When He Simu woke up, she only felt that the feeling in her body was hard to describe. At first it was warm, then it was painful, then it was sore, very comfortable and uncomfortable, the complex feeling was ups and downs in her body, this was much more stimulating than the first time she changed the touch.
She lazily opened her eyes and saw Duan Xu playing with her hair. He held his head with a smile, his fingers circling her hair, their skin touching, she hugged his waist, legs overlapping his.
The feeling of skin touching skin is both subtle and touching.
Seeing her wake up, Duan Xu smiled brightly and said, "Miss you."
He Simu narrowed his eyes, turned over and pressed him under him.
The next moment she regretted her action. Her body creaked because of the action, and the painful parts became more painful, and the sore parts became more sore. She was simply asking for trouble.
She took a look at the bruises all over her body, leaned over and stared at Duan Xu and said, "Duan Xu, are you born in the year of the dog?"
As soon as she said this, she was stunned. Was this her voice? Why was her voice so hoarse
Duan Xu stroked her neck and answered her caringly, "You screamed for too long yesterday. Now your body is no different from that of an ordinary person, and is very fragile."
He Simu slapped his hand away and angrily said in her hoarse voice: "You know that too?"
Duan Xu blinked innocently and pointed at the bite mark on his shoulder: "I think you are more like a dog."
He Simu punched him in the chest and gritted his teeth and said, "Duan Shunxi, you..."
Before she could say anything, Duan Xu raised his head and ended her scolding with a kiss. The wetness and tenderness made He Simu tremble. He let her go and lay down, saying meekly: "I was wrong."
His specialty is actively admitting his mistakes and refusing to repent.
He held her waist and pulled her down. Her originally weak body collapsed on him, fitting him tightly. He stared at her with innocent eyes and asked her, "But I noticed later. How did you feel afterwards? Were you comfortable?"
"… "
The four hundred year old Lord Ghost King, the Lord Ghost King who took the initiative to seek love, actually blushed at this moment
She raised her finger at him and said, "Shut up..."
Before he finished speaking, the door burst open and a cute girl jumped in, shouting, "Third brother, I heard..."
Duan Jingyuan stared at the messy room, his third brother lying on the bed, the beauty on his third brother, and the beauty's bare shoulders. Just as she opened her mouth to scream, her third brother quickly covered the beauty's shoulders with the quilt and put his index finger on his lips.
"Jingyuan! Don't shout!"
Duan Jingyuan strangled the scream in her throat. She was stunned for a moment, and angrily didn't know whether to leave or not. She lowered her voice and scolded: "You... in broad daylight, what did you do to my brother?"
He Simu raised his eyebrows, his face full of disbelief, thinking that he had heard wrongly.
"you said I?"
In the current situation, a man and a woman are naked in bed, and the man is a military commander, and the girl has bruises all over her body. How could anyone ask the girl what she did? It's obvious that she was raped!
What's the point of doing it in broad daylight? We have already done everything in the dark.
Duan Jingyuan nodded vigorously and angrily said, "What did you do to my pure and innocent third brother?"
When her pure and innocent third brother heard the word pure and innocent, he couldn't help laughing out loud.
He Simu narrowed her eyes and glanced at Duan Xu, then looked at Duan Jingyuan. She pointed at Duan Xu and said calmly and firmly: "It is your pure and innocent third brother who abandoned me in the end."
When they finally pushed this awkward meeting to the point where they were dressed neatly and sat at the table to talk calmly, Duan Jingyuan crossed his arms and looked between them with doubtful eyes. Duan Xu took the teapot and poured a cup of water. Duan Jingyuan was about to say, "Don't try to please me and get away with it," when she saw her brother hand the cup of tea to the strange woman next to him.
"Have some tea to moisten your throat," he said, patting her on the back.
The strange girl glared at Duan Xu, took the teacup and drank it all in one gulp. Duan Xu then refilled her empty cup with tea.
"… "
Duan Jingyuan felt that although there were three people in the room, it felt like there were only two people in their eyes. She cleared her throat and said to Duan Xu: "Third brother, what's wrong with you? My sister-in-law just disappeared at the wedding yesterday. How could you just..."
"Yes, you are a heartless guy. You made a promise to me in Shuozhou, but left me in Nandu to marry someone else. I followed you all the way to Nandu to ask for an explanation, but you actually killed me on your wedding night with someone else..." He Simu promptly answered Duan Jingyuan's words. Her voice was also hoarse. She raised her sleeves to cover her eyes, and she looked genuinely affectionate.
Duan Jingyuan choked and asked with difficulty: "Third brother... are you really so mean to me that you just abandoned me after having sex with me?"
Duan Xu looked at He Simu's smiling eyes under his sleeves. He adjusted his expression, sighed deeply, and said, "I didn't expect you to look at me like this."
He Simu raised his eyebrows.
Duan Xu took her hand, gently held it, and whispered, "I expressed my love to you thousands of times in Shuozhou, but you rejected me again and again because of your family background. I returned to Nandu in despair, and thought that it would make no difference to marry anyone other than you, so I got married in a hurry. On the wedding day, something unexpected happened, so I thought I wouldn't delay other women and simply not marry anyone in this life. You came to find me again, and I thought you had changed your mind. I was so happy that I couldn't help myself, so... did you change your mind?"
He squeezed her hand, with a hint of cunning in his pitiful eyes, as if to say - that's enough, stop acting.
He Simu stared at him for a moment, shook off his hand, then hugged him, buried his head in his arms and said nothing.
