Chapter 43: Be gentle, would you like to continue?
The marriage consummation was fake, but the red marks on her body were real.
It would have been fine if she had just drunk a bowl of contraceptive medicine, but as long as the red marks on her body didn't go away, she wouldn't dare go out and see anyone.
"Is Aunt Xiao coming to give me lessons tomorrow? How can I face her in this state?" Shen Youran pointed at the red mark on her neck.
"Aunt Xiao won't be coming tomorrow. She plans to rent a house in Wuyi Lane and teach there." Speaking of which, he had to go to Ciyouyuan to discuss this with his seventh brother later. He also had to inform Shen Yunshu that he'd be going to the Dali Temple in a few days, so she could prepare in advance. "Would you like to come with me to Ciyouyuan later?"
"What are you going there for?"
"You'll find out when you get there."
"No." Shen Youran was still worried about the red marks on his body. "How can I meet people like this?"
Pei Huaijin comforted her: "Don't worry about it. We are husband and wife. If there are traces like this, others will just think that we are in a very close relationship..."
"It's so easy for you to say that. I'm the one who's embarrassed, not you..." Shen Youran rolled his eyes at him, and when he saw his smooth neck without any marks on it, he suddenly came up with an idea.
She patted the bed and asked him in a flattering tone, "You went out so early in the morning, aren't you tired? Why don't you come up and lie down for a while, and then go to Ciyouyuan later..."
Pei Huaijin saw it clearly just now. Her black eyes glanced at his neck, and then she invited him to lie on the bed for a while. He heard clearly what she was thinking.
"Okay." Although he guessed what she was going to do next, Pei Huaijin still cooperated by taking off his shoes and lying down.
Sure enough, the moment he lay down, she pounced on him like a kitten, lying on top of him, pushing his chin, and nuzzling her face into his neck. "Didn't you just say that having marks like these on your neck would make others think we have a very close relationship? Then I'll bite a few of them off on you too, so others can see how close our relationship really is. How about that?"
After saying that, Awoo took a bite.
The little girl obviously had no experience in biting people and didn't know that the red marks were not caused by bites.
At first, Pei Huaijin didn't understand, because the fire avoidance diagram didn't teach this. On their wedding night, he just wanted to kiss her, but he accidentally left a mark on her neck. He realized that sucking too hard would plant plum blossoms on her skin.
It was the same last night. Looking at the plum blossoms blooming on her body, it seemed as if her whole body was blooming.
hiss……
Her teeth were quite sharp. Pei Huaijin tilted his head back, holding her waist with one hand and patting her back with the other: "Bite gently..."
Shen Youran buried her head in his neck, biting it hard for a while, then raised her head to check her results.
"Strange," she muttered in confusion, her finger gently running over the spot she'd bitten, "Why is it different from how you bite it?"
The red marks on her neck were like flower petals and strawberries, but why were there only pairs of teeth marks left by her biting?
Shen Youran half-raised himself to look at him and asked, "How did you bite it out?"
Pei Huaijin was very happy to be her teacher. He picked up one of her hands, pinched her slender fingers, and pressed the back of her hand to his lips: "Look carefully, I'm not biting, I'm sucking..."
His lips pressed against the back of her hand, opening slightly. The next moment, a numbing sensation spread from the back of her hand beneath the damp heat, accompanied by a slight tingling sensation...
Pei Huaijin kissed the back of her hand, but his eyes were looking at her.
She lowered her eyes, her gaze fixed, and looked like she was studying seriously.
The corners of his lips curled up slightly, and Pei Huaijin left her hand.
The skin on the back of his hand was not as delicate as the skin on his neck. After sucking for a while, he only left a very faint red mark that was about to disappear.
"Have you learned it?" he asked.
Shen Youran blinked, quite surprised: "So that's how it's done."
Pei Huaijin touched her head, his gesture encouraging: "Give it a try."
Shen Youran immediately arched back into his neck, impatiently putting it into practice, avoiding the spot where she had just bitten her teeth, finding a spot, pressing against it, and sucking...
After a few breaths, she raised her face: sure enough, there was a small red mark where she had just sucked.
"It's true!" she said in surprise, as if she had done something remarkable.
But his skin wasn't as white as hers, so it didn't look as noticeable as on her neck.
Pei Huaijin couldn't help laughing: "Do you want to continue?"
"certainly!"
He had bitten her so many times, how could she let him go so easily?
So she arched her back into his neck and sucked hard...
Daylight streamed in through the windows, the incense burner on the lacquer table quietly belched out clouds of smoke, and beneath the curtains, there were occasional sounds of water.
