Chapter 35: Handling by Practice
Yu Fei hurriedly pushed Jing Yi away and ran to Jing Cang's side.
Huo Dao tactfully led the two of them to a side room in the hall.
Yu Fei looked around. The place was beautifully decorated and looked like a place for nobles to take a rest.
Jing Cang glared at her coldly, his tone colder than the winter night outside: "I asked you to deliver something, but you were sneaky and asked someone to do it for you, and you flirted with Prince Ning instead?"
Yu Fei couldn't help but want to retort: How could he see that she and Jing Yi were having an affair? It was obvious that the bitch had stopped her from leaving many times!
Thinking about what happened just now outside the door, with ministers and palace maids coming in and out one after another, he couldn't blame Jing Yi and could only vent his anger at her.
Yu Fei ignored Jing Cang's last sentence and forced a smile: "I have no name, no status, no power, and no influence in the East Palace. What's wrong with trying to please the future Crown Princess?"
Jing Cang choked. Seeing her forced smile, he was shocked to find that she had lost a lot of weight in just a few days. Her previously fair cheeks had turned pale, and her jaw had become more pointed, like a delicate flower that could not withstand the severe cold of early winter and quietly withered.
He clenched his palms, his expression softened, "As long as you behave yourself, you will have everything you deserve." The last time Yang Zhi rashly exposed Yu Fei was still fresh in his mind, and he frowned again, "Who told you that she must be my future Crown Princess?"
If the snake had not failed, he said that she would be "obedient and nothing would happen", and Yu Fei believed it. But now she had no one to rely on, like a person walking on a tightrope with bare hands in mid-air, and if she was not careful, she would fall to pieces.
She sniffed and whispered, "That's what everyone else says."
Jing Cang was determined to make the final decision, but he also thought that this position had nothing to do with Yu Fei, so he tried his best to find a virtuous and kind woman who could serve his concubine well.
Her hair and eyelashes were wet, as if soaked by frost. I wonder how long she had been standing outside the palace at night.
He said coldly, "Next time you act on your own, I will never let you off." Seeing her body tremble, he softened his tone, "Don't interfere in my affairs in the future, and stay as far away from Prince Ning as possible."
Yu Fei remembered that Jing Yi had just asked her about the snake in Jing Cang's body. She wanted to remind him, but then she changed her mind. The snake was no longer effective. It would be a waste of effort even if Jing Yi seized on his weak spot. Talking too much would only arouse his suspicion.
On the way back, a thin crescent moon shrouded the earth coldly and bleakly, as if casting endless sorrow over people's hearts.
Yu Fei shivered from time to time. He had been outside all the time, and his body was numb from the cold, so he didn't feel cold. But now that he had been in the warm palace and came out again, the night wind felt like a knife cutting his body, and he couldn't help shivering.
The main thing was that she was worried. In the past, she and Jing Cang were like little chicks pecking at each other, but now he was like a thick stick on the execution ground, ready to fall and smash her bones and flesh at any time.
Seeing Yu Fei's rare silence, Jing Cang asked, "Are you feeling better?"
Yu Fei said "hmm" softly. She had used this reason to refuse to see him a few days ago.
Jing Cang heard her voice trembling slightly and stroked his forehead in frustration. It was a cold night and he forgot to ask someone to give her a spare cloak. Then he thought, she is such an adult, why should he worry about her?
"Huo Dao, put my fur coat on her."
I discovered it accidentally, so I might as well do you a favor.
"No need." Yu Fei shook her head. He was more than a head taller than her. She would definitely mop his clothes when she wore them, so as not to get them dirty. He would ask her to wash them herself. "I'm not cold."
Jing Cang grabbed her left hand, which was as cold as ice, and frowned as he asked, "Did I scold you a few times and you took revenge on me by freezing yourself sick so that I can also feel uncomfortable?"
Yu Fei looked at his expression of suspected concern, her fingers curled up. The male dragon had been motionless for a few days, didn't he notice anything?
It doesn't matter if she doesn't know. She stretched out her fingertips to scratch his palm and said, "Is this your first day meeting this evil woman?"
Jing Cang saw her arguing with him again, and his heart, which had been silent for a few days, seemed to be filled with a stream of joy. He smiled and said, "I pray day and night that a righteous man will take you in soon."
With the soft fur coat draped over her back, her whole body felt like she was wrapped in a warm blanket. Yu Fei's body gradually warmed up, but he still held her hand tightly.
Not long after they started walking, she heard her stomach growling.
"Didn't you have dinner?" Jing Cang asked.
"You asked me to deliver something, how dare I delay." Yu Fei deliberately scolded. At night, she and Ding Xiang were like two spies, watching Yang Zhi's movements, so they had no mind to eat.
