Hu Pei intensified his torture of Yu Jin and left his own traces on her, which was nothing more than to let Cen Xijun see it and stimulate the madman who regarded Yu Jin as his life.

Yu Jin knew Hu Pei's thoughts, but in addition to trying his best to please him, there was no way, and Hu Pei was still very good to her in front of people.

Hu Pei was pleased by Yu Jin's well-behavedness, and hugged her for a long time. The maids and servants serving outside listened to the rough panting and moaning from the inside, and they only thought that the young master and the young grandmother were in a strong relationship, but they didn't know that Yu Jin was being played with his mouth covered.

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Cen House

Cen Xijun had only slept for half an hour this night, and now the second half of the branch was serving him with red bean sweet cake.

"Eat slowly, don't choke."

Banzhi sat beside Cen Ximi, pinching half of the sweet cake in his right hand, and caressing his back with his left hand to give him relief.

Cen Xi's mouth was full of pastries, his cheeks were stuffed and bulging, and because he choked, he hurriedly poured in a cup of tea, and there were water stains hanging on the corners of his mouth.

Banzhi persuaded him and took a handkerchief to wipe his mouth, looking gentle and helpless. Earlier, Cen Xi was noble and cold, and his every move was polite, where did he know that he would be so childish when he was sick now. Eating and dressing have to be half a branch red, except when he goes out every day, half a branch can't leave him half a step, otherwise it will be a long time of obsessive crying.

"I'm done eating, I'm going to find Xiaojin."

Cen Xijun finished eating the last piece of pastry with half a branch's hand, pinched his sleeve and wiped his mouth indiscriminately, then kicked away the stool and walked out.

"Young Master! You...... Can you not go ......?"

Cen Xijun was just about to go around half a branch, but she grabbed her sleeve. Cen Xijun turned his head a little annoyed, and saw the little girl sitting at the table with her head up and looking at herself, with some complicated emotions in her eyes that he couldn't understand, and a rare flattering smile on her face.

"Don't go...... It's snowing heavily and it's not safe today. ”

Banzhi saw Cen Xiyi looking back at him, so he hurriedly persuaded again, with some hope in his soft voice.

Seeing this, Cen Xijun was almost about to respond, but thinking of Hu Pei's suspicious temperament, he hardened his heart and refused half a branch, shook off the hand on his sleeve, and ran into the snow without looking back.

Banzhi's hand fell back to his lap weakly, looking at the smaller and smaller blue-brown figure in the distance, he only felt his heart sour, and couldn't help but cry.

She hollowed out the person she loved, but she held her heart to another woman. She was with him, protected her, and now she had to see with her own eyes how he loved another woman!

Banzhi is a strong and cowardly woman.

She can take good care of the sick Cen Xijuan by herself, and she can also take care of the entire Cen Mansion in an orderly manner, which can be said to be not strong.

But she is cowardly, she accompanies Cen Xijun day and night, but she doesn't have the courage to admit that she still loves him, and only deceives herself and says that she is repaying her kindness.

She's just a little girl, where can she bear such a love-hate entanglement. She should have died on a rainy night in a mass grave, and she was lucky enough to save her life, but she still had to suffer like this.

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It's getting late, and at most it's going to be night. Banzhi stood at the gate of the mansion as usual and waited for Cen Xiyi to go home, but this time he lowered his eyes and did not look at the entrance of the alley.

"I'm back."

Cen Xihuan walked out of the corner of the street with a head full of snow, as if he didn't see half a branch, he still stood at the door of the house, and did not come forward to pick him up. It was only when Cen Xiyi walked up to him that he said lightly, and there was no usual joy in his tone.

"Half Branch, I'm hungry......"

Cen Xijun saw half of the depressed mood at a glance, but he couldn't coax her, so he could only reach out and grab her sleeve, pull the tail note long, and pretend to be a child to beg her to look at himself more.

"The meal is ready, and you can eat it when you go back."

Banzhi ignored Cen Xijun, just dodged his hand without a trace, and walked into the courtyard by himself. Even though he also answered his words, he was very cold. Cen Xijun panicked when he saw this, and hurriedly rushed up, but he couldn't say anything, just followed her step by step, like a puppy that had made a mistake.

Cen Xijun followed Banzhi back to the wing. At a glance, I saw the food on the table, and it was still steaming, thinking that it had just been prepared. Banzhi stopped, turned around and walked in front of Cen Xijun, and reached out and tugged at his collar. Cen Ximi, who was still staring at the food in a daze, reacted and hurriedly lowered his head. Banzhi skillfully shook off the snow on his head, took a clean handkerchief and wiped his hair for him, and then led him to the table and sat down.

