◎The jade hairpin of the Queen Mother.◎
It was early morning when Ah Qi came back.
He strode into the courtyard in the faint light of morning light.
At that time, An Jiu was walking out of Pei Ji's room holding a bed sheet.
When she ran into Ah Qi head-on, he glanced at his master's room behind her, then looked at the bed sheet of his master in her arms, and finally his eyes fell on the uncontrollable blush on the girl's cheeks, then slowly moved down to a dark red stain on the bed sheet.
In an instant, the pupils, eyes, and the ground shook!
As soon as An Jiu saw his expression, she knew that he must have misunderstood something, and she immediately shouted, "Don't let me have such wild thoughts, don't let me talk nonsense, it's not what you think!"
Ah Qi: “…”
Pei Ji heard the noise and pushed his wheelchair out.
Seeing the two people confronting each other, the young man in white was slightly stunned, and then called out: "Ah Qi, go wash the sheets. I was injured yesterday and got them a little dirty."
When Ah Qi heard this, he immediately threw away the messy thoughts in his mind and asked anxiously, "How did you get hurt, young master?"
In Ah Qi's impression, very few people can hurt the young master. Who can hurt the young master?
Pei Ji spoke calmly, explaining, "I had a brief encounter with the Demon Cult leader when I left, but it wasn't too serious."
Seeing his calm expression, Ah Qi's worries were relieved. He reached out and took the sheet from An Jiu's arms, saying casually, "Just give it to me. I'll go wash it for you, young master."
After saying that, he went to the well in the yard to wash the sheets.
An Jiu stood there with empty hands. It took her a while to react. She turned to Pei Ji and asked him with a red face, "Why did you ask him to wash it... It should be fine for me to wash it myself..."
She stammered softly, her face flushed as if blood was about to drip out.
…It was obviously she who made it dirty.
The young man in white robes looked at the girl's hand with a warm gaze. The palm that was rubbed red yesterday had returned to its white and tender color today.
If he asked her to wash, she would probably come to him with tears in her eyes again.
Pei Ji said slowly: "I have already said it was my fault, he won't know."
In fact, An Jiu didn't want to wash the sheets herself. It was too tiring. She had never done this kind of work before, so she just felt embarrassed.
Hearing this, he also went along with it and said with a blushing face: "Okay, okay."
She secretly glanced at the tenderness between the man's eyebrows and eyes, and felt that he had never been so considerate to her. She even felt a sense of being pampered.
Although Pei Ji was gentle and easy to talk to before, he seemed to be just wearing a mask at that time, and the smile did not reach his eyes.
Now he would truly think about things from her perspective, would take care of her and be considerate of her in subtle ways, and it seemed that these were all subconscious actions.
This is the favorability rating of only 55. An Jiu couldn’t imagine what it would be like if the favorability was higher.
After Ah Qi came back, An Jiu's life suddenly got better.
All the trivial matters of life were taken over by Ah Qi. An Jiu no longer had to worry about the tasks of serving tea and water, cooking, and washing clothes.
You know, she didn't even have a cup of hot tea yesterday because she didn't know how to light the stove.
Ah Qi washed the sheets and hung them out to dry next to the magnolia tree in the yard.
An Jiu walked under the tree, not daring to look over there, and quickly quickened his pace.
"Pei Ji, I picked up the medicine. Are these the ones?"
An Jiu just went out to buy medicine. There is a pharmacy not far from this courtyard, which is said to be owned by Yaowang Valley.
She put the medicine bag on the table and asked the young man in white sitting at the table with blinking eyes.
Pei Ji raised his hand, and the layers of snow-white sleeves slid off, revealing his white and strong wrist bones. He carefully identified the medicinal materials one by one, and from time to time his slender fingertips picked out some defective products and threw them aside.
"Okay, take it and fry it for Ah Qi." He curved his eyebrows slightly and smiled gently.
An Jiu nodded and jumped out the door again.
Pei Ji gave her an injection this morning. It was the first time that An Jiu experienced the feeling of being completely painless and she was extremely happy.
This happiness lasted until the moment before taking the medicine.
Holding the medicine bowl and smelling the strange bitter and sour smell coming from it, An Jiu looked at the smiling young man in white in front of him with a bitter face: "Pei Ji, can I really not not take the medicine? It doesn't hurt now."
Pei Ji's eyes fell on the girl's wrinkled face, with a faint smile in his eyes, and he said gently: "Acupuncture is only temporary, you still have to take medicine to cure it. Do you want to be in pain like this in the future?"
An Jiu muttered: "Can't I follow you all the time?"
Pei Ji was stunned for a moment, as if he suddenly thought of something. The corners of his lips straightened unconsciously, and the tenderness between his eyebrows disappeared quietly.
It was as if I suddenly woke up from a dream and saw the reality.
After a while, he slowly shook his head, looked at her deeply and said, "No."
An Jiu drank the bowl of medicine in the end. Ji Xiang was not around and no one would coax her, but as soon as she took the bowl, a plate of sweet candied fruit appeared in front of her.
The hand holding the plate had distinct joints and each hand was as smooth as jade.
She hurriedly picked up a candied fruit and swallowed it, then lowered her eyes to look at the man's frowning brows. For some reason, the bitter feeling in her mouth lingered for a long time.
Not long after Ah Qi came back, An Jiu also received news from Jin Yanwan.
The person who delivered the letter to her was a maid from the Golden Snake Villa. An Jiu still remembered her. Every time Jin Yanwan looked for her, she would ask this maid to deliver the message.
