Chapter 597: Relighting the Wedding Candles (Part Two)
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Fu Mingzheng lowered the bed curtain and reached out to hold Li Shumei. Li Shumei remained silent as he moved, suddenly biting him fiercely on the shoulder, enough to draw blood.
Fu Mingzheng sucked in a breath from the pain but didn’t get angry. Instead, he gently patted Li Shumei’s back and said softly, “Bite all you want. I knew you had been holding back a lot of resentment. I’ve been on edge, not knowing when you would explode. It’s better to let it out early. We can live our life well together in the future.”
Li Shumei bit him hard, tears streaming down her face, and said fiercely, “Don’t think I’ll forgive you easily just because you’re pretending to be pitiful.”
“I owe you, I don’t expect you to forgive me easily, I just hope you never let me off easily.” Fu Mingzheng sucked in a breath of cold air, clumsily unbuttoning her clothes.
As the coldness suddenly invaded, Li Shumei relaxed her grip and turned away from him, blushing all over.
Fu Mingzheng sighed and chuckled, “It’s rare to see Female Hero Li feeling shy. Come here, let’s have a fierce battle, and see who’s better?”
The bright red canopy embroidered with hundreds of children shook, and the pearl strings hanging from the corners jingled, like the wind blowing over the water, stirring up layers of waves, leaving no trace behind. A green bellyband embroidered with intertwined mandarin ducks slipped through the gap between the canopy and the bed and fell gracefully onto the silk carpet, a bright green in the winter.
After a long time, the canopy finally stopped shaking, and there was a low voice speaking inside, then it quieted down again. The wedding candles had burned halfway, and the canopy shook again, accompanied by the man’s low panting mixed with the woman’s angry muttering. Soon, everything returned to calm, with only the canopy continuing to tremble and the pearl strings tapping against the bed frame.
Before dawn, Fu Mingzheng, wearing only a thin inner garment, gently opened the window. The light snow had not accumulated on the ground, but a thin layer had covered the eaves and the leaves of the flower platform, intensifying the smell of winter.
Li Shumei poked her head out from the bed curtain and scolded, “Are you asking for death? It’s so cold, and you’re dressed so lightly, standing there in the cold wind. What do you want to do?”
Fu Mingzheng smiled, closed the window, and walked back to the bed, reaching out to pull her into his arms. “Of course, I want you to feel sorry for me.” After fooling around for a while, he said seriously, “I guess there will be a battle.”
Li Shumei was silent for a while and asked softly, “Are you going to leave the capital and join the army?”
“No.” He replied confidently, “I’m not good at marching and fighting, but what I do is not easier than marching and fighting. Shumei, I will risk my life to earn you some dignity, okay?”
Li Shumei looked at him brightly, “You know, I like you as a person, not for any dignity.”
“Yeah. The more you’re like this, the more I want to earn you some dignity.” Fu Mingzheng looked at her earnestly, “I don’t want you to have any grievances.”
Li Shumei buried her head in his chest and whispered, “From Pengcheng to the capital, I only wish for your safety.”
Fu Mingzheng hugged her tightly and asked softly, “Does it still hurt?”
Li Shumei glared at him, “What do you think?”
“I thought it wouldn’t hurt after a while.” Fu Mingzheng suddenly stopped smiling, sat up and listened carefully. There was an unusual sound of fighting outside the window.
Li Shumei became tense, “Is someone causing trouble again?” She reached for her clothes, preparing to get up and follow Fu Mingzheng out. Fu Mingzheng held her down and said calmly, “You sleep, it’s not time for you to intervene yet.”
What he did this time was too big, and Zhongshan Wang hated him to the bone and wanted to take his life. But Yuwen Chu and Fu Cong had specifically arranged for someone to help him, believing that such small disturbances could be handled.
As expected, the fighting outside the window soon stopped. Someone outside whispered softly, “Fourth Master, two dead and one escaped, we’ve gone after him.”
Fu Mingzheng didn’t care, “If he escaped, let him go.” Even if someone did escape, there was no need to worry. Yuwen Chu had already made arrangements.
A figure dashed madly in the night, dodging several patrols familiarly, avoiding a night watchman and two vicious dogs, and smoothly jumping into a dark courtyard.
He leaned against the wall, panting heavily, before he could catch his breath, two sharp long knives were pressed against his neck. Startled, he quickly said, “I’m one of us, I’m Black Two.”
The two men ignored him, firmly held his arms and pushed him to the ground, stepping on him and gagging him, tying him up tightly, and dragging him like a dead dog to the outside of a room, softly knocking twice on the door and whispering, “Fifth Master, we’ve caught someone.”
The light came on in the room, and Yuwen Cong said in a deep voice, “Bring him in.”
The two men pushed the tightly bound man into the room, kicked him hard in the knee, and he knelt down in front of Yuwen Cong.
“Black Two.” Yuwen Cong sat alone at the table, lightly smiling, “I’ve been waiting for you for a long time. Did Teacher Zhu ask you to bring someone to me? “
Black Two crawled on the ground, surprised, “I don’t know what Fifth Master is talking about. Didn’t you arrange for us to infiltrate the Fu Mansion at night to investigate Fu Mingzheng? The mission failed, and whatever punishment the Fifth Master wants to give us, we accept without question.”
Yuwen Cong sneered, “Don’t pretend. I’m not a fool. Teacher Zhu hopes you’ll bring someone to me, and then use Yuwen Chu and Fu Cong’s hands to kill me. You’re by my side, I’ve treated you well, yet you want to betray me and frame me. Although you have no moral integrity, I’m still willing to give you a chance. I’ll count to three, if you still don’t speak, you know the rules.” He held up a finger and lightly said, “One…”
“Two…”
Sweat beads the size of beans dripped from Black Two’s forehead, and he said in a trembling voice, “I’ll talk. It’s Teacher Zhu who said that the reason why the brothers in the capital suffered such heavy losses, with so many deaths and injuries, and Wangye’s reputation was so damaged, was all because Fifth Master was too selfish, wanting to use others to kill, and seize power opportunistically. With the Fifth Master around, more people will die, so the Fifth Master can’t stay. This is Wangye’s order, so I listened to him.”
Yuwen Cong coldly raised his lips, “Do you believe him?”
Black Two dared not speak. In his view, what Teacher Zhu said was correct. Last time, Jiang Shanshan tried to do something big at Fu Mingzheng’s wedding, killing many people, but the operation failed! Not only did Fu Mingzhu not get caught or killed, many people who should have died didn’t die, and instead, they suffered heavy losses, with many skilled people dead.
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