Gently biting a candied haw, the sweet and sour taste immediately whirled in her mouth, making Liu Sisi’s bright moon-like eyes squint contentedly.
Hearing Di Yelei’s words, she let out an unhappy hum: “What are you talking about? Girls should be pampered! Besides, it’s just two strings of candied haws, how could it spoil a child? Humph!”
While talking, she also wrinkled her cute little nose.
“You really…”
Di Yelei shook his head helplessly with a smile. In his eyes, Liu Sisi was still a child herself, and this childish side of her was exactly what he treasured the most.
It was hard on her to marry an “old man” like himself at such a young age, really wronging her!
“Here! You have one too. These candied hawthorns are sweet and sour, and they taste so good!”
Liu Sisi held up the string of candied haws, stood on tiptoes to close the distance between them, and brought the candied haws to his mouth.
Di Yelei wanted to refuse, but he couldn’t resist her sparkling eyes, so he lowered his head and bit a candied haw.
The sour and sweet taste instantly filled his mouth, making his taste buds come alive. An indescribable feeling spread in his heart, just like this candied haw, sour and sweet, sweet and sour.
“What do you think? These candied haws are delicious, aren’t they?”
Liu Sisi’s eyes narrowed as she smiled, and she couldn’t help but think of those creative sweets from her previous life.
It’s just a pity that she never learned how to make cakes and desserts. It’s truly a pity now, missing out on so many delicious treats…
“Don’t move! Look at you!”
Di Yelei suddenly called her: “You got sugar all over your face. Come on, let me wipe it off for you…”
As he spoke, he gently rolled up his sleeves, carefully wiping away the sugar residue on her small chin.
“Where? Is there any more on my face?”
Liu Sisi swung her head from side to side, trying to give Di Yelei a clearer view.
But when she turned her head, she met his suddenly deep and immeasurable eyes, her cheeks turned red and she quickly lowered her head.
Her shyness made him unable to help but chuckle, causing Liu Sisi to blush even more and glare at him fiercely while pretending to be angry.
A hero’s anger is for the beauty, and a beauty’s smile is for the city.
Indeed, an angry beauty has a unique charm.
“Ahem! It’s getting late, let’s go home.”
Only then did Di Yelei come back to his senses, remembering that he had been staring like a youngster on the street, and felt secretly annoyed.
“Indeed, it’s getting late. Let’s go.”
Liu Sisi did not dare to look up at him, walking ahead with her head down.
As they passed a bookstore, Liu Sisi couldn’t help but stop. She suddenly remembered that she should buy a set of calligraphy tools for Di Xuan.
This bookstore connected to three common sleeping areas, and from outside, it was fully stocked with various books, paper, and other four treasures of the study.
What caught Liu Sisi’s attention the most was a recruitment advertisement standing at the entrance of the store: “Our shop is hiring a waiter, capable of writing and calculating, and not to provide food and lodging. To work on market days. Five maces of silver monthly…”
The reason Liu Sisi was moved was not because she could get that five maces of silver monthly as a waiter in this shop, but from kindergarten until she crossed over, what she dealt with the most were obviously books!
She liked books, or rather, she liked reading.
After coming here, every day was filled with firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and tea. Where could she find the opportunity to be associated with books?
At the moment, she had a rare chance to see so many books, and it was also a job advertisement. Thinking that she could continue touching books in the future, her silent heart suddenly thumped with excitement!
Right away, she couldn’t care about anything else. She stuffed the candied hawthorn in her hand into Di Yelei’s hand, carefully arranged her appearance, and then stepped into the bookstore.
As soon as she entered the store, a strong ink fragrance greeted her. This familiar aura made Liu Sisi close her eyes in fascination, taking a deep breath.
When she opened her eyes again, she was met with a pair of seemingly smiling eyes.
“Huh? It’s you!”
Liu Sisi couldn’t help but exclaim.
Behind the counter sat a young man, holding a book in his hand, and at this moment, he was looking at her with interest. He wore a bamboo green robe, his black hair bound tightly at the back of his head with a headband of the same color, pinned with a deep blue headscarf. He had a slender and tall figure, distant and leisurely brows, deep and secluded eyes, a straight and prominent nose, and thin lips blooming with a bewitching shallow smile.
At this moment, he was sitting behind the counter, standing there quietly like an ink landscape painting, exuding a faint ink fragrance.
Her eyes couldn’t help but squint slightly, and everything around her disappeared from her sight. It seemed as if the world only left him, floating an becoming distant…
“Ahem! It turns out to be you, young wife.”
A flash of radiance swiftly flickered in the depths of this young man’s eyes without giving anyone a chance to see it clearly.
He put down the book in his hand, slowly stood up from his seat, and walked over to Liu Sisi, bowing slightly, “Is little madam doing well lately? It seems that you and I are really fated to meet here.”
Only at this moment did Liu Sisi suddenly come back to her senses.
She couldn’t help but sigh silently: Truly a demon, a demon indeed!
This man was more beautiful than a woman, and she didn’t know how much peach blossom debt he would incur in the future, seducing countless young girls and making them dream of him with broken hearts.
This young man was none other than the one she accidentally saved while picking mushrooms!
Back then, perhaps it was because of his heart disease that he looked like he had been rolled in mud from head to toe, with a pale face mixed with green, tightly closed eyes, and black lips, which greatly diminished his beauty.
However, now that he was all dressed up like this, with his picturesque brows and eyes, her eyes couldn’t help but widen!
“It seems that Young Master has recovered from his heart disease, hasn’t he?” Liu Sisi casually mentioned.
“Heart disease?” The young man raised an eyebrow.
“Yes! That day, you had a heart attack, and I went through a lot of trouble to administer the lifesaving pill. You don’t know…”
Since she rarely met him again, Liu Sisi completely forgot about the concept of maintaining a distance between men and women, and went on talking about her experience of rescuing him.
Because she was so engrossed in talking, she didn’t notice the corners of his mouth twitching and the laughter he was barely holding back.
“…Oh! I spoke so much and forgot to introduce myself. My surname is Liu, my husband’s family is surnamed Di. I still don’t know your name, Young Master?” Liu Sisi suddenly slapped her forehead and exclaimed.
“My… my surname is Nan, my first name is Tianzong. Thank you, young wife, for your… lifesaving grace that day.”
When Nan Tianzong said these words of “lifesaving grace,” he almost gritted his teeth to spit it out! That day, by coincidence, Liu Sisi accidentally administered the real detoxification medicine to him.