Baoning was wrapped in a quilt by Pei Yuan and pushed all the way back to the west room.

She was shocked and frightened. She had been ill for a long time, but she had been holding on with a strong will. Now the illness came over her, and she soon felt dizzy and her clothes were leaking air, and she was cold all over.

Pei Yuan spread the quilt, settled her down, and turned to light a fire.

The injury on her leg was basically healed, and she didn't feel any pain when squatting, but she still tried her best to keep the fire burning.

The kang gradually warmed up, but Baoning was still uncomfortable. She wrapped herself tightly in the quilt, but she felt sore all over, couldn't sleep, and her head began to hurt. She felt so uncomfortable that she wanted to cry.

Pei Yuan went to see her, sat aside and asked, "Are you still cold?"

Baoning nodded.

Pei Yuan looked around: "Do you have any medicine at home?"

Bao Ning shook his head.

"No medicine, the fever will subside." Pei Yuan thought for a moment and said to Bao Ning, "Lie down and wait for me."

Pei Yuan went to the east room to get the jar of wine. Ah Huang kept barking around Bao Ning, and Pei Yuan was annoyed, so he dragged it to the east room, locked it in the house, and didn't let it follow.

Bao Ning watched Pei Yuan heat up the wine, then took out a bowl and poured a bowl. She asked him puzzledly, "What are you doing?"

Pei Yuan glanced at her and said, "For you to drink."

His palms were broad, and the wine bowl looked particularly small in his hands. He held it steadily with one hand and supported her back with the other hand, letting her sit up: "Be obedient, drink a few sips and you will feel warm. I will wipe your body later and make some porridge for you. You will be fine tomorrow after a night's sleep."

Bao Ning was resistant to hearing that she had to drink, and Pei Yuan said that she had to wipe her body. Bao Ning's face turned pale and she pushed his hand away: "I don't want it!"

"Don't move, or it will spill!" Pei Yuan frowned, handed the bowl to her lips, and ordered simply, "Drink."

Bao Ning shook her head and dodged, but Pei Yuan grabbed her neck from behind: "It's medicinal wine, not strong, just a little bit of alcohol. If you don't believe me, smell it?"

Bao Ning sniffed it, and it really didn't smell like alcohol. The smell of ephedra was very strong, as if it was used to induce sweating.

But she still didn't want to drink it. She had a poor alcohol tolerance, and she didn't know what kind of jokes she would make if she was drunk, so she didn't dare to take the risk.

Bao Ning didn't cooperate, and Pei Yuan coaxed her for a few words, but his patience ran out, and he said in a sharp voice: "Do you want to drink it?"

"No..." Before Bao Ning finished speaking, Pei Yuan pinched her chin and forced her to drink a mouthful.

Afraid that she would choke, Pei Yuan patted her back from behind and coaxed her: "It tastes good, doesn't it?"

It tasted bitter and spicy, Bao Ning gulped and almost vomited. Pei Yuan pinched her nose and brought the bowl to her: "Do it yourself, I won't use force."

Bao Ning had no choice but to close her eyes and swallow the whole bowl. Pei Yuan expressed satisfaction.

"It will be fine once you sweat." As he said that, he leaned over and took out a cloth towel, washed it in warm water, and pulled off Baoning's quilt, "Lie over, lift up your clothes, and I'll wipe your body to cool you down."

"No, really no." Baoning hid behind him, almost begging, "Pei Yuan, stay away from me and don't touch me."

Pei Yuan pulled her wrist back, "If you are sick, just treat it. Why are you thinking about useless things?"

"I don't want to treat it anymore..." Baoning hugged her arms and was about to cry, "Can you go out?"

She really didn't want to, and Pei Yuan couldn't force her. He took off her clothes and hesitated for a while. He compromised, "Okay, wipe your face."

Baoning was also out of strength and lay down with him. Pei Yuan was a man after all. Even though he was cautious and restrained, his hands were still heavy. He rubbed Bao Ning's face twice. Bao Ning groaned in pain, so he moved his position, rubbed her neck, and then used water to rub her palms. He

rubbed the places exposed outside her clothes several times. When it didn't feel too hot, Pei Yuan reached in and pulled off her stockings, and rubbed her feet.

