Gu Yunniang knew what she meant after half of listening. She rushed over and snatched the purse before Gu Qingyuan handed it over.
Gu Qingyuan squeezed the purse in her hand and did not let her snatch it away.
Instead, he held it tightly and looked at Ruan who was not far away, speaking gently and gently.
"Yun Niang. This recipe was given to me by Lu Wenze after all. Now that I have parted ways with him, it is difficult to occupy it."
"If not, wait until I return him first, and then let him give it to you. Or, let your mother..."
Gu Yunniang followed Gu Qingyuan's gaze and saw the Ruan family. She seemed to have someone to rely on for an instant. She grabbed it hard and said with ulterior motives,
"I heard that Third Young Master Pei has no tolerance for disgrace in his eyes. He originally bought the oiran lady for three thousand taels, but just because she looked at others too much, he gave her away."
"It wouldn't be good if I knew you were still holding Brother Wenze's things."
After receiving the purse, Gu Yunniang raised her chin proudly as if she was showing mercy.
"You can't tell Brother Wenze that the prescription has been given to me."
Gu Qingyuan's fingers, which were covered by her sleeves, were gently twirling, with a smile on her face, as she watched Gu Yunniang put the prescription carefully and neatly into the sachet.
He threw the purse containing the prescriptions back to her.
Gu Yunniang probably didn't expect that this recipe was actually found by her mother.
It was you who forced me.
Gu Qingyuan murmured silently.
She struggled, refused, escaped and saved herself.
She took a path that only she could decide.
"Ayuan. Why are you here and not going to welcome the guests?"
Chen Zhao held Gu Qingyuan's hand with concern. He was probably in high spirits due to the happy occasion. Chen Zhao looked particularly bright today.
Not surprisingly, she saw Pei Jinting next to Chen Zhao.
Chen Zhao's husband was chatting happily with others on the other side.
She stared at the two people in front of her with amusement and teasing.
Pei Jinting saw an unprecedented look in Gu Qingyuan's eyes. That kind of look usually only appeared in the eyes of others.
She looked at him with mockery.
Pei Jinting's smiling eyes were slightly startled. Looking again, Gu Qingyuan's eyes were still as before, clear and moist, with bright eyes.
"Sister, I wish you the best of luck every year and every year."
She said a congratulatory message that was plain and correct.
Pei Jinting walked up to Gu Qingyuan seemingly accidentally, held her hand carelessly, and nodded to Chen Zhao.
"Sister, you are the protagonist today, go and entertain the guests. She was injured two days ago and has not recovered, so I am here to accompany her."
Gu Qingyuan couldn't help turning her head and glanced at Pei Jinting.
Pei Jinting looked straight ahead, held her hand, and led her to the shade next to her.
Gu Qingyuan couldn't withdraw, so she had no choice but to let him go.
"What did Gu Erniang say to you when she came over?" Pei Jinting asked.
Gu Qingyuan would never say that she had done something disgraceful, tit for tat.
In the past, when I worked under the Ruan family, I was naturally thoughtful, but I never harmed anyone.
Maybe, she was broken since that time at Huangzhuang.
Later, step by step, I took the wrong path.
After Gu Qingyuan thought for a few moments, she responded somewhat casually,
"Nothing. Just some fragmentary words. Not worth mentioning."
Pei Jinting's eyes turned slightly, his dark eyes filled with jest, and he laughed at her,
"You think your husband is willing to take care of you because you were so stupid in the past that you didn't know how to come back after being bullied."
Gu Qingyuan was embarrassed, and she instantly understood the ridicule in Pei Jinting's mouth.
More than once in the past, he had encountered her beloved object being snatched away by Gu Yunniang.
She was very fond of the red bean tree in the courtyard.
After her stepmother came in, Gu Yunniang ran to tell Mrs. Ruan that she wanted it too.
I don’t know what Ruan and her stepmother said, but the red bean tree was uprooted.
The strange thing is that she didn't see Gu Yunniang planting it in the yard.
Pei Jinting thought that she had just met Gu Yunniang, and she must not be too happy, so her joking voice became much softer.
"Tell my husband what Gu Yunniang said to you."
Gu Qingyuan suddenly became quiet.
Pei Jinting stared at her fair and red face and smelled the floral scent of hair oil on her blue hair.
Suddenly, he clasped her hands behind her back and pressed her against the pillar next to her, unable to move.
"If you don't tell me whether it's true or not, do you have to force your husband to "torture" you before you say it?"
Gu Qingyuan turned her head away, not looking at his face.
How was she going to tell him?
Tell him about her stupidity in the past? She was fooled around.
For that ridiculous mother-daughter love, I drank the poisonous soup.
Or tell her that she just did something bad?
Although, she was no longer a good person in everyone's sense when she approached him to make a pact to steal her bride.
But she didn't want to expose such a dark self in front of him.
In this shady corner where there is no one around, the sunlight and shadows are long.
Not far away, there was a noisy crowd.
Gu Qingyuan looked at the fine dust floating in the light and shadow in a daze, and said softly,
"I don't want to say that you can kill me if you can."
The surrounding wind blows the fragrance of the lotus pond, and the fish swim leisurely underwater.
There was an eerie silence all around.
After a long time, Pei Jinting straightened his thin lips, raised his eyebrows slightly, and said directly in a casual tone,
"So Yuanyuan blames her husband for not being able to kill you?"
The man raised his eyebrows, and after catching a glimpse of her strange gaze, he frowned again.
He closed his palms holding her slender waist and spoke softly,
"Then it's as you wish."
Gu Qingyuan felt that Pei Jinting was getting closer and closer to her, and the hem of her skirt seemed to be constantly lifting up.
Under the eaves of the corridor in the distance, a pair of peeping eyes were filled with shock, resentment and jealousy.
"Pei Jinting, you are crazy. This is the back garden. If you want to go crazy, go find someone else."
In the past, Pei Jinting's reputation as a libertine was well-known in Kyoto, and there were cases of him robbing brides from small families. Not only did he rob them, but they also destroyed their families.
But she had never seen those women, whether in other courtyards or in the Pei Mansion. Except for the frost branches around her, she didn't seem to see a single young maid.
The only people serving him were servants.
He hadn't done that before.
When I saw the guests in the garden today, I suddenly remembered that he used to be like that and had such endless ways of teasing.
It is not impossible to have concubines living together.
Pei Jinting's eyes turned cold and he stared at her coldly,
"Say it again?"
The hand that was holding her waist tightened and seemed to have a downward tendency, clearly threatening.
Gu Qingyuan was a little scared when he saw her, and she tightened her legs slightly.
But she did think so, and it's not like she didn't know that he had someone before.
What's more, she didn't care and said that if he had someone he liked, he could live with him at any time.
So he raised his face and nodded,
"With Mr. Pei's character, I think..."
As if being aroused by Gu Qingyuan, Pei Jinting looked at her deeply, hugged her and squeezed into a water pavilion nearby, making her swallow back the words she had not spoken.
But this was just the beginning. Soon, she was thrown heavily onto the couch in the water pavilion. Then she heard a long squeaking sound as the fabric tore apart.