Shen Yan was half mute when he heard the voices inside, and he didn't dare to delay. He was familiar with the herbs used for boiling water. Within a quarter of an hour, he carried a large bucket of hot medicinal bath water in.
After waiting outside the door for another quarter of an hour, seeing no movement inside, he asked worriedly: "Master?"
This is Lu Shen's ancestral maintenance method. Every time he wants to have thoughts, he soaks herbal medicine to consolidate his vitality. But he didn't know that the wine was so powerful. After taking a medicinal bath and changing to cold water, he was relieved in the water. Unexpectedly, he went ashore, changed his clothes, sat for a while, and returned to his old ways.
The weather was hot at this time, and there were some herbs floating in the pool. Even the water in the other ice well was slightly warm. He was born to love cleanliness and refused to take any more water. He didn't know why, but he couldn't relieve himself.
While he was irritated, he heard the sound of women laughing and playing from downstairs. He pushed open the window of the side building and saw the little woman half leaning on the bluestone in front of the building, with a pair of jade feet dangling in the curved water, her eyebrows Yingying, with a coquettish smile and a high-spirited expression, is definitely not the lowered eyebrows and eyes in front of her.
Lu Shen lowered his eyelids and listened to the woman's sweet smile for a long time. Then he told Shen Yan who was waiting at the stairs on the first floor: "Go and call Cui Shiniang." Finally, he cleared his throat: "Don't say what."
Shen Yan understood. He was down on the first floor and couldn't hear the noise outside. He was wondering how his wife came here. When he opened the door and came out, he saw Lin Rong had taken off his embroidered shoes and was playing in the water.
He only glanced at it and did not dare to look again. He stared at the ground with his eyes and said from a distance: "Madam, the Lord has just sobered up here. Please call Madam in to talk."
Lin Rong responded and put on Feng Xiao's embroidered shoes. The hem of her skirt was wet and rolled up red when she passed the flower garden. She pushed the door open and went in, but saw that Shen Yan did not follow. When she reached the stairs, she smelled a smell that was like blue, like musk and a little fishy.
As she lifted her skirt and slowly walked up the stairs, she thought about it in her heart, as if she had seen this smell before.
The second floor was a small attic with several windows wide open. Lu Shen sat in front of the desk with his eyes closed. Some calligraphy and paintings were randomly thrown on the floor. His clothes were neat, but wrinkled.
Lin Rong saw that his head was sweating profusely, his veins were bulging, and his face was extremely ugly. She didn't want to offend him, so she said against her will: "I didn't look at the road and fell into the lotus pond. Then I washed myself in the meandering water." I know I’m wrong…”
Before Lin Rong finished reading the manuscript, he asked Lu Shen to interrupt: "Come here and pick up the calligraphy and paintings on the ground."
Chapter 22 (Three in One)
Pick up the paintings and calligraphy on the ground?
Lin Rong looked confused but instinctively felt dangerous. Seeing Lu Shen like this, he was afraid that he would make things difficult for him again. After Lu Shen said this, she closed her eyes again. Without moving her feet, she only bent down to pick up the scroll of paintings in front of her and put it on the table behind her.
Lu Shen asked, his voice getting hoarse: "What did my aunt say to you just now?"
Seeing that he didn't look angry, Lin Rong became less alert, walked over to the table, picked up the paintings and calligraphy on the floor one by one, and replied, "Just commonplace words."
Lu Shen said: "When my great-aunt was young, she treated you a little differently when she married far away like you."
Lin Rong hummed and was thinking about why Lu Shen was so weird today, saying these things? To the front left, there is a rosewood bottle-type incense table. On the incense table is a large jasper plate with several pink and white new lotus branches. He bends down to pick up a scroll, but the scroll has been loosened and completely scattered with a slight movement. Then you can see the inscription "Taizhen Spring Night Secret Play Picture" above, which shows a man and a woman doing extremely romantic things.
Lin Rong was startled and rolled up silently, pretending not to see him and thinking about how to get out quickly. Unexpectedly, I heard Lu Shen say again: "Put the painting away and put the new pink and white lotus branches into the blue urn and put them away."
Lin Rong turned around and saw him sitting in front of the case. Although his clothes were badly wrinkled, his expression was much normal. He was holding a book in his hand and his eyes were not looking towards him. She hesitated for a moment, then finally turned around and inserted the pink and white new lotuses one by one into the green vase.
While arranging flowers, Lu Shen asked, "What did you do just now and take off your socks?"
Lin Rong didn't answer and heard him ask again: "Is there a rouge mole on your ankle?"
