Love Affairs in Chang'an - Chapter 152

Chapter 152 Envy Others
Wu Meiniang’s heart felt as if she had put down a huge rock that had been suppressed for a long time. After her mood relaxed, coupled with the effect of the light wine, her charming face became even more charming. Her jade-like face shone with orange-red candlelight, and her pair of lively and beautiful eyes were just a little charming. If Qin Mubai hadn’t been an experienced romantic expert, he would have been unable to sit still and would have been tempted to move.

However, Meng Lang was currently in the secretariat’s mansion, so he couldn’t do anything about it.

Wu Meiniang pressed her forehead with her hand and shook her head. “I can’t drink any more. I’m dizzy …”

“As long as you drink well, you don’t need to get drunk. You still have to hurry tomorrow!” Qin Mubai said, “Go to bed and rest!”

Wu Meiniang smiled coquettishly, “Tomorrow, what’s the hurry? I don’t want to hurry.”

“Didn’t you just say you wanted to accompany me to Jiangzhou?” Qin Mubai smiled even more strangely. “Could it be that I was drunk and misheard?”

Bad guy!

This word popped out of Wu Meiniang’s heart and she couldn’t help but laugh-when did I say that? However, his words did save him a few words. Are you finally willing to take me with you? Go to Jiangzhou, okay!

“I… Sleep!” Wu Meiniang did not continue to pursue this topic with him. She stood up and stretched slightly, pretending to be relaxed and said, “So sleepy!”

“Then you can sleep.” Qin Mubai sat there with no intention of leaving.

“Oh” Wu Meiniang walked a few steps to the bedside and stopped in shock. She turned to look at Qin Mubai awkwardly and said, “Aren’t you sleepy?”

“I won’t leave until you’re asleep.” Qin Mubai said calmly, “In a strange place, such a big empty house, I’m worried that you’re afraid.”

“Hehe, good!” Wu Meiniang smiled happily. She walked to the bedside and put down the curtain. She removed her robe and coat and lay down. She said, “I’m not allowed to leave until I fall asleep. I want to blow out the lights. Don’t start a fire.”

“Don’t worry, go to sleep!”

“I’m asleep!”

Wu Meiniang pulled the blanket over and shivered from the cold, but her heart was really warm.

For the first time, she felt the sense of security brought to her by a man and the beauty of caring. Although in the eyes of others, this teenage girl of hers was already an amazing “expert woman”, how many people truly understood her bitterness and suffering?

Although the Wu Clan was the founding sect, it had already declined. As the daughter of a concubine, she was not tolerated by her elder brother. After her father died two or three years ago, the mother and daughter were almost driven out of the house and left homeless. From then on, she was extremely afraid of feeling lonely and helpless.

The businessman’s consciousness she had drawn from her father and her experiences over the years had polished her personality to be as tough as a man’s, and she was also fond of reality. She felt that only if she had the ability would she be the most reliable. Thus, she was willing to enter the palace and become a concubine, hoping to obtain the Emperor’s favor and turn over the salted fish from now on, so that she and her mother could change their situation. She wanted to earn a lot of money to feed herself and her mother, and she didn’t want to be looked down on, let alone kicked out of the house like a dog.

She had always been extremely strong. She did not admit defeat and firmly believed that she could change everything.

But behind the strong, is the loneliness and loneliness that others cannot touch. A teenage woman ran through the shopping mall, dealing with all kinds of people every day. She had faced many dangers and dangers. She was accustomed to people’s hypocrisy, treachery, and evil intentions. She was also accustomed to the coldness and contempt of the secular world towards a businessman. However, there was always a place in her heart that was empty.

No matter how much money he had, he would not be able to fill the void in his heart. No matter how she was respected and praised by people, it could not change the fact that she was still lonely and lonely.

In the past, he was depressed because he was being bullied and bullied by poor bureaucrats, but now, he could feel boundless loneliness standing in the crowd.

But tonight, Qin Mubai gave her a different kind of enjoyment.

Just a short sentence, a slight movement, or a casual glance and smile could make her heart ripple.

…

Looking through the curtain, Wu Meiniang looked at Qin Mubai, who was sitting by the candlelight and slowly drinking, and suddenly felt a little impulsive, wanting to call him over …

Come here? What? …

Her face instantly turned boiling hot!

Wu Meiniang hurriedly covered her face with a blanket and turned around.

She didn’t even dare to turn around to look at Qin Mubai who was sitting there.

…

Time slipped by, and the room was quiet. Only the burning time of the candles or the soft sound of the horn hacking could be heard.

After a long time, Qin Mubai could vaguely hear Wu Meiniang’s even breathing. She guessed that she was probably asleep. Thus, he gently stood up, lifted the curtain and walked forward. He bent down to tuck in the empty blankets for her, and then carefully sized up Wu Meiniang.

“It’s definitely the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen” Qin Mubai sighed in admiration.

Like a fake sleeping beauty!

Unable to help himself, Qin Mubai slowly bent down and approached her face.

Inside the blanket, Wu Meiniang’s hand tightly grabbed onto the blanket, resisting the urge to move and not letting herself do anything alarming.

She first smelled a faint fragrance of wine, then she heard a light breath in her ear, and then she felt something warm approaching her.

“Knock!”

Wu Meiniang could feel her heart beating like a drum!

At this time, she felt a slight warmth on her cheeks, with a little moisture. It was very gentle and light.

“He, he kissed me?”

Her heart was in chaos!

