Following the doctor's instructions, Baoning lay in bed for five days, and she hardly stepped on the ground except for going to the toilet.

Pei Yuan accompanied her every day, but after all, he had responsibilities on his shoulders. Some documents that had to be handled by him personally could not be handed over to others. For convenience, Pei Yuan simply moved all the things in his study to the room, and set up a screen between Baoning's bed and the bed. When Baoning fell asleep, he would seize the time to handle official business. When Baoning was awake, Pei Yuan was almost always with her, changing clothes and feeding her without asking others to do it.

Aunt Liu was very moved and secretly told Baoning that it was rare to find such a loyal man in the world, not to mention that he was also handsome and had such a family business. She was really lucky.

Bao Ning felt the same way at first. So even though Pei Yuan seemed to have changed into a different person, talking nonsense to her all day, she tried her best to understand, thinking that it was not easy for him.

But as time went on, she became annoyed, and even when she heard the door curtain creak and knew Pei Yuan came in, she would get angry and want to kick him out.

One night, Pei Yuan was called out by Wei Meng temporarily, saying that there was something important to discuss, and Bao Ning sat by the charcoal stove and ate melon seeds.

Before he left, he reminded her, "You can only eat what is given to you. Once you have eaten it, it is gone. You are not allowed to ask for more. No one will give it to you even if you ask."

Baoning was already unhappy, and she became even more depressed after hearing his words: "You are going too far! They are just melon seeds, not made of gold. Is it necessary to be so picky? You only give me 150 a day, which is only two small handfuls. I finished them in a quarter of an hour, and I haven't even tasted the flavor yet. I said I wanted to eat this, but you wouldn't let me. I said I wanted to eat that, but you wouldn't let me either. You stewed chicken soup and ate medicinal food all day long, and now my mouth is full of the smell of chicken! It's just a broken chicken, not phoenix meat. How much can it nourish my body? My body is good enough. What else do I need to eat? Do you have to eat me into a strong bull?"

Pei Yuan's hand stopped in the air when he was reaching for the cloak, staring at her in anger.

Bao Ning got angrier and angrier. He suddenly stood up, stopped eating the remaining melon seeds, threw them all into the stove, and walked to the bed: "You can't beat me, and you can't argue with me. Get out of here. I don't want to see you anymore! Don't come back!"

Pei Yuan's face showed a rare look of hurt. He stood there for a long time, hung his clothes back on the hook, walked to Bao Ning, and whispered: "Eating too much of that stuff will make you get angry. It's good for you to eat less..."

Bao Ning turned his back to him and snorted: "What is good for me? Are you doing this for me or for the child? You know it in your heart."

"How can you say that?" Pei Yuan frowned. "You are not the child of me. Don't you know how important you are to me? Your situation is special now. If you don't start paying attention now, if something happens in the future, it will be irreparable, right?"

Pei Yuan tried to pry Bao Ning's shoulders and look at her. Bao Ning struggled twice, and Pei Yuan gave up.

He sighed and sat down beside Bao Ning in silence. He wanted to say something, but thinking of her resistance, he couldn't find the words to say.

After a long time, he said, "Ning Ning, how sad I am that you guessed me like that."

Bao Ning's eyelids trembled, and she felt uncomfortable in her heart. She wanted to turn around and look at Pei Yuan's expression immediately.

But thinking about his abnormal and annoying behavior these days, she gritted her teeth and endured it. I'll coax her later!

"You should sleep for a while." Pei Yuan covered her with a quilt and forced a smile, "I'll be out for a while and come back later today."

Bao Ning closed her eyes and kept her ears alert to the movement outside. She heard the door close and waited for a while. Seeing that Pei Yuan would not come back, Bao Ning sat up with a whoosh.

She put on a coat, trotted over, opened the window, and chirped twice. Yuanzi was guarding the gate of the courtyard. After hearing the signal, she hurriedly looked out to see Pei Yuan's back, turned back and made a fist gesture to Baoning, and said loudly: "It's time to eat!"

Hearing the sound, the door of the small kitchen suddenly opened, and six or seven little maids came out, holding various food boxes in their hands. Under the command of Madam Liu, they quickly and quietly placed the food on the table.

Ah Huang and Jixiang were also led into the house and were held in Baoning's arms.

Baoning touched the two big heads and said in a muffled voice: "I miss you so much... Peiyuan is too much. He won't even let me hug the dog, saying that you are dirty. How can you be dirty? Take a bath once a day and you will be much cleaner than him."

Jixiang barked twice in great indignation, and Baoning quickly covered his mouth: "Keep your voice down, don't call him back again."

Yuanzi also jumped in, took out a handful of candy from his pocket, stuffed it into her dressing table, and said: "Auntie, I put it here for you. If you are greedy in the future, you can eat it secretly."

As he spoke, he took out two small soybean-like things with tails and put them in Baoning's hands: "Auntie, I rubbed this myself. You can put it in your ears. I have tried it and it works very well. It's useful. If you stuff it in, the noise outside will become smaller! If your uncle still bothers you, you can stuff it in secretly."

Baoning hugged him and said with emotion: "Thank you, Yuanzi."

Aunt Liu glanced out the window and said anxiously: "Princess, please eat quickly. Chen Jia is watching outside. This play will only be performed once at most. It will be troublesome if the prince sees it if it is performed too many times. Eat whatever you want to eat quickly. The table must be cleared before the prince comes back, and some time must be left to burn incense and drive away the smell."

