Chapter 25: Floating Favorability Value

The night was very quiet; there was not even the sound of birds or insects outside the window.

The candlelight in the bedchamber flickered, and the sound of heavy breathing in such a night seemed particularly obvious and ambiguous.

A Jiao lay on the bed, feeling uncomfortable, her gaze wandering unconsciously, and finally, she couldn't help but fall on Liu Che beside her. The flickering light seemed to cover "herself's" face with a mysterious veil, and the bright red lips were full and translucent. She swallowed her throat unconsciously.

Liu Che's sleeping posture was not very good, and the collar of his undergarment slipped onto his shoulders, and the beautiful neck and collarbone fell into her eyes like this. A Jiao sighed in her heart, so beautiful.

It turned out that observing herself from another angle would be such a feeling, but her body seemed even more uncomfortable. She even wanted to press the "herself" in front of her under her body and then fiercely...

A Jiao closed her eyes and reached out to pull Liu Che's collar up, covering the spring scenery before her.

Liu Che was disturbed by her action and opened his eyes to meet her increasingly dark and heavy eyes. He was dissatisfied: "What are you doing? Can't hold it back and want it?"

A Jiao was angered by his words. It was clearly his body that had a reaction for no reason, yet he acted as if it had nothing to do with him. She gritted her teeth and said: "Liu Che, I just thought of a good way."

Liu Che gave an "un-huh," counting as a response.

"I will go to the Imperial Physician to prescribe a medicine that can cause impotence," she said deliberately: "That way, it shouldn't be uncomfortable anymore."

Liu Che beside her suddenly opened his eyes: "??"

He called her name almost through gritted teeth: "Chen Jiao!"

A Jiao was also broken, even a bit crazy: "Otherwise, what should I do? It's really uncomfortable." She almost instinctively poked Liu Che twice and unexpectedly felt a little bit more comfortable.

Liu Che felt her action and, after some psychological construction, turned over to lie flat, opened his arms, and gritted his teeth: "You come."

For a moment, A Jiao really wanted to pounce on him, but reason finally overcame the burning fire in her body. She said unpleasantly: "Liu Che, have you forgotten that you are currently pregnant?"

One cannot have intercourse during pregnancy, not to mention he had only been pregnant for more than a month and could not be careless.

Liu Che: "..." It was a pity that he had just overcome his inner conflict, thinking that after all, it was his own body, so it didn't matter even if he was the one on the bottom.

A Jiao swallowed her saliva and whispered: "Otherwise... should I go and favor a beauty?"

Liu Che suddenly sat up from the bed: "Chen Aiao, you dare!"

He pointed and accused: "I am pregnant for you, and you actually want to betray me and sleep with my women?!"

"This is your body, so it shouldn't matter, right." A Jiao did not understand what he was angry about: "And when I was pregnant with A Li back then, didn't you also favor other beauties? Why is it betrayal when it changes to me?"

Liu Che was speechless for a moment, and finally only said: "I said no, so no. If you dare to touch those women, I will..."

A Jiao blinked, waiting to hear what he would do.

Liu Che: "..." At this moment, he didn't even have anything to threaten A Jiao with.

He thought of many years ago, when Pingyang sister kept sending beautiful dancing girls and beauties to the Weiyang Palace. When A Jiao found out, she quarreled with him, shouting and threatening him that if he dared to touch those dancing girls, she would go to his grandmother to complain.

His grandmother favored A Jiao, and every time they quarreled and made a scene in front of his grandmother, his grandmother would always reprimand him first. At that time, with his grandmother controlling him, even if he was unwilling, he had to continue to pretend to be good to A Jiao.

It wasn't until his grandmother passed away that no one could control him anymore.

And now, he had actually done the same thing as A Jiao back then, which was truly... ridiculous.

Just as Liu Che was secretly annoyed, A Jiao beside him gave a light cry: "It seems to have softened, not uncomfortable anymore."

Hearing A Jiao's description, the corners of Liu Che's mouth twitched slightly.

A Jiao moved her body a little and muttered: "Finally can sleep. It doesn't seem to have been half an hour either."

Liu Che: "..." He lay down heavily and thought in his heart, wait until we swap back later,

I will definitely let you experience half an hour!

