At night, Li Chou concentrated on practicing, and the second level of the Heart-inducing Art actually reacted. Li Chou was curious about the feeling of controlling objects, so he activated his thoughts towards the teacup on the table. Unexpectedly, the teacup actually moved, swayed and began to float in the air. .
Seeing this scene, Li Chou was overjoyed and couldn't wait to turn the tea cup around the room with his mind. Although it was not very stable, he believed in his heart that after practicing for a few more days, this second level would be no problem. He was distracted. , the teacup fell to the ground and made a sound.
Ling Ziwei, who had no sleep at all, heard the noise coming from Li Chouxin's room, and her heart tightened. She quickly got up and ran towards Li Chouxin's residence, "Mr. Chouxin, are you okay? Did the sound just come from your room? "
Li Chouxin heard Ziwei's voice and hurriedly opened the door, only to see Ziwei outside the door with a worried look on her face. Li Chouxin said quickly: "It's okay. I just got thirsty and drank water and accidentally broke the cup."
Li Chouxin looked at the charming Ziwei and asked: "Miss Ziwei, I'm so worried, why are you still up so late?"
Ziwei said hesitantly: "I don't know why, ever since I heard that Mr. Chouxin was leaving, my heart was in confusion and I couldn't sleep at all."
At this time, Li Chouxin was not sleepy at all, so he raised his head and said, "The night is quite beautiful tonight. Since I don't want to sleep, why not enjoy the moon together?"
When Ziwei faced Li Chouxin's invitation, her face turned red, but she quickly agreed.
Li Chouxin continued: "I guess Miss Ziwei hasn't admired the moon on the roof yet, why not try it tonight?"
"It's true that since I was little, I've only been admiring the moon in the courtyard. It's true that I've never been on the roof, but how can I go up to the roof when it's so high?" Ziwei said a little shyly.
"It's okay, Miss Ziwei, please wait for a moment." Li Chouxin returned to the house and got the wine bottle.
After coming out, he said to Ziwei: "I'm offended, Miss Ziwei."
Before Ziwei could answer, Li Chouxin put her arms around Ziwei's waist and jumped up. The two of them jumped into the air and flew towards the roof.
Ziwei was startled at first, but then she looked sideways at Li Chouxin beside her. That delicate and energetic face looked even more handsome under the moonlight. At this moment, she felt extremely at ease in her heart, and she slowly tightened her grip on Li Chouxin's clothes. He relaxed his hands and just looked at the man holding him quietly.
It obviously took a moment, but in Ziwei's eyes, it seemed like a long time.
Ziwei sat down on the roof with the support of Li Chouxin. Li Chouxin also sat down slowly, then placed the wine bottle between the two of them, slowly took out two cups from his arms, handed one to Ziwei's hand, and placed the other on the Begin pouring wine next to the jug.
"Miss Ziwei, with such a beautiful scenery, why don't you and I have a drink first." Li Chouxin looked at Ziwei and said softly.
Ziwei held the wine glass in her hand and looked at the man in front of her affectionately. Her heart was pounding wildly, and she replied hurriedly: "Young Master, you should have a drink in this situation."
After the two clinked glasses, they drank the wine, then looked into the distance and then looked up at the sky.
The moon and stars are sparse, and the night birds fly south. Looking from a distance, the houses of different heights were shrouded in a thin layer of smoke, and the lights flickered on and off. They looked quiet and peaceful, very quiet.
Ziwei looked at the moon and suddenly asked: "Young Master Sadness, where will you go after you leave here?"
Li Chouxin looked at Ziwei, drank another glass of wine, and said, "The world is thousands of miles wide, and I want to see them all. I can't tell where I'm going. The road is at my feet. Just walk and see."
Ziwei heard this and said, "Didn't the young master ever want to find a place to stay?"
Li Chouxin said: "If you can live in a corner of your great years, wouldn't you spend your youth in vain?"
Ziwei knew that it would be useless to ask any more questions. After listening to Li Chouxin's answers, it seemed that an idea was about to pop up in her mind, but she was blocked by wine.
