Chapter 18: And Marry Him? Okay!

  Nonsense! If it weren't for Li Zhi, that future emperor, using his pen to stab me in the back, I'd have gone mad before saving this little wretch who's always opposing me.

  "Ah..." The old master's attention was immediately drawn to my sincere and eager gaze, and he looked at Li Hu with a hint of hesitation, "Focus... you must focus." He temporarily put aside the idea of severely scolding Li Hu's delicate palm and walked towards me with a gentle smile.

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  "Jiànu zhēn guāi, yī huì jiějie dài nǐ qù chī jiǔ, lán rán xuān kě shì xīn lái le gè hǎo chúzi." Xiàkè le, Lǐ Shuò zhè liáng tóu duì xiǎo dì jiàn yì yǒng fā de xíng wéi hěn shì gǎndòng, Lǐ Zhì jīn xīng dé zhí diǎn tóu, jiù chà, méi yǒu diǎn nánzǐ qìxiàng.

  "Hey, girl, why thank him and not me?" I'm so angry, it's obviously my show, how did this kid steal the spotlight. The scenery of Lanruo Xuan is not bad, but what I care more about is the taste of food.

  "Ah Niang?!?" He raised an eyebrow, Li Yu's face almost collided with the high bridge of my nose: "You dare to call out again."

  Her eyes are very round, with long and dense eyelashes that shine like black jade. Her pupils are an unusual amber color, very beautiful... what a pity, I actually saw a small lump of eye discharge at the corner of her eye, which is quite nauseating. The wings of her nose wrinkle into cute folds, her skin is very white, but earlier I clearly saw some faint freckles on her cheeks, now they're gone, could it be that Tang Dynasty biotechnology has surpassed that of the 21st century?

  "...Please, men and women should keep a distance... Trouble you, He Pu, to stay away from me, and also, the corner of your eye...". Swallowing back the last two words, mainly because the distance was too close, afraid that this little loli would go crazy and accidentally harm someone, causing me, the greatest hero of the Tang Dynasty, to die prematurely.

  "What's with the corner of your eye?" Li Yu blinked and looked at Li Zhi, who had been staring at her.

  "Eye boogers, Seventeen sister, have eye boogers..." Li Zhi's little classmate is very well-behaved and honest. The result goes without saying...

  "Hey, can you persuade your sister to let us drink some grape wine?" I patted Li Zhi's shoulder, who was rubbing his temples, and gazed leisurely at the distant figure of Li Shu, her back a vision of loveliness as she fled in embarrassment, the air seeming to grow fresher and more fragrant with her departure.

  "I don't know... Seventeen's really something, isn't she just a lump of eye discharge? Why did she hit me..." Li Zhi rubbed his head with a pitiful expression and followed me as I walked forward.

  "Don't underestimate the power of a woman's eyeliner or a single white hair. For women, having their beauty undermined is... (she couldn't find the right words and gestured randomly on her face) ...very likely to spark a war. How can you look at me with that kind of gaze? Don't believe me? Alright, let me tell you a story about an island queen who sent troops to attack another country just for a beautiful diamond to adorn her crown..."

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  Li Shu sat opposite me, his face as calm as water, like facing a great enemy, hesitating to make a move. After a good while, he gritted his teeth and jumped three steps. "Fang Jun, it's your turn."

  Checkers, I started playing at the age of four to develop my intelligence. Green beads walked eight steps in one breath: "Done, now I'm just short of a bead, hehe..."

  "What?! Li Yu was stunned, her beautiful three-ring bun almost messed up like a bird's nest, muttering to herself as she carefully moved my beads back and forth."

  "What's wrong? Afraid I, a big man, can't even be lazy?" He glanced at the girl, threw a large piece of braised meat into his mouth, savored the grape wine while chewing, and looked out the window at the hardworking fishermen. The maple leaves were on fire above the green waves, and the cool autumn air occasionally brushed against his face. Life... was actually so comfortable. Unintentionally, he shivered. Winter is almost here......

  "Hmph... definitely cheating again." Li Yu angrily tossed the copper coins in front of her over to Li Zhi, who was sitting next to her. "Zhi Nu, why don't you ever help your sister?"

  "I wanted to help, but Brother Jun is too formidable, I have no way...". Li Zhi knew how to pretend to be stupid, this is progress, worthy of a young man, knowing that he is not my opponent, after losing some, he quickly retreated to the side to watch the battle, unlike some women, gritting their teeth and determined to fight with me, the chess prodigy, until one of us dies.

  "Are you and your sister from the same family?" Li Yu counted the few copper coins in front of him, his face turned green, his eyes rolled around, and he patted Li Zhi's head with a gentle smile.

  Li Zhi blinked: "Yes, yes..."?

  "Brothers unite, their power can cut through metal, right?" Li Yu's words were very provocative.

