Chapter 4: Countermeasures

It was as if she had been having an extremely long and terrible dream in which she was running relentlessly through the infinite darkness, as if she was back in the same darkness that she had been in during the total eclipse of the sun. She tried to find a bright exit. But no matter where she ran, the darkness remained overwhelming, drowning her deep in it ...

Pei Si Yan opened her eyes, looked at the white gauze tents of woven flowers and closed them again, after half a day when she opened her eyes again, they were still hanging properly right above the bed.

Pei Si Yan turned her head to look at the side, the antique furnishings, each exquisite and valuable. If they were all moved to modern times and sold, it was estimated that she could take a place on the Forbes Global Rich List.

She raised her hand to rub her forehead, her head and heart finally stopped hurting.

It wasn't a dream, it wasn't a dream, she had really travelled across the world, she had really promised her saviour's last wish, she had really run into someone's mansion!

Well, since it's all true, can't she just go against the grain?

"God, it's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, you wait for me, don't give me another look, otherwise I'll kill you dammit!" Pei Si Yan chanted in a low voice.

Outside the sun is bright, through the open window poured in, on the ground reflected dappled light spots, Pei Si Yan can not tell what time it is, only heard the birds chirping and chirping.

Yun Qi pushed the door in and saw Pei Si Yan waking up and called out in surprise, "Miss."

Pei Si Yan couldn't tell if she was Yun Qi or Yun Shan, she could only respond casually, when she sat up from ** she realised that she was still wearing the blood stained black sarong, her heart trembled as she looked towards the maid who stood by the bedside with a cup of tea.

"Miss, please drink the tea. The servant girl has already prepared hot water for your bath."

Pei Si Yan took the cup of tea and said in her heart, "Don't blame me, I have no choice," before throwing the cup of tea onto the floor fiercely.

"Bang", the delicate teacup shattered by Yun Qi's feet, the steaming tea wet her shoes and skirt, she jumped up with a low yelp, before staggering a few steps and kneeling under the bed with a panicked face, her hands covering her shoes in death.

"Offended miss, slave girl deserves to die."

Pei Si Yan hung her head in embarrassment, feeling quite sorry for her, it was clearly her who couldn't find a good reason to let someone out to drop something on purpose, instead it was someone else's fault.

"You go out first." Pei Si Yan said softly.

"Yes." Yun Qi let out a sob and limped out.

Hearing the sound of the room door closing, Pei Si Yan immediately lifted off the quilt and jumped up from the **, undoing her sash while rushing to a beautifully carved large cabinet with flowers and birds.

The cabinet was neatly arranged by colour with meticulously crafted and ornate neon dresses, Pei Si Yan gave a cursory glance and found a black veil dress of the same style as the one she was wearing on the penultimate tier. Fearing that the maid would suddenly return, she quickly ripped off the clothes, kneaded them into a ball and stuffed them into the depths of the cabinet's lowest level, now she couldn't find a better hiding place than this, for the time being, she would just throw it here, and wait for her to be free someday and then change to a safer place to hide it.

Changing into clean clothes, Pei Si Yan breathed a sigh of relief and returned to ** and sat down.

Not long after a soft knock sounded on the door, followed by a timid speaking voice: "Miss, can the slave girl come in?"

Pei Si Yan looked at the cabinet where the bloody clothes were placed, it was safe and sound, as if she had never touched it, she nodded with satisfaction and shouted, "Come in."

The door opened with a creak, Yun Qi and Yun Shan came together.

Yun Qi knelt down and said, "Miss, the slave girl just now took much offence, please punish Miss."

Pei Si Yan scratched her hair, it was impossible to tell the maidservant the real purpose of her dropping something, she could only divert the awkward topic, "It's fine, let's just pretend this never happened. Do you ... your feet hurt?"

The maid shook her head, "The slave girl doesn't hurt, thank you for your concern, Miss."

Pei Si Yan looked at her, how she wished the two maids would open their mouths and call themselves by their names instead of "slave girl". To be honest, not knowing their names was quite difficult, like a caterpillar crawling in her heart, and she was too embarrassed to ask again.

