Wei Meng wanted to say something else, but was stopped by Pei Yuan: "Do something serious when you have time. Don't worry about our husband-wife affairs."

"How is this not a serious matter?" Wei Meng said anxiously, "Young general, you really have to consider this path..."

Pei Yuan asked: "I remember you have a young lieutenant named Chen Jia?"

Wei Meng was stunned, and was really diverted from the topic: "Ah, yes, he was just promoted. The boy looks like a black coal ball, dull and not very good at speaking, but he is very smart and has some talent in leading troops in battle. I plan to observe him for a while and continue to promote him."

"Lend it to me for a few days first." Pei Yuan put down his pen, "I will be away the day after tomorrow, and there will be no one to look after Baoning, I am worried. There are too many enemies, and so many eyes are staring at me, I just wanted to catch this kind of trouble, so you transfer that Chen Jia to me to be her bodyguard."

Wei Meng hesitated: "Can we change someone else? Chen Jia is a good kid, who knows, he might be able to climb up in the future. Being a bodyguard for the women in the back house is a waste of talent. I have many capable soldiers under my command, who are good-looking and speak well. If I change someone else..."

Pei Yuan said coldly: "It's his blessing to choose him!"

Wei Meng shut up embarrassedly.

Pei Yuan said: "Send him over as soon as possible."

Wei Meng reluctantly accepted the order and walked out.

Pei Yuan looked at his back, snorted coldly, and tapped the paper in his hand.

The old man has never kissed and doesn't know anything, why must he choose Chen Jia, is he really impressed by his intelligence? No, what she likes is that he is ugly and can't speak. Finding a man to live with Baoning day and night is inevitable. She certainly can't choose a likable one. She has to make Baoning feel annoyed even looking at him.

The uglier the better.

...

When Pei Yuan went home at night, Baoning was playing with her new toy in the yard, which was like a slingshot.

It had a square wooden base with a big spoon on it. When she pressed the spoon down hard, it would bounce back immediately after she let go, and the contents in the spoon would be thrown out with a "whoosh".

Aunt Liu and the two dogs played with her. Put the cooked beef cubes in the spoon, and it would bounce out. Ah Huang and Jixiang ran to eat it.

Baoning gestured and directed: "A little more to the east, a little more to the east, no more to Jixiang, he ate nine out of ten pieces, too domineering!"

"Ah Huang, run! You are a six-month-old dog, and you can't even beat your two-month-old brother, you can't be so weak!"

"Yes, eat Ah Huang quickly!"

"Hey, Jixiang, Jixiang, don't bite the dog! Hey, you are too unreasonable, let go of Ah Huang's tail, don't bite it!"

Pei Yuan heard Baoning's anxious shouting from a distance, and Aunt Liu also shouted: "Jixiang, let go, don't bite other people's tails!"

He stepped into the yard and saw two dogs fighting next to the roses.

Ah Huang and Jixiang were like little spinning tops, spinning in circles. Ah Huang howled and swallowed the meat in his mouth while shouting. Jixiang growled and bit the base of its tail, and used his big black nose to push Ah Huang's butt hard. After a while, the two dogs finally lost their balance, tripped by each other's legs, and fell into the flowers.

Baoning shouted angrily: "Hey, my flowers, my flowers!!"

Pei Yuan went to separate them expressionlessly.

"I say, you shouldn't have two dogs, send one away quickly." Pei Yuan strode to the window, picked up a dog by the scruff of the neck, took it out and threw it aside, turned around and scolded, "What are you thinking! You provoked two dogs to fight for a piece of meat, aren't you just watching people fight?"

The flowers were knocked down, Baoning grabbed his sleeves distressedly, and there was no time to help the flowers, and hurried to see Ah Huang's injuries.

Fortunately, there was no blood, just a tuft of hair was lost. Looking back at Jixiang, the hair was in its mouth.

But Jixiang was not much better. It had just had its hair shaved in the morning, and now its skin was bare. Ah Huang scratched its butt with two claws.

Aunt Liu quickly called two servants and sent them to the side room to recuperate.

Ah Mian was lying on the side, chewing grass with its mouth tilted, and it looked like it was not afraid of getting into trouble.

