Chapter 67: His eyes never left his wife...
In early summer the wind is light and the sky is setting in the west.
Zhang Min was willing to let the flow of time freeze at this moment and never move forward.
He rested his chin on Ye Jindian's soft hair, smelling the warm peach blossom scent coming from her, and his somewhat restless heart slowly calmed down.
only--
But after a moment, he found that the hand around his waist was moving around restlessly.
Through the thin clothes, one can clearly feel the warm heat from the fingertips and palms, crawling from the waist to the back and spine.
"Madam..." Zhang Min held her hand, "You, you..."
"Husband, you've lost weight." Ye Jindian looked up at him, her peach blossom eyes filled with heartache. "Is it because you've had too many worries lately that you haven't been eating or sleeping well?"
Zhang Min's dark pupils met those sparkling eyes.
In just a moment, it felt like falling into autumn water.
"No," he denied subconsciously, not wanting to worry her. He lifted his hand to cup her face, his thumb gently brushing across her cheek. "My lady, you must have been missing me for a long time, so you're just mistaking me for that," he said softly. "I've always thought you've lost a lot of weight, and your complexion is a little paler than before."
Once this matter is settled, he will no longer be able to leave her alone to eat and sleep.
His heart suddenly ached, Zhang Min lowered his head and gently kissed her forehead.
Ye Jindian's thick eyelashes trembled. She reached out and clasped the back of his neck. She tilted her head back and bit a thin piece of skin on his throat, sucking and biting it.
After taking two bites, she heard a gasp of cold air from above her head, and her lips could feel her Adam's apple rolling up and down restlessly.
"My wife—"
The voice that called her was hoarse, but also extremely gentle.
The hand clasped around her waist grabbed her belt and tightened it suddenly, curling his fingers and pressing lightly on her waist.
She even heard the crackling of bones.
The hand holding her cheek twitched slightly and trembled a little.
Ye Jindian loosened her closed teeth, swept her wet tongue across the tooth marks, and kissed her soft lips.
She rested her forehead on his shoulder and laughed.
"My wife?"
Zhang Min was a little worried, so he loosened his grip on the belt and placed his hand on her back, gently brushing it.
He asked in a low voice: "Madam, have you been troubled by anything recently?"
Ye Jindian shook her head: "It's not a big deal."
I was a little surprised and uneasy before, but now I can only say that some doubts have not been resolved.
She folded her hands together and tightened them, her fingertips resting on his flank.
"I have to go see the Right Prime Minister." She tilted her head back, resting her chin on his collarbone, glancing over the red bruises of his teeth and resting her chin on his downcast eyes. "My shift is over today. Let's go home together."
She could take the books back to the Armory and go home from work.
Zhang Min hesitated for a moment, then agreed faster than his brain could move his mouth: "Okay."
He thought that there were too many strange things in the book, and the two of them would definitely not be able to read it all in one day, so he might as well give them some extra time tonight.
Don't force them to submit paperwork overnight.
Just give it to him tomorrow.
Ye Jindian slowly loosened her hands and said softly, "Then I'll go."
Zhang Min looked down at her: "Yeah."
He raised his hand and brushed back the messy hair on her temples.
As soon as he withdrew his fingers, Ye Jindian turned around and walked back the way she came.
Zhang Min glanced at the wall.
"That's right." Ye Jindian stopped.
Zhang Min retracted his toes, stood up straight as if nothing had happened, and met her gentle gaze when she turned back to him.
She waved to him: "One more thing."
Zhang Min subconsciously walked over, looked at her lowered palm, and bent down.
"My lady, there is still..."
Softness falls on the cheek.
His black feather-like eyelashes trembled continuously, and he glanced sideways at his wife. The rest of the words were cut off by his panicked lips and tongue and rolled back into his stomach.
If he knew just now that his wife threw herself into his arms only to measure her body shape and the teeth marks on her throat were also to identify his identity, but he still couldn't help the churning of desire and obscure thoughts in his mind; then at this moment, he was confused and couldn't believe it.
My wife came here this time, clearly to test him, why would she... go to the trouble of kissing him.
Could it be——
The speculations that emerged in my heart were like pomegranate flowers on the wall, surging in the wind, like flames ignited by the summer breeze, burning my heart and eyes to tremble.
Ye Jindian reached out and touched his trembling eyelashes: "See you next shift."
Zhang Min stood there like a wooden statue.
He looked at the figure walking through the lush flowers and trees, the flowing water under the small bridge, and the tree-lined path, and couldn't suppress the upturned corners of his lips, and couldn't control the smile that escaped from the corners of his eyes.
He touched his face and smiled foolishly for a long time. Suddenly he realized that he had to go back to change his clothes and face his wife as the right prime minister.
