The Marquis Is Innocent

Chapter 53:

Chapter 53:

Wei Shao remained silent. He stood, while she sat, he looked down at Xiao Qiao, but Xiao Qiao did not look at him with her eyes slightly averted. The two were separated by a table, but they both seemed to be caught up in their own thoughts. There was only dead silence in the room. Wei Shao even seemed to hear the sound of blood rushing through his chest and his heart pounding in response.

A night breeze saw a gap through a window in the corner, the candle flame swayed, and the shadow of Wei Shao cast into the opposite wall also swayed a few times. The house finally seems to be a trace of life. Wei Shaos shoulders finally followed the shadow and moved, lifting his feet to walk towards her, Xiao Qiao had already stood up from the couch and raised her eyes and said in a warm voice: Its getting late. Lets rest.

She got off the couch, walked past Wei Shao as he watched, went to the door, opened it, and whispered to the servant to come in and serve Wei Shao into the bath.

Even in winter, when Wei Shao is out on his march, he bathes in cold water, especially now that it is summer.

The water drawn from the deep well in the back garden was already very cool and refreshing. Wei Shao closed his eyes and lifted the whole bucket and poured it down from the head, the water rushing down the top of his head, face, shoulders, the sound of the water splashing, his skin felt a refreshing coolness, but the blood flowing under the skin brought him that burning sensation as if it was constantly stabbing him but did not go down. And he felt a tightness in his chest, as if blocked by a piece of rag.

He felt bad, very bad.

He opened his eyes. His body was dripping wet. Water kept dripping down along the skin of his hair.

Wei Shao kind of wanted to call her in to help him wipe himself off. Recently every night when he bathed, she would come in and serve him, wiping his hair, his body, and sometimes even be intimate with him in the bath.

He opened his mouth, but finally did not call, and pulled a bath towel hanging quietly on a shelf, wiped haphazardly, put on a piece of clothing and went out, saw that she was not waiting for him on the bed, but rather, as she had just come here, standing aside, supposedly to wait for him to go up first.

Wei Shao hesitated, walked towards her and said, Go to sleep, its late.

Xiao Qiao smiled faintly and nodded. She went over and bolted the door and lowered the two curtains hanging in front of the bed.

Then the light in front of the bed dimmed.

Wei Shao was lying on his back on the bed. She blew out the lamp.

There was a slight rustling sound. Wei Shao turned his face and watched as she turned her back on him in the dimness and took off her clothes one by one, leaving her middle clothes on, and finally climbed into bed.

She went to sleep, and it was as if she fell asleep at once, without turning over one more time, breathing evenly.

Wei Shao experienced a lot of things this day. During the day, he rushed back to Yuyang from Zhuo County, met Wei Yan Qiao Ci outside the city in the evening, hosted a banquet for Qiao Ci, waited for her to come home, making out with her, got angry at her, went to the east room, and finally went around a lot, he finally came back again and lay back on this bed with her.

Wei Shao felt restless, but not because of the tiredness from the body. He was young, energetic as a male leopard in the late spring. He could travel for three days and nights without sleep and still appear in front of his soldiers the next day in high spirits.

What made him feel restless was the sense of insecurity that she brought him.

She is just a woman, he can lift her up with one arm, and her neck cant withstand his fury, if she really angered him at all. When he came to the study and suddenly found that the box had been moved and had left stark scratches, his first thought was indeed her, and he could not control his anger. Because he had so clearly ordered her not to touch the box. And from the bottom of his heart, he really did not want her to touch it. He had set the rules, but she did not follow them. He felt offended by her ignorance.Follow current novels at novelhall.com)

Xiao Qiao suddenly turned over and slept with her back to him, as if she had just turned over unintentionally in her sleep.

Wei Shao hesitated, and continued to press towards her back, finally receiving her completely into his chest, his lips to her ear, whispering: I believe you now. The lock really wasnt tampered with by you.

