Chapter 257 Quitting the Job

Xiao Nanchen regained consciousness in the middle of the night.

The moment he opened his eyes, he felt the slender waist in his arms... When his consciousness returned, he suddenly opened his eyes. When he saw the large patches of marks on Chen Ning's shoulders and arms, His Royal Highness Prince Ding froze there.

There was a scar on his chest, and some blood, but he didn't even know when he was injured... To be precise, in his memory, he had no other consciousness at that time, only that original thought.

But he remembered that she cried...

Especially in her initial consciousness, she sobbed and said she was scared, asking him not to be like that...

His Royal Highness Prince Ding felt as if he had been struck hard.

The joy in the remaining consciousness was so ecstatic, but now it was filled with regret and panic tenfold and a hundredfold.

What did he do? Force her?

Even if they were already engaged, he shouldn't... Moreover, he had even deliberately spread rumors that he wanted to cancel the engagement.

What did he do?

My head hurts so much...

The counterattack on the first day of detoxification was the most severe. After waking up and becoming sober for the first moment, Xiao Nanchen felt confused and had an unbearable headache.

He couldn't figure out his thoughts, he only knew that he had forced Shen Ning...

How should he face her when she wakes up?

While panicking and terrified, Xiao Nanchen couldn't help but keep recalling those passionate scenes...even including her screams and convulsions when the barrier was pierced at that moment.

He is her...first man!

So, although she had lived with Zhao Mu day and night, she belonged to him alone, only to him!

This thought almost instantly dispelled the severe pain in Xiao Nanchen's head, and made him feel boundless ecstasy.

Even though he had never cared about her past, when he realized that she belonged only to him, this vulgar ecstasy and satisfaction still couldn't be restrained and flooded over him, almost drowning him...

But Shen Ning's crying and pleading last night were like a bucket of cold water, which made His Royal Highness Prince Ding sober up in an instant.

He messed everything up!

Looking at Shen Ning who was sleeping beside him, Xiao Nanchen wanted to hug her tightly in his arms, but at the same time he was afraid that he would make some noise and wake Shen Ning up.

He was completely frantic and panicked. After a while, he gritted his teeth and stepped lightly onto the bed...

Chengying had diarrhea and was exhausted, so Chixiao took over the night watch. Just as Chixiao was leaning against the dark corner with his sword in his arms, closing his eyes and listening carefully, an almost imperceptible movement made him open his eyes instantly.

He turned his head quickly, and then Chi Xiao saw his prince, shirtless and holding clothes in his arms, coming out from the crack of the door with unprecedented caution.

"Your Highness."

Chi Xiao flew over lightly, a little puzzled: "You..."

"Shut up."

Xiao Nanchen gritted his teeth and whispered, "Don't talk."

His Royal Highness Prince Ding scolded his guards and turned around, putting on his robe as he walked away. "Go and have someone prepare. We're leaving tonight."

"Ah?" Chi Xiao was a little confused: "Is it so sudden, Your Highness? Should we wait for the Princess..."

"Shut up, you're the only one who talks too much. Where's Chengying?"

"He collapsed from diarrhea."

Xiao Nanchen was silent for a moment, then said, "Then let's go and let him stay with Princess Yong'an for a while."

Chi Xiao was completely confused but didn't dare to say another word because he felt that his master seemed very frightened and panicked.

He had never seen his master look so fierce on the outside but so weak on the inside, guilty and flustered.

Chi Xiao quickly organized his troops, and soon, Xiao Nanchen led his men to leave Beihai Prefecture overnight and rushed all the way to Liaodong Pass City...leaving a team of people and a Chengying for Chen Ning.

When the sun was high in the sky, Chen Ning finally woke up slowly. She subconsciously wanted to turn over, but she hissed as soon as she moved, and almost couldn't help crying out in pain.

She suspected that she was beaten severely by the shameless man after she fell asleep... otherwise why would it hurt so much.

My whole body aches, even my fingers hurt...

Thinking of what happened last night, Shen Ning wanted to grab Xiao Nanchen and stomp him hard a few times: even a poisonous insect could not stop his vicious plan.

First he served her till her soul flew to the sky... Then he tortured her to death, in order to trick her back and kill her!

But just when she gritted her teeth, packed up, washed up and went out to settle the score, she learned that Xiao Nanchen had run away overnight!

The dignified King Ding of the Great Xuan War, Xiao Nanchen, actually didn't even dare to fart and just ran away like that?

Oh, he left her with a team of men, a secret guard who was bedridden due to diarrhea, and a few boxes of jewelry... and then he ran away!

Shen Ning almost laughed out of anger.

