The princess is soft!The sick villain is crazy

Chapter 159 Bathing
Back in the bedroom, Shu Yao was lying on the made bed, but Li Mingji had no intention of going to bed, and casually looked at the furnishings in the room.

Lin Zongfu acquiesced to the relationship between the two and arranged them in the same courtyard. Although this was the result of Li Mingji's deliberate promotion, under normal circumstances, he would not sleep in the same room with Shu Yao, at most he would stay with her until she fell asleep and then leave.

With warm and soft jade in his arms, he can't guarantee that he can maintain a gentleman's appearance at all times. In order to avoid losing control, it is better to keep a distance from her.When he welcomes the little princess into the door with three media and six hires, he will not have these scruples.

He owed her a lot in the previous life, this life is not only compensation, but also Li Mingji's punishment to himself.

Thinking of Emperor Yong's attitude towards their marriage, Li Mingji slightly raised his eyes, knowing that he still had one important thing to do during this southern tour.

The issue of water fees has been around for a long time, and it is actually not difficult to find out.It's just that Emperor Yong didn't intervene much in the court affairs before, and the aristocratic family managed it. The officials filled their own pockets and took this opportunity to make a lot of money.But getting rid of the aristocratic family is one thing, you can't change all the officials in the world and re-elect, right?Therefore, it is of course impossible to deal with these officials like the family.

The so-called killing chickens to warn monkeys, Li Mingji was sent to Yangzhou to catch a model to warn the officials.Besides, what Emperor Yong really told him was to check what happened to the corpse in the secret passage of the princess' mansion.

Li Mingji asked the guards of the Imperial City Division to steal the roster of Qin Yanghou's mansion.Liluoyuan was originally a place for servants to live in. In the year when Princess Yongning was born, there were three maids living there. One died of illness and two left the house.Coincidentally, these three maidservants were from the same village, and they all came from counties near Yangzhou. They first entered the palace as maidservants, and were later sent to the Marquis' Mansion to serve Yongning Princess closely.

However, 16 years have passed since the eldest princess passed away.Whether the two maidservants are alive or not is still unknown.Coupled with the prosperity of Dayong's business and frequent population movements, it is not known whether it has changed its name or changed its household.

It is really troublesome to marry the sweetheart back home.

At this moment, he was actually a little bit envious of Zhou Rong, and just happened to hit the cusp of getting married, and when the court needed to promote poor scholars, Emperor Yong gave the two of them a marriage without hesitation, to show that he reformed the aristocratic family The relationship between Zhou Rong and Princess Jiayi has hardly been hindered by the rank and the attitude of "regardless of family background in selecting scholars, and irrespective of family background in marriage" [1].

Unlike him, Emperor Yong became more and more worried about him even though he came to the little princess's side early.

"Li Mingji?"

The little princess blinked her eyes, and her innocent and charming attitude made people feel even more flames.It took Li Mingji a while to suppress the impulse, and hummed softly, "I'm going to take a bath and sleep in the side room at night. The journey is tiring, so Jiaojiao should rest early."

It was too obvious that he was running away, Shu Yao touched his chin, really didn't want to understand what was wrong with him, so he ignored him, hugged the quilt and closed his eyes.

She thought it would be difficult for her to fall asleep in a strange place without Li Mingji by her side.Unexpectedly, the excitement of the brain was the excitement, but the exhaustion of the body was hard to hide, so after a while, she fell asleep and slept soundly.

In the clean room, cold water was poured head-on, wet the young man's black hair like a waterfall.Li Mingji bathed and changed his clothes, and finally extinguished the flame in his heart, returning to his previous calm and calm appearance.

However, he and the little princess's clothes smelled of the same kind of incense, and the smell of the little princess was everywhere.Thinking of this, Li Mingji's eyes darkened slightly, and he felt that the moral bottom line in his heart had weakened a bit.

After all, this is Yangzhou City, which is two thousand miles away from the capital, surrounded by officials at his disposal, and he has lived here for five full years.Even if he did something, Emperor Yong would not know.

Li Mingji thought that he should take a bath again.

His slender fingers hooked to the belt around his waist, the door lock shook, and he narrowed his eyes.

Outside the room, there is a woman's timid voice, soft as a pampas grass: "My lord, my servant's name is Hongling, do you want my servant to help you change clothes?"

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A night without dreams.Shu Yao woke up naturally after sleeping, feeling refreshed.She yawned, and subconsciously called "Come on", Chunrui walked in and helped her wash and change her clothes.

"Your Excellency has already gone to discuss the matter. He said that he will take you out for a stroll when the princess wakes up."

Chunrui also knew the true identity of the Commander. This bodyguard who tricked the little princess with his skin was actually quite trusted by Emperor Yong.However, unlike Pine Needles, Chunrui, who knows martial arts, can tell at a glance that Li Mingji is not easy, especially that day when he competed with Xie Yanzhou, it was said that it was a draw, but in fact he was mostly clumsy, and the outside world's description of the commander is not just a rumor .

I'm afraid only the little princess thought he was as weak as before.But practicing martial arts is not something that happens overnight. It is not wrong to say that he tricked the little princess with a skin.

Lin Zongfu prepared some women's clothes and jewelry, Shu Yao glanced at them, showing no interest.Although she had brought a few clothes herself, she was tired of wearing them after being on the boat for so long, so she just took this opportunity to go out and buy some, so she nodded: "Then you go and call him."

In the front hall, several maidservants have been tidied up, their necks shrunk into quails, and they stand respectfully in a row.Chunrui grew up in the palace, and she also has the title of female official, and has seen many methods of rubbing people, so it is easy to deal with these maidservants.

Shu Yao glanced over and frowned slightly. She had a good memory, it seemed that there were more than these people yesterday, was there one missing?
"Is there another person?"

"My servant doesn't know either," Chunrui shook her head, "She wasn't here last night."

That maid pretended to be cute, but she was actually the most shrewd. Who knew what she was going to do?Chunrui guards the little princess's room all night, as long as she doesn't hurt the little princess, she doesn't care about the rest.

Shu Yao let out an "oh", maybe Chunrui was scared away after tossing those maidservants so much yesterday.

Just as he was talking, Li Mingji and Lin Zongfu walked towards each other.

"Then the officer will not bother the Commander."

Lin Zongfu smiled stiffly, struggling to maintain a calm surface.

He was woken up in the middle of the night, he yawned and opened the door, there was a servant girl at the door, she had already swallowed her breath, it was Hong Ling whom he had arranged to seduce Li Mingji yesterday.Lin Zongfu had never seen such a battle before, he was so frightened that he didn't fall asleep for the rest of the night, but this morning, Li Mingji could talk and laugh with him like a normal person, as if he didn't know anything about what happened last night.

Lin Zongfu arranged for Hongling not only to win over Li Mingji, but also to obtain information, to find out about Li Mingji's details.And Li Mingji was silently warning Lin Zongfu with actions that the commander of the Imperial City Division was not someone to be messed with.

　[1] From (Southern Song Dynasty) Zheng Qiao's "Tong Zhi".

　　
　
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