Pei Jinting said he was going to carry Gu Qingyuan to clean the room, but when he saw her staring at him, he was not in a hurry.
He held her waist and pulled her to sit on his lap.
"When you had a high fever, I wiped it for you."
As he spoke, he buried it on the side of her neck, his skin touching hers.
Gu Qingyuan wanted to cover her face.
He reached out and pushed her.
"I haven't bathed in a few days, it's dirty." She kept feeling that her body was sticky, and she must have been sweating all over because of the high fever.
Pei Jinting held back her laughter as hot breath hit her neck, "It won't be dirty."
Very clean.
Gu Qingyuan turned her face to one side, humming and saying nothing.
Pei Jinting stood up, carried her to the clean room, put her down, let her lean in his arms, and bent down to untie her belt...
"Get out..." Gu Qingyuan couldn't bear it anymore and pushed him out.
Pei Jinting stroked her head and helped her sit on the stool set up on the porridge.
"I'm right outside the door, just call me."
Gu Qingyuan sat on the stool, looking as sluggish as a cabbage that had been sunburned.
It's better to keep her unconscious.
What a shame.
She endured it and frowned, "Pei Jingheng, please go farther away..."
The sound of gurgling water made Gu Qingyuan feel that Pei Jinting had seen all the shameful things in her life.
She wanted to scold him as bad as before.
The words in his letter will come to mind.
She didn't know how to describe this feeling, her heart seemed to be magically filled with soft cotton.
Soothes all the astringent emotions.
Her heart became at ease.
But I couldn't control the soreness in my eyes and the tip of my nose.
She loved spending time with him and that he was always by her side.
I even like his occasional arrogance and venomous tongue.
Even without those letters, she still wanted to be with him.
After coming out of the clean room, Pei Jinting took her out, slightly twitching her lips, raising her eyebrows carelessly, pretending to blame her.
"Gu Yuanyuan. You told me to watch you from inside, but your legs are numb now..."
The man returned to his lazy and arrogant posture.
Gu Qingyuan couldn't tell whether to laugh or cry. Looking into his playful eyes, she suddenly remembered that her father had proposed to him in response to her mother's instructions.
He refused.
She said nothing, lowered her head, and washed her hands in silence by the basin.
After a long while, she gently asked Pei Jinting,
"So you want to be with me, why did you refuse when your father proposed marriage to you?"
Pei Jinting didn't know how to explain it, and she pinched her eyebrows and felt a headache.
At that time, he already knew the truth and was forced to give up all his pride, like a lost dog.
Life is so confusing that no matter how reluctant he is to let her go, he is still afraid of dragging her into his gloomy life.
Gu Yuanyuan deserved the best treatment. But at that time, he couldn't give it.
However, in the decadent days, I couldn't give up after all, and almost risked my life to find a way out.
Countless times when I was confused and tired, I seemed to hear her chubby little hand passing the veil to her, "Brother, let's be a family."
Thinking about it, Pei Jinting smiled sadly.
Gu Qingyuan splashed water on her wrist and glanced at the man beside her with her peripheral vision. Seeing him pinching his eyebrows in distress, the corner of his mouth twitched inexplicably.
When he looked at it, he quickly looked away, slowly took off the handkerchief from the basin stand, and wiped the water stains on his hands bit by bit.
It turns out that the prank worked like this.
"I'm sorry, Yuanyuan. I was too self-righteous in the past." Pei Jinting sighed helplessly, touching the water droplets on her cheeks with her warm fingertips.
After a moment, he asked again slowly,
"So, what about you?"
Now, are you willing to be with me?
Gu Qingyuan rubbed the handkerchief in her hand and threw it into the basin, watching as the handkerchief gradually became wet and sank under the basin.
"Yeah." She responded softly.
Then, she raised her eyes to meet his and continued to ask, "If it wasn't me who saved you, and it wasn't me who handed you the veil, would you still keep me in your heart?"
The first "hmm" made Pei Jinting feel relieved and a smile appeared on his lips. The next sentence made his scalp tingle.
But at this time, he couldn't escape at all and had to answer.
He sighed secretly for himself and said truthfully,
"Even without those, I would still like you."
Gu Qingyuan was stunned.
After being quiet for a while, he raised his eyes and asked again,
"Then is it really just because of me that you designed Lu Wenze and Gu Yunniang?"
The Pei family belongs to the prince's line, and Lu Wenze belongs to the eldest prince's line. If something scandal happens to Lu Wenze, only the prince's line will benefit.
Pei Jinting was very calm about this and said bluntly,
"I just feel unhappy with him, but it's also because he doesn't deserve it for you. A person like him doesn't deserve your love."
"Also, I may be a little bit jealous."
A little bit?
Pei Jinting can't even convince herself, I'm afraid it's far more than that.
People are shameless and invincible, Pei Jinting admits it so readily.
Show his despicability and jealousy in front of her.
What else could Gu Qingyuan say?
She bit her lip and hesitated, remembering that when she was at Gu's house a few days ago, he was stalking her. At that time, he said it would be one month or three months?
Before she could say anything, Pei Jinting picked her up like a roundworm in her heart and put her on the couch.
After finally explaining everything, Pei Jinting was really afraid of things changing.
We can't let her continue asking at this time.
There are hundreds of tricky angles. If she were to think about it again, she would probably lose everything.
"Okay, Mrs. Pei. It's getting very late. Go to bed quickly."
Pei Jinting gently kissed her earlobe to calm her shock.
Gu Qingyuan trembled.
I'm really angry.
This is more foul than him kissing her hard. How can you kiss here?
Not to be outdone, she touched his Adam's apple, then reached out her hand to grope around his waist.
"Father is going to the frontier soon. Let's move back and live there for a while tomorrow, okay?"
She's talking about us.
Pei Jinting's eyes, which were originally deep and dark when her hands were groping around her waist, became a little darker.
After a while, Gu Qingyuan heard his deep voice and lazily said,
"Hey, my wife has something to ask for. What can I say for my husband? It's better to obey than to be respectful."
The next breath, she was embraced into the man's generous arms.
Pei Jinting's sharp chin rested on her hair, and the sharp pine scent lingered on the tip of her nose, making people relax.
In terms of shamelessness, she can't compare to him.
There is gentleness between heaven and earth.
When Gu Qingyuan woke up the next day, she saw the maid serving outside was already cleaning up.
Gu Qingyuan smiled, and before she finished washing, she saw Pei Jinting coming in from outside.
His expression was a little solemn.
Seeing that Gu Qingyuan had woken up, Pei Jinting cleaned her hands and changed her clothes, and said to her,
"Yuanyuan. Do you still remember the situation when your mother-in-law passed away?"
He Zheng and the others interrogated him all night and finally found some clues.
Originally, I only thought that the assassin wanted to assassinate Gu Qingyuan because of her. Unexpectedly, it also involved the grudges of the previous generation.
From this point of view, the cause of Qin's death at that time was not simple.