In the middle of the night, the study.

Li Zerong put down the ink pen and carefully folded the written letter and put it into the letterbox.

He Li stayed outside the study, looking at the warm full moon with a cold face, in the soft moonlight, as if she saw Huanhuan's beautiful peach blossom eyes with her eyelashes trembling slightly when she tiptoed to tie the veil for him today.

"He Qi."

He Li came back to his senses and pushed the door in.

"Lord Wang."

"I've written it, go, and deliver the letter to Mr. Hu as soon as possible."

"Yes."

He Li took the letterbox, glanced at Li Zerong, who was still rolling up his sleeves and grinding ink, and couldn't help but remind: "Lord Wang, it's late at night. ”

"It's going to change." Li Zerong stopped his action of grinding ink, turned his head to look at He Quan, and said sternly.

"The prince may be the result of these few hours."

"Yes. In the past few days, you have followed me, and the slave has sent more people to guard her. ”

"When the princess harmed her, did she want them to help?"

"She probably won't."

"Why?"

He Wei was puzzled, since the last time the prince designed to punish the woman to return home, he had a faint feeling in his heart that she would target Huanhuan more in the future.

"If so, wait a little longer."

Li Zerong's strength increased unconsciously, and he secretly felt angry in his heart, what Gao Yu is doing now, he will double it for Huanhuan in the future.

He Wei bowed and left the study.

Li Zerong stared, holding a paintbrush in his hand, and in an instant, a pair of vivid ink butterflies jumped on the paper.

"Butterfly with you, with the world."

Writing this sentence, Li Zerong smashed the painted ink butterfly to his fingertips. It's the same ending as the many times he painted the ink butterfly before.

Suddenly, he heard a sound of light footsteps outside the window, and his face smiled.

"Lord Wang, the prince has gone."

"Hmm."

……

Huanhuan stayed up all night last night, and he always remembered many past events in his mind. Suddenly, I remembered the past when I was twelve years old and followed my brother to be his little scholar and have fun. also remembered the shock and heartbeat when she saw Li Zerong in the palace, and many things about Li Zerong afterward......

When he knew that Li Zerong was the prince, Huanhuan was only thirteen or fourteen years old. She knew that she was inexplicably flustered when she saw Li Zerong, and her sudden blushing was because she liked Li Zerong. But she also understands that her likes are not so addictive.

He was the prince and was born into an imperial family.

The most is the truth of the ruthless emperor's family, she has understood it in the book since she was a child.

But she still fell hopelessly in love with Li Zerong. No, it's not Li Zerong, it's Qi Lu, the young man who likes to wear white.

Four years ago, on the night of Shangyuan.

Huanhuan's mother died on Chinese New Year's Eve, and she and her brother have always disliked Chinese New Year's Eve. Throughout the year, Huanhuan is most looking forward to the Lantern Festival, when lanterns are hung everywhere in the city, and the night is bright and lively.

During the Lantern Festival, her father would personally choose a lantern for Huanhuan and light a candle for her, every year.

The lantern chosen by my father is always an eagle lantern, with huge wings and claws, and the craftsman who makes the lantern is very skillful, and the eagle lantern made is lifelike. Every year she walked down the street with that lantern, and passers-by would always turn their heads to look at her twice. The brother laughed wildly in front of her, unabashedly.

Since Huanhuan became conscious, she no longer wanted to carry the lanterns that her father had chosen for her. Always run to the moat and "fly" the eagle in his hand.

This year, too, Huan Huan, dressed in red and wearing a red cloak on his shoulders, stood in front of a familiar lantern stall. I saw my father take off the huge eagle lantern and smile and nod at the familiar face. handed over the copper plate, solemnly handed the lantern to Huanhuan, and squatted down to light the candle for her.

Huanhuan found that a lot of white hair appeared on the top of his father's head, and he was overjoyed when he looked at him seriously guarding the flame and lighting a candle for himself, and he couldn't help but feel sorry for his father and poor mother.

If her mother was still there, her father would have loved her more than he had done for her.

Huanhuan carried the familiar eagle lantern, and then turned his head to look at the gold ingot lantern that his brother was carrying, and his heart was full of envy. Huanhuan always felt that her father treated her harsher than her brother, which was very unfair. But I still helplessly watched my brother holding an ingots lantern in his left hand and a koi lantern in his right hand, happily strolling around the street.

Ling'er understood Huanhuan's crampedness, and when she saw that the old man didn't look at Miss anymore, she went to buy her favorite begonia lantern for Miss and handed it to her.

Huanhuan likes Ling'er's empathy the most, she can always guess her own thoughts. He turned to her and smiled brightly.