Lin Rong's heart gradually sank, and the new pink and white lotus in her hand fell to the ground. She hurriedly bent her knees and walked out: "Junhou, the painting has been picked up. I'm leaving."
Unexpectedly, as soon as he took a step, Lu Shen was pulled into his arms. Her heart jumped to her throat for a moment, and now she fully understood, struggling hard: "Junhou, I can't do it, I'm having menstruation."
She is just a weak woman. How can she resist a strong and martial arts man no matter how hard she exerts herself? After struggling for a while, he couldn't get free at all, but his clothes were half taken off.
Lu Shen yelled at her, making her whole body bristle with anger, and said in a hoarse voice: "Don't move."
Lin Rong really didn't dare to move anymore and begged: "I am not clean and cannot serve the prince. It would be better for me to go out and find someone who lives in the prince's room."
Lu Shen saw that her blouse was half-undressed and her face was as crimson as the new beauty of a hibiscus or the old makeup of a lotus, and said, "Come to think of it, you are the only one in the room here."
He put his arm around the woman's waist, leaned into her ear and said, "I drank the deer blood wine at the table. I don't know how powerful the wine was. I used medicine and ice to no avail. Please help me slow down."
Lin Rong was frozen and refused without thinking: "I don't know how to..."
Before he finished speaking, Lu Shen grabbed a bare hand and reached under the table.
Lin Rong asked herself that she was not a naughty woman, and she usually didn't have many strong bones, but this situation made her feel extremely humiliated. Her hand was held by Lu Shen, and it felt like sparks jumping on it and pricking her.
She wanted to struggle at first, but the more she struggled, the harder Lu Shen pushed, and the waist he was holding around her gradually became numb with pain. He had to say: "Junhou, please loosen up a little, it hurts my waist. I can do it myself." Give it a try.”
After hearing this, Lu Shen leaned back on the back of the black lacquered mother-of-pearl armchair, took a big breath, and slowly relaxed.
Lin Rong looked forward to nowhere, focusing her attention on an ink spot on the wall. Gradually, the hand seemed to be really unconscious. After an unknown period of time, she tilted her head slightly. From a distance, it seemed as if she was leaning on On Lu Shen's shoulder, the corners of his eyes were slightly red, and a clear tear fell down.
Even this seemed to be of no avail. Lu Shen's face became increasingly red, and the veins on his forehead became more and more prominent. He was panting, and sweat dripped down, soaking a large area of Lin Rong's thin front shirt.
Lin Rong was horrified. He had never known anyone to sweat so much when doing something like this. He whispered, "Let's call a doctor to take a look. This doesn't seem to be a trivial matter."
If something happened to him, Lin Rong couldn't explain it with a hundred mouths. Those Yongzhou civil and military officials would have to tear her apart. A little humiliation, naturally not as important as my life, just... just pretend that I didn't look at the road and fell into a cesspit...
Lu Shen opened his eyes and saw that the scarlet color on the woman's neck had gradually faded away. Although she was asked to hold her hand to do that, there was no trace of shyness on the woman's face. Instead, she became paler and her words became dry. There was no trace of eroticism, and his expression was incomprehensible: "No."
Lin Rong was half sitting on his lap, her upper body was hugged tightly by him, and their skins were touching. The hot air from his body slowly spread, making her feel a greasy feeling all over her body. She patiently advised: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid that the wine is a bit old, so I'd better call the doctor in..."
Lu Shen tilted his head, his ears were completely empty, and he could hear nothing. He could only see the woman's two red rouge lips opening and closing, her stockings and embroidered shoes had been kicked off, and she stood on her toes with a pair of warm white jade. In the Qian gauze skirt, meet the exquisite and lovely appearance.
The top of his shirt was also in disarray, with half of his shoulders exposed. The shirt on his chest was half wet, and the red gauze could not cover the white jade light inside. His eyes gradually slid down, and his hands moved up from his waist. , Adam's apple rolled: "Don't use your hands, use this."
Lu Shen groaned and thought to himself, when he saw this woman for the first time, he was overwhelmed with joy and felt that this thing was very rich. When he saw it today, it turned out to be even better than he imagined.
Lin Rong exclaimed, his sleeves were wide and blocked his chest. He felt dizzy. After holding it in for a long time, he muttered: "I...I don't know...Besides, my hands are useless, let alone... …”
Lu Shen moved her hands behind her back, not allowing her to refuse. He crossed his long legs and carried her to the open-carved lotus pattern couch: "It's different."
