Chapter 42 Chapter 42 As long as
"Thank you...husband."
Lu Shenru was about to turn around to pour her another bowl of water, but before he could leave, these words whispered quietly in his ears like a gentle breeze.
Very light.
He turned his head and saw that her cheeks were flushed, perhaps because the room was stuffy or because she was still ill.
Are you confused because of the burning sensation?
She better not be so confused as to call the wrong person.
He pursed his lips, put down the teacup, and reached out to touch her forehead.
He stretched out his hand, and Du Lingjing knew what he meant.
She dodged his hand and couldn't help but say, "I don't have a high fever."
The four words ding-donged into Lu Shenru's ears. The very light words just now brushed against his ears, and now he belatedly realized that his ears were slightly hot.
"Then say it again."
He looked into her eyes.
The night was extremely quiet. There was no sound from the mountains outside the window. There was only the sound of her quick breathing, mixed with his heavy heartbeat, beating against his chest.
He whispered, "Call me again."
His brows were tightly furrowed, his dark eyes were absorbing her like the abyss, and he asked her to call him again.
Du Lingjing's breathing became faster, but she bit her lip secretly.
"Then my Lord, just think I have a high fever."
She refused, and Lu Shenru gritted his teeth.
Fruit is a habit that will torture people.
But the next moment, he reached out and held her arm, pulling gently, and his other hand had already moved to her ear. His hand with light calluses supported her ear and the back of her neck, pulling her towards him.
He frowned even more tightly, and his low eyebrows seemed to touch her eyes.
His hoarse voice was lower, but also lighter.
"Just call again."
He pulled her in front of him, and held her neck, forcing her to look up at him, with the corner of her lips almost touching his.
His last sentence sounded low, but somehow contained a subtle, unnoticeable plea.
Du Lingjing was stunned.
Tingjun asked her to think about it herself, and she thought about it for the whole day. So, was it because of this that he was unhappy with her twice?
He felt that she was unwilling to trust him, was not really close to him, and did not even consider him as her husband?
This matter was so important that it made him angry twice, each time more angry than the last.
Du Lingjing thought he was really funny and weird. Why would anyone care about this?
He gripped her arm even harder, the force was heavy and overbearing, not allowing her to even lose consciousness for a moment.
He was waiting for her response.
But she obviously couldn't escape from his grasp.
Du Lingjing bit her lip again, but also pursed her lips and smiled gently.
"Husband."
Her feathery eyelashes fluttered lightly, and the man saw the smile overflowing from her watery eyes.
Gentle as spring water.
It was as if a person who was almost suffocated was given a breath of air.
The man inexplicably thought of the day she married him.
It rained intermittently all day that day. Everyone gathered in the bridal chamber, and the two matchmakers vied with each other in saying auspicious words all over the room.
He kept saying "there will be a huge reward", but when he lifted the red veil, he saw that her long eyebrows were slightly frowned, and there were traces of tears on her face. Her eyes were pale, and she refused to look at him...
But today, I don’t know whether it was because the master had enlightened her or the heat on her forehead had not yet subsided.
She called him, "husband".
The man lowered his head slightly, wanting to hold her sweet lips, but before his lips touched hers, she suddenly raised her hand and pressed it against his chest.
What? He looked into her eyes.
Her eyelashes trembled slightly, "I'm not well yet, I'll pass my illness on to you."
Du Lingjing said, and heard him shaking his head and chuckling.
"Is that all you have in you?"
How many types of illness are there?
Du Lingjing didn't know how he dared to look down on Fengxie's power.
She seriously reached out and pushed him hard, not allowing him to get any closer.
She felt that she had used a lot of force, but he turned his hand and grabbed both of her hands in his palms.
Du Lingjing was surprised. Before she could inhale the air, someone had already held the corner of her lips.
He seemed to be kissing her, but also not. She thought to herself that she had not eaten any sweet snacks or candies today, but he seemed to taste the sweetness. He ate it carefully and searched from the corner of her lips towards the inside.
