Chapter 38 Uninvited Guests
In a daze, Jiang Fei felt someone pushing her shoulder.
She slowly opened her eyes and saw Wei Ciying in front of her. Half of the sky was already visible through the window.
Jiang Fei propped herself up and slowly sat up. She felt dizzy and had no idea when she fell asleep last night.
She hurriedly looked at the couch by the window. Zi Fu was sleeping soundly and didn't even notice Wei Ciying coming in.
The two quickly exchanged clothes and Jiang Fei returned to her room. After a while, Wei Ciying came with the sober Zi Fu and wanted to have breakfast with Jiang Fei.
There were light porridge and side dishes on the table. With Zi Fu around, the two of them couldn't talk about what happened last night, so they could only chat about family matters.
"When are you planning to go back?" Jiang Fei asked.
Wei Ciying said, "Stay a few more days. Where's my sister-in-law?"
Jiang Fei was craving meat and actually wanted to go back and eat a big meal, but as long as Wei Ciying didn't leave, Wei Mingzhen would most likely not leave.
Naturally, she didn't want to miss such a good opportunity to get close to Wei Sanlang, so she could only endure it for the time being.
"Whenever you leave, I'll leave."
Wei Ciying thought she stayed to cover for her and looked at her with gratitude.
Zi Fu cleared the bowls and brought water for Wei Ciyin to rinse her mouth. Seeing the dark circles under her eyes, she couldn't help but ask, "Miss, did you not sleep well last night?"
It’s not that I didn’t sleep well, it’s that I didn’t sleep at all.
Wei Ciying didn't like Zi Fu, so she glanced at her calmly and said, "You seem to be sleeping soundly."
Zi Fu lowered her eyes and said, "I know I was wrong. I don't know why I slept so soundly last night."
Wei Ciying waved her hand and said, "Go down."
Zi Fu walked out of the room carrying a spittoon. Jiu Tao was eating a steamed bun in the corridor. When she saw Zi Fu, she asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Zi Fu rubbed her neck and said, "I don't know what happened. I feel tired all over and dizzy after sleeping."
"Could it be that he has a stiff neck?"
The conversation between the two people outside fell into the ears of Jiang Fei in the room.
She also raised her hand to press her forehead, and waited until Zi Fu was far away before she said, "It's strange, I fell asleep in your room last night, and now I feel a little dizzy."
"Maybe you're not used to sleeping with this pillow?"
Jiang Fei shook her head, "I don't know."
The pillows and bedding in the guest rooms of the nunnery were all the same, and she had slept in this room for several days without encountering such a problem.
"You guys last night..."
"What?" Wei Ciying raised her eyes.
"Nothing like that, right?"
Wei Ciying looked confused, "What what?"
"It's that...what?" Jiang Fei didn't know how to start.
Wei Ciying was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized what was going on, her face flushing red. "No, no, we didn't cross the line. Lin Yuan respects me very much."
Jiang Fei nodded.
After dinner, Wei Ciying took a short nap. Wei Mingzhen was going to come up the mountain to find her in the morning, so she had to replenish her energy first to avoid being noticed by him.
Upon learning that Wei Mingzhen was going up the mountain, Jiang Fei washed up thoroughly, changed into a light blue skirt, and pinned a white jade hairpin in her hair, looking simple, elegant and fresh.
Jiang Fei looked left and right at the bronze mirror and nodded with satisfaction.
This outfit neither seems deliberate nor fails to highlight her fragility after recovering from an illness. She must seize the opportunity to increase Wei Mingzhen's favorability towards her and win him over in one fell swoop.
…
The outlines of the distant mountains gradually became clear. When the sunlight shone, the light blue mist was crushed in the wind, and the light and shadow passed through the branches and leaves and broke into golden spots.
This is a quiet and peaceful courtyard on the top of a hill not far from Jinglian Temple. Pei Jing ordered people to build it in his early years. The environment here is quiet and peaceful, and it is not far from the capital. He occasionally comes up the mountain to stay for a while.
