Pei Yuan pinched her hair and gently lifted her eyelids. Bao Ning blinked, itching and backing away, leaning against the wall behind her.

"What are you saying? I don't understand." Bao Ning's mouth was under the quilt, and her voice was muffled.

"Playing dumb?" Pei Yuan approached, his face still pale, but he looked like a human being, smiling with eyebrows raised, "Now you know you're scared, weren't you very brave when you put your feet against my face just now?"

"You remembered it wrong." Bao Ning argued, she turned over to face the wall, pretending to yawn, "I'm still sleepy, don't bother me."

"You look like a bear." Pei Yuan pulled Bao Ning's quilt down, "Don't cover your face all the time, you smell of sweat, it's stuffy."

He put his long arm under Bao Ning's chest, his chin on her hair, Bao Ning was uncomfortable, twisting a few times.

"Be quiet." Pei Yuan bit her earlobe lightly, closed his eyes, "Be good, let me hug you."

Bao Ning didn't move. She curled up her legs like a baby, with her back pressed against Pei Yuan's chest. The drizzle outside made the place even quieter.

"Does it hurt?" Bao Ning asked softly.

"I can bear it." Pei Yuan lowered his head to find her little ear and gently rubbed it with his teeth. "Look, I don't mind that you are dirty. You haven't taken a shower for a few days, but I am still willing to kiss you."

Baoning shyly elbowed him: "Or am I forcing you?"

"I am happy." Pei Yuan laughed sullenly, "I am a scumbag who loves to stick to you."

"What else!" Baoning scratched his arm with her nails, her face blushing, "Why didn't I know you were such a person before, so slick."

Pei Yuan asked: "Then what was I like in your heart before?"

"Arrogant, conceited, unreasonable..." Baoning leaned her head back in his arms and counted slowly, "very annoying."

"Don't you have any nice words?" Pei Yuan frowned. He twisted Bao Ning's shoulders and turned her over. He faced her and nibbled her nose in an ambiguous way. "Don't you like me?"

"What do you mean by like or dislike..." Bao Ning was even more embarrassed. She pushed Pei Yuan's face away and wiped off the saliva on it. "Why do you always like to bite people?"

"I'll bite you." Pei Yuan's voice was low. He had recovered a lot of energy and became his original appearance again, with black and bright eyes.

Bao Ning didn't argue with him. She wanted to take a shower, but she felt tired. The quilt was warm and she was lazy. Pei Yuan's upper body was still naked. He lay flat on his back, with his arm around Bao Ning's neck, and his other hand on her lower abdomen, tapping the rhythm bit by bit.

It was rare to have such a quiet and tender moment. Bao Ning closed her eyes and took a nap for a while. She smiled and poked Pei Yuan's waist: "Listen, is Ah Huang snoring?"

Pei Yuan leaned over to listen and really heard it. He smiled: "It sleeps quite comfortably."

Bao Ning sat up: "I'll go wake it up."

Pei Yuan said "tsk", and pulled her wrist: "Why are you so annoying."

Bao Ning stuck out her tongue.

"Then I'm going to take a shower." She grabbed her hair from her neck, reached over Pei Yuan to the hairpin on the small table, and quickly tied it into a bun. "It's so sticky."

"I'll go with you." Pei Yuan also sat up.

There was a wound on his leg left by a leech, a small hole half the size of a fingernail, and Bao Ning had applied medicine. When he moved, the remaining medicine powder fell off, revealing the wound, which had already formed a light scab.

"What are you talking about?" Bao Ning glared at him. "Just sit there. I'll get you some hot water later. Just wipe yourself." She put on her shoes and went to light the lamp. The small flame lit up the whole room. The rain stopped

outside. Xiaoyang and Ah Huang were sleeping under the window. Bao Ning chased them away and pushed the window open on tiptoe. The cool evening breeze blew into the room, blowing away the sticky and hot body. Bao Ning looked at the dark shadow of the pomegranate tree outside for a while and stretched his waist. Pei

Yuan leaned against the wall and looked at her. She was wearing a light pink undergarment, revealing a thin white ankle. He couldn't help but stretch out his hand to measure it. It was not much thicker than his wrist.

Huang's sleeping place was destroyed. He twisted his butt and bumped Baoning's calf. He ran to the bed and wanted to jump onto Peiyuan.

He glared at him and frightened him. He took the lamb's nest to the footsteps, and the two continued to sleep head to head.

The atmosphere was very good, like a warm home, and Baoning's mood became very good. His mood was really ups and downs this day.

"If you have nothing to do in the next few days, just rest at home." Baoning looked back at Peiyuan.

She pursed her lips, thought for a while, and expressed her meaning in a veiled way: "General Qiu only stays for a few months every time he comes back to Beijing. After all, we are outsiders, and it is not good to live in someone else's house for a long time. Isn't it time to consider buying a house outside?"

