Chapter 71 She was so hot, swimming like a salted fish…
At the beginning of Yin hour, before dawn, in the hazy darkness, the chicks began to chirp, clearly hungry. They were growing rapidly and naturally ate a lot.
Shen Jizhao rested for a few hours before getting up again. Afraid of disturbing the woman beside him, he moved quietly, and only lit a small, dim candle. He was quick, and soon changed into his robes, extinguished the candle, and went out.
As he left, he glanced at the woman sleeping soundly on the bed, her face rosy, and thought it was good that he hadn't woken her up.
His wish was dashed that day; she wouldn't let him touch her, not even his fingernails. He had no choice but to obey her.
To be honest, he liked this kind of life. He used to think that the most humiliating moment of his life was the time he spent feeding chickens and growing vegetables in the countryside.
But now I feel that such days are very warm and cozy. I leave early and return late every day, and when I come home there is a light on and someone waiting for me.
He lives a simple and ordinary life, and is happy as long as she is by his side.
"Coo coo coo!"
The insects in the soil have been eaten up in the past few days, so he needs to pick some farm produce leaves for them to eat, such as sweet potato vines, wild vegetables, and rice bran.
The chicks are with him, so they can't eat anything bad.
This time, Jinqing didn't make things worse. He dutifully stood guard and watched as the once high and mighty Crown Prince was now squatting in the field, picking vegetable leaves with jade scissors. His posture was quite skillful; he knew to cut from the top to promote the growth of side shoots, and he did it quite well.
Even one of his subordinates didn't know how to do these farm chores, which shows that he had put a lot of thought into it.
He went to great lengths to turn the former Crown Princess back into the Crown Princess. He trusted his master, who always got what he wanted and would definitely do what he decided.
After cutting the sweet potato leaves and wild vegetables, Shen Jizhao went to get some rice bran and even built a special chicken coop for the chicks, with many troughs and pits inside.
There are small water troughs for drinking and small round troughs for food, so they can easily stick their mouths in to pick out food. The rest of the place is their habitat and play area.
He poured water into it, then threw in vegetable leaves and sawdust, and even added crushed corn to the rice bran, trying every possible way to fatten them up.
By the time he finished all that, it was already dawn. He instructed his men to prepare lunch for Jiang Shuifu, knowing that she wouldn't be able to get up for breakfast.
Sure enough, Jiang Shuifu woke up very late.
This wasn't just because she was bored and lived a lazy life; she hadn't seen the blue sea and sky outside for a long time, so she had no choice but to read storybooks.
Shen Jizhao acted quickly, buying her a large stack of sweet romance novels almost the next day. She finally fell in love with sweet love stories, and since she slept too much during the day, she spent the whole night reading the novels.
They watched until late into the night. Shen Jizhao hesitated to speak about her actions, but she snorted at him and wriggled inside him a few more times. He dared not say anything more.
As a result, she didn't actually sleep for long before being woken up by the sound of him getting up. She waited quietly for him to leave, and then quickly and skillfully took off her undergarments, leaving her only in a thin, sheer dress that hugged her body.
She knew he wouldn't be back until sunset; he was very busy.
Therefore, she became quite unrestrained, and she did this every day ever since she started having trouble sleeping due to the heat.
But it was too hot today, and she didn't want to go out at all, so she simply had Pan Tao bring her lunch into the bedroom to eat.
She craned her neck to see what dishes were served today.
Pan Tao's cheerful voice rang out: "Miss, today's dishes are crab meat lion's head meatballs, bird's nest duck, dogwood fish, mushroom stewed chicken..."
Jiang Shuifu was initially quite looking forward to it, as one of her daily pleasures was eating delicious food. However, after seeing the lunch, her eyes drooped. Every day it was the same bland food, and she felt like she was turning into a withered little sprout.
She seems to crave sizzling, oily roasted lamb, salt and pepper rabbit, and crispy pork belly...
