Chapter 159

That night, many guests were drunk in Feng Mansion. Chu Chengmao was drunk and fell down once. When he woke up again, he found that there were many drunkards lying in the warm room, and some of them were snoring loudly.

He rubbed his forehead, which was aching from being drunk. He didn't understand why there were only him and a few friends in the warm room before, but now it became a pile of drunkards.

When he walked out of the warm room, he found that the boy guarding the door was also drunk with a wine pot.

Chu Chengmao thought it was strange, so he took the wine pot in the boy's hand and sniffed the mouth of the pot.

"If you drink a sip, you will fall asleep like him." A lazy voice came from not far away.

Chu Chengmao walked over and saw Chi Qing sitting on the railing with his back against a wooden pillar, holding a silver wine bottle in his hand, looking lazy and very comfortable.

Chu Chengmao was not stupid, so he asked, "What's going on?"

Chi Qing looked at him with a playful smile and said, "Second Master Chu, don't you understand your current worth?"

Chu Chengmao frowned and quickly lowered his head to check his clothes.

Chi Qing took a sip of wine and said slowly, "There are so many drunkards in the room, which girl who wants to steal someone else would dare to sneak in here?"

Chu Chengmao finally understood why there were so many drunken generals in the warm pavilion. He clasped his fists and said, "Thank you, Military Advisor Chi."

Chi Qing looked at him with a smile, "It's not me who helped you avoid the peach blossom disaster."

Chu Chengmao had some doubts in his eyes, "I hope Military Advisor Chi can explain it clearly."

Chi Qing suppressed his smile, suddenly leaned over, and looked at Chu Chengmao carefully, "Before answering Mr. Chu's question, can I ask who Mr. Chu is thinking of? Miss Xie, or the Lord of Xing'an County?"

His tone was casual, but his eyes were sharp.

Chu Chengmao had seen Mu Xuanqing before, and for a moment, he seemed to see the shadow of Mu Xuanqing in Chi Qing.

He knew the past between the Mu family and the Xie family, and said frankly: "Chengmao respects the second Miss Xie." He

only said that he respected one person, so it was self-evident what he thought of the other person.

Chi Qing said "Oh", took the wine pot and sat back, and resumed his nonchalant look: "I don't know who helped you. When I came here, there were already drunkards lying on the floor in the room."

Chu Chengmao realized that he was fooled, his face was not good, and he turned around and walked away quickly.

Chi Qing then shouted to the roof of the warm pavilion: "Did you hear that? He likes you."

Yang Zheng fell down from the roof, glanced at the direction Chu Chengmao left, and said to Chi Qing: "Thank you."

Chi Qing said without any shame: "The county lord gave a generous hush money, and it is reasonable for Chi to be strict."

After Yang Zheng left, he smiled and said: "It seems that someone else is about to have a good thing."

Chi Qing stretched his waist and jumped off the wooden railing. The red envelope in his sleeve pocket fell out.

The cold wind blew the lantern under the eaves, and a dim yellow light swayed in the dark night, and the red envelope on the ground became dazzling for no reason.

Chi Qing laughed at himself: "Mrs. Quanfu is the same. Why did she give me a red envelope? I am not in trouble."

He took the wine pot and walked a few steps, then poured it back, picked up the red envelope and put it in his pocket: "Why do you have to go against money?"

When he looked up at the sky, Chi Qing suddenly narrowed his eyes: "Xuanxiao is sinking, this division... is Xizhou!"

His eyes changed instantly. Xuanxiao is sinking, which is a sign of fall!

Snow has fallen in the capital, and it is even colder outside the pass.

A thin layer of ice formed on the walls of Xizhou City. A tripod stood on the top of the wall. Firewood was burning in an abandoned iron pot. The orange-yellow flames jumped in the cold wind. The soldiers standing guard had icicles on their armor. A thin layer of snow fell on their hands while they stood with their spears, but they did not move at all.

The wedding of the King of Liaonan was celebrated by the whole country, but the soldiers guarding the border did not dare to relax.

The Minghan Kingdom was repelled, but outside the city of Xizhou were the horse-riding barbarians who were cut off from food on the grassland. Every winter, Xizhou City was strictly guarded.

When it was time to change guards, a team of armored guards went up to the tower, and the soldiers who had been on guard before left in an orderly manner.

On the sand dunes in the distance, a pair of eyes stared fiercely at the tower of Xizhou City, which looked like a sleeping beast in the night. Behind him was a well-trained cavalry, each of them tall and fierce. The crossbow cart used for siege was pulled by two horses, and the huge crossbow arrows were shining coldly.

