch of invitations to the capital and to various state capitals within the capital were all sent out about seven days ago. "
"Yun'er, you don't need to bring an umbrella. My husband is just going to sit under the promenade next to you."
Qi Yun's expression was slightly startled, and after she came to her senses, she smiled and nodded.
"Okay, I thought you were going to the study."
As Qi Yun spoke, she closed the oil-paper umbrella in her hand and leaned it against the wall outside the main hall.
Young Master Liu walked down the corridor with the documents in his hand, turned around and sat on the stone bench behind him.
"Yun'er, please sit down too."
"Husband, you can sit down by yourself. I have eaten a little too much for breakfast. I want to stand and exercise."
"Okay, as you wish."
"Uh-huh."
Qi Yun smiled lightly and nodded her head a few times. She gently lifted her skirt, turned around and raised her slender legs to kneel on a bench nearby.
Immediately, she supported her cheek with one hand and lay on the guardrail. She raised her delicate hand and gently shook the water drops dripping from the eaves.
Seeing Qi Yun's childlike appearance, Liu Dashan chuckled and shook his head. He skillfully lit a pot of dry tobacco and took a long puff.
Then, he casually looked through the documents in his hand and looked at a personal name on it and looked at it carefully.
The spring breeze blew slowly, picking up some spring rain and drifting into the corridor.
It wetted Qi Yun's hair that was flying in the wind, and also wet half of Young Master Liu's clothes.
It took about a while to make a cup of tea.
Young Master Liu folded the documents in his hand and placed them on the stone table. He puffed away at the pipe and took another document into his hand.
Another cup of tea has passed.
Young Master Liu folded the documents and placed them on the stone table. He stood up thoughtfully and walked to Qi Yun's side and stopped.
Qi Yun flicked a strand of hair that had been wetted by the spring rain and stuck to her cheeks, and turned to look at her husband who was standing beside her.
"Husband, have you finished reading?"
"Well, I've finished reading it."
"Hmm, are there any staff that need to be added?"
Young Master Liu slowly exhaled a long breath of light smoke, and like Qi Yun, leaned over the guardrail.
"Gu Changfeng, the former left minister of the Ministry of Rites, Zeng Shuo, the former young minister of Dali Temple, Yuan Ze, one of the former commanders of the Forbidden Army, the former young minister of Sinong Temple...
These are all old friends of my husband. I had a very good relationship with my husband back then. Why didn’t you sisters prepare their invitations? "
Upon hearing her husband's inquiry, Qi Yun supported the guardrail with a pair of jade arms, put on a pair of slender jade legs and half-knelt on the bench again, a look of grievance flashed in her beautiful eyes.
"Husband, you have misunderstood our sisters.
It’s not that we sisters didn’t think things through well, or that we sisters didn’t think of these husbands as your old friends.
But, rather, none of them can come. "
Mr. Liu's hand that was pressing on the guardrail tightened suddenly. After a long silence with a frown on his face, he turned his head and looked at the beautiful woman next to him with complex eyes.
"Everyone...all gone?"
Qi Yun felt the complicated meaning in her husband's eyes, and took a long breath with her mouth slightly open, and raised her white and tender hands to catch a drop of water.
"While preparing the invitation, my sisters went to the Ministry of Official Affairs together.
Except for Yuan Ze, the former commander of the Forbidden Army, the others have left one after another in the past few years. "
After hearing Qi Yun's answer, Mr. Liu took a puff of dry cigarette with eyes full of sadness, and turned to look at the continuous spring rain outside the corridor.
"Where's Lao Yuan?"
"Sister Concubine asked the clerk in charge of the files in the Ministry of Civil Affairs. About two years ago, General Yuan's old illness relapsed and he returned to his hometown to retire.
At that time, I had already ordered Mr. Du, the Minister of Civil Affairs, to send a letter to General Yuan's hometown to inquire about the news.
Unfortunately, until today, our sisters have not received any reply.
Maybe...maybe..."
