A life of ups and downs is pure joy

It was already sunset when Lin Qinghuan returned to the Xiao Mansion. He went to Qingyin Pavilion with Xiao Qiannan to say goodnight, and then returned to Qingbo Courtyard feeling a little tired.

"The young lady is back." Yun Xiang came to greet Lin Qinghuan as soon as she stepped into the yard.

"Miss, you are a little tired today. I will go prepare some toiletries for you." Chu Xia let go of Lin Qinghuan, handed the things in her hand to Yun Xiang, and went to get busy.

Li Xue ran out of the house and chased Chu Xia to help. Yun Xiang helped Lin Qinghuan into the house, "The eldest master went to the study as soon as he came back. He didn't even have dinner!"

"You have to work so hard, is it because the Xiao family doesn't have enough money to spend?" Lin Qinghuan said. Yun Xiang looked at the young lady with some surprise.

"Did you bring him any food?" Lin Qinghuan asked again.

"It has been delivered, but the eldest master hasn't picked up his chopsticks. Madam, do you want to go and take a look?" Yun Xiang asked tentatively.

Lin Qinghuan was still a little angry about the treatment for her heartache, "I'm so tired, I don't want to go!" Then she thought for a moment and said, "Forget it, let's go take a look!" After saying that, she walked towards the study, and Yun Xiang followed happily behind her.

Lin Qinghuan pushed open the door of the study. Xiao Yi looked up at her and then smiled slightly.

"You're back. Did you have fun today?" Xiao Yi asked the clerk while looking down at him.

"I'm happy, but a little tired. You're so busy that you don't even have time to eat." Lin Qinghuan took a look at the cold rice and motioned Yun Xiang to take it out and replace it with new one.

"Come here and help me grind the ink." Xiao Yi said after taking a look at the inkstone.

Lin Qinghuan walked over, stretched out her slender arms and started to act like a little servant.

She carefully looked at the words Xiao Yi had written on the table and sighed in her heart. The handwriting was quite good, as beautiful as her elder brother's.

"Why don't you speak?" Xiao Yi asked.

"Seeing you are so attentive, I can't bear to disturb you." Lin Qinghuan said.

"It's never a bother when you talk to me." Xiao Yi put down his pen and waved to Lin Qinghuan to come over.

"Aren't you going to write anymore?" Lin Qinghuan asked, putting down the ink stick in his hand.

Xiao Yi pulled Lin Qinghuan to sit on his lap, kissed her gently, and then hugged her tightly in his arms, "I missed you after not seeing you for a day. Ask your husband to hug you tightly."

"Husband, your injury hasn't healed completely yet, why are you so busy?" Lin Qinghuan asked softly while leaning against Xiao Yi's chest.

"It's okay, Huan'er, did you know that your father-in-law was punished?" Xiao Yi asked.

"I know. Chen Li is daddy's subordinate. He rebelled against his superiors, collaborated with the enemy and committed treason, and accepted bribes. Every time he made a mistake, daddy would be affected. Now the emperor has taken back daddy's military power in several places in the southwest as a punishment. It's a punishment for others, but it's a good thing for me." Lin Qinghuan said.

"Huh? Why would Huan'er say that?" Xiao Yi asked curiously.

"If Daddy has less military power, he will have less responsibility. Now he is not as healthy as before after the injury he suffered in the hunting ground last time. Some time ago, Mother said that Daddy was coughing up blood. So I don't want him to be a great general or a marquis anymore. I just want him to be an ordinary daddy and not go to war anymore. Whoever wants the military power can take it. No one wants it." Lin Qinghuan said.

"Is this your idea or your father-in-law's?" Xiao Yi asked.

"I don't know what Daddy is thinking, but that's what all of us are thinking. Mother wants Daddy, her and Grandmother to go back to Luofeng to retire, but Daddy's heart is with Dasheng. Now Nanbang is ready to make moves, Nei Chi in the west has always been restless, and Da... Dayan in the east has a new emperor, but has always been eyeing Dasheng covetously. Only Dakun is now tending to make peace. Husband, I feel Daddy is so tired. He has spent his whole life fighting for Dasheng. Why does he have to... devote himself to it like this! He also said that dying on the battlefield as a general is the best way home. After he said that, Mother and Grandmother burst into tears again." Lin Qinghuan's tears flowed as he spoke. Lin Mutang loved his family so much but never thought about how worried he was about him.

"Huan'er, your father-in-law is the emperor's most trusted person, and he is also the general that the people of Dasheng rely on the most. If you ask him to retire now, it will be a torture for him." Xiao Yi said as he gently wiped away his wife's tears.

"I'm not that great. I'm just selfish. I just want my father to enjoy his old age. I even regret coming to Jinhan. If I had been obedient, big brother... big brother wouldn't have to give up his ambition to become an idle prince consort, and he wouldn't have to leave his hometown and go to such a faraway Qiliang with Xiaoqi. Big brother is my father's eldest son. It's all my fault. I'm simply a sinner of the Lin family." Lin Qinghuan felt very guilty. The more he spoke, the sadder he became. He pushed Xiao Yi away, lay down on the soft couch next to him and began to cry.

