The Fugitive White Moonlight of a Powerful Minister

  Chapter 59

  In the fourteenth year of Jiahe, the twenty-ninth year of the twelfth lunar month.

  The prince of the Duke's Mansion rescued Zhao Xizhi, the daughter of Zhao Zhai, who fell into the water, at the New Year's Eve banquet. Zhao Zhai was very grateful and hosted a special banquet to express his gratitude.

At the banquet, Zhao Zhai tried several times to exchange cups and teas, with the intention of marrying Qin and Jin. The prince toasted lightly: "When Pei was surnamed Wang, my parents had arranged a marriage for me. Now that my parents are dead, It's a last wish, and Pei Mouwan has to obey."

Zhao Zhai nodded knowingly, so it was so, so it was so, he saw that His Majesty clearly pointed him out to Princess Zhaohe, after a long time since the banquet, he thought he had changed his mind, it turned out to be on the side of the crown prince Already engaged.

   "The matter between the son and the little girl..."

   "Master Zhao, don't worry, there are very few people who have witnessed this incident. Pei ensures that there will be no rumors that will damage Miss Zhao's reputation."

  Zhao Zhai raised his glass and said, "So, Mr. Lao, don't worry about it."

   "It's just that Pei still has a few words to clarify with Ms. Zhao face to face. I wonder if it's convenient for you?" Pei You said again.

   "This..." Zhao Zhai showed hesitation, but thinking about his daughter's eager look, he gritted his teeth and agreed.

   Ask Pei You to refuse face to face, and let her die as well.

  Pei You didn't intend to clarify, nor did she intend to refuse. After asking Zhao Xizhi a few words about the fabric, she left in a hurry.

In less than three hours, Tu Bai went to Qinghui Hall to report: "My lord, there is indeed a mother Li beside Zhao Xizhi, and she has a nephew named Li Wen who works in the military guard of the government. The cyan Liu Guangjin went to the tailor shop to make a suit of clothes, and he was not on duty on the day of the incident."

  Pei You's eyes became colder: "Where are the others?"

  Tu Bai said: "New Year's rest, he went back to his hometown to visit relatives for the New Year the day before yesterday. But Fubingwei only has seven consecutive days off at most, so he should be back on the fourth day."

  Pei You clenched his five fingers into a fist and remained silent for a while.

   "My son?" Tu Bai was waiting for his order.

  Pei You's eyes darkened slightly, and he said, "Go and get him back now."

   Three lives were lost in the Wang residence, and they went there for more than half a year for no apparent reason. They got nothing for half a year, and he didn't want to wait a day longer.

   "Yes." Tu Bai accepted the order and left.

  Pei You sat quietly in the study for a while.

  Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, and the Duke's Mansion is so lively that he can hear some noise in this secluded Qinghui Hall. He looked out of the window, the night was gloomy, red lanterns were hung in the yard, and red window paper was pasted on the windows.

At this time in previous years, Mrs. Wang would cut the window grilles herself and ask him to make six lanterns together, two to hang on the gate, two to hang in the courtyard, and two to hang in the main hall. the door.

  Wang Fu will buy all kinds of New Year's goods at home. Before buying, most of them will ask him if he is missing or wants anything. Whenever he says it, Wang Fu will buy it back.

  Wang Qinsheng will probably tug on his sleeve: "Young Master, Young Master, I heard that this year's New Year's Temple Fair is very lively, let's go and have a look!"

  Pei You chuckled and lowered his eyes.

   I don’t know if the underworld pays attention to Chinese New Year, whether there are window grilles, and whether there are temple fairs.

  In the darkness, Gu Fei knocked on the door of the study, and led the servants in: "My lord, do you think it is appropriate to send these to the Wen residence?"

  Eight servants stood in two rows, holding trays in their hands, on which were placed jewelry, curios, clothing materials, calligraphy and paintings, etc.

  Pei You glanced at it.

  The little girl can't wait for the Lantern Festival, and she will get married on the tenth day of the lunar new year.

   "Add another five thousand taels of silver."

  The Liang's eyes of Shen's mansion are higher than the top, climbing high and stepping low, and the net worth she brought over is thicker, so she won't be bullied too hard.

  Gu Fei was stunned: "My son..."

  Such congratulatory gifts are already very expensive, and five thousand taels of silver is added... You must know that the entire Wen family may not be able to come up with five thousand taels of silver.

   "Speak to Mr. Wen, not in the name of the Duke's Mansion." Pei You said again.

  Gu Fei was even more puzzled, but Pei You raised his eyes and looked over: "Just do it."

  Gu Fei had no choice but to accept orders.

  Gu Fei led his servants away, and the study became quiet again. Pei You glanced out of the window again, not knowing which yard had set off fireworks, but there was a rumble outside, which seemed to make him more and more quiet here.

  He unfolded a blank scroll, picked up a pen, and easily outlined a woman's face.

  When a picture was finished, it was already dawn, and he stared at his painting.

   Mrs. Wang always praised him for his superb painting skills, but he never felt that it was enough.

