My hotel is full of emperors throughout history.

Li Lizhi was taken aback.

"Granddaughter...Granddaughter isn't acting strangely..."

"Nothing strange?"

Li Yuan raised an eyebrow.

"Who was stomping their feet over there just now? Who was saying, 'What if Manager Chen gets corrupted?' The tone, the expression—anyone who didn't know better would have thought..."

He paused deliberately, looking at her with a half-smile.

Li Lizhi's blush deepened.

"Grandfather! Your granddaughter is just... just worried that Manager Chen will be implicated by my elder brother..."

"Oh—I'm worried."

Li Yuan pronounced the word with exceptional clarity, uttering each syllable distinctly.

"I'm worried about Manager Chen. I'm worried he'll be led astray. I'm worried he'll learn those... what's it called again? Cleaning windows?"

He couldn't help but chuckle again.

"I remember you just said something about Manager Chen. Simple, kind, honest, and never looks at anything improper—tsk tsk tsk, that's quite a compliment."

Li Lizhi: ……

Her face had turned from pink to red, and then from red to crimson, looking just like a boiled shrimp.

"My granddaughter was just... just telling the truth..."

"Tell the truth?"

Li Yuan leaned forward with a smile.

"Then tell your grandfather, what exactly makes Manager Chen so good?"

"He...he..."

Li Lizhi opened her mouth, but her mind seemed to be blocked by something, and she couldn't say a word for a moment.

What's so good about him?

Can you cook?

Can you drive?

Would they drive to the hospital without hesitation when they needed help the most?

Will they patiently serve these inexplicable ancient people without uttering a single complaint?

She wanted to say all of this, but the words just wouldn't come out.

Especially in front of my grandfather's "I see right through you" expression.

She could only blush, lower her head, and wish she could bury her face in her chest.

Xiao Sizi also took the opportunity to break free from Li Lizhi's hand, and when she looked up, she saw her elder sister's flushed face.

"Sister! Sister!" she exclaimed in surprise, "Why is your face so red? Do you have a fever?"

She reached out her chubby little hand to touch Li Lizhi's forehead.

Li Lizhi: ……

Li Yuan laughed even louder.

"Good boy," he scooped the little girl back into his arms, "Your older sister doesn't have a fever, she is—"

He paused meaningfully.

"Just thinking about a certain 'simple and kind' person makes me blush."

"Who is it? Who is it?" Little Si asked curiously. "Who is the kind and honest person?"

"Manager Chen."

Li Yuan answered with a smile.

Little Sizi blinked and suddenly realized.

"Oh—! Big sister likes small cystic fungi!"

boom!

Li Lizhi felt like her head was about to burst into flames.

"Sizi! Don't talk nonsense!"

Her voice trembled with anxiety.

Little Sizi looked at her innocently.

"But sister, your face is so red... and Si Zi likes little cysts too!!!"

Li Lizhi: ……

"That kid is really good."

Seeing his granddaughter blush so much, Li Yuan knew he couldn't tease her anymore and sighed.

Li Shimin and Li Lizhi were both stunned for a moment.

"What?"

"Manager Chen."

Li Yuan said slowly.

"He is honest, kind-hearted, not snobbish, and does not curry favor with the powerful."

"Back in our hometown, we're considered to be above everyone else, but here we're just an old man and a few ignorant kids."

"But what about him? He cooked porridge, drove, and served us. He didn't lower himself because of our identity, nor did he take advantage of the fact that he was from the future to blackmail us."

He turned his head and looked at Li Shimin.

"Tell me, where can you find someone like that?"

Li Shimin remained silent.

Li Yuan withdrew his gaze, looked out the window, and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

"That girl, Lizhi, has good taste."

Li Shimin opened his mouth as if to say something, but then closed it again.

Li Yuan has already spoken, what else can he say?

But is that kid really that good?

Li Shimin fell into deep thought.

Seeing this, Li Lizhi seized the opportunity to build the railway.

"That's why I said! We can't let our elder brother corrupt Manager Chen!!! It would be terrible if Manager Chen followed him astray!"

"Father, you really need to take this seriously! What if Manager Chen ends up cleaning the windows too?"

Li Shimin imagined that scene.

Chen Mo was wearing an apron, holding a spoon, with a video of him cleaning windows playing on his phone, and singing "cleaning windows" in his head.

