He has always been quite strong in this regard, and Jiang Yanyi could only be forced to bear it.
His brain was lacking oxygen and his elbows felt sore from being rested on his chest for so long. Jiang Yanyi tried to change his position and accidentally touched his waist, but Feng Shuo suddenly groaned.
Jiang Yanyi quickly stepped back and glanced at his waist: "What's wrong?"
Feng Shuo's frown didn't relax, but he said, "It's okay, just a minor injury."
The injury that made him groan was obviously not a minor one. Jiang Yanyi stood up from the bed and walked out: "Try not to drink alcohol if you have injuries on your body. I have gauze and medicine here. I'll take a look at it and rebandage it for you."
Feng Shuo had always been eager to receive Jiang Yanyi's concern, but tonight he hesitated for a moment and quickly refused: "The wound medicine in the military camp will heal faster, I will go back and ask Xing Yao to bandage it. It's getting late, you should rest early."
His behavior was obviously a little abnormal, but since he said so, Jiang Yanyi had no choice but to let him do what he wanted.
***
After Feng Shuo returned to his room, he untied his ink-black outer robe. The waist of his snow-white inner garment was stained with blood, leaving a palm-sized patch. He took off his inner garment, and the gauze wrapped around his waist had already been soaked with blood.
He took out hemostatic medicine and clean gauze from the drawer. After untying the dirty gauze on his waist, a bloody wound was instantly exposed. The cut was about three inches long and looked like it was caused by a machete. The skin and flesh were turned inside out, which was very scary.
Very few people knew that he was injured. Now was a critical period, and if there was any slight change, the princes would be ready to take action.
He was toasted one after another at the celebration banquet, and he drank all of them without refusing, as he didn't want anyone to notice anything.
With victory in the battle against Minghan Kingdom imminent, he did not want to see another King of Xinyang emerge at this time.
It was indeed Feng Shuo's original intention to go directly to Jiang Yanyi after returning from the celebration banquet, but there was also an element of deception in it. Tonight, the palace held a banquet, and the princes all came with their entourages, so there would inevitably be many people and eyes. He was still able to go to see Jiang Yanyi, which obviously meant that the injury on his body was not worth mentioning. When the princes heard this news, they would be afraid and dare not have those delusional thoughts.
Feng Shuo bit the gauze between his teeth and used the cold water in the basin to clean the blood from the wound. The wound was very painful when it got wet. His forehead was already covered with fine beads of sweat, but his hands were always steady. Only when the wound was cleaned and the strong gold medicine was sprinkled on it did he feel a burning pain like fire from the wound. He bit the gauze tightly, closed his eyes in pain, and a bean-sized bean of sweat fell from his forehead.
After enduring the burning pain, Feng Shuo continued to wrap the wound with gauze with great calmness.
He didn't dare let Jiang Yanyi see the wound. He was afraid of scaring her, just like he was afraid that the scar on his back caused by an axe would scare her and chose to cover it with a tattoo.
She has done enough for him, and he doesn't want to make her worry about everything anymore. After all, the injury is on his body. If Jiang Yanyi knew about it, it would only make her worry more and the wound would not heal faster.
*****
Feng Shuo only had half a day's leisure before he plunged headfirst into the endless documents to be dealt with.
During the days when he personally led the army to pursue Minghan State, Hengzhou had accumulated a lot of official documents. He and his subordinates also had disagreements on the issue of the throne. Feng Shuo wanted to defeat Minghan State in one go before ascending the throne, but the various princes and some of his staff said that the country could not be without a king for a day, so he should ascend the throne first.
Feng Shuo got angry several times because of this.
Jiang Yanyi knew that Feng Shuo was busy. She hardly saw him except at mealtimes. Sometimes he was still handling official business even at mealtimes. She asked him several times about his injuries, but he just said he was fine.
On this day, Jiang Yanyi was invited to attend a chrysanthemum viewing banquet held by the nobles of Hengzhou. At the banquet, the nobles were full of compliments to her. Compared with the past, the level of enthusiasm was completely on a different level, which made Jiang Yanyi not know whether to laugh or cry.
The capital city was saved by the siege of Chu Changping and his son. This great feat successfully raised the status of the Chu family. When Feng Shuo ascends the throne in the future, the Chu family will be the absolute hero.
Jiang Yanyi was already valued by Feng Shuo and had a high reputation among the people. Now that her family background had also risen, others no longer dared to covet her marriage to Feng Shuo. The nobles all rushed to curry favor with her. It was at this time that Jiang Yanyi heard from the nobles about the sword dance of the eldest daughter of Marquis Changning.
She was well aware of Feng Shuo's temper. After Feng Shuo came back, he didn't say a word about it. He probably didn't want to trouble her with such a thing.
Because Jiang Yanyi chatted with the ladies at the banquet, he was a little late when he returned to the palace. When he got home, the chef of the palace had already prepared dinner.
It was rare that Feng Shuo was not busy in the study, but was waiting for her to come back to the hall to have dinner together.
