Le Xu was led into the deep mountains. After walking around for more than an hour, he saw a camp built on a high place.

He knew in his heart that he had indeed entered a bandit's lair. The bandits that had been wreaking havoc on Qilian Mountain for the past six months might be these people. But he didn't expect that the leader was a woman who looked so frail.

Le Xu looked at Achou again and retracted the four words "frail" that he had used to describe her.

The first time he saw this patient named Pei was a month ago. At that time, Master Pei could still walk, but he had a broken arm and didn't look very well. Achou took Master Pei to his clinic, and Le Xu treated him. It took a long time to confirm that he was poisoned by a kind of poison called Chidan. This poison is evil and strong. Most patients are injured by poisonous snakes and rats. If not treated immediately, they will die within a day.

The solution of this Master Pei was to cut off the injured arm by himself, temporarily stopping the spread of the poison. However, the poison is still in the body. Over time, it slowly invades the muscles and bones, and becomes what it is now.

Le Xu has learned the art of using poison from his father since he was a child. He also has some research on this poison and promised Achou that he would develop an antidote in one month.

But he didn't expect that the red dan poison was so fierce. When he saw Master Pei again, he was already blind, haggard and sitting on the couch, and his ears were not very clear.

Ah Chou looked at him with a knife in his hand, and asked anxiously, "Did you cure him?"

Le Xu said nothing, but silently placed three fingers on Pei Gongzi's wrist. When he noticed his touch, he said thank you very gently.

Le Xu thought to himself, this is a human reaction. Threatening with a knife, is that what a normal person would do? A gangster is a gangster.

He quickly withdrew his hand, and became more certain of his previous guess that it was red dan poison. He took out a piece of silk paper from his sleeve with a prescription neatly written on it. He said to Achou, "I have already brought the herbs. They are packed according to the medicine bags and are in the cloth bag on the horse's neck. You can boil them. The boiling method is written at the bottom of the silk paper."

Achou's face turned pale and blue. She secretly glanced at the men standing next to her. They all lowered their heads or looked around. No one responded.

Le Xu asked, "Didn't I make it clear?"

Achou said angrily, "You can't read!"

Le Xu looked at her in surprise: "Looking at your young master's demeanor, I thought you were a maid in a wealthy family. You can't even read a single word?"

"I'm not a maid, I'm a guard!" Achou glared at him, then waved his hand to have someone pull him down, and ordered, "Go and boil the medicine!"

Le Xu shook her head: "You really don't know etiquette."

Achou snorted, asked someone to take care of the young master to lie down, and then followed Le Xu to the kitchen: "I'll watch you, I'm afraid you will be dissatisfied with me and want to use tricks to retaliate."

Le Xu smiled, said nothing else, and went to scoop water from the water tank.

He chatted with Achou and asked, "How did your young master get hurt? Did he offend someone? This poison is not something that ordinary people can make."

Achou glared at him fiercely, "You talk so much, what do you care!"

"Why are you so aggressive? I think you look like a bad guy?" Le Xu exposed her, "I know you are pretending. You think I will be afraid of you, right? Not necessarily. If I poisoned you deliberately, you can't escape. But I am a good person."

Achou was sitting on the firewood pile. When he heard this, his face froze with guilt. He immediately grabbed the firewood beside him and shouted, "Don't talk too much!"

Le Xu was not angry. He smiled and said, "You are a loyal guard. You didn't leave the young master even when he was so sick. Are you secretly in love with him?"

"You, a pretty boy, really talk a lot of nonsense." Ah Chou said angrily, "Why should I accompany the young master because of love? Can't you be loyal to me? The young master once saved my life, and I should stay with him now. Isn't it right? You pretty boys are so sour inside, you only know how to talk about love, and don't understand the chivalry of the rivers and lakes. Besides, no matter how handsome the young master is, I don't like men like that. Don't look at me, I don't like you like that either!"

Le Xu asked curiously: "Why? Am I not handsome?"

"How shameless of you." Achou snorted, "I like dark-skinned, tall, and not slow-talking. I hate nagging."