"It's going to be bad!"
He quickly climbed over the wall.
Each courtyard was connected by a corridor and moon gate. Zhang Min had to stand on the wall and carefully watch which way his wife took, so as not to accidentally meet her at the moon gate and reveal her whereabouts.
After climbing over two walls, he suddenly remembered that this was the prime minister's residence. If the lady did not inform him, there would be no way for her to see him in the main hall.
In an instant, his hair stood on end and he quickly turned back.
As expected.
The moment he landed, his wife stood in front of the gate again.
In a hurry, he had to pick up the broom in the corner and meet his wife's gaze.
Analyzing one's own behavior is concealment.
Zhang Min understood this very well, so he just looked at her with some surprise when she came back, without saying anything.
Ye Jindian glanced at the broom in his hand, but didn't mean to ask anything.
She said, "Oh, by the way, I heard that the Right Prime Minister is still busy, but I have something very important to check with him. I wonder if I can find someone to help urge him to do it?"
Zhang Min put down the broom and said, "I'll go to the martial arts academy to ask for you. Please wait for me for a while."
Ye Jindian said "hmm" softly and watched him running with sweat on his forehead.
The front yard of the prime minister's residence is divided into two major courtyards: the civil courtyard and the military courtyard. In addition to the meeting hall, the civil courtyard is also divided into several rooms to handle different political affairs. The military courtyard opposite lacks a meeting hall, but has a large open space for military generals to practice on weekdays.
The team leader who had just been released suddenly felt pain in his hands, legs and buttocks when he saw his face.
"Hiss..." Li Hu, who unfortunately fell behind, turned around and was met with a face that looked like the King of Hell. "What else do you want, Prime Minister?"
He didn't know Ye Jindian was coming, and thought that he was going home in his scholarly attire.
"It's you."
Zhang Min casually called him away and asked him to lead his wife.
Li Hu's face was filled with confusion. He covered his waist with his hands, listening to their prime minister's chatter.
After Zhang Min finished giving the instructions, he made an excuse that "there were important matters to deal with in the official office" and ran away with the handkerchief given by Ye Jindian.
Li Hu had no choice but to respond to Ye Jindian's rhetoric with a bitter face.
No matter what Ye Jindian asked, he always said: "Ah? Really? I don't know, I'm not sure, I don't know. Only Luo Ying knows about the Prime Minister's affairs. How can we, the little soldiers, know the whole thing?"
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhang Min quickly climbed over the wall and returned to the inner room of the main hall.
I pushed the door open and walked around the screen, only to be met with two faces that looked dizzy and hopeless from reading storybooks.
Zhang Min, who was changing clothes, also reminded them: "Remember to circle all the inappropriate parts with a red pen and see if you can arrest or exclude anyone based on this."
Xie Zhaoming moved the storybook aside and revealed the red pen.
"Do I really need your reminder for something like this?" He leisurely looked at the man who had two or three books tucked between his waist and chest, and said gloatingly, "Are you being suspected by your sister-in-law?"
Gongsun Shuo stretched lazily, rolled up the storybook with one hand, and with the other hand, he took out a pen from the bamboo tube beside him and turned it between his fingers.
"It's really pitiful."
He said pitiful words, but his eyes were full of "you have come to this day".
Zhang Min rolled his eyes at them, tied his hair up again and put on a mask, and even stuffed two boards into the soles of his shoes, for fear that any carelessness would be exposed.
Hearing footsteps on the corridor, he looked in the bronze mirror and pulled his collar to cover his entire neck.
The footsteps approached the window, and a shadow fell on the window frame.
He quickly floated out, supported himself and climbed over the guest seat on one side, sat back in the main seat in the middle of the main hall, picked up a document at random, and pretended to be reading it.
Glancing at the lilac skirt that appeared in front of the door, he quickly turned his gaze back and fell on the paper, only to find that the document in his hand was turned upside down.
His eyelids jumped, and he put the document on the table. Using the cover of the stacked books, he quietly turned the document over and glanced at the door again.
Luoying walked in and reported seriously.
Zhang Min also returned to his original voice, no longer squeezing his throat, and adopted the cold tone he usually used at work, allowing Ye Jindian to come in and talk.
Ye Jindian also acted in a businesslike manner and explained her purpose.
After looking through the books, Zhang Min asked Luo Ying to return them: "The numbers are correct, but I don't know if the Military Equipment Bureau has more powerful weapons."
Ye Jindian: "Bed crossbow?"
Zhang Min shook his head: "The crossbow is too large and not suitable for encirclement and suppression within the city."
In the city?
