My wife is number one in the world

Liu Mingzhi nodded slightly, his smile unchanged, and turned to look at the Empress who was asking why his little darling hadn't come back with him.

"Wanyan, Yue'er has gone to the stable to deliver the horses. She'll be back in a little while."

When the Empress heard Young Master Liu tell her that her little darling had gone to the stables to settle her mount, her beautiful face immediately showed a knowing expression as she gently nodded twice to Young Master Liu.

"I see. If that's the case, then I have no further questions."

As soon as the Empress's soft voice responded to Young Master Liu's words, Qi Yun gracefully stood up from the carved chair beneath her shapely buttocks and walked lightly toward Young Master Liu.

As she walked forward with light, graceful steps, she glanced down at the rectangular wooden box that Young Master Liu was holding in one arm around his waist.

"Husband, didn't you and Yue'er go out of the city to see off Cheng Kai, Bu Er, Ning Chao, Chu Jing and the other brothers? Why did you come back with a long wooden box? What's in this box?"

Hearing Qi Yun's question, which was both puzzled and curious, Liu Mingzhi chuckled and picked up the rectangular wooden box containing the sheepskin map with both hands.

"Hehehe, my good wife, it's a long story. Before I answer your question, let me ask you one first."

Seeing that her husband was keeping her in suspense, Qi Yun first gave Liu Dashao a charmingly reproachful look, then gently took the wooden box from his hands with her delicate, fair hands.

"How dare you keep me in suspense!"

"If you have any questions for me, just ask them. I'll put the long wooden box you brought back on the table first."

As soon as Qi Yun finished speaking in a coquettish tone, she turned around and walked straight to a low table a few steps away, which was used to place tea, pastries, and various snacks.

Liu Mingzhi saw his wife turn and walk towards the low table a few steps away. He gently swung his wrist and slowly followed her.

"Yun'er, let me ask you, do you still remember Lei Jun?"

Qi Yun gently placed the rectangular wooden box from her delicate, boneless waist onto the low table in front of her, then turned around with a slight frown to look at Young Master Liu who was following behind her.

"Who? Lei Jun?"

"Yes, that's right, it's Lei Jun."

"Lei Jun."

"Lei Jun."

Qi Yun parted her red lips slightly and softly repeated Lei Jun's name twice. Her pair of bright, clear eyes were full of thought as she began to recall Lei Jun's identity.

Suddenly, she raised her delicate eyebrows slightly in surprise.

"Lei Jun, Lei Jun, my husband, is the Lei Jun you're talking about the fat Lei from Yangzhou?"

After thinking for a while, Liu Mingzhi saw his wife and remembered Lei Jun's identity and Lei Jun's nickname from back then. He then turned around and sat down in the carved chair that Qi Yun had been sitting in.

"Hahaha, hahaha~ hahahaha."

“Yes, yes, Yun’er, the person I was talking about is him.”

Qi Yun looked at Young Master Liu, who was sitting in the chair with a loud laugh, and walked straight toward him with her lotus feet, her delicate eyebrows furrowing slightly with a look of doubt.

"My lord, we haven't seen Fatty Lei for over a decade. Why are you bringing him up with me all of a sudden?"

Liu Mingzhi casually reached out his right hand, picked up the teacup on the corner of the table, lowered his head slightly, and took a small sip of the now-cold tea.

Then, while gently sipping the tea from his lips, he looked up with a sigh at Qi Yun, who had already walked up to him.

"It has been twelve and a half years since we last met."

Seeing the sighing look on her husband's face, Qi Yun remained silent for a while before letting out a soft sigh.

"Whoa~"

"My lord, I have done the mental calculations and it is indeed been twelve and a half years since we last met."

Twelve and a half years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Well, to be more precise, it should be thirteen years.

How many twelve-year periods does a person have in their lifetime?
It has to be said, time really flies; it's so fast it catches you off guard.

After sighing softly with a slightly melancholy tone, Qi Yun suddenly realized that her husband hadn't answered her question yet!
"Husband, you still haven't answered me. Why did you suddenly bring up Fatty Lei to me out of the blue?"

