Chapter 55 I only wish this love will never change
Yu Fei and Jing Cang took a carriage to the city of Shu County. She looked at him with some worry, "You said we would let bygones be bygones, but when we get to the Yu family later and see my former accomplices, won't you turn around and punish them?"
Jing Cang smiled and said, "Am I the kind of person who goes back on my word?"
Yu Fei said bitterly: "The superiors call a deer a horse, and the inferiors have to cheer with their eyes wide open."
After the original owner broke Jing Cang's legs, she was able to hide him in the Yu family without the government knowing about it. The people of the Yu family played a huge role in it, and she even returned to her hometown in glory today. Thanks to the two dog-legged guards who successfully went to Yunnan to find the poison, they made great contributions to her becoming the crown princess.
His forgiving her as the instigator did not mean that he would show mercy to her and forgive the accomplices of the Yu family who committed rebellion.
No matter what he planned, she had to take the initiative to prevent him from getting angry and embarrassing her.
She didn't want others to say that she was a crown princess who climbed up the social ladder but acted servilely.
Jing Cang held her waist and gently stroked it, "Ms. Yu is so talented and beautiful that I am blinded by her lust. I just hope that you will obey me and not make trouble with me. How dare I pick a fight with your family?"
What Jing Cang meant was that she wanted to stay in Shu County before getting married.
According to current customs, women had to stay at home to prepare for their marriage before marriage. The Ministry of Rites of the imperial court would need at least half a year to prepare for the prince's marriage. Yu Fei proposed the idea of playing in Shu County for half a year before returning to Beijing to get married.
Who knew that Jing Cang was facing a powerful enemy and flatly refused. He decided to let her get married in the house under his name where Yu's father had lived in the capital, and he gave the house to the Yu family.
Yu Fei was about to step into the tomb of marriage, no, the palace, from now on she would enter the royal palace and become a bird in a cage. She really wanted to take advantage of the engagement period to have some fun outside.
She had no choice but to change half a year to three months, but he refused. Finally, she reduced it to one month, but he was not moved at all and only asked her to return to Beijing with him ten days later.
She argued with him, and he listed her past "crimes", saying that he was afraid that she would still be greedy and rekindle her old love, that she would stay overnight in Qinlou and Chuguan and ruin the reputation of the royal family, and that she would be seduced by bad people because of her lack of self-control. In short, he made her sound like a dandy who had temporarily changed his ways, but would act recklessly again as long as he was not supervising her.
Yu Fei wanted to say that it was the original owner, not her, but then she changed her mind and thought that she was the eldest brother of the original owner, not the second brother, because she was so willful and unrestrained in the modern world.
Finally, Jing Cang acted like a chaste and virtuous woman, saying that she had seduced him into breaking his vows, and that he had become addicted to it, and that she could not leave him alone for long.
Yu Fei thought that the two of them were deeply in love, and she could understand his reluctance when she suddenly proposed to separate.
She had said it casually during that half year, and seeing that he was strong and arbitrary, she couldn't help but confront him and insisted on staying in Shu County for a month. If he was unwilling, she would change to a crown princess.
Jing Cang was so angry that he slammed the door and left, but he climbed onto her bed in the middle of the night, occupying her while saying that he couldn't bear to leave her.
Yu Fei had already softened her heart at that time, otherwise she would not have let him "succeed", she said vaguely in a daze, let's see how he reacts.
Seeing him mentioning this matter again, she glared at him, "If I don't return to Beijing with you in ten days, will you take the opportunity to retaliate and accuse my servants of the Yu family?"
Jing Cang laughed and tapped her forehead, "Don't you represent your Yu family?"
Yu Fei suddenly realized that the moment he accepted her, he had forgiven everyone in the Yu family.
However, to be on the safe side, Yu Fei still had someone pass a message to Yu's father, asking him to transfer all the servants in her previous courtyard to the manor and replace them with new people to serve them.
Arriving at the gate of the Yu family, Yu Fei followed Jing Cang out of the car. He saw that the wide street was cleared for hundreds of feet by soldiers. Officials dressed in red and green knelt on the ground and said in unison: "Your Highness and I have seen the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess. We respectfully welcome Your Highness to Shu County and congratulate Your Majesty on returning home to visit her relatives."
Yu Fei had not expected that there would be such a scene when he returned. Looking at the large number of official hats, it seemed that all the county magistrates of Shu County had come.
