First-rank palace maid Su Jixiang

Chapter 147 Do You Know Why I Don’t Shave My Beard?

Nangong Rui's eyes widened, "Sister-in-law really wants to open a restaurant of her own. Then my brother Qian is so lucky. Sister-in-law is so amazing!"

Zhao Xiuwan... This was the first time in her life that someone had looked at her with such sincerity and praised her.

She had been a lady from a noble family since she was a child. People only said that she was beautiful and would marry into a wealthy family and become the mistress of the house in the future. Unfortunately, when she entered the palace, to put it nicely, she became a Zhaoyi, but to put it bluntly, she was just a concubine. She did gain some favor because of her looks, but not much. After all, there were favored concubines like Chen Fei in the harem, so no matter how hard she tried, she could not make any waves.

All her beauty and gentleness were wiped out by the intrigue and scheming of court life.

She looks down on this and satirizes that, but in reality she is just trying to cover up her own unhappy life.

After Emperor Jing was finally deposed, her father and brother did not allow her to return home, but wanted her to come to the border to marry. Haha, she entered the palace because of her father and brother, and now she is at the border to marry Qian Feng because her father and brother are unwilling to take her back...

Qian Feng was good to her, but she just felt that something was missing.

Zhao Xiuwan's heartbeat quickened under Nangong Rui's gaze...

"It's not that great!" She suddenly panicked. Zhao Xiuwan stood up and said, "Eat first. I remember I have something else to do. I have to leave first. This meal is my treat. Just eat as much as you want. If it's not enough, ask the shopkeeper for more dishes. You don't have to pay. Because the shopkeeper owes me this."

After saying that, she pushed Nangong Rui's helmet towards him and fled.

After she went downstairs and out the door in one breath, she raised her hand to cover her chest. It felt a little swollen inside, as if something was quietly breaking through the ground and growing. No... not quietly, but vigorously, so violently that even she felt something was wrong!

Zhao Xiuwan couldn't help but look back and raise her head.

At some point, the window of the private room upstairs was opened. Her eyes met Nangong Rui's. Nangong Rui curved his lips and smiled brilliantly, "Thank you, sister-in-law! Take care, sister-in-law!"

Zhao Xiuwan... She didn't know how she walked away with her head down, she just felt her face turned a little red.

It turns out that he opened the window to say goodbye to himself...

She suddenly felt guilty, so she quickened her pace.

Nangong Rui looked at Zhao Xiuwan's quickly departing back and couldn't help but smile even more brightly, "Maybe my sister-in-law really had something urgent to do, she left so quickly!" He muttered, closed the window, and looked at the table full of dishes. Zhao Xiuwan ordered a lot of dishes, enough for eight people to sit down and eat. There was no way he could finish all of it by himself.

But today’s meat tasted really good!

He did not have a separate kitchen in the barracks on weekdays. He ate what his soldiers ate. Although there were rewards, there were not many opportunities to eat meat to his heart's content.

Not to mention his family, where so many people and so many mouths were waiting for him. They couldn't afford to buy meat on weekdays. In addition, they had to prepare the dowry for their eldest sister, so the family hadn't had meat for a long time.

Nangong Rui thought about it, called the waiter, and asked him to pack all the dishes on the table.

He ate happily today, and he also wanted his family to eat happily too.

With his hands full of packed dishes, Nangong Rui was very happy. Brother Qian found a great wife!

Hua Rui and He Chunlin returned home. Contrary to his usual behavior, He Chunlin pulled Hua Rui into the house as soon as he got home.

In front of Hua Rui, he carefully moved a cabinet, revealing the wall behind it, and then took out a few bricks from the wall.

"What are you doing?" Hua Rui looked at He Chunlin's actions in astonishment, a little at a loss.

"My money is hidden here." He Chunlin reached into the hole in the wall and took out an iron box. "Remember this. If you want to use it, just come and get it."

Stamens...

After being married for so long, she never asked He Chunlin where the money was. He Chunlin never told her before, and he would send her away every time he went to get the money.

He Chunlin took the box in his hand and carefully wiped off the wall dust on the box.

There was a reluctant look on his face and he rubbed his hands for a long time. Finally, he gritted his teeth and handed the box to Hua Rui.

Hua Rui couldn't help but burst out laughing when she saw that he looked like he was about to be beheaded.

"What are you doing?" Hua Rui felt that it might be inappropriate to laugh out loud at this moment, so she quickly put on a stern face again.

"I asked the general a question today." He Chunlin said.

"Which general?" Hua Rui was puzzled.

"Which other general can there be in Mangcheng?" He Chunlin scratched his head, still looking at the iron box in his hand reluctantly, "It's General Wei!"

"Oh?" Hua Rui was a little surprised, but then she thought again, it was probably when Su Jixiang took her to the warm room to talk and He Chunlin was pulled away by his comrades and met Wei Ling.

"What did you say to him?" Hua Rui asked.

"Everyone says that he is good to his wife, so I asked him how to be good to his wife so that she will not ask me to write her a letter of divorce..." He Chunlin scratched his head very embarrassedly.

Stamens...

"You even told this to others?" She couldn't help but raise her voice a little.

"What's there to hide? You almost asked me to write you a letter of divorce, but I refused this time and you didn't leave. What if one day you get really angry and leave without even the letter of divorce? Where will I find you?" He Chunlin sounded a little aggrieved, with red eyes.

Stamens...

After being married for so long, she only felt that He Chunlin was a bit overbearing and stingy. Today, she found out that he was actually afraid that she would leave...

"I can't say anything else." He Chunlin squatted on the ground holding the box. "Since I married you, I have chosen you. You don't mind my big beard, so I am happy. The wedding day was the happiest day of my life. I finally have a family. So I think about a lot of things. I want to save a lot of money and buy a field. When I said I would let you farm, I didn't mean you have to farm alone. I will help. I also think that we will have children in the future, and the children will go to school, because when the general taught me to read, he said that people must be illiterate. Only by being literate can you know etiquette better and become a better person."

Hua Rui also squatted down unconsciously, hugged her knees and looked at He Chunlin.

She had never heard He Chunlin talk about his past.

"Did you learn to read from General Wei Xue?" Hua Rui asked.

"Hmm." He Chunlin's voice was a little muffled. "Do you know why I keep my beard?"

Huarui shook her head.