Bao Ning shrank her legs in fear, and looked at him with tears in her deer eyes: "What are you doing?"

Pei Yuan really didn't think of anything else at this time.

Besides, the clothes were covering her, so even if he wanted to think about other things, he had no material.

His legs were not convenient, and he was exhausted from going back and forth to serve her. Seeing Bao Ning like this, his face immediately sank: "Stretch your legs straight, don't make me say it again."

Bao Ning said: "I don't..."

Pei Yuan finally realized that Bao Ning was wrong. She pulled the quilt to the tip of her nose, her eyes were moist and bright, and the little bit of her cheeks that were exposed were red and puffy.

Pei Yuan was surprised: "Drunk?"

He didn't know what expression to make: "Just two sips of medicinal wine, are you drunk?"

Bao Ning said: "I want to go home."

Pei Yuan frowned: "Go home for what?"

"I want to go back to find Aunt Ming." Bao Ning's voice was covered in the quilt, muffled, "Let me tell you, Aunt Ming is amazing. When I was a child, I fell into the water and almost died. Aunt Ming gave me a soup and I got better. I'm sick this time, and she will definitely cure it with a medicine. And your leg..."

"You don't need your Aunt Ming, I can cure you." Pei Yuan didn't listen to the second half of the sentence, interrupted, and pulled her quilt with his hand, "Pull it down a little, you will suffocate to death."

"I can't suffocate to death." Bao Ning pushed his hand, "Don't touch me, I like it this way, it's warm."

"Are you cold?" Pei Yuan reached his hand into the quilt and felt the temperature. "It's quite hot, still burning?" After saying that, he bent his finger to touch her forehead, but Bao Ning dodged.

Pei Yuan's face was not good. Just when he was about to get angry at her, he heard Bao Ning say, "Don't move around, listen to me."

... Alcohol makes people bold, this is true. She usually looks well-behaved, but now she dares to scold him.

Pei Yuan pursed his lips and said coldly, "Speak."

Bao Ning blinked her eyes, "You have a bad attitude."

"..." Pei Yuan laughed angrily and pinched her neck through the quilt, "I'll strangle you to death." He was joking, not using force, just teasing her.

Bao Ning took it seriously. Her mind was fuzzy and she couldn't tell good words from bad words. She paused when she heard the words and her eyes slowly turned red: "No."

Pei Yuan panicked. He couldn't follow Bao Ning's train of thought and didn't understand what she said. He just saw that she suddenly burst into tears: "What's wrong? What's wrong?"

Bao Ning didn't answer, but her tears gathered more and more, and it looked like they were about to burst.

Pei Yuan cursed and wiped her tears with the back of his hand: "Come on, stop crying. You just cry all day long. What's the point of crying?"

"You can't..." Bao Ning hid in the quilt and sobbed, "You can't strangle me to death." She sobbed a few times and said, "That's against the law."

Pei Yuan took a deep breath: "Did I say that?"

Bao Ning said: "You did."

Pei Yuan recalled carefully, and then he remembered that he had said that.

"I was just teasing you, I won't pinch you!" Pei Yuan gritted his teeth and scolded her, "If I die one day, it must be because of you. Come on, stop crying, rub my hand with snot."

He changed the subject, and Bao Ning's eyes followed him, looking at the back of his hand, which was indeed shiny, I don't know if it was water or something else.

She rubbed her buttocks down and buried her face in the quilt, leaving only a tuft of hair outside: "I don't know, it's not my snot."

Pei Yuan followed her words and said: "Well, it's not yours, it's the dog's."

"Don't scold me." Bao Ning came out again and said seriously, "It's mine."

"Are you sick?" Pei Yuan was dizzy and turned around, no longer used to her, pulled the quilt off, and shouted: "Your head is exposed, don't move again, or I will throw you out, there are wolves outside, they will eat you, do you hear me?"

