Chapter 83



83 Virtuous Wife

Xiao Juan was full after eating a small bowl of chicken soup porridge.

This appetite was pitifully small for an adult man, but he was anorexic and had a poor stomach. It was not easy for him to eat.

Thus, she did not force him to eat more.

She put the cutlery into the food box and prepared to leave.

Xiao Juan glanced at her and asked calmly.

“Did you sleep well last night?”

Yu Niaoniao smiled. “It was especially good! Your pillow and blanket are very comfortable. The bed is also very big. The environment is much better than a cell.”

Xiao Juan was speechless.

As expected of a woman who had been in jail twice. Her praise was especially tricky.

He said expressionlessly, “But I heard that you slept quite well in the cell.”

Yu Niaoniao did not seem to hear the teasing in the other party’s words and smiled smugly.

“That’s because I’m not picky. I’m easy to feed, commonly known as a virtuous wife!”

Xiao Juan did not understand. “What does this have to do with being a good wife?”

Yu Niaoniao said righteously, “Of course it does! In the future, if your family doesn’t have any money with which to live well, I won’t despise you. Anyway, I’m easy to support. It doesn’t matter where I live. Isn’t that virtuous enough?”

Xiao Juan was dumbfounded.

If she wanted to boast, she should boast properly. Why did she have to step on him in passing?

Did he look like the kind of unlucky person who would fall from grace at any moment?

There was a knock on the door.

Xiao Juan and Yu Niaoniao looked at the door at the same time.

Meng Xizhou walked in and cupped his fists at Prince Lang.

“Your Highness, all the books in Liu’s Bookstore have been confiscated. What do you think we should do next?”

Yu Niaoniao immediately remembered that she had passed by a bookshop on her way here and had seen the Eagle Guards collecting a large number of books there.

She could not help but be curious. Why did he confiscate those books?

Xiao Juan instructed calmly, “Search all the books first and see if there is anti-government poetry hidden in them. Hand over the list before it gets dark.”

Realization dawned on Yu Niaoniao. So it had something to do with the anti-government poetry case again.

Meng Xizhou was in a difficult position.

“There are hundreds of those books. It would take a lot of time to read them page by page.”

Xiao Juan frowned slightly, seemingly displeased.

It was not that he had to make things difficult for his subordinates, but the emperor had been pressing him.

“Then send more men. Quickly.”

Meng Xizhou said, “Many people are out on business now. I’m afraid they won’t be back for a while…”

He broke off when he met Duke Lang’s cold gaze.

He didn’t dare say anything else and answered obediently.

“I’ll get on it.”

After Meng Xizhou left, Xiao Juan picked up the case again. It seemed like he planned to continue the unfinished business.

Yu Niaoniao suddenly went up to him. “Your Highness, do you still lack manpower in the Justice Department?”

Xiao Juan looked up at her.

“Why are you asking?”

Yu Niaoniao puffed out her chest. “I want to apply for a job.”

Xiao Juan did not understand why she suddenly had such a thought.

Yu Qianqian explained, “I’m penniless now. Although you’ve provided me with a place to stay, I can’t stay at your house for free. I have to rely on myself, so I want to find a job.”

Xiao Juan said solemnly, “The Justice Department doesn’t accept women.”

What he meant was that there was no suitable job for Yu Niaoniao here.

Yu Niaoniao was disappointed.

“I see. Well, never mind. I’ll look elsewhere.”

She was about to get up when she was stopped by Xiao Juan.

“Where are you going?”