Cen Xi looked at the bowl of noodles placed in front of him and was stunned again, and it happened that Banzhi spoke at this time:

"Today is your birthday, and I wanted to leave you for your birthday, so you know...... Eat it! ”

Banzhi looked at Cen Ximian's gaze, cold and calm, but Cen Ximian was full of grievances from inside. He couldn't help but redden.

"Twigs ......"

Cen Xi spoke in a hoarse voice. He hadn't called her that for too long, and since the two broke up over Yu Jin's affair, she hadn't allowed him to call her that.

When Banzhi heard this, his eyes flashed, and a terrifying thought suddenly appeared in his heart.

"Eat, or it'll be cold."

Banzhi suddenly spoke, interrupting Cen Xi's words.

Cen Xijun suddenly came back to his senses, and he felt a little worried about the rest of his life after the catastrophe. Just now he accidentally exposed his horse's feet, although it was not exposed, but he was still afraid. It's not that I'm afraid that Hu Pei will find out something, but I'm afraid that Banzhi will see that he is lying to her.

At the beginning, for the sake of Banzhi's safety, Cen Xijun was ready to hide it from her from the beginning. Hu Pei is insidious and cunning, and he is extremely suspicious, and if he wants to deceive him, he must not have the slightest mistake.

It's just that although this move is for half a branch, Cen Xijun has never regarded this as a bitter intention to hurt half a branch. It was always clear to him that he had done irreparable damage to Banzhi, and that it was all because of his incompetence.

Cen Ximian didn't expect Banzhi to forgive himself afterwards, but before everything was over, he was still afraid, afraid that Banzhi would know that he had lied to her, and that she would leave him. Cen Xijun was sure to kill Hu Pei, but he was not sure that Banzhi was willing to be with him after knowing everything, after all, he did hurt her, and in such a cruel way.

Cen Ximian was frightened in his heart, but when his eyes fell on the bowl of longevity noodles, all the uneasy emotions turned into sour love that filled his limbs.

The bowl full of noodles actually had only one noodle, and I think it was made by half-branch, and she once told him that it meant longevity. The noodle soup is clear and fragrant, and there is a poached egg and a few slices of green vegetables lying on it, which is very delicious to look at.

Cen Xijun solemnly took a bite of noodles with chopsticks, but almost burst into tears after just one bite. It's not that it's unpalatable, but he tastes the fragrance of onion and garlic, but there is not a trace of onion and garlic in this side.

He suddenly remembered the first night she came to him, when he was drunk, and she had cooked a bowl of noodles for him, but the bowl had onions and garlic in it. He had never told Banzhi that he would not eat raw onions and garlic, and she had not cooked noodles for him since.

It's just that she knows it, and she remembers it so clearly. Any dish without onion and garlic will have less taste, he is not particular about the diet, and he has not specifically explained to his subordinates, so his mother does not know about the matter of eating onion and garlic, but his branches know. I also deliberately skimmed the onion and garlic itself, leaving only some fragrance.

His branches have always loved him so tenderly, but he hurt her and failed her.

Cen Xi's hand holding the chopsticks trembled slightly, and there was some indescribable bloody taste in his mouth, but he just endured it, picked up the noodles in the bowl, and almost buried his head in the bowl.

Cen Xijun ate the bowl of noodles cleanly, and there was not even soup left. Banzhi glanced at the empty bowl and didn't say anything, only took out a pot of warm wine from the food box on the table, and took out two wine glasses to fill it for himself and Cen Xi.

"It's very cold today, drink some wine to warm up, and it's also your birthday, it's a lively one."

Banzhi looked at Cen Ximian's somewhat puzzled gaze, pushed the wine glass in front of him, and explained unhurriedly.

Cen Xi lowered his eyes and looked at the wine glass in front of him, and then looked at half a branch, but he still drank it. He doesn't drink very well, and when he gets drunk, he will inevitably talk nonsense, and if Zhizhi finds out the clue, he will be finished, so he will hesitate. It's just that looking at Zhizhi's unhappy face, he still drank it. It's a big deal that he pretends to be drunk after a few drinks, but he is unwilling to refuse her.

After a glass of wine, Cen Xijun tasted the jar of green plum wine that he and Zhizhi brewed together. The spicy smell of wine mixed with the sweet and sour aroma of green plum filled Cen Ximian's entire mouth, but the sour idea spread to the tip of his heart.

Banzhi blushed after drinking, and didn't talk to Cen Ximian anymore, just poured wine into himself and Cen Ximi's wine glasses cup after cup, and finally when this pot of wine bottomed out, he heard the muffled sound of Cen Ximi's forehead slamming on the table next to him.

Half of the branch is actually not better than Cen Ximian's amount of alcohol, but she wants to get him drunk and take his words, so she has held on to this point.