Shen Youran had only sucked five when her mouth started to ache. She had originally intended to leave a red mark on his collarbone, but after she ripped open his shirt, the skin there tightened considerably. Furthermore, her strength in her mouth gradually weakened, and after a while, there was still no mark around his collarbone, only the saliva she had accidentally left behind...
"Forget it, let's stop here for today." His mouth was sore.
Shen Youran rolled over and tried to get off him.
But she suddenly felt a sinking sensation behind her waist. It was his big hand holding her waist, preventing her from leaving.
"Is that all?" He touched her moist lips with his other hand, gently wiping away the traces of water. His eyes were as dark as the deep sea. "Why don't you leave a few more?"
"My mouth feels weak, I can't suck anymore..."
"Take a break before coming back?" The ending tone trembled slightly, with a hint of inducement.
Shen Youran realized belatedly that something was wrong and glanced at his face: there were tides in the eyes of this lustful man, and it was clear that he was still unsatisfied.
He was really enjoying it just now.
He kissed her last night, leaving her body covered with red marks, and he was the one who enjoyed it.
Now she was so tired from kissing him that her mouth was no longer active, but he was the one who enjoyed it.
It seems that he is the only one who gets all the benefits.
Shen Youran sat up and crawled over him to get under the bed: "Aren't we going to Ciyouyuan? Let's go..."
"No rush." Pei Huaijin reached out and pulled back the man who was about to run away after getting angry. He turned over and pressed him under him. "Since you've already taken the contraceptive medicine, why not... take it now?"
The previously cold and pure tone now seemed to be covered with hooks, tinged with danger, hooking people's souls.
Shen Youran sensed a change in him and her eyes widened in fear: "You, you..."
He rubbed her ear with the tip of his nose, and then moved his lips up to bite her earlobe, holding it gently.
This is during the day!
"No!" She pushed him away anxiously, "You are a scholar, you can't indulge in lust in broad daylight!"
Seeing that she was still unwilling, Pei Huaijin sighed, held her in his arms, and didn't continue.
Leaving Youyuan.
It was time for lunch, and Shen Yunshu asked someone to invite the teacher to the side room to have lunch and rest. Pei Huaian, who had been studying for the whole morning, stretched his muscles in the yard and planned to go to the side room to have lunch with Shen Yunshu.
Unexpectedly, the eldest brother and his wife came over, and Qing Jian followed them with a lunch box.
The eldest brother was wearing an ultramarine robe with wide sleeves and a round collar. He was tall and slender. Shen Youran was wearing the crane cloak, with the fur around his neck tied tightly. Following beside the eldest brother, he looked like an egg-shaped snowball...
Pei Huaian felt the temperature carefully: It’s not that cold, why does she wrap herself so tightly?
"Brother, sister-in-law, why are you here?" He raised his hand to greet them, and inadvertently noticed that there seemed to be something on his brother's neck. He took a closer look and couldn't help but widen his eyes.
"I have something to discuss with you. It's a good opportunity for us to have lunch together." Pei Huaijin asked Qing Jian to take the lunch box to the side room first. He was about to talk to his seventh brother about the house in Wuyi Lane, but he saw the other's eyes that seemed to want to stare into his neck.
Pei Huaijin really wanted him to see it, so he casually tugged at his collar, not forgetting to speak to him seriously: "Aunt Xiao plans to rent a house in Wuyi Lane to teach young ladies. I remember that Third Uncle bought a house for you there. I wonder if you are willing to rent it out?"
"Hey, I thought you were going to tell me something big?" Pei Huaian stared at his neck for a long time. After confirming what those marks were, the look in his eyes when he looked at him and Shen Youran changed. He said jokingly, "For such a small matter, Qing Jian can just come and tell me. Why did you come here in person, brother? Is there something else..."
"Well, there's one more thing..."
"I knew it!" Before he could finish, Pei Huaian understood clearly, "You're showing off this to me..."
He pointed at his eldest brother's neck.
Pei Huaijin snorted and laughed, but did not deny it.
The three of them entered the side room. Tinglan and Qiongzhi had already arranged the dishes. Shen Yunshu came over from the main hall, and the four of them sat down and prepared to eat.
Shen Youran had not taken off the crane cloak on her body. Tinglan stood aside and asked for permission twice. Seeing that everyone had picked up their chopsticks and was ready to eat, Shen Youran slowly untied the laces of the crane cloak.
At that time in Yunzhiyuan, she didn't want to come, because she really couldn't afford to lose face in front of this person, but Pei Huaijin said that since she had left a mark on his neck, she must see it with her own eyes. It was really not shameful to have this mark on the neck, so he insisted on bringing her here.