"Silly girl, why are you so sad when you are talking?" Xiao Yi stepped forward to help up Lin Qinghuan, whose eyes were red and swollen from crying. Now she is becoming more and more casual in front of him, and Xiao Yi is also very happy in his heart.

"I blame myself. When I saw big brother today... I really didn't want him to leave. He is the best big brother to me in the world." Lin Qinghuan choked up.

"You have me from now on. I will give you all the best. If you want to go to Qiliang, I will accompany you. Why are you crying?" Xiao Yi looked at her and understood what it meant when a beautiful woman shed tears and looked so pitiful. Even with tear marks all over her face, she still looked so moving that he couldn't help but want to hug her.

"Husband, my elder brother shouldn't have ended up like this. He is very talented and can actually be a good official like you." Lin Qinghuan looked at Xiao Yi with tears in her eyes and a pout. She didn't realize that she was no longer the reserved and timid girl in front of Xiao Yi.

"Don't you want your family to live in peace and stability? The political arena is no less turbulent than the battlefield. The prince consort passed the imperial examination in his early years, but his father-in-law has always been reluctant for him to come to Jinhan to be an official, so it was decided early on that he would marry the Seventh Princess. It has nothing to do with you. Even if you had married the Fourth Prince, your eldest brother would still have to marry the Seventh Princess." Xiao Yi said.

"How...how do you know about my...fourth brother?" Lin Qinghuan asked in surprise.

"You are the person I want to marry, how could I not know about you?" Xiao Yi said.

"When did you plan to marry me?" Lin Qinghuan looked at him in shock, feeling a chill in her heart.

"Silly girl, I mean you are my wife, I definitely know about your past." Xiao Yi smiled and said while holding Lin Qinghuan's little face.

"Is that so? Humph!" Lin Qinghuan suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

"Huan'er, why are you so cute?" Xiao Yi couldn't help but say as he looked at Lin Qinghuan.

Lin Qinghuan saw Xiao Yi's actions and expression and felt something was wrong. He was about to start again, so she quickly supported his chest with both hands and said, "Husband, your work is not finished yet."

"There's no end to official business, just like I can't kiss you enough." Xiao Yi took off his coat, then reached out and began to untie Lin Qinghuan's belt.

"Yun Xiang..." Before Lin Qinghuan could finish her words, Xiao Yi had already kissed her and his hands began to grope her body. Lin Qinghuan felt that she could not help but succumb to the magic of his hands again, and tried to respond to the man's affection with her soft and tender mouth as he kissed her.

Xiao Yi gently sniffed his daughter's fragrance through her bellyband. It was the smell that made him lose his mind the most and that he kept thinking about. His hands began to touch the woman's soft and tender parts. Listening to the woman's increasingly rapid breathing and the woman's uncontrollable moans that made him very excited, Xiao Yi finally couldn't help it. He took off all her clothes and used all his skills to conquer this woman who made him confused and infatuated.

"Um...ah...husband...Huan'er...good..." Lin Qinghuan hugged the man's neck with a flushed face, panting and speaking incoherently.

"Huan'er, what's good? Tell it out, your husband wants to hear it." Xiao Yi looked at the charming expression on the woman's face and said while asking for a kiss.

"Huan'er likes it so much... I like my husband... um... ah..." Lin Qinghuan's whole body was like a surging river, or like a spring breeze caressing the dew. The silky and soft breeze gently bit her whole body. An indescribable sense of satisfaction filled her whole body. She was on the verge of ecstasy and didn't want Xiao Yi to stop at all. She just wanted him to kiss her, touch her, and possess her like this.

Yun Xiang, who was walking over with food, heard the sound coming from the study and blushed unconsciously. She called out to the gatekeepers who were also standing there at a loss and could only lower their heads to go down quickly.

After the dream of a spring night worth thousands of gold was finished, the woman, sweating profusely, lay in the man's arms with her eyes closed, savoring the leisurely song of heaven and earth just now.

"Huan'er, was what you just said true?" Xiao Yi, who had recovered from his shock, kept looking at Lin Qinghuan who had her eyes slightly closed and asked.

"What?" Lin Qinghuan asked, opening her almond-shaped eyes. Her long, thick, and upturned eyelashes made her eyes look very beautiful.

"Are you serious about liking me?" Xiao Yi asked.

"I won't tell you." Lin Qinghuan smiled slightly and said mischievously.

"Really?" Xiao Yi leaned down and began to kiss Lin Qinghuan's neck, causing the girl to laugh so hard that her body shook. The softness on her chest also moved with it. She hurriedly took up her pink bellyband with both hands to cover her shame.

"I like it. Huan'er said she likes her husband. Stop tickling me." Lin Qinghuan begged for mercy while laughing.

"Really? Huan'er, do you really like me?" Xiao Yi smiled happily, holding Lin Qinghuan's little face and kissing her several times.

"Well, my husband, I have decided to bear children for you and be your good wife." Lin Qinghuan said with a sweet smile, then stretched out her arms, "Help me up quickly."

