Chapter 24 : Mo Xuan

Pei Siyan felt that her head must be twice as big as usual, she returned to the government office with a heavy head, and learnt about the whole situation from Shi Hui, the old woman and a few people.

As the saying goes, "the mountain is high and the emperor is far away", Ge Kuo during his tenure as the assassin of Xiyan County, using the convenience of his position to become the local emperor of the land, corrupt and perverting the law, exploiting the people, deceiving the top and ignoring the bottom. West Yan County up and down has long been a complaint, helpless Ge Kuo power, under a large number of lackeys, once a ready to go to the capital to sue the scholar alive in the downtown area, from then on the people are not dare to speak out of anger, at the mercy of the assassin's oppression.

Ge Kuo in order to collect more money, at the risk of killing the crime and close friends tampering with the relevant files, false reporting of the number of fields per family, and then those not registered in the file on the fields of grain collected for their own. He was still unsatisfied with this act, and he acted arbitrarily to the extent of concealing the true grain harvest and filling his own storehouse.

In this year's drought, Ge Ge was unwilling to take grain out to relieve the victims, but instead used his military force to detain all the people in the city to prevent any unfavourable words against him from spreading out. He also locked up all the farmers in another place, ordered people to strictly guard, and forced them not to leak the number of fields of the matter, or else killed.

The crimes committed by Ge Ge were too numerous to mention.

Until the emperor appointed Wu Pan as a disaster relief inspector to come, Ge bracket a look is not their own backer in the capital, afraid of this strange inspector to find out their own crimes, which swept away the money fled in a hurry.

The old woman overheard that it was the new Wu Pan who came to provide relief, and thought that she had to try, so she lied to the watchman that her grandson was sick, and she needed to pick some medicinal herbs from the foot of a mountain not far away before she managed to escape from the watchman.

And the people are afraid of the witch Pan adults with corrupt officials, a moment do not dare to complain of grievances, see that the old woman was the first to come forward to eat crabs, before they have to testify to Ge Kuo crimes.

"Lord," Shi will be trembling more than, kneeling on the ground repeatedly kowtow, "although the next official to Ge adults all kinds of bad behaviour heart dissatisfaction, but its power is too strong, the next official for the family old and small considerations, the same is not dare to speak out! I hope that your honour is clear, the next official has never been in the same boat with Lord Ge."

Pei Siyan turned over a page of the dossier, glanced at Shi Hui and said, "If you really are a raccoon, I'm afraid you wouldn't be kneeling here at this time, the Secretary and most of the judges have fled, and you would have absconded with Ge Ge. Get up."

"Your Excellency is clear-sighted, thank you, Your Excellency!" Shi would kowtow in gratitude, he was scared by Ge Ge, afraid that he would be pressed with a trumped up charge.

"The position of county city chief historian, nominally an auxiliary assassin, but it's just an idle position with no real power, it's really hard for you too." Pei Si Yan closed the dossier and added: "You go and arrange a room for the old woman and take good care of her."

"Yes." Shi Hui wiped his sweat, got up from the ground, and led a group of people out.

Pei Si Yan led another quick trip to the place where the peasants were being held, bringing all the people back to the city and placing them in an inn, and personally bringing hot porridge to calm them down. Finally, she returned to the government house, continue to look at the dossier accounts.

The dossier account forged seamlessly, Pei Si Yan can not see a reason to, can only wait for Lord Xu re-measurement outside the field back to make further plans. Then there is the matter of water conservancy, she took out on the road has been completed a large part of the drawings, and the West Yan County Secretary of perfect, ready to all things are ready to start work in a hurry.

In the evening, Lord Xu has not yet returned, Pei Si Yan drank some porridge, leaving the others alone in the courtyard to relax.

