It was as if he had coaxed her like this countless times.
Meng Xin and Wang Xi both stopped talking and pretended not to hear.
Nowadays, no one except Wei Yanzhou dares to say the word "marshal".
Because Cheng Ning struggled, a bowl of medicine spilled a lot on her clothes, but she drank it in the end.
Wei Yanzhou personally changed her clothes and put medicine on her bruised arm.
After seeing that the person was sleeping peacefully, he waved Meng Xin and others away.
He cleaned up, went to bed, held Cheng Ning in his arms, covered her with sweat, and didn't let up until the fever subsided.
Cheng Ning woke up from thirst in the middle of the night and smelled a familiar smell.
Wei Yanzhou always has some woody fragrance on his body, like cedar, fresh and powerful.
He didn't wake up, and his hands were still tightly wrapped around Cheng Ning's waist.
Her eyelashes were like crow feathers, even more beautiful than those of a woman, but she didn't know what she was dreaming about, and her brows were lightly furrowed.
The long and disheveled hair made him lose some of his usual aggressiveness, making him look much softer and no longer so unattainable.
Cheng Ning knew that Wei Yanzhou had a strong charm.
Otherwise, Xie Nianyao would not be so obsessed with him. But such a person has the cruelest heart.
She couldn't even tell whether Wei Yanzhou's feelings for her were humiliation or love.
I never thought that this little wolf-dog-like boy next to me would one day become so crazy.
Regardless of opposition and dissuasion, he imprisoned himself like a bird in a cage and exterminated the entire Cheng family.
It was obviously a friendship they had grown up with when they were young, but when he pressed her down, his eyes were full of possessiveness that Cheng Ning couldn't understand.
It was as if when he was getting along with her in the past, he suppressed such emotions and pretended not to care.
Cheng Ning's fingers scraped across Wei Yanzhou's lips. These lips were extremely thin, showing a sign of indifference.
Wei Yanzhou's eyelashes trembled and he woke up.
But he didn't seem to wake up, and looked at Cheng Ning in a daze.
The curtain was deep, and there were only two of them in this world.
Breathing is audible.
There is no need to reach out, the person in front of you is in your arms, you can ignore the love and hate.
Two people like in a dream.
Cheng Ning moved and reached out a hand to feel under the pillow. He pulled out a small painted pottery wolf and stuffed it into Wei Yanzhou's hand.
The little wolf was actually wearing colorful clothes, and the glaze was neat and vivid.
Only one ear is missing, as if it was broken.
Wei Yanzhou held it in his hand and rubbed it: "What is it?"
"On the day I regained the ceded city of Beidi, I saw the clay figure in the city. It was you who told me that every time I won a game, I would bring you a gift."
Cheng Ning caressed Xiaolang's broken ear: "It was too chaotic on the day he was sent to prison. He was pushed to the ground and broke his ear."
She carried the little wolf in her sleeve pocket and was taken to prison by Wei Yanzhou's people on the way back to Yanjing from Beidi.
The little wolf was tossed around, and it took so many months before he was sent out.
The candle flame was extinguished until only one was left, and it became even darker through the layers of curtains.
Wei Yanzhou couldn't see the complexity in his eyes. He held Little Wolf in his hands and asked, "Do you hate me?"
"I hate it." Cheng Ning nodded without hesitation: "Don't give me a chance to get out. I must find out the truth about the Cheng family's rebellion."
It was he who broke her wings, and it was he who made her fall into this deep palace.
Cheng Ning hated Gong Wei the most.
I hate competition between women.
It had been too long since they had spoken so calmly to each other.
No sharp arguments, just calm.
Calmly and completely filled with hatred.
Wei Yanzhou's eyes were bright: "Don't you ever feel that your trust has been given to the wrong person?"
"Aren't you afraid that I will know the truth when you speak so hesitantly? If it has nothing to do with you, you can tell me directly."
Unexpectedly, Wei Yanzhou chuckled: "The test method is useless to me, you should know that."
