Bao Ning and Aunt Liu picked half a bag of Chinese toon leaves. When they returned, Pei Yuan was still nowhere to be seen. There was

still some time before dinner. Bao Ning was picky and could not eat food cooked by others, so she cooked a chicken in a pot. This dish needs to be simmered for a long time, with green and red peppers, potatoes and small pieces of free-range chicken. The chicken is tender and spicy, and the potatoes melt in your mouth. After the soup boils, stick a pancake on the side of the pot. The pancake is half buried in the chicken soup, and it will also be stained with the spicy meat aroma.

The dish is eaten with the pancake, and the pancake is fragrant with the dish. Bao Ning feels hungry just thinking about it.

Pei Yuan walked in at the exact time. Bao Ning's chicken pot was already cooked. He had just finished cutting the last mustard greens when he walked into the kitchen angrily. He said, "I scolded that old thief!"

Bao Ning didn't react. He lowered his head and wiped the greens on the blade into the bowl. He asked, "Who did you scold?"

"Who else could it be? That old thief named Qiu." Pei Yuan said this, but his eyes were fixed on the pot in Bao Ning's hand.

He was originally very angry, but now that he saw the delicious food, his anger was mostly gone. He just felt hungry, turned around to get a pair of chopsticks, and reached out to pick up the meat.

Baoning knocked his wrist off: "Have you washed your hands? You've been running around outside all day, so dirty."

Pei Yuan put down his chopsticks and went to get water to wash his hands. Baoning lifted the lid of the pot and served the rice. After serving a bowl, he suddenly remembered that when he saw Qiu Mingshan at the door of the manor, he seemed to be in a very bad mood.

Baoning turned around and asked: "Ayuan, how did you scold Qiu Jiangjun? Did you scold him to tears?"

Pei Yuan paused: "Not really."

"Eat, don't talk about this anymore." He stood up, shook the water off his hands, put his nose in front of the pot and took a deep sniff, "Take it back to the house to eat?"

"Yes, go back to the house, the kitchen is too cold." Baoning closed the lid of the rice cooker, "Take it away with the pot, be careful, the pot will burn your ears, put a wet cloth under it."

"No, my skin is thick and I don't feel the pain." Pei Yuan rolled up his sleeves and picked it up with a little effort. "What kind of dish is so delicious? Is the rice you made enough? I can eat a whole bowl."

Bao Ning put two bowls of rice and side dishes into the lunch box and walked side by side with him: "Isn't there a cake in it? You can eat that, the rice is not for you."

Pei Yuan was surprised: "What do you mean?"

Bao Ning said: "Ah Huang and Jixiang haven't eaten dinner yet. There is chicken liver left over from lunch in the house. I will mix it with rice and feed them later."

The small kitchen is in the yard, a dozen steps away from the main house, and it was there while they were talking. Bao Ning pushed the door open, and Ah Huang rushed out with his head shaking. He smelled the aroma of the food and rushed straight to Pei Yuan.

Pei Yuan was still immersed in the fact that the meal was not for him. He was just feeling humiliated for being sentimental. He was too lazy to care about this stupid dog. He shouted and drove it away, and put the pot on the table.

Baoning handed the meal to Aunt Liu and asked her to serve the two little ancestors.

Amian had eaten and drunk her fill and was having fun outside. This showed how leisurely she was at home. In the general's mansion, Amian didn't dare to leave the small courtyard, but now the whole small village belonged to her. Five or six servants were around her, and the sounds of their laughter and play could be heard from a long distance away.

The two sat down opposite each other. Pei Yuan tore open his collar and chewed a cake in two bites. He had been hungry for a long time, and he didn't even raise his head when eating, with sweat on his forehead.

Bao Ning slowly put the potatoes into her mouth. She thought of Qiu Mingshan again. Qiu Mingshan gave her a money bag. Bao Ning counted it at that time. It was full of banknotes, adding up to four or five hundred taels.

Bao Ning poked Pei Yuan's shoulder and asked: "General Qiu gave me a lot of money before he left. How can I accept it without doing anything? Find a day to return it to him?"

