Chapter 13 Chapter Twelve
The following week was the happiest day in Grey's life. The men, women, and children in the house were very kind to her, and Nicky stopped glaring at her. He pestered Grey to tell him about the twentieth century. Wondering what happened in the nearest future.One day, at Grey's request, they went to a nearby town. The situation during the process made Gray feel that there is a world of difference between ancient and modern times. Finally, the two of them came to the open space outside the city. Gray held his breath for a long time before he had a chance to relax. They rested under the tree, and the attendants brought food and drink. Nikai handed her a glass of strong wine, and Gray trembled. He kept taking it with his hands and drank it in a big gulp, but his pale face still hasn't returned to normal. "Our world is very different from yours," Nikai said. "It's really different." Gray said, still unable to get rid of the dirty, poor, and backward scene that he saw from the temple just now in his mind. Nicki lay down beside her. "Would you like to stay in this era?" She looked at Nikai, "I will," she said, "I'd like to stay here as long as I can." He took Gray's hand and kissed it lightly. "However, I would ask midwives to always wash their hands." "Midwife? Ha! So you're going to bear me a baby?" "At least a dozen must be born." Nika's lips moved to her arm, Gray could still feel the burning heat through the sleeve. "I'd really like to have a few more kids. When do we start?" "How many more?" Gray suddenly remembered that Nikai said he had a son. "Nikai, do you have a son?" "Not bad! It's still a baby, but don't worry, I sent his mother away long ago." Gray remembered that Nikay had said that he had a son who fell to his death a week after Nikay died. "We have to go back at once," Gray said. "Let's eat first and then talk!" "No!" Gray stood up, "We have to go back to see your son, you told me he died a week after Chick drowned, count the days, tomorrow is exactly a week, we should go back now .” Hearing this, Nikai didn't hesitate for a second. He asked one of the guards to stay to pack the food and utensils, and the other seven followed him and Gray back to the Earl's Mansion non-stop. In front of the gate, everyone Turning over and dismounting, Nika ran to the house first, followed closely by Grey, and when he reached the third floor, Grey was stunned by the sight in front of him.A baby who was obviously not yet one year old was wrapped tightly from the neck to the bottom of the feet. What's more, he was hung on the wall, and the baby's hands and feet were completely wrapped up with the body. Together, it was like a mummy, his lower body soaked and stinking with excrement.On the floor directly below the baby, there is a wooden bucket specially used to catch his excrement. Gray looked at the child, unable to speak a word.The baby hanging on the wall, with half-closed eyes. "The baby is fine!" Nikki said. "No harm." "No harm?" Gray couldn't believe his ears, "Put him down." "Put it down? He's fine! No reason!" Gray glared at him fiercely. "put it down!" Nikai shrugged helplessly, reached out and grabbed the baby by the shoulders and took him off the hook.Nikai stretched out his hands straight and long, lest the child's urine drip on him.He turned to Gray and said, "What now?" "Let's bathe him and then dress him properly. Can he talk? Walk?" Nicky was stunned. "How would I know?" Gray didn't know whether it should be anger or laughter at this moment; she managed to get a large basin of hot water.Nikai muttered and complained, but he had no choice but to untie his stinky son himself under Gray's glaring gaze, and then threw the child into the basin in a hurry.Gray then bathed the baby with the soap she had brought.The child's nanny came in once and said that Gray would kill the child.Nicki was silent at first, but Gray's eyes widened again, his brows raised, and he had to order the nanny to leave. The child danced excitedly in the water, and Gray guessed that maybe it was because the wrapping was so tight that the child became unresponsive.She told Nikai about her thoughts. "This will keep him quiet and quiet. Once he relaxes, the kid will cry out loud," Nikay said. "Maybe try to wrap you up and hang it up, and see if you will cry hoarsely!" Gray said angrily. "Children have no sense at all!" "He's got brains, and one day he'll be in Yale!" "Yale?" "Forget it!" Gray said angrily. Of course, there were no safety pins in this era, so Gray used a diamond brooch and an emerald brooch as substitutes to fasten the diaper.After the baby was washed and put on the talcum powder that Gray was carrying, Gray handed him to Nicki.At first, Nikai looked quite shocked, but it didn't take long for him to have the satisfaction of being a father. He even smiled at the baby!The child returned him with a childish smile. "What's his name?" "Jim." Gray carried the child over and put it on the ground, and after a while, he staggered closer to Gray's open arms.After the two played with the baby for nearly an hour, Gray was about to send him to bed, but found that there was a hole in Jim's cradle, and there was a wooden barrel directly under the hole.At Gray's insistence, Jim had a feather mattress covered, of course, with a waterproof tarpaulin. When the two left Jim's room, Nicki smiled and said to Gray, "Come and have dinner with me, let's celebrate my son's cleanse." He said, and he took Gray's hand.
