"Wenru." Li Can waved to her with a friendly smile, then glanced at Zhao Minghui with a smile: "Did you guys come out together?"
"Yes." Kong Wenru nodded and explained: "The Duke's horse runs fast, but my carriage follows slowly."
Li Can nodded and said cheerfully: "What do you want to buy? I'll treat you."
Zhao Minghui sighed silently at the side. She seemed to be so warm and generous to everyone, and she treated him no differently than others.
It seems that the road is long.
"No need." Kong Wenru waved her hands shyly and smiled at her.
She really likes Li Can, but her dull temperament is not compatible with Li Can at all, and Li Can shouldn't like her much.
"You're welcome." Li Can took the box of snacks from Zhao Minghui's hand and said, "Let's go together."
Zhao Minghui followed: "You haven't answered me yet, why can't we come out to have lunch together?
You are now alien to us."
"Who said that? I met Zhao Yinhuan yesterday." Li Can raised his chin and retorted unconvinced.
"Okay, you won't take me with you when we play together now." Zhao Minghui feigned anger.
"It's in the East Palace." Li Can explained, and suddenly laughed again: "By the way, Liu Zhenlian was here yesterday. If I call you, will you go?"
The two men started to fight each other when they met. When Zhao Minghui heard that Liu Zhenlian was there, he would definitely refuse to go without saying a word.
"Li Can, you are so heartless." Zhao Minghui frowned and accused her with a look of grievance: "We have been friends for many years, but how long have you known Liu Zhenlian?
The consciences of you and Zhao Yinhuan have been eaten by dogs, even if you take Liu Zhenlian with you, you won’t take me with you!"
When Li Can asked him to say this, she was immediately speechless. It seemed that she couldn't make sense. She had no choice but to raise her little face and smile at Zhao Minghui, trying to fool him.
"You are speechless? Do you feel that you have been wronged?" Zhao Minghui snorted lightly: "Tell me, how can you compensate me?"
"I'll invite you to the restaurant later." Li Can handed the snacks in his hand to Tang Gao and whispered: "Go and pay the money."
"When will you turn back?" Zhao Minghui lowered his eyes and looked at her, looking unreasonable: "Isn't it possible today?"
"No." Li Can shook his head and said with a smile: "Brother Zeyu is going on a long trip. He promised to take me with him. I will go back and talk to my elders and we will set off in the afternoon."
"Are you going on a long trip?" The smile on Zhao Minghui's face suddenly disappeared: "Where are you going?"
"Go to Dingzhou." Li Can smiled back at him.
"How long will it take?" Zhao Minghui stared at her, unable to laugh anymore.
"Not necessarily, it depends on the situation." Li Can's eyes were full of longing: "I have never been so far away in my life. I will bring you something good when I come back.
By the way, have you been to Dingzhou?"
"I went there once with my father." Zhao Minghui thought about it and said: "The climate in that place is dry. When you go there, you should pay more attention to drinking water. Don't go out to blow in the wind. You will get tanned."
In his heart, he didn't want her to go, let alone follow Zhao Zhen to such a far place.
I wanted to say that she was weak and would probably get sick and suffer when she got to that place.
But seeing her sparkling eyes and longing look on her face, she swallowed her words again and replaced them with detailed instructions.
"Okay, I'll remember it." Li Can nodded with a smile, took the snack box that Tang Gao had paid for and handed it to him: "This is yours, then I'll go back first, I want to say goodbye to my grandmother and the others.
"
"Be careful on the road." Zhao Minghui turned around and told her, his eyes entangled in her slender back, reluctant to look away.
"I got it." Li Can turned around and waved to them: "Wenru, I'm leaving first!"
Kong Wenru, standing behind Zhao Minghui, agreed slightly.
Zhao Minghui looked back at her. He wanted to say, could Li Can hear him when he spoke like this? But when he saw her looking at him in fear, he couldn't say the words again.
