Treating the Concubine, Eliminating the Wife: Reborn, I Refuse to Marry the Scumbag and Marry the Pr

The sun's shadow was slanting to the west, and the palace was quiet, with the occasional sound of a child falling, or...

"Eh-wait, I landed in the wrong place."

Li Jifeng quickly picked up the chess piece, placed it in another place, and then raised his hand, "It's your turn."

Xie Tingzhou stared at him with a calm expression for a moment, and Li Jifeng couldn't help but said, "Why are you looking at me?"

Xie Tingzhou said nothing.

"Really, I'm not pretending." Li Jifeng said again: "I'm really not pretending now. I'm really at this level in playing chess, and I can't always get it right. This is my only shortcoming. I asked your wife to accompany me. You won’t do it in the next two rounds, you’re stingy.”

Xie Tingzhou raised his hand and blocked the hit he just made.

Li Jifeng looked at the chessboard, then looked up at Xie Tingzhou. After doing this several times, he said, "Let's play another game."

Xie Tingzhou spread his hands, and the waiter beside Li Jifeng hurriedly handed over the banknotes, not forgetting to whisper to Li Jifeng, "Sir, there is only one left."

"Let me kill your young master." Li Jifeng rolled up his sleeves and quickly packed up the chess pieces while complaining.

"Now that the world is in your hands, you actually have the nerve to win my money. What do you lack?"

"Que." Xie Tingzhou's expression remained unchanged, holding a banknote in his hand, "Do you know how many people this one can support?"

"You can't feed me anyway." Li Jifeng said, "Come, come, come."

"What are your plans for the future?" Xie Tingzhou asked, twisting a sunspot between his fingers.

Li Jifeng was lazily leaning on the bamboo raft. He was not wearing any shoes, only white socks, and a pillow under his arm.

"My only wish in life is to be a free and easy king. You are born to work hard. You do the hard work. You can just give me any king title."

Xie Tingzhou didn't say anything, he just raised his eyes and glanced at Li Jifeng.

Li Jifeng rubbed his nose and settled for the next best thing, "Maybe you can be granted a title of marquis, I'm not that picky, and then you can allocate 10,000 pieces of silver to me every month to spend my time, which will make your emperor's kindness so great."

With a "click" sound, Xie Tingzhou dropped a key and said, "You made a good calculation."

"Hehe." Li Jifeng said with a cheeky smile: "I just said that chess skills are my only shortcoming, so it must be my advantage in settling accounts."

"Is being shameless your weakness or strength?" Xie Tingzhou asked.

Li Jifeng put down the chess pieces and said, "Xie Yun, this is boring. I am the former prince who accepted the surrender. Is this such a shame and humiliation not worth ten thousand taels of silver per month? This is my face."

Xie Tingzhou raised his lips slightly and glanced at Li Jifeng's face, "Why is your face worth so much?"

Li Jifeng clapped his fingers and said, "Let me settle this for you. If I had not opened the door and accepted the surrender, would you have had to attack hard? Do you need money to fight? It can easily be hundreds of thousands or millions of taels of silver, and the city wall, If your trebuchet comes over and destroys the city wall, will it cost hundreds of thousands of taels to repair? I haven't even finished yet."

"I'm happy." Xie Tingzhou said, "I'm happy to smash the city wall and spend money to repair it myself."

Li Jifeng was at his wits end. Xie Tingzhou had already figured out his temperament. To deal with a rogue like him, he would naturally have to be more ruthless than him.

"I don't care." Li Jifeng pressed Xie Tingzhou's hand, "You take care of me, I'll take care of you."

"I'm not your father."

"I am your brother, closer than a real brother." Li Jifeng said loudly: "If you really want to be a father, I can't shout, whoever has more money will be the father."

"No need." Xie Tingzhou suddenly reached out and took something from the side and threw it into Li Jifeng's arms.

The thing looked like a handkerchief. Li Jifeng picked it up and unfolded it and realized it was a Taoist decree. After reading it, he chuckled.

"I knew it, good brother."

It has been more than a month since Li Zhaonian passed away, and now it's the New Year's Eve again.

Li Jifeng put away his things and asked: "You haven't been able to ascend the throne for a long time, but you want to wait until after the new year?"

On the day Li Jifeng surrendered, some courtiers committed suicide on the spot, but the wind dissipated quickly. Some ministers who had sworn not to be subjugated ministers are now attending court normally.

There was a major reshuffle in the court. There were no longer any four major families in the world, and no one dared to mention that they held great power.

Now that the court was on track, the next day, Xie Tingzhou sat in the emperor's seat, but he never put his ascension to the throne on the agenda.

The courtiers mentioned several times that a country cannot live without a king, but Xie Tingzhou still made no statement.

"But there is one person." Li Jifeng suddenly said: "Jiang Ji is your person, right?"

"No." Xie Tingzhou said decisively.

Li Jifeng's face was full of doubts, "I always feel that I can't see this person clearly. He has no party or faction, and he seems to be drifting away from him, tsk."

Li Jifeng shook his head, "I can't see clearly."

Outside Shengjing City, an ox cart walked slowly on the official road.

The driver was a vigorous old man with a wine bag hanging on his waist, and a handsome young man was sitting behind the car.

There were many people going in the direction of Shengjing along the road, but these two were the only ones going in the opposite direction.

"Why do so many people go to Shengjing?" the young man asked.

"These are all the people who ran away before the war started." The old man said: "They all thought that Shengjing was going to be in chaos, so everyone ran away. Hey, who would have thought that this country would change its owner so peacefully."

"No." The old man raised his chin, "In recent years, all of them have come back again."

The young man gathered his cloak and looked at the pedestrians and carriages along the road, and murmured: "Yeah, who would have thought of that?"

The old man looked back at the young man. He had an outstanding temperament and looked like he was not an ordinary person.

He couldn't help but asked curiously: "I think you have extraordinary temperament. You must not come from an ordinary family. You went south alone, why didn't you bring any servants with you?"

"Old man, you have made a mistake." The young man shook his clothes, "I am just an ordinary scholar, otherwise how could I dress like this."

The old man glanced at his clothes of ordinary material, "Then why are you going south at this time?"

"Wandering in the clouds." The young man said, "Perhaps I can stop and take a rest wherever I go, find a school to become a tutor, or write letters to others to earn money before I start my journey again."

The old man nodded, "It's just that it's very cold today. It's a long way to go, so why don't you wait until spring starts?"

Jiang Lianzhi looked back and could vaguely see the towering city walls of Shengjing.

Jiang Lianzhi seemed to see a fire.

The fire lit by Xie Tingzhou and Shen Yu will continue to burn, burning away the centuries-old snow and bringing the spring of Shengjing far away.

Jiang Lianzhi smiled, "Did you see it? Winter has passed and spring has come."