Chapter 58: I Treat You All Equally
Well, this reason... is reasonable. After all, King Beining and the Qilin Beast have some grudges.
"Your Highness, please come in first." Fang Qianxue took a half step back.
Xiao Mingzhe opened the iron gate, waited for her to enter, then came closer and asked in her ear: "Didn't you call me little uncle? Why are you so distant today?"
"I don't dare to claim to be a relative without permission. I only called that in front of my godmother." Fang Qianxue walked quickly towards the direction of the Qilin beast. The previous stable had collapsed, so Emperor Ming ordered people to build a taller and more spacious stable to tie up the Qilin.
Xiao Mingzhe frowned and followed her steps: "You are too obviously jealous."
Fang Qianxue paused, turned her head and asked, "What are you jealous of?"
"You were unhappy because you saw me with a woman in Shou'an Palace just now." Xiao Mingzhe stared into her eyes for a while, as if trying to see what was going on. "Actually, I treat you all equally."
"Your Majesty, be careful with your words!" Fang Qianxue said, "How can I not be happy that you and Princess Yi'an are together?"
"So you know. I wanted to tease you." Xiao Mingzhe showed a disappointed expression on his face, and his mouth twitched, "How boring."
"It's not funny at all!" Fang Qianxue walked into the stable.
When Qilin saw Fang Qianxue, his eyes immediately lit up and he hummed with joy. He even wagged his tail twice. Until he saw the man behind her, he drooped his tail again and bared his teeth.
After a few days of eating and resting, the Qilin beast felt much more energetic, and golden hair began to grow slowly in the places where it was previously bald.
"What are you looking at?" Xiao Mingzhe raised his eyes and glanced at it. "Why are you still not convinced after being defeated by me?"
Qilin made a snoring sound and lay in front of Fang Qianxue.
"It said that you used a trap and mobilized hundreds of soldiers to catch it. Your victory was unfair." Fang Qianxue threw two red fruits to Qilin, which was swallowed in one gulp.
"Do I need to talk about martial ethics with a beast like it?" Xiao Mingzhe sat down on a stone beside him with a big horse and a golden sword, stared at the Qilin for a while, and suddenly said, "Do you think it looks a bit like Lu Changqing?"
"???" Fang Qianxue turned around in confusion, "Who? How do they look like each other?"
"Does the bald spot on its body look like Lu Changqing's head?" Xiao Mingzhe pointed at the Qilin beast.
The man was serious, without a smile on his face, but Fang Qianxue couldn't help laughing out loud: "Your Highness, it's true what you said."
Qilin hummed twice in displeasure. Fang Qianxue threw two more red fruits to it and combed its hair with a comb.
Qilin shook his head, and suddenly licked Fang Qianxue's cheek, then winked at Xiao Mingzhe with pride.
"You bastard!" Xiao Mingzhe jumped up suddenly, took out a whip and was about to hit it.
"Stop!" Fang Qianxue hurriedly stopped him. "This is its way of expressing its affection. Why are you hitting it? The Queen Mother will have a Qilin performance for her birthday in a while. How can you show it to others when you beat it so hard that it is covered in wounds?"
Xiao Mingzhe clenched the whip in his hand and reluctantly put it back to his waist: "Today, I will not bother with you for the sake of Lord Fang. If you dare to do that again next time, I will not be so kind!"
"Qilin saliva is not a dirty thing," Fang Qianxue said as she wiped her face, "It can not only cure a hundred diseases, but also make people look radiant."
"Hulu hulu!" Qilin tilted his head and made a smug face at King Beining.
"Okay, you should stop talking." Fang Qianxue patted its head. "I'm leaving now. I'll come back to see you in two days."
Fang Qianxue left the stable, and Xiao Mingzhe followed her out and suddenly put a hairpin in her hair.
Fang Qianxue took it down in confusion: "What is this?"
"The Tianshan white jade hairpin that Yian asked me for is hard to find in the whole of Beijing. It's even more expensive than the jade hairpin made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs." Xiao Mingzhe said.
"Then you can just give it to Yi'an County Lady, why give it to me?"
"You and Yi'an are both my nieces. I treat you equally. You should have what Yi'an has." Xiao Mingzhe looked up at the clouds in the sky, then lowered his eyes and asked, "What do you think of what your mother told you today?"
"You mean divorce?" Fang Qianxue stroked the hairpin in her hand, "I don't agree with divorce."
Xiao Mingzhe's face darkened: "It is said that the daughter of the Fang family is well-educated and well-mannered, but I didn't expect you to be so pedantic."
"Why am I so pedantic?" Fang Qianxue was puzzled. Was the King of Beining here to pick a fight? She hadn't offended him, but he scolded her without asking any questions.
"Lu Changqing is shameless for being the heir of two houses. He treated you so badly, and you still don't divorce him. Do you want to make Fang Taifu's reputation be trampled into the mud?" Xiao Mingzhe paused, and seeing Fang Qianxue's face suddenly changed, he added, "As your elder, I have the responsibility to teach you what integrity is."
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