Equal

Huanhuan woke up to see Xue Ling sitting by the bed.

“You’re awake.” Xue Ling lowered his head and kissed her on the mouth. “Get up and have breakfast.”

Huanhuan immediately covered her mouth. “I haven’t brushed my teeth!”

Xue Ling found it funny. “I don’t mind it, but you do?”

Huanhuan put on her clothes, washed up, and went downstairs for breakfast.

Xue Ling leaned against her.

“Why aren’t you asking where Bai Di went?”

Half of Huanhuan’s body was about to collapse from his pressure. She said expressionlessly, “Where else could he have gone? He went to Sun City to pick up his sons.”

Xue Ling leaned over and licked the soup on her lips. “From the looks of it, you must be angry.”

Instead of answering, Huanhuan asked, “Won’t you be angry if I knock you out and run away alone?”

“I won’t be angry. I’ll try my best to catch you and break your legs so you can’t go anywhere else.”

He had a gorgeous smile on his face like a blooming sunflower, but his words were especially ferocious.

Huanhuan felt a chill run down her spine.

Instinctively, she moved aside. “If you break my legs, I’ll be handicapped.”

Xue Ling reached out and wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her into his arms. “It’s okay. I’ll support you for the rest of your life.”

Was this the point?! Huanhuan taught him righteously, “It’s wrong to hit your wife! We can’t condone domestic violence!”

“Didn’t you attack first?” Xue Ling blinked.

Huanhuan recalled what she had just said.

That seemed to be the case…

As she was in the wrong, she could only shut up and bury her head in her food.

Seeing that she was eating with relish, Xue Ling leaned over and asked, “Is it delicious?”

“It’s not bad.”

“I made it myself.”

Huanhuan finally looked up at him. “You’re good at cooking.”

“Come, reward me with a kiss.”

He said those coquettish words extremely naturally and even took the initiative to put his mouth in front of Huanhuan.

Huanhuan couldn’t take it anymore and reluctantly kissed him on the mouth.

“Will that do?”

Xue Ling’s lips curled into a smile, and peach blossoms seemed to be blooming in his brilliant red eyes. “You’re so cute.”

Huanhuan blushed at the praise.

After eating and drinking her fill, Huanhuan went to wash the dishes. Xue Ling followed her. Eggy flew over and lay on Huanhuan’s shoulder.

Huanhuan said slowly, “Eggy, have you gained weight again?”

Eggy stiffened, then defended herself loudly. “I’m not fat! I just have more feathers and look fluffy!”

“Okay, if you say you’re fluffy, then you’re fluffy.”

Huanhuan went along with her youngest daughter, her helpless expression filled with indulgence.

Eggy snorted. “You actually think I’m fat. I’m not playing with you anymore.”

She spread her wings and flew. Although she was round, she was quite fast.

In the blink of an eye, she was gone.

Xue Ling hugged Huanhuan from behind and rubbed her cheek. “Isn’t Eggy cute?”

“Mhm.”

Of course, their daughter was cute!

Xue Ling: “Why don’t we have two more children as cute as Eggy?”

“No way.”

Xue Ling was unhappy. “Why?”

“You, Bai Di, and Shuang Yun already have children of your own. Only Sang Ye doesn’t have children yet. I have to give birth to his children first before I consider giving birth to a second child for you. That’s only fair.”

Sang Ye looked a little pitiful.

Xue Ling had no choice but to give in. “Then give birth to Sang Ye’s children first before giving birth to more of mine.”

Huanhuan replied vaguely, “We’ll see.”

If she agreed to give birth to Xue Ling’s second child now and Shuang Yun found out later, he would definitely shout that she was biased.

Sigh, it was too difficult to be fair!

…

Under Huanhuan’s guidance, the revision of books was gradually on track. The library had also begun to be built.

At the same time, Shuang Yun took out all the cannons in the space and selected a portion of beast soldiers for special training. After the training was successful, he specially established a cannon camp.

The fruit forest and vegetable farms were officially handed over to the tree tribe to manage.

However, in order to prevent the same situation with the Divine Wood clan from happening again, Huanhuan specially issued a decree to rent out the land this time. The fruit forest and vegetable farms would be handed over to the tree tribe to manage. Half of the annual harvest would be given to the tree tribe, while the other half would be handed over to the temple as rent.

In addition, Huanhuan discussed with Shuang Yun to perfect the laws in the city.

Among them was a new decree on the collection of taxes.

In the future, as long as they traded in Rock City, they had to pay 10 to 30% of taxes. Any beast who avoided taxes would be chased out of Rock City.

The law also explicitly prohibited the sale of human beings. Once discovered, one would be punished with hard labor or be beheaded in public!

These laws were issued and read out by the guards in the city. They insisted that every resident in the city know about this.

Everything else was fine, but the implementation of taxes was unacceptable to many beasts in the city.

No one was willing to lose a sum of money for no reason.

Especially the merchants in the city. They traded a lot every day. If they followed the tax regulations under the new law, they would suffer a loss.

In the past, these merchants were led by Ah Gui. Now that he was no longer around, they elected a new leader.

The new leader’s name was Ming Zhe. He was an ape in the cotton business. He was relatively thin. He had bright eyes were bright, a big mouth, and thin lips. It was obvious that he was a particularly shrewd beast.

Under Ming Zhe’s lead, the merchants majestically arrived at the entrance of the temple and asked the high priest to change the tax decree.

Huanhuan had long expected that the new law would be objected to by the people.

She asked the divine servant to invite the merchants into the hall on the first floor.

However, Huanhuan did not go downstairs directly. Instead, she ignored them. When they were tired of waiting and could not stand anymore, Huanhuan walked down the stairs.

The steps made of Sound Jade tinkled, and the melody was crisp and melodious.

She was wearing a veiled hat on her head. She looked at the merchants through the snow veil and saw that their faces were filled with dissatisfaction.

Especially Ming Zhe, who was the leader. He almost couldn’t wait to step forward and say, “Lady Huanhuan, we’re here to discuss the issue of taxes with you, but you deliberately left us waiting for you downstairs. Are you looking down on us?!”

If it were Xue Hui, these merchants might not have said that, but Huanhuan’s appearance was too deceptive. This made the merchants think that she was easy to bully. They subconsciously underestimated her.

Huanhuan waited for the other party to finish complaining before speaking unhurriedly.

“I was upstairs checking the accounts, so I was delayed. I’m sorry to have kept you waiting.”