Chapter 20 Chapter 20 I carried water twice at night...
"Prince, the Prime Minister's wife is ill." Ji Bao thought of the news he had heard, but he didn't know how to start the rest.
Upon hearing this, Ji Xiao frowned and crumpled the paper in his hand into a ball. "Why did she get sick out of nowhere?"
When she left the teahouse that day, she was clearly full of energy.
"I heard he caught a cold at night."
Seeing that he looked like he was about to fart, Ji Xiao pressed his brows in annoyance and said, "Alright, what else did you find out? If you want to fart, do it now."
Ji Bao hesitated for a moment, but decided to tell the truth. "Sir, I think the Prime Minister treats his wife very well. It's not like what people say that their relationship is bad at all."
If the prince still wants to poach people like before, wouldn’t that be too immoral? If he is discovered, it will not be as simple as just breaking a leg.
Ji Xiao frowned, and said with a cold anger, "What do you mean by that?"
Ji Bao swallowed his saliva, thinking that the prince would know something sooner or later, so he didn't hide anything and thrust his head forward to strike. "I heard that when the Prime Minister's wife was ill, he called for water twice from inside the room. I also heard that the Prime Minister's wife could be heard crying uncontrollably."
For a moment, Ji Bao didn't know whether he should call the other party a beast or whether their relationship was good. Otherwise, how could a man lose control of his lower body when his wife was sick?
Ji Xiao, with a gloomy face, fell into silence for a long time after hearing this. Ji Bao, with his head lowered, left tactfully, otherwise he would be the one to get beaten.
It was not until the wind blew past the window, making the windows on both sides crackle, that the man who was like a stone sculpture in the dark came to his senses.
Ji Xiao, with his fists clenched so tightly that veins popped out, gritted his teeth and kicked the table, "How could he be fair to Xue'er by doing that?"
How dare he do something to let Xueer down!
No, he had to go over and stop it. He absolutely couldn't let Xue'er be sad about this.
As soon as people walked out of the house, they were fixed in place by the oncoming storm.
What identity should he use to stop a couple from being intimate in the middle of the night?
His wife's extramarital lover failed.
Xie Ji, who had supervised her writing for an hour, waited until her head, which was about to hit the table, started to fall down with her head pecking at her sleepiness. Only then did he mercifully say, "Let's stop here for today."
Jiang Wu, crying with joy, felt that there could be no more beautiful words in the world than these.
After he said it was over, Jiang Wu kicked off her shoes as she ran and ran straight to the bed. Before she could throw herself on the bed, the voice that made her hate it so much rang out again.
"Wash your hands and face before going to bed."
Jiang Wu turned around, baring his teeth in defiance, "I don't want to wash, I want to go straight to bed!"
"It seems you are not sleepy yet."
This one sentence made Jiang Wu feel like a monkey in a circle. How could there be such a disgusting person in the world?
After washing her hands three times and her face, Jiang Wu looked at the man who still hadn't left the room and asked curiously, "Husband, aren't you going home yet?"
"I'll sleep at your place tonight." Xie Ji blew out half of the candles in the room and said softly, "Go to sleep. I'll stay by your side tonight."
Jiang Wu simply nodded and crawled into bed. She then pulled the quilt up to cover most of her face, revealing a pair of eyes that looked at the man sitting in her original position, reading a memorial paper, and asked softly, "Husband, aren't you sleepy?"
The man pursed his lips and said, "I still have some papers to deal with."
He added, "But the room is too bright." Then he stood up and walked to the nine lamps and blew out a few of them, causing the light in the room to drop suddenly.
"No." Jiang Wu originally wanted to ask one more question. If he was sleepy, the bed was quite big and she could reluctantly share half of it with him.
But after thinking about what she said, he definitely thought that she had ulterior motives and coveted the innocence he left for Shen Tingxue.
Feeling her gaze on him, Xie Ji asked unmoved, "But you can't sleep?"
