Early the next morning, on the second floor of the wine shop.
Mi Xiayao felt the dull pain in her waist cutting into her flesh like a knife. She opened her eyes in confusion, and her first sight touched the unfamiliar top of the bed, which was inconsistent with all her memories of her previous life.
Her restlessness woke up the person next to the pillow, who saw an arm with clear muscles pressing down on her neck decisively like a blade.
The man pressed half of her body against her, and the two of them looked at each other unexpectedly.
They all saw confusion, panic and secretly observing each other in each other's eyes.
"Are you awake?" The voice was low and hoarse in the early morning, and the intonation rose slightly due to surprise.
However, when Mi Xiayao looked at the man in front of her, she was not as surprised as he was.
As an adult, in the current situation, even if you don't look carefully, you still know what she did yesterday.
"How much did he give you?" She frowned, her beautiful eyes full of gloom.
"Why don't you ask me first what my name is?" He raised his eyebrows.
This man is extremely handsome, with a high nose, thin lips, and especially those sharp but affectionate eyes. His black hair is scattered, and half of his black hair falls down, making this handsome man more attractive.
The monster of the soul.
"When you work with people's money, what I'm looking for is the person behind you, not you." Mi Xiayao raised her hand to push his shoulder.
She touched the other person's smooth skin and it felt hard. It felt different from Duan Honglin's. Although she was confused in her heart, she thought that Duan Honglin would use such dirty and despicable methods to harm her like this!
After all, she underestimated the enemy! When she goes back, she seems to have to screen the people around her.
Pei Xingyuan followed her strength and lay back on the bed. The woman neatly wrapped herself in another brocade quilt, exposing only her smooth, white shoulders.
Seeing that Mi Xiayao didn't recognize him, and even misunderstood him. At the moment, he had no intention of proving his innocence, but let Mi Xiayao look indifferent and hurriedly clean up after him.
The interior of the house is transparent, and it is obviously a house built for romance.
Mi Xiayao turned around and glanced at the smiling man on the bed. When the man saw this, he turned his head silently.
Through the bronze mirror, she could see faint bruises on her palms on her waist. This ambiguous mark was very dazzling.
After changing herself back into a plain skirt indifferently, she came to deal with the "criminal" in front of her.
"Today's matter cannot be told to anyone. How much money he gave you, I bought your mouth three times." She looked down sharply at Pei Xingyuan, who was comfortable on the bed.
"Are you serious that you don't want to ask me clearly?" Pei Xingyuan raised his eyebrows. His upper body was open, with only the thin covering covering his body.
He sat against the wall and pointed kindly at the silver-white Feiyu suit on the ground.
Mi Xiayao looked in the direction of his fingertips.
Feiyu Sui doesn't need any extra words at all to easily describe the identity of the person in front of him who must be extraordinary.
Suddenly, her expression became solemn.
"If Duan Honglin wants to set a trap to defraud me, he probably won't find a special official..."
"Are you talking about Duan Honglin, the fifth-grade adjutant who wears a round robe in blue?" When Pei Xingyuan heard this name, his original smile and easy-going mood gradually faded.
Without the smile, the ruthless and murderous temperament of Zuo Shaoqing of Dali Temple was fully revealed.
"Do you know him?!" Mi Xiayao suddenly raised her head.
No, according to Duan Honglin's temperament, if he really wanted to torture himself, he would definitely not find someone with such a handsome appearance to tease him.
Unless, among them...
Pei Xingyuan turned his head. This was the only time since he woke up that he took the initiative to look away except when he avoided looking at her while changing clothes just now to avoid suspicion.
"Yesterday at the reception banquet, he toasted to me many times. The reason why I am here is because of him."
Even if the words were not spoken clearly, if she could not understand them anymore, Mi Xiayao would have lived so many years in vain.
She suddenly clenched her hand.
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With the prefect.
The new day's breakfast was prepared step by step in the mansion. In the front yard, Duan Honglin was restless as he watched the door of the mansion open.
After a while, a black-painted gold carriage parked generously at the gate of Tongzhifu.
After that, the skirts of plain clothes and skirts appeared, and then the beautiful woman stood at the door of the mansion with her clothes intact.
The man in the car did not show his face the whole time, but when people passing by on the street saw the dark carriage for the first time, some of them would take a curious look.
When Mi Xiayao turned around and entered Tongzhifu, the door gradually closed tightly.
She looked forward, ignoring Duan Honglin's blazing gaze in the main hall, and went straight back to the backyard.
She entered the clean room, washed herself and changed her clothes. When she was ready and sat down calmly, the courtyard door was violently knocked open.
The sudden sound did not affect her at all as she picked up the tea cup and moistened her throat.
"You shameless slut! You still have the nerve to go back to the main room in the backyard of the mansion!" Mrs. Duan scolded angrily, with a group of women behind her.
Those who didn't know better thought they were gangsters from somewhere who came to attack the government.
Mi Xiayao raised her eyelids and took a look, then put down the tea cup in her hand slowly.
"I've seen it. You got off a man's carriage today!" Mrs. Duan pointed at Mi Xiayao and asked almost continuously and aggressively.
When she heard this, she looked at the old woman, one of the culprits, and twitched the corners of her lips, "You are working hard to let everyone know, aren't you?"
"Okay, I'm not afraid of losing face." Mi Xiayao stood up.
She looked down at the truly shameless old Mrs. Duan with a slightly downward gaze.
On the way here, she had figured it out, and Duan Honglin and Duan's mother came up with an insidious plan to kill two birds with one stone, sacrificing themselves to the new official to pave the way for the Duan family.
It turns out that their disgust was not fully demonstrated in their previous life.
Mi Xiayao said coldly, "Where did I go yesterday? You must be more knowledgeable than me and you want me to speak thoroughly in front of them?"
This time, Mrs. Duan was so frightened that her expression suddenly changed, and she drove the people behind her out of the yard with a guilty conscience.
She originally thought she could get a secret handle to threaten Mi Xiayao, but she never expected that Mi Xiayao was even crazier than her.
"We had a very heart-to-heart chat last night. Pei Shaoqing sympathized with my past and asked me to come to him when I encounter difficulties in the future." Mi Xiayao curled her lips and sneered, "I've been having a very unhappy life recently, so I have to talk a little bit."
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"Do you think Jingzhou City will lose a Tongzhi adjutant?" The smile in his eyes suddenly rose, but the indifference and warning in his eyes were like a cold poisonous snake.
"Originally, the grudge between me and Duan Honglin was very simple. Repay me three times the dowry, and it would be fine if we and Li didn't owe each other anything."
Her voice sounded like the whisper of a devil from hell in Mrs. Duan's ears, "But you have to annoy me."
"The future descendants of the Duan family will be lost accidentally."