Adhere to the gentleman's principles

Li Ziyan glanced at Zhao Junning, chuckled, took the wine glass and drank with Zhao Junning. Li Ziyan looked at Zhao Junning and said, "Zhao Junning, I have married you and I am responsible for you, but you can't control me in the future. Although you are pretty, I don't like you. You are not my type."

Zhao Junning heard this and asked, "If you don't like me, then why did you marry me?" Li Ziyan said, "I... I've already said those words and let you be talked about by others. I'm a man, and I can't let you, a girl, be scolded! But don't worry, now that I've married you, my father is the Marquis of Guangping, and you've married into the family, they won't scold you anymore. I'm responsible, but it can't stop me from liking you!"

Zhao Junning slapped Li Ziyan and cried, "Li Ziyan, you bastard, do I need you to take responsibility?" Li Ziyan was a little overwhelmed when he saw Zhao Junning crying and was almost sober. He comforted her, "Don't cry, if we ever get divorced, I will say that I did something wrong to you and I won't let you hold your head up low."

Zhao Junning pushed Li Ziyan away and cried, "You still want a divorce? You big bastard, if you don't like me, don't marry me. Now you want a divorce after marrying me." As she spoke, her crying became louder. Fortunately, Li Yin's room was far away from Li Ziyan's room in the backyard and the crying could not be heard. Li Ziyan sighed, and Zhao Junning wiped away her tears and said, "Li Ziyan, if you marry me, don't even think about divorcing me. Don't even think about divorcing me unless I die."

Li Ziyan said, "Don't cry for now. Are you hungry? Here are some snacks. Would you like to have some? Anyway, I have already said that I don't like you. You girls value your reputation, so I will protect your reputation. You married here, but I really don't like you."

Zhao Junning's eyes were red from crying. She took the snack plate and looked at Li Ziyan: "Get lost."

Zhao Junning pushed Li Ziyan out of the room and closed the door. She didn't know when she stopped crying. Zhao Junning fell asleep leaning against the bed. The snack plate fell to the ground, waking up Li Ziyan who was dozing on the steps outside the house. Li Ziyan pushed the door open and saw Zhao Junning leaning against the bed. He said to himself, "Is Zhao Junning going to commit suicide?"

He walked over carefully and put his hand on her philtrum to feel for it: "Oh, it turns out she fell asleep because she was tired from crying." Then he took off Zhao Junning's shoes and coat, laid her flat on the bed, covered her with a quilt, walked out of the room, closed the door, shook his head and sighed: "It's really troublesome to marry a wife, forget it, just make do with this. Otherwise, she might cry every day in the future. It's really not good to let a girl cry every day."

After covering Zhao Junning with the quilt, he walked out of the door, walked to the poolside, sat down, looked at the night sky and said, "Why did I say that at the time? Now that I have a wife, if we divorce, the way this girl cried today is scary. I never thought that I, Li Ziyan, would get married at such a young age. How unbalanced!"

The next day, Zhao Junning woke up and saw that Li Ziyan had already left the house. Zhao Junning didn't care and got up to change her clothes. She changed her hair from loose to a bun. Looking at her red eyes in the mirror, she cleaned up and left without waiting for Fuling to come in. Fuling looked inside the house and asked, "Miss, your husband is not here?" Zhao Junning said, "He's not here. Let's go and serve tea to your parents-in-law."

"Miss, you... have been crying for a long time, right? My son-in-law is too much. He went out to play right after getting married. He is so disrespectful." Zhao Junning looked at Fuling: "This is not the Zhao Mansion. Don't be so unreasonable in the future. He was forced to marry me, and it was good enough that he could marry me and give me dignity." Zhao Junning thought: After all, I expected too much. He is not the him in the previous life.

After Zhao Junning served tea in the lobby, Xu Zhiwan said, "Junning, come sit down and have your meal!" Li Yin saw Zhao Junning coming alone and said, "That brat has run away again! Junning, don't worry, I will catch him back in a while."

Zhao Junning said, "It's okay. If he likes to go out, let him go. He will come back naturally after he has had enough fun." Xu Zhiwan picked up some food for Zhao Junning and said, "You're right. He will come back after he has had enough fun." Then Xu Zhiwan asked, "Junning, have you often gone to the store with your mother to do business at home?"

Zhao Junning shook her head: "No, but I helped my mother with the accounting." Xu Zhiwan said: "That's enough. Recently, the cloth shop will have new cloth, and the salt shop and grain shop will also have new goods. You are a young man, so I want you to go with me to take a look. You can help me, your mother-in-law, give me some advice and help me with the accounting." Zhao Junning thought for a while and said: "Okay."

Arriving at Li's Dyeing Factory, Xu Zhiwan introduced the types of fabrics to Zhao Junning one by one and asked, "Junning, after seeing so many, do you have any ideas?" Xu Zhiwan looked at Zhao Junning and said, "Junning, do you think it is better to sell the fabrics by color or quality?"

Zhao Junning said: "Younger cloth shops will focus on color. Color is the surface. They will think that a good-looking surface is enough. But if the quality is good but the color is not good enough, it will not sell well. These colors are the most popular colors this year. Any one of them will sell well as the main color. As for the quality..."