What does it mean to say, "If you do it to yourself, you can't live with it"?

This is a living example!

Pei Si Yan couldn't help but feel bitter that if she hadn't nodded her head yesterday, she wouldn't have dared to ask.

After bathing, Yun Qi took a jade comb to comb Pei Si Yan's hair. During the mourning period, you can't wear gold and silver, you can't draw eyebrows and lips, she gave Pei Si Yan a small bun with a white flower hairpin even if she finished dressing up.

When the maid took the white flower hairpin, Pei Si Yan saw her cuffs embroidered with a small "Qi" character, she fixedly watched the maid and remembered her face and her name - "Yun Qi". She was so happy that the other one was Yun Shan.

Pei Si Yan was delighted, the problem was easily solved!

Yun Qi saw Pei Si Yan's face easing up a lot and took the initiative to speak, "Miss, you are very different from before."

This sentence almost didn't make Pei Si Yan spit blood, she barely composed herself and said, "Is that so? The reason I don't remember anything from before, right?" She deliberately aggravated the tone of the second half of her sentence.

Losing her memory was her powerful excuse and her only weapon, she could get a reasonable explanation for any strange and weird thing she did, so it was important to bring it out to her as a shield all the time.

"... Tell me a little bit about what I used to be like?" Pei Si Yan wanted to further understand the real Tanya Yan.

Yun Qi froze and hung her head. Yun Shan didn't say anything either.

Pei Si Yan was curious, "What's wrong?"

The maids looked at each other and squirmed, refusing to speak.

Pei Si Yan thought for a moment, realised the crux of the problem and added, "It's okay, you guys speak."

"In the past, Miss never laughed ... Even if Lord Shen tried to make you happy, Miss, you still wouldn't laugh ..." said Yun Qi in a small voice.

Never smiled ... Pei Siyan wiped her sweat, how is Tanya Yan like Baosi, a thousand gold can not buy a smile. How to tease are not laughing, either that tease her people ability is too small, or Tantai Yan than the praise Si even more, simply do not know what laughing is the thing, even if the beacon play on the vassals a hundred times, also do not see her will laugh.

Pei Siyan had a jolt, remembering the gentle and peaceful smile on Tanya Yan's face before she died.

A person who never smiled, but smiled as she ran down the road to the Yellow Springs.

She sighed, "It's all in the past, think of it as your miss my previous life."

"Miss, losing your memories, aren't you afraid?" Yun Shan asked carefully.

Pei Si Yan scratched her hair and made up a blind story, "It's true that I'm a bit scared, but a person who has forgotten the past, if they want to live well, then treat it as if they're living again, and continue on in silence. Dwelling on the past is undoubtedly asking for trouble."

"Aiya," Yun Shan suddenly exclaimed, startling Pei Si Yan and Yun Qi, "Miss, Lord Li has been waiting for you in the study for a long time, saying that he has something important to talk about."

"Yun Shan, you are too careless, how could you forget such an important matter?" Yun Qi frowned.

Yun Shan spat out her tongue and said, "Miss isn't quite the same as before, I was too curious in my heart so I forgot about it."

Yun Qi was about to say something else, Pei Si Yan waved her hand, "It's fine, you guys take me to the study."

The maids led her to the study, a young man stood straight by the window, his long body standing, the bright sunlight reflecting a picturesque side shadow.

Seeing Pei Si Yan arrive, he came forward and knelt down on one knee, "Subordinate see miss."

Pei Si Yan said, "Please rise."

Li Qingyan got up, Yun Qi and Yun Shan very actively withdrew and closed the door.

"Miss, are you feeling better? Have you remembered anything from before, even a little bit?" Li Qingdian asked, his tone was indifferent, not the slightest hint of concern could be heard.

Pei Si Yan's heart cooled for the most part and shook her head, "I can't recall anything at all." If she knew about Tantai Yan's former affairs, she'd be living hell!

"The doctor said that he would find a way to let Miss recover her memory. So, please don't worry and panic, miss, before your memory recovers stay in the Write Autumn Xuan, don't take a step to leave, and don't see anyone other than Yun Qi Yun Shan and me."

