Chapter 132 Sounds Like a Couple

He paused and held her waist obediently.

Shi Jianli measured his shoulders again, asked about his height, and wrote down a few numbers. She sat in his arms, staring at him for a while, and asked, "What kind do you like?"

"Madam likes everything she makes." Mingzhao even played with her hand. "Yaoyao can just draw a draft. Don't do it yourself. It's too stressful."

Shi Jianli nodded, "Yeah."

"Do you want to go back to the Princess's Mansion, or have a meal at Second Aunt's?"

"Go to my aunt's place." She looked up at him, "Do you want to go to the Princess's Mansion?"

Mingzhao held the back of her neck with his palm. "The emperor gave me five days of leave. Can I go back on the fifth day? I'll burn some incense for my father-in-law and mother-in-law."

The marriage leave was only four days, from the wedding day to the day of returning to the parents' home, so he asked the emperor for one more day.

Still a little uncomfortable with the touch of his palm on her skin, Shi Jianli moved her neck, and finally leaned into his arms, rubbing her head against his neck, "Okay~"

Mingzhao still looked at her with his eyes downcast, and kissed her collarbone with a smile on his lips, "Yaoyao smells so good."

"That's the scent of clothes. Each piece of clothing has a different scent." Shi Jianli grasped his sleeve with her fingertips, and a thin red mark sank from her shoulders and neck into her collar.

Mingzhao just smiled and said nothing.

She has a body fragrance that is cool yet warm. It is hard to describe what the fragrance is specifically, but it is very alluring.

She poked his shoulder with her slender fingers, and Shi Jianli said, "Give me the box. I haven't seen it clearly yet."

Hearing this, he put the box back in her arms and watched her carefully look at the deeds one by one.

"This shop on Fulong Street should be converted to a grocery store. There are already many cloth shops there. Although it's not losing money, it's not making money either. The pastry shop on Nanyang Street can be converted into a rice shop..."

After she finished speaking, Shi Jianli raised her eyes and saw that he was staring at her intently. She poked his waist and asked, "Did you hear clearly?"

"Well, I'll listen to Madam. I'll make whatever changes Madam says."

"Can you check the accounts?"

"Yes, I'm good at math and arts, but I'm definitely not as good as Yaoyao in business management. With my wife helping me manage these shops, our family's income will definitely increase in the future."

Shi Jianli raised her hands to hold his face and asked, "Do you want to let go?"

Mingzhao curled his lips and said, "No, of course I am checking the accounts with Madam, so as not to tire her out."

"That's better. You still have to go to court on duty. Just take a look occasionally when you have time." What she wanted was an attitude.

Hearing that every word he said couldn't be separated from the word "Madam", Shi Jianli felt a little helpless.

He kissed her cheek and said, "Thank you, Madam, for loving me."

Shi Jianli touched the place where he kissed with her fingertips and glanced at him.

Mingzhao even tapped the corner of her lips and said with a smile, "I can't help it, Yaoyao. You used to tease me all the time, but because we weren't married yet, I couldn't do anything I wanted to do. Now that we're finally married, what's wrong with me kissing my wife?"

"When did I tease you?" Shi Jianli denied it.

"Pretending to kiss me isn't flirting, but acting coquettishly towards me isn't flirting?"

She was a little speechless. She pretended to kiss him, but it was true. "How can being coquettish be considered teasing? I also acted coquettishly with my aunt."

"It's different. I'm your husband. To me, it's just teasing."

Unable to argue, she knelt on either side of his knees, cupped his face and kissed him twice on the lips, "I'm really kissing you, not pretending."

Mingzhao still held her waist and stared at her with dark eyes.

Shi Jianli fell into his arms, put her arms around his neck, met his gaze, blushed, and whispered, "Don't be so excited, we'll do it tonight..."

He rubbed his palm on her waist, "Madam, aren't you tired?"

Shi Jianli covered his mouth and changed her words to ask: "Sleep well at night, and you have to rub my waist for me, I'm tired."

He was a bit too good, and I wondered if my mother had given him the same fire avoidance diagram as my aunt. She hadn't bothered to look at much of it, but he must have looked through it all.

"Okay." Mingzhao untied her waist belt and rubbed her waist.

Originally, I had no intention of doing anything to her tonight. At most, I would just hold her down and kiss her.

Feeling comfortable being served by him, Shi Jianli lay in his arms and played with the corner of his clothes, "What do you want to hear Lanxing and Xianyue call you? They have been with me for fifteen years and are used to calling me girl."

This morning, they seemed to not know how to call her. After she was conferred the title of princess, Lanxing and Xianyue also called her "girl".

"You are their master, so naturally you are the one who takes charge. As for your two new maids, they came from the Princess's Mansion, so of course it's up to you." The name didn't matter, anyway, he and Yaoyao had to sound like a couple.

Don't call him Prince, and don't call her Miss or Princess, it doesn't make sense.

"There were no maids in the courtyard originally. My mother only let them in after I got married. Yaoyao would keep the ones she liked and kick out the ones she didn't like, or replace them with the ones from Tangli Courtyard."

"Yeah." Shi Jianli slightly lowered her eyes and hugged his waist.

Mingzhao even put his fingertips to the corners of her eyes, and seeing the smile in her eyes, he felt a little happier.

He hugged her tighter.

After dinner, it was night. When Shi Jianli came back from taking a bath, she saw Mingzhao still sitting on the bed, reading a military book in his hand.

Hearing her footsteps, Mingzhao put the book on the bedside table and stretched out his hand to her, "Come here."

Shi Jianli came closer and was held in his arms.

She hooked her fingertips on the collar of his pajamas, and seeing that the pattern was different, she asked, "Where did you take a bath?"

"Side." Mingzhao carried her inside, pulled the quilt over her waist, and held her face in his hands and asked, "Can I take a bath with you tomorrow?"

"No." Shi Jianli turned her face away.

How come he wouldn't be shy?

"Okay." Mingzhao responded with a regretful tone and turned her face back.

I'll coax her again tomorrow, and she'll agree after a while.

"What are you doing?" The quilt was filled with his scent, and Shi Jianli felt a little dizzy.

Mingzhao still had his arm around her waist, his fingertips gently pressing against her collarbone. "Are you going to bed?"

"Um."

"Kiss me before you go to sleep."

Shi Jianli glanced at his expression, leaned over and gently kissed the corner of his lips.

Mingzhao clasped his hands behind her head, rubbed her head, hugged her tightly, and chuckled: "Go to sleep."

Why are you still being sneaky? So cute.

She felt a foot gently kicking her leg twice, and Mingzhao looked up at her.

Shi Jianli kicked again, "Don't press my legs."

Although he was very gentle to her, his actions revealed a sense of strength. When he hugged her, he wanted to hold her whole body in his arms, and there was a sense of control in his intimacy.

Mingzhao also held her calf and let it rest on his leg, "Is this okay?"

Shi Jianli was satisfied and rubbed her cheek against his neck.

Mingzhao suppressed the impulse in his heart, kissed the top of her head, patted her back gently, and looked at her with gentle and bright eyes.

After a while, Shi Jianli moved in his arms, turned over, and faced away from him.

He leaned over, "Can't sleep?"

"some."

A tall figure leaned over and placed a warm kiss behind her ear: "Then do something else?"