She stared at me in a daze, and after a while, she asked, "What mistake did you make?"

I looked at her eyes that were clearly black and white, as clear as a clear spring. After looking at her for a while, she smiled and said, "It's nothing. Does Li'er still want to listen to her mother playing the piano?"

She nodded: "I think about it."

"That mom plays another song for you."

"good."

This time, I played eighteen beatings.

At the end of the song, my fingertips felt a little painful. After all, I haven't played it for a long time and I'm a little unfamiliar. I gently twisted my fingers and looked down at me, but when I saw Li'er lying on the table, looking at the strings, she still had a confused expression on her face.

I couldn't help but feel a little strange and asked, "Li'er, what's wrong with you? Absent-minded?"

She lay on the edge of the table with her hands and put her chin on the back of her hand. At this time, she raised her head and looked at me, and suddenly said, "Mom, what the person played for me today is not these songs."

“…”

That person - Pei Yuanhao?

Pei Yuanhao plays the piano for her?

Speaking of which, I seem to have never seen Pei Yuanhao have such leisurely and elegant time. Of course, his aura is low and restrained, and even a bit of aggression, and it has nothing to do with Yale and other things, so when Li'er talks about him playing the piano, I was stunned for a moment.

However, he is a royal family after all, and no prince of the Tian family must learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting well. Even Pei Yuanchen, who I once looked down upon, could be harmonious with Huang Tianba's piano and flute.

However, it is a bit unimaginable that Pei Yuanhao will play the piano.

I asked, "What kind of song did he play?"

"I don't know the name, but - I'll hum to my mother, okay?"

"Um."

I nodded, and then Li'er started to hum.

The melody of the ancient song is very awkward, and Li'er has only heard it once, so he is not very familiar with it. He hums intermittently and has been cut off several times.

But after hearing her humming for a while, I still understood.

Li'er stopped and looked at me: "Mom, what's the name of this song?"

“…”

"Don't you know, either?"

I thought for a while and said softly: "Mom knows."

"What's the name?"

“… Angelica.”

"Angelica?" Li'er immediately opened her eyes wide when she heard this: "Isn't this a medicine?"

"It's a medicine and the name of an ancient song."

"Oh? And that's the name of the ancient qu. Who made it?"

"It is said that it is a general, but some people say that it was actually a later generation who made the name of the general to commemorate the general."

"What does that mean?"

One of my hands was still on the piano, my fingertips gently rubbed the strings. I thought for a long time, and finally my fingers gently hooked, and the strings sounded like a clang. I lowered my head and smiled at Li'er and said, "It's nothing special."

She stared at me in a daze, and then her eyes looked behind me again: "Dad."

As soon as I turned around, I saw Pei Yuanxiu walking in.

Following him were several maids, who saluted us as soon as they walked in. Only then did I see that they were here to serve the meal.

In fact, since I split the room with him at sea, the two of them have deliberately reduced their movements with each other and rarely ate together, especially in the past few days, with these emotions, eating together is not only not a pleasant family gets along, but also a torture.

But since he has arrived, there is no reason to refuse.

However, when the maids were about to set up their meal, they still had the guqin on the table, and they didn't dare to move around. They looked back carefully and looked at Pei Yuanxiu.

Pei Yuanxiu also looked at the guqin.

I stood up, looked at him, and then told him lightly: "Put this aside."

"yes."

Immediately a maid came forward, picked up the piano, wiped the table again, and then they began to arrange food. The exquisite, colorful, fragrant and delicious dishes were slowly set up on the table, and the tempting fragrance spread out soon filled the room.

"It smells so good." Li'er took a deep breath and praised.

Pei Yuanxiu smiled and said, "Happy with three sets of ducks you like."

"Um!"

Li'er nodded happily. Pei Yuanxiu smiled at her, then raised his head to look at me, as if nothing had happened, and said, "Recently, our family hasn't had a meal together. Today I want to come here to accompany you."

I smiled faintly and said, "Okay."

So, he didn't say anything more and sat down as usual.

I didn't eat much at noon. In the afternoon, Pei Yuanxiu asked someone to send some appetizing fruits, but I didn't touch them either. Although it was getting late now, I still had no appetite and was not hungry at all, but I didn't want to disappoint them, so I brought half a bowl of rice and sat there to meet the situation.

