Volume 1: A stone strikes a thousand waves, the world surrounds Li Daosheng Chapter 51: When chatting, you can't just say one thing
After that night, the thieves seemed to have left the capital.
He never came again, and Chang'an never saw him again. Only later did she learn from her brother Li Shizong that the thief was called Li Si, the thief saint Li Si.
Every night, Chang'an would often sit by the window waiting for something. This seemed to have become her habit. Occasionally, she would tap the window sill with her fingers.
But there was no more sudden sound, and no more candy suddenly placed on her dressing table.
The moonlight in front of her window was still waxing and waning, but it was inexplicably less colorful.
It all seemed to pass just as perfectly as it came.
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In the courtyard of the Imperial Garden, Li Si sat at the table and waited for a while. How long did he wait? Probably half an incense stick of time.
Finally, he heard footsteps coming in, and he looked up in the direction of the sound.
A woman in a skirt walked to the gate of the courtyard. She was wearing a silk long skirt and a light gauze shawl, half covering and half revealing her pink shoulders. She held a small fan in her hand, and looked into the courtyard with her slightly red eyes, vaguely filled with anticipation.
Finally, the gaze stopped on Li Si. The woman's expression was slightly stunned, and then her thin lips opened slightly, as if she wanted to say something, but no sound came out.
I saw her willow-like brows slowly relax and she smiled, as if melting the spring scenery in the garden.
In the slightly warm sunshine, the two looked at each other for a while.
After a while, Li Si asked, "Who are you?"
The woman's expression suddenly became resentful.
"You haven't forgotten me, have you?"
…
"Hahaha." Li Si laughed out loud at the table. He looked at the woman in front of him and said, "So it's you, little girl. I haven't seen you for so many years. You've grown up so much."
"Yes, you always said I was a little girl before." The woman sat opposite Li Si, held her chin with her hand, looked at Li Si with a smile and said, "Let's see what you have to say now."
The woman in front of me is naturally the Chang'an of the past.
In four years, she has grown from a girl into a young woman. Now she looks much more mature and her words and deeds have become more generous.
I don’t cry easily like I used to.
"Yes, yes, the little girl has grown up and become a big girl." Li Si chuckled and said with emotion.
It was only then that he realized that several years had passed.
"You haven't changed much." Chang'an looked at Li Si, slightly distracted.
This man was still as casual and laid-back as before, as if nothing could make him nervous.
"Really? I think I have changed a lot." Li Si chuckled, not knowing what he meant by changed.
The sunlight made the grass and trees in the garden look lush and green. A few birds were perched on the branches and singing. The stream was gurgling. It was a beautiful scene of the season.
"How have you been doing recently?" Chang'an pursed his lips and asked casually.
She felt a little bit at ease and happy in her heart. If she remembered correctly, this was the first time they sat opposite each other and chatted like this.
"Not bad. I don't have to run around like before. I have a lot more free time." Li Si stretched and said leisurely.
He had a pretty good impression of the girl Chang'an.
It's just that this girl is a little careless. He vaguely remembers that she fell out of the window four years ago, and it seemed that he was the one who saved her at that time.
"That's good." Chang'an said softly, as if relieved. It seemed that the emperor had done what she asked him to do, and he didn't punish Li Si.
Then she turned to look at Li Si and said expectantly.
"If you don't want to run around anymore, just stay in the palace and do your job. With your skills, the emperor will definitely keep you here."
"Don't." Li Si raised his hands and smiled bitterly: "I just need some free time. If I really have to stay in one place for a long time, I can't stay there."
"Okay." Chang'an knew Li Si's character and didn't insist too much.
But then she seemed to have thought of something.
He hesitated for a moment, looked away, and asked softly, pretending to be nonchalant.
"Speaking of which, I heard that you were caught this time because you were helping a girl?"
"Indeed." Speaking of this, Li Si pulled his mouth helplessly and nodded. She was indeed a troublesome girl.
Chang'an's heart suddenly sank. She couldn't describe what the feeling was, it was as if something important had been taken away by someone.
"What is her relationship with you?"
The girl's tone changed slightly.
Li Si didn't hear it, so he sighed and continued to answer casually.
"How should I put it? It's a bad fate."
"Bad fate..." Chang'an paused fanning himself at the table. He felt the sky getting darker and his nose started to feel sore unconsciously.
"Yes." Li Si held his forehead.
"It's just someone I met on the road, but we became friends by . But since we're friends, I have no choice but to help her."
Friend?
Just like a sudden turn of events, Chang'an's unhappiness disappeared all at once.
"Just friends?" She looked at Li Si again and asked again as if to confirm.
"Yes." Li Si looked at Chang'an in confusion : "What else could it be?"
In his heart, he has always been a family man, so subconsciously he would not think about it in that way, and he has always kept his distance from women.
He would only chat with little girls like Chang'an and Bai Yaoer. After all, he had lived two lives. From his age, these girls were no different from children of five or six years old. He just treated them as his younger generations.
"Nothing." Chang'an smiled, just like the smile of white snow in spring, very beautiful.
She lowered her head, poured a cup of fresh tea from the teapot on the table, handed it to Li Si, and said with a blushing face.
"Tea."
"Ah?" Li Si didn't understand why the girl suddenly asked him to drink tea: "I'm not thirsty."
But Chang'an was completely oblivious to what was said at this moment. He just pushed the teacup towards Li Si, lowered his head and smiled foolishly.
"Tea."
Looking at her like this, Li Si gently wiped a drop of cold sweat from his forehead.
Did I offend her in some way?
Could it be that she still remembers the incident with the white jade bracelet a few years ago?
