It has to be done even if it doesn’t work.

　　Gu Zhao thought. He had to take the imperial examination. He didn’t have much ambition. In modern times, if he had a little money and didn’t get married, he could just find a small city to live in and live a peaceful and stable life. But now it’s different.

　　The Dali Dynasty was now in a stable period, and the people were well fed and clothed and lived and worked in peace and contentment. But after another six or seven years, they were surrounded by barbarians and pirates, and several small wars were launched. Later, taxes were increased and wars began.

　　The people in ancient times depended on the weather for their livelihood and on the favors of those in power, and they had no choice at all.

　　What Gu Zhao just said in front of those aunts and uncles who were watching the fun was not a lie. In this era, when he got married, he naturally put Zhou Zhou first and the Li family first, and did his best to protect this family.

　　”I’ve seen Zhou Zhou’s embroidery. It’s beautiful. It was taken off by Zhou Zhou himself.” Gu Zhao followed his wife’s words.

　　Li Zhouzhou suddenly remembered that the most beautiful thing he had embroidered was the wedding dress he wore.

　　On the wedding night, he took off his clothes on his own initiative.

　　In broad daylight, was his husband teasing him by saying such things? Li Zhouzhou was not sure. He had never heard such words before. He learned them from Xing Ge’er when they were working together.

　　There are men in the village who specifically pick on boys and say dirty words to them and take advantage of them. Xing Ge’er has encountered this.

　　Li Zhouzhou never did. At that time, he was relieved, thinking that it was not a bad thing for him to look like this.

　　But now——

　　Li Zhouzhou looked over with a blush on his face. Gu Zhao pretended to be innocent and even blinked his eyes, asking innocently: “I’m serious, the wedding dress Zhouzhou embroidered is really beautiful. I didn’t even look at my wedding dress carefully that night, and you took it off for me–“

　　”Stop, stop talking.” Li Zhouzhou couldn’t hold back his blushing.

　　He not only undressed himself, but also undressed his pretty young husband.

　　Xing Ge’er said that a wife should take care of and serve his husband. He did nothing wrong.

　　Now that his husband brought it up, Li Zhouzhou felt embarrassed, but when he saw that his husband was honest and genuinely praising his embroidery skills, and had no intention of teasing him at all, he realized that he had misunderstood.

　　”I, I’m going to get some water. I have to wash clothes later.” Li Zhouzhou walked quickly, leaving his little husband with only his back and two red ears.

　　The simple and innocent expression on Gu Zhao’s face was completely gone, and there was a smile in his eyes and the corners of his mouth were raised.

　　Zhou Zhou is so fun.

　　Li Zhouzhou was drawing water at the riverside. He didn’t dare to look his husband in the eye. His mind was in a mess, and he was thinking only about the embroidery, the bridal chamber, and undressing. He completely forgot about Aunt Zhang’s ridicule and his anger for his husband.

　　I had to run back and forth three times to fill the large water tank in the kitchen.

　　Gu Zhao was carrying two empty buckets. Just this little job made him sweat and his feet sore from walking. Li Zhouzhou, on the other hand, seemed fine. He closed the lid of the water tank, rolled up his sleeves, went into the house, and came out a while later with a basin of clothes.

　　There are two people and one from Li Da.

　　”Husband, I’m going to wash clothes. You don’t have to accompany me. There are only boys, aunts and girls by the river.” Even if his husband wanted to accompany him, Li Zhouzhou was unwilling this time.

　　Gu Zhao didn’t plan to follow either. He had been a drag in the past and delayed Zhou Zhou’s work.

　　”Okay, I’ll read at home, you go ahead.”

　　Li Zhouzhou was relieved and went out with the laundry basin. Gu Zhao rested for a while, drank a cup of cold tea, and began to organize the bookcase. In addition to the four sets of bedding and clothes, the most valuable part of his dowry was this box of books.

　　Books were very expensive in that era, so the Gu family naturally would not let him take the books away. Gu Zhao had two younger brothers. If Gu Zhao was useless, the Gu family would still like to cultivate other real Gu people who could bring honor to the Gu family.

　　The books he brought were all handwritten. During the half month or so he waited for Zhou Zhou to marry him, Gu Zhao was busy copying books and getting information.

　　Pens, ink, paper and inkstone are the cheapest.

　　Gu Zhao spread out the copied book. The handwriting was not good-looking and the ink seeped through the paper, making it difficult to read. But the conditions were like this, so he calmed himself and began to take notes to summarize.

　　Although the original body had more than ten years of memory, when he was a local official, he was busy with eating, drinking and having fun. The books on the bookshelves in his study were just for show, and the original body rarely read them. As for what the exam questions were for the scholar more than ten years ago, he couldn’t remember them at all.