A gentle breeze blew by, and a few insects chirped occasionally in the corner.
In the study room, the candlelight flickered and the light was dim.
Under the illumination of candlelight, wisps of light smoke were rising from the sandalwood burner on the table.
In the huge study room, except for the even breathing of Young Master Liu and his wife, the sound of the pipa played by candlelight, and the rustling of Young Master Liu flipping through files, there was no sound at all.
It's so quiet that you can hear a pin drop.
Qi Yun glanced at the porridge bowl on the tray that had lost all heat, and slightly raised her eyes to glance at her husband opposite the desk.
Seeing the expression on her husband's face that never calmed down, Qi Yun's beautiful eyes pursed her lips with worry, and slowly stood up from the chair.
Qi Yun walked to the side of Young Master Liu with light steps and glanced sideways at the candlestick next to her.
Seeing the red candle on the candlestick that was about to burn out, Qi Yuntan opened her mouth slightly and said softly: "Husband, the red candle on the candlestick is about to burn out. It's time to replace it with a new candle."
After hearing Qi Yun's reminder, Young Master Liu suddenly stopped when he was about to turn the page, and raised his eyes to scan the candlelight on the table.
"Hey, why did it burn out so quickly?"
Young Master Liu saw the red candle on the candlestick that had almost bottomed out and sighed to himself.
"Husband, I will change the candles immediately. You should take a rest as well."
Young Master Liu stretched out while holding the file in his hand, and looked up at Qi Yun who was standing in front of him.
"Huh, Yun'er, what time is it now?"
"Before, I faintly heard the sound of the night watch coming from the front yard, but now it's already time."
Young Master Liu's face was stunned, and he subconsciously looked out the window: "What, it's time to be ugly now?"
Seeing the surprised look on her face, Qi Yun smiled wryly and tapped her head a few times.
"Yes, it's time to be ugly.
Moreover, some time has passed since the wake-up call, and it is estimated that half of the ugly time has passed."
Young Master Liu withdrew his gaze, placed the file in his hand on the desk, stood up, walked aside and moved his body vigorously a few times.
"Time flies so fast, my husband thought it was only around midnight at most.
Unexpectedly, it was already late at night before I knew it.”
Qi Yun heard her husband's sigh, walked to the side, leaned her waist and held the porridge bowl on the tray in her hands.
"Husband, when I came to bring you lotus seed porridge, it was already late.
It's fine now, the lotus seed porridge has already cooled down.
Please wait for a while, I will go to the kitchen to heat up the porridge and water for you, and then bring it to you."
Qi Yun was holding the porridge bowl in both hands and was about to walk out of the study, when Young Master Liu walked directly towards the beauty.
"Yun'er."
"Husband."
"You don't need to bother anymore, just make a living and drink for your husband."
"How can that be done? The lotus seed porridge has been cold for a long time. If you drink it like this, it will hurt your stomach."
Hearing Qi Yun's caring words, Mr. Liu shook his head with a smile and took the porridge bowl in her hand.
"Yun'er, I'm not that delicate as a husband.
A bowl of cold porridge is nothing."
As soon as Mr. Liu finished speaking, he picked up the bowl of porridge and drank it in big gulps.
"Hey, husband..."
When Qi Yun was about to stop him, Young Master Liu had already drank all the cold porridge in the bowl.
Young Master Liu raised his hand to wipe the corners of his mouth, gently put the porridge bowl back on the tray, and looked at Qi Yun with a smile, who looked at him angrily.
"Yun'er, cold porridge is better. Drinking it will refresh you."
"You, let me tell you what to do. How much time will it take to heat up the porridge and water?"
Young Master Liu stretched his neck a few times, turned back to his desk and sat down.
"There are only a few files left in total. Finish processing and go to bed early."
Qi Yun's face suddenly became helpless when she saw that her husband had just finished drinking the cold porridge and was continuing to deal with the files on the side before he had time to rest for a while.
"Husband."
"Hey? What's wrong?"
Qi Yun glared at Young Master Liu angrily, walked over quickly, and reached out to grab the file he just held in his hand.
"Husband, how long did you rest for?
You didn't even have time for a cup of tea, and you sat down again, can your body handle it?"
While Qi Yun was complaining, she reached out and snatched the file from Young Master Liu's hand.
