"That's right!" Gu Liu Chu was on the side, and after hearing Jin Zuo Yan's words that were too clever, he felt that he could understand and connect with the conversation now. "It's just being a bit smarter, this kind of smartness doesn't even count in our Gu family."

  Jin Zhiyan's mouth was twisted into a scowl, his eyes narrowed into a slit, and he looked like he was about to spit at him.

  Li Wenshan led one in, Gu Liu Shao Ye couldn't help but laugh, folding his fan and pointing at the three of them, "Wu Lang, this one on your side... change into another set of clothes, can sing a 'thousand miles searching for husband'."

  Li Wenlan looked up at Gu Liu Shao Ye, her whole body's admiration fell to the ground, and she didn't understand a word of what Gu Liu Shao Ye said. Li Wenshan had a helpless expression, his chin nodded towards Li Wenlan, "This is my brother, biological." Then he nodded towards Li Xia, "This is my sister, biological."

  Gu Liu Shaoye raised his eyebrows and stared at Li Wenshan, what did he mean by this? Could he not recognize his own brother and sister? No...

  The King of Qin looked at Gu Liu and Li Wenshan, who were staring wide-eyed, and pointed at them with his fan, bursting into loud laughter. Jin Qianshen couldn't help but laugh either, stepping forward to tap Gu Liu's shoulder with her fan, "You... just be honest for once, still thinking of teasing others, the dust on your nose is quite thick!"

  Li Xia stood obediently next to Fifth Brother Li Wenshan, smiling foolishly as he listened to the loud and silly Li Wenlan, thinking of a way to get rid of this fool quickly...

  "Are you angry?" Lu Yi squatted down beside Li Xia, carefully looking at her expression, with a deep meaning in his tone.

  "Hmm." Li Xia slowly nodded her head. Since he asked that way, it must be visible on her face... as a five-year-old child...

  "Sixth Brother didn't give me candy." Li Xia pointed at Li Wenlan's small purse.

  "You've eaten it!" Li Wenlan hastily covered her pocket, "You had two pieces, I had two pieces, I gave you one piece already, just this one piece left, I haven't eaten yet!" Li Wenlan's tears were about to fall, based on past experience, this piece of candy wouldn't be spared either.

  "One for two, you've finished your two, Sixth Brother gave you another one, and you've also finished that. Now do you still want the last piece of candy from Sixth Brother?" Jin Zheyen also squatted in front of Li Xia, with a stern face.

  Li Xia's heart involuntarily tightened, and she reached out to grab Wu Ge's clothes to hide behind him.

  The King of Qin hastily threw away the folding fan, stretched out his hand to hold open Li Wenshan, took a step back to stand in Li Wenshan's position, bent down and opened his arms, waiting for Li Xia to pounce over.

  Li Xia stretched out her hand and grabbed nothing, looked up to see Qin Wang's exaggerated smiling face, turned her head and rushed into Lu Yi's arms.

  The young master of Gu Liu stamped his foot and burst out laughing.

  Li Wenlan was torn apart, looking at her sister who had thrown herself into Lu Yi's arms, then at Jin Zhiyan with a serious face, and again looked up at her brother who was staring blankly at Qin Wang, before turning back to look at her sister buried in Lu Yi's arms. With a thousand hesitations and ten thousand unwillingnesses, she pinched out the candy from her pouch and handed it to Li Xia, her voice trembling with tears, "Here, don't cry anymore, I didn't say... Waaahhh... I haven't eaten yet..."

  "Has your household fallen to this point?" Qin Wang stretched out his arms, only to be met with an empty space. Gu Liu's lack of a smile was already awkward enough, but when he burst into laughter again, Qin Wang became enraged, "Even if we were poor to this extent in the past, what about now? Doesn't Luo Shuai's allocated public funds amount to a lot...?"

  Lu Yi and Jin Zhenyan coughed violently together.

  Li Xia looked at the even more embarrassed Qin Wang and almost wanted to burst out laughing. So he was such a fool! How could the wise Empress Dowager give birth to such a son?!

