Bao Ning's heart tightened when she heard the cough. She glanced at Pei Yuan's face, which had turned pale.

He used to not like to move on rainy days because the leech poison hurt his bones. On rainy days, Pei Yuan would lie in his quilt like a big cat, silent and motionless. Fortunately, the rainy days in recent days were short, and it would be sunny in half a day at most. He seemed to be alive again.

"Go back and lie down." Baoning helped Pei Yuan to the bed, "Just take a good sleep and you'll be fine."

Pei Yuan leaned half of his body on her, his voice low and hoarse: "I hate rainy days."

Baoning said: "Yeah, I hate it too."

Pei Yuan added: "But it has to rain. Farmers are looking forward to rain. If there is no rain, the rivers will dry up, the land will dry up, and no one will survive."

"Are you having a fever?" Baoning pressed him on the bed, pulled off his socks, covered him with the quilt, and touched his forehead with her hand, "What nonsense are you talking about..."

"I'm here," Pei Yuan pulled her hand and said with a low laugh, "I worry about the country and the people."

Baoning laughed, she wiped Pei Yuan's eyelids and closed them: "Go to sleep first, worry about it in your dreams." After she finished speaking, she stood up and was about to go out.

Pei Yuan asked, "Where are you going?"

"I'll give the drawings to Wei Meng and ask him to find people to work on them. When they come back, give them to me and I'll assemble them. This way it will be faster." Bao Ning stacked up the papers on the table and put them into a large envelope made of oil paper. "You have to take a bath when you come back. You didn't take a bath during the day and you're not feeling well. I'll ask Aunt Liu to boil some more hot water so I can wipe you too."

Pei Yuan said okay, I'll wait for you to come back.

"What are you waiting for? Go to sleep first. I'll be back soon." Bao Ning smiled, went to the bedside, leaned over and kissed his chin, "We are an old married couple, why are you still being so fussy?" "

I'm not being fussy. I'm waiting for you. The light is on. You can feel at ease looking at it." Pei Yuan hugged her shoulders and said softly, "Baby has shared too much for me. I remember it all."

After a busy day, Bao Ning didn't think much of it, but when she heard him say that, her eyes suddenly became wet and her heart softened.

It's really good to know that true love is not wrong.

"So corny." Bao Ning straightened up and said in disgust, "You are not like me at all."

Pei Yuan said, "It's dark and the road is slippery. Let Aunt Liu accompany you."

Bao Ning responded. She looked back at Pei Yuan and blew out the light, wanting him to sleep well in the dark. Then she pushed the door open, held up the umbrella, and trotted into the rain.

After spending some time with Wei Meng, she wrote down the things to pay attention to on a piece of paper and asked him to give it to the workers. After half an hour, she returned home.

Baoning was surprised to find that the light in the house was on.

Nanny Liu understood and smiled at Baoning, "It must be that His Highness is still thinking about you and didn't dare to sleep."

Baoning said "hmm", and her eyes became gentle. She realized what Pei Yuan meant by peace of mind. The rainy night was dark and cold. She returned home tiredly and saw a light on, and she felt that someone was taking good care of her, which made her feel at ease and warm.

Baoning went into the house and put the umbrella away, and Nanny Liu brought the hot water to the house. Bao Ning took a bath first and wiped Pei Yuan. I asked Aunt Ming at the beginning. The poison of red dan can be cured, but there is no antidote for the poison of leeches. Fortunately, it is not fatal, but painful. Applying a hot towel to the painful area can relieve it a little.

While she was doing all this, Pei Yuan talked to her in a daze and said, "I will definitely fight for an imperial decree for you."

"You are talking nonsense." Baoning patted his arm, "Raise your hand."

Pei Yuan said, "I am serious. It is so majestic to be a lady of the first rank imperial decree."

Baoning said, "I don't want it."

Pei Yuan asked again, "What do you want?"

Baoning said, "I just want my family to be healthy, and I am healthy too, and we can all live a hundred or a thousand years."