When Liu Dashan saw Qi Yun trying to seize the dossier in his hand, he hurriedly turned aside and hid the dossier behind his back.
"Yun'er, Yun'er, what are you doing?"
Qi Yun heard Young Master Liu's words and glared at him fiercely. She pressed Young Master Liu's shoulder with one hand and continued to snatch the files he had hidden behind him with the other hand.
"What do you mean I am doing? Of course I want you to rest for a while!
Husband, no matter how busy you are, you still have to pay attention to your health.
You don’t feel sorry for your own body, but I still feel sorry for my body!
Hurry up and give the file to me, and let’s talk about other matters after you take a good rest first.”
When Young Master Liu heard Qi Yun's words of concern for him, he felt both moved and helpless.
"Yun'er, listen to my husband."
"Husband, I know what you want to say.
I still say the same thing, in my heart, your body is the most important.
No matter how important other things are, they have to be ranked behind.
As for my husband, I naturally understand your painstaking efforts, but you also have to be considerate and considerate of my painstaking efforts.
You are my husband, how could I not feel sorry for you?"
Young Master Liu felt the firmness in the beauty's words, raised his eyes to look at the obsession on Qi Yun's pretty face, and nodded helplessly.
"Okay, okay, I'll give it to you, can't you give me a good rest for your husband?"
Unable to defeat Qi Yun, Young Master Liu had no choice but to raise the file in his hand and hand it directly to the beautiful lady.
Qi Yun quickly took the file from her husband and nodded with a smile on her face.
"That's pretty much it."
Young Master Liu looked at Qi Yun's coquettish expression, sighed softly, nodded and gestured to the remaining files on the desk.
"Yun'er, my husband has already dealt with nine out of ten of the more than twenty important files.
Counting the share in your hand, there are still three shares left in total.
If my husband is done with it as soon as possible, we can have a rest early.
On the contrary, not only can we not go to bed early, but our husbands will have to stay up longer.
If you don't go to rest, you will have to keep going through it with your husband.
Yun'er, tell me yourself, is it better for my husband to rest a little longer now? Or is it better to cut through the mess quickly, finish processing these files as soon as possible, and go have a good rest as soon as possible?"
Qi Yun's pretty face was slightly startled. She first looked at the file she was holding in her hand, and then scanned the two remaining files on the table. Her expression suddenly became tangled.
This choice seems a bit difficult for me.
Let your husband and you have a good rest as soon as possible, then he must continue to be busy now.
On the contrary, if he is asked to rest for a while now, he and his wife will not be able to rest early.
With such a situation in front of me, for a while, I really couldn't decide which one was better.
Young Master Liu looked at the tangled look on Qi Yunqiao's face, chuckled and took back the eucalyptus scroll in her hand.
"Good Yun'er, don't worry about it.
If you feel sorry for your husband's body, your husband will understand.
However, my husband can only go to rest early if he finishes his government affairs as soon as possible.
Tell me, is this true?"
"It seems...it seems to be the truth."
Liu Mingzhi stood up, nodded and kissed the beautiful woman's lips.
"Okay Yun'er, let's change the candles.
There are only a few files left, so my husband will be busy soon."
Qi Yun looked at the tenderness in her husband's eyes, pursed her slightly moist lips and was silent for a moment, then nodded her head gently a few times.
"Okay, I listen to you."
Qi Yun responded, turned around and walked directly towards the wooden box placed in the corner.
Young Master Liu looked at Qi Yun's beautiful figure with soft eyes, sat down gently, nodded and opened the file in his hand again.
Qi Yun took out a brand new candle from the wooden box, walked to the desk with swaying steps and stopped.
Looking at the dying candlelight on the candlestick, Qi Yun immediately lit the red candle in her hand and skillfully moved it to the candlestick.
"Yun'er."
"I am here."
"It's already late at night, why don't you go lie down on the couch next to the bookshelf for a while."
"Husband, I'm not sleepy, I'd better stay with you."
"Oh, good Yun'er, there are only a few files left in total, and my husband will be able to finish them soon.
Be obedient and go lie down on the couch for a while."
"Okay, I'll go over first."
"go Go."
Qi Yun nodded slightly and walked back towards Ruandao not far away.
She was half-lying, half-lying, sleeping on the soft bed, and looked towards Young Master Liu with soft eyes.
