bookcurios Chapter 176 Warm Bed
Chapter 176 Warm Bed
After Xu Cinian left, it was getting late. Mu Jiaojiao and Jiang Jin took the baby for a walk in the yard for a while to help digest the food, and then went back to the house.
Mu Jiaojiao supervised the two children to wash clean and let them lie down on the bed obediently before returning to her and Jiang Jin's room.
When Mu Jiaojiao pushed the door open, Jiang Jin was looking at the message sent by Yu Du under the candlelight, with a dull expression on his face. After reading the letter, he was full of sarcasm.
"What's wrong? Frowning."
Mu Jiaojiao walked behind Jiang Jin, raised her hand and gently rubbed his forehead to ease his emotions.
"The struggles in the court are just very exciting, like a drama that goes on every other day, one after another."
When Jiang Jin heard Mu Jiaojiao's question, he handed the letter in his hand to Mu Jiaojiao. He always told Mu Jiaojiao everything and usually didn't hide anything from her.
Moreover, Mu Jiaojiao's insights are often very unique. Although she is a woman, she can see through the situation in the court.
Mu Jiaojiao took the letter and read it from beginning to end. It basically said that Prince Qi was reported by the Eighth Prince's men because of his uncle Song Zhou's wife Wang Jingyi's maternal family. Later, corruption and bribery were discovered. Now the Wang family was arrested and exiled to Chizhou.
The highest-ranking official in the Wang family is Wang's younger brother Wang Yumin, who is the county magistrate of Fengyang City, which is close to Yudu. As a sixth-rank official, he is not very eye-catching. He was found to have embezzled money because of his involvement with Prince Qi.
It is said that he embezzled one thousand taels of silver, but this one thousand taels could not even make a splash in Yudu, a place full of wealth and luxury.
The reason he was sentenced so severely now was nothing more than someone found evidence to please the higher-ups in heaven.
As a result, the Qi Wang family, which had been growing increasingly arrogant, also became more restrained, fearing that if someone from their superiors did not please them, the knife would fall on their necks and they would eventually become abandoned pawns.
Although the Eighth Prince is unruly and willful, he has many people supporting him because of his mother, Tang Yurou, the current Concubine Xian, who is behind the scenes planning for him.
Originally, after this incident, the Eighth Prince's lineage and the virtuous concubine showed some signs of surpassing the other two princes.
As a result, five days ago, the maidservant beside Concubine Xian was implicated in the miscarriage of Baolin, a concubine in the harem. As a result, Concubine Xian was confined to her house for three months, and the Eighth Prince's lineage also settled down.
As a result, Prince Qi, Prince De, and the eighth prince who had not yet been crowned king formed a three-way balance of power in the court, and no one could suppress the other.
Mu Jiaojiao looked carefully and discovered another point. Although the three princes who were competing for the crown prince of the Dayu Dynasty had now formed a three-way balance of power, the forces of the three parties had actually been weakened invisibly.
It's like there's an invisible hand controlling the situation and guiding the development. Anyone who stands out will be beaten, keeping everyone in peace.
Mu Jiaojiao thought about this, then lowered her eyebrows and looked at her husband in front of her. She felt that this matter was definitely related to her man!
"Is there something of your hand in this?"
When Jiang Jin heard Mu Jiaojiao's words, a smile flashed in his eyes, and his eyes were full of love and admiration that could not be concealed.
"My dear, how can you think so of me? I am far away in Cangzhou. This Yudu court has nothing to do with me!"
However, Jiang Jin certainly did not admit that this matter had anything to do with him. He looked aggrieved, with an expression that said, "Wife, you can't wrongly accuse your husband."
Mu Jiaojiao: “…………” She just watched his performance quietly!
This old troublemaker!
Mu Jiaojiao thought that anyone with a discerning eye could see that there was a fourth hand firmly controlling the current situation in the court, and that hand was the almighty Emperor.
He is only 45 years old now, which is a good time for him to enjoy the power. His sons can be outstanding and prestigious, but they cannot threaten him.
The former crown prince Jiang Hengjiang Tai'an is the best lesson. The emperor was in his prime, and the crown prince was loved by the people and supported by all officials. This was not a good thing.
of course
Apart from this, no one would have thought that there is a fifth force in the court today, and no one would have thought that there is a chess player sitting in Cangzhou thousands of miles away, stirring up the situation in the court.
"go to bed!"
After thinking about it, Mu Jiaojiao looked at her scheming and green-tea husband, raised her hand and patted the left back of his head, spoke lazily, and turned to walk towards the bed.
"My wife, you actually hit me. I won't live any longer."
Mu Jiaojiao's slap had no power at all, but Jiang Jin covered the right back of his head like a wronged young wife, his tone twisting and turning.
Mu Jiaojiao: “…”
She was speechless again.
After a long while, Mu Jiaojiao couldn't stand it any longer and said slowly.
"Prince Jin, you're covering the wrong place."
Jiang Jin: “…” I was in a hurry and didn’t pay attention for a moment!
"Ahem... Madam, the pain will transfer. The place where you hit me is numb, so the pain will transfer here!
Besides, my lady, is it because you covered the wrong place? It's obviously because you hit me, my lady, do you no longer love me?"
Mu Jiaojiao, a modern soul, was almost convinced by his pseudo-scientific theory, and even transferred the pain!
"Okay, that's an eyesore!"
Mu Jiaojiao rubbed her forehead and said helplessly to the person surrounded by the aroma of tea: "Love, love, love, I love you the most!"
"Then my lady loves me the most. Does that mean she is willing to satisfy whatever my husband wants?"
A hint of a smile of success flashed in Jiang Jin's eyes, and then he curled his gentle and elegant mouth and looked at Mu Jiaojiao eagerly.
Mu Jiaojiao: ...Don't think she doesn't know what this sinister fox is planning!
After thinking about it, Mu Jiaojiao picked up the embroidered pillow beside her with an expressionless face and threw it accurately at the shameless face.
"If you do it again, you'll sleep on the couch!"
After Jiang Jin finished speaking, he saw Mu Jiaojiao staring at him intently. Before he could retract the smile in the corner of her eyes, a pillow flew towards him. He also heard his wife's gritted teeth warning.
Jiang Jin caught the pillow, put away the smile on his face, looked at his wife, and spoke in a serious tone.
"It's cold in the middle of the night, so I warm the bed for my wife"
After he finished speaking, he happily hugged the pillow, got on the bed, lay down, and covered himself with the quilt, all in one go, with his hands placed obediently on his lower abdomen.
Mu Jiaojiao was simply unable to bear watching. How could this be the fifth hand stirring up trouble in the court?
This is a spineless squeamish person!
She felt that all her previous speculations were wrong. Everything in Dayu was dominated by the current Xuanhe Emperor Jiang Xuanqing, and it really had nothing to do with the servile man beside her!
"Go put out the candle!"
Mu Jiaojiao shook her head, then kicked Jiang Jin's leg with her foot under the quilt and gave an order.
"Oh!"
Jiang Jin stood up helplessly. What a fool of a wife! She didn’t tell him to put out the candles earlier. Didn’t she see that he was warming the bed obediently?