"Its name is Tiantian."

Baoning introduced it to Pei Yuan with a smile: "You saw it yesterday."

"Did I see it?" Pei Yuan picked up the puppy by its neck and threw it aside, rubbing his brows.

Pei Yuan had no memory of what happened yesterday. He just remembered that he drank a lot of wine and had a stomachache that was so painful that he lay on the kang to warm his stomach and fell asleep unknowingly.

At night, he seemed to wake up once, talked some nonsense, ate something, and now is the present. He

was drunk and even confused about what happened before he got drunk. He really didn't remember seeing this dog.

Tiantian looked at him with a pair of round eyes and stretched out her pink tongue to lick his hand. Pei Yuan shivered and pushed it away.

He looked at Bao Ning, his tone was not good: "Why did you bring it to my room?"

Bao Ning pursed her lips, thinking that this man is really bad-tempered.

Last night he was still pulling her sleeves to beg her not to leave, but today he woke up in a blink of an eye, as if nothing had happened, still with that sullen look, as if she owed him a lot of money.

Bao Ning said: "I have some chickens and ducks in the house, they are still very small, sweet and naughty, I am afraid it will cause trouble, I want to ask you to help me take care of it."

Pei Yuan then noticed the scarf around Bao Ning's neck, and his eyes flashed with surprise for a moment: "Aren't you hot?"

Bao Ning was speechless. After a long while, she came to her senses and asked him doubtfully, "You don't remember anything?"

"Wait a minute, I'll think about it." Pei Yuan pinched his brows and tried to piece together his memories of yesterday.

He remembered something. Someone must have come to his room at night. It couldn't be anyone else, it could only be Bao Ning. By the way, Bao Ning's brother came during the day. The kid didn't like his look and said he wanted to take his sister away. So he left. Pei Yuan didn't care, but he felt depressed. He felt uncomfortable and wanted to drink some wine. He

drank too much accidentally, and his stomach disease came back. He almost fainted from the pain. Then, someone came in, talked to him for a while, wiped his face, and cooked porridge for him.

Pei Yuan knew what his habit was. He was used to being in the military camp in his early years. He always kept alert at night. If someone got close to him, he would probably suffer.

Looking at Bao Ning again, Pei Yuan felt guilty: "...I did it?"

Bao Ning was angry and aggrieved: "You really don't remember, you ungrateful bastard!"

"Let me see what you have done." Pei Yuan waved at her and leaned forward to untie the scarf around her neck. This action was ambiguous. Bao Ning's heart skipped a beat and she took two steps back, blocking her eyes with her hands.

The bruises on her wrists were also exposed, which was shocking.

Pei Yuan's heart was in a knot and he was in a state of panic.

He felt his throat was a little dry, frowned and asked: "Does it hurt?"

Baoning looked at him without saying a word. Her emotions were written on her face. Pei Yuan could see that Baoning was unhappy, and a little disappointed and sad.

But he didn't know how to coax her.

It was always difficult to say an apology, and he was not a man who would admit his mistakes, especially to a woman. He had no experience.

Pei Yuan held it in for a long time and finally said: "It's my fault. Go back and apply some medicine and don't be angry."

Baoning was depressed. It would have been better if he didn't say anything. Such a light-hearted sentence made her feel very uncomfortable.

Baoning asked: "What's wrong with you?"

Pei Yuan looked at her blankly. After a while, he became angry and said: "That's enough. You are taking advantage of me."

This man is really despicable. Bao Ning was originally a good-tempered person, and was used to comforting herself, but when she was in front of Pei Yuan, she realized that her skills were useless in front of him.

He just had that ability, whether he was talking or not, whether it was his eyes or his tone, he could make you angry to death.

Bao Ning whispered: "I won't bother with you." After she finished speaking, she bent down to hug Tiantian and wanted to leave.

Pei Yuan felt that he was wronged, and he hummed and ahed twice, and suddenly said: "Leave the dog, I'll take care of it for you."

Bao Ning said: "No need."

Pei Yuan said: "If I let you stay, then stay, why are you talking so much nonsense."

"..." Bao Ning looked into Pei Yuan's eyes, and his heart ached with anger. He rubbed his chest to calm himself down.

Although he didn't remember, Pei Yuan had changed a lot after last night.

In the past, he would never talk so much. He would mostly look at her with half-lidded eyes, wave his hand and say "get out", or he would not say a word, just raise his chin and signal them to go out.

Baoning began to miss the past. It would be better for him not to speak and keep his mouth shut forever.

I don't know which one is his true nature.

Tiantian struggled in Baoning's arms and insisted on getting down. Baoning's wrist was kicked by it and it hurt. As soon as he let go, it fell down and landed in Pei Yuan's arms.

Pei Yuan pushed it away with disgust.

"What's the name of this dog?"

Baoning replied, "Tiantian."

"What a crappy name." Pei Yuan lifted Tiantian's hind legs strangely, "Isn't this a male dog?"

Tiantian shyly put her legs together and lay down.

Baoning didn't want to argue with him, so she followed his words and said, "What do you want to call it?"

Pei Yuan stroked its ears and said, "It's a yellow-haired little dog. Let's call it Ah Huang."

As if the name you give it is very nice. Baoning complained in her heart, but she couldn't refuse him on the surface, so she nodded, "Okay."