Pei Yuanxiu suddenly said, "Why don't you eat vegetables?"

I was stunned for a moment, looked up at him, and then I realized that he had been paying attention to me. Li'er was picking up food in the bowl. After hearing what he said, he also looked at me.

I smiled and said, "I don't have a good appetite. I'll just drink some soup."

After saying that, he was going to serve the soup. The soup bowl was placed in front of him. I had to get up before serving. As soon as I stood up, he had reached out to me: "I'll do it."

My hand holding the bowl paused slightly.

He was almost about to take my bowl, and my hand shrank back and said with a faint smile: "You eat yours, I'll do it myself."

After saying that, he picked up the soup spoon and served half a bowl of soup.

I can understand his intention to have dinner with Li'er today. After all, the couple of us are not over yet. Many things may still be restored, and I have not let go. But even so, although I can calm down in front of Li'er, I have no excitement and still be a "loving couple" with him, but it does not mean that some things have passed like this, and I don't want to give him such an illusion.

I sat down with a bowl. The soup had been boiled for a long time and was very fragrant and delicious. I took a sip and felt that Li'er was still looking at me. I smiled and said, "Eat soon, drink some soup after eating."

She nodded.

I raised my head again, looked at him with a pale face, cleared my throat, and said, "You have finished eating, let's drink some soup, this soup is good."

He nodded, too.

After this meal, both of us were very dull. After Li Er finished eating, the maids came to clean up and he was about to leave. I sent him to his door. As soon as he walked out, he turned around and looked at me and said softly: "I will be in the study tonight, you - you can rest early."

I nodded and said, "Don't stay up late, just take a break early."

He looked at me, his eyes flashing gently.

I avoided his gaze and turned around and left.

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As night fell, I took Li'er to take a bath. The two of them walked happily on the path among the bamboo forest. The wind blew in with water. When the wind blew in, the coolness rose from their ankles to their hearts.

These days, it’s rare to feel a little comfortable.

I originally wanted to stay here for a while, but when I lowered my head, I saw Li'er's face feeling a little depressed, as if she was not energetic. What's strange is that this is the time when she is most noisy, and she wouldn't go to bed easily without having to worry for a long time.

Maybe it was because she was tired of going to Yangzhou these two days?

Thinking of this, I stopped stopping and took her back to the house, put a deworming incense slice into the incense burner, smoked the tent again, and then put it down. She slept in the place inside. When she saw me lying down, she immediately turned over and rolled into my arms.

The weather was a little hot, so holding her like this, both of them were actually a little hot.

But this girl seemed to be not enough, and she put one hand on my chest and hugged me tightly.

I couldn't help laughing: "It's so old, I have to keep my mother at sleeping?"

But she didn't answer the conversation, but her little face was pressed against my shoulder and her big eyes were blinking.

After a while, I felt that the place where her cheeks and my shoulders were hot, and thin beads of sweat appeared on her forehead and the tip of her nose. I knew she was hot, so I picked up a small fan beside the pillow with my back hand and opened it to gently fan her.

A wave after a gust of cool breeze blew across her cheeks, and finally reduced the hot temperature on her face.

But she still had her eyes wide open, and she had no intention of falling asleep.

Strangely, she has never been energetic today, and she had a depressed expression just now.

I smiled and said, "Why aren't you sleeping yet? Do you want your mother to sing children's songs to coax you?"

She looked up at me and said with some resentment: "Mom, I'm already grown up."

When I heard this, I couldn't help laughing.

But for some reason, there was a hint of sourness in the smile.

In fact, how many kids and girls will say this to their parents. When people were young, they always tried their best to grow up, and when they put on their toes, they always felt that after they grew up, everything would be fine, without any worries and pain would be far away from them.

But I don’t know that growing up is the source of all troubles and pain.

Didn’t I tell my mother like this in that dilapidated little thatched house? Even I still remember my mother’s calm smile and her almost transparent light-colored eyes that seemed to see through everything.

Is it the same as me now?

What kind of struggle and pain did she fall into at that time?

I was thinking about it in a daze, and suddenly felt a little heavier in my arms. When I looked down, Li'er held up and lay on me, looking at me with wide eyes like a kitten begging for caress.

I was a little puzzled by her gaze, and I couldn't help asking, "What's wrong, Li'er?"
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