Due to the tossing and turning at night, A Jiao and Liu Che both got up late the next day. Fortunately, there was no morning court, so it didn't matter if they were a little late.

Liu Li woke up early.

During the time she traveled to the Great Han, she had already developed the good habit of going to bed early and getting up early, going to bed before six o'clock every night and waking up after five o'clock the next day.

After waking up, she was not idle, first running from her bedchamber to the back garden of the Jiaofang Hall to breathe some fresh air, and then checking the potatoes she planted.

The products on the second floor of the system mall were mostly daily necessities, as well as some agricultural crops, and the cheapest ones were 100 points.

She exchanged some daily necessities and put them in her bedchamber. Agricultural crops had direct fruits and seeds. The points for exchanging fruits were relatively cheap; the exchange ratio for any agricultural crop fruit was 100 points per catty.

The points for exchanging seeds were expensive; 100 grams of seeds cost 100 points.

Liu Li did not exchange agricultural crop seeds indiscriminately; after all, she had no experience in cultivating agricultural crops. However, she had exchanged a catty of potatoes to eat before, and found the next day that several potatoes had sprouted.

She thought that sprouted potatoes could be buried in the soil to regenerate, so she immediately picked out the sprouted potatoes, selected a piece of land in the back garden of the Jiaofang Hall, and had the guards shovel the flowers on that land to reclaim a piece of land to plant potatoes.

A Jiao saw that her garden had been destroyed, and although she felt sorry for those beautiful flowers, she let her daughter do it.

Liu Li cut the sprouted potatoes, leaving a bud stem for each potato piece, buried these potato pieces in the soil, and specifically found a palace maid who understood planting to look after this piece of land.

The potatoes planted now had already sprouted, and small green buds had emerged from the ground, looking like they were growing quite well. Liu Li would feel particularly good every morning when she ran over to see these.

If the potatoes could be successfully planted, then she shouldn't need to spend points to exchange for them in the future. And potatoes were also a very good reserve food. If they were promoted in the Great Han, they could at least reduce famine.

Liu Li squatted in front of the potato seedlings and thought, when this batch of potatoes was planted, she would write a potato planting method and eating guide, and let A Jiao promote potatoes nationwide to benefit the commoners.

By the way, there were also chili peppers.

Last time she exchanged a catty of green chili peppers and specifically had the palace people keep all the seeds inside the green peppers. Now that batch of seeds had been dried and should be able to be planted.

Should she shovel out another piece of land to plant green peppers?

When Liu Li returned to the Jiaofang Hall, her hands were already covered in mud. A Jiao stared at her little hands and knew that she had gone to the back garden again to check on the thing she was thinking about, called potatoes.

"Hurry and wash your hands, it's time for breakfast." A Jiao reached out and knocked on her little head.

Liu Li smiled and said: "Mother, grant me another piece of land; I want to plant green peppers."

A Jiao's expression froze: "Which flower field are you going to shovel again?"

"Hmm..." Liu Li looked up and said: "Shovel that patch of chrysanthemums. Chrysanthemums can be dried and used to make tea, which clears the liver and improves eyesight—killing two birds with one stone."

A Jiao sighed, both helpless and doting: "Forget it, use the land in the back garden however you want."

Liu Li was overjoyed: "Okay, thank you, Mother."

She followed the palace maid to wash her hands and then returned to the hall to have breakfast with her parents.

Perhaps because she was angered by A Jiao last night, Liu Che's complexion was a bit poor, and his appetite in the morning was not very good.

Seeing that he didn't move after eating a bite of breakfast, Liu Li said with concern: "Imperial Father, can't you eat anything?"

Liu Che replied: "Un-huh."

"You can eat something sour to stimulate your appetite."

"Don't want to eat." Liu Che frowned: "Those preserved fruits are too sweet and greasy; I feel even more uncomfortable after eating them."

That was true; the preserved fruits of the Western Han were mostly sweet, and there were very few sour things. Liu Li thought for a moment, closed her eyes, opened the system mall, exchanged a bucket of yogurt, and some appetizing plums, and handed them to Liu Che: "Imperial Father, why don't you try these first?"

Liu Che stared at the

things her daughter suddenly took out and asked: "What is this?"

