Shi Jingyang's words successfully aroused Ning Wei's curiosity.
Ning Wei said: "Prince Shi is here to drink tea. Wait a moment and I will order a bowl of noodles for Prince Shi."
Shi Jingyang stood up and said, "It's boring for me to sit here by myself. I'd better come with you and give you a beating."
Ning Wei raised her eyebrows, looked at Shi Jingyang with a half-smile and asked, "Do you know how to strike?"
It's no wonder that Ning Wei doubted him. Shi Jingyang's identity was there. He was born as a master with a group of slaves. When had he ever entered the kitchen?
"No, you can learn." Shi Jingyang replied casually.
Ning Wei looked Shi Jingyang up and down, then lifted up Shi Jingyang's silky silk sleeves with two fingers.
He curled his lips and said, "Shizi, it's better to wait here. Your clothes are not suitable for going to the kitchen."
"It's okay, it's just a piece of clothing. I know how to make a fire, and I'll help you make a fire."
Afraid that Ning Wei would refuse again, Shi Jingyang walked out as he spoke and walked towards the door first.
After leaving the living room, Shi Jingyang stopped, turned around and asked Ning Wei behind him, "Is the kitchen over here?"
Ning Wei nodded and saw that he insisted on following him, so she had no choice but to let him go, "Yes!"
The two of them entered the kitchen one after another. Shi Jingyang looked around, walked to the bench in front of the stove and sat down, and asked: "Let's light the fire now?"
Ning Wei hesitated and said, "Can you do that? Otherwise, I'll ask Zaohua and the others to light the fire."
Shi Jingyang glanced at Ning Wei, stretched out his hand to take the fire stick from the stove, and grabbed a kindling match from behind his back. While lighting the fire, he said: "Xiao Nizi, never question a man's ability, let alone ask him if he can do it."
Isn't it just a matter of making a fire? I have never eaten pork or seen a pig running? Xiao Nizi actually questioned him!
Ning Wei was not an innocent little girl. She instantly understood what Shi Jingyang meant, and her face suddenly became on fire.
In order not to embarrass herself, Ning Wei took a ladle to the water tank and scooped out water to wash the pot.
Ning Wei said while washing the pot: "I made some whistles this afternoon. Can I make you a bowl of whistle noodles?"
Shi Jingyang nodded, "Anything is fine. Just do whatever you want at night."
Ning Wei washed the pot, added water, and ordered Shi Jingyang: "Fire."
"Okay." Shi Jingyang responded and added firewood to the fire hall.
Ning Wei put water in the pot and turned to knead the noodles. While kneading the noodles, she asked: "Has the verdict been handed down for Yiyuan Pharmacy?"
Shi Jingyang nodded, "Come down, Huang Hengyuan will be sentenced to death tomorrow for the Lu family's case, and the Huang family will pay another 10,000 taels of silver to the Lu family.
In the case of Yiyuan Drug Store selling counterfeit medicines, Huang Hengyuan took the initiative to take responsibility, and the presiding judge held Yiyuan Drug Store responsible and fined Yiyuan Drug Store 300,000 taels of silver."
Killing for life, this result is quite fair.
Why is Mrs. Zhao crying? Is it because of Huang Hengyuan?
Ning Wei asked: "Where is Mo Shaoyan? He doesn't need to take responsibility?"
Shi Jingyang said: "This time, I will remember his fault for being careless in judging the case and will not hold him accountable again.
Firstly, Prime Minister Liu is trying to protect him. Secondly, if you dig deeper into his affairs, you will inevitably uncover Ning Yuanwailang, which is not good for you and Yingzhe.
Therefore, I did not delve into His Highness’s intentions this time. I will wait until the performance appraisal at the end of the year and see his performance before deciding whether he should go or stay.”
Ning Wei kneaded the dough and said, "Thank you very much."
Shi Jingyang added a handful of firewood to the stove, looked up at Ning Wei, and said, "Why thank you?"
Ning Wei was stunned, shouldn't he politely say no thank you?
Shi Jingyang raised his eyebrows and continued: "Is it possible that the thank you in Ah Wei's mouth was just talk."
Ning Wei paused her hands, looked up at Shi Jingyang, and said, "Shizizi is lacking for everything, and I can't think of anything to give Shizizi!
Otherwise, Prince Shi, tell me, what do you want? But only if I can afford it, I'm very poor."
Shi Jingyang wanted to say that he lacked a wife, but he was afraid that he would scare the little girl in front of him if he said it too directly.
He hesitated and said, "I have to think about this carefully."
Ning Wei lowered her head and continued to knead the dough, and said, "Okay, Prince Shi, think about it slowly, tell me when you have thought about it, but it must be within my ability."
Shi Jingyang pursed his lips and said with a smile, "Okay!"
Ning Wei thought of Mrs. Zhao's return home and cried bitterly, and said, "Mrs. Zhao went back to her house today and cried all afternoon. She cried so heartbrokenly. It seems that Huang Hengyuan's death has dealt a great blow to Mrs. Zhao."
