Chapter 22 A la carte
"Is it really you?" Li Kuan turned around, like a predatory cheetah, thinking about the direction of the previous window and pounced. The moon-white silk robe on his body was brought up by his rapid speed with a gust of wind, knocked over a small desk in the way ahead, and came to the front of the figure.
"It's me, it's always there!" Li Liqing, who was standing outside the window, grinned a gentle smile at the corner of her mouth, although her pretty face was red from the cold, but it did not reduce her demeanor like a clear lotus in the slightest. It's just that the faint melancholy between her eyebrows makes her look a lot haggard. But this haggard face made her feel a little more pitiful, which made people feel distressed.
Li Kuan was like this at this time, he stretched out his hand and gently placed it on her cold cheeks that were blown by the cold wind, and his fingers gently smoothed her wrinkled willow eyebrows, and he was speechless for a long time.
"Second brother, you let Sister Lizhi come in!" The little Yu Zhang saw the two people staring at each other for a long time in the back, and couldn't help but remind him. In her little heart, she still can't understand why she is so greasy and crooked. Holding two small pendants in her hands, her big eyes narrowed into a slit when she saw it, and her small mouth also complained: "Although the foal and the little lamb promised by the second brother did not see it, but for the sake of these two things, Weier forgave the second brother." ”
Li Kuan stretched out his hand to pull Li Lizhi out of the window, then moved his hands down and gently grabbed her slender waist, and lifted her out of the window with both arms. But he was still able to easily pick up Li Li's petite body.
Li Lizhi, who entered the room, gently shook the snow-white robe on her body, which was very thick. A layer of snow had fallen on it, and it seemed that she had been standing outside the window for quite some time. It's just that this robe with a hat is like a cloak, and it can completely wrap a person. When Li Kuan came over just now, she squatted down slightly, and disappeared from Li Kuan's sight. Because the surroundings are covered with snow, it is in the night. The difference is almost indistinguishable. And her footprints were swept away by Xiao Yuzhang when she came.
Originally, Li Lizhen didn't want to be exposed. She just wants to see how Li Kuan is doing outside this window, and she doesn't want to disturb Li Kuan anymore. For her sake, this brother has lost the exploits he has gained by fighting all the way in northern Xinjiang. But if she didn't come to see it, she couldn't let go of it in her heart. Worry about what will happen. Unexpectedly, he was betrayed by a little traitor.
"Liz, I'm sorry!"
"Second brother, I'm sorry!"
The two said the words of apology almost at the same time, and then looked at each other and smiled, all the previous things were indifferent between this smile, Li Kuan was calm, this closest sister did not blame herself in her heart because of the impact of this incident. This made Li Kuan very happy. But Li Lizhen heard Li Kuan's concern for her from Li Kuan's words. Guilt for her. So she was also relieved, no wonder Li Kuan was incompetent in this matter. As a son of man, it is not easy to do this part, and there are really few people in the entire empire who really dare to fall out with their father, and there must be no brothers and sisters among them. Both Li Kuan and Li Lizhen were very clear about this, but because they really didn't want to do it in their hearts, they still chose to struggle. Even if it doesn't help the ending, at least make your voice heard.
"Don't say you're sorry, you've never been wrong!" Li Kuan said softly, in his heart, he never felt that Li Lizhi was wrong, and he never felt that he had offended the eldest grandson Wuji because he helped Li Liqian, and it was a big deal to dislike Li Er, even if he did it again, he would do it. Because Li Lizhi is not only his sister, but also an inseparable part of his heart. He didn't want her to be wronged a little, he didn't want her to be unhappy, and he frowned all day long. So Li Kuan just hated himself because he couldn't help, and he never blamed Li Liqing.
But Li Lizhi felt that she had dragged Li Kuan down, if it weren't for her business, Li Kuan should have returned to Chang'an with congratulations from the Manchu Dynasty, won the appreciation of his father, and then set off from the Vermilion Bird Gate in a beautiful manner, paraded in the one hundred and eight squares of Chang'an City, and enjoyed the treatment of heroes in the cheers of countless people. It's not like this, it's cold-eyed, eating coarse food, and it's cold to the extreme. So she was also full of guilt in her heart, and only by saying those three words that represented her heart could she be relieved slightly.
"Second brother!" Li Lizhi looked at the tall brother in front of him, with a slender figure, sword eyebrows flying obliquely, and the long hair with a shawl on his head was scattered behind him at will, not tied up. Dressed in a moon-white robe, coupled with a bee waist ape arm, the whole is a turbidity world. This dress coupled with his somewhat decadent temperament, if he walks around Chang'an City, he will definitely win the hearts of countless women.
