Chapter 440 The child will come next spring
Lu Jiangnian suddenly turned over and pressed her under him. Under the hazy moonlight, Yuan Wanru's eyes were filled with a happy smile.
"How could I not know what you want?"
She stretched out her finger and gently tapped his frowning brows. "Look at how you've been scratching your head and having trouble speaking. You're just about to have the words 'I want a child, too' engraved on your forehead."
Lu Jiangnian was stunned. Before he could even feel the great surprise, he was irritated by the teasing in her words. "You...you are deliberately teasing me?!"
He came to his senses, thinking of his uneasiness along the way and his frustration at knowing her feelings, all because of her "trouble theory". He suddenly became angry and anxious, and reached out to tickle her, "Yuan Wanru! You are so cunning! How can you be so mean?"
Yuan Wanru smiled and dodged, like a nimble fish swimming around in his arms, looking up at him, and promised clearly, word by word: "Okay, okay, I won't tease you anymore, I promise you."
"When everything is settled in the spring of next year and everything comes back to life..."
"Our children will come."
"Our child...will be here in the spring of next year..."
Lu Jiangnian repeated in a low voice, the huge ecstasy of regaining what he had lost instantly washed away all his shame and anxiety!
He suddenly tightened his arms, tightly locking the cunning and cute little woman in his arms, lowered his head with a hint of "punishment", and blocked her smug laughter with a kiss so passionate that it was almost suffocating.
The moonlight flows quietly, gently enveloping the embracing figures.
All the temptations, anxieties, and teasing turned into the unspoken sweetness at this moment.
The picture of the future slowly unfolded amid Lu Jiangnian's wildly beating heart and Yuan Wanru's gentle kiss.
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The days passed quickly, like sand slipping through fingers, and in the blink of an eye, they had been hiding in the quietness of Dafeng Town for more than a month.
But the news from the capital was like an old horse that knew the way, and it was always able to pass through the mountains and rivers and reach Lu Jiangnian on time.
The words on the paper carry the heaviness of Beijing's dust.
The emperor's favoritism towards the fifth prince has now reached the point where he can't even hide it.
Undercurrents were surging in the court, and many ministers were muttering privately: Looking at the situation, I'm afraid that before the New Year, the throne of the East Palace will have to be replaced.
The letters from Sun Huanzhi to the prince were more urgent than the last, and their words were filled with anxiety, urging him to return to Beijing as soon as possible to discuss countermeasures.
Yuan Wanru put down the letter and sighed softly. There was no complaint in that sigh, only cherishment for this stolen time and a sense of clarity that everything had settled.
"Well, our leisure time is over. Let's pack up and go back tomorrow."
It is a pleasant surprise to be able to have freedom for more than a month.
Lu Jiangnian reached out and held her in his arms, his chin gently resting on the top of her head.
His embrace was warm and stable, and his voice was low but rock-solid: "Okay, we'll be back tomorrow."
Dafeng Town is less than a day's journey from the capital, so it is easy to visit at any time.
"Don't worry, my lady. We won't stay long this time when we go back."
After more than a month of freedom, Lu Jiangnian's idea of leaving the capital has never been so clear and firm.
He was not the kind of person who was greedy for wealth and power.
Today, the Lu family's foundation is stable, and the second brother Jiang Xun is a down-to-earth person. As long as he works hard step by step, it will not be a problem to protect the family business and support the family.
The eldest brother's half-brothers are not mediocre. With a few years of hard work, they will be able to make a name for themselves and there will be no need for him, the eldest brother, to lead the way.
His world is not in this square capital city, nor in this treacherous court.
The world is vast, there are too many customs and cultures that we have not experienced, too many peaks and mountains that we have not climbed, and too many rivers, lakes and seas that we have not sailed on.
He wanted to take her, just the two of them, or... their child, to see the snow in the northern frontier, the rain in the south of the Yangtze River, the lonely smoke in the desert in the west, and the endless blue waves of the East China Sea.
Yuan Wanru raised her head and looked at Lu Jiangnian calmly: "When we made this plan, I thought... you would tell the prince."
Her voice was soft and contained a hint of doubt.
Hearing this, Lu Jiangnian raised a faint smile at the corner of his lips, with a hint of helplessness and a hint of understanding.
He didn't answer immediately, but lowered his head and gently pressed a warm kiss on her soft lips, as if trying to brush away the heaviness brought by this topic.
"Silly lady,"
He stepped back a little, staring at her with deep eyes, a little teasing, but more serious, "In your eyes, is your husband that kind of... stupid and naive person?"
Yuan Wanru didn't say anything, just looked at him quietly, waiting for what to say next.
Lu Jiangnian's smile faded, and his expression became solemn: "This is a capital crime that will punish the entire clan. If you are involved, you will be doomed forever. If I tell the prince now, he will naturally not care about it."
He analyzed calmly and thoroughly, "Firstly, this matter is good for him and can help him remove the biggest stumbling block; secondly, he is still only the crown prince and has not even warmed up to the throne yet, so at least the friendship has not cooled on his face."
He paused, lowered his voice even lower, with a chill of seeing through the world: "But what about the future? Madam, have you thought about the future?"
"Once he really sits in that position, holding the power of life and death, his heart is warmed by the throne, and he is watched and plotted against by countless eyes... who can guarantee that he will not change?"
"People's hearts are changeable, especially the emperor's. The emperor back then was not like he is today."
"If one day, the prince becomes as heartless and ruthless as today's emperor, and he remembers today's shocking 'secret' and how we once used this method to plot the emperor's life..."
"By then, what can we use to fight back? It would be like hitting a rock with an egg, and we would destroy ourselves."
His eyes were sharp and clear: "I will not bet the lives of hundreds of people in the Lu family on the illusory card of 'friendship' just to bet that the prince will not change in the future."
"I can't afford the gamble."
Yuan Wanru listened quietly, feeling heavy with comfort in her heart. Fortunately, he was not an emotional person.
He is right, absolutely right.
At that time, the emperor's imperial decree granting Liang Yuhua marriage was like a basin of ice water that poured over her.
After the anger, there is a bone-chilling chill.
An emperor who becomes suspicious of you and can interfere in your family affairs without any warning, his mind is like the weather in June, changing at any time.
If I can send you a concubine today to disgust you and test you, will he suddenly get angry and give you poisoned wine and white silk on a random pretext tomorrow?
She, Yuan Wanru, has never been someone who would sit and wait for death, or rely on the kindness of others for her life.
Especially the emperor’s kindness?
That is the most unreliable thing in the world.
Tang Bo's matter was laid out before her eyes in all its bloody glory. Wasn't she clear enough about it?
The heart of this lord sitting on the dragon throne has long been worn cold and hard by power.
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