flstandardbreds Chapter 152 I like you very much!
Chapter 152 I like you very much!
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The next morning, Lu Yangyang was asleep when she felt a hand gently scratching her neck.
She suddenly opened her eyes and immediately saw Princess Liduan kneeling beside her bed.
Lu Yangyang was startled: "What are you doing?"
Princess Li Duan nudged her anxiously, "Yangyang, get up quickly and take me to see Brother Sheng."
"Big brother? What's wrong, big brother?" Lu Yangyang was a little confused and yawned.
"Oh dear, hurry up! I don't know either. I just felt a little uneasy last night. Was Brother Sheng alright yesterday?" Princess Li Duan seemed a bit absent-minded. She was an impatient person. She felt something was wrong in the middle of the night, so she simply got up and came to the Duke of Sheng's mansion without even having breakfast.
She couldn't go directly to Sheng Junyao, so she quickly went to find Lu Yangyang.
Lu Yangyang got out of bed and, while putting on her clothes, replied, "My older brother was disciplined by the family and was beaten more than a dozen times. His back is covered in bruises, but he won't let me see them, so I don't know how serious they are."
"What?!" Princess Liduan jumped up, stomping her feet angrily. "That's too much! Why did they hit Brother Sheng? Who did it? I'm going to settle the score with them!"
As she was about to leave, Lu Yangyang grabbed her arm: "Although I'd also like you to go and settle accounts with him, it's not appropriate. It was the Duke of Sheng who did it."
Princess Liduan immediately deflated. She was anxious; who else could enforce the family rules?
"That's too much." She stopped rushing out and muttered to herself.
Lu Yangyang nodded in deep agreement, "That is indeed excessive."
After the two finished whispering, Lu Yangyang went to wash her face. Not only was Princess Liduan anxious, but after hearing what Princess Liduan said, Lu Yangyang was also very worried, wondering about her elder brother's injuries. So she hurriedly and casually braided her hair and pulled Princess Liduan out the door.
Yesterday, Lu Yangyang had been to Sheng Junyao's courtyard and remembered the way. Just as she arrived at the gate of Sheng Junyao's courtyard, she saw a servant carrying a box out. He was very surprised to see her: "Miss? This servant was just about to deliver something to you. The young master instructed that it must be delivered to you personally."
"Where's my older brother?" Lu Yangyang glanced at the box, but didn't rush to take it. She asked first.
"The young master has left the capital. He left before dawn, and he's probably already out of the city by now," the servant replied.
"What did you say?" Lu Yangyang was shocked.
Princess Liduan turned and ran away.
"Hey!" Lu Yangyang called out, but Princess Liduan didn't turn around.
Lu Yangyang instructed the servant, "Take these things to Granny Shen."
Then he turned around and chased after Princess Liduan.
Princess Liduan ran all the way to the side gate of the Duke of Sheng's mansion. She had originally come by carriage, but after finding Lin Feng, she directly stole his horse and rode away.
Lu Yangyang chased after them all the way out, not bothering to ask any questions. She quickly turned around, grabbed a horse from the Duke of Sheng's mansion, and followed after them.
Princess Li Duan gripped the reins and ran forward with her head down, the wind making her eyes red.
Lu Yangyang quickly caught up with her, wanting to say a few words of advice, but didn't know what to say.
She never expected her older brother to leave without saying goodbye.
I thought his excuse about having urgent military business to leave Beijing yesterday was just that—an excuse. But it turns out he had already planned to leave Beijing overnight when he made the decision yesterday.
However, she still had things she hadn't had time to tell her elder brother, including the previous speculations about his death. After she told the Crown Prince about it, he said he would find a way, and she thought he would make some arrangements.
However, my elder brother left Beijing in such a hurry that there was probably no time to make arrangements.
Lu Yangyang knew that they would never catch up with the person if they chased after them all the way, but when she looked at Princess Liduan, she felt that she would be even more upset if she wasn't allowed to chase after her.
Neither of them spoke. After chasing out of the city gate, they ran for dozens of miles in one breath until they reached the post station. Lu Yangyang stopped Princess Liduan. Even if she could still run, the horse couldn't keep up.
Lu Yangyang had the people at the post station lead the horse to drink water and feed it. Princess Liduan, with a tense little face, squatted silently under the porch outside the post station.
A dark cloud suddenly rolled in from the originally clear sky, and a heavy rain began to fall shortly afterward.
Princess Liduan looked at the torrential rain outside the porch, and the emotions she had suppressed all the way suddenly collapsed, and she burst into tears.
She first burst into tears, then gradually turned into sobs, her eyes red and swollen from crying.
“Princess?” A voice rang in her ears. Princess Liduan was incredulous at first, then she suddenly raised her head.
Sheng Junyao dismounted, removed his rain hat, handed the horse to the guards who had followed him, and walked up to Princess Liduan, handing her a plain handkerchief.
Princess Li Duan cried like a rabbit. She squatted on the ground, staring blankly upwards until the plain handkerchief was handed to her. Only then did she suddenly realize what was happening, hurriedly grabbing the handkerchief and covering her face with her hands.
She heard Sheng Junyao chuckle softly.
Summer rain comes quickly and goes quickly. It was as if the downpour stopped the moment he laughed out loud, leaving only the clear dripping sound under the eaves.
Li Duan blushed.
After a long while, he quietly moved two fingers aside, revealing one eye, and asked cautiously, "Brother Sheng, are you... are you really leaving the capital?"
"Hmm, what are you doing here?" Sheng Junyao asked gently.
“I, I… I followed you out to find Yangyang, but I didn’t expect you to have already left,” Princess Liduan said somewhat incoherently. “Then we chased you here. I thought you had already left and that Yangyang had gone to have someone feed the horses.”
"You chased after me?" Sheng Junyao was a little puzzled: "I already had someone leave a message for Yangyang, telling her that I was leaving the capital. Why did you two chase after me? If you two young girls are leaving the capital, you should at least bring a few people with you."
Princess Li Duan bit her lip, her one eye staring at him with a clear, bright gaze. She felt her heart pounding so hard it felt like it was going to jump out of her throat.
When she chased after him, she had thought about it and had a lot to say to him, but when she actually saw him, those words were stuck in her head like mush, and she couldn't say a single one.
She was so anxious that her eyes widened even more.
Sheng Junyao, however, watched her patiently and waited for her.
"Brother Sheng, I, I like you very much, very much!" Under his gentle gaze, Princess Li Duan somehow mustered up the courage to finally gather the tangled thoughts in her mind into the strongest desire and utter them.
Sheng Junyao was slightly taken aback, probably not expecting her to confess so suddenly. After a long while, he chuckled and said, "Princess, you are still young and probably can't distinguish the weight of feelings yet. The liking you have now is different from the liking you will have in the future. Do you understand what I mean?"
Princess Li Duan asked urgently, "Then, what if I grow up? In a few years when I'm all grown up, can I like you?"