The palm of his hand clasped on the back of her neck near her ear continued to press her towards him. As long as she moved slightly or closed her lips slightly, he would gently flick her earlobe with his thumb.
Her ears were numb and she couldn't help but open her mouth. He searched inside her lips and tongue, but she really didn't eat the candy. He didn't believe it, and his breathing became more and more rapid. He began to attack the city forcefully.
His eyes were tightly closed, but his strength was not diminished at all.
Du Lingjing suddenly understood this person a little bit.
If you give him a little, he will occupy the whole road; if you open half a door for him, he will grab the whole building; if you show him a little bit of weakness, then you can only let him take whatever he wants... ...
He still refused to let her go, and seeing that she was about to get tired, he held her waist to support her and did not allow her to move away.
Du Lingjing was secretly annoyed, and took advantage of his unpreparedness to bite his lips.
He was stunned and opened his tightly closed eyes.
But the light in his eyes made Du Lingjing's heart jump, and the next moment, he pushed her against the bed...
I don't know how long it was, but when he left her lips and tongue, Du Lingjing almost couldn't breathe.
Obviously she was not well yet, so he did not go any further and let her go for once.
He lifted up her loose hair and played with her forehead.
"Quanquan..."
Du Lingjing's breathing was rising and falling. She didn't want to pay any attention to him at all and turned her head away.
Fortunately, Chongping replied from outside and said that the doctor in the inn had prescribed a temporary medicine for her.
"It is said that if Madam takes the pills tonight, she will have a smoother journey tomorrow."
Hearing this, he stood up and called Chongping in. He smelled the pill and asked about the recipe. Chongping answered one by one. He nodded and told Chongping, "There will be a huge reward."
Chongping went there immediately, and he poured the water again and took the pills.
For this pill, Du Lingjing wondered what the generous reward he mentioned would be like.
She found him funny again, as if he liked the phrase "huge rewards" the most.
Fortunately, he was protected by his illness, and he did not do anything else that night. He just secretly held her hand between the quilt when he went to sleep.
But the next day, he set out with her in a carriage.
With the medicine prescribed by the doctor last night, Du Lingjing was indeed much better today, but he insisted that she sleep more and said, "Lean on me."
Du Lingjing's face was hot. Qiu Lin and Ai Ye were still in the car.
Fortunately, the capital city was in sight, but when the carriage drove into the Yongding Marquis Mansion in Jiqingfang, he was surrounded by people.
He had been traveling back and forth between Baoding and the capital for several days, and even though he had dealt with many urgent matters on the way, there were still people looking for him or asking to see him.
He didn't even have time to send her back to the main courtyard, and even Chongping couldn't get away.
He waited like this until it was getting dark, and he finally seemed to have some free time.
Du Lingjing had just sent someone to call Manager Zhao to ask about the recent situation of collecting books in Guilin Tower.
Now that all the members of the Fu Party have been found, we can go back to Guilin Tower and collect the books carefully and slowly.
But Manager Zhao had not arrived yet, so Chong'an came here on his orders.
Chong'an carried a birdcage with a parrot with colorful feathers standing inside.
"Madam, madam!" the parrot cried as soon as it reached the corridor.
Du Lingjing came over, and Chong'an said that it was a small toy sent to the Marquis by his subordinates, "The Marquis said that it was to entertain his wife, and the Marquis will be busy later."
Du Lingjing knew that he was very busy, but she didn't need him to accompany her all the time. Besides, she was always afraid to touch children or small animals, so she just stood one step away and looked at them.
Chong'an said, "Madam, don't worry, this bird has been trained and is very docile."
Only then did Du Lingjing move closer.
While they were talking, calamus and mugwort and the others came over to look. Calamus was the best at these, and they said as soon as they saw them.
"This is a red-billed green parrot. I'll go to Qianxingfang to hang out. If I see someone losing money in a gamble, I'll use this as collateral. It's really valuable!"
Before he finished speaking, Ruan Gong's eyes were already on his face, "How dare you go to Qianxingfang?"