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I don’t know how long it took, but it started raining heavily outside. The rain was scattered and the wind was blowing randomly, hitting the new flowers. Shen Yan and Feng Xiao were waiting at the door of the small building. The wind was blowing and the rain was deflected. Feng Xiao was busy hiding from the rain, but a pebble hit her diaphragm, and she let out a cry of pain, revealing her exquisite jade feet under her skirt. Shen Yan looked over, feeling quite embarrassed and said, "Your skirt is too short."
Feng Xiao didn't know Shen Yan's identity, so she thought he was just a boy walking around the king. She glared at him fiercely: "What are you looking at?"
Shen Yan was speechless and turned his back, but he was too lazy to talk to the maid.
However, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the eaves of this small building were short. The two of them stood outside the door, and they could no longer avoid the rain. Lin Rong was usually kind-hearted and never beat or scolded the girl. Because of Feng Xiao's temper, she opened the door and wanted to take shelter from the rain inside.
Shen Yan was startled and hurriedly pulled her: "The master is on the second floor, you can't go in."
Feng Xiao threw it away and became even more sullen: "What are you doing, you bastard? The master is still up there?"
Shen Yan quickly let go of his hand: "Okay, okay, just don't go in."
Feng Xiao became even more angry after hearing this. The county master had never said anything like this. The master was on the second floor. Could it be that she couldn't even go to the first floor to take shelter from the rain? Is she so unworthy? Besides, if the master gives orders, how can he hear them downstairs? He snorted, ignored it, and walked inside.
As I walked further inside, I heard the woman crying and begging for mercy, and asked, "Are you okay?" No one answered for a while, and then the woman asked again, impatiently: "Are you okay?"
Feng Xiao was stunned, feeling that this woman's voice seemed nothing like her master's. She was so delicate and soft, so soft that it could drip water from everywhere. Could it be... could there be another woman upstairs? She was thinking about it when she heard the man say for a while: "Hurry up, be patient."
This was Junhou's voice. Feng Xiao recognized it, but why did her voice seem to be hoarse?
Feng Xiao's mind was confused and she heard Junhou say: "Just follow that painting and try to see if it can work?"
A dowry girl like her was taught by her grandma before she went north, but she was not serious about learning these things, and her grandma did not teach her clearly. After listening for a while, she really couldn't imagine what she was doing. , I just felt that I couldn't go up, and said silently in my heart: The voice of the county master is really heartbreaking!
Feng Xiao took shelter from the rain on the first floor for a while. For some reason, when she heard the voice of the county master, her face gradually became warm and her palms became numb. She trotted back to the door, not caring whether her skirt was flying or whether her feet were exposed. .
Still uneasy, he closed the door and sat quietly at the door. After a while, the rain soaked a large part of his shoulders.
Shen Yan coughed: "Come over to my side. The eaves are longer here."
Feng Xiao ignored him and shrank inside. Fortunately, the rain came and went quickly, and it stopped completely within two quarters of an hour.
Kingfisher led four or five girls over there holding umbrellas, and saw no one on the shore. The little girl at the intersection was hiding from the rain in the rockery. After searching for a while, she found Feng Xiao standing in front of the small building.
As soon as he saw her, he scolded her: "What's wrong with you? Why did you go rowing instead of going back to the shore for who knows how far? Master, I asked you to follow. Could it be that you lost it?"
Feng Xiao's face was still hot after being blown by the wind for a long time, and she whispered like a mosquito or a fly: "The master and the lord are upstairs."
Kingfisher didn't turn around for a moment and scolded: "You are not waiting by the master's side, but you are here in the rain?" Fengxiao just lowered her head and did not reply, looking like a quail.
The two people spoke loudly. Kingfisher scolded a few words and was about to push the door in when Shen Yan stopped him. With a smile on his face, he said: "The Lord and his wife are talking above. The two sisters are still talking." Wait for orders below, and wait until the master calls you in before you go in."
Kingfisher had a puzzled look on his face, and saw Fengxiao's red face. He gritted his teeth and asked, "How long has it been since the county master came in?"
Feng Xiao thought to herself, do you even need to ask me this? Naturally, the county lord has been in for as long as you have been back, so she didn’t dare to talk back and said, "It’s been almost an hour..."
They didn't know how long they had been waiting outside. It started to rain again. The rain stopped. Only then did they hear the footsteps approaching inside. The boots creaked on the wooden stairs. It was Lu Shen coming downstairs.
He opened the door and saw that the rain outside had stopped. He immediately felt that the lotus pond was very beautiful after the rain. He caught a glimpse of six or seven servant girls standing next to Cui Shiniang on the porch, and ordered: "Go up and serve your wife."