After a long talk with his mother in the study, Nika decided very painfully to tell Grey that he was about to marry Ke Qingcai tonight. In recent days, he has noticed his love for Grey.Nikai didn't care that she lied that she was from a noble family in Southern Konia, but Mrs. Marge put the big hat of "family responsibility" on him.The old lady also hinted that if Ni Kai did not marry Qing Cai as his wife as agreed, it is hard to guarantee that "accidents" would not happen to Grey. "You can't marry her!" Gray said very calmly. "Honey." Nikki walked towards her with arms outstretched. The two of them are in the labyrinth of the garden at the moment, and Nikat brought her here, because he knew that Gray didn't know how to get out of the labyrinth, even if he told her about his marriage with Qingcai and made her very angry, she would There was no way to escape from him. "I must marry her," Nikki said. "This is my responsibility to the family." "Responsibility?" Gray gritted his teeth. "Is there nothing in the world that can stop you from marrying that wicked woman?" "Evil?" Nikai stopped, "Qing Cai may be a little greedy, but she's not evil!" "What do you know about evil? All men in the world are the same. If a woman is born extremely beautiful, even if she kills someone, she is still innocent." Anger flashed in Nikai's eyes, "That's right, I don't care about my responsibilities to the family, and I don't care about the woman I love; the only thing I'm interested in in this world is stripping Qingcai naked and having sex with her. " Gray was taken aback when she heard the words, and felt as if she had been slapped by Nikai. She turned and ran away, but she knew that she didn't know how to get out of this maze.In an instant, all the original anger disappeared, and she sat down on the bench like a deflated balloon, covering her face with her hands. "Oh, my God!" Gray whispered. Ni Kai sat down beside her, stretched out his hand to pull her into his arms, and let her cry on her chest, "This matter has been arranged, I really can't help it—especially after I have you, I can't help it." Really don't want to marry her. But if anything happens to Chick, I'll be an earl, and it's my duty to have an heir." "Qing Cai is barren." Gray said in his arms. He took out a handkerchief, "What did you say?" Gray blew her nose, "Qing Cai is barren." "How do you know?" "Oh Nikki, please don't marry her, you must never marry her. I know you love her very much!" "Love her! Qingcai? Who told you?" "Yourself. You said you must go back to the sixteenth century, not least because you loved her dearly." Nicki stood up. "I will fall in love with her?" "It would be impossible to make me fall in love with that woman in just four years." Nikai said to himself. "What did you say?" "Tell me a little more about me and her." Grey held his hand tightly and recounted all the things Nikai had said before.After she finished speaking, Niki raised her chin, "When I was with you that time, I knew I had to come back. Maybe, I didn't want to make you sad after I left, maybe, I did that , to avoid causing you to fall in love with someone who doesn’t stay by your side.” Gray's eyes were wide open, tears rolling down his cheeks. "You've said that before," she whispered softly. "The last night we were together, you said you couldn't touch me; because that would make me sad for you." He smiled and wiped away tears for her. "Even if I live with Qingcai for a thousand years, it's impossible for me to fall in love with her." "Oh! Nika!" She threw her arms around his neck and couldn't help kissing him. "I knew you wouldn't marry her, and that's great." Niki grabbed her hands and moved them away from her neck. He fixed his eyes on Grey, "I have accepted the dowry from the Ke family many years ago, and it is impossible to withdraw the engagement at this moment. In fact; two days later, I I'm going to marry her." He let go of Grey's hand and walked to the edge of the field fence. After a long time, Nikai turned and looked at her, "What you said is impossible to happen now, right? " Knowing what he meant, he couldn't help being furious, "You're not so stupid as to still want to marry her, are you?" "I didn't impregnate Abe, so Robb has no reason to hate me; Chick is still alive, so I have no reason to form an army. Even if I have to form an army to protect my homeland, I will definitely ask the Queen for permission first." Gray stood up abruptly, "Nikai, don't you understand that the future is unknowable? When you arrived in my era, the history books recorded that you died suddenly three days before the execution. After you left, the history books were Said that you were executed for treason. From this we can see that history can be easily changed. If you marry Qingcai as your wife, after I go back to the 20th century, maybe I will see that Chick died in other accidents recorded in the history books, And you were framed by Qingcai with other schemes." The more she spoke, the more excited she became. Nikai hugged her into his arms, "Honey, thank you for caring about me so much, and glad you came to warn me. From now on, I will definitely be more careful." Gray pushed away angrily, "Could it be that she is so beautiful that you don't care about the tragedy she caused?" Nikai lowered his hands, "Can't you see? I have no choice. Do you want me to tell my family that I will destroy the marriage because a woman from the future said that my bride will destroy the Dai family?" "Why do you risk losing everything just to worry about other people's gossip?" Nikai didn't speak, he stood where he was, looking at her with eyes full of sorrow.Gray's heart softened immediately, she stepped forward and hugged Nikai's waist, "You can marry for money, you can marry the richest woman in the world; but, I beg you, please don't marry Qingcai, she is not a good person , Nika, she's going to kill your whole family." Nikai smiled and lowered his head, "I'll be fine. The key to Qingcai's ability to endanger the Dai family is that we didn't know it beforehand. Now that I know everything, I have a way to save me and my family from getting hurt." This catastrophe. What's more, I have you watching and guarding for me. Isn't it an extra layer of protection?" "Me?" Gray took a step back. "I?" "Yes! You will stay at my house and take care of my wife?" "Serve your wife? Serve that...the murderer. Excuse me, what should I do when the two of you perform the ceremony of the Duke of Zhou at night to produce an heir?" Nika's expression suddenly turned serious, "You said it yourself, you can't have skin-to-skin contact with me, otherwise you will go back to the 20th century. You can't make me live a life of celibacy!" "Oh! I understand. I can never marry for the rest of my life, but you have to change a woman every night. Good! Go marry Qingcai and see if I care. Let her kill Chick and kill your mother , caused Dai's family to be ruined, and caused you to be decapitated!" Finally, Gray couldn't help but roared, tears had already blurred her vision.She turned and ran forward aimlessly. However, within three minutes, she lost her bearings and could only stand there crying very sadly.Nika walked up to her, but didn't say a word.Gray silently followed him out of the maze.