Chapter 86 [86] She is free, and he loves her. [One...
【86】/First release
Sima Jing raised his eyebrows slightly: "What method?"
"Since he needs a puppet, let's give him one."
Seeing Sima Jing frown, Yun Ran deliberately puffed out her belly and imitated her third sister-in-law's pregnancy, holding her waist with one hand and touching her belly with the other. "Although Prince Jing's whereabouts are unknown, Princess Jing is still here. If the news of Princess Jing's posthumous child were to be spread, Your Highness, guess whoever is behind this would be tempted?"
Before he finished speaking, Sima Jing's face darkened: "No."
Yun Ran was slightly stunned: "Why not?"
"Why do you say that?"
Sima Jing stared at her. "Last year, you jumped into the river to save someone, and I couldn't stop you in time. Do you think I have to watch you risk your life this time and remain indifferent?"
"So that's what you're worried about. I thought you were saying my method wouldn't work."
Yun Ran was embarrassed, but he breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems that this idea is still effective?"
Sima Jing frowned: "Don't be so playful, I said no."
"So domineering..."
Yun Ran muttered softly, feeling the man's heavy gaze, and quickly smiled, walking up to him: "Your Highness, I know you are worried about me. But there is a saying that goes, 'You can't catch a tiger cub without swallowing a tiger's blood', and there is also a saying that you can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a child..."
"Let alone the fact that I'm not pregnant, even if I was, as long as I can catch the mastermind behind this, it's worth a try!"
Seeing that Sima Jing still had a sullen face and remained unmoved, Yun Ran bit his lip and used his trump card.
She lifted the hem of her pale pink skirt, lifted her buttocks, and sat on the man's lap. Her two soft arms wrapped around his neck affectionately, and as she rubbed against him, she spoke in a soft and coquettish voice, "Your Highness, I know you are the most reasonable and understanding person. Just tell me if this method will work."
Sima Jing was already furious at her bold and stupid idea.
Now that she was twisting and rubbing against me delicately, the fire was still burning, but it had changed its nature.
He suppressed his untimely irritation, pressing down her throbbing waist with one hand. With his other hand, he lifted her face, his eyes solemn. "You know that coups and rebellions throughout history have always been bloody and treacherous. Once you commit yourself to a conspiracy, not even the ancestor you offer three incense sticks to daily can guarantee you'll escape unscathed."
At this point, his voice became hoarse: "Aren't you afraid of death?"
Yun Ran sensed the seriousness in his eyes and stopped laughing. Her dark eyes were bright and calm. "Of course I'm afraid of death. Didn't I tell you before? The immortal way values life. We Taoists value life the most and don't talk about death lightly."
Sima Jing: "Then why are you still taking the risk?"
"Then we have to catch the mastermind behind this."
Yun Ran blinked, and imitated Sima Jing, holding his face with both hands and looking at him: "You think about me, so I also want to avenge you."
Sima Jing's eyes flickered slightly: "Revenge... for me?"
Yun Ran: "Yes, that bastard was plotting against us behind our backs. He first used my goodwill as a pretext to flatter me, pushing you, me, and the palace into the spotlight, stirring up His Majesty's suspicion of you, causing you brothers to become alienated and suspicious of each other. Later, he spread such disgusting rumors. I don't care if His Majesty is angry or not, but these rumors have truly hurt my cousin, the Queen, and the innocent First Prince..."
"Actually, up to this point, it's not unbearable. But that bastard absolutely shouldn't have sent someone to assassinate you! And he even colluded with the Rongdi people!"
"Those are the Rongdi people! Damn it! Even the three-year-old children in our village down the mountain know that the Rongdi people are brutal and cold-blooded. They killed the people of our Great Jin and seized our territory. They have a blood feud with our dynasty that goes back a hundred years. They are truly irreconcilable enemies. Not to mention, those Rongdi people bullied and hurt you so much before..."
Yun Ran grew angrier and angrier as she spoke, her eyes gradually turning red. Holding back inexplicable tears, she angrily said, "Anyway, I don't care. The person behind this is so vicious. Not only did he betray his country and his king, he even wanted to kill my husband, nearly making me a widow... I want to pull that man out and pierce his shoulder with an arrow, so he gets the retribution he deserves!"
She spoke with great vigor and force, each word sounding powerful.
It was like a sudden summer rainstorm as big as beans, hitting Sima Jing's heart hard.
It turns out that there are people in this world who care about him so much.
It turns out that he can also be loved unwaveringly.
"Your Highness? Your Highness?"
Yun Ran raised her hand and waved it in front of the man's eyes: "Did you listen to me? What I just said was the truth, very serious, very serious...ah!"
Suddenly, my head was embraced and pressed firmly into a solid and warm chest.
Yun Ran was stunned until she heard the man's heartbeat again and again.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, strong and powerful, deafening.
She was distracted for a moment and couldn't help but raise her hand to touch his chest: "It's beating so fast..."
Still so loud.
It was beating even harder than before when she thought she was sick.
Is it really okay to jump like this?
Yun Ran couldn't help but worry, but above her head came a man's low, hoarse voice that seemed to be suppressing some emotion: "Fool."
Yun Ran: “……?”
Why scold her for no reason?
"How am I stupid?" she muttered, wanting to push the man away and have a good argument with him.
But the man's arms were like steel, tightly holding her shoulders and back, making her unable to move.
