Chapter 37 Conspiracy
Yu Fei recalled the original plot. Before Jing Canglin went to Shu County, he wrote a marriage proposal. After returning to the capital, he submitted it to the emperor. Not long after, the court announced the news of his engagement to Yang Zhi.
The deal she made with Yang Zhi was to present this memorial to the emperor and have him grant her the marriage directly. After the deal was done, Yang Zhi would give her a letter of promise to grant her a golden medal of immunity from death.
Jing Cang has to marry a virtuous wife anyway, so instead of looking for someone he doesn't know much about, he might as well follow the original text and be with the destined heroine.
Yu Fei remembered that this memorial... was placed in the study.
Jing Cang's study is usually guarded by many guards, like an airtight iron barrel, so theft is unlikely. The harem is not allowed to interfere in government affairs, so he can't easily refuse to let her in. It seems that he wants to take it in openly and cleverly.
After dinner that day, Yu Fei brought over a cup of chicken soup.
Jing Cang was reviewing official documents at his desk. He looked up when he heard the voice. Yu Fei smiled before he approached, "I'm here to bring you some chicken and mushroom soup."
Jing Cang put down the memorial, leaned back in his chair, rubbed his brows and smiled, "You are so kind even if you have nothing to do."
"In your eyes, I am just a greedy, heartless villain?" Yu Fei pouted and made a gesture to turn around. "Then I'll give it to Huo Dao. It's winter, and it's not easy for him to guard outside the door."
"Come back." Jing Cang called her, signaling her with his eyes to look at the pile of documents on the desk. "I've been busy all day and it's not easy for me. It's rare for you to be considerate of me. I'm more than happy for it."
Yu Fei snorted and walked closer, "You make it sound like I'm usually so cold and indifferent."
Jing Cang sipped the chicken soup in the porcelain cup and thought about Yu Fei's words.
She can't be called indifferent. Apart from being willful occasionally, she can be said to be gentle, like a lotus. You know her hypocritical and deceitful nature that changes three times a day, but somehow you feel that these are not her true colors.
The real her... There was a ping-pong sound coming from the bookshelf nearby. He glanced sideways and saw her picking out books like she was buying vegetables on the street. "What are you looking for?"
Yu Fei turned around, his eyes rolling around, and said with a smile: "I want to see if there are any erotic pictures in your study, a serious man——"
Jing Cang couldn't help laughing: "You think I am you, having the leisure time to think about those weird and erotic tricks." If there were erotic pictures, he would put them in the bedroom and teach his wife by her pillow.
Yu Fei rummaged through the boxes and cabinets for a while and found a memorial in a wooden box. It was the marriage proposal that Jing Cang left before he went to Shu County.
Her heart was pounding as she carefully noticed that the letter had no signature or seal.
This meant that she had to write his name on it and stamp it with the crown prince's golden seal right under his nose.
Yu Fei thought quickly for a moment and put the box back to its original place.
She swayed her waist and walked to his side like a snake, and said in a coquettish voice: "It's not there, let me check here to see if there is anything. Don't pretend to be focused on work, but actually look at the secret play pictures with great interest."
As she said this, she sat on his lap and flipped through the text as if searching.
Jing Cang watched Yu Fei's pretentious writing leisurely. After a moment, he saw her pointing at the red-lettered comments on a memorial with surprise, "Brother, your handwriting is so beautiful!"
Jing Cang held her hand and said, "Want to learn? I'll write a calligraphy book for you to copy when I have time."
Who wants to copy his calligraphy? If you have the time, you might as well eat some melon seeds and take a nap! Yu Fei had something in mind, and she touched his palm with her fingertips, "I want my brother to teach me now."
Jing Cang glanced outside the door and said seriously: "This is the study." It is good to have a beautiful woman by your side, but the love between children is more suitable for the bedroom.
Yu Fei knew that he was a conservative person and difficult to deal with, so he twisted his body and said, "You've been busy all day, so you need to combine work and rest. I came here to relieve your fatigue."
"Why are you so nice? Don't have any bad intentions again." Jing Cang put his arms around her waist.
"It is my honor to share your worries..." Yu Fei glanced at him shyly, took the white paper beside her, smoothed it out, and took his hand to hold the brush, "Quickly teach me how to write, write your name."
Jing Cang held her hand and wrote the words "Jing Cang" on the paper.
His handwriting was good, with flying dragons and dancing phoenixes, iron painting and silver hooks, majestic yet orderly, and it was obvious that he had learned from a famous master. Yu Fei wrote once while he held her hand, but couldn't get the point, "I haven't learned it yet."
Jing Cang pinched her hand and wrote two more words, which were "Yu Fei".
"Why did you write my name?" Yu Fei shouted. Although the strokes he wrote were winding and tender.
Jing Cang raised his pen and wrote the two names on the paper. He turned his head to look at her and asked, "What do you think?"
His eyes were deep and his breath was hot, clearly ready to strike. Yu Fei hadn't learned his name yet, and didn't want to be controlled by others, so she grabbed his hand and ordered him to teach her, "I don't care, you have to teach me first."
Jing Cang was ready to go, and was teaching perfunctorily, but Yu Fei was learning seriously. When she imitated his name and it was about three-quarters similar, he pressed her and sighed deeply.