"Yogurt and plums, both are appetizing." Liu Li said: "When you don't have a good appetite, you can eat a little, and these can also suppress nausea, so you won't be so uncomfortable."

Liu Che's expression relaxed, but he asked: "Did the Goddess tell you to give these to me?"

"Yes." Liu Li nodded.

Liu Che raised his hand to touch his daughter's little head and said with a smile: "You thank the Goddess for me."

Liu Li blinked her eyes and replied: "Oh."

No, something was not right!

Liu Li stared at the system interface with some hesitation. Liu Che's favorability value toward her had slowly increased by two points from the previous 10 points, and now it was 12 points.

Yesterday, she only told Sang Hongyang the process of solving the chicken and rabbit in the same cage problem, and Sang Hongyang's favorability toward her changed like a rocket, suddenly becoming 20 points.

But she had been with Liu Che for more than a month, and even specifically exchanged yogurt and plums for him, treating him so well, and the result was only an increase of 2 points?

Liu Li was suddenly a bit angry; Emperor Wu of Han really had no heart!

Liu Che tasted a mouthful of yogurt and only felt the taste was very unique, sour and sweet, and very refreshing. Before, he felt like vomiting whenever he ate anything, but he didn't feel that way when eating this yogurt, and even felt he had some appetite.

"Although yogurt is delicious, you can't eat too much." Liu Li saw Liu Che eat more than half a bucket in a while and hurriedly reminded him: "You will get diarrhea if you eat too much. Since Imperial Father has an appetite, eat breakfast."

"Is that so?" Liu Che licked his lips, still wanting more: "Then put it away first."

After breakfast, Liu Li wanted to pull A Jiao to see the potatoes she planted. Liu Che heard that the so-called potatoes had sprouted and also felt it was strange, so he proposed to go together.

Liu Li curled her lips, but did not oppose it; mainly she could not oppose Liu Che.

The family of three came to the back garden. Liu Che looked at the potato seedlings with green buds and was greatly surprised: "They really grew out?"

He had already tasted potatoes before, and this thing was very filling. At that time, he thought that if famine appeared somewhere in the future, he would just give each commoner a potato.

Later, some potatoes sprouted, and Liu Li said that sprouted potatoes could not be eaten, but could be planted to grow new potatoes.

Could fruits also be planted? That was really a good thing; it could be eaten and could regenerate.

Thinking of this, Liu Che turned to look at Liu Li, his gaze carrying a bit of joy: "My A Li is truly the blessing of my Great Han."

【Emperor Wu of Han favorability: 13】

Liu Li: "..." Heh.

Praising others as a blessing with his mouth, but actually only increasing favorability by 1 point. Emperor Wu of Han's mouth was really a lying ghost!

Later, Liu Li ordered the guards guarding the Jiaofang Hall to come and help her shovel the chrysanthemums in the back garden and reclaim the land.

After a morning of reclamation, a piece of land was finally opened up. To reward these guards, Liu Li had the palace maids bring a large pot of sweet fruit wine and distribute it to them to drink.

The guards did not expect that helping the Princess plant land would have wine to drink, but they were still on duty at this time and could not drink. The captain of the guards refused the Princess's kindness on behalf of his subordinates: "Jianling Princess, the little ones are still on duty and cannot drink. Thank you for the Princess's kindness."

Liu Li said: "Although it is fruit wine, this has no alcohol; consider it fruit tea, everyone can drink it with peace of mind."

Hearing the Princess say this, everyone felt relieved and took the tea bowl from the palace maid and drank it. The sweet and sour taste was indeed satisfying, and they had never drunk such fruit tea before.

Before, when they came to help the Princess renovate the land, the Princess gave each of them a rare thing called a potato and told them that they could put the potatoes in the fire to roast or boil them in a pot, which was very filling.

Many guards tried it after going back and only felt one word: Fragrant!

Princess Li was truly worthy of being the Chang Gongzhu specifically titled by the Emperor.

Liu Li turned to look at Huo Qubing, who was standing to the side and looked out of place with everyone, and asked: "Aren't you drinking?"

Huo Qu-

bing looked at the crowd drinking happily, moved his gaze away very awkwardly, his face full of refusal, but his eyes full of desire.