Le Xu suddenly remembered the tall and thin lieutenant beside the King of Jibei, who seemed to be called Chen Jia, and blurted out, "You can go to the King of Jibei's Palace to have a look. There may be someone you like, who is dark, tall, quiet, and likes you to fight." Achou

's mind was attracted by the first half of his sentence. He didn't hear what he said about his ideal person, and asked anxiously, "The King of Jibei's Palace? Hasn't anyone lived there for a long time?"

"The King of Jibei came back two months ago. You didn't know that the former county magistrate of Feng County was exiled?" Le Xu said, "That's right. You have been running around for your son's illness. Besides, Feng County is far away, so gossip can't get through. You don't know how it is."

Achou's breathing stagnated for a moment, and she secretly cursed herself for being careless and missing such important news.

She asked, "How is the King of Jibei?"

Le Xu looked at her strangely, "What do you mean?"

"I won't tell you." Achou jumped off the pile of firewood and walked out quickly. When he reached the door, he suddenly turned back and threatened, "Treat him well, or I will kill you if you can't!"

Le Xu curled his lips.

...

Achou returned to Pei Che's room, arranged his daily life and meals, and left, urging his horse to Feng County without stopping.

Before Pei Che became so ill, he had tried to find out about Pei Yuan many times, but this place was too far from the capital and there was no valuable information. Later, Emperor Zhou sent people to search many times, and Pei Che was almost discovered several times. He simply gathered some poor farmers, occupied the mountains and became the king, and defended this area with the terrain that was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Later, Pei Che fell ill. She was busy looking for doctors and medicine, and had no energy to look for Pei Yuan again. Until today, she accidentally learned from Le Xu that Pei Yuan was still fine, and even restored his title of king and returned to his fiefdom.

Achou wanted to meet Pei Yuan in person, ask him about what happened in the past year, and if possible, seek his help.

But she was worried that with the passage of time, could Pei Yuan still be trusted?

Ah Chou did not dare to knock on the door of the Jibei Palace directly. She found a crossroads and squatted, secretly observing the movements in the palace.

...

In the evening, stepping on the afterglow of the setting sun, the main door of the palace opened, and two people, a man and a woman, came out.

The man was tall and straight, with a young and cold face, wearing a black fox fur collar cloak. In the crook of his arm was a petite and pretty woman, wrapped tightly in a white mink, half of her face buried in the fur at the collar, and a smoky pink fur hat on her head. From a distance, she looked like a ball of wool.

The woman stuffed her hands into the man's sleeves, looked up and talked and laughed with him, and walked slowly towards the direction of West Street.

Achou immediately recognized the man as the King of Jinbei and followed him secretly.

She saw the two men walk into a small shop selling tofu pudding.

Achou tilted her head in confusion. She squatted at the door of the shop, pretending to pull her trousers and legs, while listening to the conversation between the two people inside.

The waiter saw the guests coming in and offered to wipe the table diligently, but Pei Yuan refused. He took out a silk handkerchief from his sleeve, dipped it in tea, and wiped the table and chairs carefully. The waiter was stunned when he saw the handkerchief Pei Yuan took out. After a while, he reacted and asked respectfully, "What do you two want?"

"Two bowls of tofu pudding, half a pound of jujube balls, and a layer of buns." Pei Yuan took out another piece of paper with dense words on it and instructed, "Do it carefully according to what is written on it. If you do it well, you will get extra money. If you don't do it well, you won't get anything. Pay special attention to using fresh lard, washing the vegetables at least three times, and washing your hands with soap powder."

The waiter took it awkwardly: "Okay, don't worry!"

Ah Chou sat at the door and thought to himself: What a shrew.

Baoning was used to it and waited happily with his chin in his hand. He felt bored and went to play with Pei Yuan's fingers on the table.

Pei Yuan said dissatisfiedly: "You have to eat food from outside..."

He just started talking, Bao Ning suddenly looked at him, Pei Yuan realized that he made a mistake, and said: "Okay, I'll shut up."

Achou thought: Is this prince afraid of his wife?

Pei Yuan said: "Take off your hat and put it here. Is it hot?"