"Oh, I see, your family is full of old weirdos." Pei Yuan said, "Living a hundred years is fine, but I don't want to live a thousand years, because then I can only live in the water." Baoning asked

curiously, "Why?"

Pei Yuan laughed and answered loudly, "That's a turtle!" "

..." Baoning pinched his ear angrily, "Go to sleep, go to sleep quickly!"

…

Bao Ning thought the rain would pass quickly, but when she woke up the next day and saw that it was still howling outside, she felt a pang in her heart and said something bad.

Nanny Liu came in to deliver breakfast and looked at the sky and said, "The clouds are thick and there is no wind. I'm afraid it will rain for another two or three days."

Bao Ning's heart sank to the bottom. She made a few excuses and sent Nanny Liu out. She went back to see Pei Yuan. He had already woken up and was sitting on the bed playing with the dog.

Bao Ning was worried about his health, and even more worried about the plan three days later: "What if it still rains then?"

"There is no way. Things that have been decided cannot be changed because of me alone, and opportunities cannot be given up like this." Pei Yuan leaned against the wall tiredly, "Go and call Wei Meng to come."

Bao Ning agreed. A quarter of an hour later, Wei Meng arrived, bowed to Bao Ning, and then hurried into the inner room to talk to Pei Yuan.

Behind a beaded curtain, Bao Ning lay on the table, his chin resting on his wrist, his eyes closed, thinking aimlessly.

Bao Ning was scared. She had never worried about Pei Yuan's health as much as she did today. She was a person who liked to be happy herself, so when faced with things she couldn't solve, she would always choose to escape and ignore them, and she thought the same about Pei Yuan's poison.

He was usually healthy and strong, just a normal person, so Bao Ning comforted herself that it was nothing, he wouldn't die, it would just be a little sad on rainy days, but the pain would pass after a while. Pei Yuan was a person who could endure pain very well, this was not a problem at all, and it would not have any impact on their lives.

Until today, she watched Pei Yuan lose a lot of weight overnight. She watched the continuous rain, watched Pei Yuan suffer, and watched his carefully planned plan being affected. But she found that she could do nothing. Bao Ning felt extremely powerless. She was wrong. This was a hurdle that they could not overcome.

But what can they do? Gongsun Zhu is dead and the antidote cannot be obtained. Aunt Ming said that blood can still be transfused, and there is a 30% chance of success. No one dares to take the risk.

When something bigger happens, you will temporarily forget the trivial thoughts that once entangled you. Bao Ning doesn't think about what changes will be brought to her life if this plan succeeds, whether good or bad. She hoped that Pei Yuan would get well soon, live a long and healthy life, and not suffer from the pain of illness.

Inside, Wei Meng whispered, "Young General, this morning, the spy in Pei Xiao's mansion sent a message saying that the Crown Princess attacked Yuanzi."

Pei Yuan frowned and asked, "Did she succeed?"

"No." Wei Meng shook his head. "The Crown Princess's plan was quite thorough. Children don't all like to eat candy. To catch mice in the mansion, poisonous candy is also used. She said that there are too many mice in the mansion recently, so she asked people to put mouse-catching equipment in Yuanzi's room and deliberately left a few brightly colored poisonous candies on the windowsill, so that Yuanzi could eat them by himself."

"He recognized that it was poisonous candy, but he didn't eat it?"

Wei Meng waved his hands, "Where? The people sent by the Crown Princess didn't enter Yuanzi's room at all! Yuanzi's room has always been locked, and outsiders are not allowed to enter. The servant broke the lock and entered. It would have been good to go in, just hurry up and do the work, and leave after finishing it. But he didn't! He thought there might be some treasure in the room, so he stole it. Yuanzi was a child and couldn't explain it clearly. He just looked around randomly, and unfortunately, he ran into some agency, causing all the colorful snakes in the room to crawl out of their cages. Some were more than a foot long, and some were as thin as a finger. There were also many poisonous scorpions. The servant was scared and ran around the house. Pei Xiao caught him and tortured him, and he told everything."

"This..." Pei Yuan asked in shock, "Yuanzi raised snakes in the house?"

