Mountains and rivers are waiting for you to return

Chapter 182 A new day

The next morning, Pei Nai woke up in Gu Jinheng's arms.

She opened her eyes and saw the unfamiliar curtains and furnishings in the house, then she remembered that they were now in the imperial palace of Gangdu.

Pei Nai turned around first, rubbed his head against Gu Jinheng's chest, pecked his cheek twice, and then prepared to get up.

Just as she propped up her upper body, Gu Jinheng pulled her back by the waist and she fell back into his arms.

"Good morning." Gu Jinheng hugged her tightly, his voice still a little hoarse from being sleepy.

Pei Nai climbed up, pushed him down, pressed on him, put his head level with his, and stared at his face from above, feeling itchy in his heart and his hands.

Sometimes she touched the peak of his lips, and sometimes she scratched his eyelashes with her fingertips.

Gu Jinheng had long been accustomed to her restlessness in bed and allowed her to bully him.

When she bullied him too much, he would bite her fingers with his teeth and rub them gently.

Pei Nai continued to touch him, confidently saying, "You didn't let me practice with the spear, so I got itchy hands and had to use you as the only choice."

Gu Jinheng chuckled, "I couldn't ask for more. You'd better treat me like a spear every day."

Pei Nai stopped and glanced at him, showing a bit of suspicion, "Are you making a dirty joke?"

Gu Jinheng was also slightly startled, and he bent his fingers slightly and tapped her forehead with his knuckles, "Stop chatting with Da Xi Shangle about trivial things. You've learned bad things from her."

"It's not that I learned bad things from her. I read a lot of storybooks ten years ago. There was a book that I flipped through for the first time and saw the word 'long spear' written all over the page. So I bought it, but then I realized that this 'long spear' was not that long spear." Pei Nai explained.

Gu Jinheng raised his eyebrows, "Where are these books?"

"Your study, haven't you opened it and looked at it?" Pei Nai asked doubtfully.

Gu Jinheng shook his head in denial, "I will clean the dust off your books regularly and have the housekeeper air them out to dry, but I have never opened them to read."

"That's good." Pei Nai felt much more relieved.

Gu Jinheng narrowed his eyes slightly, and his eyes deepened.

Pei Nai shuddered, "You don't want to see it, do you?"

"Well, I want to know my wife's preferences." Gu Jinheng replied.

Pei Nai smiled awkwardly and sat up. "We still have to go to the parliament hall later. We can't keep everyone waiting too long. I'm going to wash up first."

She thought that those storybooks contained banned erotic content, and if Gu Jinheng saw them, she was afraid that he would order the bookstore to be shut down.

She hurriedly put on her clothes and prepared to fetch water, but was startled by the palace maid who was already waiting outside.

"When did you come? There was no sound." Pei Nai asked.

The two maids bent their legs and saluted. One of them replied, "General Pei, the eunuch said that you have the habit of getting up early to practice martial arts, so we waited outside early. It should have been half an hour since you arrived."

Her father-in-law knew that she had the habit of practicing martial arts, but he didn't know that the spear she used temporarily was taken away by Gu Jinheng.

Pei Nai sighed inwardly, "Where can I get some water? I'll go get some water to wash up."

The maids were a little apprehensive, fearing that they would neglect her. "The servants are all ready, General Pei, please follow us."

Pei Nai had been in the military camp for a long time, without any maids to serve her. She had forgotten the treatment she received in the palace and the mansion, and was a little uncomfortable for a while.

She nodded and let the palace maids lead the way.

After she finished washing up, she returned to the room, but did not see Gu Jinheng.

Let's just go to the parliament hall and wait for him. Pei Nai picked up the wooden box with the mechanism on the table and rushed over in a hurry.

Du Ling appeared behind her and wanted to tell her where Gu Jinheng was and asked her to wait there, but he failed to keep her.