Jing Cang saw a rockery fifty steps away in the moonlight and suggested, "I'll ask the kitchen to send two bowls of shrimp wontons and a few side dishes over, and we'll eat in the cave over there."
After that, he added: "I drank some wine last night and I feel a little dizzy. I also need to drink a bowl of sobering soup and eat something."
Yu Fei and Jing Cang had attended palace banquets before, and knew that there would be a lot of drinking and toasting at banquets, so he rarely picked up his chopsticks and nodded.
The chaotic night easily breeds ambiguity, and drunk people are more likely to let down their guard. She was just about to test him with something.
The palace servants went in early to clean the cave, light candles, and spread carpets on the stone tables and benches.
Jing Cang then ordered Huo Dao to find two baskets of warm charcoal, as if he wanted to have a long talk with her.
Yu Fei wanted to sit on the stone bench, so he grabbed her hand and pulled her into his arms.
"What?"
I don't know if he was drunk or just eager to come up, but his body felt hot through his clothes.
"The male snake... misses the female snake."
This sounded familiar. Yu Fei followed suit and said, "Well, I also feel much more comfortable when we are close together like this." She deliberately put her arms around his neck.
Jing Cang stared at Yu Fei's face. In the dim candlelight, her originally pale face gradually turned red, her eyes were like water, and her lips were bright red, as if a withered flower suddenly came alive in his arms.
He lowered his head, touched her nose with his, held her lips, and sucked gently.
Lips touching, forgetting who put out the tongue first, maybe both of them. We are entangled with each other, you are in me and I am in you.
"Yu Fei..."
He pulled her hand under her clothes.
Yu Fei carefully remembered the plan, panting and sitting on his lap, and asked, "Your Highness, I want to know, if you free me, what will you do with me?"
Jing Cang was a little disappointed and pushed Yu Fei's hand away.
Perhaps it was because her address reminded him of his identity, or perhaps it was because she remained rational when he was infatuated. He said calmly, "How to deal with it? Didn't I tell you before?"
Yu Fei was stunned and pinched his palms, "You insist on killing me?"
Jing Cang was irritated for no reason. She didn't remember the kindness he showed her, but kept thinking about all the trivial things.
He evaded the question: "Didn't you say you loved me until you died in my arms?"
Yu Fei seemed to be frightened, stepped back and nodded, "I understand." He stood up and was about to leave.
Jing Cang grabbed her lower back and said, "The hangover soup hasn't come yet. I'm feeling very anxious. Give me some relief."
Yu Fei had no intention of being romantic and wanted to find an excuse to fool people. Suddenly, she heard a rustling sound coming from outside the rockery.
"My dear, you miss me so much." The man called out in a rough voice, followed by the sound of clothes tearing and the woman's reluctant moan.
Yu Fei looked at Jing Cang's expression. His face was calm, but his eyes were like the dark sky before a storm, as if they wanted to swallow her whole.
Sensing that he was ready to strike, she made an excuse: "These two people's behavior has offended His Highness's ears. I will call someone to chase them away."
After entering the cave, he told the palace maids to wait far away for some unknown reason. A thick curtain hung at the entrance of the cave, and the two people who were having an affair probably didn't notice the weak light coming from inside, and they acted in a hurry.
Jing Cang tightened his grip around her waist, a hint of frivolity appearing on his usually calm face, "No need, this is the first time we've encountered something like this, just consider it as a way to liven things up for us."
He seemed to sense her escape and was unwilling to let go.
Yu Fei sighed in her heart. This time it was as he wished. When she and Yang Zhi succeeded in the deal, she was afraid that she would never see him being so kind to her again.
"Yu Fei..."
Jing Cang raised his head and gasped. Maybe because he drank, his emotions were more outgoing than usual tonight.
The jade-like cheeks were lightly flushed, and the slender eyebrows were sometimes relaxed and sometimes tensed, as if enduring the torture of mixed joy and pain. The thin lips opened slightly, and the hot air he exhaled lingered on her face, as if to intoxicate her.
He looked like an immortal in heaven who had fallen into the mortal world after being aroused by lust.
The couple outside were getting louder and louder.
Yu Fei has watched some movies in modern times, but she has never watched them with men. She doesn't want to have any closer relationships with her ex-boyfriends on campus.
At this moment, even though I had "eaten pork", my cheeks still felt hot.
Jing Cang saw that Yu Fei's face was as red as rosy clouds and her brows were full of spring, and he seemed to be moved. He tore open her clothes and leaned over her.
"Your Highness, the red charcoal has arrived, and the food in the kitchen is ready. Do you think we should send it in now?"
Huo Dao asked outside the cave.