Pei Si Yan had nothing to say - you are a magpie reborn or Hua Tuo reincarnated, but it is absolutely impossible to cure the amnesia that is not there at all!

On the contrary, if taking medicine without a disease would cause trouble, Pei Si Yan couldn't help but get a little worried.

Seeing her look of unease, Li Qingyan asked: ''Miss, is there anything you need to order? Please feel free to say, my subordinate will definitely do my best."

"Before my memory is restored," Pei Si Yan said, her gaze avoiding Li Qing Dye to look at a potted plant behind him, "I will always have to meet some people, right? But I don't even remember, so what should I do?"

Li Qingye owed his body and said, "Miss, please do not worry, my subordinate has already thought of a way." Saying that, he walked to the bookshelf and took out a thick book, continuing, "There are all kinds of books in the study, including the Tantai family's clan rules, the four books and five sutras, as well as portraits of relatives in the clan and officials serving in the dynasty, as long as miss writes them all down, for the time being, no one should be able to recognise them."

Pei Si Yan looked at the thick stack of books and had the urge to hit the wall. When she went to school, she was still full of great interest in books, after all, reading good books is the only way to have a good future. Later worked, gradually detached from the books, and then went to open the textbooks, the head began to dizzy, before familiar with some of the knowledge has long been thrown into the air.

Now ask her to write down all these messy things ... Is this realistic?

"There are still four days before the funeral, and the succession ceremony will be held in two and a half months, so miss should have time to memorise everything." Li Qingyan said, his tone vaguely carrying a sense of oppression, not giving Pei Si Yan any leeway at all.

Pei Si Yan cried and said in a pleading tone, "Is there any other way besides this, I don't think I can memorise so many things at all!"

Li Qingyan shook his head dryly, "No. It's impossible for my subordinate to follow Miss all the time, so many things still need to be handled by you yourself, Miss."

Pei Si Yan was once again deflated, sitting listlessly in a chair to the side, looking at those books with a sad face.

It was estimated that there were four or five of those nearly two thousand page Chinese dictionaries that thick, how long would she have to memorise this person who gets a headache at the sight of a book?

"Miss, have you not had your lunch yet?" Li Qingyan asked again.

When he asked this, Pei Si Yan really felt her stomach singing the empty city song, thinking that since arriving at this place, she had only had a sip of tea and had not eaten anything else.

Pei Si Yan covered her stomach in embarrassment, "Not yet."

"Subordinate asked Yun Qi and Yun Shan to bring the food over." He said.

"Thank you!" Pei Si Yan said joyfully, finally I can taste what the Blue Country's dishes taste like, I wonder if it suits my taste?

Li Qingye looked at the woman behind the desk and looked surprised, but didn't say a word and went out.

Pei Siyan reached out and took a booklet, flipped it open, a large line of big words - Blue Country Wuban Tantai family clan rules, first of all, be glad that the Blue Country's writing is Chinese characters, or simplified, she then turned the next page, densely packed with all the words, as if countless ants were crawling around in the book.

Dizziness, blurred eyes, want to sleep.

Pei Si Yan "snap" sound closed the booklet thrown back to the table, the booklet in the desktop sliding a short distance, almost knocked the pen holder to the ground, she jumped up, scared to hold a little, to make sure that it will not fall to the ground before letting go of her hand.

Pei Si Yan was the only one left in the study, and the silence was a little frightening. She stood up and circled around the room, picking up a rolled up painting and calligraphy from the shelf, and was about to open it when she heard the sound of a door opening from behind her.

It was Yun Qi and Yun Shan who came over with meals, and Pei Si Yan took a look - why was it thin rice and small dishes!

"Why these?" Pei Si Yan was about to cry. In the past, for the two things, thin rice and small vegetables, she was still quite enthusiastic and could eat several large bowls of it beautifully. But after eating more of them, she wanted to vomit when she saw them and could no longer eat a bite.

