On a summer night, the tent with tangled branches of Baizi is filled with a pleasant scent of soap locust.
The dream she just had was still lingering in Gu Qingyuan's mind, and for a while it was almost hard to distinguish between the dream and the outside.
She gasped and was about to close her eyes and lie down when she straightened up again and stared straight at Pei Jinting's face.
"We haven't seen each other for a few days. Don't you know me as your husband?" There was a hoarseness in the voice after fatigue.
Gu Qingyuan raised her face and looked at the person in front of her.
Strange yet familiar.
His eyebrows are deep, his nose is high, his eyes are as deep as bottomless water between mountains and seas, and there are obvious red bloodshot eyes.
The dark pupils flickered in the flickering light.
Gu Qingyuan noticed that Pei Jinting seemed to be suppressing his emotions from just now.
He just brushed off her question with his nonchalant manner.
She didn't know how to get rid of his harsh words.
While thinking about it, Gu Qingyuan did not speak, but followed the memory in her dream and gently groped his body with her slender fingers.
The man's muscles were tight and no old scars could be found.
Pei Jinting swore that before he came back, he never expected such a scene to greet him.
The girl in front of him raised her head slightly and said nothing. Her dark eyes were pure and transparent, as if she were looking at something else through him.
"Madam, you have been alone and sleepless for several days. Are you thinking about your husband...?"
The man's voice was suppressed, and his hands on her slim waist became harder and harder, trying to pull off her clothes with restraint.
Gu Qingyuan blinked hard. Although she found no wounds on Pei Jinting's body, there seemed to be thousands of pains pouring into her chest.
Those pains described in her heart the wounds his flesh and blood body had suffered.
The boy in the rain curtain in my memory is the same as the one now.
She broke the dream apart bit by bit, not letting go of any detail.
And that time she saw the boy she rescued in the palace's Lotus Pond...
The next moment, a hot kiss fell, biting the soft lips forcefully, and couldn't wait to invade and entangle.
In the house and tent, Gu Qingyuan could even clearly hear the slight sounds of the two people being intimate, which secretly aroused her nerves.
Being kissed by him made her breathing quicken, and her head gradually became dizzy.
Gu Qingyuan went to push him, but the man held her hand.
"Gu Yuanyuan... have you heard about the rumors in Beijing?" His voice was low and sounded a little aggrieved.
He straightened his lip line, and after speaking, he used some force with his calloused fingertips to rub the water droplets on her lips.
Gu Qingyuan finally regained her clarity of thought, looked into Pei Jinting's dark eyes, and understood, what was he... trying to explain?
The rumors in his words are self-evident, they are the ones talked about in teahouses now, about the forced rape of a good woman, resulting in the death of two people.
Although she didn't know how he knew, Gu Qingyuan thought about his suppressed emotions, paused, and thought,
"I also know who did it. I scolded him severely..."
She reached out and hugged his waist gently, her nose pressed against the clothes on his chest. Lu Wenze's repeated pestering made her very annoyed. She felt that what he said that day was already very clear.
"Oh?" Pei Jinting raised his eyebrows, caught a glimpse of the seriousness in her bright eyes, curled his lips, and then said in a rewarding tone,
"Gu Yuanyuan... Then you are quite powerful..."
Then he glanced at her, waiting for her to say something more.
Gu Qingyuan pursed her lips and said, "Pei Jingheng, and I also told him that no matter what, you will be my husband."
As soon as he finished speaking, he noticed that his body was stiff.
"Yuanyuan..." Pei Jinting's palm moved lightly to cover the back of her head, not daring to use any more strength. He whispered her name in his throat, but he only dared to call her name.
It's as if this is a dream and you will wake up accidentally.
After hesitating for a while, Gu Qingyuan muttered in a low voice,
"Although I haven't thought clearly about what you said, it's good for us to continue like this. If you want, we won't get along in the future..."
Feeling that his body was no longer tense, Gu Qingyuan thought that his emotions should have dissipated.
She vaguely understood that he was angry because of what Lu Wenze had done.
Seeing that he was no longer angry, she changed the topic.
"Why are you back?"
"The palace also sent a message, saying that it will take some days to come back..."
"Did an accident happen when you were on inspection? Were you injured?"
Gu Qingyuan sniffed and smelled only the fragrance of soap locust and no smell of blood.
"Pei Jingheng. You smell so good."
The girl's heart cannot be penetrated by the water five hundred miles under the sea.
Pei Jinting's eyes stopped on her face for a moment, he hugged her, pulled the clothes she had rolled up when they were intimate, and said in a clear voice,
"...I just washed my face and hair and changed my clothes at the inn. Maybe I am the soap powder from the inn..."
His voice was rustling, and his hot breath hit Gu Qingyuan's face.
Gu Qingyuan was locked in his deep and bottomless gaze for a long time, her lips curved into a smile, and she asked in a small voice,
"Have you eaten yet? Are you hungry? How about asking the people in the kitchen to cook something for you?"
Thinking that it was already night and the people in the yard had already rested, he straightened his body and said shyly,
"If you don't mind, I'll go to the kitchen and cook something for you..."
Pei Jinting shook his head, thought for a while and nodded, "We rode hard all the way and arrived at Tongzhou on the outskirts of Beijing at noon. After packing up at the inn, we entered the city under the cover of night..."
I just haven't eaten for a day.
"That……"
Gu Qingyuan wanted to get up and go to the kitchen to find something edible to cook for him.
But as soon as she opened her mouth, the man's hot breath came over her again, blocking her lips again, with even stronger emotions than before.
"You don't have to go to the kitchen, you can satisfy your husband here..."
This time, it's not just a kiss.
There were a bunch of questions in my mind.
He had to be left behind by Gu Qingyuan.
After a long time, she nestled in his arms, her hands still clasped tightly by him and not letting go.
Not long after, sleepiness gradually came over me.
These days, Gu Qingyuan has not slept very well, and she will be very tired.
Her eyelids were heavy, but he seemed very energetic.
The kisses fell like stars again.
She pushed him in a daze, her voice soft,
"No more..."
The next moment, Pei Jinting stopped.
Knowing that she was sensitive, I said some things because I was afraid that she would feel pressured.
After he received the news, he was afraid that she would disappear without noticing like the last time she was in the palace.
The goodbye was scarred.
He was even more afraid that she would not want him anymore.
It seemed like many years ago, her eyes were unfamiliar. It was as if she had never seen her before.
He was like a dying fish, helpless and hoping that she would give him a chance to survive.
He was anxious all the way, but the moment he saw her lying peacefully on the bed, he felt that he was alive.
With Pei Jinting's return, the case of forcing a good woman to rape has become more popular.
The post from Princess Rongan's Mansion was also handed to Gu Qingyuan.