The moment their hands clasped together, the two of them suddenly froze.
Li Zian tentatively held it back and found that Shen Tianshu didn't pull his hand back.
Shen Tianshu's face felt hot, and he felt that something was different between the two of them.
Li Zian sat up and pulled Shen Tianshu towards him.
Shen Tianshu did not refuse, and the two finally sat side by side.
No one spoke at first, but after a while, Li Zian suddenly said: "Then can you stop shouting about the prince from now on? Listen to me."
Shen Tianshu didn't expect that he was still struggling with this issue at this time, and burst into laughter.
After Li Zian finished speaking, he felt that he was a little stupid for saying this, so he laughed and said: "Just be stupid, as long as I can make you laugh.
"I'll spare you this time. You can call me by my name after I perform the coronation ceremony this year." When Li Zian said this, he suddenly felt that the root of his nose was sore. He circled Shen Tianshu's hand in the middle with both hands. , said in a deep voice, "I have been thinking about what to do with my crowning ceremony if my father never wakes up.
Especially this year, as the time is getting closer and closer, I even came up with the idea of not having a crown ceremony.
"I never expected that you would actually let my father wake up before my crowning ceremony.
"My mother recently wrote me a letter saying that my father's condition has been improving and he can already sit for a while and make simple sounds.
"Tianshu, you may not realize what this means to me, but I am really, really, really grateful to you."
He said "really" three times in a row to express his solemnity and seriousness.
Then he simply grabbed Shen Tianshu's hand, pressed it to his chest and said, "I don't know how to repay you. If I can't do it, I can only pledge myself to you."
Shen Tianshu was still immersed in emotion just now. When he suddenly heard such a sentence, he couldn't laugh or cry.
This doesn't look like the usually calm and steady Prince Rui.
"Where did you learn this greasy talk? Anyone else would have been beaten by now!" Shen Tianshu said angrily.
"Then why won't I get beaten?" Li Zian approached her and asked.
Although I had known that Li Zian was handsome before, I had never seen him so closely.
That face that was too good-looking and even a bit sharp suddenly came so close to his eyes, and an intimidating aura rushed towards him.
Shen Tianshu's breathing was suffocated, and he subconsciously leaned back, trying to distance himself.
"Be careful!" Li Zian was startled and immediately stretched out his hands to protect her behind her, "Don't knock your head, this is no joke..."
He was too anxious this time and moved too much, almost falling onto Shen Tianshu.
Li Zian protected the back of Shen Tianshu's head with one hand and supported the low wall around the high platform with the other. He knelt heavily on the ground with his right knee and managed to steady himself.
"How are your knees? Does it hurt?" Shen Tianshu heard a crisp sound, and she felt that her knees were beginning to hurt. "Sit down quickly and I'll show you."
Li Zian held on to the low wall, turned around reluctantly, sat down on the ground and said.
He bent his right leg and straightened his left leg, leaning against the low wall with his head hanging so that no one could see his expression clearly.
Shen Tianshu put his hand on his knee, pressed it gently a few times, and breathed a sigh of relief when he found that there was no problem with the bone.
The crisp sound just now really made her worry that Li Zian had smashed her knee.
Li Zian took a deep breath and tried to calm down before saying, "I'm sorry, did I scare you just now?"
In fact, Shen Tianshu didn't take it seriously at all. He raised his hand to brush away the painful sweat on his forehead and said softly: "The prince has woken up now, don't be afraid!"
When Li Zian heard this, his throat suddenly choked.
He wanted to ask Shen Tianshu how he knew what he was thinking, but he felt that this was how it should be.
Perhaps, this is the so-called connection of minds?
You don’t have to say a lot of things out loud for the other person to understand.
"You seem to have never asked me how my father was injured."
Shen Tianshu hugged his knees and sat down opposite him and asked, "You tell me, I'm listening!"
"The palace has always said that my father accidentally fell off his horse and suffered an accident, but in fact he was ambushed on the way back to the city.
"At that time, Huguang was no longer as chaotic as before, so my father didn't bring many people with him when he went out. Who knew that he was suddenly attacked on his way back to the city after finishing his work.
"A dozen guards were all killed, and my father jumped off the cliff either because he was desperate or because he didn't want to be humiliated.
"Later, according to villagers who lived at the foot of the mountain and saw this scene from a distance, my father jumped down on his own initiative, and his body was stopped by vines in mid-air.
"Although this buffered the force, it also caused his body to move from head to foot to head to foot. Finally, he fell head first on the rocks at the bottom of the cliff and passed out.
"Thanks to the kindness of this villager, who called his son to come over and carry his father home for treatment, he escaped those people's attacks.
"By the time I got the news and arrived with someone, three days had passed...
"If I had been earlier, maybe..." Li Zian felt very upset every time he thought about this.
At that time, he took Fan Yuru and the guards around all day long, instead of doing his job. When Princess Fengrong asked her to go find someone along the way, he didn't take it seriously, thinking that his father must have just been wasted on work.
"It's all over." Shen Tianshu comforted him, "You already blamed yourself so deeply and felt guilty, isn't it enough?
"Now that the prince's condition is getting better day by day, don't blame yourself for what happened back then.
"I believe that when the prince is in better health and can go out, he will definitely praise you for your good work and be proud of you when he sees the prosperity of Wuchang and the wealth of Huguang..."
Li Zian didn't listen to anything else she said, all she could think of was what she said just now, "You already blamed yourself and felt so deeply guilty back then."
After his father's accident, he began to suffer from depression, alcoholism, and drunken rages.
Everyone felt that he was unable to handle things and bear the burden, and that he was just a pile of mud that could not hold up the wall.
As time passed, he could even clearly see the look of disappointment and almost giving up in the eyes of his grandmother and mother.
Everyone encouraged him and educated him from the beginning, but later criticized and scolded him bitterly.
But no one asked him what was wrong and whether he needed to be cared about or listened to.
It was not until later that he stood up and carried it, and everyone began to praise him, but he had become accustomed to not talking to others anymore, because no one in the world could really empathize with him.
But Shen Tianshu is different from those people. He can easily understand the emotions that he has hidden and is ashamed to express without saying it explicitly.