"If there is no money." Bao Ning looked at Pei Yuan's expression, "I have some money on hand. A big house may be a bit difficult, but a small shop is no problem. If possible, let's go somewhere else where no one knows us and do some small business..."

Bao Ning knew that Pei Yuan must have his reasons for staying in the general's mansion, but she really didn't like it here. This place is good, but it doesn't fit in with her. It's not her home.

She suddenly felt that her language was very pale, and she stopped talking. She turned her head and looked at the trees in the yard. She couldn't see anything clearly, it was just a black shadow.

"Wei Meng will come in a few days." Pei Yuan suddenly said.

Baoning was confused: "Who is Wei Meng?"

"He is my most capable deputy general and also a brother." Pei Yuan said, "Some of my businesses are also managed by him, including the house deeds and land deeds. When he comes, I will hand over all the things to you."

He added: "I'm not short of money."

Baoning muttered softly: "Men's face is really weird. I'm obviously not talking about this."

Pei Yuan thought she was unwilling, and straightened his back and said: "Ningning, you have to learn these things. The trivial matters of the family can't always be handed over to outsiders. You are the mistress. In the past, I was careless and forgot about this matter. Now that I remember it, I'll give it to you. My money should belong to you."

Hearing him say this, Baoning suddenly felt a little strange in his heart, and he couldn't tell whether he was happy or unhappy.

The circumstances of their union were too special. Pei Yuan was of noble status, but when Bao Ning married him, she was in such a situation. He had no servants around him. They had lived together for so long that Bao Ning had such a subconscious awareness that their small family was just the two of them.

But just now Pei Yuan said that the land and house were trivial matters, and the mistress and the lady, their small family was broken and suddenly became a big family.

Baoning admitted that she was stingy and awkward. Who doesn't love money? If Pei Yuan had money, she would definitely be happy. But if the price was that Pei Yuan became a man like her father, Duke Rong, with a huge house and countless wives, concubines and aunts, her status would indeed become prominent and noble, and she would not be in charge of a sheep or a dog, but a whole family. Baoning would not be happy.

"You..." Baoning's heart tightened, and she thought of the topic she had always avoided, whether Pei Yuan would take a concubine.

She mustered up her courage and was about to ask when she heard heavy footsteps outside the window. Pei Yuan's gaze shifted, and the anger in Baoning's heart suddenly dissipated.

She turned around and looked outside, and as expected, it was Qiu Mingshan.

Qiu Mingshan saw Baoning standing at the window, smiled amiably, and stopped far away from her without coming over: "Baoning, is Yuan'er here?"

"Yes." Baoning forced a smile and bowed to him. He glanced in the direction of Pei Yuan, who had already started to install a splint on his leg.

Pei Yuan moved quickly, casually put on a piece of clothing, and walked towards the door.

When passing by Baoning, he reached out and stroked her forehead: "Don't think too much, I'll just say a few words and will be back soon, don't worry about me. If it's late, take a shower and go to bed early."

"Oh." Baoning nodded hesitantly and watched Pei Yuan go out.

He was always mysterious, doing things that were incompatible with her life, but he refused to tell her.

Baoning closed the window, went to the cupboard to get some clothes to change, and went to take a shower as usual.

She was absent-minded, and it took her a long time to choose a piece of underwear. When she came to her senses, she suddenly realized that she had been thinking about Pei Yuan. Worrying about him was part of it, and the other thing was that there was nothing else in her life except Pei Yuan, and everything big and small revolved around him.

Baoning was suddenly shocked and felt that her current situation was simply terrible.

Her emotions were all determined by Pei Yuan. He was the one who made her cry and laugh. Pei Yuan treated her well now, which was naturally good, but what if he was not good in the future. Men are animals...how reliable can they be?

Baoning suddenly remembered the story of the Three Kingdoms told by her teacher when she was a child, and the characters in it were Cao Pi and Zhen Mi. How pitiful Zhen Mi was, beautiful and weak, but when Cao Pi stopped loving her, she was so miserable.

Ah Huang slept well, stood up with his legs stretched out, opened his mouth and yawned. Baoning's

eyes wandered, and finally landed on its pink little tongue. She wondered if she really should find something to do for herself, something she liked. Even if she and Pei Yuan really reached an irreversible step in the future, she could live happily.

...

Outside, Qiu Mingshan solemnly shook out a small bag from his sleeve, opened it, and saw white powder inside.

He looked at Pei Yuan, frowned and said, "I suspect that Zhou Jiangcheng's madness at that time was caused by poisoning."

"This powder was scraped off the tea leaves he often drank. The tea was picked and fried by Lu Yun herself, so who exactly is that Lu Yun?"