After only half a street, Arwen couldn't stuff anything in his arms anymore, and his brother was still buying and buying. Pastries, playthings, and wine brewing were all over again, and Huanhuan couldn't help but feel sorry for Ah Wenlai, who was taller than him behind his brother. Bury said: "Lin Yunyun, buy less, Ah Wen will not be able to hold it." ”

"I'm your brother, what Yunyun!"

Huanhuan's brother is called Lin Yunyun, and this not hard name has made him laughed at by his peers for a long time.

Lin Yunyun snorted, rushed forward with the lantern, and went to buy two Western Regions forehead ornaments back, seeing that Awen was holding the "goods" he bought with both hands, and couldn't spare his hands anymore, so he had to say aggrievedly: "Awen, squat down, how can someone who is four years younger than me look taller than me." ”

I saw Lin Yunyun hanging one of the forehead ornaments lightly between Ah Wen's forehead and fastening it for him.

Arwen has always spoken little, and he doesn't know how to refuse, and he wears the forehead ornament with red ears. When he saw his brother carefully tie another ornament on his head, Huanhuan was stunned with fright.

The forehead ornament is beautiful, carefully woven with fine red thread, and the center of the forehead band is hung with gold leaf stacked with round grain of mahogany, which is quite Western style. It's just that my brother was too careless when he bought the forehead band, and Awen's forehead ornament was obviously decorated with red beads, and it was also inlaid with gold wire, which was worn by a girl at first glance.

Ah Wen also seemed to notice the difference, and blushed and stopped talking.

Huan Hwan had never paid attention to Ah Wen before, and Ah Wen rarely spoke, even when he was punished, he didn't snort. Looking at him today, Huanhuan felt that Ah Wen was very delicate, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, a high nose bridge, a cold temperament, and simple coarse black clothes were worn by him with a sense of sacredness and inoffense. It's not like my brother's little scholar at all, but like my brother's protector, but it's a pity that he lacks a sword pinned to his waist, otherwise he will be more heroic.

Lin Yunyun is such a habit, buying things does not look at the quality of things, only to see whether they fit his eyes, presumably the jewelry on Awen's forehead is his eye, so he bought it and hung it on Awen's forehead at will.

Huanhuan couldn't help but sympathize with Ah Wen, his hands were occupied, not to mention, and he even had something hanging on his head.

"My brother is really heartless."

Huanhuan also walked to the shop that sold forehead ornaments, the proprietress was from the Western Regions, speaking a lame Central Plains dialect, and shouted vigorously: "Western Regions forehead ornaments, buy them and give them to your heart, tie them for a long time, for a long time, for a long ......time."

Huanhuan chose one, held it in his hand, and was about to pay, when he heard the proprietress explain intermittently in the Central Plains dialect: "The forehead ornament is used to give it to the person in your heart, if you want it, buy two." ”

The proprietress also stretched out her finger and pointed to her chest when she talked about her heart, explaining affectionately.

Speaking of his sweetheart, Huanhuan's heart "clicked", and the charming fox eyes of the young man instantly appeared in his mind. Immediately blushed, gently put down the forehead ornament, smiled, and after making a hand gesture, he was ready to greet Ling'er to leave.

"Wait a minute."

Suddenly I heard the voice of a young man, panting and shouting.

Huanhuan didn't know if she was shouting at herself, but she couldn't help but look back when she heard this voice.

When I looked back at the man, all the senses of the body stopped touching in an instant, and only the heart beat so truly.

It is him, the sixth prince Li Zerong, and the genius Qi Lu in his brother's mouth.

The young man did not meet Shang Huanhuan's eyes, but seriously negotiated with the proprietress in the Western Regions. When Huanhuan came back to his senses, Li Zerong was standing in front of her, holding two forehead bands, looking at himself gently.

Ling'er pestled Huanhuan behind her, Huanhuan suddenly understood, handed the begonia lantern in her hand to Ling'er behind her, and was about to bend her knees to salute, but was stopped by Li Zerong with a smile and stretched out his hand.

Li Zerong also looks very good when he laughs, with two small dimples. The pair of hooking fox eyes in the smile are even more moving, as if the sky and rivers are hidden in it.

Looking up at Li Zerong and looking at himself, Huanhuan couldn't help but bow his head, and the tips of his ears were feverish.

Li Zerong looked at the shy girl in front of him, his heartbeat unconsciously accelerated, and his ears were slightly red. He was wearing black civilian clothes today, with a silver fox velvet cloak draped over his shoulders, and he stood out in the crowd.

Li Zerong pretended to be calm and whispered: "The proprietress said that this Western Regions forehead ornament must be bought in pairs, otherwise it will be unlucky." ”

After speaking, he lightly placed the forehead strap on Huanhuan's hand, and carefully put the other one into his arms.