Jiang Wu stiffened his neck and was about to retort, "How is that possible?"
"If you can't sleep, I'll tell you about the wrong word you wrote just now." Xie Ji spread out the words she had written before and felt a headache.
The handwriting on it was so sloppy that it looked like it was about to fly into the sky. He had never seen a student who was not making any progress but was actually regressing, which made him doubt his own teaching ability.
"No need, I slept well." Jiang Wu gritted his teeth, picked up the soft pillow beside him, and threw it at him in revenge.
The soft pillow fell to her feet, sending a gust of fragrant wind. Xie Ji reluctantly picked it up and went to the bed. Thinking of the clothes she had just worn, she was afraid that the clothes would automatically come undone before she could roll over twice. Her voice was hoarse, "Go change clothes before going to bed."
Jiang Wu, who had wrapped herself in a quilt like a silkworm chrysalis, immediately denied it, "I don't want it. I want to sleep now."
"If you don't change it, you'll easily catch a cold when you sleep at night. You'll forget you're still sick."
Jiang Wu got angry when he mentioned this, and glared at him with wide eyes. "You know I'm still sick, so why do you still make me do so much homework?"
Xie Ji helplessly explained to his wife, "You can't go to sleep right after eating."
"Then you can take me to the garden to enjoy the moon. Why do you have to make me write big characters?" Jiang Wu was filled with anger when he mentioned this. He felt that he was taking revenge on him.
Fortunately, she thought he was a nice guy before.
"It's raining outside."
"Even if there's no moon outside, I can't enjoy the rain. Anyway, it doesn't matter if I can do anything else besides not doing homework."
Xie Ji bent down and tucked the corner of the quilt for her. "Madam, do you really think so?"
"Of course." Jiang Wu poked her head out of the bed with confidence, but she stopped herself after meeting his cold, dark eyes. "I'm going to sleep. I hate it most when other people read in my room while I'm sleeping."
"Madam is right."
"What are you talking about?" Jiang Wu, who was pinching the corner of the quilt with his bony fingers, suddenly felt a strong sense of unease in his heart.
"It's late now, I really should rest."
Jiang Wu thought he was finally going back to sleep, but she saw him about to take off his coat and hang it on the wooden table, obviously wanting to sleep in the same bed with her.
ah?
No, was he stimulated by something? Or did he accidentally mistake her for Shen Tingxue? Otherwise, why would he sleep in the same bed with her? Could it be that they had eaten behind her back, and then he temporarily returned to his family out of guilt?
That would explain why he said that to me before, so the next part would be the scene where he discovered that he was not good with any woman except Shen Tingxue.
So, even if he slept with her, he couldn't do anything except get her covered in saliva. Thinking of this, Jiang Wu's originally tense body relaxed instantly.
Xie Ji smoothed his sleeves, then walked to the bedside and blew out the lights closest to her. "If you're sleepy, go to bed early. If you can't sleep, I don't mind teaching you a few more words."
This time Jiang Wu didn't dare to make a sound. Because of this little episode, he fell into a sound sleep after his head touched the pillow.
It was not until she heard her even and long breathing in the room that the man who was reading the folded paper put down the paper and walked to the bed. His eyes fell on the clothes that she had subconsciously torn off after falling asleep and dropped on the bed.
He struggled for a long time with a frown on his face before he picked it up, folded it, and placed it next to her pillow. He pulled the quilt that covered most of her face down until only half of her face was exposed so that she could breathe more freely.
Jiang Wu, who was half asleep, noticed someone pulling her quilt. She reached out to take it back, revealing her beauty and causing the man to quickly look away as if his gaze was burned. A faint blush quickly appeared on her usually cold and icy face.
After all, he is a normal man. How come she doesn't have any guard against him at all?
It was raining tonight, and the rain was pouring down heavily, accompanied by a strong wind that made the windows rattle.
Such a heavy rain, and strangely, the clouds and rain were about to disappear at dawn. If it were not for the little moisture still remaining on the ground, everyone would have thought that the heavy rain last night was just a dream.