Pei Yuan turned around and took Baoning's hand and pulled her into the house. Her hand had just touched the flesh, and her hand was greasy. Pei Yuan dragged her to the basin rack with disgust and rubbed soap for her to wash her hands.

"You are so old, yet you do things that children do. Aren't you ashamed

?" Baoning leaned against Pei Yuan's arms, her hands pinched by him, which were covered with foam and smelled of jasmine: "Be gentle, it hurts."

Pei Yuan snorted and pinched her fingertips: "It hurts, so I'll teach you a lesson. Don't do such stupid things next time."

"I won't do it again." Baoning admitted her mistake in a low voice. Pei Yuan pulled a cloth towel to wipe her hands. Baoning thought for a while and said, "But I'm not stupid. I made the slingshot myself. I studied it for a long time according to the sketch drawn in the military book. When Ruyi Tower opens in the future, I will sell one or two taels of silver each."

Pei Yuan asked: "Have you had dinner?"

"I've eaten. I didn't expect you to come back so early, so I didn't wait." Bao Ning shook his half-dry hands, stepped forward and took Pei Yuan's arm, rubbing his face against his upper arm, "I left you something delicious, beef stewed with radish, it's in the pot, do you want to eat it now?"

Pei Yuan smiled and rubbed Bao Ning's head. When they were not close before, Bao Ning was like a timid little rabbit, but now that they are close, he is very clingy and likes to act coquettishly.

His anger was aroused again.

Pei Yuan closed the door and the window, strode to Bao Ning, and picked her up: "Hold on tight."

Bao Ning screamed in surprise, and in this position, her legs unconsciously wrapped around his waist, her hands hung around Pei Yuan's neck, and asked in fear: "What are you doing?"

"What are you doing? You."

Pei Yuan smiled wickedly and stretched his hand up, reached up, and held it full.

He squeezed it maliciously twice and whispered: "It doesn't show off on weekdays, I thought it didn't have much meat, but I found out that it's quite big when I touched it."

Bao Ning's whole body tensed up. The memory of last night came flooding back to her. She was shy and afraid, and was eager to jump down. Pei Yuan held her lower back with one hand and blew into her ear: "Where are

you running to?" Bao Ning pushed softly: "Don't touch me..."

"I'm serving you, so you just lie down. Isn't it comfortable?" Pei Yuan held her to the bed and coaxed her, "Good Ningning, I've been holding it back for so many years. I finally got a taste of some meat scraps. You have to let me kiss you. Otherwise, you'll drive me crazy."

Bao Ning fell into the soft quilt. Pei Yuan leaned over, his nose touching hers, and said with a smile: "Or, come and serve me too?"

He grabbed her hand and tried to reach down again: "Use your hands or your mouth?"

Why is this guy talking so much dirty talk! Baoning couldn't breathe. She wasn't as shameless as Pei Yuan, and her chest really hurt. She didn't want to be bitten by him again.

Knowing that he would take soft actions, Bao Ning said in a soft voice: "Ah Yuan, I feel uncomfortable, my period is coming, please don't touch me..."

Pei Yuan really stopped, he frowned: "Has it come yet?"

Bao Ning shook his head: "Soon, in the next two days."

"Okay, take a good rest, listen to Madam Liu, don't do anything she doesn't let you do." Pei Yuan closed his eyes, sucked her pink lips hard, restrained himself and raised his face, and asked, "You are not allowed to touch the cool water?"

Bao Ning had her period for the first time two months ago, which was a new thing for her, and Pei Yuan too, they were still groping.

Bao Ning nodded.

Pei Yuan straightened up and sat aside, pulling Bao Ning up, putting his hand on her belly, and whispered: "Does it hurt?"

Bao Ning felt it carefully and thought to herself, "Oh no." Is this retribution for her lies? She didn't feel anything just now, but she lied to Pei Yuan and said she felt uncomfortable. In just a moment, she really felt uncomfortable. Bao Ning's face turned pale as if a needle had been pricked in her lower abdomen.

"It seems to be coming."

Pei Yuan cursed secretly, took off her shoes and stuffed them into the quilt: "Lie down, wait for me to come back and get you some hot water."