Why was this bear child so awkward and contradictory?

The chrysanthemums on this piece of land in the back garden had all been shoveled away. After the guards drank the fruit tea bestowed by Liu Li, they bid farewell to Liu Li one after another and returned to their original posts to stand guard or patrol.

Liu Li held a small hoe herself, began to dig a shallow pit, sprinkled the chili seeds into it, and then covered it with soil, and then dug the second pit.

After she planted the small bag of seeds in her hand, she was just about to water these seeds when she turned her head and found that Huo Qubing was still standing here.

"Why are you still here?" Liu Li was a bit puzzled.

Previously, the reason she let Huo Qubing be her guard was purely because his apology was not very sincere. During the few days she toured the Weiyang Palace, she had this Huo Xiaolang follow the carriage and run around the entire Weiyang Palace, which could be considered a punishment for him.

She originally wanted to stop having him be a guard after the sacrificial ceremony ended, but she didn't expect the "Emperor Wu of Han pregnancy" incident to happen, and she forgot about this matter.

When she summoned the guards to shovel the garden, Huo Qubing also came to help, and his movements in shoveling the land were even more agile than the other guards.

Liu Li scooped a ladle of water from a bucket to the side and poured it on the place where the chili peppers were planted, and then said to Huo Qubing: "You don't need to serve in the Jiaofang Hall anymore. Go back to your Feathered Forest Guard."

Huo Qubing stared at Liu Li's small body squatting on the reclaimed land. She was clearly a five-year-old child, even a year younger than cousin Yue, but what she did and said was not like a child at all.

It made people unable to understand.

"Jianling Chang Gongzhu." Huo Qubing called Liu Li's new title with some sarcasm.

Liu Li raised her hand to rub her ears and looked up at him: "Why are you so yin and yang in your speech?"

Huo Qubing was silent for a moment. What do you mean by "you child"? You are only five years old, okay! He took a deep breath and couldn't help but say: "You really have good methods."

Liu Li was puzzled: "Ah?"

"Why did the Emperor suddenly title you as Chang Gongzhu?" Huo Qubing concluded that this was Liu Li's scheming.

The fact that he served in the Jiaofang Hall had already been known by his uncle, and his uncle even asked about the reason. He didn't want to lie to his uncle, so he told the whole story, but was reprimanded by his uncle for fooling around.

His uncle said: "Fortunately, the Emperor did not investigate this matter deeply, and fortunately, Princess Chen did not mention the Chang Gongzhu matter in front of the Emperor, otherwise your and A Ling's behavior would not only punish yourselves, but also implicate your aunt!"

Huo Qubing had been favored by the Emperor since he was a child and was even treated specially by the Emperor, so his personality was somewhat arrogant and unrestrained. Facing Wei Qing's reprimand, he didn't care: "But the Emperor knew and didn't punish me; he just let me apologize and that was it."

"You still don't know where you were wrong?" Wei Qing said angrily: "It's not that the Emperor didn't punish you, so you didn't do anything wrong. If it weren't for Princess Chen saying that you were just playing as children, did you think you wouldn't have been punished?"

Last time when saving the Emperor in front of the Jiaofang Hall, Wei Qing noticed that the Emperor's care for Princess Chen was sincere, even more than the Emperor's love for A Yue. If the Emperor knew that Qubing and A Ling were intentional and not just playing, would he really have let this matter pass so easily?

Being told this by his uncle, Huo Qubing felt he was really wrong after the fact. Thinking about it this way, Princess Chen seemed not bad; at least she not only hid it for him but also didn't mention cousin Yue. So when he came to be a guard for Princess Chen again, he was quite willing.

But!

The Emperor actually titled her as Chang Gongzhu.

His uncle said that the Emperor must have known the whole story, so he used this way to compensate Princess Chen.

She clearly had hidden the fact that cousin Yue was to be titled as Chang Gongzhu, but did she complain to the Emperor in the end? And then the Emperor saw she was wronged, so he titled her as Chang Gongzhu to compensate. If this wasn't scheming, what was it?

No wonder cousin Yue and cousin Ling both said she was as cunning as a fox; it was indeed like that.

