"It would be fine if it didn't exist, it would be fine if it didn't."
The little cutie responded softly, and immediately sat down on the chair next to Mr. Liu with his teacup in hand.
Upon seeing this, Liu Mingzhi first grabbed a handful of melon seeds from the cloth bag and placed it on the table nearby, and then threw the cloth bag towards the waiter.
"Yue'er, go on."
The little cutie raised her hand and took the bag into her hand. She looked at Young Master Liu with doubtful eyes and asked, "Dad, aren't you going to eat?"
"Now, this is enough for my father."
The little cutie swept the melon seeds on the table and silently tapped her head a few times: "Okay, Yue'er understands."
Liu Mingzhi nodded with a faint smile, nodded and took a sip of the fragrant tea that Little Cotton Jacket had brewed for him, and then raised his eyes again to look at the map in front of him.
Gently crack the melon seeds and take a sip of tea from time to time.
Young Master Liu stared at the map in front of him and gradually fell into silence again.
Time passes silently and quietly.
Until the little cutie went to the stove to refill the tea for the third time and returned, Liu Mingzhi was still staring at the map in silence.
The little cutie glanced sideways at Mr. Liu who was motionless, and carefully sat on the chair.
When the little cutie saw her father, who was sometimes frowning in deep thought and sometimes smiling, she gently cracked a melon seed and turned her gaze to the map with a thoughtful expression.
Young Master Liu and Little Cutie, father and daughter, both stared at the map in silence.
In an instant, the study suddenly became silent.
The silence is so quiet that you can hear the drop of a needle.
Except for the chirping of birds from time to time outside the study, and the crackling of candles on the table.
And the occasional sound of cracking melon seeds.
There was no other sound in the study.
Once a person concentrates, time will pass quickly.
I don't know how long it took.
Just as the little cutie was still staring at the map in silence, Liu Mingzhi suddenly withdrew his gaze and turned around to pick up the tea cup.
When Young Master Liu was about to drink tea, he subconsciously frowned slightly when he saw the little cutie looking like this.
"Yue'er."
"ah?"
The little cutie came back from her thoughts in an instant and looked at Young Master Liu with doubtful eyes.
"Dad, what's wrong?"
Young Master Liu looked at the little cutie's confused eyes and pointed at the map next to him.
"What are you looking at?"
"Dad, do you still need to ask? Of course you have to look at the map."
Young Master Liu shook his head angrily: "Nonsense, of course my father knows that you are looking at the map. What my father is asking is what are you doing looking at the map?"
The little cutie stood up, stretched, and asked Young Master Liu, "Dad, what are you looking at when you're staring at the map?"
"Just take a casual look and think about some things."
The little cutie nodded slightly and replied with a smile: "Hehehe, I am the same as you."
Hearing the little cutie's answer, Young Master Liu chuckled and shook his head, and did not continue to ask any more questions.
After he stood up and stretched his body, he picked up the tea and put it in his mouth.
As soon as the tea was in his mouth, Mr. Liu frowned subconsciously.
It turns out that the tea in the cup has been cold for some time.
Mr. Liu silently chewed the tea leaves between his teeth and walked straight towards the stove not far away.
"Stinky girl, you've been sitting here for so long, don't you know how to refill your father's hot tea?"
After hearing her father's angry words, the little cutie frowned, knocked a melon with her mouth slightly open, and then stuck out her tongue at Young Master Liu.
"Smelly daddy, before you say this, could you please take a look at how much tea is left in your cup?
While you were silent, I had obviously already helped you refill the hot tea three times.
You've been in a daze and the tea has gone cold. Is this strange to me?"
When Young Master Liu heard this, he raised his eyebrows slightly and subconsciously looked down at the tea in the cup.
Really, the cup of tea is just full at this moment.
Liu Mingzhi looked back at the little cutie and laughed bitterly.
"Hehehe, Yue'er, my father made a mistake. It was my father who wrongly blamed you."
The little cutie lowered his head and spit out the melon seed shells that were visible on his lips, and rolled his eyes with a groan.
"Smelly daddy, there's only one thing you're wrong about. Is it the end of it if you miss me?"
"Otherwise? What else do you want?"
The cute little girl raised her eyebrows, tapped her delicate white chin with her fingertips and gently twitched it a few times. She looked at Young Master Liu and narrowed his eyes with a smile.
Immediately, the little cutie raised her lotus feet and walked forward, looked at Liu Dashao and said softly: "Good daddy."