  "Yes, yes..." continued Li Zhi's kind-hearted little classmate with a blink.

  "Alright, you're indeed my good brother, let's go halves. Give me your money, we'll split the winnings 50/50, and if we lose, we'll bear the loss together." Li Fu was too bad, really too bad. The poor Princess Li Fu disregarded the rich Master Wang Li Zhi's resistance, and with a few quick moves, she snatched away Comrade Little Li's money bag, staring at me fiercely: "Youngster, continue!"

  Leaning against the window, she let out a lazy yawn: "I'm telling you, girl..."?

  "...house legacy of love!" Li Yu's eyes began to redden. Suddenly, he changed his tone: "He Pu big sister, what time is it now, are you still going down? Or I admit defeat? How about dividing the red envelope into a share for you?" Today's income was not bad, and winning at playing Go again earned him another 10 yuan from this girl. He felt pleased with himself, thinking that before long, this girl would only be able to watch others go up to the wine house.

  "No way, I really don't believe it, if you have the ability, then lose to me." Li Yu's self-esteem was too strong, and he said, "Xiao Zhi, are you sure you want to lend money to your sister to turn over a new leaf?" After playing chess for an entire afternoon, his head was getting a bit numb.

  "Can't borrow... is that okay?" Li Zhi looked at Li Yu, who was on the verge of a tantrum, with a pitiful expression on his childish face.

  Checkers, also known as hopscotch, is a game that benefits both the old and the young. It's easy to learn, but difficult to master. You need to understand concepts like "堵眼" (blocking), "横子" (horizontal movement), and "拆子" (splitting)... I was quite skilled at it back in the day, and once had a 300-round match with a beautiful classmate from school. She lost all her meal tickets, and only conceded defeat after I used my killer move of throwing the checker piece to distract her.

  "Right, Brother Jun, the Tubo people have sent someone again." Li Zhi, who couldn't bear to see his sister being beaten by me, took a sip of grape wine and said in a low voice, shifting everyone's attention in a very strange way.

  Li Yu seemed to know that he was not a match for me, so he reluctantly gave up the idea of continuing to fight, divided the money on the table in half with Li Zhi, and smiled as he put his share back into his own pocket.

  I took a sip of wine, tied my purse tightly and ignored the contemptuous gaze of this little girl. "What's up?" I didn't pay attention, what's the big deal, wasn't it just that Princess Wencheng was married to Songzan, the country lord of Tubo, some rural official?

  "Good for you!" Li Yu's face looked a bit unsightly, he picked up the lacquered cup and took a sip, "My dad seems to be preparing to agree." He savagely bit into a chicken drumstick, his cheek bulging out, eating very elegantly.

  "Oh... good... not bad..." This plate of wind-dried meat is quite good, has a nice chew to it, and the salt isn't too heavy, very palatable.

  "You!... Eat, eat, eat, won't burst you... Despicable traitor." Li Hu spat out the chicken bones, stood up with his hands on his hips.

  "What did I just sell?" I looked at her with a bewildered expression.

  "What's the deal with you and Tibet, huh? Are you selling out or what?" Li Zhi's little classmate looked at me with a weird gaze, disdainfully... First of all, are you related to the Tibetan separatists or something?

  The two siblings stood with their hands on their hips, huffing and puffing. If they didn't think they couldn't beat me up, these two little Red Guards from Tang country would have taken me to parade through the streets. How unjust!

  "In fact... Your Majesty's thoughts are not understood by you, and this marriage seems to be a loss for us. However, the Tubo will never recover from this marriage...". Calm and composed, with an unchanging expression, as steady as Mount Tai, except that I only have a chicken bone in my hand, without a fan to show off, I am now simply the reincarnation of Zhuge Wuhou.

  "Really?..." Li Yu's face was full of suspicion, his expression flickering uncertainly. Li Zhi, on the other hand, was very excited and grabbed my sleeve: "Jun Ge, quickly tell me... how did my father make Tibet collapse?"

  "...and marriage..." I thought about the grand scene when Princess Wencheng married into Tibet: "When it comes to marriage, does the bride's side need to have dowry and entourage?"

  Li Yu almost dropped the lacquer cup he had just picked up on my head: "Nonsense!"

  "The key is in the dowry and the people who came with it... Hehehe..." I wiped away tears from the corners of my eyes, raised an eyebrow, and gave a sly and sinister look.

  You may not be used to someone like me suddenly becoming like this, Li Yu couldn't bear it and rolled her eyes, directly reaching out to grab my collar: "Quickly say, how did you make the Tubo so disheartened? If you can't say it, I'll go find Father in a bit and have you divorced...

  "Pffft...!" The dead girl, the intimidating Wei Xiang who had lost his happy life, scared the old man so much that he spat out a mouthful of wine all over her face.

  "I saw it, I saw this girl's anger value exceeded the warning line, exceeded the limit board, exceeded NASDAQ..."