Chapter 493 The Palace Maid Wants to Retire (19)
"We can do anything, watch monkey shows, go to the theatre, go shopping..." Shi Li said excitedly, "We couldn't go out on the street openly before, and now we are finally husband and wife, we should make up for what we didn't experience before, right?"
Seeing his expectant look, Wen Shichu nodded, "Okay."
Shi Li was immediately overjoyed and couldn't help but kiss Wen Shichu on the cheek: "Madam, you are so nice!"
Wen Shichu was in good physical condition and had recovered to normal long ago, so when he saw that Shi Li was so interested in going out to play, he went out shopping with him.
They held hands openly along the way, not at all avoiding the strange looks from others.
"Oh my! The world is going downhill and people's hearts are no longer as they used to be! A man and a woman are holding hands in broad daylight. How can this be allowed?!" The conservative and feudal people behind them saw Shi Li and Wen Shichu holding hands, and immediately frowned and criticized as if they had seen something disgusting.
"Shut up, old man! This is General Shi. General Shi just got married yesterday. What's wrong with him taking his bride out to play today? If you don't like it, just don't look at it! What are you saying? " The old lady next to the old man retorted with her eyes wide open.
"General Shi? General Shi can't do this. Even between husband and wife, they should observe etiquette in public. How can they do such a shocking thing?" The old man kept chattering.
The old lady rolled her eyes and said, "They are newlyweds, so what's wrong with holding hands? When you first got married to me, didn't you also secretly hold my hand under the table when we were having dinner at home? Why do you dislike it when you see young people doing this now?"
The old man blushed immediately after hearing her words: "How can they be the same? You and I were at home, no one else knew, but they were on the street, it's totally different!"
"Shut up!" the old lady sneered, "You just don't have the guts!"
Wen Shichu was very sharp-eyed and naturally heard the conversation between the old couple behind her. She couldn't help laughing. Shi Li took her hand and shook it, saying, "Are you envious? When we get to their age, we want to go to the street and watch newlyweds holding hands, okay?"
"Okay." Wen Shichu looked at him with her bright and charming eyes and said.
Shi Li's heart suddenly felt as if honey was flowing through it, making it sweet.
The old couple behind him, who were like a pair of bickering lovers, had already walked far away. Shi Li was still holding Wen Shichu's hand and walking as if no one was around. Some people on the street recognized him. After all, Shi Li was the only person with blue eyes in the whole capital. What's more, he was full of imposing aura. Even though his expression towards Wen Shichu was gentle, his intimidating aura was daunting.
No one dared to approach him. They only dared to talk about the news they had seen today in whispers after he walked away.
At a restaurant on the street, the Minister of Rites looked at Shi Li and Wen Shichu, and couldn't help but stroke his beard and said, "I didn't expect that Shi Li, the god of killing, actually has such a gentle side towards women. It's really amazing."
The eldest prince leaned against the window, watching their voices with complicated eyes, and said, "That must be a woman he likes. So many people wanted to marry him before, including ladies from wealthy families and beautiful girls from ordinary families, and even my father's most beloved ninth princess, but he rejected them all without hesitation. I thought he would find a fairy, but I didn't expect that he would find an older palace maid!"
Although Shi Li has now withdrawn from the front line of the battlefield and handed over his military power, his position as the number one military general is unshakable based on his previous outstanding achievements.
What's more, there are only a few generals who can be used now, and the grassland king in the north is beginning to make moves again. He will probably invade the border again this autumn, and it is even possible that he will not only violate the border, but invade.
Therefore, even though the young and capable Shi Li seems to have nothing to do now, everyone knows that if the grassland king really invades the border, he will still be the main force to resist the foreign enemy.
Even though the eldest prince looked down on such a person's cheap bloodline, he still wanted to win him over. Therefore, he once wanted to marry his cousin from his mother's family to Shi Li, so as to bring this great general on board. However, Shi Li did not give him any face and directly said that he had no interest in his cousin and asked him not to bother him. As a result, his cousin was so ashamed that she did not dare to go out for half a year.
Except for the eldest prince himself, his ambitious younger brothers, and other princes and nobles, all wanted to form an alliance with Shi Li through marriage. Even if they did not form an alliance, they wanted to send him women. Unfortunately, Shi Li never agreed. He would even throw out the women who took off their clothes and climbed into his bed without hesitation.
So over time, everyone thought that he was no longer interested in women, but unexpectedly, he suddenly found a wife, and this wife was a person no one expected.
The eldest prince was in mixed feelings. He had naturally investigated Wen Shichu's identity. Before she left the palace, she was the master of ceremonies in the Queen's palace. She was unknown and very ordinary. But after leaving the palace, she unexpectedly became a sensation and bewitched Shi Li so much that she became the general's wife directly.
The eldest prince couldn't help but praise her for her "good means"! He thought she was very smart. She didn't stand out in the palace, probably just to get out of the palace smoothly.
Everyone has their own aspirations. A woman like her has a clear goal and does not want to be a concubine. After all, if she wanted to, she would have hooked up with the emperor when she was in the queen's palace, but she didn't.
It was not until she left the palace that she captured Shi Li in one fell swoop. Even though Shi Li came from a poor family, he was good enough to be a match for her, an old palace maid.
The eldest prince self-righteously thought that Wen Shichu was very scheming, but he didn't realize that Wen Shichu was actually just attracted by Shi Li's beauty. He just liked Shi Li's good looks. How could he have so many complicated thoughts?
"Uncle, since Shi Li is married, let's start with his wife. His wife is just a palace maid and should not be as difficult to conquer as Shi Li." The eldest prince said to the Minister of Rites, who is his uncle.
"Okay, I'll let your cousins and their wives make friends with her." The Minister of Rites agreed immediately. In his opinion, although Wen Shichu was very capable and made Shi Li fall in love with her, she was just a woman after all, and it should not be too difficult to win her over.
Wen Shichu had no idea that she had been targeted by someone, or that someone with bad intentions wanted to use her to drag Shi Li into trouble.
She was now having a great time with Shi Li. She followed the common people to watch acrobatics and gave some silver when she was happy. She also went to a teahouse to listen to a storyteller and cheered with the guests...
The two of them didn't care about their own status or worldly rules. They just played however they wanted. They played more crazily than ordinary people and spent a lot of money, but they were happy.
(End of this chapter)
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