"The doctor said," Li Qingyan walked in from outside, "Miss had better eat something light in these few days. Greasy meals will make miss feel uncomfortable."

Bastard doctor, Pei Si Yan really wanted to curse or find the doctor who said these words and strangle him to death, where did the quack doctor come from, wanting to kill her is the real thing.

Giving her a small dish of rice, not as good as drinking plain water to be more refreshing.

Pei Si Yan frowned and said, "I don't want to eat."

"Miss," Yun Qi said while placing something on the table, "This is for your own good, please eat some. Only after eating will you have the energy to read, ah?"

Pei Si Yan saw that they had no intention of removing the thin rice, so she could only sit at the table very reluctantly and pick up her chopsticks. But it was just the most ordinary pair of plain wooden chopsticks, but holding them in her hands seemed to be so heavy that her wrists were about to break.

Pei Si Yan struggled for a long time and stuffed the thin rice into her mouth with her eyes closed.

Li Qingye saw that the young lady had eaten, and said softly, "Young lady, please use it slowly, if there is anything, let Yun Qi come and shout at subordinate, subordinate will go and guard outside."

Pei Si Yan stuffed her mouth full of thin rice, and vaguely responded, "Hmm, okay, I know."

Li Qingye went out, Pei Si Yan continued to stuff her mouth with rare rice, then swallowed it hard into her stomach with her eyes closed like she was eating poison.

After half a day of dawdling over a bowl of rare rice, she finally finished eating, Yun Qi asked if she wanted to add another bowl, Pei Si Yan hurriedly covered the bowl signalling that there was no need.

If she was allowed to eat another bowl, she would probably really vomit it out.

Yun Shan packed away the dishes, Yun Qi stayed in the study to serve, Pei Si Yan suddenly remembered the painting and calligraphy that she hadn't looked at yet, and hastily unfolded it.

Yun Qi exclaimed, "Miss!"

On the portrait was a young man with bright and handsome eyebrows, wearing a robe with blue stripes on a white background, and the artist had expressed his gentle and elegant temperament to the fullest.

In the upper right corner of the portrait were three words in dragon's flight, and Pei Si Yan took half a day's effort to recognise it - Shen Shu Ce!

She was stunned, wasn't this the name that Tantai Yan said before she died? If his surname was Shen wouldn't ... he be the one who tried to make Tantai Yan laugh?

Pei Si Yan took another look at the young man on the portrait and turned around to ask Yun Qi, "Who is he?"

Yun Qi hung her head in panic, her fingers intertwined with each other, stammering and unable to say a word.

"Speak quickly!" Pei Siyan got anxious and stomped her foot.

Yun Qi's body shook violently and said, "Miss, he is your fiancé, the eldest son of the Duke of the Protectorate ... died due to illness half a year ago."

Died due to illness ...

Pei Si Yan looked at the quietly smiling man, it turned out that this person had already died, no wonder a smile appeared on Tanya Yan's face - because she loved him and wished to live and die with him.

Therefore, death was exactly a relief for her.

This family was really unlucky, dying one after another within half a year, the heavens were too evil! Pei Si Yan again remembered the inexplicable sound and crossing during the total solar eclipse, it was not difficult to explain how far God was wicked, no, perverted.

Pei Si Yan found that Yun Qi had been staring at her and the portrait very nervously, so the portrait will be closed and put back to its original place, as if nothing had happened, she walked back to the back of the bookcase, casually picking up a book, pretending to look at it seriously, with other things in mind.

After Shen Shuzhe's death, Tantai Yan must have been so sad and upset that she was almost about to collapse, otherwise the maid wouldn't have been nervous like that.

"Miss." Yun Qi softly shouted, her voice slightly trembling.

"Hmm?" Pei Si Yan looked up at her.

Yun Qi pointed at the book in her hand and said, "Miss, the book is held backwards ..."

Pei Si Yan looked down, sure enough the words were all upside down, she coughed a few times in embarrassment and hurriedly righted the book, glancing out the window in the meantime, Li Qing Dye was standing outside with his back to the study, not knowing what he was looking at.

Pei Si Yan suddenly puzzled about one thing.