Liu Xuan responded softly, got up and chased outside the pavilion.
Upon seeing this, Mrs. Liu quickly stood up and waved to Liu Xuan.
"Xuan'er, wait a moment."
When Liu Xuan heard her mother calling her, she immediately stopped and looked back with doubt in her eyes.
"Mom, what's wrong?"
Mrs. Liu chuckled and shook her head, turned around and took down the lantern on the side, and walked towards Liu Xuan with light steps.
"Silly girl, it's only been about half a month since spring, and there are still some places in the garden where the ice and snow have not completely melted.
Especially on the paths in the garden, areas where water accumulated have frozen into thin ice.
If you bring a lantern for lighting, you won't slip."
Liu Xuan looked at the lantern handed over by Mrs. Liu, shook her head helplessly, raised her slender jade arm and pointed at the bright moon in the sky.
"Oh, mother, the moonlight is so good now, I can see clearly without a lantern.
Moreover, the snow and thin ice will reflect light under the moonlight.
There’s nothing wrong with my eyes, so I’ll naturally avoid it after seeing it.”
"Smelly girl, there is always a place in the garden where the moonlight cannot be found, just in case!"
Liu Xuan waved her hand directly, looked back at Young Master Liu who had walked dozens of steps away, and immediately ran after him.
"No more, no more, I can see clearly."
Seeing her daughter trotting away without a word, Mrs. Liu gestured and handed the lantern in her hand.
"Hey, hey, you girl..."
Liu Xuan pretended not to hear Mrs. Liu's somewhat reproachful words behind her, held up her skirt with both hands, and jogged all the way to Young Master Liu's side.
"Brother."
"Um."
Liu Xuan slowed down her pace and walked side by side with Young Master Liu at a leisurely pace, looking at him with a puzzled expression.
"Brother, why did you ask my little sister to come with you?"
Liu Mingzhi looked at his younger sister Liu Xuan's puzzled expression, smiled lightly and handed over the melon seeds in his hand.
"Want some?"
Liu Xuan smiled and nodded her head a few times, stretched out her slender hand unceremoniously, and took away half of the melon seeds.
"OK!"
After Liu Xuantan cracked a few melon seeds with her mouth slightly open, she looked at Young Master Liu and asked again: "Brother, when you ask me to come over, you don't just want to treat me to some melon seeds, right?"
Young Master Liu turned his head and spat out the melon seed shells in his mouth, and nodded with a slight smile.
"Of course, I have a little thing to tell you, brother."
Liu Xuan picked up a melon seed from her palm and put it between her teeth. She looked at Young Master Liu with a smile.
"Little things? Then what little things do you want to tell me about, brother?"
Liu Mingzhi looked towards the eastern night sky with a smile, and glanced at his younger sister Liu Xuan intentionally or unintentionally from the corner of his eye.
"Xuan'er."
"Hey, big brother?"
"In the past few days, your sister-in-law Chen Jie plans to go to the East China Sea to visit an old friend she has not seen for a long time."
When he said these words, Mr. Liu seemed to be admiring the stars in the night sky, but in fact he had been observing the changes in Liu Xuan's expression with the corner of his eye.
It's a pity that Young Master Liu was disappointed.
When he said this, Liu Xuan still smiled and cracked the melon seeds with her teeth, and the expression on her pretty face did not change at all.
Liu Xuan pinched the melon seed shell from the corner of her lips with her fingers, and turned to look at Young Master Liu with a slight smile.
"Brother, so what?
Sister-in-law Chen Jie is rushing to the East China Sea to visit an old friend she has not seen for a long time. What does this matter have to do with Xuan'er and me?"
Liu Mingzhi stopped looking at the stars in the sky and looked at Liu Xuan with a smile.
"In the past few days, there is no telling which day your sister-in-law will leave for the East China Sea."
"Yeah, yeah, Xuan'er knows, so what?"
"So, don't you plan to accompany your sister-in-law Chen Jie to go to the East China Sea for a walk and relax?"
Liu Xuan gave Young Master Liu an angry look, then took the melon seed shell she had just spit out and smashed it into his face.
"Brother, are you kidding Xuan'er?
You said it yourself, Sister-in-law Chen Jie went to the East China Sea this time to visit an old friend she hadn't seen for a long time.
I don’t know Sister-in-law Chen Jie’s old friend.
In this case, little sister, why should I rush to the East China Sea with my sister-in-law?
My dear big brother, do you think I am very idle, little sister?"
Seeing the little sister Liu Xuan rolling her eyes and looking unhappy, Mr. Liu smiled and nodded, and casually wiped off the melon seed shell just above his eyebrows.
