Chapter 7 The Young Master of the Pei Family's Youthful and Burning Restlessness
"Ouch..." Dunzi hunched his back and bared his teeth, "Master, is it within reach?"
At the entrance of the alley outside the west courtyard of the Chi Mansion, a young man in gorgeous clothes was stepping on the shoulders of a pier, trying to climb up the blue brick wall.
"Higher!" Pei Shaochuan urged impatiently.
Dunzi pouted in grievance: "Master, I am only this tall."
Pei Shaochuan jumped down lightly, crossed his arms and glanced at him.
Dunzi stood up with a wry smile, but was suddenly kicked on the butt. The pain made him jump up and down, clutching his buttocks. "Master! Master! Master, calm down! Master, spare my life!"
Pei Shaochuan raised his eyebrows and said, "Calm down, sir. You clearly didn't use your full strength just now!"
"I don't have a master..." Dunzi muttered softly, cleverly changing the subject: "Young Master, if you want to see the eldest daughter of the Chi family, why don't you just visit her in person? Why do you have to climb over the wall?"
"I told you to eat less stupid eggs. You're so stupid." Pei Shaochuan leaned lazily against the wall. "If Chi Wanwan is a plain girl, I can ask my father to cancel the engagement. If I go there rashly, with my looks, how could Chi Wanwan resist seeing a fiancé like me? She'll definitely fall in love with me and end up trying to marry me, which would be troublesome."
As the young man with the most confidantes in the capital, Pei Shaochuan never imagined that he would be engaged at the age of wearing open-crotch pants.
Pei Shaochuan had lived for more than ten years but still didn't understand that marriage was no joke. How could his father casually arrange a marriage for him, especially when he heard that the other party was a sickly woman who was about to die?
I thought that with Chi Wanwan's appearance of being ill for a long time, the engagement would be cancelled sooner or later, but I didn't expect that the clerk at Jinluhang said two days ago that the young master's fiancée had returned.
The illness is cured!
No!
How could he marry a woman he had never met?
Although he had countless female confidantes, he always believed that a marriage was only complete when both parties loved each other.
So he hesitated for two days and decided to take a peek.
Dunzi asked doubtfully, "The other day, the clerk at the Jinluhang said that the young lady was so beautiful that she could make the moon ashamed and the flowers ashamed. Young Master, don't you believe it?"
"Dunzi, you've become smarter and can use idioms now." Pei Shaochuan patted his shoulder jokingly, "It seems you've learned a lot from following me over the past few years."
Dunzi laughed embarrassedly.
"Those guys in the shop call the tofu seller Xishi when they see her. You're the only one who believes them." Pei Shaochuan waved at Dunzi: "I have to see for myself. If I see, I'll give you an extra meal tonight."
When he heard there was food, Dunzi's eyes lit up and he squatted down quickly.
Pei Shaochuan took advantage of the force to jump and landed steadily on the wall.
The snow in the yard had not melted yet. A young girl was sweeping the snow with a broom. When she heard the noise, she looked up and saw a young man lying on the wall, looking like he was about to climb over.
Tangli was shocked: "Who is it?!"
Chi Wanwan?
"Master, did you see it?" Dunzi was so excited that he suddenly stood up. Pei Shaochuan took the opportunity to flip into the yard, looking quite casual.
Dunzi heard the sound of landing and jumped outside the wall and asked, "Master, are you okay?"
Pei Shaochuan patted the wall dust on his palms neatly, and casually dusted off his brocade robe. His deliberately drawn-out tone carried a hint of nonchalant arrogance: "It's okay, what can happen to me?"
Pei Shaochuan walked towards Tangli. She was pretty and charming, but not his type.
If you ask him what type he likes, Pei Shaochuan himself doesn't know, as he has never liked anyone.
His friends even laughed at him for this, and Pei Shaochuan attributed it to the fact that he had a fiancée.
Then the ridicule became even more intense: You kid are still a virgin.
Pei Shaochuan was disdainful and just defended it. What do you think?