After untying the laces of the crane cloak, Shen Youran took a deep breath, took off the cloak, and handed it to Tinglan.
Pei Huaian, who was sitting opposite her, had just taken a bite of rice when he suddenly caught sight of the red marks all over her neck...
"Puchi!" A mouthful of rice spurted out half a meter away.
Fortunately, he reacted quickly and changed the direction of the rice at the moment he sprayed it, so that the rice did not spray onto the table.
When Shen Yunshu saw the red marks on Pei Huaijin's neck, she was trying her best to suppress her surprise. Seeing that there were more red marks on her sister's neck, no matter how calm and composed she was on weekdays, her expression was really a little off.
"Eat more," Shen Yunshu picked up a piece of fish for her sister, "to replenish your body."
Before Shen Youran could raise her hand to pick up the chopsticks, the fish in front of her was moved to Pei Huaijin. He lowered his head to pick out a small bone from the fish, then picked it up and brought it to Shen Youran's mouth.
He did not forget to explain to Shen Yunshu: "Her hand was stepped on yesterday..."
It is true that I was stepped on, but my muscles and bones were not injured. After a night's rest, the pain was not so severe that I couldn't hold the chopsticks.
However, the fish meat was already in front of his mouth, but Shen Youran still opened his mouth and ate it. After swallowing it, he said, "I can eat it myself."
Pei Huaian was not surprised by this. After all, he had watched his elder brother feed Shen Youran in this way last night in Fengle Building.
But when he left Fengle Building yesterday, Shen Youran was obviously still angry with his eldest brother. How come they were biting each other's necks at night?
He didn't want to stare at their necks, but when he thought about his elder brother, who was usually serious and stern, biting his wife like this, he couldn't help laughing.
He had just learned from a book the principle that "food and sex are human nature, and a gentleman enjoys sex but does not indulge in promiscuity", and now it had been proven true.
"Puff..." He spat out another mouthful of rice.
What to do? I still want to laugh, and pinching my thighs doesn't help.
Shen Youran watched Pei Huaian eat three mouthfuls and spit out two, his face flushed red. She couldn't help but glare at Pei Huaijin, who was still feeding her, in shame and anger: "I don't want to eat anymore..."
It was so embarrassing. There was no gap in the ground for her to crawl into. She just wanted to go back to Yunzhiyuan as soon as possible.
"Why don't you want to take it?" Pei Huaijin ignored his seventh brother and only cared about the person in front of him. "But does the medicine make you uncomfortable?"
Shen Yunshu couldn't help but ask, "What medicine? Youran, are you sick again?"
"avoid……"
"Shut up!" Shen Youran covered his mouth and turned to explain to her sister, "I'm not sick, sister, I just took the wrong medicine..."
Pei Huaian: "Puchi..." This meal is really inedible.
Pei Huaijin: "Seventh brother, why don't you take your bowl to the courtyard to eat..."
There's a big place there, enough for him to spray.
*
After a bumpy lunch, Tinglan came to clean up the dishes, Qiongzhi came with a broom to sweep the rice grains on the floor. Pei Huaian was trying so hard to hold back his laughter that a grain of rice went into his nose, so he went to get some water to clean it up. Pei Huaijin took this opportunity to talk to Shen Yunshu about the Dali Temple incident.
"I went to the Xiao Mansion this morning. Xiao Ci told me that the case of the bride kidnapping has involved other things. In a few days, people from the Dali Temple will come to pick you up and take you to the Dali Temple for questioning. You should be mentally prepared..."
"Yes, thank you for the reminder, big brother."
Shen Youran asked curiously, "Dali Temple only wants my sister to go for questioning? Don't I have to go?"
Pei Huaijin looked at her: "You don't need it, it's not a good place."
"If I go alone, will they make things difficult for me?"
"With Xiao Ci here, that won't happen."
"Who is Xiao Ci?"
"The Dali Temple's Chief Justice, my good friend and classmate when I was studying, and also Aunt Xiao's nephew..."
"Aunt Xiao's nephew? That's quite a fate." Since there is this relationship, she doesn't have to worry about her sister.
Three days later, just after noon, two people came from the Dali Temple.
They had greeted Pei Huaijin in advance, and Pei Huaijin left Qing Jian waiting at the back door. After the people arrived, Qing Jian asked them to wait at the back door, and he went to Ciyouyuan to invite Shen Yunshu over.
At that time, Shen Youran was accompanying her sister on the board of directors. She asked Qinghe to make her a wind collar out of rabbit fur and tied it around her neck, which could just cover up those embarrassing red marks.
