Jiang Zhou patiently coaxed Xiao Yi to let go of his hair then he asked Wen Yan, “Are you here to see the lantern festival?”

Perhaps because Jiang Zhou’s gentleness which was the same like his husband back then, Wen Yan who was full of worry and defense, finally felt a little better around the man.

He only felt a little sad but he nodded at him while hugging the small baby.

Jiang Zhou hesitated for a while and asked again, “There are so many people now. It would be hard for you to walk around with a baby. Your parents didn’t come with you?”

“They are here. I just want to walk around with Xiao Yi.”

Jiang Zhou listened to his words carefully and felt his heart softened, Wen Yan must be looking out for him here.

His wife should be missing him and couldn’t wait for them to be together again. They could have more children and grow old together.

“Well, I will take you to Sanshu Alley then?”

Jiang Zhou didn’t say that he wanted to visit the lantern festival with him but only said to take him there.

Sanshu Alley wasn’t far from them, there was a market before they could reach it. It always filled with people who wanted to see the lantern festival.

There was no way Wen Yan could walk around the safely, he didn’t dare to let his wife took the risk.

Wen Yan looked at his eyes and agreed. The two left the young master and his servants alone.

However, the young master didn’t stop them and stood there blankly.

When Jiang Zhou and Wen Yan disappeared, the young master calmed down and stamped his feet.

The two servants looked at his face and asked cautiously, “Young master, are we still going to shopping?”

The young master raised his eyes and glared at them, he hit each other with his fan and cursed, “What a waste time! This place is so shabby and the lantern festival is boring. We couldn’t even catch a little beauty. Let’s go home!”

The two servants didn’t have a choice, they followed him back with a sad face. They looked at each other, it was rare for them to go out. They couldn’t even watch the lantern festival, such a pity.

The young master walked back carelessly.

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If Jiang Zhou knew the young master was actually from the Liu Mansion, he would claim in surprise. This was the actually the Liu family who moved here to take office as the magistrate. And the young master he saw just now, must be his son.

It seemed that Liu family wasn’t a populous. There was no on inside except the two cleaning servants when the young master came in.

He ran back into his courtyard in three steps and shouted for someone to bring him bath water.

After he took a bath comfortably, he leaned on the recliner with his inner clothes and saw a maid sent by his mother.

“Young master, madam bought a lot of food today. She knows you don’t like to go out, so she went to the market and asked the best dishes. She bought them all, they are waiting for you to try it.”

Young master Liu had two major hobbies in his life; one was teasing beauties and two was eating. Because of his desire, he especially picked out romance novels and delicious foods to study.

When he heard there was something delicious, he immediately became excited and ran out without wearing his outer clothes.

“Mother! I am here!!”

Madam Liu was a woman who looks lively at first glance. When she saw her son running around, she became anxious, “Please run slower, my son. Those things won’t fly out of thin air. Why are you so anxious?”

Liu Buping only had his eyes for those delicacies, he couldn’t wait to eat them all, “Where’s the delicious foods?”

He went straight to the pile of foods on the table, after looking around he felt uninterested, “It’s only that. Looks no different with the one in Qiangzhou.”

There were many people coming and going in Qiangzhou, it was a gathering place for merchants all around the worlds. So, there were many new things there and anything almost could be found there.

Liu Buping was bored as soon as he saw the foods and took a plate of peanuts to chew them carefully.

Madam Liu blinked and handed over things to him one by one, “Do you want to eat a cloud cake? Do you want to eat a duck foot?”

Liu Bupik shook his head.

Madam Liu brought him another plate of yellow cakes, “Do you want to try this?”

Liu Buping glanced at it. The cakes look soft and dry, he hated eating this kind of foods the most.

He was about to shake his head but smelled a sweet scent from it. The smell was really good and made him hesitate.

Well, then, let’s try it?

He took the plate and pinched a piece of it. It was soft as expected but wasn’t chewy like dim sum.

Instead, it was a little grainy with some crumbs left from touching it.

After observing enough, he took a bite, the thing was strange, he couldn’t taste what it was made off. It seemed to have pork inside it, but not a fresh one, more like a dried pork. It tasted salty and had weird sweetness surrounded the cake.

The two flavors were mixed well which tasted strange and delicious.

Madam Liu looked at him expectantly, “How is it?”

Liu Buping took a big bite and nodded his head repeatedly, “Hmm….”

Madam Liu patted the table, “This is cake is from Jiang Zhou from Xiaohe Village. If you like it, I will find someone to make reservation for you.”

Liu Buping blinked, “Mother, I want something else.”

“Okay. Okay. What is it? I will listen to you.”

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Jiang Zhou didn’t know that he just met by chance, but Liu Buping were greedy for his cakes.

He followed Wen Yan step by step in a crowded road. Just like when he was a child, he walked slowly with xiao Wen Yan in his hand.

At that time, the two of them were so small and only reached the waist of an adult. They couldn’t see the road upfront and Wen Yan was afraid of the crowd so he grabbed the corner of his clothes. Jiang Zhou was afraid of losing him so he took the small hand into his owns.

With Jiang Zhou’s protection Wen Yan dared to look around but remained obedient by Jiang Zhou’s side. When he saw something interesting, he would yell out,

“Zhou-gege.”

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Jiang Zhou turned his head and looked at Wen Yan. The lights on the roadside illuminated Wen Yan’s face, the warm light made his face looks very gentle and soft.

In a trance, he felt like it was years ago and his sight were overlapped with the current Wen Yan and xiao Wen Yan.

Jiang Zhou felt his heart was beating very fast -it was easy for him to be tempted by Wen Yan, but since he lost consciousness, he had tasted the feeling of seeing but couldn’t touch. Now, he knew he should cherish everything he had.

The lantern festival had already begun and the crowd were overwhelmingly huge. People from both sides would squeeze them.

“Boom–”

The fireworks symbolizing the beginning of lantern festival rose into the sky and exploded.

Jiang Zhou held Wen Yan’s hand when the gorgeous fireworks exploded above their heads, “Don’t be afraid.”

Wen Yan let him hold his hand without breaking it. No one knows how he felt inside his heart.