The little princess was torn, and the demon emperor patched her up

Chapter 111 This question is so difficult. I don’t understand it.

Yue Niang hurried to the imperial study with a bronze mirror.

Gu Zhenliang was scolding the Minister of Works: "You are so old, how come you can't even do math?! Sixty-six plus twenty-two, is that hard to calculate?!"

The Minister of Works knelt on the ground with an abacus in his arms, sweating profusely. "This... Your Majesty, this question is so difficult. I can't figure it out! I don't know what happened. Since I got up two days ago, I suddenly forgot how to calculate. I am guilty!"

"You really get more confused as you get older!" Gu Zhenliang yelled, "You caused such a big accident, I think you don't need to be the Minister of Works anymore! Come, dismiss him from his post and investigate him!"

"Your Majesty's forgiveness!"

The Minister of Works was dragged away screaming.

Several more officials came in hurriedly, vying to confess their crimes, "Your Majesty, I am an official of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau. I don't know why, but since the past two days, I have been unable to understand the stars and the compass, let alone predict the weather and divination! Please allow me to retire and return home!"

Gu Zhenliang shouted, "What a bunch of rubbish! You can't even understand the stars and the compass, how did you get into the Imperial Astronomical Bureau in the first place?! Get out, get out now!"

He rubbed his brows in frustration, and the six tassels hanging in front of his forehead rustled against each other, making crisp sounds.

Yue Niang stepped forward and poured him a cup of hot tea, and whispered, "My husband, is it because you betrayed the literary fortune of this dynasty that poetry, songs, arithmetic, and astrology have all degenerated?"

Gu Zhenliang suddenly pushed her away.

The hot tea gushed out and burned Yue Niang's arms, making her turn pale with pain.

Gu Zhenliang's face was fierce: "Stop exaggerating here! What do you mean by 'selling out literary fortune'? I just made a small deal with others to prevent those people from escaping! Compared to the so-called bullshit literary fortune, what I got is the throne and the country!"

Yue Niang covered her arm and looked at him in disbelief: "Husband..."

"You should call me Your Majesty!" Gu Zhenliang said impatiently, "How many times do I have to tell you before you can correct your poor and smelly habits brought from the countryside?! We are now the emperor and empress, the superiors, and we are no longer the poor tofu selling couple in Julu County! You are not young anymore, if you have time to point fingers at me here, you might as well dress yourself up! Every time I bring you to a palace banquet, I feel like there is a yellow-faced woman sitting next to me, I am so embarrassed!"

The man in front of him was wearing a dragon robe, and because of his intense emotions, only half of the imperial crown was left shaking violently.

His temples were gray and his face looked ferocious.

It made Yue Niang feel strange and scared.

With tears in her eyes, she looked deeply at Gu Zhenliang, then fled away with the bronze mirror in her arms.

When he returned to the bedroom, Xiao Baojing saw Yue Niang sitting there and crying again.

She cried from day to night. She was obviously thin, and no one knew where all the tears came from.

Xiao Baojing was worried: "Yue Niang..."

"He wasn't like this before..." Yue Niang choked up, her thin shoulders trembling slightly, "He used to be gentle and peaceful, never angry, let alone lose his temper with me like he did today. He always praised me for being well-educated and beautiful, but I didn't expect that he had already disliked me..."

Xiao Baojing looked at her.

Yue Niang is in her twenties, with willow-shaped eyebrows, almond-shaped eyes and delicate skin. Although she cannot be called stunningly beautiful, she is definitely not ugly.

She put her hands on her hips and cursed, "Yue Niang, don't listen to that bastard's nonsense! You are so beautiful, how can you be worthy of his eight hundred straight-backed ones! He doesn't even look in the mirror to see what he looks like and what kind of character he has. He is not even worthy of carrying your shoes! In my opinion, we should divorce him and leave the palace to live our own lives!"

Yue Niang was amused by her. She looked at herself in the mirror and stroked her cheek sadly: "I know that I am of humble origin and cannot compare to those young ladies from official families that he has recently married. As for appearance, they are only fifteen or sixteen years old, but I am much older than them, so naturally I am not as young and tender as them..."

Xiao Baojing laughed angrily: "Gu Zhenliang is already thirty years old, and he has the nerve to look down on your age! It is said that men die earlier than women, but in this world, old men and young wives are popular. It is not enough for them to have women serve them for their entire lives, and they also expect women to serve them for their last journey. So I think that sister-brother marriage is actually the right thing to do! Yue Niang, you should look down on Gu Zhenliang for being too old!"

She talked nonsense and didn't know if what she said made sense or not. She just wanted to comfort Yue Niang.

Yue Niang was amused by her and smiled at the bronze mirror, "If Miss Xiao's words were to spread, it would surely cause a great uproar. It is natural for a wife to serve her husband. How can she despise them for being old?"

Xiao Baojing held his face in his hands: "I think that since we are husband and wife, we should support and take care of each other. How can we ask one person to make sacrifices unilaterally? The relationship between husband and wife is one of the most intimate relationships in the world. We should be in love with each other. This is what husband and wife are like! If there is a grudge in the heart, or even suppressing the other person through words, then this is the behavior of an enemy. Even good friends will become enemies. What kind of intimate relationship is this?"

Yue Niang was ignorant.

No one had ever said these words to her.

The night is long and the candle is shedding tears.

Yue Niang sat under the window with her forehead supported, feeling deeply confused about the future.

Xiao Baojing sat by the hot spring and soaked his feet in the pool.

Wisps of warm air lingered between her calves, and two little fish swam back and forth, gently rubbing against her skin, which was very comfortable and pleasant.

She lowered her head and kicked up a bunch of water, saying sadly: "I don't know whether the peddler won the fight or not, and where he has gone now..."

Yue Niang looked out the window.

It was midnight and a bright moon rose into the sky.

Yue Niang was stunned: "Miss Xiao, the moon has risen..."

Gu Zhenliang clearly exchanged the literary fortune of the Gu Song Dynasty for the moon never appearing at midnight.

But now the moon is rising!

Xiao Baojing's mind raced, "The peddler must have won against Lan Ru, causing the spell Lan Ru cast on the moon to become ineffective! In other words, we can return to Southern Tang tonight! Yue Niang, why don't you come back to Southern Tang with me and stay away from that stinky scumbag Gu Zhenliang!"

"But he is my husband..." Yue Niang tightly grasped her handkerchief, "Miss Xiao, he is acting crazy now, I want to try to stop him. Otherwise, I will send you back to Southern Tang, and I will not go with you."

Xiao Baojing knew that he couldn't persuade her, so he could only remind her: "Then you must remember, never get close to the golden bird cage, otherwise you will die in it!"

Yue Niang nodded.

Fortunately, there were not many people serving in the bedroom where she lived, so there was no one to spy on her, so she easily fetched a basin of water.

When the moon shone on the water, she carefully placed the bronze mirror where Xiao Baojing lived.

Yue Niang was afraid that the bronze mirror would be broken, so she wrapped it with thick velvet cloth.

When the velvet cloth was untied, Xiao Baojing was facing the curious faces of Lu Xueying and Xiao Ping'an.

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