Marrying the Crown Prince

After Li Zixiao finished crying, Zhou Zhou took her to his Phoenix Palace.

As for clothes, since the two of them were about the same size, Zhou Zhou instructed Donghe to bring out a new set of clothes for Li Zixiao to change into.

Li Zixiao took a shower and changed her clothes. Her eyes were still red, and her voice was trembling. "What kind of man is he? He has no backbone at all. He just lets those bastards humiliate him like this, and all he thinks about is peace talks. Peace talks my ass!"

After berating Li Ziyan, she turned to Zhou Zhou and said, "We grew up together. Her body has been completely destroyed, and you're just going to watch the murderer get away with it? Don't you have a heart?"

These words reminded Zhou Zhou of Li Ziyan, who had been furious in the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Indeed, before going to the Golden Palace to find Li Zixiao, Zhou Zhou first went to the Hall of Mental Cultivation to find Li Ziyan.

What did he say then?

"Does she even have a brain? She barged in with a sword, and before she could even say two words, she knelt down and begged me. Is it because I've been too good to them all this time?"

"Can't she use her pig brain to think things through before she does anything? If she really can't figure it out, why doesn't she come to the Hall of Mental Cultivation to find me, or go to the Phoenix Palace to ask you?"

"She wants a brain, but she doesn't have one; she wants a mouth, but doesn't she have a mouth too?"

Li Ziyan is usually not prone to emotional fluctuations, so it's rare to see him so agitated.

As a result, Li Ziyan became even more unhappy.

He looked at Zhou Zhou, feeling incredibly aggrieved, "I'm so angry, how can you still laugh?"

Do you even have a heart?

He looked almost exactly like Li Changyuan, which made Zhou Zhou even more unable to suppress her laughter.

Li Changyuan is their child.

The word "渊" means deep, and it also implies a heart that encompasses everything and a broad mind.

Li Ziyan looked helpless, "Zhouzhou..."

"Okay, okay, I won't laugh anymore." Zhou Zhou rubbed his face and returned to his normal appearance.

Okay, enough with the jokes, let's get down to business.

Zhou Zhou spoke in a light tone, not making the matter seem too serious, "Shun'an has been kneeling for quite some time now, I wonder how much His Majesty's anger has subsided?"

Li Ziyan's answer was—

"Humph!"

Seeing him like this, Zhou Zhou wanted to laugh again.

She suppressed a laugh and continued, "Then should I take her to the Phoenix Palace and teach her a lesson?"

"Humph!"

"Then, I shall take my leave."

Zhou Zhou bowed and left.

Watching Zhou Zhou's departing figure, Li Ziyan pouted, still feeling somewhat aggrieved.

After reminiscing, Zhou Zhou looked at Li Zixiao in front of him and felt that the two siblings were quite similar when they got angry.

Li Zixiao was still crying with snot and tears streaming down her face. "He has no backbone at all. It's ridiculous. If Yang Yu'an knew that the emperor he risked his life to save was such a scoundrel, wouldn't he be so angry that he would jump out of his coffin?"

Mentioning Yang Yu'an made Li Zixiao even more upset, and she hugged Zhou Zhou and cried again.

After crying for fifteen minutes, Li Zixiao exhausted herself again.

Zhou Zhou brought out mung bean soup from the silk and bamboo hands. This mung bean soup was not chilled with ice, but was placed at the bottom of the well for a while, which made it refreshing and delicious.

"Want something to eat?" Zhou Zhou asked.

These mung beans have the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, relieving summer heat and quenching thirst, making them a great way to beat the summer heat.

At this moment, Li Zixiao was both tired and hungry, so she naturally couldn't refuse, "Eat!"

Of course, Zhou Zhou couldn't refuse either.

So the two of them each held a bowl and started eating.

She picked up the spoon, gently scooped up a spoonful, and put it in her mouth. She found that the whole mung beans had been cooked until very soft. With a gentle sip, the sweet and delicious taste of the cool mung bean soup danced on her taste buds.

Soon, the bowl of mung bean soup was empty.

After eating and drinking to one's heart's content, lustful thoughts arise...

No, I mean, I'm in a good mood because I'm full and satisfied.

Li Zixiao had fully recovered, and Zhou Zhou then asked her with utmost sincerity, "Do you feel like you've lived too long?"

"I……"

Li Zixiao's mind went blank for a moment.

Zhou Zhou reached out and poked her forehead. "Could it be that you've been at the border for too long and have forgotten what kind of person our Emperor, formerly the Crown Prince, was?"

Back when he was still the Crown Prince, he could easily destroy you, your brother, and even your mother. Now that he's the ruler of a country, dealing with you is as easy as dealing with a chick.

Li Zixiao touched her nose, not daring to tell Zhou Zhou that when she rushed in with her sword, she never thought she would come out alive.

Seeing how guilty she looked, Zhou Zhou glanced at her sideways.

Li Zixiao knew what Zhou Zhou wanted to hear, so she smiled ingratiatingly, took Zhou Zhou's hand, and pleaded in a low voice, "Okay, Zhouzhou, I know I was wrong."

She's obviously faking it.

But Zhou Zhou's anger dissipated at that moment.

She sighed and started talking to Li Zixiao about Zhang Siwu and Zhang Sicheng.

"It's not that we want to talk, but that we don't want to talk, and we don't have the capability to attack the Western Qin Kingdom right now."

"They don't want to talk either. The reason they came to talk is because we have their princes and princesses in our hands."

“If we don’t talk about it, their army is on the frontier, and war could break out at any moment.”

"Our country is strong, and it's not that we don't have the ability to annihilate these remnants of the army, it's just that it will take a long time, at least three to five years."

"You've been in the Northern Region for quite some time now. Tell me, how about we fight for another three to five years?"

On the battlefield, smoke filled the air, blood and flesh flew everywhere, and corpses lay scattered on the muddy ground. Everywhere you looked, everything was red.

This is a bad memory.

Li Zixiao's face paled slightly, "I..."

Zhou Zhou reached out and grasped her sweaty hand. "I know what you want to do, but you don't need to."

"I won't let them get away with this. Trust me, okay?"

Zhou Zhou's eyes were deep and resolute, full of power, as if no difficulty could stop her.

"it is good."

Once things were cleared up, Zhou Zhou happily took out leaf cards, wanting to play with Li Zixiao.

Then...then a palace servant came to report that Consort Chen had arrived.

Consort Chen, also known as the late emperor's consort, was the birth mother of Li Zixiao and Prince Chong'an.

Li Zixiao's eyes widened suddenly, "You..."

"It wasn't me." Zhou Zhou looked at her with utmost sincerity.

It's definitely not her.

Therefore, it must have been Li Ziyan who sent someone to Kangning Palace to invite Consort Chen.

Well……

Well, it's quite strange.

After all, both of them are so old, yet they still resort to the trick of accusing their elders.