Poisonous Goddess: I'm just lazing around in the mortal realm.

In the returning carriage

Pei Nanyue stared down at the wooden box in her arms. She couldn't resist taking it out with her.

A Meng, sitting to the side, noticed the wooden box and naturally remembered that it was the box that Helian Nash had always carried with him. Back then, it was only because the son of the Left Vice Minister's family wanted to take the box that Pei Nanyue stopped him from taking it away.

It seems that the two of them first came into contact because of this box.

"Miss, this box..."

"He asked Consort Ning to give it to me."

Pei Nanyue simply lowered her head and responded with a single sentence, without raising her head.

Jade-white fingers gently brushed across the old wooden box, where his scent still lingered faintly.

Her heart tightened involuntarily. Despite having prepared herself mentally for a long time, she still didn't have the courage to open it again.

"I have something else to ask you. Is Aru in the manor now?"

Pei Nanyue tried to pull herself out of her painful memories and slowly looked up at A Meng.

A Meng nodded gently.

"She's waiting at the gate. I was thinking that if you missed Mr. Thirteen's letter when you went out, it wouldn't be good if others saw it. So I just let her wait at the gate."

Ah Meng is meticulous in her work, so she is naturally someone people can trust.

"Are you sure that the person Aru saw at the Fourth Princess's residence was really Helian Nash?"

Her serious expression made A-Meng's heart sink.

"Miss, do you mean Aru made a mistake?"

A Meng's breath hitched. Even though she had heard Helian Nash appear in front of the Fourth Princess's mansion, she didn't ask any further questions afterward because Pei Nanyue was present.

Pei Nanyue's hands trembled slightly; she was naturally concerned about this matter.

"You should have someone investigate this secretly. I think Helian... no, the Khan of the Western Regions is an upright man and shouldn't do something so absurd."

Although her tone was somewhat cold, it meant something else entirely to A-Meng.

A Meng lowered her head and replied

"Yes, Miss. I will investigate this matter personally. I believe that Young Master Helian is not that kind of person."

She had served Pei Nanyue since childhood, so she had naturally seen the character of that young master Helian. If he really had a premarital affair with the fourth princess, there must be some other hidden story behind it.

Pei Nanyue unconsciously gathered the box closer, looked up at the car window, and saw that night had fallen, as there were not many pedestrians on the street.

Pei Mansion

Pei Nanyue, supported by A Meng, had just stepped off the carriage when she saw A Ru, who had been waiting for a long time at the gate, approach her and say...

“Miss, a letter just arrived from the manor saying that there is a letter from Hecheng.”

"Hecheng?"

Pei Nanyue glanced at Aru, and seeing that they were still at the entrance of the Pei residence, she lowered her voice and said...

"Come into the house and talk."

"Yes."

The master and servants hurried into the mansion, but no one noticed that a dark shadow flashed past the gate of the Pei Prime Minister's mansion and instantly disappeared into the night.

other end

The group of thirteen was a day behind the main army because Pei Suisui's previous injuries were quite serious, so they deliberately stayed in the small town of Hecheng for a day.

Seeing that they had separated from the army, Zhou Jinghuai simply spent some money to book the most expensive inn in Hecheng.

"Squeak-"

Thirteen pushed open the door and came in carrying a porcelain bowl. Pei Suisui, pale-faced, turned her head and saw that she was being asked to drink medicine again. Her little face instinctively scrunched up.

"Thirteen, when will this medicine ever end?"

Although she complained, her body betrayed her by moving forward and accepting the steaming bowl of medicine.

"Once you recover, you won't need to take this medicine anymore. It's all because you're so weak and get sick every few days."

Thirteen poked her head and placed a package of oil paper from his arms in front of Pei Suisui.

"what is this?"

Pei Suisui unfolded the oil paper. Ever since she fell ill, she had been eating a very bland diet, and her mouth was almost as bland as a bird's nest.

"I saw osmanthus candy on the street when I was buying medicine. I suppose you like it."

Thirteen turned her head and looked at Pei Suisui with a doting expression, as if she were a child who had found a treasure, and picked up the candy she had bought.

"I knew Thirteen was the best to me. I guess only you would buy me these things to eat."

Pei Suisui drank the medicine in one gulp and then quickly stuffed a piece of osmanthus candy into her mouth.

The sweet candy instantly neutralized most of the bitterness of the medicine.

It was as if it were a lifeline, which made her drink the medicine so readily this time.

"Is it tasty?"

Thirteen's thoughtful gaze fell on the few pieces of osmanthus candy. It was the first time she had known that Pei Suisui liked to eat this little thing.

"Of course! I've loved it since I was a child. It's just a pity that my sister always said it would rot my teeth and wouldn't let me eat it. Did she tell you that I love osmanthus candy?"

Pei Suisui looked at Thirteen with an innocent expression.

Thirteen composed himself, instantly concealing the unnatural look on his face.

“Of course, she told me. I thought you must have had a hard journey, and you’ve been sick with illnesses, big and small. I was afraid you might secretly throw away the medicine I gave you because you didn’t like the bitterness, so I just bought some along the way and brought it back.”

She looked up, propped her head up on the table, and gazed at Pei Suisui.

My heart sank. If she hadn't had that accident back then, would she have been able to live so freely in her time?

In the blink of an eye

She has been in this world for over a hundred years.

This was something she never dared to dream of in her entire life.

"Boom boom boom——"

A dull knock on the door brought their conversation to an end.

"Who?"

Thirteen became somewhat alert, and she subconsciously reached for the short blade tucked into her waistband, which Shen Mu had left her for self-defense last time.

The blue stone short blade is an object that only exists in the realm of gods.

It can cut down everything.

"It's me, Zhou Jinghuai."

Zhou Jinghuai's voice rang out from outside. Pei Suisui suddenly glanced at Thirteen with an ambiguous expression, and before she could react, she answered...

"Come in, Young Master Zhou!"

Thirteen frowned slightly as she looked at Zhou Jinghuai, who had just entered through the door. She had been avoiding him the whole way, not wanting to run into him face to face.

Where did you get this candy?

As soon as Zhou Jinghuai entered the room, he noticed that the osmanthus candy in Pei Suisui's hand looked familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before.

Pei Suisui pointed to the thirteenth path

“My daughter bought it for me. She said she met it on the road when she was getting my medicine.”

"But isn't this candy only available in the east of the city? We're in the west of the city now."

Zhou Jinghuai blurted out the answer instinctively, naturally without considering the story behind the candy.

“East of the city? But I just saw a herbal medicine shop on the street opposite our inn.” Pei Suisui frowned, then turned to look at Thirteen.

With her innocent expression, she naturally believed what Thirteen said.

Seeing that things were about to be exposed, Thirteen had no choice but to bite the bullet and say...

"Someone specially went to the west of the city to buy this for you and asked me to give it to you, just in case you didn't want to eat it."

She couldn't help but glare at Zhou Jinghuai, thinking to herself that he was really too talkative.

"Someone's here...who is it?"

Pei Suisui's breath hitched, and suddenly an unbelievable thought entered her mind.