"Mr. Zhao is crying for Huang Hengyuan? I can't tell that Ms. Zhao is still a very affectionate person." Shi Jingyang was a little surprised. The Zhao he knew was not very affectionate.
Ning Wei put the mixed noodles aside to rest, turned around and took out a few spring onions from the shelf, and said while arranging the spring onions: "Huang Hengyuan is Zhao's cousin, and he is also her capable arm. Zhao owns many industries.
Huang Hengyuan is all helping her take care of it."
Shi Jingyang thought about Ning He and said, "By the way, King Chen wants to make Ning He his concubine."
"What? King Chen accepts Ning He as a side concubine?" Ning Wei looked at Shi Jingyang in shock, and then added: "Shouldn't she be the main concubine? How come she is a side concubine?"
Shi Jingyang shook his head slightly, "I don't know why this is happening? When we come back, there have been many changes. Is this also changing?"
Ning Wei thought for a moment and nodded: "Maybe, in the last life, my grandmother passed away and my brother's life and death were unknown.
In this life, my grandmother and brother are all well, and what’s more, the hardships I’ve experienced since I came back are completely different from before.”
Steam was rising from the pot, and Shi Jingyang reminded: "A Wei, the water is boiling."
Ning Wei reached out to take the lid of the pot, added two ladles of cold water to the pot, and then closed the lid.
"So that's it?"
Shi Jingyang asked in confusion: "What is this?"
Ning Wei replied: "As soon as Mrs. Zhao returned home, she went to Cuixue Pavilion in Ninghe. She cried in Cuixue Pavilion for a long time. I thought she was crying for Huang Hengyuan, but it turned out that she was crying for Ninghe."
Shi Jingyang asked: "Because Ning He is the concubine of King Chen?"
Ning Wei nodded and said, "Well, Ning He is Zhao's favorite.
From childhood to adulthood, what she gave Ning He was the best in the world.
What Zhao couldn't stand the most was that her children were wronged and humiliated.
Let Ning He be the side concubine. From now on, let Ning He have to live under the look of the main concubine.
Doesn't this hurt Mrs. Zhao's heart? No wonder she cried so sadly."
Shi Jingyang looked at Ning Wei, who was smiling happily, and couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth. He liked to see her smile.
Ning Wei then thought about how Ning He would be more difficult to deal with if she married into Prince Chen's house and had Prince Chen as her support. The smile on her face disappeared instantly.
Shi Jingyang saw the smile on Ning Wei's face disappear and asked, "What's wrong?"
Ning Wei raised her head and looked at Shi Jingyang, twitching her lips and giving a dry smile, "It's nothing, I just think that fate is a wonderful thing. After all the trouble, Ning He still married into Prince Chen's house."
In the previous life, King Chen married Ning He as his concubine. In the following years, they were a loving couple, playing the piano and playing the piano in harmony.
This is also the reason why Zhao is proud.
Having King Chen as his devoted son-in-law not only allowed Zhao to squeeze into the top aristocratic circles, but also gave her a transcendent status in this circle.
Shi Jingyang took a deep look at Ning Wei and said, "This may be fate. Fate is destined by God."
Ning Wei didn't think too much, and responded while making soup: "Maybe."
Shi Jingyang asked: "Did A Wei and Ning He have much contact in the last life?"
Ning Wei shook her head, "Not much, almost no contact."
Ning Wei raised her head to look at Shi Jingyang, then lowered her head and continued busy with her work.
In the last life, because she married Shi Jingyang, Ning He hated her with hatred, so how could he associate with her?
At those banquets that she could not avoid, Ning He even took pleasure in laughing at her.
At that time, Ning He was the most popular Princess Chen in the capital, with a group of ladies and ladies following her behind her.
In order to please Ning He, those people ridiculed her, criticized her and scolded her.
In those days, only Jiang Xingyu stood up and spoke for her.
Jiang Xingyu is the princess of Jin, and she is the only one who can say a few words for herself.
Thinking of Jiang Xingyu, Ning Wei felt grateful in her heart. No matter in her previous life or in this life, she owed Xingyu's love.
Seeing that Ning Wei looked wrong, Shi Jingyang said apologetically: "Sorry, I thought you were closer to each other in the last life."
In his impression, when he was in the capital, Zhao often took Ning Lei to visit the Hou Mansion.
There was even one time when he came back from the Gyeonggi Camp and met Ning He, Princess Chen, coming to visit Ning Wei.
Ning Weiruo smiled and said, "Shizizi said that Zhao often visited the Marquis Mansion as a guest."
Shi Jingyang nodded, "Yes, at that time, Ah Wei and them had been going there, right?"
Ning Wei took a spoonful of the soup with a spatula. Seeing that the soup was ready, she said to Shi Jingyang: "The fire in this stove can be turned off."
Shi Jingyang nodded and took the firewood out.
Ning Wei poured the soup into a bowl, quickly washed the pot, and used the remaining fire in the stove to fry a poached egg for Shi Jingyang.
When the eggs are put into the pot, the aroma fills the house.
It was just an ordinary poached egg, but Shi Jingyang's mouth watered when he saw it.
Ning Wei fried the poached eggs, turned around and sprinkled some flour on the chopping board, then bent down and started rolling out the dough.
