Chapter 65: Desk She was holding the book and slid under the desk...
Pei Huaijin was ordered to go to Suizhou to supervise grain. He found out that the local warehouse keeper was embezzling grain. After reporting the matter to the court, he was retaliated by the other party. On the way back to Beijing, he was ambushed and injured, which delayed his return.
After returning to the yamen and handing over the matter, he rushed to the Shen Mansion to see her. He originally wanted to give her a surprise, so he didn't let the doorman inform her. Unexpectedly, when he found her, she was alone with Liang Xu. When he got closer, he heard that the kid from the Liang family was openly trying to steal her girl.
Not only did he instigate her to divorce, but he also spread rumors that he had a hidden illness and was inhumane?
Pei Huaijin couldn't bear to listen any longer and stepped out from behind the tree. "Mr. Liang, how could I not know that I was suffering from a hidden illness?"
On the other side of the tree, the two people who heard his voice were startled.
However, after a brief moment of shock, Shen Youran was pleasantly surprised. She opened her arms to hug him, but Liang Xu was still there. She couldn't be so intimate with him in front of others, so she hugged his arms instead. "You're back? Why are you back so late?"
"I was delayed on the way, so I'm late." Pei Huaijin lowered his eyes to look at her, his eyes full of tenderness. But when he looked up at Liang Xu, his eyes were filled with coldness. "Mr. Liang, coveting someone else's wife is not the behavior of a gentleman."
"I'm sorry, Master Pei," exposing someone's shortcomings behind their back is indeed not what a gentleman does. Liang Xu also felt ashamed at this time, but since the words had been said, he still took the opportunity to persuade the other party, "But Liang still hopes that Master Pei will not delay Madam Shen."
"I wonder where Mr. Liang heard the rumor that I have a hidden illness?"
"That day at the clinic, Liang heard it with his own ears."
Shen Youran saw Liang Xu's confident look, which didn't seem like he was lying, but Pei Huaijin didn't look like he had any hidden illness, did he?
His eyes flickered back and forth between the two of them, and Shen Youran was confused.
"I think Mr. Liang heard wrongly. I am in good health." Pei Huaijin pulled the suspicious person beside him into his arms and gave Liang Xu a cold smile. "When we have a child in the future, we will definitely invite Mr. Liang to celebrate the full moon."
Liang Xu was skeptical: Which man would admit that he has a hidden illness?
But today he acted on impulse and expressed his feelings to someone else's wife. No matter what the reason was, he was wrong.
So he clasped his fists and apologized to Pei Huaijin again: "I have overstepped my bounds in today's matter. Please forgive me, Master Pei."
Forgive me?
I can't forgive you at all.
Pei Huaijin did not respond to his words. Liang Xu felt very embarrassed, so he said goodbye and left the Shen Mansion with Liang Qingluo.
As soon as Liang Xu left, Shen Youran immediately hugged Pei Huaijin's waist and rubbed her head against his chest: "I didn't! I didn't! I didn't even know he liked me?"
"Nothing? Not something?"
"She's not an unfaithful woman, and she's not a fickle woman."
Pei Huaijin certainly knew that she was not that kind of person, but even if she didn't go out with the man, she would still attract people. Unfortunately, she couldn't see through the minds of those men outside, and gave them opportunities to get close to her again and again.
Ever since Pei Huaijin first met Liang Jialiu Lang at the Changxing Marquis Mansion, she could tell that the other party looked at her with an impure look. Later, when she was kidnapped by bandits, Liang Xu also ran around trying to find a way to save her, which made Pei Huaijin more and more certain that this guy had feelings for her.
It's just that Liang Xu saved her life twice and helped her once, and he didn't express his feelings out loud, so Pei Huaijin didn't want to expose him. He thought that Shen Youran was already married after all, and no matter how much he liked her, he couldn't snatch someone else's wife away.
Unexpectedly...
Haha, I really underestimated this warrior.
The hoes were all swung home.
Pei Huaijin stroked the back of the person in his arms: Fortunately, this little red apricot was not coaxed away by his few words.
"How many times has he seen you while I've been away?"
"Just this once."
"See him less often in the future."
"Um."
"Be careful with the men out there, lest someone confess their feelings to you again."
"There are so many men out there, which one should I guard against?"
"It will breathe."
“…” Shen Youran hugged his waist and rolled her head on his chest, “Oh, Master Pei is jealous!”
Pei Huaijin held down that dishonest head, then pinched her chin and lifted her face up, admitting seriously: "Yes, I'm jealous."
"Oh, don't be jealous. I didn't agree to it. I'm very loyal to you!"
"I know you didn't agree to him, but you shouldn't be alone with him."
"I have something to say to him alone."
"What's up?"
"It's a long story..."
"Then tell me slowly."
“It’s really long…”
Let’s start from the time when Pei Huaian became the emperor’s grandson.
"Husband, you don't know, during the time you were away, a big thing happened."
"Are you talking about Seventh Brother?"
"You know everything?"
"Well, after returning to the government office, I heard a few words from my colleagues."