Huan Huan stood there, so nervous that he couldn't say a word, staring down at the forehead band, flustered.

Li Zerong stood in front of her, and within a single step, she could even clearly smell the fragrance of begonia flowers on his body.

"Qi Lu!"

The elder brother was scurrying around on the street with lanterns, and Ah Wen followed him closely, and when he met the candied fruit shop and was about to beckon Huanhuan to pick it up, he found that Huanhuan was no longer behind him. After looking around for a while, I saw that the pretty man in red was talking to a man. I couldn't see his face clearly from a distance, but Ah Wen behind him had good eyesight and reminded that the man was Qi Lu.

As soon as he heard that it was Qi Lu, Lin Yunyun dropped the candied fruit and ran to Huanhuan's side.

Huanhuan saw that it was his brother who came, he breathed a sigh of relief, felt a little more relaxed, and watched his brother look at the six princes with the red forehead ornament with a radiant look.

"Qi Lu, you are also here."

Huanhuan saw his brother step forward, hugged people with a shy face, and asked such a sentence without a clue, but he felt embarrassed, and hurriedly reminded: "Brother, it is the sixth prince, don't be rude." ”

The elder brother took two steps back when he heard this, still smiling on his face. Reaching out and clasping the back of his head, he was thinking about what would be more appropriate, but after thinking about it for a long time, he didn't come up with a word, and the group stood there awkwardly.

The proprietress behind the shop suddenly said something in Western Regions, and Li Zerong turned around and smiled at her and replied in Western Regions.

Huanhuan was curious, and couldn't help but open his mouth and ask, "Sixth Prince, what did the boss lady say to you?" ”

Li Zerong looked embarrassed, cleared his throat and said solemnly: "She said that if you buy her forehead band, you will become husband and wife." ”

Huanhuan looked at Li Zerong in disbelief, his face was red, his head hung shyly, and he suddenly regretted asking such a sentence in his heart.

Lin Yunyun heard Li Zerong's words, the corners of his mouth smiled, and he glanced back at Awen, who was holding the goods and blushing, with a smug expression and no quibbles.

Instead, he found his sister looking at the Six Princes in disbelief. Lang said: "Slave, Qi Lu doesn't disdain to deceive people. ”

Realizing that he had shouted the wrong name, he hurriedly changed his words: "The six princes of the family don't deceive people, but it's just a strip of meaning, why take it seriously." There is a seller of candied fruit in front, go buy some candied fruit. ”

There was also a person standing next to Li Zerong, although he was a teenager, he was extremely old, standing resolutely, holding the hilt of the sword, and not saying a word with a straight face, it seemed that he was Li Zerong's guard.

Li Zerong pushed him away and said, "He Quan, I want to stay with my friends for a while." ”

When He Quan heard this, he nodded and left.

"Nu'er, you are the same as Brother Lin, call me Qi Lu." Li Zerong and Huanhuan walked side by side.

Brother Lin Yunyun turned around when he heard this, and said depressedly: "Qi Lu, why do you call me Brother Lin, but call me my sister slave?" ”

Li Zerong smiled awkwardly, his face was slightly red, and his fox eyes drooped slightly. Huanhuan looked at him like this, and buried his head even lower in shame.

"My sister's name is Nu'er, and the family calls her that, in fact, her name is Lin Huanhuan, and my name is Lin Yunyun. Brother Lin looks rusty, let me think about what you should call me? The elder brother shook the lantern in front of him, thinking seriously, and suddenly said, "Ah." As far as Brother Yun or Brother Yun, Qi Lu, what do you say? ”

Huanhuan said silently, I really can't stand my brother's stupidity, Brother Yun, Brother Yun? Isn't it Brother Jun, Brother Jun? Brother is really cheeky, how can he be embarrassed to let the fairy brother, who is much more handsome than him, call him Brother Jun? Brother Jun?

"Okay, Brother Jun."

"Yes, it's the handsome and good-looking one, hahaha."

Huanhuan looked at his brother with a shy face, and deliberately emphasized that he chased the ducks to the shelves, and he just felt funny. The elder brother came to Fang Cai's candied fruit shop again, and the proprietress remembered him and greeted: "Brother Jun, buy some candied fruit and then leave." ”

Huanhuan wanted to step forward and approach the candied fruit shop, but her wrist was suddenly gently grabbed, she turned around, and just happened to crash into Li Zerong's arms.

Li Zerong realized that his behavior was a bit frivolous and profligate, so he hurriedly let go of her hand, took a step back, smiled in his eyes, and stammered: "Slave, I brought you candied fruit." ”

"How do you know I like preserves?"