While rolling out the dough, he said: "When I was in the Hou Mansion, even if Mrs. Zhao came to the manor, it was when Prince Shi returned to the manor, including the two times when Ning He came to the manor.
Rather than saying that they came over to see me, it would be better to say that they came to see Prince Shi."
Shi Jingyang didn't understand why and asked: "Look at me? Look at what I do?"
Ning Wei stopped what she was doing, turned around and looked at Shi Jingyang, and said with a half-smile, "Isn't Shizi Shizi unaware of Ning He's infatuation with you?"
He really didn't know what Ning He was thinking about him in his last life.
Shi Jingyang thought about his previous self, as if his mind was filled with mush and he was confused all day long, which was why he ended up like that.
But in this life, that time in Qingwan, he saw how much Ning He cared about him.
It turned out that Ning He's thoughts on treating him existed in his previous life.
Shi Jingyang said: "I am a very dull person when it comes to emotions, so I really didn't see it."
Ning Wei gave Shi Jingyang a roll of her eyes, snorted coldly, and turned around to continue rolling the dough.
Ning Wei's expression is very clear, if you continue to pretend, I will believe you.
Shi Jingyang quickly defended: "Ah Wei, believe me, in my last life, I really didn't know that Ning He had any thoughts about me. How could she be like this? At that time, wasn't she already married into Prince Chen's Mansion and became Princess Chen?
?"
Ning Wei sneered and said mockingly: "Being a princess can't stop her from falling in love with Prince Shi."
Having said this, Ning Wei felt a little angry and secretly cursed Shi Jingyang as a scourge that attracts bees and butterflies.
Feeling angry in her heart, the force on her hands became much heavier. Ning Wei used too much force and actually tore off her face.
Shi Jingyang felt that he was very innocent and said, "Ah Wei, please don't be disgusted with me, okay? She is a married woman, so it doesn't matter whether she is happy or not."
Ning Wei took the rolling pin away and kneaded the dough again.
He picked up the conversation casually, "Why do you dislike Prince Shi? If a married woman likes Prince Shi, doesn't it mean that Prince Shi is charming?"
Thinking about Mrs. Zhao's words before her, Ning Wei felt a lump of resentment in her chest, and her tone of voice became worse.
When Shi Jingyang heard this, he felt something sour. He raised his eyebrows and said, "This kind of charm is not rare to me at all."
Ning Wei snorted coldly and followed Shi Jingyang's words and said, "Of course, Prince Shi is the most handsome man in the capital, and he certainly has good taste."
Shi Jingyang nodded, "This is a fact."
Ning Wei rolled out the noodles, cut them with a knife, turned around, opened the lid of the pot, and put the noodles in.
While cooking noodles, he said, "Does Prince Shi know what happened before I fell into the lake?"
Shi Jingyang stopped what he was doing, looked up at Ning Wei and asked, "What's the matter?"
Ning Wei didn't look at Shi Jingyang, but stared at the boiling water in the pot.
"On that day, I heard that Prince Shi had returned to Beijing and that the Zhao family came over. She said that I had not given birth to an heir for the crown prince seven years after I married him, and that I was unworthy.
Mrs. Zhao wants me, the Crown Prince’s wife, to take care of everything for the Crown Prince, to marry Ning Lei as the Crown Prince’s wife, and then to take in two concubines for Crown Prince Shi, so as to spread the branches and leaves of the Hou Mansion.”
Shi Jingyang was stunned, there was such a person, and blurted out: "What does the affairs of the Hou Mansion have to do with her? My mother was present at the time?"
Ning Wei nodded, "Be there!"
Shi Jingyang then asked: "What's mother's attitude?"
Ning Wei thought for a moment, shook her head and said, "I don't remember.
After Mrs. Zhao said these words, she whispered to me that as long as she wanted, she would firmly hold it in her hands. Back then, she was able to marry into the Ning Mansion, but now, she can let her daughter marry
Enter the Hou Mansion!
After hearing what she said, I was so angry that I was shaking all over, so I made an excuse, rushed out of the living room, and walked to the lake unknowingly, where I was pushed into the lake."
Shi Jingyang's brows knitted and he fell into deep thought. After a moment, he said, "So, you walked to the lake by accident?"
Ning Wei nodded, "Yes, I was thinking about Zhao's words at that time. The cause of my mother's death was not simple."
Shi Jingyang said: "It seems that you fell into the lake just because of my involvement, and the other party's purpose was me.
They set up a dragnet by the lake and planned to kill me there, but you accidentally bumped into it."
Ning Wei was stunned, looked up at Shi Jingyang, and asked: "Who is the other party? Someone from King Chen?"
Shi Jingyang shook his head, "It's hard to say now, either he is from King Chen or he is from King Yan.
After I came back, I checked the whole house and pulled out a few eyeliners."
Ning Wei looked at Shi Jingyang in surprise, "Eyeliner? Is there eyeliner now?"
Ning Wei has thought a lot these days. She always thought that the reason why the Hou Mansion was not peaceful started from the time she married into the Hou Mansion and she was the one who brought people into the house.
