It was not very late, but it was not early either. The clinic near the market closest to the Jiedushi Mansion had closed its doors long ago, and the doctor had gone to bed. Suddenly, he was startled by a knock on the door outside the clinic. He thought it was a patient seeking medical treatment for an emergency. He got up while complaining, and opened the door with a light on. He was surprised to recognize that the person outside the door was Jiedushi Xie Changgeng.
The Jiedushi's wife's medical skills are much better than mine, so why would the Jiedushi come to me for medical treatment, and come in person
The doctor suppressed his doubts, bowed, and was about to ask who the patient was and what the disease was, when he saw him step in, take out a bag of herbs, put it on the table, and said, "Can you help me identify what disease this medicine is for?"
Lang was even more confused. But since the governor had spoken, he dared not ask any more questions. He came closer, unwrapped the medicine package, spread it out, took out the various herbs inside, identified them one by one, and said, "This is a medicine to prevent pregnancy and induce abortion."
Xie Changgeng glanced at the medicinal herbs and asked, "You didn't make a mistake?"
His face was not good, and the doctor said hurriedly: "Although my medical skills are mediocre, I will never make a mistake in this medicine. Radix Angelicae Pubescentis, Rhubarb, Safflower, and Musk, what else can it be if not to prevent pregnancy? Sir, look, especially this one..."
The doctor picked up a little black powder with his finger, brought it under his nose, sniffed it, and then licked it with his tongue.
"This is roasted and refined cinnabar, also known as the Ca Nu Dan. It has a very strong medicinal property. Even a small amount can kill the essence and cause miscarriage. What's more, the dosage has been doubled, and there are also those other medicinal flavors added?"
He nodded.
"I can guarantee that this is the medicine for abortion. I don't know which doctor prepared this medicine, but it is so strong and powerful, isn't it harmful to people? The effect of the medicine is excellent, but if taken for a long time, it will definitely harm women's fertility..."
He paused.
"Only those prostitutes would use such a dosage in order to put an end to all their problems and not cause any more trouble in the future."
Xie Changgeng grabbed the medicine bag, left the doctor who was talking nonstop, turned around and left the clinic and returned to the governor's residence, went straight back to his residence, opened the door, strode in, and went into the inner room.
Mu Fulan had returned to her room from the tea room a long time ago, but she had not gone to bed yet. She was sitting on the edge of the bed, dyeing her nails with flower juice.
The candles burned brightly. Two maids were around her, one was busy adding water and alum to a small jade mortar to pound out the deep red juice of dried flowers, while the other was helping her take the juice and apply it on her nails.
Her hands were already dyed, her fingers were slender and pink, her skirt was rolled up to her knees, and her snow-white bare feet were stepping on the edge of the bed. The maid helped her continue dyeing her toes and said with a smile, "The color is a little light the first time you dye it. Wait until it dries, and then dye it three or five more times, and it will become rouge color. After one night, it can't be washed off, and it will last for at least more than a month."
"The princess's feet are already beautiful. When her toenails are dyed with phoenix red, they will be even more beautiful..."
The atmosphere was very relaxed and cheerful. The two maids were busy, talking and laughing in low voices. They heard footsteps behind them. They turned around and found that Xie Changgeng had returned.
He stood beside the screen and said nothing, but his two gazes on the princess were extremely cold, and his entire body, from head to toe, exuded a depressing, almost terrifying aura.
The relaxed and joyful atmosphere disappeared in an instant.
The maid felt uneasy and glanced at Mu Fulan. She stopped what she was doing, slowly stood up, turned around and greeted him.
"go out."
Xie Changgeng looked at Mu Fulan and spoke.
His voice was not loud, but his tone was extremely stern.
The maid looked at Mu Fulan again, and when she nodded, she hurriedly retreated.
Only Xie Changgeng and Mu Fulan were left in the inner room.
He walked to the bed and held the medicine bag in front of her.
"You're taking this medicine without telling me?"
He stared at Mu Fulan and uttered these words almost word by word between his teeth.
The air suddenly became heavy, as if a storm was about to come.
Mu Fulan took a glance, said "hmm", and blew on her ten pink toes that she had just dyed. Then she sat up, took the small brush put down by the maid, put it in the jade mortar, dipped it in the flower juice, lowered her head, and continued to dye her toes.