Duan Jiu walked up the stone steps and stopped under a crooked pine tree.
There is a cliff not far away. On the edge of the cliff, a man is sitting. His clothes are fluttering in the mountain wind, and his back looks desolate and lonely.
Duan Jiu stayed by his side silently for a long time, until the fog in the mountains dissipated and the man turned around.
"Sent it back?"
"Miss Wei has already been sent back." Duan Jiu replied, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, no one has discovered it."
Pei Jing was silent for a moment. "Let's look into her background more carefully, especially... when she was six or seven years old."
Duan Jiu responded.
Pei Jing stood up and straightened his sleeves. "I guess she'll have to stay in the nunnery for a while. Let's go and visit Jinglian Nunnery."
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Wei Mingzhen did not go up the mountain in the morning, but he sent a servant up the mountain to report the news.
He held an official position and had some official documents sent from the capital that needed his review, so he couldn't come in the morning and planned to go up the mountain later in the afternoon.
Wei Ciying was happy to hear that, but Jiang Fei felt a little regretful, thinking that she had wasted half an hour's effort.
Jinglian Temple is built on the mountainside. Most of the trees in the temple are native, and the original scenery was not destroyed during construction.
Jiang Fei and Wei Ciying were walking along the bluestone path. Jiutao was sent down the mountain by Jiang Fei. It seemed that Wei Ciying would have to stay on the mountain for some time. The weather was getting hotter, so she asked Jiutao to deliver a letter and ask her family to send some thinner clothes.
Under normal circumstances, her family might ignore her, but now that Wei Mingzhen is here, her family would probably rush to make her a few new sets of clothes right away.
After turning a bend in the mountain, a honeysuckle was seen climbing on the branches of a tree, with white flowers dotted among the green leaves, and a faint fragrance wafted in the air when the wind blew.
"It smells so good." Wei Ciying said in surprise.
Jiang Fei reached out and plucked a flower, smelled it, and said, "When I was a child, I liked to pick them and make flower dew when this season came."
Wei Ciying was shocked and asked, "Does the Jiang Mansion also grow honeysuckle?"
Jiang Fei was stunned for a moment, then looked at the flowers in her hand.
Isn't this honeysuckle? It turns out this is honeysuckle. The ancients really knew how to give it names.
In reality, Jiang Fei came from the mountains and went to pick honeysuckle every year. Of course, the Jiang family did not grow honeysuckle, and she almost let it slip.
"It happened in the past." Jiang Fei found an excuse to go around it.
Wei Ciying picked a few flowers and smelled them, then suddenly said, "Let's pick some to make flower dew."
"good."
Wei Ciying looked at Zi Fu and said, "Go find a basket."
Zi Fu looked embarrassed and said, "Young lady, you must have someone to serve you. I'd better follow you."
It's not that she needs someone to serve her, it's clearly that she needs someone to watch over her, for fear that she will find a chance to meet Jiang Linyuan.
Seeing Wei Ciying's grim expression, Jiang Fei advised: "It's okay, I'll go back and get it. It's not far away."
"Then sister-in-law, I'll go with you."
"You pick them first. The half-open ones are the best." After saying that, Jiang Fei walked back the way she came.
Wei Ciying glanced at Zi Fu indifferently. Zi Fu was sent by her mother and was acting on orders. She didn't want to blame her too much.
Wei Ciying put the picked honeysuckle in a handkerchief and selected it carefully, not letting Zi Fu interfere, because she wanted to give the finished flower dew to Jiang Linyuan and didn't want to let others do it.
Suddenly, footsteps were heard at the end of the stone path.
Wei Ciying didn't even turn her head, "You're back so soon?"
After she finished speaking, she felt something was wrong when she didn't hear any response. She turned around and saw that the person coming was not Jiang Fei, but Zhaoning King Pei Jing. Zi Fu was already kneeling respectfully on the ground.
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