Just as dawn arrived, when the rooster crowed for the third time, Jiang Yanyi suddenly sat up from the bed in shock, gasping for breath, with cold sweat all over his forehead.

As soon as she moved, Feng Shuo woke up, sat up and patted her back to comfort her: "Did you have a nightmare?"

Jiang Yanyi nodded in shock: "I dreamed of Madam An."

She turned her head and looked at Feng Shuo anxiously and said: "Feng Shuo, did something happen in Xizhou? In my dream, Xizhou City became a ruin. Madam An was holding her newborn child and asked me to help take care of it. She said she was going to find General An..."

Feng Shuo hugged her in his arms and patted her back again and again: "Don't let your imagination run wild. The nightmare is over. An Yongyuan couldn't come back for our wedding and he even sent gifts. What could happen in just a few days?"

Leaning on his warm and strong arms, Jiang Yanyi's uneasiness slowly dissipated.

"The silver ear soup is being kept warm in the clay stove outside. Would you like to drink some?" Feng Shuo lowered his head and kissed her temple.

Jiang Yanyi nodded. He took a thick outer robe and put it on Jiang Yanyi before getting up and going outside to pour her silver ear soup.

After drinking the hot bowl of sweet soup, Jiang Yanyi felt her whole stomach warmed up. When she handed the bowl to Feng Shuo who was standing beside the bed, she noticed that the belt of his pajamas was not tied. She raised her head slightly, and his muscular chest and well-defined abdominal muscles came into her sight.

Because of the fierce commotion last night, there were still red marks on his chest and neck from her scratching. Although the skin was not broken, it was very noticeable.

Jiang Yanyi's face turned red, and she gave him the bowl and shrunk into the quilt.

Feng Shuo saw her little girl's shyness, and when he got to the couch, he stretched out his long arms and pulled her into his arms, whispering to her, "You touched her last night, why don't you dare to look at her now?"

Jiang Yanyi turned around and glared at him angrily, not knowing that under the candlelight, her eyes were sparkling and full of waves, and this look of anger almost made people lose their souls.

Feng Shuo originally just wanted to tease her, but with her soft and fragrant jade in his arms, and it was his first time, he soon became interested.

"I think it's because I didn't work hard enough last night that you couldn't sleep well and had nightmares." His delicate kisses extended from her earlobe to the back of her neck. His voice was so slow, but his hands under the quilt had already started to mess around.

Can this guy still make his private thoughts sound more righteous?

Jiang Yanyi had never seen such a shameless person in his life.

At three quarters of an hour in the morning, the new house ordered hot water again, and the ladies who boiled water in the kitchen privately talked about their prince's extraordinary talent.

Jiang Yanyi slept until dawn. When she woke up, she found that Feng Shuo was gone. She remembered that she had to serve tea to the Grand Concubine in a while. She was shocked and cursed Feng Shuo for not calling her when he woke up. She hurriedly called Chenyu to come in and wash her.

"It's already 2:45 in the morning, why didn't you call me earlier?" Jiang Yanyi muttered while putting on a string of coral bead earrings in front of the mirror.

Chenyu helped her comb her hair and replied, "It was the prince who didn't let me call you. He said that the Grand Concubine sent a message that we don't need to go to pay respects today." Jiang

Yanyi had no idea that the Grand Concubine had ordered hot water when she heard that they had called for hot water at 3:45 in the morning. On the one hand, she cursed Feng Shuo for not being kind, and on the other hand, she sent someone to tell him that he didn't need to go to her courtyard to pay respects this morning.

As soon as Chenyu finished speaking, Feng Shuo pushed the door open. He looked a little solemn. Seeing that Jiang Yanyi had woken up, he restrained his expression, walked straight over, took the ox-horn comb from Chenyu's hand, looked at Jiang Yanyi in the mirror and asked, "Why don't you sleep a little longer?" Jiang Yanyi

glared at him and said, "It's all because of you. You made me think I had missed the time to pay my respects to my mother."

The word "mother" came out of her mouth. , Feng Shuo curled his lips, and slowly combed her hair with a horn comb: "Mother is kind and not someone who likes to get up early. She used to get up at noon. The palace doesn't have those rules of other families. You can do whatever you want and don't restrict yourself." Her hair

was of good quality, and her waist-length hair was thick and dense, dark and shiny, which made Feng Shuo love it a little bit, and he hooked a strand and entangled it with his fingertips.

