Chapter 124 Chapter 124 "You have really always been...
Fang Ying didn't ask Lichun to teach Xiang'er anything in particular. She just asked her to follow him for a long time and see how Lichun served Fang Ying. When he had free time, he would explain the tricks to her and ask her what she was like in Fang Quan's room that day.
After a few days, the situation in the Fang family's inner house was finally understood.
"There's been no improvement at all. He's lax in his administration and favors his subordinates. All the benefits go to people like Madam Gai, who's a lazy, gossipy messenger, and he's harsh and unkind to the hard-working servants."
The more Fang Ying talked, the more she felt that her stepmother was hopeless. Not to mention her father, there was also her two younger brothers. Fang Sheng was already studying, but he had snatched the maid from his sister's room. His parents didn't discipline him, and they still wanted him to have his wish. What good could he be when he grew up?
Although Fang Yi is still young, precisely because he is the youngest, he is more doted on by his parents and is even more mischievous than Fang Sheng.
"Thinking this way, it's easier. All I have to do is find Fang Quan a kind and honest mother-in-law."
Today is Deng Hehua's engagement day. Ji Yanlang is not at home. Fang Ying asks Xingniang to take Xiang'er out to play for a while while she talks to Lichun.
"My wife has already worried enough about them." Lichun sighed.
"I did think about just leaving them alone after I got married, but didn't you notice? From the Duke, his wife, to him, everyone credits my marriage to my father. How can I not be a 'filial daughter'?"
Lichun comforted him, "Fortunately, my dear, you can see clearly now."
Fang Ying smiled and said nothing more.
She said this not to complain, it was just the way the world was. And speaking of Madam, Fang Ying was really worried about Li. The weather in Bianjing had changed a lot in the past few days, with a little snow. It must be even colder in the north, and she wondered if her mother-in-law could get used to living there.
She thought about waiting for Ji Yanlang to come back, discussing it, and writing a letter to say hello.
Unexpectedly, Ji Yanlang drank at Deng's house and was caught in the wind on the way back. He was drunk when he got home. He held her for a while and said that Wang Shu was a good boy. If Brother Deng were still alive, he would be happy to see his sister get engaged. Then he sighed and said that it would be great if Brother Deng were still alive.
When talking about sad things, I shed a few tears.
Fang Ying coaxed him to drink the hangover soup, took off his clothes, and went to sleep on the kang, but Ji Yanlang refused and insisted that she accompany him. She was both angry and amused: "Do you think you are Hong'er? You still need someone to coax you to sleep."
"Hong'er? Where's Hong'er?" Ji Yanlang sat up when he heard his daughter's name. "I'll go see her."
Fang Ying quickly stopped him: "She's asleep, stop making noise, or you might wake her up."
Ji Yanlang finally calmed down, but still wanted Fang Ying to lie down with him. Fang Ying had no choice but to lie down and listen to his drunken talk until he fell asleep. Then she quietly got up, went to see the child, came back, washed her face and soaked her feet, and it was almost time to go to bed.
Drunk people tend to snore when they sleep. Fang Ying had heard the snoring before entering the inner room, so she specially adjusted Ji Yanlang's pillow and only went to sleep after he stopped snoring.
But as she fell asleep, she started snoring again. Fang Ying was too lazy to get up and push him away, so she just covered her head and slept. Unexpectedly, Ji Yanlang got up at night and came back to see that she had covered her head. Afraid that she was holding it in, he reached out and lifted the quilt a little.
Fang Ying knew that he had woken up. She had not slept soundly to begin with, and was woken up by him. She simply asked the maid to bring her some water.
Ji Yanlang had just drunk half a pot of water himself. Seeing Fang Ying only drink a few sips of the whole pot, he took it and drank it all.
After drinking, he said, "I didn't drink much today, why am I so thirsty?"
"Didn't you drink much?" Fang Ying asked lazily as she lay back down with a yawn.
"Ah, I really didn't drink much."
Ji Yanlang signaled the maid to leave, and as soon as the door was closed, he lifted Fang Ying's quilt and crawled in.
"What are you doing?" Fang Ying pushed him. "Are you still sleeping?"
"I missed you." Ji Yanlang came over and kissed her on the ear. "Who can stand it if a couple always sleeps in two beds?"
He still reeked of alcohol. Fang Ying frowned and continued to push him: "You promised me..."
"I know. I don't want to do that. I just want to hug you." Ji Yanlang said, and he put his face close and rubbed it on Fang Ying's face.
Fang Ying's heart softened and her grip loosened. Ji Yanlang held her in his arms. He originally just wanted to get close to her, but with her soft and fragrant body in his arms, his mind was inevitably distracted. They hadn't been intimate for several days, and he soon felt aroused.
The two were very close to each other. Fang Ying noticed it immediately and quickly dodged backwards, but Ji Yanlang held her tightly and refused to let go.
"Hold me for a while longer." He said in a low voice.
Fang Ying heard that his breathing was heavy, how could she agree?
I couldn't help but say to him, "I was just lying down to sleep, how could this happen?"
"What's going on?" Ji Yanlang said, laughing and crying. "If I were still holding you and my heart was calm, not thinking about this, then that would be a big deal."
Fang Ying rolled her eyes in the dark: "Let go first."
"Then give me..."
Ji Yanlang whispered the last few words into Fang Ying's ear, and she immediately said, "No, we agreed on that!"