Most of today's affairs have been handled, and there are still some simple things left. After Qing came over, Shen Youran volunteered to take it on and let his sister follow him.
The cloth and charcoal purchased yesterday will be distributed to each courtyard today.
"Manager Zhang, I'm slow in calculating, so please wait patiently for me." Shen Youran sat in her sister's seat and spoke to the manager in a gentle and friendly voice.
Although the stewards knew that the eldest young lady's ability was not as great as the seventh young lady's, she was kind and gentle to everyone, never putting on airs, and earnestly asking for advice on things she didn't understand. Naturally, the stewards were very tolerant of her. "You're too polite, Madam. Please take your time. We're not in a hurry..."
Shen Youran started to calculate while looking through the accounts...
Fortunately, there were not many people in the mansion, and after half an hour, Shen Youran finally took care of all the remaining matters of her sister.
Pei Huaian was still reading in the study. Since his sister was not there, Shen Youran did not want to stay any longer. So when he stood up to leave, he suddenly saw another person coming into the yard.
It was Mingxia, the maid in my mother-in-law's courtyard.
"Madam, how are you?" Ming Xia came over to greet her and then explained her purpose. "Madam asked me to come over and get two more pieces of cloth and ten pounds of charcoal for the young lady in the courtyard..."
Shen Youran opened the account book: "Let me take a look..."
The cloth was purchased yesterday and has been distributed according to the number of children in each courtyard. There is no surplus. The charcoal was distributed according to the quantity allocated by my sister a few days ago, and it has been given in full.
"I can give you some charcoal, but we have no more cloth." She could decide on her own whether to buy eight or ten pounds of charcoal, but the purchase of cloth was paid for by the public treasury, and she was not the one in charge of the family now, so she had to wait until her sister came back.
Ming Xia glanced at the table next to her and said, "Madam, aren't there two pieces of cloth there?"
Shen Youran glanced at her: “That’s mine…”
"But if I only take the charcoal back, I'm afraid it will be difficult to explain to Madam."
Shen Youran could tell that this maid was using her mother-in-law to pressure her.
Just now, when my elder sister was here, she didn't say anything when the people from my mother-in-law's courtyard came to collect the cloth and charcoal. Now that my elder sister has gone out for something, she instructed the maid to ask her for things. Could it be that she wants her to take her own share?
Thinking of this, Shen Youran didn't even want to give her the charcoal. However, she had already said it out loud, so it was difficult to make up for it. She said coldly: "If you want cloth, you must find my sister tomorrow. As for charcoal, there is not much incense charcoal now. It is urgently needed at my grandmother's place. Go and get ten pounds of black charcoal..."
Seeing that she was angry, the maid didn't dare to say anything more. She took the ivory plate and left.
*
A black-covered carriage stopped in front of the Dali Temple. Qing Jian followed on horseback. After helping Shen Yunshu get off the carriage, he led the horse to the side and waited.
Shen Yunshu was taken to a hall where cases were solved and asked to wait there for a while.
About two quarters of an hour later, Xiao Ci, who was wearing a green official robe, and two other adults who were wearing dark blue official robes walked in.
Perhaps because they had been solving cases for a long time, they had a stern aura about them. When Shen Yunshu saw them for the first time, she couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
"Mrs. Shen, don't be nervous." Xiao Ci raised his hand and asked her to sit down. Compared with his stern face, his tone of voice was quite warm. "I asked you to come here today because I hope you can provide us with some clues about Lu Yi's situation in Mushroom State. Just tell us everything you know..."
"yes."
The two adults sat opposite her, one was responsible for asking questions and the other was responsible for taking notes. Xiao Ci sat on the side and rarely spoke to interrupt her. Only when Shen Yunshu occasionally asked some tricky questions and couldn't answer them, would he speak up and patiently guide her.
Shen Yunshu vaguely realized that Lu Yi's bride kidnapping seemed to be involved in another big case. They wanted to follow Lu Yi's clues to track down the whereabouts of the bandits.
She was questioned for about an hour, and the two people on the opposite side ended the interrogation when they saw that they could not dig out any more clues.
"Mrs. Shen, I'll take you out." Xiao Ci walked to her side.
"Thank you, Master Xiao."
As Xiao Ci and her walked out, he chatted with her a little more about Lu Yi: "Actually, according to the evidence we have now, it's enough to go to the Lu Mansion and arrest him. However, we now know that the bandits are still wandering around the capital. The higher-ups are hoping to use Lu Yi to lure them out of their lair and catch them all in one fell swoop. Therefore, we can't arrest him yet to avoid alerting the enemy. I hope you can forgive me..."
