Cui Xingzhou never expected that the countless troops on the battlefield, including swords, halberds, and short knives, could not kill him. However, he was so enraged by a piece of paper in his inner courtyard that his heart was shattered.
Since she has all taken it out, if he doesn’t take a look, he seems to be afraid of her.
Cui Xingzhou opened the paper with a cold face and looked closely. No wonder her writing style improved so much when she was drafting for her sister Cui Fu. It turned out that she had rehearsed it herself long before.
Leaving aside the section of the gold and silver shop and the dowry, Liu Miantang, like her sister, wanted to take the child from her belly away with her in a dignified manner!
Cui Xingzhou shook the paper and his voice squeezed out of his throat, “You have great confidence. Why do you think you can take my son away?”
Miantang sat far away from him, her slender fingers hooked on the patterns on her skirt, and she didn’t look at him. She only suppressed her tears and said, “I love spicy food these days, not necessarily a son, but maybe a daughter.”
Prince Huaiyang was about to be enraged by Leader Lu and raised his voice slightly, saying, “Don’t worry about whether it’s a son or a daughter, you can’t take them away.”
As he spoke, he lifted his leg and kicked, causing the table to fall apart. The fruit plate and teacup clattered all over the ground.
Speaking of it, Prince Huaiyang has been married to his princess consort for so long, but he has never had such a big temper before. At the first sign that something was wrong, Bicao wanted to rush in to protect the princess consort.
But before she broke in, she was grabbed by Servant Li who whispered, “What’s the use of you entering? Hurry up and find the Elder Lady.”
Bicao came to her sense and said, “Yes, I have to ask the Elder Sister to manage her younger brother!”
At that moment, she ran to call for help.
Cui Fu has been able to walk down the ground in the past few days and was pushing Jin’er to play on a wooden horse.
Seeing Bicao rushing in, she gasped and said, “Something big has happened, the prince is beating and cursing the princess consort. We, servants, dare not stop him. Elder Lady, please go and take a look.”
Cui Fu was startled when she heard this. She had seen her younger brother punish the soldiers under him, a gentle prince of the royal family who was called ruthless when he started!
Miantang was pregnant now, how can she withstand his beating? Cui Fu quickly ordered someone to take a coat and a wide hat to put on for herself and then led her nanny to follow Bicao to her younger brother’s inner courtyard.
Upon entering, it was a mess on the ground. Miantang huddled in a corner of the room and didn’t speak, her eyes turned red. Her slender body only had a bulging belly, making her look pitiful to her.
Looking at her capable younger brother, he was holding a piece of paper and shouting at Miantang with a straight face.
Cui Fu strode over and slapped her younger brother fiercely!
“Cui Xiaojiu, you have grown up! We Cui family have never had a man who beats women before! Miantang is pregnant now, why are you shouting at her?”
Cui Xingzhou was beaten to the side of his face, but it was his legitimate sister who hit him. He naturally didn’t want to say anything, but his eyes held a chilling expression, and stood up.
But Miantang was anxious and quickly walked over to cover Cui Xingzhou’s face, saying, “Sister… Why did you hit him?”
Cui Fu saw that Miantang was defending his younger brother, feeling both angry and funny. She then said, “Look, you’ve been crazy. But Miantang feels heartache looking at me slapping you. What is it that cannot be settled by sitting down and having a proper conversation, but you are threatening her with your anger? Let’s go, Miantang, come to my yard, we should not tolerate his anger.”
As she spoke, Cui Fu picked up Miantang and prepared to take her to her yard for shelter.
Prince Huaiyang has now gone through nine major strikes, and his aura has faintly risen to a new level.
After each explosion of thunder, the anger dissipated a lot. He grabbed Miantang’s other hand and refused to let her go, then said to his sister, “I just had a slight argument with her. Who told you I hit her? You can’t walk in the wind for too long, Sister, why did you come out? Hurry back and rest, I’ll have a proper conversation with her.”
Although Miantang’s eyes were red, she didn’t look like she had been beaten. How could there be couples that don’t quarrel? Usually, it was just regarding some trivial matter. If outsiders were entangled in it too much, it will not be too nice.
So she anxiously reminded Cui Xingzhou to give way to Miantang and don’t wait till when their child was gone due to his reckless to regret.
When Cui Fu left, the mess in the room was also cleaned up.
Cui Xingzhou took a deep breath and helped Miantang lie down with a cold face, letting her rest on her waist. Miantang still couldn’t ignore the piece of paper and warned him, “Except for the child, everything else is easy to discuss. In fact, when the child grows up to thirteen years old, it will be the same for him to return to the residence. We can’t let the child lose kin from a young age…”
Cui Xingzhou covered her with a blanket, then lowered his handsome face extremely low, with the tip of his nose pressed against her, and spoke to her in a low volume as much as possible, “Liu Miantang, if you say one more word today, I will kill the four villains in the prison and expose them to the wilderness.”
Miantang could see that his gaze was serious, and the murderous intent inside made her a bit unable to open her eyes.
After Liu Miantang finally calmed down, Cui Xingzhou got up and was about to leave.
But Miantang grabbed his hand and looked at him with red circles under her eyes.
Cui Xingzhou tried to be calm and said, “Why are you holding me? Let go.”
Miantang remembered his threat and didn’t say a word, but she didn’t let go of it.
