Chapter 471 Nominal Couple
It was a big challenge for Yun Chen to go from friends to nominal husband and wife.
In her heart, Yan Shijiu was a good friend with whom she had shared life and death. They had known each other for many years and were already very familiar with each other.
But now that she has been living in Yan's house for a while, she has suddenly broken the boundary of "friends". She eats, drinks, defecates and urinates with Yan Shijiu every day, sees him all the time, often quarrels and fights with him, and has to adapt to each other in daily life. All of this makes her feel very awkward.
Take eating and drinking for example.
Perhaps because of years of martial arts training, Yun Chen can eat and drink a lot, and has a strong taste. She likes all kinds of meat dishes.
With a bowl of four-happiness lion's head, she could eat two bowls of rice. She could also eat a grilled steak and a bowl of small hanging pear soup, and she would eat it all.
Now it is winter and the weather is getting colder. She especially likes to eat mutton. She sits in front of the hot pot with a small bowl in her hand, waiting patiently for the pot to boil. After the meat slices, vegetables and fish balls roll up and down in the thick soup and float up, she can't wait to pick up a chopstick of tender mutton slices, dip it in the prepared salt water sesame paste, and swallow it in a few mouthfuls. From the stomach to the heart, she feels warm all over.
When you get tired of it, have two more pots of green plum wine and a plate of fried crispy pork, how delicious!
This made the chef in the Yan Mansion, who was used to making steamed fish, steamed shrimp, and steamed yam and plum cake for Yan Shijiu, finally feel that "the hero has a place to use his skills". The look he gave Yun Chen was like the look Boya gave Ziqi, and he felt as touched as if he had met a confidant.
Yun Chen loves to eat, so the chef cooks for her in different ways, as if he wants to put into practice all the food he has learned in his life.
As a result, the chef was too excited and inevitably ignored Yan Shijiu.
In the past, there were twelve dishes on the table, all of which were Yan Shijiu's favorites. Now, ten of them were meat. Yan Shijiu could only sit at the corner of the table, chewing slowly on two extremely bland vegetables, and watching in surprise as Yun Chen ate like a wild beast, finishing the whole table in the blink of an eye.
He stopped his chopsticks at his mouth and looked her up and down in disbelief:
"I really can't figure it out. Where did all that meat go on your small body?"
Yun Chen swallowed a big mouthful of braised duck wings and looked back at him:
"I can't understand it either. You're such a big guy, and you actually eat grass? And you don't drink? I used to think you couldn't hold your liquor. You only had one glass with every meal. So, you really don't drink?"
"Wine makes me lose my mind. I can't drink. I have to stay sober." Yan Shijiu replied, then added with a smile: "Besides, when you are warm and full, you will think about sex. Once I am full and satisfied, I don't know what to do!"
Yun Chen glared at him, but considering that there were many servants in the dining room, she couldn't do anything because they had agreed to pretend to be a couple with Yan Shijiu in front of outsiders.
So, even though they were accommodating in terms of food and drink, Yan Shijiu was forced to get used to the pungent smell of mutton.
But it’s difficult to manage the daily routine.
Yun Chen is a person who gets up early and goes to bed early. Except for fighting outside in recent years, she generally does not stay up late unless there are special circumstances.
After eating and drinking enough, lie down with your belly facing the sky, free of distractions, and fall asleep immediately. The key is to have a healthy body with sufficient qi and blood.
Every morning, as soon as it got light, she started practicing sword, boxing and grooming the horse in the yard.
There was a whirring sound of fists, and then he started practicing some "meaningless secret book" with something like a cheat sheet.
She worked tirelessly every day, but unfortunately she didn't make much progress. On the one hand, her martial arts skills were already very high, and it would be difficult to make further progress.
The second aspect was that when she started practicing the secret book, as soon as she started cultivating the Qi, she felt that her internal organs and meridians were not right, as if they were shifted. It felt too uncomfortable, so she stopped forcing it.
Then by the time the rooster crowed for the third time, she had finished her breakfast.
By noon, she had just finished running twenty laps around the mansion.
Because she couldn't go out now and the whole mansion was full of guards, she could only run along the wall in the mansion.
Fortunately, the Yan Mansion is very big, enough for her to show her skills.
After running, I went to see A Ling again, pulled the hibernating creature out of its hiding, dragged it into the snow and gave it a good scrubbing. Then I tidied up A Ling's big cage and house, which most servants dared not enter to clean, and dragged A Ling back.
A Ling was sleeping in a daze and reluctantly. Although he didn't like being disturbed, he had a good temper and never resisted.