  The little girl's eyes sparkled, and he couldn't draw even a third of them no matter what.

   "Your Majesty!" Tu Bai rushed back overnight, and went straight in through the window with a rare pale face, "Master! Then Li Wen, when we arrived, the whole family was slaughtered!"

   tick-tick—

  The ink on the pen fell on the woman's smile.

  Pei You opened his eyes.

  Tu Bai disappeared, and the study room of Qinghui Hall disappeared, and the slightly sinking sunset in front of my eyes, passing through the curtains of the carriage, sprinkled a few strands obliquely.

  He just fell asleep in the carriage.

  Pei You pressed her temples, trying to suppress that familiar headache.

   "My lord, do you want some tea?" Gu Fei hurriedly handed a cup of hot tea to Pei You. He saw that the son seemed to be in a nightmare just now, and he was obviously awakened.

  Pei You didn't look at the tea, but pondered for a moment with deep eyes, and shouted outside the carriage: "Tu Bai."

  Tu Bai came in immediately, Gu Fei saw this, and retreated consciously.

   When passing by Tu Bai, he gave him a hard look.

   Tubai: "..."

   "Li Wen, how are you watching?" Pei You asked.

Tu Bai replied: "He is on duty every day at Si time, and he is on duty at night every three days. He leaves home when he is on duty, and returns home when he is off duty. He seems to be honest. There are wives and no children in the family. Mother, on weekdays, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law do some embroidery work at home and sell it, there is nothing unusual about it."

  Pei Youmo swayed the rim of the teacup, thinking thoughtfully: "So, he is still alive?"

  Tu Bai raised his head in surprise: "My lord, don't worry about doing things in vain."

  Pei You lowered his eyes, and his fingertips were still mosuoing back and forth on the teacup.

  Tu Bai said again: "If it wasn't for yesterday's accident, Tu Bai would have brought him before the young master for trial."

   "No need." Pei You raised his eyes and said, "You continue to let people stare at him, remember to be careful, and report back when you find anything unusual."

  He didn't believe the dream at the beginning, but now he has to believe it. It took half a year to find the clue of "Li Wen". If it was like in the dream, it would be impossible to investigate this matter further.

   After all, Li Yan is just a "sword" who follows orders, and what he is looking for is the person who holds the knife.

"Turn back to the Temple of Mercy." Pei You said again, "Tell Gu Fei to go back to the Duke's mansion and say that I have caught a cold and haven't finished copying the scriptures. I'm taking leave."

  Tu Bai couldn't help but glanced at the wound on Pei You's face, said yes with lowered eyes, and got out of the carriage.

  Pei You drank the cup of tea on his back.

   It's no wonder that he doesn't trust the Duke's Mansion.

  As shown in the dream, there are always two eyes staring at him behind him. These eyes may even know the existence of these hidden guards, but they just hide it.

   If you want to say who is most likely to know his every move and know that he has secretly cultivated a group of hidden guards, the Duke's Mansion will bear the brunt.

   After drinking a cup of tea, the headache eased a little.

   But recalling the dream just now, he seems to have forgotten something? Gu Fei seemed to appear in his dream, what did he say?

  When Tu Bai reported back, he was drawing, what did he draw?

  Pain entered his mind again, Pei You pressed his temple.

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  Wen Ning was sitting in a carriage prepared by Tu Bai.

  Her carriage broke down, and Linglan was detained by their people all the time, unable to go out to rescue soldiers, let alone find the carriage.

   "The people in the Duke's Mansion are too bad. I said they wouldn't let you go to the Second Young Master." Linglan's voice was hoarse from crying, and now she was wiping tears while talking.

  Wen Ning was actually tired and sleepy, so she cheered up and said: "Linglan, what happened yesterday must not be mentioned to a third person."

   Linglan wiped away her tears and nodded.

   Of course she knew. Just now, my daughter was carried up by someone from the Duke's Mansion. It can be seen that... I spent the whole night with the son and widow of Pei Shizi. Now the capital is already full of gossip and rumors about the two of them. If there is another gossip, she will I'm afraid the girl in my family will die if she doesn't marry Prince Pei.

   "We don't go out recently, so let's just stay in the Temple of Mercy." Wen Ning was thinking of another way.

  Fortunately, the accident happened at this time, so there is no need to go home, otherwise Wen Tingchun will follow the vine and find out that she and Wen Qi actually set up a winery outside without telling him, so the winery will die young?

   "Shouldn't you go to the city to see the doctor?" Linglan looked at Wen Ning worriedly.

   "No need." Wen Ning said.

  The cliff looked scary, but she was in the carriage, and she wore a lot of winter clothes. The dislocated part of her leg had been repaired by Pei You, and most of the rest of her body were just bumps, just go back and apply some medicine to recuperate for a few days.

  Wen Ning closed her eyes and rested for a while in the carriage, thinking about how to explain the accident to Wen Qi, should she tell the truth, or hide Pei You?

  Thinking about it, he fell asleep in a daze.