Yu Fei felt that he was like the snow-white rice paper on which Jing Cang painted with brush and ink, drawing high and steep peaks, canyons and streams, and a spirit snake swimming freely in the water, splashing crystal water from time to time.
Yu Fei's purpose in coming here today was not to get along with him, but to take advantage of the time when he left his desk to take a bath to complete his signature and red seal on the marriage proposal, and then take the opportunity to take it away and present it to the emperor.
She racked her brains and took action to make him stop painting.
Jing Cang wanted to make a comeback, but Yu Fei pushed his chest and said softly, "This is the study room. It's too presumptuous. If the queen knew, I would really become a foxy woman."
Jing Cangqian stopped at the first sip, still not satisfied, and kissed her red lips, "That night, I want to have a great time."
When she gets the marriage proposal, he can do whatever he wants at night. Yu Fei nodded perfunctorily.
"Then let's go take a bath together?" Jing Cang asked.
Yu Fei shook his head, "You go first, I want to lie on the couch for a while." There is a bathroom and a bed in the prince's study.
As soon as he left, she quickly got up, put on his pajamas and got out of bed.
Listening to the splashing sound of water in the bathroom next door, Yu Fei's heart was beating like a small drum. He walked to the bookshelf and took out the marriage proposal from the box.
Afraid of making mistakes if he wrote the name directly, he copied it several times on a piece of white paper first. Only after he felt it was correct did he write the two words "Jing Cang" on the paper.
She held the prince's golden seal, dipped it in vermilion ink, and pressed it hard under the name.
Maybe he pulled too hard, and after he pulled out the gold seal, the seal remained attached to it wetly.
Yu Fei picked up the note and blew it gently.
"Miss Yu, what are you doing?"
Suddenly, a palace maid's voice came from behind.
Yu Fei turned around and saw the palace maid who was helping Jing Cang bathe come out at some point.
She hastily closed the folded book and mixed it with the pile of documents on the desk. She then casually pulled out an ordinary folded book and unfolded it, blowing on it as if in a serious tone, she said, "I just killed a small insect on it and was just about to blow it away."
The palace maid was surprised. It was the middle of winter, all the insects had died, and the prince's study was cleaned every day, and there were sachets of sachet hanging to prevent snakes, mosquitoes, and ants. How could there still be something there?
But after living in the palace for a long time, she was used to the master ordering servants to call a deer a horse. Yu Fei was a slave in name, but in reality she was the prince's bedmate. She bowed respectfully, "So that's how it is."
"Has he finished taking a bath?" Yu Fei asked while sorting out the memorials on the desk.
The maid said, "His Highness said he was not used to the plum-scented bath beans in the study, so he sent someone to fetch some pinewood."
Yu Fei curled her lips, what a little princess.
I don't know whether the palace maid reported her suspicious behavior to Jing Cang. She had just tucked the marriage proposal under her armpit and tied the belt of her pajamas when Jing Cang came out.
"Is this what you mean by wanting to laze around on the couch?" he asked.
Yu Fei brushed her hair, turned to face him, and said in a lazy and charming voice: "I just slept on your bed here, but I haven't sat on the chair. What's going on? Has someone reported me for crossing the line?"
"Haven't you done enough things that violated the rules?" Jing Cang calmly changed the subject of the palace maid's secret report.
Seeing her wearing his white undershirt, half-exposed and half-revealed, like a seductress who couldn't seduce the monarch enough, he approached her, grabbed one of her feet, and gently stroked it, "Are you cold? Don't get sick and make trouble with me again."
"Am I that kind of ignorant person?" Yu Fei kicked his palm, stood up, and walked to the bed in small steps.
Jing Cang sat back at his desk and casually flipped through a few memorials. He found no random scribblings, so he was afraid she might be playing a trick, but it didn't seem to be the case. He also saw a few more lines of his name on the white paper, and the prince's golden seal had also been touched.
Just as I was thinking about how to ask her, I heard the person on the bed call out coquettishly, "Come here quickly and take a look at my seal. Is it pretty?"
The scenery passed by.
Yu Fei was leaning against the bed with his clothes wide open. There was a red prince's seal printed on each of his snow-white and exquisite body, as if his exclusive mark was branded on his body.
His eyes burned as he looked at her and his heart was on fire. This fire destroyed everything and burned away his rationality. He devoured her like a hungry wolf.
Others are the butchers and I am the meat. Yu Fei pushed him away and said, "Don't do this..."
"You just want me to be like this." Jing Cang pinched her jaw, making her face look extremely charming. "Yu Fei, has anyone ever told you that you are good at teasing men?"
"I don't know how to tease men, I just want to tease my brother..."
"Woo woo woo ..."
After that, he went to take a shower. Yu Fei pulled out the marriage proposal from under the mattress and hid it in his pocket.
I originally wanted to mix it with the pile of notebooks on his desk, but I was afraid that he would present it to the emperor for inspection, so I had to take it away first and wait for an opportunity to act later.
Yu Fei rubbed the seal on her chest. She moved the golden seal, fearing that he would get suspicious, so she stamped two on each side of her body just in case, and it really succeeded in diverting his attention.
There is only one step left to reach the goal, and the problem is how to deliver the memorial to the emperor.