Gu Qingyuan really didn't expect that Pei Jinting's clothes were all stained by her efforts. She said in a low voice,
"How about you go sleep in the wing tonight?"
She had heard that wives in big families would share the same bed with their husbands during confinement.
In some families, except for the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, couples live in separate houses on the other days.
As for living in separate courtyards, Gu Qingyuan was a bit afraid to say that it would actually be good to live in the same courtyard and sleep in separate rooms.
In fact, she was still thinking that other wives would prepare marriage arrangements for their husbands, but she wondered if Pei Jinting needed it?
Pei Jinting's eyes were locked on hers, his eyes were very aggressive, and he seemed to be smiling but not smiling. He stretched out his hand to explore the brocade quilt.
"What did you say?"
After Pei Jinting asked this question, Gu Qingyuan felt that something was wrong. This was the main courtyard, and she should be the one who wanted to go out to sleep.
So she looked away from him, straightened out her clothes that were messed up by him, and said with some embarrassment,
"It's better that you sleep in the main room, and I can sleep in the wing."
Pei Jinting snorted and suddenly touched the side of her face, with a cold smile on his lips.
"Gu Yuanyuan, you are so sensible."
He was speaking words of praise, but his hands were very energetic, as if his whole body was faintly filled with anger.
Fortunately, he seemed to regain his composure after a while and let her go.
"You kept touching me in the dream and kept shouting at my husband not to leave. What happened? You turned your back on me when you woke up?"
"Besides, apart from the woodshed, I can't sleep in any other room in the house."
He was obviously warm and affectionate at the beginning, but when he arrived at the woodshed, he became cold, with no trace of warmth on his face.
Gu Qingyuan noticed that Pei Jinting seemed a little worried, but she didn't understand why he was unhappy.
She didn't even expect that she would say those words in her dream.
Pei Jinting didn't wait for her to say anything, so he brought someone in with some decoction, put it in front of Gu Qingyuan, and said,
"I can't sleep because I won't bother you anymore, so I asked someone to boil some medicine for you. Take it first, and then you can eat."
Gu Qingyuan subconsciously held the medicine bowl handed over by Pei Jinting. She didn't know whether to be surprised that Pei Jinting had prepared medicine for her.
Still angry at the disgust in his words.
"What kind of medicine is this?" Gu Qingyuan smelled it and found that this medicine was somewhat different from the medicine she used at home.
Pei Jinting glanced at her, pursed his lower lip, and said in a long, lazy voice,
"It's not a medicine that will harm you anyway."
"Gu Yuanyuan, you said you would fulfill your responsibilities as a wife. I don't want to be tortured and unable to sleep again tonight."
He finished speaking lazily and looked at her with his deep eyes, unable to discern any emotion.
Gu Qingyuan had been shocked several times after waking up. She thought that Yue Xin would be embarrassing enough at that time.
Unexpectedly, Pei Jinting's clothes were soiled and he helped make medicine.
She always felt that it was not something Pei Jinting would do such a private matter.
She smelled the decoction and felt a little confused. Could Pei Jinting have made a mistake?
Seeing that she was still refusing to eat, Pei Jinting chuckled casually and said without saltiness,
"What? Are you really afraid that I will harm you? Don't worry, I've checked the medicine and it's a prescription for recovery."
Gu Qingyuan was so struck by his gaze that she had no choice but to drink up the whole bowl of medicine while facing Pei Jinting's serious gaze.
After drinking it, the aftertaste of the medicine lingered in her mouth, and she was convinced that this medicine was indeed different from what she had used.
The taste was not bitter and did not make her feel drowsy.
Before she could figure it out, a piece of preserved fruit was handed to her lips.
Gu Qingyuan gently raised her eyes to look at Pei Jinting, slowly opened her mouth, and bit into the preserved fruit.
She deliberately moved gently, but her lips still brushed against Pei Jinting's fingertips.
Gu Qingyuan held the sweet preserved fruit in her mouth, but there was no sweet feeling in her heart.
When she was young, she fell into the water and became seriously ill. Not long after Qin's death, everyone thought she was missing Qin and fell into the water in a daze.
Duke Zhen Guo was also immersed in the pain of losing his wife at that time, and had no intention of continuing the relationship, so he handed her over to Ruan's care.
When Ruan was the head of the family for the first time, he treated her very well for a while just to look good.
That health-preserving recipe...
Severe pain hit her heart, and she bit the tip of her tongue to stay awake.
Keep telling yourself that maybe you are wrong.
Every doctor prescribes different prescriptions. Besides, Ruan, the imperial doctor at the imperial hospital, is not that easy to bribe.
Pei Jinting withdrew the hand holding the plums, and silently rubbed his fingertips, which was exactly where Gu Qingyuan's lips touched just now.
Inquiry brewed in his deep gaze.
Gu Qingyuan raised it for several days. Under the supervision of Pei Jinting, she took two meals of decoction and medicine every day.
If she drank the soup more slowly, Pei Jinting would show a critical look, and would occasionally hold up the medicine bowl to feed her.
Gu Qingyuan couldn't control it, so she had to bite the bullet and drink the concoction quickly.
She really didn't know where Pei Jinting found the time to watch her drink medicine every day even though he was working in the Wucheng Military and Horse Department.
Just thinking about it gives me a headache.
What's even more outrageous is that Pei Jinting finally stopped drinking the decoction. In a calm and strong tone, Pei Jinting said,
"Gu Yuanyuan, in order for you to better fulfill your responsibilities as a wife, I will drink this medicine every time you come to me."
Gu Qingyuan knew from Pei Jinting's tone that there was no room for change in the matter.
I think next month is still far away, let’s wait and see.
She looked at the box on the dressing table through the screen. She had kept the prescription in the mezzanine neatly.
On this day, Gu Qingyuan had just cleaned up and packed up. She was going to the Pei Mansion to pay her respects, and by the way, she was going to the banquet with Mrs. Chengen.
In the first two days, Princess Rongyang sent a message, saying that she was shocked last time at the Imperial Mansion, and a banquet was held to congratulate her on her wedding and to calm her down.
Before going to Pei Mansion, Gu Qingyuan went to a famous medical clinic in Beijing with the prescription she took out from the mezzanine.
After handing over the prescription, Gu Qingyuan calmed down and waited.
The doctor twirled his beard, looked at it, and said solemnly,
"Madam, don't use this prescription if you can. Gong Han needs to be taken care of carefully. Relying on tiger and wolf medicine can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause."
"One time the pain was so unbearable that I took medicine to get through it. The second time it hurt even more. As each month passed, the palace cold would only get worse."
Gu Qingyuan sat quietly in the medical clinic, lowering her eyes and listening to the doctor explain the properties of the prescription and the consequences of using it.
Disappointed?
There are some. I'm not too disappointed.
Didn't she already have a vague premonition before coming?
Sure enough, there is a problem.
It's even worse. He's planning to kill her.
Gu Qingyuan didn't feel sad at all.
I just felt relieved. Fortunately, I no longer had to take those medicines.
On the way there, she had had wonderful dreams, thinking that Ruan had given birth to her after all, and that the tiger's poison would not eat its seeds.
It's just a dream.
She put the prescription back in her sleeve pocket, took the carriage, and went to see Mrs. Chengen.
In the carriage, Mrs. Chengen spoke calmly,
"The way you entered the door, even though you are hiding your face now, everyone knows what you are like on the inside."
"Today, all you have to do is stay with me. You can tolerate it as long as you can, and we won't get involved in right and wrong."