Outside the west gate of Taiqing Four Prefectures.

Although she repeatedly told herself in her heart not to follow Zhao Rong in persecuting her little sister, she was already a sister she welcomed into the family.

But Concubine Zhao Ling still raised her hand to cover her mouth.

"I'm going to talk to Xiaoxiao."

"Ma'am, this is a sting operation."

"I didn't fish, the fish bit the hook on its own."

"The premise is that there must be a hook first, whether it's intentional or not."

"Okay, I won't argue with you for now. Tell me what good things you were thinking about behind my back just now."

"I suddenly remembered." Zhao Rong said seriously: "I don't think I'm a stupid husband."

“…”

Concubine Zhao Ling was speechless.

Zhao Rong turned his head, looked at her, and chuckled, "So why should I be nervous when your senior sisters and junior sisters come to talk to me? As for the atmosphere, it's just that I'm not embarrassed, they are embarrassed."

"I forgot that you are very good at speaking." She nodded and added softly, "Especially in front of women."

"Are you jealous?"

"This is also my husband's ability. I am happy."

"You are jealous." Zhao Rong nodded, "But I am a Confucian scholar. My eloquence is not as crooked as you think. Qing Jun has seen me debate with Mr. Tao, the Taoist from your Taiqing Mansion."

"Oh, really?" Zhao Lingfei pretended to listen tacitly.

"Of course." Zhao Rong was in the mood to talk. "And this is just a small event. If you are interested, you can go and ask a certain stupid fox how your husband defeated Daoist Tao in front of all the famous scholars and 100,000 citizens of Luojing at the lecture platform in Zhongnan Kingdom."

At this point, the hero... no, Dian Yong... no, it was Zhao Rong. He glanced at the smiling lady and pretended to sigh:

"Well, I simply reversed the situation and helped Brother Wenruo to completely turn the tables. Well, Brother Wenruo is actually quite good at debate and is also a strong player in the academy. Although he lost due to carelessness, he also contributed a lot, which is worthy of recognition. However, it also made me feel a little bit stressed in the third game. But as for the result, you already know that I won. Not only was your Mr. Wei Tao convinced by me, but even his ancestors came out to bow to me and gave me the Purple Air from the East without saying a word. Well, this family is really too polite."

After Zhao Rong sighed, he continued to hold his wife's hand and reminisce without blushing or beating his heart.

He said: "That was the real grand scene. Later, I took Xiaoxiao away. The King of Zhongnan and his civil and military officials took the lead in seeing us off. The streets of Luojing were deserted, and all the willow trees in the ten-mile area were broken. All I could see were sachets and purses thrown at me, all of which were passionate and unrestrained... unrestrained..."

"Passionate about what?" asked the woman who was listening carefully.

"Passionate...people!"

Zhao Rong swallowed the word "girl" and nodded seriously, "I understand. This is the custom in Luojing. Men also wear hairpins and perfume sachets. It's a small country with few people and a rich life. Both men and women love beauty. It's normal... Let me tell you, Lin Wenruo is even more exaggerated. Madam, you haven't seen him. That boy dresses more exquisitely than women. He also puts powder on his face when he goes out. His hands are fragrant. I guess he has used perfume..."

Concubine Zhao Ling: ...

"Men apply... powder? Just like your brother Yushu?" she asked with a little surprise.

"Yes, I don't know if this is a common habit among these wealthy young men." Someone nodded affirmatively. Facing the obviously different look in his wife's eyes, he looked at her nose and her heart, and silently said in his heart, 'For the sake of my marital harmony, Brother Wenruo, please bear with me for a while.'

"But...but how do you know his hands smell good?" Qingjun caught the blind spot.

"..." Zhao Rong was stumped for a moment, then immediately said, "I shook hands with him once when we first met. Just once, and I left a deep impression on him."

Concubine Zhao Ling digested it carefully and couldn't help but look at her husband a few more times.

"What's wrong? Is there something on my husband's face?"

"Husband." she called out.

"Huh?" Zhao Rong asked puzzledly.

"Promise me that you will play less with Lin Wenruo, Fan Yushu and others in the future." The woman grabbed his hand worriedly.

Zhao Rong: ...

Seeing that the atmosphere between the two of them seemed to be getting weird, Zhao Lingfei took the initiative to change the subject, smiled sweetly, and tilted her head slightly to look at him: "So what happened next?"

Zhao Lingfei did not do this just to comply with the instinct of men to brag about their past in front of women. Since she was a child, she really liked listening to her childhood sweethearts tell stories.

