JIN WANG DOTES ON HIS CONCUBINE

31-35

Chapter 31

Hearing the door open, Fucheng who was sitting on the stone platform under the veranda instantly woke up from his absentmindedness.

Maybe because he had squatted for a long time, his legs felt numb and wobbly, making him almost fall over when he stood up. Seeing this, Jin Wang reached out to hold him, enabling Fucheng to stand firm.

"Your Highness." Fucheng smiled with embarrassment.

Jin Wang nodded, and they left the small courtyard quietly through the same path they came last night.

Looking at his master's stretched eyebrows and high spirits, Fucheng knew that Nanny Su must have served him very well last night, otherwise His Highness would not be like this.

Fucheng discerned that as a servant, he must be considerate, so he then asked, "Your Highness, will you arrange a new place for Nanny Su?" After all, she couldn't serve the little princess while serving Jin Wang.

Hearing this, Jin Wang hesitated for a moment before he said, "No."

Fucheng was a little bit surprised at Jin Wang's response, didn't His Highness want to be responsible for her? He stared at Jin Wang's back with a nonplussed look, until an air of irritation gripped Jin Wang.

His rare good mood was suddenly destroyed as Jin Wang remembered the little nanny that served him with a look of unwillingness last night.

Jin Wang couldn't understand the grievances of Yaoniang. To not get intimate with him, she would rather serve him in a different way than let him touch her body.

Was she preserving her chastity after the death of her husband? Did she do it for her dead man?

Jin Wang was unhappy when he thought of this, so he became even angrier with Fucheng.

However, since he had always shown an indifferent face, and Fucheng was in an unheeding state, the old eunuch didn't find anything wrong. Taking advantage of the faint morning light, the pair of master and servant returned to Zhaohui Hall quietly.

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Yaoniang sat on the bed for a while after Jin Wang left.

She replaced all the bedding and quietly took them to the well for washing when it was almost dawn.

There was no one here in the Back Room. It was still early and everyone seemed to have not awoken yet.

Yaoniang fetched water from the well, put the quilt and also her inner clothes that Jin Wang used to wipe her body into the water. Once everything was soaked in the water, the unspeakable smell haunting her nose finally faded away.

There was no one around, but Yaoniang still flushed with shame. She drenched the stained areas with water and strenuously rubbed them with soap. Some people came over while she was washing.

They were Mommy Wang and Mommy Zhao.

People in the small kitchen get up early every day because they have to prepare breakfast for people in advance.

Seeing Yaoniang squatting by the well to wash clothes at this time, they were very surprised.

"Nanny Su, why are you here so early?"

Yaoniang got up so early and washed these things in the basin which naturally made questions pop into their head. No one would wash their bedding as early as daybreak.

Yaoniang blushed and could not find an excuse.

They thought Yaoniang would speak but she said nothing. It was normal for women to have monthly bleeding and they understood that sometimes the bedding would be dirty.