In his view, she was even more cunning than a fox!

"Because I am knowledgeable and reasonable, smart and beautiful, and saved so many commoners, so Imperial Father titled me as Chang Gongzhu. Do you have any objections?" Liu Li was not shy at all when praising herself.

"You are only five years old; how could you offer advice to the Emperor?" Huo Qubing didn't believe it; it must be an excuse the Emperor found to title her as Chang Gongzhu.

"Then you might as well go and inquire, or ask Imperial Father yourself." Liu Li was too lazy to argue with him and continued to water her little chili peppers.

"The Emperor favors you, so naturally he will speak for you."

Liu Li had a cold face: "Oh."

Then she found that the 5 points of favorability that Huo Qubing had increased had become 0 points. Could the increased favorability value actually fall back?

Liu Li's expression was dazed for a moment. She raised her eyelids to look at Huo Qubing and thought for a moment: "You can go. Hurry and go, and don't come again in the future." Before Huo Qubing's favorability value became negative, it was better to let him go quickly.

If there was no intersection in the future, the favorability should not change, right? Sure enough, the favorability of non-relatives was unstable.

Facing her words to drive him away, Huo Qubing gave a light sneer and then turned around proudly.

Liu Li stared at his straight back for a while and continued to lower her head to water her water. It was not hard to see that because of the Emperor Wu of Han's care for Huo Qubing, he developed such a personality.

If he were a friend, it would be fine, but if he were an enemy... Liu Li gave a tsk, a bit glad that the historical Crown Prince Li was not born, otherwise it would be hard to say.

After planting all the chili seeds, Liu Li stretched and walked toward the palace.

In the afternoon, Liu Li and A Jiao were practicing calligraphy in the study room. As if thinking of something, Liu Li complained to A Jiao about the fact that Liu Che's favorability toward her was increasing very slowly.

"Mother, you say, since I am so smart and cute, and can exchange delicious food for him, why doesn't he like me?" Every time it was only an increase of one or two points, and the speed was like a turtle crawling.

Compare it to Master Sang, and it suddenly increased by 15 points.

Hearing her daughter's complaint, A Jiao smiled and asked: "Is his liking very important?"

Liu Li was startled and subconsciously touched her chin to think seriously. If Liu Che was still Emperor Wu of Han, then his liking would be too important. But now... it didn't seem very important.

After all, the current "Emperor Wu of Han" had full favorability toward her!

"Then I won't struggle; let him be." Liu Li curled her lips.

"A Li, do you think it's possible that every time you use the Goddess as an excuse, he will think everything is the Goddess's credit, so he doesn't change much toward you?"

This was simply a wake-up call!

Hearing A Jiao's hint, Liu Li was dumbfounded. Yes, why didn't she think of that?

Just like this morning, it was clearly out of her concern for Liu Che that she exchanged yogurt and plums for him. But when Liu Che asked, she subconsciously pushed everything onto the Goddess, so Liu Che wouldn't think the person who cared about him was the Goddess, right?

And she, this daughter, was just a medium to help him communicate with the Goddess, no wonder his favorability toward her didn't increase much.

When Liu Che asked her this morning, she should have said that she used her sincerity to beg the Goddess, and the Goddess was willing to gift the yogurt and plums. Only in this way could she reflect her daughter's filial piety!

Liu Li was secretly annoyed; she was too careless.

Outside the study room, Liu Che also walked in and asked casually: "A Li, how is your calligraphy practice?"

Liu Li looked down at the characters she wrote and curled her lips: "It's okay."

Liu Che came over to take a look and commented casually: "It's really ugly, not even half as good as Princess Yue's."

This comparison made the study room quiet instantly. Liu Che also realized he said the wrong thing instantly. He coughed awkwardly and said: "I mean, you still need to practice more. Princess Yue has been practicing calligraphy since she was three years old. A Li has just started now, so it's normal that it doesn't look good."

Liu Li: "Heh."

A Jiao: "Princess Wei's calligraphy is indeed good, but why didn't she get the Goddess's favor? Since you like Princess Yue so much, then move to the Pixiang

Hall and live there; you can be with your beloved daughter every day."

Liu Che: "..." ===== CHAPTER 26 =====