"What did you say! Master spent the night in Hengwu Garden last night!" Shen Tingxue, who believed that Master would never be tempted by that woman, let alone have any contact with her, was so angry that she smashed everything that could be smashed in the house. How could Master spend the night in Hengwu Garden? What's the difference between this and betrayal!
How could she forget the most important point, that the master was a man, a normal man in his prime. Although he didn't have maids or concubines around him, it didn't mean that he didn't have those pursuits.
“I don’t know who made Xue’er angry.”
Shen Tingxue, who was biting her finger, saw the person coming. She immediately threw herself into his arms with a smile in her eyes and said coquettishly, "Brother Crown Prince, why are you here?"
He Shiyan reached out and stroked her hair. "Today, someone sent me a cicada slave with mandarin duck eyes. I thought you would like it, so I sent it here."
"You haven't told me yet who made our Tingxue angry."
Shen Tingxue looked at the man who was comforting her gently, and her heart warmed. If her heart was not filled with her master, and she knew that her master would not be the kind of person who would share a woman with a man, she would definitely throw herself into his arms.
Because his gentleness and tolerance are exactly the kind of affectionate second male lead she likes most when reading novels. No matter how much she is hurt by the male lead, as long as she turns around, he will always stand behind her with open arms to catch her.
She shook her head, tears welling in her eyes as she tugged at his sleeves, biting her lower lip lightly with a look of grievance, "Brother Crown Prince, am I really unpleasant?"
"Why do you think that?"
"Because Sister Jiang seems to hate me. Every time she sees me, she sneers at me and says that she is the most important person to Master, asking me to put away those shameful thoughts. Even when I talk to Master normally, she thinks I am deliberately seducing Master." Shen Tingxue's eyelashes trembled as tears fell, and she raised her hand to wipe them away, pretending to be strong. "After I learned that Master had married, I planned to keep Master's love in my heart. Why does Sister Jiang always bring it up?"
"Can't she have a little more trust in Master and me? Doesn't she have to force me to leave the capital to be satisfied? If leaving can make Sister Jiang happy, then I..."
He Shiyan raised his hand and sighed softly, holding up a finger to stop her from finishing her words. "She doesn't like you because you're too dazzling. Even fish eyes pale in comparison to pearls, let alone people."
Shen Tingxue pouted and retorted, “How can I be that good?”
"What's wrong with you? You are the most talented woman in our Yan State. You have so many wonderful inventions in your head. Many men can't even compare to you. Why do you have to belittle yourself?"
"If I'm really as good as you say, why doesn't my master like me?" Shen Tingxue, with rouge smudged on the corners of her eyes, lowered her long eyelashes dejectedly, like a pear blossom that fell to the ground after being blown by a rainstorm, making people feel so pitiful that they just want to hold it in their arms and take good care of it.
"How do you know that Master doesn't like you? If he didn't, why have you been the only one by Master's side for so many years? Even I can't compare to the place you hold in Master's heart. As for Miss Jiang, if she hadn't held the engagement signed between Master's grandfather and her grandfather, how could she have become Master's wife?"
What he said was exactly what Shen Tingxue wanted to hear, but it was a pity that she already had someone in her heart, otherwise she would be willing to be the queen.
"Brother Prince, you are so kind to me."
"Was I not good to you before?" He Shiyan gently took out a handkerchief and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes. "You said before that you have grown up, but in my eyes, you are still a little cat that cries a lot."
"If you like him, go for it. Can you bear to see your master marry a vulgar village woman who he doesn't love and has nothing in common with him?"
Jiang Wu, who was able to stay in bed and be lazy because of her illness, suddenly heard a noisy sound coming from outside the yard, which gave her a headache. She immediately called Juan'er to see what was happening outside.
Soon, Juan'er walked in with a grim expression, "Madam, it's Princess Changle who is making a big fuss about moving into the mansion."
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