Shen Yunshu had guessed it just now, so she wasn't surprised to hear these words: "If you need my help in the future, just tell me..."
Since they wanted to use Lu Yi to lure the bandits out of the cave, they had to lure Lu Yi out first.
And she was the bait to lure Lu Yi out of the cave.
"This matter is very dangerous. I will try not to trouble Madam in the future..."
They had already begun formulating a plan to capture the bandits. Someone had indeed suggested using Madam Shen to lure Lu Yi out first, and then follow the clues to find the bandits. However, Xiao Ci felt that it would be inappropriate to involve Madam Shen without being able to fully guarantee her safety. For now, they had left her out of the plan for the time being and were considering another method...
When Shen Yunshu returned, it was already past lunch time, and Pei Huaian was strolling around the yard with his head down.
Seeing her come back, he immediately came up to her: "Sister Shu, where have you been?"
"I went out to look at the shop..." Shen Yunshu didn't want him to know about those messy things, so as not to affect his concentration on studying.
Pei Huaian had no doubts: "Have you had lunch yet?"
"not yet."
"Me neither," Pei Huaian took her hand and pulled her to the side room, "Let's go eat, I'm starving..."
"It's so late, why haven't you eaten yet?"
"I want to wait for you to come back and eat together..."
"Next time if I come home late again, you don't have to wait for me."
"No, I can't enjoy my meal without you..."
Shen Yunshu smiled helplessly: Maybe because of the nightmares these past few nights, he became more and more attached to her.
At night, Shen Yunshu asked someone to put away the middle screen so that if he had a nightmare in the middle of the night, she could get to him quickly.
Pei Huaian, however, hugged his quilt and pillow in his arms, stood beside her bed, and looked at her with pitiful eyes: "Sister Shu, can I sleep on the floor next to your bed?"
Shen Yunshu glanced at the Arhat couch not far away: "No, the ground is cold and hard, you won't be able to sleep well..."
If you don’t sleep well at night, you will naturally have no energy to study during the day.
"But I want to be closer to you..." After having nightmares for three consecutive days, Pei Huaian had vaguely remembered some of the purgatory-like scenes in the dreams. Those memories made him very uneasy. He always felt that he had forgotten something very important.
Fortunately, every time he had a nightmare, there would be a gentle whisper in his dream, which would bring him out of his fear.
Every morning when he opened his eyes, he would find Shen Yunshu hugging him and sleeping on the Arhat couch.
But the Arhat bed was too small. When he woke up this morning, he accidentally moved a little and almost caused her to fall. He didn't want her to squeeze on the Arhat bed with him anymore...
He wanted to sleep in Sister Shu's bed.
But he didn't dare to say it directly, so he brought a quilt over and said he wanted to sleep on the floor.
He was betting on whether she would soften her heart and ask him to sleep on the bed...
Shen Yunshu saw through his thoughts, just as easily as she saw through her third sister's. Both of them were people who couldn't hide their secrets. They had little plans written all over their foreheads, and they thought others couldn't see it...
So she deliberately refused to comply with his wishes: "Since you insist on sleeping on the floor, I'll get you an extra mattress to put underneath..."
Pei Huaian saw that she didn't invite him to the bed, and he was too embarrassed to say it out loud, so he stood there and hummed shyly: "Sister Shu, do you really have the heart to let me sleep on the floor?"
"I can't bear it, so I let you go back to sleep on the Arhat couch..."
"But I want to be closer to you, maybe I won't have nightmares at night."
"I've already had the screen removed. Is it still not close enough?"
"not enough……"
Shen Yunshu asked knowingly, "Then what exactly do you want?"
"I want..." He glanced at the bed and looked at her flatteringly, "I want to sleep in your bed, is that okay?"
Without waiting for Shen Yunshu to express her opinion, he hurriedly explained: "I haven't had any erotic dreams recently..."
"I'll wrap myself in a blanket and promise not to offend you..."
"Is it okay? Sister Shu..."
His pitiful expression, coupled with his handsome face, made it hard to refuse. However, Shen Yunshu felt that sleeping in the same bed with him was too ambiguous. Even though they had slept together on the same couch several times in the past few nights, that was only to soothe his nightmares...
But then again, the Arhat couch wasn't spacious enough, and she hadn't slept well for several nights. Asking him to sleep in her bed for a few nights seemed to make no difference to her going to the Arhat couch to accompany him...
Shen Yunshu was troubled for a while, then she looked up at the pair of pure, watery eyes: "Then let's make a deal first. If you don't have nightmares in a few days, you can go back to your Arhat couch and sleep..."
Pei Huaian happily rolled onto the bed with the quilt in his arms: "Got it!"
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