Chapter 234 My sister-in-law is no ordinary person!
"You're back! Quickly, let me taste that fire!"
Chi Heng's eyes lit up, and she reached out to take it.
Lu Zhong was pulling out a fire starter from his robes when he saw Li Rong, and his eyes lit up with surprise: "General! You've arrived!"
After saying that, he stared blankly at Li Rong's legs for a long while.
Li Rong simply stood up and took a few steps: "My leg is healed, there's no need to worry anymore."
As Lu Zhong looked at it, his eyes reddened, and he patted the man's leg with trembling hands, his eyes never leaving the man's face: "It really...it really healed!"
The last time he saw the general, the general was lying there alone, emaciated and lifeless. He couldn't even utter a word, and almost every part of his body was in good condition.
He was even afraid that he would stop breathing the next second.
I never imagined that I would see the general again in such a state.
Lu Zhong wiped away his tears forcefully, then grinned widely: "Good! Good! The general can stand up again! It's all thanks to my sister-in-law's skill! Although she's a bit eclectic, and although she treated you like an animal, she really cured you! Amazing!"
Lu Zhong exclaimed in amazement, "I knew it! My sister-in-law is no ordinary person!"
"sister in law!!!"
During their conversation, Chi Heng, who had been nonchalant, suddenly cried out, "Wait, did I miss something? Who is my sister-in-law? What are her abilities? What does 'treating her like livestock' mean?"
Lu Zhong blinked blankly, "I say, Your Highness... oh, no, Duke! You're asking so many questions at once, how am I supposed to answer you?"
"Tell me who my sister-in-law is first!" he said, pointing a trembling finger at Li Rong's nose. "Did he secretly get married behind my back?!"
Seemingly realizing something, he suddenly jumped up and exclaimed, "Could it be that poisonous woman Zhao Xiyue?! Let me tell you! I hate her the most, I won't allow it!"
As he spoke, he suddenly regained his senses: "Wait a minute? That's not right, Zhao Xiyue has already broken off the engagement with you. Who was it? Explain yourself!"
Li Rong pressed his finger down: "She's not a member of the Zhao family. I do have a wife, her name is A Nuan, she's a very good person. I'll introduce you to her another day."
Chi Heng was completely dumbfounded, his eyes wide open. The finger that Li Rong had pressed down on him trembled as he lifted it again. He pointed at Li Rong, but looked at Lu Zhong and said, "Heh, look at him. Has he gone mad from a serious illness? Ah Rong, I've been trapped in prison and haven't been able to take care of you lately, but I've kept track of your whereabouts. With your arms and legs not working properly, how could you possibly get married?"
As he spoke, he sighed and said, "Women in this world marry for a stable life. If someone were to marry someone as down on their luck as you, they would probably be out of their mind."
"You're the one with a problem in your head." Li Rong slapped his hand away and sat down on his own. "Anuan is very good. You'll see when you meet her."
Lu Zhong frowned: "That's right, how can you speak like that, Duke! I'm not saying this to be mean, but your mouth is really sharp. No wonder you haven't been able to find a wife all these years. Your sister-in-law is a very good person, and her mind is definitely not flawed. The two of us combined might not be as smart as her. Besides, the general isn't always unable to stand up; he was perfectly fine before."
Upon hearing this, Li Rong couldn't help but frown. There was nothing inherently wrong with what he said, but why did it sound so unpleasant to him?
It took Chi Heng a while to process the information he had just received: "No, you really got married!"
Li Rong said firmly, "Yes, it's a major life event like marriage, I won't lie to you."
"Really!" Lu Zhong exclaimed loudly, "Your Excellency, your reaction is so strong, could it be that the rumors circulating in the capital back then about your homosexual tendencies are true? You really have feelings for our General..."
"Lu Zhong, how come your mouth is so big? I think you want to be beaten with a stick."
Li Rong's brow twitched with anger at the two of them, and he looked at Chi Heng: "And you, can't you be normal for once! Act like a human being!"
His words had absolutely no effect on Chi Heng. Chi Heng was silent for a moment, and then started stomping her feet again.
"Heaven is unfair! Heaven is unfair! With Li Rong's character, when he was a kid, if a young lady tripped and fell in front of him, he would just walk around without even helping her up! If a young lady threw a purse at him, he would draw his sword and slash it in half, then accuse her of trying to assassinate him. Another time, a young lady challenged him to a duel, and he knocked her sword away with one strike, scaring her so much that she couldn't get out of bed for months. I saw all of this! With a character like him, how did he even manage to get married?"
Lu Zhong looked at him suspiciously: "Lord Duke, are you perhaps confused? My general is wise and mighty, and countless women in the capital want to marry him! You know that, don't you? Even the most beautiful woman in the land, Princess Guangping, still has feelings for him. Is it strange that he's getting married?"
Lu Zhong reasonably suspected that the Duke was unhappy because he and the General were the only two unmarried men of marriageable age. Now that the General was married, he was all alone.
It seems that the Duke's marriage prospects have indeed been bumpy, with each marriage proposal ending in failure. As a result, he is now twenty-eight or twenty-nine years old, while others who married early are already grandfathers, he is still unmarried.
"But! He's never been smart enough! Li Rong, he's Li Rong, how can he get involved with women!"
As Chi Heng spoke, she pulled Lu Zhong over and threw the beef bun in his hand aside: "I'm asking you, have you ever seen his wife?"
Lu Zhong: "Of course I have seen them."
Chi Heng: "Whose daughter is she? What does she look like?"
Lu Zhong was taken aback: "My sister-in-law isn't anyone's daughter. Um... if we have to say whose family she belongs to, her surname is Jiang, so she should be considered from the Jiang family? Oh no, she's from the Xie family. She was a household slave who was exiled with us."
As he said this, Lu Zhong scratched his head and said to Li Rong beside him, "I went back and looked through the files, and accidentally saw it."
Li Rong nodded indifferently and did not say anything.
"exile!!"
"House slave!!"
Chi Heng's voice grew louder and louder with each shout.
"Ancestor, please keep your voice down." Lu Zhong picked at his ear. "Our background is a bit poor, but my sister-in-law is amazing. She's very, very strong! Yes, very strong! Her cooking is also exceptionally delicious. Especially her braised fish in an iron pot. Once you take a bite, you'll never forget it for the rest of your life."
As he said this, he couldn't help but lick his lips.
But then, as if remembering something, he smacked his lips and said, "There's sand in the food my sister-in-law makes."
“You ate plenty of sand in your food too.” Li Rong frowned, disagreeing. “Besides, she’s all skinny, how could she be strong?”
Seeing that Chi Heng was still staring at him with an incredulous look, Li Rong said, "So what if she's exiled? So what if she's a servant? Who isn't a criminal? If we're being honest, I'm not good enough for her. Anuan is very good, very beautiful, especially her eyes. Her eyes are very bright and she looks very good... cough cough cough."
Realizing he might have said too much, Li Rong stopped abruptly, glanced at the sky outside, and said, "Let's get down to business. Did you bring the things? Let me see them."
He left late today, so he should hurry up and finish his business before going home to avoid worrying his family.
Chi Heng immediately pinched her cheek hard. "Am I dreaming? These words really came out of Li Rong's mouth!"
Lu Zhong: "."
It's one thing to praise your sister-in-law for being smart and capable, but to praise her for being beautiful and having slender arms and legs is a bit too much, isn't it?
So, is this a case of "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"?
Adding a bookshelf will prevent you from getting lost, my darlings!
(End of this chapter)
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