After the prosperous Tang Dynasty

The autumn evening breeze is cool, and in the quiet courtyard, there is a sound of falling trees from time to time.

Li Tan stood up and stretched out his hand towards Xiao Yansui, "Is it cold? Let's go back."

Xiao Yansui shook her head, but put her hand on Li Tan's, and stood up from the pavilion with some strength, "It's not cold, but it's almost time, it's time to go back."

Her hands were slender and soft. Although her mouth said it wasn't cold, the temperature of her fingers carried a trace of autumnal coolness, and there were still some not-so-obvious thin calluses on the pads of her fingers.

——It is not the sharpness and coldness left by wielding knives and guns, but a slight trace that seems to be not heavy, but left over time.

Like a ghost, after pulling Xiao Yansui to stand up, Li Tan did not let go of her hand in a gentle manner, but gently took her hand and held it in his palm, and couldn't help but look at her with concern and curiosity. I looked over carefully.

Although there are lanterns and candles hanging in the courtyard, and the moonlight is bright in the sky, the light at night is still quite insufficient. Although her fingers are white and delicate, as if shrouded in moonlight, but in this night, she can still see her eyes. Not clear.

"What happened to my hand?" Xiao Yansui was still a little confused.

Li Tan held her hand, subconsciously rubbed the fingertips lightly, moved his throat slightly, then calmed down his tone, and answered, "Why are there calluses on the fingertips?"

Xiao Yansui answered rather crisply, "Writing, drawing, doing experiments, occasionally tinkering with flower pots in the yard, and planting two more seedlings..."

Moreover, because when Xiao Yansui wrote things and drew drawings, she always held the pens and pencils in the previous life. However, the pencils she made these days, no matter how fine the materials are, the softness of the carbon sticks is far from It is not as good as the industrialized products of later generations. When drawing pictures, it is almost inevitable to use more force on the fingers.

Li Tan breathed a sigh of relief, and didn't continue to ask any more questions. He just took her hand as if inadvertently, and turned around and walked in the same direction as when they were walking together.

Bypassing the halls and towers, from a long distance, you can see the bright lights in the hall where the palace banquet is held in Xingqing Palace, and the brisk tunes of drums and music playing the sheng at the dinner party are wafting in your ears, and there are people chatting vaguely The sound of laughter, this journey, seems to have gone from the silence and tranquility of only two people to the bustling and lively world of mortals.

Zhang Dai just found Xiao Wu from the palace, came out talking and laughing with him, he knew that Xiao Yansui was here today, and was about to talk to her, when he raised his eyes, he saw a small road not far away At that time, his cousin Li Tan from the East Palace actually walked over with Xiao Yansui.

Zhang Dai couldn't help but widen his eyes, and when Xiao Yansui and Li Tan were talking in a low voice, when he got a little closer, he saw that the two were holding hands all the way, and his already wide eyes suddenly became rounder.

Too shocked for a moment, Zhang Dai, who didn't get along with what he should say, completely instinctively gave Xiao Wu, who was still nagging beside him, two elbows, as a reminder.

Xiao Wu was so stunned that he said "Hey", first he looked at Zhang Dai with a puzzled expression on his face, and then followed Zhang Dai's gaze to see his sister.

After a dark, indescribably violent shock, countless thoughts flashed through Xiao Wu's mind instantly.

——Why did my sister Liu Niang walk with Li Tan from the East Palace! ?

——Is the friendship between the two of them very good?Obviously Liu Niang didn't like to go out to visit friends since she was a child, and occasionally when she made an appointment to go out in private, the number of times she was with Zhang Dai and herself basically accounted for the majority...

——Even back to Chang'an City this time, Liu Niang never mentioned the matter of going out with Li Tan to play. Li Tan just appeared out of nowhere! ?

——Besides the fact that Liu Niang and Li Tan had seen lanterns at the Lantern Market during the Shangyuan Festival when they were young, is there any intersection between them that they don't know about?

——No wonder he kept asking himself, when will Liu Niang come back from her hometown!

With too many thoughts, Xiao Wu kept looking at his sister, but he couldn't say anything.

Li Tan walked with Xiao Yansui all the time, because she spoke very softly, so he kept looking down at her and listening to her.It was only after suddenly noticing the staring eyes on him for a while that Li Tan raised his head subconsciously, and what he saw was Xiao Wu and Zhang Dai standing under the lantern, two shocked by the lively and festive candlelight. face.

After looking at each other for a short time, Li Tan did not let go of his hand subconsciously, but could not help but clenched it slightly. He gently shook Xiao Yansui's hand, and reminded her in a gentle voice: "Front."

"Ah?" Xiao Yansui, who was talking to Li Tan about the beagle he raised in his hometown, raised his head and saw Xiao Wu as if struck by lightning. Opening Li Tan's warm hand, he greeted him directly with a smile, "Brother! And Jiulang, I haven't seen you at Princess Ningqin just now!"

Li Tan waited for a step, and then followed her side as well as kindly.

"Well... I took Fourteen Niang out for a while just now." Zhang Dai stopped staring at his cousin Li Tan meaningfully, and then replied with a smile.

Li Tan was standing there, also smiling slightly, but his attitude towards Zhang Dai's subtle eyes was quite calm, noncommittal.

It was about his own sister, Xiao Wu was far inferior to Zhang Dai's calmness, he directly pulled Xiao Yansui to his side, and inadvertently got stuck between Xiao Yansui and Lai Tan , and said in his mouth: "I'm going to find you!"

Li Tan just looked at it with a smile, and waited until Xiao Wu and Zhang Dai's words fell, before he said: "Let's go into the hall first, the night wind outside is a bit cold."

"..." Xiao Wu still tugged on his sister's sleeve, and naturally touched the silk of the clothes that was slightly chilled by the wind.

After all, he was attending a palace banquet in the palace, no matter how casual Xiao Yansui is usually, he would not just come here today with a loose ponytail. The style, the beautiful hairpin with some pearls, jade and gemstones dotted in the black hair like a crow's feather, and the delicate and small gold-painted mother-of-pearl on the forehead, even in the night, they are all shining and shining.

After entering the hall, several young people found a place to sit down at random, Xiao Yansui looked around quickly, leaned towards Li Tan, and lowered his voice slightly surprised: "Princess Wan'an is not here? "

Li Tan also naturally leaned towards her slightly, lowered his head, lowered his voice, but said decisively in his words: "Maybe he hasn't come here yet! Today is the saint's Mid-Autumn Palace feast." , even if she prays in the Taoist temple, she will not fail to appear."

Xiao Yansui nodded slightly, "Yes."

The whispering between the two of them fell into the eyes of others, so naturally there was a lot of calculation in their hearts.However, because Xiao Song has already retired, there are very few people who are interested in this point.

Xiao Wu, on the other hand, couldn't help staring at Li Tan who was still whispering to his sister, the expression on his face was almost tense.