Zhou Rendong lowered his gaze, his butterfly-like eyelashes trembling as he pursed his lips, struggling to get out of Fu Yicen’s embrace.
Fu Yicen frowned, firmly held his waist, and said in a cold voice, “Don’t move.”
Zhou Rendong stole a glance at him and saw that his face was gloomy and he gritted his teeth. He sighed secretly and stiffened, afraid to move.
It seemed that the general indeed had a quarrel with Miss Fu.
All kinds of kindness he received these two days were just illusions used to deceive Miss Fu.
Pretending to be nice to him, Miss Fu believed in it. In her anxiousness, she would take the initiative to reconcile with the general.
Once they reconciled, he…would be thrown back into the servants’ room again.
This situation had happened before.
At that time, he was still naive, thinking that Fu Yicen would remember the past and really want to fulfill his promise, treating him kindly.
He was happy for a while, but within two days, he was back to his original state.
Why was he so stupid, always unable to remember the lesson?
He shouldn’t have any hope; this way…he won’t be sad if he gets discarded again in a few days.
Seeing the little man in his arms wiping his tears secretly, Fu Yicen was taken aback, realizing that his tone just now was too harsh. In an instant, his voice softened, as his delicate fingers were held tightly.
” I’m sorry, I lost my temper just now.”
He hated Fu Rushang so much, but he couldn’t expose her true face for the time being. So he was inevitably a little irritable.
“Let her wait in the study.” He sighed and waved his hand, instructing the guards to dismiss her.
While speaking, Chu Yu had already prescribed the medicine and handed it to Fu Yicen.
“According to this prescription, first take the herbal medicine for seven days, eat small meals frequently, and recuperate slowly.”
Fu Yicen read the prescription carefully and found that the ingredients were not hard to find. Therefore, he handed it over to his servants for preparation.
“Thank you very much.”
Chu Yu shook his head, dropped the pen, and instructed: “This body is riddled with holes. If you want to survive, you have to do less tossing, including…ahem!”
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Coincidentally, a maid came over to report that the inner chamber’s bed was already prepared, and the young master could rest there at any time.
Fu Yicen was about to carry him back to the bed to rest, but Zhou Rendong tugged at his sleeves, with a troubled expression on his face.
“What’s wrong?”
Zhou Rendong swallowed and moistened his dry throat before speaking with a pitifully low voice, “C-can I go back?”
“Where are you going back?” Fu Yicen frowned when Zhou Rendong became frightened, quickly retracted his hands, bit his lips and remained silent.
Fu Yicen could only guess on his own: “Go back to the servants’ room?”
Zhou Rendong softly replied with a “Mm.”
He couldn’t sleep well here.
Later, when Fu Yicen returned after seeing Fu Rushang, he would definitely drive him away. He’d better be sensible.
“Don’t go back.” Fu Yicen wiped the moisture from the corners of Zhou Rendong’s eyes. “I’ll be free in a few days. I’ll go with you and move your things here. You can live here from now on.”
“Ah?”
Zhou Rendong widened his eyes, dumbfounded, as he stared at him for a moment. Seeing his serious expression without any jokes, he couldn’t figure out his thoughts for a moment.
“Stop thinking about it.” Fu Yicen showed him an extraordinary level of patience. A cushion was placed under his waist to make him lie more comfortably.
“Have a good sleep. I’ll wake you up for dinner later.”
Zhou Rendong grabbed the quilt with a complicated expression on his face. With Fu Yicen’s attitude like this, he didn’t dare mention it again.
The quilt was soft and warm. As Fu Yicen patted his chest gently, he felt drowsy. In less than the time it takes to brew a pot of tea, he fell into a slumber.
Fu Yicen saw him sleeping with a furrowed brow, his long eyelashes trembling, and his lips parted slightly, as if he was having a nightmare.
“Dong’er, don’t be afraid.”
After coaxing him for a while, listening to his breathing gradually stabilized, Fu Yicen got up and told the maid to light the tranquilizing incense, staying by his side without leaving.
After doing all this slowly, he changed into a clean set of clothes and walked towards the study.
Before stepping into the study, he heard the sound of metal objects colliding inside.
He looked up and saw Fu Rushang holding two small knives, swaying them around, looking very happy.
The study room was originally a place of privacy, where many items related to troop deployment were stored. Outsiders were not allowed to enter casually.