"A little hot." Bao Ning took off his hat and wanted to take off his clothes. Pei Yuan said, "Just unbutton it, don't take it off, or you will get cold."

Bao Ning listened to him.

Achou mouthed: like an old lady.

Although he said this, he felt sour in his heart and felt a little jealous.

Bao Ning leaned on Pei Yuan's shoulder and talked to him in a random way. Pei Yuan responded indifferently and was busy washing the dishes with boiling tea.

Bao Ning suddenly remembered something and straightened up and asked, "Didn't you promise me to catch roe deer for me? Where are the roe deer?"

Pei Yuan paused and frowned at her. He wanted to say that you were pregnant, so how could you have time to take care of the roe deer? But then he thought, if he really said that, Bao Ning would definitely be unhappy, and there might be a lot of trouble in the future.

He changed his words when he was about to say it: "Let Wei Meng bring people up the mountain to catch them for you tomorrow."

Bao Ning said with satisfaction: "Remember to catch two, one male and one female, you will be too lonely."

Pei Yuan heard that the pregnant woman was emotionally unstable, so he thought that he should give in to her, so he nodded and said, "Okay."

"Also, Ah Mian is pregnant now, her belly is a little big, I see she lies alone in the shed every day, so pitiful, let's do this, you take some money tomorrow, go to the sheep farm in Xicun to bring back all her husbands." Bao Ning added, "I don't know which one is the father of the child, bring all three back."

Pei Yuan hissed, turned around and scolded her: "Are you done yet, what are you doing?"

Bao Ning muttered: "Why are you making a fuss, is there no reason?"

"It's enough to bring one back, he is either the biological father or the godfather, isn't it just to relieve Ah Mian's boredom?" Pei Yuan tried his best to explain to her calmly, "Why do you bring so many? If the three rams are jealous of each other, there will be a lot of trouble."

"That won't work. How can the biological father not be by the child's side after it is born? Otherwise, Ah Mian will be so sad." Bao Ning said, "You men really don't know anything."

Pei Yuan sneered, "Okay, okay, you're the only one who knows. Bring them back tomorrow."

Bao Ning continued, "As for Jixiang and Ah Huang, their marriages can also be arranged. Ah Mian has a family. If the two of them are still alone, wouldn't they be jealous? I think it's good for them to be together, childhood sweethearts."

Pei Yuan sarcastically said, "Are you a sheep or a dog? How do you know the minds of these three little animals so well?"

Bao Ning frowned, "What are you talking about!"

"Do mothers like to have affairs? You are just messing around, they are not suitable!" Pei Yuan refused angrily, "Jixiang is too strong and Ah Huang is too weak, Jixiang is too tall and Ah Huang is too short, and during mating, Ah Huang has to stand on a stool."

Bao Ning said, "Then why don't you make a stool for it? At worst, let someone hold it. Is there anything that can't be solved?"

Pei Yuan asked, "Ji Bao Ning, are you crazy?"

Bao Ning pushed him away unhappily, "Just talk nicely, why are you swearing?"

Pei Yuan said, "You are so leisurely, don't worry about Ah Mian and Ah Huang, find a woman for Wei Meng first, okay?"

Bao Ning hesitated and said, "This idea seems to be quite good..."

...Achou turned around at the doorway, dizzy from hearing what was going on. She never understood who Ah Huang was, who Ah Mian was, and what Jixiang was.

Not understanding but desperate to understand, Achou gradually became impatient. She stood up dazedly, wanting to go inside the store to hear more clearly. There were hurried footsteps coming from outside, Achou stood up and bumped into Chen Jia's chest with a bang. She fell backwards, and felt a sharp pain in her tailbone.

Achou endured the pain and looked over angrily: "You..."

Chen Jia ignored her and hurried towards Baoning and the others, whispering: "Prince and Princess, you should go back to the palace quickly. A woman named Minmin just came and said that she had a love affair with General Wei a month ago and is now pregnant. She came to ask for a position. She was crying and making a fuss in front of the palace, and many people around came to watch. General Wei was helpless and asked me to invite you to go..."