After delivering the letter, the maid left. An Jiu pulled her aside and asked her a few questions. The maid only said that there were many things to deal with in the villa, and the young lady was too busy with other things to take care of him, so she would come to meet her in person later.
An Jiu went back to the room and opened the letter, and saw the ending of Golden Snake Villa from Jin Yanwan's perspective.
Jin Yanwan's letter was exceptionally long, spanning several pages.
At the beginning, she sternly warned An Jiu not to tell anyone else that she had the secret book.
"An innocent man is guilty of possessing a treasure. I completely understand this. An Jiu, you must not tell anyone about this matter. No matter if it is me or yourself, once others know about it, the consequences of today's Golden Snake Villa will be our fate."
After saying this, what happened next was what happened in Golden Snake Villa.
Jin You was defeated in a battle with Mei Xi, one of the four guardians of the Demon Cult, and was severely injured. He is now on the verge of death.
The stepmother originally came from a poor family. Once Jin You fell, she suddenly lost her backbone and cried all day long.
The older brother was only a little over ten years old this year. He was frightened and had convulsions after the incident. Although he was safe and sound, he has become taciturn. It seems that because he witnessed his father being injured, the young boy was left with a deep psychological trauma, and it was difficult for him to get over it. He even dared not touch the sword again.
So the one who finally stood up and supported the entire villa was Jin Yanwan, who had been ignored in the past.
Accusations from all the major sects in the martial arts world came one after another, and there were also destroyed buildings in the villa and dead servants, all of which had to be dealt with. Jin Yanwan was very busy for a while.
She sent this letter to An Jiu after hearing someone say that they saw her in town.
"At this moment, the only thing I'm thankful for is that I stole the secret book, and Golden Snake Villa still has a chance to rise..."
At the end of the letter, Jin Yanwan wrote the following words.
It can be seen between the lines that Jin Yanwan was not hit by this sudden disaster, and even became more tenacious because of it.
She has never been a delicate orchid that requires careful care, but rather the white plum blossom that stands proudly in the snow and can bloom even in the chilly wind.
An Jiu didn't write back to her, and Jin Yanwan probably didn't need her words of comfort.
In the following days, the number of martial artists in Jinshe Town gradually decreased.
Those people from the martial arts world who had come to join in the fun after hearing the news naturally left when they saw that the fun was over.
However, many people still stayed, basically they were from various major factions in the martial arts world.
The evil cult attacked and not only stole the secret manuals of magical skills, but also "incidentally" stole the treasures brought by the major sects. This matter cannot be let go like this.
The Demon Cult slapped the Central Plains Wulin in the face, so would the Central Plains Wulin let it go? They were all hot-blooded and chivalrous people, the kind who would duel at the slightest disagreement, so how could they tolerate this?
Anyway, the Central Plains martial arts world couldn't tolerate it, so all the sects stayed and prepared to work out a set of rules.
The relationship between the Central Plains martial arts world and the Western Regions evil sect has always been like this: if you hit me, I will retaliate back, and it has been like this for many generations.
Besides, they didn't want to come here in vain, especially the several major sects that had been selected to get the secret book. They insisted on fighting back and taking the secret book back.
The cooked duck is almost at your fingertips, but it just flies away. Who can tolerate this?
Anyway, they can't swallow this.
Even the injured Bishui Sword did not leave, and simply stayed in Jinshe Town to recuperate. At the same time, he sent messages to all the major sects in the martial arts world, inviting those sects that had not come to come together to discuss the matter of "suppressing the Demon Cult."
All this news was told to Anjiu by Ah Qi.
No one knew what was going on in this boy's brain, but he suddenly became much more attentive to her these past few days, asking her about her well-being from time to time, which made An Ji feel uneasy.
"Anjiu, ah, no, Miss An, what do you want to eat today?"
"Eat something light. I don't have much appetite."
The girl's languid voice came from the room. Ah Qi listened and said, "Okay, how about I make you a warm soup to nourish your body?"
"Whatever." The eldest lady said impatiently.
Ah Qi didn't care. He touched his head and walked away with a smile.
Although the young master said that day that the bed sheet was stained with blood because of his injury, who is Ah Qi? Has he never seen human blood?
It was obvious that the blood was not normal blood flowing out of the human body, but a kind of blood stasis.
Ah Qi immediately sensed something was wrong, his mind worked quickly, integrating all the information, and he immediately came to an incredible but extremely reasonable conclusion - his son was with An Jiu!
Maybe it turned out to be a good thing!
Otherwise, where did the blood stains on the bed sheet come from?
Although the progress was unexpectedly fast, Ah Qi thought again. His son was already eighteen years old, the age at which ordinary people would become fathers. So it was not fast at all. It was just right!
An Jiu has been drinking uterus-warming soup these days and looks listless. She must have been too tired that day.
The more Ah Qi thought about it, the more he felt that this was the case. He was indeed very smart.
Hehe, since you are the future lady of a young master, you can no longer call me An Jiu. You have to call me Miss An.
Will he be able to see the little prince being born soon?
Ah Qi fell into a wonderful enjoyment.
That night, Ah Qi helped Pei Ji to bed, and he looked as if he wanted to say something but was hesitant.
He was thinking, maybe he came at a wrong time?
Ever since he came, the young master has never slept in the same room with Miss An again. Alas, he feels really uncomfortable standing between the two of them.
Ah Qi doesn't want to be the Queen Mother's jade hairpin.
Just when I was about to ask him whether he needed to step aside to give them a chance, I suddenly heard the sound of flapping wings outside the window.
Pei Ji suddenly raised his eyes and looked in the direction of the voice.
On the window frame, a round, gray owl stood there, looking at the two of them silently.
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