Chapter Forty-Six: Heart-to-Heart
Li Zhuoran paused for a moment and said: "I haven't said these words to anyone, when I was in Luyang Academy, when I first met Xiao Ou, how old was she?" He is not a few years older than Simon, and we all regard the three of them as our own sisters, who would have thought that one day, I would--" He suddenly stopped and looked around, and said in a low voice, "I actually have feelings for her." β
Yun Hua smiled: "It's not a bad thing to be emotional, why bother to say it so secretly." Li Zhuoran was surprised: "I didn't expect Ah Yunhua, your Taoism is much higher than mine, this kind of thing is said, even a rough person like me can't help but hide it, you are so light-hearted." Yunhua patted Zhuo Ran's back and said: "What are you afraid of, there are only two of us here, I just think that Sister Jinshu is a good girl, and it is not ashamed to be emotionally attached to her, it is still a very admirable thing, at least it shows that you have a very discerning eye." β
Li Zhuoran shouted: "The vision of knowing people? He suddenly realized that his voice was too loud, and he hurriedly suppressed his voice and said: "It's not a matter of vision, Yunhua, let me tell you, now in Lin'an City, those rich businessmen and gentlemen, but who are not dizzy, who has never heard of the girl of the Ou family, who is both civil and military, like a flower and jade?" Knowing that she is waiting for the boudoir, she is waiting with her eyes open. Yunhua knew that he didn't know Lin'an's current situation, so he only asked: "Do you like Jinshu like those people, do you like her both civil and military, gentle and demure?" β
Li Zhuoran said: "How can I be like those people, her good is definitely more than that." To talk about what I do to her. I had feelings for her five or six years ago. As if reminiscing, he raised his head and said slowly: "That day, I accompanied her to practice swords, and only defeated her in three moves, but she cried and said, 'I can't even beat you, how can I go to those people and avenge Brother Zhao Hong?' When I heard this, my heart ached, and I asked her, 'Are you young enough to practice swords just to take revenge?' She said, "Sword training was not for revenge, but Brother Zhao Hong was poisoned by this, if I can't do something for him, then it's useless to have this martial art." ββ
Yun Hua exclaimed after hearing this: "Xiao Ou, a girl's family, looks soft-hearted and weak-hearted, and has such righteousness, which makes us men ashamed." Li Zhuoran nodded: "No, since then, I have felt different from others when I see her, I know that she is a good girl with a pure heart and exquisite clarity, and I want to take care of her more and protect her, so as not to let those prodigal people in Lin'an City move their crooked thoughts." Yunhua nodded and said, "I can see that Jinshu is also interested in you, but if you can't give her an explanation, just following her is not a way after all." β
Li Zhuoran spread out his hands and said: "You said that I was so empty-handed, what can I explain to her now, you also know the affairs of my family, there was still some money left in the early years, but now it is also down, all relying on a little income from the Cloud Pavilion every year." Even if Jinshu doesn't care, the world can see it clearly, watching her choose no family and marry me, those who know to say that she values love and righteousness, and does not admire Rongli, and those who don't know don't know how to arrange her? I, Li Zhuoran, can let my girl suffer this grievance? Well, even if we go away from home, we don't care what the people here say and think, why should the old couple be innocent? Hold the girl she raised well, let a poor boy cheat it away, and never see each other again? There is no reason for such a person. β
Yunhua listened to Li Zhuoran's reasoning, only to know that although he was humorous and optimistic on weekdays, he had such a heavy mind, and silently thought about it in his heart and said: "Reason is this reason, reason is dead, people are alive, if you use some money for you, you can make you all happy, I am will-" Li Zhuoran is the most important to have a good face, hearing Yunhua say this, he hurriedly pulled down his face and said: "You don't have to, if you want to help me, it is enough to send me a few books, and I will find a way to buy property and seek land." β
Seeing Li Zhuoran so stubborn, Yun Hua sighed and said: "I know your character, you have to be strong, but money is not easy to get after all, besides, you are a kind and responsive person, when the money is in your hands, it will be given to the poor people, where can you save it?" Xiao Ou has also reached the age of leaving the cabinet, so he can't delay it in vain. Li Zhuoran heard Yun Hua's heart-to-heart words, his eyes turned red, and he forced himself to say: "Everything has its own fate, and I am a seven-foot man, and I will definitely lay down a world." β
Yunhua knew that Li Zhuoran would not accept it easily if he gave it so forcibly, so he began to think about a way in his heart, and Li Zhuoran said next to him: "Xiao Ou is really slow enough, and he can't come back yet." Yunhua nodded and said, "Don't worry, Uncle Feng has gone to rent a carriage, and he hasn't come here yet." Li Zhuoran looked around the courtyard when he heard this, and suddenly asked, "By the way, Yunhua, what's going on with you and your family, why don't you go there now?" β
A wry smile hung on the corner of Yunhua's mouth, and said: It's my little aunt's business, I have been closest to my little aunt since I was a child, and I treat her as a sister and mother, but the princeling case was widely implicated back then, and my father and several uncles married her into the palace to dedicate her to the official family in order to keep the title, so I fell out with the family, resigned and moved to Qingyun Mountain alone.
Li Zhuoran heard that there was such a past in this, and couldn't help sighing: "I see, back then, you only said that your family was a pharmacy, and it was also in the past few years that I vaguely heard Lao Xiang say that your family background is not simple, and I didn't ask in detail, but I didn't expect you to be a relative of the emperor." Yunhua shook his head and said: "What I hate the most is my identity, when Zhao Hong's brother's bones were not cold, my closest little aunt married the official family who stepped on his corpse. β
As soon as his words fell, he heard Ou Jinshu and Qiuqiu walking from the bridge behind them with laughter and laughter, and the two men glanced at each other, tacitly burying the heartfelt feelings they had just told each other in their hearts, without revealing a trace.
When Uncle Feng found the carriage, the four of them happily set off towards Yijintang. It turned out that Ou Jinshu had just been in the room, combing Qiuqiu's light black hair into small braids. Qiuqiu wore a braid of silk threads of various colors, and she didn't know whether to be happy or helpless: she was used to her refreshing dress with a ball head or ponytail in college, and such a complex and gorgeous shape made her feel very naΓ―ve.
Ou Jinshu was obviously very satisfied with his work, and repeatedly looked at it from all angles in the carriage, and also pulled Yunhua to evaluate the fruits of his labor. Yun Huawan smiled: "Qiuqiu likes it, I look good." Ou Jinshu asked Qiuqiu again the question he had just asked many times: "Xiaoqiu, you are so good-looking today, do you like it?" Qiuqiu smirked and said obediently: "Aunt Ou made it up, I like it all." Ou Jinshu happily gave Qiuqiu a warm hug when she heard this, and Qiuqiu thought in the crook of her arm: Forget it, I'll go back tomorrow anyway, bear with it.
After a while, the handlebar stopped in the lane: "Brothers and sisters, Yijintang has arrived." β