If the engagement is cancelled one day, it won’t be too late to choose a good wife.
"Are you Chi Wanwan?" Pei Shaochuan asked.
Tangli's broom fell to the ground with a thud, and she said in panic, "Help! There's a thief!"
Well, now it’s not just Tangli who is panicking, Pei Shaochuan is also a little panicked.
Although she came in because there were no servants when she climbed over the wall just now, it didn't mean that she couldn't call the servants. She didn't want to be kicked out of the house as a lecher, otherwise she would have no place to stand in the capital.
Pei Shaochuan frowned, his eyes involuntarily glancing towards the courtyard gate. He whispered, "I'm just asking if you're Chi Wanwan. What's your name?"
At this moment, Pei Shaochuan's mind was filled with only one thought: It's over, I'm going to become a laughing stock in the capital.
"You looking for me?"
A calm and composed voice sounded, and Luo Wan stood in the hallway.
This was the first time Pei Shaochuan met his fiancée.
Thinking about spending the rest of my life with her...
He opened his mouth, but was speechless for a moment.
After Tang Li had already hidden beside Luo Wan, he finally calmed down and asked calmly, "Are you Chi Wanwan?"
Luo Wan looked at him quietly, thinking about this person in his mind, and the final conclusion was - he had never seen him before.
Chi Wanwan’s childhood playmate?
In her previous life, she had spent very little time in the Chi Mansion in the capital, and had met very few people. If she had seen someone with distinctive features like this one in front of her, Luo Wan would not have forgotten him.
Just those few seconds of silent gaze took on a different meaning in Pei Shaochuan's eyes.
Is this Chi Wanwan?
Is this his fiancée?
Luo Wan did not answer Pei Shaochuan's question, but just asked: "What's the matter?"
"Just passing by." Pei Shaochuan regretted it after he said it.
More than a decade of struggling in the limelight and dealing with all kinds of people has made Luo Wan a man of insight.
In her eyes, this young man who had just started out was like an open book. Moreover, he could not hide his emotions, and all his thoughts and ideas were exposed.
The first time the boy saw her, he felt a youthful and burning excitement.
Luo Wan knew that her rise to the position of the building owner was due to her martial arts skills, but in addition to that, it was also thanks to her good looks and the encounter with the invincible shadow.
However, the gift of fate had already been secretly marked with a price, and the price she paid was the double extreme misery at the beginning and end of her life.
But Luo Wan never thought that using her looks was a shameful thing. In the world where people eat people without leaving any bones, she is known as a female devil who will do anything to achieve her goals.
Luo Wan tilted her head, smiled faintly and said, "Climbing over the wall and passing by?"
Pei Shaochuan coughed twice, feeling guilty, and said seriously, "My name is Xiaoqi, and I'm a clerk at the Jinluxing Shop. The young lady bought a few quilts in our shop a few days ago, and the shopkeeper asked me to ask about her experience with them so that I can help the Jinluxing Shop improve and innovate."
Tangli asked: "Then why did you climb over the wall?"
Fortunately, he had asked the servants before coming, and Pei Shaochuan already knew about the matter, including the tantrum caused by Nanny Chi.
The servants were very angry when they mentioned this matter. A nanny actually took advantage of her master and went against his wishes.
This is the calmness of answering the right question.
Pei Shaochuan said, "The guy who delivered the bedding a few days ago reminded me that Nanny Chi was very bad and told me to stay away from her."
Tang Li still felt suspicious. She tugged at Luo Wan's sleeve and whispered, "Miss, don't believe him. Men with that kind of appearance are very deceptive. Look at his clothes. He doesn't look like a clerk in a cloth shop at all."
Luo Wan had met a man whose appearance could not be described by any words. The word "beautiful" was the simplest and most appropriate. However, his face did not have any feminine air at all.
That was two years later, Chu Lin was eighteen years old. He had the most beautiful eyes, but also the most deceptive.
