Reborn as the Crippled King's Beloved-Chapter 565: She Can’t Be a Bald Empress

Bullet State was rich in marine products.

Jun Yuyan had brought back all the treasures the Bullet Royal Family had collected over hundreds of years, along with the gold.

Among them was a type of black sea pearl that was large, round, and shiny. It was extremely beautiful, made into a necklace by the Bullet Royal Family. Although the design was simple, the special nature of such pearls meant that wearing it casually still looked very good.

Jun Yuyan placed the polished pearl around Murong Jiu’s neck.

"I hear this necklace was crafted by the Bullet Monarch to worship the Goddess, and no one has worn it before. It seems that Ah Jiu is the Goddess now,"

Murong Jiu couldn’t help but smile.

"I’m certainly not the Goddess of Bullet State, but this necklace truly is dazzling."

The rarity added to its value. Freshwater pearls were common, and seawater pearls weren’t rare either, but such large, bright black seawater pearls were indeed seldom seen.

"The women of the Bullet Royal Family have too short necks. They love wearing pearls, but none look as good as my Ah Jiu wearing them."

This was absolutely the truth.

Murong Jiu’s neck was pale and slender, which made the pearls glow brilliantly.

Jun Yuyan couldn’t help but lower his head to kiss her on the side of her neck.

The pale skin visibly turned a soft pink at a glance.

Jun Yuyan’s deep eyes also seemed to take on a darker shade.

Although he was somewhat restless inside, Jun Yuyan still took her to see all the other treasures he had brought back from Bullet.

There were golden pearls, pink sea conch pearls, all of them top-quality, large, and round.

The inferior ones didn’t catch Jun Yuyan’s eye, and he didn’t bother bringing them back to the Imperial Palace.

The Bullet Royal Family wasn’t as poor as imagined.

They liked to invade other small countries at sea, and sometimes they would attack lone merchant ships, so the Bullet Monarch’s private treasury was quite overflowing.

Apart from various jewels, Jun Yuyan had also deliberately brought back seeds scattered around the vault, and various books. fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm

Murong Jiu was indeed very interested. She immediately summoned Lady Jing to the palace to take the seeds away to try cultivating them and see if new crops could be grown.

"Eh, are these shipbuilding blueprints from Bullet?"

Murong Jiu had recently taken a great interest in shipbuilding, so she understood the blueprints at a glance.

It must be said that Bullet’s shipbuilding was indeed much better than Great Yan’s, perhaps because Bullet’s merchant convoys started earlier at sea and covered a broader range, with years of accumulation and technologies learned from other countries.

Jun Yuyan laughed, "Indeed, the ships built by Bullet are better, but they have fewer fleets, mostly merchant ships. Initially, the Eldest Prince’s merchant ships were controlled by us, so when we attacked Bullet, they hardly had any room to resist. If we let them continue to develop, their ships would only get better and sturdier, able to travel farther and possibly ally with other countries to invade Great Yan."

Murong Jiu felt a bit frightened, "We did right to deploy troops when we did, otherwise Bullet would have become a tough bone to chew in the future."

By then, the price to pay might be even more painful.

Being merciful to an enemy is cruel to oneself.

Even if the neighboring countries secretly called Great Yan ruthless, only they knew what kind of wolves and menaces they had eradicated.

For the sake of millennia to come, for the sake of their descendants, what did it matter to bear a bad name,

as long as the people of Great Yan felt relieved and vindicated?

They only needed the fear that other countries had towards Great Yan.

To never dare to attack.

This time, they had undoubtedly returned with a complete victory. Just these shipbuilding blueprints alone could save the shipbuilders of Great Yan many detours.

"We must build the best ships in the world! Ones that can move steadily through the wind and waves!"

"Okay, I definitely will."

After handing over the shipbuilding blueprints to his subordinate, Jun Yuyan couldn’t wait to scoop up Murong Jiu by her waist.

Step by step, they went from the Imperial Palace treasure vault to the Kunning Palace.

Murong Jiu’s face was flushed with embarrassment, repeatedly asking him to let her down, but Jun Yuyan would not consent.

"No one dares to look, Ah Jiu, don’t be shy."

How could she not be shy?

Although the guards, palace maids, and eunuchs bowed their heads immediately upon seeing them, they had still been seen.

The distance was so great that practically everyone in the Imperial Palace had gotten a good look, turning Murong Jiu’s face so red it almost dripped blood.

By the time they finally arrived at the Kunning Palace, her body was covered in sweat, heated from the fast pace of her circulating blood.

"Ah Jiu, I’ll bathe you."

Jun Yuyan dismissed everyone and then headed straight into the bathhouse.

There was a bath as large as the one in the Prince Mansion, with water that was always hot. As soon as Murong Jiu stepped in, Jun Yuyan immediately stripped off his clothes, intending to join her.

"No, no, you haven’t bathed for several days, you mustn’t come down, this bath is hard to clean!"

Jun Yuyan grinned, his handsome face full of indulgence. He didn’t seem upset at all; instead, he cheerfully fetched a bucket of water to rinse himself off a few times.

"Is Ah Jiu disgusted by my dirtiness, disgusted by my smell? I hurried back just to see Ah Jiu."

Murong Jiu said with a smile, "Right, I’m afraid you might have lice on your head, and if they spread to me, I’d definitely have to shave my head."

While washing his hair, Jun Yuyan pictured the image of Ah Jiu bald.

It seemed even if Ah Jiu was bald, she would still be beautiful.

But then, others might think his Empress had decided to become a nun, and that wouldn’t do!

He loved it most when Ah Jiu’s silky black hair cascaded over her flawless snowy back when it slipped from his arms, and when her hair fluttered as she passionately looked up.

He washed his hair even more diligently.

"Don’t worry, Ah Jiu, I definitely don’t have lice on my head!"

Jun Yuyan was a clean freak, but years of leading military campaigns had somewhat lessened his obsession with cleanliness.

It was normal for soldiers to have lice in their hair.

Long hair is hard to manage; sometimes even having a sip of water was a luxury, let alone washing hair.

Moreover, sleeping tightly packed together, how could there not be lice?

But Jun Yuyan never had them. He liked cleanliness and disliked crowding with others, preferring to sleep on the grass rather than squeeze together. He couldn’t stand the odor of other people’s body, not out of disdain—there was no room for disdain in war—just that he paid more attention than most.

This time in Bullet, he learned to swim in the sea; he already knew how to float and swim, but that was in fresh water, where the waves were not as strong and the dangers different.

Not only that, he made everyone swim in the sea to overcome their fear of the salt water, so that even if they were thrown overboard, they would have a chance to escape.

Perhaps because they were often soaked in seawater, this time the soldiers had no lice on their heads.

Since the topic had come up, Murong Jiu said:

"Actually, it’s not good for men to have long hair either; it’s unclean and can harbor filth and nurture viruses and lice, which can also spread diseases. However, we people of Great Yan value the body, hair, and skin given by our parents, and it may not be easy to change their mindset."

"As your husband, I have a way!"

Jun Yuyan, having already rinsed himself off, jumped out of the bath.