Lu Nong was shocked: "Where was he injured?"

Aunt Wu: "My aunt is in the study. You will know if you go and take a look."

Lu Nong heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this. He went to the study to prove that his injury was not serious and was not to the extent that he could not get out of bed. Well, if he was really injured to that extent, he would not be at home and would probably stay in the hospital.

"Then I'll go up and take a look. Please help me take care of Xiao Huai."

Lu Nong handed Gu Huai to Wu's mother and went upstairs alone.

She walked to the door of the study and knocked. Soon, the door opened from the inside and the person who opened the door was Pei Zheng.

Pei Zheng looked a little gloomy. When he saw that the person outside the door was Lu Nong, he turned aside to make way for her without saying a word.

Lu Nong entered the study room. Not only Pei Jinan was there, but also Pei Zheng and his brothers. Pei Jinan was sitting, while Pei Zheng and his brothers were standing in a row with their heads lowered. When Pei Jinan's eyes swept over them, their bodies stiffened.

Lu Nong: “…” You’re so well behaved.

The four of them returned to the Little Red Building one step ahead of Lu Nong, and it was natural for them to visit the injured Pei Ji'an, but was this a visit to the sick or a training session?

Really, it made her a little nervous. By the way, the last time she took Pei Zheng out for a drink, she was in the past, right?

It should be over now. Pei Zheng has been punished, Lu Nong thought unreasonably.

She looked at Pei Ji'an quietly, and happened to meet his eyes. The man opposite her had eyes like a deep ocean. Lu Nong was stunned, still thinking about taking Pei Zheng for a drink in her mind, and looked away with guilt.

When he came to his senses again, Pei Ji'an had already lowered his eyes, and no one knew what he was thinking.

Lu Nong looked him up and down. There were no obvious injuries on his body. He looked no different from a normal person.

But perhaps because of the injury, Pei Ji'an's face was a little pale, but the man was still sitting straight and upright, the sunlight shining through the window onto his smooth forehead, his eyebrows cut into his temples, his high nose, his perfect chin and his prominent Adam's apple...

Only then did Lu Nong realize that Pei Jinan's eyebrows were so beautiful, like the most suitable shape sketched in Chinese freehand brushwork, and also the best expression of sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes in classical vocabulary. Few people have such beautiful eyebrows.

He is worthy of being the most handsome father in the army of the hero in the novel.

At this moment, he lowered his eyes slightly, a shadow appeared on the side of his nose, and his lips were pale. A word suddenly popped up in Lu Nong's mind - war-damaged handsome man.

Slurp, Lu Nong seemed to hear the sound of his own drooling. Damn, his sexual quirk had been touched upon.

What she couldn't stand the most was seeing the strong and the beautiful being damaged in battle.

"Don't worry, I'm fine." Seeing Lu Nong come in and say nothing but just staring at him, Pei Jinan had no choice but to explain himself.

"But damn, she said you were injured." Lu Nong came back to her senses, suppressed the urge in her heart, and looked away cruelly. The old man was a very dangerous person, and she couldn't provoke him just because she wanted to.

The four younger brothers looked at Lu Nong strangely when they heard that. Lu Nong was extremely well behaved in front of Pei Ji'an. He stood still and answered obediently, which was completely different from the arrogant way he ordered them to do things ten minutes ago.

...It turns out that she was as terrified as they were in front of Dad/Uncle Pei, and she felt comfortable.

"I just got a minor injury. I got scratched by a passing shell fragment during the exercise. It's not a big deal." Pei Jinan said lightly.

Lu Nong didn't quite understand and believed it to be true. However, Pei Zheng, who was standing next to him, turned from gloomy to dark after hearing these words and turned his head away with a look of grievance.

Seeing this, Lu Nong had a certain understanding of the "minor injury" in Pei Jinan's words, and couldn't help but worry, "Where is the injury?"

Although it was a bit selfish to think so, Pei Jian was her only protector in this era. In the novel, he lived much longer than the original owner, but if he had an accident, or died early from a recurrence of old injuries like Gu Weiguo, she would be in trouble.

Pei Ji'an didn't expect Lu Nong to care about him, and looked at Lu Nong deeply.

Before he could say anything, there was a knock on the door. A moment later, Xiao Zhou pushed the door open and walked in with new gauze and medicine in his hand.

Xiao Zhou was surprised to see a bunch of people standing in the study room. He said to Pei Ji'an, "Commander, I got your medicine back. I need to change the medicine today..."

Just when he was about to say, "Do you want me to help you change it now? It's inconvenient for you to go alone," his eyes caught sight of Lu Nong standing behind Pei Zheng. Xiao Zhou paused and swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

Pei Ji'an nodded and said calmly, "Put the medicine on the table."

Then he looked at Pei Zheng and the others and said, "I've already checked the patient's condition. Go do what you need to do. There's no need to stand here. I'm fine."

Pei Zheng pursed his lips and still said nothing. However, when he saw that Xiao Zhou didn't have much medicine in his hand, he looked much more relaxed.

"Okay," Xiao Zhou put down the medicine quickly and winked at Pei Zheng, "Pei Zheng, the thing you asked me to take you to target practice a few days ago has come true. Come out and I'll talk to you."

Pei Zheng's eyes lit up instantly when he heard this, and his face, which had turned dark due to his father's anger, regained some spirit, and he followed Xiao Zhou out of the study.

Lu Nong thought that the "you" Pei Jian mentioned should also include her, and she unconsciously followed Xiao Zhou and Pei Zheng and the others. However, when it was her turn to go out, the door happened to be closed.