Yu Fei hurriedly pulled up her clothes, but Jing Cang refused to let her. She said in a low voice, "Eat, they are coming in."
Jing Cang raised his eyes, with a hint of teasing in them, and it was obvious that he didn't care.
Rogue! Perhaps the nobles in ancient times were accustomed to this, or he was teasing her on purpose to see how she would end up.
Yu Fei cleared his throat and said seriously, "Let Ding Xiang bring it in."
Dingxiang came in carrying two baskets of charcoal and saw the young lady sitting on the prince's lap with her backs facing each other. Both of them were dressed intact, so they must have been just being intimate.
When I put the food box on the stone table, I inadvertently glanced at a white bellyband on the ground. I suddenly understood what they were doing. No wonder I heard the young lady's rapid breathing.
"It's all your fault. Ding Xiang must have known about it."
Yu Fei glared at Jing Cang shyly.
Jing Cang heard Ding Xiang's flustered footsteps, raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Look at me like this, you two, the master and the servant, should be happy about your success, right?"
Yu Fei guessed that Jing Cang remembered that Ding Xiang helped the original owner to force him. Now that he had tasted the sweetness, it was a great victory for the original owner. She was too lazy to look at these old accounts, so she pulled her hand away and said, "I'm going to eat wontons. I'm hungry."
Jing Cang refused to let him go, "I'm hungry too."
Without the dragon, she was like a fish on a chopping board, waiting to be slaughtered. Yu Fei didn't dare to confront him, so she just said, "Then you eat yours and I eat mine."
He stood up, knelt on the stone bench, and opened the food box.
Jing Cang saw Yu Fei's back facing him, with her slim waist and round buttocks, which was extremely seductive.
He teased, "Which one tastes better, me or wonton?"
There is no comparison between the two of you, Yu Fei thought. She swallowed the wonton and said softly, "I will eat you only when I am full."
"You think your wontons are better than mine?"
“No, no…” Yu Fei leaned on the stone table and panted, “You’re delicious…”
Jing Cang asked again and again: "Have you missed me these days?"
Yu Fei: “???”
"I had my period a few days ago and I felt unwell."
It seemed like the answer was irrelevant, but in fact, she felt that Jing Cang was a little suspicious of her silence in the past few days. She always liked to show her presence in front of him when she had nothing to do.
Jing Cang stroked her lower abdomen, and somehow felt that something was wrong with her in recent days, including tonight, but he couldn't put his finger on it.
He wished he could embed himself into her heart.
"Yu Fei, don't lie to me, don't lie to me again..."
Yu Feihun was trembling all over and couldn't speak.
She felt like a fish, being pierced by sharp skewers again and again, her body and mind being shattered into pieces.
"Is His Highness in there?"
A soft female voice sounded outside the curtain.
Yu Feiru fell from the sky to the deep valley of hell.
Yang Zhi is here!
"Brother, don't..."
She reminded him.
But Jing Cang pretended to be deaf to it.
"Your Highness is drunk and feeling unwell. Please rest inside for a while." Huo Dao said.
"I'm just going to bring some sobering soup to my father. If Your Highness doesn't mind, you can drink a bowl first." Yang Zhi said softly.
"The sobering soup has been delivered. I'm afraid your highness has fallen asleep by now."
As soon as Huo Dao finished speaking, Yu Fei was like a peach thrown to the ground, with the juice spilling out.
There was a sound of "rustling" on the ground.
"Your Highness, are you feeling unwell? I'll go in and take a look." Yang Zhi seemed to have heard the noise and wanted to come in.
Yu Fei lay on the table almost openly, staring at the curtain blankly, praying in her heart: Don't come in, don't come in. If Yang Zhi saw her like this, she would definitely not want to trade with her, and her only way to survive would be over.
Jing Cang became even more wanton.
"Is there something wrong with your Highness..." Yang Zhi became even more anxious and walked closer.
"Nothing." Jing Cang tried his best to calm himself and replied, "We will go back after Yu Fei puts out the charcoal fire."
"Isn't all the charcoal in the palace stored in the stove?" Yang Zhi murmured in surprise, and said, "Then Your Highness, take care of yourself and go back early."
After the people walked away, Yu Fei covered his face with his hands and burst into tears.
"What's wrong?" Jing Cang grabbed her upper body.
Yu Fei opened her mouth and bit his arm, accusing: "How could you do this?"
Seeing that she still had so much strength, Jing Cang said, "When you brought me and Yang Zhi together, you weren't afraid of sharing a husband with her, but now you're afraid that she'll see you serving me?"
Yu Fei was trembling with tears: "Can this be confused with the same thing?"
Jing Cang avoided answering and just did it himself: "Next time you do that, I will do this."