Chapter 2

II. Aftermath

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Jing Shao some disbelief touched Mu Hanzhang's face, slightly cool touch makes his heart tremble, feel carefully, but with body temperature, the body temperature of a living person. Through the candlelight to look carefully, is still that beautiful face, in addition to the lower lip was bitten out of the blood scar, this is clearly a not vicissitudes of life, just the weak crown of the young man's face.

What's going on here? Frozen for a long time, Jing Shao ripped open his inner shirt to check, Hongzheng eighteen years, an arrow in the heart nearly killed, now the skin here is intact, the old wounds in other places do not exist, the body's muscle lines smooth but slightly thinner than he remembered.

Turning over his hand in the bed on a hidden compartment a touch a press, a small cabinet door opened, inside lying a blue leather ledger, hastily opened to check, the last entry of the record is: "Received Li Yanqing silver two thousand taels, against five thousand taels of white for salt citation, Hongzheng thirteen years in February nineteen ...... "

Silently putting the account book back to its original place, Jing Shao looked around in a bit of a trance, it was clearly back to his wedding night, the spring of the thirteenth year of Hongzheng.

That year he returned victorious from driving away the Xiong Nu, and was the first of the princes to be crowned king, and no one dared to try his hand.

This year the step-queen persuaded her father to marry the common son of the Marquis of Northern Wei to him, and the marriage took place this very night.

This year, he was nineteen years old, three times unpeaceful, and everything had not yet begun ......

"Hahahaha, the sky does not kill me! Thief God, really treats me well, hahaha ......" Determining that this was not a dream, after the shock, there was the ecstasy of being reborn, Jing Shao couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Well ......" the sudden moan | groan from the side, interrupting Jing Shao's self-satisfaction, the laughter came to an abrupt end. Busy turning back to look, the sleeping Mu Hanzhang was woken up by him, the long slender eyelashes fluttered, slowly opened a pair of beautiful eyes.

Who said that everything has not yet begun? This Thief God, it would have been better to let him be reborn two hours earlier, Jun Qing wouldn't have been hurt like this. Jing Shao slandered while reaching out to take Mu Hanzhang into his arms. Unexpectedly, just as his hand touched the other person's body, that person violently dodged backwards.

"Well ......," the sudden movement pulled the injury under the body, pain Mu Hanzhang immediately white face.

"Don't move!" Jing Shao pressed down on him, but felt the body under his palm trembling slightly. Could not help but frown, on the wedding night, he was suffocating in his heart, so he drank too much, after so many years he did not remember exactly what he did, he only remembered that on the second day when he paid his respects to the emperor and queen, out of the main hall Mu Huanzhang fainted. Now look at this situation, most likely to be their own strong on people, and hurt not light.

Mu Hanyang really stopped moving, only taking a pair of eyes to look at Jing Shao, those beautiful eyes full of humiliation and fear.

"You ......" Jing Shao opened his mouth, but he did not know what to say, so he turned around and pulled the silk sash in front of the bed, and in a short time, the answering voice of the maid came from outside.

"Prepare hot water, this king wants to bathe." In a loud voice, he ordered the maid to go and prepare the water, and when the maid answered and went, Jing Shao turned back around, still not knowing what to say, and scratched his head in some embarrassment.

"Don't be afraid," Jing Shao thought, but still softly comforted, "that ...... last night I drank too much, I really didn't mean to ...... "

"Your Highness, the hot water is ready, why don't the slave girls go inside and serve Your Highness a bath?" A rather steady maid voice rang out, Jing Shao remembered that this was Zhi Ruoxi, the eldest maid in his house. On the wedding night, hot water was naturally always prepared, the reason why he asked was also because he was afraid that there was something that shouldn't be seen by the underlings.

"No need, all retire." Jing Shao said impatiently.

Mu Han Zhang heard a sigh of relief, let him female ambush in the body of the man has been a strange shame, this woeful appearance if it is then seen by the subordinate ......

"Well ...... what are you doing?" Mu Hanzhang was startled when the man lifted his covers and picked him up.

"Don't move," after the quilt was lifted, the evils caused by himself were visible, not to mention the uncountable bruise marks, between the slender legs were full of red and white intermingled turbid liquid, the private place was even more wretched, Jing Shao's brows were more and more wrinkled, "I'll take you to wash it. "

Bathe him? Mu Hanzhang looked at the man in front of him, a little puzzled, this man claimed that he was going to bathe, this was to help him cover up his embarrassment? But why is he doing this, when he just tortured him, there was not the slightest bit of pity to be seen.

"I'll go by myself," Mu Hanzhang said in a cold voice, and suddenly felt that it was inappropriate, so he only lowered his voice, "How dare I labor on Your Majesty's trouble."

When Jing Shao saw this gambling and stoic look of his, he couldn't help but hook his lips, and felt that it didn't seem sincere enough, so he only pressed down the corners of his mouth and said in a deep voice, "Where do you have the strength? It's always my fault, consider it an apology to you." Although they were husband and wife, this kind of family never had the reason to let the prince serve the princess, but this was really normal in Jing Shao's opinion, everyone was a man, and he had also treated the wounds of the injured generals in the barracks, so he was confident that he still knew what he was doing.

Mu Hanzhang couldn't argue with him, so he had to let him go.

Seeing that the person in his arms no longer struggled, Jing Shao was satisfied and moved behind the screen with him in his arms, not caring that he was still wearing his inner shirt, he lifted his foot and stepped into the bath tub.