Calculating that there were still a few days before Light Dye would be back, she thought back to everything she had done since she came to the Blue Country. Relying on what she had seen and heard and her work experience for more than twenty years, stumbling along the way, she felt that she was still in the same place, without much to build on, and that the internal and external problems were still serious. After all, there was a relatively big difference between being a small company employee and an auxiliary minister of a country, at least the former wouldn't be killed because of certain mistakes.

She wanted to fulfil Tantai Yan's last wish and her own wish, so no matter how much effort and hardship she had to put in, she would bravely face it, and then even if she died, she would have no regrets.

Thinking of this, Pei Si Yan took a deep breath and revealed a pleasant smile.

It was very important to keep a good mood to face the work!

A cold wind blew through, not far from the pine and cypress "rustle" sound, Pei Si Yan shrinking neck ready to go back to the house, a turn, she froze.

A few steps away, there stood a tall man wearing night clothes, black cloth masked only to reveal a pair of eyes colder than ice and snow, flickering under the moonlight with a cold killing intent.

"What are you?" Pei Siyan couldn't help but take a step back, realising that she had asked more than she should have - what else could a guy dressed like this and holding a knife in his hand be if not an assassin?

Without a word, the assassin raised his knife and slashed.

Pei Si Yan lifted up her skirt and ran wildly towards the place where there were guards, shouting "there is an assassin". The previous assassination allowed her to exercise a strong mental quality, not to stay as a statue again, and not to die on the spot in the absence of Li Qingyan.

The assassin's hands and feet were extremely fast, darting and leaping in front of Pei Si Yan, swinging his knife.

Just when his life hangs in the balance, Pei Si Yan only felt a white shadow in front of her eyes, and then she didn't know who let out a scream, cutting through the originally silent night.

Pei Si Yan fixed her eyes and let out a low shriek.

The bright moon shines on the high building, the stream of light is wandering.

Under the bright moonlight, the person's white clothes on the silver pattern glittering, such as ink like long hair because of the action just now and still dancing lightly, half of the jade mask on the fine ink pattern wantonly and gorgeous, only to reveal a pair of eyes as deep as the night, elegant thin lips with a touch of shallow smile, gentle like water, and extraordinarily intoxicated people. His body is long, and hurriedly rushed to the guards under the contrast, ZhuoZhuo like a wild crane standing in the flock of chickens.

Pei Si Yan's whole body shuddered as if electrocuted, even more shocked than by the assassination - wasn't this person the white masked man she had seen in the woods on the day she had travelled here, and before the first assassination?

That man who walked out like in a painting was standing in front of her body alive and within reach, Pei Si Yan's head went blank, and it took a while before she could ease her mind, "The gift of saving my life is greatly appreciated. I wonder if you are ..."

"Under Mo Xuan, is a person in the jianghu, passing through here suddenly heard the sound of calling for help, so I came. Miss, are you alright?" White masked man replied, voice clear and magnetic, as if spring breeze.

"I ... am fine." Pei Si Yan lowered her head and secretly glanced at Mo Xuan.

Compared to Li Qingyan, he was gentle and cordial, and although he had only met three times and only knew his name today, he didn't feel like a stranger at all. And compared to the demonic beautiful almost feminine Hui Wang Lanxuan, he has a more calm and masculine manliness.

Pei Si Yan heart "thumped" a moment, he did these comparisons for what?

A guard came forward and asked, "My lord, how should the assassin's body be disposed of."

"Find a place to put it, ask the coroner to come and check," Pei Si Yan said casually, "I'm already fine, you all go down."

The guards looked at the man in white and wearing a mask and hurried away carrying the assassin's corpse.

Pei Si Yan's earlier cries for help drew out a large number of people, including the old woman who had pleaded for justice, as soon as she saw Mo Xuan, a light of surprise flashed through her cloudy and dull eyes, she trotted forward and cheerfully called out, "Benefactor!"

"Eh?" Pei Si Yan looked at the two of them curiously.

"Granny," Mo Xuan held back the old woman who wanted to kneel for herself, her thin lips hooked into a gentle smile, "Quickly please get up, I'm only lifting my hand, how can I be subjected to your great worship."