His desire was not quenched, his forehead was sweaty, and his clothes were a little bulging. He pushed the door open in a hurry.

Baoning buried half of her face in the pillow, looking at his back with some apology, but she felt a little sweet in her heart. This is the kind of life she has always been looking forward to, with a husband who cares about her, she will love him, he will also love her, they will lean on each other and move forward, supporting each other, cherishing each other, and they will not be afraid of any difficulties.

Baoning suddenly remembered that she had not asked Pei Yuan what he was going to do the day after tomorrow.

Her stomach hurt more and more, Baoning got up in a daze to change her menstrual belt, came back and continued to sleep, the thought only stayed in her mind for a moment, and was quickly thrown away.

Pei Yuan had a bad night.

No one knew why Bao Ning suddenly felt so much pain. He asked Aunt Liu for the secret recipe of red date and ginger syrup and boiled a big pot. When she came back, she was whimpering and couldn't even speak. He pulled her up and fed her the syrup, and then poured her a bottle of hot water next to her stomach.

Pei Yuan didn't sleep much that night. In the first half of the night, he listened to her whimpering and changed the hot water in the bottle. In the second half of the night, she complained that her butt was sticky and uncomfortable and she wanted to change her underwear. Bao Ning didn't feel embarrassed at this time. Being clean was more important than anything else. Pei Yuan got out of bed in his big shorts to find new pants for her. He had to hide behind the screen and wait for her to change before he was allowed to come back.

After a night of tossing and turning, Baoning woke up the next day full of energy and spirit, while Pei Yuan looked exhausted.

Nanny Liu thought to herself, how could this be completely reversed from yesterday morning? Yesterday morning it was the young lady who got up and did not get out of bed, but today it was the fourth prince.

...

Pei Yuan set off for the capital in the evening of that day. Before leaving, he went back to the yard to check on Baoning. Seeing that she was fine, he felt relieved.

He brought the guard named Chen Jia over, introduced her briefly, and told her: "Don't run around by yourself, even with Nanny Liu following you. Take Chen Jia with you wherever you go."

Baoning looked at the skinny little guard in front of her and smiled gently.

Chen Jia saluted her, blushing, and after a long while, he managed to squeeze out three words: "Husband, Madam."

Baoning looked at him in surprise. Isn't this a little stutterer?

Pei Yuan was satisfied with Chen Jia's appearance and dullness. He pulled Baoning into the house and gave her a lot of detailed instructions. Baoning was annoyed by his nagging, and responded with "um" and "ah". She couldn't stand it anymore, so she pushed him out and said, "It's getting late, General Wei is waiting for you at the door, don't dawdle."

Pei Yuan looked a little sad: "I'm going to be away from you for almost a whole day, don't you miss me?"

Baoning wanted him to leave quickly. It was fine before, but since last night, he always made a move, which was too annoying.

Bao Ning said, "I will miss you, but you should leave quickly!"

Pei Yuan held his sword in his hand and walked out of the room, looking back every few steps. Bao Ning waved to him happily. Pei Yuan's face darkened, and he secretly scolded her for being heartless and ungrateful.

When passing by Chen Jia, Pei Yuan said in a low voice, "Talk less and do more. Do you understand?"

Chen Jia responded. Pei Yuan strode out. When he reached the gate of the courtyard, he couldn't help but look back again. Bao Ning was gone. He really hoped that he would leave quickly.

Pei Yuan whistled to call Si Feng, jumped on the horse, and headed towards the entrance of the manor with a cold face.

...

Bao Ning had a very comfortable night.

The whole big bed was hers. She could roll around as she pleased, and no one would sleep unsteadily, always pressing her with their thighs. The next morning, Baoning got up and made a bowl of wontons. After eating, she washed and dressed, and went to the street with Aunt Liu and Chen Jia to look at shops.

Ruyi Tower hired many craftsmen, and it was expected to be repaired in half a month. Now the wall was still being demolished.

Baoning stood aside and watched the craftsmen smashing the wall with hammers. It sounded like a boring thing, but it was quite interesting to watch. Aunt Liu chatted with her, saying which craftsman was the strongest and which craftsman had the most advanced skills. Three hammers could break the wall, while others needed seven or eight hammers.