Knowing that the Grand Concubine had the habit of sleeping in, Jiang Yanyi felt that she seemed to be closer to this mother-in-law.

The mahogany dressing mirror was very large. She sat in front of the mirror, and Feng Shuo stood, and his face could still be reflected in the mirror.

Jiang Yanyi looked at Feng Shuo in the mirror as he carefully combed her hair. She thought of his hands that had been used to wielding a bow and a sword, and now he was actually holding a woman's comb. She felt a special sweetness in her heart.

She shifted her body weight back and leaned against him comfortably. She looked up and asked, "Where did you go just now?"

Feng Shuo seemed to have remembered something. His eyes were solemn for a moment before he said, "Chi Qing wanted to see me for something, so I went out and talked to him."

Jiang Yanyi frowned slightly, "You don't look well. Did something happen?" Feng Shuo

wanted to say that Chi Qing had only learned a little bit of astrology and divination from Chen Guogong, and now he was acting as a charlatan. But thinking of the dream Jiang Yanyi had in the morning, he felt that it was a bit mysterious. He had already sent someone to Xizhou in a hurry to find out. He didn't want Jiang Yanyi to worry about these imaginary things again, so he said, "It's not a big deal. It's been resolved."

Jiang Yanyi knew that he had his considerations for not explaining it in detail, so he didn't ask any more questions.

After her hair was combed, she looked at Feng Shuo in the mirror and said with a smile: "You sent Chenyu away so you can help me to do my hair bun yourself."

Feng Shuo raised his eyebrows: "Why not?"

Jiang Yanyi thought he was trying to tease her, but she didn't expect that after combing it, it looked really good.

She was surprised, but she couldn't help but look at him suspiciously: "How can you do a woman's hair bun?"

Feng Shuo's eyes became distant for a moment. He found a pair of earrings and gestured at Jiang Yanyi's earlobes, and said casually: "I learned it from combing my mother's hair."

Before he was twelve years old, he and the Grand Empress Dowager had a hard time in the palace.

The Grand Empress Dowager was a favorite concubine on the surface, but because of the attitude of the late emperor towards them, no one in the palace looked down on them.

Sometimes the Grand Empress Dowager came back from the late Emperor with dishevelled hair and even wounds on her body, and she would often hug him and cry. He was afraid that the palace servants would see the Grand Empress Dowager's shabby appearance and look down on them, so he often helped the Grand Empress Dowager to comb her hair and clean her face.

Feng Shuo didn't like to recall these things. He took off the coral bead earring on Jiang Yanyi's earlobe and replaced it with the blood pigeon gemstone and silver tassel earring he had chosen. He hugged Jiang Yanyi from behind and rested his chin on her shoulder: "This suits you better."

The earring he chose had silver tassels, which really matched her clothes today. Jiang Yanyi followed his advice and changed into the earring he chose.

Her facial features are bright, and she looks attractive with just a few strokes of her eyebrows and a little powder.

When she was applying lipstick, Feng Shuo leaned against the dressing mirror and looked at her with his arms folded.

Jiang Yanyi's deep red lipstick would brighten her entire facial makeup, making her beauty look very aggressive. Except for some occasions when she needed to stand out, Jiang Yanyi usually applied light-colored lipstick.

Today, she applied a light red lipstick to match her overall makeup and not appear too ostentatious.

She raised her head and asked Feng Shuo: "Does it look good?"

Feng Shuo nodded with deep eyes, and picked out a box of lip balm from her pile of boxes and gave it to her: "You should look better with this."

It must be said that Feng's vision is still sharp. The box of lip balm he picked is indeed very suitable for Jiang Yanyi's outfit today. Jiang Yanyi was very embarrassed for a while, and finally picked up a clean handkerchief beside her: "Then I'll try this."

She wanted to put the handkerchief to her lips, but Feng Shuo grabbed her wrist. He leaned over and kissed Jiang Yanyi's lips directly, eating up the lip balm she had originally applied.

Jiang Yanyi's beautiful eyes widened.

The instigator licked the corner of his lips, still not satisfied, and said in a high-sounding manner: "It's faster to apply it this way."

After Jiang Yanyi finished applying the lip balm he chose, he picked out another box and said: "This color is also good."

Jiang Yanyi: "..."

Because of someone's messing around, Jiang Yanyi spent a lot of time on this morning makeup. In the end, because of the swollen lips from being kissed, he was so annoyed that he ignored the person all morning.