There were only two times when I was annoyed by Yun Chen's energetic and jumping around. I just sighed softly and hung my head without moving. I looked very sleepy, as if to say:
"Hey, sister, I'm a python. I hibernate, do you understand? In the middle of winter, everyone is wrapped in cotton-padded clothes, but you're the only one wearing two layers of clothing and not afraid of the cold. You don't know what 'winter' means, but you don't know what 'hibernate' means?"
After Yun Chen finished cleaning up A Ling's place, it was time for lunch. Yan Shijiu then got up, dragged his tired feet to sit at the table, and started eating his two plates of grass, no, light dishes.
To be honest, if Yan Shijiu didn't want to have dinner with Yun Chen every day, he usually wouldn't get up now and would sleep until after lunch.
After lunch, Yan Shijiu lay on the beauty couch as usual, looking up at the sky motionlessly.
He called it "Yan's meditation, to nourish the body and mind", and he would sit there for an entire afternoon without even moving.
Yun Chen was like an iron barrel and a perpetual fire chariot, busy in the yard, leading the servants to sort out and put away all kinds of things that had been moved back some time ago from the Huo Mansion, the Yun Mansion, the Rong Mansion, etc.
Today, Yan Shijiu's desk will be removed and replaced with Duan Jie's. The day after tomorrow, the dining table in her room will be moved to Luo Dongdong's house.
She arranged all the items neatly, just like the soldiers under her command.
When she finally finished her work, had dinner and was ready to go to bed, Yan Shijiu, the night owl, finally came to life. He shook off his lazy look during the day, jumped up from the beauty bed, and started to "torture" her.
"Let's go to the theater!"
"There's a night show at Qianchai Tower, do you want to see it?"
"The Emperor wants me to go to the palace again. Please accompany me. I'll be out soon. When I say soon, I mean soon in terms of discussing things, not that kind of thing. You understand, right?"
Yun Chen didn't want to go to any of them, he just wanted to sleep.
Yan Shijiu kept crying, making a fuss, and even threatening to commit suicide, and she knew that if she didn't agree, he would stay by her bed and not leave.
He would either speak frivolously to her or touch her to make her angry. In the end, he would drag her along seven or eight times out of ten. When they came back exhausted from playing, it was usually late at night.
Yun Chen finally understood some of A Ling's pain. He fell asleep as soon as he touched the pillow, and sometimes he didn't even have the energy to change his clothes.
As for Yan Shijiu, he came to the study only after Yun Chen was completely exhausted and fell asleep.
Wan Chen jumped lightly onto the beam and moved the highly decorated pure copper snake head on top of the beam, which most people would not notice or touch specifically.
As the snake head opened its mouth and spit out its tongue, a heavy, dark door opened behind several rows of bookshelves.
In the second half of the night, Yan Shijiu would sit motionless in the secret room, briefly resuming his identity as the Emperor of Dongyan and reviewing some confidential memorials sent from Dongyan.
Sometimes there were too many memorials and they took too long to review. By the time he put down the imperial pen and seal, the morning light had already begun to shine through.
Wan Chen put a fox fur cloak on Yan Shijiu's shoulders and advised:
"Your Majesty, may I wait for you to rest?"
Looking at Yan Shijiu's tired look, Wan Chen sighed silently in his heart.
As the days passed, Yan Shijiu's plan to dominate the Three Kingdoms progressed day by day.
He is not only the emperor of Dongyan, but also the secret ally of Xiyan. He is the male favorite of Nanlijun and the husband of Yunchen.
There are endless affairs to be busy with, endless secrets to keep, endless superficial interactions to deal with, and endless worries and calculations to consider.
In order to keep a clear mind, Yan Shijiu did not dare to drink alcohol, eat too much meat and rice for a long time, and even when he slept at night, he often frowned and could not sleep peacefully.
In Wan Chen's opinion, these days are really tiring.
But Yan Shijiu obviously didn't think so.
How does the saying go? Power is the best stimulant, and desire is the strongest driving force.
Among these many identities, Yan Shijiu obviously likes the role of "Husband Yun Chen" the most.
Faintly hearing the sound of Yun Chen practicing sword in the yard, the fatigue on Yan Shijiu's face disappeared instantly. He stroked the phoenix seal on the table. He had someone send it all the way from Dongyan. It had been kept in this secret room since he married Yun Chen.
For him, there has never been any such thing as "pretending to get married". Since they have worshipped heaven and earth, they are a real couple with the approval of all the gods.
Yun Chen is his wife, and the only thing between him and the future queen of his kingdom is a grand wedding of the emperor and the queen.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile, stretched himself, and said with a smile:
"Did you hear that? After she finishes sword practice, it's time to groom her horse. Well, I won't sleep tonight. I'm going to accompany your queen."
After saying that, Yan Shijiu stood up and left briskly, leaving Wan Chen in the secret room of the study to clean up the mess.
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