A lock of hair slid down her shoulders and fell to her knees.
She lowered her head, concentrating on dyeing herself red with phoenix flower. Her long hair falling in front of her was as black as satin, her pomegranate skirt rolled up to her knees, revealing a pair of snow-white and smooth ankles, and her two bare feet stepped on the brocade quilt. Her neat and small toes were half-stained with flower juice, with a little red, like a pink peach in the snow, with a unique charm.
The beauty is dyed red under the lamp, and the red rain on the spring mountain brings dawn.
Which man in the world can ignore such a moving and beautiful scenery
In Xie Changgeng's eyes, it was extremely glaring. The suppressed anger could no longer be contained, and he threw the thing in his hand at her side.
The medicine bag knocked over the mortar. The rich flower juice in the mortar poured out and flowed onto the quilt. The medicinal materials in the bag also flew out, covering half of the bed, making a mess.
Mu Fulan still didn't look up, as if she didn't notice his anger. She just glanced at the poured flower juice, frowned as if with heartache, held up the medicine mortar with one hand, and held a small brush in the other hand, and stretched it over, wanting to dip the last bit of remaining flower juice.
Sparks of anger danced in Xie Changgeng's eyes, and he raised his arm and swept over.
With a "bang", the small medicine mortar dug out by Qingyu was swept away by him, rolled to the ground in front of the bed, and broke into several pieces.
"Are you taking strong and powerful contraceptive drugs?" He leaned over to her and asked again in a harsh voice.
Mu Fulan dipped her brush in the air and stopped holding the brush. She finally looked up, stared at the man in front of her who was glaring at her for a moment, then slowly withdrew her hand.
"Your previous conversation with the Queen Mother didn't include asking me to carry on your family line, did you?"
"If you don't take the medicine, do you want me to have a baby for you?" she asked back.
Xie Changgeng's face was stiff and the corners of his eyes twitched slightly.
"Don't just be angry. Ask yourself, do you really want your Xie family's flesh and blood to come out of my belly?"
Thank you Chang Geng for a while.
Mu Fulan threw away the brush dipped in flower juice in her hand, let down her skirt, and sat up straight.
"Even if I'm pregnant with your child, I'm afraid you wouldn't want it. So, Xie Lang, why are you so angry?"
Xie Changgeng's face wasn't just stiff, it was already starting to turn blue.
"You're so angry, I think it's just because I averted the pregnancy on my own, not because I took the medicine with your permission, Xie Lang."
"If you feel this offends you, I apologize. Thank you, Lang, for always being generous. Can you forgive me this time?"
Not only her tone, but her entire posture revealed a sense of ease. Her expression seemed very sincere, and her beautiful eyes stared at him delicately, as if she was really asking for his forgiveness.
Xie Changgeng looked at her for a long while, gritted his teeth, and finally squeezed out a sentence: "Mu, I have been good enough to you!"
"Thank you, Lang, for treating me well. But you and I are just nominal members. You also nodded your head before, and now we are sleeping together. Thank you for not abandoning me. You and I know what's going on. I took the medicine because I don't want to have unnecessary trouble in the future."
After she finished speaking, she looked at the mess on the bed, climbed down from the bed, put on a pair of shoes, and went outside to ask someone to come in and change them.
After walking a few steps, Xie Changgeng reached out, grabbed her shoulders, and pulled her back to him.
He was obviously extremely angry, and veins were bulging on the back of his hands.
"Mu, don't give you face, you are shameless!" He gritted his teeth and said word by word.
Mu Fulan bumped into him, stood firm, and suddenly smiled.
"Even after all this, how can you still think I have the nerve to ask for it?" she said.
"Forget it, stop making trouble. You made the bed dirty, I'd better ask someone to come in and change it."
She ended the conversation, stopped looking at him, and tried to push away his hands.
Xie Changgeng stared at Mu Fulan in his hands, his eyelids twitching non-stop. His hands suddenly loosened, but he did not let her go. Instead, he grasped her long hair, and inserted his five fingers deeply into it, and wrapped them around the back of her head, and pulled them together.
His hands were very strong, and whenever she moved, her scalp would be pulled painfully by his hair. She had no choice but to stop and was forced to look up at him.
