The whole weird world is waiting for me to go to heaven

Chapter 260: Respect each other (I)

"Well, you are so powerful without making any noise. Mother didn't know you had such ability." Du Yue'e joked.

"Mom, please stop making fun of me. I didn't mean anything at the time, but I actually said that. Now that I think about it, I feel..."

Ling Yuke recalled the situation at that time. She was happy at one moment and sad at another, but she finally got the result she wanted.

"Okay, okay, I won't tease you."

Du Yue'e was very happy. She looked up at the face of the god in heaven outside the window and said with emotion: "Supreme God, I am lucky that I, Du Yue'e, gave birth to a good daughter and got myself such a good marriage. It's great!"

"Let me tell you, the most important thing for a woman in her life is to marry a good husband, and then give birth to a good daughter like me." Du Yue'e pinched her daughter's rosy face and said with a smile.

"Mom, but I study and practice so hard...taking the imperial examination must be very important, right?" Ling Yuke was a little confused.

"You don't understand. That's also to help you find a good marriage." Du Yue'e explained patiently.

My daughter is grown up now and she can’t be so ignorant anymore.

Then, she rolled her eyes at her daughter and said unhappily, "Besides, didn't you choose to take the imperial examination today just to get close to Master Wen? Originally, according to our opinion, it would be safer for you to graduate smoothly from Chang'an Academy before taking the imperial examination."

"Mom! Stop talking." Ling Yuke said embarrassedly.

"You're still talking about this. Your father is so angry about this. Your father is the examiner and you are the examinee. It's not good for outsiders to hear it."

"Huh, isn't that the case with Brother Xuan Ning as well?" Ling Yuke was somewhat unconvinced.

"That's right. If the Wen family can do it, why can't the daughter of our Du family do it?" Du Yue'e sneered and never mentioned the Ling family, even though Ling Yuke's last name was "Ling".

This also represents a certain attitude of Du Yue'e.

Ling Yuke had long been accustomed to her mother's attitude towards the Ling family. She did not pay attention to this sentence, but instead remembered something.

"Mom, I remember you got very high scores in the exam that year, didn't you?"

Ling Yuke's mother was a top-ranking Jinshi in her time. If she had not married her father while she was studying at the National Academy, and had not gotten married right after graduation to become a good wife, she would probably have become an official of some importance.

"Yes, if it weren't for the status of a Jinshi, how could you be with your father?" Du Yue'e's face changed slightly, and then she forced a stiff smile, "At that time, many families were eyeing your father as a son-in-law. You know, the top scholar is very popular."

"That's right. Dad is talented, and he is the eldest son of the Ling family, so his status is noble."

Ling Yuke still admires her father very much and would raise her little head when he talked about him.

But Du Yue'e just sneered calmly after hearing this: "What a pity, it started high and ended low."

"Mom, why do you say that? Isn't Dad very powerful now?" Ling Yuke frowned slightly.

Who in the world doesn't know that the Minister of Works Ling Fu is the number one ingenious genius in the Tang Dynasty. He invented many magical tools and brought countless benefits to the people.

Because of this, Ling Yuke has been favored since she was a child. When outsiders know that she is Ling Fu's daughter, they can't help but tolerate, pay attention to, and favor her.

"What's so great about that? That's just for outsiders to see." Du Yue'e sneered, "Think about who was the first person to follow the emperor when he was still in the palace, who was the one who had the most merit in following the emperor, and who is still a small minister now."

"Your future father-in-law was much worse than him, but what happened? He became the prime minister." Du Yue'e said through gritted teeth, with a look of disappointment on her face.

The mention of "future father-in-law" made Ling Yuke feel extremely embarrassed.

"Looking at the direction of the wind, soon that Minister Li of the Ministry of Rites, who is always a wind-fighting official, will be over his head." Du Yue'e said with a sneer.

She gets angry when she thinks of her useless husband who was the top scholar. She had originally been attracted by his potential, but who could have thought that he would sit in the position of Minister of Works for more than ten years.

Humph, he is indeed from a small place, petty-minded, and can only tinker with useless things.

Fortunately, I have become more enlightened recently.

But there was no need to let Ling Yuke know this. Du Yue'e quickly calmed down.

"It's a good thing for you to be with Wen Xuanning. He comes from a good family and doesn't have any inexplicable poor relatives." She hinted at something, but Ling Yuke knew nothing.

"Remember, don't be with people who are not in your circle. Whether they are friends or men, they will only drag you down."

Ling Yuke's ears were callused after hearing her mother's repeated emphasis, but when she thought of what happened today, she nodded heavily: "Mom, what you said makes sense. I'll remember it."

……

It was already late at night when Du Yue'e walked out of her daughter's room.

I don’t know whether my cheap husband has come back or not. He has been staying in the palace for several days now, right?
She originally thought she could come back after the examination was over, but she didn't expect to have to wait for two more days. If it wasn't for someone from the palace notifying her, she would have suspected that it was a deliberate fake.

But if he really has a close female friend outside, it doesn't matter.

Anyway, the two of them are now just like thousands of other wealthy couples in Chang'an, living their lives under masks.

But she didn't expect that when she returned to the room, Du Yue'e saw Ling Fu had already finished bathing and was leaning on the couch, looking down at something.

"Are you home?" Du Yue'e asked.

"Yes." Ling Fu replied with one word without even raising his head.

"You didn't even say a word?" Du Yue'e asked again, frowning.

"Well, I thought I'd just talk to him in person when I get back." Ling Fu was still indifferent.

"What are you looking at?" Seeing that Ling Fu was still in the same expression, Du Yue'e walked up to him and leaned over to take a look.

It was a palm-sized square object, as thin and light as a spiritual message, but made of metal and crystal, with edges and corners polished to a crisp and distinct quality, a craftsmanship never seen before.

Ling Fu didn't expect Du Yue'e to approach him suddenly. He coughed lightly and put the item back into his storage bag as if nothing had happened.

"Nothing, just some weird things collected by the weaving factory."

"Why did you bring this unclean thing into the house?" Du Yue'e was a little disgusted. She always kept her distance from weird things.

When Ling Fu wanted to go to the Weaving Institute to study strange things, she tried to stop him in every possible way. This is how he became the now world-famous Minister of Works.

Du Yue'e was quite satisfied with what she had done back then. As for men, one must learn how to control them.

This is the only way to make your life comfortable.

"It's okay, it's already been purified. It just looks interesting, so I'll play with it for a while." Ling Fu didn't care about Du Yue'e's attitude and answered indifferently.

Then, there was silence for a while.

This has been a common scene for them for decades.

After a while, Ling Fu actually took the initiative to ask: "Yu Ke, how is it?"

Ling Fu saw that Du Yue'e came back to the room so late, with a look of kindness on her face and a smile on her lips. He guessed that she had just returned from Ling Yuke, so he asked her.

He hadn't seen his precious daughter for a long time and missed her.

"She..." Du Yue'e didn't know what Ling Fu wanted to ask, but she chose to say something, "She didn't rank among the top few in the exam, and she wasn't very happy when she came back last night..."

Ling Fu was silent. Thinking of the scene in the mirage where his daughter was eliminated by Wen Xuanning with one sword, he felt a pain in his heart.

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