The little ox next to him followed suit.

Li Shimin: ...

He couldn't help but shiver.

"This matter..."

He cleared his throat and his expression turned serious.

"This matter definitely needs to be taken seriously."

Li Lizhi's eyes lit up: "Right! My daughter said so!"

"When Chengqian returns," Li Shimin said in a deep voice, "I will definitely have a good talk with him."

He paused, then added.

"And take his phone while you're at it."

Li Lizhi nodded in satisfaction.

"Hey! Put your phone away! What am I supposed to look at?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Yuan, who was standing to the side, became displeased.

"I'm using this to kill time now."

"I'll have Manager Chen buy you another one later."

"I don't want that! I want the superior one!"

Li Shimin remained silent.

Li Yuan couldn't help but tease him when he saw his appearance.

"What? You're speechless?"

Li Shimin opened his mouth, then closed it again.

Li Lizhi grew anxious.

"Grandfather! My eldest brother uses this phone to watch... those indecent things! What if you...?"

"Me too?" Li Yuan raised an eyebrow at her. "I'm already this old, what's wrong with taking a look? I'm not going to imitate their swaying and twisting movements."

Li Lizhi: ……

"Besides,"

Li Yuan leaned back and said leisurely.

"I just love seeing what Gao Ming has read. That kid always acts all respectable in front of me, but he's secretly reading this stuff—tsk tsk, it makes me happy."

Li Shimin: …………

Li Lizhi: …………

Li Yuan got more and more excited as he spoke, and patted his phone with a smile.

"What other books are in here...? 'I, Li Chengqian, Start by Replicating the Xuanwu Gate Incident'—I've read it, and it's quite interesting."

Li Yuan clicked his tongue in amazement.

"And that 'Please Call the Retired Emperor Your Majesty', I haven't finished reading it yet."

"You want me to hand it over? No way!"

Li Shimin's expression became extremely interesting.

Li Lizhi covered her face, not wanting to speak.

Little Sizi couldn't understand at all; she just thought the adults were all very strange.

Seeing his son's discomfitured expression, Li Yuan was in a good mood and waved his hand.

"Alright, alright, stop standing there. If you want to take back your phone, wait until Gao Ming comes back and have him buy you a new one. This one will stay with me; I haven't had enough of it yet."

He paused, then added.

"Especially those accounts of how he rebelled, I need to study them carefully."

Li Shimin: ...

Li Lizhi whispered from the side.

"Father, then..."

Li Shimin closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

Then he opened his eyes, looked at the smug old man holding his phone, and squeezed out a sentence through gritted teeth.

"Your subject... understands."

Li Yuan nodded in satisfaction.

"That's more like it."

He leaned back against the headboard, picked up his phone, and started swiping away skillfully, muttering to himself.

"Where was I again... Oh right, Chapter Three, how Gao Ming plotted a rebellion..."

Li Shimin turned and left.

Li Lizhi quickly pulled Xiao Sizi along to follow.

As she walked out of the ward and closed the door, she heard her grandfather let out a smug laugh from inside.

That laughter was all about "I won, I won!"

Li Lizhi glanced at her father's ashen face and asked cautiously.

"Dad, what about my brother's phone...?"

Li Shimin stopped and stood in the corridor.

a long time.

He suddenly sighed.

"never mind."

"never mind?"

Li Lizhi was stunned.

"Your grandfather rarely had anything that made him happy in his life," Li Shimin said in a low voice, his emotions unreadable. "Let him keep it."

Li Lizhi opened her mouth as if to say something, but then swallowed it back.

Little Sizi tugged at her sleeve.

"Sister, why is Grandfather so happy?"

Li Lizhi lowered her head, looking into her younger sister's clear eyes, unsure how to answer.

She couldn't very well say: "Because Grandfather is looking at my older brother's embarrassing past with great interest."

All she could say was, "Grandfather... is in a good mood."

Little Sizi said "Oh," and nodded as if he understood but not quite.

Li Shimin strode forward.

After taking a few steps, he suddenly stopped.

"Beautiful".

"My daughter is here."

"Tell Manager Chen later," he paused, "that he... never mind, no need to say anything."

Li Lizhi blinked, not understanding.

Li Shimin sighed, looked at Li Lizhi, and his face was serious.

"Lizhi, tell your father the truth, what are your true feelings for that boy?"