The beauty is delicate and soft, and he madly criticizes the powerful officials for taking her as th

As soon as she finished speaking, he noticed that she wanted to pull away her hand. Pei Zhi held her tightly and whispered, "It's just a question."

"You didn't just ask, that's what you thought." Yu Tingwan's eyes were red and she stood up to throw away his hand.

She thought of the subtle look on his face when the princess mentioned Xiangsi Yin today, and she felt panicked, fearing that he would really feed her worms.

Seeing her resistance, Pei Zhi's eyes dimmed slightly. With a little effort on his hands, Yu Tingwan fell into his arms.

She couldn't get away and turned her face away in anger.

"Whenever I leave the house, I am followed by so many Dragon-Slaying Guards. Don't you think it's enough?" Yu Tingwan thought carefully about how strange he was today. It was after hearing the princess mention Xiangsi Yin that her fingertips became cold for a moment.

"If I didn't ask you today, would you have poisoned me by not saying a word?"

After several consecutive questions, Pei Zhi touched her face, his fingertips getting wet.

He suddenly panicked and pinched her chin to make her look at him.

"Why are you so scared?" Pei Zhi sighed, "I won't mention this in the future."

Yu Tingwan didn't think much about it during the day, but the more he thought about it now, the more he felt that, according to his temperament, it was the first time he knew this thing today, and he didn't know how excited he was.

No wonder he had been distracted all day, most likely thinking about how to feed himself Gu.

She lowered her head and said, "If you don't mention it, you might trick me into eating it someday."

Pei Zhi was stunned, lowered his eyelashes, gently touched the back of her neck with his fingers, and promised her: "Wanwan, I will never trick you into eating Xiangsi Yin in the future."

Yu Tingwan didn't believe him at all, pinched his sleeves, thought for a moment and said, "I'm a little sleepy."

On the bed, she was lying with her back turned. When she noticed that Pei Zhi was about to hug her, she moved further in.

"I just said it casually." He pulled the person next to him into his arms and kissed her forehead gently, "Even if it's really a poison, I won't eat it for you. Why are you so scared?"

"It has nothing to do with the child Gu and the mother Gu." Yu Tingwan saw that he was not letting go of his words at all, and said angrily: "Who would like to have bugs in their body?"

Pei Zhi laughed and said in a more relaxed tone: "Is it because you are afraid of insects?"

He thought that Yu Tingwan didn't want to have anything to do with him at all, including the ones caused by the Gu insects.

With the stone in his heart lifted, Pei Zhi momentarily forgot the tone of his voice just now, and it only added fuel to the fire when it fell into the ears of the person next to him.

Sure enough, the anger in Yu Tingwan's heart grew stronger and stronger, and finally turned into grievance for no apparent reason.

"If you want to feed me Gu worms, you don't have to care whether I want to or not. Why bother asking me?"

Hearing that her voice was trembling and her tone was not right, the smile on Pei Zhi's face disappeared. He ordered his maid to come in and light the lamps in the inner room.

"Wanwan, I..." He looked at those tearful eyes and paused for a moment.

He regretted his tentative question tonight. He didn't expect her to react so strongly, and he even made up his mind to hide the matter.

"Wanwan, don't cry anymore." Pei Zhizhi gently brushed the cheek of the woman in his arms, "Pingyang Marquis is in Chang'an, you can't go anywhere, why would I want to use Gu."

Yu Tingwan remembered that he had not seen her before in Shenshi, so he went to the Huan family in person to ask for someone. He held her tossing and turning over her at night and said some crazy things.

She didn't believe this excuse.

"Since you think of lovesickness as a sharp sword, I will naturally also think of it. I am not an idle princess like Ayesha. I have official duties to deal with all day long." He paused, "You also saw that lovesickness triggers you today. It hurts so much, if you leave one day, will you have to endure the pain and deal with the affairs of the court?"

Yu Tingwan thought of Ayesha rolling on the ground and was a little convinced. After all, the Lord of Ten Thousand Vehicles was in danger.

Pei Zhi's mouth was a little bitter. Seeing her relaxed expression, he whispered: "There are so many ways to prevent you from leaving. Why should I plant a poison on myself? I just mentioned it casually tonight. How can I be that stupid?"

He kissed the corner of the lips of the person in his arms, pulled out a smile and said: "Wanwan has been thinking too much."

