"Can we talk about this in private?" She really couldn't bring herself to say those things in front of Aunt Pei.
"Um."
Pei Yanli responded softly and led Li Sisi into his room.
"Speak!"
Li Sisi looked at his cold and solemn appearance at this moment, as if she was back to the time when they first met.
She was still just his subordinate, and every time she faced him, she would be unconsciously nervous and cautious, just like now.
Later, since that drunken incident, Pei Yanli's attitude became much gentler.
Now, facing the powerful Pei Yanli again, Li Sisi felt a little aggrieved and a long-lost sense of strangeness.
She spoke in a low, cautious voice, "Did you see the red mark on my neck yesterday? It was caused by Xiao Yunchen being poisoned by Sai Shenxian, and his addiction took effect. Later, I gave him the antidote, and we are now even."
Li Sisi basically explained everything that happened yesterday except for the things she was determined not to explain.
Finally, she raised her expectant eyes and looked at the man whose expression had softened a little.
"This is the thing. If you still feel that we are not suitable, and that my past deeds are unacceptable to you, then I..."
She lowered her head, her eyes red, and choked up, "Then let's just be ordinary friends from now on!"
There was a moment of silence, and Pei Yanli suddenly asked, "Has it disappeared?"
"What?" Li Sisi looked up at him in confusion.
Pei Yanli raised his hand and touched the red mark on her neck, and said in a low voice: "The mark on your neck cannot be seen today."
Li Sisi finally understood what he meant and said nothing.
In fact, she covered it up with foundation. She couldn't go around with that on her.
Pei Yanli rubbed that spot with his thumb, causing Li Sisi to flinch.
He leaned closer again.
Li Sisi looked at him blankly as he got closer and closer. His angular face kept getting bigger and bigger, and his cold eyes hid emotions that she could not understand.
She was so nervous that her heart was beating "boom! boom! boom!" Her hands unconsciously clenched the corners of her clothes and she closed her eyes.
Pei Yanli saw that she closed her eyes tightly, as if she knew what he was doing and was willing to accept it, and his eyes suddenly turned cold.
He stood up straight, breathing unsteadily and remaining silent.
When Li Sisi opened her eyes and looked at him blankly, she said, "I already know about the misunderstanding yesterday. I do mind what happened between you and Brother Xiao."
But he was unwilling to give up, and was angry at himself for not wanting to give up.
For the first time in more than 20 years, he fell in love with a girl. He thought about her day and night, and in order to get her, he did many things that he used to despise.
But now, he cares whether the girl in his heart is the same as he imagined?
"Sisi, I need some time to think carefully."
"Okay, take your time to think about it." Li Sisi's confused eyes gradually calmed down, and the emotions that had just been provoked by him also gradually calmed down.
"It's getting late. I should go to the government office." Li Sisi gave him a farewell salute as a colleague and turned to leave.
When I passed by the door, I saw Aunt Pei standing there with a vegetable basket on her hand, but the basket was empty.
Li Sisi opened her mouth, not knowing how to face Aunt Pei now. She just said goodbye and left the Pei family.
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In the military camp, Xiao Yunyu sat at the table in his tent, looking at the table full of his letters, all of which had just been returned by his wife.
Frowning in confusion, he asked, "What do you mean by my Nian Nian? Asking me to translate all my love poems into dialogues? And asking me to write in a straightforward and direct way?"
Qi Heng chimed in, "I told you not to show off your literary talent, didn't I? You're not Xiao Yunchen, and writing poetry isn't your strong point. Now you're being disliked by that girl, right?"
"Impossible!" Xiao Yunyu immediately denied his words, "I wrote this poem with true feelings. I wrote many words of longing in one poem, which is enough to show how much I miss her."
Qi Heng pointed at the letter Li Nian had replied, "Look at the letter she wrote back to you: 'Without the wings of a phoenix, our hearts are connected.' That's a good poem!"
Xiao Yunyu looked at the letter Li Nian wrote back to him in neat and beautiful handwriting, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind: "I know!"
He pointed at the few simple sentences Li Nian had replied to him and said, "Look, if you write a letter like this, you'll feel like the other person is right next to you, talking to you. But love poems don't have that feeling; they're too elegant. So my wife wants me to reply in a normal tone so she can feel like I'm right there with her."
Xiao Yunyu put away the letters on the table and chased them away: "Okay, all of you go out. I need to write a letter."
The others left after hearing this, but Qi Heng didn't leave.
"How do you plan to write it? Let me give you some advice."
Xiao Yunyu glanced at him and said, "Don't look at me if it's inappropriate. This is a private conversation between me and Nian Nian. Get out."
Qi Heng was dissatisfied and said, "Didn't I help you with your love poems before?"
"That's different. What I'm going to write now..." Xiao Yunyu picked it up, then said smugly, "They're all love words that can't be known to outsiders."
Qi Heng looked at him with a pout, and when he saw that he was looking at him with dissatisfaction again, he left in disdain.
Humph, isn't it just that he has a lover? He will write a letter home and ask his family to help him find one.
When he returns to Beijing this time, he will definitely get married!
Xiao Yunyu first carefully translated all the previous love poems.
Don’t think he doesn’t know. Wasn’t the lady’s last sentence mocking him for not being a good writer of love poems?
Someone was regretting so much that he gritted his teeth. If he had known this would happen, he would have studied harder and not gone to the streets to fight with those people.
It rarely rains in the northwest in autumn and winter. The sun shines brightly every day, and the cold wind blows so hard that sand flies in the military camp.
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