Bao Ning stared at him in shock, dissatisfied with his tone, her mouth clenched, and she was about to cry again.

Pei Yuan glared: "Hold it back!"

Bao Ning sobbed: "Okay..."

... If I had known, I would have done this earlier, it's not okay to touch the donkey in the same direction, you have to touch it in the opposite direction. Yelling twice is more effective than anything else.

After a while, Bao Ning fell asleep. Pei Yuan took advantage of the free time to cook a bowl of porridge, let it cool down, and went back to wake her up to eat.

She was still drowsy and still drunk, so she ate two mouthfuls and didn't want any more. Pei Yuan reluctantly fed her another mouthful, and seeing that she really didn't want it, he shoveled it into his mouth without any hesitation.

After the meal, Bao Ning was in high spirits and said, "I want to go home in a few days. Can you come with me?"

Pei Yuan said helplessly, "What for?"

Bao Ning said, "Mrs. Ming is amazing. She knows a lot of ancient and folk remedies, all of which are very useful. The second sister born by Mrs. Ming married the third young master of the Chongyuan Marquis family and had a son the next year. The eldest sister born by the mistress married the prince of the Chongyuan Marquis family. She has been married for three years and still has no children. I heard from the servants that the eldest sister is now ashamed in the Marquis's mansion."

Bao Ning didn't realize that the topic had changed. He thought seriously about what he had just said and asked, "Is it important to have a son?"

Pei Yuan said, "The prince of Chongyuan Marquis wants a son, not your eldest sister, so a son is very important."

"Oh." Baoning didn't understand, but nodded, pretending to understand.

Pei Yuan asked: "Any other questions?"

Baoning thought about that thing again: "I want to go home."

Pei Yuan felt a headache, and rubbed his forehead with his hand: "Well, how to go back?"

Baoning thought for a while: "Take a carriage."

Pei Yuan asked: "Where is the carriage?"

Baoning was stumped, frowned and thought seriously: "I will write a letter to Ji Yan and ask him to drive the carriage."

Pei Yuan asked: "How to send the letter?"

"Oh my God." Baoning was surprised, looking at him with a red face, "How can you be so smart?"

She pursed her lips: "But I am smarter, I can let Pigeon send it."

Pei Yuan was holding back a fire in his heart, and he suppressed it: "Where is Pigeon?"

"I don't have pigeons." Baoning shook her head. She looked up at Pei Yuan, tugged at his clothes, and whispered, "Pei Yuan, can I raise pigeons in the future?"

"Shut up!"

Pei Yuan's forehead was bulging with veins, and he stretched out two fingers to pinch her cheeks: "I really regret it. Your brain must have been squeezed by the door. I gave you two sips of wine! You were stupid to begin with, and after drinking, you said some bullshit. Ji Baoning, listen to me, from now on, shut up obediently, otherwise..."

Pei Yuan leaned over and whispered in her ear: "I will throw your Ah Huang out."

Baoning was scared. She quickly closed her eyes obediently.

The light was bright, and it hurt her eyes. She quietly lifted her eyelids and glanced at Pei Yuan.

Pei Yuan was staring at her.

"Do you want to blow out the light?"

Baoning nodded.

Pei Yuan blew out the light with a "whoosh" and lay down with his clothes on: "Go to sleep!"

He thought for a moment, turned around and threatened: "Don't talk anymore..." Before he finished speaking, he heard the rhythmic breathing sound from the other side, and she had fallen asleep.

Pei Yuan looked up at the ceiling and exhaled deeply. He felt that he had spent this night and his heart was very blocked.

But when he turned his head and looked at his side, he saw his back slightly rising and falling under the quilt, and he felt... it didn't seem so bad.

When Pei Yuan woke up the next morning, it was already bright, Baoning was still asleep, and Xia Mi was hunched over like him, curled up beside him.

The long hair made him itchy, Pei Yuan closed his eyes and rubbed her hair, then pushed her aside.

Suddenly, a young boy's voice rang in my ears, a little aggrieved: "Fourth brother, you have never hugged me like this before."