Chong'an also thought to himself, Manager Ruan should quickly deal with this kid.
No one in the entire marquis's mansion dared to go to the gambling house, but he was the lady's man and could go wherever he wanted.
Changpu quickly hid beside Du Lingjing, and this time even Du Lingjing glanced at him.
He quickly changed the subject, "I was wrong. I just went to see what they were holding in custody."
"What are you betting on?" Du Lingjing asked.
This time, Acorus didn't dare to say anything.
After all, the affairs between the Marquis and his wife have always been the subject of speculation. Some people even asked why Marquis Lu's wife had never attended banquets hosted by noble families after her marriage. It was because her identity as the daughter of a civil official was embarrassing and she was incompatible with the dukes, marquises and earls who were on good terms with the Marquis's family.
He thought it was just gossip, so he quickly changed the subject, saying that this red-billed green parrot was the best at imitating human speech, "Madam, why don't you teach it? It can say anything you want."
Chong'an heard it and said it was true, and said it to Du Lingjing.
"What the Marquis meant is to let this parrot learn how to speak like you, Madam."
"Learn from me?"
Du Lingjing shook her head. She didn't talk much and didn't have any interesting catchphrases, but she thought of someone.
"But you can teach it to say something else."
... ...
After Lu Shenru finished his work, he asked Chong'an while changing his clothes.
"Does Madam like the parrot?"
Chong'an nodded quickly and said that his wife immediately taught the parrot to speak.
The man laughed, "What did you say?"
Unexpectedly, Chong'an did not answer him, but instead suppressed a laugh and said, "You will know when you return, my Lord."
The man raised his eyebrows, and when it was evening, he finally finished most of the work and strode back to the main courtyard.
When he entered the courtyard, he saw the candles casting shadows on the stained glass window, and someone was sitting by the window with his head down reading a book.
The word "husband" she said in the inn made his heart skip a beat. He could not help but quicken his pace, lifted the curtain and went into the room.
She looked up after being disturbed. The light made her eyelashes grow longer and curled, casting them on the bridge of her nose between her eyes.
She no longer called him "husband", but she also didn't call him "Marquis". She just looked at him and spoke softly.
"You're back?"
She was still holding the book in her hand, and Lu Shenru's heart was filled with joy.
He couldn't help but come forward and sit beside her. "Are you bored by yourself this afternoon? Did you teach the parrot to talk like you do?"
She blinked, a smile in her eyes. Lu Shenru's eyes were fixed on her face until she pointed to Master Duobao, "I have taught you. It's there."
Lu Shenru came back to his senses and suddenly thought of Chong'an's strange look when he responded to him.
He stood up and walked over, stretched out his hand to play with the parrot, turned back to look at his wife under the window, and said, "What did the madam teach you? Tell me a few words."
The parrot seemed to recognize him. It first screamed "My Lord" and then spoke again.
"A huge reward! A huge reward!"
Lu Shenru paused.
When he looked back at his wife, he saw that she was covering her mouth to try not to laugh out loud.
The parrot's voice was quite loud, and it made everyone outside the room burst into suppressed laughter.
The man shook his head and smiled, then looked down at his wife.
"Is this what you taught? Who did you learn this from?"
"There will be a huge reward! There will be a huge reward!" the parrot was still calling.
Du Lingjing couldn't hold back any longer, her face was burning with laughter, but she saw the man walking towards her.
He just looked at her, staring at her, and suddenly asked an irrelevant question.
"Are you feeling better?"
Du Lingjing nodded subconsciously.
She nodded, then paused as she suddenly realized something.
His voice became hoarse, "That's good."
... ...
It didn't rain in the capital, but the banana trees under the window seemed to feel the heat and humidity coming from the window, and swayed gracefully in the night breeze.
There was no more incense lit in the room, but there was an inexplicably charming fragrance in the tent, mixed with the damp heat emanating from the connection, which kept swirling.