"I'm talking about not doing that, but this doesn't count. Just use one hand."
"Don't give me that. You say that every time, but in the end it's still..." Fang Ying became more and more angry as she spoke, and couldn't help but push him hard.
Ji Yanlang had a good sleep and seemed to be clear-headed, but he was actually not completely sober. After being pushed so hard by Fang Ying, he felt a little aggrieved: "The past is the past, but now, didn't I promise you? If I say one hand, it means one hand."
"Even your hands are not allowed!" Fang Ying flatly refused. "You didn't promise me whether to do that or not, but if I don't want to, you can't force me."
Ji Yanlang was also annoyed: "This is not allowed, that is not allowed, are you asking me to be a monk at home?"
"Who asked you to become a monk? Didn't you agree to this yourself?"
Ji Yanlang couldn't answer and became even more angry. He threw off the quilt and turned back to his own bed.
He was so angry that he lost control of his hand, and the corner of the quilt flew towards Fang Ying and hit her in the face.
The anger that Fang Ying had been suppressing in her heart suddenly flared up. When she was about to explode, she remembered that he had been drinking and it was so late at night, so she really shouldn't argue with him.
But she pulled down the quilt to cover herself, but it couldn't hide her raging anger. She endured it again and again, but couldn't help but sneer: "My dear, you are so arrogant."
"What's so impressive about me?" Ji Yanlang replied coldly, his back turned, without even turning back. "It's all up to you."
Fang Ying's anger grew even more intense: "What did I say? You clearly promised it yourself, and now that it's not going your way, you've taken my word for it."
"You're the one who gets what you say." Ji Yanlang turned around angrily and tugged at the quilt. "I'm back and I'm not bothering you anymore, but you're still not satisfied. What's the matter? You want me to swear to be a monk from now on?"
Fang Ying laughed in anger, "That's not necessary. Who would dare to wrong my husband? I was ignorant before. I didn't realize that my husband is full of vigor and vitality and needs someone to accompany him at night..."
Ji Yanlang felt something was wrong with her tone and sat up to interrupt her: "What do you mean?"
"What I mean is, I'll just pretend I never heard that my husband didn't want to take a concubine..."
"Fang Ying!"
Although they had been arguing in low voices, Lichun, who was on duty outside, still heard some of it in the quiet night.
She had never encountered such a thing before, and was just wondering what to do when she heard Ji Yanlang shouting. Fearing that the two of them were really going to quarrel out of control, she hurriedly said, "What do you want, my dear?"
Ji Yanlang gasped for breath and was silent for a moment before answering, "It's okay."
Fang Ying didn't expect that this sentence would make him so angry, and she was stunned for a moment.
"I knew it, I knew it," Ji Yanlang repeated in a low voice, "You never believed me from the bottom of your heart."
This sentence again, Fang Ying was annoyed: "Is this a matter of belief or not? You made an empty promise in the first place. Is it a sin if I don't believe it?"
"Fang Ying," Ji Yanlang said in a deep voice, "Do you really have me in your heart?"
Fang Ying didn't think much about it. Her anger had subsided a little, and she felt sleepy. She replied casually, "If you promised to win a first-class imperial decree for me, would you still be like this with my attitude?" Then she turned over and went to sleep.
Ji Yanlang still couldn't believe that she fell asleep like this. He sat for a while and asked again, "Have you really always admired me?"
Fang Ying didn't move at all. He was a little angry, but at the same time he felt a little relieved - if Fang Ying really answered no, even if it was said in anger, no one would be able to sleep tonight.
Although he was not sleepy now.
Ji Yanlang lay down, looking at Fang Ying's shadowy outline, his thoughts in a mess. For a moment he thought, it was just the two of them arguing, and the conversation got to the point, how could Fang Ying really be willing to let him take a concubine?
Then I thought again, but she has never been jealous, maybe she really doesn't care?
However, he never required a maid to serve him closely, so there seemed to be no opportunity for her to feel jealous. On the contrary, she was never wary of young and beautiful maids like other ladies...
Ji Yanlang paused, trying to comfort himself that Fang Ying believed in his character, but then he remembered that she didn't believe that he could really avoid taking a concubine.
She didn't believe it, and she didn't guard against the maid getting close to him, nor did she feel jealous. Is this the attitude of someone who has admired her for several years?
He suddenly remembered last year, when they talked about how Fang Ying might have become a royal consort if they hadn't gotten married. At that time, he was surprised that Fang Ying wasn't jealous at all, and even laughed at him for being jealous.
Before that, she got angry for the first time because of sex matters and blurted out that she wanted him to find a concubine. She also couldn't hide the strangeness she felt when she returned from the expedition to Youzhou...
Thinking about it this way, she might not only be afraid when consummating the marriage, but also... No, she couldn't think about it anymore.
Ji Yanlang turned over and lay down, closed his eyes, and tried to fall asleep, but he couldn't help wondering if she had been lying to him.
It was like two people were fighting in his mind. One of them said, "Of course she couldn't be lying to you. She's just a young lady, how could she lie to you about something like this?"
Another sneered: "She is not an ordinary young lady."
The first one said, "What's she trying to gain? She doesn't like you, but she's lying to you, saying she loves you and wants to marry you and have children with you. What good does she get?"
The one with the sneer said, "The advantage is that you don't have to enter the palace as a concubine. Besides, when she married in, your life or death was still uncertain."
Ji Yanlang was startled and opened his eyes involuntarily.
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