Zhao Junning touched the cloth and said, "The quality is the best... Mother-in-law, you have already taken care of it, why are you asking me?" Xu Zhiwan then took Zhao Junning to the salt shop and the grain shop. Finally, she took Zhao Junning to the general account office, "Your mother also took you to your Zhao family's account office, right?" Zhao Junning nodded.

Xu Zhiwan took them into the house and sat down. Zhao Junning sat beside them. Xu Zhiwan said, "You looked like you didn't care about anything this morning, but you must be feeling very uncomfortable! Ziyan is a stubborn child, but he will never do anything to let you down. This child is often said to be playboy, dandy but not vulgar, and that's just what outsiders think. Junning, if you have any grievances, just speak up. I know you didn't say it today because you just got married and we all protected Ziyan, right?"

Zhao Junning didn't say anything, Xu Zhiwan said: "Don't worry, we in the Li family love our daughters-in-law. Today, mother-in-law brought you to the dyeing workshop to let you speak out what you want to say boldly. Didn't you say it very well just now?"

Zhao Junning took a deep breath and said, "Mother-in-law, Li Ziyan told me not to take care of him." Xu Zhiwan said, "So you really don't care about him?" Zhao Junning shook her head.

Xu Zhiwan said, "That's right. If you want to control him, then do as you wish. Today I can see that your method is very simple. Let him go out and play by himself first. Let him find out that he is not important to you and he will no longer want to go out. He likes to go against others and you have caught this point of his. My daughter-in-law, you are very smart. Zi Yan is blessed to have such a daughter-in-law. But mother-in-law knows that you will definitely bring him back this time."

Zhao Junning nodded: "Yes." Zhao Junning then asked: "Mother-in-law and father-in-law hope that Ziyan will become an official in the future?" Xu Zhiwan said: "Ziyan wants to become an official, but unfortunately he failed the provincial examination last year. It was a big blow to him. Next year..." Zhao Junning smiled and said: "Mother-in-law, I know."

Xu Zhiwan held Zhao Junning's hand and said, "Zi Yan is a child who likes to sulk. He thinks we always compare him with Lin Muchen and Song Ci Qiu and always wants to cause trouble to make his father pay attention to him. But in fact, he is not bad in academics, he just doesn't like being compared to others."

At this time, Li Ziyan, Xu Wenhe and Shen Congwen were in the gambling house. Xu Wenhe asked, "Ziyan, you just got married and you're already here at the gambling house?" Shen Congwen said, "Your wife really doesn't care about you?"

Li Ziyan said, "Don't worry, I've made it clear to her. She won't care about me. I've said that I won't be afraid of my wife like my father." Xu Wenhe said, "Yes! Who was kicked out of the wedding room on the night of the wedding?" Li Ziyan said, "Go away. I don't want to argue with a girl like her. What do you know?" Xu Wenhe smiled and nodded, "Yes, yes, the young marquis is very righteous." Li Ziyan looked at Xu Wenhe, "It's not you." Xu Wenhe said, "Hey, hey, hey, let's continue playing. I won't say anything." Then Li Ziyan continued to place bets. Then they went to the dance hall to have fun.

At night, at the Guangping Marquis's residence, Zhao Junning was rubbing his neck in the room. He looked at the accounts he had calculated today and checked them seven or eight times and said, "It seems that the calculations were correct." He then looked at the dishes on the table and said to Fuling, "Fuling, heat up the dishes for my son-in-law to eat when he comes back."

Fuling said, "Miss, it's already the 10 o'clock in the evening. Don't be anxious or angry if your son-in-law hasn't come home yet." Zhao Junning said, "Go quickly." After a while, Fuling brought the hot dishes and said to Zhao Junning, "It's getting late. You should go back to bed." Fuling nodded and said, "Okay, Miss, I'm going to bed. You should also rest early." After Fuling left, Zhao Junning closed the account book, walked to the bed, took off her coat and shoes, and went to bed. The candles in the room were still lit.

After a while, Li Ziyan opened the door and saw that the room was bright, but Zhao Junning was already asleep. He walked to the table and saw the hot food on the table. He said to himself, "The candles were not blown out. They were left for me? That's quite thoughtful. She won't like me, right? Never mind."

After finishing the meal, he took the bowl to the kitchen and returned to the house. Li Ziyan walked to the bed and chair with the quilt, spread it out, and then fell asleep. The next day, Zhao Junning saw Li Ziyan still sleeping on the bed and chair, and did not disturb him. After dressing up and finishing breakfast, he covered Li Ziyan's portion and went out to the store. After waking up, Li Ziyan saw the breakfast on the table and sat on the chair, and asked Mo Yu: "Where is Zhao Junning?"

Mo Yu said, "The young lady went to the shop with the marquis's wife early in the morning." Li Ziyan was puzzled: "Go to the shop? Is she not angry anymore?" Li Ziyan didn't care about that. After breakfast, he continued to play happily.

At night, Zhao Junning was still calculating on the abacus. Fuling said, "Miss, you have great energy." Zhao Junning said, "I used to think that doing business was just so-so, but now I think it's pretty good. I feel satisfied counting money every day."