Jiang Yanyi was quite surprised. After entering the flower hall, he asked Feng Shuo with a smile: "Did you finish the documents so quickly today?"
Feng Shuo looked up when he heard the voice. He usually wore dark robes, but today he wore a snow-green robe for the first time. Perhaps because the color of the robe was lighter, the oppressive feeling on him seemed to have faded a little, but the whole person still made people feel cold and unapproachable, like the snow that has not yet melted on the pine needles in late winter. It seems slightly cold at first, but it is bone-chilling when you touch it.
"There's still some left. Let's go back to our room and take a look after dinner."
He put down the book in his hand, motioned for Jiang Yanyi to sit down, and asked, "Why did you come back so late?"
Jiang Yanyi said, "Madam Xu ordered people to arrange a troupe of actors. Since the war in Hengzhou, few restaurants and inns have been open, and the troupes have moved to other places. Now that Hengzhou is stable, they have returned one after another. It's a rare opportunity to listen to an opera, and the ladies of the families didn't mean to leave, so I had to listen to the whole opera."
Feng Shuo knew Jiang Yanyi's preferences clearly. She would probably prefer to read some storybooks rather than listen to operas. He immediately said, "Why are you accommodating them? They should be accommodating you."
Jiang Yanyi looked at Feng Shuo helplessly and said, "It's just listening to a play and chatting with the ladies. It won't take much."
With her current status, if she left the banquet early, I'm afraid those noble ladies would be terrified in private. The opera troupe at the chrysanthemum viewing banquet sang a play arranged by the opera troupe of Ruyi Tower, which was obviously to please her. Since they had done this, she had to give them some face.
She had already sat down while talking. When she saw the dishes placed in front of her, Jiang Yanyi couldn't help but feel a little puzzled. How come scissors, hammers, pliers and other things were brought to the dining table
She picked up the small silver hammer and looked at it, then asked Feng Shuo in confusion, "What are these used for?"
Feng Shuo raised his eyebrows in surprise: "Eight pieces of crab, you've never eaten crab meat?"
As he said this, he signaled to the servant beside him to lift the lid of the large plate. Jiang Yanyi then saw several orange-red hairy crabs on the white porcelain plate.
Feng Shuo picked up the round-headed scissors at hand, cut open the hard shell on the crab legs, put the crab meat on Jiang Yanyi's plate, and said, "It is said that nine out of ten are male and nine out of ten are female. In September, it is suitable to eat female crabs, and in October, it is suitable to eat male crabs. In the late September and early October, the crabs are yellow, fat and white. Both are suitable."
Jiang Yanyi had eaten hairy crabs before, but had never seen such complicated crab-eating tools. There were eight kinds of utensils made of pure silver on the dining table, including a hammer, a punch, pliers, a shovel, a spoon, a fork, a scraper, and a needle. Each of them was engraved with exquisite patterns. They were so exquisite that they were not just tableware but works of art.
The ancients called crabs "jiantuan". In his previous life, Jiang Yanyi had only heard that the ancients were more particular about eating crabs than modern people. Now he has truly witnessed it. Just looking at this luxurious lineup of tableware, he can tell how hard the ancient foodies worked for delicious food.
Even Mr. Li Bai praised crabs, saying "The crab claws are like golden liquid, and the wine mound is like Penglai." The big foodie Mr. Su Dongpo wrote a poem just to exchange for two crabs. Crabs have been highly sought after from ancient times to the present, which shows how delicious they are.
In her previous life, Jiang Yanyi was single from birth and never had a boyfriend who peeled shrimps for her. But after traveling through time, she had a fiancé who peeled crabs for her. Thinking of this, the corners of her mouth curled up unconsciously. She held her cheek with one hand and smiled foolishly at Feng Shuo.
Feng Shuo changed to a small silver hammer and knocked along the edge of the crab shell. After peeling the crab shell, he scooped out the crab roe with a spoon and put it on a small plate and handed it to Jiang Yanyi. When he looked up, he saw her laughing like an idiot. He asked in a low voice, "What are you laughing at?"
Jiang Yanyi scooped up a spoonful of crab roe and fed it to him: "You are laughing because you are happy in your heart. You eat it too."
What a silly girl. She was so happy when I peeled a crab for her. Feng Shuo's heart softened.
It wasn't often that she actively fed him, so he leaned over slightly and ate the crab roe she fed him.
Eating crabs during the Mid-Autumn Festival has always been a favorite among dignitaries. Feng Shuo had naturally eaten them in his early years, but because he had no sense of taste, he could not taste the ultimate delicacy that others talked about.
When you take a bite of the crab roe, the taste is not as amazing as the literati and scholars have praised it to be. It is fresh with a hint of saltiness. Due to the high fat content, the taste is particularly delicate, a bit like salted duck egg yolk, but tastes better than salted duck egg yolk.
He smiled, as if he had finally solved a mystery after many years: "So this is the taste."