The quilt under Du Lingjing was almost soaked. Fine beads of sweat gathered from the crook of her neck. With his sudden force, they slid down her back, stuck to her long hair draped behind her, and then dripped from the ends of her hair.
She was breathing rapidly, and her slender figure was even thinner due to the illness. The man was very considerate, holding her and supporting her, so that she could bear more.
Until gradually, she could completely tolerate it even without the fragrance.
The man put his hands around her waist, and his calloused hands held her waist along with her slender arms.
The banana leaves swirled in the wind under the window, and he held her and thrust deep and deep.
The banana leaves were rustling in the wind, until she bit her lips and her toes twitched slightly. It was already the coldest time of the twelfth lunar month, and she felt a heavy rain falling in the tall, wide but damp and hot gauze tent.
The lady was like a soft and fragrant handkerchief, completely wet in the quilt.
The man stopped after a while and carried her to the bathroom.
The floor heating system in the main courtyard of the mansion caught fire, as did the main room, and even the west wing that was set up as a study for her.
The whole yard was warm. He just put her into the large basin of water and looked at her slender, fair and slightly rosy body, letting him hold her under the water. He suddenly remembered her calling him "husband".
For a moment, he held her close and pressed against her again.
She opened her eyes wide, but there was no escape.
The water was everywhere, and he made her orgasm again in the waves, and she was completely exhausted...
The next day we rested for another day.
But Lu Shenru didn't live to wait for his wife and him to arrive for dinner.
The nanny went into the main room to check on the lady, and when she came out, her face was serious, and she called him.
"I have something to say to you, my Lord."
Lu Shenru sighed inwardly, asked the nanny to go aside, and couldn't help but look back at the room before speaking.
"Mammy, please speak."
Nanny's face was very serious.
"Who is the Marquis? And who is the Madam?"
Lu Shenru thought that her illness had clearly healed, but she felt a little hot again this morning and couldn't even get out of bed. She couldn't say a word in front of the nanny.
"The Marquis is a great general who gallops on the battlefield, and the Madam is a scholar who sits in the library." He listened to the maid scolding, "Don't say that the Madam is weak and has just recovered from an illness. Just think about how long it has been since the Madam's first experience of sex. How could she withstand the Marquis's tossing and turning all night?"
The nanny suddenly said, "My Lord, you are so careless. You should just take in two concubines so that your wife won't be unable to rest."
As soon as he finished speaking, the man panicked.
"Mammy, you can't do that!"
He said quickly, his voice muffled, "I only want her."
The nanny raised her eyes and glanced at him. "Then the Marquis should cherish the lady and show her more love. Can the Marquis do that?"
Lu Shenru sighed, "I can do it."
"After that, light the incense for Madam."
"Would you like some more incense?"
He could feel that he and she were different now.
But Mammy said yes and looked up at him again.
"Not only will the fragrance make you feel better, it will also help you get pregnant soon."
After he finished speaking, the man paused and turned back to look towards the inner room of the room.
Assisted pregnancy?
"Then please, Madam."
... ...
Du Lingjing rested for three days before she fully recovered.
A few days ago, I asked Manager Zhao from the Seal Society to come and talk, but I didn't get to see him. When I got up today, I felt much more refreshed. Seeing that her complexion had recovered, Qiu Lin said.
"What kind of dress will Madam wear?"
She was asking about clothes, but she brought over a box of hairpin flowers.
Du Lingjing had never seen such hairpins before, but when she opened the box, she found it was filled with flowers.
It is not exquisite, but it is colorful and lifelike.
She immediately understood the origin of the hairpin.
Qiu Lin said, "The Marquis ordered the sewing room to make several sets of clothes for Madam, and they have already been made to match these flowers."
Qiulin also liked her wearing flowers, thinking back to when the master was alive, he thought the girl was too quiet. Others were dressed up like their mothers, but she wasn't, so he always remembered to buy her some lively flowers to wear on her head.
I didn't expect that even though the master is gone, the Marquis still found so many flowers for the girl.