  Just after she got out of the carriage, was blown by the cool wind, and then saw the carriage following her, she immediately regained her spirits.

  Pei You didn't come back to the Duke's mansion?

   If you don't reply, don't reply.

  He probably didn't want people in the Duke's Mansion to know what had happened. If he went back, he would inevitably be questioned about the injuries on his face and body.

  He doesn't want to have any relationship with her anymore.

  Even if we met again on the mountain, I guess it would be the same as last time, so I turned around and left.

  Wen Ning withdrew her gaze, and was supported by Linglan into the Temple of Mercy.

  Pei You who was behind also saw her naturally, but his eyes didn't stay on her for long, and he stepped forward after she entered the temple.

  Gu Fei got off the carriage halfway and went back to the Duke's residence.

  Tu Bai wanted to squat down and carry Pei You on his back, but he raised his hand to refuse, so he followed step by step.

  Although the medicine was used urgently, the injury was not serious. He followed behind, and the strong smell of blood came downwind.

  Tu Bai's lips moved again and again, but he didn't ask how he fell down the cliff and suffered such a serious injury.

  Although Gu Fei said that he was chasing Miss Wen, but... between the young master and Miss Wen...

   It's not like what the young master did.

   "The horse went mad and went straight to the cliff." Pei You seemed to know what he was thinking, "After Gu Fei came back, ask him to find out who tampered with the horse."

   Tu Bai suddenly realized.

  Pei You frowned, without changing his expression.

  Although the two walked slowly, they didn't see anything unusual from the outside.

   It's just that after entering the temple, Pei You deliberately bypassed the road leading to the back mountain chosen by Wen Ning, and walked back from the main hall. There were many steps along the way, so it was hard to avoid.

  Tu Bai asked himself with clear eyes and ears, but he still couldn't understand what Pei You did.

  Lonely men and widows spend the night together. It’s good to avoid suspicion, but it’s not like... you can’t even take the same road?

   Walking from Zhengting Avenue, I met many monks on the road. Tu Bai followed Pei You one by one to salute, and finally arrived at the final main hall. Turning right and passing the side hall is the backyard. He was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he heard an unhurried voice behind his ears.

   "Sponsor, please stay."

-

   After resting in the carriage for a while, Pei You's headache still persisted. It even aroused his temper. The more he had a headache, the more he would think about those blurred pictures, which made his headache even worse.

  When he got out of the carriage and saw Wen Ning, his headache didn't subside, but instead became sharper, so that cold sweat almost oozes from his forehead.

  He naturally waited for her to enter the temple before setting off, and then chose a road that would never meet her again.

  The scenes that cannot be recalled in the dream can still be said to be a blurred dream. Many people forget the Spring and Autumn Dream when they wake up.

  It is unbelievable that he repeatedly went to rescue Wen Ning uncontrollably.

  He didn't want to think about the weirdness for the time being, so he naturally stayed away from her.

   It wasn't until he reached the main hall that his headache eased a little, but he heard a sentence: "Benefactor, please stay."

  Pei You turned around and saw a white-bearded monk standing at the entrance of the main hall, wearing gray monk robes and cassocks.

   "Poor monk Huishan." The monk saluted.

  Originally, it was Master Huishan, the abbot of Ci'en Temple.

  Pei You said that he went up the mountain to pray for the eldest princess, but these days he hasn't read a single scripture, hasn't gone to a morning class, and the monks on the mountain have only seen the little monk who led the way at the beginning.

   But he still knows this master of goodness and wisdom.

  Pei You saluted back: "I have seen the master."

  Master Huishan's eyes were bright, and he fell on Pei You's face: "Can you invite the almsgiver to talk about it?"

  Pei You was slightly taken aback.

  He had only heard of the name of Master Huishan, and had never had any friendship with him.

  As he said to Gu Fei, he doesn't believe in Buddhism, let alone Buddhism.

   "It's very inconvenient today, and if I have a chance, I will go to the master to listen to Zen." Pei You said politely.

  He is indeed injured, and he needs to go back and deal with it urgently.

  Master Huishan heard the words, only lowered his white eyebrows and said "Amitabha": "The poor monk will travel far away in a few days, I'm afraid I won't be able to wait for the benefactor."

   "The future will be long, and when the master returns from a long journey, we will reunite with the master." Pei You said beautifully, but the meaning of prevarication was obvious, and he saluted again, "I will not disturb the master today."

  Turning around, he planned to leave with Tu Bai.

   Only Huishan sighed, and said slowly behind him: "Benefactor Pei, the cause of the past life, the result of the present life. Now everything is what the benefactor asked for. I only hope that the benefactor can get what he wants."

  Pei You paused, turned around, only to see the back of Huishan walking away slowly.

  The cause of the previous life, the fruit of the present life.

   Now all kinds of things are what he wants?

  He who does not believe in heaven and does not respect Buddha, even if he has a previous life, what "all kinds" are there to ask for?

   Ridiculous.

  Pei You twitched the corners of her mouth, and walked away.

  (end of this chapter)