Chapter 15 Orange Bellyband
"I will close the doors and windows and go out. You don't need to worry."
See, how could a gentleman like him take off a woman's clothes himself?
Liu Fuying couldn't do that either, as it would seem deliberate.
I had finally dispelled his doubts about her identity, and I could no longer let him suspect her of any bad motives.
"Then... I'll trouble you, Uncle Pei."
Pei Zhouwu brought a rack for hanging face towels and asked Liu Fuying to hang the clothes on it to warm herself by the fire. Then he closed the window and closed the door tightly after leaving the room.
Although the lights in the house were dim, the reflected shadows were exceptionally clear.
Liu Fuying slowly stood up and stood in front of the shelf. Then he raised his hands to peel off his clothes. Even the traces of the collar sliding off his shoulders were very clear.
When it fell to his waist and abdomen, Pei Zhouwu didn't look at it again.
He turned his back and noticed that his collar was open again because it was not fastened tightly.
He turned his head and looked towards the deep pool again.
I don’t know what happened to her that made her come up the mountain so late at night.
Why did he suddenly faint?
Just as he was about to fasten his clothes, he heard the sound of a shelf falling to the ground in the house.
He turned around suddenly and found that the figure who was standing just now had disappeared. He probably fell down along with the shelf because of dizziness.
Then I thought again, there was a brazier next to the shelf.
just in case……
He didn't care about anything else, turned around and ran straight away.
When she pushed the door open, she saw that the person, the rack and the brazier were all overturned on the ground. The brazier was hit by the rack and turned sideways. Most of the charcoal had fallen to the ground, and the red charcoal was very close to her arm.
However, Pei Zhouwu looked frightened, and turned his back again with a stiff body.
Because Liu Fuying was only wearing an orange bellyband on her upper body.
The side-lying posture just reveals the entire smooth back.
What she had just seen through the shadow was already a great disrespect to her. Looking at the scene before her any longer would be a blasphemy to her dignity as a woman.
Pei Zhouwu couldn't hide the panic in his eyes, the unfamiliar fear made his heart beat faster.
He had never been so panicked even when he was chained and imprisoned half a year ago.
“Su…”
Just as I was about to apologize, I suddenly heard sobbing behind me.
Pei Zhouwu frowned, thinking that she was crying because he had seen her body.
"Miss Su, I didn't mean it, really..."
Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Liu Fuying's sobbing. Her thick crying voice made Pei Zhouwu's brows twist even tighter.
“I really have nowhere to go.”
Pei Zhouwu's eyelashes trembled, and he instinctively turned around to confirm her words, but thinking that she was not wearing any clothes, he was cautious even with his peripheral vision.
"I have nowhere to go."
Liu Fuying repeated it again, his voice trembling, exaggerating the sorrow to the extreme.
"I'm sorry." She began to apologize again, "I shouldn't have bothered you. I'm sorry. I..."
As he spoke, his tone became weaker again.
It seemed as if I was about to faint again.
Until her voice completely faded away and she could no longer be heard.
Pei Zhouwu took a deep breath and frowned as he closed his eyes.
Finally, he sighed and turned around.
It wasn't like he had any improper thoughts about her, so he just stayed calm.
The charcoal fire next to her hand burned her skin red through the air, forming a round red spot, the same color as the tip of her nose that was red from crying. She looked so pitiful.
After approaching, he squatted down and stretched out his hand.
Her skin, soaked by wet clothes, felt a little cold, yet at the same time so delicate that he dared not touch it too much.
After picking her up, he gently laid her flat on the bed.
He didn't look at it for long, turned his back to pick up the things on the ground, held the rack in place, picked up the wet clothes and hung them up, then swept out the charcoal fire and rearranged the charcoal basin, and then silently dried the clothes for her.
Liu Fuying stared at his back.
Everything that just happened was, of course, just an act she put on.
But she acted so realistically that her eyes were red and sparkling with tears, making her look very lovable.
She reached out and gently grasped the hem of Pei Zhouwu's clothes.
He was startled and stopped what he was doing. He thought she had something to say so he waited patiently for her to speak.
But after waiting for a long time, she still just gently pulled the corner of his clothes.
The atmosphere is peaceful, yet there are hints of affection slowly growing.
Pei Zhouwu didn't dare to move too much, fearing that she didn't have enough strength. If he used too much strength, she would lose her grip and leave her hands empty. She didn't know whether she was afraid that she couldn't hold on tightly or that she was afraid of breaking her heartstrings. It was as if her hand was grasping his heartstrings, pulling out many of his tender intestines.
After a long time, the hand behind him finally seemed to be unable to support him.
The moment it fell, Pei Zhouwu's eyelids twitched, and the heartstrings connected to her seemed to be broken.
He glanced sideways and said softly, "Miss Su, have a good rest."
Liu Fuying weakly said "no", and one could hear the fear in her words.
"I'm afraid that when I wake up, I'll find that this was all a dream. The Xiangshan Deep Pool is fake, the bamboo house is fake, and you... are also fake."
"..." Pei Zhouwu's brows never relaxed.
"I don't know since when, you became the only salvation in my nightmare. Whenever I think of you, I feel like I can still hold on and I can be less afraid."
"You saved me a lot, not just my life."
"But I'm sorry. Every time I came to you, I said it was to repay you, but in fact it was just an excuse for me to escape from reality. I treated your place as a refuge. I'm sorry."
Pei Zhouwu couldn't bear to listen any further. He didn't know why, but his heart ached when he heard her speak.
Turning my head sideways, I just saw a tear falling from the corner of her eye.
It's not like I haven't seen women cry before, but I've never felt the urge to wipe her tears like I did at this moment.
Maybe it’s because I can relate to her situation too much?
"Miss Yueying, you once advised me to take care of myself. Now I am giving it back to you. You said that keeping the green mountains alive is the most important thing. I don't know what happened to you, and I won't force you to tell me. I just hope you remember to take care of yourself."
"Take care of yourself?"
Liu Fuying's tears fell faster and she sobbed more difficultly.
“I don’t know how to take care of myself.”
Perhaps because she didn't want him to see her miserable face, she turned over and faced inside.
Pei Zhouwu's eyelids twitched, and then he looked back.
Even though I moved quickly, I still caught a glimpse of her naked back.
After crying for a while, Liu Fuying sniffed and said, "It's nothing, actually. I just didn't eat much in the past two days and fainted due to lack of energy. It's not a big deal."
Pei Zhouwu turned his wet clothes from top to bottom and did not respond.
How can it be okay?
The issue was not whether she fainted from exhaustion, but why she had not eaten for several days.
"I put a trap in the woods when I came here. If a rabbit or something gets caught tomorrow, we can roast it and eat it together."
She suddenly changed the subject, which made Pei Zhouwu feel uneasy.
"Tomorrow? You don't have to go back to the palace?"
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