Chapter 203
Although news of a great victory came from the Imperial City, the defeated troops fled everywhere, robbing houses and looting. Travelers on the road or troops escorting military supplies were all at risk of being robbed, so the road from Pengcheng to the Imperial City was also very dangerous.
Yu Ying didn't have to go back so that she could continue waiting in Pengcheng.
Before anyone came to the imperial city to pick her up, and before the court gave her any reward, King Pengcheng returned first.
During the time Yu Ying was in Pengcheng, she either went out to see patients with Zhou Ling, or spent time making medicine with Zhou Ling in the medicine house.
The medicine house was built by King Pengcheng. The yard was filled with various medicinal herbs, both cheap and expensive.
When Yu Ying found out, she felt a bit surprised.
A man who looks so indifferent and seems to care about nothing actually has such a meticulous mind.
Indeed, as Fu Wei said, regardless of appearance, King Pengcheng is indeed a good man.
Yu Ying was teaching Zhou Ling how to make medicine in the medicine house when they heard some noises outside the yard. They both looked up at the gate at the same time.
When he looked up, he saw King Pengcheng, still in armor and looking exhausted, walking in from outside.
There was no unnecessary expression on his face, and there was a faint smell of blood. It was a rainy day, and he stepped on the road step by step in his iron boots, splashing water everywhere.
Yu Ying shuddered.
If you didn't know, you would think it was an evil spirit coming with a murderous aura.
Yu Ying suddenly felt a little sorry for Zhou Ling when she first arrived in Pengcheng.
The girl must have been quite frightened at that time.
He glanced at Zhou Ling beside him, feeling surprised, delighted for a moment, and then hesitant.
It seems that King Pengcheng's aura is too strong, and I am still a little scared of him.
When Prince Pengcheng walked under the eaves, Yu Ying bowed and said, "Greetings, Prince Pengcheng."
Heng Ji withdrew his gaze from his wife, looked at Yu Ying beside him, and nodded slightly.
Yu Ying said, "The King of Pengcheng and his wife haven't seen each other for a long time, so I won't disturb them."
Heng Ji said, "Wait a moment."
As he spoke, he took out a cloth bag from his waist and handed it to her: "Fu Wei asked me to pass it on to you, sir."
Hearing the title "Sir", Yu Ying was stunned for a moment, then thought about it and roughly understood why she was called Sir.
Just because she is his wife's husband.
I heard that King Pengcheng was illiterate, but he respected his teachers more than most people.
What surprised her even more was that Fu Wei actually asked King Pengcheng to send her something, and King Pengcheng actually agreed.
Yu Ying took the small package, said "thank you", glanced at Zhou Ling, who clenched her hands nervously, and said softly, "I'll go back first. If the princess wants me to accompany her, please send someone over and I'll go."
Zhou Ling raised her head and nodded slightly to the gentleman.
Yu Ying took the umbrella beside her, opened it, and walked into the rain.
After she left the yard, the soldiers who returned with King Pengcheng considerately closed the door.
Yu Ying paused and looked at the closed door. The other soldiers silently looked away.
…
I always feel that it is a bit inappropriate to do this in broad daylight behind closed doors.
Things are indeed not so serious inside the hospital.
The little girl was carried to the table, panting with a flushed face, her face burning hot. Her forehead was pressed against his, and the hot breath fell on her face, making her body and tongue tremble.
Heng Ji's eyes were dark and heavy, and his voice was particularly deep: "I said, I will consummate the marriage when I come back, no matter if you are ready or not."
The little girl was about to cry, her voice trembling: "I, I didn't agree."
Heng Ji's eyes were stern and his voice was deep: "But I took it as your consent."
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Yu Ying returned to the house and opened the small package sent by King Pengcheng.
Inside was a letter and a box the size of a palm.
She first opened the box, which contained a bracelet and a jade pendant.
Yu Ying was a little suspicious. It was impossible for Fu Wei to have the leisure to send her jewelry at this critical juncture. These two pieces of jewelry probably had some meaning.
She opened the letter and read it.
Fu Wei briefly explained who sent these two things.
She is one of Huo Shanrong's wives, Aunt Xue, and the one who raised him.
