Daqian Night Emperor

Chapter 103: Once the warrior leaves, he will never return (ask for a monthly ticket!)

"Have you ever given a penny to your family in the past month?"

"The salary in Zongzheng Temple is not much, but your cousin and you are both temple secretaries. Why does his family have food and clothing? We don't even have rice to cook?"

Ji Hengyi listened to her crying, his face turned pale and blue, and he said with a wave of his sleeves: "When is it your turn as a woman to interfere in a man's affairs?"

The woman choked with sobs and began to gasp for breath.

Regardless of the pain in her body, Xing'er quickly stood up and massaged her chest and back.

The woman finally calmed down and looked at Ji Hengyi with tears in her eyes, her face miserable: "You are a royal family, you are a count... You think I lose face by mending clothes for others, and you also say that Xing'er loses face when she digs some wild vegetables for you."

"Face, face... Can face be worth a meal?"

"Ji Hengyi, before I married you, I was also a rich lady. Which of my ten fingers had ever touched the water of men? But what about now?"

"You said yesterday that you would go to your brother to borrow a few taels of silver for household expenses. I was waiting for you to buy rice and flour and come home, but where are you? Where did you go?"

His wife, who had always been gentle and submissive, finally couldn't help but burst out in front of him for the first time, crying and complaining.

Ji Hengyi widened his eyes and took a step back.

But immediately, a feeling of shame and anger rose in my heart.

He was furious as if someone had hit him in the sore spot, "Cry, why are you crying? I've lost all my wealth through crying, it's all your fault, you jinx! Ever since you got married, I haven't had good luck... That's right, it's all your fault, you jinx!"

It was clearly an unreasonable evasion and accusation, but as Ji Hengyi spoke, he began to believe it.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was the case. When his great-grandfather was still alive, he played cockfighting and cards with others in the fiefdom, and he was obviously very lucky.

After marrying this unlucky woman and coming to Kyoto, his luck went downhill and he even owed gambling debts.

If it's not her fault, then what is?
A trace of despair flashed in the woman's eyes. The glimmer of hope she had held on to for all these years was finally gone. She said to Xing'er in despair, "Xing'er, bring that thing to him."

Xing Er hesitated and stammered, "Madam..."

"Bring it here!"

She shouted in a low voice, Xing'er wiped the tears from her face, responded, and got up to go to the cabinet beside her.

Xing'er opened the top shelf of the cabinet, took out a piece of paper that was pressed underneath some old clothes, walked up to Ji Hengyi and handed it to him.

Ji Hengyi was stunned for a long time before he took it and unfolded it.

The next moment, his face flushed red, and his hands holding the document were shaking. He was shocked and angry: "You...you want to divorce me?! Dream on! Don't even think about it!"

He stretched out his hand, tore up the document in his hand, and threw it to the ground.

The woman on the bed did not stop him. She just looked at him coldly and said, "It's useless for you to tear it up. Tomorrow I will ask the Minister of the Imperial Clan to make a judgment! If the Minister of the Imperial Clan does not care, I will go to the Imperial Clan Temple to make a scene. If the Imperial Clan Temple does not care, then I will go to the Kyoto government office. If neither of them cares, I will beat the imperial drum and file a complaint with the emperor!"

"you dare!"

"At this point, what am I afraid of?"

Ji Hengyi pointed at her, his eyes full of disbelief, his voice trembling: "You...how did you become such a shrew."

The woman smiled sadly: "Who forced me to be like this?"

"It's unreasonable and unreasonable!"

Ji Hengyi flicked his sleeves and turned around: "I have something important to go out for, I don't want to bother with you, a woman! You should reflect on yourself!"

As he said this, he walked towards the door.

But the footsteps of leaving were hurried, as if he was escaping.

……

"How did she become like this?"

After leaving home, Ji Hengyi felt a little more at ease and couldn't help but complain in his heart.

He clearly remembered that his wife was a gentle and tolerant person, and she always spoke in a humble and pleasant manner.

Why are you acting like a shrew now?
Unreasonable and unreasonable!
But then he thought that if he let this "shrew" really make trouble, wouldn't the whole city of Kyoto have to watch her make trouble?
When he thought about the future, when he walked on the street, people would point fingers at him... Ji Hengyi couldn't help but shiver.

"Wanjun was just trying to scare me. With her personality...she doesn't have the courage. Once she has accomplished what the Third Prince asked her to do and received the reward money and goes home, she will calm down."

"After receiving the reward this time, you must never gamble again..."

He swore secretly in his heart, as if he had made a great determination.

But in this world, there are two types of people whose words are most untrustworthy.

One of them is a gambler.

They even deceive themselves.

Ji Hengyi probably couldn't remember how many times he had sworn and made a vow, he only knew that he was sincere and determined every time.

But there is one thing that Ji Hengyi did not lie about.

He really had something important to do tonight.

And, it’s a big deal!
After coming out of Yongkangfang, Ji Hengyi did not go to Zongzheng Temple immediately, but went to a stall selling wine and food not far from the hall.

"What would you like to order, sir?"

The servant wiped the table and chairs with the rag on his shoulder and politely asked him to sit down.

Ji Hengyi was already a little hungry, but he needed something more than food.

The wind is whistling and the Yi River is cold. The warrior will never come back once he leaves...

He wants to drink.

I want strong liquor!
But when he touched his pocket, Ji Hengyi's face suddenly showed a bit of embarrassment.

He pretended to be calm and said to the servant, "I have a friend coming. Bring me a pot of herbal tea first."

"Hey, okay, just wait a moment."

The servant did not suspect anything and brought some cold dishes before going back to work.

Ji Hengyi drank tea and silently calculated the time in his mind.

There are still many pedestrians on the street. Going to Zongzheng Temple now will inevitably attract the attention of some people.

There is a curfew in the inner city. In one hour, the guards from the Astronomical Observatory will go on night patrol. If you don't have the night patrol permit, it will be very troublesome if you are caught by the Astronomical Observatory.

Although Ji Hengyi did not have the night travel permit, he dared to act at night, so he must have something to rely on!

The night patrols of the Astronomical Observatory are regular. As long as you know when they will come to this street, you can avoid them.

The reason he knew this was that he learned it from the Gao family.

I heard that the Gao family had connections with the big shots in the Astronomical Patrol, so in order to make it easier for the nobles in the inner city to go to his gambling house, he spent a lot of money to smooth over the relationship and got the route of the Astronomical Patrol's night patrol.

But Ji Hengyi got the night patrol route of the Observatory from the Gao family not just to sneak into the gambling house in the middle of the night to play, but to be able to enter the hall of the Zongzheng Temple in the middle of the night and do some things that were inconvenient to do during the day.

We all serve the Third Prince. If the Third Prince succeeds to the throne in the future, this will be considered as our contribution to the cause.

I estimated that the time was almost up.

Ji Hengyi, who had already filled his stomach with water, put down the tea bowl, stood up and walked out.

The waiter from the tavern quickly chased after him: "Sir, sir...tea also costs money!"

But the guest seemed not to hear it and instead walked a few steps faster.

"Who is this?"

The servant cursed angrily and went into the house with a gloomy face.

(End of this chapter)