Chapter 22 Midnight Fantasy
After the dinner, Song Jiaren led Li Nuo to a room in the Song Mansion.
There is a curfew at night in Daxia, but the time is a little later, around 10 o'clock in the evening. You cannot wander around the streets without a valid reason.
If anyone violates the curfew and is caught by the patrolling guards, he or she will be severely beaten at best and jailed at worst.
Although it was not yet curfew, some guests lived far away, and some were drunk and had to stay at the Song Mansion for only one night, resulting in a shortage of guest rooms at the Song Mansion. Li Nuo and Song Jiaren could only make do with one room.
However, even if there were no shortage of rooms tonight, they could only share one. After all, they were a married couple, and if they slept in two separate rooms, others might think they were not getting along.
Isn't this a misunderstanding?
Li Nuo and his wife are not at odds with each other, they are just not familiar with each other.
This room seemed to have originally belonged to Song Jiaren. She was very familiar with this place. She took out a new set of bedding from the cupboard and spread it on the floor in front of the bed. Li Nuo didn't say anything when he saw this. Although he missed the big and soft bed in his own room at home, he used to sleep on a cramped folding bed that only cared about his head and feet. Sleeping on the floor with a quilt and mattress was already a luxury.
The two were a couple in name only, and Li Nuo didn't think there was anything wrong with it.
Right now, the most important thing for him is to stay alive.
As for a normal husband-wife relationship...
It all depends on fate.
Li Nuo certainly does not reject this lady who is both extremely beautiful and extremely powerful. If they can fall in love with each other over time, it is not impossible for them to live together. If there is really no spark, they can break up peacefully without wasting each other's time.
Of course, this is all a matter for the future. Now, as a newcomer, he has no say and cannot change anything.
It was getting late, so Li Nuo took off his shoes, socks and outer robe, preparing to read a book before going to bed.
He just lay down on the quilt on the floor. Song Jiaren glanced at him, pointed at the bed, and said, "You sleep on it."
Li Nuo was slightly stunned. As a grown man, he slept in the bed and let a weak woman sleep...
Thinking about the relationship between the two of them, the word "weak" could only be used to describe himself. Li Nuo did not refute and climbed onto the bed honestly. Although they had only known each other for two days, he knew that decisions made by his wife were generally difficult to change.
He lay on the bed, feeling himself surrounded by a faint fragrance.
It's the smell of my wife, this is indeed her room.
He sat up cross-legged and took out a thin book from his arms.
When he went out, Li Nuo took a book about Legalism with him, intending to read it before going to bed.
Time is precious to him and he cannot afford to waste it.
However, before he had read two pages, he heard the sound of "hmmmm" and "ahhh" coming from the next room. When he came in just now, he saw Song Qian and her husband walked in. He didn't expect that his wife's cousin, who looked calm and composed, like a lady from a noble family, would be so different behind her back. The content of her calls made Li Nuo blush...
Fortunately, she stopped screaming after less than three minutes, and Li Nuo's ears became quiet again.
Song Jiaren was lying on the ground, her pretty face slightly flushed, which added a bit of charm to her coldness, but Li Nuo, who was lying on the bed, did not see it.
In order to ease the embarrassment, Li Nuo asked, "Madam, do you and Song Qian have any conflicts..."
Song Jiaren was silent for a moment, then said calmly: "She has never liked me since she was a child..."
Li Nuo thought about it for a moment and understood. Both were girls from the Song family and were not much different in age. One was useless while the other had both beauty and talent in martial arts. The two would definitely be compared frequently. It would be strange that Song Qian would like her.
After the two asked and answered each other, the room returned to silence.
But soon, a head popped out from the bed, and Li Nuo pointed at a word in the book and asked, "Madam, what is this word?"
The Shuowen Jiezi was too thick and he didn't have it with him. There were a few words he didn't understand and he couldn't relate them to the context, so he couldn't read on and had to ask his wife for help.
Song Jiaren took a look and said calmly, "I don't know him."
"What about this?"
“No.”
"this?"
“No.”
"this……"
“…”
Silence, a long silence.
Li Nuo felt that she would not be so ignorant as to not tell him how to read.
He lay on the bed, looking at this delicate face, and said in surprise: "No way, my lady, can't you read?"
Song Jiaren looked at him indifferently.