She pushed the door, but the ridges didn't budge.

Lu Nong: “…” This is embarrassing.

Lu Nong turned to look at Pei Ji. Pei Ji'an was fiddling with the wound medicine and gauze. It seemed that she was going to change the bandage herself. Seeing that Lu Nong had not left yet, she stopped what she was doing and looked at her.

Lu Nong: "...The door is broken."

Pei Ji'an: "Yeah."

Outside the door, Xiao Zhou held it with his foot. After a while, when there was no sound of anyone pushing the door from the other end, he loosened his foot, casually took out a piece of wire and fastened it to the door, hiding his achievement and fame.

Pei Zheng and the other three: "..."

"Brother Zhou, what are you doing?" Pei Zheng said in a low voice, "Why don't you let Lu Nong come out? Don't you like her?"

Xiao Zhou twitched his lips. After not seeing each other for a week, Pei Zheng was still the same Pei Zheng, nothing wrong with him.

He patted Pei Zheng on the shoulder and said with a little sadness, "I have no opinion on Comrade Lu, it's just that Brother Zhou has had a difficult week. Zheng, I don't expect you to understand, just know that I have no bad intentions."

"Let's go," Shen Jiming lowered his head, his slightly longer hair obscuring his expression, "It's time to do what Lu Nong told us to do. She will come to check."

The group walked downstairs, and only Pei Zheng was stuck inside, still confused. He kept asking Xiao Zhou why he had such a hard time this week.

In the study, Lu Nong couldn't get out. Seeing Pei Ji'an trying to change the medicine by himself, he felt soft-hearted and walked over and said, "Let me help you change the medicine."

Well, the main reason is that the lethality of battle-damaged beauties is too great, and one will become soft-hearted if one is not careful, especially when it comes to abstinence and battle-damage. Who can control themselves?

Pei Ji'an paused, and said in a low and quiet voice, "Okay."

He began to undress, unbuttoning his clothes with his slender fingers slowly and unbuttoning, first the outermost military uniform, then his shirt... What surprised Lu Nong was that in such a hot day, he actually wore all three pieces of clothing without leaving any part exposed, and even buttoned them up carefully.

He is a ruthless person.

The upper body clothes were taken off completely, revealing the strong abdominal muscles and white bandages. The bandages on the shoulders were faintly stained with red blood.

Lu Nong at least had the memory of the original owner as a nurse. She walked around the table, went to Pei Jinan, and untied the knotted bandage.

A strong smell of wound medicine surrounded Pei Jinan, bitter and heavy. Lu Nong inexplicably felt that this smell was somewhat similar to him. If there was a perfume with this scent, she would consider giving it to Pei Jinan.

The bandage was removed, Lu Nong stood and Pei Jinan sat, neither of them spoke. Lu Nong did not look at Pei Jinan's face, but focused on changing the bandage for him. The wound was bleeding, and it was not just a scratch as Pei Jinan said.

Lu Nong felt that he was too naive. The wound from being grazed by the shell could not be more than a scratch.

His fingers accidentally brushed against his skin, and Lu Nong couldn't help but glance at Pei Ji'an.

"What's wrong?" Pei Jinan asked.

"Does it hurt?" Lu Nong felt the pain for him, but he didn't cry out the whole time.

Pei Ji'an was stunned. He didn't say whether it hurt or not for a long time. He just said quietly, "I'm used to it."

Is he used to being hurt or used to the pain? But Lu Nong always felt that there was something more to his words.

"...I need to change my bandage." she whispered.

Pei Ji'an: "Okay."

Lu Nong took the bandage and put his arms around Pei Ji'an. From behind, it looked like Lu Nong was hugging him with his whole body. Pei Ji'an felt like someone had pressed a freeze button on him, but it only lasted for a moment, and he regained his composure after a moment.

The moment they got closer, their auras blended together, and Lu Nong thought to himself, how strange it was, why did he feel so familiar?

It was as if... she had once been held in Pei Ji'an's arms.

Lu Nong tied the first knot, stepped out of Pei Jinan's arms, walked behind Pei Jinan, and tied the remaining knots.

After changing the medicine, Pei Jian put on his clothes. Lu Nong packed up the dirty gauze and bandages and prepared to take them downstairs for disposal. He tried to open the door with a hope of success...but it still wouldn't open.

It looked like there was something blocking the door outside. Lu Nong was not stupid and thought it must be a prank by her four annoying brothers. Ha, they were so brave. Don't let her out. The day she went out, their good days would be over.

Lu Nong put down the dirty gauze and bandage, intending to go to her desk to read quietly for a while. When she glanced at Pei Jinan's desk, she found her original copy of Borges's poems placed on it.

“Do you like this book?”

The original version was an English poetry collection. Lu Nong had seen Pei Jinan reading it several times, so he must have understood English.

Pei Ji'an was silent for a moment and said, "I am learning English and I only know a little about it."

Oh my god, this is the highest level of war damage, Lu Nong screamed in her heart, this is killing me, she blurted out, "I'll read it to you."

"Okay." Pei Jinan stretched his body, no longer standing straight, leaning against the back of the chair, and pretending to listen.

Lu Nong dragged a chair over and sat opposite Pei Ji'an. She opened her favorite poem and read:

“What can I hold you with

I offer you lean streets, desert sunsets, the moon of the jagged suburbs.

…

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart;

I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.”

Lu Nong read softly and Pei Ji'an listened quietly. There was no other sound in the study except the sound of reading.

The sunlight shifted slightly and shone on Lu Nong, making her look exactly like the one in the photo of a family of five placed on the table.