  "Someone's coming!" Jin Zhuoyan pried open Li Wenlan's small fist, which was tightly clenched, and picked up the piece of sugar with a look of distaste. "Take it to the kitchen and make... two large baskets! Give one basket to each of them."

  The old six had just fallen down with laughter and burst out laughing again.

  Two big baskets!

  The King of Qin sat back at the edge of the pavilion with a cold face, holding a fishing rod and fishing with his back to the crowd.

  Jin Zhiyu walked over to his side and also took a fishing rod to fish.

  Lu Yi signaled the young servant to bring over the gifts they had brought. For Li Xia, it was a beautifully crafted doll over a foot tall. For Li Wenlan, it was a box of nine linked rings of varying sizes. Gu Liu came over and picked up the nine linked rings to teach Li Wenlan how to play with them.

  Li Wenshan didn't say anything, thinking that he was not wrong with his brother and sister, whoever got angry or happy, he just ignored it. He first watched Gu Liu Jiao's explanation of the Nine Linked Rings for a while, then went to watch fishing, and then moved over to chat with Lu Yi about the lotus flowers.

  Li Xia lay on the table, staring blankly at a full box of gold and jade nine-linked rings of all sizes.

  The Empress Dowager liked to solve the nine linked rings, and she was able to get the Empress Dowager's favor because of these nine linked rings.

  At that time, she had just entered the palace for two months, without a name or a position, and was being extremely cautious. One day, while she was playing with some lower-ranking palace maids in the garden, solving a puzzle called "Nine Linked Rings", the Empress Dowager happened to be watching her from a nearby pavilion. The Grand Empress Dowager often said: "The Nine Linked Rings are easy to solve, but it's difficult because it requires patience and carefulness. Things in life are also like this, there's nothing difficult about them, it just depends on whether you have the patience."

  Li Xia thought of the Empress Dowager, thinking of the past, thinking of the heartache, stretched out her hand to take the smallest nine-linked ring, untied the first ring, then untied the second ring, and put it back on... This nine-linked ring, she had been untying for decades, so familiar that it was already etched into her bones.

  "Huh!" Gu Liu stared with wide eyes, "Your sister is much smarter than you!"

  "Ah ah ah!" Li Wenlan beamed with pride, "My sister is the smartest of all!"

  Lu Yi slightly bowed his head and looked at Li Xia Jiu Lian Huan, "Does your sister often play with this at home?"

  "Hmm." Li Wenshan responded with a noncommittal "hmm", the Nine Linked Rings were indeed at his home, but he had never seen Ah Xia play with them, though this was something that couldn't be said.

  "Can you put it back on?" Watching Li Xia quickly untie the white jade nine-linked ring, Gu Liu said with a hint of discontent, he took half a day to untie the nine-linked ring, which was considered fast.

  Li Xia raised her head and glanced at Gu Liu, who was lying on the table, stretching out his hand with a nine-linked ring in front of him, starting to put it on.

  "What's so special about it? It's just quick hands!" Qin Wang said with a look of disdain, not knowing when he had walked over to watch Li Xia's flying small fat hands.

  Li Xia buried her head and just kept putting on the ring, as if she hadn't heard.

  "It's just a matter of speed, but how old is Ah Xia? In our mansion, the one who can solve it the fastest has been doing it for almost twenty years, and that's Ah Xia. Otherwise, you try it, I'll give you an hour, if you can solve it, then you're impressive." Gu Liu retorted without being polite.

  "What's so difficult about it?" The King of Qin said with a tough tone, but didn't dare to stretch out his hand. What if he couldn't solve it... Better go back and try first before saying anything.

  Li Xia put the nine linked rings back in order and handed them to Gu Liu. Gu Liu swung them back and forth, his face excited. "You're really clever, what else do you like to play? Huarongdao? Kongming lock? Go?"

  "Still playing Go with her, don't you see how old she is!" Qin Wang immediately picked on faults.

  Li Xia shook her head non-stop, she would solve the nine linked rings, because Empress Dowager only liked this.

  Complete works txt download, full text free, e-book, remember 77 reading books