After rebirth, I joined forces with my mortal enemy to seek revenge.

After the words fell, the girl in front of him did not speak immediately, but her eyes became more wary. He seemed to be debating whether to answer or not.

When Pei Jiaoran saw this, he didn't rush her. Instead, he smiled and said, "How about we go to a place where no one is around?"

Under her gaze, the girl nodded. Follow her to the empty tent not far away. After entering the tent, the two sat opposite each other. After Pei Jiaoran poured the tea and handed it to her, he lowered his head and drank the tea without any intention of speaking.

The girl's eyes came over like spring water, with anxiety and worry hidden in her eyes. She was only wearing a thin peach red skirt, and the full snow color was wrapped under the peonies outlined with gold threads. She lowered her head and fiddled with the lid of the urn, and the Dankou on her fingertips caught the golden light that came in, and the light reflected by the golden armband on her wrist hit Pei Jiaoran's eyes. She stood up again, lifted her clothes and knelt on the ground.

Pei Jiaoran turned his head and stared at the girl kneeling on the ground, thoughts flashing in his eyes. He extended his hand to the girl.

Looking at her extended hand, the girl lowered her head and said, "You must be a court official, right?" She was silent for a while, and then said, "Do you have a way to save Mr. Yuan?"

"You are not guilty, so why kneel to me. Get up and speak. I don't know your name yet. You can call me Pei Jiaoran." Pei Jiaoran smiled slightly.

The girl sat down again and spoke in a gentle tone, "My name is Zhou Mancao. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with Wild Mancao and Linglu Xi. On the contrary, it is extremely rough."

"It is recorded in the book that the vine has a very strong vitality, so it is considered to have a long-lasting and lush meaning." Pei Jiaoran frowned, "Mrs. vine, you don't have to belittle yourself like this."

"At first glance, the girl has never suffered at the hands of a man." Zhou Mancao said.

Pei Jiaoran was suddenly startled. She had indeed never suffered much. In my previous life, I had everything going smoothly, and I didn’t even know what hardship was. Even if she was imprisoned, no one would dare to do anything wrong to her. But she also knows that this world is actually very malicious to women. Especially for women who were relegated to a lowly status due to their crimes, their lives were worse than death. Not only did they lose their freedom, they also became the playthings of those in power.

"Oh, you didn't answer me right away. It's probably because you didn't." Zhou Mancao smiled and glanced at Pei Jiaoran, his eyes falling on the candlestick on the table, his voice was lonely, "I was once an official's wife, although I was not a high-ranking daughter. , but I also read books. My father and brothers died due to sin, and my female family members disappeared into Yeting Jiaofang. On the first day I entered the Jiaofang, someone told me that all the past events were gone like water, and from now on I was just a moving toy. That's it. Those arrogant people need to be abandoned, otherwise they can't live. I didn't believe it at first, because Aye taught me that I must have a backbone in life and not succumb to suffering, so I was beaten every day. Until I saw the female family members in my family with my own eyes One by one, they died in the hands of those people, were dragged out and burned, and nothing was left. I knew that living in this world was more important than anything else. Why could those men abandon their dignity and make a comeback? According to legend, once we women are deprived of abject status, we will be abject for life? I abandoned everything Aye taught me and wanted to live. Because the only way to get revenge is to live, so I accepted the arrangement and became a plaything in their bed. . Later, because she offended Cao Wenzhong, he sent her to the Yanyuan for the entertainment of the people here." Taking a deep breath, she laughed at herself, "This time they also arranged for me to seduce Yuan Langjun. They said that as long as I can If he fell into the trap, he would free me from my lowly status and give me my freedom. But I found that Yuan Langjun was different from other people. He was stupid, but also very upright and kind. I made up a lot of lies to frame him, but I didn’t expect He actually believed it. So I regretted it. His character should not be kept in the dark because of me. And I am not willing to help others do evil. Why should I wrongly accuse a kind person to fulfill their ambitions? I want to let them The plan fell through.”

Seeing the disdain in Zhou Mancao's eyes when he said these words, he didn't have any scruples. Pei Jiaoran agreed with these words in his heart and laughed involuntarily. No one should succumb to fate, everyone has the right to live. Sensing her gaze, Zhou Mancao also looked over, and the two looked at each other and smiled. Even though the two have different statuses, at that moment, they both discovered that they both had a strong sense of contempt for the world. They should all like each other very much.

"Don't worry, Yuan Yanchong is fine. He just can't accept what he did right now." Pei Jiaoran held Zhou Mancao's hand and comforted him.

Zhou Mancao lowered his head with guilt in his eyes, "Actually, I don't want to do anything, I just want to say sorry to him. If he wants me to come forward and accuse those people, I am also willing."

"But now is not the time. They want to borrow your hand and let you bite. He asked for bribes from them first. Then they had no choice but to choose you to serve?" He poured tea and handed it to Zhou Mancao, Pei Jiaoran's voice was gentle. , "In other words, they arranged for you to be an eunuch's wife. Yuan Yanchong accidentally entered the house and was rude to you. He was discovered by someone and reported to the superiors."

"Both. They wanted to give him money, but he didn't want it. In the end, I was sent to go out at the banquet to accuse him of adultery." Zhou Mancao said.

With a clear smile, Pei Jiaoran instantly understood Zhang Rang's intention. This is because they are afraid that the first plan will fail and they will resort to the second plan. If he went to Yanyuan, I'm afraid he wouldn't be any better than Yuan Yanchong. Maybe they would have to create a male trick for themselves, and Yuan Yanchong would become the target of their frame-up afterwards.

After thinking about it, Pei Jiaoran smiled and said, "Ms. Zhou, please have a good rest here first. I'll go find Yuan Yanchong."

"No need." After saying that, Yuan Yan rushed in, lifted the curtain and glanced at Pei Jiaoran. Then he moved his eyes to Zhou Mancao.

Although she was wrapped in Pei Jiaoran's robe, Zhou Mancao still looked very embarrassed. As soon as Yuan Yan rushed in, she stood up. This time she did not lower her head, but raised her head to look at him.

Li Xiujing, who followed him in, saw Pei Jiaoran's moon-white silk and silver-woven flowers with half of her arms exposed. Wu Zi took off his clothes and put them on her.

"You seem to admire her very much?" Li Xiujing asked in a low voice.

"She is very interesting." Pei Jiaoran brushed away the hand that fell on his shoulder and walked aside, "The name Mancao suits her very well. A strong woman like her should not be lost in the hands of eunuchs."

Looking down at her, Li Xiujing smiled and said: "It seems that you know a lot of things. Why don't you tell me what's going on between her and Yuan Yanchong?"

"It is recorded in "Liu Tao·Wenfa" that "raise his rebellious officials to confuse them, and introduce the lewd sounds of beautiful women to confuse them." He was trapped. Fortunately, Mancao is a kind-hearted person, if it were anyone else . I will probably go to the Yanyuan in person to look for the person." Pei Jiaoran glanced at Li Xiujing, with a smile on his lips, "Fortunately I didn't go, otherwise it would not have been so easy to escape."