Chapter 74: Chapter 74 - The Wedding Night (2)

Jian Xubai lowered his head to glance at her gloomily. A few moments later, he bit her lips lightly and then got up with annoyance.

Putting on the robe that was thrown on the ottoman casually, he went to open the door and thought Cuipiao must mix the Yewu Paste with water before coming. It wouldn’t take much time to drink it. However, the maid outside the door just held a jade box in her hands.

“I was so scared after find it!” Seeing his angry face, Cuipiao turned pale and explained, “So…”

“Pour me a cup of water!” Jian Xubai grabbed the jade box with dark face from Cuipiao and turned to tell Song Yixiao. Then he was about to close the door. But!

Cuipiao asked with concern in time, “Is the water on the table hot? Her Highness the Grand Princess said that you couldn’t drink cold water when the autumn arrived.”

Song Yixiao leaned on the bed and didn’t move. She said, “It must be cold! Bring a pitcher of hot water!”

After Cuipiao left, Jian Xubai temporarily closed the door and put the jade box into his sleeve. He didn’t go to the bed but opened the porcelain pitcher on the table. He had a look at it. Sure enough, the water in it had been cold. His eyes flashed for a while and then he asked lightly, “How do you know the water has been cold?”

“Cuipiao is really cautious. Since she reminds you not to drink cold water, she must have guessed the water was cold.” Song Yixiao curled the corner of her mouth silently and said casually, “But the most important thing now is your health, right? Did Cuipiao say that there was something wrong with the Yewu Paste you just ate?”

“It doesn’t matter because she neither says what the problem is nor calls a doctor.” Jian Xubai threw the pitcher back to the table and went to the bed with dark face. He saw that his wife leaned there and looked at him with a faint smile. He had a little fidget in his heart. So he bent over to touch her chin and said, “Get a chance to cross-examine her carefully when you are free tomorrow. It’s so coincidental that she finds there is something wrong with my medicine tonight.”

Hearing that, Song Yixiao instantly pushed his hand away and sat up. She said seriously. “It’s hard for me! She has served you for many years. I have to treat her well because she used to be Her Majesty the Empress Dowager’s maid! Besides, what happened tonight is…”

She looked at him in complaint, “It’s shameful to talk about it.”

She was good-looking and became even more attractive under the light. The way she looked at him was so charming. Jian Xubai squinted at her for a long time and then said, “Then I will ask her myself!”

“It seems that Cuipiao is close to him.” Song Yixiao smiled after hearing that and said nothing. Allowing him to touch her cheek with his hand, Song Yixiao pondered, “He looked so angry when Cuipiao bothered him in that situation. But he didn’t scold her at all… Well! If she didn’t have a good relationship with him, she wouldn’t dare to create difficulties at this time!”

But Jian Xubai still doubted Cuipiao. Obviously, Cuipiao wasn’t so important in Jian Xubai’s heart.

Song Yixiao analyzed for a while and gradually knew a little about the present situation.

At this time, Cuipiao finally brought hot water and mixed it with the Yewu Paste quickly. Then she left after helping Jian Xubai take it.

“You couldn’t move until you had the Yewu Paste last time.” Song Yixiao did nothing and just looked at them. After Jian Xubai went to the bed and stayed close to her, she started to ask curiously, “But why is it different this time?”

“Many people were around me in Prince of Hengshan’s mansion last time. It was inconvenient to take medicine.” Jian Xubai rubbed against her neck and explained casually, “I didn’t take it in proper time. So I looked like that. So it doesn’t matter if I can take it on time.”

Allowing Jian Xubai to fondle her body, Song Yixiao chuckled in his arms, “How careless you are! It is such an important thing to eat. But you didn’t know that you took wrong medicine and needed Cuipiao to remind you.”

“Tomorrow, no matter what reasons she will say, deduct three months of her pay to teach her a lesson.” Jian Xubai knew that her words meant she was unhappy to be bothered. He was also unhappy. Cuipiao had served him in the imperial palace since he was five. He really had a relationship with her and didn’t want to punish her too much.

Considering his wife’s mood, he said, “Otherwise she will continue to behave like this next time!”

“Please be kind to me!” Song Yixiao said. Their clothes were almost taken off. Pointing at his naked chest again and again with her slender finger, she pouted and complained, “After I just got married, the maid sent by Her Majesty the Empress Dowager is punished. If other people know it, who will believe Her Majesty’s maid made mistakes so easily? They must think that I’m so impatient to show my power that I punish Cuipiao as a warning to others!”

It was a secret that Jian Xubai was poisoned. So they couldn’t tell others why Cuipiao broke in at midnight. If Cuipiao was punished, other people must blame Song Yixiao.

Song Yixiao seemed to complain with him. In fact, she was sneering in her heart, “If Cuipiao is punished, other people will think I’m impatient to aim at the Empress Dowager’s maid as soon as I get married! If Cuipiao isn’t punished, I will choke with resentment. Besides, if I don’t punish the maid who bothered my wedding night, I won’t have enough prestige as a hostess to manage the servants from Duke of Yan’s mansion!”

She really underestimated Cuipiao!

Cuipiao asked to be a concubine as soon as the wedding of Song Yixiao and Jian Xubai was finished. Song Yixiao thought this stupid maid must be anxious to achieve quick success and get instant benefits. But Cuipiao easily trapped her a few moments later. After Jian Xubai went to ask her, Cuipiao might have another plan!

Song Yixiao couldn’t let her success!

