Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 1348 Farewell

"elder sister?"

With a click, the wooden sword in Xiao Li Ji's hand fell to the ground.

"Is it necessary to be so surprised?"

Li Zhao laughed and said, "Isn't this your request?"

"But, haven't you always refused before?"

The boy's face was red, and he suddenly started to untie the hairband on his head in a hurry, "Sister, did you decide to promise me?"

"Promise what? What are you doing with your hair?" Li Zhao stared at him in astonishment, "Even if you want to go to bed right now, why don't you take a shower first?"

"No, no," Xiao Li Ji's face turned red to the ears, and he waved his hands quickly.

After venting his anger, he held the hair tie his mother had left for him, and said solemnly, "This is a token."

"What token?" Li Zhao was taken aback.

"This is the custom of our Soochow," the young boy showed a smile on his immature face, "When I hid behind the cabinet, I heard it from the old lady."

"If a boy wants to marry the girl he likes, but his parents don't propose marriage, he should use the relic left by his mother as a token."

The recruiter is his wife.

The boy's eyes fell on the hairband in his hand, "My mother left me this relic, and I will only have one wife in this life."

This is his dowry.

Although it's just an ordinary hair tie, no one would feel sorry if it was lost.

"Ah, but if you feel shabby, sister, I still have this..." The little boy began to search his pockets all over his body.

"You..." Li Zhao slashed his head with a knife, "Who said I would promise you?"

"Ah?" Xiao Li Ji raised his head, his face full of disappointment.

"Today is my birthday."

"So didn't I promise to coax you to sleep?" Li Zhao smiled and pushed his shoulder, "Okay, go take a shower quickly, you are not allowed to go to my bed if you are sweaty."

"Okay!" The young boy disappeared through the back door, Li Zhao turned around, the smile disappeared, and looked at the sky again.

Ying Baoyue's heart tightened.

For some reason, the moment Li Zhao turned around, she seemed to see a little drop of water slipping from the girl's cheek on the steps.

But the next moment, a puff of white smoke rose in the air, everything seemed to be Ying Baoyue's illusion, Li Zhao looked at the sky quietly, without any hesitation in his eyes.

If you just look at the conversation just now, it is indeed a sweet memory for Xiao Li Ji, but Ying Baoyue became more and more uneasy.

She looked sideways at Li Ji who was standing beside her, and found that Li Ji was standing on the ground as if the soles of his feet had taken root, staring at the back of the young boy leaping away happily, the corners of his eyes were a little red.

The emotions in those black eyes were too complicated, sadness, nostalgia, despair, all kinds of things mixed together, Ying Baoyue couldn't understand.

She had never seen such an expression on this normally indifferent man.

Ying Baoyue's heart shrank, Li Zhao abnormally agreed to Xiao Li Ji's request tonight, isn't it because today is Xiao Li Ji's birthday?
Is this day the last day?
Looking at the girl who turned away on the steps, Ying Baoyue's heart felt cold.

Li Zhao, what do you want to do?
Did she leave without saying goodbye?
The complicated moods of the two people outside the fence did not affect Xiao Li Ji who was happily celebrating his birthday inside the house.

After taking a bath and eating the birthday banquet prepared by Li Zhao, he returned to his tree cabin. The young boy picked up his pillow on the bed with a blushing face and was about to go to the room below when there was a knock on the door.

Opening the door, Xiao Li Ji opened his eyes wide.

"elder sister?"

Li Zhao was standing at the door.

"You don't plan to go to sleep, do you?" Li Zhao walked into the room, "My room is too cold for you."

"Sister, you don't intend to go back on your word, do you?" Xiao Li Ji looked at him warily.

"No, when did I ever lie to you?" Li Zhao laughed and sat down on his bed, patted on his side.

"I'll come up to accompany you."

Happiness came so suddenly, Xiao Li Ji was a little dizzy, "You...you won't just sit for a while and leave?"

"No," Li Zhao shook his head, "I will be here until you fall asleep."

"Then I won't sleep anymore," Xiao Li Ji threw the pillow on the bed, sat cross-legged on the head of the bed with piercing eyes, "Come on, let's talk by candlelight at night."

Li Zhao was amused by him and laughed, "So you have been arguing to sleep with me, and you want to talk to me at night?"

This request is really pure enough.

Ying Baoyue also wanted to laugh while watching.

She also confirmed from this that Li Zhao did not have any unreasonable thoughts about Li Ji back then, and her words and deeds were too natural in being in the same room with a half-grown boy.

"No, no," Xiao Li Ji blushed, "and..."

"What else?" Li Zhaowen asked softly, without any shyness or shyness in his eyes.

Looking at her appearance, Xiao Li Ji was a little discouraged.

"Forget it," the young boy sighed, "I am a gentleman, and I will never offend you before you agree to me."

Li Zhao was startled, and his eyes became warmer and warmer, but for some reason, Ying Baoyue looked from behind and felt a little sad about her breath.

But Li Zhao hid his emotions so well that the boy sitting on the bed didn't notice it at all.

"Okay, my little gentleman," Li Zhao stretched out his hand, made the bed, lay down on the side of the bed, and tugged at Li Ji's sleeve, "Then lie down first, you've been tired all day."

Xiao Li Ji looked at her dissatisfied, "Sister, I'm still a man anyway, aren't you too defenseless?"

He felt his pride as a man had been hit.

"But didn't you say that you are a gentleman? I'm very relieved," Li Zhao said with a smile, "Besides, you can't do anything to me with your small arms and legs."

Little Li Ji was hit, and buried his face in the quilt with a whimper.

Li Zhao's eyes fell on his head, and he took off his hair tie and put it beside his pillow, "Go to sleep."

"Sister, something is wrong with you."

Little Li Ji turned over and stared at the girl's face, "What's wrong with you today?"

Li Zhao was startled, then smiled and said, "Actually, I have something to go out tomorrow."

Ying Baoyue was startled when she heard the words. She originally thought that Li Zhao had left without saying goodbye, but she didn't expect that she would tell Li Ji in advance?

Although Li Zhao had gone out to do errands alone before, little Li Ji became visibly nervous.

"Where are you going? When will you be back?"

"A place far away." Li Zhao patted his head, "I might go to the capital."

"Then I'll go with you!"

"No," Li Zhao shook his head. "It's too dangerous. The capital city is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. I will be distracted if I take you with me."

The little boy lay on the bed and trembled, "Then will you come back?"

"I can't guarantee it," Li Zhao said after a pause.

Ying Baoyue was taken aback for a moment, she didn't expect that Li Zhao not only told Li Ji that she was going out, but also said it so directly.

But how did she know that she couldn't come back?

"I don't want to lie to you." Li Zhao looked at the boy beside the pillow, "If I don't come back, you have to protect yourself alone."

(End of this chapter)