Kingfisher and Fengxiao hurried upstairs, opened the door, and saw that the hut was in a state of chaos. Calligraphy and paintings were scattered all over the floor, some with footprints on them, the screen fell down, and the five-colored tassels on the curtains were pulled out. , facing a spring bench, a woman with messy hair and slanted temples was sitting facing the window, her back exposed, and she was wiping somewhere on her front body with her small dress. The only skirt on her lower body was in perfect condition.
Kingfisher exclaimed: "County Lord?"
Lin Rong was still dizzy at the moment and didn't notice anyone coming upstairs. When he heard the shouting, he hurriedly took out his coat and put it on. His back was still turned and he didn't turn around: "I'm fine. You can get a new set." The dress is here, and the makeup box is also here. I will put it on before going back."
Although the words were normal, his voice was hoarse.
Feng Xiao was about to go in, but she told Lin Rong to stop: "Don't come in, go get your clothes, I'll be alone for a while."
The two girls didn't dare to go in anymore, so they sent the little girl back to get clothes and other things, and waited quietly outside the door. The road ran along the shore and was not easy to walk. It took no more than three quarters to get there. By the time the girl came back from fetching her things, it was already dark.
The kingfisher and the phoenix flute didn't call in, and the lamp couldn't be lit. The small attic was pitch dark, with only the vague shadow of the county master sitting on the spring stool.
Kingfisher reported: "County Lord, I got the things back."
Lin Rong said: "Put it on the small table by the door, and then go out and wait. I can just wear it myself."
The door creaked open and closed, and people were heard to leave. Lin Rong stood up. She didn't know where she hit her ankle, and it hurt as soon as she landed. She reluctantly got dressed, not caring about makeup, and just combed her hair. Okay, forget it.
Only her chest was in a state of disfigurement. The loose, light robe rubbed against her when she moved around, and she suddenly felt a burning pain. Only then did she look at it, and found that it was swollen and broken.
Lin Rong sighed, telling herself that she didn't care a thousand times, but she couldn't help but shed tears. She wiped them with her sleeves expressionlessly, thinking: Stop being pretentious, Lin Rong, you are not a real ancient woman, this What else? On the other hand, I blame myself for what I did when I was wandering around. When I was in Jiangzhou, I had already thought of a countermeasure, which made me relax and get carried away.
After sitting for a while, I heard the kingfisher and the phoenix flute calling outside. Then I opened the door and asked the girls to go back around me.
Seeing Lin Rong like this, Jing Qin didn't understand anything. When he got downstairs, he told Feng Xiao: "I saw that the county master was missing a pearl bracelet, and the golden phoenix and jade bracelet was also missing. You You must lead the girl to find her, so as not to wander out and cause trouble."
Feng Xiao agreed and led the two little girls to search inside and outside. They only found the golden phoenix and jade bracelet. When they went to the small attic for the second time, they found that the pearl bracelet was broken and scattered on the floor. She took the trouble to pick up the pearls one by one and counted them: "Exactly thirty-six. All of them. Let's go back."
When they returned to the yard, they saw Kingfisher arranging lotus leaves and lotus buds in the blue gauze cupboard. The girls all kept their voices and held their breath, not daring to express their anger. Feng Xiao handed over the pearl bracelet and the golden phoenix jade. Just when she was about to ask, she asked Jing Qin to put a finger on her lips and pointed inside: "Shh, be quieter. The county master is not very happy."
Feng Xiao didn't understand much, but heard the county master calling for someone inside, and hurriedly went in: "County master."
Lin Rong was half-lying on the bed. He opened the gauze curtain with one wrist and said, "On the way back, I saw nettle grass growing somewhere by the lake. You can pick some and bring back some tomorrow. I want to use it."
Feng Xiao nodded: "Yes!"
Feng Xiao exited, wondering why the county master was unhappy. Aunt Qu came in, not knowing what happened in the attic, and asked: "Why did the county master come back at this hour today? His clothes are all wet and his hair is wet." He is in a mess, and his eyes look like he has been crying. What was your order just now? Honestly, you are not allowed to hide it?"
Feng Xiao didn't dare to say anything, so she shook her head and said, "The one who got wet from the rain told us to get up early tomorrow and pick some nettles."
Aunt Qu asked: "It's wet from the rain? It doesn't look like it to me." Then she asked: "Nettle grass? What are you picking this for? It's not a flower or a herb?"
Feng Xiao shook her head and said she didn't know. She hid in the blue gauze cabinet and quietly arranged the lotus leaves with Kingfisher. After a while, seeing no one inside and outside the house, she asked: "Sister Kingfisher, the county master is in the small attic today." Have you consummated your marriage? Aren’t you always thinking about it? Isn’t this a good thing? It’s a good thing, why don’t you see the county owner not happy?”
