Chapter 69 The past Chu Ran is back

After dinner, someone came to clear away the dishes and bowls on the table. Li Fu should have left, but after a long time, Li Fu sat there like a mountain, motionless, with no intention of leaving at all.

Chu Ran didn't want to chase him away, but it was a bit strange to just sit there. Chu Ran's eyes just happened to glance over the cabinet beside the bed and saw the picture of the game he played with Li Dingning during the day.

Got it.

Chu Ran took the game map and placed it on the table. He asked Li Fu with a smile, "Does your Highness want to play? If you don't know how, I can teach you. It's very simple."

Li Fu suddenly took a deep breath, "Chu Ran."

"Hmm?" Chu Ran placed the two agate stones at their respective starting points. He raised his head and looked at Li Fu who had just spoken.

"Is it something you give to others that you will give to me?"

Chu Ran is really confused now.

He said he wanted to play games with Li Fu. Why did Li Fu suddenly say this? It was as if he was blaming himself. It was really puzzling.

"Ahaha." Chu Ran laughed, "What are you talking about, my Lord? Let's play the game first, hahaha. Look, this agate stone is yours. Whoever throws it to six o'clock first goes first. Since this is your first time playing, I'll let you go first. You go first and take a few steps according to the point you throw it to."

“No.”

Li Fu suddenly stretched out his hand capriciously, and pushed the agate that Chu Ran had placed at the starting point to the side.

Chu Ran scratched his ears, like a stupid straight man who made his girlfriend angry but didn't know why she was angry, so he scratched his ears and cheeks and didn't know what to do.

What's wrong? He was fine when he was eating just now. Why did he suddenly stop playing?

After a while, Chu Ran asked tentatively: "Don't you like playing this? Then let's change it. What do you like to play? Tell me and I'll play with you."

Li Fu looked at Chu Ran's anxious expression and suddenly felt ridiculous. He was jealous. He was actually jealous of Li Dingning.

"Nothing." Li Fu's face looked better. He said, "Put these away. I don't want to play with them."

"All right."

Chu Ran saw that Li Fu didn't seem so unhappy anymore, so he put the things away.

From then on, Li Fu would come to see Chu Ran from time to time, at mealtimes, when he was free, and even when he was sleeping. Sometimes, even when Li Fu went out, he would take Chu Ran to Tsukiji without any hesitation.

Besides Chu Ran, Li Fu was also helping him pick up the pearls that had fallen on the ground one by one.

Chu Ran was no longer as resistant to contact with Li Fu as he was at the beginning. During this period of time spent with Li Fu, he gradually regained the feeling he had as a child.

Sometimes, Chu Ran might inadvertently say something that offended Li Fu, and he was worried that Li Fu would be angry about it, but the fact was that Li Fu didn't seem to care about it.

Chu Ran was used to compromising and being submissive in front of others. Therefore, after Li Fu left, in order to live a better life, he had long been accustomed to hiding his true self. But when Li Fu came back, the talkative and laughing, flesh-and-blood Chu Ran seemed to wake up from his slumber for a moment.

So Chu Ran has been very happy recently, happy when working, and happy even when not working. A long time ago, Chu Ran felt that he seemed to have lost the ability to laugh, and he might never laugh from the bottom of his heart in his life, but now, he smiles more than in the past few years.

But Chu Ran was not the only one who was happy. There was another person who was as happy as Chu Ran. However, Chu Ran's happiness was only shown on his face, but that person's happiness was kept in his heart.

More than two months passed by in a flash.

As the wedding day of Li Gaoyou approached, the emperor had already granted Li Gaoyou a mansion. The rule of this dynasty was that the prince could live in the palace before marriage, but after marriage, he had to move to the mansion.

It was the prince's wedding, and Li Gaoyou was the prince favored by Emperor Chengwen. His wife was the legitimate daughter of the current Minister of the Central Secretariat. Naturally, the court attached great importance to it, and the wedding was a grand ceremony. Recently, the door of Li Gaoyou's mansion was almost broken down by people who came to congratulate him.

The day before Li Gaoyou's wedding, Li Fu went to pick up Chu Ran and bring him home as usual.

Chu Ran was not as happy today as before. Ever since he got on the carriage, his face seemed to be covered with a layer of gray mist.

Li Fu noticed Chu Ran's low mood, so he asked, "What's wrong? What happened?"

Chu Ran shook his head. After a while, Chu Ran said, "Li Gaoyou is getting married tomorrow. Have you prepared the gift?"

Li Fu smiled sarcastically, "I've prepared it a long time ago."

"That's good." After thinking for a while, Chu Ran said, "Don't prepare anything too expensive for him. He bullied you when he was a child. He is a very bad person. Just be able to get by."

"Don't worry." Li Fu sneered, "I'll make sure he'll never forget it."

Chu Ran pursed his lips and wanted to say something, but after thinking about it, he decided to give up. Li Fu was definitely more capable than he was in this matter, so he should not worry about it.

"Just now, His Highness the Fifth Prince sent a message, asking me to return to the palace before the palace gates are locked tonight, and to go with him to the wedding venue tomorrow."

"Yeah." Li Fu responded indifferently, looking a little absent-minded.

Calculating the time, it seemed like there was only an hour left before the palace gates were locked.

We can still have a meal together, but we can't go back to eat.

Chu Ran opened one side of the curtain and glanced at the street. He happened to see a wonton vendor on the roadside. Chu Ran shouted outside, and the carriage suddenly stopped.

Li Fu looked at Chu Ran, who smiled and said, "There's a noodle stall on the roadside, let's eat there."

The two men got off the carriage, walked to the noodle stall, sat down, and asked the owner for two large bowls of noodles.

After a while, the steaming clear soup noodles were served on the table.

"I don't know if you can still get used to eating these things now." Chu Ran said.

The noodles sold at roadside stalls are all watery soups with just a few green vegetable leaves on top, not even a bit of minced meat, and probably just a tiny bit of salt in them.

It's definitely good for filling your stomach, but it's just very bland and tasteless.

I wonder if Li Fu, who is used to eating big fish and meat, can get used to eating these.

"It's nothing I can't get used to." Li Fu picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of noodles, and took a bite without paying much attention to it. "Sometimes the food in the military camp is worse than this."

"Really?" Chu Ran didn't know what life was like in the military camp, and suddenly became interested. "What is it like in the military camp?"

"It's very boring." Li Fu said while eating, "I get up earlier than a chicken and go to bed later than a dog. All I do is train. I eat just to fill my stomach. I don't expect the food to be good."

"Is that so? That seems pretty bad."