"Perhaps Lao Yuan has gone now."
Qi Yun looked at Young Master Liu's melancholy expression and sighed softly with his mouth slightly open.
"well."
Liu Mingzhi knocked out the ashes from the smoke pot on the guardrail, grabbed the guardrail in front of him hard, and sat sideways on the bench.
"I think back then, when my husband and the others parted ways, we had clearly agreed with each other that when we had time, we would have a good drink again.
Unfortunately, after we say goodbye, we will never see each other again.
Years and years are really not forgiving at all. "
"Husband, life is as long as the grass and trees are growing.
No one can avoid that path.
I'm still saying the same thing, just keep an open mind on everything. "
Young Master Liu gently rolled the tobacco bag in his hand, looked up at Qi Yun and nodded silently.
"Look away, look away."
Qi Yun nodded her head gently a few times, held up her skirt, and sat down next to Young Master Liu in an elegant and dignified manner.
"Husband, what about these invitations?"
"There is nothing to add. Just follow the lists prepared by your sisters and send them directly."
"Hey, I understand."
Qi Yun responded with a sweet voice, stood up and walked to the stone table to pick up the two books on it.
"Husband, if you have nothing else to do, I will go find Liu Song."
Young Master Liu arranged his clothes casually, raised his hand and patted the bench beside him.
"Yun'er."
"Hey, husband?"
"Don't worry, there's still time. Being earlier or later won't affect anything. Let's sit with my husband for a while first."
Hearing this, Qi Yun nodded with a slight smile, returned to Young Master Liu's side with light steps and sat down again.
Young Master Liu flicked his sleeves and lay directly on his side on the beauty's round and slender legs.
"Yun'er."
"Huh? Husband, what's wrong?"
"Hum a little tune for your husband."
Qi Yun put her arms around Young Master Liu's shoulders, looked down at her husband lying on her lap, and nodded her head a few times with a bright smile.
"Okay, husband, what song do you want to listen to?"
Young Master Liu changed into a comfortable posture, grabbed the beautiful lady's warm jade hand and held her in his arms.
"Yun'er, do you still remember the scene when we first met in the dormitory of Dangyang Academy?"
Hearing her husband's question, Qi Yun looked at Young Master Liu and nodded without thinking, and replied with a sweet smile: "Hahaha, of course I will remember it.
Not only did he remember it, but he also remembered it clearly.
Husband, you were so bad at that time. You just saw me, and you grabbed my chest without saying a word.
At that time, after I reacted, I was ready to beat you to death. "
Young Master Liu gently played with the beauty's delicate jade hands, and replied cheerfully: "Oh, Yun'er, I can't blame my husband for treating you like that as soon as I saw you.
At that time, even if I tried my best to think about it, I would never have thought that the dark-faced black boy in front of me could actually be you, Yun'er.
One is the famous, talented and beautiful second lady of the Governor's Office.
One is a black boy with a dark complexion who does not look like a good person at first glance.
No one would have thought that you would actually be the same person.
All I can say is that Yun'er is too good at disguise. "
Qi Yun looked at Young Master Liu's innocent expression and rolled her eyes angrily.
"De Xing, it would be strange if I believed you.
I remember back then, Young Master Liu Mingzhi, you were a frequent visitor to several major fireworks places along the Qinhuai River.
On the banks of the Qinhuai River, who doesn’t know your name as Young Master Liu? Who doesn’t know?
At the beginning, although I have never met you, my reputation as Young Master Liu is very familiar to me.
You, Liu Mingzhi, Young Master Liu, as a frequent visitor to the land of fireworks, don't you know the difference between men and women?
You have grabbed my chest so many times, how come you can't tell the identity of my daughter's family?
Let me tell you, you are just pretending to be confused because you understand. "
Young Master Liu looked embarrassed, smiled bitterly and sighed.
"Yun'er, you are wronged. I am wronged for my husband."
Qi Yun tapped Young Master Liu's forehead with her finger, pretending to be unhappy and sneered: "Hehehe, I'm wronged, I'm wronged you big-headed devil.