Very good, I thought I could get something out of her, but unexpectedly, this person was always on guard against her.
Cheng Ning scoffed: "You are really not as easy to coax as Wei Yanshu."
When Wei Yanshu was mentioned, Wei Yanzhou's eyes darkened: "Does Wei Yanshu know that you will cry squeamishly because I love you so much?"
"You're the one crying, Wei Yanzhou, your mouth -!" Cheng Ning punched him in the face. It was unclear whether he was angry or ashamed: "I'm thirsty!"
No matter how careless she is, she still has integrity when it comes to matters between men and women.
He had the strength to hit people, and he did seem to have recovered a bit.
Wei Yanzhou stopped her hand, and before he could say anything, Chunhua, who was watching at night, had already poured water in.
Cheng Ning took it and wanted to drink it, but Wei Yanzhou refused to let her touch it. He took a sip, grabbed her neck, and covered it with his lips——
"Well, ahem, um-"
Cheng Ning struggled desperately, ashamed of such behavior, but unable to push him away, so he was forced to swallow, wanting to bite down.
When she finally swallowed it, the little strength she had regained was exhausted, and she fell on Wei Yanzhou panting.
Wei Yanzhou didn't know what was wrong with him, so he laughed and said, "You are best behaved only when you have no strength."
He wiped the water stains from the corners of Cheng Ning's lips.
Cheng Ning was indeed too lazy to confront him anymore, and he was the only one who was tired.
"I heard that you are already making major changes to the tax system. Commercial taxes have increased sharply. Families with connections between the DPRK and China will not agree easily. What are you going to do?"
Throughout ancient and modern times, every reform involving the subjects is bound to waste people and money.
No matter how tough Wei Yanzhou is, he may not have a chance of winning against one enemy for a hundred times.
Cheng Ning cares about the people, so he will naturally pay more attention to them.
"The queen will convince the Xie family for me. With the Xie family taking the lead, the rest of the problems won't be big."
Cheng Ning frowned: "This is undoubtedly against the Xie family, and the queen actually agreed to you?"
But then I thought about it, with Xie Nianyao's brains and her crazy love for Wei Yanzhou, it was really not certain.
I'm afraid that if Wei Yanzhou gave her some sweetness, she would get confused.
Sure enough, Wei Yanzhou said: "The queen has a deep affection for me. She is willing to become an enemy of the family for my sake. Are you jealous?"
"I also want to serve your majesty with dogs and horses, but your majesty doesn't have any use for them?" Cheng Ning mocked.
Xie Nianyao is young and only knows love, which shows that she is sincere towards Wei Yanzhou.
fair enough.
Wei Yanzhou took one of her hands and played with it on his fingertips: "You don't have to provoke me. In this life, you will never have the chance to go to the battlefield."
"What about the people?" Cheng Ning didn't want to think about the future: "Even if the Xie family takes the lead, the people doing business are the people after all. What if they don't follow suit?"
The folk's silver, one tael per person, is a huge amount if it falls into the hands of a family like the Xie family.
But every tael is the merchant's hard-earned money, and asking them to accept it is not much harder than asking the family to give up the money.
"Don't obey?"
Wei Yanzhou chewed on these two words and seemed careless: "Kill a few of the leaders until no one dares to stand up again."
It seems that killing is a common thing for him, not worth mentioning.
"Are you crazy?"
"In the final analysis, it is a chronic illness caused by centuries of officialdom. What does it have to do with businessmen? You can use some soft methods to divide the fields and award meritorious deeds. Why do you want to kill people??"
Wei Yanzhou chuckled: "Because that's too slow."
He wants to complete the tax reform as soon as possible and implement new politics in the new year, instead of waiting for the people to accept it slowly.
Moreover, if that is the case, everyone will feel that the court has scruples, and even if the reform is successful, there will still be people who use their merits to take advantage of the loopholes.
He rubbed Cheng Ning's pursed lips and said, "Why don't you understand that the Gentle Knife is Wei Yanshu's method, not mine?"
