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

Chapter 74 Love Concubine
As if he didn't expect Jiang Ning to say that suddenly, Mu Jingzhao pondered for a moment, then turned to look at her, "God's punishment, there is a reason for it, and as an ordinary person, all you can do is sincerely repent , pray to God for atonement."

Jiang Ning was silent for a moment, not knowing how to respond.

In fact, from the moment he said that sentence, Jiang Ning regretted it.

Because heaven and the emperor shouldn't be used as an analogy.

Disasters from the sky are usually the result of long-term cultivation and destruction, but what the emperor did may be just a light word. .

Jiang Ning suddenly felt a little tired, because she suddenly realized that no matter how much she tried to probe around, there was no way to use it as direct evidence.

It doesn't make any sense at all.

So she sighed lightly, and stopped talking about this topic, she looked up at the dark night sky.

The ancients looked forward to the moon and homesick, but she and Mu Jingzhao were better off. They looked at the sky and the cold wind blowing in the middle of the night, each in a daze.

"Why can't the emperor fall asleep?" She was silent for a moment, and finally spoke.

Mu Jingzhao lowered his eyes slightly, and it took him a long time to finally reply, "I forgot."

Her expression was inexplicable, and she seemed a little unbelievable, "Forgot?"

The other party seemed to be a little tired and stretched out his hand to pinch the center of his eyebrows, "Since I became the throne, I have hardly had a good night's sleep. There are different reasons every day. As time goes by, I can hardly remember why."

Jiang Ning was stunned. She turned her head and looked at Mu Jingzhao's chiseled profile beside her.

He frowned slightly, and there seemed to be an unspeakable sadness in his deep eyes.

Knowing Mu Jingzhao for so long, she felt that Mu Jingzhao didn't look so hateful for the first time.

"Then what is your reason?"

"Because." Mu Jingzhao's inquiry caught Jiang Ning's restrained desire to confide, and she was so careless that she almost blurted out her thoughts about her family.

Fortunately, Jiang Ning realized his slip of the tongue in time, "Because the concubine was worried that she would not be able to prepare a satisfactory birthday banquet for the empress."

"I didn't expect you to be so concerned about this matter."

"The concubine hopes that the imperial concubine can be happy." Jiang Ning said sincerely. After the secret room was opened that day, Liu Jinfu didn't seem to care, but Jiang Ning always felt that she was not as indifferent as she appeared on the surface.

This time, Mu Jingzhao did not test her suspiciously as usual.

Instead, he exhaled slowly, as if regretting something, "Alright, I haven't seen a noble concubine smile sincerely for a long time."

Jiang Ning turned his head to look at Mu Jingzhao. At this time, he was raising his head slightly, his eyes wandering outside the palace wall.

He must have seen the scene of himself and Liu Jinfu recklessly fighting together, Jiang Ning thought.

"The concubine will definitely do her best to prepare a perfect birthday banquet for the imperial concubine." She said sincerely.

"I believe in you."

The two fell into a brief silence again.

The longing for his family has not been expressed, and the embarrassment hidden between him and Mu Jingzhao resurfaced in Jiang Ning's heart.

She stood beside Mu Jingzhao in a daze, not knowing where to place her eyes for a moment.

A gust of cold wind blew past, rustling the leaves beside the palace wall, Jiang Ning couldn't help shivering, she finally couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to turn her head back to the palace.

At this moment, Mu Jingzhao spoke unexpectedly.

"Are you cold?" Jiang Ning paused, she nodded.

"Then go back to the palace with me."

Such a sentence caused Jiang Ning's head to shut down for a second. After a while, she finally realized that what the other party was talking about was his study in the cold palace.

Although Jiang Ning didn't understand what Mu Jingzhao meant when he said this, Jiang Ning couldn't wait for this opportunity to enter the study.

So she nodded and agreed.

Mu Jingzhao stopped talking, but turned his head first, and looked in the direction of the study, while Jiang Ning didn't say any more, and quickly followed him.

As soon as she stepped into the study, Jiang Ning felt a strong fragrance of ink blowing towards her face. I wonder if it was because Jiang Ning had smelled too much ink these days. The moment this smell rushed to her, she couldn't help but feel nauseous Suddenly, he almost retched.

She staggered and nearly fell.

Mu Jingzhao quickly reached out to help her, and helped her all the way to the soft stool to sit down, "I suddenly regret leaving this matter to you." Mu Jingzhao forced himself to suppress the distress in his eyes, "If you arrive When I use this as an excuse to ask me to compensate, I can be regarded as lifting a rock and shooting myself in the foot."

Although Mu Jingzhao's words were originally a joke, but in Jiang Ning's ears, they had other meanings.

"The emperor said so, but the concubine thinks this is a good way."

Mu Jingzhao laughed dumbfounded, and even the melancholy in his brows and eyes was a little less.

"Now I'm starting to wonder if you were sent by the enemy country to bring down my country." Mu Jingzhao walked slowly to the window and opened it.

The whistling night wind instantly poured into the study room, blowing away the lingering scent of ink in the hall.

Jiang Ning forced out two breaths, and the stuffy feeling in his heart finally dissipated.

She leaned on the armrest to sit up, and when she lowered her head, she saw Mu Jingzhao's edict unfolded on the desk in front of her.

However, she only glanced at it, and turned her face away in an instant.

I was afraid that my casual behavior would be misinterpreted by Mu Jingzhao into other meanings.

At this moment, Mu Jingzhao had already taken a seat by the window. Sensing Jiang Ning's movements, Mu Jingzhao said slowly, "Don't be shy, take a look at this thing."

Jiang Ning's eyes widened in astonishment, and he reflected for a moment before realizing what the other party was talking about.

Finally, cautiously, she stretched her neck and looked at the imperial decree on the table.

The content of the imperial decree is very simple. It roughly means that a small county in the southwestern part of Gong country has suffered from frequent floods in the past two years.

So the local county town petitioned to build a dam on the local river, but if the dam was to be built, it would have to occupy the farmland and houses of the people.

Once the proposal was put forward, it was strongly opposed by the local people.

But based on long-term development, building dams is undoubtedly the best choice.

Because the people's reaction was too intense, the involvement was too big, and the local county magistrate really couldn't make the final decision.

This matter was passed on level by level, but in the end, no one was willing to take this hot potato, so it was pushed to Mu Jingzhao layer by layer.

"What do you think, Concubine Ai?"

The word "Aifei" caught off guard made Jiang Ning tremble for a moment. She looked up at Mu Jingzhao, knowing in her heart that the other party must have no good intentions.

(End of this chapter)