Duan Jingyuan felt like she was sitting on pins and needles, as if she had seen a play script come to life. How could her brother say such cheesy words? What was going on? Was there something wrong with her third brother? Or was there something wrong with her? Or was there something wrong with this world
She rubbed her temples, trying to organize her thoughts and said, "Third brother, you... you have to... be responsible for the girl no matter what... but you just made the vow... how can you give her a name? This girl... what's her last name, and what's her family background?"
"Her name is He Xiaoxiao, she is from the underworld, and her family has been the only one in several generations. If I want to be with her, I must marry into her family." Duan Xu answered smoothly. He Simu raised his eyes from his arms and added: "It's just a mere status, we underworld people don't care."
"Marry... marry into the wife's family? It's just a title?"
Duan Jingyuan looked at them in confusion. The only places she had been to since she was a child were Daizhou and Nandu, and she had never seen any people from the underworld. How could she have no idea that the people of the underworld were like this
Duan Xu patted He Simu's back, kissed her lightly on the top of her head, and said to Duan Jingyuan: "To others, especially to Dad, just tell him that she is Chen Ying's sister and that she came from the north to visit Chen Ying. I'll trouble you to help take care of her during this period of time."
Duan Jingyuan nodded stiffly.
She felt something was not right, but because all the wrong things that happened this morning were beyond her tolerance, she even began to feel that what she had just seen her brother kissing Xiaoxiao's hair was normal.
He Xiaoxiao yawned and said she was sleepy and wanted to go back to sleep. Her fair arms stretched out from her sleeves, revealing deep and shallow kiss marks. Duan Jingyuan immediately covered her eyes, and through her fingers she saw her brother smiling and pulling He Xiaoxiao's arm, picking her up and putting her back on the bed, taking off her shoes and covering her with a blanket, and telling her to have a good rest.
Then Duan Xu turned around, put his arm around Duan Jingyuan's shoulders, and led her out of his room.
"Remember to knock before entering my room next time."
"Who would have thought that there was... someone else in your room?"
"You'll know later, won't you?"
Duan Jingyuan walked two steps and then stopped. He turned around and carefully observed his brother's expression, wondering, "I thought you were sad about what happened yesterday. Don't you worry about Miss Wang? You are a little too heartless."
Even Duan Jingyuan, who always put Duan Xu first, couldn't help but question him. Duan Xu patted Duan Jingyuan on the shoulder and said with a bright smile: "Of course I will still look for Miss Wang. There is no point in worrying and being sad. But if outsiders ask, remember to tell them that I am indeed sad and worried. It's better to say that I have no appetite and can't sleep."
Duan Jingyuan opened her eyes wide, watching Duan Xu walk out of the yard with a worried look on his face, and stood there stiffly for a long while. She wondered why she had ever wanted to marry someone like her third brother
His third brother is too heartless!
She couldn't help but really start to doubt whether her brother had abandoned He Xiaoxiao.
On the second day after this wedding farce, Duan Xu was rewarded with a loud slap in the face as soon as he saw his father.
Duan Xu did not dodge, and the red marks from the five fingers gradually appeared on his face. He lowered his eyes and curled the corners of his lips almost imperceptibly, then raised his eyes to look at Duan Chengzhang who was standing in front of him.
His father was weak and frail, and he would sit whenever he could, but he didn't even sit at this moment, and stood in front of him, furious. He pointed at him and cursed, "How could you be so impulsive? Who are the people sitting in the hall? You made such a solemn oath on the spot. Did you think you could take down Danzhi in a few years after going to the border? What will happen to you after you said this?"
Duan Xu did not say a word, and let his father roar for a long time until he started to cough. He stretched out his hand to help his father breathe as if he had thawed, and whispered: "The Huqi people insulted me like this, and I was so angry that I spoke without restraint."
Duan Chengzhang pointed at him, his fingers trembling for a long time, and then he put his hand down with a sigh. The Duan family had not had many children to begin with, and after Duan Xu said this, he could not remarry for many years. Even if he had a concubine, the child would not be a legitimate son and could not be seen in public.
If Duan Yiqi wasn't among his grandchildren, he would have been so angry at Duan Xu that he would have fainted.
Now that things have come to this, after beating and scolding, Duan Chengzhang was silent for a moment and then said, "This matter is not entirely without harm."
In the case of Concubine Yu's witchcraft, Sun Zi'an's house was searched, which not only confirmed Ma Zheng's corruption, but also uncovered many other acts of corruption and abuse of power. Na Jingyan was a tough and honest minister. In order to avoid complications, he directly presented the clues and evidence to the emperor. The emperor did not make a big deal about the matter, but secretly punished several ministers involved. Among them, Qin Huanda, who was the most involved, was demoted in secret and lost his real power in the army.
Qin Huanda lost his real power, and Duke Pei's influence in the army was severely damaged. Prime Minister Du naturally wanted to seize the opportunity to expand his power in the army. Considering the official position and level, there was no more suitable candidate than Duan Xu.
Duan Chengzhang briefly explained the background to Duan Xu, and said in a deep voice: "Although I am reluctant, Prime Minister Du has said so much, I have no choice. You will probably stay in the army in the future, and the heroic words you said yesterday will spread throughout the Southern Capital in just one day. When the emperor hears them, he will definitely praise you. I think this is the only benefit."
Duan Xu smiled and said calmly, "I'll follow my father's arrangements."
Everything went according to plan, which was wonderful.