Chapter 16 : Bad Words

"Ma'am, you need to rest more, don't speculate." Pei Si Yan said indifferently.

The second madam was aggressive: "Speculate? Do you dare to swear to the heavens that you haven't done anything?"

Her arm was gripped by the second madam to the point of raw pain, Pei Si Yan finally couldn't help but draw/pull out Li Qing Dye's sword, the crowd exclaimed in unison, "Take your hands away or I'll cut them off." She just wanted to scare the second madam.

The second madam raised her head high and fearlessly said, "Miss, if you have the guts, you can just wipe a knife on my neck, huh? Hey, what? Don't dare anymore? Take out your ability to kill my master ah?"

"I didn't kill Uncle Lu." Pei Si Yan frowned, vaguely feeling that this woman seemed to really know something.

"How much longer do you want to deceive?!" The second madam shouted, "I saw with my own eyes the day before yesterday when my master passed away De Xuan asked for your help, and then it was Li Qing Dye who took my master away, and he never came back after that!"

Tantai Lu's daughter Tantai Yuan heard her mother's words, she also lost control and rushed forward, "So it was you who killed my father!"

Pei Si Yan's headache was so severe that the sword in her hand was neither taken nor thrown, she looked back at Li Qing Dye, who took a slight step forward and said, "Second Madame, Third Miss, please calm down."

The second madam was so angry that she was shivering, wiping a handful of tears and choking, "That day when the master went to look for you guys, I wasn't at ease so I kept following behind, and I saw everything with my own eyes! You guys are really cruel, he is your uncle ah, miss! You killed him to protect yourselves. You want to weaken the Second House so that you can take your place, don't you? I, I must seek justice for him! I will go to the Da Lisi to explain the truth!"

"How do you mean, you are aware that Uncle Lu has embezzled and taken bribes?" Pei Si Yan's eyes slowly coalesced with anger as she reprimanded, "As his wife, you don't even know how to persuade him to turn back to the other side of the river, but instead, you're aiding and abetting the evil and are here to spit blood, so what crime should you commit! You want to go to the Da Lisi to explain those so-called truth, is it? Fine, I won't stop you, just go! Let's see if the Emperor will leave your husband's body intact, and whether you will remain in the Tantai family or go to the border!"

The Second Madame's face turned even paler, her hand loosened slightly, Pei Si Yan took the opportunity to shake off her hand, and Yun Qi and Yun Shan rushed to protect in front of the young lady.

The second madam almost couldn't support herself and was barely able to stand completely supported by her daughter, "You, you ..."

"Second Auntie, in light of Uncle's death, I'll let your false accusation just now slide." Pei Si Yan dropped a sentence, intending to leave.

"Hmph!" The second madam was unforgiving, how could she herself let go of the murderer who killed her husband so easily, "Even if he did do it, he is after all a part of the Tantai family, how can you all see death and save him?"

Pei Si Yan stopped at the doorway and said coldly, "You should be glad that he died under the knives of the bandits instead of dying on the execution ground after the Da Lisi confessed all his crimes. Otherwise you might have been on your way to the border by now. All karma has its retribution, shouldn't uncle pay for the sins he committed? If you have faults and he has faults that should be spared for the sake of the family, does the Tantai family still have a future?"

Finishing these words in one breath, Pei Si Yan gasped slightly.

The second madam's face was a shade of green and a shade of white, she wanted to pounce on her again, but was tugged by Tantai Yuan, "You heartless brutes, sooner or later you will get your comeuppance one day. Tantai Yan, you wait!"

Coincidentally, Uncle Joe came in from outside, and when he heard the Second Lady's words, his moustache curled up in anger. He glanced at Pei Si Yan and walked forward to raise his hand to give the second madam a resounding slap.

"What kind of thing are you!" Uncle Joe scolded.

The second madam was struck dumb and covered her reddened cheeks, "Gong ... Gong Gong."

Uncle Ancestor pointed at the second madam's nose and continued, "Tantai Lu that was a deserved offence, whereas how can you curse Lord Wuban in public? You immediately pack up your things and get out of the Tantai family and never come back."

"Eunuch!" The second madam screamed miserably, looking at Uncle Joe in disbelief.

"Uncle Ancestor, Auntie, she's only mouthing off because she's overly sad, it's better to let her stay in the Tantai family." Pei Si Yan advised.

"Don't you pretend to put in a good word for me!" The second madam did not buy Pei Si Yan's account.

Lady Yue Luo slowly walked over, took the second madam's hand and persuaded, "Sister-in-law ah, miss is doing this for your own good, so don't give your face away. My brother, you know very well what he has done, and now that it is not easy to have a clean face burial, what do you have to make a scene for? How embarrassing na?"

See a group of people all stood on Pei Si Yan side, understand that they are bitter can not speak, the second lady of despair wailed, committed to the ground, crazy as if pounding the ground and crying: "This created what sin ah!"

Pei Siyan couldn't stand that pig-killing wailing, quickly stepped out of the spiritual hall, while instructing Li Qingyan: "Send someone to keep a close watch on her, pay attention to the movements of the second house, don't let them run out and talk nonsense."

