Chapter 165 A Sober Love Brain
After chatting and laughing in the room, Jiang Wan raised his hand and pointed outside.
"Go ask them to bring in some writing brush, ink, paper, and inkstone, and I'll write a letter home to let them know I'm safe."
"Yes, Princess, please wait a moment."
Hongxiu turned around and walked out quickly. Jiang Wan, who was sitting in the same place, drank tea while looking down in thought.
Li Laosi's fawning at the door just now was too obvious. His guilty conscience made it clear he was hiding something from me. What on earth were those people under him looking for?
"Why do you say that? Where are your brains? Have your brains been eaten by a dog?!
I've only been away for a few days, and even the duck in the pot has flown away! Do all of you have butts on your necks?
ah?
What do you guys eat?"
Li Chengxiu in the front yard was so angry that he ignored the dignity of the prince, of course he didn't have this thing. At this moment, he was jumping up and down and cursing, cursing very dirty.
The generals who had been treating him like brothers at the gate just now were now all kneeling on the ground with their necks hunched over like quails.
There's nothing we can do. Who told them to be in the wrong?
"Your Majesty, do you think we should continue the war? I think we should. If we don't, in a few months, my family will be out of food again."
Liu Sanlin was the most honest, so he was pushed to the front to be cannon fodder by the group of inhuman people behind him.
"I'll starve you to death, you useless thing! I led my men to work tirelessly from dawn to dusk to seize this territory, and you've lost it to a bunch of bastards? How dare you come to see me? Isn't there a crooked tree or something next to your ancestral grave? Why don't you just hang yourself from it?"
The others knelt aside in silence, while the honest Liu Sanlin made a bitter defense in a low voice.
"Your Highness, I have elderly parents and young children at home and I simply cannot afford to die. Please have mercy on me, Your Highness!"
He kowtowed several times, which made Li Chengxiu extremely annoyed.
"Alright, stay away! Everyone, sit down and discuss what to do next. If anyone dares to steal food from my broken bowl, I'll kill them!"
At this moment, Li Chengxiu had completely lost the silly and cute attitude he had shown in front of Jiang Wan. When he had accompanied his father-in-law to attack Dongling Mansion, he had cultivated a murderous aura amidst the dead. Moreover, he had defended this place alone for several years. How could he not have the bloodthirsty and ruthless nature of a warrior?
The warm spring sun is very well-behaved and never shines into corners where it shouldn't.
Jiang Wan rested briefly in Qiuya Garden before going straight to the housekeeping duties. Ultimately, it was his job, so getting it sorted out early would save him a lot of trouble.
The couple were busy with their own things, and when they met in bed at night, the sky was already full of moonlight.
"Wife, are you hungry?"
"Fine."
"Wife, are you tired?"
"Fine."
"Wife, are you sleepy?"
"Fine."
"Wife, you..."
Li Chengxiu looked at the pair of quiet eyes opposite him, and could only pout in frustration and stretch his big head over.
"Don't hit my face."
With such practiced skill that it was hard to say whether to laugh or cry, Jiang Wan extended her right index finger and placed it on his forehead, pushing him a little further away. In the dim candlelight of the room, the couple looked at each other calmly.
"You don't want to tell me?"
"…Um."
"Why?"
"What I did wasn't something glorious. I was afraid you'd think I was despicable and look down on me..."
His voice was guilty, but it also made him sound a little pathetic and humble. Jiang Wan's eyes flickered, and he moved his fingers to his ears, pinching them twice, neither too hard nor too soft.
"When did I ever dislike you? After all, I agreed to marry you myself. If I really didn't like you, how could I possibly marry you?"
“Because you don’t have much choice.
If you were not the eldest daughter of the Jiang family, if you did not have to marry into the royal family, I think you would never marry me.
You can find someone better than me.”
The tone was very firm, and it sounded a little unwilling and guilty. Jiang Wan had always known that Li Chengxiu was a clear-headed person in love.
"You're fine."
"You're talking nonsense again. I'm not the person you want in your heart at all. I'm just a compromise you had to make for the Jiang family. I know that."
Look how pitiful he is, he knows everything, but he is like a foolish moth, closing his eyes and flying towards the flame he wants.
When did he fall in love with this fierce little girl? In fact, he himself didn't know.
But because of love comes sorrow, and because of love comes fear.
He was always afraid that he was not good enough in front of her, always afraid that she would regret it, and felt that being with him, Li Chengxiu, was the most unfair thing in the world.
He is obviously a tall man, but he insists on curling up in bed in a wronged state, pretending to be a pitiful little thing to gain sympathy.
Jiang Wan smiled and pulled his ear.
"You're talking nonsense. What do you know? I don't even know who the person I want is, so how can you know?"
She rolled over and lay on top of him, holding her husband's face in her hands and kissing him hard.
"Look, I told you you're pretty good, right? If I really didn't like you, how could I possibly eat you with my personality? I'm a very picky eater!"
"Hehehe, hehehehehe..."
The man, who was coaxed into a trance, fell drunk in the gentle embrace that his wife had carefully created for him, laughing foolishly.
"So, my dear, if you have anything going on, you might as well tell me. Maybe I can give you some advice. Don't you always say that I'm smarter than you?"
Li Chengxiu stopped smiling, looked up at his wife's gentle eyes, and after making sure that she was telling the truth, he repeated the question with some concern.
"Then promise not to scold me."
"Well, I promise not to scold you."
So the man put his arms around his wife and whispered something in her ear. Sure enough, Jiang Wan frowned in confusion.
"Are you blackmailing these aliens next to you?"
"It's not blackmail, I'm collecting protection money."
"Protecting them from what?"
"Protect them from being bullied by us..."
He made a guilty excuse and then tried to clear himself.
"Actually, this is a mutually agreed-upon deal. If I don't accept the protection fee, the other two countries, Dali and Linyue, will come over to collect it.
The area where these small tribes are staying is, to be honest, a lawless place. They are right in the middle of our three countries, so who are they going to pay protection fees to?
I charge a relatively fair price. You have no idea how unpleasant others are. Besides, I'm a very honest person. I'll do my job if I'm paid. I'm not like the people of Linyue who are so unrefined. So they quite like paying me protection money. It's all consensual, really!"
"I didn't say anything else. Why are you explaining so much? I know the law of the jungle, the survival of the fittest."
Jiang Wan looked up at him.
"Then why did those generals come here today? Did something happen?"
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