Chapter 49: Peach Wine
Qi Heng's reaction was not slow, with the lesson of the previous time, where could she succeed again. Therefore, Pei Baoer kicked out, but he fell short.
The four eyes met, and they were embarrassed.
The man's expression turned colder, and he grabbed her directly with one hand, and he didn't know what veins he was pinching, Pei Baoer only felt numb on his body, and it was difficult to move. Then, her blouse was ripped off.
Of course, it only exposed most of the shoulders and the tightly wrapped chest wipe. The shoulders were wrapped in several layers of gauze, exuding a rich, spicy smell of gold sores. It can be said that there is no seductive charm at all, but she still can't help but feel ashamed.
"You let go of me! I've told you everything, I'm not your wife! You are like this, like this, what kind of system! She was so angry that her eyes turned into toads.
However, the "unorthodox" person didn't seem to have the intention of restraint, as if he hadn't heard someone screaming in his ear, he continued to look calm, and simply untied the gauze that had been half-stained by the newly oozing red blood, and lightly retreated her wound.
Pei Bao'er, who was ignored, was very unhappy: "Hey, hurry up and untie it, that acupoint of mine or something!" ”
The man's expression was faint, and he gestured skillfully to sprinkle medicinal powder on her shoulder, but in Pei Bao'er's eyes, it was a bit like sprinkling cumin powder, she was the piece of meat on the cutting board, oh no, at the mercy of others on the barbecue grill.
"You're making too much fuss, now I'm letting you go, it's just a waste of this medicine."
After taking the medicine, he asked her again: "Do you still use your hands and feet?" ”
Pei Bao'er held back her anger and said, "No." ”
Qi Heng bowed slightly, his eyes swept around the room, but he didn't make any next move, walked directly to the outside room, and brought Aunt Qiu in.
"The medicine has been applied, and she is re-bandaged."
Pei Bao'er froze in horror, this neurotic let herself greet Aunt Qiu with this kind of bitter and good family woman who was suspected of being abused?
Sure enough, the latter saw her disheveled and frightened appearance, the overdeveloped apple muscles on her face beat unnaturally a few times, and then thought that she had "quietly" glanced at the noble master, and a relieved smile appeared on her face.
She also left a sentence very understandingly: "Xiao Langjun is already in the middle of sleep." And he drifted away.
Pei Bao'er felt that she had no face to see Aunt Qiu again, she controlled the only flexible part of her body now, and slowly closed her eyes, only thinking that she was a dead person......
Dead silence returned to the room.
Pei Bao'er still closed her eyes, and said in a sullen voice: "Hey, it's all bandaged, let me go quickly!" ”
The man's voice suddenly sounded above her head, which was very close to her: "Are you sure you don't make trouble?" ”
She resisted the urge to roll her eyes, and said in a calm tone, "I promise." ”
After regaining her freedom, she immediately wanted to sit up and continue the previous interrogation, but as soon as she opened her eyes, she saw the coffin face above her head, and involuntarily shrank to the side.
After settling up straight, Pei Bao'er said weakly: "You haven't answered me yet!" Also, I think I've made it very clear, that time ago...... I hope, I hope that there will be no more misleading behavior. ”
The more she spoke, the more fluent she became, and she felt that her momentum had risen to a higher level, and she was about to put on a posture of a confrontation between the two sides, but the other party did not accept the offer at all, but brought up an unrelated topic.
"Do you want to stay here? Or back to Yonghe Lane? ”
Pei Baoer was stunned.
"How do you know me...... Uh, going back, of course. ”
The man nodded, and drifted away like Aunt Qiu, leaving Pei Baoer leaning on the head of the bed and holding the long pillow in a daze.
A quarter of an hour later, she and the sleepy-eyed little inkstone were packed and stuffed into the carriage. After another quarter of an hour, she returned to her familiar courtyard.
No, how has this yard changed so much?