When Young Master Liu saw this expression on the little cutie, he subconsciously took two steps back.
Based on my understanding of this girl's character, as long as she makes such a gesture, nothing good will happen.
Young Master Liu stopped, looked at the cute little girl walking toward him with a twitching eye, and hurriedly raised his hand to signal.
"Stop! Stop! Stop! Smelly girl, don't do this to your father.
What on earth do you want to do? If you have something to say, say it quickly, and if you have something to say, say it quickly."
The little cutie stopped and looked at her father who was glaring at her with a look of annoyance and lightly stamped his lotus feet a few times.
"Oh, daddy, what do you mean?"
Young Master Liu was completely unmoved by the little cutie's appearance, and still wanted to keep him away from him.
There is no way, this stinky girl is too shrewd.
If you're not careful, you might fall into this stinky girl's trap.
Therefore, you must strictly guard against it.
"Stinky girl, your father and I are still saying what I said just now. Don't do this to me. If you have anything to say, say it quickly. If you have any farts, hurry up."
Seeing how her father treated her like this, the cute little girl gritted her teeth and said angrily: "Smelly dad, you are going too far. Am I that scary to you, girl?"
I am your biological daughter. If you treat me like this, won't your conscience feel uneasy?
Huh? Don’t you feel uneasy in your conscience?”
"Liu Luoyue, are you going to tell me or not? If you don't tell me, your father will pour you tea."
The little cutie's pretty face was anxious, and she nodded hurriedly.
"Tell me, tell me, can't I just say it?"
"Say it, father is listening."
The little cutie twisted her white jade neck a few times and walked silently towards the stove.
"Dad, Yue'er just refilled your tea, right?"
"right."
"Then you blamed me wrongly, right?"
"Yes, I admit it as a father, so what?"
The little cutie picked up the pot and poured herself a cup of tea. She looked at Young Master Liu and said softly with a smile: "So, Yue'er, I have suffered so much injustice. Shouldn't you compensate me for my injured heart?"
Young Master Liu's face froze, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch.
As expected, this stinky girl has no good intentions!
However, Young Master Liu did not refuse, but asked with a half-smile: "Oh, I don't know what kind of compensation you want, Yue'er?"
The little cutie immediately put down the tea cup in her hand, picked up the hot water kettle on the stove and walked towards Young Master Liu.
"Good daddy, Yue'er will give you a cup of hot tea first, and then we can continue."
Young Master Liu quickly raised his hand to protect his tea cup, and turned sideways to avoid the little cutie's attempt to change the tea for him.
"No, no, Yue'er, you'd better talk about things first.
Otherwise, I will not feel at ease drinking this cup of tea as a father."
Seeing this, the little cutie pursed her red lips a few times, raised her right hand and rubbed her fingers at Young Master Liu.
"Dad, actually Yue'er doesn't have much request. Besides, today is the Chinese New Year, so it wouldn't be appropriate for Yue'er to make any excessive demands.
Do you think this will work? In order to express your apology to Yue'er, dad, you can give Yue'er another big red envelope.
By the way, Yue'er is talking about the kind of red envelope you sent me this morning, dear daddy.
Hehehe, how about it, Yue'er's request is reasonable, right?"
Seeing the little cutie's playful smile, Young Master Liu nodded with trembling lips.
"Well, it's very reasonable, not excessive at all."
Hearing her father's words, the little cutie's eyes suddenly lit up and she nodded vigorously.
"Right, Yue'er knows that you are the best, dear daddy."
Young Master Liu took a deep breath, walked slowly in front of the little cutie, and immediately roared loudly at the cutie with wide eyes.
"Smelly girl, I love your mother's legs.
I'm confused, how did you have the nerve to say this? How did you have the nerve to say it?
Is this a reasonable request? It’s reasonable for your grandma...my mother’s legs, why don’t you go to heaven?”
The little cutie took two steps back and reached out to wipe the saliva from her face with a depressed look.
"Dad, Yue'er just wants a red envelope, why is it too much?"
Young Master Liu took a deep breath, took two steps forward again, and continued to roar at the little cutie.
"Stinky girl, you want to go to heaven."
The little cutie wiped the saliva on her cheek again, and quickly raised the water bottle in her hand to block it in front of her.
"Then, let's send half to the head office, right?"
The little cutie was still unwilling to give in and continued to bargain.
Liu Mingzhi turned slightly sideways and glared at the little cutie: "Liu Luoyue, you want to go to heaven!"
The little cutie had a sad expression on her pretty face, shrank her neck, looked at Young Master Liu and said pitifully: "Five thousand...is five thousand okay?"