"The night is so beautiful. I haven't looked at this quiet and peaceful world so clearly for a long time." Li Chouxin said suddenly.
Ziwei said, "In this case, can the young master take advantage of this night scene to compose a poem? Let Ziwei appreciate the young master's talent again."
"You can write poems, but I have a small request. Ziwei, don't call me Young Master again and again. This way we always feel that we are a bit different from each other. Why don't you just call me Brother Chouxin like Zhu Wei." Li Chouxin looked at it. Looking at Ziwei, there is some expectation in her eyes.
"I know! Brother Chouxin!" After Ziwei finished speaking, her face turned red again.
When Li Chouxin heard Ziwei's shout, she was delighted. She always felt that what Brother Chouxin and Zhu Wei were shouting was a different feeling. She was caught off guard and didn't know how to respond.
Then Li Chouxin looked at the moon, then looked into the distance, drank a glass of wine, and softly chanted:
Long street lights go on and off
Human fireworks kiss
Mingyue mixed with vegetarian wine
Ziwei knows the sad heart
After listening to Li Chouxin's poem, Ziwei knew that it was writing about tonight's scenery and about herself, especially the last sentence. It turned out that Li Chouxin had regarded herself as a confidant. So his eyes turned to Li Chouxin, and they looked at each other for a moment. The emotions in his heart surged even more, but he never spoke.
Seeing that Ziwei was speechless, Li Chou said slowly: "Miss Ziwei, you and I have become close friends once we met. I will give this poem to you as a thought."
Ziwei still didn't speak. She poured herself a glass of wine and drank it before saying, "Brother Chouxin, Ziwei has also learned poetry since she was a child. Why not take advantage of the beautiful scenery and compose a random poem tonight? It can be regarded as a reward for Brother Chouxin." ,what do you think?"
When Li Chouxin heard this, she felt happy again. She originally thought that Ziwei was just as gentle and elegant as a lady, but she didn't expect that she was also a talented woman. She quickly said: "It's very good. This is very good."
Ziwei looked at Li Chouxin, then at the moonlight, and chanted:
Guests arrive with the bright moon
Want to travel a thousand miles
The wind passed without paying attention
Knowing about the love of crape myrtle
After listening to Ziwei's poem, Li Chouxin felt conflicted. In fact, how could he not know Ziwei's feelings? After getting along with each other for so many days, in fact, the other party has already regarded each other as confidants, but once some words are said, he may have to spend his whole life to defend them. He cashed in. He didn't want to delay such a good girl, so he kept pretending not to know.
Li Chou was speechless for a long time. He was deeply hurt by Ziwei's words "I know the love of Ziwei". Looking at Ziwei in front of him, he was at a loss at this moment.
Ziwei said at this time: "Brother Chouxin, do you think my poem is okay? I'm not very clear, so I just wrote it randomly. Brother Chouxin is not allowed to laugh at me."
Li Chouxin knew that Ziwei deliberately said this to ease her embarrassment, so she said: "Ziwei's poems are very good. Chouxin understands the deep meaning in them and understands Ziwei's mood, but..."
"Brother Chouxin, let's not talk about this tonight. The night is rare, and it's even rarer for you and I to enjoy the moon together. I don't know when the next time will be for such an experience. Let's drink and enjoy the moon. It's quite beautiful. ." Before Li Chouxin could finish speaking, Ziwei interrupted.
Neither of them spoke anymore, but started drinking one cup after another, looking at each other from time to time.
The night got colder and cooler as the night went on. Ziwei shrugged her arms. Li Chouxin saw this and said quickly: "Ziwei, it's late at night and the weather is cold. Why don't we go down."
But Ziwei shook her head and said, "No, brother Chouxin can just sit with me for a while longer."
Li Chouxin looked at Ziwei's reluctant expression, nodded, then took off her coat and gently put it on Ziwei's body.
