Quick Transmigration: Why did you provoke him? He's love-struck!

Chapter 134 Canglan Ferry (4)

“Canglan Valley is just Canglan Valley,” Yan Zhen said earnestly. “This is the home of my master, mistress, and me.”

Pei Wangzhou: "...Then may I ask how far this place is from the capital?"

"The capital?" Yan Zhen feigned ignorance. "What kind of place is that?"

Pei Wangzhou seemed to realize that the woman in front of him was different from the people he had known for the past twenty years; she seemed to lack a lot of common sense.

"The capital is my home."

"Then I don't know, I've never left Canglan Valley."

Under Pei Wangzhou's deliberate inquiry, Yan Zhen "unguardedly" revealed all the information about Canglan Valley to him.

Upon learning that his rescuer was a descendant of a reclusive family of physicians, a glimmer of hope appeared on Pei Wangzhou's face: "Miss Jiang, could I trouble you with a favor? I will certainly reward you handsomely after it is done."

"You said I would definitely help if I could."

Pei Wangzhou said, "I fell off a cliff and ended up here because I was being chased by my enemies. They can't find me, and my parents must be extremely worried. I'm injured and can't leave the valley right now. Miss Jiang, could you please go to the capital on my behalf and tell my parents that I'm in Canglan Valley so they can come and get me?"

Yan Zhen sneered inwardly.

Out of the valley?

Think beautifully.

She looked troubled: "This..."

"Miss Jiang, is there something troubling you?"

“I have never left Canglan Valley,” Yan Zhen said. “Not only me, but no one in Canglan Valley has ever gone out. My master and mistress said that it is too chaotic outside, and they will not allow me to go out.”

Pei Wangzhou fell silent.

Yan Zhen comforted him, "But don't worry. The day I rescued you, my master said that the clothes you were wearing made it clear that you were not an ordinary person. Someone would definitely come looking for you. Just stay here and recover. Maybe your family will come looking for you in a few days. Even if they don't find Canglan Valley, you can walk out on your own once you're healed."

Pei Wangzhou took these words to heart. Although he was somewhat sullen, he still thanked Yan Zhen: "Miss Jiang is right, thank you."

Pei Wangzhou recuperated at Bishui Residence.

He ate and slept all day long. Because of multiple fractures and blindness, he couldn't get out of bed and even needed Yan Zhen's help to turn over.

The unfamiliar environment and his long-standing injuries made him feel very insecure. He asked Yan Zhen almost every day whether the Pei family had sent anyone to find Canglan Valley.

"No," Yan Zhen said while changing his bandages. "Canglan Valley has a rather unique terrain, and there's miasma outside the valley, making it difficult for ordinary people to find this place. Besides, the cliff you fell from was so high, they might have thought you fell..."

At this point, Yan Zhen seemed to realize that he had said something wrong, and quickly stopped talking, abruptly changing the subject: "My senior brother brought back some wild honey from the mountain today. I'll bring some over for you to try later. It's so sweet."

Pei Wangzhou seemed to have taken her words to heart. His already pale face grew even paler, and after a long silence, he murmured, "Grandmother loved me so much. If she can't find me, she won't give up..."

Yan Zhen pretended not to understand: "What?"

Pei Wangzhou took a deep breath and smiled slightly: "It's nothing. I'll focus on recovering and get better soon, so Miss Jiang won't have to worry about me anymore."

After that day, Pei Wangzhou seemed to have stopped hoping that his family would find Canglan Valley. Instead, he actively cooperated with the medication and treatment, hoping to recover as soon as possible and leave Canglan Valley.

A month passed in the blink of an eye.

Pei Wangzhou's external injuries had mostly healed, and he began to drag his limping leg out of the bamboo house, using his sense of touch to explore his surroundings.

When Yan Zhen returned from gathering herbs, he carried the brewed medicine to the bamboo house. From a distance, he saw Pei Wangzhou leaning on his cane, standing at the entrance of the bamboo house, eager to try to go down.