He paused for a moment and saw no reaction from her. Then he tightened his arms, his palms began to move slowly along her waist, finally probing into her clothes, gently caressing her with tenderness, and his lips fell to the back of her neck, kissing along the back of her neck all the way to her shoulders, bringing her shirt down from her shoulders as his chin rubbed against her.

His breath grew hot, his nostrils fluttering onto her bare skin. When he tried to turn her over to face himself, Xiao Qiao suddenly raised her hand, grabbed his palm that was getting hot, and took it out of her clothes lapel.

Husband, I am really tired tonight, can I sleep please?

Xiao Qiao said as she opened her eyes in the dim tent. Her head did not turn back.

Her tone was still soft, but her voice sounded, indeed, low-spirited and weak.

Wei Shaos hand, which she had removed, gave a slight pause. After a moment, he let go of her and turned outward.

The next morning, only the 5th hour, Wei Shao got up and left.

Xiao Qiao really didnt know when he got up and left. She woke up as usual and saw that no one was around before she knew he was gone. Not long after she got up, while she was still dressing up, she suddenly heard a faint cry coming from the courtyard outside, as if something had happened.

Xiao Qiao did not go out to see. After a while, Old Lin came in and told her that the madam had found out that the person who dared to sneak into the Marquis study yesterday and break the lock to commit an act of misconduct was indeed the Old Sun she had watched. Just now, Old Jiang brought people over to take the old sun away. Old Sun woman even cried out, Jiang old woman on the spot told people to take mud stuffed her mouth, finally is dragged backwards feet to force drag away.

Old Lin described, eyes wide open, hands and feet, look very angry: The lady is generous, she did not payback your kindness, but deceive our masters, how can do such a thing! There is no excuse for this!

A footstep came from the doorway, Xiao Qiao raised her eyes and saw that Jiang old woman had come. The attitude is unusually respectful. Standing outside the door, she bowed towards Xiao Qiao and said: As you know, Madam knew what happened here, she was very angry and interrogated overnight, and the evil woman named Sun was found out early in the morning, and the woman confessed to it. Just now, the servant girl has tied her up, and she will be severely punished if she is brought there. Madam is very angry last night, did not sleep well all night, early in the morning and went to the north house to the old lady to plead guilty, came back to just lie down. Madam said, you do not need to go to her side in the next few days.

Old Jiang returned the words and left. Xiao Qiaos side cleaned up and went to the north house as usual.

Mrs. Zhu had come here early in the morning and had not left long ago. Mrs. Xu saw Xiao Qiao coming, her spirit looked a little weak, beckoned her to sit beside her, examined her face and said, Just now your mother-in-law came to me, said that a box in Erlangs study was broken by a subordinate, last night Erlang was furious and asked her to pursue responsibility, she disposed of the matter early in the morning, and the person was also found?

Xiao Qiao said: I am very grateful to my mother-in-law for catching the person who broke the lock so quickly. Fortunately, nothing happened this time, it was just a false alarm. I came over this morning to see my grandmother, but I also had something I wanted to discuss with her.

Go ahead.

There are many servants in the west house. I remember that when I first married here, there were only about ten of them, but later, thanks to my grandmothers love, she sent some of them one after another, and some from my mother-in-law as well. There were many servants, but only served me and my husband. My husband is always away during the day, so I dont need that many people. I see that there are only about ten people here at my grandmothers house, even for cleaning the courtyard, my husband and I are young and young in age, so we should not have to spend so much. Its just as well that something like this happened. I thought I could cut back on the number of people I didnt need. On the one hand, to stop people from floating around, and on the other hand, to prevent people from having nothing to do and creating problems.

Mrs. Xu nodded: Thats right. We dont care about one or two underlings who are lazy and idle, but if there is a problem like yesterdays because of idleness, it is the housewifes fault for not paying attention. It is rare that you dont care about the arrangements. You dont have to ask me about the affairs in your house.

Xiao Qiao smiled, thanked Mrs. Xu, and sat with her for a few moments before leaving.