Chapter 21: Stealing Jade

Pei Baoer's memory of that day in the bookstore is not very clear.

At that time, she was so dizzy that she was teased by the "disciple", and she even forgot to ask him where the new gadgets in the bookstore and the women's frequent style script came from, but seeing that his expression was wrong when he heard the joint code, she felt that the traverser was not this person!

At that time, she still had a little reason left in her head, and she used the long-lost lower kick to get out. Then he trotted all the way back to the small courtyard of Osmanthus Lane, only to realize that he was in a cold sweat, and was blown by the cold wind outside, and the snow was struck, and the padded jacket on his body was already wet.

Originally, she was a little uncomfortable when she went out in the morning, but this time she sat down directly, and the wind and cold were menacing, almost the first serious illness after she came through. She took advantage of the opportunity to recuperate and hid at home without going out.

She was really afraid of that weird man surnamed Qi!

"Ah Liang, drink the medicine!"

The cheap son is now almost two years old, and his birthday will be in a few days, and he can walk extremely steadily at this time, and he can even give her medicine. It's the little arm and leg one, holding a bowl the size of his two hands, which makes people really worry about it, worried that he will overturn it in the next moment.

Pei Baoer hurriedly lifted the quilt and got out of bed to pick it up, and asked him casually: "What about your little Yun father and sister Da Ni?" ”

Xiaoyun's father was not taught by Pei Bao'er, but because she often screamed in Xiaoyun, and when this little guy heard it, she refused to call her father well, and put together such a creative title on her own. She didn't bother to correct him, anyway, this fake father couldn't be called for two years, let him change his words at this time, and let him change his name once in the future, it was very troublesome, she chose to turn a blind eye.

Yan'er blew two breaths into her medicine bowl, her face bulging like a hamster.

"Cool ~ drink quickly." He thought for a while, "Xiao Yun's father is a medicine, and Sister Da Ni is shopping for vegetables." ”

Pei Baoer understood, the medicine in his mouth is equivalent to the various actions of the production process of a small workshop, just because he once took him to the pharmacy to grab medicine, and he saw the young man grinding the medicine powder, so he classified similar actions into this category.

She looked at the low sun outside, the sky was slightly dark, presumably Dani went to buy vegetables at this time to save a few pennies. It's good to be diligent and thrifty, but it's not good for the two children in this house to eat stale vegetables when they are growing up. Their family is not as poor as before, so there is no need to be so picky. But you have to say her tactfully, so as not to hurt the little girl's heart.

She wrinkled her face and drank the soup as quickly as she could, as if it had been poured directly into her throat without her tongue. Then, she was about to go to the kitchen to wash the dishes, but she didn't want to be grabbed by Yan'er on the edge of the bowl, and while saying that he would wash it, she refused to let go of the bowl.

Pei Baoer's heart warmed, and she let go.

Such a good child, if only it were hers, she would not have nightmares and worries like these days.

When her eyes fell on the white jade bracelet on her wrist that appeared out of thin air, Pei Bao'er's pupils shrank, and she remembered the entanglement that seemed to be real and illusory a few days ago.

That day, when her ears and temples were grinding, she vaguely heard him say something inexplicable in her ear.

"It's yours, it's yours after all, and no one can take it away." It seemed like talking about her, and it seemed like talking about herself, or even someone else.

Pei Baoer didn't understand, and then found out that this "lost and returned" jade bracelet, and only then did she start to be afraid.

It was the only ornament she wore and the only thing of value. At that time, she was rescued by Mrs. Wang, who saw that her orphan and widow were strange and pitiful, and gave her a job, she was grateful, but she was also embarrassed to live in Mrs. Wang's relative's house, so she took the jade bracelet for some money, and went out to rent a room to live in.

She never thought of redeeming the jade bracelet again, she knew that it was likely related to the identity of the original owner, but she had no memory of the original owner, and she didn't want to live in the name of others. She felt that she gave birth to the little inkstone who was originally destined to be stillborn for the original owner, and was willing to take on the responsibility of raising the child, which was already considered benevolent and righteous to the original owner.

Therefore, she specially chose to die at that time, just to cut off all entanglements with the original owner's past.

