Chapter 85 Sticky

From a distance, Chu Ran saw Xing Ji standing at the door. He was holding a lantern in his hand and looking around.

"Uncle Xing!" Chu Ran called out, and Xing Ji turned around and looked at the two people standing arm in arm on the dark road ahead.

Seeing this, Xing Ji smiled and walked towards the two of them with the lantern in hand.

"Uncle Xing, what are you doing standing at the door so late at night?"

"Waiting for you two." Xing Ji said.

"Oh, we are all grown up, how could we get lost? It's okay, Uncle Xing, you don't have to worry about us anymore."

Xing Ji smiled, and then Li Fu took the lantern from Xing Ji's hand.

"Let me take it." Li Fu said.

The three of them entered the courtyard. When they were about to separate, Chu Ran suddenly remembered something and said, "The old eunuch will be celebrating his 70th birthday in half a month. It just so happens that you two haven't seen him for many years, so I plan to gather everyone together for a gathering at that time."

After saying this, Chu Ran went back to his room to rest. Xing Ji glanced at Li Fu and then went to the side yard with him.

After entering the house, Li Fu first lit the candles in the room, then blew out the lantern and placed it on the table.

Xing Ji followed Li Fushen in and closed the door tightly.

As soon as the door was closed, Xing Ji turned around, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "You didn't tell him about Zhao Zhongyi?"

"No." Li Fu said.

"You don't plan to tell him?"

After a moment of silence, Li Fu said, "I will tell him when I find the right opportunity."

Xing Ji nodded and asked, "Did your trip go smoothly today?"

Li Fu sat on the stool. The water in the teapot had already cooled down, but he still poured himself a cup. He sneered and said, "It went smoothly. However, Shen Minghan, the old fox, seems to be a little worried about me."

"It's normal to be worried." Xing Ji said.

"Um."

Li Fu drank the water, put down the teacup, and subconsciously pinched the wall of the teacup with his fingers. Deep in his dark eyes, a deep and cold light flashed. He said softly: "Uncle Xing, do you know that when I met Shen Minghan today, I almost couldn't control myself."

Xing Ji remained silent.

"And just now he said he wanted to celebrate Zhao Zhongyi's 70th birthday. At that time, only one thought came to my mind: Is he worthy of it? He should have died a long time ago. God must have been blind to the fact that he could live past 70."

Li Fu smiled for a while, then closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and said, "But I should really thank him."

If it weren't for Zhao Zhongyi's care over the years, Chu Ran's days in the palace would never have been so smooth.

Moreover, he had done a lot for himself in these years. But even so, Li Fu's heart was still full of hatred.

After a long time, Li Fu said to Xing Ji: "Don't let him know about this in advance."

Xing Ji nodded.

When he spoke again, Li Fu's expression had calmed down a lot, "Forget it, just do as he says."

Chu Ran's happy moments are always limited, and Li Fu doesn't want to be the one who makes Chu Ran even more unhappy.

Half a month later, Chu Ran took Zhao Zhongyi out of the palace.

The place for the gathering was naturally set at the Prince Consort's Mansion where they were currently. Of course, Chu Ran had also asked Li Fu in advance, and only made this decision after getting Li Fu's permission.

In fact, Chu Ran had already started running around the day before.

The yard was decorated with red silk and red lanterns were hung all over the yard. The banquet hall was decorated in red and festive colors, and a huge Chinese character for "longevity" was pasted in the middle.

Chu Ran arranged the decorations during the day, while Li Fu came back at night. He looked at the red silk, red lanterns and red paper all over the yard and thought that all that was missing was a few "happiness" characters to make people think there was a wedding going on in the mansion.

Li Fu was not very happy, and said to Xing Ji who was standing beside him: "He cares about other people's affairs, but why doesn't he care about his own affairs?"

Xing Ji actually wanted to say that Chu Ran not only cared about other people's affairs, but also about his own affairs. However, considering that Li Fu was not in a good mood today, Xing Ji did not say anything to provoke him.

"Why are you back so late?"

Chu Ran came out of the house and when he saw Li Fu, he couldn't help but show off: "How is it, my decoration is good, right?"

Li Fu wanted to say that the setting was not like a birthday banquet, but a wedding hall. But he held back and said "hmm" very lightly.

Chu Ran said happily: "When the old eunuch comes tomorrow, she will be so moved to death when she sees how much effort I put into preparing for his birthday banquet."

"Death is best."

"Ah? What did you just say?"

Li Fu's face was gloomy. "Nothing."

"Oh, by the way." Chu Ran was very happy for the result of his hard work all day. He happily shared with Li Fu, "I also found the best chef in the city to prepare a big meal tomorrow."

"How many people did you invite?" Li Fu interrupted Chu Ran, saying that was why he had to make such a grand ceremony.

“Hey, there aren’t many people.”

"How many people are there?"

Li Fu now felt a little regretful and softened his heart for a moment, so he agreed to lend this place to Chu Ran to hold the birthday banquet.

Li Fu didn't want too many irrelevant people to come.

Chu Ran said shyly: "Not many people means there are only a few of us."

Li Fu's face looked a little better. After a while, Chu Ran said, "It's true that it's more lively when there are more people, but after thinking about it, it seems that there's no one to invite, so let's just invite a few of us."

Chu Ran suddenly twitched his ear and said embarrassedly: "I don't really have many friends. Apart from the Fifth Prince, I'm only familiar with a few of you."

Chu Ran had many friends before, but this was not the place to make friends. Moreover, strictly speaking, Li Dingning could not be considered his friend.

"But luckily you're back." Chu Ran raised his head, smiled at Li Fu, and said, "I don't seem to be so lonely after you came back."

Chu Ran lowered his head again in embarrassment.

It was a bit pretentious for a grown man to say these things. He was usually too embarrassed to say them, but today, for some reason, he suddenly said them out loud.

Li Fu looked at him silently, and the regret, resentment and hatred in his heart suddenly disappeared.

Li Fu stretched out his hand and stroked Chu Ran's ear with his rough fingertips. The thin earlobe turned completely red the moment Li Fu touched it, and one could even see the tiny blood vessels inside.

Chu Ran dodged a little uncomfortably, and then Li Fu's fingertips lightly brushed across Chu Ran's soft hair.

Li Fu did not continue chasing after him, but lowered his hands and put them behind his back.

Chu Ran touched his earlobe and found it was burning so hard that even his brain seemed to be a little confused.

He wondered in confusion why Li Fu had touched his ear just now?

Is this normal?

If this is normal, does that mean that he can also touch Li Fu's ears.

Thinking of this, Chu Ran did this inexplicably.

He raised his hand in a daze, and stroked Li Fu's earlobe like he had just done to Li Fu. Then, Li Fu's normal ear turned bright red and felt hot to the touch, as if it had been boiled in hot water.

But the strange thing is that even so, Li Fu did not avoid it. He even looked at Chu Ran seriously, but his dark eyes seemed to be immersed in water, reflecting the moisture.

He suddenly tilted his head and put his cheek against Chu Ran's palm.