Banzhi moved the stool closer, half of his body was propped up on Cen Ximian's back, and one arm encircled Cen Xijun's neck, already drunk.

Half of the cheeks were pink, the apricot eyes were misty, and the small lip flaps were stained with crystal wine, and they came to Cen Ximi's ears like this.

"Ah ......, are Ah ...... drunk?"

The soft call with the fragrance of green plum wine stirred Cen Ximian's calm heartbeat, and it was as fast as a drum. He was pretending to be drunk, and now that the girl he loved was so close to him, how could he calm down.

Banzhi screamed a few times, and when he saw that Cen Xijun didn't react, he reached out and twisted his ears again, but he didn't wake up, so he felt a little annoyed in his heart.

"What...... Don't talk nonsense, don't talk...... How else can I ask you......"

Banzhi was so drunk that he said his thoughts, and his hot face was also attached to Cen Xijun's face, and his eyebrows and eyes were full of grievances.

Cen Xi's eyelashes twitched, and he was a little funny in his heart, his branches were really cute.

"Ahh......h Don't like Yu Jin's good ......, she's a bad woman...... If she really loved you, she wouldn't be willing to let you suffer like this......"

Banzhi rubbed Cen Ximi's face, and muttered with his eyes closed, with some crying.

Cen Xi's hand on his right leg pinched the flesh on his leg before he resisted the urge to hold Banzhi into his arms, but the tears in his eyes couldn't be held back, and flowed down the corner of his eye to the table, but fortunately, Banzhi was unconscious and didn't find it.

"Ahh......h I'm so wronged...... I'm so wronged, I'm so wronged......"

The drunk half-branch is particularly fragile, and what he wouldn't say on weekdays is now being said in one go. With crying words, word by word smashed Cen Ximian's heart to a pulp.

"Ah...... Birthday and good health... Auspicious ......"

Banzhi cried for a while, but he couldn't resist the drunkenness, and finally said a blessing to Cen Ximi, then closed his eyes and crooked down from Cen Ximian's back.

As soon as Banzhi's body moved, Cen Xijun hurriedly reached out and hugged her in his arms, for fear that she would fall.

The little girl in her arms was so drunk that such a big movement did not wake her up. The cheeks are flushed, there are tears on the long eyelashes, the eyebrows are frowned, and the moist lips are slightly pursed, such grievances, needless to say, you can see it.

Cen Xijun saw a pain in his heart, only slowly lowered his head, and kissed away the tears on Banzhi's eyes lovingly, but his own tears fell to Banzhi's eyebrows.

Men don't flick when they have tears, and Cen Xijun is even more so, but in just a few months, it seems that he is going to cry all the tears of his life.

"Zhizhi, wait a little longer...... It's all coming to an end. ”

Cen Xi hugged Banzhi and didn't let go, and put his chin on her forehead, as if he was talking to Banzhi and to himself, and his voice was hoarse.

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April of the following year

Hu Pei was admiring the flowers in the back garden with Yu Jin in his arms, but he was tightly surrounded by the officials who suddenly broke in.

"What do you mean by that, guys?"

Hu Pei has always been easy and humble to the outside world, even if he was surrounded by a group of officials who suddenly broke into his residence, he did not panic and was rude, but still sat in the pavilion and asked questions calmly.

"Yo! Isn't this Young Master Hu...... We didn't have anything else to do when we came here today, but Master Hu made a mistake, and now that he is in prison, we were ordered to raid Hu's mansion! ”

A servant standing in front of him heard Hu Pei's question, and spoke with a little sarcasm.

"What?"

When Hu Pei heard this, he panicked for a while, and stood up suddenly, unable to maintain even his usual disguise, and his eyes were full of surprise.

"Where are so many questions! The yamen is doing business, and I also ask Young Master Hu and Young Lady to avoid it! ”

The official is obviously a rudder who sees the wind, and now that the Hu family is in trouble, there is no need for him to deal with Hu Pei. Therefore, he ignored Hu Pei's reaction except for a sneer, and after informing him, he motioned to the people behind him to drive Hu Pei and Yu Jin out, and walked to the inner courtyard with the rest of the officials.

"Husband......

Hu Pei and Yu Jin were driven out of the back garden by two officials, and now they are standing in the front yard of Hu Mansion, because they are guarded, they can't enter or escape, they can only watch a group of people inside search the backyard.

"Get out of here!"

Yu Jin had never seen such a scene, so he was naturally scared, so he subconsciously grabbed Hu Pei's sleeve and called him softly, hoping that he would pay attention to himself.

It's just that Hu Pei is not clear about what happened, and now he is anxious and annoyed, where will he care about Yu Jin, as soon as Yu Jin touched his sleeve, he was thrown away.