She didn’t even know when Qin Mubai left or how to blow out the lamp and carefully pull the door open!

When she regained her senses and hurriedly turned around to take a look, there was only a deep darkness left in the room …

“Bad guy, big bad guy!” Wu Meiniang sat up and covered her kissed left cheek with her heart beating like a drum.

How could he sleep this night?

…

In the morning, at Chu Suiliang’s invitation, Qin Mubai arrived at the secretariat office first.

After Qin Mubai put down his words yesterday, the Jiangzhou Governor’s Mansion had officially accepted Wu Meiniang’s donation. Early in the morning, the dozens of carriages of cold clothes, blankets, and grain sacrificed sheep that Wu Meiniang had already settled down had already arrived at the treasury of the Secretariat Manor. Although Wu Meiniang was young, she had quite a few capable subordinates. She needed to make decisions on major issues, and her subordinates were responsible for all the details of how to handle them or some trivial matters.

Moreover, most of the people who were in charge of these matters were young and beautiful women.

When they appeared in the secretariat’s mansion, it was truly a magnificent sight, becoming a beautiful scenery.

“General Qin, after this mansion sends out these materials, it would be best to ship them to Mount Ji as soon as possible.” Chu Suiliang said, “It’s winter. The victims over there are waiting to use it. This is really giving charcoal in the snow. Although the Great Tang is strong and does not lack these things, it is really too busy to recruit resources and organize manpower. Wu shi has really helped a lot this time. This manor will pay tribute to His Majesty Bingming!”

What Chu Suiliang said was official, but Qin Mubai understood what he meant–to ask for merit for Wu Meiniang was to ask merit for me, Qin Mubai, wasn’t it? This Chu Suiliang is quite good at being a person. It was quite smart not to harm the public, but to be able to do favors on the pretext that the public was doing favors for the private.

“Coincidentally, I am in Jiangzhou. Today, I will return to Mount Ji as well. Let’s use it as an escort.” Qin Mubai said, “Please prepare some manpower for me, Mr. Chu. I can set off immediately.”

“General, don’t worry. How dare you delay such an important task? Yesterday, we already transferred 500 manpower from the Military Manor. We’ll be at the disposal of the general at any time.” Chu Suiliang chuckled and then asked in an ambiguous voice, “Where’s your wife? She’s still asleep?”

Qin Mubai smiled, “How would I know? Perhaps it is.”

The implication was that he hadn’t slept with her last night.

Chu Suiliang chuckled, “The general is indeed someone who knows and observes etiquette … oh, then just wait a moment. When she wakes up, we will set off together.”

“That’s good too.”

Wu Meiniang tossed and turned in bed for most of the night, and only fell asleep after dawn. After all, it was a strange place and it was difficult for her to sleep soundly. She woke up early in the morning when she heard that there were people walking back and forth in the mansion.

Just as he opened his eyes, Qin Mubai’s face appeared in his mind.

She hurriedly rolled over, put on her clothes and packed up, and opened the door.

She could not help but cry out in alarm when she almost collided with a person head-on.

“Did I scare you? I’ve never seen you act so recklessly before.” Qin Mubai stood in front of her and chuckled.

“Early in the morning, you scared me!” Wu Meiniang smiled. Seeing the item in his hand, she asked, “Eh, what did you take?”

“Breakfast.” Qin Mubai walked in with a plate in her hand and placed it on the table. She lifted the lid of the large celadon bowl and said, “The servants didn’t dare to wake you up when they saw you sleeping soundly. I was afraid that you missed your breakfast and were hungry, so I asked the kitchen to cook a bowl of egg noodles for you. Eat while it’s hot. I’m leaving soon.”

“Egg noodles … The olive noodles around Jin Bing are the best!” Wu Meiniang sat down happily, picked up her chopsticks and sniffed in front of the bowl, “It smells so good!–Did you eat it?”

“I’ve already eaten it.” Qin Mubai smiled and said, “Hurry up and eat!”

“Alright!” Wu Meiniang’s heart was warm, and her appetite seemed to be very good. Normally, such a large bowl of noodles had two eggs, which was almost the size of her three meals a day. But today, for some reason, he had eaten all of it until his stomach was about to bulge.

Qin Mubai sat beside her and watched her eat. After she finished eating, she couldn’t help but laugh and say, “Why do I look like you came out of a hungry prison?”

“I… I…” Wu Meiniang was embarrassed for a moment and didn’t know how to answer-this was indeed an exaggeration. It was the first time she had eaten so much food since she had grown so big!

“Alright, stop me.” Qin Mubai chuckled, “Your subordinates are all waiting for you at the treasury of the Governor’s Mansion. There are also hundreds of soldiers, Chu Suiliang and the others, as well as this general, waiting for you to set off for Mount Ji!”

“Hehe, then let’s go!” Wu Meiniang stood up and walked out happily. She purposely walked to Qin Mubai’s side and got closer to him.

Qin Mubai tilted his head slightly. The two of them smiled knowingly. Qin Mubai held her small hands.

They walked side by side and passed through the backyard of the secretariat’s mansion. The two of them were intimate and envious of everyone who saw them pass by. It wasn’t until they reached the treasury of the Governor’s Mansion that their hands separated.

Hundreds of people were waiting here, as well as Chu Suiliang and some other officials of Cao Zuo.

Seeing Qin Mubai and Wu Meiniang pair up, the expressions on their faces were rather joyful and relaxed. Everyone tacitly thought to themselves, “What a perfect pair of jade jades!”