Seeing that she was in a daze, Jing Cang squeezed her palm and asked the officials to stand up.
Father Yu brought all the members of the Yu family to greet them.
In order to show his respect, Jing Cang and Yu's father wanted to establish good relations, so they invited the officials to their home for a meal.
At the banquet, glasses were clinking and officials came to congratulate one after another. Yu Fei smiled so hard that her face became sore. Finally, an acquaintance came slowly.
The former black-robed governor, now the green-robed county magistrate, raised his cup to her and said, "Miss Yu is indeed a person of great fortune. Your humble servant and I have offended you before, but we have now turned back from our wrong path and are extremely regretful. We hope that you and His Highness will be magnanimous and forgive our mistakes."
Yu Fei thought of the woman in front of him who had conspired with his son to drug her and marry her.
At that time, the prefect and his son thought she was the prince's savior. However, there was a case in Shu County where bandits caused chaos and seriously injured the prince. According to the law, the prefect would definitely be held accountable by the court. The father and son placed their hopes of escaping the crime on her, hoping that the court would show leniency to them for her sake.
Unexpectedly, this medicine helped her and the prince get together.
That was Yu Fei's strategy of taking advantage of the situation.
Yu Fei drank a cup of wine with him to show that they had let bygones be bygones.
After the man left, she asked Jing Cang, "The bandit you were assassinated by wasn't one sent by Jing Yi, so why did you demote him?"
Even if the court wanted to punish the prefect due to legal reasons, as long as Jing Cang came forward and gave a hint or two, the matter could be resolved.
He was originally an official who was forced to get involved in the fight between the princes.
Jing Cang stroked the wine cup and said in a cold voice: "As a prefect, when something went wrong in your jurisdiction, instead of trying to remedy the situation, you tried to evade the blame by taking crooked paths. If you can't clean up your own house, how can you clean up the whole world?"
Yu Fei nodded.
The prefect let his son set his sights on her, which was contrary to the original intention of being an honest official.
Then she thought, and felt a little ashamed, because she had never done anything honorable in her life.
Jing Cang seemed to see through her thoughts, took her hand, and said with a smile: "Fei Fei can do bad things to me."
Yu Fei hesitated and said in a coquettish voice, "I'm afraid you can't bear it."
The two were flirting with each other when Father Yu came over with a red face and said to Jing Cang, "My little girl is naughty. I hope Your Highness will tolerate her in the future."
Jing Cang hurriedly stood up to greet him, "Father-in-law, please take a seat."
Father Yu looked at Yu Fei in confusion and said slowly, "I only have this one daughter. Her mother died young after giving birth to her, and now she is going to marry in the capital."
Perhaps because of the alcohol, tears welled up in his old eyes. "But don't be afraid, my dear. Dad will gradually transfer the business of Shu County to the capital, and then select some ambitious talents from the same clan to train them to study for the imperial examinations and make money through business. This way, you will have a strong family to support you in the palace."
Jing Cang said, "Father-in-law, go ahead and do it. I will focus on bringing in people from the Yu family in the future."
Yu Fei looked at her father, then at Jing Cang, and couldn't help but burst into tears.
In modern times, she has never felt the true love of her family since her mother passed away, and she has no intention of experiencing any love. But in ancient times, the two men in front of her have used their flesh and blood to build a reassuring greenhouse for her, just to make her happy and worry-free.
Yu Fei wiped her tears with her hand and trembled, "Thank you, Dad."
Then she whispered to Jing Cang, "Thank you, husband."
Jing Cang smiled, held her hand tightly, pulled her into his arms, patted her back gently, and soothed her sad mood.
Yu Fei's tears fell like a heavy rain in June. At night, Jing Cang dismissed the officials and let them rest in the room in her courtyard. She went to bring him sobering soup.
She was wearing a lilac green dress, her black hair flowing freely, with only a bright pink hibiscus flower pinned on her temples, which she had specially had dried by the wind. After dipping it in water, the flower seemed lifelike.
"Brother, are you awake?"
She walked into the inner room with a greasy voice and dragging her skirt.
Hearing the voice, Jing Cang sat up from the couch and saw Yu Pi, dressed in green and with white hair, coming towards him gracefully.
The beautiful and charming woman seemed like a fairy transformed from the lotus in her hair. Her every frown, smile, gesture and movement charmingly and deliberately captivated his body and mind.
She leads you into the trap.
He was willing to take the bait.
I only hope that our love will never change, even if the seas run dry and the rocks crumble.