The protagonist Gong is still reincarnated

"How long will it take for her to wake up?"

"Don't worry."

"I don't want to owe my life."

"You really like to push the responsibility on yourself."

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Laughing voices and familiar voices, I woke up from the illusion, opened my eyes, and consciousness brought me back to the present world.

I tried my best to turn my head to the side, and saw the bed I was on, the people beside the bed, and the incense burner on the desk not far away, and the mist of burning incense curled up, but unfortunately I couldn't smell the incense.

"you're awake."

The person standing by the bed said with relief.The housekeeper at the side hurriedly handed over the tea, supported my waist, and slowly fed it to me. It was hot and made me feel much better.

I tried to salute Mr. Pei on the bed, but he stopped me.

"Have a good rest. I have found out that someone else caused you to fall into the water that day, and I will give you an explanation. Since your life is really in danger, stay in Pei's residence for now."

"what?"

"Old age, you take care of her."

"Okay, master, you should go to rest quickly."

Mr. Pei waved his hand, grabbed the long sword at his waist, and stepped out of the room.

Weak all over, I asked the housekeeper weakly, "Do you know where the benefactor in the scarlet robe is now? Lianyi heard his voice just now..."

The old man gave me a strange look, "Where is the person you mentioned? These days, only the old slave and I are here!"

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My memory is very vague, and suddenly I don’t know if I really remembered it wrong, those peach blossom eyes, that vague glimpse...

Drowsiness invaded, I gradually lowered my body and fell asleep.

After a few more days, I became more and more agile, and was told by the old man that Pei's residence does not support idlers, so I have to work.

Mr. Pei said that day that he was not the kind of person I thought. I thought he was flaunting himself as an upright gentleman. Unexpectedly, he was reminding me that he, the official of Jianghua's parents, was actually poor.

I looked at Pei's mansion, which was not as big as the backyard of Huaixiang Pavilion, and picked up the new plain white dress, picked up the broom and started sweeping.

When in Huaixiang Pavilion, when did Aunt Tong let me do work?

Apart from the elderly housekeeper, Pei's mansion doesn't even have a maid, and even a guard dog in the yard is male.

I asked the elderly: "Who will wash your clothes? Who will mend them?"

The old man smiled silly and said, "Of course it's me!"

"You cook the rice too?"

"Usually the master does it, but when he's too busy, I have to help."

"Why don't you marry a lady to take care of it?"

I really can't imagine a generation of magistrates, the mansion looks like this, and I don't want to believe that Mr. Pei is really as clean as the legend, and he attributes everything he sees to it. The mansion lacks a mistress, for example, me.

"No money!" When the old man mentioned money, he would frown, "The master's salary is not enough, and he doesn't want to get married..."

"No way? Don't your lord have any tenants in the fields?"

"The master is from a poor family... how can you say that? I have saved some money over the years, and I didn't use it to redeem you not long ago..."

I opened my mouth wide and pointed at myself, "Redemption for me?"

"My lord said, if you are sent back to the Huaixiang Pavilion, there will be no good results. He can't kill another person, so he gave all the money to the old bust..." the old man added in a low voice, " Almost pawned a sword..."

After listening to it, I had mixed feelings, and while thanking him for worrying about me, I wondered how I would spend my poor life in the future.

Since I woke up and saw Mr. Pei, I haven't seen him for half a month.

In the past half month, I have done all kinds of work, cooking, chopping firewood, cleaning the yard, washing clothes, cleaning the house, and so on.I was even impatient at first, and I was tired until late at night, and gradually felt that it was safe to do so, and I didn't have to sell my appearance to accompany some guests I hated.

One day, I was fetching water from the well at the end of the alley, and there was a lot of noise outside the alley, and there was a lot of voices. To join in the fun, I ran out, cleared the crowd, and saw several prison cars passing by on the street, heading for the execution ground.

"What happened?"

"I heard that he was a salt smuggler. I was afraid of being caught. I fell out with the eyeliner in the government. I almost killed him by mistake..."

I covered my mouth and took a few steps back, feeling cold all over.

That day before sunset, my feet suddenly went numb, it was not an accident...

Does Aunt Tong know?Why did you choose me to send to Mr. Pei?

For a moment, mixed feelings.

In the evening, Master Pei returned home.

I stepped into his study under the pretense of delivering food, stood in front of the candlelight, and carefully defended myself: "My lord, Lianyi has no knowledge of what is planned by Auntie Tong..."

He paused the hand holding the pen, raised his exceptionally good-looking face, and smiled: "I know. Otherwise, I wouldn't have kept you."

"How do you plan to deal with Ripple?"

I was a little apprehensive, he was short of money, what should I do if he sold me and exchanged for a few maidservants who were smarter and better at working than me?

"If you have nowhere to go, just stay here, maybe the monthly money is less than the other place." His eyes narrowed into a line.I thought to myself, it must be much, much less.

"Hmm! Old age's craftsmanship is getting better and better!" Mr. Pei took out a piece of pastry from the food box and gnawed on it without grace, which made me take out a handkerchief to cover up my smile.

"My lord, this is made by Ripple..."

"Oh!" Master Pei paused for a moment, then began to gnaw again, "You did a good job, it seems that my money is not in vain."

This night's conversation changed my opinion of Mr. Pei, maybe I didn't hate him in the first place.

Unknowingly, I arrange all the food in the house, and my appetite is satisfied. Mr. Pei sees me more and more pleasing to the eye, from a stingy smile to taking the initiative to bring me fresh ingredients from the street.

About half a year later, I found that Mr. Pei not only rejected me, but also rejected all the women in Jianghua City who were interested in him.

He has no wife, and no concubine. He is so weird that his subordinates make fun of him in private. Maybe there is something wrong with him.

I dismissed these conjectures. Mr. Pei is definitely not what they can think of, but at the same time, I am a little bit unspeakably happy. Mr. Pei keeps himself clean, is he waiting for the woman he really likes?

I was the only woman in the house...

It's not my fault that I think too much.

One moonlit night, I changed into a crimson dress.Last time the three of us went to the cloth shop to make new clothes, Mr. Pei stared at the crimson cloth for a long time.I thought he must like this color very much, so he secretly made this dress.

Butler Nian went to visit relatives in a foreign country and came back a few days later. Mr. Pei and I were the only ones in Pei's house, which gave me great courage.

In the courtyard, in front of the stone table, Master Pei was playing the piano while drunk, the sound of the piano was resentful, and after a turning point, he became cheerful again.

He has always liked painting, I don't know, he is also good at playing the piano.

I hesitated again and again, stepped forward, held Master Pei by the shoulder, and said softly: "My lord, you are drunk. Lianyi will take you back to your room."

"No..." A rare expression appeared on Mr. Pei's face. I don't know how to describe it, fragile, painful, regretful, and helpless.

He glanced down at my dress, and said to me with a wry smile:

"Rianyi, sit down and have a drink with me."

He handed over the wine glass, so I had no choice but to catch it and sip it.

"Do you know what tune I'm playing?"

As the former oiran of Huaixiang Pavilion, I can be regarded as proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but at this moment I can't tell the name of the tune. I faltered and guessed a few times, but they were all wrong.

Mr. Pei smiled and revealed the answer, "I made this myself, "Chu Chenghuan"."