But she only thought about it, after all, she was imprisoned and suffering, and he was definitely deliberately not giving her such good food.
Thinking of this, she took a big bite of the lion's head meatball and used it as his head.
After lunch, Pan Tao washed a lot of wild berries for her and peeled bananas for her to eat as fruit after lunch.
She ate with a silver fork, and didn't forget to feed the peaches. They lay together on the chaise longue, eating and chatting happily.
The afternoon sun was the hottest, and the peach couldn't stand it anymore, so it went to the side room to fetch water for a bath. Before leaving, it opened the window a crack to let the outside breeze in.
Jiang Shuifu dared not open the window wide, as there were countless guards outside, and it wouldn't be good if someone saw her. She kept drinking cold tea to quench her thirst and cool down.
After finishing her drink, she simply jumped onto the bed, at least it was a jade bed, where she could cool off. She frowned unhappily.
"You said you wanted to win me back, but you didn't even prepare an ice chest for me. You clearly just wanted to kill me with heat so I would bow down to you! What a cunning scheme! Let me tell you, absolutely not!"
When she gets hot, she gets in a bad mood, and when she gets in a bad mood, she gets angry. While cursing Shen Jizhao, she uses her slender hands to unbutton her nightgown.
After a short while, he stopped what he was doing, and most of the buttons were undone.
There was no undergarment inside, so once it was removed, her fair and delicate skin was naturally revealed.
She wasn't satisfied yet, and kept turning over, both her back and front, to get some coolness from the jade bed.
As she continued to cling to him, she nearly fell asleep, her legs spread apart and her arms outstretched, like a salted fish about to breathe its last breath.
It was indeed much cooler this way. She imagined herself, like a salted fish, back in the sea, swimming happily and freely, and she smiled contentedly.
Just then, footsteps sounded outside the door, and a large hand pushed open the door's defenses without warning, instantly entering the seabed.
When Shen Jizhao entered, the lazy bum on the bed was no longer in his usual unrestrained and bold manner.
She vaguely heard footsteps, so she turned her body slightly, wriggling a few times in a lazy, unassuming manner, to conceal her radiance somewhat.
She knew it was a peach. Although she and the peach had grown up together and had seen each other's bodies, there was nothing to be ashamed of. However, apart from bathing, she was still not used to others seeing her naked.
Shen Jizhao happened to witness the change in posture, and he was struck as if by lightning, his steps instantly frozen, unable to move an inch.
His body was covered with rapidly expanding, densely packed, silver-blue lightning veins, and his blood soon exploded and boiled.
At this moment, the woman's fragrant shoulders were half exposed, and her pink and white dress hung loosely on her shoulders. The dress barely covered her legs, not even her calves, and her feet were crossed and pressed against the jade bed.
Just then, a ray of sunlight slanted in, making the jade bed reflect light and highlighting her ten delicate, white toes.
He saw it all clearly.
Not to mention the view from above.
He dared not look any longer, clenched his fists, quickly lowered his head, and desperately controlled his gaze.
However, although his eyes were now clear, his mind was in turmoil, a battle raging within him:
Was she doing it on purpose? If she wasn't doing it on purpose, why wasn't she dressed? She was clearly avoiding him.
If she did it on purpose, why? Was she trying to entice him? To make him suffer? To make him explode and die so she could escape?
Shen Jizhao thought and thought, his mind constantly replaying the scene from that moment when he turned to the side.
He knew he shouldn't have done that, shouldn't have taken advantage of someone in distress, and shouldn't have entertained such fantasies.
But he...
His jumping ability is amazing; that's all he can think of!
It's alright, he's her future husband. It's alright, he'll definitely eat well. She's so fair-skinned. He hasn't shaved his beard yet. She's so voluptuous.
His thoughts were completely disconnected; he was rambling incoherently and incoherently.
Looking back, it was truly a close call.