He was very skilled at peeling crabs, so Jiang Yanyi naturally didn't think this was his first time eating crabs. Hearing his murmur, he couldn't help but lower his head and sniff the crab roe in the small dish and asked, "What does it smell like?"
Feng Shuo calmly changed the subject: "The housekeeper said this is the best jiantuan in Yanghu, but that's all."
Jiang Yanyi felt that the precious person was just picky because he had eaten too much good things. She said while chewing the crab legs, "I think it's delicious."
Feng Shuo continued to use round-headed scissors to cut the crab legs and shells for her: "The crabs are cold in nature, so you shouldn't eat too many. You can only eat two today, and you have to wait two days before eating again."
Jiang Yanyi scooped some crab roe into the bowl and mixed it with rice. Listening to him muttering, she felt strangely sweet in her heart.
This person is a cold-faced devil in the eyes of outsiders. Who would have thought that when he is kind to others, he can be so meticulous
She smiled lightly and said, "I save it."
Her smile was so bright, and her eyes seemed to be filled with light. For a moment, Feng Shuo felt that his eyes were almost burned by her smile.
Even though he is now about to reach the pinnacle of power, Feng Shuo still dares not easily open the scars of his past that are difficult to talk about.
But he also knew that some things could not be kept secret forever. The person in front of him was so beautiful. Once he decided to have a relationship, he should be sincere and have no secrets from her. On the other hand, he had been hiding it and did not dare to tell her about his taste.
Sometimes the more people care, the more they fear losing.
He was afraid that Jiang Yanyi would think that he was only nice to her because she could restore his sense of taste and would become estranged from him; he was also afraid that Jiang Yanyi would despise him for being a cripple who couldn't even distinguish the five flavors.
Feng Shuo's eyes dimmed for a moment. He lowered his head slightly and continued to help Jiang Yanyi deal with the crabs. He pretended to be relaxed and asked in a nonchalant tone: "Ayi, would you mind if I had defects?"
Jiang Yanyi was stunned for a moment. Defect
She wiped her mouth with a handkerchief and said in confusion, "Why do you mind? There are not so many saints in the world. Everyone has flaws."
Obviously she understood it as a character flaw.
Feng Shuo was silent for a long time, still without looking up, with a self-deprecating smile on his face: "It's not a flaw in my character."
This made Jiang Yanyi a little confused. If it wasn't a character flaw, then it could only be a physical flaw.
She looked back and forth at him several times, and suddenly a terrifying thought came to her mind.
—When he came back from the war, he was injured and he kept it hidden from her. It just so happened that the injured part was his waist. Could it be that he injured his kidney and would be unable to move from then on
Otherwise, why would he have such a self-deprecating and awkward expression
Jiang Yanyi's eyes widened, and she stopped eating the crab rice. Perhaps because she had received a modern education since she was a child, she was more looking for spiritual compatibility in her lover. After a while, she calmly accepted this fact, organized her words and said:
"Feng Shuo, we have actually discussed these issues a long time ago. Just like you once told me, we will all grow old one day, and by then we will leave each other in the most miserable state. Since I have decided to walk with you until that day, no matter if you are old, sick, or disabled, as long as you are you, we will keep walking together."
These words were like a soft tentacle, gently touching his heart and taking root deeply.
Feng Shuo lowered his head slightly, and after a while, he said in a hoarse voice: "Thank you, Yi."
Jiang Yanyi felt really distressed for him, "You and I will get married sooner or later. Husband and wife are one body, and we should support each other throughout our lives. But Feng Shuo, you still have to see a doctor, don't be afraid to see a doctor."
Feng Shuo had seen countless doctors over the years, and they all said that his sense of taste could not be restored. But when Jiang Yanyi said this, Feng Shuo still responded, "Okay."
Jiang Yan thought about such a subtle matter as not being able to be told to others. If it were known to others, and now was a special period for discussing his ascension to the throne, he was afraid of being caught. After some consideration, he said, "I will tell my subordinates to be more discreet when looking for the doctor."
Feng Shuo thought that Jiang Yanyi's secrecy was to prevent the news of his injury from leaking out, and he somewhat admired her for her thoughtful consideration.
Two days later, when the famous andrologist in Hengzhou City sneaked into his house to take his pulse, Feng Shuo realized that something was wrong.
The author has something to say: Sorry, my cat started to have mild diarrhea yesterday, and today the diarrhea became very serious, so I took it to the hospital.
Based on my own experience, I would like to remind those who want to keep cats in the future not to trust the seller easily when buying a cat. The seller said that the author's cat had been vaccinated, and the author was asked to buy their cat food (she said that the cat had been eating that kind of cat food, and changing the food rashly would cause the cat to have diarrhea).
As a result, today the seller heard that the cat had diarrhea and asked the author to go to her store to get some cat food to feed it (the seller had always said that she had fed the cat the same type of cat food that the author had bought from her store, so it was obvious that she had fed the cat cheap cat food before). The author was worried and took the cat to the hospital. After doing a vaccine test, it was discovered that the cat had never been vaccinated...
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