Li Qinghuan

Ji Qing was busy making a large table of dishes all afternoon. When serving the table, Yuan Qingyang looked at the table full of dishes and fell silent. He picked up and put down a pair of chopsticks, and shook his head with a smile after a while.

Ji Qing wondered: "What's the matter, Master, is the food not to your liking?"

Yuan Xi: "The old man heard that when you entered the kitchen, you knew that your young master wanted to eat the food you cooked, but the old man really didn't expect you to be so partial. He probably likes all the dishes on such a large table. Have something to eat?"

After hearing this, He Li took a closer look and found that they were all his favorite food, so he turned his head to look at Ji Qing.

Ji Qing's expression was normal, and he pulled up his sleeve and took a piece of fish to Yuan Qingyang: "It's not the first day I know that I'm partial to Master."

Yuan Qingyang is not a petty person, he just said that just as a joke, he picked up the fish and tasted it, and praised: "It's very good, you said your skill, is it not good to be a cook?"

Ji Qing poured another glass of wine for Yuan Qingyang: "If the master wants to eat the food cooked by the apprentice, just tell the apprentice."

Yuan Qingyang smiled and said, "Come on, I haven't had your meal for several years? You're so busy that you don't touch the ground every day, so I'll just follow Ah Li to my heart's content."

Ji Qing raised his wine glass: "Thank you, Master, for your understanding."

Yuan Qingyang touched it casually, and then drank it down: "It's still the chilling stuff made by the thirteenth master."

Ji Qing nodded, raised his head and drank it.

He Li turned his head to look at him: "Han Xin?"

Ji Qing: "Yes."

He Li looked at Ji Qing eagerly: "I want to drink too."

Seeing him like this, Ji Qing couldn't stand it at all, picked up the jug, poured a cup into his cup and handed it to He Li: "Here, drink."

He Li pursed his lips: "That's all?"

Ji Qing nodded: "Yes."

He Li lowered his eyes, reluctantly said: "Okay."

Yuan Qingyang looked at him like this, and smiled: "It's for your own good that he doesn't let you drink too much, and drink after a few days when you feel better."

He Li nodded: "Understood Master."

After He Li finished speaking, he drank the wine in the bottom of the glass. Before he put down the glass, he vaguely saw someone walking in.

Gao Yangsu's voice sounded: "I heard that Ji Qing is cooking today, come over for a meal, do you mind?"

Yuan Qingyang smiled: "Well, sit down quickly."

Gao Yangsu lifted his clothes and sat down carelessly: "Where's Yuan Xi? I haven't seen him for quite a while."

Yuan Qingyang replied: "Isn't Ji Qing entering the court as an official? Nobody cares about the business, and left it to Yuan Xi. I have been too busy for a long time. I went to Jizhou the day before yesterday."

Gao Yangsu: "So that's it, Ji Qing, you have to thank your junior brother very much. You are unrestrained, and you don't care about such a big business, and Yuan Xi has to take over the mess for you."

Ji Qing smiled: "Don't worry about it, it's natural."

Yuan Qingyang waved his hand: "If you don't say thank you, we are all a family. Let's eat quickly, Yang Su. The food will be cold later."

Gao Yangsu nodded, picked up a piece of fish with chopsticks and ate it into his mouth: "This fish is not bad, I can't tell, Ji Qing, I didn't expect you to be so good at cooking."

Ji Qing pretended to be modest: "Thank you."

Gao Yangsu saw through it at a glance, and clicked his tongue.

I'm used to hurting each other, so Ji Qing didn't take it seriously, so he raised his hand and put a piece into He Li's bowl: "Try it."

He Li bit half of it, and said sincerely, "It's very delicious."

Ji Qing said with satisfaction: "It's fine if you like it, if you want to eat it, I'll make it for you later."

With so many people watching, He Li was a little embarrassed, nodded and said in a low voice, "Okay."

Yuan Qingyang smiled and said: "Hey, Ji Qing, you little bastard, do you still want to eat? Why don't you just feed it into your mouth?"

Gao Yangsu said angrily, "That's right, there are two children here."

Baozi and Ji Luoyan ate with their heads down, they didn't say a word, they don't look at evil.

He Li held his forehead in embarrassment, not knowing what to say, Ji Qing's voice rang in his ears: "Okay, stop making nonsense, eat quickly."

He Li's hand was pulled away by Ji Qing, and he heard Ji Qing softly say to him: "A Li, you can eat quickly, leave them alone."

He Li almost suspected that he did it on purpose, and thought, "How can this taste delicious?"

The meal was messed up, and Baozi was abnormally silent. He and Ji Luoyan ate quietly with their heads down. I wish I could kick these two disgraceful apprentices out of the house.Ji Qing had a calm face, and from time to time, he picked up vegetables for He Li and wiped his mouth, while He Li's entire face was flushed, and he didn't know the taste of the meal.

After finally finishing the meal, He Li put down the bowl and bid farewell to Yuan Qingyang, leaving the hall as if fleeing.

Gao Yangsu raised his head slowly: "Ji Qing, won't you be annoying if you do this?"

Ji Qing: "You care about me?"

Gao Yangsu: "Are you still the Ji Qing I know?"

"Yes." Ji Qing nodded, then turned his head again, "Master, I'm done eating, you guys eat slowly."

Gao Yangsu: "Hey, you..."

Ji Qing got up: "What are you? Eat quickly."

Gao Yangsu said angrily: "Uncle Yuan, look at him! He is getting more and more arrogant!"

