Rebirth of the Malicious Empress of Military Lineage

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One's growth and becoming a person who could fight by one's side was equally powerful. It was simply protecting the things that one wanted to protecting and resolved feuds that one should resolve.

She instructed Jing Zhe to bring a handkerchief over and said, "Help me to style my hair."

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Xie Jing Xing walked out in his middle clothes.

He bathed for a long time that the water was somewhat cooled. When he was alone, there was no lazy smile on his face and on the contrary, there was some indifferent expression that one could not see clearly at night. He was actually not a warm person and under the appearance of trifling without respect, there was a faint ridicule of the world.

Just as he went out, he saw a few delicate dishes and snacks in the middle of the room.

Xie Jing Xing's brows wrinkled, "Tie Yi." He was not used to having a meal in the room. He was one who liked cleanliness and would be very structured and orderly in private. The bed chambers was a place to sleep and the hall was used to have a meal.

There was no response after calling out for a few times when the door suddenly opened with a bang and Shen Miao came in hugging a wine jar.

That wine jar was so big and she wobbled as she carried it. Xie Jing Xing went forward to help her and placed it on the table before he asked, "What are you doing?"

Shen Miao said, "I have searched in your warehouse for a long time and found this earthen jar. It is most likely Shi Zhou Xiang (direct translation: Scent that can be smelt in ten provinces). Most likely that it is of some years so one carried it out."

Xie Jing Xing paused and opened the jar. Indeed a mellow fragrance of a wine whiff passed. He smiled and said, "It is amazing that you could recognise Shi Zhou Xiang. Tang Shu did not stop you?"

Shi Zhou Xiang was a highly regarded wine and was priceless that even if one had money, it was difficult to procure. There was only three jars in the entire residence of Prince Rui and Shen Miao took one jar away. Coincidently this jar was about fifty years cold. One feared that Tang Shu would be so heartache that he was crying silently.

Shen Miao smiled, "I even drank it before."

Xie Jing Xing was suspicious, "Drank it before?"

Shen Miao did not continue speaking. When she was an Empress, there was no wine that she did not drink in the Palace banquet before. Even though one jar of Shi Zhou Xiang was precious, but it was not to a level that she would view it in a different light. However she had been an Empress but was blinded by so many things that she did not care too much about these stuffs. However in normal families and even official families, an official would not have an opportunity to have a mouthful of Shi Zhou Xiang even after exhausting one entire life.

Shen Miao patted her head, "It seemed that one had forgotten to bring wine cups." Her eyes landed on the bowls that were used for rice and simply took two over and poured two full bowls out.

Xie Jing Xing looked at her incredulously and questioned, "Shen Miao, are you an alcoholic?"

"I am here to accompany you to eat." Shen Miao said, "How can there be no wine with dishes?"

Xie Jing Xing folded his arms and looked at her for a while and suddenly remembered a matter before saying, "I almost forgot if you hadn't mentioned it. On that day in Bi Xiao Lou, you drank a bowl of wine in front of so many people... Shen Jiao Jiao, in the future you have to pay attention to the norms of propriety."

When she drank wine, she was extremely charming and had an elegant bearing that in that moment, it made everyone unable to turn their eyes away. The numerous eyes of all those men in Bi Xiao Luo are all on her and at that time Xie Jing Xing was sulking badly. If he did not care of his current status, one feared that he would have carried Shen Miao and left.