Li Nuo returned to the bed and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, it's not a big deal. Illiteracy is nothing. We are both good at literature and martial arts. Living a good life is better than anything else..."
…
Song Mansion.
Li Nuo was reading seriously in the room separated from them by a wall.
Song Qian sat at the head of the bed, looking at her husband who was slumped on the bed with dissatisfaction, feeling angry and having no place to vent.
It is both the fire of desire and the fire of depression.
Song Jiaren's stupid husband is no longer stupid, which has already made her depressed. Now, she can no longer surpass Song Jiaren in any way. It would be fine if she was not stupid, but the couple also stole the limelight at the old lady's birthday banquet and received two rewards from the old lady in succession. She and her husband were outdone by them again.
Originally, this matter would have passed, but her father had just looked for her and from his words, he seemed to suspect that she had stolen the gift that Song Jiaren had prepared for the old lady.
This made Song Qian depressed and angry. No matter how much she disliked Song Jiaren, she could not do such a thing at the old lady's birthday banquet. She muttered those two words in a low voice only to express her resentment.
My father told me that it seemed that the gift prepared by Song Jiaren was replaced by a stone.
Therefore, her husband composed two poems on the spot, which not only saved his face but also made the old lady's birthday banquet a complete success.
That Li Nuo is not only not stupid, but also very smart.
Not only smart, but also beautiful!
Thinking of that handsome face and then looking at her incompetent husband, Song Qian became even angrier!
Why is my life so miserable...
Unable to vent the fire in her body, she could only take out a jade silkworm from under her pillow.
In the next room, Li Nuo had just turned a new page when he trembled slightly. He turned his head and looked back, saying helplessly, "It starts again..."
At this time, Song Mansion.
The old lady's sixtieth birthday celebration ended successfully. Both the host and the guests had a great time tonight. However, the maids and servants of the Song family still had to clean up the mess and seemed extremely busy.
During this period, several maids were called away by the second master and questioned for a long time, resulting in a vacancy in staff. They did not finish the cleaning until midnight, and then they dragged their tired bodies into a deep sleep.
In Song Lian's room.
He sat at the table, frowning, and muttered, "Who is it?"
He questioned several maids who had access to the gifts one by one. While questioning, some servants also searched their rooms, but found nothing. His intuition told him that this was not done by the maids in the mansion.
They don't have the courage or the ability to do so.
The room where the gifts are stored is heavily guarded. No matter how skilled a thief is, he cannot break in. Even for a martial arts master, it is difficult to sneak in. Only a strong person above the level of controlling objects can steal the gifts silently by telekinesis.
But at the fourth level of martial arts, one would certainly not be short of money, and in terms of value, there were too many gifts that were more valuable than the pair of jade ruyi. Why did he choose something that was not so expensive? It was obvious that he was targeting the beauty.
Although Qian'er is highly suspicious, she is just an ordinary person and has neither the time nor the ability to do this.
But who could that be?
After a moment, Song Lian shook his head. Since he had no clue, he stopped thinking about it. It was just a pair of Ruyi that was lost. The most important thing was to hold the old lady's birthday banquet successfully.
Come to think of it, it’s all thanks to Li Nuo tonight.
He watched the beauty grow up. He had always been dissatisfied with the fact that she married a fool, even though the man's father was a powerful official in the dynasty.
But tonight, his impression of Li Nuo changed completely. No matter whether his previous stupidity was intentional or he suddenly got wise, it didn't matter.
What's important is that they are doing well as a couple.
After putting his mind at ease, Song Lian turned off the lights and lay down on the bed.
In order to prepare for the old lady's birthday banquet, he had spent countless energy these days, and he hadn't had a good night's sleep for countless days. Now everything was finally over. He lay on the bed without even taking off his clothes. As soon as his head touched the pillow, he fell asleep...
As time passed, the lights in the rooms of the Song Mansion gradually went out.
Only the lanterns hanging on the streets in the palace were still emitting a faint light.
The birthday hall, which was bustling with activity two hours ago, is now empty and dark.
On the roof of the Shoutang, a figure knelt and leaned against the eaves, put away the two jade ruyi beside him, looked at the Song Mansion in the dark, pulled the corners of his mouth, raised a touching smile, and said softly: "It turns out that you are not a fool, interesting, really interesting..."
(End of this chapter)
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