Qiu Lin smiled and picked up a white and pink crabapple. "Why don't you wear this, Miss? Needlework just delivered a pink and white dress this morning."
Du Lingjing followed suit, it was just clothes, it didn't matter what she wore.
But when she put on this dress and pinned a big crabapple flower in her hair, she was dazzled for a moment when she looked at herself in the bronze mirror.
Is the person in the bronze mirror, as beautiful as a crabapple blossom, herself?
She couldn't help but look at him twice in surprise.
Qiu Lin laughed out loud, "How come the girl doesn't even recognize herself?"
Du Lingjing was stunned for a moment, then shook her head and smiled.
She seemed a little strange to herself.
*
The outer city of Beijing, in front of Guangning Gate on the west side.
Jiang Fengchuan entered Beijing ahead of all the members of the Fu Party.
He did not have to go to the Dali Temple to assist in the trial of Shao Boju's case like Hu Tinglan and his sister, but he would have to take part in the next spring examination in April. If he could be on the list, it would have been a long time since the Qingzhou Jiang family had a Jinshi, and the whole family would surely celebrate.
He received a letter from home asking him to stop traveling and go to Beijing early to rest and prepare for the spring imperial examination.
At this time, Jiang Fengchuan discussed with Uncle Hui, "I used to live in the Du family in Chengqingfang. Now Uncle Hui doesn't allow me to call her sister-in-law. It's not appropriate to live in her mansion. Why not rent a small courtyard near the Du family and live there?"
He spoke pitifully, but Uncle Hui continued, "Sixth Master, you should live somewhere else. The capital is very big."
Why do we have to do it in Chengqingfang? Right in front of my wife's eyes.
When he said this, Jiang Fengchuan snorted.
"I'm not allowed to call my sister-in-law, and I'm not allowed to go near the court. Does that mean I can't see anyone either?"
Uncle Hui looked embarrassed, and he said, "Then I'll go to the Jiqingfang Marquis' Mansion and rent a yard. Uncle Hui, is that okay?"
Uncle Hui was shocked, "Sixth Master!"
Unexpectedly, Jiang Fengchuan actually changed his route and headed towards Jiqingfang.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, someone called them and Jiang Fengchuan turned around to look.
"Madame Park?"
Nanny Park beside Concubine Jiang.
Nanny Pu stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty has already known that Sixth Master is coming to Beijing to take the imperial examination. Sixth Master, there is no need to go anywhere else. Come to Hongluo Temple. Your Majesty has asked the abbot to prepare a guest room for you."
After Nanny Park finished speaking, Jiang Fengchuan looked at Uncle Hui standing beside him.
"Uncle Hui told the Concubine Dowager that I was coming?"
Uncle Hui looked slightly embarrassed.
If it weren't for Concubine Jiang, who in the capital could control the Sixth Master?
He lowered his head and said nothing, while Jiang Fengchuan laughed.
Nanny Pu came in person, and Jiang Fengchuan had no choice but to follow her to Hongluo Temple.
After visiting the abbot at Hongluo Temple, Jiang Fengchuan went to the meditation area at the back. He walked all the way inside until he arrived in front of a large hall.
Concubine Jiang was standing in front of the statue.
The tall statue looked down at the world. Jiang Fengchuan walked forward to worship the statue and then bowed to her.
Before Concubine Jiang could speak, Jiang Fengchuan spoke first.
"Why is your Majesty helping her and guarding against me as well?"
These words made Concubine Jiang sigh.
"You also know that she is on guard against you? Then why bother her? Just let her live her life in peace and quiet."
But when he said this, Jiang Fengchuan just laughed softly.
He did not mention how to let Du Lingjing live a quiet life. He just smiled and spoke in a low voice with a slightly hoarse voice.
"Three years ago, my third brother could have come to Beijing with me to wait for the imperial examination. The doctor said that his illness was not yet terminal and he still had a year or so to live. But he didn't come."
He asked, "Does your Majesty know why he couldn't come?"
He whispered even more, "If you knew how Third Brother died, would you be able to remain calm?"
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