Upon seeing Qi Yun repeatedly refer to Lei the Fatty, Young Master Liu casually put his teacup back in its place, chuckled, and shook his head.

"Fatty Lei, Fatty Lei, hahaha, hahahahahaha."

“Yun’er, Lei Jun isn’t fat at all now, he’s become very lean.”

Upon hearing Liu Mingzhi's words, Qi Yun immediately retorted in a sweet voice.

"Husband, it's been twelve and a half years since we last saw Fatty Lei. How did you know he's gotten so thin and wiry now..."

As Qi Yun spoke softly, her words suddenly stopped, as if she had realized something, and her large, watery eyes widened in surprise.

"Husband, um, um."

"You—you're not telling me you saw that Fatty Lei here in the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate?"

Liu Mingzhi saw his wife talking and then suddenly widen his eyes in surprise. With a smile, he raised his right hand and gently slid it across the back of the carved chair.

"Hahaha, my good wife, what do you think?"

Liu Mingzhi's words, seemingly a rhetorical question to Qi Yun, were actually an answer to Qi Yun's question in another way.

Upon hearing this, Qi Yun's eyes widened in disbelief once again.

"Husband, really? Is it true? You really saw Fatty Lei in the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate?"
"This—this—husband, you're not joking with me, are you?"

"Yun'er, do I look like I'm joking with you?" Liu Mingzhi asked with a light smile as he looked at his wife's incredulous expression.

Qi Yun glanced at the expression on her husband's face, then at his calm and composed eyes, and let out a long breath with her lips slightly parted.

"Whoo~"

"Incredible, incredible, absolutely incredible."

"My lord, why isn't Fatty Lei staying put in our Great Dragon Kingdom? What's he doing here in the Abbasid Caliphate?"

Liu Mingzhi casually crossed his legs and tapped his fingers lightly on his knees. "Business, doing business."

Upon hearing her husband's reply, Qi Yun exclaimed in surprise, "What? Business? Doing business?"

Liu Mingzhi smacked his lips lightly twice, then smiled and nodded gently at Qi Yun, who looked surprised.

"Yes, that's right, it's about doing business."

According to him, he failed the imperial examinations repeatedly, so he simply gave up on continuing his studies and started doing business instead.

It was purely by chance that my brother Lei Jun and I were able to reunite in a foreign land.

I never imagined that I would run into Lei Jun in the capital city of the Great Shi Kingdom, which is thousands of miles away from our Great Dragon Kingdom.

After my brother and I met again by chance outside the city, we immediately started catching up, and before we knew it, the topic had turned to…

Soon, Young Master Liu recounted to Qi Yun and the other beauties everything that had happened since his reunion with Lei Jun.

After listening to her husband's eloquent speech, Qi Yun looked helpless and said to Liu Dashao in a coquettish voice, "Husband, husband, what can I say about you!"
As the old saying goes, there are four great joys in life.

Rain after a long drought; meeting an old friend in a foreign land; the wedding night; passing the imperial examination.

My husband, you and Fatty Lei had no prior arrangement or special invitation, yet you were able to meet by chance today in a foreign land thousands of miles from your hometown. This is clearly the joy of meeting an old friend in a foreign land, one of the four great joys.

You two brothers have known each other since childhood, and later studied together at Dangyang Academy. Your friendship is exceptionally deep!
It has been twelve and a half years since you two brothers last met. Today, thanks to the heavens, you two brothers have the good fortune to meet in a foreign land. Instead of inviting him to your home right now, you insist that he wait three days to come and visit.

"What kind of mess have you made?!"

Liu Mingzhi stood up straight from the chair he was sitting on, and stretched his arms with a smile.

"Ouch, mmm, mmm hum hum hum."

"Yun'er, my dear wife, I didn't want to do this either. The reason I'm doing this is to give you sisters some time to prepare."

Upon hearing this, Qi Yun's pretty face showed a slight pause.

"Huh? What? Getting ready?"

"No, I've seen that fat guy Lei before, what do I need to prepare for?"

