Chapter 208 Wife
Ye Lanzhou had lived in the inner courtyard before, and these trips out of the house to get medicine were all done by the servants. How could the master go out? Wasn't Pei Xuan humiliating Yang Jiyu by doing this?
She said, "What's this? Are they treating you like a servant?"
Summoning Yang Jiyu to Nongxiangtang before the marriage was already excessive enough, but he didn't expect her to be ordered around like a servant today. No wonder Xie Chengyan said that Pei Xuan was a good material for being an official, but not a good material for being a human being.
Yang Jiyu's future will inevitably be difficult.
I thought Yang Jiyu would be angry about this, but unexpectedly she looked calm and said, "Nothing, just trying to make a living in the Pei Mansion."
Pei Xuan deliberately made things difficult for her because he originally felt that this marriage should not be his. As a girl from a poor family, he would most like to be paired with his idiot elder brother. He didn't know what his family members were thinking, why they had to force Yang Jiyu on him.
He was used to being a playboy and hadn't had enough of his carefree days. Fortunately, Yang Jiyu was timid by nature and didn't even dare to speak loudly to him. He ordered her to buy medicine for Pei Song and used her as a servant, but she didn't say anything.
Pei Xuan leaned against the corridor, playing with a green jade ring in his hand, his eyes lazily falling on the busy figures in the kitchen.
Yang Jiyu was decocting some medicine, her cheeks slightly flushed by the reflection of the stove. Her sleeves were rolled up, revealing a slender wrist. She moved very gently, as if afraid of disturbing the medicinal properties, even stirring with the wooden spoon with great care.
Pei Xuan suddenly felt bored.
She was so obedient. I wanted to make her angry, but she didn't cry or make a fuss, didn't argue or fight, and didn't even complain.
He sneered and walked over. "Miss Yang," he said lazily, "you're really serious about boiling this medicine."
Yang Jiyu didn't look up, just said "hmm" softly and continued to stare at the medicine furnace.
Pei Xuan narrowed his eyes, suddenly reached out, lifted her chin with his fingertips, and forced her to look at him.
"I asked you to take care of my brother, and you're really that dedicated?" He said in a frivolous tone, with a hint of mockery. "So obedient? Are you worried that your brother won't be successful in the officialdom?"
Yang Jiyu's eyelashes trembled, but she didn't hide, just looked at him calmly.
"no."
"Why is that?" He sneered, then pretended to understand something and said, "Oh, because you are the wife of the second young master of the Pei family?"
She was silent for a moment, then whispered, "Because I am your wife."
Pei Xuan's fingers froze.
He was used to being a playboy and had heard a lot of sweet words. The girls in Nongxiangtang had said all kinds of things to him, but no one had ever said such... serious words to him in such a calm tone.
He was stunned for a moment, his Adam's apple rolled, his fingertips were still pinching her chin, but at this moment they felt a little hot.
After a while, he suddenly let go of her, pretending nothing had happened, and said for no reason: "I'm glad to know."
Yang Jiyu didn't say anything else, just lowered his head and continued to stir the medicine furnace.
Pei Xuan didn't stay any longer and left on the pretext that the smell of medicine was too strong.
He returned to his study and sat in silence for a long time before coming to his senses. He prided himself on being a playboy, frequenting places like Nongxiangtang, never bowing to anyone, and because of his noble status, no one dared to disrespect him.
Yang Jiyu was just like those people, praising him.
But he always felt annoyed. She was too cold, so cold that it didn't seem like she was married to him, but she put on that innocent face and said she was his wife.
Tea cools down quickly in winter, and he never allows others to enter his study. The tea on the desk has gone cold, so he poured himself a cup.
Only after drinking the cold tea did I finally feel relieved of the boredom in my heart.
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