Chapter 159 Small Collection
One year after marriage.
Dusk had just fallen over the palace walls. Xie Jinglan, dressed in court robes, stood tall and graceful under the willow trees outside the palace gate.
A minister passing by and leaving the court saw this and jokingly said, "My Lord, are you waiting for your wife again?"
Xie Jinglan looked calm, but the corners of his lips unconsciously raised, "Hmm."
Not long after, Wen Ning was seen walking out from the vermilion palace gate.
As soon as she saw him, she pouted in grievance. She quickly walked up to him, tugged at his sleeve, and whispered, "What should I do... I lost a lot today..."
It turned out that Shen Yunshu had pulled her into the palace today, and they had joined Concubine Hui and Sister Wan'er in playing mahjong.
At first, everything was in good spirits, but who would have thought that the husbands of the three women - Chen Lin, Xiao Jinyu and even Emperor Cheng Xuan - would "happen" to come, under the pretext of watching the battle, but in fact they were secretly having an affair.
She was alone against the tacitly coordinated "open and secret attacks" of the six of them, and was defeated step by step.
"I practiced card skills with my grandmother at home for a long time, and I thought I could win..." She felt more and more aggrieved as she spoke, "But who knew they would team up to bully me!"
Xie Jinglan laughed when he heard this, took her hand and led her into the carriage.
The curtain fell, and he gently held her in his arms, saying lovingly, "It's my fault, it's my fault. I was caught off guard for a moment and didn't bother to pick you up, so they took advantage of the opportunity."
Chen Lin has been praising the gardens in the east of the city frequently recently. Xiao Jinyu has repeatedly wanted to borrow the West Mountain Horse Farm. His Majesty has also hinted that he wants to transfer his newly trained Yulin Army to the camp outside the capital.
Today, this group of people actually set their sights on his Ning'er.
Wen Ning leaned against his chest and said distressedly, "You earned all that with your blood and sweat through your glorious military exploits... and now, look how bad it all went to waste in one game of cards."
Thinking of this, she felt so sad that she no longer cared about winning or losing or her face. All she felt was a heavy heartache.
Xie Jinglan lowered his head and kissed her, saying nonchalantly, "If they like these little possessions, just give them to them. I have Ning'er, which is already a great blessing. The rest is insignificant."
He really didn't know how to love and pamper his Ning'er.
Even though she was in charge of the household affairs of the Marquis' Mansion and was becoming more steady and careful in her work, he was still afraid that she would be exhausted.
As early as when she took over, he assigned all the most capable old stewards and accountants in the mansion to her as assistants.
If there was something she didn't understand, he would hold her in his arms and patiently teach her one by one under the lamp until she understood it completely.
In this way, she took charge of things personally and gained experience, but she was never overwhelmed by trivial matters.
He even let her run her herbal medicine shop as she pleased.
She often did not charge any money for the medicinal herbs she collected from poor families who came to her shop for treatment.
If an epidemic breaks out, she never keeps the recipes she developed to herself, but posts them openly for anyone to use.
Because of him, Wen Ning put her heart in the military camp.
She and Cai Huichun worked hard together to improve the prescriptions for common soldiers' post-war injuries, carbuncle ulcers, broken bones and other difficult and complicated diseases.
There were also the pervasive poisonous miasma, harmful strange weeds, and bizarre insect poisons. All the sufferings on the border that she heard from military doctors or mentioned by the generals under Xie Jinglan became mountains on her desk that needed to be conquered urgently.
She read through medical classics and poison books, and after repeated trials, she actually managed to come up with many emergency prescriptions to dispel miasma and poison, and to repel snakes and insects, which greatly benefited the soldiers who guarded the border all year round.
Although the herbal medicine shop did not make much money, it earned the Anyuan Marquis Mansion a reputation for benevolence that was priceless.
The husbands of other powerful families in the capital talked about it privately, and their tones were full of envy and bitterness: such a beautiful princess with a kind heart and the favor of His Majesty was already in the arms of Marquis Anyuan, who had never been interested in women.
That night, he played with Xibao for a long time. After coaxing him to sleep, the couple returned to Tingsongyuan together.
As soon as he stepped into the room, Xie Jinglan picked her up and carried her sideways. He bent down to kiss her and walked steadily towards the inner room.
Wen Ning's face flushed red as she struggled lightly in his arms, her small hands clenched into fists and punched his shoulders, "The poison, the poison has been completely removed long ago, yet the Marquis is still like this every day..."
In fact, his poison was completely eradicated within less than three months of marriage.
But this man was still shameless enough to lie to her. He often pressed his chest, frowned, and said that it hurt a little, and pestered her to "blow it to feel better."
She felt sorry for him and leaned over to blow it.
But as the wind blew, the atmosphere suddenly became ambiguous, and his "pain" quickly changed places...
It was not until a few days ago when she asked her master about it that she learned that her master had already taken his pulse and the poison had been completely eliminated.
Even more infuriating was that the master had told her that when the Marquis first learned the solution to the "Nine Nines" problem, the master had asked him, "Are you still going to continue developing this antidote?"
He just waved his hand and said "No need"!
But he turned around and lied to her, saying that the master was helpless and the only antidote left was "sleeping together".
As a result, after she got married, she was "willingly" helping him "detoxify" every day.
Thinking of this, Wen Ning added a little more strength to his hands and hit harder.
Xie Jinglan knew it very well, so he let her beat him, treating it as a little fun between husband and wife.
He buried his face in the warm crook of her neck, his tone aggrieved as if he had been bullied.
"Ning'er, you've wronged me. Xibao comes to sleep between you and me every three days. How can I do this every day? When Xibao is around, I'm very well behaved..."
He grabbed her restless hand, and with his hot palm he stripped off both of their clothes in a few seconds.
His breathing became heavy, and he was about to reach out to touch the black box containing something beside his pillow, but a white jade hand suddenly reached out, and her slender fingers firmly inserted into his fingers, tightly interlocking his fingers.
Wen Ning raised her flushed face, looked at him with moist eyes, and panted softly, "I, I want to discuss something with my husband..."
Xie Jinglan let out a low, hoarse laugh, his eyes fixed on her rosy lips. "Want to change positions?" His free hand reached for the "Ode to Great Music" on the other side of the bed, "Madam, pick one..."
Wen Ning's legs went weak at the sight of the book. She took it and threw it at the foot of the bed without even glancing at it, saying shyly, "That's not the case!"
She tilted her head slightly, and gently brushed her soft lips against his jaw, and said softly, "Jinglan, let's have another child."
Xie Jinglan's brows furrowed suddenly, and he said firmly, "No."
"Why?" Wen Ning tightened her grip on his fingers. "Could it be...could it be that the Marquis doesn't like children? Doesn't he like our Xibao?"
"I like it! How could I not like the child born by Ning'er?" Xie Jinglan immediately retorted, but deep fear and pain welled up in his eyes. "But I'm afraid. I, I will never let you take that risk again."
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