Fu Wei said that these things were given to his wife according to her will, but he did not elaborate on the details.
There is no mention of how Aunt Xue died.
Moreover, he didn't express his longing for her much in the letter, which clearly showed that something was not right.
After three years of marriage, Yu Ying finally understood Fu Wei, and there was always a faint, indescribable sadness between the lines.
Although he did not talk about this concubine in detail, he did talk in detail about how to deal with Huo Shanrong, the old Emperor Liang and the new Emperor Liang.
The puppet emperor of the old Liang Dynasty was executed, but the new Liang emperor, who held wealth that was almost enough to rival a country, continued to be under house arrest.
As for Huo Shanrong, he went crazy. It was discovered that the candlelight he used was mixed with a hallucinogenic drug that weakened people's will and made them addicted without realizing it.
The medicine used by Guiyang officials on Guiyang General Xing Zhengrong was similar to the one used when they captured Guiyang earlier.
Huo Shanrong is now in custody, and he went to see him once.
The mad drug made Huo Shanrong distinguish the people. He thought it was Fu Wei's father who came, and his words were still vicious.
Fu Wei still had people light those incense sticks in the prison every day until Huo Shanrong could no longer bear it, completely collapsed, and then committed suicide.
He would not let Huo Shanrong die simply, nor would his adopted son, whom he had raised for twenty years, bear any blame for Huo Shanrong's death.
Finally, Fu Wei said that after clearing out most of the wandering troops in the north, he would go to pick her up in person.
Yu Ying read the letter and burned it.
It's no wonder that the letter was sent by King Pengcheng. It's indeed not appropriate for others to see the contents.
The letter was asked to be delivered by King Pengcheng, not because King Pengcheng was illiterate, but because it was known that King Pengcheng was not someone who could read letters.
Yu Ying continued to wait in Pengcheng.
However, since King Pengcheng came back, Zhou Ling had not been seen for three consecutive days, and even King Pengcheng had not seen him once.
She went to Zhou Ling's yard, but the maid who came with her as a dowry stopped her from seeing her. She looked embarrassed and kept hesitating.
It was hard for Yu Ying not to think too much about this behavior. For a moment, Yu Ying thought that King Pengcheng was being violent.
Yu Ying's expression darkened, and she asked in a low voice, "Does your prince hit women?"
The maidservant was startled and quickly shook her head: "No, no, the prince is very good to our girl!"
Yu Ying looked towards Zhou Ling's room, quietly watching the two panicked maids, without saying a word.
Seeing the master's look, the maid hesitated before going forward and whispered in his ear that the master had been married for two months but had just consummated the marriage.
What's not to understand?
The relationship has been going on for the past few days...consummating the marriage.
I can't tell, I really can't tell that King Pengcheng is such a lustful person.
The knowledgeable Yu Ying also blushed.
While sighing, I was also worried that little girl Zhou Ling’s small body couldn’t bear it.
So she quietly went to the pharmacy to prepare some... ointments for women.
As a result, a few days later, King Pengcheng did meet Zhou Ling, but Zhou Ling was hiding from Yu Ying.
Yu Ying asked her to wait for a few days before going to find the person.
Zhou Ling covered herself with the quilt, too embarrassed to see anyone.
Yu Ying tried to persuade her for a long time before she agreed to get off the bed. The exposed parts of her neck were covered with red spots.
Yu Ying...
King Pengcheng was quite reckless. He was thinking of writing a note and asking someone to deliver it to King Pengcheng after returning to his room, asking him to take it easy and not to make things worse for him.
Then there is the appropriate age for pregnancy, preferably eighteen years old.
If you care, you will wait another year.
The little girl was thin-skinned, so Yu Ying naturally did not mention these things to her. Even if she did, she was so timid that she didn't dare to mention it in front of King Pengcheng.
After Yu Ying chatted with her about some other things, Zhou Ling gradually felt more at ease.
She was too embarrassed to see her husband when he found out that she had been hanging around in the house for a few days. However, he didn't tease her, which made her feel at ease.
After feeling more at ease, he asked, "Did Mr. Fu's letter earlier mention when he would be brought to the Imperial City?"
Yu Ying: "He said he would come to Pengcheng to pick me up after he cleared out most of the floating army."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Ling showed a look of reluctance before they even said goodbye.