Wei Meng smacked his lips, "I heard that he raised quite a few. Yuanzi's wet nurse said that he liked these things when he was a child and treated them as playmates. Pei Xiao also knew about it, but kept it a secret." Pei Yuan

asked in disbelief, "Won't those snakes bite him?"

"I don't know." Wei Meng was also at a loss, "The servant said that they were all pointed-mouthed red-headed spotted snakes, and they should be poisonous."

Pei Yuan suddenly remembered the scars on Yuanzi's arms, which were all marks left after snake bites... Could it be

that Yuanzi was not afraid of poison at all? "Have you found out who the person who threw candy to him on the tree was?"

Wei Meng said, "I'm still investigating, and I have no clue yet."

Pei Yuan said, "As soon as possible."

Wei Meng agreed. He looked at Pei Yuan's expression and said worriedly, "Young general, you should have a good rest and don't worry about other things. If you are still not well after three days, I can go to rescue you alone. Anyway, the credit will still be yours. You must stay alive well. The young wife is only in her teens. Don't let her become a widow..."

Pei Yuan gritted his teeth and still had the strength to scold him, "Fuck you, you Lotus dog! Even if you die, bury yourself in the soil, rot, and get maggots, I won't die!"

Wei Meng was relieved. He bowed and turned to leave.

Bao Ning heard their conversation outside and laughed. Her heavy mood was much better. She went into the house, fetched some hot water, and brought some medicinal wine. She wiped his body with hot water, wiped it dry with a dry cloth, and then wiped it with the medicinal wine again, rubbing it in carefully.

She hoped that the rain would stop soon.

But the next morning, she received bad news again. The rain was pouring down, getting heavier and heavier. Baoning couldn't even pretend to smile.

She found that the situation was much worse than she had imagined. Aunt Ming didn't understand the poison of leeches. When she told her about the consequences, she only mentioned them in a few superficial words. Now Baoning knew that it was so severe. After two days of rain, Pei Yuan lost weight quickly. This change came too suddenly and Baoning couldn't react at all. She tried her best to give him nutrition and boiled crucian carp soup. Pei Yuan drank it happily and ate a big bowl, but Baoning didn't have time to be happy. In a blink of an eye, he vomited everything out, including yellow bile, and there was nothing left in his stomach.

Bao Ning was so distressed that she dared not cry in front of Pei Yuan, and cried secretly outside.

She felt that their life seemed to be too difficult.

Pei Yuan said to her: "After the storm, there will be a rainbow. Wait until the rain stops, and I will take you to the yard to ride a big horse. You ride me, okay? Let's watch the rainbow together."

Bao Ning agreed, but she didn't know when the rain would stop.

He showed his gangster nature again, leaning on the soft pillow, waving a cattail leaf fan in one hand and swinging his legs: "Wait, wait for me to sleep again, have a dream, I will go down three thousand feet into the East China Sea, catch the Dragon King, use all kinds of torture, strip his pants, spank his white buttocks, and ask him, will you stop, will you stop..."

That night, the rain really stopped for a night, and it started again the next morning.

Baoning found that Pei Yuan's left leg didn't seem as flexible as before. The poison and knife wound had damaged the bones. He was young and should have recovered, but this time all the old injuries were exposed. Baoning helped Pei Yuan get down to the ground and asked him to take two steps. He walked crookedly. After only one step, he said he didn't want to walk anymore and wanted to go back to lie down. Baoning

wanted to cry again, but she held back and said indifferently: "Well, there's nothing to walk, go back to sleep!"

She settled Pei Yuan down, sat on the stone steps outside, buried her head in her arms, and cried silently. Amian and Jixiang have been too well-behaved these two days, lying beside her and accompanying her.

Baoning was interrupted by Ah Huang's barking, which led Wei Meng and a woman with a black veil covering her face.

Baoning raised her head, and Wei Meng could not hide her excitement, and said to her: "Madam, I found Yuanzi's mother!"

The woman bowed to Baoning, neither humble nor arrogant, and said in a rough and unpleasant voice: "My name is Mo Nanshu."