Pei Bao'er looked at the yard, which seemed to be three times larger, and was very suspicious that she had gone to the wrong door.
"Lady, you're finally back!"
Dani, who heard the news, looked at their mother and son, and was so excited that she burst into tears, and when she saw the big Buddha next to her, which automatically emitted cold air, and the people behind him, the tears shrank back again.
Pei Bao'er followed her eyes, and said after realizing it: "This courtyard, it shouldn't be your ghost, right?" ”
The man said righteously: "The place is too narrow, and the house is too small, so it is inconvenient for you to recuperate." ”
"What? Lady, are you hurt? Dani exclaimed, but was speechless again under Qi Heng's eyes.
Pei Bao'er smiled reluctantly and comforted: "It's okay, it's just a small injury." By the way, Ayun, he ......"
She was about to ask Liu Yun if she had ever come back, after all, she seemed to have been in a coma for two days, and as soon as she woke up, she was recognized by a beautiful man holding her hand for a long time, but she forgot to ask him about this stubble.
Dani hesitated and said, "Lang Jun has never come back, but ......"
Qi Heng snorted coldly: "Don't worry, he is not dead, and he is not missing arms or legs." At this time, maybe in some gentle country. ”
Both looked at him in confusion, but he didn't want to explain too much. No matter how Pei Baoer asked him, he could pretend that he didn't hear it, just urged her to rest, and entered one of the rooms with ease. Oh yes, that's a place in Pei Baoer's cognition that doesn't belong to her own courtyard.
Seeing that the people around her were gone, Dani whispered a few words, and Pei Baoer was shocked and speechless when she heard it.
"What? In just two days, he bought the courtyards of those two families and demolished the walls? ”
Dani nodded with a complicated expression, and looked at Pei Bao'er with more cautious eyes.
"It's all yesterday, and an old man who followed the noble man came forward."
Uncle?
Pei Bao'er thought about it carefully, glanced at the few people waiting outside the room that Qi Heng entered, and recalled it before reacting. It is estimated that the little girl is talking about the middle-aged man with a white face and beard, the person who seemed to be easier to talk and took the initiative to compensate her when she first mistook Qi Heng for Yushi to stop the car. I didn't see him a few times later, but I don't know why I came out with him again this time?
At this moment, there was another knock on the door of the courtyard, which had just been closed.
Dani was overjoyed, and ran over to answer the door, and Pei Baoer also turned her head to look. Seeing that the outsiders were a little familiar, she walked slowly to the door, and heard the person talking as she walked, and her tone was light and fluttering, as if she was a little imperceptible.
“…… I've woken up and thanked my second lady for my kindness...... The doctor said that he was injured in the leg, and it was not easy to move at will......"
Dani muttered, "That's right, since the doctor said ......"
Pei Bao'er was also overjoyed, and interjected at the right time to ask, "The person you are talking about, but Ah Yun?" He's hurt? How's the leg? ”
She looked at the person who came, and then she remembered that this was not one of the two women who stopped her to buy a perfume when she was rushing out a few days ago, as if she was the one who wore crimson clothes that day. Her head seems to be surnamed Li, isn't she selling incense powder, how could she happen to pick up Liu Yun?
Dani leaned into her ear and quickly explained, and the woman added a few words before she realized that it was really such a coincidence.
On the day when the pirates attacked the villages and towns along the coast, the news had not yet reached the eastern city, and many traders or Chinese people still went to buy according to the usual practice, and the Li family was also one of them. What's more special is that although the Li family is in charge of Uncle Li, his sister Li Su'e is a good perfumer, with a bold temperament, and often dislikes the vision of others to choose goods, so he likes to take people out by himself. Uncle Li was not worried about this Yunying unmarried girl's family, so he invited a number of green forest heroes who washed their hands in a golden basin to take care of the family and gave him a generous honorarium to protect the personal safety of his sister.
