"Hey, here we come."
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?"
To be continued...