Seeing her anxious look, Du Ling changed his mind. It would be the same to tell the master and the lady where to go, right? Pei Nai rushed into the parliament hall of the Steel City Palace with the mechanical wooden box.

Except for Gu Jinheng and Senior Zhong, everyone else on the alliance team is already waiting here.

Because the matter of the Valley Kingdom has come to an end, this parliament is to discuss the next direction of the alliance team, which involves issues of privacy and whereabouts, so there are no other outsiders present, not even Tianyao’s generals.

Pei Nai briefly greeted everyone and couldn't wait to hand the wooden box with the mechanism in his hand to Ju Liancheng.

This is certainly not the box with a mechanism that contains the worry-relieving pills, but Pei Nai himself doesn't know how to solve it, so he wants Ju Liancheng to learn how to open the wooden box before leaving the Valley Kingdom.

This was to avoid the situation where, when they returned to Chaoyang, neither of them could open the wooden box and they would just stare at each other in disbelief.

"Here, this is the wooden box with a mechanism from the Valley Kingdom. Do you want to try it, or ask Zhang Sheng and the others how to open it? You will use this method to open your antidote box when the time comes." Under the gaze of everyone, Pei Nai handed the wooden box with a mechanism to Ju Liancheng.

Ju Liancheng took the wooden box, turned it around in his palm, glanced at it roughly, and moved his fingers quickly a few times.

Pei Nai heard the subtle sound of the mechanism opening.

Then an inner box popped out from the side.

Pei Nai couldn't believe it, "It's open already?!"

Han Ruize and Da Xian laughed out loud. After all, the fact that Pei Nai had not been able to open the wooden box with the mechanism for so many years and had almost missed out on the worry-relieving pills had been widely spread among them.

Ju Liancheng was also a little speechless, "Yes, it's really not difficult. Didn't you let the Lord or General Han try it at the beginning?"

"What do you want them to try? Let them humiliate me?" Pei Nai was still a little frustrated, and said unwillingly: "Can you show me how to open it again? I want to see how to open it."

Ju Liancheng operated it again, but Pei Nai still didn't understand.

At this moment, the servants pushed open the door and Gu Jinheng walked in carrying a food box.

Gu Jinheng looked somewhat helpless. He placed the Huanghuali food box on the table, took out the bowls and cutlery inside, and reminded Pei Nai, "Have breakfast first."

"Haven't you had breakfast yet?" Han Ruize asked Pei Nai.

Pei Nai shook his head, "I forgot."

She looked around again, "It's not good to let everyone watch me eat, right?"

"Who told you to come here without having breakfast?" Gu Jinheng moved the chair back a little and motioned for her to sit down and eat.

Da Xi'an was afraid that she would feel awkward, so he added, "You can't stay hungry for too long. It's not good for your health. Eat. I like watching you eat."

Gu Jinheng and Han Ruize looked at him at the same time.

Pei Nai looked at the bowl of white porridge, a plate of side dishes, and a bowl of her favorite steamed cheese with sugar on the table, then she sat down and started to make a quick meal.

She swallowed a mouthful of steamed cheese with sugar before realizing that this was not prepared by the imperial kitchen. She looked up and said to Gu Jinheng, "You just went to make breakfast for me, didn't you?"

"Yes, I borrowed their kitchen." Gu Jinheng replied.

Han Ruize and Da Xian looked at Gu Jinheng again, with some displeasure in their eyes.

After all, the royal kitchen of the Valley Kingdom had breakfast available, so it was purely unnecessary for Gu Jinheng to do so and have to let everyone see it.

Gu Jinheng said bluntly, "Don't look at me. I wanted her to finish eating before coming back. I didn't want to show off in front of you."

"What are you showing off?" Pei Nai asked stupidly.

Da Xi Shangle watched Pei Nai's reaction from the side, covering his mouth and laughing until he was shaking.

Gu Jinheng patted Pei Nai, "It's nothing, just eat yours."

(End of this chapter)