If others are wronged, I may still believe it.
You will be wronged and I won’t believe you even if you beat me to death.
He is obviously a dandy boy who walks among hundreds of flowers without touching a leaf.
Why are you pretending to be an ignorant young man who doesn’t understand anything? "
Young Master Liu looked at the beauty's coquettish eyes and said with twitching lips: "Yun'er, as a husband, I tell the truth, why don't you believe me?
Unjustly accused, I am really wronged as a husband. "
"Unjustly accused?"
"Yeah, it's unfair."
"Really unjust?"
"It's really unjust. My husband's words can serve as a lesson to heaven and earth."
Qi Yun chuckled a few times without thinking, then looked at Young Master Liu and teased in a teasing tone: "Hahaha, fart, you can continue to quibble with me.
I think back then, if I hadn't seen you running out of a brothel girl's room with disheveled clothes and lip marks on your face, I would have believed your lies.
What do you mean, stinky husband, have you forgotten where we were when we first met?
Or maybe my husband has forgotten why I beat you up the first time I met you. "
Listening to Qi Yun's teasing tone, Young Master Liu's face suddenly stiffened, and he laughed bitterly.
“Uh! Uh! Uh!
Good Yun'er, if I tell you as a husband, it's a misunderstanding, would you believe it? "
The spring breeze blew across my face, picking up drops of drizzle and falling on Young Master Liu's forehead.
Qi Yun grabbed her sleeves and wiped the raindrops from Young Master Liu's forehead, then shook her head with a half-smile.
"Husband, if you were my concubine, would you believe what you just said?"
Young Master Liu narrowed his eyes slightly and briefly recalled the scene when he and Qi Yun first met.
Those scenes are still very clear even after so many years.
Young Master Liu stretched out his hand to clasp his brow and scratched his head with a depressed expression.
"Uh! I don't believe it."
"Yes, even you, husband, don't believe what you just said. How can you ask me, my concubine, to believe you?"
"Oh, good Yun'er, even so, but...but..."
"But what?"
"Yun'er, as a husband, I really have nothing to say about those past events.
If I told you that in my last life, let alone being among thousands of flowers, not even a single leaf touched my body, I had never even held a girl’s hand, would you believe it? "
Qi Yun looked at Young Master Liu with a strange expression and gently rolled her eyes a few times.
"In your last life, husband, you never even held a girl's hand."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah."
Qi Yun looked at the serious expression on Young Master Liu's face, quickly raised her jade hand to cover her delicate red lips, and couldn't help but laugh a few times.
"Puff...Puff...Uh-huh...Uh-huh..."
"Hey, hey, Yun'er, you've gone too far."
Qi Yun suppressed her smile and watched Young Master Liu gently gather her hair that was scattered around her ears.
"Husband, before I answer your question, I also have a secret that I have kept for many years and want to tell you."
"what is the problem."
Qi Yun's jade hands tightly held Liu Dashao's shoulders, and she looked around cautiously to observe the surrounding environment.
"Husband, after I tell you a very important secret, you must not tell anyone else."
Seeing the extremely serious expression on the beauty's face, Mr. Liu frowned slightly and nodded subconsciously.
"Okay, okay, I promise not to tell anyone, Yun'er, just tell me."
Seeing her husband's reaction, Qi Yun bent down towards Young Master Liu's ear with a smile on her face.
"Husband, actually, I will always be a fairy in my body.
Because I couldn’t bear to see your husband die alone in heaven, I came down to earth to accompany you in this life. "
Young Master Liu's expression froze. It was unclear why Qi Yun was joking with him.
"Oh, Yun'er, just make fun of me."
"Hey, you stinky husband, you were the one who made the joke on me first, okay?
If you don't want to talk about the past events of those years, don't talk about them. Are you talking to me about anything from the past life? "
"Yes, yes, I can't explain it to you, husband.
Sing a ditty, sing a ditty. "
(End of chapter)
