Chapter 29 Don't Want to Separate

"It's Li Gaoyou." This is a declarative sentence, not an interrogative sentence.

Chu Ran was shocked by his sharpness. After thinking for a while, Chu Ran confessed honestly: "It was Concubine Xi. She knew that I was the one who recommended the Third Prince, so she wanted me to pay the price for it."

"Yeah." Li Fu took the powder from Chu Ran's hand, lowered his head, carefully sprinkled the powder on the wound, and finally opened his mouth to blew it.

Chu Ran didn't understand what he meant by blowing like this. Maybe he thought that blowing once wouldn't hurt that much?

Anyway, Chu Ran couldn't help laughing.

Li Fu raised his head and looked at Chu Ran's smiling face, but his expression was very serious, as if this was not a very funny thing, and it was not worth Chu Ran's laughter. So much so that Chu Ran wanted to laugh again, but he couldn't laugh.

Li Fu said with a straight face, "I understand."

Chu Ran felt that Li Fu was in a bad mood. Although he didn't know why, he was tactful enough to stop smiling and angrily retracted his hands that were wrapped like dumplings.

At night, the two lay down on the bed, but neither of them fell asleep immediately.

"Are you still sweeping the floor?" Li Fu asked, lying flat on his back, his deep eyes staring straight at Cheng Chen above his head.

"No more sweeping." Chu Ran said, "The old lady supervisor asked for a month's leave on my behalf."

After a while, Chu Ran turned his head to look at Li Fu and asked, "Have you known the old eunuch's identity for a long time?"

"yes."

Li Fu knew it from the first time he met Zhao Zhongyi, and he also knew that Zhao Zhongyi had recognized him a long time ago.

"Sure enough, you all knew it a long time ago, and I was the only one who was kept in the dark."

It sounds like a complaint, but Chu Ran is not unhappy. They were able to get together because of fate. Regardless of their identities, Chu Ran just wanted to cherish this rare fate between them as much as possible.

Life is always unpredictable. Chu Ran cannot guarantee that they will not be separated one day, so they should cherish the days when they can be together.

"Didn't Li Dingning tell you that he wanted you to serve him?"

Chu Ran had his eyes closed. When he heard this, he suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Li Fu in shock, "You know all this?"

After a pause, Chu Ran asked suspiciously, "Are you following me?"

Li Fu said: "No, I just guessed."

Chu Ran lay back down and couldn't help but praise: "You guessed it right, Li Dingning did say so, but I rejected it."

"Why refuse?" Li Fu said, "You will feel more relaxed if you follow Li Dingning."

Chu Ran always felt that the child lying next to him was not a twelve-year-old child, because he had never seen a child who matured as early as Li Fu.

The things he considered had already far exceeded the scope of what a child should consider.

"I don't know." Chu Ran pulled the quilt and covered his eyes. His voice came from under the quilt. "I don't want to leave here. I think it's good for the four of us now, especially with you. If I leave here, where will you go? Do you still want to go back to live here?"

After Chu Ran finished saying these words, the room fell into silence for a long time. Only the rustling sound of wind blowing against the window frame could be heard occasionally.

"We will always be separated. It can't always be like this," said Li Fu.

Chu Ran suddenly opened the quilt, took a deep breath, turned his head and looked at Li Fu, his tone seemed to reveal an indescribable urgency, "What do you mean, are you leaving?"

Chu Ran's eyes were scorching, and the eagerness in them seemed to burn Li Fu. Li Fu felt as if something had hit his heart hard, and there was a raw pain, like the lines of cracked glass, spreading out densely.

"I won't leave." said Li Fu.

Chu Ran breathed a sigh of relief instantly, and his anxious expression gradually returned to normal.

"If you say we will eventually separate... Even if that day comes, it will be a long time in the future. I don't want to think about it now."

"good."

After a while, Li Fu said, "However, you should still think carefully about whether you want to follow Li Dingning."

"I don't want to think about it."

Chu Ran buried himself in the quilt again.

He knew that following Li Dingning would be safer than his current situation, but he just didn't want to consider it.

After thinking for a while, Li Fu said, "I can talk to you and Li Dingning."

"Say what?" Chu Ran asked dully.

"You can come back here at night," said Li Fu.

Chu Ran opened the quilt again, and a smile quickly appeared on his face, "Really? Are you going to talk to the Fifth Prince for me? Will he listen to you?"

“You can try.”

With Li Fu's words, Chu Ran became happy again.

It would be great if Li Fu could succeed.

After being happy, Chu Ran suddenly asked Li Fu: "You asked me to go to Li Dingning because you were worried about me, right? You were afraid that I would get hurt again, right?"

"You don't want to be separated from me... from us."

This time it was Li Fu's turn to pull the quilt over his face. After a while, he said in a low and awkward voice, "No."

Chu Ran covered his face with both hands, his shoulders shaking uncontrollably, and the face under his palms was grinning, almost laughing to pieces.

Oh my god, why didn’t he realize before that Xiao Li Fu was so cute?