Chapter 198: Not Easy
Outside the window, the sky is full of colorful clouds, and layers of clouds stretch to the horizon.
On the soft couch, Wen Wan anxiously grabbed Shen Yu's arm, "What happened next? What happened to Meng Jin?"
Her eyes were shining as she stared at the onlookers with a standard gossipy expression.
Chen Yu calmly peeled melon seeds for her and glanced at her indifferently, "He's your fellow villager, so why are you so eager to kick him when he's down?"
Wen Wan pinched his arm and said, "Stop being jealous. I swear to God, he and I have nothing to do with each other! Tell me what happened next."
After Shen Yu came back, he told her what happened in the court today in vivid detail. When it came to the critical moment, he actually kept it a secret!
Shen Yudao grabbed her paw, put the peeled melon seeds in her palm, and then continued speaking calmly.
"Meng Jin has risen from a commoner to the position of Minister of Revenue. How could he be an ordinary person? It's not easy to bring him down."
"He knew this time he couldn't get away with it, so he put himself in a desperate situation."
Wen Wan reacted quickly, "You mean, he took the initiative to take all the blame?"
Shen Yu nodded, "Not only that, he even took off his official hat and begged for death. He even asked the emperor to punish the entire Meng family and have them all executed."
Wen Wan curled her lips and spat, "What an old fox! He said this deliberately, knowing that His Majesty would neither let him resign nor kill the entire Meng family!"
Shen Yu sighed, "Yes, after he said that, the tide of the tide changed again. Officials began to show magnanimity, saying that although Minister Meng had made mistakes, his crime was not punishable by death, and that a salary reduction or demotion would be sufficient."
Wen Wan blinked, "So let's just let this matter go?"
Shen Yu snorted coldly. Seeing that she had finished the melon seeds in her hand, he poured her a cup of hot tea and stuffed it into her hand.
"They were generous, but I'm not a good person. I couldn't just let it go. I made another scene in front of the entire court."
After a pause, he smiled and said, "In order to appease me, the victim, the emperor compensated me with the salary that Meng Jin was fined."
Hearing this, Wen Wan's eyes lit up, "How much money is there?"
As expected, he is blinded by money.
Shen Yu shook his head helplessly, took out a stack of banknotes from his pocket, and said jokingly: "Take it, to compensate for the child you lost."
Wen Wan smiled with her eyes curved, and started counting the banknotes.
As expected of someone who had passed the emperor's exams, he was very generous and spent three thousand taels at once.
Wouldn’t Meng Jin have to work for two or three years for nothing to earn it back?
Wen Wan put away the banknotes and said with a smile, "Meng Jin is really in trouble when he meets you. The birthday party was ruined, and after the incident, he was beaten up by you. Now he has to compensate you, the evil man who beat him up."
"Heh," Shen Yu raised his eyebrows, "This is all thanks to you and the child..."
Speaking of children, his eyes fell on Wenwan's belly.
When I was talking to her before, she had been eating snacks, and after all this eating, her belly was round.
He couldn't help it, raised his hand and touched her belly, his eyes darkened.
Before Wen Wan could react, she saw his hand moving down her belly.
Wen Wan: “…”
Her eyes widened and she was about to scold him when she heard him say something shamelessly.
"When you're full, you think about lust. Xiaowan, now that you're full, isn't it time to think about other things?"
What else could he be referring to besides what happened in bed?
Before it was completely dark, the atmosphere in the room became ambiguous.
The door was closed, leaving only a small gap in the window. An ambiguous scent overflowed from the gap and filled the air with a sweet scent.
In between her suppressed breaths, Wen Wan once vaguely heard his murmurs.
"Xiao Wan, let's have a real child..."
*
In the middle of the night, Wen Wan suddenly woke up.
She turned over and sat up, and the thin blanket covering her body slipped off, revealing the traces of lovemaking all over her body.
She was startled and turned to look at the man sleeping beside her.
In the clear and fragmented moonlight, his sharp features revealed a hint of tenderness that only belongs to a lover.
Wen Wan frowned, shook his arm, and growled, "Chen Yu! Get up! What do you mean by wanting a child? You, you... got it in, didn't you?"
Shen Yu was half asleep, and only opened his eyes reluctantly after she shook him for a while.
Wen Wan asked again before he could hear what she was saying.
He grabbed her with his big hand and pulled her under him again, "Don't make trouble. You know what my situation is. It's not easy to get what you want."
He paused, bit her neck, and whispered, "But I'm sleeping well. If you insist on provoking me, don't blame me for being rude."
Wen Wan: “???”
The room was filled with passion and lewd music. Before she could recover from the shock, he pulled the handkerchief over her eyes to cover them.
*
When I woke up again, it was already noon the next day.
Wen Wan dragged her almost falling apart body out of the room.
Under the sycamore tree in the yard, the table was filled with various foods, all of which were her favorite dishes.
Congratulations are setting the table.
"The general said he had something to do at noon and couldn't accompany Aunt Wan. He will come back to have dinner with you in the evening."
Wen Wan curled her lips. Come back and have dinner with her in the evening?
Is it really just eating?
With his greedy look, he might as well come back and eat her!
But after a whole night of tossing and turning, she was really exhausted. After sitting down, she picked up her bowl and chopsticks and started eating.
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a large wooden box in the corner of the yard and asked casually, "What is that?"
Gongxi took a look and replied with a smile: "That's the tonic sent by His Royal Highness Prince Cang. He said it's for Concubine Wan's health."
After Wen Wan finished her meal, she walked to the box and opened the heavy lid.
The box was filled with various precious medicinal herbs. He was worthy of being a prince and he was getting better.
Wen Wan picked up a piece of wild ginseng and estimated that if it were sold, it would be worth a lot of money.
She was cleaning the things in the box when a group of people suddenly appeared at the gate of the yard.
Gongxi shouted in fear, "Wan, Aunt Wan..."
Wen Wan heard something strange in her voice, so she turned around and immediately met a pair of sharp eyes.
At the gate of the yard, the old lady was leaning on a crutch, with a serious expression on her wrinkled face.
He comes with ill intentions.
Wen Wan put the things in her hand back into the box and walked forward to pay her respects.
The old lady looked Wenwan up and down with a cold gaze, as if she was looking at an object on a shelf.
Wen Wan's scalp tingled when she looked at her, but she could only bear it.
The old lady walked slowly into the yard, glanced at the wooden box filled with precious medicinal herbs, and her expression became increasingly gloomy.
"Zhao is too soft-hearted to allow a concubine like you to climb over her head and do whatever she wants."
"This box of medicinal herbs is nothing to my general's mansion, but even the mistress Zhao didn't dare to accept it. You, a concubine, are so ruthless in taking it."
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