Chapter 6: Steam Rising in the Eyes
Liu Fuying still had his head down, and his mumbling words were soft but powerful enough to strike directly at people's hearts.
"Recently, I often think of you staying alone in this yard, and I feel very uneasy."
She expressed her anxiety through her emotions, and she looked extremely sincere.
"What are you worried about?" Pei Zhou's tone remained unchanged.
But his eyes were different, and softened even faster than his expression.
Liu Fuying suddenly looked up, and he quickly looked away as if to cover up.
"If it weren't for the uncle saving my life, I might have died. But my savior has to stay in this caged courtyard all day and suffer misery. I am naturally uneasy."
Pei Zhouwu looked forward, looking at the teacup that he had knocked over on the stone table in the yard.
All the tea in the cup had flowed out, soaking the ground with moisture.
But what about him? His heart, his whole body had already become damp and cold. Even when the sunlight was shining directly on his body, he felt that he could not feel any warmth.
"So what if I'm uneasy?"
He was asking this question to the person opposite him, but the tone seemed as if he was talking to himself.
What if I feel uneasy? What if I feel unwilling?
"Yes, there is nothing I can do. I also have no way to rescue you openly, so I said that even if I just come to accompany you and relieve your distress, it would be fine."
Sometimes, Liu Fuying even admired his ability to tell lies.
They are even worse than those men who use sweet words to deceive women.
"I don't need it."
Pei Zhouwu said this, but Liu Fuying could see that his expression was gradually moved, and his tone was not as cold as at the beginning.
This shows that her nonsense is useful.
He turned and went into the house without stopping her from coming in.
After entering the door, she began to take out the things in her arms, one bottle after another. She didn't hold it firmly and one bottle fell and rolled to Pei Zhouwu's feet.
Before he could take a closer look, a figure had already rushed to his side, squatted down and picked it up.
Along with Liu Fuying, the smile on her face also rose up.
"These are the medicines I brought for you. There are medicines for headaches and fevers, medicines for wind-cold and wind-heat diseases, medicines for stopping bleeding due to injuries, and medicines to repel mosquitoes. There should be a lot of mosquitoes in the mountains in summer."
There were about six or seven bottles on the table.
"I put paper on each bottle so you won't get them mixed up when you use them."
She picked up another porcelain bottle, opened the lid and poured out a pill into her hand, saying, "Look, I know it's not convenient for you to boil the medicine here, so I boiled it for you and made it into pills. Isn't this very convenient?"
What she made into pills for him.
Those were clearly the pills she asked Jinli to buy at the pharmacy; none of them were made by her personally.
But Pei Zhouwu seemed to really believe it.
"you……"
"It's okay. It's no trouble at all. I'll be very happy if these things can help you. And..."
She suddenly became hesitant to speak, which also caused Pei Zhouwu to frown.
"What else?" he asked.
Liu Fuying spoke slowly, word by word, trying to make things clear.
"Also, I think you must be very curious about the situation outside, especially your family."
Speaking of family, Pei Zhouwu's brows furrowed even tighter.
Sure enough, this is what he cares about most.
"Especially the Empress and the Crown Prince. They were indeed affected. But don't worry. I heard that a month ago, the Crown Prince had returned to the Jiwen Hall to study. This shows that the Emperor still values him."
The prince is the son of Pei Zhouwu's sister, the queen.
Pei Zhouwu's rebellion did have an impact on the Queen and the Crown Prince. I heard that the Queen's Phoenix Seal was taken away, and the Imperial Concubine below was acting as the Six Palaces. The Crown Prince also hadn't been to the Jiwen Hall to study for several months. It was rumored that the Emperor was going to depose the Crown Prince.
What she just said, that the prince had returned to Jiwen Hall, was also true.
As long as the crown prince's position remains, the queen will be fine, and the Pei family will be fine.
In this way, Pei Zhouwu should feel more at ease.
Looking at Pei Zhouwu again, I don't know when tears appeared in his eyes, and then his eye sockets began to turn red.
Liu Fuying was indeed very accurate in her guess. In order to hit the softest spot in his heart, she had to target the relative whom he cared about the most and was most afraid of implicating.
He turned around, stared out the window in a daze, and remained silent.
The bamboo trees outside the window rustled in the wind, like the silent cry in Pei Zhouwu's heart.
Liu Fuying didn't say anything either, just stayed with him quietly.
After a long time, Pei Zhouwu finally spoke.
"What's your name?" he asked.
"Yueying." As for the name, Liu Fuying had already thought of how to answer, "My name is Su Yueying. My mother said that she saw fireflies flying under the moon on the night I was born, so she named me Yueying."
The surname Su is made up, but Yueying is not a lie.
But the only people in this world who knew this nickname were her mother, her, and Jin Li.
"It happens to be this season. Does Uncle Pei occasionally see fireflies flying by at night?"
Pei Zhouwu did not respond, but pondered over it carefully.
"The Su family in Shangjing City..."
"I'm not some rich lady." Liu Fuying interrupted him hastily, and then continued, "Today is the first day of the lunar year. I followed my old lady up the mountain to burn incense and then ran away secretly."
Seeing Pei Zhouwu turning around with a puzzled look on his face, Liu Fuying continued to speak.
"I am just a maid in a wealthy family, an insignificant person."
"Really?" Pei Zhouwu seemed a little more distant.
She said she was just a maid, but her clothes, including the fabrics, were definitely not something an ordinary maid could afford.
Last time I thought she was hiding something because she was a stranger to me, but today, her words seemed like a lie. It’s not that there weren’t maids as beautiful as her, but the way she was dressed really didn’t look like a maid.
How could Liu Fuying not know about such an oversight?
Since she knew it clearly, it meant that she did it on purpose, deliberately making Pei Zhouwu suspicious and thinking that she was lying.
"Yes, it's true." Liu Fuying nodded affirmatively.
She didn't tell the truth, which naturally made Pei Zhouwu feel a lot more resentful.
"In this case, Miss Su, you should go back as soon as possible. If your old lady needs help and can't find you, she will be angry."
"Yes, I am going back."
Liu Fuying also pretended to speak in a different tone, looking embarrassed.
"I know that I am not worthy of accompanying the emperor's uncle, but I just want to come and see him because I miss him."
"I..." Pei Zhou choked.
He suddenly became cold, not because he despised her identity as a maid.
"I know, I know everything. I'm going back now. It's time to go back. I have to go down the mountain soon."
She lowered her head, looking hurt.
"I'm leaving now."
After saying that, he lowered his head and turned around.
After going out, she went straight around the back of the house and headed towards the pond.
The shadows of the bamboos overlapped, and Pei Zhouwu could not see her figure clearly. He could only see a blurry shadow, and vaguely saw her go into the water.
"You know what..."
Pei Zhouwu uttered a word.
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