Chen Jia stood behind him like a wooden block, scanning around for defense.

The moment the dirty child appeared on the corner of the street, Chen Jia noticed him. He

was wearing rather fancy clothes, and looked to be about three or four years old. Judging from the fabric alone, he looked like a young master from a wealthy family, holding a very delicate rattle in his hand.

But his face was very dirty, and his clothes were tattered, and he looked not very smart.

Someone teased him, and the child did not know how to hide, but just stood there stupidly. The man pulled his sleeve, as if he wanted to take him away, and the child got anxious, and bit the man hard with his teeth bared, then ran like crazy in the direction of Baoning. He was in a panic and ran very fast with his short legs. When he saw Chen Jia blocking the way, he lowered his head and tried to get under his crotch.

Chen Jia grabbed him by the collar.

Bao Ning heard the sound and turned around in a hurry. He looked at the child with snot and tears on his face and was confused: "Whose child is this?"

...

Pei Yuan and Wei Meng ordered two pots of tea and closed their eyes to listen to the conversation in the next room.

The wall was thick and it was hard to hear clearly. Fortunately, they came early and used some tricks to drill a hole in the wall, so the sound over there could be faintly transmitted.

The prince of Chongyuan Marquis, Jia Ling, was a Confucian scholar who was well-read in poetry and books. Pei Xiao was also one of them. The two of them exchanged pleasantries for a while at first, but Wei Meng felt drowsy and thought it was pedantic. After about a quarter of an hour, the two of them talked about business. As they had guessed, Pei Xiao wanted to know from Jia Ling the position of the secondary carriage that the emperor took when traveling.

Jia Ling had obvious weaknesses. He had no children. Although he was the eldest son, his position was not stable. Pei Xiao promised that after he succeeded, he would get rid of his brother Jia Xian and keep his position as the prince. In addition, he would reward him with a thousand taels of gold and four Persian beauties.

Jia Ling hesitated for only a moment and quickly agreed. The only request was to add some money.

Pei Xiao naturally agreed.

The two men agreed, and both looked very happy, raising their glasses to celebrate.

Wei Meng widened his eyes in surprise, and whispered to Pei Yuan: "Is this all? I thought we would have to discuss it for a day or so, but such a big thing was decided on the spur of the moment?" Pei Yuan said:

"Why would Jia Ling not agree? If he doesn't seize this opportunity, he will be squeezed out by his brother sooner or later. From the time he got the appointment as the commander of the imperial carriage and Pei Xiao sent him a letter to reminisce about the past, Jia Ling knew what Pei Xiao was going to say. They are all smart people, and he had already planned it."

Wei Meng asked: "Then should we continue to listen?"

"Since we are here, let's listen." Pei Yuan tapped his fingers on the table and said to Wei Meng, "Do you know what this tells you?"

Wei Meng asked: "What?"

"A thief should not be too guilty." Pei Yuan said, "Pei Xiao was too cautious. He didn't dare to invite Jia Ling to his house for fear of being seen. He chose this teahouse to avoid suspicion. Who would have thought that his cleverness would backfire and we are better? This ability to dig a hole and eavesdrop is not something that everyone can think of."

Wei Meng smiled. After drinking a sip of tea, he listened to the two people next door talking about some random things. Allies also need to get close to each other. First, Jia Ling flattered Pei Xiao, saying: "Your Highness is very lucky. The main wife is beautiful, and he recently welcomed a concubine. There are also many concubines in the mansion, and countless concubines. It's really enviable."

Pei Xiao smiled faintly and said: "The prince is not bad either. The prince's wife is graceful and quiet. She is unparalleled in the world. She is really a good wife." Jia

Ling shook his head and sighed: "It's a pity that we have never been destined to be together. We don't have a child, and the back house

is not peaceful." Pei Xiao said: "I am also troubled by this. I'm just waiting for the right

opportunity." Jia Ling was puzzled: "Your Highness has a child who is four years old this year. His situation is different from mine."

Pei Xiao lowered his eyes, smiled, and said nothing.

Looking at his expression, Jia Ling suddenly remembered that Pei Xiao's child was born to a concubine, and had experienced many hardships during birth, and seemed not to be very healthy.