The carriage went further and further away until it disappeared around the corner of the street.
Liu Mingzhi watched the carriage gradually go away until it completely disappeared at the corner of the street, and then he withdrew his gaze.
Then, he raised his hands and rubbed his cheeks vigorously a few times, squinting his eyes slightly and looking at the red sun on the horizon.
Ye'er, Ye'er, you were once the king of a country, so you don't understand what that token means.
You kid, please don’t let me down!
Young Master Liu muttered to himself, casually put his hands on his back, turned around and walked towards the door of the mansion.
When Liu Song saw Young Master Liu walking into the door of the mansion, he immediately stood up from the bamboo chair.
"Master."
"Um."
"Master, have Mrs. Jie and Miss Lian Niang set off?"
Liu Dashao smiled and nodded, rubbing his hands together and turning them over the stove.
"Yes, we have already set off."
Immediately, Mr. Liu looked at the sweet potatoes on the stove with a strange look.
"You eat roasted sweet potatoes early in the morning. Aren't you afraid of making bad farts?"
Liu Song glanced at the sweet potatoes on the stove, smiled and scratched his head.
"Hehehe, Master, you are wrong to blame me for this.
It was Miss Lian Niang who just insisted on baking some sweet potatoes for her, saying she wanted to take them with her on the road.
No, the little one roasted ten sweet potatoes in total, but the little lady packed up six of them and took them away."
After hearing Liu Song's explanation, Young Master Liu tightened his tight cloak, chuckled and shook his head.
"This stinky girl."
"Okay, I will go to the study first. You can go and do your own business."
"Yes, I would like to send you off to the young master."
"By the way, since the sweet potatoes are already roasted, don't waste them.
If you don’t want to eat it, send it to my young nephews and nieces."
The eldest nephew and niece that Liu Mingzhi mentioned just now are not ‘other people’.
It was when he first came to the capital that he and his eldest brother Song Qing got drunk and made a sworn brother, Dahuang, and gave birth to a large litter of children.
As for his adoptive brother Dahuang, as well as his several wives, they had already passed away seven years ago.
Young Master Liu, the second uncle, naturally shouldered the heavy responsibility of taking care of his eldest nephew and niece.
No, many years have passed in the blink of an eye.
There are so many eldest nephews and nieces, but I am the only one who is reluctant to give them away.
Anyway, there is no shortage of something to eat at home.
There is no way, who could let myself and Dahuang be sworn brothers!
Listening to the young master's explanation, Liu Song scratched his brow with his fingers and nodded with a smile.
"Hehehe, little one understands."
Young Master Liu tightened his cloak and walked all the way back to the main hall.
He devoured another basket of steamed dumplings and a bowl of millet porridge in the hall, and then set off to the study.
Liu Mingzhi walked unhurriedly to the courtyard outside the study and opened the door casually.
He had just stepped one foot across the threshold when he heard Qi Yun's delicate voice coming from behind him.
"Husband."
Young Master Liu paused, and instinctively turned back to look at Qi Yun, who was walking toward Zheng Lian with a graceful manner.
"Yun'er, why are you here?"
Qi Yun walked up to her husband elegantly, raised her white jade finger and pointed to the study room.
"Husband, I have come to see you for something."
Hearing this, Young Master Liu nodded with a clear expression and walked into the study with a faint smile.
"Okay, let's come in and talk."
"Why."
Qi Yun nodded her head a few times with a smile, followed her husband into the study room with her skirt in hand, and closed the door behind her.
Young Master Liu walked to the stove and made a pot of tea. He glanced at Qi Yun with a smile, and walked slowly towards the desk in front of him.
"Yun'er, I wonder why you came to see my husband?"
Hearing her husband's question, Qi Yun raised her slender arms, naturally hugged her plump chest, and then leaned sideways on the desk behind her.
"There is something very important."
Young Master Liu frowned slightly. After placing two teacups casually, he poured two cups of fragrant tea into the pot.
"What? Something important?"
Seeing her husband's brows slightly furrowed and his expression confused, Qi Yun nodded vigorously a few times.
"Yeah, yeah, yes, it's a very important thing."
Young Master Liu put the teapot in his hand on the desk, looked at the serious beauty curiously, and sat down on the chair behind him with a smile.
"Yun'er, what do you say, husband, I am all ears."
"Before talking about this matter, we need to do something else first."
"Oh? Yun'er, what do you want to do with me, my husband?"
Qi Yun immediately stood up and walked to Young Master Liu. She fumbled for a small porcelain bottle from her arms with a smile on her face.
Under Young Master Liu's puzzled but curious eyes, the beautiful lady pulled out the stopper on the small porcelain bottle and poured a pale red pill into the palm of her slender hand.
Young Master Liu took a look at the pale red pill in Qi Yun's hand, and looked up at the person in front of him in surprise.
"Madam, what is this?"
Qi Yun didn't answer. She picked up the pills in her palm and handed them directly to Young Master Liu's mouth.
"Husband, eat it."
Hearing Qi Yun's words, Mr. Liu nodded with a smile, opened his lips without hesitation and took the small red pill in the beauty's finger.
As soon as the pill enters the mouth, a bitter taste lingers between the teeth.
The bitter taste is mixed with a bit of sweetness, which seems to be the taste of honey.
Qi Yun leaned her waist slightly, reached out and picked up a cup of tea and sent it over.
"Silly husband, you didn't ask me what this pill was and just took it.
Aren't you afraid that I might poison you in the pills?"
Young Master Liu took the tea and swallowed the pill in his mouth, then raised his head and looked at the beautiful woman with a smile.
"Hehehe, good Yun'er, as long as you are willing to do so, you will poison me as your husband, and I will accept you as your husband.
I am willing to die in your hands as your husband."
Seeing Liu Mingzhi smiling and looking indifferent, the beauty pretended to be coquettish and rolled her eyes, then tapped him on the forehead with her finger.
"Virtue means knowing how to speak nicely."
Liu Mingzhi gently stroked the tea lid in his hand, leaned over and spit out the tea leaves from the corner of his mouth to the copper basin beside him, and looked at the beauty again with a smile.
"Madam, as you just said, before we talk about the important things, the other thing we need to do is to give my husband a pill?"
Qi Yun turned sideways and picked up another cup of tea, brought it to her pretty red lips with a smile and took a small sip.
"How is it possible? Of course it's not that simple."
To be continued...