"Five thousand taels?"
"Yeah, yeah, just five thousand taels, dear dad, what do you think?"
Young Master Liu rolled his eyes and said with a sneer: "Hahaha, do you think your father and I are worth five thousand taels? If you think it's worth that much, just take me and sell it for money."
The little cutie took a deep breath, and simply took away the water bottle in front of her. She looked at Young Master Liu and said angrily: "Smelly dad, how much can you give me?"
Young Master Liu breathed a sigh of relief and reached into his sleeves to fumble around.
Under the nervous and expectant eyes of the little cutie, Mr. Liu slowly took out a thousand taels of silver notes from his sleeve and handed it over.
The little cutie looked at the thousand taels of silver notes in her father's hand, and a hint of undetectable joy flashed through her beautiful eyes.
However, her face showed a look of extreme disappointment.
"Good dad, what is it? It's just one thousand taels."
"That's right, it's only one thousand taels. Do you want it, stinky girl? If you don't like it, my father will keep it."
As soon as Mr. Liu finished speaking, he immediately made a move to put the banknote back into his sleeve.
The little cutie's pretty face was anxious, and she quickly reached out and grabbed the banknote in Young Master Liu's hand.
"If you want it, of course Yue'er wants it. A thousand taels of silver notes are money, why should I not want this girl!"
Liu Mingzhi chuckled and shook his head, stretched out his hand and handed the tea cup to the little cutie.
"Hey, I'll just accept it now. My father thought you really didn't value this thousand taels of silver."
The little cutie quickly put the banknote into his arms, as if he was afraid that his father would snatch it back from him again.
Then, she took the tea cup from Young Master Liu's hand with a naive smile.
"Hey hey hey, how can that be possible? I have never had trouble with money in my life.
No matter how small the fly is, it is still meat!
Good daddy, Yue'er will give you some tea."
Liu Mingzhi took the tea that the little cutie had changed, turned around, walked to the desk and sat down.
"Girl."
"Hey, good daddy?"
While Liu Mingzhi was studying ink, he raised his head and gestured to the door.
"Now that I have the banknote, it's time to have some fun, right?"
The little cutie spread out his hands, pulled out a book from the bookshelf, walked to the opposite side of Mr. Liu and sat on the chair with a carefree manner.
"Good daddy, what Yue'er said is true, I really have nothing to do.
It's so cold outside, where do you want me to go to play?"
While the little cutie was talking, she reached around Liu's waist and looked at the pen in Young Master Liu's hand.
"Of course, Dad, if you have something serious to do, and it's not convenient for Yue'er to be here, then I'll leave now."
Liu Mingzhi picked up a few pieces of rice paper and spread them on the desk. He looked up at the little cutie and shook his head.
"That's not true. As a father, I'm mainly worried that you'll get bored staying here.
If you're not bored, just stay in the study."
The little cutie nodded with a smile, leaned on the chair with a comfortable expression, and casually opened the book in his hand.
"Okay, Yue'er knows. Then daddy, you go about your business while Yue'er reads my book."
Liu Mingzhi smiled and said nothing more.
After pondering thoughtfully for a moment, he picked up a pen and started writing on the rice paper.
Gradually, the study became quiet again.
Time turns.
As if in the blink of an eye, it has already arrived on the tenth day of the first lunar month.
The inner courtyard of Liu Mansion.
Liu Mingzhi was accompanying Qi Yun, the third princess, the queen, Wenren Yunshu and the other sisters, talking and laughing as they watched a group of young children practicing martial arts on the snow in front of them.
Liu Song trotted over and interrupted the conversation between Mr. Liu, Qi Yun, his wife and others.
"Master, Master, little Liusong meets the Master."
Liu Mingzhi withdrew his gaze, smiled lightly and waved his hand.
"No gifts."
"Thank you, Master."
"Xiaosong, what's the matter?"
"Back to the young master, thank you Yun for coming."
"What? This guy Xie Yun is here?"
"Back to Master, that's right."
Young Master Liu frowned, and tugged the stubble on his chin with a confused expression.
"What's going on? Didn't this kid already come to our house to pay us New Year greetings on the first day of the Lunar New Year? What's he doing here again today?"
"Go back to the young master, thank you for your visit today...it's..."
Liu Mingzhi looked at Liu Song's hesitant expression and shook his head angrily.
"Why are you hesitating? Continue talking?"
"Back to the young master, he came to our house to formally propose marriage."