Baoning pulled Yuanzi to the table, and Aunt Liu helped to open the food boxes one by one. There were rich dishes inside, such as braised pork elbow, braised pork, sweet and sour fish, four-happiness meatballs, and a roast chicken with a fat head and a big butt.

Baoning looked at the chicken and vomited subconsciously. He waved his hand and said, "Take it away, take it away quickly."

Aunt Liu said, "It's not a medicinal chicken, it's a roasted chicken. It's made with oil and salt. It tastes very good."

"That won't do. I've eaten a lot of chicken these days. I vomit when I see this." Baoning was very resistant. Aunt Liu had no choice but to have the things removed. Baoning

breathed a sigh of relief and gave Yuanzi a piece of meat with chopsticks like offering a treasure. He advised, "Eat it quickly, it's delicious."

Yuanzi looked at the meat in the bowl and felt very distressed.

He felt that his aunt was so pitiful now. His uncle didn't give her these ordinary things. Eating a piece of red roasted meat was like picking up a treasure. Aunt Liu said that my aunt now only eats a limited amount of salt every day. If the taste is not good enough, she will add coriander to enhance the flavor, because the doctor told her not to eat very salty food, greasy food, sweet food, and not spicy food at all.

Aunt Liu said that my uncle was scared that day. The doctor said that my aunt might have a miscarriage and must be extremely cautious. My uncle became like a possessed person.

The new idiom he learned today, called "overcorrection", seems to mean this.

Baoning ate a mouthful of meat soup and rice with satisfaction, and felt that his dead soul finally came back to life.

It was so delicious!

...

Pei Yuan finally realized something was wrong.

Wei Meng had no important matters to discuss. He pulled him to sit down. There was a pot of wine and a plate of chicken feet on the table. He had been talking about his romantic affairs in his youth for a quarter of an hour. He talked about the beautiful courtesans, charming courtesans, and the extraordinary woman who sold herself to bury her father. He also told him the legendary stories he heard from the storytellers in the teahouse. When he was excited, he recited "Viewing Canghai" written by a hero of the Cao family in the previous dynasty.

Pei Yuan was originally depressed because of Baoning's misunderstanding. He didn't think much when listening to Wei Meng's rambling, but was immersed in his own thoughts.

Later, it became more and more outrageous.

Wei Meng finished reciting and waited happily for Pei Yuan's praise.

Pei Yuan looked at him steadily and asked, "Are you sick?"

Wei Meng was stunned: "I..."

Pei Yuan asked, "You think I look very good and happy, and I like to listen to you fart here, right?"

Wei Meng's eyes were wide open.

In fact, he hadn't seen Pei Yuan for a long time. Because Bao Ning was pregnant, Pei Yuan no longer went out, and those patrol chores were handed over to him. He just returned to Feng County this morning. I heard from the servants in the mansion that the prince seemed to have changed. He was gentle and kind, and he was amiable.

Is this the kindness in the legend?

Pei Yuan put down the wine cup, glanced at him contemptuously, and cursed, "Fool."

After that, he stood up and was about to go out.

Wei Meng was sweating profusely, thinking of Bao Ning's instructions. Although he didn't want to contact Pei Yuan again, he still wanted to stop him. He stood up and said, "Young General, please stay!"

"I won't leave a fart." Pei Yuan lowered his eyes to tie the rope of his cloak and sneered, "I don't have the leisure to watch you pretending to be crazy. If you are really lonely, you can go to the city gate to stand guard or go to Qilian Mountain to patrol. Qilian Mountain is in Suwei's territory, so it is not convenient for me to send troops directly, but I must search that mountain, and I must eliminate the bandits if there are any. Since you have nothing to do, you might as well solve this matter and negotiate with Suwei. If he doesn't agree, you can go up and slap him twice, and then tell him how you conquered those charming beauties. If he is still not afraid, you can recite a poem for him. There are ten wrong words in the seven sentences of your poem. He must be very scared."

Wei Meng asked, "Why is he afraid of me because of this?"

Pei Yuan asked back, "Who would not be afraid of a fool with a knife in his hand?"

Wei Meng was stunned again. He saw Pei Yuan already dressed and pushed the door to leave, and quickly glanced at the hourglass. It was not time yet, and Bao Ning might not have packed up yet. Wei Meng's palms were sweating with anxiety, and he hurriedly crossed the table to pull Pei Yuan, but Pei Yuan pushed him away and asked coldly: "Are you stalling for time?"

Wei Meng immediately shook his head: "Why?"

Pei Yuan said: "If I believe you, what's the difference between me and a pig?"

Wei Meng looked at him in disbelief. He felt that Pei Yuan's anger that had been accumulated and had nowhere to vent these days might have been given to him tonight.

Pei Yuan no longer paid attention to him, strode out of the door, and went straight back to his yard.

He wanted to see what Bao Ning was doing in secret!

Chen Jia was standing at the door. He saw Pei Yuan from a distance. He was surprised that he came back so early. He hurriedly sent out a crow signal to remind Aunt Liu and Bao Ning.

Bao Ning was busy biting the pig's feet. Aunt Liu watched her nervously and said, "Slow down, slow down, no one is competing with you."

Seeing Pei Yuan getting closer and closer, Chen Jia couldn't say anything and could only stand up. He wanted to delay for a while. He stepped forward to stop Pei Yuan and said awkwardly, "My Lord, I just heard a very funny joke today. Do you want to listen to it?"

As expected, "Get lost."

Pei Yuan walked around the bewildered Chen Jia, walked to the door in a few steps, and pushed it open with a bang.

Just then, Bao Ning said happily, "Mammy, your braised feet are so delicious."