"Lizhi, come and sit!" Li Kuan was very happy, on the last night of the fourth year of Zhenguan, the people he wanted to see the most came to him, which was a gift from God. Although Li Kuan didn't believe in any heaven or fate, he already had a plan in his heart and decided to put it into practice. This wheel of history, he must use his mantis arm to block it, even if he is crushed to pieces, he must give it a try. He had thought about it before, but he retreated again and again, because those people and those things had not yet made him feel the pain of his skin, but now he has no way to retreat, because as long as he retreats, then the wheel of history will crush Li Liqian, and it will be the warmth that he can't give up in his heart.
"Second brother, you can sit too!" Li Lizhi was pressed on the chair by Li Kuan, raised her pretty face and said to Li Kuan, with that heart-warming smile on her little face, even if there was a grievance that could not be dissolved in the depths of her eyes, but in front of Li Kuan, she didn't want to show it, she just wanted to show her best side in front of him, and she just wanted him to remember his most brilliant face, so that he always had a knowing smile when he recalled, and he would not be sad because of himself, and cry. Li Lizhi knows his second brother too well, if he is stabbed on his body, even if he cuts off his arm, he will not shed tears, but he will cry because of some trivial things.
"Okay, I'll sit!" Li Kuan sat down next to Li Lizhen, and then ordered the little maid standing on the side to go and get two pairs of dishes and chopsticks.
Xiao Tianxiang obediently turned around and left, and there was also a bright smile on her little face, because her master was happy, so the little maid was happy. Her joys, sorrows, and sorrows always shifted with Li Kuan, and she herself never thought in her little heart, as long as she followed the little brother who held her hand and let her follow him, it was the greatest happiness in the little girl's heart.
"Second brother, how do you eat these things?" Li Lizhi looked at the food on the table, a plate of things that I don't know if it was beef or venison was placed in the center of the table, surrounded by a plate of bean sprouts, a plate of shredded radish, and a bowl of clear soup. This is Li Kuan's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner this year. This is completely inconsistent with his illustrious status, and Li Lizhen can't help but feel puzzled.
"Isn't that good? Isn't it the same as what people eat? If all the people of my Datang can eat such a meal, then the world will really be peaceful! Li Kuan said with a sigh, he was completely motivated, because the life of the people he saw along the way really made him feel worried, some families every thick winter clothes, all wearing ragged clothes, shivering in the cold wind, the family huddled together to keep warm, a pottery casserole, in which I don't know whether it was the bark or the roots of the tree, and then let the eldest in the family bite first, then the children, and the last young and strong can only drink some soup. Such a tragic situation stimulated Li Kuan's eyes along the way, making them cry in the cold wind, he really wanted to exchange huàn out a mountain of grain and bury all those people, so that there was no one in the entire Tang Dynasty who could not eat enough, and there was no one who could not wear warm clothes.
But he didn't do that, and he could only leave the camp quietly every night on the way through which the army passed, throwing bags of food on the side of the road, still in front of the people's homes. Along the way, Li Kuan sent out no less than 10,000 stones, which was not much less than the grain on the boat three years ago.
But these things are thrown into it and there is still not the slightest splash, and no matter how much grain is eaten, it is only when the harvest in the autumn in the field can these people really be fed when they are harvested in the next year.
"But ......" Li Lizhen wanted to say something, but she stopped, she remembered the scene she saw outside just now, Xiao Tianxiang was soaking in cold water in the remote kitchen over there to wash vegetables and cook, her little hands were red from the cold, her little face was also bitter, and there was that aggrieved look, this qiē shows that Li Kuan's current embarrassing position in the palace, maybe there are some people's instructions in the meantime, otherwise the small imperial dining room, even if Li Kuan is not liked by Li Er now, they can't provoke it.
"Second brother, let's eat!" Li Lizhi turned the dishes that Tianxiang brought over, held the chopsticks in her little hand, and stretched out to pick up the plate of shredded radish. There is a lot of rice, and the rice that has been popularized by the Tang Dynasty in recent years has now begun to be planted in a large area in the Lianghu area, just because these places have always been active areas of the water kou, and there will always be robberies in the harvest season, and rice has not really become the staple food on the table. In the entire palace, only Li Kuan insisted on eating rice every day.
"Since my sister is here, how can I still eat these? The second brother has prepared delicious food for you! Li Kuan reached out and grabbed Li Liqin's little hand and said with a smile.
"Something delicious? Second brother, take it out! Yu Zhang on the side was struggling with her rice bowl, she didn't have any dishes she liked, she hated eating radishes the most, and she farts after eating them. The little girl was about to complain with a pitiful face, but when she heard Li Kuan's good news, she immediately called out.
"What do you want to eat?" Li Kuan asked.
"Wild boar!" Yu Zhang said first.
"Puff ......" Li Lizhi was amused by the dish ordered by Yu Zhang, this wild boar meat is Xiao Yu Zhang's favorite food, every time he returns to Li Kuan, he has to eat a meal and pack it. But this wild boar really made Li Lizhi a little unappetizing, not that it was not delicious, but because there were not so many wild boars! Eat every time, come every day, how can there be so many wild boar? (To be continued......)