Whether it was a story he read in a book or a story he had experienced, Zhao Lingfei wanted to know.

"Oh, it was later. Later, because the people of Luojing were too enthusiastic, Xiaoxiao, Brother Sanbian and I finally got away and set off... Now thinking back, that day, the car was filled with fruits along the way. Wherever I went, the people wholeheartedly sent me off. It can be said that I had the support of everyone. That scene of vibrant vitality and everything competing to flourish is still before my eyes."

Zhao Rong narrowed his eyes and looked at the road ahead, and said softly: "Sometimes I often think back to what would have happened if I had accepted Brother Wen Ruo's suggestion and stayed there..."

"If my husband had stayed, he would have become the state teacher of Zhongnan Kingdom, enjoyed all the wealth and glory, and could have joined hands with Lin Wenruo to realize his childhood ambition of supporting the country." Zhao Lingfei continued, and asked softly: "Then why didn't my husband stay? At that time, my husband and I still misunderstood each other, and you didn't know my true attitude, so why didn't you stay in Zhongnan Kingdom with Xiaoxiao..."

Zhao Rong turned around and asked, "Did I tell you about Lin Wenruo and his childhood sweetheart Lan Yuqing?"

"I did." That's why she disliked her husband's good friend.

"That night, I followed Wen Ruo to see Lan Yuqing in the osmanthus forest. I waited quietly outside the forest for a very long time. I saw Wen Ruo come out alone, looking lost and embarrassed. Then I knew that he and I were not the same kind of people after all."

"So I left."

Zhao Rong said in a relaxed tone.

But Concubine Zhao Ling calmed down.

Zhao Rong didn't look at her, but squinted his eyes to look at the scenery around him.

After the turmoil caused by Qingjun's breakthrough subsided, Zhao Rong was originally preparing to leave alone, but was caught by Qingjun, who said that he was going to be sent out of the house.

So Qingjun "detained" Xiao Qian'er in Qinglianxuan, to deal with the senior and junior sisters who came to visit and congratulate from time to time, and to handle the follow-up matters.

She accompanied Zhao Rong, walking along the street and chatting with him, and they came here.

The two of them had unknowingly walked quite far away from the west gate of Taiqing Prefecture.

Zhao Rong turned around and broke the silence.

"By the way, my lady, aren't you curious about what Senior Yue Bailu said to me at the gate of Nanci Jingshe? You were surrounded by those senior sisters at that time, so you probably didn't hear our conversation." He asked with a smile.

Concubine Zhao Ling looked up at her smiling husband and said, "Well, I am a little curious. Senior Yue is in seclusion and it is not convenient for him to come out, so I asked the white deer to leave the palace to tell him... What did it say to my husband?"

Zhao Rong smiled.

"It asked me if I was the son-in-law of Concubine Zhao Ling."

"I said, Concubine Zhao Ling is my wife."

"It asked me who my teacher was at Linlu Academy."

“I say, in learning, the one who has learned the truth first is my teacher.”

"It asked me what realm I was currently at."

"I said it's a little bit stronger than the Ascension Realm and a little bit weaker than the Free and Easy Realm."

"It asked me if I wrote all the poems that were accepted, and if I only wrote love poems for women."

"I said I would never write love poems to a man, even if it was a senior who had always supported my wife."

"It said you better speak human language to me."

"I said, what human language can I use to talk to a deer..."

Concubine Zhao Ling: ...

"Husband, you...you..." She looked at Zhao Rong who was recalling the past seriously and couldn't help laughing. "You are going to make Senior Yue die of anxiety. He is a man of temperament, but you tease him like this."

"Oh, I did see that." Zhao Rong nodded. "That white deer seemed to want to kill me with its head, but you looked at me curiously at that time, and it became quiet again. It just circled around me several times with its eyes wide open, and then it was quiet for a while, and then it asked me one last question."

"What's the problem?" Zhao Lingfei couldn't help but ask.

"It asked me if I was really as amazing as you said, a scholar in the academy. It also said that if I was, then I was worthy of you."

Concubine Zhao Ling frowned and wanted to speak, but when she saw her husband's normal expression, she suppressed her temper and just asked, "Then how did your husband answer? In fact, you... you should have ignored him just like he did with the impolite questions he asked before."

This time, Zhao Rong shook his head gently. "The old man asked an appropriate question, so I will answer him directly."

Zhao Lingfei was stunned. "How did you answer?"

A man who had never thought about competing for reading seeds before today scratched his head embarrassedly:

"I said 'very soon.'"

Concubine Zhao Ling: “……?”

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