When Ling Xiao heard Jiujiu say that she was going to devote herself to him, he felt his heart skip a beat.
This was a feeling he had never felt in the past thirty years.
Ling Xiao knew very well that he was actually a little moved.
But what could he do?
A person like him might die on the battlefield one day. No matter who married him, she would be called a widow.
Such a beautiful girl should marry a man who could accompany her for the rest of her life, hold her in his hands, and dote on her. Not a man like him, who could only live today and not have a tomorrow.
Seeing Jiujiu's carriage leave, Chen Pu went up to Ling Xiao and smiled mischievously. "General, when are you going to treat our brothers to wine?"
Ling Xiao didn't understand what Chen Pu meant and thought that he simply wanted to drink. "If you want to drink, drink when we go down the mountain."
Chen Pu shook his head. "This subordinate doesn't want to drink the wine at the foot of the mountain."
Ling Xiao was curious. "You don't want to drink the wine at the foot of the mountain?"
There was a winery at the foot of the mountain where one could buy wine, but there was no winery on the mountain where one could buy wine.
Chen Pu smiled mysteriously. "Of course it's your wedding wine, General."
Chen Pu bumped Ling Xiao's arm. "The girl has already married you, and you still don't want to take responsibility?"
Just now, he had seen that girl's countenance was like a flower, like the moon.
Although he hadn't seen many stunning beauties, he knew that such a beauty was hard to find in this world. If it were him, he would want to marry her on the spot.
Ling Xiao finally understood the meaning behind Chen Pu's words.
Ling Xiao slapped him in annoyance. "You're so bored every day. Run fifty laps around the village later."
Chen Pu was instantly devastated and quickly begged for mercy. "General, I was wrong. I won't dare to tease you anymore. Please don't be like this."
The village at the foot of the mountain wasn't big, but it wasn't small either. Although they could run fifty laps, it was already time to go down the mountain. If they ran another fifty laps, they would definitely die.
Chen Pu's show of weakness didn't receive any sympathy from Ling Xiao. Instead, he mercilessly kicked him. "If you say it again, it'll be a hundred laps."
Chen Pu quickly left, not daring to say another word.
At night, Ling Xiao once again saw Jiujiu's carriage at the village head's house where he was staying.
When Ling Xiao arrived, Jiujiu was alighting from the carriage with the help of a servant girl.
Jiujiu held onto the servant girl's arm, stepped on the stool, and stepped out of the carriage step by step.
When Jiujiu got out of the car, she wore a veil on her face to cover her excessively beautiful face.
From afar, Ling Xiao could only feel Jiujiu's graceful back view.
Jiujiu gave him enough money, so he naturally stayed in the best room in the village head's house.
However, the village at the foot of the mountain was still very shabby compared to Jiujiu's previous village, even though the village head felt that it was the best.
Jiujiu sat on the stool brought by a maidservant with a look of disgust and watched the maidservant tidy up the room.
The room was a kang bed, so she could use her own bedding. However, the beams of the room were pitch black, and there were no large windows in the room. Even though there were candles, it still felt dim.
Jiujiu was used to living in a large and spacious house, so she naturally didn't feel very comfortable suddenly living in such a small room.
As Jiujiu fanned herself to relieve her impatience, she thought about how she must install a sleeping device in the carriage in the future so that she wouldn't have to live in such a shabby and shabby room.
Even though Jiujiu was wearing a veil, Ling Xiao could still see the disdain in Jiujiu's actions from Jiujiu.
Thinking about it, Jiujiu wore silk and satin. Even a small carriage had another world to it. This kind of young lady had grown up spoiled, so suddenly coming to a place like this …
It was very normal for her to dislike this place.
Although Ling Xiao was the young master of the General's residence, he had been designated as the successor of the General's residence since he was young. In order for him to be able to shoulder the heavy burden of the General's residence in the future, Ling Xiao didn't enjoy too much treatment because of his identity. On the contrary, he had suffered countless hardships because of his identity.
And in a place like the border, there was no time for you to enjoy yourself when fighting a war.
Sometimes, as a general, he didn't even have time to eat a mouthful of food when the war at the border was over.
He would seize the time to take a bite of the dry rations.
The dry rations were coarse, tasted unpalatable, and were very dry. When swallowing, it would even choke his throat.
But in order to conserve his energy, Ling Xiao could only use his saliva to moisten the unpalatable dry rations and swallow them mouthful by mouthful.
Ling Xiao, who was used to suffering, despised finicky people the most.
In his opinion, those finicky people were purely because they hadn't suffered before. If he had suffered before, he wouldn't be so finicky.
But at this moment.
Looking at the finicky Jiujiu sitting at the door, Ling Xiao didn't feel any disgust at all. Instead, he felt that this was how it should be.
A little girl like this should be held in the palm of someone's hand and be well cared for. Someone like her naturally couldn't suffer.
So, wasn't it normal for her to be finicky?
Ling Xiao stood at a distance and quietly looked at Jiujiu for a long time.
He saw Jiujiu sitting at the door, swinging her legs in boredom. Then, he saw one of her guards run in and whisper a few words in her ear. Jiujiu jumped up from her seat like a rabbit and quickly ran into the house. Not long after, he saw her walk out with a smile.
Ling Xiao hurriedly dodged to the side.
Jiujiu followed the guard to the house next door. Then, she handed the item in her hand to the head of the house, along with a piece of silver.
Jiujiu watched as the female head of the house greedily pocketed the silver and said with a smile, "Leave this to me."
"Sorry to trouble you, Auntie." Jiujiu pointed at the servant girl standing beside her and said, "This is Qing Liu. You can ask her if there's anything Auntie doesn't understand."
Qing Liu took the initiative to enter the house with the woman.
Seeing Qing Liu enter the house with the woman, Jiujiu turned around and went back inside.
Ling Xiao didn't expect Jiujiu to suddenly turn around and was directly seen by Jiujiu.
Jiujiu was also very surprised when she saw Ling Xiao. She asked with a smile, "Is the general regretting it and wants to marry me?"
Jiujiu smiled slyly. "If it's someone else regretting it, I definitely won't agree. But if it's the general, it's fine. When does the general plan to marry me? "
When Jiujiu brought up the matter of 'marrying him' again, Ling Xiao's face, which had just calmed down, heated up again.
Ling Xiao turned his head away from Jiujiu and lowered his voice. "Miss, please don't speak nonsense."
Jiujiu blinked and looked at Ling Xiao innocently. "I'm not speaking nonsense. The general's body was strong when he subdued the bandit, and when he gave orders, he was brilliant and powerful. I couldn't help but feel moved. I really want to marry you."
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