Seeing that Yu Tingwan still looked suspicious but not resisting him so much, Pei Zhi held her and coaxed her softly for a long time until she fell asleep in his arms and then breathed a sigh of relief.

*

Pei Zhi walked into the inner room of Guanjuyuan and immediately saw the woman sitting under the window, looking down at the book in her hand.

He was holding a plate of her favorite preserves in his hand. After sitting next to her, he reached out and stuffed a pickled kumquat into her mouth without raising her head.

Yu Tingwan subconsciously opened his mouth, then froze for a moment and spit out the candied fruit.

Pei Zhi saw that her face was wary, but he was not unhappy at all.

Three days had passed since he tested her to see if she wanted to have a love affair. The situation just now happened more than once, and Pei Zhi's temper was worn away.

"It's just kumquats." He looked closer at the book in her hand and suddenly laughed, "Isn't this my old poem?"

Yu Tingwan tilted her head, her forehead touched his lips, and she quickly moved to the side.

"I have nothing to do." She turned it over from the study, out of curiosity.

Seeing that Pei Zhi was getting closer to her, she quickly found something to say and asked, "Have you ever raised a bird before?"

Yu Tingwan pointed to the scroll and opened the page. It was a poem. When he was young, the king of Wei actually wrote a poem for a bird.

Pei Zhi seemed to think of something, lowered his eyes, closed the book, and said lightly "Hmm".

"I raised it for a few years and then died."

"Did the late king not allow it?" Yu Tingwan thought of the year mentioned in the article, which should have been when Pei Zhi was fifteen. The late king was so strict with his children, and he must have felt that he was losing his ambition by playing with things.

Besides, they were still in the military camp at that time.

"Pei Su smothered it to death." He said calmly and looked at the woman beside him. "He saw that the bird's tail feathers were beautiful, so he plucked them out and planned to make them into shuttlecocks."

The bird was very smart and knew how to go to the cook to find food. The soldiers knew that it was raised by the prince and never paid attention to it, so it was very close to people and was unsuspecting. It flew around the military camp during the day, eating and drinking. Then he came back heartlessly.

"When he was playing with the bird, he saw me. He was afraid of making any noise, so he just put it in his sleeve to cover it up and threw it in the corner."

Yu Tingwan looked up at him and said clearly: "No wonder you are sad."

It would have been acceptable if it was an accident, but he was muffled to death by his own brother.

"It's not very sad." Pei Zhi lowered his eyes to meet hers, caressed her cheek with his palm, and said casually: "It's just a bird."

King Wei, who was still a young man at the time, just dragged Pei Su to the edge of the tank and pushed his head into the water over and over again, letting him taste the feeling of suffocation.

The water in the tank was designed to prevent leakage. It had been left for a long time and the stench was unbearable. Pei Su begged for mercy at first, but in the end he kept cursing. After being let go, he ran to the king's tent and cried to Pei Xu: "Father, my eldest brother wants to kill me."

Pei Zhi had already rushed to the king's tent to plead guilty to Pei Xu. His phoenix eyes were coldly staring at his crying and complaining brother, his pupils as dark as ink clouds.

The late king scolded Pei Su for crying and crying. When there were only two people left in the tent, he kicked the eldest son until he vomited blood. He pointed at his most proud son with heartache and cursed: "He has been at odds with you since childhood. Naturally. Pick the one you like and start with it.”

The late king seemed to have thought of something as he spoke, "It doesn't matter if the bird dies. You are in a high position. What's the difference between making your preferences known to the public and handing your weaknesses to others?"

Seeing that the eldest son remained silent, Pei Xu thought that his words were heard, and said with satisfaction: "Do you know where you went wrong?"

"The fault is that the position is not high enough."

If it belonged to his father, Pei Su would never dare to touch it even if he didn't like it.

One sentence made the late king so angry that he cursed: "You evil son! Go to the battlefield and lead the army next year. If you lose the first battle, you don't have to do it again. Instead of leaving the throne to you such an unfilial and disloyal thing, it is better to give you a few A younger brother."

When Pei Zhi returned, he melted the golden bird cage with the lotus pattern and made it into a gold and jade hair crown. He gave it to Pei Su and let him wear it in front of his eyes.

Yu Tingwan saw Pei Zhi looking directly into his eyes, but he didn't know what he was thinking. He said softly: "Your Majesty, every time you look at me like this, you are lying."

He came back to his senses, smiled and hugged her waist, "What I lied about has been forgotten for so many years, even if I was sad at the time."