Chapter 330 Li Bixi gets older

"What's going on?" Cheng Yunshuo asked.

Li Bixi lowered her head, "I feel that I am too busy now and can't take care of you and Lanying."

She was not sure what Lu Lingyun was testing her for today, maybe he was planning to target her children.

That won't work.

She may give up the power of being the head of the household for the time being, but she has to protect her children and her man.

She doesn't want to do this job anymore.

Cheng Yunshuo heard this and said, "It's up to you. If you don't want to do it, then don't do it. I'll tell Lingyun tomorrow that I don't need your help anymore."

"Thank you, Master." Li Bixiang responded with a smile.

She got up to take off Cheng Yunshuo's coat, told the servants to serve the food, and had dinner with Cheng Yunshuo. After the meal, Xiaoju brought up a cup of tea.

Cheng Yunshuo looked at the cup of tea that he drank every day. "You've been so busy these days, but you still let me dry the tea?"

"That's not a problem. As long as the prince drinks well, that's fine." Li Bijie said with a smile.

In the light of the candlelight, Li Bixi's fatigue from patrolling day and night was clearly visible. She was over 30 years old, and her wrinkles were particularly obvious at night. Eye wrinkles appeared, her eye bags were swollen, the skin on her cheeks was sagging, and two very obvious herringbone lines appeared at the corners of her mouth.

Cheng Yunshuo's heart skipped a beat when he suddenly saw her old appearance.

Only then did he realize that Li Bixi was much older than him and that men age more slowly than women.

Especially in our twenties and thirties.

Cheng Yunshuo is still young, but Li Bixi has grown old.

He was stunned for a moment, obviously unable to accept the fact that Li Bixi was getting older.

Because she had grown old, her face looked nothing like the woman in his memory.

"Master, what's wrong?" Li Bixiang saw Cheng Yunshuo holding the teacup and taking a long time to drink. She raised her eyebrows slightly and wondered if he had noticed something.

When Cheng Yunshuo heard her speak, he came to his senses. He quickly turned his eyes away, not daring to look at the middle-aged Li Bixi again. He held the teacup in his hand and drank it all in one gulp.

Seeing him finish his tea, Li Bixi breathed a sigh of relief.

She stood up and wanted to help Cheng Yunshuo change his clothes. "My Lord, I was busy these days and didn't serve you well. I will make sure you feel comfortable tonight."

Li Bixiang's eyes were full of charm. She usually behaved like a good kid, and was quite coquettish in front of Cheng Yunshuo. This was something she learned in the palace.

A woman must never act too reserved in bed, as that will only make men cold.

She is very proactive in this regard.

But seeing her like this now only made Cheng Yunshuo frown. He looked at the loose hand on his shoulder and the old face of Li Bixi beside him. He stood up suddenly and said, "I'll go back to my own courtyard to rest."

"My Lord..."

Li Bixi quickly opened her mouth and shouted.

This time, Cheng Yunshuo didn't even listen to what she said and just walked out.

Li Bixi frowned at his attitude.

What happened to Cheng Yunshuo?

Why do you abandon her when everything is fine?

"Has the prince found a new lover recently?" Li Bixiang immediately asked the maid Xiaoju.

Xiaoju shook her head, "I haven't heard about it?"

"Then why did he leave tonight?" Li Bixi frowned, and the wrinkles between her eyebrows deepened.

Xiaoju looked at her like this and said, "Auntie Li, would you like to take a rest?"

"What do you mean?" Li Bixi glanced at her coldly.

Xiaoju pointed at the bronze mirror and said, "You've been working too hard lately, and you don't look well."

Li Bixiang then turned her head and looked in the bronze mirror. Her heart skipped a beat and she immediately found the reason.

She reached out her hand and touched her aging face. "How come I have aged so terribly?"

For two or three days in a row, Li Bixi found that Cheng Yunshuo only came to her yard once a day as a routine. He even had a meal on the first day, but he didn't even eat the crispy rice on the next two days. He just drank his tea and played with Lanying for a while, then went back to his own yard on the pretext of having something to do.

He hardly even looked at her face.

Feeling Cheng Yunshuo's evasive gaze and the disgust he showed when their eyes occasionally met, Li Bixiang was certain.

It was because she was old that Cheng Yunshuo no longer liked her.

She even heard that Cheng Yunshuo had left her courtyard these days and went to Qiuxiang Courtyard to spend the night.

After Qiu Ling gave birth to a child, she could no longer serve the emperor in bed.

Cheng Yunshu would rather go to Qiu Ling's place than stay with her, which is simply hard for her to accept!

Cheng Yunshuo despised her to such an extent that he would rather spend the night with a woman who was incapable of serving him than stay in her courtyard.

The more Li Bixi thought about it, the more serious she became.

She can't go on like this.

Cheng Lanying and Cheng Bingzhi have not grown up yet, and she must keep Cheng Yunshuo firmly under her control before they grow up.

That night, Cheng Yunshuo came to her yard to sit as usual.

He was about to leave today, but Cheng Lanying stopped him immediately, "Dad, where are you going again?"

"Daddy has been busy with official duties recently, so he needs to go back and rest early." Cheng Yunshuo scratched her nose lovingly, "I'll come to see you tomorrow."

"No!" Cheng Lanying immediately stopped him and didn't let him leave.

"What's wrong with you?"

"Dad, you haven't spent the night at your aunt's place for a long time. You can stay tonight." Cheng Lanying said coquettishly.

When Cheng Yunshuo heard this, he frowned subconsciously.

Cheng Lanying continued to act coquettishly, "Dad, Lanying still wants to hear your bedtime stories today, so please stay and don't leave."

Cheng Yunshuo couldn't stand her coquettishness, and finally said, "Okay."

Cheng Lanying, who had successfully kept the person here, cast a look at her mother and pulled Cheng Yunshuo into the house, "I knew that Daddy loves Lanying the most."

He stayed at Bishuiyuan that night.

That night, after Cheng Yunshuo finished telling Cheng Lanying the story, Li Bixiang once again came forward to undress him and went to bed with him.

She put on her best makeup tonight, and the thick makeup covered the wrinkles on her face, making her look much younger.

When Cheng Yunshuo saw her with heavy makeup on, he somehow thought of the day when he met the middle-aged Li Bijie.

After all, her youth is gone. Even with thick makeup, she doesn't look young.

On the contrary, the heavy makeup made Cheng Yunshuo look even older.

He frowned immediately, "What are you doing?"

"I'll wait for you to rest." Li Bixi said with a smile.

For some reason, when Cheng Yunshuo saw her smile, he seemed to be able to see the fingerprints drooping from the corners of her mouth and the corners of her eyes.

For a moment, he felt extremely resistant in his heart.

"It's late at night, stop bothering me."

He didn't even take off his clothes, but went straight to the bed, turned his back to Li Bixiong, closed his eyes and began to rest.

When Li Bixiang saw Cheng Yunshuo sleeping with his clothes on, her heart went cold. As the candlelight flickered, she clenched her fists secretly.

The next day, Cheng Yunshuo went to work early in the morning.

Cheng Lanying asked for credit in front of her, "Mom, I am still useful!"