Wrapped In Golden Branch - Chapter 19

Chapter 19
Licking her like he was trying to please her

When she woke up, Li Kangning saw this: A strong man with broad shoulders and a narrow waist, wearing a jade-colored brocade robe, was sitting beside her bed with a fierce look on his face.

“Pei Yizhi, why didn’t you go to the guard post?” She rubbed her eyes and asked in confusion.

When the man heard the girl’s soft and slightly hoarse voice, his sitting upright body became even more tense. “Princess, today is a day off.” He spoke slowly, pausing for each word, and smiled what he thought was a “gentle” smile.

Although he was born handsome and unparalleled, with sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes, he was a man who had been on the battlefield after all. Thus, a calm and cold aura surrounded him. His usual cold face could be intimidating, and even babies would be scared of him. But at that moment, he had a stiff smile, which looked very funny.

Li Kangning burst out laughing, “What are you doing!”

“Ningning doesn’t like me like this?” Pei Yizhi felt depressed.

Li Kangning blinked when she heard this, and her heart softened inexplicably. His tail would probably droop in frustration if he had one behind him. “Just be normal, don’t smile so purposefully…”

Li Kangning felt helpless. She vaguely guessed why he was tossing all this early in the morning, but she didn’t quite understand where his difficult-to-express pa$sion for her came from.

Li Kangning was smart. As early as the first meeting at the welcoming banquet in Rehe, she knew the man in front of her liked her.

Pei Yizhi took her into his arms and whispered in her ear, “Then, does Ningning like my normal appearance?”

“…” Li Kangning was speechless and blushed slightly. Did she like it? It seemed that I didn’t hate it.

The man’s thin lips had come up to her, licking her cheek flatteringly. Her heart trembled slightly, and Li Kangning bit her lower lip lightly without saying a word.

After a moment, the man asked tentatively: “Princess, can you give me something and let me wear it with me? When I return to the battlefield, I will have the Princess’s things to protect me.”

When he thought that the clam beads on Third Gu’s body yesterday might have been given by the Princess, his whole heart seemed to be soaked in vinegar, sour and bitter.

Li Kangning was stunned for a moment and once again rem*mbered that he might return to the battlefield in mid-next year. In her prophetic dream, after the war ended, the new leader of the Eleuth tribe, Huo Ji, only surrendered to the Great Zhou on the surface and bowed his head. When the army withdrew from the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, he started a rebellion again, this time under the instigation of the Luosha Kingdom.

In the dream, Pei Yizi participated in the war for the second time and died in Moxi. She had openly and covertly warned her father of the new leader, Huo Ji’s wolfish ambitions. Her father was not a monarch who was averse to discussing military and national affairs with his wife and daughter. After listening to her words, he ordered the commander Qiao Kaiyuan to “escort” Huo Ji’s family to the capital and detained them. But the war was changing rapidly. Even if there was no Huo Ji, there might be another Mo Ji or Zhang Ji.

In the dream, for the second war, her father did not hesitate to transfer all the elite troops from all over the country, and even her brother, the Crown Prince, set an example and went to the northwest to take charge. If the war truly started, she would not and could not detain her brave and warlike Prince Consort, even if she knew he might die.

Seeing the girl in his arms turn pale, Pei Yizhi felt a pain in his heart, like a needle piercing. “It’s okay if you don’t want to.” His tone was casual.

“Ah?” Li Kangning finally came to her senses. Her voice became softer, “No, it’s fine. Just take whatever you want.”

Pei Yizhi pondered momentarily and said, “How about you give me a sachet?”

Li Kangning was like her mother, Empress Kang. She feared heat and was particularly prone to mosquitoes. To repel mosquitoes, she would tie a small sachet around her waist all year round, which contained herbs such as mugwort, mint, and angelica.

“Yes, I will pick one for you later.” Li Kangning paused, “No, I will pick ten for you.”

Pei Yizhi’s dark eyes suddenly lit up, and he was flattered- So what if Third Gu wore a giant clam bead string around his waist? He could wear the same sachet as the Princess.

Li Kangning poked his strong arm again, “Since you are on leave today, let’s go out incognito. I want to go to Longfu Temple in the city’s east with you.”

Pei Yizhi was overjoyed, so why wouldn’t he agree?

With Pei Lan Zhi Lan’s help, Li Kangning changed into a plain purple silk dress, tied a single spiral bun on her head, and only inserted two silver hairpins diagonally. If you ignored her beautiful and bright face, she looked like a commoner family young lady.

The young couple rode in a specially disguised carriage to Longfu Temple. Pei Yizhi jumped off the carriage first, then put his arms through the girl’s armpits and hugged her down.

“Ah! What are you doing? I can get off by myself!” It was the first time Li Kangning was so intimate with a man in front of others, and she glared at him in shock and shame.

Pei Yizhi thought she was so cute that he wanted to kiss her. Li Kangning’s eyes fell on the tender green sachet tied around his waist again, and she couldn’t help laughing. He was tall and sturdy, standing out in the bustling crowd, but he had a small and exquisite female sachet hanging around his waist, embroidered with flowers and plants.

Li Kangning couldn’t figure out why this man had the nerve to wear a sachet and flaunt it in the streets. The young couple had just stepped into the gate of Longfu Temple when a fierce woman approached them.

“Pei Yizhi, have you seen your elder brother recently?” Mrs. Jin asked.

About half a month ago, Pei Yujin, the Heir of Huai’an Marquis Mansion, disappeared inexplicably in his mansion. Marquis Huai’an was worried and had trouble sleeping and eating, but he did not dare to make a big move because the Princess had just married into the Marquis Mansion not long ago. He had to suppress the news and secretly ordered the servants in the mansion to search inside and outside the capital.

Mrs. Jin was genuinely worried, so she came to the temple to pray and ask the Buddha to bless the Heir so that he could return safely.

“No.” Pei Yizhi frowned slightly, “What’s wrong with elder brother?”

Mrs. Jin was annoyed when she saw his handsome face, which looked like the master of the Qiao family. If he was not tall and strong now, she might have taken a whip to vent her anger like many years ago. Then her eyes fell on the plain-dressed woman behind him. For some reason, Mrs. Jin subconsciously determined that this overly beautiful but plainly dressed girl was not the noble and high-ranking Princess. Though she was present on the wedding day, she only watched from afar and did not see the Princess’ appearance under the gorgeous phoenix crown and pearls.

Mrs. Jin rolled her eyes, discarding the courtesy she had carefully prepared before. She sneered, “Hey, where did you come from, you vixen? Do you know who the man you are clinging to is?”