Pei Yuan spat out the chicken bone: "Just keep it. Why bother with money? But you have to stay away from him in the future. I'm afraid that old thief has ulterior motives."

Bao Ning said "Oh". She knew a little about the relationship between Pei Yuan and Qiu Mingshan, and knew that there was a rift between them. Bao Ning felt that Qiu Mingshan was a bit pitiful tonight, but she just sighed. She was a person who protected her shortcomings and was biased. No matter how good Qiu Mingshan was, she would only think from Pei Yuan's perspective.

This topic was mentioned briefly and then passed by, and continued to eat.

In the middle, Aunt Liu came in and turned on the light. It was completely dark outside. Bao Ning wiped her mouth after eating and leaned on the window to look at the stars. The sky was full of stars, and she was dazzled. Pei Yuan ate almost the whole chicken by himself. He was still not satisfied, so he wiped the bottom of the bowl with a piece of biscuit. He looked up at her back and said, "Ningning, I'm going to the capital in three days."

Bao Ning turned around and asked, "How many days?"

Pei Yuan said, "Just one day. I'll go there the night before and come back the night after."

Bao Ning didn't ask any more questions. She remembered something and ran back to sit in front of Pei Yuan and said, "A Yuan, when you go to the capital, can you bring me something?"

"What?"

"Bring back a master who can make plaques." Bao Ning smiled, "My shop is about to open, how can I do without a decent plaque. I asked someone, there are no good masters in Lihu, and the merchants here have gone to Beijing to do business. There is a master named Gong in the west of the city who is very good. You can find out if you ask someone."

Pei Yuan choked on the last bite of the cake.

Bao Ning also told him about this two days ago, saying that she wanted to open a shop. Pei Yuan didn't ask in detail. He didn't stop her this time and let her do it. But he didn't expect that she would do it so quickly.

Pei Yuan was surprised: "It's only been a few days, and it's already done?"

"I've already found a shop, paid a deposit, and am reinstalling it." Bao Ning saw that Pei Yuan had finished eating, and called Aunt Liu to come in and clean up the table. She took Pei Yuan to the inner room and showed him her drawings.

Bao Ning leaned on Pei Yuan's shoulder, raised his chin, and said proudly: "My shop is called Ruyilou, a shop specially opened for children, which means everything goes well. But it is the first one in Beijing and its surrounding areas."

Pei Yuan didn't understand: "What kind of shop is for children?"

"You don't understand this, do you?" Bao Ning counted on her fingers, "A child needs a lot of things from birth to adulthood. A baby needs diapers, a soft blanket, and small clothes. When he grows up a little, he needs things to play with, such as a small rattle, a small windmill, and a small wooden horse. When he grows up a little more, won't his mouth be full? He also needs snacks."

Pei Yuan said "Oh", "I understand. Then you are not the first in the capital, but the first in the entire Great Zhou."

Bao Ning smiled with pursed lips, "That's right, I think of things that others can't think of."

Pei Yuan raised an eyebrow and looked at her, "Are you very proud?"

Bao Ning pinched her thumb and index finger, gestured with Pei Yuan, and whispered, "A little bit."

"You can make trouble if you want." Pei Yuan did not comment. "We will pay the compensation. Our family is not short of that little money. Just don't feel too bad when the time comes."

Bao Ning hissed and straightened her back: "You just ate my meal, and now you start to say bad things about me? You have no vision, so don't stop me from making money. I've thought about it carefully, my Ruyilou business will definitely be very good, maybe we will open branches all over the country in the future."

"Nothing will stop you." Pei Yuan patted her head and coaxed her with a smile, "I will definitely bring that Master Gong back to you in a few days. If you want anything else, tell me and I'll get it for you." "You are

so smooth-talking." Bao Ning glared at him, but she couldn't hide her joy.

The store she bought was on the second floor, the place was very large, and there were guest rooms for people to live in. Even though Pei Yuan had nothing good to say, Bao Ning still firmly believed in her own judgment that she would make money, maybe even richer than Pei Yuan. With money, she would be more confident. If Pei Yuan made her angry again in the future, she would have more than one house, and she could just choose one to live in, and he would be unable to find one even after half a year.