"Oh, Xuan'er, brother, I saw that you have been bored at home these days, am I afraid that you will be too bored?
So, for the sake of my brother, I thought of letting you go out for a walk and relax?
But, since you can't leave, Xuan'er, then forget it.
Just pretend that my brother has never mentioned this matter to you."
Liu Xuan gently peeled a melon seed with her fingertips, and looked at Young Master Liu and rolled her eyes angrily again.
"Open your mouth."
"Huh? What?"
"Little sister, please open your mouth!"
"Uh! Okay, okay."
Young Master Liu nodded slightly, looked at his younger sister Liu Xuan with doubtful eyes, and opened his lips slightly.
Liu Xuan directly raised her slender arms, pinched the melon seeds between her fingers and smashed them into Young Master Liu's mouth.
"Good brother, eat melon seeds."
"Huh? Xuan'er, what are you doing?"
Liu Xuan gently patted the crumbs in her hand a few times, and took off the wine bag from Liu's waist with a smile.
"Brother, what do the melon seeds we eat taste like?"
"It's delicious."
Liu Xuan pulled out the wine cork in her hand and glanced sideways at Young Master Liu.
"Brother, those five-flavored melon seeds shouldn't contain sugar, right?"
Seeing the serious expression on his younger sister Liu Xuan's face, Young Master Liu couldn't help but laugh.
"Hahaha, silly Xuan'er, aren't you talking nonsense? Have you ever seen anyone put sugar in their five-flavored melon seeds?"
Liu Xuan nodded her head gently a few times and took a sip of wine with her lips slightly opened.
"Oh - that means the five-flavored melon seeds are salty?"
"Nonsense, how can it be sweet if it's not salty?"
Liu Xuan paused, widened her exquisite eyes, and stared at Young Master Liu with a half-smile.
"Since it's salty, why don't you just eat your five-flavored salty melon seeds?
Why bother, just eat carrots and worry about it?"
Hearing the words of younger sister Liu Xuan that were filled with accusations, Young Master Liu was stunned for a moment, but then he came to his senses.
At this time, he finally understood.
Co-author, little sister, she just went in such a big circle, and she was 'accusing' herself of being nosy in a roundabout way!
"Xuan'er."
"Smelly brother, what are you doing?"
"What did you mean by those words just now? Why can't I understand it, brother?"
Liu Xuan'e's eyebrows were slightly furrowed, she wiped the wine from the corners of her lips a few times with her tasseled sleeves, the corners of her lips were raised slightly and she narrowed her eyes.
"Oh? Don't you understand?"
"Yeah, I don't understand."
"real."
Young Master Liu nodded vigorously and laughed loudly and said: "Of course it's true, don't you understand what I am like as a brother?
We have been brothers and sisters for decades, brother, when did I lie to you?"
Hearing Young Master Liu's answer, Liu Xuan sneered a few times with a strange look on her face.
"Hehehe, stinky brother, Xuan'er, I really don't know how you have the nerve to say this.
Hehe, hehehe, when did you ever lie to me?
Good big brother, my good big brother!
Have you lied to me so many times in the past few decades?"
As soon as Liu Xuan said these words, Young Master Liu's heart suddenly became abrupt.
Seeing Liu Xuan's unhappy expression, his mind started to reminisce rapidly.
Have you? Have you ever been deceived?
Over the years, have you ever cheated on your little sister?
really?
Hiss! If so, why don’t I have any impression at all?
Young Master Liu thought about it again and again, but he really couldn't remember when or where he had cheated on his little sister.
"Xuan'er."
"explain."
"Little sister, we have to speak with conscience. Brother, when have I ever lied to you?"
"Hehehe, are you sure?"
"Of course it's confirmed."
Liu Xuantan took a sip of wine with her mouth slightly open, and nodded with a smile.
"In the 26th year of Xuande's reign, Xuan'er and I were still young at that time and did not understand what the world was.
Brother, you coaxed and deceived me into receiving five thousand taels of new year's money from me, saying that you would buy a lot of good things for Xuan'er.
What's the result? What's the result?
Five thousand taels of silver, five thousand taels of silver, you can buy two bunches of candied haws for me, this girl.
Then you also told me how precious the candied haws of sugar is and how rare it is.
How hard and how hard you worked to buy two bunches of candied haws for me, this girl.
At that time, this girl and I were still young, so I actually believed it to be true.
My dear brother, is this happening?"
After hearing Liu Xuan's reminder, Mr. Liu's face froze, and some old events that had passed more than twenty years suddenly appeared in front of his eyes.