Since he has not signed the letter of separation yet, he was still her husband. Before she leaves, she would like to snuggle together for a while more, allowing her to smell his fragrance, remember his appearance, and properly say goodbye!
When she and he were arguing to separate previously, didn’t she say that a sudden separation would be heartbreaking, so it’s best to separate slowly and adapt to each other.
In the beginning, the dividing process was smooth, and she was almost getting used to it. However, he had to pester her and sign a marriage letter, which made her more addicted to it.
How come when she made a mistake, his words means everything? Where was justice in heaven?
Cui Xingzhou didn’t dare to exert himself, afraid of hurting her, but he reluctantly shook his head and said with a hint of mockery, “I should have noticed before that your shameless energy is as virtuous as Lu Wen. I can’t even shake it off, and you won’t let it go once you acquire.”
Although she knew he was talking about the entanglement between the two armies, his words hurt too much.
Liu Miantang, couldn’t help but retort in a low voice, “Don’t bully me for can’t remember my amnesia. I learned all this from you. Didn’t you keep pestering me to marry you like this?”
Cui Xingzhou’s handsome eyes narrowed like two long knives, and he lightly patched them up and said, “Didn’t I just accept you because I saw that you couldn’t get married and pitied you?”
At this moment, Miantang’s eyes were wide and she gave up. She shook Cui Xingzhou’s hand, arch her hand, and said, “I thank you for your kindness! But… When you cling to the edge of my bed, you are not so noble! It seems like a beggar, who wasn’t full on the street, came to beg for meat in my bed!”
Cui Xingzhou’s face tightened. With such teasing and damaging skills, how could he be compared to Lady Liu, who had been training among the women on North Street?
He was so angry that he couldn’t express himself. He pointed his long finger at Liu Miantang and nodded desperately, but in the end, he slowly smiled and lifted his hand to untie his collar and remove his belt.
Miantang looked at him warily and asked, “What are you doing?”
Cui Xingzhou fiercely threw his robe onto the ground and said, “Leader Lu is going to reward me with meat. If I don’t eat a few more pieces, wouldn’t it be disrespectful?”
Miantang’s imagined snuggling and warmth before the breakup was not like this big-mouthed meat-eating posture, so she suddenly stuttered and said, “Who… Who said I wanted this? Aren’t we arguing to separate? Put on your clothes… Ah…”
The next moment, the fierce wolf, who had been hungry for seven days, crawled into the den and swallowed up all the rest of Miantang’s words.
The servants who had been guarding the entrance of the room saw that there were no more quarrels in the room. Servant Li looked down the crack of the door and saw from a distance that the brocade tent on the bed had been put down. She immediately felt relieved and whispered to the group of big-eyed and small-eyed maids, “Let’s all do our errands. The hot water basin under the corridor is ready. Wait for the prince and princess consort to call for water later…”
The way this couple works was nothing more than a quarrel. Since the two of them are like glue again, it’s probably sunny after rain.
But… what did the princess consort do this time, causing the prince to be so angry?
Besides, Miantang hasn’t eaten well all day. After arguing for a long time and feeding the wolf for a long time, even though she was tired, she only wanted to sleep with her eyes closed, but the little one in her stomach didn’t comply and was clamoring for something to eat.
So when Miantang opened her eyes again, she was so hungry that she panicked all over. She didn’t even bother to call for a maid to come and fetch food. She grabbed the cake box on the partition of the bed frame and began to devour it.
Cui Xingzhou hasn’t rested well in the official office for the past few days. After a fight at the residence today, his depression has been relieved a lot.
Just now, after dealing with the female bandit leader, he wanted to hug her and sleep for a while. Unexpectedly, she tried to cram food into her mouth like a starving person.
“What kind of unhealthy snacks are these? Did you buy them on the street again?” Looking at the inexplicable fried cake hanging in cold oil, Cui Xingzhou sat up and grabbed it, and threw it onto the ground.
Even if the hidden secret was exposed just now, even if Cui Xingzhou got angry, smashed things, and cursed people, Miantang controlled herself and did not cry.
But after Cui Xingzhou snatched off the cake that hadn’t been chewed twice in her mouth, Miantang couldn’t help but feel aggrieved. “Sob,” she cried out, “I’m hungry! You… You still refrain me from eating…”
At this moment of crying, tears burst out like a levee, gushing in. After a while, she was sobbing little by little.
Cui Xingzhou never expected that he let a big hole leak out of the Tianhe River just by taking off her cake, causing the surging river water to rush down. It made him feel a bit flustered.
He patted Miantang on the shoulder, causing her to sob slowly. He looked up in anger and called out to the maid outside, “Are all the people dead outside? Hurry up and bring hot rice and dishes for the princess consort to eat.”
But Miantang refused, only pulling on the quilt in pain, like a three-year-old child. She cried out, “I’m going to eat the fried cakes.”
Cui Xingzhou took a breath and felt that the tenth strike was super unbearable!
He suddenly picked up his clothes and walked outside.
Miantang knew in her heart that he must have despised herself and wanted to leave the residence.
Although not unexpected, the sadness in her heart couldn’t be controlled, and the crying became even more intense.
Cui Xingzhou had already walked to the door, but the choking sound behind him was even louder. The blue veins in his head jumped high, and he suddenly turned back to shout at the tearful person on the bed, “Why are you crying? Didn’t you say to eat fried cakes? I’ll go out and buy it for you right now!”
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