"Why are you still stunned? Go quickly!" Li Ke coughed dryly, pretending to be serious and said with a bit of embarrassment.
"Okay..." Qin Mubai responded and entered the West Cross Courtyard. He came to his little sister's room and knocked on the door. Qin Shuang'er was indeed at home and opened the door: "Is something wrong, third brother?"
"Come in and talk."
"Why are you so mysterious?" Qin Shuang'er sat next to Qin Mubai in confusion and asked.
Qin Mubai rolled his eyes and smiled with a slightly weird and ambiguous expression: "The King of Wu is here."
"What, he's here?" Qin Shuang'er opened her beautiful eyes in surprise, and her face turned slightly red. She smiled shyly and said to herself, "Didn't he go to Anzhou to be the governor? What?
Is it time to come back?"
"You'd better ask him this kind of question face to face. I'm not interested in being your mouthpiece." Qin Mubai smiled.
"What kind of microphone? Really..." Qin Shuang'er's face turned even redder, she tugged on Qin Mubai's sleeve, and said timidly, "Third brother, does daddy know that he is coming to our house?"
"Of course I know. King Wu made a special trip to visit my father and gave him two boxes of gifts brought from Anzhou."
"That's it..." Qin Shuang'er blinked her big eyes a few times and shook her head hesitantly, "Then you go and tell King Wu... Just say, I'm not at home."
"Huh?" Qin Mubai frowned suspiciously, and he was somewhat aware of what was going on between them.
If the estimate is correct, there is somewhat of a friendship between Li Ke and the fourth sister, but his father Qin Shubao is not so in favor of it.
"Let's go!" Qin Shuang'er pulled Qin Mubai out and pushed him out. She said with a happy and shy expression, "Just tell him... If it's convenient, we can meet up with him to go out for fun in two days."
"Sure enough." Qin Mubai shook his head and smiled, patting the little girl's head gently, "I know, silly girl."
After leaving the room and walking outside the courtyard, Li Ke asked anxiously: "Where is sister Shuang'er?"
"She said she was not at home." Qin Mubai said with a smile.
"Uh..." Li Ke was startled, then smiled bitterly, "Okay, okay, I understand. Let's go and compete in archery!"
"Happy to accompany you."
With arrows on their bows and arrows on their backs, the two of them went to the shooting range in the backyard. Before firing the bow, Li Ke suddenly let out a long sigh, with a melancholy look on his face.
"What's wrong, Your Highness?" Qin Mubai asked.
"It's nothing." Li Ke curled the corners of his mouth slightly and shook his head, looking worried.
"Is it because of Fourth Sister?" Qin Mubai asked with a smile.
"Of course not. Is this all I have to do?" Li Ke glared at Qin Mubai angrily, sighed, and said with a self-deprecating smile, "Tell me, what else in this world can make me, Li Ke, so worried?
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Qin Mubai's heart suddenly brightened: Li Ke, a prince with a noble bloodline, besides royal affairs, what else could make him so depressed? ... But it was about the royal family affairs, so he had better not get involved easily.
"Your Highness, don't think too much, just concentrate on your archery game!" Qin Mubai deliberately changed the subject.
"Hey, this is not like you before!" Li Ke turned his handsome face suspiciously, squinting at Qin Mubai with dragon eyes and phoenix eyes, and said, "I have been here for so long, why have you never asked me a question?
----Why did I come back from Anzhou?"
"Haha, isn't it too late to ask now?" Qin Mubai said with a relaxed smile. There was a rule in the Zhenguan Dynasty that all adult princes had to go to other places to become officials. They were not allowed to return to the capital unless under special circumstances or summoned by the court.
----So, why did Li Ke suddenly return to Beijing now?
"I was impeached by the censor and demoted back." Li Ke took a long breath, frowned and said gloomily, "I just got scolded by my father and returned home. I was depressed and thought of
Come to your house to chat and relax. Chang'an is so big, perhaps only Qin Mansion is a clean place, free from dust."
Qin Mubai nodded, thinking that his father had been ill and bedridden in the past few years.