It just so happened that that day, it was also Miss Li who went out to sweep the goods with a good vote, and in the wasteland on the edge of Wuli Town, she happened to come back to the hero to save the beauty and save Liu Yun, the little sheep. It is said that that that day, Miss Li's guards killed several pirates, and the rest were so frightened that they ran away, and the heads of those thieves were cut off and brought back to get a bounty from Lord Fu Yin.
Although the story of this sword and sword shadow was bloody, Pei Baoer's eyes were shining when she heard it, and she was even more grateful to this Li Er girl.
She was excited, and quickly made a decision: "Your girl saved my brother, this life-saving grace cannot be repaid, if your family master is still interested in the previous matter, you can discuss it one or two days." ”
The woman originally learned that the person who her girl saved casually was this Pei Niangzi's brother, and she was planning how to persuade the other party, and designed a series of routines of "If Pei Bao'er doesn't agree, she will scold her for not being grateful like this", but it didn't work at all, and the other party directly sent the things to herself.
"Huh? Oh, okay, I, I'll go back and tell the master. She came back to her senses and regained her previous calm appearance. I don't know if the lady can be convenient to talk about in the last few days? ”
Pei Bao'er subconsciously glanced at the quiet room behind the right, but caught a glimpse of Qi Heng coming out of the house at some point, and was standing silently under the eaves, as if he was looking at this side, and as if he was just looking at something in a daze.
She coughed lightly: "I guess I've been at home for the past few days, and it's convenient for me in terms of time." ”
Of course, she wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to talk about business to visit Liu Yun's injury. Since it is inconvenient to move, the leg injury must be relatively serious, and I don't know if it will affect walking in the future. Thinking of someone's description of "no missing arms and legs", she hummed in that direction even more dissatisfied.
Having received the answer she wanted, the woman was polite and left satisfied.
Pei Bao'er thought about it, but raised her foot and walked to the left-hand side.
This was originally the small courtyard of the Xu family next door, and there was a particularly large peach tree in his house, and when the wind blew when it bloomed, the pink peach blossom rain in the sky was amazingly beautiful, and sometimes it would blow down a little and float to her. Pei Baoer also went to his house to buy a lot of peach blossoms, used to develop her rouge, powder, and even tried to extract aromatic oil from peach petals.
It's just that the peach blossoms are almost finished at this time, and there are more verdant peach leaves than flowers on the tree, mixed with finger-sized green peaches, a scene full of vitality.
When Pei Bao'er walked under the peach tree, she happened to meet his gaze, and she stopped.
Before she could speak, he said quietly, "Have you ever drunk wine made from peaches?" ”
She was stunned, and something seemed to flash through her mind, like a cunning little silverfish, too fast for her to catch.
"So, why did you talk about this all of a sudden? I want to ask you, what did you want to do when you bought the yard next to my house? You are a dignified prince, you don't call for wind and rain in the capital, what are you doing here? ”
Qi Heng ignored her, his eyes looked at the old peach tree in the courtyard through her, but he recited the specific steps of winemaking.
“…… At the end of summer, take the ripe and unripe peaches, peel and take the flesh...... Store in a cool place for one to three years. Does this method sound familiar? ”
Pei Baoer's thoughts couldn't help but go back to the elective class many years ago, and the theme of one assignment was to make wine from various fruits, did she choose star fruit or peach at that time?
An inexplicable panic crept up her spine like a tiny spider when she wasn't looking.
"What do you mean?"
There seemed to be a glimmer of light in the depths of the man's eyes: "You once said that fruit wine is different from other wines, but if it is stored for more than three years, it will change its taste, become sour, and become bitter. I tried it in the Mid-Autumn Festival last year, and the taste seems to be the same as it was back then. I think you're mistaken. ”
Pei Bao'er's eyes widened, and she took two steps back in disbelief.
This must be all a coincidence, but the original owner happens to be able to make wine, so what does it have to do with her?