Adhere to the gentleman's principles

After Zhao Junning walked over to the charcoal fire and sat down, Li Ziyan said, "Sit still and warm yourself by the fire. I'll help you dry your hair. And drink this cold medicine. It's not too hot now."

Zhao Junning sat down obediently and finished drinking the cold medicine, waiting for Li Ziyan to dry her hair. While drying her hair, Zhao Junning said, "Ziyan, you are different from when I married me and when I first met you."

Li Ziyan asked, "What's different?" Zhao Junning said, "It's become gentler."

Li Ziyan continued, "Is he more handsome too?"

Zhao Junning said: "It's out of tune again. Not only has he become gentler and more handsome, but also..."

Li Ziyan asked, "What else?" Zhao Junning said, "You treated me better."

After hearing this, Li Ziyan said, "What's that? I, Li Ziyan, have always been very kind. You are my wife. If I don't treat you well, who else can I treat well?"

"Okay, your hair is dry, go to bed now. I'm going to take a shower and go to bed too." Li Ziyan said. Zhao Junning got up, walked to the bed, turned around and said, "You sleep on the bed tonight. The weather has been too cold these days and the chairs are not as warm as the bed. It's always warmer for two people to sleep together than just one."

Li Ziyan was stunned and stammered, "Okay." Zhao Junning got on the bed and lay under the quilt waiting for Li Ziyan. After taking a shower, Li Ziyan dried his hair, blew out the candles, walked to the bed, looked at Zhao Junning who was already asleep, then gently lifted the quilt and went to sleep.

As soon as Li Ziyan lay down, Zhao Junning turned over in her sleep and clung to Li Ziyan's arms, slowly hugging Li Ziyan tightly. Li Ziyan was reluctant to let go and just let Zhao Junning hold him and fall asleep. The girl and the boy were reflected by the moonlight in the night sky, and their faces were printed. One was a pure and innocent boy, and the other was a gentle and intelligent girl. Young couples are also a good story.

The next day, the two of them were very close. When Zhao Junning opened her eyes, she saw Li Ziyan in front of her. She was still in Li Ziyan's arms. Zhao Junning took this opportunity to look at Li Ziyan carefully and whispered, "He's really good-looking."

In my heart: I left you so early in my last life, but I didn't expect that you would marry me so early in this life. Before Li Ziyan opened his eyes, he said, "That's right, I, Li Ziyan, have been good-looking since I was a child."

Then he opened his eyes and looked at Zhao Junning: "It's rare to have a husband as good-looking as me." Zhao Junning said: "Narcissism." Li Ziyan looked at Zhao Junning in his arms and seemed to have a different feeling in his heart. Zhao Junning sat up, and Li Ziyan asked: "Are you going to the store today?"

Zhao Junning said, "Yes, I think clearly that making money is a great pleasure in life, and the more money you make, the better it feels." Zhao Junning took a breath and said, "I can smell the scent of silver and banknotes every day."

Li Ziyan said, "You are obsessed with money. You think a lot at a young age." Zhao Junning said, "What do you know? In this world, being rich is the real skill." Li Ziyan said, "Oh!"

Zhao Junning looked at Li Ziyan: "By the way, how is your study going?" Li Ziyan sat up straight and looked at Zhao Junning and said: "You were fine just now, why are you talking about studying again? Zhao Junning, please let me go. Studying is too tiring. Although my writing skills are not as good as Song Ciqiu and Lin Muchen, they are not bad either. Besides, didn't you say that I would understand it if I was smarter?"

Zhao Junning shook her head and said, "Okay, but you can't be too lazy." Li Ziyan said, "Oh, I get it. How can you, a fourteen-year-old girl, always advise me in the tone of a seventy-eighty-year-old?"

Fuling knocked on the door and said, "Young lady, today is New Year's Eve. The Marquis and his wife went to the Kitchen God Temple to worship the Kitchen God. Breakfast is ready."

Zhao Junning got out of bed immediately after hearing this and said, "If you sleep too much, today is the New Year's Eve, and we need to worship the Kitchen God." Li Ziyan said, "It's just worshiping the Kitchen God, why are you in such a hurry? Do you believe it?" Zhao Junning said, "I don't believe it, but it's already 9:00 PM, and we can't sleep any more."

Zhao Junning walked to the door and opened it. Fuling said, "The Marquis's wife said it doesn't matter whether the young lady and the son-in-law go to pay respects or not. By the way, the Marquis's wife said that when the young lady goes to the store today, the son-in-law should follow her." Zhao Junning and Li Ziyan asked at the same time, "Why?"

Fuling said, "The Marquis's wife said that the store will be crowded with customers starting from the eve of the Chinese New Year. There will be those hooligans who like to take advantage of others. The son-in-law will go with you to protect the young lady." Zhao Junning said, "Is that so."

Li Ziyan yawned and walked to the table and said, "Okay, I have nothing to do anyway, and Wen He and Cong Wen are busy with family matters these days, so I'll go with you."

Zhao Junning nodded and said, "Okay!" The carriage stopped at the door of the salt shop. Customers were coming and going. Zhao Junning walked into the salt shop and the manager said, "Madam, business is so good today. We have just bought thirty stones of salt."

Zhao Junning said, "That's great. Business is even better when the new year is approaching. Uncle Chen, you keep an eye on it here. I'll go to North Street to take a look."

The two of them arrived at North Street. The shops on North Street were less regulated than those on East Street. A few hooligans robbed several batches of cloth and beat up the shop assistant. Zhao Junning rushed over to stop them and said, "Four of you, if you want to buy cloth, let's go in and talk, but if..."

The thug approached Zhao Junning: "But what? It's a shop opened by a girl." Zhao Junning said: "What's wrong with a shop opened by a woman?"

The gangster boss said, "You women open shops to seduce men, don't you? I'll give you 100 taels today so you can keep me company." The gangsters came closer and closer. Li Ziyan had just helped up a few managers who had fallen when he saw the gangsters teasing Zhao Junning. He quickly ran to Zhao Junning and kicked the gangster who came close to him to the ground. He then knocked down a few other gangsters who had come with him and said, "Just buy the cloth, don't touch my wife with your dirty hands."

The gangster boss was helped up and threw down a bag of silver, saying, "Your wife opened a shop to seduce me. I gave her money to flatter her but she didn't know what was good for her. Besides, I didn't touch her."

Li Ziyan punched him again, walked forward, squatted down, lifted the ruffian's collar and said, "My wife seduced you? Take a good look at yourself. How could my wife be attracted to you and seduce you when you are so ugly? We opened the shop to make money, do business and make friends, not to entertain beasts."

Li Ziyan stood up and kicked the silver on the ground to the gangster boss: "Today is New Year's Eve, and I don't want to see blood today. I don't want my wife to see blood early in the morning, especially the blood of someone like you."

The gangster boss was helped by his brothers and ran away, and he didn't forget to take the stolen cloth away with him. Li Ziyan put his hands on his waist and said, "How shameless! He took it away." He walked up to Zhao Junning and asked, "Are you okay?"

Zhao Junning shook her head: "It's okay, you just..." Li Ziyan said: "Did you get scared?" Zhao Junning said: "No, you were really awesome just now."

Li Ziyan scratched the back of his head happily after being praised. Zhao Junning walked into the cloth shop and sorted out the messy cloth. The buyers were frightened by Li Ziyan's fierceness and became orderly. At the end of the day, with Li Ziyan's help, Zhao Junning managed the store very well.