After finishing the wine, the two of them got closer and closer. Slowly, Ziwei fell asleep leaning on Li Chouxin's shoulder in a drunken state. Li Chouxin protected Ziwei with one hand and held the wine bottle with the other, looking at the high sky for a while. After a while, he turned to Ziwei who was leaning on his shoulder, feeling very bitter and confused in his heart.
Li Chouxin looked at Ziwei who had fallen asleep peacefully, and couldn't bear to wake her up, so she let Ziwei rest on his shoulder, because this was the slightest bit of support and peace of mind that she could give Ziwei at the moment, and she didn't want to break this moment. Beautiful, just keep sitting like this.
"Ziwei, I, Li Chou, am not happy with a girl like you. It's just that the road ahead is long. This Eling is definitely not the place for me to stop. I am alone, so I can't make any promises to you. Alas, what is the love in this world? Things can put people in a dilemma." Li Chouxin said softly to himself.
Ziwei seemed to have heard Li Chouxin's sigh, and said in a dreamy voice: "Since I have vowed to marry Brother Chouxin, I will go wherever Brother Chouxin goes, as long as Brother Chouxin is always by my side." .”
Li Chouxin looked at Ziwei in surprise, but Ziwei had clearly fallen asleep.
Li Chouxin had mixed feelings in her heart. Could it be that she really wanted to miss such a beauty? Was it destined to end here? Li Chouxin looked at Mingyue again and said slowly:
A sword should cut across the rugged road
It’s hard to break the love in this mortal world
May everything go as you wish
I am afraid that the long road will force me to go
After chanting, he picked up the jug and wanted to take another sip, but the jug was now empty.
Li Chouxin looked at the empty jug and sighed: "Maybe life is just like this jug. At the beginning, there will be people holding it in their arms, but as time goes by, it becomes more deserted. When I want to see it again, I picked it up again, but it was already empty.”
Li Chouxin sat with Ziwei like this all night until the moon disappeared from the horizon.
The early morning wind woke up the crape myrtle from his sleep, and he looked at Li Chouxin with sleepy eyes. Li Chouxin, who had not slept all night, was also looking at the crape myrtle, and suddenly felt that such a moment was so beautiful.
"Brother Chouxin, have you been protecting me like this all night? Why didn't you wake me up?" Ziwei asked Li Chouxin with some distress.
"It's okay, I saw you sleeping beautifully and couldn't bear to break this rare peace." Li Chouxin replied.
Li Chouxin looked at the sky in the distance. The morning sun was about to rise, so he said, "We should go down, otherwise Zhu Wei will misunderstand us when we see him later."
Ziwei nodded reluctantly, took off Li Chouxin's coat from her body, and handed it to Li Chouxin. With this handover, it was as if she had handed away all the fantasies and longings in her dream, and for a moment there was a slight sense of loss on her face.
Li Chouxin took the coat, held the wine bottle in one hand, and hugged Ziwei in the other, and jumped down into the yard. However, this jump seemed so short-lived, just like the acquaintance between the two, which was short-lived and hard to stay.
After landing, Li Chouxin was about to go back to his room, but Ziwei called out to Chouxin and said, "Brother Chouxin, I haven't slept all night. Wait for Ziwei to cook you some ginger soup and porridge, drink it and then go and rest."
Li Chouxin wanted to refuse, but Ziwei had already entered the kitchen.
Li Chouxin was sitting at the stone table in the yard, watching Ziwei busy in the kitchen, and felt a warm feeling in her heart.
After a while, Ziwei came to the front with a plate containing ginger soup and porridge, watching Li Chouxin drink it.
After Li Chouxin finished drinking the ginger soup and porridge, the two of them went back to their rooms.
Li Chouxin had been up all night and was very tired, but now she was lying on the bed without any sleep. She was tossing and turning and couldn't fall asleep.
After thinking about it, I finally fell asleep, but not long after I slept, I was woken up by a knock on the door outside the drug store.
Li Chou didn't pay attention to it. He just felt it was too disturbing and finally took a rest. It was really annoying. It was so noisy early in the morning. He ignored it and turned over and continued to sleep.
