stern wife

Chapter 8
The body that had been reborn from scratch was still immature and fragile. After being frozen and attacked by icy water, it was of course unbearable to collapse.

Pei Xiaoran began to shuttle back and forth between sobriety and coma. She was okay when she was unconscious, but once she became a little bit conscious, the feeling of hot and cold, dizziness, would make her days feel like years, and she would feel extremely tormented.

After spending more than half a month in such a daze, her illness finally improved.

On this day, it was snowing heavily outside, but because the Chinese New Year was coming soon, the servants in the mansion were busy cleaning the house, purchasing new year's goods, and tailoring new clothes for the masters... so busy that even the heavy snow could Unable to stop their footsteps, the lively voice could be heard from far away.

Pei Xiaoran draped his clothes and sat up from the bed, stepped on the pedal beside the bed, listening to the noisy outside, which seemed to come from another world, his eyes were cold.

She doesn't have any strength in her body now, but she can barely sit for a while, but even if she can't, Pei Xiaoran would rather sit than lie down.

With a sound of 'squeak', the door opened, and then a slender figure flashed in. The figure quickly closed the door with one hand to shield from the severe cold outside, and held a tray firmly with the other hand, on which were placed a bowl of rice porridge and several dishes. side dishes.

Seeing the person coming, the coldness in Pei Xiaoran's eyes immediately turned into innocence and innocence.

Pei Runzhi walked over with a tray, and saw his sister was sitting on the bed and looking at him with big round eyes blinking, his heart melted immediately, he couldn't help but raised his hand to touch her little head, and asked softly :
"How do you feel today? Is it better? Is there any other discomfort? If you have something, you must tell your elder brother, don't hold back, you know?"

How many years, how many years has she not heard the care from her elder brother?
Pei Xiaoran endured the soreness in his heart, nodded obediently, and let Pei Runzhi take good care of her rinsing, cleaning her face, changing her clothes, and even tied her long black and soft hair with his own hands.

After doing all this, the temperature of the food dropped to just right. Pei Runzhi spread the things on the tray on the table in the house one by one, walked back, picked her up, and put her on the round stool beside the table .

Pei Xiaoran was stunned for a moment, a little unaccustomed to being hugged around like this, but when he thought that the person who hugged her was the eldest brother, the awkwardness in his heart was instantly relieved.

"Brother, let's eat together." Pei Xiaoran picked up a pair of chopsticks and handed them to Pei Runzhi.

Pei Runzhi quickly took it, and said with a smile, "Okay. But what do you want to eat? Big brother will pick it up for you."

Pei Xiaoran shook his head, and said solemnly in a crunchy and tender voice:
"Brother, I'm not a child anymore, but I can eat by myself, and my elder brother will eat too, don't worry about me."

Pei Runzhi was amused by her expression of pretending to be an adult even though she was a child, then nodded cooperatively, and imitated her manner and said solemnly:
"That's right, but I'm an adult, so just eat it by yourself, brother doesn't care about you."

The tone of coaxing the child made Pei Xiaoran depressed for a while.

Although being able to start all over again is a good thing that I dare not even dream of, but it is still difficult for Pei Xiaoran to adapt to being so young all of a sudden.

Seeing Pei Runzhi's mouth strained and trying to hold back a smile, Pei Xiaoran really wanted to yell: Brother stupid, I'm really not a child anymore!
Then there were two crystal clear quail eggs in her bowl.

Seeing her staring at her, Pei Runzhi quickly explained:

"It's the most difficult to pinch the big brother to help, other big brothers won't help, you can pinch yourself."

Pei Xiaoran bowed his head to drink the porridge in frustration, and ignored him.

After eating, his body's strength returned a bit, Pei Xiaoran rolled his eyes, and said to Pei Runzhi:

"Brother, I want to see Daddy."

Pei Runyi, who was cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks, was taken aback, turned around to look at her, thought for a while, and said:

"It's okay...but you have to wait until your body recovers."

Pei Xiaoran frowned, and said reluctantly:

"But I fell into the water and slept for so many days, and my father didn't come to see me. I don't want to wait any longer. I want to see my father."

The gloomy color between Pei Runzhi's eyebrows flashed past, and soon, a warm smile like a spring breeze hung on the corner of his mouth. He walked over, squatted down in front of Pei Xiaoran, and after being at eye level with her, he spoke in a very serious tone Opened the mouth and said:

"Eldest brother can take you to see daddy early tomorrow morning, but you have to promise elder brother one thing."

"What?" Pei Xiaoran tilted his head and asked with a puzzled expression.

Pei Runzhi took a deep breath, suppressed the anger that was about to surge into his heart, and continued to maintain a gentle tone:
"In the future, no matter who asks you to go on the ice, you don't go, especially the ice in the lake, remember?"

The reason why Pei Xiaoran deliberately mentioned the word 'falling into the water' was to set Pei Runzhi's words and find out who made her fall ill.

Sure enough, my eldest brother took the bait smoothly.

"Why?" Pei Xiaoran blinked, pretending to be puzzled and asking.

Pei Runzhi closed his eyes hard, and answered his sister's question after a long while:

"Because... the ice on the lake is very thin, and the water under the ice is very cold. Big brother doesn't want you to fall off and get sick again. If that happens, big brother, third brother and mother will feel very distressed."

Pei Xiaoran instantly understood his brother's good intentions.

From his last sentence, one could tell that she would fall into the lake, not because she ran to the ice out of fun, but because someone deliberately lured her into it.

My elder brother didn't want my six-year-old sister to see the darkness and filth of human nature so early, so he avoided the seriousness and only said that he was afraid that she would fall into the lake again, not that he was afraid that she would be harmed by others again.

Pei Xiaoran looked at the complicated eyes of the young man in front of him, and couldn't help raising a small hand to touch his face.

The eldest brother is only in his teens now, how come there are so many melancholy in his clear eyes?

"Brother, don't worry," she promised softly but firmly:
"I will never play on the ice again, and I will never let my eldest brother, third brother and mother worry about me."

"Be good," Pei Runzhi grabbed her little hand and put it to his lips and kissed it. After thinking about it, he finally told him worriedly:

"In the future, no matter who asks you to do something, you should come back and talk to your elder brother first, and your elder brother will tell you what you can't do and what you can do, and then you can do it, okay?"

He really didn't know how to keep his sister from being hurt again, so Pei Runzhi had to come up with such a 'stupid method' and use it first.

However, Pei Xiaoran's heart felt warm when he heard it, because only those who really cared about her would come up with such a way.

She nodded vigorously, although she didn't get out the person who tricked her into the water, she wasn't disappointed at all.

Anyway, paper can't hold fire, she will know sooner or later, don't worry.

(End of this chapter)