After being forced to marry as a substitute, I became famous in the limbo

Chapter 28 Nightmare
Lin Zheng pursed his lips, and with some difficulty spit out the obvious fact that he didn't want to face.

"No one cares whether a storyteller on the street is alive or dead." He exhaled heavily, "She has no background, even if she is involved in the vortex of struggle, she can sacrifice herself at will."

Lin Zheng uttered a word with difficulty, and both of them fell into a tacit silence.

After a long time, Mu Jingzhao sighed heavily, "These days, you stay in the palace first and help me keep an eye on Concubine Ning."

He thought for a while, and added, "Make sure to keep her safe."

"Yes."

Lin Zheng opened his mouth, but still didn't make a sound.

"I'll go see Concubine Ning first."

"emperor?"

Mu Jingzhao turned his head when he heard the sound.

"Then how should we deal with the poison in the braised pork?"

"Stand still and wait until the black hands behind the scenes relax their vigilance before conducting an investigation."

"Yes."

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Jiang Ning vaguely felt as if he had had a long, long dream.

She dreamed of a raging fire that would burn to ashes what she remembered as home.

She dreamed that her parents were lying lifelessly in a pool of blood, her body was already completely cold, but her eyes still stubbornly widened.

She dreamed of her young sister, clutching her bleeding stomach, pushing her away as hard as she could, crying for her to run away.

She dreamed that the man was dressed in black, standing in the firelight, his brows were furrowed, and his hands were still stained with blood.

He looked up, that face overlapped perfectly with Lin Zheng's.

Jiang Ning woke up instantly, she was breathing heavily, and cold sweat flowed from her forehead.

"Have a nightmare?"

Mu Jingzhao was holding a candied haws, and was chewing big mouthfuls. The food in his mouth made his speech a bit slurred.

Seeing Jiang Ning looking at him, Xu Shi hurriedly put the candied haws back into the bowl, but Jiang Ning caught him straight.

Beside him, candied haws sticks were scattered all over the floor, and the white porcelain plate beside him that Jiang Ning originally used to hold candied haws was already empty.

Seeing him, Jiang Ning breathed out a sigh of relief. She tore off the quilt and lay down again, trying her best to suppress the panic and anxiety in her heart.

"How do you feel now?"

"It's okay." Jiang Ning nodded slightly, and then said nothing else
"That's good." Mu Jingzhao swallowed the candied haws and nodded slightly, "According to Doctor Zhang, you should be fine now."

Jiang Ning nodded subconsciously, then widened his eyes instantly, and sat up from the bed.

"Doctor Zhang, has he been here?"

"Yes." Mu Jingzhao casually put the candied haws stick aside. He looked at Jiang Ning, with a flash of cunning in his eyes.

But in the next second, when he touched Jiang Ning's helpless eyes, he couldn't bear it.

"He told you to take a good rest and drink more water. If there is nothing unusual, you will be fine."

"And, is there anything else?"

"No, the imperial doctor didn't say anything."

Jiang Ning's expression finally returned to calm. She glanced lightly at Mu Jingzhao in front of her, and the candied haws skewers scattered all over the floor.

Like a child who was caught stealing food, Mu Jingzhao smiled awkwardly, "I made a fuss all night, I really didn't eat anything, but I happened to see candied haws in your room."

Jiang Ning crossed his arms and said, "A string of ten taels."

Mu Jingzhao jumped up and sat up instantly from his seat, "If that's the case, then I'll settle the score for you."

He walked quickly to the dirty clothes he had changed out of, "Pay me for my clothes!"

Jiang Ning looked away with a guilty conscience, but he still didn't give up his argument, "I didn't mean it!"

Mu Jingzhao found a place with a clean cloth full of disgust, twisted the clothes and picked them up, tugged at the clothes, and spread out the stain that Jiang Ning rubbed on his shoulders.

"Is that what you mean by 'not on purpose'?"

Jiang Ning was speechless.

Mu Jingzhao shook his hands and unfolded his clothes, revealing two clearly identifiable footprints.

"Is that your 'didn't mean to'?"

Seeing that Jiang Ning could no longer speak, Mu Jingzhao crossed his arms and glanced at her.

"I specially went to Suzhou to invite ten embroiderers to embroider this dress. It took three days and three nights to embroider it stitch by stitch. Tell me, how do you want to compensate me?"

Jiang Ning has never understood cloth, but she knows very well that the cloth in Mu Jingzhao's hand is worth more than the skin on her body.

She didn't stop doing anything, and simply raised her head as if death was at home, "Strangle me to death!"

"I strangled you?" Mu Jingzhao put his clothes away, and walked slowly back to Jiang Ning, "I will not strangle you, I will insult you, torture you, and make your life worse than death bit by bit."

Jiang Ning's eyes widened. She looked at Mu Jingzhao who was approaching her step by step, and secretly sighed in her heart that the dog emperor is really a pervert.

Seeing that Mu Jingzhao was about to walk to her bed, and when she was about to open her mouth to call for help, almost at the same time, a cry of hunger came out from their stomachs.

Mu Jingzhao's forward steps froze in place, and Jiang Ning's shouting voice was stuck in his throat.

This momentary defeat seemed to take away Mu Jingzhao's strength in an instant, and he sat down slumped, "I washed the clothes for me, I have to wash them myself."

Jiang Ning nodded like a pounding garlic, "Okay."

"Today's candied haws are not allowed to take money, and you are not allowed to tell others."

"well."

Mu Jingzhao glanced at her, "Okay, it's time to eat. I ordered Zhe Liu to prepare some meals and warm them in the dining room. Don't worry, there won't be any problems."

Hearing such a sentence, Jiang Ning sat up from the bed in an instant in a good mood, ready to put on his shoes.

Suddenly, she looked up at Mu Jingzhao as if she had thought of something.

"Since there are meals, why do you eat my candied haws to fill your stomach?"

Mu Jingzhao didn't answer, he raised his leg, as if he was about to walk towards the dirty clothes.

"Okay, okay, I won't say anything." Jiang Ning shut up instantly.

Jiang Ning and Mu Jingzhao sat around the table, and Zhe Liu brought up one after another of the meals.

Perhaps because of the tight schedule, the dishes on the table were simple, almost all vegetables grown in the Jiangning Courtyard, very fresh.

I don't know if it was because of Mu Jingzhao's presence, Zheliu was very silent during the serving process, but occasionally when Mu Jingzhao couldn't see, he gave her a look of "you are so awesome".

After a while, the whole room was filled with dishes. Mu Jingzhao seemed to be starved to death. He couldn't wait to pick up his chopsticks, picked up a piece of shredded potato and sent it to his mouth.

The moment he bit down, Mu Jingzhao covered his face in an instant, grinning in pain.

Jiang Ning couldn't hold back, and laughed out loud, "Haha retribution, this is retribution!"

When Mu Jingzhao came back to his senses, Jiang Ning hadn't stopped him in time.

Mu Jingzhao's face changed, and he stretched out his hand towards Jiang Ning.

Jiang Ning shrank her neck, but the expected slap did not land on her.

"Okay, it's time to eat."

(End of this chapter)