But Jian Xubai didn’t want to talk about Cuipiao at this time. He took off his wife’s underclothes and said perfunctorily, “She is just a maid. Why can’t we punish her? Let’s think about it together later!”

If you thought she was just an ordinary servant, you should take actions either to let her leave or to send her to the Empress Dowager!

Song Yixiao narrowed her eyes and suddenly resisted, “Although Cuipiao didn’t say what was wrong with the Yewu Paste, I think you’d better be careful because you have been poisoned… Should I call a doctor for you tomorrow?”

“Why do you always pay attention to these little things?” Jian Xubai thought her resistance was only a method to attract him. So he felt happier and bit her shoulder lightly. He smiled, “How can you divert your attention tonight? I’ll punish you!”

But Song Yixiao kept a poker face and said seriously, “Do you think I’m joking with you? You are my husband now. I will be implicated if you are ill! How can’t I care about your condition?”

Then she pushed him hard and pulled the brocade quilt to cover her almost naked body. She said casually, “We still have much time. You’d better see a doctor first!”

Jian Xubai didn’t expect that his wedding night was so unlucky. At the beginning, he was kicked by his wife to the ground, which could be called as an accident. A person who was sleeping might overreact when feeling another one’s touch. Compared with the misunderstanding in the Hanxia Villa on that night, he felt Song Yixiao didn’t kick him hard tonight.

Then a maid interrupted him. But he couldn’t be angry because the maid just worried about his condition.

After taking medicine, he finally had a chance to sleep with his wife. But his wife made an excuse to refuse him!

He smiled angrily, “Well, are you afraid to be poisoned after sleeping with me?”

“You think too much!” Song Yixiao still grabbed the brocade quilt, although she heard his angry tone. “I’m worried about you. We’ve got married. Why can’t you be patient?” She said flatly.

“Why do you think I am impatient?” Jian Xubai put his hands on both sides of Song Yixiao’s body to prop himself up and looked down at her for a moment. Suddenly, he adjusted his posture and used a hand to press her shoulder harder and harder. His eyes also looked colder. “I am not impatient at all!” He said slowly.

He gnashed his teeth in anger when he said that!

After that, he directly got out of bed, picking up a robe from the ground casually and throwing on it. Then he walked out soon.

Song Yixiao stayed on the bed and looked at his back with complicated eyes. But she never tried to persuade him to stay. Did Cuipiao want Song Yixiao not to speak out about her grievances? Song Yixiao must let all people know it!

The secret that Jian Xubai had been poisoned couldn’t be exposed. As a decent wife, she couldn’t tell such a thing to the Empress Dowager and Jinguo Grand Princess in person.

However, even if she had to keep silent, they could take actions to ask her!

How could Song Yixiao make them ask her?

She should let them find something wrong and then ask her.

How could they find something wrong?

As a virtuous bride, Song Yixiao must keep a decent smile all the time and didn’t show her true expression no matter what happened.

“So only Jian Xubai is the proper person to let them ask what happened.” Looking at her husband who had walked close to the door, Song Yixiao thought indifferently, “It’s an important thing that he goes away on the wedding night. How can’t the Grand Princess and the Empress Dowager know it? They care about him so much and must ask the truth!”

Besides, they should ask both Jian Xubai and Song Yixiao because the newlyweds didn’t sleep together on the wedding night.

After they asked Song Yixiao, she would tell everything to two elders and let them know what a “considerate” maid Cuipiao was!

“They must figure out the maid’s plan and punish her!” Song Yixiao sneered in her heart. Even if Cuipiao used to be the Empress Dowager’s maid and the Empress Dowager also wanted her to be Jian Xubai’s concubine, the Empress Dowager wouldn’t harbor her because she capitalized on her experience to bully the legal wife who had just got married!

After all, the wife and the concubine had different roles. The Empress Dowager urged Jian Xubai to get married soon. That was because she thought he lived alone in such a large mansion without no one helped him manage it. The person who managed the mansion just came and hadn’t helped Jian Xubai to take care of domestic affairs. However, the maid who was sent by the Empress Dowager dared to trap her grandson’s helper!

The Empress Dowager must be so angry!

Although Song Yixiao said that she worried about her husband’s health, her behavior was still a little suspicious. But she just got married. The elders should bear her childish temper. Especially, the cheeky maid made mistakes first!

“It’s still a good thing that my husband doesn’t love me. Sometimes, I don’t need to care about his mood too much.” Song Yixiao thought her plan again and believed her plan was perfect. She yawned lazily and was about to sleep after covering her brocade quilt. Surprisingly, she glanced that Jian Xubai walked back with dark face!

She was stunned, “He…” Did he want to force her?

But Jian Xubai ignored her after he went to the bed and just covered himself with brocade quilt. Lying there and closing his eyes, he directly fell into sleep!

Song Yixiao was speechless.

No!

If you didn’t leave in anger, the Grand Princess and the Empress Dowager might not know what happened on our wedding night!

I couldn’t mention it actively before the Empress Dowager and the Grand Princess asked me. How could I punish Cuipiao who was the cheeky maid?

If a maid could bully me without being punished, how could I continue to be the hostess of Duke of Yan’s mansion?

It was said that you were born in a noble family and acted as you pleased without considering the feelings of others, wasn’t it?

You should slam the door after walking close to the door. Why did you bear it and come back?

But could she say these words to him?

No!

So she had to hold back her tears silently and thought sadly. How unlucky she was!