Just as he was lost in thought, a soft, delicate voice, like that of a cat, rang out:
"You're back?"
Shen Jizhao was now certain that she wanted him to explode and die.
Jiang Shuifu turned her back to him, adjusted her dress, put on her undershirt, and buttoned it up.
After tidying himself up, he turned to look at the person who had just arrived: "Pan Tao, you..."
Her words were cut short halfway through. The person in front of her was not the peach, but the scoundrel who had always harbored ill intentions towards her!
Her eyes widened immediately, and she pulled back the sheer, hibiscus-pink curtain to distance herself from him. Enraged and embarrassed, she clutched her collar and roared at him angrily:
"Who gave you permission to come in without knocking! You're always like this, trying to find ways to bully me and take advantage of me! How about that, are you happy now!"
Shen Jizhao immediately explained:
"I didn't, I didn't mean it. I know you haven't been sleeping well these past few days because of the heat, so I specially brought an ice chest from the neighboring city today. This ice chest was hard to find; the ones in the restaurants were all broken pieces that melted as soon as they were brought back. I searched for a long time before I found one, intending to bring it in to cool you down. I didn't know you..."
He hesitated, a hint of panic in his expression, and finally could only bow his head and confess:
"It won't happen again next time. I will learn from this lesson!"
He had to knock before entering a room and wait for permission. Even a prince like him had to endure this.
Jiang Shuifu remained silent for a long time. He couldn't help but look up and see a tear in the corner of her eye through the bed curtains.
She cried. She used to cry a lot, but gradually, he never saw her tears again.
Why?
He perhaps knew it; he stepped forward and, through the thin, sheer silk curtains, wiped away her tears, drop by drop, gathering them in his palm.
"I think Shui Fu's tears are very precious. She shed them for me. Although I feel bad for her, I cherish them. From now on, I will bear all your emotions. I will no longer make you swallow them. From now on, I will report to you where I go and when I will come back. Is that okay?"
With the ice chests, the nights were much cooler. He brought in the ice chests one by one, and it was difficult to arrange them. If he put them too far away, she might get too hot, and if he put them too close, she might catch a cold.
As the evening breeze blew, the room was filled with pink furnishings, pink porcelain flowers, and pink gauze curtains, all fluttering gracefully like a dream, resembling a young girl's boudoir.
This is completely out of place for Shen Jizhao, a grown man. His presence here seems absurd no matter how you look at it.
He personally pulled out a piece of thin silk of the same color and hung it between them.
The bed, which was originally divided into a 3:7 ratio, was now perfectly separated, with him occupying 30% and her 70%, clearly defined and neither side allowed to cross the line.
After Shen Jizhao finished all these things, the girl had already closed her eyes, but he knew she wasn't asleep. He stared at her intently and said:
"I know you want some space of your own. Now, even though we sleep in the same bed, we won't see each other. You can do whatever you want, I won't interfere, and I won't be able to see you clearly."
This refers to her taking off her undershirt because she felt hot.
The person with their eyes closed was truly not asleep. Upon hearing this, they slowly opened their eyes, blinked their large, fox-like eyes, and spoke in a spoiled yet icy tone:
"I want to go home! I want to see my little sister!"
The man behind him remained silent, disagreeing.
She knew that revealing her true purpose was crucial.
"I want to eat barbecue! I want to eat all the delicious meat!"
That night, Shen Jizhao slept very restlessly. Following her body temperature, the ice chest was moved around, closer when she was hot and farther away when she was cold.
However, the movement was too much. The already delicate nightgown couldn't withstand the strain, and his eyes narrowed nervously. He then silently took it off, not wanting her to know, otherwise she would say he didn't cherish her.
Then, as always, heavy breathing filled the room.
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Author's Note: These chapters are written in the style of a sweet romance novel. I wonder if they've become a bit bland. There will be twists and turns later on, and the pursuit of his wife will become increasingly intense.
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