Into the water, Mu Hanzhang broke away from his embrace, leaning to the other side of the barrel to go, Jing Shao is not annoyed, Woods took off the soaked inner shirt, bowed a cup of hot water to wash his face, to get rid of the discomfort of the hangover.

The royal residence's bath tub is very large, sitting two men is not crowded, Mu Hanzhang took a side of the cloth towel to carefully clean the traces of his body, secretly observe the man's movements, see him constantly rubbing his temples, it seems that last night was really drunk.

Jing Shao shook his head, let himself wake up a little, the cold wind on the edge of the cliff is still in his ears, soaking in this hot water has a sense of unreality, but the immediate is not the time to lament life, reach out to the shrinking in a corner of the person dragged into his arms, the person's body immediately stiffened up.

"I'll wash ...... myself," Mu Hanzhang was startled, busy catching the hand that was going to probe under him.

"You're inconvenienced yourself," said Jing Shao, rather uprightly; "all men, what are you ashamed of?"

Mu Hanzhang was so choked by his justified tone that he couldn't speak, and just as he was about to retort, he was made to grunt out by the finger that suddenly stabbed into his body.

"Does it hurt?" Jing Shao saw him biting his lower lip again, and busily gathered the man into his arms, letting him lie on top of him, "Don't bite yourself, it'll be over soon, bite me if it hurts." Putting away the teasing mood, quickly and gently tickling inside him for a while, Mu Hanzhang didn't bite him either, just huffing in his own little voice. Once the inside was cleaned up, Jing Shao took a large piece of flannel and wrapped the man in his arms around him, quickly tucking him under the covers and turning around to look for the wound medicine himself.

Sheets have been changed, Mu Hanzhang sat up and put on the inner shirt, saw the man wearing only a thin shirt, hair still dripping water, barefoot standing in front of the cabinet do not know what to pick. Cleaning action is very gentle, view his eyes just now also does not seem to be false, which makes Mu Hanyang a little confused. However, if the king is not too bad for him, the future days will be much better.

"Here, I'll put some medicine on you."

The handsome face that suddenly enlarged in front of his eyes made the Mu Hanzhang who was contemplating froze, to say that this Cheng Wang looks really handsome, the royal people were born good looking, and this one is one of the best ...... Wait, the medicine!

"This ...... I'll just do it myself." A snatched the small bottle in the hands of Jing Shao, Mu Hanyang's face flushed red, just underwater could not see it is just, this moment the house is brightly lit, is not everything can be seen clearly.

"We are already husband and wife, what are you afraid of?" Seeing that pale face tinted with blood, Jing Shao couldn't help but bend the corners of his mouth and climbed onto the bed. Relying on his quickness, he snatched the bottle back again.

Mu Hanzhang couldn't argue with him, so he had to take the quilt and cover his head, out of sight, out of mind.

Jing Shao beautifully opened the slender legs, dug a block of ointment coated: "This medicine is my father before the war reward, stop bleeding and pain relief effect is particularly good."

The cool ointment didn't bring extra pain, soothed that hot wound, Mu Hanyang naturally knows how precious this medicine that won't bring pain is: "Such a precious medicine, how can it be used in this kind of place?" From the quilt to poke his head out, just happened to see Jing Shao full of pity eyes, originally already desperate heart, in this eyes to get some comfort, Mu Hanyang secretly laughed at their own really pathetic, actually for the pity of others and happy.

"It's exactly this kind of place that needs good medicine." Jing Shao applied the medicine and stared at the rounded twin mounds, which looked like they felt good in his hands ...... Forced his eyes to tear themselves away from that wonderful place, and with a face like he didn't see anything, he covered him up and got himself under the covers, sitting down against the bed, picking up the slightly cooled sobering broth on the small table, and gulping down a bowl of it. It wasn't a good start, but it couldn't be made worse.

"How can the king sleep on the outside, sleep inside." Wife sleeps on the outside to facilitate the husband's tea, changing clothes is the rule, was Jing Shao such a mess, the fear has long gone most of the feeling, Mu Huanzhang towards Jing Shao side moved, signaling him to roll over to the inside. Who knows this move, it came to the side of Jing Shao, the man did not have the intention to turn over.

"You're not a woman, why do you care about that?" Jing Shao lowered his head and smiled, took another small bottle, poured some translucent cream on his fingertips, "This is a kind of strange medicine I got in the western region, small wounds can be coated with scabs, the next day will be able to be good for seven or eight points, is some pain, you have to put up with it." Saying that, he wiped one finger on Mu Hanyang's lower lip.

The needle-like pain made Mu Hanzhang knit his brows, wanting to reach out to press, was Jing Shao grabbed: "Don't touch, it won't hurt in a while." The hand in his palm was slender and glistening, the touch was excellent, this was the hand that wrote and drew all year round, very different from his hand that held the sword.

Mu Hanzhang endured the stabbing pain, and when she saw that he was holding her hand and not letting go, she couldn't help but cough lightly.

"Oh, fast sleep." Jing Shao busy let go of people's hands, call the maid to extinguish the lamp, shrink into the quilt, tomorrow to see the emperor and queen must be early morning after the dynasty, can also sleep for two hours.

"Uh-huh." The person in the bed answered and said no more, only quietly reddening her ears where Jing Shao couldn't see.