But now that she was going around and around, the jade bracelet was back in her hand, and the man called out her name, he recognized her, and the relationship between the two was definitely not pure. The most terrible thing is that when she is groggy in the past few days, she dreams of the woman surnamed Qi from time to time, and a woman who seems to be "herself", and their past, everything is like a dream, shrouded in a faint white room......

Thinking of this, Pei Baoer felt a pain in her temples.

After thinking about it for the past few days, she has sorted out a speculative direction.

First of all, since the original owner looks similar to her, it is likely that the name is the same as her, which is not unusual. There are too many passages in this stalk, and it has become a law.

Secondly, the original owner and the surname Qi may have some kind of love relationship.

For example, they were childhood sweethearts, but they were beaten with sticks, and the man married someone else, and somehow the original owner fell here, and the child said that it was not his or someone else, and now that the original partner is dead, he will find his childhood sweetheart to help him straighten out; For example, the original owner may be his concubine, because he was mutilated by the dead Yuan match, so he ran away with the ball; For example, the most outrageous, dramatic, and unlikely situation is that the original owner and the person he is looking for may be twin sisters or something......

In the end, the surname Qi now seems to be a little obsessed with her, but it is not exaggerated to the point of robbing the people's daughters. After all, she has been hiding at home for the past few days and not going out, and she has not seen him stalking and chasing after her.

All in all, no matter what the identity of the original owner is and how he fell into the situation of dying alone in childbirth, Pei Baoer is now in a very embarrassing situation. After all, she was labeled as "Liu Yun's wife" in the eyes of her neighbors, if the surname Qi didn't care about making a big fuss, she wouldn't be able to stay in Taixing County, let alone Ruyuge's fledgling career.

It's really embarrassing!

It is said that illness comes like a mountain, and illness goes like a thread, Pei Baoer has been sick for ten days and half a month, and the whole person has lost a lot of weight.

She is not in good spirits and spends most of her day sleeping, napping or in a daze. In order to let her rest better, Liu Yun "separated" from her openly, and took away the most dishonest little inkstone who slept with him.

In addition to the kitchen, there are three rooms in this courtyard. Before Dani came, the three of them lived in the big main house, the small one on the left became Pei Baoer's "laboratory", and the small one on the right was used as a utility room, just next to the kitchen, stockpiling things like rice grain. Later, Dani came, so she cleaned up the small utility room and gave her a place to live.

At this time, Liu Yun wanted to directly make a bunk in the laboratory to deal with it, but Xiao Yan'er glanced at the "bed" he made and walked out with a disgusted face. After a while, Dani took his hand timidly and asked him if she could sleep with Yan'er at night.

Rao is easy-tempered Liu Yun also glanced at the little elf angrily: "Whatever you want, as long as you don't mess with your mother at night." ”

Xiao Yan'er hugged her arms and said, "I didn't make trouble!" Ah Liang said, Yan'er is the most well-behaved~"

Liu Yun: "...... Oh. ”

So, Pei Baoer rarely relived the very ordinary experience before the crossing, living in a room by herself, and sleeping until dawn without anyone making any noise. In addition, the medicine prescribed by the doctor seems to be relatively fierce, and in the past few days, she has become sleepy as soon as she drinks the medicine, and often her head has fallen into darkness before her head touches the pillow, which is simply a paradise for a mother who is often awakened by a bear child!

There is only one thing that is not very good, that is, Pei Baoer has always felt a bit like being pressed by a ghost in recent days.

In her sleep, she often felt that she couldn't move, and her waist and abdomen seemed to be pressed by some heavy object, and she often felt a little out of breath. This "ghost" was so tired that she couldn't turn over, and after sleeping for a long time, her back and buttocks hurt. At first, her hands and feet could move, but after she tried to break free of the "ghost", the "ghost" didn't give her the opportunity to struggle, and directly entangled her like an octopus, and she couldn't make any small movements, she could only fall into layers of deeper dreams like fate, and she didn't know where she was.

Pei Baoer began to wonder if she had met a barefoot doctor who was a pit father, drinking medicinal soup every day, why didn't she get better for so long?

