in2ebook #154 - Chapter 154: Helping Husband Clean His Feet
#154 - Chapter 154: Helping Husband Clean His Feet
After finishing dinner, the time had already passed Hai Shi, which is 9:30 PM.
In this era, even the most prosperous Shangjing City of Great Liang had entered curfew.
Every household was closed up.
Many families had already extinguished their lights and gone to bed.
Inside this small house in Gan Jing Alley.
Li Yuan had already changed into a set of loose linen sleeping clothes, holding a book, reading by lamplight.
In the next room, the Bai sisters were boiling water for a bath.
On the way to Beijing, they had been traveling in haste.
For the clean-loving Bai sisters, they had long been looking forward to a hot bath.
However, in Li Yuan's small house, even the maid Xiao He had been sent to the Marquis's residence for training.
Currently, there were no servants to attend to them.
Fortunately, in the courtyard, there was no shortage of wooden tubs and soap pods for bathing.
The sisters only needed to boil the hot water.
At this time, the side room was steamy, and the Bai sisters were joking and playing.
Bai Jing was free from the Marquis's rules, and her younger sister Bai Yuxuan rarely showed her lively side.
What a beautiful scene, warm dew condensing like creamy skin, cloud-like hair woven in the water, sisters whispering sweet words, light laughter unknown to the man.
In the next room, Li Yuan was finding it extremely difficult to read the book in his hand.
With the sounds of singing and laughter next door, his heart was itching, who could still read?
Before long, the door next door opened, and Li Yuan knew that the sisters had finished washing.
The curtain of the main hall was lifted, and Bai Jing, in plain sleeping clothes, walked in with a rosy complexion.
Not only that, but she was also holding a wooden basin in her hand.
It was filled with warm water.
Li Yuan didn't move, he wanted to see what the female Marquis wanted to do.
He saw Bai Jing walk in front of Li Yuan, bend down and put the wooden basin down.
Then she reached out and took off Li Yuan's boots.
At this moment, Li Yuan felt like he was in a dream.
He thought to himself, the female Marquis... this... this is, going to wash my feet.
Sure enough, Bai Jing bent her legs and knelt in front of Li Yuan.
She took off Li Yuan's socks with her hands.
In the Great Liang Dynasty, it was a sign of a wife's virtuousness to wash the feet of her man who had worked hard all day.
Li Yuan never expected that one day, he would enjoy a Marquis washing his feet.
Bai Jing first tested the water temperature with her jade hand, the temperature was just right.
Then she gently held Li Yuan's feet with her hands and slowly put them into the warm wooden basin.
Li Yuan heard Bai Jing's soft voice.
"When I was young, whenever my father returned from battle, my mother always personally fetched water to wash his feet."
"Mother always said that men are not easy."
"A small husband, plowing the fields and doing work, gets up at the crowing of the rooster and rests only at sunset, to support a family's livelihood."
"A great husband, toils for the country, wears armor to defend against the enemy, to protect the safety of a country."
"When they return home, whether it is a small husband or a great husband, the wives and concubines must give him a place of peace and happiness."
"Always wash away his fatigue and dust."
"Only then can he go further and stand higher."
Li Yuan just listened quietly.
He knew that washing feet for a loved one, for Bai Jing, was perhaps a kind of ritual.
Her father died in battle, her mother died of illness, Bai Jing was using this method to remember her parents.
It was also an imitation of her mother's good wife.
Li Yuan looked down and could see Bai Jing's cloud-like hair and snow-white neck.
And that slightly flushed cheek.
After all, for the female Marquis, helping her husband wash his feet was a first.
It was impossible not to be shy.
And what Li Yuan had to do now was to play the role of his husband well.
Let Bai Jing immerse herself in her state of mind.
Unknowingly, a soft linen cloth wrapped Li Yuan's feet.
Then Bai Jing got up and went outside to pour the water.
At this time, the sound of sweeping the bed came from the main room.
It was Bai Yuxuan who was tidying up the bed.
At this time, outside the small house, most of the houses had extinguished their lights.
Except for a few dog barks that could be heard in the distance, the entire Shangjing City was very quiet.
Li Yuan stepped into the main room.
The first thing he saw was Bai Yuxuan's exquisite and charming back.
The female Marquis Bai Jing was sitting sideways on the edge of the bed, arranging the bedding with her hands.
Li Yuan looked over and saw three beds covered with brocade quilts embroidered with mandarin ducks.
The middle one was larger, and the two on the sides were smaller.
Li Yuan heard Bai Jing's slightly shy voice.
"Hus... Husband, rest early."
"Okay."
But then Li Yuan's voice came.
"My two wives, come, put on the undergarments that your husband bought today."
"Let your husband see if the size is right."
Bai Yuxuan's delicate and angry voice came.
"Husband, you are really a lecher."
Before long, in the slight rustling sound, the lights of the main house in the small courtyard were blown out.
The night was deep.
Except for the clapper sound of the watchman in the distance, and the occasional barks of dogs.
It seemed that the entire Shangjing City had fallen asleep.
I don't know how long it took, above the main house of Li Yuan's house.
A black figure slowly got up.
Under the moonlight, one could see the exquisite curves of the figure, this was obviously a woman.
She sat on the roof tiles and gently pulled down the black scarf covering her face.
Revealing a slightly flushed face.
This person was none other than Wu Ling, the female flag leader of the Hanging Blade Guard.
She first let out a long breath, and then whispered a sentence.
"My God, Marquis Longxiang and Li Xiaowei... have already secretly decided to be together."
"This... this is too exciting, it's simply unbelievable."
Today, Wu Ling originally saw that the female Marquis did not have many personal guards.
So she followed behind her alone as a secret guard.
But unexpectedly, what she saw and heard today completely subverted the three views of this female flag leader.
Bai Jing, one of the four great Marquises of Great Liang, actually secretly decided to be with this Li Xiaowei, or Qingyuan Count.
At this time, Wu Ling's heart was both excited and a little uneasy.
Did she accidentally catch the handle of Marquis Longxiang?
What should I do?
Wu Ling, unlike the cold temperament she shows on the outside.
In fact, she is quite curious and has a cold exterior but a warm interior.
Wu Ling was born in a family of officials, and her father was promoted to the Northern Sichuan Dao Inspector of the Wude Division.
When the Wude Division was at its peak, it could be said to be prestigious in Great Liang, internally inspecting petty thieves, and externally investigating rebellious subjects, with great power.
Wherever the Hanging Blade Guards went, the civil and military officials were frightened, and the gods and ghosts avoided them.
The Wude Division also often needed to send secret agents to infiltrate the target's mansion to collect evidence and investigate secrets.
Sometimes, women were more convenient as secret agents than men, so there were naturally many female guards in the Hanging Blade Guard.
From the age of six, Wu Ling followed her father Wu Jun and diligently studied martial arts.
She was also considered intelligent since childhood, and not only learned all of her father Wu Jun's martial arts, but also mastered the reconnaissance, lurking, criminal investigation, and interrogation skills necessary for the Hanging Blade Guard.
At the age of sixteen, she joined the Hanging Blade Guard and became a female official.
She successively solved several major cases and made no small achievements.
Under the operation of her father, by the time she was nineteen, she had already become the female flag leader of the Northern Sichuan Dao Wude Division.
These past ten years, she has been much more thrilling and exciting than ordinary women.
However, if there is anything that this Wu Ling girl is not satisfied with.
That is, this female flag leader is really too difficult to marry.