"Ahem, why didn't you bring Si Bao here?" Shen Qing coughed lightly to change the subject. She still wanted to have dinner. "I haven't seen Si Bao for ages..."
Ji Junye tried hard to ignore the pitiful look on Si Bao's face when she missed her mother. "It's not appropriate for her to come."
"Why isn't it appropriate?" Shen Qing glared at him. "I think you just don't want Si Bao to come!"
"Yes," Ji Junye admitted without hesitation. "I'm afraid she'll compete with me for your favor."
Shen Qing almost choked on her own saliva. "You... Your intention is as obvious as Sima Zhao's!"
He didn't even try to hide it at all now!
Ji Junye stared at her intently. The undisguised desire in his eyes made Shen Qing feel as if she were a piece of meat that had fallen into a wolf's den. As long as the wolf wanted, she would immediately be devoured without a trace.
He grabbed her hand and kneaded it absent - mindedly, looking like a hungry wolf admiring its prey.
"After all, I'm just a concubine now. Of course, I have to do everything I can to compete for your favor so that I can earn a proper status as soon as possible... What do you think, Princess?"
Just as he said this, Li Yue came in with dinner.
Her hand trembled, and she almost spilled the soup.
She was an old servant in the palace. After serving in the palace for so many years, she had never seen such an improper scene.
Sure enough, someone from outside. There were so many coquettish tricks. He was already coaxing the princess to give him a status.
Shen Qing noticed Li Yue's uneasiness. "Li Yue, you can go. You don't need to stand guard tonight."
"Yes," Li Yue replied in a low voice.
"Ask the kitchen to prepare some hot water."
"…Yes."
The princess was really going to dote on this concubine...
No wonder she was their princess. She was just so bold.
The Jingguo army was still on the other side of the river, yet she was already keeping a concubine.
Come to think of it, their princess had suffered so much since childhood. What was wrong with keeping a concubine?
Wasn't the emperor of Jingguo willing to send troops just to marry the princess? Then he had to accept this!
After Li Yue left, Shen Qing said, "Let me down. Have something to eat first. You mustn't have eaten when you came here at this time."
Although she did have that intention, they couldn't just get straight to the point as soon as he came!
Ji Junye slowly let her go.
It was good to eat something. After all, there wouldn't be a chance later.
Shen Qing let out a sigh of relief. She picked up a chopstick of vegetables for him and smiled flatteringly. "I specially asked them to cook your favorite dishes."
Ji Junye looked at the vegetables in the bowl in front of him, his eyelashes drooping slightly. "So you still remember."
Shen Qing's smile froze slightly. Hearing this, she felt like a heartless woman who had abandoned her husband and child.
"By the way, what happened in the South of the Yangtze River after I left? The King of Jin... should be dead for sure, right?"
She had been seriously injured even though she had run out of the wine cellar. Not to mention the King of Jin and the others who were still inside.
"Yes."
"That's good."
Before Shen Qing could be happy, she saw his face turn even colder. But he still slowly told her what had happened in the South of the Yangtze River.
"The King of Jin disappeared. The Princess of Jin tried to incite the old subordinates of Ji Huaiyan to fight their way out, but most of the Jin Prince's Mansion had already been controlled by Xu He."
"The Gu family fell, and the aristocratic families in the South of the Yangtze River were reshuffled."
Shen Qing thought for a while. "In order to preserve their strength, the aristocratic families must have spent a lot of money to show their loyalty to you. This is a good time to re - establish rules to restrain them."
Ji Junye didn't say a word, which was a tacit agreement.
"What about Xu Yanchi?"
As soon as the words were out, Shen Qing felt a almost tangible gaze on her.
Shen Qing: "…"
"I'm asking if you caught him. Don't let him run away again. He's like a bug. You can't kill him, and he's everywhere."
"When our people entered the city, he was being held by the Song family. Later, the Song family handed him over to show their loyalty."
He wasn't dead. He hadn't seen himself living in harmony with Qingqing like a loving couple. How could he let him die so easily?
As Shen Qing talked, she picked up vegetables for him. Ji Junye was very obedient and ate whatever she gave him.
Shen Qing also asked about some things in the capital, like the Wenyuan Pavilion. He said everything was fine.
Just like that, the meal was over.
Shen Qing asked someone to come in and clean up. "I'll tell you what happened to me on the mountain later."
"Let's talk about it later," Ji Junye picked her up horizontally and walked towards the inner room. "We have more important things to do now."
As he walked, his hands went to untie her belt.
By the time they got to the bed, Shen Qing had been stripped naked, while he was still neatly dressed, looking very proper.
Shen Qing blushed and punched him angrily. "Are you a lecher?"
Ji Junye let her hit him. "Yes."
With that, he kissed her lips that he both loved and hated, and had been longing for.
He had restrained himself during the last negotiation and just kissed her lightly. Now that she was right in front of him, how could he bear it any longer?
Although they hadn't been together for a few years, Ji Junye was so familiar with her body. In a short while, Shen Qing was limp all over and let him do whatever he wanted.
In a daze, she heard a "click" sound, and her wrist touched something cold.
Shen Qing regained a bit of consciousness. When she looked, what else could it be but the gold chain?
But in an instant, she gave up resisting.
Forget it. As long as he was happy.
The process wasn't as smooth as Shen Qing had thought. Although she was no longer a young girl and had already given birth to a child, it still made both of them change their expressions.
Just when she finally got used to it, she suddenly felt something. Shen Qing stared at him in surprise.
Ji Junye's face had turned completely dark.
"This time doesn't count. Let's do it again."
The bed curtain fell and swayed above their heads with the shaking of the carved - frame bed. It didn't stop until the middle of the night.
Shen Qing finally knew how hard it was to provoke a man who had been starved for a long time. By the middle of the night, she was really extremely sleepy.
"No, no more... I'm so sleepy..."
"You just sleep."
Shen Qing was really too sleepy. She fell asleep and woke up, woke up and fell asleep again. She didn't know when the lock on the gold chain had been opened, and it had slipped under the bed.
When he carried her back to the bed after cleaning her up, it was already dawn.
As soon as she touched the bed, Shen Qing shivered. She could hardly keep her eyes open and mumbled in a daze, "Don't make trouble anymore..."
Ji Junye kissed the red corner of her eye contentedly. "Okay, I won't make trouble with you anymore."
Shen Qing didn't know if she heard it or not. She fell into a deep sleep.
Ji Junye hugged her tightly and closed his eyes too.
He didn't mean to make it last so long. He was just too scared, afraid that it was just a dream of his, and she hadn't really returned to his side. He just wanted to prove her existence with his most primitive impulse.
It was so good. It wasn't a dream.
Shen Qing slept until evening.
When it was time for lunch and there was still no movement, Li Yue braved herself to knock on the door. It was Ji Junye who opened it.
He was wearing his inner robe, and there were many red marks on his neck and the small exposed skin. It was obvious how intense it had been.
Maybe because he had been woken up, he frowned slightly. His demonic face carried a sense of world - weariness. Even the few strands of silver hair mixed in his black hair added a bit of coquettishness to him.
Fox spirit!
These three words were the only thing that came to Li Yue's mind.
"She's tired and still sleeping. Don't make any noise."
Hearing his words, Li Yue got angry immediately. "How can you be so inappropriate? You've made the princess so tired that she still hasn't woken up!"