After Ziwei heard the noise, she was afraid of disturbing Li Chou's rest, so she hurriedly put on men's clothes and went to open the door.
Outside the door was a servant of the Zhang family, holding an invitation letter in his hand.
Seeing the door of the medicine shop open, he quickly stepped forward and asked, "Is Young Master Li here? My young master has specially sent a villain to deliver an invitation letter, inviting Young Master to have a banquet at my house tonight."
Ziwei took the invitation and replied: "Young Master hasn't gotten up yet. I will hand over the invitation to you later. Please make a trip."
Seeing this, the man gave a warning and left.
As soon as the man left, Ziwei closed the door again, fearing that opening the door for business would affect her rest.
Ziwei returned to the backyard with the invitation letter. Seeing that Li Chouxin was still resting, she took the invitation letter and returned to her room.
As soon as she sat down, the door was opened by Zhu Wei. Zhu Wei saw the invitation letter when she entered the door, and then asked: "Sister, whose invitation letter is this?"
"Of course it belongs to Brother Chou Xin, but he hasn't gotten up yet. I'll hold him for now and then send it to him after he gets up." Ziwei replied.
"Huh? Why did you change your story after not seeing your sister for one night? Why did you call her Brother Chouxin like others?" Zhu Wei was very surprised.
Ziwei's face turned slightly red, "The reason for this is to make it look less awkward. I'm afraid my brother Tiantian, who is the eldest and the youngest, is not used to it, so I changed my words."
"That's all, I'm not interested in hearing this. Just give me the invitation. I'll wake him up. He's still sleeping in at such a late hour." After saying that, Ziwei grabbed the invitation and ran to Li Chouxin's room without waiting for Ziwei to react. .
"Brother Chouxin, brother Chouxin, get up soon. I've sent you an invitation letter. Get up soon. Don't sleep in." Zhu Wei shouted coquettishly while knocking on the door.
Li Chou wanted to get irritated, but when he heard Zhu Wei's voice, he suddenly felt helpless. He thought that this little ancestor would never sleep after all this trouble, so he dragged his tired body out of bed and opened the door.
Zhu Wei rushed in as soon as the door opened and handed the invitation letter to Li Chouxin, "Brother Chouxin, this is what the eldest son of the Zhang family sent to you early in the morning. You are invited to a banquet at the District Zhang Mansion tonight."
Li Chouxin took the invitation letter and wondered how the Zhang Mansion could hold such a banquet properly. She didn't hear Zhang Rao talk about it yesterday.
While Li Chouxin was deep in thought, Zhu Wei suddenly said coquettishly: "Brother Chouxin, why did my sister change her name to you Brother Chouxin so early in the morning? Are you hiding something from me?"
But Li Chouxin said: "Why would I hide something from you? But it's much better to call me brother Chouxin than to call me young master, so don't think too much about it."
Zhu Wei wanted to say more, but was interrupted by Li Chouxin, "Little girl, let's give you a task. Go and help me prepare a gift for the banquet in the evening. It doesn't need to be too expensive. Just express your intention."
"You're so stingy! You know, you made so much money just yesterday, yet you're still so stingy when you're a guest. It's true." Zhu Wei babbled as she walked out.
Before going out, Li Chouxin also warned: "Be careful when you go out, don't let anyone find out that you are dressing up as a man."
"I know! It's so annoying." Zhu Wei replied and went to deal with it.
Li Chou thought to himself that there must be a lot of guests at Zhang's house, and they might be able to learn something, so he decided to go to the banquet later in the evening.
After a while, Zhu Wei came back, went straight to Li Chouxin, and said, "After looking around for a while, I didn't know what to buy, so I bought an abacus."
When Li Chouxin heard this, he almost fainted. However, when Zhu Wei opened the box, Li Chouxin was surprised. The abacus was actually a jade pendant. It was very finely made and the beads on it could move. It could actually act like an ordinary abacus. use. So he said: "It's done well, so I'll use it for the banquet."
But Zhu Wei said: "You have to pay me back the money. This cost me five hundred taels of silver!"
