"Here you go again! You always try to take advantage of me!" Duan Yujiao's cheeks flushed slightly. She glared at her husband and turned her head away pretending to be angry.
Seeing this, Feng Shaoying hurriedly smiled and said, "My dear, I am so happy. Don't worry, I will behave well in the future and never make you angry again."
Duan Yujiao snorted softly, loosened her grip on the man's ear, and said unhappily, "You'd better keep your word, otherwise..."
"Otherwise, leave it to my lady!" Feng Shaoying hurriedly took over the conversation and swore to the sky.
The maidservants and nannies beside them smiled at each other when they saw that their son-in-law had reformed. The coldness and stench in the cell seemed to have dissipated a lot.
Duan Yujiao knew Feng Shaoying's temperament very well. He always had the temper of "forgetting the pain once the wound has healed".
However, this experience had caused him to lose his official position and power, and he was later demoted and exiled from Beijing. The only one he could rely on was her natal family, the Duan family.
Thinking of this, Duan Yujiao felt a little more confident. As long as Feng Shaoying no longer got involved in officialdom, she was confident that she could keep him firmly in her hands.
After all, if Feng Shaoying wanted to gain a foothold outside the officialdom, she would have to rely on the Duan family and obey her in everything.
Seeing the reconciliation revealed in the couple's words, the nanny hurriedly put down the heavy food box in her hand, opened the lid, revealing the carefully prepared dishes inside.
"Sir, these are specially prepared for you by the Madam. They are all your favorite dishes."
Plate after plate of delicious dishes were brought out, including steamed lamb with wine, three-strand chicken noodles, shrimp and meat pancakes, and a pot of fragrant Bamboo Leaf Green tea.
Feng Shaoying had not had enough to eat these days and had been eating dry and rotten steamed buns. Now that the delicious food was in front of him, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
He couldn't wait to take the chopsticks handed to him by the nanny, and hurriedly picked up a piece of mutton and put it into his mouth.
The familiar and delicious taste instantly spread in his mouth, and he couldn't help but close his eyes and savor this long-lost delicacy.
"Eat slowly and be careful not to choke," Duan Yujiao warned softly, while filling a glass of wine and handing it to Feng Shaoying.
Feng Shaoying was chewing the greasy, tender and juicy mutton, and his throat did feel a little dry. He was about to drink some wine to moisten his throat.
He took the wine glass handed to him by Duan Yujiao, raised his head and drank it all in one gulp. The aroma of wine and meat intertwined together, leaving him with an endless aftertaste.
"Delicious!" Feng Shaoying praised vaguely, with a happy smile on her face. "Madam, would you like to try it too?"
Duan Yujiao shook her head, glanced around the cell, and said with a teasing smile: "You are eating so happily, I dare not take away your enjoyment." As she spoke, she took out a handkerchief from her sleeve and carefully wiped the grease from the corners of Feng Shaoying's mouth.
This scene is warm and touching, as if time has stopped at this moment.
"You must remember this lesson," Duan Yujiao said suddenly in a serious tone, "Think twice before you act in the future. Don't let your greed for small gains ruin important things. Although your Feng family has fallen on hard times, you must not lose the pride and integrity in your bones."
Feng Shaoying nodded heavily, his eyes gleaming with determination. "Don't worry, my lady. I will definitely remember your teachings. When I'm free, I'll go back to my hometown in Gusu with you and my father-in-law. With my skills, whether I become a bodyguard or open a martial arts school, I swear to make sure you live a happy and carefree life for the rest of your life."
Duan Yujiao gently stroked her belly, her eyes full of anticipation and maternal love.
"I'll trust you, a heartless person, just this once!"
The cell was filled with an unbearable foul smell. For Duan Yujiao, who was pregnant, it was indeed not a good place for her to stay for long.
Feng Shaoying could only wait until the imperial edict of his release from prison was conveyed to the Jingzhao Yin government office, and then the general's mansion would send someone to pick him up and take him back to the mansion.
At this time, on the other side, in the Xingyuan Marquis Mansion, Hong Yingrong was very concerned about the court's punishment on the Zhongyong General's Mansion.
Recalling the time when the old Marquis Xue Yonghuai and the old General Duan An fought side by side in the army to resist foreign enemies, she felt mixed emotions and was very sad.
Upon learning that the old general had resigned and returned to his hometown, Feng Shaoying was dismissed from her post and left Beijing, but in the end everyone's lives were saved, which made her breathe a sigh of relief, and the pressure in her heart was slightly relieved.
Hong Yingrong clearly remembered that in her previous life, the case of embezzling military rations was not exposed at this time.
But two years later, Feng Shaoying was so bold as to embezzle the military rations of soldiers fighting against pirates at sea along the coast. He was eventually beheaded in public in the military camp by the court as a punishment of military law.
Today, history seems to be repeating itself, but the details are completely different from the previous life.
All this changed because Hong Yingrong rescued Zhou Jin's mother and daughter, learned that Zhao Wu and Lai Sheng were oppressing the tenants, then went to the Marquis's farm, and exposed Xue Yuanchu's embezzlement of grain from the orphanage.
She suddenly realized that in the chess game of fate, as long as she dared to take the initiative and seize the opportunity, she might be able to turn the tide and change the fate of herself and those around her.
This realization gave her an inexplicable power surge in her heart, as if she saw a ray of light ahead.
In the three years of the previous life, the Xingyuan Marquis Mansion had been living a peaceful life until the last moment, when all the charges came down like a landslide, and he was punished for multiple crimes and could not escape death.
The imperial edicts sent by the Imperial Household Department to the Marquis' Mansion listed some of the charges that Hong Yingrong had never heard of before and were shocking.
Which are the crimes proven with irrefutable evidence, and which are fabricated accusations?
For a moment, she felt like she was in a fog, unable to distinguish anything, and didn't know where to start to prevent any problems from happening.
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