"I've been with you for over a month, and I can't bear to leave you."
Yu Ying: "It will take some time to clean up the Liu army. We can't leave so soon. We will have to bother the prince and princess for a while."
Hearing this, the reluctance on Zhou Ling's face dissipated a lot, and he said hurriedly: "Don't bother me, don't bother me. You can stay as long as you want, sir. I welcome you and I can't wait to come."
After thinking for a moment, he added, "But staying in the Imperial City is better than Yuzhang. Yuzhang is so far away from Pengcheng. It takes half a month to travel through mountains and rivers to get there, while it only takes two days to travel from Pengcheng to Yuzhang. If I want to go home or miss my husband in the future, I can go back."
Yu Ying smiled and said, "If you miss me in the future, you can come to Pengcheng."
The two smiled at each other. The days were so peaceful and quiet, as if they hadn't noticed or were unaware of the post-war devastation outside.
King Pengcheng probably learned from his wife that Yu Ying would not leave so soon, so he came to look for her.
He directly stated his purpose: "I would like to open a medical school in Pengcheng and invite you to be the dean."
Yu Ying was slightly stunned. "Even if I stay longer, it will only be a month or two. I'm afraid I won't be able to teach you much in such a short time."
King Pengcheng: "I will teach them first, and then I will send them to the imperial city to listen to the teacher's lessons. After they have learned their lessons, they will continue to teach the students in Pengcheng."
As soon as he finished speaking, he asked again: "Will you continue to run the medical school in the Imperial City?"
Yu Ying thought about it and replied, "Probably."
"What's the gentleman's answer?"
Yu Ying thought that since they were already in Pengcheng, she might as well teach him, so she agreed.
After getting what he wanted, Heng Ji said, "I will have someone set up a simple medical school within three days."
Yu Ying nodded, and looking at King Pengcheng who had no intention of leaving after giving instructions, she waited for his other arrangements, but she didn't know that Pengcheng changed the topic very quickly.
"Also, eighteen is the right age for pregnancy. What if it's too early?"
Most of them became mothers at the age of fifteen. Heng Ji didn't know the answer, so he asked directly.
Yu Ying didn't quite follow his topic, and only realized after two breaths that he was asking about the contents of her note.
Yu Ying replied seriously, "She's still young, and her body hasn't fully grown yet. The dangers of childbirth increase with age, and it can cause varying degrees of damage to the body. By the time she's eighteen, her body has fully grown, so the dangers and damage will decrease."
Heng Ji, who had originally thought of having a home with a wife, sons and daughters, frowned and fell silent.
After a while, he asked, "Is this also why you and Fu Wei didn't have children?"
As for how old Madam Yu was, Heng Ji didn't know, but she looked very young.
Yu Ying...
Why are you talking about her?
"There are other reasons."
She was already 21 years old in that era, so naturally she was pregnant.
Heng Ji nodded: "It turns out that it's not that I can't have children, but that I misunderstood Fu Wei."
Yu Ying:?
Misunderstandings are dangerous... Can't I give birth?
Or do you suspect that Fu Wei is disabled and can't do it?
Yu Ying was suspicious in her heart, but she still looked serious on the surface.
Fu Wei was a bit of a hypocrite, and the longer she stayed with Fu Wei, the better she became at pretending.
Heng Ji: "Then I'll listen to what you say, sir. In the meantime, please prescribe some contraceptive prescriptions."
But after thinking about it, he said, "It won't hurt your body."
Yu Ying was surprised that he agreed without even thinking, then nodded, turned around and went to write it for him.
After sending Heng Ji away, Yu Ying's expression cracked a little and she wanted to laugh.
No wonder few people induced her to have a baby after all these years of marriage with Fu Wei. It turned out that everyone suspected Fu Wei.
Yes, Fu Wei had suffered a serious injury, and she was a doctor, so she was naturally in good health. Seeing that they had not wanted children for a long time, they must have suspected Fu Wei.
Yu Ying is twenty-four years old in modern times, and with the four years she has spent in this world, she is actually almost twenty-eight.
She thought that after reuniting with Fu Wei, it was really time to have a child.
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