In this regard, Liu Yun reassured her: "I invited Dr. Lu first, but I didn't see you well, and when I went out, I heard that there was an old lady doctor who had just returned to his hometown, and now he was treating people at home, so he invited him to come." What Doctor Shi meant probably was, Sister, you didn't take care of it well when you gave birth before, and you didn't have a chance to raise it in the past two years, and the root of the disease in it took advantage of the attack of this cold, so it was more serious. ”

Pei Baoer accepted this statement suspiciously, although she had been influenced by costume dramas for more than ten years, she always felt that the Taiyi was not as powerful as the Qingniu Valley Divine Doctor, and most of them were a group of wine bags and rice bags.

But she was really a little scared when she drank the medicinal soup, and she didn't bring it three times a day, so that she couldn't eat now, and when she smelled it, she had pantothenic acid in her stomach.

That night, Xiao Yan'er brought the medicinal soup to urge her to drink it.

Her eyes wandered, and she took out a small colored ball the size of two adult fists from the head of the bed, which she had made with a pile of rags and colored threads during the day in a daze these days. Although her original needlework skills were limited to sewing buttons, after passing through, she seemed to have inherited the skills of a female worker who had lost her original body, and it was still not possible to cut clothes, at least sewing some small things would not be as crooked as before.

Pei Baoer knew that Xiao Yan'er liked the flower cat of the Li family next door, so she embroidered a big fat cat with a simple shape on it, so Xiao Yan'er was very excited to take his new toy to the yard to play with ball, because Pei Baoer told him that playing in the house might smash the furniture and Xiao Yan'er's mother.

As soon as her cheap son went out, she immediately tiptoed up the medicine bowl, opened a window crack, and simply splashed it out. Then he went to wash the dishes very naturally, and said to himself that this medicinal soup was not for human drink.

That night, Pei Baoer didn't sleep as well as a few days ago, she tossed and turned in bed, barely brewing a little sleepiness, and her consciousness began to enter a fuzzy state. At that moment, she heard the sound of rustling coming from the window.

Most of the sleepiness she had managed to save disappeared suddenly, could it be that the family was going to be robbed?

Pei Baoer controlled her urge to scream, thought about it, and decided to hold on to see if it was a thief, and what did the thief want to do? To be reasonable, the whole Osmanthus Lane is inhabited by ordinary small families, and there is really nothing valuable at home. The only thing they have of value, well, probably the clay pot at the end of their bed?

The moonlight outside the window was cold, shining a clear frost.

The person on the bed closed his eyes and his body remained motionless, as if he were asleep.

Squeak –

The window sash suddenly opened, and the wind in the unpleasant winter night carried a chill, but it was quickly blocked out of the window sash again.

Pei Baoer could hear the window closed, and a very slight footstep appeared in the house, and the "thief" came in!

She still had her eyes closed, and she pretended to turn over, facing inward, but her hands were clenched tightly. But she didn't hear any sound of rummaging through the cabinets, but the footsteps were getting closer and closer, as if they were coming up towards the kang.

Her heart was beating faster and faster, and she just felt like someone was beating a drum in her ear, bang, bang. Soon, a thin layer of sweat appeared in her palms, and her hands slipped and slipped, and she could barely grasp the things in her hands.

The thief's footsteps stopped, and he stood behind her.

Pei Baoer thought, didn't this thief come in and step on it? Otherwise, how would he know that there was money on this kang? No, he found himself alone in this house, and he wanted to come and pick flowers, right?

A flood of confusing conjectures flooded into her mind, and one possibility worse than the one jumped out one after another, and she was so nervous that she didn't even dare to take a deep breath.

Finally, the thief made a move, and he seemed to reach out and press Pei Bao'er's shoulder.

Her eyes widened, and she had guessed it! Okay, you flower thief, see if your aunt doesn't give you some color!

Bang –

A small and small sound of hard objects crashing into the room was followed by the low grunt of a man.

With the moonlight pouring in from the window lattice, Pei Baoer finally saw the person clearly, but the muscles of her whole body unconsciously relaxed.

As soon as she let go, the clay pot in her hand also rolled down, slammed on the edge of the bed, and then jumped to the ground. It's just that Pei Bao'er didn't listen to the crisp sound of the jar breaking, only to see the man holding his forehead in front of the bed, his face distorted, and he snorted again.

Well, I hit my foot about it.