Pei Yuan stopped talking. Baoning patted the hem of her skirt and said with her head down, "Then I'll go cook."

She still looked in a bad mood. Pei Yuan glanced at her and said "hmm", feeling strange in his heart.

Seeing that Baoning was about to step out the door, Pei Yuan thought for a while and said, "Well, you apply some medicine first, and then bring the medicinal wine to me later, and I will rub it on you, and it will heal quickly."

Baoning looked back at him, nodded, and didn't take it to heart.

Her back disappeared at the door. Pei Yuan looked at him, feeling a bit lost and indescribable. It was

the first time he put aside his pride to coax someone. Although he did do something wrong.

Ah Huang came over again with his butt shaking, trying to bite his hand. Pei Yuan pushed him away by pressing his forehead, impatiently saying, "Can you be more like a man? You're always sticky and greasy here, what a mess!"

Ah Huang didn't know what he was talking about, and looked at him with his head tilted.

Pei Yuan pointed at the end of the kang, frowned and shouted at it: "Sit down and don't bother me!"

...

He was really annoyed with this dog. It wouldn't listen no matter what he said, and it couldn't be beaten. It had a round face and was as long as a palm. Pei Yuan estimated that he could strangle it to death with just two fingers.

But he didn't dare to be really violent. Otherwise, Bao Ning would definitely be angry.

Pei Yuan wanted to get along well with her now, and he didn't want to make her angry.

Although she was not scary when she was angry, at most she would not talk much, with her head hanging down, like a rabbit eating grass.

After two quarters of an hour, Bao Ning came to deliver the meal. The meatball soup and scallion oil rolls were hot and fragrant.

Pei Yuan was eating on the side. She stretched out her fingers to tease the puppy, her eyes were bright, as if she had forgotten the unhappiness at that time.

Pei Yuan had been secretly observing her expression, and seeing this, he felt relieved.

In his impression, Bao Ning has always been a very gentle person. Even if she is unhappy, it will never last for more than a day.

Pei Yuan broke off half of the flower roll, pressed it into the meatball soup, and ate it after it softened.

"Fourth Prince, eat slowly. Call me if you don't have enough." Bao Ning stood up holding Ah Huang, smiled at Pei Yuan, "I'm leaving first."

Pei Yuan felt strange when he heard the Fourth Prince. Although she had always called him that before, it sounded uncomfortable now, and he felt very distant.

Pei Yuan wanted to ease the relationship with her, so he pointed to the opposite seat: "Sit down and eat together."

Bao Ning said: "I've eaten."

Pei Yuan said: "Then eat some more."

Bao Ning didn't know what was wrong with him, and frowned: "Fourth Prince, are you still drunk?"

"..." Forget it, he shouldn't say that.

Pei Yuan pointed to the door, "Go out."

Bao Ning really carried Ah Huang away. They laughed and talked in low voices all the way, stroking his neck and tail from time to time.

Is it necessary to be so close to a dog? Instead, she was polite to him.

Pei Yuan tapped his chopsticks, shook off the inexplicable emotion in his heart, and continued to eat.

...

The days passed so uneventfully, and spring came in a flash.

Ah Huang grew up a lot, and Pei Yuan's leg injury was almost healed.

The two of them still get along the same way as before, and Baoning thinks it's good. Pei Yuan stays indoors most of the time, and only goes out to bask in the sun on very rare occasions. He basically never goes out, and just sits on a stool by the window. Maybe it's because he doesn't see the sun enough, which makes him feel gloomy, and his temper changes from good to bad, like a sour-faced monkey.

When he's in a good mood, he'll say a few words to you in a friendly and gentle manner, but he'll be unhappy after a few words, and he may not say anything to you with a cold face.

Baoning is used to it and gives in to him.

She tried to ask Pei Yuan about the injury on his leg, but he was always very evasive about it and refused to say anything. Baoning thought about giving him a massage, but Pei Yuan still didn't want to, and would turn his face away when he was forced.

On the day of the Spring Equinox, Bao Ning was busy making spring cakes in the kitchen.

She thought to herself that she would give Pei Yuan something delicious to eat and let him drink some wine to cheer him up, and then ask him about his leg.

He couldn't keep putting it off like this, he was still so young, he had to stand up eventually.

Pei Yuan was playing with corn kernels in the house, flicking and clicking with his index finger, and the corn kernels flew out like arrows, nailed on the door, and most of them were sunk in.

The chickens raised by Bao Ning had grown quite big, and were scattered in the yard. Seeing this, they went to peck at the door in groups of three or five.

Pei Yuan was annoyed, so he flicked a few more and blew the chickens away.

His skills are not as good as before. A trace of haze flashed in Pei Yuan's eyes.

The small courtyard was unusually quiet in the afternoon, with the occasional noises of chickens and ducks, and the rustling sounds of Baoning chopping vegetables in the west room.

When the carriage of the eunuch arrived, Ah Huang had already heard the sound, and woke up from his sleep, shouting and running out. Pei Yuan also heard it and looked out.

A big eunuch got off the carriage, waved it away with disgust with a dustpan, and then looked around the small courtyard with surprise in his eyes.

Someone shouted outside: "Eunuch Huang is here! Why don't you come out to meet the guests quickly?"