I don't know if it was too late, but when Qi Yun's eyelids kept trembling, Young Master Liu stood up gently, stretched his arms with his arms high.
As if hearing the footsteps of Young Master Liu, the sleepy Qi Yun immediately opened her eyes.
"Husband, you are done."
"Hey, we're done, Yun'er, you're not asleep yet."
"Well... I'm not sleepy."
Young Master Liu heard Qi Yun's tough reply and looked at her with pity.
"Silly lady."
Qi Yun rubbed her waist with her fingers and held up her cheeks with her hands with a smile on her face.
"Silly husband."
Young Master Liu saw that Qi Yunqiao's face was obviously exhausted, but she still pretended to be energetic, and she shook her head helplessly.
"Yun'er, my husband has already bathed at Jie'er's place.
I went outside the study to rinse my mouth and came back immediately.
Young Master Liu told Qi Yun, picked up the tea tree on the table, and walked straight out of the study.
"Hey, husband, go ahead."
After a long time, Mr. Liu returned to the study room carrying the tea tree.
Seeing the beauty who had become drowsy again on Ruantan, Mr. Liu blew out the red candle on the desk, and walked towards Ruantan with light steps under the hazy moonlight that filtered in through the window.
As soon as Young Master Liu lay down, Qi Yun naturally snuggled into her husband's arms.
Feeling the familiar smell of the person next to her pillow, Qi Yun stood on Young Master Liu's arm with her head sideways and groaned lazily.
"Hey, husband, you can finally have a good rest."
"Good Yun'er, thank you very much for staying with me until now."
"Well, it's not hard. This is all of my own free will."
"Good Yun'er, let's rest."
"Well, husband, you should also rest."
Time passes quietly, and the moonlight gradually turns to the west.
Listening to the even breathing of the beauty in his arms, Young Master Liu carefully put his arms behind his head and looked straight out of the study window.
He quietly stared out the window at the bright moonlit starry sky, his eyes gradually becoming confused.
"Husband, I believe that under your governance, Dalong's world will become more and more prosperous.
Husband, you should be very proud when you see this picture of a peaceful and prosperous age in front of you, right?"
Unknowingly, the words that Chen Jie said to herself with pride on her face when the lanterns first came on appeared in front of her eyes.
However, just as Chen Jie's words passed before his eyes, a scene from many years ago appeared in front of Young Master Liu's eyes.
That was the scene of his father, the old man Li Zheng, teaching him a lesson when he was still alive.
"Liu Mingzhi, can I not know how many corrupt officials there are in the world?
However, you have to know one thing: there is no way to kill all the corrupt officials.
If you kill one group, there will be another group.
As long as there are people who continue to be officials, corrupt officials will never be eliminated.
As the king of a country, I hope more than you that the officials will be governed in a clear and clear way, and that the seas and rivers will be clear.
I wish I could catch all those corrupt officials and kill them all right away.
But, I can’t, I can’t do that!
This world always needs someone to govern it.
Do you understand my difficulty?
Therefore, the best way is to know how to use people.
Whether they are honest officials or corrupt officials, as long as they are used properly, they will become useful pillars of the court.
Of course, there is a premise for what I said.
That is, those bastards who have violated the laws of the dragon and done things that care about people's lives and make people angry are not included in this list.
It seems that those treacherous and evil people, no matter how capable they are, still have to kill one by one.
Oh, forget it, why should I tell you this?
If you are not in my position, you will never understand my difficulties.
How is it so easy to govern a vast world with tens of thousands of subjects?
It is not easy to be the king of a country.
It is even more difficult to be a wise king.
Being a wise king in a prosperous age is even more difficult.
In a word, I have never cared about the so-called notoriety and infamy.
Qing history is the most fair.
I will go to heaven after my great journey in the future.
Let future generations comment on what reputation is left in the history books."
Liu Mingzhi came back to his senses in response and looked at the moonlight outside the window with piercing eyes.
Li Zheng's mood back then should be no different from his own mood now.
Back then, I might have understood Li Zheng's difficulties, but I couldn't truly feel his difficulties.
Now I have experienced it myself.
Finally, he truly understood his helpless mood back then.
It is not easy to be the king of a country.
It is even more difficult to be a wise king.
Being a wise king in a prosperous age is even more difficult.
Li Zheng's words from back then were recalled over and over again in his mind.