"Then you must be surprised too, right?"
Pei Huaijin touched her hair: "In fact, I knew a long time ago that he is not my seventh brother."
"Hmm?" Shen Youran raised his head to look at him, "You knew it a long time ago? When did you know it?"
"When Third Uncle just brought him back, Grandfather found out. I accidentally overheard when Third Uncle was confessing to Grandfather."
"Grandfather also knows about this?"
"Um."
Such a big thing, and there were so many people who knew about it back then?
"But at the time, I just thought that Third Uncle had exchanged his own son for the former crown prince's orphan. Today, I learned that it wasn't just two children being exchanged, but three. The child who met with misfortune back then was actually your second brother..."
"Yes, who would have thought that those people did not kill my second brother, but raised him instead. More than ten years later, I actually met my second brother in a bandit's lair..." Shen Youran felt that her fate with her second brother was really wonderful. Although he had lost his childhood memory when he met his second brother, he only remembered the name of her, his biological sister. It was because of this incident that he let her go and did not make a big mistake.
Shen Youran took him to see Shen Changyu, and then she mentioned Liang Xu's proposal to recommend him for the competition. She also said that the reason she spoke to Liang Xu alone was to make him conceal the fact that he had shot Shen Changyu's adoptive father...
In fact, Pei Huaijin was also qualified to be recommended, but he was a step late and was beaten to it by Liang Xu. However, it is always a good thing for Shen Changyu to participate in the selection of archery experts. If he is really selected, he can join the archery class, which will provide him with a way out in the future without having to go the path of studying.
Since Pei Huaijin has returned, Shen Youran naturally cannot continue to live in the Shen Mansion, so he asked Danruo and Qinghe to pack their luggage and get on the carriage back to Pei Mansion.
Shen Youran nestled in his arms, and she could smell the scent of medicine on him since she was in the mansion.
Although it was covered by the agarwood scent he usually used, you could still smell it if you got close enough.
"Are you injured somewhere?" Shen Youran sniffed in front of him.
"It's just a minor injury, nothing serious."
"Let me take a look..." Shen Youran went to lift his collar.
Pei Huaijin took the opportunity to hold her on his lap, letting her open his clothes and look inside.
His body was covered with bruises and purple wounds, and he had applied medicine to invigorate blood circulation and remove blood stasis.
"How did you get hurt?" Shen Youran felt distressed.
"I was ambushed on the way back and fell off the carriage." Although the situation was very dangerous at the time, he looked calm at this moment.
"Where else is it hurt?"
"My arm was slightly scratched by the opponent's hidden arrow..."
"Which arm?"
"left."
Shen Youran pulled off the clothes on his left side, and sure enough, she saw layers of gauze wrapped around his arm.
"Does it hurt?" Shen Youran gently stroked the skin around the wound, then stood up, holding his shoulders and looking behind him, completely unaware that she had already stripped off half of his clothes.
The coolness in the air caused a dense layer of small bumps to quickly appear on his exposed skin, but Pei Huaijin not only did not feel cold, but his blood was very hot.
Pei Huaijin wanted to say that it didn't hurt, but suddenly he felt that showing weakness occasionally in front of his wife was also a kind of fun.
So he put his arm around her waist and asked her with ulterior motives: "If I say it hurts, how are you going to comfort me?"
"Hmm..." She knelt on his legs, her body a few inches taller than him. When her gaze returned from his back to his face, she saw a deep light in his eyes and immediately understood his intention.
She glanced at him with a mixture of heartache and amusement, then put her arms around his neck and kissed him on the lips: "A kiss will make it less painful."
This method was exactly what Pei Huaijin wanted. He immediately held her waist, pressed tightly against her, and raised his head to pursue her lips: "It still hurts, kiss her a little longer."
The more he said it hurt, the more Shen Youran felt relieved. She thought he was just looking for an excuse to kiss him more, so she held his face, smiled, and continued to kiss him...
Outside the carriage was a bustling street, and the sound of rumbling wheels was mixed with the voices of pedestrians and vendors.
After kissing so many times, her kissing skills haven't improved much.
Pei Huaijin was far from being able to satisfy her clumsy and awkward kiss, so he had to take the initiative and thrust his tongue straight into her, kissing her so hard that she leaned back...
*
After the two returned to the Pei Mansion, Pei Huaijin took her to Chunxuan Hall to pay his respects to his grandmother, and explained to her that it was his idea to let Shen Youran live back in her mother's house during this period, and asked her grandmother not to blame Shen Youran.
Old Madam Pei was greatly frightened by the fact that Xiao Qi suddenly became the heir to the throne. She had no intention of caring about their petty quarrels at this time, so she did not say much. She just asked them to live a good life in the future and not to cause any more trouble. Her old bones could not bear any more shock.
While Shen Youran was going back to Yunzhiyuan to put away her luggage, Pei Huaijin went to Haitangyuan to see his mother again.
After her daughter-in-law returned to her parents' home, her mother really didn't mention the matter of taking a concubine to him again. Instead, she said to him, "I heard from your third uncle that he has sent people to Quanzhou to bring back the real Xiaoqi. I wonder if Xiaoqi has a girl he likes in Quanzhou?"