Pei Yuan leaned on the couch, stretching his legs lazily. He looked at Bao Ning's expression: "Do you like children so much?"

"Soft and white, who wouldn't like it. When Ji Yan was little, I liked him so much, and took him out to play every day..." Bao Ning noticed the unhappy gaze from the side, and remembered that Pei Yuan didn't like her talking about being close to Ji Yan, so she stopped talking and continued to flip through the drawings in her hand.

Pei Yuan said, "It's easy to like children. Let's work hard and have a whole house of them."

Bao Ning looked at him and said, "What are you talking about? A whole house. Did you marry me or a pig?"

"It's all the same." Pei Yuan pinched her nose ambiguously, "Aren't you my little piglet?"

Bao Ning was disgusted by him. She quickly pushed his hand away, patted her skirt and stood up, her ears were red.

Pei Yuan laughed.

Bao Ning suddenly thought of her eldest sister. Her eldest sister had been married to the son of Chongyuan Marquis for almost four years, but she still had no children. They quarreled every day, and several times they even wanted to divorce her. Bao Ning looked at Pei Yuan's eyebrows and suddenly felt a little worried.

She hesitated, not knowing whether to ask, but finally couldn't help but casually asked: "What if there is no child?"

Pei Yuan put his finger on his forehead and looked at her with a smirk: "What do you mean?"

Bao Ning said: "No child, not even one, what should I do?"

Pei Yuan asked: "Can't give birth?"

Why is he so straightforward? Bao Ning blushed: "Just take it as it is."

Pei Yuan's tongue touched the roof of his mouth, his eyes full of smiles: "So, is this your problem or my problem?"

Bao Ning saw it, he thought she was joking and didn't take it seriously at all.

Baoning was a little anxious: "What does this have to do with it? We just don't have children. We just can't have children. You can't have children, and I can't have children. What can we do?"

Pei Yuan stretched out his leg to hook Baoning's calf, tripped her and pulled her into his arms, pinched her cheek, and whispered: "Why are you so nagging? Are you just saying this casually? Huh?"

Baoning blinked: "You... do you care a lot?"

She was indeed a little sensitive about this issue, but she had to be sensitive. There were many concubines and sisters in the Duke's Mansion. So many real examples told her how important it was to have a son.

Her concubine Xu was so glorious because she gave birth to the only son in the mansion. Tao tried for nearly 20 years to have a son, but in the end her wish was unfulfilled and she almost went crazy. And the eldest sister, she had no children and was almost divorced by Jia Ling. Her second sister, because she gave birth to two sons in three consecutive years, had almost the final say in the second house of Chongyuan Marquis's mansion, and no concubine dared to stir up trouble in front of her.

Bao Ning was worried, if there were no children, would Pei Yuan care?

Pei Yuan didn't understand Bao Ning's anxiety at all. He ate very hard and felt a little hot, so he took a palm leaf fan to fan Bao Ning as well.

"Of course I care. If I can't give birth, Wei Meng and the soldiers will laugh at me. But it's not certain. I'll work harder and I'll get pregnant." Pei Yuan held the handle of the fan and tapped her belly with ill intentions. "Ningning, you have to cooperate when the time comes."

She was talking to him about something she cared about, and Pei Yuan was being careless. Bao Ning was a little angry: "But you still didn't tell me what to do."

"What can we do? What can we do?" Pei Yuan pinched her waist impatiently, "At most, you can get a baby from someone else's house. You keep nagging me. Is that a big deal? Then what do you want to do? I'll go to heaven and catch Nuwa, and pinch her and tell her to give me a son, or I'll kill you. Is that it?"

Bao Ning's eyes were red, and she burst into laughter after hearing what he said.

"I really can't figure out what's in your head every day." Pei Yuan said coldly, wiping away her tears with his thumb, "You think about those nonsense all day long, and you don't even know how to give birth to a child." Bao

Ning asked subconsciously, "How?"

Pei Yuan suddenly thought of the red mark on his neck when Wei Meng came in the morning, and his eyes darkened.

He reached out and pulled Bao Ning's collar open a little, his eyes fell on the small red mole on her collarbone, and he rubbed it with his teeth.

"Master, will you teach me a lesson?"