The Prime Minister's Darling
Chapter 626 - 626 302 Jiaojiao Beats People (First Update)

Chapter 626: 302 Jiaojiao Beats People (First Update) Chapter 626: 302 Jiaojiao Beats People (First Update) What on earth is happening to me?

It’s true I have been agitated in the past, but usually, I could suppress it quickly. Yet, this time…

This uncontrollable feeling leaves Xiao Liulang at a loss, and even somewhat irritable.

What? Has all my reading of sacred books led me to become a beast instead?

He shakes his head, forcing himself to wipe the distracting thoughts from his mind.

However, the effect is not satisfying.

It’s as though the more he forcibly represses it, the more turbulent it becomes. Just like boiling lava, it burns his whole chest, radiating intense heat.

In the end, with no other solution, he gets up and goes to the old well in the backyard. He fetches a bucket of water and takes a vigorously cold bath.

As for Gu Jiao, she is more heartless. Though she likes to tease, once she’s done, she goes to bed without dwelling on it.

Someone fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.

However, her sleep that night was inevitably uneasy.

She has another dream.

In it, she sees Xiao Liulang, who is an official in the Hanlin Academy.

Xiao Liulang, from a humble background, had surpassed the Prince of An County to claim the title of top scholar, inviting a lot of jealousy and envy from others.

Given that the Hanlin Academy was under the control of Minister Zhuang, one could easily guess Xiao Liulang’s predicament there.

However, gold always shines. Regardless of how his peers oppressed Xiao LiuLang, his intelligence and talent always got a chance to flourish.

But it was not at the Hanlin Academy, but in the Ministry of Justice.

It so happened that a murder case had arisen, and the murderer was captured by a passing official from the Hanlin Academy, who then handed the criminal over to the Ministry of Justice. Before long, the murderer’s family came to the Hanlin Academy, claiming that they had caught the wrong man, that their father was not the murderer.

The accuser was a nine-year-old child.

No one would believe the child’s words, except Xiao Liulang, who went to the Ministry of Justice, and indeed discovered that the child’s father was innocent.

Xiao Liulang helped the Ministry of Justice capture the real culprit and was greatly appreciated by the Minister of Justice.

From here, it seems like Xiao Liulang’s official luck is finally shining through. But when he was on his way home from the Ministry of Justice, he was hit by a falling Taoist nun.

He was knocked unconscious on the spot, and so was the Taoist nun.

Under broad daylight, a man and a woman were spread-eagled on the ground. The unknowing public was left wondering what had happened.

At the time, Xiao Liulang was wearing the official uniform of the Hanlin Academy, so news spread quickly.

Xiao Liulang’s reputation was ruined, and so was his official career.

When Gu Jiao woke up, she sat on the edge of the bed, hugging her blanket with aching teeth.

Her husband had terrible luck.

While he was genuinely smart, he was also genuinely unfortunate.

An incident like getting hit by someone on the street has pretty much the same odds as winning the lottery in the previous life. Could this really happen?

It would have been simple to avoid this. She remembered when Xiao Liulang was leaving the Ministry of Justice, he was held up by an official surnamed Yang, who proceeded to give him a lengthy lecture. Without this delay, Xiao Liulang could have easily avoided the disaster.

It was not dawn yet when Gu Jiao got up.

Xiao Liulang usually wakes up early, but not earlier than Gu Jiao, except today.

He is fetching water in the backyard, drawing water from the old well, and then transporting it to the kitchen, bucket by bucket.

Seeing his sweat-drenched figure, it was not hard to guess that he’d been at it for a long time.

“Why are you up so early? You didn’t get any sleep last night, did you?” Gu Jiao asked in puzzlement.

He had too much energy which needed to be expended someway. If not used, it would cause irascibility.

Of course, Xiao Liulang didn’t mention this part.

He sternly said, “I did sleep. I just felt a bit warm, so I woke up early.”

It was indeed quite warm, especially considering the amount of clothing people wore in the past.

Gu Jiao felt that Capital City was hotter than the countryside. After a night’s sleep, her pajamas were soaked with sweat.

She went back to her room to take a bath after fetching water.

Listening to the splashing water, Xiao Liulang felt the blood churn within his chest. It felt like all the work he had done in the morning was useless.

Xiaojingkong didn’t go to school that day, instead practicing his martial arts in the backyard, and after breakfast, went over to play with Zhao Xiaobao next door.

Gu Yan and Gu Xiaoshun had a few days off, and they were both sleeping lazily inside the house.

Gu Jiao didn’t tell Xiao Liulang about what she saw in her dream, and she went to the Medical Hall as usual.

While Xiao Liulang proceeded to the Hanlin Academy.

As soon as he walked through the main entrance, he saw many officials from the Hanlin Academy standing in the open space in front of the hall, fervently discussing something.

As someone who was always distant from the hustle and bustle, he had no intention to join them and went straight to his office instead.

However, after taking a few steps, at the corner beneath the corridor, he saw something. Ning Zhiyuan was gesturing to him subtly.

After contemplating it briefly, he decided to head over.

Ning Zhiyuan pulled him to the other side of the corridor and passionately gossiped, “Did you hear? The Prince of An County made a significant achievement this morning!”

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