Rebellious officials bow their heads

The child looked at him sobbingly, his eyes were red, washed like crystals by tears, his face with a little baby fat was purple, and he looked very aggrieved.

Ye Liuzhou couldn't help reaching out and pinching his face, not noticing that his wound was involved.

Xiao Ji Liu was bullied, and didn't know how to open the opponent's hand. Instead, he and Ye Liuzhou looked at each other for a moment, then flattened his mouth, and cried even harder with a wow.

Ye Liuzhou withdrew his hand embarrassingly, "Don't cry, what happened to your face, was it yourself or someone else?"

Xiao Ji Liu cried so much that his face was full of tears.

Ye Liuzhou had no choice but to bend down and carry him out from the crevice of the stone, letting Ji Liu lay on his shoulders. At that time, he was not much older than the child in his arms, and it was a bit difficult to carry him around.

Ji Han raised his head on the top of the rockery and shouted, "Your Highness! Where are you going?"

Ye Liuzhou turned around.

The young man was dressed in a red robe, with a slender figure wrapped around his girdle. His two slender legs stepped on the bluestone slab. The corners of his eyebrows and eyes were slightly raised, with a hint of evil, and he said with a half-smile, "Don't follow me."

"But Your Highness..." Before Ji Han finished speaking, Ye Liuzhou left quickly. He was stunned, and turned to look at the young man in green robe behind him.

The young man in green robe looked at Ye Liuzhou's receding back, shook his head with a smile, and said helplessly, "Let him go."

Ye Liuzhou didn't go far when he saw a group of imperial guards patrolling over. He hid in the dark and murmured, "If you are caught running out to play, you will be punished for copying books when you go back."

He raised his hand to cover Ji Liu's mouth to prevent him from crying.

After the imperial army left, Ye Liuzhou let go, and found that Ji Liu's entire face was flushed, only the air was exhaled but not in.

Ye Liuzhou patted him on the back, and Ji Liu came back slowly, his little face turned from red to pale, as if the other party was a scourge, and he didn't dare to let him hold him anymore, trying to break free with his hands and feet.

Ye Liuzhou lifted his collar easily, "Where do you want to go?"

He led Xiao Ji Liu through the colorful peach blossom grove, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince sneaked into the imperial dining room, turned in through the window, hid under the stove, heard the footsteps of the kitchen and the maids.

He gestured to Ji Liu for silence.

Ji Liu blinked ignorantly.

Ye Liuzhou poked his head out from the stove, and there was a row of food on it. He quickly brought down a few plates and put them on the ground.

Taking advantage of the maid's inattention, he took a jug of wine, poured a glass and drank it, saw Ji Liu's eyes follow his hand, smiled and asked softly: "Do you want some?"

Ji Liu shrank back.

"Don't cry now, do you know that you cried so loudly just now?" Ye Liuzhou raised his fingers and rubbed the bruises on the child's face, moving gently, "You are a child of Ji's family, why? You don't want to enter Palace?"

Ji Liu didn't speak, he drooped his thick eyelashes, the tip of his immature nose moved slightly, and smelled a strong sweet smell lingering in his nostrils.

He turned his eyes to the plate of chestnut cakes on the ground, and stared at it motionless.

Ye Liuzhou noticed this, picked up a piece of chestnut cake under Ji Liu's eyes, and stuffed it into his mouth, "Well, it's a bit greasy."

He ate one piece after another, taking a sip of wine from time to time, and after a while, a plate of chestnut cakes was about to run out.

Ji Liuyi looked at him eagerly at first, but gradually, as the number of pastries decreased, tears appeared in his eyes.

"Are you going to cry again?" Ye Liuzhou nestled in the corner, bent his legs, leaning his back against the stove, and asked leisurely, "Why are you crying? Do you want to eat this?"

He shook the last piece of chestnut cake in his hand.

"You said you wanted to eat." Ye Liuzhou coaxed, "This is yours."

Ji Liu hesitated for a while, moved the corners of his lips, and was about to say those two words, but Ye Liuzhou raised his hand and ate the last chestnut cake just before he spoke.

So Ji Liu's "want to eat" turned into "wow", and tears welled up in his eyes and spewed out.

Ye Liuzhou quickly covered his mouth.

But this short sound has already aroused the vigilance of the cook, and the footsteps moved to this side, and at the same time, a maid said: "What was the sound just now, and who is it over there?"

"Come and see, why is the pastry here missing?"

Ye Liuzhou smiled and pinched Ji Liu's face, then turned around and quietly went out the window alone.

Ji Liuzheng, who was left behind, was tearfully exposed to the eyes of the court ladies, facing each other, a bubble popped out from under his little nose, and it exploded gently in the air.

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"Ji Liu..." The river of memory came back, Ye Liuzhou opened his eyes, he sat up from the bed with his forehead, and frowned deeply, "Why do you think of the past..."

Is it because Ah Zhong is somewhat similar to Ji Liu from back then...

He raised his head, and there were strands of sunlight exposed between the wooden cracks in the room, and the floating dust was constantly flying in mid-air.

In the afternoon the sun was shining brightly, and there was a peach tree in the courtyard, the branches and leaves were full of broken gold.

There were bundles of firewood piled up in the corridor. Xu Yan was wearing a round-neck gown with sleeves, with Xuan and Tongbao's square-hole copper coins stabbed on his chest. He held an ax in both hands, and the firewood on the wooden pier split into two halves.

Mrs. Xu was sitting next to her, holding a cup of tea in her hand. She sighed helplessly: "How many times have I told you that it's fine to make a living in the capital. You are not allowed to enter the palace, but you just don't listen."

Xu Yan split firewood intently, "Only that one time."

"Don't leave when you come back this time. You have been away from home for many years and have been alone. It's not a problem. Others in the town have children at your age. Do you remember the Liu girl on Qianjie, Ji Shaohua, She always remembers you..."

In the greenery, cicadas are singing, and the heat is transpiring.

"Mother." Xu Yan stopped and turned to look at her, "If I want to marry, I will only marry someone I like. If I marry a stranger I don't know, it will be a waste of time for others. In this regard, you better I am clear."

Mrs. Xu looked at him, lowered her eyes slightly, hiding the tears in her eyes.

"Mother." Xu Yan's voice carried a hint of helpless sigh.

"Okay, okay, I actually want you to stay at home." Mrs. Xu waved her hand and asked with a smile again, "Then you are in the capital, have you met someone you like?"

Under the invisible house behind them, Ye Liuzhou and Ah Zhong stood on the grass and built a wooden ladder. Ye Liuzhou stepped on the ladder, sent Ah Zhong to the roof, and climbed up by himself.

The two lay on the high tiles and saw Xu Yan talking to Mrs. Xu below. They were a little far away and couldn't hear the specific content.

Ah Zhong took a few sheets of paper, fiddled and folded them for a long time but failed to fold them into shape.

Ye Liuzhou took it, flipped his slender and fair fingers a few times quickly, and folded it into a crane, "Here."

"How did you do it?" Ah Zhong held the crane in his hands in surprise, "I thought you knew nothing."

Ye Liuzhou smiled casually, and asked, "Ah Zhong, has your brother ever hit you?"

"No, my brother's temper is not very good, but he has never laid hands on me." A Zhong had a bad premonition in his heart, "What's wrong?"