There were more than a dozen steps outside the bamboo house. He tentatively took a few steps, then lost his footing and tumbled down from the top of the steps, crashing heavily to the ground and bleeding from his head.

Yan Zhen watched from afar as he scrambled to his feet, kneeling on the ground and groping around for his lost cane, looking like a pitiful drowned dog.

She couldn't help but recall a scene she had seen online—

In her previous life, Jiang Li became a concubine in the Duke of Dingguo's mansion. When she attended the birthday banquet of the old matriarch of the Pei family, she was unfamiliar with the formalities of aristocratic families and did whatever the maid told her to do. On the day of the banquet, she wore a bright red dress.

In the Kingdom of Sheng, there is an unwritten rule that only the principal wife can wear bright red, while concubines can only wear light reds such as pink or peach. If a concubine breaks the rule and wears bright red, it is considered an offense to the principal wife.

At the banquet, the ladies of noble families pointed and whispered about Jiang Li, who was dressed in her finest attire. One of the ladies of the Marquis's mansion bluntly said that the heir of the Duke's mansion probably wanted to favor his concubine over his wife, which was why he dared to allow his concubine to show off so much at the old lady's banquet.

Madam Pei's face darkened on the spot. In front of a group of noble ladies, she angrily reprimanded Jiang Li for not knowing the rules and punished her by making her kneel for two hours.

After Pei Wangzhou saw off the guests and returned to the backyard, Jiang Li told him everything, stating that the clothes were sent by Yan Jinhe and that the maid who did her hair was Yan Jinhe's person.

Women are very perceptive to the malice projected upon them by other women. Yan Jinhe had schemed against her like this, and she hoped that Pei Wangzhou would stand up for her and give her justice.

Pei Wangzhou said, "Jinhe has already told me about this. The maid is indeed her person, but you personally chose the clothes. How can you blame her and come to me to stir up trouble?"

Jinhe considered that you came from Canglan Valley and were used to being free, so she didn't restrain you with the rules of the manor. She even made an exception and gave you a red dress to wear on a daily basis. But instead of being grateful for the mistress's tolerance, you turned around and blamed her—Ali, the Duke's manor is not Canglan Valley, and we will not tolerate your wild behavior.”

Such incidents have occurred many times in the Duke's mansion.

While in Canglan Valley, Pei Wangzhou said he liked Jiang Li's free-spirited, lively, and pure nature; she showed him a side of her that women from noble families never had.

When he brought Jiang Li back to the capital, he discovered that her true nature was incompatible with the Duke's mansion. His first reaction was to use rules to restrain and change her, making her, like all the concubines in the inner quarters, completely integrate into that environment for his sake.

Although Jiang Li was unwilling.

Pei Wangzhou may not be an irredeemably evil person, but he is definitely selfish.

Yan Zhen snapped out of her reverie and looked at the bamboo house. Pei Wangzhou had been trying to get up for a long time but couldn't. He was covered in mud from head to toe. She pretended to have just noticed him and quickly ran over.

"Young Master Pei, why are you out here?" Yan Zhen helped him up. "Your injuries haven't fully healed yet; you shouldn't be running around."

Pei Wangzhou knew he had caused her trouble, and said with an awkward smile, "I'm sore all over from lying in the house, I want to go out and get some sun."

"There's no sun outside today." Yan Zhen helped him back to the bamboo house and took off his dirty clothes.

His wounds were all over his body, and Yan Zhen had been changing his dressings and taking off his clothes a lot these days.

At first, Pei Wangzhou was a little embarrassed, but since Yan Zhen, a woman, didn't mind, he, as a man and the one who received the favor, naturally couldn't say anything.

Over time, Pei Wangzhou gradually became accustomed to Yan Zhen taking his clothes off.

Yan Zhen skillfully changed his dressing and then dressed him. Suddenly, Pei Wangzhou grabbed her wrist: "Miss Jiang, tell me the truth, can my eyes still be cured?"