Chapter 11: Cowardice

Pei Si Yan was confused, what kind of drama was this singing?

Li Qingye bowed to Tantai Zhang and said in a respectful voice, "Qingye thank you for your lordship's help, let's end it here."

"Yes, it's almost over, and it can't be acted out anymore." The third house's head master laughed.

"This, this ...," Pei Si Yan pointed at them, stuttering, not knowing what to say.

Tantai Yuan looked at her, his gaze not as fierce as before, and laughed, "Just now, it was all just a play acted out by Light Dye's please. I'm really sorry for slapping Xiao Yan, does it still hurt now?"

Pei Si Yan asked in shock, "Acting?" She felt as if she had just returned from a holiday on Mars and was completely unable to understand what they were saying.

"Yes, miss." Li Qingyan snatched the words and whispered a few more words into Tantai Zhang's ear, and the people of the third house quickly dispersed under the leadership of the head of the house, and the garden returned to the serenity it had been at the very beginning.

Pei Si Yan jumped in front of Li Qing Dye and snapped, "What the hell are you up to?!"

"Miss, the third house actually does not have the intention of seizing the first wife at all, it is the subordinate requesting the third master to help together with a play, only to test the young lady ...," Li Qingyan said calmly, his eyes unavoidably looking straight at Pei Si Yan.

"Test me?"

Li Qingye replied, "Yes, Miss is about to inherit the position of Wufan and unfortunately lost her memory, so it is necessary to explore your ability and dealings. My subordinate went out today to liaise with the Third Master, and the seal is also something that my subordinate instructed Yun Qi to quietly tie on for you."

Pei Si Yan knew that Li Qing Dye was doing this out of the goodness of his heart, but she felt as if she was a monkey giving someone a vicious trick. Everyone around her knew the truth, and she was the only one who was very white/foolishly talking a whole lot of nonsense.

She was sick of being played and seen as a clown.

Pei Si Yan skimmed her head without a glance at the vassal, looking at the dragonflies dotting the surface of the water with ripples, while her heart seemed to ripple with them.

Li Qingyan continued, "My subordinate is also relieved to see Miss's words and actions."

"Hey," Pei Si Yan gave a self-deprecating laugh, forcing down the fire in her heart, "The third house doesn't know about my memory loss, right?"

"They don't know, subordinate didn't say anything."

"The people of the third house are quite co-operative with you," Pei Si Yan's tone gradually became unstable, showing anger, "Aren't you afraid that I'll be so scared that I'll really stamp the seal? If I really stamped it, what are you going to do? Discard me as a weak and incompetent young lady and find another master? After all, with your talent following a white/fool, why not make other plans as soon as possible?"

Li Qingye's eyes dimmed for a moment and said, "My subordinate is loyal to miss, and has never had any other thoughts."

"Then what if I really put my seal on it?"

"My subordinate will stop this drama in time, and will go find the best doctor in the Spirit Abyss Continent to heal miss."

Pei Si Yan asked in a deep voice, "What if I never recover my memory? Do you think that the current me is ridiculously bad compared to before?" She had been thinking about how much of a gap there was between herself and Tanya Yan, and whether she had the ability to face the future.

"Judging by what Miss just said and did, Miss, you are fine."

Pei Si Yan felt her head getting more and more painful, she closed her eyes and covered her forehead, trying hard to stabilise herself, feeling that her previous words seemed to have been a bit heavy. Perhaps it was because she had suppressed her emotions too much since coming to the Tantai family, so she was so easily moved to anger and rage today.

There was actually no need to doubt Li Qingyan's loyalty ...

"That seal ..." Pei Si Yan raised her hand and pointed to the pool, pulling away from the topic.

Li Qingye owed his body and said, "Miss doesn't need to worry, my subordinate will go down and fish it up."

The last thing she was uneasy about was answered, Pei Si Yan felt sleepy and didn't want to dwell on what happened today, she also had absolutely no interest in touring the garden, "Yun Qi, let's go back."

"Aunt Yan is going back to Write Autumn Xuan?" A clear voice rang out.

Pei Si Yan then remembered Qiyun who had been left aside, she hurriedly turned back to take that child's hand and asked with concern, "Are you better now?"

Qiyun raised the small scented bag in his hand and showed it to Pei Si Yan, smiling, "Auntie don't worry, Qiyun is unharmed."

"Yun Shan, you send young master Sun back." Pei Si Yan was a little uneasy and ordered.

Qiyun didn't want to go, hesitated for a moment, and asked in a low voice, "Aunt you ... just said you lost your memory?"

Pei Siyan was stunned, and the hand pulling on Qiyun tightened violently.

"Young Master Sun, please make sure you keep it a secret, not even your father can tell." Li Qingyan said, his voice low with a sense of oppression.

"I know, won't say anything to anyone." Qiyun promised and turned to Pei Siyan again, her eyes as gentle and clear as water, "Auntie, I wish you a speedy recovery."

"Hmm." Pei Si Yan let out a low sigh.

"Then its yun excuses himself." The young man owed a slight bow and was assisted by Yun Shan towards the other exit of the garden.

Pei Si Yan ignored Li Qing Dye and walked straight forward, Yun Qi hurriedly followed her.

Li Qingye listened to the sound of footsteps going away and turned back around, a trace of frustration surfaced in her eyes as she looked at that back.

