Chapter 85: Return trip
Yu Fei was sitting in a carriage leaving the capital. On the prosperous and crowded streets of the capital, the imperial guards were leading the way, and two rows of soldiers holding spears were lined up on both sides to prevent the common people from rushing forward and colliding with the nobles' team.
There were also richly dressed young ladies in the crowd, looking at their Tianjia formation with a slightly envious expression.
Yu Fei was filled with emotion.
When she first came to the capital, it was like walking on the edge of a cliff in the dark holding a small flame. She had no idea when the kerosene would burn out or a gust of wind would blow, and her light would disappear completely, and she would most likely fall into the abyss.
She had never thought that she could return home in such glory. The prince who once wanted to kill her now treated her like a treasure, fearing that he had not done enough for her.
Her soul, which had wandered for two lifetimes, finally found rest beside him.
"Fei Fei, what's wrong?" Jing Cang saw tears in her eyes.
Yu Fei blinked and smiled, "I never thought that I would marry you."
In modern times, she is uninhibited and her view on marriage is to either choose a second-generation marriage with a well-matched family background, or remain single for life and play around in the world.
When she came to the ancient times, she felt miserable. She just wanted to live one day at a time and had no time to think about the major events in life.
Jing Cang scratched her nose and said, "I never dreamed that after all my careful selection and consideration, I would end up marrying someone as troublesome as you."
"You don't want to take the Yangguan Avenue, but insist on squeezing into this small bridge. Who can you blame?" Yu Fei glared at him.
Jing Cang held her in his arms and said, "I have been following the rules for twenty years, and now I am going to follow your unconventional path."
When the two talked about the journey, Yu Fei suddenly remembered Jing Cang's assassination in Shu County and asked, "Do we have enough people with us on this trip? Don't let another bandit show up?"
They knew very well that the Shujun bandits were disguised as people sent by Jing Yi. Jing Cang thought for a moment and said seriously: "There are tens of thousands of imperial guards and bodyguards. My father gave me another token. If there is any abnormality, I can dispatch troops from the prefectures and counties along the way at any time."
As if remembering something, "In the northwest, the Zhu family's army, the imperial court has replaced the generals, exiled all three branches of the Zhu family, and demoted and dismissed their confidants who conspired with them. They can't cause any trouble."
Yu Fei nodded. She was afraid that Jing Yi and his group would not die and would cause trouble again.
Along the way, Yu Fei either leaned or lay lazily in the spacious and luxurious carriage, eating every meal carefully prepared by the chef, and occasionally playing with Jing Cang to please his body and mind. The journey flowed like water, and they soon arrived at the post station they had once argued over.
As if feeling guilty, Jing Cang asked someone to invite a chef from Shu County in advance to prepare a table of Shu cuisine.
He asked her to take a seat.
Yu Fei looked at the dishes on the table, including spicy rabbit head, lamp-shadow beef, dry-roasted mandarin fish, and Dongpo pork elbow. They were even better than the one Jing Cang had used before.
She sat down leisurely and asked casually, "Are you apologizing to me for what you did?"
Jing Cang smiled and said, "It's just a token of my appreciation. Please accept it, Madam."
He actually didn't respond to her question, so Yu Fei said directly: "You ordered a table of delicious dishes here, and deliberately ate slowly in front of me who was hungry all day. Did you do it on purpose to irritate me so that I could see but not eat?"
Jing Cang hesitated for a while, then said seriously: "To be honest, that meal was the most enjoyable one I've had since I met you."
Yu Fei glared at him in shame and anger. Feeling unsatisfied, she punched him on the chest a few times, "You are full of bad water."
Jing Cang held her fist and whispered in her ear, "There will be something worse tonight. Madam, do you want to try it?"
"I don't want to." Yu Fei tilted his head and said softly, "Don't let me climb up with your noble body and then let me roll down."
When Jing Cang was resting in a room at this inn in the past, he encountered Yu Fei forcing himself on him early in the morning, and he actually said the word "get out".
Seeing that she was still holding on to the old account, he put his hand on her waist and rubbed it with a hint of meaning, "In the carriage, you pressed me several times. Every time you didn't want to press me anymore, I kept pressing you. Your tight waist twisted so beautifully. I just thought about it day and night and couldn't stop."
In front of others, he spoke in a low and close voice, and the hot breath he exhaled fanned her neck, making her feel itchy and tingling as if a small insect was crawling on her skin. The insect seemed to crawl all over her body at lightning speed, and Yu Fei felt as if all her bones had been bitten soft.
She glared at him softly, "Jing Cang, I find that you have become a bad student."
"A red bird becomes redder when it is close to him." Jing Cang pinched her waist, "Thanks to you, a good teacher has produced a good student."
Yu Fei: “…”
Her ability to seduce men was gradually being crushed by him. It was really unbelievable that men were too lustful.
Jing Cang was indeed up to something at night. Yu Fei was holding a gold chain with a bell on it, and asked knowingly, "What is this?"
Jing Cang smiled and said, "Ms. Yu is very knowledgeable. Don't you recognize this?"
Yu Fei was embarrassed.
The original owner had been a frequent visitor to the land of romance in the past. She was also a well-read scholar, so of course she knew what it was.
She held the bell in her hand and said with interest, "I've seen it before, but never used it. Why don't you show me how to use it?"
Jing Cang hugged her and sat her on the chair, then took the bell and rolled it down her neck.
Yu Fei had long known that this thing had patterns carved on the outside and mercury inside. When it encountered heat, it would vibrate, making a sound similar to the chirping of cicadas. It was an instrument of pleasure commonly used by the ancients.
Only now that I have tried it myself can I feel its power.
Her skin, which was rolled over by the bell, felt as if several insects were drilling into it, gnawing at it and making it itchy. The unbearable feeling was like a spark, burning her whole body.
Jing Cang smiled and said, "Does Fei Fei accept my apology?"
"Accept it, accept it."
Yu Fei nodded, feeling very embarrassed when she saw the crystal on his fingertips. He sucked it unconsciously, smacking his lips as if tasting something delicious: "So sweet."
Yu Fei: “…”
He had an appearance like the sacred snow on a mountain that could not be violated, but he behaved in such a vulgar and seductive way that she could not help but start to be distracted again.
She smiled coquettishly: "It's only three-tenths sweet when you taste it with your mouth, you have to try the full sugar with your body."
After looking under his clothes, he said, "Also, you can't just use your hands to make amends. You need real guns and live bullets to show your sincerity."
Jing Cang glanced at her and smiled, "Fei Fei is so energetic, it's all because I was too lenient just now." Then he said, "You have tasted the benefits of Lingdang, but I haven't. We can't favor one over the other."
Jing Cang held her waist tightly with one hand and reached behind the chair with the other hand to turn on the mechanism on it. The chair under them suddenly became like a running horse, swinging back and forth rapidly.
Yu Fei felt like she was galloping on a grassland, with endless peaks and cliffs as far as the eye could see. She was exhausted and dying, and could only let the horse carry her to an aimless place.
She trusted him and would not lead her astray.