Xiao Yi gently pulled Lin Qinghuan up, his eyes full of tenderness, like water without a trace.

"Huan'er, I will make you the happiest woman in the world."

"Master, Madam, Chunfeng is asking to see you outside the courtyard. She said that Madam Hu has a heartache." The little maid dared to knock on the door and report only after hearing the sound of two people chatting inside.

"Hmph!" Lin Qinghuan snorted in annoyance and turned away in an instant.

Seeing her like this, Xiao Yi couldn't help but find it a little funny.

"If that's the case, then Huan'er, come with me to take a look." Xiao Yi pinched Lin Qinghuan's cute little chin and turned her sulking face towards him.

"I don't know how to cure heart pain, what am I going to do?" Lin Qinghuan said unhappily.

"Is Huan'er jealous like this?" Xiao Yi looked at Lin Qinghuan with interest and asked.

"I... I didn't... I don't want to care about you." Lin Qinghuan said with a puffy face, and the resentment in her heart that she couldn't hide was seen clearly by Xiao Yi.

"Little fool." Xiao Yi pinched her little face, then took her hand and said, "Let's go and see Madam Hu, who is under your care."

Chunfeng followed Xiao Yi and Lin Qinghuan nervously all the way, wishing she had a shadow clone so she could quickly run to Honglian Pavilion to inform them.

It was Lin Qinghuan's first time to visit Honglian Pavilion. As soon as she entered the courtyard, she could smell a fragrance, she couldn't tell if it was the scent of flowers or cosmetics.

When the maids saw that it was Xiao Yi and Lin Qinghuan together, they just knelt down timidly and dared not make a sound.

The door was closed. Xiao Yi glanced at Lin Qinghuan, then walked forward and pushed the door open. A fragrance filled his nose, and the red gauze curtain gently covered Xiao Yi's face, and also brushed across Lin Qinghuan's little face behind him.

"Husband, you finally came to see Taoer. Taoer has learned a new dance..." Hu Taoniang, wearing a sexy Su gauze Zen dress, hugged Xiao Yi and said coquettishly.

"Cough cough cough..." Chunfeng coughed twice at the door. Hu Taoniang looked up curiously and found that Xiao Yi was holding Lin Qinghuan's hand.

Hu Tao Niang looked at the two of them with some confusion and embarrassment. Xiao Yi didn't say anything and just looked at Lin Qinghuan.

"I heard that you had chest pain, so I came to see you, but you don't look sick." Lin Qinghuan said a little embarrassedly.

"It hurts, but it will be better now that you see the young lady." Hu Tao Niang said unhappily as she pulled up the gauze dress on her shoulders.

"It seems that I still have the effect of healing. If you feel heartache in the future, just call me. After all, my husband is so busy with government affairs." Lin Qinghuan glanced at Xiao Yi, who had been looking at her without saying a word, then sat down and said.

Xiao Yi glanced at her and sat down as well. It seemed that this little girl really didn't quite understand what it meant that the husband came first and the woman came second. He was still standing, but she sat down comfortably.

Hu Tao Niang looked at Xiao Yi strangely. She had not expected that Xiao Yi could indulge Lin Qinghuan to such an extent. Such a proud man was now so submissive. She couldn't help feeling uncomfortable. Was she really going to be alone in her empty room like this?

The three of them sat in silence. Lin Qinghuan didn't know what to say. Looking at Hu Taoniang's pitiful appearance, he felt a little sorry for her. After all, she had married Xiao Yi before him, and now she just wanted her husband to come and see her. Thinking of this, Lin Qinghuan wanted to leave, feeling that he seemed to have gone too far.

Xiao Yi looked at Lin Qinghuan who seemed to be lost in thought, frowning and then showing a look of pity. He was also very curious about what new things this silly woman's stupid brain was tinkering with.

Hu Tao Niang stood aside with a lost look on her face, not knowing what the two people meant.

"Please sit down first." Lin Qinghuan looked up at Hu Tao Niang and said.

Hu Tao Niang looked at Xiao Yi aggrievedly, and when she saw that he didn't say anything, she sat down.

"Why don't you speak?" Lin Qinghuan broke the silence and looked at Xiao Yi resentfully.

"Since Tao'er has learned a new dance, let her dance for us to see and let the young lady appreciate it too." Xiao Yi glanced at Hu Tao Niang and spoke.

The two surprised women looked at him in disbelief.

"I...you can decide what to do with me." Lin Qinghuan stood up and tried to leave, feeling that Xiao Yi was puzzled.

Xiao Yi held her arm and said, "Tao'er dances very well. Since the young lady is here, please enjoy it."

When Hu Tao Niang heard Xiao Yi praising her, the sadness on her face disappeared instantly and a faint smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

Lin Qinghuan looked at Xiao Yi speechlessly, and could only let him drag her to sit down, watching Hu Taoniang's graceful dance with resentment.

On the way back to Qingbo Courtyard, Lin Qinghuan walked in front with quick steps, angrily, and Xiao Yi followed behind at a leisurely pace. Yun Xiang and Da Yuan had no idea what happened in Honglian Pavilion, so they could only follow behind in frustration.