Liu Mingzhi lowered his arms, chuckled, and turned to look at the group of beauties who had already stopped playing mahjong and were now quietly listening to him and Qi Yun talk.

"Yun'er, just because you've met Lei Jun doesn't mean that Yan'er, Wanyan, Qingshi... Jie'er, Shu'er, and Qingrui have also met Lei Jun!"

You should know that at least half of your group of sisters have never met Lei Jun.

You and Ya-jie have met before. Ying-er was my personal maid and grew up in our family since she was a child. Wei-er and I are childhood sweethearts and grew up together. Both of you sisters have met Lei Jun.

Dahai, Dajiang, Dahe, and Xiaoxi, the four siblings, often stayed at our house when they were young. When I was a child, I took the four of them and Lei Jun to climb trees to steal bird nests and go down to the river to catch fish and shrimp. Xiaoxi has also met Lei Jun.

Yun Shu and Yao'er, the two sisters, one is the young lady of Dangyang Academy and the other is the old master's last disciple. Naturally, the two sisters had met Lei Jun before.

Then there are the sisters Bizhu and Lingyi. Back when Lei Jun was studying at Dangyang Academy, he was a regular at the various brothels along the Qinhuai River.

Therefore, Bizhu and Lingyi, the two sisters, should have met Lei Jun before.

However, while we've met, the only people who have actually had any real contact with Lei Jun are you, Yun'er, Xiaoxi, Ying'er, Yunshu, and Yao'er—the five of you sisters.

As Liu Mingzhi spoke with a smile, he slightly turned his head and glanced at Xue Bizhu and Huang Lingyi.

"Bizhu, Lingyi, have you two sisters ever had any real dealings with Lei Jun?"

When Xue Bizhu and Huang Lingyi heard their husbands ask them the same question, they both shook their heads slightly without hesitation.

"My lord, when I was the most beautiful courtesan at Penglai Pavilion, I only met that young master Lei a few times and never really had any dealings with him."

"My lord, like my sister, I have only exchanged a few words with her at the courtesan competition, and we have not really interacted much."

Liu Mingzhi nodded with a faint smile, then turned his gaze directly to Qi Ya's elegant and graceful face.

"Sister Ya, you probably aren't very familiar with Lei Jun, are you?"

Upon hearing this, Qi Ya smiled and nodded twice to Young Master Liu.

"Yes, that's right, I'm not really familiar with it."

I met you once on your wedding day with Yun'er, and I also met you once each at the full moon celebrations of Yiyi, Feifei, Chengfeng and his sister, and Chengzhi and Yaoyao.

Later, I saw you again when your sister Yan'er married you.

However, none of these meetings resulted in any real interaction.

Liu Mingzhi nodded slightly with his smile unchanged, then turned his head and glanced at Wenren Yunshu and Huyan Junyao.

Wenren Yunshu and Huyan Junyao, the two sisters, felt their husbands' gazes on them and spoke up before Young Master Liu could ask.

"Hehehe, my husband, to be honest, I'm not that familiar with Lei Jun."

After all, not every student dares to seek knowledge from my grandfather.

“My husband, as you know, when we were studying at Dangyang Academy, we were the only two students in the entire Wenren Academy.”

Therefore, the number of times I have interacted with Lei Jun is also very few.

After listening to what Wenren Yunshu and Huyan Junyao had said, Liu Mingzhi turned around with a smile and gently shrugged at Qi Yun.

"Yun'er, hey, Bizhu, Lingyi, Yajie, Yunshu, Yao'er, did you hear what they said?"

So, I've given you sisters three days to prepare. Is that wrong?

Upon hearing this, Qi Yun murmured a few softly with her beautiful red lips, then shook her head apologetically at Young Master Liu.

"Alright, I know I was wrong. I oversimplified things."

Upon hearing Qi Yun's words, Liu Mingzhi immediately chuckled and waved his hand.

"Hey, what's wrong or right? You're exaggerating, you're exaggerating."

Yun'er, to be honest, this is only a secondary matter. (End of Chapter)