First, she was tossed and turned like a plowed field all night long. Shen Ning was already exhausted, and she also had her period the next day. She felt listless and stayed at the Princess's Mansion for several days before she recovered.

In the past few days, Yuanyue and the others have rearranged the servants and maids in the Princess's Mansion, and the whole courtyard has become lively.

Shen Qingbai was busy building the city defenses, but after going out for two days, he was met with nothing but setbacks.

Officials including Nie Rang, the prefect of Beihai Prefecture, all knew that Prince Ding Xiao Nanchen had left Beihai Prefecture. Now, there was only the princess who had risen to prominence and the young nerd.

Shen Qingbai was responsible for building the city defense, not only the city wall of Beihai Prefecture, but more importantly, part of the city wall of Liaodong Pass. Part of the raw materials for building the city wall had to be sent from Beihai Prefecture to Liaodong Pass.

For example, it is too difficult to transport glutinous rice for making glutinous rice ash from the interior, so people usually buy glutinous rice shipped by sea. The sea port is close to Beihai Prefecture, so it has to be transported from Beihai Prefecture to Liaodong Pass.

All things shipped by sea must pass through Nie Rang's hands.

That is why when Shen Qingbai went to find Nie Rang, Nie Rang said with embarrassment: The supplies shipped by sea recently have not been delivered, and the previous ones have been consumed... How come Lord Shen doesn't know?

Glutinous rice? Sorry, the government office doesn't have any in stock.

We need to build city defenses. What should we do? I will definitely help Lord Shen find a solution...

Then he perfunctorily sent Shen Qingbai away!

Beihai Prefecture has always been under the tyranny of Nie Rang. That is why, even though there is glutinous rice in the warehouses of several merchants' shops in the city, they have been instructed not to sell it to Shen Qingbai.

Afterwards, Shen Ning sent someone to invite Nie Rang and several other officials.

After all, she had the status of a princess, and Prince Ding had just left a few days ago, so Nie Rang and the others naturally would not give anyone a chance to talk, and they all attended the banquet together.

But if you ask about the glutinous rice used to make glutinous rice ash, I’m sorry, we don’t have it.

"I'm worried too, but I can't make anything happen out of thin air."

"Yeah, what should I do..."

Chen Ning smiled and said, "The order to build city defenses has long been issued to Beihai Prefecture. The prefect should be responsible for preparing materials, but now there is nothing... Who will bear the consequences?"

Nie Rang smiled and said, "I am incompetent. After the court imposed the maritime ban, no merchant ships were willing to come here. So it is really like a good cook without rice, but it is difficult to cook."

Chen Ning said, "Since Lord Nie admits he is incompetent, why don't I report this to the court and ask them to send some capable people to do it, so as not to delay the court's important city defense."

There was no need to feign compromise with these people anymore, so Shen Ning didn't intend to swallow her anger and just go straight to the point of breaking up.

As soon as she finished speaking, the expressions of the people opposite her changed.

Doctor Nie Rang snorted coldly, "The princess is so majestic. Fine, since the princess has just arrived and she won't tolerate officials like us, and with the support of His Royal Highness Prince Ding, she wants to behead officials in the street if they disagree with her. I cherish my life, so I will return the seal and ask the princess to take charge of Beihai Prefecture while we wait for the court to appoint new officials..."

After saying that, Nie Rang threw the prefect's seal onto the table.

They brought the seal with them when they went out to the banquet, which clearly showed that they had made plans in advance. Even if Chen Ning didn't act out, they would probably find a reason to do so.

After Nie Rang finished speaking, the others followed suit, shouting that they had nowhere to go and threw their seals on the table, with the exception of Zhang Duo, who was in charge of the government army.

Zhang Duo holds the military power in his hands, so of course he cannot just give it up casually, but he has already stood up with the others, which clearly shows his attitude.

This is like throwing the pot and throwing the ball away.

Think about it, Chen Ning was just a princess with only financial power, but as soon as she arrived in Beihai Prefecture, she asked Prince Ding to chop off an imperial official, and she also took advantage of her power to bully and oppress these imperial officials who were defending the border city for Daxuan.

They felt so wronged and aggrieved, but they had no choice but to surrender and hand over the seal, allowing Shen Ning to take all the power.

However, the truth is, the truth is that all the officials of Beihai Prefecture huddled together, leaving Chen Ning with a shipbuilding company that was left with nothing but debts and a coal yard that produced little but still had many mouths to feed... Now that Chen Ning had seized power himself, it was not their fault that the materials for building the city defenses, such as glutinous rice ash, were not prepared in time...