The scenes from that year kept flashing before Young Master Liu's eyes, and his face became increasingly embarrassed.
"Uh! Uh..."
"In the twenty-seventh year of Xuande's reign, my dear brother, you coaxed and deceived me into accepting the new year's gift of five thousand taels of silver from me.
Fortunately, you still have some sense of conscience. In addition to two skewers of candied haws, you also bought me several pieces of jewelry that year.
In the twenty-eighth year of Xuande's reign, my parents had allowed Xuan'er and me to go out and wander around on our own.
Until this girl, I bought back a whole two dollars with a piece of silver and a tael..."
Young Master Liu saw his little sister gritting her teeth and looking resentful. Before she could finish the rest of her words, he immediately stuffed the melon seeds he had just peeled into her mouth.
"Xuan'er, good little girl, eat melon seeds, eat melon seeds."
Liu Xuan bit the melon seeds between her teeth hard and looked at Young Master Liu and let out a soft moan.
"Hmph! Good brother, you should let me continue talking, little sister."
Young Master Liu changed the lantern to his left hand and laughed angrily a few times.
"Hehehe, oh, little sister!
The past is like smoke, so let it go."
"Oh, brother, what you said is so light."
Young Master Liu clasped his brow with his fingers and looked at Liu Xuan with an apologetic smile.
"Good little sister, I'm wrong for my brother, I'm wrong for my brother, I know I'm wrong for my brother's sake."
Seeing her elder brother's apologetic look, Liu Xuan pursed her lips and chuckled a few times, then raised her slender arms and handed the wine bag over.
"Pfft, do you want some more?"
Young Master Liu nodded happily, first put the few dozen melon seeds left in his hand into Liu Xuan's left hand, and then took the wine bag in her left hand.
"Hahaha, then as a brother, I will drink with you."
After Young Master Liu took the wine bag, he raised his head and drank several large sips of wine.
"Hahaha, good wine, good wine.
Sing to the moon, the geometry of life.
Sing to the moon, what a life!"
Liu Xuan looked at Young Master Liu holding the wine bag in his hand, looking up at the moon, sighing loudly, and a trace of worry could not help but appear in his pretty eyes.
"Brother."
"Hey, Xuan'er, tell me."
"Let's go back to the topic we just talked about, shall we?"
Young Master Liu looked stunned and looked at Liu Xuan with doubtful eyes.
"Um?"
Liu Xuan raised her jade arm to take the wine bag from Young Master Liu's hand, raised her jade neck slightly, and raised the wine bag in her hand with her mouth slightly open.
Under the bright moonlight, the refreshing wine flows directly down.
After drinking about half of the wine bag in one breath, Liu Xuan put down the wine bag in her hand.
"Hiccup-hiccup...
Brother, you are not wrong at all. Good wine, really good wine!
Xuan'er just discovered today that the wine I usually drink is so fragrant and delicious."
As Liu Xuan spoke, she smiled and handed the wine bag in front of Young Master Liu again.
"Brother, please."
"OK."
After Young Master Liu took the wine bag, he raised it and drank a few more gulps of wine into his throat.
"Brother."
"Huh? Xuan'er."
"Does this wine taste good?"
“Delicious.”
"But, little sister, there is something unpleasant about it when she drinks it."
"Xuan'er."
"Brother, you just asked me if I would like to go with Sister-in-law Chen Jie to go to the East China Sea to relax.
You should still remember this question, right?"
"Of course I remember."
When Liu Xuan saw Young Master Liu about to drink, she snatched the wine bag from his hand and put it towards her lips.
After taking a few sips of wine, Liu Xuan gently pursed her lips a few times and raised her eyes to look at the night sky directly in front of her.
"Take a turn?"
"Yes?"
"Just relax?"
"That's right."
Liu Xuan raised the wine bag again and took a few more gulps of wine into her throat.
"My good brother, such a reason.
Do you believe it yourself?"
As soon as Liu Xuan finished speaking, she looked directly at Young Master Liu.
"Brother, do you believe this reason?"
"Xuan'er, I..."
"Brother, do you believe this reason?"
Seeing his little sister asking him the same question three times in a row, Liu Dashao tensed up, subconsciously clenched his palms, and looked at him with a complicated expression.
"Little sister."
Liu Xuan took a deep breath and stopped immediately.
Seeing this, Liu Dashu had no choice but to stop.
After Liu Xuan took a few sips of wine again, she reached out and handed over the wine bag.
"Brother."
"Xuan'er."
"Don't you just want to ask Xuan'er if you want to meet that person?"