Ye Jindian raised her drooping eyebrows and looked at the golden mask.
However, this matter was not within her responsibilities, so she did not ask too much. She only said, "If you only need a medium-sized crossbow with eight to ten stones of force, you should be able to get three in a few days. If you have ten days or half a month, ten will be no problem.
"If we have two months, even if the Prime Minister wants to mobilize a mechanical crossbow that ordinary soldiers can use and reach a force of twelve to sixteen stones, it is not impossible."
If the quantity is large, just let the craftsmen from the Armory work together.
By dividing the work of assembly and marking the name of the craftsman on the product, there is no need to worry about those old craftsmen taking advantage of you too much.
Zhang Min only knew that she was busy recently, but he didn't know that she was busy with such a big thing.
I immediately felt a little proud in my heart, and thought to myself, she is worthy of being my wife.
Thanks to the golden mask, the smile on his face was unobstructed.
"Engineer Ye, please explain in detail." Zhang Min stood up, sat on the chair next to her, and personally poured tea for her.
Ye Jindian picked up the green teacup, her eyes sliding from his tightly wrapped neck to rest on his arm that was spread across the table.
He was dressed in martial arts uniform, with a full set of wolf-faced silver arm guards on both arms. Even his fingers were covered with tight-fitting gloves, so not a single trace of skin could be seen, and there was no way to tell whether he was familiar to her.
Ye Jindian just glanced at it and reported in a calm tone the weapons he had been researching recently.
Finally, she added, "The various components of the crossbow will be forged by Luo Gong, who is familiar with the new iron forging methods. Since Second Lady Xie does not wish to be seen, the various frames for assembling the crossbow can be disassembled and painted by the carpenter, and then I will assemble them.
"A good medium-sized crossbow, if mounted on a window with a Class B bracket, can be used to ambush the enemy within the city walls. Eight to ten stones of force are sufficient. If replaced with a Class A bracket, a crossbow with a force of twelve or more can be used."
Zhang Min listened attentively, his eyes never leaving his wife.
The black gold had sunk into the western mountains, and the broken gold fell on the window frame, embedded behind her, as if thousands of golden lights were shining from her back.
Shiny.
Ye Jindian put down the teacup and looked at the golden mask.
She didn't know if it was an illusion or her sensitivity, but she always felt that the other person was in a particularly good mood at the moment.
The number of books has been determined and the official business has been completed.
Her calm and indifferent features softened, and she called out, "Brother."
"Hmm?" Zhang Min responded subconsciously.
Inner room.
Xie Zhaoming and Gongsun Shuo looked disappointed.
They listened for a long time but got nothing out of it. It was a pity that they failed to catch their brother's weakness.
I was just about to sit back and continue reading the storybook.
Suddenly they heard the word "Brother". They took a step forward and then immediately stuck back to the wall and stuck their ears on it.
In the main hall, Ye Jindian went straight to the point and asked Zhang Min: "I have always had a question, why do you wear a mask and gloves, not showing an inch of skin."
Zhang Min moved his fingers slightly and remained silent.
It’s hard to explain the reasons to her in detail.
"Brother, are you trying to hide your true identity, or is it as the rumors say..." The words came to his lips, but after turning around twice, Ye Jindian still couldn't say it.
Zhang Min shook his head: "Neither."
He did not want to hide his true appearance, nor did he do it intentionally because he was ugly.
Ye Jindian frowned.
"Tiantian." Zhang Min was afraid that she would ask more questions, so he quickly used the cakes beside him as an excuse, "Are you hungry? Do you want to eat something?"
Ye Jindian pursed her lips and said, "Brother, how come your ability to change the subject is still the same as before?"
It's so stiff that one can see through it at a glance.
Zhang Min sighed, "Tiantian, this matter is not important. If you want to see my true face, it's not impossible."
Ye Jindian immediately said, "Then take off your mask."
Zhang Min: “…but not now.”
He couldn't bear it anymore and saw her fall in front of him again, unconscious.
"Then..." Ye Jindian asked again, "Brother, can you please shout out loudly, 'Who dares to impersonate?'"
Zhang Min: “…”
He didn't dare either.
Ye Jindian stared at the golden mask.
She knew there was something fishy going on between her husband and her brother, but there was no solid evidence to prove they were the same person. If she told her brother she wanted to see him and asked him to send someone over, but he didn't, it would hurt her brother's feelings and make him suspicious.
Moreover, he had a strong scent of pepper and angelica, and no other scent could be detected at all.
Could it be that——
Do you really want to take advantage of him when he's not paying attention and directly pick him up to measure and compare their bodies?
Ye Jindian's eyes moved down to the tightly bound waist, and her eyelashes trembled slightly.
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