Pei Jinting let go of Gu Qingyuan's wrist, raised her eyebrows, and looked at Gu Qingyuan with her dark and calm eyes, unable to discern any emotion.
Gu Qingyuan tried her best to catch her breath, and looked over with a little nervousness, fearing that Pei Jinting would ask why she had served Grandma Qin back then.
Fortunately, Pei Jinting didn't ask, just said lightly,
"Gu Yuanyuan. This is the last time you drive me away from you... If there is another time..."
He spoke lazily, shrugged indifferently, and then whispered,
"When night falls, I will leave on my own."
"Yeah." Gu Qingyuan hummed. She didn't dare to push Pei Jinting too hard, for fear that things would turn out badly.
Her eyes were looking straight ahead, and naturally fell on the jade leather belt tied around Pei Jinting's waist.
My heart felt like tens of thousands of ants were biting me.
Even when the relationship with Pei Jinting was at its worst in the past, he has never been as helpless as he is now.
The maid was sent away by her, and she sat on the soft couch beside the bed, picked up the red needlework and started embroidering stitch by stitch.
At first, it was just to avoid Pei Jinting's scorching gaze, but in the end, he really calmed down.
Li Yi protected her all the way from Kyoto to Shandong.
Later, he was placed in the outer courtyard.
She couldn't find anything useful from the people of the Qin family, so Gu Qingyuan secretly asked her maid to send a letter to Li Yi, asking him to find the servants of the Qin family in the front yard to quietly inquire whether there was any news about the Qin family in the past.
He also asked him to look for anyone who had served the Qin family in the past.
The reason she used was that she admired Mrs. Qin too much and wanted to know more about her adoptive mother's past.
I won't be able to go out to meet people and ask questions, and I'm actually feeling a little anxious.
I wish it would get dark soon so that Pei Jinting could leave easily.
Unexpectedly, it was not dark yet, and she felt sleepy. She held her forehead and took a nap on the soft couch.
The half-finished red rose in my hand fell into the hem of her skirt.
Pei Jinting took a book and sat at the table while looking at the figure beside the bed.
The dim light hit her shoulders, and a patch of light and shadow outlined the woman's graceful figure.
He reached out and poured himself a cup of tea, making some noise, and the girl napping next to the soft couch moved with the movement.
He fell into a deep sleep again.
Pei Jinting looked at the bedroom where Gu Qingyuan temporarily lived.
There is a red bean branch stuck in the porcelain vase. The red bean fruit has long since fallen away, leaving only the green land.
There is a box placed in front of the dressing table, and the fragrance of your daughter is floating in the air.
His eyes were focused on the box. When she left, she didn't take many things with her, except for the box of his many years of letters.
Obviously, he saw the struggle in her eyes, but he could also feel her ruthlessness.
What was it that was troubling her mind?
Thinking of the time when the maid reported that Li Yi had found the old man next to Qin, her eyelashes trembled and she subconsciously averted her eyes.
When she looked up again, all the panic in her eyes fell into his eyes.
The old person next to Qin... He knew that Qin occupied a big place in Gu Qingyuan's heart.
I used to be jealous of him because of this, and I just hoped that she could make some room to let him go.
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In the darkness, Gu Qingyuan turned around, took the cloud quilt and covered her body...
Suddenly she felt something was wrong, her whole body straightened into a stiff line, and she suddenly turned over and sat up.
She remembered that she was working as a prostitute on a soft couch by the window, and then...
There were vague traces of mess on one side of the couch, as if someone had laid down on it and then left.
Her mind was a little groggy. In her dream, Gu Qingyuan seemed not to be in the Qin family, but in the yard of the Pei family. At that time, she and Pei Jinting had untied the old knot...
One after another, the past events are confused in my mind.
There was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and then the door was pushed open.
Shuang Wu, the maid brought from the Gu family, opened the curtain and said to the stunned girl on the couch,
"Girl, my cousin is here."
Young Master?
Pei Jinting is here?
Isn't he already gone?
Gu Qingyuan looked at Shuangwu's face, slowly overlapping with the frosty branches of the Pei family.
For a moment I couldn't tell whether this was a dream or reality.
"Girl, my cousin has brought some small items over, saying they are a meeting gift for you."
With such a repeated sentence, Gu Qingyuan suddenly woke up and realized that she had made a mistake. It was her cousin Qin Rongjun who came over.
Not Pei Jinting.
Suddenly, she was shocked, Pei Jinting...
Where is he at the moment? There seems to be a noise in the clean room at the back.
Gu Qingyuan felt her heart lift.
This maid of the Gu family was given to her by Gu Shao later, and he didn't know much about her and Pei Jinting's affairs.
It would not be a good thing if she saw Pei Jinting here.
Qin Rongjun came over again outside, and suddenly he became alert, pulling on the corner of the quilt, looking a little nervous.
"You go and make tea for your cousin. I'll wash my face in the back and come out soon."
Shuang Wu listened to the instructions and immediately went outside obediently to help Gu Qingyuan deal with it and buy some time.
When Gu Qingyuan saw her leaving, she pursed her lips slightly, lowered her eyebrows slightly, and her long eyelashes cast a shadow.
After a while, I got up and went to the clean room.
There was nothing in the clean room that she was worried about.
She breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt a little disappointed for no reason.
Qin Rongjun did not stay in the house, but stood under the crape myrtle flower stand on the porch, standing tall and tall.
Hearing the footsteps approaching inside the house, he turned around and looked over with kind eyes.
Watching her walking step by step, I suddenly felt that the gift was a little inappropriate.
In addition to some small objects that can be played with, there is also a fine jade pendant.
"I've met my cousin." Gu Qingyuan walked ten feet away, bowed slightly, and greeted Qin Rongjun.
Qin Rongjun nodded slightly and handed the box containing the small items to Gu Qingyuan. The other box containing the jade pendant was hooked and returned to his sleeve pocket.
Gu Qingyuan didn't expect that he actually sent him a meeting gift. She was surprised for a moment and immediately accepted it with a smile.
"Thank you for your kindness, cousin."
She just wanted to send Qin Rongjun away and go to Li Yi to ask about the old people around Qin.
Unexpectedly, Qin Rongjun not only did not leave quickly, but instead extended an invitation.
"A-Yuan. There is a market on the long street outside today. You are here for the first time and have never seen it before. If you are willing, why don't you come with me to see it?"
Gu Qingyuan wanted to go to Li Yi's place, but also wanted to tentatively ask Qin Rongjun about the Qin family's past.
In a family, the daughter's family may not know the past events in the family, but Erlang, especially the eldest grandson like Qin Rongjun, must know.
She thought for a moment and finally accepted the invitation.
The market on the long street was indeed different from anything Gu Qingyuan had seen before.
She was holding the small lantern that Qin Rongjun stuffed in her hand, but as she walked, she always felt that there was a faint line of sight behind her.
Gu Qingyuan only thought it was an illusion, and when she turned a corner, she turned her head, but when she glanced out of the corner of her eye, she met a pair of eyes.
Gu Qingyuan paused, her eyes looked very similar to those of her old friend...