After a few days, the Write Autumn Xuan was suddenly bustling with people coming and going. Previously, in addition to Yun Qi and Yun Shan, there were only two or three handymen doing menial work in Write Autumn Xuan, and they couldn't even get close to Pei Si Yan, so the courtyard had been cold and quiet. Now that there were more people, it made Pei Si Yan a little uncomfortable at first.

When Yun Qi threw out all the clothes in the cupboard, she didn't find any bloody clothes, so that Pei Si Yan's lifted heart finally returned to the place where it was supposed to stay.

The first batch of people to come to Write Autumn Xuan was the tailor, busy measuring Pei Si Yan's height and leg length in preparation for sewing new clothes. Then the palace came to the painter to Pei Si Yan drawing portrait, said to be sent to the palace, the emperor wants to see.

Pei Si Yan is speechless, make it like a draft.

Since Pei Si Yan took the initiative to walk around the mansion, write autumn Xuan ban was repealed, come to the courtyard to visit her people increasingly more up, mostly concerned about her recent body has been no harm, and then look at her quite busy, also not much to say, greetings after leaving. With the high fidelity of the portrait and the help of Yun Qi, Pei Si Yan gradually can easily cope with it.

On this day, half a month before the end of the mourning period, the tailors brought the sewn dress, Pei Si Yan changed into it and looked at it in front of the mirror. On the upper body is light purple lapel wide sleeve gauze shirt, black edge of the garment is drawn on the complicated cloud pattern, under the same colour group flower trailing long skirt, arm between the long wrapped like white smoke like a long cape, the waist hangs on behalf of the identity of a cloud pattern jade pendant, feet on a pair of silver line high shoes.

Worthy of being from the hands of the best tailor in the imperial capital, the cut and fabric of the gown was near perfect.

Pei Si Yan looked at the woman in the mirror and couldn't believe it was herself.

There were also two sets of light blue Chinese patterned long dresses with white sarongs, which were said to be the official uniforms that would be worn to the court in the future. Pei Si Yan gently stroked the three pieces of clothing, her brows couldn't help but knit up with a preoccupied look.

At this time, Li Qingye came in from outside and said, "Miss, the hour to go to Duanhe Palace has arrived."

Pei Si Yan was still staring woodenly at the clothes, Yun Qi touched her twice before she reacted, looking blankly at the retainer standing at the door.

"What?"

Li Qingyan repeated again, Yun Qi and Yun Shan looked at Pei Si Yan whose mood had suddenly shifted - lately, miss has been fuming for longer and longer periods of time, she doesn't want to eat after moving one or two mouthfuls of her meal, and at night, she doesn't fall asleep until it's past the hour of dawn.

They thought that it was because of the succession ceremony that the young lady was so like this, and served carefully not daring to ask more questions.

"Good, let's go." Pei Si Yan put down her official clothes and walked out of Write Autumn Xuan.

Now she finally remembers the road from write autumn xuan walk to the gate to go, along the way the master and servant two without words, out of the gate to board the carriage straight to the end and the palace and go.

Duanhe Palace is located in the north-west corner of the palace, is held in the witch Pan, witch ceremony, witch against and witch Luo succession ceremony place. Duan and the Palace important building for the "Hall of peace", heavy eaves hiatus roof, the face of five, beam square painted with golden swirls on the petals of the whirlpool paintings, extremely luxurious and opulent. Palace on the east and west sides also have a number of side halls, do banquets, rest and storage of goods.

In order to prepare for the upcoming succession ceremony, there are people who regularly clean the entire Duanhe Palace every day, and even a leaf on the ground is not spotless.

The Minister of Ceremonies standing in front of the Duanhe Palace gates saw the Tantai family's eldest young lady walking over from afar and hurriedly greeted her attentively, smiling fawningly, "My humble servant, Minister of Ceremonies Guo Wenhan, sees Miss Tantai."

Pei Si Yan didn't seem to see him and walked straight ahead.

Guo Wenhan's heart "thumped", thinking that this Wuban's successor was really as cold as rumoured, it seems that he needs to put more effort in flattering things.

Walking up to the palace gates, Pei Si Yan suddenly stopped in her tracks, without any expression on her face, she just looked at the imposing palace from afar, not saying a word.

She felt her legs trembling, unable to take a step across the threshold, that low single threshold was actually more difficult to cross than the Tantai family's. And the air here seemed inexplicably thin, making it impossible for her to breathe normally anymore.

Pei Si Yan had never been so uneasy and fearful, once again feeling confused about her future.

It's not that she hadn't thought about what she should do after succeeding Wuban, the heavy study tasks made her simply have no extra mind to think about it, and she always felt that one step was one step. Now, the day is finally coming, she chickened out, want to go back. Thinking about it carefully, originally everything that had happened could not have happened in her life.

The sharp blade was in her hand, but she didn't have the strength and courage to cut through the thorns that blocked her path.

"Miss, the people are all ready, the rehearsal for the ceremony can start anytime." Guo Wen Han said.

Seeing Pei Si Yan's strange look, Li Qing Dye reminded in a low voice, "Miss, please go in."

Pei Si Yan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, the splendid palace in her eyes was like a beast crouching/crouching quietly in front of her, just waiting for her to come to the door and then open its bloody mouth to swallow her alive. She wanted to run far away from it, but she knew she couldn't walk away in public.

"Hmm." Pei Si Yan unconsciously nodded her head and finally crossed the threshold.

In a trance, she felt that she who couldn't bear the heavy responsibility shouldn't leave quietly?