Chapter 580 Getting Along
Jiang Fenghua blushed unconsciously again. She sensed that Xie Shang was crying. A grown man suddenly shed tears, and she didn't know how to feel. She just wanted to hug him and comfort him.
As Xie Shang cried, he became restless. His gaze was intense and affectionate as he kissed her passionately. Their lips slowly met, and at the moment of their gentle touch, her heart raced. She slowly closed her eyes without resisting.
His movements were as gentle as if he were stroking a well-behaved and adorable kitten, and his magnetic voice whispered "Ruan Ruan" in her ear.
Jiang Fenghua was immersed in his tenderness and unconsciously responded to his kiss.
Xie Shang grasped her fingers, his eyes filled with deep affection, and embraced her tightly. Before he knew it, her belt had been undone by him.
Just then, Jiang Fenghua suddenly felt a soreness and pain in her lower abdomen. She woke up with a start, pushed Xie Shang away with all her might, and jumped off the bed. She wrapped her clothes tightly around herself before saying, "We both need to calm down. We're not married yet." She thought she had started her period.
She escaped his embrace, and Xie Shang's lust instantly vanished. He wanted to tell her that they were actually husband and wife.
After Jiang Fenghua finished speaking, she went straight out of the barracks to find Lin Yu. It was pitch black outside, and the sea breeze made her shiver. The swaying shadows of the trees in the distance startled her and made her take two steps back.
Xie Shang happened to be carrying the cloak and chased after her. She bumped into his arms again. Xie Shang had no choice but to say gently, "Even if you want to go find Lin Yu, you should do it after dawn."
"I..." Jiang Fenghua hesitated, unsure how to begin, the pain in her lower abdomen making her feel increasingly worse.
At this moment, a guard on night patrol heard the noise and came over to salute. Upon seeing them, Jiang Fenghua felt even more embarrassed.
The group exchanged glances, then Xie Shang said in a deep voice, "Go and get busy!"
The guards left again, and Xie Shang took a cloak and draped it over her shoulders. "It's chilly at night, let's go back! I promise I won't move around."
He thought Jiang Fenghua didn't want him to touch her.
Jiang Fenghua had been holding back her emotions until they returned to the tent together, when she finally remembered to look for the menstrual belt in her package. She had been so flustered earlier.
Seeing this, Xie Shang said urgently, "Why are you packing your luggage? I was wrong, I'm sorry, I'll never touch you again."
He thought about it and still felt something was wrong. They were clearly husband and wife! Wasn't it normal for them to have marital relations?
He explained in what he thought was a humble tone, "I'm a normal man. It would be strange if I didn't want to touch you. Since we're mutually attracted, you... you don't need to pack your bags and leave over such a small matter!"
Jiang Fenghua felt utterly exasperated. She didn't know how to bring up her embarrassing story with Xie Shang. Women have their periods every month; how was she supposed to explain this to Xie Shang? It was just too embarrassing.
What made her even more embarrassed was that this was a barracks, and she didn't know where to hide. It was still dark, and she felt like she was going to die of anxiety.
Seeing that her face was flushed and she didn't speak, Xie Shang said, "Ruan Ruan, do you really hate me getting close to you that much? If you really hate me, why did you want to hug me? You even took the initiative to... respond to me. I thought you wanted to."
Jiang Fenghua wondered, was he supposed to leave so late at night?
The two were not on the same page at all; they were each thinking their own thing.
Thankfully, Xie Shang draped a cloak over her shoulders; otherwise, she would have been in real trouble.
"I want to go find..."
Then she felt that her pants were soaked, even stained with blood.
Xie Shang tentatively said, "Who are you looking for? I'll go with you to find them, so don't be angry."
Jiang Fenghua felt utterly humiliated. "I'm not angry. I'm on my period. I don't want to talk to anyone. I just want to go to Lin Yu and ask her for menstrual pads. You've been chattering on and on. Do you even have menstrual pads?"
Xie Shang was completely dumbfounded, his face flushed red and he was at a loss for words. For a moment, he seemed to have become mute, stammering, "I...you, we..." He naturally didn't have that thing.
"Stop with the 'you' and 'me' stuff. You step aside for now, I'll figure out how to handle this myself," she said again.
Xie Shang didn't think much of it and quickly left. The next moment, he rushed back in and saw Jiang Fenghua taking off her cloak and a large bloodstain on her skirt. He asked urgently, "Why is there so much blood?"
Jiang Fenghua quickly covered herself with her cloak, "Why are you back again?"
"I asked you why you have so much blood."
"It's normal for women to bleed, what's the big deal?" Jiang Fenghua didn't know how to explain. She had always been in good health and her periods were always on time, but this time her lower abdomen started to ache slightly.
Xie Shang then remembered that her diet used to be very refined, especially during her period when Granny Wang took good care of her. He said, "I'll go and make you some brown sugar water. Drinking brown sugar water will relieve your stomach pain. Just bear with it for now."
After saying that, he left in a hurry. Jiang Fenghua wondered how he knew that drinking brown sugar water would help since she hadn't even told him she had a stomachache.
This is a military camp, full of men. There's no way they'd find brown sugar here. She wanted to call him back, but Xie Shang had already rushed out of the tent in a hurry.
Xie Shang's next move immediately alarmed all the soldiers in the camp.
He couldn't find brown sugar in the military camp, so he ordered his guards to buy some from the street overnight.
Seeing that the Emperor was in such a hurry, the guards didn't dare to delay for a moment and immediately rode off to find him.
Meanwhile, because of Xie Shang's disturbance, everyone knew that Princess Heng had her period in the middle of the night, and the prince hurriedly prepared brown sugar water for her, even staying up all night to do so.
Xie Shang came and went, acting like a caring husband, which made Jiang Fenghua feel both heartbroken and touched.
Xie Shang didn't even care whether he would disturb Lin Yu, and went directly to knock on Lin Yu's door to ask her for her menstrual pad.
When Lin Yu saw Xie Shang suddenly appear, she was completely stunned. Guo Xiao was not in her tent; Lin Yu was all alone.
She stared at Xie Shang in astonishment: "What did you just say you wanted?"
"It's Ruan Ruan who wants it, not me." He said impatiently, "Do you have it or not?"
Lin Yu almost burst out laughing, but she held back because Xie Shang's gaze was too piercing. She found a bunch of menstrual pads and handed them to Xie Shang.
After Xie Shang left, Lin Yu couldn't help but burst into laughter. She never expected that the emperor of the mighty Great Zhou Kingdom would one day need a menstrual belt for a woman. She could brag about this to Jiang Fenghua for a hundred years.
Jiang Fenghua found it unbelievable that Xie Shang had personally gone to find Lin Yu, and wanted to ask, "Did you see Guo Xiao in Lin Yu's room?"
In the end, she didn't say anything and simply kicked Xie Shang out again, only letting him in after everything was tidied up.
However, what Jiang Fenghua didn't know was that the news of Xie Shang finding her a menstrual belt spread like wildfire throughout the military camp.
The next morning, Jiang Fenghua didn't dare leave her tent. She was afraid of being laughed at, which would be too embarrassing.
Xie Shang was unusually ingratiating and caring, spending his days either preparing food or on his way to prepare food.
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