Yuan Qingyang smiled, and took a piece of food into Gao Yangsu's bowl: "It's rare for him to be so presumptuous, so let him go, for the sake of this table, don't argue with him."

Gao Yangsu was just playing around, so it’s okay to complain so casually, he lowered his head and continued to eat: "Forget it, just because someone wants a poor lonely child like him, so don't bother with him."

Yuan Qingyang laughed loudly: "That's right."

He Li slipped back to Zhanlu Garden, when Ji Qing found him, he leaned against the pond in a daze again, only holding something in his hand.

Ji Qing took a closer look, and saw that it was the black jade brave.

"A Li, why are you in a daze?"

He Li turned his head: "I'm thinking about something."

Ji Qing chuckled: "I know you're thinking about something, so can you tell me what you're thinking? Maybe I can help you."

He Li spread his hands, revealing the black jade pendant: "I was thinking, when I was King Yu, this jade pendant was a symbol of my status, but now I have been demoted to a commoner, so I keep it. Isn't something inappropriate?"

Ji Qing thought for a while: "There is nothing inappropriate, if you want to, just keep it."

He Li nodded and smiled: "I only have it."

Ji Qing didn't know how to comfort him, so he took him into his arms with a sigh: "You still have me."

He Li took a few deep breaths in his arms, and revealed his eyes: "Yes."

Ji Qing let go of him: "A Li, are you full this afternoon?"

He Li nodded: "I'm full. He Ming, I want to ask you something."

Ji Qing pulled him to sit down: "What's the matter?"

He Li couldn't hide things in his heart, and always felt that he could only be honest if he had something to say in front of Ji Qing, so he tentatively asked, "He Ming, have you met my mother in private?"

A flash of surprise flashed in Ji Qing's eyes, then he regained his composure, and said honestly, "I have seen it."

He Li: "When?"

Ji Qing: "The day you went to prison."

He Li took half a step back: "Then my mother's death... and you?"

Ji Qing sighed, he knew that such a day would come, but he didn't expect it to come so soon.

As if going to die, he nodded, closed his eyes and said truthfully: "I brought the news."

Now that things have happened, he can't say that the death of Empress Dowager He has nothing to do with him.

Ji Qing opened his eyes, met He Li with hesitation in his eyes, and felt as if his heart had been stabbed by something: "Ah Li, I..."

He Li's eyes were red: "He Ming, can you tell me why? I beg you."

Ji Qing didn't say a word, and said for a long time: "I brought the news of your imprisonment, and I don't know anything about it after that."

He Li asked: "You really don't know?"

Ji Qing sighed, and said again: "I only know that Empress Dowager He wants to pay back the life of the maid who saved her life back then, and by the way, save your life. That maid is Song Duan's biological mother."

He Li closed his eyes like ashes, stepped back a few steps, then turned and left.

Ji Qing froze on the spot, and said softly: "A Li..."

He Li waved his hand: "I want to be quiet."

In fact, He Li guessed it, but after hearing what Ji Qing said, he still couldn't accept it for a while.

After he finished speaking, he stumbled away. In fact, he didn't know where he was going, but he just didn't want to see Ji Qing for the time being. In other words, no one can accept that the person he loves has something to do with his mother's death, right?

Thinking this way, He Li walked out of the gate of Ji Mansion slowly, and walked up Jianchang Avenue. He stood there thinking for a long time, and realized that when he left Ji Mansion, he was really homeless.

After thinking left and right, he finally went to Liu Zijian's small courtyard.

In fact, Ji Qing can find him no matter where he goes, the sky has already darkened, Ji Qing will never rest assured that he will go out alone, someone will follow, so he knows that no matter where he goes, he will be the same.

As long as Liu Zijian didn't have any major issues, he would spend time in his small yard tinkering with various weapons. He Li had thought of this before he came to him, so he came here to gamble. After all, he was penniless, except here, really There is nowhere to go.

Fortunately, he won the bet.

Liu Zijian opened the door and was stunned when he saw the distraught He Li: "Ah Li, what's wrong with you?"

He Li raised his head: "Can you let me go in first?"

Liu Zijian hurriedly turned around to let him in, then closed the door and buckled it: "Oh, okay, come in quickly, what's the matter, Ah Li?"

He Li couldn't tell what it was like, he just felt a heavy breath in his heart, and he didn't feel well at all. He followed Liu Zijian into the house, and briefly explained the matter.

After listening to him, Liu Zijian was silent for a long time, and then asked, "Do you believe him?"

He Li: "I believed it at first, but now I don't know if I should believe it or not?"

Liu Zijian asked again: "Then do you want to believe him?"

He Li nodded without hesitation: "Yes."

Liu Zijian: "Then the matter is simple, since you want to believe him, he will believe it."

He Li: "Huh?"

Liu Zijian pointed to his chest: "Listen to the voice of your own heart."

He Li: "But if my mother's death is really related to him, then I don't know how to face him."

Liu Zijian smiled: "Let me ask you, A Li, if I let you die, would you go?"

He Li shook his head: "Of course not."

Liu Zijian: "That's right, the only person who can control my life and death is myself. Empress Dowager He's status is paramount. Apart from herself, who can force her to die? In other words, her death is caused by the news brought by Ji Qing." Yes, you shouldn't attribute the crime to Ji Qing, Ji Qing brought the news to Empress Dowager He for no other reason than to save you."

"The deceased has passed away. You live well according to Queen Mother He's wishes, which is the best consolation for her passing."

He Li thought for a moment after hearing this, and thought, "It seems to make sense."