The old woman pulled Mo Xuan with one hand and Pei Si Yan with the other, tears in her eyes, "I didn't think that I would meet good people one after the other, it's really a blessing in three lifetimes."

Pei Si Yan asked, "You ..."

"On my way to find you, my lord, I was fortunate to be saved by Duke Mo Xuan before I got rid of the guards' pursuit." The old woman said, wiping away the tears on her face with her sleeve.

Pei Si Yan couldn't help but feel a wave of admiration for Mo Xuan, this person in the jianghu is just extraordinary, chivalrous, robbing the rich and helping the poor. When she was a child, watching those martial arts films in the great warrior, she heartily like.

Another burst of biting cold wind, Pei Si Yan found the old woman's hand is cold, concerned, "Old woman, outside cool, you will be inside early to rest."

"Thank you my lord, thank you great benefactor." The old woman thanked again and again before she was assisted to leave by her maidservant.

"My lord?" Mo Xuan asked in disbelief, doubt showing in his gaze, "Could it be that you are Miss Tantai, one of the Four Great Auxiliaries?"

There is no one else around, Pei Si Yan is a little shy, but she does not want to let Mo Xuan go easily, thinking that the danger may still be there, having a young warrior of the jianghu by her side is also an extra sense of security, "Exactly, I am Tantai Yan. It's cold outside the house, why don't we ask the gentleman to take a seat inside the house."

Mo Xuan arched his hand and said, "Thank you miss for your kind words, it's just that I still have to catch up on my journey."

"It's getting late and the night is unusually cold, why don't you have a cup of hot tea to warm up your body before travelling, otherwise I'm very sorry."

Pei Si Yan's hospitality is hard to resist, Mo Xuan is not in a position to push back, "Good."

The two of them walked through the courtyard one after the other, Pei Si Yan thought for a while, but still brought the person to a room behind the lobby, here is brightly lit, there is a soldier standing guard, can avoid people "men and women are not kissed" mouth.

Yun Qi brought hot tea, poured two cups and then stood aside.

"I'm sorry that I only have tea to entertain you." Pei Si Yan laughed, peeking at Mo Xuan out of the corner of her eye, wishing to grow a pair of eyes that could see through his face under the mask.

Mo Xuan elegantly picked up the teacup and took a sip, "On this cold night, to have a cup of hot tea would be enough."

"Listening to your son's accent seems to be from the imperial capital?" Pei Si Yan asked again.

"Yes," Mo Xuan nodded his head, his deep eyes shining brightly and translucently, as if it were a spring of autumn water, "When I was young, I used to study under a teacher in the imperial capital, and when I grew up, I travelled all over the Spirit Abyss."

"Walking the rivers and lakes at your own pace, it's really good." Pei Si Yan said, but good is good, in the end, it is not within the scope of her heart's desire. Thinking of this, Pei Si Yan had some inexplicable feelings of frustration.

Mo Xuan saw that she was lost in thought and said with concern, "It's late at night, it's inconvenient for me to disturb." Saying this, he stood up, his slender fingers smoothing out the folds on his white clothes, and smiled faintly at Pei Si Yan when he raised his head.

"Uh ... what ... that," the chair looked like it was on fire, Pei Si Yan jumped up, "I'll send you to the door of the government office. "

"The night is deep and the wind is cold, miss stay back. If it's fate, we'll meet again later."

Pei Si Yan is trying to answer, Shi will face gloomy face from the outside hurriedly ran in, as soon as he saw Pei Si Yan opened his mouth and said, "adults, disaster relief rice can only last until tomorrow, away from the adults what can come back?" His words just fell, only to see Mo Xuan, his tongue like a knot, stammered for half a day did not say a complete sentence.

Pei Siyan's expression was condensed, Li Qingyan will not be back until the evening of the day after tomorrow at the earliest, how are the victims going to be resettled?