In the previous life, he never suspected Fu Rushang, who often fiddled around in the study, thinking she was just lively and interested in those things.
Only when the so-called “criminal evidence” was presented in front of him did he finally realize how much perjury Fu Rushang had committed, using his military seal stolen from the study over the years!
“Brother Cen, you are here!”
When she turned her head and saw Fu Yicen, she threw down two small knives and ran towards him with her arms open.
Fu Yicen clenched his fists, gritted his back molars, suppressed the nausea rising in his stomach, stretched out his hand pretending not to care, and pushed her away.
“I still have a lot to do.”
Fu Rushang pursed her lips, twisted her handkerchief, and rubbed it over again: “I heard that the emperor asked you to rest for a while. Last time you said you would take me out to play for a few days, and now you have time, right…”
“How do you know about court affairs?”
“I… I listened to what my servant said.” Fu Rushang replied casually. Anyway, Fu Yicen, that idiot, would believe anything she said.
She had to take the opportunity to persuade him to take her out for a few days, so she could help the Emperor gain control over him.
Fu Yicen nodded without asking further. He took out a book at random, and flipped through its pages.
“Recently, there have been frequent riots in the borderlands. I have come up with countermeasures. If you have nothing to do, go listen to some opera or have some tea outside.”
Fu Rushang snatched the book from him, groaning angrily, “Hmph, you just don’t want to accompany me! Is it because of that wretched man?”
Unable to control his temper, Fu Yicen slammed the table and angrily retorted, “How dare you!”
Fu Rushang pouted, her eyes filled with tears: “Why are you attacking me? If it weren’t for you being reluctant to have the skin cut, my face would have healed by now.”
Seeing her ugly face crying, Fu Yicen had a buzzing headache.
How could his past self be so blind to attribute these fake and deceptive actions to “adorable”?
“If it weren’t for the Zhou family, my face wouldn’t be ruined, and I… I wouldn’t be robbed of my title as General’s wife… Are you worthy of my father?”
She was crying so hard that Fu Yicen sneered in his heart, but he had to put away the anger that he couldn’t help but show on his face.
“Don’t overthink it.” Fu Yicen said, “Do you know that the emperor has been looking for the treasures and mines of Fei Kingdom?”
Hearing this, Fu Rushang stopped crying and asked in confusion, “What does that have to do with this matter?”
“Prime Minister Zhou might know the whereabouts of the treasure.”
Before dying, the Dog Emperor did tell him that Zhou Rendong had handed over the treasure and mines.
The Great Chu destroyed Fei Kingdom twenty years ago, and searched the entire area. It was still unknown where the treasures and iron mines that the Lord of Fei Kingdom had hidden for generations were.
Now, within just three years of the new emperor’s reign, he had already emptied the national Treasury, and he was now eyeing this treasure.
In his previous life, Zhou Rendong never mentioned the treasure until before he was imprisoned. After his imprisonment, it was quite possible that Zhou Rendong saved him through great effort.
At this moment, he deliberately said that Prime Minister Zhou knew about it. Firstly, it could explain why he suddenly rescued Zhou Rendong, avoiding trouble from Fu Rushang. Secondly, it could provoke the relationship between Prime Minister Zhou and the dog Emperor, making them test each other.
As for this news, if he told Fu Rushang, it would definitely reach the emperor’s ears before tonight.
“I haven’t found evidence for this matter yet, so I haven’t mentioned it to the emperor.” Fu Yicen pretended, “I’ve been treating Zhou Rendong better these days. I’ll take him to the palace to attend a banquet in a few days before I can coax him to ask about his father.”
Fu Rushang was indeed bluffed by his rhetoric and pretended to be wronged, saying: “Then…then this matter is settled, and you have to cut his skin immediately.”
“Alright.”
Fu Yicen smiled insincerely, almost unable to keep up the act.
“I want him to serve me for a few days,” Fu Ruzhuang raised her eyebrows. “Make him be my horse to ride and let off some steam…”
“Fine.”
Fu Yicen gritted his teeth, found a reason, and sent her away.
If he said anything more, he wouldn’t be able to continue acting.
Fu Rushang went out to recruit a personal maid, wearing a cold expression: “Go to the palace.”
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Excuse me, let poor dong’er be your horse to ride?? Can I go in there and break her legs…
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Screaming into my pillow this is not good for me 😭 Lord knows how I’ll be able to get through this!