My Wife is Unbeatable in the Whole World, Touch Me If You Dare!-Chapter 243 - 128: Competing with Fathers_2

"Even King Chun says so, it seems this matter really is not easy."

King Chun patted his shoulder and said, "However, if you are not in a hurry, just wait a few more months. When your uncle acts as Regent again, he will surely get this matter sorted out for you..."

Li Nuo clasped his fists and said, "Thank you, Uncle King Chun."

King Chun waved his hand again, "Oh, we’re family. What’s there to thank for? Remember, bring your wife over to our house for dinner next time... By the way, I heard from Li Yun last time, are you and Anning cultivating together?"

Li Nuo nodded.

King Chun’s face showed a relieved expression and said, "Princess Consort Ning passed away early; Anning had been motherless since she was six. Her personality has always been quite reclusive. I didn’t expect that she could become friends with you..."

Li Nuo’s expression was stunned.

Had Li Anning’s mother already passed away?

No wonder during the Han Zhuo case, she was so angry when she found out that Han Zhuo’s mother had been driven to suicide...

What some people dream of having, others discard like old shoes.

Next to the chessboard where the two were playing, there was a plate of oranges. King Chun picked one up and handed it to Li Nuo, saying, "These are top-grade honey oranges bred personally by the cultivators of the Agricultural School in the High Realm. Try it; it tastes even better than the tribute oranges from Jiangnan, and it’s good for your health too..."

In Li Nuo’s arms, he was actually carrying two oranges that he had sneakily taken from Li Anning.

Looking at the few honey oranges, King Chun was reminded of some old memories and said, "I remember, Princess Consort Ning used to love eating oranges. She even planted an orchard behind Changning Palace with her own hands. The honey oranges contributed by the Ministry of Agriculture used to be rewarded to Princess Consort Ning by the Father Emperor, causing some complaints among the other concubines..."

Li Nuo’s expression paused again, the oranges in his arms suddenly seemed heavy.

So, her fondness for oranges was because of her mother...

And he had been stealing them from her every day...

He really deserved to die!

Li Nuo took the honey orange handed over by King Chun but did not eat it; instead, he kept it in his arms.

"You don’t like oranges?" Thinking he was unaware of the value of this orange, King Chun said, "This honey orange is no ordinary orange. It is extremely precious, born from a mother plant nourished with True Qi from the Agricultural School cultivators of the Fourth Realm and above. Only Regents who are princes have the privilege to taste it. King Chun Mansion only received three..."

Li Nuo glanced and saw, apart from the one in his arms, there were still two left on the table.

He smiled and said, "Thank you, Uncle King Chun. I would like to take it back and share it with my wife."

Li Xuanjing handed him another orange from the plate and said, "I don’t like eating oranges; you take it back too."

"This..."

"Take it."

"Thank you, Father. I will go back now."

After Li Nuo left, King Chun, puzzled, looked at Li Xuanjing, "I’ve known you so long, and I’ve never heard that you dislike eating oranges."

He peeled the last honey orange, shared half with him, and said, "Try it, this orange really tastes very good..."

...

Ministry of Justice.

Li Nuo walked into the government office, and Li Anning immediately asked, "How did it go?"

Li Nuo shook his head.

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Li Anning didn’t say anything more. As expected, this matter, even for the Minister of Justice, was not an easy one.

Li Nuo silently pulled out three oranges from his arms and placed them on the table.

Li Anning’s expression paused, very surprised.

Usually, he only stole her oranges, yet now there was a time when he actually returned them.

And there was even an extra one.

She peeled an orange and put it in her mouth. The next moment, her expression was stunned again.

This was not the taste of the Jiangnan tribute oranges.

This was the taste of the honey orange from the mother plant in the Ministry of Agriculture, a deep memory from her past.

Such a top-grade honey orange, when her mother was still alive, she used to eat many of them every year.

But since her mother passed away, she had never had the Ministry of Agriculture’s tribute oranges again.

The familiar taste from the depths of her soul brought up many memories of the mother.

A tear quietly fell from her eyes.

Li Nuo watched Li Anning in astonishment; it was just an orange, why the tears?

Were the oranges from the Ministry of Agriculture really that delicious?

His guilt deepened.

Had he known, he would not have stolen her oranges.

With a profoundly guilty heart, he silently took out the last orange he had hidden in his arms...

After some time, Li Anning wiped her tears, looked at Li Nuo, and asked, "Where did you get this orange from?"

Li Nuo honestly replied, "Just now at the Ministry of Justice, King Chun gave me two."

The honey oranges produced by the mother plant of the Ministry of Agriculture were extremely scarce each year, even though she was a princess, she couldn’t obtain even one.

Father Emperor had many princes and princesses; only a few Regent princes were qualified to enjoy them.

It wasn’t that the honey orange had a very high value, but it was a symbol of status.

Li Anning looked down and indeed saw two oranges, clearly different from the other two.

Two of them were the Jiangnan tribute oranges he had stolen from her, and the other two, more vivid in color, exuded a mesmerizing fruit fragrance even from afar, obviously from the Ministry of Agriculture mother plant.

She looked at Li Nuo incredulously and asked, "Are these all for me?"

Although Li Nuo and his wife also quite liked eating oranges, for them, these were merely culinary pleasures.

Since the Ministry of Agriculture’s oranges held special significance for Li Anning, it was fine to give them all to her.

A couple for a night shares a bond of a hundred days; three nights a couple makes three hundred days.

For a pretend couple, that’s still a hundred and fifty days.

Li Nuo looked back and, seeing nothing amiss, walked to the door, looked outside, then came back and said, "Our family doesn’t really like eating oranges; you can have them all."