In her previous life, Luo Wan could never see through it. Even now, when she vaguely thought of Chu Lin's eyes, she would feel that her death in the previous life was a nightmare, simply because Chu Lin's eyes were too deceptive.
Looking at the man in front of him again, Luo Wan thought he was just a carefree kid, so naive that he lied without even thinking. Even Tang Li could see through him.
The person dressed like this is definitely not an ordinary person. He must be the son of a minister or the young master of a wealthy merchant.
Having one of the two is enough. It is easy to find people in the capital with any identity.
Luo Wan replied: "Do you want to find the doctor with the mole between his eyebrows?"
Tangli was stunned for a moment, not understanding the connection between the two, but still nodded honestly: "I do."
"Please invite him in." Luo Wan turned and went into the house.
As the son of the richest businessman in the capital, Pei Shaochuan had never seen such a shabby house, let alone the boudoir of a daughter of an official.
The paper-pasted window frames were crooked and uneven, and judging by the workmanship, it was obvious that the two girls had done it themselves. The rotten beams had not been repaired for a long time, and the furnishings were all old styles from many years ago. The most valuable thing in the whole house was probably the quilt bought from the Thread Shop a few days ago.
Even if Chi Jing'an was an honest official, Chi Wanwan's mother's family had become wealthy through business and would not have fallen to such a state.
Pei Shaochuan thought of the brother and sister Chi Mingli and Chi Mingshi whom he had met in school. They were dressed in fine clothes and fed with delicious food, and were surrounded by pearls and emeralds. Compared with the scene before him, there was a world of difference. It was obvious that they were treated differently.
What a hypocritical Chi Fu!
It looks shiny on the outside, but it's so rotten inside.
Luo Wan knew what he was looking at. She didn't have high requirements for her residence. She had lived in places that were more shabby than this one. This place just looked a little old, but it was kept very clean and tidy by Tang Li.
"Xiao Qi." Luo Wan called him.
Hearing Luo Wan's voice, Pei Shaochuan finally came back to his senses: "Ah?"
Luo Wan sat at the round table: "Didn't you say you wanted to ask about the feeling of using the quilt?"
"Oh, yes..." Pei Shaochuan said, "Miss, do you think it's cold to cover yourself with it at night? How is the fabric?"
"The fabrics made by Jinluxing are of course excellent. I just recovered from a serious illness, so I don't feel uncomfortable even when I cover myself with them in winter..." Before he could finish his words, Luo Wan covered his chest and started coughing violently, hunching over.
"Miss, Miss." Tang Li stepped forward and patted Luo Wan on the back to help her calm down. She then poured her a cup of hot tea and said, "Miss, have a drink of water."
Pei Shaochuan was suddenly at a loss: "This...Miss, why don't you call a doctor?"
Seeing that he looked frightened, Luo Wan comforted him, "It's just an old problem. I've never been in good health. I've been busy and working hard these past few days, so I haven't recovered well."
Pei Shaochuan's mother loved him very much. Whenever he had a minor illness like fever or discomfort, she would ask a doctor to see him. Therefore, in his opinion, if you are sick, you must treat it, let alone the weak little woman in front of him.
If she coughed twice more, her waist would break, but she just wanted to endure it.
Pei Shaochuan retorted: "Whether it's a new or old illness, if you're sick you should see a doctor."
Luo Wan said calmly, "Now that I'm back in the capital, I don't have a doctor I trust to take care of me. My aunt isn't very kind to me, so I don't expect her to find a reliable doctor for me. I remember the doctor who took care of my mother when I was a child. He had a black mole between his eyebrows and was very serious and responsible. I wanted to find him to see me before, but it's been a long time since I found him."
Pei Shaochuan frowned slightly. The eldest daughter of the Chi family had a very miserable life. After her grandfather passed away, she was forced to return to Beijing. She was not loved by her father, her aunt, and was bullied by servants.
He was not a helpful person, but she was his future wife.
Pei Shaochuan didn't think much about it and said, "If you trust me, I can help you find it."
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