Pei Huaijin laughed in silence: It seems that mother is planning to marry my cousin from the Meng family to my seventh brother again.
But that's fine, as long as he doesn't keep staring at his backyard.
Not long after Shen Youran returned, the second wife came over with the account book, saying that she would follow the old lady's instructions and leave the domestic affairs to her, the eldest grandson's wife, in charge in the future, and she, as the second aunt, would assist her.
Shen Youran had previously learned some from her elder sister and also learned a little from Aunt Xiao. Now that her elder sister has entered the palace, Aunt Xiao's classes have been suspended, and all these internal affairs have suddenly fallen into her hands, which really makes her feel a little overwhelmed.
Although the second aunt in front of her had drugged her before, she had no one else to use at the moment, so she could only make peace with the second aunt and manage the family together in the future.
When Pei Huaijin returned from Begonia Garden, the Second Madam had already left, and Shen Youran was sighing over a pile of account books.
"Back then, I was in Chunxuan Hall and was feeling lucky that my grandmother didn't scold me at all. But then she asked my second aunt to bring the account book over and said she'd let me take charge of the household the next day," Shen Youran said, her eyebrows furrowed in worry. "It would have been much better if she'd just scolded me."
"Grandmother probably won't let you manage the family alone..." Pei Huaijin walked to her side, and she put her arms around his waist and leaned on him.
"Well, grandma asked my second aunt to assist me."
"Then there's nothing to worry about," Pei Huaijin rubbed the top of her head. "They said they wanted Second Aunt to assist you, but in fact, they wanted you to help run the household with Second Aunt. Second Aunt is the elder, and if anything goes wrong, Grandmother will hold her accountable first. I think she understands this and won't trip you up again..."
"Yes." Thinking back to when my elder sister had sorted out all these matters in the mansion in just two or three days, and I had been learning them intermittently for a month or two, I decided to take over the things she knew first and leave the unfamiliar things to Second Aunt. I would learn by doing in the future, and I thought I would be able to handle things on my own soon. "Then I'll go through these account books today."
"The weather is bad today, and the house is dark. Go to my study and see where the glass lamp is."
"good."
Pei Huaijin helped her carry the account book to the study and lit the glass lamp for her before saying, "I'm going to the clinic to pick up Qing Jian."
In fact, he could have arranged for a servant to pick Qing Jian back, but Qing Jian had been with him for many years and was more than just a bodyguard to him. Moreover, Qing Jian had been seriously injured in order to save Shen Youran. If he just sent someone to pick him up, it would seem indifferent.
"We're picking up Qing Jian today?" Shen Youran asked doubtfully, "Then why don't we pick him up on the way back?"
From the Shen Mansion to the Pei Mansion, they happened to pass by the clinic where Qing Jian was.
"I forgot."
"Oh? You have a photographic memory, but you also forget things?" Shen Youran teased him.
"Hmm," Pei Huaijin nodded at her lips which were slightly swollen from his kiss, "I was so engrossed in the kiss that I forgot myself."
Shen Youran's face flushed: On the carriage coming back, she sat in his arms, and didn't say a few words along the way. She just kissed and kissed him, so how could she think of Qing Jian?
"Then go to the clinic to pick him up," Shen Youran said, blushing and pushing him away, "Go quickly."
After Pei Huaijin left, Shen Youran looked at the account book in his study.
In the past, she had a headache reading these things, but when she looked at them again today, she felt that the account book was not that complicated. Moreover, because she had previously followed her sister as a director, she was familiar with many things in the account book, and she finished reading one in less than half an hour.
After she calmed down, she read faster. When she finished reading all the account books, she checked the clepsydra and found that it only took less than two hours.
It was already dark outside the window, and Pei Huaijin had not returned yet.
When Shen Youran was bored, he suddenly remembered that he once said that there were such books in his study.
hey-hey……
It just so happens that he is not here at the moment, so why not find it and see how it differs from the fire avoidance map she has seen.
Shen Youran stood up, opened the window and looked into the yard.
There were only two maids cleaning the courtyard, and Pei Huaijin had not returned yet.
She closed the window and immediately searched for it on the bookshelf.
After a while, she found a book in the corner and opened it to a page at random. It was exactly the scene of him holding her in his arms and sitting on the couch in the bathroom that night.
Shen Youran couldn't bear the impact of the scene all of a sudden, and closed the book with a "snap", her face burning hot.
After a moment, he quietly opened it again...
"hiss……"
"ha……"
"Alas……"
The study was quiet, with only the sound of turning pages and low whispers coming from the desk.
It was indeed much more erotic than the fire avoidance picture her mother had given her.
Shen Youran was so engrossed in watching that he didn't notice the approaching footsteps outside.
It was not until she heard the sound of the door being pushed open that she realized someone had come in.
It was too late to put the book back on the shelf, and hiding it under the account book would surely be discovered. In a split second, she slid under the table, holding the book...
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