She could only poke his chest in annoyance: "Yes, yes, you are the smartest. You are so smart but you just watch the fun from the sidelines. Do you really want to hide quietly in Liuxian Garden forever, regardless of the flood outside, and just guard your own quiet corner and do nothing?"
Thinking about it this way, he does have the potential to practice Taoism.
only--
As a Taoist elder, she still had to teach him a lesson: "The Taoist Ancestor said that sages have no fixed mind and take the hearts of the people as their own. For those of us who practice Taoism, if we want to achieve the right result and become immortals, the most important thing is to have a compassionate heart to save the world and save people. This is the greatest merit of human cultivation! If we only care about ourselves, disregarding the lives of others and ignoring the suffering of the people, we are doomed to fail..."
When it comes to Taoism and cultivation, she speaks eloquently.
Sima Jing burst out laughing.
If she hadn't said repeatedly that she wanted to avenge him and hadn't proved through her actions that she really liked him, he would have doubted whether she was really open-minded or just pretending.
"alright."
He let go of the person in his arms: "No need to say more."
Yun Ran had just mentioned that their Taoist tradition of "cultivating in seclusion during prosperous times and returning to the mountains to help the world in troubled times" when Sima Jing stopped him and he couldn't help but look up: "Your Highness, do you understand?"
Sima Jing looked at her flushed face and pinched it with his hand: "Is it time to discuss the Dao and scriptures now?"
Yun Ran: “…”
After a pause, she curled her lips and said, "I'm just presenting facts and reasoning with you, trying to persuade you to change your mind and agree with my approach."
Sima Jing fell silent.
Seeing this, Yun Ran was a little discouraged: "Then your highness, do you have any other good ideas?"
Sima Jing pondered and said, "They will find a puppet sooner or later."
Yun Ran: "Then we should just keep waiting until they find it?"
Sima Jing: “…”
Yun Ran frowned, pushed Sima Jing's hand away, and sighed, "Your Highness, you are still too pessimistic."
Although she had long known that Sima Jing was a passive and escapist person, when something really happened, her views were completely different from his.
"I don't like to wait, and I don't like to be passive."
Yun Ran said, "It's true that they will find a puppet sooner or later, but by then we can only be spectators, not controllers. The situation will most likely deviate from our expectations. But if I enter the game myself, I will be both the chess piece and the controller. Even if I lose this game, I will not regret it—"
"Just like that time when I rushed down to save someone, even if I died that way, it was my own choice and I won't regret it."
"What I fear most is not doing what I should do, and then regretting it later... Just like not going to Jiangnan with you. I still regret it when I think about it now."
The more Yun Ran spoke, the more she felt her mind was clear. She looked at Sima Jing and said, "Your Highness, as long as it is my choice, I will never regret it."
She is not afraid of failure, but only of losing the courage to try.
Sima Jing fell silent again.
There was a long silence.
She shone so brightly that he felt ashamed of himself.
How could there be someone like her in the world?
He raised doubts in his heart again, but such a person actually cared about him, was willing to put him in his heart, and gave him a place.
Is he... worthy?
There was another long silence, and the two looked at each other quietly.
One has a dark and unclear look, the other has a firm and clear look.
After a long pause, Sima Jing spoke with difficulty, "Okay."
Facing her shining eyes, he said, "Since you have made up your mind, then do it."
Yun Ran: "Really?! You agreed?"
Sima Jing: “…”
What if you don’t agree?
She was free, and he loved her.
"But you must follow my instructions. Don't be rash or impulsive. If you sense something is wrong, you must put your own safety first."
Sima Jing lowered his dark eyes and looked deeply at his bold and enthusiastic little princess: "You don't want to be a widow, and I don't want to be a widower even more, understand?"
Seeing that he had finally relented and was willing to support her, Yun Ran's face lit up with joy. She raised her hands and hugged his neck, kissing him on the cheek: "I know! I knew that my prince is the best!"
Sima Jing pursed his lips, helpless.
The couple cuddled for a while, and he raised his hand and placed it on Yun Ran's flat, slender belly. "But how can you hide this? I've been away from Beijing for five months. You can't say that I appeared in your dream and you got pregnant."
Yun Ran rolled his eyes and smiled, "That's easy. Just say I was young, and I was too sad before, so my menstruation was irregular, and I didn't know I was pregnant."
"I've seen my third sister-in-law's belly when she was five months pregnant. It wasn't that big. I could have made it that big by eating three more bowls of rice."
"As for the pulse..."
She pondered for a moment, then suddenly remembered something: "Yes, the booklet that Doctor Xu gave me earlier mentioned that some women may experience symptoms of false pregnancy. I'll send someone to invite him in later."
Yun Ran is a man of action.
Having made up his mind, he sent someone to invite Doctor Xu from Jishidiang in the West Market that day on the pretext of feeling unwell.
Today, Jishidiang has a constant stream of customers, and the sign at the door has been replaced with one written in gold.
Upon hearing that Princess Jing was unwell, Doctor Xu immediately got on the palace's carriage with his medicine box on his back without saying a word.
If it weren't for Princess Jing's kind words, his clinic would have closed down long ago and would not have been so crowded today.
Seeing Doctor Xu again, Yun Ran greeted him with a smile, dismissed the others, and got straight to the point, "Doctor Xu, do you have a way to fake a pregnancy pulse?"
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