Li Qingye, however, did not answer, Pei Si Yan turned around to see him frowning tightly, a pair of dark, night-like eyes staring at her furtively.

Being looked at with a weak heart, Pei Si Yan asked, "What's wrong?"

"What is aiding and abetting?"

"Huh?" Pei Si Yan looked at him blankly, not understanding what he meant.

Li Qingyan reminded, "You just said these four words."

His gaze was cold, like a thousand year old iceberg in Antarctica, Pei Si Yan gulped, dare I say that there is no "King Zhou" in the Spirit Abyss Continent, so there is no way there is an idiom of "aiding and abetting the evil-doer"!

"Did I just say these four words? You must have misheard." The corners of Pei Si Yan's mouth were twitching/twitching, today's weather wasn't hot, but she felt like her whole body was breaking out in a cold sweat, "That ... I have something important to ask you."

Maybe it was really her mishearing, Li Qingye blinked her eyes, "What is it that Miss wants?"

Pei Si Yan lowered her head and continued to walk forward, "Why is it that as soon as I took office, Imperial Master Feng was so impatient to make trouble? With the Tantai family's current strength and a woman like me, he shouldn't have us in his sights ah?"

Li Qingye was silent for a while, "When the old master was alive, Elder Master Feng had always been at odds with the old master in terms of political views. I think he must have seen that Miss is young and wanted to further suppress the Tantai family's strength."

"Er... "Pei Si Yan scratched her hair, so that's how it was, it was said that "a father's debt is repaid by the son", so Taishi Feng's target was locked on her. However, with the "blue country's first clean official" political views do not agree, is not ...

Pei Si Yan panicked, "father" is not a traitor, right? She had always thought that Tantai Yu was just weak, not much to build on, and had never been associated with the word "traitor". In the mind of such a high status of the treacherous minister is generally a hundred officials in a glare, in addition to the courage of the clean people no one dares to shout, always followed by a large group of flattering, counting silver can be counted to the hands of soft, the home is everywhere in the mountains of gold and silver, wives and concubines, children and grandchildren around the knee,....

She hurriedly asked: ''How is Imperial Master Feng? Can he really be worthy of the 'Blue Country's First Clean Official's name'?" There were many people who were not what they appeared to be, so maybe Eunuch Feng was the bad guy.

"Ever since he joined the court as an official, Eunuch Feng has done his best for the Emperor and the people, and has made many great achievements, and is greatly favoured by the Emperor as well as embraced by officials of all sizes and the people."

Roll, is this guy really a good guy? Pei Si Yan felt weak all over, the soles of her feet were like stepping on cotton.

"Does he have any unseemly things in private?" Pei Si Yan asked weakly, not holding much hope.

Li Qingyan shook his head, "This subordinate is not clear. Master has not sent anyone to investigate, if Miss wants to know subordinate will immediately send someone to investigate."

"Well, just do it!" Pei Si Yan hurriedly nodded her head in agreement, she just couldn't believe that Eunuch Feng really didn't do anything bad at all, "Eunuch Feng is bent on suppressing us, what benefits can we gain other than losing some of our power? The position of the four great sects is unshakeable, it is impossible to pull us all out and chop off our heads. If this grass doesn't get rid of its roots, it will grow again in the spring, how long will his old man have to suppress it?"

Pei Siyan suddenly paused in her steps, her finger poking her chin, "Could it be that someone in the family is secretly colluding with the Feng Taishi, if I can get the Feng Taishi's power to overthrow my direct lineage to sit in the Wushan position, I will be obedient to the Feng Taishi, so why need to worry about it anymore?" Slightly shocked by her own thoughts, she turned back and pulled Li Qingyan's sleeve, "Quickly set up eyes in each room!"

Excluding the side branches and distant relatives, there were a total of twelve rooms on the miscellaneous huge Tantai residence, Pei Si Yan had never been able to figure out how it was divided into so many rooms. Seven, seven, eight, eight added up to five or six hundred people, anyone could be, it was too scary.

Li Qingye was surprised and looked at the young lady's hand gripping her sleeve, but her mouth said, "Yes, young lady."

"In that case, where is Imperial Master Feng a virtuous minister, but just a bastard who knows how to net people's hearts, there must be some ulterior motive in it." Pei Si Yan muttered and cursed, and when she looked up, she realised that she had unknowingly come to the front of the main hall.

"Hell no." She turned around and went back to Shide Xuan.

Li Qingye did not follow her forward and reported, "Miss, my subordinate must make a trip to the Ministry of Officials."

"Go to the Ministry of Officials to do what?" Pei Si Yan was curious.

Li Qingyan replied, "After each generation of Wuban succeeds, he will appoint a person beside him as the Chief Historian, responsible for assisting Wuban as well as the large and small matters within the residence."

Upon hearing this, Pei Si Yan was happy: "Quite good quite good, then you go quickly."

Li Qingye looked at the smiling young lady, owed her body and stepped back a few steps before walking towards the mansion door.

Pei Si Yan thought about Feng Taishi's matter while walking towards Shide Xuan, before she could take a few steps, the sound of chaotic footsteps rang out behind her, Li Qing Dye went and returned, followed by a few people dressed as chamberlains.

His face was heavy as he said in a low voice, "Miss, the emperor has collapsed."