"Mu, I didn't intend for you to bear children for me. You are not worthy of it."
He sneered.
"But I suddenly changed my mind. Why not ask you to give birth to a child for me? It won't be too late for you to go back. After all, you are my legitimate wife."
When Mu Fulan heard him finish speaking, her eyes fell on her lips and her face actually lowered.
They slept together quite often, but perhaps because he was suspicious, he never touched her mouth.
Even in his previous life, unless the love was extremely strong, he rarely had the opportunity to kiss her. As for later, after he became the emperor, he had never kissed the women in the harem.
It seemed as if he naturally disliked talking to others.
Ignoring the pain in her scalp, she hastily turned her head to avoid him, but he turned her face back.
He pressed his mouth against her lips, pressing hard for a moment, and then tried to pry open her tightly closed teeth.
Her lips were hurt by his teeth, but she still didn't want to open her mouth and kept biting her lips tightly.
One of his hands reached down and touched one side of her waist. He suddenly bent his fingers, sank his knuckles into the soft flesh, and pushed hard.
He was somewhat familiar with her body and knew that it was one of her most sensitive parts.
A sour, numb and hot feeling suddenly attacked from the waist. Mu Fulan's legs softened, and she was distracted, and her teeth were pried open by him.
His tongue immediately invaded her mouth, entangling her tongue that had nowhere to hide.
Her face was damp and hot, and her breath seemed to mix with the man's.
Even when I was doing that kind of thing with him, it didn't feel like this moment. The distance between us was so close, with almost no gap, as if you were in me and I was in you.
Mu Fulan was horrified and felt her scalp tingling. She closed her eyes and endured it for a moment. Suddenly, the scene of her first meeting with him under the old cypress tree in Junshan Mountain in her previous life flashed through her mind. She suddenly felt extremely uncomfortable, as if she was sick. She was cold and hot, and sweating profusely.
She didn't want to make love with him. Not at all.
She suddenly opened her eyes, pushed away the man who was kissing her, turned around and ran towards the bathroom.
Before he ran in, he bent over and started vomiting.
Xie Changgeng looked at her back in astonishment as she leaned against the door and vomited. He walked towards her, stopped behind her, hesitated, and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Without the uncomfortable feeling of intimacy brought by his lips and tongue invading her mouth, Mu Fulan felt a little more comfortable. She slowly stood up, walked into the bathroom to rinse her mouth, and came out without saying a word, just looking at him.
Xie Changgeng understood immediately.
It was he who kissed her that caused the woman to react like this.
His expression suddenly became extremely ugly, and a trace of embarrassment flashed across his eyes. After a moment of silence, he said, "Listen to me, if I see you eating that thing again, I will make your Mu family the second King of Jiangdu!"
After he finished speaking, he turned around and left. He had only taken a few steps when he heard a voice behind him saying, "Xie Lang, since you've said so much, I also want to talk to you about why I'm willing to take the risk of offending you and must take the medicine to avoid pregnancy."
Xie Changgeng stopped and slowly turned his head.
"I don't want to have children because you are not my lover." She looked at him and said.
"My beloved, for the rest of his life, there must be only me in his eyes and heart. If he is in trouble and needs me, I am willing to die for him. If I am in trouble, I know he will also do his best to treat me the same way."
"When you first proposed to me and my father betrothed me to you, I didn't understand this. Now I know."
"I only have this body. If you like it and are not tired of it, I can stay and serve you forever. When you get tired of it, I will go back. But-"
She emphasized, "I must take this medicine. Even if you attack Changsha tomorrow, I will not stop."
She paused, and her tone turned gentle again.
"Thank you, my dear. I know you wanted me just now. Just come. Just don't kiss me again. It's not that I don't want to, but I'm not used to it. I'm afraid I'll vomit again and ruin your mood."
She untied the belt around her waist in front of his eyes.
With a slight rustling sound, the dress wrapped around her body fell to her feet.
In the candlelight, she was completely uncovered, her body was dazzling, and she was so beautiful that one could not take their eyes away.
She got on the bed by herself, lay down, closed her eyes, and did not move.
Xie Changgeng stared at him, his expression becoming increasingly ugly, his eyes filled with gloom.
"Go back to your country of Changsha!"
He said this, then turned and strode away without looking back.