He walked out of the fruit shop in a depressed manner and looked at the snacks in his hand. This was a box he had just picked up casually while talking to Li Can. Now he was upset and looked very unpleasant.
If you raise your hand, you will drop it by the roadside.
"Master Guo!" Kong Wenru saw this and called out quickly.
When the words came out, she herself was startled and quickly raised her hands to cover her mouth.
On weekdays, her mother always taught her to be diligent and thrifty in running the house, and not to be arrogant or extravagant. Zhao Minghui threw such good snacks away when he told her to. She felt distressed and spoke out of desperation.
Zhao Minghui looked back at her, his frown showing that he was impatient, but he still endured it.
"If...if you don't want it..." Kong Wenru stretched out her hand in confusion and mustered up her courage: "Can...can you give it to me?"
Zhao Minghui looked at the snack box in his hand, then looked at her frightened look, and his mood became even worse.
He closed his eyes, turned around and put the snack box in her arms: "Here you go."
"Thank you, Mr. Guo." Kong Wenru felt relieved, feeling the weight of the snack box in her arms, and she almost shed tears.
She thought he would ignore her.
This was the first time she received something from him.
Zhao Minghui ignored her, took the reins from Shouzhen's hand, got on his horse, waved his long whip, and drove away.
Kong Wenru held the snack box, looked at it again and again, and called the maid: "Go home first."
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When Li Can arrived at the gate of Jing'an Marquis' Mansion, he ordered someone to go down and ask his eldest aunt to go to her grandmother's Xuanhe Courtyard, so that she would no longer have to go to her eldest uncle's courtyard.
"Old madam, the girl is back." The maid who was guarding the corridor of the house saw Li Can entering the yard, and hurriedly reported the news to the house, and then saluted Li Can.
Li Can nodded with a smile, walked to the corridor, and Mrs. Li came out holding Grandma Wei's hand.
"Grandma." Li Can walked over, held her hand, and turned around to greet Tang Cake: "Bring everything in."
"What did you bring back?" Mrs. Li asked with a smile.
"It's nothing, I just bought it randomly when passing by the market." Li Can said with a casual smile.
Tangcai brought the things in with a few maids.
Mrs. Li looked at the things piled on the table and said with a smile: "You little loser, you are so reckless, why did you buy so many things?"
"Brother Zeyu is going to take me on a long trip this afternoon." Li Can helped her sit down and talked about going to Dingzhou with a smile.
"Dingzhou is not close." Mrs. Li said: "That place is closer to the border than to the imperial capital.
Don't think that going out is fun. Dingzhou City is not as prosperous as the Imperial Capital. There is a saying that 'it's good to be at home for a thousand days, but it's difficult to go out for a while.' Your body has always been weak, can you handle running around like this?"
"Yes." Li Can puffed up his chest and said, "I am in good health now, and my brother Zeyu will take me there, so grandma can rest assured."
"That's true." Mrs. Li nodded: "With His Royal Highness here, there is really nothing to worry about. It's better to go and see what's going on."
"Grandma." Li Can held her arm and leaned over and asked, "How do you know about the situation in Dingzhou? Have you been there before?"
"That was a long time ago." Mrs. Li smiled and said, "Your grandfather was still here at that time."
Li Can pestered her to talk about the past. The grandfather and grandson talked for a long time before Mrs. Lin came in dripping with sweat.
"Auntie, why didn't you come until now?" Li Can brought tea to her: "Take a bite quickly."
As she spoke, she took the handkerchief on the side and wiped her sweat.
"Look, it's better to be a daughter, how considerate." Lin took a sip of tea, pulled her over, feeling very worried, and explained with a smile: "I was just busy with your fourth sister's affairs, so I was delayed for a while.
You're so anxious for me to come, but what's the matter?"
"What is Fourth Sister busy with?" Li Can was curious.
Hasn’t Li Xiangnan been thinking behind closed doors?